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I’m a software developer, not a scientist, but I think there’s a strong parallel with the “it works on my machine” phenomenon I’ve experience quite often. Frequently code written on my machine that works great for me ends up not working for a tester (or worse, a customer) because I didn’t account f...

I’m a software developer, not a scientist, but I think there’s a strong parallel with the “it works on my machine” phenomenon I’ve experience quite often. Frequently code written on my machine that works great for me ends up not working for a tester (or worse, a customer) because I didn’t account f...

Heidi Fearn will be taking a working device to Dresden and will stay with them until they get it working. Dresden had problems with a previous device and published bad results. Hmmm. Does this interfere with the concept of independent validation? I think not after Tajmar cooked the last piece of ha...

And Dr. James Woodward presented on the Mach Effect Thruster, which has recently been reported by Dr. Heidi Fearn to have an efficiency of 60mN/kW, placing it on a par with Hall Effect Trhusters.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/09/m ... owatt.html

Pathological skepticism is great! I think everyone could use more skepticism. I am comforted that you all are not concerned by this design change, though no one has really addressed how such a large surface area can be reliably/safely actuated at hypersonic speeds. As an aside, why would separate l...

Also the fins have the depth to house a truss carrying the load of the now vertically deployed legs to the fuselage, although carbon fiber has such a high stiffness it may be incorporated into the skin of the fins instead of being a frank truss structure. Can you imagine the complication of hanging ...

Who is inventing details? Do you have a good reason to know Musk is wrong when he states the new design is riskier? Aside from that, I'm trying to work out your ground rules here... quotes irrelevant to my point are preferable to ones that spell out my concern almost verbatim? Is there some further...

“Prior to this the idea was to decouple the legs from the wings. This wasn’t very aesthetic, so now we have 3 large legs/wings that actuate. It is slightly more risky because we are combining multiple functions together” Don't care what you choose to fixate on, or details you care to invent for you...

Disappointed by updated design. Turns out the only significant difference (added fins) were not a result of engineering, but simply that Musk liked the aesthetics more. He even admitted the design was now riskier as a result. This guy legit scares me now. It legit scares me you spread FUD so easily...

Hopefully this will result in more energy going to Woodward's MET concept. Not according to your posted link: As for the mach effect thruster, it is also not doing well. Several high level physics heavy presentations, including one by Dr. Rodal, that make the claim that the mach effect thruster can...

Hopefully this will result in more energy going to Woodward's MET concept. Not according to your posted link: As for the mach effect thruster, it is also not doing well. Several high level physics heavy presentations, including one by Dr. Rodal, that make the claim that the mach effect thruster can...

US Navy EM Drive group reporting negative result. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45824.msg1855304#msg1855304 Monomorphic and others reporting negative results https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45824.msg1854984#msg1854984 Appears it is finally coming to rest. Hopef...

We can produce ... U.S. financial system. What idiocy. No, it is not either the explicit or implicit job of a central bank to create scarcity of anything. They have two contradictory jobs they can be accorded, keeping the value of money stable, and encouraging out counter cyclical variations in mon...

What's never funny to the victims are the moral panics to which social conservative seem to be especially prone, and people get sent to prison for life for Satanic child abuse in daycare which never happened. You think social conservatives in New York are behind the investigations/prosecutions of t...

Should James Gunn's 10,000 pedo-centric tweets be regarded as unreliable because stuff people put on their own accounts is unreliable? They should not be regarded as pedo-centric. They should be regarded as humorous, or as attempts at humor not to your taste. Sort of like Holocaust humor? It seems ...