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Since there seems to be no rush to send the Cannae drive into space I came up with the following idea to test at least one of the hypotheses here on earth. This hypothesis offers that ablation on the drive creates the thrust The diagram (left) shows an illustration of one of the cannae drives, it has an endplate bolted onto the bottom, on the right the endplate is bolted from the side with and the bottom of the endplate is electroplated with an enriched preparation of 65Cu(AcO)2 . Note that the curve in the endplate on right is made so that the electroplating can be limited to the bottom of the device. After electroplating the side of the disc will have to be trimmed back before attachment removing all 65-CU enriched copper from the side. One could as a precautionary measure electroplate the entire device other than the bottom plate with 63-Cu. In the vacuum chamber there could be sensors or electrodes (-) embedded in microcavities to absorb any positive charges produced while power is applied. Since copper is extremely susceptible to oxidation, post electroplating the copper plate should be handled in helium consequently the device should be assembled in an isolation chamber and the cutting and turning process should also be handled in a pressured (helium) isolation chamber. Using this scheme, the application of power to the device under vacuum either will or will not release 65Cu, since it is difficult for the device to generate backward force from the sides, from ablation of the end-plate.
