China's Radical New Space Drive 419
First time accepted submitter Noctis-Kaban writes "Scientists in China have built and tested a radical new space drive. Although the thrust it produces may not be enough to lift your mobile phone, it looks like it could radically change the satellite industry. Satellites are just the start: with superconducting components, this technology could generate the thrust to drive everything from deep space probes to flying cars. And it all started with a British engineer whose invention was ignored and ridiculed in his home country."
How about a different headline.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How about a different headline.... (Score:5, Funny)
The most inviolable law in the universe is that everything flies pointy end first.
Re:this post will be remembered (Score:5, Funny)
No more Anonymous Coward posts? Whatever shall we do?
Ridiculed Brit? (Score:2, Funny)
So they found the guy who invented the Triumph?
BS (Score:4, Funny)
All the usual signs of pseudoscience.
Show it works (note : that is not the same as saying that you have shown it works), and I'll be interested. Until then, this goes in the cold fusion circular file.
Re:Devil's (angel's?) advocate: (Score:4, Funny)
"The thrust is reported to be from the large end towards the small end. "
No, TFA says:
"... experiences a net thrust towards the wide end."
Re:I'm pretty sure it doesn't work (Score:4, Funny)
And, that makes 3 hands... next time I should proofread to limit my trite opening phrases to one per post :)
Re:I'm pretty sure it doesn't work (Score:4, Funny)
Good! now we can start building TIE Fighters
what? (Score:5, Funny)
I find it hard to believe that the Nation that is home to the Ministry of Silly Walks has ridiculed a scientist for his strange ideas. . .
Re:Doesn't work (Score:5, Funny)
It's not a device for extracting momentum from the relativistic differences between the group and phase velocity of resonating microwaves.
It's a device for extracting money from people who don't understand physics.
I would call this device a total success so far.
Re:I'm pretty sure it doesn't work (Score:4, Funny)
So as usual in capitalist societies, it was all a matter of who screws who.