This Could Change Everything!

[threegee]

 

It looks like ya may be able to gain a new understanding of them though, Scotty!

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive

 

If this is a real affect then it's quite revolutionary, and has implications not just for space travel.  If there is something previously undetected to "push-against", then scientists are going to go to seventh heaven.  The nature of the something could create all sorts of engineering possibilities.  There have been false dawns like this before, but we can still hope.

 

Dark matter immediately comes to mind here.  It could be interesting to hear the explanations of why a British guy in his "shed" can discover something $5.5 billion a year of EU money has failed to detect in many years!  And... why only Chinese scientists had the common sense to listen.

 

 

Update:  The UK website is here: http://emdrive.com/  It's not the most exciting site in the world presentation-wise, but some of the information snippets are quite stunning.  The August 2010 "A Technology Transfer contract with a major US aerospace company was successfully completed." is Boeing, and Boeing are keeping ever so quite about it!