EgonSpengler
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Supposedly this thing generates thrust without any propellant. I'm no physicist, but...
Science fiction writers everywhere are running for their laptops. Unless this is some kind of long-game 'April Fools' prank. Which would be both disappointing and funny.
NASASpaceFlight.com said:Evaluating NASAs Futuristic EM Drive
April 29, 2015 by José Rodal, Ph.D, Jeremiah Mullikin and Noel Munson
A group at NASAs Johnson Space Center has successfully tested an electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive in a vacuum a major breakthrough for a multi-year international effort comprising several competing research teams. Thrust measurements of the EM Drive defy classical physics expectations that such a closed (microwave) cavity should be unusable for space propulsion because of the law of conservation of momentum.
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Science fiction writers everywhere are running for their laptops. Unless this is some kind of long-game 'April Fools' prank. Which would be both disappointing and funny.