One thing that nobody seems to think much about is, if we could make a warp drive to move a spaceship economical, how many ways could our lives change from smaller scale warp devices?
Imagine you are designing a building. You don’t need stairs or elevators anymore. Just put in a “warp shaft” to pull you through space to whatever floor you want to be on. With “warp trains”, suburban sprawl could extend out into neighboring states, because the commute would still be only a few minutes.
Or, on the more inconvenient side, what kind of missile defense are you going to design to prevent someone from warping a nuclear warhead right into the Pentagon? How about illegal immigrants and smugglers warping right across the border?
Yeah...great....a power surge or glitch in the control circuitry and you end up the other side of the galaxy....
Try this example:
The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with CGR of France).
It was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation.[1]:425 Because of concurrent programming errors, it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were thousands of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury.[2] These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems, and they have become a standard case study in health informatics and software engineering.
I guess that machine received "glowing reviews"
LOL
wee jumpers i liked that movie
One thing that was mentioned in Star Trek only once or twice was that the main computer was encased in a warp bubble for FTL computing.
Among other things, it’s what allowed the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle to be compensated for to allow transporters to rematerialize matter on a quantum level.