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NASA might have created a warp drive.
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Mashie Saldana
V0LTA
New Eden Alliance 99013733
#1 - 2015-04-28 15:30:46 UTC
http://www.inquisitr.com/2040259/did-nasa-just-accidentally-produce-a-warp-bubble-emdrive-could-lead-to-warp-drive/

Pretty exciting stuff.

If they recreate the effect in a vacuum which it looks like they will, it's the most significant scientific breakthrough in history.Shocked

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Hani Tian
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2015-04-28 20:15:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Hani Tian
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Solecist Project
#3 - 2015-04-28 22:53:51 UTC
Didn't thy have an experimental drive that does 30mph quite a while ago?
Small scale test, but still....

Gotta read this!

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Falken Falcon
#4 - 2015-04-29 07:22:12 UTC
This is something i gotta keep following, very interdasting stuff right there.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#5 - 2015-04-29 10:46:56 UTC
Having absolutely no experience with that website, how reliable are they?

Interesting read though.

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Ima Wreckyou
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#6 - 2015-04-29 13:19:57 UTC
Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2015-04-30 03:34:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Ila Dace
And... it works in hard vacuum! http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/04/evaluating-nasas-futuristic-em-drive/

The implications are already pretty stunning:
- New station-keeping thrustors (*cough* impulse drive *cough*) for the ISS, no need for reboost maneuvers from visiting orbiters.
- Earth-to-moon flights in 4 hours.
- Earth-to-Mars missions with 70-day transit times
- 130 year transit time to Alpha Centauri, a probe launched soon would return data in three generations instead of thousands of years

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Ima Wreckyou
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#8 - 2015-05-01 00:51:25 UTC
Ila Dace wrote:
And... it works in hard vacuum! http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/04/evaluating-nasas-futuristic-em-drive/

The implications are already pretty stunning:
- New station-keeping thrustors (*cough* impulse drive *cough*) for the ISS, no need for reboost maneuvers from visiting orbiters.
- Earth-to-moon flights in 4 hours.
- Earth-to-Mars missions with 70-day transit times
- 130 year transit time to Alpha Centauri, a probe launched soon would return data in three generations instead of thousands of years

Yeah, but the real question is: can we now get the hoverboard ready before Marty and Doc arrive october 21?

Evil RatKid
Velarra
#9 - 2015-05-01 12:41:36 UTC
And if engine swapped into a DeLorean, will it enable the car to reach 88 miles per hour?!!

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Oh and one more news source:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/nasa-might-have-successfully-tested-a-warp-drive-could-carry-people-at-speeds-as-fast-as-light-10215544.html
Solecist Project
#10 - 2015-05-02 19:41:56 UTC
Stupid question.
Do split photons keep their momentum?

Like, when you send a photon through a half transparent mirror and "create" two entangled ones.

Also this stuff reminds me so much of a conspiracy theory (I think) that's so old I
barely remember. Basically that a proper propulsion system based on light blabla
something something LOTS OF DIAMONDS and high rpm rotation or something.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Falken Falcon
#11 - 2015-05-04 05:15:41 UTC
Ima Wreckyou wrote:
Ila Dace wrote:
And... it works in hard vacuum! http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/04/evaluating-nasas-futuristic-em-drive/

The implications are already pretty stunning:
- New station-keeping thrustors (*cough* impulse drive *cough*) for the ISS, no need for reboost maneuvers from visiting orbiters.
- Earth-to-moon flights in 4 hours.
- Earth-to-Mars missions with 70-day transit times
- 130 year transit time to Alpha Centauri, a probe launched soon would return data in three generations instead of thousands of years

Yeah, but the real question is: can we now get the hoverboard ready before Marty and Doc arrive october 21?

Well..


I know i know, but it still counts!

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kyoukoku
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2015-05-04 07:46:19 UTC
Here's the Flickr album of the concept ship (IXS Enterprise) by the artist working with NASA's Dr White. Big smileCool
Ima Wreckyou
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#13 - 2015-05-04 12:48:40 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
Stupid question.
Do split photons keep their momentum?

Like, when you send a photon through a half transparent mirror and "create" two entangled ones.

Also this stuff reminds me so much of a conspiracy theory (I think) that's so old I
barely remember. Basically that a proper propulsion system based on light blabla
something something LOTS OF DIAMONDS and high rpm rotation or something.


AFAIK you can't split a photon, you can only absorb or emit it.

Evil RatKid
Falken Falcon
#14 - 2015-05-04 12:51:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Falken Falcon
Ima Wreckyou wrote:
Solecist Project wrote:
Stupid question.
Do split photons keep their momentum?

Like, when you send a photon through a half transparent mirror and "create" two entangled ones.

Also this stuff reminds me so much of a conspiracy theory (I think) that's so old I
barely remember. Basically that a proper propulsion system based on light blabla
something something LOTS OF DIAMONDS and high rpm rotation or something.


AFAIK you can't split a photon, you can only absorb or emit it.
I wonder what happends if you duplicate it by placing it in to the state of quantum super position. Does it have double kinetic energy or what?

There were some experiments where the single photon reached two places (And you could see the end results on the wall)

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Tipa Riot
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2015-05-04 21:32:07 UTC
Still it's violating some well founded law of physics ... I believe it when the first EmDrive is sent to space.

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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2015-05-12 00:54:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Ila Dace
stoicfaux
#17 - 2015-05-12 14:55:40 UTC
If it really works (where it == "propellant-less engine",) then it just became possible for a small corporate entity to destroy civilization on Earth.

Build lots of these no-fuel-necessary missiles, send them waaaaaaaay out, flip them around and accelerate them back into Earth's path, i.e. kinetic missiles that hit earth with mega(giga?)-tonnes of force.

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Staleward Ad'mraa
F-I-N-K PROPERTY
#18 - 2015-05-15 04:25:30 UTC
kyoukoku wrote:
Here's the Flickr album of the concept ship (IXS Enterprise) by the artist working with NASA's Dr White. Big smileCool



If I ever get the chance in my life to pilot an space craft, that craft would make me proud.... so majestic and beautiful!