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paperburn1 wrote:Has anyone considered the reason why fermis paradox exists this just because of plant size... cannot reach orbit if the plant was 1.75 times as large as earth...

Heck of a beanstalk you got there...

kunkmiester wrote:I can Google too, probably should have a bit sooner. It's the "Chinese National Space Administration."

Edited my post accordingly... reads almost coherent now

Welp, things might be about to get even more interesting this weekend... It seems that the CNSA acknowledgment of EMD on orbit was not in that press release but was instead at a press conference that happened some time after the release. I've found no links to the PR event itself. This press confere...

I happen to know Chinese and it's ridiculously easy to get tense wrong, especially from a translation site. As far as the "official" articles are concerned, there is a Professor currently working on the EmDrive and has claimed positive test results. The actual paper doesn't say they are testing an ...

I hate those click-bait articles. I can't find any sources to back up what they're peddling... Sites like the ibtimes and nextbigfuture... Actual EM drive news has been pretty much at a slow but stable rate of "good" news. The latest being that China says, through official sources, that it has an E...

The Anti-AGW "thing" is simply a well-financed narrative. Very simple and it's documented. After the fossil fuel oligarchs such as Exxonmobile were made aware of the realities of unchecked CO2 emissions by their own researchers they decided to follow the example of Big Tobacco by spending a few bill...

hanelyp wrote:Patent law is messed up more than I thought (which was already pretty bad) if a patent can obstruct basic research into a "device".

Just an excuse for BLP to not provide any hydrinos for study

Upside: No danged lawyers. No environmental laws. The environment is toxic anyway... product that's high value per unit mass and noxious to manufacture on Earth... isolated biological test facilities.... agricultural pests or genetically modified organism, and ways to deal with them... Mars is a na...

FPGA's are a good idea. I was thinking "fully self-sustaining"? Well since most of your important stuff is going to be robots and electronic miscellany - you're not going to be "fully self sustaining" until someone builds a semiconductor fab on mars. Not so fast... :) It wouldn't be cheap, but it m...

i don't know about you, but i'd go to a toroidal space habitat for 1/50th the price of a mars colony. I think a lot of people would. and i think a lot more people can afford $2,900 than can afford $140,000. you've just turned a life choice into a Caribbean vacation. ... until a single stray ship or...

Why does that sound like an Onion article to me? Because it is... half the of the Zero Hedge article is a quote from an Onion spoof on the subject: http://www.theonion.com/article/horrible-facebook-algorithm-accident-results-expos-53841 I guess the Onion article confirmed the bias of the Zero Hedge...

... but the configuration inherent to Cannae drive design requires that almost all of that surface area to be facing other drives at close range rather than facing deep space. Why can't they be spread out? More surface area perpendicular to the axis of motion + significant fraction of light speed =...

Georgio, paperburn... are you referring to Cannae, SPR or Eagleworks? I'll be honest, I didn't follow up Eagleworks closely... My original comment was referred to SPR and Cannae... I agree with you 100%. I don't believe Shawyer's intent is to create a Rossi trainwreck, but you never really know. We...

Georgio, paperburn... are you referring to Cannae, SPR or Eagleworks?

Hoookay... IFLScience says they've received confirmation from the AIAA that the paper has indeed been accepted for the Journal of Propulsion and Power, but that AIAA policy is to not discuss details of a paper until it's actually out. http://www.iflscience.com/technology/rumored-emdrive-paper-sugges...