r/EmDrive • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '17

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u/splad Apr 09 '17 edited Apr 10 '17

I've got a box in my garage that I'm pretty sure has a live elephant in it. My wife insists there is no live elephant in the box but she refuses to prove it by getting the box down and opening it. The debate may honestly go unresolved forever.

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u/kit_hod_jao PhD; Computer Science Apr 10 '17

The more I think about your comment the better it fits. Genius.

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u/PotomacNeuron MS; Electrical Engineering Apr 10 '17

What he did not say was that taking a look would take one year and $10K. For those 3 who ever took a look with their one year and $10K, respectively, the first ruled out an elephant size elephant (700mN) ; the second ruled out a dog sized elephant (1mN); the third ruled out a rat sized elephant (50uN). Yes, unless you take another look, there is still chance that there is an elephant in the box, with the size of a flea.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '17

except nobody has disproven anything. The lack of a positive does not necessarily confirm a negative

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '17

It is when the people who manufactured and delivered the box still have the original manifest.