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Old 09-26-2008, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by OldPokey View Post
Hype hype hype misinformation hype hype (and some conspiracy crap thrown in for good measure). That engine was developed by a British company, not Chinese, and it's nothing new - and it has very, very, very little thrust. It's basically an ion drive: shoot lots of ions very fast one way, and your engine goes the other way. Never mind flying cars and that kind of garbage. There is very little of substance here - just wild conjecture. Google Pons & Fleischmann for another example of this.

http://www.emdrive.com/
That’s kind of what I was thinking.

Didn’t we start the development of this sort of thing back in the 60s with SERT 1 and then SERT 2 in the 70s?

Isn’t there a few ships up now with this type of propulsion? DeepSpace-I, Artmeis, Hayabusa, Smart I, Dawn…?
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