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The Skeptics Guide #861 - Jan 8 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Problem Is That the Magnetic Field Is Not the Problem

To create the thrust of about ten million newtons, which is a lot of fig newton cookies, twice the main propulsion of the space shuttle. To create that thrust with it, with a ram jet, you would need a magnetic field that is four thousand kilometers, or 20 485 miles in diameter. That's what o equations, or shadow inde breaker like,. We should to talk further about it from herei we could just stop talking, but, ad if i didn't have some interesting stuff to say, jay, i would stop right now. And and i but ja, yu kno what i was thinking at this point. I'm thinking of these, these

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