A woman named Aisha Mustafa has invented a propulsion device that could result in cheaper means of energy consumption for spacecrafts. Oh yeah, and she's a 19-year-old college student.
DV!CE is trying to be as meaningless as Gizmodo. From the article:
The Egyptian university student at Sohag University invented a propulsion device that eschews the radioactive-based jet and rocket engine set-up for quantum physics and chemical reactions.
This (the portion I underlined above) is mostly just gibberish.
The device generates energy from electric energy by using the Casimir-polder [Polder should be Capitalized] force, the energy that occurs between separate surfaces and objects in a vacuum. [...creates propulsion from electric energy... is probably what they meant to write.]
Maybe Ms Mustafa has invented something new, but that's difficult to determine based on this article.
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Some years ago I was working as a copier service tech and did a service call at our local college.
I met a girl there that was just about to graduate at the top of her class as a English major.
To be friendly I asked what her what a majors degree in English was good for other that working at a newspaper or magazine publisher as a grammar and spell check girl or in a school as an English teacher.
She got this horrible look on her face as she stared at the floor then said, I was always good at English in high school so I just took it in college. I wish someone would have asked me these questions about 5 years ago. I think she honestly looked like she was about to start crying a little.
From seeing the crap they print in on line articles I suspect she and most other English majors still don't want to work in their field either.
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You've got to admire the courage it took to conceive an idea (whether or not it is new) that contradicts the established orthodoxy of chemical rockets. It is regrettable that this article is mostly gibberish.
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Since when are jet and rocket engines "radioactive-based"? As several have already pointed out: GIBBERISH. More red flags on this item than actual pieces of information.
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