Plasma propulsion with Macka B in the background. Needs a little shake to get started. At full vacuum, there aren't enough ions to push it round; nevertheless, a Nostrian student mentioned 'reactionless thrust' a few months ago, something that I used to be really interested in, so I plan to put an old electrostatic motor in a vacuum chamber to see if 'reactionless thrust' is still science fiction.

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Kudzai Kutukwa 8 months ago
I don't get how this is reactionless, please explain further because this is pretty cool!
Interesting and cool concept. So not really reactionless, but rather using the environment fluid/gas as reaction mass like a good old propeller? Nevertheless a really fascinating experiment =) Would you be interested in collecting data about the rotation rates dependent on pressure and voltage?
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