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by isthatafact 781 days ago
> "Buhler told the website The Debrief that they’ve created a drive powered by a 'New Force' outside our current known laws of physics"

> "space startup Exodus Propulsion Technologies says it has achieved a major breakthrough by stumbling upon a new force of nature"

> "He says his team...investigated propellant-less drives for decades before arriving at electrostatics."

I am already lost. Electrostatic forces can be found in an introductory physics textbook.

I am curious whether this is simply a big scam, or maybe just the delusions of an engineer who got hyped over some experimental errors. There are of course other possibilities of something interesting happening with the experiments, but the claims of a new fundamental force of nature are not exactly believable without more evidence than mentioned in the article (which is zero).

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When it's a lone nut, assume mental illness.

When it's a company with investors, assume scam.

Apply this heuristic to PPM's and Free Energy types as well.

If we’re going with heuristics, I propose one more… if he suddenly turns up dead from a heart attack, suicide, or drug overdose should we assume he was in over his head and he was taken care of by “market forces”?
I wonder if the ecat will be available soon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer

Any day now, I'm sure! Just a few more dollars needed to realize the miracle...