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GIThruster: What I got from the article was that, though they're using energy to warp space time in the usual GR sense, the energy solution is dynamic and the mass solution is static. Thus you can use dynamic tricks to make a smaller space-time warping do more work. Tricks like making the film of th...

Well I just watched the vid and it was a huge disappointment. It must have been nerfed after Darby posted the link. There is something like 10 minutes of people talking about stuff other than the topic, and finally when the topic arrives the vid is cut off. There is no data here at all about the pr...

GIThruster wrote:...they haven't done any real engineering of the airframe yet.

I disagree.
On the other hand, I'd have to say that the engine has to come first.
Its the limiting factor.
The engine is the thing around which all else must be engineered.
So, in that way, they're doing it right.

In 1995 Robert Zubrin and Mitchell Clapp wrote an article in Analog Magazine, "Black Horse: one Stop to Orbit": http://www.risacher.org/bh/analog.html In short, the paper described the design of a rocket plane that would take off the runway with enough fuel (in this case, JP-5) for the entire missio...

Everything is a Remix did a good job critiquing copywright law.
There are four parts to the series. If you've nto watched it, do.
http://www.everythingisaremix.info/ever ... ix-part-1/

First, concerning electric cars. I don't like them and never did. My problems with them are several fold. First among them is the batteries. Not because they don't allow for long ranges --more than 90% of my driving is well withing 100 miles a day. Not because of the time it takes to charge the batt...

paperburn1 wrote:I wonder what it could do in a fireplace/woodstove?

Or, better yet, a rocketstove.

Posted this on a different forum and a fellow who says he works in a theoretical physics department specializing in cosmology and GR --and I have no reason to doubt him-- speculates the author is a crackpot. Sorry to disappoint you, but I read the "Warp Field Mechanics 101" PDF and it seems like bog...

I learned of this quite some time ago....I think from the Sornensen's Thorium facebook page. Among my first thoughts was: could it be used in lighter than air craft? Zeppelins? Strange, I know, and will probably mark me as backwards-thinking. Still, LTA travel and rigid zeppelins particularly have a...

You speak as a gravity bound earthling. If you have never been in low gravity then the easiest way to describe it is like feeling upside down. As if you are in a continuous free-fall. The blood will feel like it has rushed to your head, if compared with standing upright on Earth, because there is n...

DeltaV, The joke is completely wrong for many reasons. Not only were Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins with him, but Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders had circled the moon months earlier in Apollo 8; and so did Tomas Stafford, John Young, Eugene Cernan of Apollo 10. Armstrong was never th...

You're quite right: I did miss that.
Thank you, mvanwink5.

I wanted to double check the mass-per-hour needed for a 100 MW reactor. Here's what I did: Instead of calculating from the energy per reaction, I found the energy-to-mass conversion ratio per reaction. With that ratio and E=mc^2, I found an answer. If you don't want to follow through my calculations...

If the REB-pinch machine works, the world just became a much more dangerous place. It's a directed, pure fusion explosion. No fission necessary. There's nothing I can think of keeping such a machine from being the primary for a much larger explosion. I could imagine a set of 12 or 20 such devices ar...