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Strange thrust: the unproven science that could propel our children into space
BoingBoing ^ | 11/24/14 | Charles Platt

Posted on 11/25/2014 1:21:49 AM PST by LibWhacker

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1 posted on 11/25/2014 1:21:50 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Hey! I saw my bagel toaster that went missing in 1993 in there! Where do there larcenous old farts live?!?!?


2 posted on 11/25/2014 1:27:59 AM PST by Viking2002
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To: Nailbiter

later read


3 posted on 11/25/2014 1:29:01 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: LibWhacker

And my coffee bean grinder! I thought my wife threw it out!


4 posted on 11/25/2014 1:29:54 AM PST by Viking2002
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To: LibWhacker

bfl.


5 posted on 11/25/2014 1:52:19 AM PST by FredZarguna (Jean à de longues moustaches. Je répète: Jean à de longues moustaches.)
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To: LibWhacker

I appauld their efforts. it’d be fascinating if it works


6 posted on 11/25/2014 1:57:13 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: LibWhacker

One can never have too many BNC patch cables... :-)


7 posted on 11/25/2014 1:57:51 AM PST by Bobalu (Please excuse the crudity of this model. I didn't have time to build it to scale or paint it.)
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To: LibWhacker

Reverse Gravitational Frequency?


8 posted on 11/25/2014 2:02:14 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Viking2002

I noticed the empty donut box and 2 empty chairs. Were they measuring the enormous thrust from flatulence?


9 posted on 11/25/2014 2:02:29 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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enormous thrust from flatulence?

Beans! The answer lays within beans.

10 posted on 11/25/2014 2:04:52 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: LibWhacker

Jackie Gleason figured this out years ago!


11 posted on 11/25/2014 2:19:28 AM PST by 22202NOVA (Tagline? I don't need no stinking tagline!)
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To: LibWhacker

Later


12 posted on 11/25/2014 2:26:05 AM PST by preacher (I am not a global warming hoax denier.)
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To: LibWhacker

The net force is always going to be quite tiny. Objects don’t significantly change mass until they are near light speed. Even then I suspect the change in momentum due to the effect is balanced out is some way I have not thought of yet.


13 posted on 11/25/2014 2:52:40 AM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: LibWhacker

Real Science, This is for real. I remember doing these exercises.

I have zero doubt.


14 posted on 11/25/2014 3:01:17 AM PST by dila813
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To: no-to-illegals

If we had 1/10,000 the control over the gravitational force that we do over the electromagnetic force, we’d probably have a massless drive.

Getting to that point will probably require a functional Theory of Everything, which seems to get farther away all the time.

Personally, I suspect much of the mass of the universe that we detect is hidden away in other dimensions we cannot perceive more directly. Figuring out how this works might not only give us antigravity but also the ability to take shortcuts thru other dimensions.

Wildly speculative, of course. But all the talk about dark energy and dark matter indicates to me there’s something missing at the very core of our understanding of physics.


15 posted on 11/25/2014 3:20:12 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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My full agreement Sherman. What we know is probably written on one unfilled page. What we do not know is written on infinite pages filling infinite libraries.


16 posted on 11/25/2014 3:24:10 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: LibWhacker

I saw several big wads of tinfoil and lots of black electrical tape. This is serial.


17 posted on 11/25/2014 3:34:07 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: no-to-illegals

Thanks. I’ve always been fascinated by science. Even read the infamous Brief History of Time, though it made my head hurt.

As I understand it, relativity and quantum mechanics are about as thoroughly proven as any theories in science, yet contradict each other. Both can’t be true, but they are.

Which (probably) means there is a deeper, more fundamental unity we haven’t figured out yet.

A personal and even more wildly speculative theory of mine is that these “inaccessible dimensions,” or some of them, make up the spirit realm, the inhabitants of which may have similar difficulty interacting directly with our world as we do with their’s.


18 posted on 11/25/2014 3:34:40 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Thank you for that theory and thought. I understand fully ‘head spinning’ when reading scientific fact and theory. Reading Albert Einstein still makes my head spin. When going further into reading beyond Albert almost think am in a can. Please don’t ask me to explain that last statement because I can’t. The entire can is the entire Universe and that is another ‘abstract’ on this abstraction known as whatever it is or is not. I best digress. Am becoming more confused by the split second.


19 posted on 11/25/2014 3:43:46 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: LibWhacker

bkmk.


20 posted on 11/25/2014 4:48:21 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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