• bruhbeans
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    472 months ago

    I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that NASA has physicists that understand how and why this thing works, and the article title is just bullshit.

    • @xor
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      692 months ago

      they do, and tested it extensively… and determined it doesn’t provide any thrust and the earlier tests that showed a tiny bit were just sensors malfunctioning from the microwaves…
      i’m going go ahead and call this article:
      probably bullshit

      • @corroded@lemmy.world
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        262 months ago

        Are you sure? What you say is true of the EM drive, but this looks like it’s a completely different technology. As far as the article is written, it doesn’t sound like microwaves are used at all.

        What has me skeptical is that they say the device produces enough thrust to counteract its own mass, which would be revolutionary. Why are we not reading about this all over the news?

      • admiralteal
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        262 months ago

        This can’t be ion propulsion because ion propulsion involves a propellant – the ions.