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Although not peer reviewed or replicated, a NASA veteran claims their Propellantless Propulsion Drive, that physics says shouldn’t work, just produced enough thrust to overcome Earth’s gravity (thedebrief.org)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 bullshit

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure? What you say is true of the EM drive, but this looks like it's a completely different technology. As far as the article is written, it doesn't sound like microwaves are used at all.

What has me skeptical is that they say the device produces enough thrust to counteract its own mass, which would be revolutionary. Why are we not reading about this all over the news?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Because it's a load of shite mostly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ion propulsion.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

This can't be ion propulsion because ion propulsion involves a propellant -- the ions.