Do you think we'll ever create Warp Drive?

[Maverick]

the idea of a warp drive like the one in star trek is pretty impossible according to physics. Most people today except the theory of relativity. This will prevent us from ever traveling at the speed of light. The only way deep space travel will happen is if we are able to travel in subspace using wormholes.

Unless some major advances are made in the next 50 years, we won't see these things in our lifetime. Honestly they only way we would get anywhere is if we had another cold war. Nobody is willing to admit it, but we would not have made it to the moon in the 60s if there had never been a cold war. It sucks that our scientific advancement always comes because of conflict :|

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: klah
Read this book: The Physics of Star Trek, By: Stephen Hawking. One of the best books ever.

Hawking is a friggin genious...

 

[BD2003]

Faster than light speed travel? Itll be a long long time.

Faster than light communication? Maybe in our lifetime. I get the feeling if there are aliens out there, theyre not trying to reach us with slow ass radio waves.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Look at it this way I think that aliens would have a different intelligence than ours(think how to solve problems/use physical phenomena in a different way than we do) so im thinking that we are looking for signals in the most silent area of the electromagneticx spectrum because we think thats where they would insert their message. One thing I can think of is that if i were an alien, instead of unsing binary code, why not send millions of bits simultaniousely on diferent frequencies to make a message? I mean why not. Thats why i think we wont contact aliens in our life time, they have to think diferently than us, and thus we cant predict how thery would try to contact us, and they couldnt either.

 

[timelapse]

it will...

sooner than expected....

 

[alrocky]

My initial impression is that I'd have to agree with The Dancing Peacock: "not in my lifetime." I think we are getting ahead of ourselves here. I'm looking forward to an affordable fuel cell automobile or a similiarly advanced form of transportation.

 

We can already drive our cars faster than the speed of light

 

[Yomicron]

While attaining the speed of light using conventional engines is regarded as impossible, I believe that at some point we will have something simillar to a 'Warp Drive' that creates field of negative energy, or distorts the fabric of space in some way.


http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/html/warp/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/364496.stm

 

[Nemesis77]

Yes. Not today, not tomorrow, but someday. Why do I think that? Simple: Throught history people have claimed that various things are impossible. "It's impossible to build a flying machine!", "It's impossible that Earth revolves around the sun!", "It's impossible to build a vehicle that goes faster than 60Kph (because people inside would suffocate)!". Now they say "It's impossible to build FTL-engines!". Yes it's impossible with our current knowledge. But we cannot tell what future will bring.

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: kt

Originally posted by: ndee
It won't be happening.

Yeah, that won't happen.. just like who would've thought a few tons of steel is flying thru the sky.

And little green men will invade the earth.

You just need to think out of your little narrow confined world you are living in.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Yeah, right after they solve cold fusion.

nik

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Yeah, right after they solve cold fusion.

nik

What you didn't pricematch the CF tanks @ Home Depot.


You should see the beauty I got; 4 Hexa-BTU's for only 900 credits.....

I think it was 910 + tax after the pricematch....