Disney's Mars & Beyond 6 of 6 - Travel to Mars

At :23 the narrator says that "a spaceship with an electro-magnetic drive to neutralize gravity" is the obvious answer for space travel. What??? Would that be in a spaceship powered by a perpetual motion machine by any chance? Where did Disney get such preposterous ideas? Couldn't they have hired a competent science consultant?

Disney actually did really good research here. No, its nothing like perpetual motion. I think YOU need the competent science consultant. Or a science dictionary. ;-)

The Pentagon/NASA have actually had research in this area since the 50s, like they say here. Ever see the floating bolt science experiment? Held up by electro-magnetism.  Even works with the iron in a body, like a frog or a bug. (check YouTube) But like fusion, unfortunately, its still too far off for large scale use.

These days, its more likely going to take tapping into 'dark energy', since that seems to be the driving force opposing gravity in the expansion of the universe. And its out in space, like wind and currents are on the ocean. (so you don't have to carry your 'fuel' with you, like a rocket does)

Explain to me how you can "neutralize gravity." Gravity is fundamental to the structure of the universe and a inherent property of mass. "Neutralizing gravity" implies neutralizing mass. In other words, neutralizing gravity would make you go poof! Want to volunteer for that physics experiment? The screen writers at Disney didn't know what they were talking about.

there is a UN ban

Shh, the aliens are Rothschilds are reading your mind, put your tinfoil hat back on.

jkt0812, The idea was never abandoned,
In fact , nuclear powered space craft have been in use by the US and Russia since the early 60's.The Galileo space craft (in the 80's) was the US 24 space mission since 1961 to be partially or totally nuclear powered. Almost all modern weather, communication and navigational satellites are at least partially nuclear powered. This fact is only almost 50 years old, just thought i'd let you in on it !!! Dont believe it? (google it )

those things are powered through radioactive decay. they dont generate alot of energy like thrust. thats still a long ways away to be developed. getting thermal heat through radioactive decay without use of turbines is very innefficient. end result is you just have a big battery made of radioactive stuff

luridplanet,
Um, i hate to tell you but the US has used nuclear powered space craft for almost 50 years. As have the Russians. As a Matter of fact the "Galileo" space craft (in the 80's) was the 24th US mission to be partially or totally powered by "nuclear" sources. Almost all modern communication,weather,and navigational satallites are at least partially powered by nuclear power. just thought i'd let you know!!!!!! P.S. If you dont believe me, "google it".