The EMDrive technology has been confirmed to work by NASA:
sciencealert.com
EMDrive is a propellantless thrust engine that can keep accelerating a spaceship indefinitely.
Second generation superconducting EMDrives have been tested to be 10^6 more efficient than the 15-years-old design tested by NASA:
emdrive.com
Space exploration and colonization will accelerate exponentially now. The race to colonize and rule the galaxy is on.
SPACE COLONIZATION RACE IS ON
Justin Green
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Jacob Roberts
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Samuel Lopez
Peer review usually only checks the methodology, not the actual raw science and the veracity of the results
Parker Phillips
it probably can travel at about 20% of speed of light
Nathaniel Parker
Dylan Garcia
>yuropoors would rather put their taxes towards sheltering Abdula and his family, rather than invest in their space programs
Mason Gomez
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Parker Miller
Portals is the only true answer.
Joseph Brooks
>1.2 ± 0.1 mN/kW
aaaaand was fucking nothing
Wyatt Davis
It wasn't confirmed to work and it won't be until they send the cubesat.
Aaron Jackson
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Blake Wright
It's been known to generate thrust for a long time. Not much, but if the principle can be improved upon then it could actually be useful.
Still, you are right. Not like this is going to jump start some intergalactic space race or something anytime soon.
Jack Gomez
>race
Sebastian Reed
it wont work, its ridiculous
Kevin Reyes
It does work
The amount of thrust it generates is pathetic, but it what matters is that it does generate thrust
Adrian Gomez
Can't lie, that was pretty cool.
Isaiah Watson
Try 3.2 tonnes / kW then, this is addressed in the opening post.
It's already worked, it was tested in a vacuum, there will be no difference in space.
Mason Allen
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Leo Murphy
The test was far from foolproof and there are still hundreds of untested variables, many other tests happened before with wildly varying results too so it's impossible to say if it really works until it actually moves in space without shedding a single atom.
Jordan Scott
Huh, nice.
Is /sci/ BTFO'd by this? Last time I went there they were all unanimously saying that nothing would come of it, and that it's impossible.
James Morales
>The race to colonize and rule the galaxy is on
>at 20% of speed of light
Only 20 years to the nearest star! Even if this actually works it will never be an interstaller community, it would be distant settlements that that can only talk to each other once a century (or more)
Blake Lee
Hopefully the potential to travel fast distances will give some life into studying potential FTL communication methods?
Juan Thomas
>Portals
What do you know of them?
Spill
Wyatt Carter
Hopefully by the time we're ready to truly colonize the galaxy, we'd know a thing or two about generating wormholes.