Ionocraft Thread - Future Propulsion?

>>1152227
sure. get it to space then wait a few hundred years for it to get going at a few mph. btw you cant turn and you cant stop. real useful

There's no air in space.

>>1152262
But there's plasma.

>>1152272
Uselessly thin plasma. Because of that, actual ion drives carry their own gas with them.

>>1152227
consider applying basic mathematics to your idea

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>>1152277
This, they move by ionizing air particles and dragging them to the collector foil, getting lift thanks to Newtons third law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nM2u2FDWsQ

Ion thrusters use their own gas, otherwise the wouldn't move at all.

>>1152249
>you cant turn and you cant stop
Yeah, of course. Because who the fuck would design a spaceship with brakes, right? Who would ever design a vehicle of any kind with steering and braking mechanisms? No, sir, our vehicles are straight-line, one-way only businesses. If you want to go from point A to point B and then back, you need two vehicles, and you have to manually eject yourself from the moving vehicles when you reach your destination. Either that, or put just enough fuel in the vehicles beforehand that they will only go as far as you want them to go.