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How one planet shows an indirect glimpse of our future and the fermi paradox
https://worldofweirdthings.com/how-one-p...a60652d535

EXCERPT: [...] Basically, when we look at this world, we’re seeing our distant future. We probably won’t know anytime in the foreseeable future whether anything evolved on this planet, much less whether that something in intelligent, not only due to the basic limitations of SETI techniques, but because the planet is some 1,400 light years away, making it extremely difficult to image, even with the largest and most powerful planned telescopes. And we could only speculate about what creatures could’ve evolved on Kepler-452b and what chance they had over hundreds of millions of years to adapt to a warmer and warmer sun....

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How Physics Falls Apart If The EMdrive Works
http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithab...ive-works/

EXCERPT: [...] The problem isn’t that these laws couldn’t be overturned by experiment; of course they could. The problem is that physicists have performed so many experiments in so many different ways, so carefully and with such precision verifying them. These conservation laws have been confirmed for every gravitational, mechanical, electromagnetic and quantum interaction ever observed. And now, it’s claimed that an engine, one that relies on nothing more than a simple electromagnetic power source, overthrows all of physics. And the NASA Eagleworks test confirms, in a peer-reviewed paper, that thrust is produced with no discernible reaction for the action observed....
It's going to be like the Shuttle disaster. Where was I the day physics collapsed in on itself? What was I doing? Did the sun rise the next day? I already live in a universe defying physical laws as we know them. It won't be a big deal to me. I'm used to the anomalous.
"It’s important to note that passing peer review means that experts have found the methodology of the experiments reasonable. It doesn’t guarantee that the results are valid, as we’ve seen with other peer-reviewed research..." - http://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberle...3374a76e2c