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Warp Drive Is Theoretically Possible
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Posted on 09/27/2019 10:52:10 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 09/27/2019 10:52:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I know some warped drive drivers.


2 posted on 09/27/2019 10:54:05 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Red Badger
There's a Mexican physicist that has the idea of collapsing space in front of the vehicle, and expanding it behind.

As usual, the devil's in the details.

3 posted on 09/27/2019 10:56:49 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Red Badger

I call dibs on Protos VI


4 posted on 09/27/2019 10:57:33 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: SkyDancer

Take a perfectly sane person and put them behind the wheel of a powerful sports car and they suddenly become Mario Andretti................


5 posted on 09/27/2019 10:57:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Calvin Locke

Yes, that’s a way to get around the Einstein Speed Limit..............


6 posted on 09/27/2019 10:58:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Red Badger
Aye,Captain...the dilithium crystals are burnin’ up...
7 posted on 09/27/2019 11:00:16 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping.


8 posted on 09/27/2019 11:02:51 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Red Badger

So at warp 5 you’re going five times the speed of light? What happens when you hit a baseball sized chunk of space debris at that velocity?


9 posted on 09/27/2019 11:04:34 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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My guess is there is no space debris because you are not in space. You are in your little bubble of un-space.


10 posted on 09/27/2019 11:06:50 AM PDT by wattsgnu
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To: JimRed

That’s what the deflectors are for. ;)


11 posted on 09/27/2019 11:06:58 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: JimRed
What happens when you hit a baseball sized chunk of space debris at that velocity?

The deflector shields eliminate such issues.

12 posted on 09/27/2019 11:07:45 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: JimRed

You’re out...................


13 posted on 09/27/2019 11:12:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: JimRed
It's repelled out of your path by the bubble of energy surrounding your craft. You never collide with space debris. (Cough-cough)😇
14 posted on 09/27/2019 11:14:20 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Red Badger

Of course it is.

The alien vehicles Bob Lazar worked on at Area 51 HAD IT.

He was thought to be a kook- but he revealed Area 51 AND Papoose Lake. And he turned out to be right. No one knew about this before.

I have a degree in Physics- I’ve listened to him talk- he has never made a ‘science’ mistake, and clearly recognized advanced topics when a caller brought them up.

For example, a guy tried to ask him a question on Art Bell once, and Lazar immediately knew “The Seebeck Effect” was what he was talking about.


15 posted on 09/27/2019 11:23:48 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Calvin Locke

That’s the way Bob Lazar explained how the UFO’s at Area 51 work.


16 posted on 09/27/2019 11:25:23 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Red Badger

Be funny if some alien race scoffs at the idea that nothing can travel faster than light.


17 posted on 09/27/2019 11:26:02 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Calvin Locke

Alcubierre


18 posted on 09/27/2019 11:27:30 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: JimRed

FTL travel at that speed is not possible, FTL travel itself is not possible.

But you can warp the space between two places so that travel from here to the moon is like yards instead of thousands of miles.


19 posted on 09/27/2019 11:27:46 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Mr. K

See my post 17.


20 posted on 09/27/2019 11:29:35 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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