http://www.space.com/17628-warp-drive-possible-interstellar-spaceflight.html

HOUSTON — A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television’s Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say.

A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre; however, subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.

Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.

HOUSTON — A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television’s Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say.

A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre; however, subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.

Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.

in one of the great ironies in life, font color “bc” is unreadable.

and i still don’t reckon we get one.

How does it work?

party_pants said:

How does it work?

alters the shape and form of the warp bubble so instead of needing impossible amounts of energy, it just needs improbable amounts

however, subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.

Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.
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Big Energy will buy the patents to this new “adjustment” and bury it, so they can still sell huge amount of energy to the starcruisers. Just as they have with every invention designed to ween us off oil.
</wookie>

Oi, what happened to my Wookie mode ons and offs???

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How much energy are we talking about?
An entire nations yearly output, the entire planets yearly output or significantly more?

I read somewhere, either in the article here or at the other place that the energy of something the size of the Voyager probes would be enough.

To infinity and beyond.

Bah!

Nasa is now a hippie.

They now have to hitch a ride to get to the ISS

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