EM Drive

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russ_a

4,578 posts

211 months

Thursday 30th April 2015
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Rolls-Royce have a nuclear reactor too.

annodomini2

6,861 posts

251 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Foliage said:
Lockheed do have a working small fusion reactor, currently being tested etc etc.
No they don't, they were bidding for funding.

Brother D

3,720 posts

176 months

Wednesday 6th May 2015
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russ_a said:
Rolls-Royce have a nuclear reactor too.
Crickey. Didn't know that!

ianrb

1,532 posts

140 months

Wednesday 6th May 2015
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Brother D said:
russ_a said:
Rolls-Royce have a nuclear reactor too.
Crickey. Didn't know that!
They stick them in RN subs.



Brother D

3,720 posts

176 months

Wednesday 6th May 2015
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ianrb said:
Brother D said:
russ_a said:
Rolls-Royce have a nuclear reactor too.
Crickey. Didn't know that!
They stick them in RN subs.
Yeah read that, previously just assumed UK boats had US or French supplied reactors in, didn't realize RR actually built the reactors.

gadgetmac

14,984 posts

108 months

Wednesday 6th May 2015
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Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

244 months

Wednesday 6th May 2015
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gadgetmac said:
You're not. It is distinctly possible that EM drive is wishful thinking at best, likely even. However that piss poor excuse for an article does nothing but rehash the old "it violates conservation" argument. If it does then, yes it doesn't, indeed cannot, work. There are however a number of hypotheses stating that it is not in violation. We shall see.

otolith

56,132 posts

204 months

Wednesday 6th May 2015
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It's the apparent departure from model behaviour which makes it interesting. The findings may turn out to be an artefact, but if they are not there is something very interesting going on.

isee

3,713 posts

183 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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seeing as this in an EM drive, I wonder if the reason it works is that it has so far been tested inside the Earth's magnetosphere?

My money is that some variable has not been controlled an no laws of physics have actually been broken.

But even so, even if it only worked inside earth's magnetosphere it would be immensely useful!

isee

3,713 posts

183 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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anonymous said:
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Well yes, that's a given, I meant that even the laws of physics that we understand will likely not be broken.

otolith

56,132 posts

204 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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That's the nice thing about science - if you find that your laws are wrong, you can change them.

XM5ER

5,091 posts

248 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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The inventors website. http://emdrive.com/

Keep watching, it could get interesting, or it could be bks. A bit like Rossi and his heat device.

Halb

53,012 posts

183 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Or the German-Argentinian and his fusion device.

Foliage

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3,861 posts

122 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Im just waiting on the news of it not actually working. I really hope it works but its very very unlikely

Halb

53,012 posts

183 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Reminds me of the stuff I used to read about Viktor Schauberger.

otolith

56,132 posts

204 months

scubadude

2,618 posts

197 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Well if it looks worthwhile NASA will knock up a small one, send it the ISS and throw it out the door to see what happens.

Foliage

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3,861 posts

122 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Im glad this still hasn't been proved an error in data collection or testing yet.

We shall see how what the future holds, with the announcement that a moon base would cost far less than previously thought and with new technology pushing on, will we see man back on the moon again in our lifetime? Its coming up to 15 years of the ISS being occupied as well this year.

perdu

4,884 posts

199 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Simpo Two said:
Foliage said:
Visit the moon in 4 hours.

Whats everyone thoughts?
No atmosphere!
Tinkling piano, couple of potted palms and reduce the lighting a tad, soon have quite a nice atmosphere

wink



The drive, still an exciting future ahead I reckon

eventually

otolith

56,132 posts

204 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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If it does work, the theoretical physicists are going to have a ball figuring out how the hell it does it. Could be all sorts of interesting science falling out as a result.