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1 posted on 05/18/2021 12:11:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
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What will come first? Warp Drives or my flying car?


2 posted on 05/18/2021 12:19:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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LSD is a big contributor at SciTechDaily.com...


3 posted on 05/18/2021 12:20:22 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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I just wanna go to Theta Reticuli and say, “Hi.”


4 posted on 05/18/2021 12:20:45 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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I disagree. The SPICE gives guild navigators enough prescience to extrapolate safe trajectories through space without the need for computers. The Holtzman drive folds space. It does so utilizing quantum entanglement and the spice also gave the navigators the ability to fold time and space.


6 posted on 05/18/2021 12:20:51 PM PDT by BipolarBob (This is my chainsaw. There are many like it but this one is mine.)
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Space is shorthand for “There is nothing there” So, how does one compress that?


12 posted on 05/18/2021 12:23:21 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Non-binary transnormativity is a construct of intersectionality. Leftist gobbledegook stinks.)
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"Don't hit me with Negative Energy so early in the morning, man."
14 posted on 05/18/2021 12:27:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Just exploring and settling our solar system will take mankind 500 or thousands of years and we have the technology to do so now.

We need to build the infrastructure and get started now.

I’m sure that during this process we will gain knowledge that will allow for interstellar travel.


20 posted on 05/18/2021 12:42:05 PM PDT by desertfreedom765
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Trump proved WARP SPEED was possible.


21 posted on 05/18/2021 12:43:16 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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At the g-force a human body can withstand, how long would it take to reach lightspeed?

I tried a calculation and came up with just under 71 days at 5gs. I am not the least bit confident in my calculations. I am also not sure a human could withstand a 5 g-force for extended periods of time without causing severe damage.

I find this all fascinating. I hope to see it happen in reality before I take my dirt nap.


23 posted on 05/18/2021 12:47:32 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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25 posted on 05/18/2021 12:54:22 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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Must be why the aliens are hanging around a lot. Getting ready for First Contact once we get warp speed capability.


36 posted on 05/18/2021 1:12:02 PM PDT by Pollard
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Bobrick and Martire realized that by modifying spacetime within the bubble in a certain way, they could remove the need to use negative energy

I wonder what these guys talk about in the bar after bowling on Friday nights?

44 posted on 05/18/2021 1:17:40 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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Alcubierre estimated that a warp drive with a 100-meter bubble would require the mass of the entire visible universe.

No problemo. All you have to do is steal it from neighboring universes. But you can't just take big bites out of people's universes without making a lot of enemies. So be prepared for that.

51 posted on 05/18/2021 1:48:34 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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The author forgot about the Infinite Improbability Drive.

-PJ

53 posted on 05/18/2021 1:51:20 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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There is a really cool freeware program out there called “Celestia” that allows you to travel around the universe with your computer. It is most excellent, though of late there seems to have been little development on the project. You really do not have any idea how freaking huge the universe is, until you start traveling around it, even going at hyperluminal speeds.

I did some experiments were I set it up to travel to one of the nearer stars at 1AU/sec. That is an insane speed, but it still took weeks.

Celestia is HIGHLY recommended for anyone with kids.


57 posted on 05/18/2021 2:00:56 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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Couple this with all the UFO stuff leaking out and I’d bet a big reveal is on the way.


60 posted on 05/18/2021 2:12:29 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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It is essential to point out that these exciting developments are mathematical models.

There's a lot of valid math that has no application in the physical universe, unfortunately.
62 posted on 05/18/2021 2:28:43 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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As a physicist, I won’t fully trust models until we have experimental proof.

Why not?

"Science" does not need any "proof" of safety before massive human experimentation with vaccines.

Demand that citizens get on warp drive spaceships--gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette...

:-(
73 posted on 05/18/2021 2:55:14 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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76 posted on 05/18/2021 3:06:40 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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"In the words of Captain Picard, things are only impossible until they are not."

So, in the words of a fictional character... Well, there it is.
78 posted on 05/18/2021 3:20:40 PM PDT by larrytown (I like pie.)
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