[BipolarBob]

I think reality burst the bubble on this one.

[SJSAMPLE]

Crap.
I have a trip to Mississippi next week.
Guess I’m driving.

[Red Badger]

Captain, the dilithium crystals can't take it anymore!...........

[reagan_fanatic]

Take that, Captain Kirk!

[Crazieman]

Rats. That was our technicality in FTL. Of course impossible in current technology, it still provided something to strive for.

[B-Chan]

Wormhole theory, however, remains sound. I truly think someone will cook up a traversable wormhole before too long. I hope I live long enough to see it.

[Wolfie]

Well there goes my weekend.

[Pietro]

"But one unanswered question was what happens......"

when you turn on the headlights??

[Old Professer]

The elemental limpidity of it all...

[sailor4321]

Couldn’t they just “beam” us to wherever we’re going? You know, “beam me over, Scottie” rather than “beam me up, Scottie”?

[Dead Corpse]

How about harmonic areas of stability? Chaotic systems can collapse into order if the conditions are set correctly. Think of it as a kind of “sonic boom” region with areas of stability between.

[Dallas59]

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.

- Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer, 1926.

Radio has no future.

- Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist.

This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.

- Western Union internal memo, 1878

Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.

- Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist and World War I commander.

It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of passengers.

- American Railroad Congress, 1913

Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.

- Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859)

Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

- Ken Olson, President of Digital Corporation, 1977

The Internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.’ - Robert Metcalfe, internet inventor

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

- Popular Mechanics, 1949

We have reached the limits of what is possible with computers.

- John Von Neumann, 1949

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

- Thomas J. Watson Snr., IBM Chairman, 1943

There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the Moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the Earth's gravity.

- Dr. Forest Ray Moulton, University of Chicago astronomer, 1932.

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.

- Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer, 1926.

‘The abdomen, the chest and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.’

- Sir John Eric Ericson, Surgeon to Queen Victoria, 1873

Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction. - Pierre Pachet

Professor Physiology, Toulouse, 1872

The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it... Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient.

- Dr. Alfred Velpeau (1839), French surgeon

There is growing evidence that smoking has pharmacological effects that are of real value to smokers.

- President of Philip Morris, Inc., 1962

...any one who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine...

- Ernest Rutherford (1933)

There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration.

- Robert A. Millikan (1863-1953) speech to the Chemists' Club (New York)

There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

- Albert Einstein, 1932.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

- Ronald Reagan, 1980

‘With regard to the electric light, much has been said for and against it, but I think I may say without contradiction that when the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light will close with it, and no more will be heard of it.’

- Erasmus Wilson Oxford University professor, 1878

I am tired of all this thing called science.... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. - Simon Cameron,

U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1861 demanding the funding of the Smithsonian Institution be cut off

The so-called theories of Einstein are merely the ravings of a mind polluted with liberal, democratic nonsense which is utterly unacceptable to German men of science.

- Dr. Walter Gross, 1940

There is a young madman proposing to light the streets of London - with what do you suppose - with smoke!

- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) On a proposal to light cities with gaslight



The machine gun is a much overrated weapon; two per battalion is more than sufficient.

- General Douglas Haig, 1915

X-rays are a hoax.

- Lord Kelvin, ca. 1900

Your cigarettes will never become popular.

- F. G. Alton, 1870

cigar maker, turning down Mr. John Player

[arfan]

The faster than light “bubble” burst before it was formed...

[Mr. K]

I think thats how the UFO’s travel here.

Bob Lazaar, who claims to have worked at area 51, explained it works exactly like this

You dont travel through space so much as you warp space to bring your destination closer like pulling a portion of a ballon

(I really believe this, not kidding!)

[dangerdoc]

Did they try reversing the polarity?

Mayby their phase inverter was out of allignment.

I guess we are left with the improbability drive and a cup of warm tea.

[Mr. K]

I think thats how the UFO’s travel here.

Bob Lazaar, who claims to have worked at area 51, explained it works exactly like this

You dont travel through space so much as you warp space to bring your destination closer like pulling a portion of a ballon

(I really believe this, not kidding!)

[Brett66]

Even if the Alcubierre warp drive was possible, it was functionally impossible, it would require the energy of a galaxy to function.

Physical possibility is one thing, engineering possibility is something entirely different.

That being said, I think this is a problem that sparks the human imagination and we could find a solution to this eventually, but I don’t think it will resemble anything we can think of to this point.

[Pistolshot]

Well, I guess I have to scrap that engine in the garage.

[Caipirabob]

Forgot to carry the 2 BUMP!

; D

[Question_Assumptions]

No kidding. Faster-than-light travel produces causality violations and nature just isn’t going to let you do that.