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EM Drive still producing thrust with no explanation
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Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2015-11-06 08:46:55 UTC
http://www.sciencealert.com/the-em-drive-still-producing-mysterious-thrust-after-another-round-of-nasa-tests

Perhaps this might be the greatest accidental discovery in all of human history. Real life spaceships not too far off now, friends.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2015-11-06 11:20:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Graygor
I shall give the internets answer.

Still, im quietly optimistic about this. A space revolution is long overdue.

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Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#3 - 2015-11-06 14:48:53 UTC
Powered by space unicorn rainbow farts obviously.

Anyway..... let's build us a big EM drive and go to Mars!

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RoAnnon
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2015-11-06 17:12:14 UTC
Lugia3 wrote:
http://www.sciencealert.com/the-em-drive-still-producing-mysterious-thrust-after-another-round-of-nasa-tests

Perhaps this might be the greatest accidental discovery in all of human history. Real life spaceships not too far off now, friends.

Though, technically, we've had spaceships in reality since the 1960s.

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#5 - 2015-11-06 17:14:08 UTC
Flying cars will be soon a reality.

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Sturmwolke
#6 - 2015-11-08 03:57:15 UTC
Probably some sort of a macroscale Casimir effect.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#7 - 2015-11-08 15:17:12 UTC
Interesting but I expect it to be another cold fusion case.

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Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#8 - 2015-11-09 19:53:56 UTC
here's your explanation:




/thrust

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#9 - 2015-11-10 21:22:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
There was a concept of ether as a medium by which EM waves propagate. But I think its something else. This is how you can produce this thrust in a home.

No, seriously, Its ether.

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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2015-11-11 02:18:12 UTC
Didn't I read that they still haven't had a "clean" test yet? I really want this to be true but I also suspect this is E-Cat nonsense.

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Isajah
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2015-11-12 12:30:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Isajah
EMDrive

there is also a German article about the experiments of Prof. Tajmar

Tajmar wrote:
Unsere Messungen haben gezeigt das wir sehr wohl ähnliche Messdaten produzieren können – nur diesmal hatten wir mehr Sensoren (z.B. Temperaturmessung) – und die Möglichkeit eben einige Abschirmungen zu implementieren. Dabei haben wir gesehen das es einen signifikanten Einfluss vom Magnetfeld durch die Stromversorgungskabeln geben kann, den wir nicht komplett abschirmen konnten und das die gleichen Schübe produziert werden wenn das Triebwerk in eine Richtung feuert die eigentlich keinen Schub auf der Schubmesswaage produzieren dürfte. - See more at: http://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/prof-korrigiert-berichte-zu-emdrive-tests20150730/#sthash.bcSKl6ky.dpuf


He Basicly states, that they could reproduce the data from NASA, but used more more sensors and shielding. They found that the magentic field produced by the power cables have a significant influance and they couldnt completely shield the engine from these fields. they also measured thrust when the engine pointed to a direction, where the thrust sensor should not have measured anything.

So I personally believe that this engine is producing far more false positives than thrust.

But since people have this strange urge to show me inventions and machines like these (impossible machines, PMs, free energy collectors etc etc.) researching this "engine" was fun and prepared me for the next wave.

by the way, what I am really enthusiastic about is the wendelstein 7-X.

Me wants Comet mining