{"id":18963,"date":"2015-10-31T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/impossible-device-could-propel-flying-cars-stealth-missiles"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:15","slug":"impossible-device-could-propel-flying-cars-stealth-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/impossible-device-could-propel-flying-cars-stealth-missiles","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Impossible\u2019 Device Could Propel Flying Cars, Stealth Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/impossible-device-could-propel-flying-cars-stealth-missiles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To critics, it\u2019s flat-out junk science, not even worth thinking about. But its inventor, Roger Shawyer, has doggedly continued his work. As Danger Room reported last year, Chinese scientists claimed to validate his math and were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2008\/09\/chinese-buildin\/\">building their own version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shawyer gave a presentation earlier this week on the <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-18726\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2009\/10\/impossible-drive-designers-dream-flying-cars-stealth-missiles\/emdrive-ceas-2009-paper\/\">Emdrive\u2019s progress<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceas2009.org\/\">CEAS 2009 European Air &amp; Space Conference<\/a>. It answered few questions, but hinted at how the Emdrive might transform spaceflight \u2014 and warfare. If the technology works, that is.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EmDrive\">heart of the Emdrive<\/a> is a resonant, tapered cavity filled with microwaves. According to Shawyer, a <a href=\"http:\/\/emdrive.com\/faq.html\">relativistic effect generates a net thrust<\/a>, an effect confirmed by various Emdrives he has built as demonstrations. Critics say that any thrust from the drive must come from another source. Shawyer is adamant that the measured thrust is not caused by other factors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2009\/10\/impossible-drive-designers-dream-flying-cars-stealth-missiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To critics, it\u2019s flat-out junk science, not even worth thinking about. But its inventor, Roger Shawyer, has doggedly continued his work. As Danger Room reported last year, Chinese scientists claimed to validate his math and were building their own version. Shawyer gave a presentation earlier this week on the Emdrive\u2019s progress at the CEAS 2009 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,9,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-military","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69266,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963\/revisions\/69266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}