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Any time I hear claims that involve hitherto unknown laws of Physics I’m 99.99% sure I’m dealing with BS - but then again, some day someone will probably genuinely pull off such a discovery.
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.
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 bullshitIon propulsion.
This can’t be ion propulsion because ion propulsion involves a propellant – the ions.
it would be so cool though… a new force…
are you telling me this sucker runs on midichlorians?
i’m pretty sure it runs on flux capacitance
How many giggawatts? Last one didn’t do anything and we fed it 1.20.
9001 giggitywatts
It’s very likely, but it’s almost certainly going to involve an extreme thing we can barely measure. The whole reason physics is stuck where it is is that all the things we have access to are described perfectly by the system we have, even if it’s not fully self-consistent.
I mean, if there was any I would trust on physics NASA is pretty high up there
This wasn’t NASA, though. This was a sci-fi writer, writing about a putative claim by someone who got paid by NASA at some point in the past.
Ditto for the couple ex-CIA guys that claim there’s alien dissections or whatever. Big organizations inevitably employ all sorts.
a NASA veteran claims their Propellantless Propulsion Drive, that physics says shouldn’t work, just produced enough thrust to overcome Earth’s gravity
What’s that? No replication? Not even peer reviewed? Fuck are we reporting on it for, then? It’s giving “alien spheroids from deep space” that will later turn out to match terran iron to a 99.9999% level of accuracy energy; and that’s not a good look
Dr. Charles Buhler, a NASA engineer and the co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies
That smells even worse. Company’s a year old and all I can reliably find on it is a company profile on “Corporation Wiki”; no website, no real information on them, but this company just apparently cracked physics. Lmao okay. This is a grift for a coming IPO, I’d bet my left leg on it.
IF anyone else can replicate these findings, he might be onto something-- but with how many outright scams PhD’s have tried pushing in the last four years regarding exotic sciences, I don’t… Believe shit out of this sector without the actual rigors of the Method being applied to what people are flapping their jaws about.
steve from accounting said it worked though
Steve from Accounting is a prick who thinks it’s okay to microwave his fish come lunchtime, I’d need a double-check and a second opinion if Steve from Accounting told me the sky was blue.
You know, if the break room was actually ventilated for heating food, the microwaved fish smell wouldn’t be an issue.
But corporate couldn’t be arsed actually providing a suitable environment, tale as old as corporations…
Pizza parties and appreciate-mints, though.
He even has 5 YT video links that can explain it!
Best Lemmy World post: “I put this article through an AI generator and it made this image, here’s a description I made with ChatGPT” 🤓☝
Worst Lemmy Grad post:
The hilarious irony about this is that I actually made a theoretical framework for how such a drive could be possible and then was shocked as shit when I found out their solution was magical time travelling particles. Like even they knew it was complete and utter bullshit.
Did nobody else see this was written by a FUCKING SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR?
The flags are there, and they are red.
Sci Fi remains sci Fi until it becomes a reality 🦅🦅🦅
They literally are claiming they found a new fundamental force.
It’s bullshit. He’s a liar and “the debrief” should be goddamned ashamed of publishing this tripe.
[…] Another unusual result from their tests was that sometimes the tested devices did not require a constant input of electrical charge to maintain their thrust. Given that the device already appears to violate the known laws of physics by creating thrust without propellant, this result even stumped Dr. Buhler and his team.
Hold up a minute, not only does this thing generate momentum out of
essentiallynowhere“a new fundamental force”, it is also able to generate thrust without a constant supply of energy?If I told you my car could run without petrol, you’d call me a liar, but apparently this didn’t ring alarm bells to them?
It’s just an intern fucking with the scientist.
“You sure there isn’t any propellant in there?”
“Yes, professor, I’m positive! snicker”
Ain’t got no gas in it.
Mmm-hmm.
“Your car CAN run without petrol. Liquify dinosaurs? You people are insane” - Fred Flintstone
I get the skepticism in the comments here, but having finished the article, the team seems as perplexed as the rest of us as to why/what is happening here, and seems very interested in getting outside scientists and companies to try and figure it out. Basically they don’t seem to be the standard vaporware sellers playbook, but of course, who knows, most things like this are total bullshit.
My fake conspiracy joke explanation: all those physics breaking lozenge ufos that have been making the rounds the last couple years are some lizard man tech we’ve had all along, and this is a half assed attempt to introduce the tech publicly without having to explain they had it already. OR similar vein, but the super-dimensional tic-tac operators (either aliens or multi-dimensional humans from the future like in interstellar) are trying to share this miracle tech with us and this is the avenue they chose.
I’m not merely sceptical I know this is bunk. Not because they’re claiming they accidentally stumbled onto something akin to cold fusion, or the incredible claim that they’ve found a new fundamental force that everyone else completely missed. No I know it’s bunk because they’re already talking to the press about and releasing statements with their claims before the paper is ready.
Every credible organisation if they stumbled on something like this would lock things down. They wouldn’t make any statements until they have double, triple or quadruple-checked everything. Making a massive claim that can make world news but quickly gets debunked is poison to a group’s credibility. So every group that cares about their credibility would only officially confirm anything once every single i is dotted and every t is crossed.
The fact that they’re already talking to the press means they don’t have the real evidence to prove their extraordinary claims and they know it. This is a scam and the whole “We don’t know what causes it” is simply a tactic to make it harder to debunk while they fish for gullible investors to sink money into their scheme.
Yeah that’s a good point. Also it’s the debrief, not like the New York Times, so that doesn’t exactly instill confidence.
That article reads like it was written by a middle school student.
Me reading this article and hearing the opening them to Star Trek in the background the whole time…
Which theme?
this patent site has descriptive diagrams & results :
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/071841072/publication/WO2020159603A2?q=pn%3DWO2020159603A2
Strangely I did not see the diagrams’ descriptions.
So the thrust comes from those four diagonal vectors by the 100a label?
Well, kind of yes (or yeah…).
But everything about this is now an oversimplification since science can’t describe it properly now.
This image is a simplified schematic describing one of their devices made with the intent of creating an asymmetric electric field which according to the inventors would be somehow related to the trust which they claim they have measured.
There are maybe around 20 of these images included in the patent for which I gave the link and I decided to put one of those images in my comment so users could have an intuitive idea of what their devices could look like … which is completely different from the bogus image in the post article.
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Fx isn’t 0
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Fy is 0
That’s the big take away
Yes … and this is also part of the reason why I chose this image (out of maybe 20 other from the patent) to be included in my above comment 👍 ΣFx≠0
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Why do they talk about isolating it from the air, but not from conductive material around it?
Surely air is the easier of the two to do. If you’re concerned that it’s working by pushing on the air around it, just put the thing in a box. Measure the net force on the box; if it’s pushing on the air then that force will be 0.
My automatic assumption from the way they describe the machine is that if it’s not breaking the laws of physics, it’s probably pushing on conductive material nearby with an electrostatic force. You can mitigate that with a similar approach by surrounding it with a faraday cage I guess, but that part at least seems somewhat more tricky.
Disclaimer I know absolutely nothing about the issues involved but that’s my immediate take on it and it seems weird to me that they don’t mention anything about isolating it from conductive material.
it’s probably pushing on conductive material nearby with an electrostatic force.
You think a Doctorate expert in electrostatics would miss that?
Dr. Buhler’s background confirms that he is indeed one of NASA’s top experts in electrostatics. In addition to overseeing the management of electrostatic discharge (ESD) and ESD safety for the Space Shuttle, the ISS, and Hubble, Dr. Buhler also established NASA’s Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center.
I do not, no. I am sure he thought of that in addition to 10 other factors I didn’t think of. I’m just saying it seems weird for it not to be mentioned in the article.
Daily reminder that the troll face used “ra-e rodent” as a reference and is a symbol used by pedophile rings to identify each other.
OK you know and are doing it on purpose. Gross.
EDIT: Yep and here comes the pedo brigade, right on time.
I don’t but your comment is absolutely bait lol
Pedo brlgade
Or people just don’t appreciate, that a random on the Internet insinuates another person is a pedo, based on using common memes. That sort of stupid shit typically gets a facepalm, and a downvote.
Nope it was the case, because I had a huge surge of downvotes and now they’re gone. That only happens when inauthentic activity is removed. It’s not like reddit where an AI goes across every post and automatically removes brigading, the admins have to manually get involved meaning it takes awhile for someone downvoting from alternate accounts to get addressed. That and the fact that the federated nature of the platform makes creating alternate accounts solely for the sake of vote manipulation extremely easy.
I’d be willing to bet that the blinding majority does not use it as described, nullifying the premise of your theory. In any case, the more we use it, the less useful it’d be in your alleged use case.
The blinding majority have moved on to more modern expressions, it’s just the holdovers who didn’t get the memo and the creeps at this point.
They did this on Mythbusters in small scale years ago and the science of it is fascinating.
I don’t think it would do much to break orbit, but once IN space it could be interesting.
This is what they were testing:
You take a lightweight balsawood frame, wrap it in tinfoil and lightweight wire, then pump high voltages through it.
https://hackaday.com/2016/07/13/expanding-horizons-with-the-ion-propelled-lifter/
That isn’t propellant-less. The propellant is air, and in space where there is no atmosphere they typically use xeon gas
I gave the article to gpt 4 and it said nothing and simply generated this image…
I asked if it was bullshit too and it said. 'Given the current understanding of physics, it’s highly unlikely. Extraordinary claims like this require extraordinary evidence, and until such evidence is thoroughly vetted and confirmed by the wider scientific community, skepticism remains warranted.
That’s basically what I’d answer too.
