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Ah... but they forgot to dance naked around a unicorn in the starlight before conducting the test, which is why it did not work for them.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Did you miss the opening sentence "Two German researchers claim they have produced measurable amounts of thrust using a copy of NASA’s controversial EMDrive."
Without impossible dreams, nothing amazing gets made. Even if this proves to be a dead end, surely it's worth the effort to figure it out? Who know what else may come from the research?
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Moon in 4 hours using microwaves?
1) What acceleration would that require and
2) Where would they get an extension cord that long?
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- The acceleration required is on the order of 1 Earth gravity.
- You can find extension cords at your local hardware store.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: You can find extension cords at your local hardware store.
Indeed you can but they're always exactly 3 inches shorter than the distance between the socket and the plug of the machine you wish to extend to!
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Surely the real problem would be stopping when you got there!
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The calculations take this into account.
Once out of earth's atmosphere half of the journey would have the engines pointing away from the moon and half towards it - so in effect there would be a 1g acceleration throughout the whole journey, it's just that half of that journey would be using the acceleration to come to a stop.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I once calculated that if you accelerate halfway at one G, flip, and decelerate at one G, the moon is about three hours away. I've since seen an article saying that using that strategy, the moon is (as I calculated) three hours away; Mars is three days away (at opposition, I guess); and Pluto is three weeks away.
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Now work out the size of the fuel tank required for a chemical rocket. You're in for a nasty surprise...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Not a surprise at all - I'm well aware of the pathetically low Isp (dang - need real subscripts - I mean Specific Impulse) of chemical propellants. I'm always intrigued by reports of propulsion schemes with dramatically higher Isp - Project Orion (atomic bombs out the butt) and nuclear rockets using monatomic hydrogen as reaction mass come to mind.
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And I'll do another system image tonight...just in case... 
Anyone else plugging the USB drive in and copying your PC?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I might install it on a VM for a play but no intention of disrupting my work - the hours it would take to install, revert if required: not worth it.
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I do weekly backups of my system as a matter of course. Why should Win10 change that?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Think I'll wait until the dust settles before getting to serious about making it my primary OS. I've still got evaluation copy on VM that I'll continue to kick the tires.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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As I'm sitting now (at home), my office computer downloading Windows 10 (MSDN Gold Partner Account) and the next morning I will install it over the beta VM, but VM only!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Last Saturday, just in case someone at Microsoft has an itchy trigger finger.
Software Zen: delete this;
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OriginalGriff wrote: Anyone else plugging the USB drive in and copying your PC?
Nope. It's going into a brand new VM (NetBIOS computer name = BLEEDINGEDGE), running VS2015.
Well, ok, it'll also go on my 7" HP Stream tablet, because right now I have no use for it.
I'm hoping we see ISOs tomorrow - in-place OS upgrades are a no-no in this household, even though I've had a VM iterating though all publically released builds and haven't had it fail once.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Anyone else plugging the USB drive in and copying your PC?
No.
At work, everything relevant is on Network drives.
At home, everything relevant is in ze Kloud.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: At home, everything relevant is in ze Kloud.
What could possibly go wrong, right? 
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Member 9082365 wrote: What could possibly go wrong, right?
Nothing. I don't hoard important files.
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http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/abuse[^]
A lot of the posts that are getting voted as abuse are not abuse. I think we all know that. For those of you that use the abuse flag as a way to "downvote" someone because your sensitive feelings got hurt, then may you have diarrhea in your pants today, in front of a thousand pretty ladies.
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Emilio Largo wrote: diarrhea in your pants today
That's a genetic trait. It runs in our jeans. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I thought the "Abuse" flag was just short for "Abuse oneself"
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Emilio Largo wrote: in front of a thousand pretty ladies.
But I'm in Portsmouth.
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