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Although not peer reviewed or replicated, a NASA veteran claims their Propellantless Propulsion Drive, that physics says shouldn’t work, just produced enough thrust to overcome Earth’s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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[–] Lugh@futurology.today 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 months ago (1 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.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 39 points 5 months ago

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

[–] xor@infosec.pub 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it would be so cool though... a new force...

[–] fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

are you telling me this sucker runs on midichlorians?

[–] xor@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i'm pretty sure it runs on flux capacitance

[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How many giggawatts? Last one didn’t do anything and we fed it 1.20.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago

9001 giggitywatts

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago

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.