Microwaves bouncing around inside a chamber propels a spacecraft, and scientists don’t really know why.
Calculations have a craft powered by such an engine reaching Mars in just 10 weeks.
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The next thing we’ll hear is how this was how the craft that fell in Roswell was powered–or how ancient alien astronauts gave this to the Aztecs.
Equal and opposite reaction…..no?
Aye, Cap’n, She cant take mooch morrrre, I’m givin’ ‘er all she’s got.
Postulated in the 60s, I think, by science fiction writers.
Must consider the mass and number of photons as opposed to the mass of the spacecraft, and the relative velocities.
Take a shitload of photons to accelerate a spaceship.
Same as a bullet leaving a firearm, except the bullet is a photon and the firearm is a spaceship.
I’m not seeing the 300 million mile trip in 10 weeks, though.
Ah, the frustration of getting the right answer to an algebra problem, but not being able to account for how you got it.
I remember it well.
Is this the same NASA that claims a measured increase in polar ice is equivalent to a substantial decrease in polar ice?
Does not defy the laws of physics or it wouldn’t work!
Magic carpet technology. One of the many scientific contributions of Islam
They are not telling the whole story.
It requires a bag of pop corn to work.
It runs on Di-Lithium crystals and Unicorn farts.
Same as Obola’s economy …
Ah yes, the Flux Decapitator….
Warps reality so you think you’re going to Mars but really just stoned in mama’s attic.
Proving, YET AGAIN, that science is never “Settled”. It just gets more science-y as further facts are uncovered.
Do you HEAR ME NOW, glo-bull warmist shitheads???
Let’s make a big one and load it with Muslims…..what’s the downside?
We spend a billion dollars,
to put a man in space,
but shouldn’t we be using that,
to help the human race?
We’ve all got to do something,
and do it real soon,
Let’s take that billion dollars,
and put the ghettos on the moon!
These things have been round for quite a while and were postulated long ago.
They are not ‘fuel free’, they run on electricity.
The also don’t scale up very well so they will likely be limited to keeping satellites properly positioned until some major break through is made, and at this point, not even that is feasible.
The main problem is that anomalies that exist in low power systems tend to self organize out of existence as power is increased.
The photons bounce around but never leave the closed container. That’s why it violates the Conservation of Momentum principle, assuming it really does produce thrust.
The problem with this (if it does work) is some asshole will travel to that solar system where they think there is some enormous structure orbiting the sun.
Then being captured by the Aliens who live there, they will give up our location under torture, and then they will be assimilated, or eaten, or hopefully be sent to fight in the slave pens.
Then soon we will long for the good old days when we only had rabid Muslims to worry about
Just a point of clarification. NASA didn’t develop this engine. An aerospace engineer name Roger Shawyer invented it and he is not employed by NASA. In fact, NASA thought he was full of shit until a reputable institution confirmed it worked.
Microwaves? How many and how many extension cords will that need?
Clock Boy invented this when he was three years old.
The Muzlims have given us so much. In addition to this, they perfected slavery, raping, beheading, and killing. NASA would just not be the same without them.
I really don’t have time to look into this right now. The deuterium sample came in the mail on Wednesday, Mamaw’s old palladium wedding set is nicely polished and the mayo jar from last night’s ham sandwich is drying in the dish rack. Everything is ready for tomorrow’s room temperature, cold fusion experiment.
Exactly. We don’t know all the laws of physics, especially at the quantum level.
Amana from heaven…
I heard he was in Egypt, testing the prototype in a Russian jet or something.
Micro wave generators require some sort of power source, so the cant really claim ‘fuel free’
“Do You Believe In Magic…?”
— The Lovin’ Spoonful
🙂
Iowa politicians will get a federal a law passed that it has to run on ethanol.
You mean 30 right?
They then can moon walk all the fuck they want.
As long as it doesn’t actually work, the govt to want fund it under the cloak of renewable green energy this keeping the money stream fat and on time. Make it work and they’ll stop funding.
So much fail in this article. Thrust is in micronewtons…less than the force of a sheet of paper exerts due to gravity. This is can’t be used for launch. Once in space it could be used for continuous acceleration but it would take decades to reach a speed that could get to Mars in 10 months.
Maybe the Muslims gave it to NASA now that Obama has them ‘reaching out’ to them. After all, they invented the concept of zero, all architecture (haha), and also more recently, goat humping and Sharia law…
Depends where in the 50,000 year cycle we are.
33 million to 225 million
I shouldn’t have played so fast and loose with the mileage – does this mean I can’t be Preznit?