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Posted on 5/12/22 at 5:42 pm
Posted by Tempratt
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 5:42 pm
So every once in a while I see a news article from NASA claiming that warp speed may happen some day.

So do any of you think this will ever happen before we’re extinct?
Posted by TDsngumbo
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 5:47 pm to
Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 5:48 pm to
We’d do better folding space and plane hopping.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 5:48 pm to
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folding space

I bet that is worse than a fitted sheet.
Posted by shutterspeed
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 5:49 pm to
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So every once in a while I see a news article from NASA claiming that warp speed may happen some day.


I doubt you've ever read an actual NASA article claiming that warp speed may happen.
Posted by TheHarahanian
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 5:51 pm to

I believe any attempt to do that will result in lots of fiery destruction.

But, and this is important, not even the debris ejected from the violent explosions will approach anything like “warp speed”.
This post was edited on 5/12/22 at 5:53 pm
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:00 pm to
I’d hate to be a tester
Posted by Basura Blanco
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:03 pm to
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claiming that warp speed may happen some day.

So do any of you think this will ever happen before we’re extinct?


No. But, I can almost imagine (it helps to be drunk/high) a time when science can make an exact replica of every one of the 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in your body and store them in various places in the universe and then you could like....subliminally choose one of these "selfs" to inhabit or even be in two or more places at once or....GOTDAMMIT, who do you have to blow around here to get another tanqueray and tonic??
Posted by HoboDickCheese
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:08 pm to
It’s actually very simple. All we need is a gravity drive that creates an artificial black hole to open a portal from one part of the universe to another
Posted by MoarKilometers
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:11 pm to
Getting to warp speed is one part of the problem. Slowing down will be an equal bitch.
Posted by armsdealer
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:29 pm to
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No. But, I can almost imagine (it helps to be drunk/high) a time when science can make an exact replica of every one of the 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in your body and store them in various places in the universe and then you could like....subliminally choose one of these "selfs" to inhabit or even be in two or more places at once or....GOTDAMMIT, who do you have to blow around here to get another tanqueray and tonic??


When you realize how many of things make up the things that we create and use and you wonder how we accomplish anything. 6.022E+23 puts a lot of things in a perspective that should just blow anyone's mind.
Posted by HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:33 pm to
Happened in 1985…sorta

Posted by Tempratt
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:37 pm to
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actually very simple. All we need is a gravity drive that creates an artificial black hole to open a portal from one part of the universe to another


That might let them demons in.
Posted by Basura Blanco
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:38 pm to
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a perspective that should just blow anyone's mind.


Perspective is right. Imagine walking onto a civil war battlefield and explaining the concept of an apache helicopter. Or penicillin.
Posted by bad93ex
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:39 pm to
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So every once in a while I see a news article from NASA claiming that warp speed may happen some day.



The only way they get there is by doubling down on their Diversity, Inclusion and Equity initiatives, nothing else matters.
Posted by Obtuse1
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:42 pm to
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It’s actually very simple. All we need is a gravity drive that creates an artificial black hole to open a portal from one part of the universe to another


This is one of those times not to conflate simple with easy.

Posted by 9Fiddy
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:42 pm to
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Getting to warp speed is one part of the problem. Slowing down will be an equal bitch.

My understanding is physicists and engineers know it can happen. The biggest issue is the fuel problem. You’d need so much fuel to get up to speed and maintain it, that you can’t make a ship big enough
Posted by Abstract Queso Dip
Member since Mar 2021
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:46 pm to
The theoretical math is there. Watched something today on what's called white holes. Think they said something along the lines about harnessing anti-matter. I mean pure theory but the idea is that the anti-matter would shield you against the gravitational force of a black hole.
This post was edited on 5/12/22 at 6:47 pm
Posted by Kentucker
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Member since Apr 2013
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 6:58 pm to
We know that spacetime can be manipulated. Mass does it all the time. We also know that spacetime is independent from the speed-of-light limitation.

Theoretically, if we could compress spacetime behind an object and expand spacetime in front of the object, it would easily achieve warp speed, which is some factor faster than light speed.

Of course, first we have to figure out just what spacetime is.
This post was edited on 5/12/22 at 7:00 pm
Posted by cgrand
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 7:23 pm to
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Of course, first we have to figure out just what spacetime is.


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