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|    Rick Pikul/Chakat Firepaw to Your Name    |
|    Re: [OT News] "Impulse Drive" a reality?    |
|    30 Jul 15 15:14:22    |
      XPost: rec.arts.sf.movies       From: chakatfirepaw@gmail.com              On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:01:39 +1200, Your Name wrote:              > If this is indeed working, then so much the brainless imbeciles who       > claim human beings already know everything and they're moronic belief       > that anything which doesn't stick to what we already know doesn't       > classify as "science fiction".       >       > Even if it doesn't work as a propulsion system, there's still something       > happening that scientists don't yet understand.              Magnetic fields are quite well understood, (that's the likely cause of       the tiny amount of thrust seen in this test). The simple fact that _it       keeps working even when intentionally broken_ should be a clue that there       is an unaccounted for effect at play, (just like the earlier claim of the       EM Drive working actually being a thermal effect).                     Also, the article you quote makes the usual error of confusing "a tiny       lab at NASA that spends spare time looking into things that almost       certainly don't work," for NASA as a whol;e.              --       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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