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2016-12-26 China-Japan-Koreas

China: has working version of NASA's EM engine orbiting the Earth

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Posted by Steve White 2016-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I say bullshit. Anybody who has a working model of something like this, would keep it a secret - because if you can get it to work, it makes you the master of the world.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-26 04:33|| 2016-12-26 04:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Could we not think of the gas being burned on the sun as the fuel so that this is just a way to harness that energy?

It's interesting research anyway and seemingly a better investment than the shameful way that our government has squandered trillions of dollars on stupid wars, misguided social programs and climate change (or whatever they're calling it these days) while letting NASA wither.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-12-26 11:47|| 2016-12-26 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Not necessarily impossible. We have a stupid habit of every time we invent something we seem to need to overpublish details in scientific journals, put all the detailed plans on weakly protected servers connected to the internet, have Chinese engineers involved in everything important and train most of their engineers in our universities because they pay full out of state tuition without complaint.

Posted by gorb 2016-12-26 12:56|| 2016-12-26 12:56|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and those were not Art courses.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-26 13:30|| 2016-12-26 13:30|| Front Page Top

#5 It's not against the laws of physics it's against newton's laws of motion.

This is theorised to use the wall reflection angle to create a small force without a reaction mass (not fuel).

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-26 18:44|| 2016-12-26 18:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Soon they'll be able to put metal in the microwave.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-26 23:10|| 2016-12-26 23:10|| Front Page Top

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