Buzz Aldrin Says NASA Should Ditch the ISS and Make the Mars Jump

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10. Newton works perfectly well to get space probes to Pluto, and beyond.

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So we'll have no gum flapping about the 400 intervening years.

I suggest that people consider precisely what the existence of a practical EM drive would mean to the body of physics. It would mean that Newton's action/reaction law be false, the conservation of momentum.

It would mean that one could get ones car out of a ditch by sitting in the driver's seat and pushing hard enough on the fucking steering wheel. (Possibly saying "beep-beep" while doing so.)

It would mean rewriting all the physics textbooks, even elementary ones.

That is the hill one has to climb when one makes the EM drive claim.

My mind is closed only to extraordinary claims without the requisite extraordinary evidence, which is precisely what the EM drive screechers do not have.

Sorry, my friend.

EM drive is tooth fairy science.