All this fuss is simply part of a quest for more grant funds.
Sumply stick with the tried and true, proven technology. The radiometer! Scale it up, multiple drives... May have to harden the glass to protect from meteor strikes and Chinese missile attacks...
1 posted on
09/12/2020 1:33:14 PM PDT by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
2 posted on
09/12/2020 1:33:42 PM PDT by
DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I think the EM drive is circling around a problem being solved, but I don’t think it is there yet.
4 posted on
09/12/2020 1:38:13 PM PDT by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
How I feel about the EmDrive is summed up in the words of Dr. Timothy Ferris, who said in his wonderful video The Creation of the Universe,: "it is extremely unlikely, but on the other hand it only has to happen once."
5 posted on
09/12/2020 1:42:55 PM PDT by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
To: DUMBGRUNT
As a reminder, we could make flying machines 30+ years before they arrived at the correct reason that heavier than air could fly. It was the same argument.
To: DUMBGRUNT
90 years to Alpha Centauri?
"Starchips" can get there in 20 years, and don't require questionable physics.
8 posted on
09/12/2020 1:58:16 PM PDT by
null and void
(The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Thanks for the post.
Once upon a time the hydrogen bomb was a surprise
9 posted on
09/12/2020 1:58:19 PM PDT by
jcon40
(The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
To: DUMBGRUNT
It’s easy to prove these day. Build it into a cubesat and get SpaceX to launch it for you.
11 posted on
09/12/2020 2:01:31 PM PDT by
ClayinVA
("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
To: DUMBGRUNT
Its a microwave rocket. Set it on “Baked Potato” for Mars orbit.
13 posted on
09/12/2020 2:12:03 PM PDT by
Delta 21
To: DUMBGRUNT
Sign me up for stocks on the Epstein Drive.
/The Expanse reference
17 posted on
09/12/2020 2:33:45 PM PDT by
RandallFlagg
(Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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