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Re:Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossib... by roywiggins on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @10:59PM (#11539351)
People noticed an effect every time the Dean Drive was turned on... but it is just a stiction engine and obviously won't work in space. It could be this drive is actually generating magnetic forces or moving air around and thus "creating thrust" by pushing off its surroundings, which won't work in a vacuum.
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Re:Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossib... by m_mueller on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:30PM (#11539484)
... which was already tested for. vacuum or not seems to make no difference on the effect.
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Re:Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossib... by ajuc on Thursday April 21, 2016 @05:48AM (#11540691)
It could also push off the Earth magnetic field.
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Re:Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossib... by m_mueller on Thursday April 21, 2016 @07:11AM (#11541056)
Then it should depend on the orientation (and altitude, geographical location). According to [1] this was tested for.

[1] http://emdrive.com/faq.html

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