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Title: Warp drive may well be feasible
Post by: Killallewoks on September 17, 2012, 04:15:22 PM: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/warp-drive-star-trek-feasible_n_1890679.html

Some interesting theories and promising!
Title: Re: Warp drive may well be feasible
Post by: Shadowknight1 on September 17, 2012, 04:24:00 PM: Interesting yes, but the whole "exotic matter" thing kind of throws off the feasibility.
Title: Re: Warp drive may well be feasible
Post by: JimmyB76 on September 17, 2012, 05:29:04 PM: here is another article from a different site about this:
NASA Starts Work on Real Life Star Trek Warp Drive (http://gizmodo.com/5942634/nasa-starts-development-of-real-life-star-trek-warp-drive)
Title: Re: Warp drive may well be feasible
Post by: Killallewoks on September 17, 2012, 05:38:01 PM: The fuel may not be available yet and not the means for a full scale test but the idea is behind it. The idea of splitting something as small as an atom was deemed impossible, now we can spin them around really fast and pick them apart. Let experimenting commence.
Title: Re: Warp drive may well be feasible
Post by: Darkthunder on September 17, 2012, 06:17:29 PM: Another link (probably involving the same experiments):
http://www.space.com/17628-warp-drive-possible-interstellar-spaceflight.html
Title: Re: Warp drive may well be feasible
Post by: moed on September 17, 2012, 06:59:45 PM: As someone says that we all know and love, this is "fascinating".

If only we could all live long enough to see this actually implemented on a, dare I say it... starship :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Warp drive may well be feasible
Post by: CyAn1d3 on September 17, 2012, 07:08:44 PM: humanity is a long way off from this, maybe one day when its proven plausable, it will kick yet another space race off, but this time wed need to CONTINUE on it indefinately as a species, and not a governmental entity.
Title: Re: Warp drive may well be feasible
Post by: Darkthunder on September 18, 2012, 04:31:17 AM: They have 50 years, 6 months and 18 days, to get a prototype "warp drive" operational. Some of us might still be around by then :)