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Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by echelon on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:35AM (#36943172)
It's a lot like the EmDrive incident, except replication attempts are easier.

Both are strange discoveries that are poised to change the world as we know it.

Hopefully this one turns out, unlike the EmDrive.

Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by BryanLegend on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:38AM (#36943234)
EmDrive was supposed to work better with Superconductors!
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by throwawaymaths on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:33AM (#36944171)
You might be excited about ivo quantum drive that is going to be tested in space, NET October
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by _a_a_a_ on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:19PM (#36944930)
That's a drive with which your exact position becomes uncertain so... you might be there already.
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by nine_k on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:44PM (#36945299)
Traveling on a spaceship like that, always know where your towel is.
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by baq on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:48PM (#36947828)
The good old improbability drive.
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by nmeagent on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:40PM (#36949834)
Unfortunately (or fortunately?), in the process you may have also turned into a penguin.
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by marcosdumay on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:42AM (#36944348)
The social event is similar. But the experiment is nothing alike.

The EmDrive was hard to replicate because it was a tiny reported signal in an ocean of noise.

Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by adad95 on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:54AM (#36944522)
I already completed forgotten about EMDrive.
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by jimmySixDOF on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:52PM (#36945413)
This is the best state of affairs sum up at the moment and my favorite plot line is the soil scientist.

https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1685960703658860544?s=19

Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by weard_beard on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:39PM (#36947705)
Can we put this LARPing scam artist out of the conversation? They are setting up a bitcoin wallet to, "raise money" to post a video of their admitted non-replication (They didn't use the original replication steps at all), but still superconducting result using kitchen cookware?

Also they spend more time promoting bizarre Soviet propaganda, furry porn, and LARPing than science.

Please, can we stop taking this seriously?

Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by Accujack on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:03PM (#36948010)
She's also begging on twitter for people to stop attacking her since it's "getting to" her loved ones.
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by pja on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:12PM (#36948114)
Who’s taking it seriously? It’s fantastic armchair entertainment.
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by yreg on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:00PM (#36950579)
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by baq on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:45PM (#36947772)
> She posts her kitchen chemistry process over the weekend, at arrives at 2 confirmed Meissner effect levitation stones, beating all other public teams. She posts the pics on Twitter and begins to indulge in her favorite hobby, insulting the intelligence of westerners.

Editorialized, but quite close.

The original thread is one of the best on Twitter. The character of the Soviet anime lesbian kitchen chemist dropping some amazing lines in between posting pics of casually cooking a superconductor is just chef’s kiss. I don’t even need it to be true, got my money’s worth.

Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by foven on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:55PM (#36949987)
Can we stop promoting this ateapie loonie. Every post they made is so thick with narrative it is completely divorced from reality.
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by m463 on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:01PM (#36947993)
Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by foobarian on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:04PM (#36948029)
It may be unfair to compare to EmDrive; that was not possible under current physics frameworks, while there is no such obvious restriction for superconductors.