A scientist by the name of Charles Buhler claims that he and a group of scientists and engineers have developed a device that defies the laws of physics in that it can propel itself without a propellant.
Buhler, who’s the co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies and a NASA electrostatics expert, says that his team has been exploring “propellantless propulsion” for many years.
Their work, which began in 2016, has now culminated with the development of a device that has the potential to revolutionize transportation as we know it.
Scientists Create 'Anti-Gravity' Device That Could Revolutionize Transportationyoutu.be
“You've found a way now to possibly put rockets into space without it really being a rocket? What is it that is the propellant?” asks Glenn Beck in shock.
“That’s the nice thing about it. It doesn't use propellant,” says Buhler, adding that the device does “violate a lot of old classical laws, like the rocket equation.”
Using “new physics,” specifically the “19th-century E&M physics — electricity and magnetism,” Buhler’s team invented a device that could in theory “replace rockets.”
“About 90% of the rocket by mass and volume is just fuel. … If you get rid of all that, then you could theoretically start from Earth and go straight into space and then back and forth all over,” he tells Glenn.
“That is crazy!” exclaims Glenn, noting that such a contraption will “change everything.”
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Entrepreneur and author Greg Autry said the Chinese government is incredibly close to setting up operations on the moon after the country successfully launched a lunar probe.
Autry, a space policy expert who has been touted as one of the key architects of U.S. space policy during the Trump administration, spoke to Blaze News about the commercialization of space during what he described as a second Cold War.
"I want people to understand we are not 'militarizing' space. We've been there all along."
"The Cold War 2.0, which has clearly emerged whether you like it or not with the U.S. versus China/Russia, is very reminiscent of what drove us into space race 1.0," Autry said. "Those same factors are playing out. Governmental space budgets in the U.S. in particular are increasing rapidly, the Space Force budget's been increased by the Biden administration, more than double since Trump founded it. There's money pouring in for a lot of different reasons," Autry continued.
After the recent launch of the Chang 'e-6, it is clear that the Chinese government has sent a message the United States with where the rocket will land.
Targeted for an early June 2024 arrival on the moon, the lander will settle in a crater called Apollo, an area of the moon's south pole which is know as a "resource rich area" with "access to water ice," Autry revealed. That access is very important to being able to operate on the moon. The region contains different metallic and rare Earth elements, as well.
"The Chinese chose a crater called Apollo — which is named in commemoration of America's great lunar achievement — and the craters inside and adjacent to the Apollo crater are named after individual deceased NASA employees and astronauts," Autry explained.
"I don't think there's any mistake. The Chinese don't make diplomatic protocol mistakes. They're putting their lander in that particular crater and are going to raise their their little Chinese, communist flag; it actually is going to pop up from the lander. That's a message to us [and] we should take it seriously."
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Commercially, Autry said it would be about a decade before private companies started bringing anything other than small payloads of moonrocks back to Earth, which he insisted were nothing to "scoff at" given their legitimate commercial value.
Even though there are "no property rights in space," Autry said that he "wouldn't be surprised to see China put some sort of scientific experiments, as they might call them, in various places around the most resource-rich areas" on the moon.
This could happen in "the next three to five years" he said, with China then declaring an "exclusion zone" around the operations to prevent any countries from interfering.
"Even though the resources won't be creating revenues for some time in the future that the areas could be excluded from, this plays well to China's hands. They think far, far ahead. They're thinking decades or centuries of long-term commitment to owning the universe, basically."
Pointing toward private Israeli and Japanese companies that are looking to land on the moon, there is also an interest in mining asteroids, but it would be much more difficult, Autry said.
"There are asteroids out there which can be mined and the rules are essentially the same but there's a lot of individual asteroids and we'd be unlikely, probably, to end up working the same one. The area that's of interest right now is the Moon. The Moon is only three days away whereas those asteroids are months or years away, and the energy required to get to and from the Moon is a lot less than than the amount of propellent required to to move things from asteroids."
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Autry's new book, "Red Moon Rising," with fellow policy expert Peter Navarro touches on this race to space commercialization. But from a militaristic standpoint, China is looking to gain superiority in fields like communication. The solution is for the Space Force to get a bit more focused and a bit more practical in its leadership.
"I want people to understand we are not 'militarizing' space. We've been there all along. With that said what Trump was looking to do on the advice of myself and other people that were involved in the transition team ... is take and create a more nimble, focused organization where the leadership from the top down cares and understands space."
Noting that generally, the Air Force has high-ranking, former fighter pilots, Autry said the top priority has historically been toward focusing on fighter jets and air superiority.
"The Air Force procurement system is notoriously inefficient (to use a nice word), and so getting space out of there called Space Command and a group called Space Systems Command into their own organization was easier to manage."
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Many pundits and mainstream news outlets immediately jeered at Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) for calling Monday's total solar eclipse and other recent phenomena "strong signs" from God, but some of these same pundits and outlets stayed noticeably quiet about strange, eclipse-related comments from one of MTG's Democrat House colleagues.
On Monday, Greene, a professed Christian, wrote on social media that the eclipse many were scrambling to see was a message from God about their sinful behavior. "God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens," Greene wrote along with a prayer emoji.
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Greene is hardly the only Christian who noticed a spiritual component to the eclipse. "Eclipses flat out PROVE the existence of God," tweeted author and occasional Blaze News contributor Eric Metaxas. "The evidence is absolutely ASTONISHING!"
"If you are worshipping the eclipse as a celebration of 'Mother Nature' or 'science,' you’re missing the point. It’s a God thing," said Red State columnist Buzz Patterson.
In other words, Greene's comments were well in keeping with mainstream Christian conservative discourse. But that fact did not stop many from making fun of her anyway:
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The Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, welcomed 12 new astronauts after the candidates completed a two-year training program through NASA. There are reportedly 10 Americans and two individuals from the United Arab Emirates who make up the latest class of astronauts.
Space.com reported that these astronauts will be assigned to missions on the International Space Station and future commercial space stations. They will also be focused on missions to the moon in preparation for an eventual journey to Mars.
NASA announced the news on its website earlier this month:
The most recent astronaut candidates wave to the crowd in this image from their March 5, 2024, graduation ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Nicknamed “The Flies,” this cohort is now eligible for spaceflight assignments to the International Space Station, future orbiting destinations, the Moon, and beyond.
Selected for training in 2021, the astronaut graduates were chosen from a pool of more than 12,000 applicants and successfully completed more than two years of required basic training, including spacewalking, robotics, space station systems, and more.
Fox News Digital reported that Luke Delaney — a retired United States Marine Corps major from Florida — said graduating from the program was a dream come true. For some, the dream of becoming an astronaut takes decades to come to fruition.
Delaney discussed the first time he put on the spacesuit, saying, "The first time you put that on, and you’re getting in the water, it’s impressive. You just feel like you’ve made it in some ways," he shared.
The process of becoming an astronaut is intense. Reports mentioned that all the members of the current class are doctors, scientists, engineers, and researchers, and they were chosen from a pool of 12,000 applicants. After making the initial cut, they were sent to Houston to begin physical and mental training for their first spaceflight.
Jack Hathaway — another member of the newest astronaut class — said there is "just so much to be excited about."
"There's a lot of hard work that the whole team is going to have to do. The whole thing is just such a cool time to be part of the [astronaut] office. You're coming into the office with all the commercial partners doing lunar landings and lunar missions, and the opportunity to have multiple commercial partners building lunar landers and human landing systems. I'm just really excited about this."
There is a lot of buzz around the possibility of astronauts making another trip to the moon. Medical physicist Christopher Williams said the team is prepared to get back to the moon and to use their specialized skills to get there.
"It just gives me goosebumps that some of the folks that I walked across the stage with today, I think, are going to be on the moon," he told Space.com.
"We're not only growing, but adding to our portfolio, getting beyond low Earth orbit. I think it connects with a lot of people in terms of exploration and getting out there."
There is no timetable for when the astronauts could make a return to the moon.
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Russia and China appear have to joint aspirations of building a nuclear reactor on the moon to power future settlements. According to Yuri Borisov, the CEO of Russia's equivalent to NASA, Roscosmos, the construction of the reactor would be part of an unmanned mission relying on those technological solutions the two nations intend to master in the latter half of this decade.
"Today, we are seriously considering a project to deliver to the moon and mount a power reactor there jointly with our Chinese partners somewhere between 2033 and 2035," Borisov said during a talk at the World Youth Festival in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
The work on the reactor would be automated on account of radiation.
Reuters noted that nuclear power is regarded as necessary because solar panels apparently do not generate enough electricity to power future lunar settlements.
In addition to a nuclear reactor and an "interplanetary station" on the moon, Borisov suggested Russia was also "working on a space tugboat. This huge, cyclopean structure that would be able, thanks to a nuclear reactor and high-power turbines ... to transport large cargoes from one orbit to another, collect space debris, and engage in many other applications."
Russian state media noted that Roscosmos and China National Space Administration signed an agreement in March 2021 to cooperate on the development of an international lunar research station. To advance this project, Beijing plans on sending three missions, Chang'e 6, Chang'e 7, and Chang'e 8.
The construction of a nuclear reactor on the moon would be part of a subsequent series of lunar missions.
The initial lunar missions, scheduled to begin in 2026 and proceed through 2028, would test key technology and set the groundwork for a robotics base where experiments and research could be conducted remotely.
CNSA plans to launch a relay satellite to work in conjunction with the Chang'e 6 mission sometime this year, reported CNN.
China appears to have been emboldened in its cosmic pursuits after the successful construction of its orbital Tiangong space station in 2022 and its rover's journey to the dark side of the moon in 2019.
Gen. Stephen Whiting, the U.S. Space Command chief, told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that space has become an "expanding security challenge" and that communist China was growing its "military space and counterspace abilities at a breathtaking pace," reported The Hill.
On Tuesday at the 2024 Space Summit, Whiting indicated that Russia, too, poses a "formidable" challenge to the U.S. in space even though its first lunar mission in decades, Luna 25, crashed into the moon's surface last year.
Newsweek indicated that Borisov's announcement of possible fission on the moon has the wonks at the Institute for the Study of War concerned about a fusion of Russia and China's long-term strategies.
The ISW, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., suggested that Borisov's remarks were "indicative of warming relations and Chinese willingness to foster a long-term strategic partnership with Russia to posture against and possibly threaten the West."
"A strategic space partnership with China suggests that Russia would be unlikely to use this or similar technology against China and that both states would mutually benefit from Russia's posturing against the West through space and satellite technology," added the ISW.
The strategic ties between China and Russia have been strengthening in recent years, especially economically.
The Straits Times noted that Sino-Russia trade hit a record high of $240 billion last year.
China's foreign minister Wang Yi said Thursday that the two powers have created "a new paradigm of great power relations that is completely different from that of old Cold War era."
According to Bonny Lin, the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Russia's war against Ukraine has helped to solidify Moscow's relationship with Beijing.
Lin offered various reasons to account for this solidification, but noted that Western efforts to economically punish Russia over its invasion of Ukraine especially "amplified concerns in Beijing that Washington and its allies could be similarly unaccommodating toward Chinese designs on Taiwan."
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