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Will we see warp drive in our lifetime?
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Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
West Texas CEO
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bender
What time is it?
Go back to your corner, robot.
As soon as you change your icon to Dennis Smith Jr., I will.
Ballthyrm
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Warp Drive is overrated.
We could explore the whole galaxy at a fraction of the speed of light with known physics.
Becoming a space faring civilization is way more interessing.
I believe more in transhumanism, we know it's possible as it doesn't break any laws of physics.
Once Humans become basically information and escape our limited biology.
And we can create for ourselves any kind of body we want.
Don't transport yourself , become the ship !
Or even stream/download yourself across the galaxy at the speed of light.
read the Bobiverse series, great books !
We could explore the whole galaxy at a fraction of the speed of light with known physics.
Becoming a space faring civilization is way more interessing.
I believe more in transhumanism, we know it's possible as it doesn't break any laws of physics.
Once Humans become basically information and escape our limited biology.
And we can create for ourselves any kind of body we want.
Don't transport yourself , become the ship !
Or even stream/download yourself across the galaxy at the speed of light.
read the Bobiverse series, great books !
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Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
From our side? No. If we get visitors from another galaxy who want to share with us as opposed to eat us, maybe.
Kenpachii
Member
This is going to be the most likely outcome for the long run. Where we send our signal over to another galaxy and rebuild ourself in that area with a new body.
Its the only way to travel at speed of light most likely and it will take us probably a long time to even get there as we are nowhere near technology advanced at this point to do so.
This could also make huge distances like galaxy travel etc easily doable with a array of satalites that basically form a gigantic bridge to send data the other way or basically planets where we install satalites on that we colonise that push data through.
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Slicker than your average
Banned
I knock girls up at warp speed, does that count?
West Texas CEO
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Please enlighten us.
Bragr
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It's fucking sci-fi, nobody knows anything about it.
West Texas CEO
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The Alcubierre drive:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
And then this: White Juday Warpfield Interferometer:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_G._White
You can also read these: Warpfield Mechanics 101:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20110015936
These are about as serious as it is possible to get currently.
I thought fusion plants were already being worked on.
Impotaku
Member
Assuming by some freak miracle that they figured out how to make warp ability possible outside of currently just been a theory. There's the rather large problem that earth contains no elements to make a material strong enough that could withstand the sheer force of travelling at those kinds of speeds so unless someones about to go pull a tony stark & discover a new element that happens to be the building block to a whole new branch of materials there's gonna be no star trek style galaxy hopping in a thousand lifetimes.
Bragr
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That's just theory and speculation.The Alcubierre drive:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
And then this: White Juday Warpfield Interferometer:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_G._White
You can also read these: Warpfield Mechanics 101:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20110015936
These are about as serious as it is possible to get currently.
Big Baller
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Buggy Loop
Member
Nope, not a chance in hell.
The materials required for the Alcubierre drive are purely mathematical hacks to make his equation possible, they call it « exotic » as if you’re going to find it in some remote place, but it basically bends all notions we have of the universe thus far on materials that would require it to have negative mass and negative energy.
And IF you manage to do it, should you? A warp drive (as per Alcubeire has theorized) could simply annihilate a whole solar system just by « arriving », trapping high-energy particles as they travel, swept up by the craft’s warp field, gets trapped in a stable section of the field and releases this immense accumulation of energetic particles that would shotgun a particle beam in front of the craft as it disengages. There’s virtually no limit to the energy an alcubeire drive could accumulate this way.
There‘s no such thing as fast travel without becoming a deadly weapon, even with « hacks » like warp drives. If you’re travelling to find life, you’re eliminating it or declaring intergalactic war with this method of travel.
The materials required for the Alcubierre drive are purely mathematical hacks to make his equation possible, they call it « exotic » as if you’re going to find it in some remote place, but it basically bends all notions we have of the universe thus far on materials that would require it to have negative mass and negative energy.
And IF you manage to do it, should you? A warp drive (as per Alcubeire has theorized) could simply annihilate a whole solar system just by « arriving », trapping high-energy particles as they travel, swept up by the craft’s warp field, gets trapped in a stable section of the field and releases this immense accumulation of energetic particles that would shotgun a particle beam in front of the craft as it disengages. There’s virtually no limit to the energy an alcubeire drive could accumulate this way.
There‘s no such thing as fast travel without becoming a deadly weapon, even with « hacks » like warp drives. If you’re travelling to find life, you’re eliminating it or declaring intergalactic war with this method of travel.
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Flash Junkins
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Wow as I guy who's a EE it appears you really want to push some crazy bullshit here. I could be wrong but I think you're confusing how Coax works vs tray cable. I would personally say warp drive is at least defined before effective wireless power ever happens. Want to know why ground bars exist? No biggie bud. |
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
If I had to bet, I would bet that the human race dies out before we get to long range space travel
Buggy Loop
Member
I think he’s referring to the fact that energy doesn’t travel inside the wire. The concept of « pumping » energy into your home with wires as if it was a water hose is completely false.
Veratisum did a video recently on it, but I knew from transformers designing the answer already, it travels through the magnetic and electric fluxes. As a transformer has no physical connection between primary and secondary side, thus a transfer of energy with a gap that has no cables, is a hint of the whole concept of electricity for the rest of the network too. The network wire basically acts like an extension of the electromagnetic field from the source.
He’s right, general public doesn’t know this shit. But science never waited on the public’s understanding to go ahead anyway, so I’m not sure what’s the point.
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Sakura
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The problem with these is they are entirely untested (naturally) and require the use of materials that a) likely do not exist or b) even if they did exist might not be usable.The Alcubierre drive:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
And then this: White Juday Warpfield Interferometer:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_G._White
You can also read these: Warpfield Mechanics 101:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20110015936
These are about as serious as it is possible to get currently.
It is entirely likely that a warp drive is simply a technology that is not possible.
HoodWinked
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i don't think so, what's more realistic is suspended animation. so it will essentially mimic warp speed.
Torrent of Pork
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Of course it's being worked on, but you have to go well beyond break-even to justify billion dollar reactors, and we're still a ways off from break-even.
ValiantTraveler
Member
In our lifetime? No. In a few centuries? Probably not. In a few millenia? Who knows.
I would love to get a record of mankind's history in the upcoming centuries. What happens in the future is an extremeley fascinating subject.
I would love to get a record of mankind's history in the upcoming centuries. What happens in the future is an extremeley fascinating subject.
Stuart360
Member
Thats exactly why we need to do this. The Earth is on a count down, and we are made to explore the stars and find new homes.
As for the question, you always hear conflicting reports on this kind of stuff, buit i have read that they know in theory how to do it, but the energy needed is astonomical.
I think we really need full disclosure on aliens and that they exist, somehting basically to capture the mind of the masses, and result in a drive forward for humanity.
I personally believ that the timeframes involved are similar to Star Trek, so in another 300-400 years we will be out there exploring the galaxy.
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Tams
Member
Plants? Perhaps some very preliminary concepts of how they could be constructed. As already mentioned the basic physics is understood but actually achieving it and then sustaining it is the issue.
The only fusion reactors that exist are experimental. None will become plants.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
No.
We are closer now to humans living forever than we are to any extreme space travel. Which if you would've said back in the 60's, people would've called you crazy.
We will likely have humans living hundreds or thousands of years before we come close to leaving the solar system if you compare the rate at which we are advancing our space travel vs our medical and science innovations
We are closer now to humans living forever than we are to any extreme space travel. Which if you would've said back in the 60's, people would've called you crazy.
We will likely have humans living hundreds or thousands of years before we come close to leaving the solar system if you compare the rate at which we are advancing our space travel vs our medical and science innovations
phranctoast
Member
Yes. Due to science
Lightjolly
Neo Member
I'll be more than happy with advanced VR like Sword art online or Accel World, so we can just pretend to visit other galaxies
I'd rather more focus is put into Ecological Restoration
I'd rather more focus is put into Ecological Restoration
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*Nightwing
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No, but since words can change thier meaning at a persons will like calling sticking a maxi pad in your arm pit to absorb sweat “hacking”
I’m sure someone at some point will say a rubber band warping it’s form and unraveling to propel a flying craft is warp flight and hence this a warp drive:
But what you and I think of as warp drive? No. We might see the beginnings of the science of it flourish, but we are technologically not in the same ballpark. It will take a jump in physics knowledge such as Einstein created. We are not close
I’m sure someone at some point will say a rubber band warping it’s form and unraveling to propel a flying craft is warp flight and hence this a warp drive:
But what you and I think of as warp drive? No. We might see the beginnings of the science of it flourish, but we are technologically not in the same ballpark. It will take a jump in physics knowledge such as Einstein created. We are not close
Badlucktroll
Member
Why do we want to explore a galaxy full of hot jupiters, airless super earths, extreme cold, and radiation? We can just upgrade our telescopes. We won't invent a warp drive unless we have a destination that we HAVE to go to.
noonjam
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DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Discover The World's First Warp Bubble - The Debrief
Warp drive pioneer Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported research results that he believes could theoretically manifest a warp bubble under laboratory conditions.
thedebrief.org
Ballthyrm
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DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Discover The World's First Warp Bubble - The Debrief
Warp drive pioneer Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported research results that he believes could theoretically manifest a warp bubble under laboratory conditions.
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