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|    Rick Pikul/Chakat Firepaw to All    |
|    Re: Reactionless Drives    |
|    11 Aug 16 06:59:23    |
      From: chakatfirepaw@gmail.com              On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:56:20 -0700, 0something0 wrote:              > On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 3:16:25 PM UTC-4, 0something0 wrote:       >       > What I meant was a no fuel or propellent, electricity in, momentum       > out-type drive, which the Atomic Rockets website said was impossible....              Photons are propellant.              Your drive gets momentum by generating photons and sending them,       (eventually), in the direction opposite that of the desired thrust vector.              --       Chakat Firepaw - Inventor and Scientist (mad)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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