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Chinese Say They’re Building ‘Impossible’ Space Drive

13 points by nsoonhui 15y ago

SoftwareMaven 15y ago
Awesome! Maybe this will have a similar effect on the US as Russia's program and get us innovating again and get me closer to space.
splatterdash 15y ago
This was written in 2008. Have we got a confirmation whether it's real/fake?
- Semiapies 15y ago
  The fact we've heard nothing more in the years since is the typical confirmation of these sorts of stories.
revicon 15y ago
Article was from 2008, Wired did a follow up story a year later... http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/impossible-drive-designers-dream-flying-cars-stealth-missiles/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/impossible-drive-des... ---------------- Last year, professor Yang Juan of the College of Astronautics at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in Xi’an was happy to confirm that they were building an Emdrive which would be tested by the end of the year. But following the publication of this news in Danger Room, the situation changed. I was informed that the publicity was very unwelcome, especially any suggestion that there might be a military application. (Yang had previous published a study on the use of plasma as a weapon against low-orbiting satellites. [.pdf]) No further information has been forthcoming, and no Chinese papers have been published on the Emdrive, though Yang has recently published work on (unrelated) microwave plasma thrusters (.pdf). ---------------- Nextbigfuture did an article stating the tech was sold... http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/controversial-emdrive-claims-to-have.html http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/controversial-emdrive-claim... A few responses from physicists... http://scienceblogs.com/sunclipse/2008/09/the_emdrive_story_or_how_to_pr.php http://scienceblogs.com/sunclipse/2008/09/the_emdrive_story_... http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/10/new_scientist_reacts.html http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/10/new_scientist_re...
brador 15y ago
You know those batshit crazy inventors no one gives a shit about in the western world? Yeah, those guys become professors in China. The amount of tripe I've read in their journals is ridiculous.

13 points by nsoonhui 15y ago

Awesome! Maybe this will have a similar effect on the US as Russia's program and get us innovating again and get me closer to space.

splatterdash 15y ago

This was written in 2008. Have we got a confirmation whether it's real/fake?

Semiapies 15y ago
The fact we've heard nothing more in the years since is the typical confirmation of these sorts of stories.

revicon 15y ago

Article was from 2008, Wired did a follow up story a year later... http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/impossible-drive-designers-dream-flying-cars-stealth-missiles/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/impossible-drive-des... ---------------- Last year, professor Yang Juan of the College of Astronautics at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in Xi’an was happy to confirm that they were building an Emdrive which would be tested by the end of the year. But following the publication of this news in Danger Room, the situation changed. I was informed that the publicity was very unwelcome, especially any suggestion that there might be a military application. (Yang had previous published a study on the use of plasma as a weapon against low-orbiting satellites. [.pdf]) No further information has been forthcoming, and no Chinese papers have been published on the Emdrive, though Yang has recently published work on (unrelated) microwave plasma thrusters (.pdf). ---------------- Nextbigfuture did an article stating the tech was sold... http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/controversial-emdrive-claims-to-have.html http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/controversial-emdrive-claim... A few responses from physicists... http://scienceblogs.com/sunclipse/2008/09/the_emdrive_story_or_how_to_pr.php http://scienceblogs.com/sunclipse/2008/09/the_emdrive_story_... http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/10/new_scientist_reacts.html http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/10/new_scientist_re...

brador 15y ago

You know those batshit crazy inventors no one gives a shit about in the western world? Yeah, those guys become professors in China. The amount of tripe I've read in their journals is ridiculous.