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Warp drive possible?

#32
The only time you fight that hard for something is if you're invested in it or related to it. A casual interest wouldn't garner such a rabid, constant defense. I pushed buttons to see how far the membrane would stretch so that I could see what was behind it. Worked like a charm.

I do think he missed his calling. He is a master of saying a lot without saying anything.

Matticus I want to know what I'm investing in. Blotter? Bathtub?

Details man!
 
#33
Tituscrow said:
I felt kinda bad for mcglyph what with everyone piling on, but then I had a quick read of his latest posts over there and....well, good-natured as the p***-taking is, its pretty much deserved.

Space elevator indeed.
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Man, I kinda did, until I asked simple questions and got nothing but run around on answers.

anyway since i've derailed the P*** out of this thread.

it was an interesting read although I don't quite understand how if you are distorting space time the transition from here to there wouldn't be instantaneous, maybe I've just been playing too much mass effect.
 
#34
Funky Ghost said:
The only time you fight that hard for something is if you're invested in it or related to it. A casual interest wouldn't garner such a rabid, constant defense. I pushed buttons to see how far the membrane would stretch so that I could see what was behind it. Worked like a charm.

I do think he missed his calling. He is a master of saying a lot without saying anything.

Matticus I want to know what I'm investing in. Blotter? Bathtub?

Details man!
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Nah, high grade chemist stuff! I know the guy who knows the guy.

DwaynieAD said:
it was an interesting read although I don't quite understand how if you are distorting space time the transition from here to there wouldn't be instantaneous, maybe I've just been playing too much mass effect.
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TELEPORTATIONNNNNNNNNNNN! :hyper:
 
#35
MatticusMania said:
TELEPORTATIONNNNNNNNNNNN! :hyper:
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#36
skychief said:
As a highly trained skeptic, I am naturally thinking that this warp-drive concept is really far-fetched. Warping space-time around the vehicle to propel it? Don't they have any idea the incredibly high amounts of energy needed to do this?? The energy required is proportional to the the mass to be moved, i.e., if it reqiures ~1000 gigajoules to propel a molecule to light speed,, , then the energy required to propel a spacecraft would be on the order of OMG...its so high my calculator cant compute it...

Those guys better check their math on this one.
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Well, not quite. It doesn't take any more energy to propel a spacecraft to the speed of light than it does a molecule. The problem is that in both cases the energy requirement is infinity. So, that's a minor problem.

The Alcubierre Drive is a nice workaround of that problem. You don't have to accelerate the ship at all. Just warp spacetime until you get there. Theoretically works but it's a hardcore pipe dream. The novelty in the article is that they've theoretically reduced the energy requirements to a feasible amount. The problem being moreso the exotic matter thing. Our brilliant plan is contingent on something that probably doesn't exist...
 
#37
SnowCal said:
Well, not quite. It doesn't take any more energy to propel a spacecraft to the speed of light than it does a molecule. The problem is that in both cases the energy requirement is infinity. So, that's a minor problem.

The Alcubierre Drive is a nice workaround of that problem. You don't have to accelerate the ship at all. Just warp spacetime until you get there. Theoretically works but it's a hardcore pipe dream. The novelty in the article is that they've theoretically reduced the energy requirements to a feasible amount. The problem being moreso the exotic matter thing. Our brilliant plan is contingent on something that probably doesn't exist...
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Good post, SnowCal. I should paste it in a PM to mcglyph.... :)
 
#38
SnowCal said:
Well, not quite. It doesn't take any more energy to propel a spacecraft to the speed of light than it does a molecule. The problem is that in both cases the energy requirement is infinity. So, that's a minor problem.

The Alcubierre Drive is a nice workaround of that problem. You don't have to accelerate the ship at all. Just warp spacetime until you get there. Theoretically works but it's a hardcore pipe dream. The novelty in the article is that they've theoretically reduced the energy requirements to a feasible amount. The problem being moreso the exotic matter thing. Our brilliant plan is contingent on something that probably doesn't exist...
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was it supposed to make me laugh when you said "the energy requirement is infinity. so, thats a minor problem" that and the last sentence.
 
#40
The other big problem here is that an Alcubierre drive is a better weapon than a transportation device. As your traveling through space you pick up all this energy that gets stuck with you. When you stop it all continues forward and you fry whatever you're pointed at. If you could make an Alcubierre drive, even a small spacecraft could easily fry a planet. So that's kind of cool. They're not certain how much you need to miss the target by to not fry the locals. But that's either a problem or a great WMD.
 

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