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The EMDrive just won't die. AFAIK, quantized inertia isn't the crackpottiest thing ever, but all of these modified Newtonian dynamics theories still fail to explain observations that show gravitational lensing in places spatially separated from normal matter. In the balance of all of it, it's still just really hard to get away from dark matter. I suppose the reasoning of DARPA is that it is worth it even with an infinitesimal chance of success. They've funded a lot of stupider stuff.
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Huh, I thought that one got robustly debunked? I've always had a soft spot for the emdrive, I think it was the first time I got sucked into a 'miracle breakthrough'
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The Chad Jihad posted:Huh, I thought that one got robustly debunked? I've always had a soft spot for the emdrive, I think it was the first time I got sucked into a 'miracle breakthrough'
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Ionicpsycho posted:https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/01/darpa-partially-funded-quantum-space-drive-orbital-test.html That article reads like it was written by 15 year old, and not even a very smart one
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Oh yeah, that site pops up in my feed and it's consistently written like a bad Chatbot prompt. Also, I like this PowerPoint slide that doubles down on the promises and says it could provide thrust even without electricity. Hell, with a claim like that you could slap a couple on a shaft and make a perpetual generator. Just absolute insanity they got investor funding.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:the trouble is that it still won't shut up the True Believers if it's shown to 100% not work They'll always point to experimental uncertainties in measurements as 'evidence' that there was 'some effect.' As if 0kph +/- .000002 kph is a reasonable demonstration of a propulsion technology.
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i'm generally down to let these sorts burn capital though i suppose they're getting some darpa funding on some level. even then i don't care too much, i'm fine with occasionally wasting money on scientific longshots lol. having said all of this i noticed that linkedin post again goes into the background of how this is supposed to work on a pr level. they brought up how their pet theory of quantized inertia is an explanation for effects currently attributed to dark matter, but as always they only cover galactic rotation curves. do they bother explaining anywhere about what that means for other things like cmb anisotropies (just kidding i know they won't) ashpanash posted:They'll always point to experimental uncertainties in measurements as 'evidence' that there was 'some effect.' lol of course. and it's already been in orbit for two and a half months when it was supposed to only take a month to test anything
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It's only infrared but, the JWST has directly imaged two planets orbiting a white dwarf. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-webb-images-planets-orbiting-white.amp  Image from the article. e: added the actual link
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Shaddak posted:It's only infrared but, the JWST has directly imaged two planets orbiting a white dwarf. extremely dope
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Shaddak posted:It's only infrared but, the JWST has directly imaged two planets orbiting a white dwarf. Yeah, what mediaphage said - this is absurdly badass. Like, iirc we can't even see white dwarfs with the naked eye, they're so tiny, and they don't even do fusion. JWST is out here directly imaging specks of dust illuminated by the ember-glow of the corpse of a dead star. Fuckin a!!
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I mean OK, it's cool to photograph dead rocks I guess, but where are the aliens, man
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Rappaport posted:I mean OK, it's cool to photograph dead rocks I guess, but where are the aliens, man You're seeing them. They're the reason the rocks are like that. 
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Rappaport posted:I mean OK, it's cool to photograph dead rocks I guess, but where are the aliens, man theyre comin
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Jonesy is prepared There will be no alien nincompoopery here
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Another contender enters orbit: Intuitive Machines' Odysseus Moon lander is going to try touching down today  Space dot com posted:The private company Intuitive Machines could soon make history as its commercial lunar lander, Odysseus, will attempt to land near the moon's south pole on Thursday (Feb. 22). The article mentions that NASA and Intuitive Machines will both have live streams of the event, too, because of course they will. Good luck, robot buddy!
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You guys, we missed the big reveal two weeks ago that the AARO posted!quote:KONA BLUE: A Proposed UAP Recovery and Reverse-Engineering Program 
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Once we have definitive, demonstrative evidence that people can move objects with their minds, it makes total sense to develop a set of initiatives, both military and public, to study it. Once we get definitive, demonstrative evidence for visiting, extraterrestrial space aliens and their spacecraft we should totally develop a similar set of initiatives. Instead we get people trying to move procedural mountains based on blurry video and anecdotes.
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For every Uri Geller a Jack Parsons
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ashpanash posted:Once we have definitive, demonstrative evidence that people can move objects with their minds, it makes total sense to develop a set of initiatives, both military and public, to study it. I move my limbs with my mind every day smart guy
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DrSunshine posted:You guys, we missed the big reveal two weeks ago that the AARO posted! Would be funny if the great conspiracy is that organizations like this one have found dozens of UAPs, but they're all Chinese drones and they are too embarassed to tell us they were wrong about aliens
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Libluini posted:Would be funny if the great conspiracy is that organizations like this one have found dozens of UAPs, but they're all Chinese drones and they knew all along but were too embarassed to tell us china was all up in their poo poo so they said it was aliens
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the reveal is that aliens are real but they're all dumb as poo poo, just absolute blockheads.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:the reveal is that aliens are real but they're all dumb as poo poo, just absolute blockheads. It's aliens, but the aliens are also conspiracy theories and they're here to prove humans are behind all their societal ills and unexplained phenomena.
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nimby posted:It's aliens, but the aliens are also conspiracy theories and they're here to prove humans are behind all their societal ills and unexplained phenomena. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0551027/?ref_=ttep_ep12
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nimby posted:It's aliens, but the aliens are also conspiracy theories and they're here to prove humans are behind all their societal ills and unexplained phenomena. If we'd been listening in the 14th century the shoe would be on the other tentacle, but of course the aliens have moved to a fiber-optic telecommunications paradigm for the last five hundred Earth years.
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Nessus posted:Our missile radars are giving their encrustlings "H'bb'na Syndrome," and let's not even get started on them decrypting our horrible entertainment slop. A puppeteer would say that
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Rappaport posted:A puppeteer would say that
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Wafflecopper posted:I move my limbs with my mind every day smart guy yeah that's why we have clothes and armor, genius
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Well this is fun; JWST might have just "solved" the Crisis In Cosmology/Hubble tension by providing more accurate measurements that bring observed distances in line with theoretical models. From this livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo-QWCzy71Q
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The immortal probe is still going! https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth quote:After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made object in existence.
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Nasa egg heads posted:The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars). How would you know?
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Rappaport posted:How would you know? 
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It's abundantly obvious that you can't use the wormhole system without being significantly outside the strongest curvatures of a star's gravity well, everyone knows that!cat botherer posted:The immortal probe is still going! This is so awesome, though. That's incredible engineering - these probes were designed and built like 11 years before I was even born, and have kept going through all the cosmic dust and radiation all that time. That's insanely good!!
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Nessus posted:NASA knows the aliens are using hyperwarp once they get past the Neptune orbital limits. The Outsiders sold humanity hyperwarp to win the Man-Kzin wars. It's completely coincidental that the Outsiders like living on Neptune's moons. On a more serious note, good job Voyager. It's amazing the sort of probes humanity managed. We landed a robot on freaking Venus and that is roughly the third-most inhospitable place in the solar system. Fourth? The solar system is an unfriendly place.
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We also have sent a probe to literally dive into the sun. Like, gently caress. If that's not inhospitable I don't know what is.
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DrSunshine posted:It's abundantly obvious that you can't use the wormhole system without being significantly outside the strongest curvatures of a star's gravity well, everyone knows that! I didn't catch this on my first read, but you know Niven ret-conned that, right? It's Lovecraft all the way, baby
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just dip in and out of ultraspace and infraspace, building up energy by pushing off the grid until you choose one to go ftl in, this is basic stuff people
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Rappaport posted:I didn't catch this on my first read, but you know Niven ret-conned that, right? It's Lovecraft all the way, baby I've only read Ringworld and stopped after that. Too much 1970s sci-fi guy horny for me, I'm afraid, despite the novel concept. 
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