{"id":19106,"date":"2015-11-05T19:38:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T03:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/why-nasas-emdrive-might-be-the-most-exciting-breakthrough-in-tech-right-now"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:01","slug":"why-nasas-emdrive-might-be-the-most-exciting-breakthrough-in-tech-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/why-nasas-emdrive-might-be-the-most-exciting-breakthrough-in-tech-right-now","title":{"rendered":"Why NASA\u2019s EmDrive Might Be the Most Exciting Breakthrough in Tech Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-nasas-emdrive-might-be-the-most-exciting-breakthrough-in-tech-right-now.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earthlings, meet the EmDrive, the rocket of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Allegedly, Eagleworks Labs at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center has defied a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicsclassroom.com\/class\/newtlaws\/Lesson-4\/Newton-s-Third-Law\">Newtonian law<\/a> of physics and created a futuristic warp drive. If it\u2019s real, it could be the most exciting breakthrough in space-travel technology to date: an engine that gets from point A to point B without using any fuel \u2014 and does it crazy fast.<\/p>\n<p>Despite months of <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2015\/08\/heres-why-scientists-havent-invented-an-impossible-space-engine\/\">skepticism<\/a>, our nation\u2019s aerospace agency wants you to believe its latest findings are legit. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0094576515002726?np=y\">Recent studies<\/a> purportedly prove the EmDrive\u2019s authenticity. Even NASA researcher Paul March hopped on a (non-NASA-affiliated) <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.nasaspaceflight.com\/index.php?topic=38577.msg1440938#msg1440938\">spaceflight forum<\/a> to chat about the agency\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/why-nasas-emdrive-might-most-213122702.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthlings, meet the EmDrive, the rocket of the future. Allegedly, Eagleworks Labs at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center has defied a Newtonian law of physics and created a futuristic warp drive. If it\u2019s real, it could be the most exciting breakthrough in space-travel technology to date: an engine that gets from point A to point B [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69237,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106\/revisions\/69237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}