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Warp drive research officially begun at NASA

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GasBandit

GasBandit

Seems that's one way to get people pumped up for space travel again.


"Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility." These are the words of Dr. Harold "Sonny" White, the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate. Dr. White and his colleagues don't just believe a real life warp drive is theoretically possible; they've already started the work to create one.​


#2

Jay

Jay

fuck yeah


#3

LordRendar

LordRendar

Gotta get rid of all my red shirts.


#4

GasBandit

GasBandit

Suddenly developing craft that are VTOL, can fly in atmosphere and navigate in space seems a lot more urgent than it was yesterday. Because even if we had warp drive right now any manned mission anywhere would not be able to land and take off again.


#5

strawman

strawman

GasBandit said:
would not be able to land and take off again.
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There are a bunch of people who'd still do it anyway.


#6

GasBandit

GasBandit

stienman said:
There are a bunch of people who'd still do it anyway.
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Well, I'm of the opinion that if we're going to have the technology to get to Alpha Centauri in 2 weeks, it'd be nice if we could do more than snap pictures from orbit once we get there.

Plus, I can think of a few problems on earth that could be solved by an explosion of extrasolar colonization.


#7

Tress

Tress

GasBandit said:
Well, I'm of the opinion that if we're going to have the technology to get to Alpha Centauri in 2 weeks, it'd be nice if we could do more than snap pictures from orbit once we get there.
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Well, I'm of the opinion that HOLY SHIT WE JUST MADE IT TO ALPHA CENTAURI FUCK YEAH.


#8

GasBandit

GasBandit

Tress said:
Well, I'm of the opinion that HOLY SHIT WE JUST MADE IT TO ALPHA CENTAURI FUCK YEAH.
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True, but just ask the guys on Apollo 10 (and 13) how blue their balls were having to turn around and come home from the moon after just going to look at it without landing.

Think about about how different Star Trek would be with no shuttlecraft (and naturally, no teleporters).


#9

LittleSin

LittleSin

Yessssss.


#10

LittleSin

LittleSin

Dad sais this isn't practical and it's a waste of tax money. Never mnid that we are in Canada so it doesn't matter to us anyways...but I can't help but to think there will be a chunk of people in the US that will complain about this "waste of money".

NASA should kickstart this shit.


#11

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

LBJ still spent more on the "Great Society" poverty programs than NASA, and failed.


#12

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

DarkAudit said:
LBJ still spent more on the "Great Society" poverty programs than NASA, and failed.
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How? we are still a much better nation than we were then.


#13

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

sixpackshaker said:
How? we are still a much better nation than we were then.
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Those programs largely failed to to address poverty and other social ills. Those problems persisted well into the 70s and beyond.

Atlantic: Moondoggle - The Forgotten Opposition to the Apollo Program
Examiner - How liberal critics of the Apollo program were proven wrong


#14

Gusto

Gusto

LittleSin said:
Dad sais this isn't practical and it's a waste of tax money. Never mnid that we are in Canada so it doesn't matter to us anyways...but I can't help but to think there will be a chunk of people in the US that will complain about this "waste of money".

NASA should kickstart this shit.
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#15

Neon Pirate

Neon Pirate

Will this make us even more warped? Hey! We can go visit Elvis! Think I'll get to work on that list of people I want to send as far away as possible.


#16

GasBandit

GasBandit

If we use a vessel with this propulsion technology to perform a survey of multiple planets on the same trip, will it be called the warped tour?


#17

LittleSin

LittleSin

GasBandit said:
If we use a vessel with this propulsion technology to perform a survey of multiple planets on the same trip, will it be called the warped tour?
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The best chapter of the text book.


#18

David

David

What do I have to get a degree in and where do I have to move to get a job contributing to this?


#19

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

We should go here:
http://www.space.com/16728-top-5-habitable-alien-planets-countdown.html


#20

GasBandit

GasBandit

checkeredhat said:
We should go here:
http://www.space.com/16728-top-5-habitable-alien-planets-countdown.html
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Which dovetails nicely with my assertion that we need to fast-track shuttlecraft technology.


#21

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

GasBandit said:
Which dovetails nicely with my assertion that we need to fast-track shuttlecraft technology.
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Yeah, that was my intent.


#22

Bowielee

Bowielee

I dunno, I followed the link trail from that article and just came up with the corporately sponsored website of the guy who blogged this. There's just something about this whole deal that smells kind of fishy for me. Right now they just have math(which is not backed up anywhere that I can find) that there's a possiblity of there being something there. This doesn't exactly equate to there being a travelable subspace of some kind.

I'll remain skeptical for the time being.


#23

Zappit

Zappit

Can't wait until the first jackass sends a text while in warp and blasts into a planet...


#24

David

David

Zappit said:
Can't wait until the first jackass sends a text while in warp and blasts into a planet...
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Yolo... in space!


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