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NASA tested an impossible space engine and it somehow worked
The Verge ^ | August 1, 2014 | Carl Franzen

Posted on 08/01/2014 12:08:29 PM PDT by DannyTN

If the tests of the Cannae Drive technology hold up, a trip to Mars could take weeks instead of months

7 inShare NASA has been testing new space travel technologies throughout its entire history, but the results of its latest experiment may be the most exciting yet — if they hold up. Earlier this week at a conference in Cleveland, Ohio, scientists with NASA's Eagleworks Laboratories in Houston, Texas, presented a paper indicating they had achieved a small amount of thrust from a container that had no traditional fuels, only microwaves, bouncing around inside it. If the results can be replicated reliably and scaled up — and that's a big "if," since NASA only produced them on a very small scale over a two-day period — they could ultimately result in ultra-light weight, ultra fast spacecraft that could carry humans to Mars in weeks instead of months, and to the nearest star system outside our own (Proxima Centurai) in just about 30 years.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cannae; electrogravitics; electromagneticdrive; emdrive; mdrive; microwave; newtonsthirdlaw; propellentlessdrive; rogershawyer; space
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To: EEGator

bump

but just try launching something that heavy right now


41 posted on 08/01/2014 12:52:30 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: DannyTN

“There are many reasons to be skeptical: the inventor of the Cannae Drive, Guido Fetta, has only a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and is operating his company Cannae as a for-profit venture.”

Inventor has only a BS in an unrelated field, confirmed by Chinese and Argentine scientists and even the negative control worked when tested by the affirmative action hirees at NASA. Results dont get any more solid than that.


42 posted on 08/01/2014 12:53:46 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: gaijin

What would be the advantage of having humans explore the planet Mars? There isn’t sufficient water for plant life, there’s no oxygen and there’s no food. It seems to me this is just another way to piss away tax dollars.


43 posted on 08/01/2014 12:53:56 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: DannyTN; brownsfan

“There are many reasons to be skeptical: the inventor of the Cannae Drive, Guido Fetta, has only a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and is operating his company Cannae as a for-profit venture.”

UH?? The inventor has a degree in chemical engineering and operates a for-profit company, therefore it’s bogus??

I’m not familiar with “the Verge” - is this run by some snotty socialist?


44 posted on 08/01/2014 12:54:09 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: DannyTN

Every day my satellite dish moves to the other side of the house all by itself and I have to move it back every night.


45 posted on 08/01/2014 12:55:46 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits n firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: ckilmer

Cool story.
Thanks for sharing.


46 posted on 08/01/2014 12:56:42 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: DannyTN

BFL


47 posted on 08/01/2014 12:59:10 PM PDT by citizen (There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Flying carpets, pishhhaahhh. Mohammed had a flying horse.”

Named Baraq, incidentally.


48 posted on 08/01/2014 12:59:50 PM PDT by RaveOn ("No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." Lamar Keene, "True Believers")
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To: InterceptPoint

Nothing mysterious nor does it appear to violate any physical laws. It simply relies on radiation pressure. The description is somewhat misleading regarding “no tradition fuels”, but generating microwaves obviously takes energy, usually electrical to drive klystron or magnetron tubes. So think of a wave guide (pringles can) attached to a nuclear battery. The poynting vector goes out the tube nozzle producing radiation pressure, and by conservation of linear momentum our battery and wave guide go the other way.


49 posted on 08/01/2014 12:59:53 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: DannyTN
While the amount of thrust generated in these NASA's tests was lower than previous trials — between 30 and 50 micronewtons,

LOL. A plastic propeller and rubber band can do better.

50 posted on 08/01/2014 1:00:21 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

We could power this thing with cold fusion, I’m sure.


51 posted on 08/01/2014 1:01:38 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: DannyTN

I’ve got an idea for a spaceship powered by a sharknado, think I can get some grant money?


52 posted on 08/01/2014 1:03:10 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: aquila48

Yeah, I thought that pointing out “for profit” as a reason to be skeptical was strange too.


53 posted on 08/01/2014 1:07:01 PM PDT by DannyTN (I)
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To: shotgun

Whats grey and red and bubbly all over?

Elephant in a microwave.


54 posted on 08/01/2014 1:08:14 PM PDT by DannyTN (I)
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To: DannyTN

I wonder if that “weeks instead of months” thought includes deceleration?


55 posted on 08/01/2014 1:09:00 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: SpaceBar
cannae.com/theory-of-operation ... I think there is no exit port.
56 posted on 08/01/2014 1:12:02 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: wally_bert

I just heard “42” in the office not 2 minutes ago.


57 posted on 08/01/2014 1:12:13 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: wally_bert

My brother read my copy of Adam’s books and came outside and said, “What was that guy on when he wrote that?”


58 posted on 08/01/2014 1:12:22 PM PDT by DannyTN (I)
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To: dfwgator

The bistromatic drive was my favorite. The drive based on the speed of bad news seemed like it had great potential.


59 posted on 08/01/2014 1:14:09 PM PDT by DannyTN (I)
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To: B4Ranch
What would be the advantage of having humans explore the planet Mars?


60 posted on 08/01/2014 1:18:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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