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A screenshot of a post showing a red pickup truck with a mechanical arm structure attached to its bed, holding a magnet in front of a metal plate mounted on the front bumper, titled “Okay explain why this wouldn’t work”. Below, a comment from the official Volkswagen account reads “We sent this to the engineering department and they blocked us on teams.”

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    My tax preparer randomly started telling me about how he’s invested money in a guy that is developing a “reactionless space drive” that works basically like this drawing. I was fighting the eye-roll when he added that the guy solved all the problems he was having with the design by asking ChatGPT. I started to explain how ChatGPT works then thought better of it. Easier to just find a new tax preparer.

    • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      There was an actual NASA project that briefly claimed to have detected some miniscule accelerations driven only by EM waves. I think these claims were later lost to measurement error.

      See the wiki:

      NASA Eagleworks reported small thrust under vacuum.[70] Tajmar et al. (2022): no thrust across wide frequency band; any anomalous signal below photon-thrust limit by at least two orders of magnitude.[21]: 31, 42–43