Warp drive research officially begun at NASA

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GasBandit

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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.​
 
GasBandit

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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.
 
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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.
 
Tress

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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.
 
GasBandit

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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).
 
LittleSin

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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.
 
Gusto

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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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Neon Pirate

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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.
 
GasBandit

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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?
 
Bowielee

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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.
 
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