Chinese Say They're Building 'Impossible' Space Drive

Bully for them!

The Wikipedia article reads like a lot of the over-unity power generation scams / hopelessly wrong backyard projects. Same claims, same ignoring of laws, same small measurements easily misinterpreted, etc.

Why am I reminded of the water-to-fuel-using-microwaves scam.

I hope microwaves are not the new scam buzzword, they are so much more dangerous than fridge magnets. High voltage magnetrons and microwaves, a double whammy to remove the unskilled backyard inventor/inspired scammer from the gene pool.

Something to keep an eye on thou.

I hope microwaves are not the new scam buzzword, they are so much more dangerous than fridge magnets. High voltage magnetrons and microwaves, a double whammy to remove the unskilled backyard inventor/inspired scammer from the gene pool.

You make it sound like a bad thing.

I am all for the development of the improbability drive that is used in the "hitchers guide to the galaxy".

The simplest solution for satellite launch is to drop a very large rubber band from the ISS, load the satellite into the chute and let her rip.

Somehow it seems unlikely that "experimental error" could create forces sufficient to launch satellites, and the Chinese are not ignorant. There may well be more than snake oil at work here... Could be a large outbreak of the "not invented here" syndrome erupting.

I haven't read anything in the original post that indicates they're going to use it as a booster to get a payload into space. However, once in space, why couldn't this device provide propulsion? I see no obvious breakage of the law of conservation of momentum here... Unless I'm missing something really huge.

And if you are, then they are too - it would have to be SO huge, it simply escapes observation...like how an elephant must appear to a flea...

Sometimes i wonder if we people are sometimes 'too smart' for our own good. I'm not sure about the past, but did anyone stop and think that some laws were made after the experiment? ie make a formula to explain what was observed? Who cares if some laws are broken? That's what they are there for. If it works, lets explain later.

The problem these days is that you need plenty of financial support and no one will back an idea without some 'proof'. If you are self funded, I say, go for it.

Nope laws were made to be broken:

If you ignore them long enough you can come up with something that has not been done before. Someone once said that the human ability to do things beyond mere physical limitations was what set us apart from the norm. Our minds are tools of marvelous ability, why should you place a limit on them?

Have you ever seen what happens to a society where the laws are all followed? Those people need leaders, and badly. And so sadly is their fate without one. The self deciding self directed person gets a chain thrown around them to make them keep the same pace as the others. How boring.

What about inovaters?

Maybe we'll learn as much from this as the LHC.

The proof will be if it works. HHO has been proven not to work. I'll let them try it first. Now this may be something which was foisted on some scientifically ignorant Party politicians. If so may they waste their time and money.