NASA successfully trials an EM drive, possibly Warp drive!

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Re: NASA successfully trials an EM drive, possibly Warp driv

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue May 05, 2015 6:28 pm

Obviously, a virtual plasma toroid is created that could realize net thrust using magnetohydrodynamic forces acting upon quantum vacuum fluctuations. :tea:



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Re: NASA successfully trials an EM drive, possibly Warp driv

Post by Svartalf » Tue May 05, 2015 6:34 pm

yeah, you can enfold the ship in a tokamak while you're at it...
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Re: NASA successfully trials an EM drive, possibly Warp driv

Post by pErvinalia » Wed May 06, 2015 1:46 am

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rEvolutionist wrote:That has been one of the queries about this. Did you read the article? They discuss this.
Oh yeh, I was going by the quote.
They haven't explained it though. If you accelerate a heavy space craft to mind-blowing speeds, that's a hell of a lot of momentum in the direction of Mars.
They haven't said where the equal and opposite momentum is at all.

That is an embarrassingly bad omission which make it look like bollocks.
What kind of scientist would promote something like this without explaining how momentum is conserved?
It works. Why the hell wouldn't you promote it??
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Re: NASA successfully trials an EM drive, possibly Warp driv

Post by Svartalf » Wed May 06, 2015 6:10 am

the whole thing looks like a hoax
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Post by pErvinalia » Wed May 06, 2015 6:55 am

You're a hoax.
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Post by Svartalf » Wed May 06, 2015 7:41 am

your face is a hoax
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Post by cronus » Wed May 06, 2015 7:55 am

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Re: NASA successfully trials an EM drive, possibly Warp driv

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu May 07, 2015 6:27 am

mistermack wrote:I'm wondering how momentum is conserved in this device.

If it doesn't use reaction mass, at first sight it looks like you are creating momentum out of nothing. A heck of a lot of it, in a space vehicle that can travel to Mars at blinding speeds.
What? It damages your eyesight too?
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Re: NASA successfully trials an EM drive, possibly Warp driv

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu May 07, 2015 6:29 am

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Post by pErvinalia » Thu May 07, 2015 7:15 am

Hehe... you said "oral"... :hehe:
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Re: NASA successfully trials an EM drive, possibly Warp driv

Post by mistermack » Thu May 07, 2015 9:12 am

Brian Peacock wrote: What? It damages your eyesight too?
Apparently.

So my mum told me anyway.
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Re: NASA successfully trials an EM drive, possibly Warp driv

Post by mistermack » Thu May 07, 2015 9:15 am

rEvolutionist wrote: It works. Why the hell wouldn't you promote it??
If it works, you would.

I don't believe it does work. I don't believe it doesn't work.

But I do believe it PROBABLY won't work.
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Post by pErvinalia » Thu May 07, 2015 10:03 am

They are confirming that it works. Can you not read?? It's been shown to work in multiple labs across the world.
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Re: NASA successfully trials an EM drive, possibly Warp driv

Post by Svartalf » Thu May 07, 2015 10:21 am

I read in the article specifically that it has NOT been confirmed by other labs or teams and that an error remains a possibility...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu May 07, 2015 10:23 am

You know that the only way to to settle this is by cutlass, right?
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