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Well sure and with a dozen independent researchers I'm sure each and every possible cause (other then reaction less thrust) can be explored. The cost though is low, this is not a tokamak reactor, this is something that can be made with a microwave oven and copper sheet metal.

Has Anyone posted this yet? Ok so a basic EM drive is just a cone shaped copper resonance cavity and a magnetron... How is it so hard to test these things? These things can literally be made out of scrapes in Romania! How come we have not had 10+ independent test by now?

Hey if you can do it easy, then do it, but if you have to reload or restart just once... Understand this is one the spot test, if you fail once, then you failed, there is no do over. Also I guess if you want to prove your stuff you could record on video from start of game to return landing, no cuts, but chances are you will have practiced before hand. Good point and fixed.

How to take the test: 1. Start up KSP fresh, no mods 2. Start a sandbox game 3. Build a ship from scratch 4. Land on the Mun and Return No saving No redoing No forgetting parts One Time Shot Just a perfect flight there and back, no preparation... and go! If you screw up at any time: you need more practice at KSP If you can do it: you are proficient. This is a personal challenge, you will know if you are good enough or not. When they ask Giotto to prove his artist talent, he drew a circle, a perfect circle, freehand and on the spot.

SpaceX now really REALLY needs to prove fly back recovery, either on the barge or on land (on land would be more impressive "come back" though). The ULA people on claiming that for SpaceX to have their reliability then SpaceX will have to cost as much as them, but at those cost manned space travel and colonization will never happen.

Lets just leave the Dragon survival as "Hindsight is 20/20":

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So not "more struts" they are going to go with something else, something superior to a strut...?

So? Where is this conference?

I think your arguing for something else, benjee10 is implying is this is the end of the idea of cheap commercial space travel, and considering it has been 40+ years since we have gone beyond low earth orbit, government space is no future.

AngelLestat, This is not an agency, this is a company, when companies fail they die.

Well that a intresting theory, if it true it might help SpaceX case, that are only hope now. Yeap. Its over.

Well there goes the idea of cheap space travel, it's over. ULA wins, SLS wins, humanity will remain trapped on this rock until civilization collapses or technological singularity, and then the only things leaving the planet won't be humans.

Playing "we are in the money"

Hypothetically at the speed it was going and if it was undamaged, the dragaon cargo could simply open its parachutes once it has fallen to an appropriate altitude and speed, land at see and be recovered. It would need a contingency program to do so though.

All that is left to keep ISS going is the russians and even they are having problems. Orbital is down, now SpaceX!

And ULA jumps with joy. This is devestating!

Oh god no

NASA TV or SpaceX, which one should I watch, oh the dilemma!

No such thing as dumb questions, only stupid answers.

Lightning arresters.

Just going to pimp my ride, launch regime is in the description. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/123442-Xylol-5-All-stock-space-plane-proven-to-lift-59-tons-cargo-to-orbit

A_name, 1. Because of the buggy MK3 cargo bays, you launch with them closed sometimes the parts inside are not counted as inside and their drag is not negated. Now maybe that has been fix, then again maybe not: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/126574-1-0-4-Cargo-Bays-Causing-Objects-Adjacent-to-Belly-to-Overheat-and-Explode-on-Pad-or-Runway 2. Precoolers open cause drag, only open then when you need the air and/or cooling.

The total energy output and carbon sequestering power of Earth's photosynthetic biosphere is not something to ignore, just look at how CO2 levels fluctuate over the year as crops grow and die. If we could create green algea blooms in the deep ocean and that algae sinks to the bottom and IF its carbon remains traped there for centuries then we could control our planets CO2 levels with only a few billion dollars a year: easy Geoforming.

You're funny, that's funny.