Sounds like an inertialess drive.

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ER — 4/14/2009 8:23:19 PM (archived)

Like the Dean Drive. They're just as impossible as perpetual motion, they violate at least one of Newton's Laws. At least they don't violate Conservation of Energy, just Conservation of Momentum.

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Russian scientists test perpetual motion machine in space - JimO - 4/14/2009 4:59:56 PM
- It does not sound like a perpetual motion machine. - alcaray - 4/15/2009 6:11:37 AM
  - re: It does not sound like a perpetual motion machine. - TB - 4/15/2009 3:51:23 PM
- Sounds like an inertialess drive. - ER - 4/14/2009 8:23:19 PM
  - In a relativistic setting, they are one and the same. - David F Mayer - 4/14/2009 10:15:36 PM
    - I'm not familiar with Minkowski space, - ER - 4/15/2009 12:16:37 AM
      - Yeah man. Physics isnt rhetoric. (n/t) - et - 4/17/2009 6:02:21 AM
      - No direct connection with classical, non-relativistic mechanics. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/17/2009 5:38:30 AM
        
        Gas Degeneracyand Pauli Exclusion are not "Classical". - ER - 4/17/2009 11:44:46 AM
        
        I meant "non-relativistic". Sorry. - David F Mayer - 4/17/2009 1:16:49 PM
- This is an April Fool joke, I take it. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/14/2009 5:18:24 PM

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