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German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive
MarkWhittington writes: Hacked Magazine reported that a group of German scientists believe that they have confirmed that the EM Drive, the propulsion device that uses microwaves rather than rocket fuel, provides thrust. The experimental results are being presented at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics' Propulsion and Energy Forum in Orlando by Martin Tajmar, a professor and chair for Space Systems at the Dresden University of Technology. Tajmar has an interest in exotic propulsion methods, including one concept using "negative matter."
I don't understand how carrying and burning all of those microwaves would be better than rocket fuel, especially with the production cost of making the microwaves.
It's because we are tired from telling all them damn kids at reddit to get offa our lawn
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Until you travel at 0.7c and you discover the batteries are dead because solar isn't working at this speed so you cannot slow down.
Someone needs a visit from Zombie Feynman!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Oh sure! And 100,000 years later when a cubesat travelling .9999 the speed of light plows into the Dynarri ambassador's starship, guess who they'll be coming for!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
A ion drive requires reactionary mass to work.
I've been quoting Evola and Metternich to this bowl of water for hours now, how much longer until it turns reactionary?
By the WORDS of my BOOK I am utterly CORRECT. This EVIDENCE PROVES it each and every day. I AM THE LORD your scientist, and BY THE FOLLOWING I PROCLAIM I can do no WRONG.
When are you disciples of the religion of atheism going to admit you and the fundies are looking at opposite sides of the same coin? You're both passionate, and you're both intolerant and outspoken. Only difference is you both believe you're correct in different ways.
Science isn't the ultimate truth. What happens when we die? What lies beyond the event horizon of a black hole? You can't give answers that are any more evidence-based than they can.
Captcha: refute. Heh, never a more appropriate phrase, for this two sided coin!
"Modern physics is never incorrect"
That's religion not physics. Quantum Mechanics is like the scientology of physics. Clearly disprovable with simple thought experiments, but each time they need to ignore something (e.g. violation of causality) they do so like brainwashed zombies. i.e. its flat wrong and provably so.
Some science e.g. String theory gets silently ignored till it fades away then forgotten about.
You realize that Einstein may be wrong? He's become sort of a god or prophet figure, but that doesn't mean he was right.
Question everything, re-examine everything. in the light of new information is what science is.