Comment Let me explain. I should know, I *wrote* it. (Score 4, Informative) 354
Nope, I wasn't smoking anything at the time.
I originally wrote that paper for an Honors Seminar at the University of Maryland. It was called Science and Pseudoscience: An Investigative Approach. Pretty nifty class that helped you to look at things differently. I'm not sure what the conspiracy angle is that you're talking about aside from it discussing aircraft technologies that are still under wraps. As you can see from the bibliography section of the report I wrote, Popular Science and other news organizations have known about the existence of this technology for a while. More than a decade in fact.
Space craft take off using a continuous propulsion system in the form of gasses leaving the rocket. The force exerted by a pulse-detonation engine is more powerful than a continuous propulsion system when it comes to force exerted over a smaller amount of time. Also by having a series of detonations instead of a continuous burn, the craft doesn't have as many problem when it comes to ignitions back-tracking up the fuel supply lines to the main fuel storage area.
I originally wrote that paper for an Honors Seminar at the University of Maryland. It was called Science and Pseudoscience: An Investigative Approach. Pretty nifty class that helped you to look at things differently. I'm not sure what the conspiracy angle is that you're talking about aside from it discussing aircraft technologies that are still under wraps. As you can see from the bibliography section of the report I wrote, Popular Science and other news organizations have known about the existence of this technology for a while. More than a decade in fact.
Space craft take off using a continuous propulsion system in the form of gasses leaving the rocket. The force exerted by a pulse-detonation engine is more powerful than a continuous propulsion system when it comes to force exerted over a smaller amount of time. Also by having a series of detonations instead of a continuous burn, the craft doesn't have as many problem when it comes to ignitions back-tracking up the fuel supply lines to the main fuel storage area.
