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alfa015
09-04-2018, 04:09 AM
Last year China claimed that they had built an EM drive.

The Chinese Space Agency released a video (this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdcer1QQLrA&feature=youtu.be), but they don't go into detail.

What do you think about it? Do you think they are just achieving insignificant amounts of thrust?

If the EM drive worked, as far as I'm concerned it could gradually achieve 9.4% the speed of light.

I recently made a video on the most plausible methods of interstellar travel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AMRUzEWP4Y&list=PL3RiFKfZj3ptaxqH3te_eKz1ge_Cx Qxjw) but didn't include the EM drive as I think it is still too controversial and, well, I wanted to choose just the 5 fastest methods.

Nikolas
16-04-2018, 08:42 PM
It's all Chinese not a helpful video

glend
17-04-2018, 01:32 AM
The one that Darius Tanz built on Salvation is working.

LewisM
17-04-2018, 02:34 PM
:rofl:

Fiction beget fiction

Icearcher
17-04-2018, 04:00 PM
Maybe China stole it off Russia? Its only a prototype though. :)

bojan
17-04-2018, 04:18 PM
Nothing....

Zuts
17-04-2018, 07:53 PM
Just saying...

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/nasa-impossible-emdrive-physics-peer-review-space-science/

Maybe it could get a water bear to Alpha Centauri, but in the future...

dpastern
20-04-2018, 08:50 PM
I think warp drive is a better option than EM drive personally.

China has apparently been working hard on actual prototypes, meanwhile, NASA buggers around with theoretical papers and no real practical experiments. About sums up how far down the tube NASA has gone in many areas imho.

LewisM
21-04-2018, 08:14 AM
US Military funding for 2018: 639 BILLION USD

US NASA funding for 2018: 18.4 BILLION USD

Atlas shrugged...

xelasnave
21-04-2018, 08:27 AM
I though the military budget was higher...and so it should be...we need to build battle stars to protect the solar system.
Battle Stars really make sence as you could place all military activity upon space ships a long way from here and unite the world against the threat of attack from other solar systems...plus space research would be a happy spin off.
We need to explore the places in this solar system to establish if any thteats to Earth may exist within the solar system so of course we need missions to more places than Mars...
Alex

LewisM
21-04-2018, 08:33 AM
Your sarcasm made me smile ;)

xelasnave
21-04-2018, 08:39 AM
I wasnt being sarcastic. ..well not if we hope to save the space program.

NASA needs to fall back from all involvement in climate observation , not saying such is not needed but it will work against them.
But a battle star program will immediately bring all Republicans on side and that wont hurt funding ...I bet involvement in climate observation hurts NASA big time...think of the politics.
Alex

xelasnave
21-04-2018, 08:44 AM
And what has happened to the star wars program?
Should be a priority as lets face it everything gets done or not done according to how the military sees their purpose being served.
China needs to shoot down another weather sat. That would be great for funding.
Sure I am crazy but you need to be crazy to analyse these matters ...crazy understands crazy☺
Alex

JA
21-04-2018, 08:47 AM
That's what they'll make known. The rest, the black budget or the taxpayer and senate unauthorised bottomless pit .... in the words of Borat : " you will never have this ...." :D

As an aside:
I haven't checked lately but the US National debt was around $20 Trillion post Obama (EDIT: Now $21 Trillion). every now and then the market wakes up to the growing level of the debt and goes into a mild or severe melt down. The next one is always just around the corner.

Best
JA

dpastern
21-04-2018, 08:59 AM
I was under the understanding that NASA"s funding was a LOT less than 18 billion per year (more in the order of 600M or so). And military funding was upwards of a trillion dollars per year.



lol. NO.



NO. Absolutely not. NASA is about science, not military BS. The US government needs to start showing less war-mongering and de-militarisation. Trump and co. are anti climate change, and that's obvious by who Trump appointed to the head of the EPA. Reversal of key anti-pollution laws (clean water policy), the strong push for money making exercises at the cost of local environments, etc.



The US government (like any, really) is notorious for lying about expenditure. So much for serving the people. Which is why I laugh when people think that we live in a democracy - we do NOT.

JA
21-04-2018, 09:11 AM
You are absolutely right:

One man does not equal one vote. One dollar equals one vote.

Best
JA

xelasnave
21-04-2018, 09:44 AM
Dave what they need to do probably wont happen...the military lobby is more powerful than we can imagine.

War mongering is the natural condition and will never fall for a rational peaceful approach.

And we have to live with the fact that it is those who control capital who decide who shall be in office...I note "in office" which does not mean that is the seat of power.

Trump is not an island and although we all focus upon him and his approach he would not be able to retain office if those with the power were not well served by him being there...those in power must be so happy to have him in office as he takes the focus away from the real problem...them.

Anyways what does it matter gluttons for energy will consume more and more and that suits those who have large chuncks of capital invested in energy.

The only reason alternative energy gets a look in is because there is a buck to be made and certainly few invest because of ethical reasons.


I think the most important thing we could do, and by we I mean them, is to send missions to determine if life is in the places we consider possible...but again such missions would not appeal to those, who because of their religious philosophy, consider life can only be on Earth and that it is somehow special.
The cry that the search for gravity waves is the most important thing to undertake certainly suits those in the relativity business but how sad that such is standing in line to take money away from real space exploration...there are gravity waves so what..who cares about two black holes merging billions of light years in the past (or distant) is not looking for life now around here more important?
The money that goes to proving DrA was right is scandalous but that is politics for you.
Alex

dpastern
21-04-2018, 09:54 AM
Well, merging Black holes do allow us to test Einstein's relativity even further. And the reason why man is where he is is because of curiosity.

Finding non Earth life is important, but as long as certain religions hold sway over the many idiots in society, that is going to be ignored.

Elon Musk's various alternative energy platforms have long been attacked by the wealthy, and powerful, old school (Ford, GM etc). The technology works. It works well. It is being deliberately crippled by those of the old power, including the fuel (oil/gas) tycoons. They are a dying species and yet they refuse to roll over and die.

Trump is an idiotic moron. I could say worse, but since this is a public forum, I shall refrain.



yes, this is the sad truth of modern human society.

JA
21-04-2018, 10:22 AM
I would counter, but would be scorned (Religion/Politics/etc...). I could say more, but "since this is a public forum, I shall refrain" :D:D:D

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JA

xelasnave
21-04-2018, 10:56 AM
Dave GR has been tested every which way such that from what I can grasp it really cant take us further.

I really think GR has become a business ... there is now no prediction that has not been tested as far as I know...its been done to death and it seems that the great minds tired up in GR could be put to better use.

The environment does not exist where something new can drop out of the research.

I think there is a better case for funding scientists to just do "what pops into your head" if we seek new stuff.

However on the bright side GR does keep a lot of great minds active I expect.

It is hard to think of something new these days.

Once I could come up with what would be judged as a rat bag idea that could never happen whereas now you get an idea search on utube and there it is with 30 people doing what you thought about.

I thought one day...you could inflate a black plastic bag with air let it heat up in the Sun and you would have a solar hot air ballon..so I go on utube and find 30 people with solar hot air ballons.

I designed a cat to take the world sail record which was pretty novel and a couple of weeks ago find it out there such that it matched my plans...and it did take the record...but funny I cant find it again ...which I must do...as there was one aspect not in the one I saw which probably would give a little more speed.

So its cloudy here as you can guess.

Alex

wavelandscott
21-04-2018, 01:04 PM
This is my Wife’s Uncle Jimmy....

I copied from Wikipedia...

How thrust is hypothesized to be produced by the Woodward effect. The C represents a capacitor element, L represents an inductor element.
The Woodward effect, also referred to as a Mach effect, is part of a hypothesis proposed by James F. Woodward in 1990.[1] The hypothesis states that transient mass fluctuations arise in any object that absorbs internal energy while undergoing a proper acceleration. Harnessing this effect could generate a reactionless thrust, which Woodward and others claim to measure in various experiments.[2][3]

Hypothetically, the Woodward effect would allow for field propulsion spacecraft engines that would not have to expel matter. Such a proposed engine, is sometimes called a Mach effect thruster (MET) or a Mach Effect Gravitational Assist (MEGA) drive.[4][5] So far, experimental results have not strongly supported this hypothesis,[6] but experimental research on this effect, and its potential applications, continues.[7] The anomalous thrust detected in some RF resonant cavity thruster (EmDrive/Cannae drive) experiments may be explained by the same type of Mach effect proposed by Woodward.[8][9][10]

The Space Studies Institute was selected as part of NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program as a Phase I proposal in April 2017 for Mach Effect research.[11][12][13][14] The year after, NASA awarded a NIAC Phase II grant to the SSI to further develop these propellantless thrusters.[15][16]

dpastern
21-04-2018, 02:53 PM
OH well, I personally find the research around black hole mergers interesting. :-)

Kal
23-05-2018, 01:07 PM
Some new updates


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJM6lP9CuSw

dpastern
23-05-2018, 01:33 PM
Now why doesn't that surprise me...as I said, warp drive is a far better tech to be pursuing.

deanm
23-05-2018, 01:44 PM
EM? It's all a furphy:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2169809-impossible-em-drive-doesnt-seem-to-work-after-all/
Dean

dpastern
23-05-2018, 03:27 PM
never heard the term "furphy" before, but yes, I agree.