NASA May Have Accidentally Created a Warp Field (MAY)

mysteriousuniverse.org ^ | 4/24/2015 | mysteriousuniverse.org

[Jonty30]

Aren’t they related episodes?

[WildHighlander57]

Bookmarking.

[Gaffer]

To get around the theory of relativity, physicist Miguel Alcubierre came up with the concept of a bubble of spacetime which travels faster than the speed of light while the ship inside of it is stationary.

Yes! I can see the spacetime bubble forming in the GEARS of the warp engine. I dunno, but I think it's because the Delryn gears decouple the bubble energy envelope and allows a space time continuum plasma to form at the tip of the nozzle. Fascinating stuff!

[Gaffer]

OH no! It’s not the GEARS! It’s the wooden support blocks for the engine. They decouple the space time continuum plasma from the rest of the universe using the ethereal mystique of Gaia.

[PLMerite]

We know what happens next:

[ClearCase_guy]

How can this be used to help our Muslim brethren?

[Popman]

Well, if we can bend time, how about going back in time and electing Mike Ditka to the senate in Illinois...instead of our golfing King...

[Lysandru]

Laugh while you can Monkey Boy. Team Banzai will perfect this technology.

[Raymann]

You don’t need dilithium silly, that’s just a gimmick they came up with to control a matter antimatter reaction as a power source. You could power the warp field generator any way but of course antimatter gets you the most bang for your buck.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Could you use it to power a coffee maker?

[shibumi]

But ... but ... When it comes to power source selection, doesn’t it make sense to use the one with the greatest potential for a universe ending cataclysm?

(Perhaps the current regime is visionary! They are conserving coal use on Earth in order to harness it as a cheap and safe method of field generation in outer space!)

[McGruff]

First thing I thought of

Speed Limit Ahead
55 Mach

[john316]

All funding issues wil be resolved after directive 10-289 goes into effect.

[BigCinBigD]

One day Man will sail the gulf between the stars as our ancestors sailed the unknown seas.

[samtheman]

So that’s the only problem with this idea, the amount of energy it will require?

[PIF]

Thjis story appeared on NASASpaceFlight.com back in April of '07. The engine pictured is a prototype electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive, not a warp engine.

Original article here - worth the read for the state of the art in 2007:
NASA’s Futuristic EM Drive successfully tested in a hard vacuum

[skinkinthegrass]

*lots and lots stars..even more empty space.*

[Rodamala]

Needs more lens flare.

[RFEngineer]

It is not necessary to read the article to know that the only thing NASA is trying to “warp” is it’s budget.

There is nothing that a budget-guarding politically-correct pack of bureaucrats can accomplish outside the confines of the physics of government.

[Jim Noble]

Where are they going to get the dilithium crystals?