The Problem with Warp Drive

Centauri Dreams ^ | 12/28/09

[KevinDavis]

Paul Titze, who somehow finds time to write the excellent Captain InterStellar blog when not preoccupied with his maritime duties in Sydney, passed along a 2009 paper on warp drives yesterday that I want to be sure to consider before the year is over. Warp drives as in Miguel Alcubierre’s notion of a method of reaching speeds that are faster than light. The Star Trek echo in the choice of names was playful and intentional on Alcubierre’s part, and the physicist kicked off a cottage industry in exotic spacetimes and their geometries when he used it in a 1994 paper on superluminal flight.

[KevinDavis]

Forget the Warp drive, I want the Stargate Interstellar Drive...

[KevinDavis]

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[rsobin]

We need to skip warp drive and go foe hyperdrive.

[LibWhacker]

10³⁷ degrees isn't so hot. You just need good insulation, say something with an R-value of six trillion trillion miles. ;-)

[Army Air Corps]

Insulate the ship with the cash being printed by the Fed.

[mkjessup]

I say we need not warp drive or hyperdrive, what we need is
LUDICROUS SPEED!!!
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[Brett66]

I suggest ludicrous speed!

[GeronL]

heh. I should link this on my site libertyfic.proboards.com

[Brett66]

Only a few seconds difference!

[Redcitizen]

When you come out of hyperdrive, be sure to have your shields up. You never know when you may encounter an uncharted asteroid field or the remains of a just blown up planet. ;)

[KevinDavis]

Indeed..

[mad_as_he$$]

Wormhole drive will be the first FTL.

[The Cajun]

The problem is that while you were suggesting using ludicrous speed, mkjessup was using it ;^)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks KevinDavis. Seems like it has been a couple of week since the last...

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[LiberConservative]

Warp drive is Sooooe 20th century. I'm more interested in ships that can move through space by creating their own wormholes.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

But they've gone to plaid!

[Braak]

You mean like these? Stutterwarp rocks!

[Paradox]

We need, or perhaps are currently a victim of, the Infinite Improbability Drive.

[wastedyears]

I can’t remember the name of the drive Orson Scott Card uses in his Ender books. I remember the communications device is the ansible, but not the drive.

[SuperLuminal]

What a bunch of flat-worlders!

Been there...Done that...Had to have a lot of skin grafts...But I'm back...