perfidy

It's not every day you read about a significant breakthrough in rocket propulsion -- in this case a fourfold improvement in the exit velocity of ions for an ion (electric) space drive. That's cool 'cause it's directly proportional -- a 4x increase in overall efficiency. This one's called the DS4G -- they have four "grids" that are used to accelerate the ions. I hereby patent the DS8G and the DS16G. You losers can have the other ones -- they're impossible (like 5 minute abs).

Check out the Aero-News Net story that I found on it; I suppose it'll show up elsewhere soon. But the fun doesn't end there!

Sometimes scientists take embarrassing pictures of themselves and put them on the web, and sometimes the universities pull those pages down before the public can see them. And then sometimes google caches them for us, and sometimes smirky tech dudes grab the page and save them to preserve the moments. Read the last week's test report from the DS4G team, and amuse yourself with images of science victories!

And seriously...congratulations to the technical team and the theory guys who make it all possible. Space is cool.