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Get your redshirts ready! "Impossible" engine revolutionizes space travel
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:04 pm
English scientist Roger Shawyer invented the concept of the electromagnetic drive (or EM drive) engine 15 years ago. It was designed as a way to utilize solar energy for propulsion, but was laughed at by critics as being completely impossible.
Well, how times have changed. NASA has now confirmed that it produces thrust, their findings verified by Martin Tajmar, a professor and chair for Space Systems at Dresden University of Technology in Germany.
Science, b*&@hes!
Well, how times have changed. NASA has now confirmed that it produces thrust, their findings verified by Martin Tajmar, a professor and chair for Space Systems at Dresden University of Technology in Germany.
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The drive is capable of producing thrust several thousand times greater than a standard photon rocket and could get to Mars within 70 days or Pluto within 18 months. A trip to Alpha Centauri, which would take tens of thousands of years to reach right now, could be reached in just 100 years.
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Shawyer also claims that he is just a few months away from publishing new results confirming that his drive works in a peer reviewed journal.
Science, b*&@hes!
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:05 pm to brodeo
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The drive is capable of producing thrust several thousand times greater than a standard photon rocket and could get to Mars within 70 days or Pluto within 18 months. A trip to Alpha Centauri, which would take tens of thousands of years to reach right now, could be reached in just 100 years.
This sounds like a complete game changer.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:06 pm to brodeo
I don't get how they haven't created some kind of nuclear engine that could produce thrust and be able to launch that into space. But I guess water would be an issue? How do Nuclear reactors work on subs?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:06 pm to brodeo
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trip to Alpha Centauri, which would take tens of thousands of years to reach right now, could be reached in just 100 years.
Just need some viable cryo-sleep pods and we're good to go
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:06 pm to brodeo
Where's the catch?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:08 pm to brodeo
quote:Who cares how it works as long as it gets the job done?
However scientists still have no idea how it actually works. Nasa suggested that it could have something to do with the technology manipulating subatomic particles which constantly pop in and out of existence in empty space.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:08 pm to brodeo
While they are busy creating those rockets, how about applications for cars, boats, planes and trains here on earth as well.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:08 pm to brodeo
quote:Pretty sure you won't ever reach Alpha Centauri
A trip to Alpha Centauri, which would take tens of thousands of years to reach right now, could be reached in just 100 years.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:09 pm to brodeo
Withholding excitement because we've heard stuff like this before but I find it awesome that scientists still have no idea how its producing thrust. It defies the conservation of momentum.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:11 pm to markasaurus
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Where's the catch?
The catch is, when you get going unbelievably fast, >1% speed of light, how do you avoid hitting objects that would rip through your hull. Something the size of a marble at that speed is death.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:12 pm to Waffle House
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While they are busy creating those rockets, how about applications for cars, boats, planes and trains here on earth as well.
Because a space rocket, compared with any of those, is orders of magnitude bigger.
Are you going to strap an engine the size of a house onto your Geo Metro?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:13 pm to SundayFunday
That's why we need Navigators.
The Spice Must Flow
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:14 pm to Waffle House
quote:How about Big Oil will do everything in their power, which is a lot of power, to block any changes to standard combustion.
While they are busy creating those rockets, how about applications for cars, boats, planes and trains here on earth as well.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:15 pm to Kracka
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How do Nuclear reactors work on subs?
They boil water...
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:16 pm to brodeo
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Get your redshirts ready
No frickin' way, man. Everybody knows that those guys are goners.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:17 pm to arcalades
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quote: A trip to Alpha Centauri, which would take tens of thousands of years to reach right now, could be reached in just 100 years.Pretty sure you won't ever reach Alpha Centauri
Would be pointless to even try, by the time they got there We would have developed a technology to get there in a few hours/days.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:17 pm to SundayFunday
quote:Go around them.
how do you avoid hitting objects that would rip through your hull.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:17 pm to waiting4saturday
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They boil water...
is it somehow circulated? Obviously they don't let it back into the ocean....
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:17 pm to DrunkenStuporMan
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Who cares how it works as long as it gets the job done?
If you can understand it, you can improve it.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:17 pm to waiting4saturday
good point
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