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Re: Space Thread
« Reply #2085 on: November 24, 2016, 09:09:21 pm »

You don't know the power of the Light Side
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« Reply #2086 on: November 24, 2016, 09:50:01 pm »

People in love do awful things, I'd rather the drive run on intolerance for bullshit.
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« Reply #2087 on: November 24, 2016, 09:51:52 pm »

I could totally dig becoming a Shrike.
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« Reply #2088 on: November 24, 2016, 09:52:59 pm »

I could totally dig becoming a Shrike.
Can I sig this?
Hah, yup.
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« Reply #2089 on: December 04, 2016, 11:15:51 pm »

So, um, the EM drive could in fact, be a dark matter drive?? http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/11/30/could-dark-matter-be-powering-the-emdrive/#9b4eab11e539

It's a pretty wild idea, though I have no idea how they'd get any meaningful thrust out of it.
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« Reply #2090 on: December 05, 2016, 12:08:45 am »

It works by torturing the souls of the dark matter people.
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« Reply #2091 on: December 05, 2016, 12:12:10 am »

Ah, so we're no longer going with the working theory that the EM drive functions by draining rotational momentum from Isaac Newton's grave and translating it to linear momentum?
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« Reply #2092 on: December 05, 2016, 12:15:35 am »

Given that the thrust of that is so miniscule, less than an ion drive even, it's hard to see how they could scale it up or give meaningful thrust. That depends on figuring out how the heck it works in the first place though.
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« Reply #2093 on: December 05, 2016, 12:19:48 am »

To begin with, they could build a proper resonance cavity. The one they tested is built out of bolted-together scrap and literally made at someone's kitchen table. A lab-grade resonance cavity is carved out of a solid block of metal by a CNC machine to Space Shuttle tolerances.

Considering the EM Drive's effect seems to be based upon resonance somehow, making a proper cavity would increase the thrust.
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« Reply #2094 on: December 05, 2016, 07:34:30 am »

So, um, the EM drive could in fact, be a dark matter drive?? http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/11/30/could-dark-matter-be-powering-the-emdrive/#9b4eab11e539

It's a pretty wild idea, though I have no idea how they'd get any meaningful thrust out of it.
I can't see forbes since they keep popping up their annoying little adblock nanny thing so I forbid every bit of the site pre-emptively, but I'm guessing if the power levels involved and a resonance chamber could accidentally provide evidence of dark matter, then professional scientists who actually do this sort of stuff for a living would probably have deliberately tried to do just that sort of experiment, and to date I haven't seen any blurbs about "dark matter detected directly" or anything alone those lines.
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« Reply #2095 on: December 05, 2016, 10:54:28 am »

On the topic of dark matter being directly detected an MD the concept of dark matter drive:
Weren't we just talking about the paper on how dark matter is not per se a detectable atom, but rather a glue like force that holds everything together? Therefore, one could say this is a 'gravity drive', but once again that is mere labeling speculation. If it DOES work off dark matter, and they actually built an up to par EM drive, wouldn't it be working based off gravity alone? Since electromagnetism is what can be seen not only on our planet but as well as the rest of the universe, wouldn't my above conjecture make sense? Or no?

Also, the mere fact that they assembled it at a workshop table and it still produces thrust is a surprising factors considering it still gave thrust.

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« Reply #2096 on: December 05, 2016, 11:42:40 am »

Hmmm, don't remember the gluematter thing. A force carrier with enough mass to produce the visual distortion seen in galaxy clusters would probably need a force to carry, and the more massive bosons are pretty impressive when you get them unbound, nuclear explosions and whatnot.
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« Reply #2097 on: December 05, 2016, 03:40:22 pm »

Last thing I heard, the NASA paper was bad, horrible methodology, just terrible, absolutely worthless. Sad!

Except in scientist speak instead of trump speak.
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« Reply #2098 on: December 05, 2016, 04:35:33 pm »

The NASA paper examining the methodology of the EM Drive paper was itself lacking in methodology?
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« Reply #2099 on: December 06, 2016, 02:44:25 am »

I also saw an (the same probably) article saying that, I think it was on one of those gizmodo but for science type sites.
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