[Dead Corpse]

What they are doing is building a device to research how to alter the trajectory of photons in certain ways...

That's like saying the Mona Lisa was just some dudes color photo...

If they can prove the theory on the small scale, the rest is just an engineering problem.

The numbers work. Latest research says it may not even need as much energy to initiate a "warp envelope" as previously thought. Instead of the amount of energy in a mass the size of Jupiter, we're down to asteroid sized mass/energy requirements. Still not feasible at current tech-level, but not as fanciful as it once was.

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

Man I sure hope it works. I want either me and most conservatives or all of the liberals on the first flights out of here. I don’t really care which, but one of us has GOT to have some relief.

I think it had better be us though, because they definitely can’t survive for long on their own.

[ElkGroveDan]

They are not "building" any kind of "engine" or propulsion device at all -- which the headline implies. They are building a research device to study the physics. I didn't claim the research had no value. I merely stated that the headline was so far off from what is being done here as to be laughable.

I stand by my statement: What they are doing is building a device to research how to alter the trajectory of photons in certain ways...