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China invents most powerful detonation engine for hypersonic flight (www.scmp.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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The “revolutionary” air-breathing engine could, in theory, lift an aircraft from a runway to more than 30km (18.6 miles) into the stratosphere and continuously accelerate it to 16 times the speed of sound.

At this velocity, even the longest intercontinental flights could take just one or two hours while consuming less fuel compared with conventional jet engines.

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Correct, so it should be independently reviewed and recreated to validate the claims. Crying wolf just because there were issues before wouldn't be fair.

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

So you don’t base any of your decisions on past experiences?

[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 7 months ago

Not when it comes to scientific research.

If the same person or someone acting under the same supervisor in the same faculty published some more amazing sounding research after previous ones had been debunked, I'd be sceptical.

But in a country with 1.4bn people and more than 3.000 universities? There's gotta be some bad eggs, but you can't discredit every single one due to the actions of a few.

I've met brilliant scientists in and from China.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social -1 points 7 months ago

The trick is that they're literally spamming papers at this point.