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Re:NASA's Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Publ... by SomeStupidPoint on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:29AM (#14200635)
Why would you test it in space?

I'm not sure I understand the reasoning.

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Re:NASA's Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Publ... by Malice on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:08AM (#14200830)
The effects are small enough that there's some possibility that it's just measurement error. If you produce a drive that actually moves something in space, you have a real effect.
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Re:NASA's Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Publ... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:19AM (#14201093)
Space is a vacuum and has negligible gravity effects; put it in space, turn on the engine, see what happens. In theory it could propel something to nearly infinite speeds if it checks out.
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Re:NASA's Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Publ... by derrickdirge on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:00AM (#14200792)
So you know if it works in space.
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