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At this point the tests are just to confirm that it works 'at all. Probably going to be a couple more of those just because it's so fracking weird. If Russia and the ESA aren't already working on tests of their own they probably will be. I would assume further testing would focus both on why it works and and how much output can be be generated for how much input.
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Well, it's been verified by a couple different independent groups, so this isn't going to be like the cold fusion debacle, where it turns out to be a bald-faced lie.
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Yeah, but scientists tend to be small c conservatives by nature. Especially in a case like this where the current theory says it shouldn't work.
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Ion drives already have similar properties: Low-thrust and therefore useless for launch, but high-efficiency and therefore nice to use once you're in space.
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"In distress", my ass.
Regarding the Trek-like instrument panel, I hope designers aren't too slavishly following ST displays, including a not-insignificant fault. 
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edited 4th Aug '14 12:06:57 AM by Nohbody
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Baby Universe picture brought closer to theory
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Massive volcanic outbursts on Jupiter's moon Io: More common than thought?
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SpaceX to build a private spaceport near the city of Brownsville, Texas.
edited 5th Aug '14 4:45:04 AM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
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Planet-like object may have spent its youth as hot as a star
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Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Interesting. I am wondering why they couldn't make the lenses on a 3d printer though? Lets see how those future tests go.
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Penalty because a glass lense isn't something that you can make with lines if plastic?
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Astronomers find stream of gas—2.6 million light years long
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The black hole at the birth of the Universe
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White dwarfs crashing into neutron stars explain loneliest supernovae
I thought we already knew that ![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
edited 8th Aug '14 9:21:50 AM by Xopher001
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Still hot inside the Moon: Tidal heating in the deepest part of the lunar mantle
A Step closer to understanding the birth of the sun
edited 8th Aug '14 11:21:54 AM by rmctagg09
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
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NASA Mars test called success despite torn chute
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Scientists Detect a Possible Signal from Dark Matter
China to send orbiter to moon and back
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Dark Matter. That's the stuff that we can't detect in any way but we know it exists because it has to, right? Or was that Dark Energy?
Oh really when?
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I think it's both.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Dark matter is invisible matter that we can only detect through gravitational effect; it's what makes galaxies spin faster than they should if only their visible matter were present. Dark energy is based on similar underlying questions, but ultimately unrelated. It's a hypothetical form of energy that is contributing to the accelerating expansion of the universe, even though common sense always assumed it would be slowing down.
Discar: From the sounds of it they meant as in space thrust for satellites like you mentioned.
As for conversion. This website is rather handy
That converts to about 553 foot lbs of force assuming I am reading nm as a newton meters correctly.
Here it is with the big list Handy for conversions
edited 2nd Aug '14 11:24:36 AM by TuefelHundenIV
Who watches the watchmen?