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Post by the light works on Sept 15, 2016 1:02:30 GMT
And now, they're going to actually test it in outer space: The 'impossible' EM Drive is about to be tested in spaceIf it won't work, it won't necessarily prove anything beyond a failed methodology or design. If it does work...the sky is no longer the limit! Still not buying a ticket, though...  maybe they will hire Silver to test drive it. |
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Post by silverdragon on Sept 15, 2016 8:19:59 GMT
Hmmm... let me think...
Sod Off
My days of sitting ten foot from a fuel-tank-bomb are well and truly over.
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Post by the light works on Sept 15, 2016 14:13:23 GMT
Hmmm... let me think... Sod OffMy days of sitting ten foot from a fuel-tank-bomb are well and truly over. ummm... it's a new kind of space drive, not a new kind of fuel truck. and there won't be roller skate drivers out there getting in the way. |
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Post by silverdragon on Sept 16, 2016 6:24:34 GMT
Hmmm... let me think... Sod OffMy days of sitting ten foot from a fuel-tank-bomb are well and truly over. ummm... it's a new kind of space drive, not a new kind of fuel truck. and there won't be roller skate drivers out there getting in the way. How much "fuel" does it take to get up there?... and then, how much to get back?...  Just for information, how many fuel trucks do you think it takes to fill one of them rockets if it were to be filled by truck and not pipeline?.. [and why is it filled by pipe and not truck?.. none of us drivers want that gig, that is why...  ] I used to fix the big silver birds, not pilot them, and for good reason, I am to tall to fit in a fighter cockpit, let alone a rocket ship. I would also fail basic training to be a space cowboy, my back injury prevents me passing the medical. Plus my cahonies are only steel, I believe astronauts have titanium sphericals.... Or pure carbon Graphite Diamonds. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Sept 16, 2016 14:20:20 GMT
As for me, I'm going to start building my intergalactic starship as soon as I can convince my wife to give up the microwave.
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Post by the light works on Sept 16, 2016 16:43:09 GMT
As for me, I'm going to start building my intergalactic starship as soon as I can convince my wife to give up the microwave. be sure to invest in a good extension cord. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Sept 16, 2016 19:49:35 GMT
As for me, I'm going to start building my intergalactic starship as soon as I can convince my wife to give up the microwave. be sure to invest in a good extension cord. Whenever a visionary really starts to shine, there's always someone standing by with a wet blanket. |
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Post by the light works on Sept 16, 2016 20:35:24 GMT
be sure to invest in a good extension cord. Whenever a visionary really starts to shine, there's always someone standing by with a wet blanket. it's one more service we offer. |
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Post by silverdragon on Sept 18, 2016 7:51:28 GMT
Whenever a visionary really starts to shine, there's always someone standing by with a wet blanket. it's one more service we offer. This is one reason more why I come here. |
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Post by Lokifan on Nov 8, 2016 20:59:52 GMT
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Post by the light works on Nov 9, 2016 2:51:35 GMT
proper scientific method: find out if it works, then figure out how. |
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Post by ponytail61 on Nov 19, 2016 5:12:04 GMT
The peer reviewed paper by NASA has been released. Here it is for those that want to peruse it. arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B36120Over my head but I still gave it a read. |
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Post by silverdragon on Nov 19, 2016 12:23:19 GMT
The peer reviewed paper by NASA has been released. Here it is for those that want to peruse it. arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B36120Over my head but I still gave it a read. Can we apply the KISS principal to this idea and see how far it gets please?.. I am believing that they suggest that putting out what can best be described as Microwaves into a vacuum is providing thrust. They say a vacuum... but not "Empty space"... The two are distinctly different. If my ideas are right, the amount of "matter" contained in a vacuum in space has possibilities, that microwaving that passing matter may "excite" those passing particles and provide "thrust"... Also, I suspect, "Solar winds" may have something to do with this. We Know that the Sun creates all kinds of radiation, and that that radiation alone may create "thrust", as in if you check out the idea of a solar "sail" that collects the suns radiation to provide thrust... It has also been postulated that the amount of solar winds interacting with the earth's magnetic field may have something to do with the stable orbit we have, in that that thrust cancels out Gravitational attraction in parts?.. Are they just short-cutting the source and reproducing the suns radiation waves in a engine that is creating the same type of thrust?.. Can anyone get this into language we understand?.. |
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Post by silverdragon on Nov 19, 2016 12:27:16 GMT
The peer reviewed paper by NASA has been released. Here it is for those that want to peruse it. arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B36120Over my head but I still gave it a read. Ouch, my head is still aching.... What I understand so far, they have set this thing off in a vacuum, and to test thrust, they have suspended a pendulum behind the "engine" and measures a positive deflection when they turn the damn thing on?... Did I get that right?... The ideals are still trying to circle my brain and find a parking spot in something I can understand in some of this. If anyone can help, please do... And in this case, no, it isnt rocket science is it?.. its something far more advanced than that.  |
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Post by Lokifan on Nov 19, 2016 15:29:01 GMT
If I read it right, they basically built a see-saw that was laid on its side:  If the displacement gauge measured anything, that's a pretty big deal. If nothing else, at least this gizmo is making them compensate for more testing errors. That list was impressive. I'm old enough to remember the Cold Fusion craze, but I must say, what I could understand of that paper was interesting. |
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Post by the light works on Nov 19, 2016 15:58:17 GMT
If I read it right, they basically built a see-saw that was laid on its side: If the displacement gauge measured anything, that's a pretty big deal. If nothing else, at least this gizmo is making them compensate for more testing errors. That list was impressive. I'm old enough to remember the Cold Fusion craze, but I must say, what I could understand of that paper was interesting. it occurred to me, I think yesterday, that if the other impossible spacedrive they are working on amounts to warp drive, this amounts to impulse drive. now we just need to develop inertial dampers. |
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Post by silverdragon on Nov 20, 2016 8:36:16 GMT
If I read it right, they basically built a see-saw that was laid on its side: If the displacement gauge measured anything, that's a pretty big deal. If nothing else, at least this gizmo is making them compensate for more testing errors. That list was impressive. I'm old enough to remember the Cold Fusion craze, but I must say, what I could understand of that paper was interesting. it occurred to me, I think yesterday, that if the other impossible spacedrive they are working on amounts to warp drive, this amounts to impulse drive. now we just need to develop inertial dampers. Pillows?... |
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Post by wvengineer on Nov 20, 2016 13:46:16 GMT
quote]it occurred to me, I think yesterday, that if the other impossible spacedrive they are working on amounts to warp drive, this amounts to impulse drive. now we just need to develop inertial dampers. Which other "impossible" drive are you referring to? |
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Post by the light works on Nov 20, 2016 15:01:50 GMT
quote]it occurred to me, I think yesterday, that if the other impossible spacedrive they are working on amounts to warp drive, this amounts to impulse drive. now we just need to develop inertial dampers. Which other "impossible" drive are you referring to? the one that is usually referred to as warp drive. though it looks like some media outlets are thinking of this impossible drive as warp drive. |
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Post by Lokifan on Nov 21, 2016 2:17:58 GMT
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