NASA working on faster-than-light space travel, says warp drives are ‘plausible’

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good catch OP 5 and a suggestion

Thanks!!!

One of my favorite short-story collections is the Skeleton Crew by Stephen King.

This story caught my attention when I was 12 years old, and gave me the basis for my love of Sci-Fi

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Makes one wonder why it is 'suddenly' they are throwing out warp drive. Again.

Warp drive was already known in the late 1950's. Gene Roddenberry incorporated Warp Drive in the 1960's Star Trek based on then current news.

So why all of the sudden are they treating this like a new discovery?

Oh and in case you are wondering, the idea of a circular warp coil/nacell is not new either. Look at the Old Star Trek Vulcan Space craft.

This concept can be explored with your hand and a bathtub.

Simply put your hand in the tub of water, and move it to one side quickly, and notice behind your hand the pocket of air, where water quickly rushes in behind your hand.

They have found a way to make that air pocket, simply by using a propeller in the front - first in submarines, next in space.

They spin it from the front and so it creates a pocket of air for the submarine while it is moving forward. Technically, the submarine could be 4000 ft below sea, and dry while moving in this pocket, at super speeds, as this pocket of bubble air now acts similar to trapped air under plastic, which moves around when pressure is applied from any direction.

You're referencing television shows, and this is talking practical application.
I couldn't figure a better way to phrase that, so please understand that I'm not trying to be rude.

This is a new discovery because this is a step-stone to one day being able to 'jaunt' our way to the moon, or Mars, or well...anywhere.

If it's "plausible", they already have it.

Battlestar Galactica- spinning up the FTL, and the 'jump' to predetermined coordinates... I figured it was just a matter of time before this would be seriously explored.

Interesting and Awesome OP :)

Roddenberry right again!

Thanks! and I watched BSG over and over while I was pregnant. I drove my husband crazy!

I get in a BSG mood from time to time as well, and have watched the series in whole or part a few times...Lol!!
(and, I AM slowly converting the reluctants ;).

BUILD A DEATH STAR FIRST THEN FIGURE OUT WARP SPEED,


IDIOTS.

Care to elaborate???

how you gonna go warp speed if you dont have a death star capable of flying at warp speeds

So you're implying that in order to have warp speed, we need a death star? Or a death star precludes warp speed? Or what?

Nice find OP

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have to read a bit

10 times the speed of light still wouldn't be fast enough for real interstellar travel but it would be a good start !

Let's say you find an Earth like planet, 20 light years away from us, it would still take 4 years to get back and forth !

It would allow colonization of other planets but we'd have a long way to go to establish a Terran empire in this galaxy !

im sure it will take less energy to create a space warp 5 light years across than to just travel at the speed of light.

What a wast of money and energy.

Well, considering our track record with this one little planet, lets not get ahead of ourselves with colonizing the entire galaxy.

Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti are the closest systems to us that are like our Solar System.


They have stars like our Sun and they have planets.


The other stars close to us like the Alpha Centari system are Binary or they are small dwarf stars not anyone the size of our Sun.




Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti are where we will look for planets and life.

The difference is that science fiction is an idea without form beyond the image and NASA is taking it into the actual building/testing stage.

At least hopefully.

this is the news we should all care about!

GALAXY EXPLORATION TIME YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE​EEE

time to make official maps of the galaxy :D

2 in 1.

high doom potential also when they try to build that drive.

Here’s the thing though: antimatter is horribly dangerous. Just a third of a gram of the stuff interacting with matter in the wrong way could release energy equivalent to the Hiroshima blast. That means White’s Alcubierre warp drive still requires the amount of energy equivalent to 1.5 million Hiroshimas — enough to wipe civilization off the Earth.

This is Utopia "concept"

If there is the way to "travel" it's only possible through the wormholes and into the "future"

Well, the only problem with that is that they need to find the wormhole first

However, LHC is all about that, and not some lullaby of search for God's particle

Thats two diffrent technolegy Jumpdrives utilize something called Hyperspace it´s another dimension, you pierce a hole into our space time enter at one point and leave at a diffrent point, also called wormholes in physics.

Warp engines work diffrent a warp engngine folds space infront of you and stretches it behind you, you ride on a wave of space. And this is physical possible aswell. You never exeede light speed cause you actually dont move, you make space move around you.

So yes it´s plausible, allways was we only need someone smart enough to build a warp engine cause it takes a hell lot of energy to fold space around you.

And even more to pierce a hole into space for hyperdrives, easiest way would be to fly into a black hole but nobody knows if you ever come back.