Yes, NASA really is working on "warp drive". On paper, it's doable.

[SixFoot]

Imagine the resources this country could get if we developed a warp drive.

You've been watching too much science fiction. Not going to happen in our lifetime. Possibly can't ever happen due to basic laws of physics. Lots of things are theoretically possible on paper but just not realistic. This is one of those things. Before we have warp drive, we'll have teleportation.

I'd be happy with a simple shuttle equipped with a protein re-sequencer and an engine that can travel at 1/4 impulse.

I like the Space Elevator idea. I think something like that might be doable in the near future.

Once 3D printing settles into the everyday consumer's home like PC's eventually did, I think we'll be seeing one sooner rather than later.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Recent discoveries of material being shot out of super-massive black holes had me thinking faster than light was possible. If the gravity in a black hole won't allow light to escape, how then does anything. But it does. So the theory is rational.

Would be great to see travel to other stars happen. If this does work, what limit would there be to the speeds attained? If you find a way to breach the 'faster than light' barrier I don't think there will be other barriers and the 'new space' you are moving in will be new in every sense.

The next 25 years are going to be exciting for sure.

 

[rdean]

Imagine the resources this country could get if we developed a warp drive.

You've been watching too much science fiction. Not going to happen in our lifetime. Possibly can't ever happen due to basic laws of physics. Lots of things are theoretically possible on paper but just not realistic. This is one of those things. Before we have warp drive, we'll have teleportation.

That's not the point.

Imagine the resources this country could get if we developed a warp drive.

You've been watching too much science fiction. Not going to happen in our lifetime. Possibly can't ever happen due to basic laws of physics. Lots of things are theoretically possible on paper but just not realistic. This is one of those things. Before we have warp drive, we'll have teleportation.

I'd be happy with a simple shuttle equipped with a protein re-sequencer and an engine that can travel at 1/4 impulse.

I like the Space Elevator idea. I think something like that might be doable in the near future.

Our civilization can't even add a lane to a freeway on flat ground within 5 years anymore.

Bullshit. Last year the roads from where I live to where I work were repaved and two lanes added.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Bullshit. Last year the roads from where I live to where I work were repaved and two lanes adde

Congradulations for living in an area Republicans have some control.

KKKalifornia it takes 10 years to pave an extra lane for 3 miles.

 

[Boss]

That's not the point.

Well what IS the point? Spending money on some liberal pipe-dream because you can't think of a better way to blow it? How about you go out there and find yourself a few rich Mr. Spock's to invest in your idea, who believe we can invent warp drive, and DO it?

Our tax dollars need to be spent doing realistic shit that we can do right now, that benefit everyone today.

 

[SixFoot]

Imagine the resources this country could get if we developed a warp drive.

You've been watching too much science fiction. Not going to happen in our lifetime. Possibly can't ever happen due to basic laws of physics. Lots of things are theoretically possible on paper but just not realistic. This is one of those things. Before we have warp drive, we'll have teleportation.

That's not the point.

Imagine the resources this country could get if we developed a warp drive.

You've been watching too much science fiction. Not going to happen in our lifetime. Possibly can't ever happen due to basic laws of physics. Lots of things are theoretically possible on paper but just not realistic. This is one of those things. Before we have warp drive, we'll have teleportation.

I'd be happy with a simple shuttle equipped with a protein re-sequencer and an engine that can travel at 1/4 impulse.

I like the Space Elevator idea. I think something like that might be doable in the near future.

Our civilization can't even add a lane to a freeway on flat ground within 5 years anymore.

Bullshit. Last year the roads from where I live to where I work were repaved and two lanes added.

When I got stationed in Ft. Polk, construction workers in Leesville were building a new roundabout by the Market Basket.

When I retired two years later, they finally finished it.