Date: 21/11/2016 15:54:02
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 984396
Subject: EmDrive might actually work

EmDrive might actually work

Over the last few years, we’ve heard a lot about the EmDrive NASA has been working on at its Eagleworks lab under the direction of Doctor Harold White. Also known as the EM Drive, the EmDrive is based on a concept developed by Roger Shawyer in the UK in 1999. The unusual – indeed seemingly impossible – feature of the EmDrive is that it uses no fuel to produce propulsion. Now a peer-reviewed article has appeared at Aerospace Research Central supporting the idea that the EmDrive might actually work.

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Date: 21/11/2016 16:00:46
From: furious
ID: 984401
Subject: re: EmDrive might actually work

I’m glad they cleared that up…

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Date: 22/11/2016 17:06:24
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 984942
Subject: re: EmDrive might actually work

The EmDrive NASA scientists seem to feel that the thrust they are getting from their new engine may be a consequence of what is known as pilot-wave theory

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3729533/emdrive-nasa-sci-fi-propulsion-system-might-actually-work-emdrive-would-make-mars-70-day-trip-for-elon-musks-spacex/#hJlTXy6VbIGs4uWX.99

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Date: 22/11/2016 17:06:46
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 984944
Subject: re: EmDrive might actually work

The peer-reviewed paper, published in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)’s Journal of Propulsion and Power, describes a study proving the “impossible” EMDrive produces 1.2 millinewtons per kilowatt of thrust in a vacuum.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3734389/warp-to-mars-in-10-weeks-nasa-publishes-impossible-emdrive-research-paper/#ehzkhFXl2Ipx3XxG.99

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Date: 23/11/2016 09:14:45
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 985372
Subject: re: EmDrive might actually work

I don’t think it can work.

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Date: 23/11/2016 13:14:32
From: nut
ID: 985468
Subject: re: EmDrive might actually work

This is what excites me about science, where experiment meets theory and they are both in flux.

If the EM Drive is shown to produce thrust but only at small amounts, would it still be revolutionary for space travel? Is it going to be like running the air con from piezoelectric?

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Date: 26/11/2016 16:28:37
From: wookiemeister
ID: 987307
Subject: re: EmDrive might actually work

might just be the atoms of the nozzle being slammed forward and back

its not a continuous thrust i believe more like the engine resonating to and fro

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Date: 26/11/2016 16:32:03
From: Ian
ID: 987310
Subject: re: EmDrive might actually work

wookiemeister said:


might just be the atoms of the nozzle being slammed forward and back

its not a continuous thrust i believe more like the engine resonating to and fro

Who knows? The boffins are baffled.

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Date: 30/11/2016 08:18:15
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 988944
Subject: re: EmDrive might actually work

This week’s New Scientist has an article on this by some chap from Sydney University by the name of Geraint Lewis.

His conclusion: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

But what would he know?

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