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To: Telepathic Intruder

Lol. Yup.

But anyone who doesn’t think Musk has a whole team of top physicists and engineers working on a Alcubierre (warp) drive is not paying attention.


12 posted on 06/04/2024 3:58:52 PM PDT by piytar
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To: piytar

He has said himself that it would take about as much energy as 100 Jupiter masses to even think about warping space-time in that way. An Alcubierre drive, if it is even possible, is far beyond what we can hope to do in our own lifetimes, let alone our distant descendants’.


14 posted on 06/04/2024 4:04:58 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: piytar

But hey, that doesn’t make interstellar travel impossible for us. Just very difficult. It won’t be like Star Trek where going from one star to another is like taking flight from one city to another.


15 posted on 06/04/2024 4:07:38 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: piytar

“anyone who doesn’t think Musk has a whole team of top physicists and engineers working on a Alcubierre (warp) drive is not paying attention.”

I do not think he does. but I do believe he is interested in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_electric_propulsion

once he has that, he can start shipments of autonomous robot vehicles to mars, building tunnel habitats putting up giant solar fields, yes I know that mars only gets about 600 W/m3 but that should be enough, or he could put some giant mirrors in orbit.

Remember this is the guy with the Boring company, SpaceX and autonomous driving tech which pprobably works better on mars cause there are less stupid drivers.


37 posted on 06/05/2024 6:43:20 PM PDT by algore
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