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fjtorres · 07-10-2017, 09:14 AM

Interesting sidebar discussion.
Just the kind of thinking the "founders" of the Genre wanted to foster.

Btw, among the "impossibilities" bedeviling the physics establishment is the EM Drive and it's kin. Very unlikely to lead to a practical reactionless drive but there is some weird physics going on in those gadgets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_r...avity_thruster

The whole thing strongly echoes this Lee Correy story:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/549128.Star_Driver

Fun one.

07-10-2017, 09:14 AM	#109
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	Interesting sidebar discussion. Just the kind of thinking the "founders" of the Genre wanted to foster. Btw, among the "impossibilities" bedeviling the physics establishment is the EM Drive and it's kin. Very unlikely to lead to a practical reactionless drive but there is some weird physics going on in those gadgets. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_r...avity_thruster The whole thing strongly echoes this Lee Correy story: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/549128.Star_Driver Fun one. Last edited by fjtorres; 07-10-2017 at 09:18 AM.