NASA's EmDrive engine to be tested in space

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1. scientific method son every thing could be wrong.
2. You mean Roger Shawyer EmDrive....
3. 0:24 no they didnt find thrust in multiple experiments. Time after time it got debunked, it can work in atmosphere withough breaking the laws of phisics but some idiot fucked up on the latest test and the scifantasy magic universe of people thinking that timetravul is easy and that bla bla bla bla speed force!
4. I'm skeptical. My money is on some kind of magnetic interaction is causing the thrust seen in the experiments. Although I have an open mind there might be some new physics going on here. We won't know for sure until we send one into space and try it.
5. Apparently the thrust is light.
6. I'm pretty much a skeptic about this.. But I want this to work so much!! If it does work, Putting a small size nuclear reactor on a spaceship will allow it to traverse the solar system in a matter of weeks. The solar system will become our playground. Colonies will sprout everywhere and traders will buzz between them all the time.. This is exactly why this is so dangerous and needs skepticism - it is full of wishful thinking.
7. Wait. "Test it in space?". That's sort of like how the bank likes to count your coins in a separate room. You just have to take their word for it if their count and yours don't match. Same with this "space test". How strong is your faith?
8. Experiment is of course the final arbiter. If your researchers can't decide if something should work or not, just try it. The question can answer itself. I say launch this thing and settle the issue.
9. the thing wouldn't work because the thing is a flat plat not the cone like it should be.
10. The EM Drive is not feasible for launching a vehicle into space but would be used after reaching out space in the same way a solar sail would be used to propel a vehicle through space using photons from the sun to push a solar sail through space.
    The EM Drive uses microwaves as the sun and a cone shaped apparatus in place of the solar sail, how this works is what scientists do not seem to understand.
    My guess is that the material the cone is made of is absorbing the microwaves which is.converted into heat and this heat is directed out of the cone producing thrust.
    I would start by testing what the material is made of and what damage the heating does to this material.
    They may find out the material will not last long enough to propel the craft through space for long durations but let's hope that is not the case :-)
11. So... they don't know what force it can create...
    So even IF it works , it can be to little to fight force of atmosphere , and it will still fall down.
    Lets say average cube stayed 9 weeks , this one will stay 10.
    Now fucking guess what happen .... srsly ?
12. it's called quantum entanglement radiation
13. when it comes IT back, the cube will try to assimilate us into the combine
14. Not NASA, this is a British invention by Roger Shawyer
15. The laws of physics come from human interpretation of what we have observed in the physical world. Thus they could have some flaw as there are still things we don't fully understand about our universe yet (such as why a particle when it's path is uncertain acts more like a spread out wave than a particle but as soon as the info is gained it starts behaving like a particle again).
16. a guy here on youtube already proved it.
17. IT WILL NOT BE TESTED IN SPACE! You are just citing an article that cited another artical that again cited another article that just said it would without any real fucking evidence...
18. EM drive works? So let me give you the bad news.
    
    Place a rocket in orbit with a heavy hard metal spike as payload. A minor political power launches the payload with EM drive and let it slowly coast to a great distance from Earth, say a polar wide solar orbit, a few hundred kilometers from earth. Can be done for the cost of launching an actual satellite.
    
    Say, the country who implements one is North Korea. NK launches a rocket in space every month and each time a EM driven metal spike is places in a very wide solar orbit. In the future NK gives command, and all the spikes start accelerating to super-precise targets on earth. Each takes months to accelerate, and after months these spikes have attained absurd speed, and are made to impact vertically on all large US cities. Each hits with, say, a few megaton kinetic power deposited in the upper atmosphere, NO radioactivity. The US is now a third world nation, its 20 biggest cities destroyed.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
    
    And we can do nothing about this. Zip.
19. Make it so.
20. It seriously seems that physicists in general have become increasingly dim over the decades. It certainly takes more than 'rote' to become a good scientist.
    
    But then again, our all too confining and increasingly liberal institutions of over priced so called 'higher education' seem little interested in teaching students to 'think' nearly so much as memorize what their being spoon fed.
    
    God forbid they should actually dare to think a bit outside the box and actually disprove 'solid' sound, irrefutable principle.