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Comment What is the future? (Score 1) 110

I was just thinking about this the other day when I realized a know four or five guys who just got one of these drones for their sons (supposedly). How long until any public event is ruined by swarms of camera drones? Things like fireworks, public music or theater performances, beer festivals, and so on? This will probably be the next generation of 'people talking in the movie theater'.

Comment Re:inventor? (Score 1) 480

People have understood how fireworks worked for thousand of years. One might accidentally stumble across penicillin, but it beggars the imagination to suppose one could accidentally build a jet engine without some idea of how thrust works. Perhaps another aspect of the operation was not understood, but Frank Whittle et al. *intended* to build an engine, not some other device that turned out to be a great engine. I did as you suggested, and my searches turned up nothing other than what I have described. I would appreciate if you could supply one of the references you were speaking about.

Comment Re:inventor? (Score 2) 480

Ah of course, as PvtVoid already posted:

[T]he EM Drive’s thrust was due to the Quantum Vacuum (the quantum state with the lowest possible energy) behaving like propellant ions behave in a MagnetoHydroDynamics drive (a method electrifying propellant and then directing it with magnetic fields to push a spacecraft in the opposite direction) for spacecraft propulsion.

So the recent test was trying to replicate the results in a vacuum to eliminate some unknown other factor as the explanation.

Comment Shopped! (Score 1) 45

I always disliked these sort of images because I felt they were closer to an artist's conception than a real image, since they are processed and interpolated so much. Now I regret not looking at the recent /. article on that very subject.

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