it's not just propulsion you have to worry about, you also have to have some form of shielding. I would not want to be be in a ship traveling at warp speeds and plow into a pebble.
Saw a program about this in the Science channel recently.
One of the two big problems with this is generating/harnessing the energy required to warp space-time around a vessel. The other big problem is the vessel itself; being able to contain the system that generates such massive amounts of energy.
Saw a program about this in the Science channel recently.
One of the two big problems with this is generating/harnessing the energy required to warp space-time around a vessel. The other big problem is the vessel itself; being able to contain the system that generates such massive amounts of energy.
Sweet! One of my students who graduated last year is now at MIT working to become an astronautical engineer. I told him a long time ago that once he/they developed warp drive, and NASA is in the mood to try that whole "hey, let's send a teacher into space for good PR," I've got dibs.
If Romney wins, there will of course be no NASA. Republicans cannot possibly fund huge government programs with one side of their mouth while spewing the small-government mantra out the other side.
Clearly, the free market will be spending hundreds of billions - even trillions - of dollars developing the technology needed to explore the universe. We know this because multinational corporations reason that short-term-profit-destroying huge investments in the near- and middle-term that might earn huge profits in 50 or 100 years will drive up stock prices 50 or 100 years from now. So there's a huge incentive for top executives, whose bloated bonuses are based on short-term increases in stock prices, to commit their company's resources to projects that will pay off long after the executives are dead.
Oh, wait . . . .
You're being a troll. This is MY thread, and the subject is: "The stimulus was very effective." And the book cited in the OP demonstrates that.
As much as you'd like the sidetrack and evade, the subject of this thread is NOT "Obama didn't accurately estimate the trajectory of the economy with and without the stimulus." Making that point says NOTHING about the effectiveness of the stimulus.
Now, either leave or stay on topic, you moron.
Stay on topic, you worthless piece of shit!
Sweet! One of my students who graduated last year is now at MIT working to become an astronautical engineer. I told him a long time ago that once he/they developed warp drive, and NASA is in the mood to try that whole "hey, let's send a teacher into space for good PR," I've got dibs.
Frankly the story would have made more sense had they concentrated on exotic material. Make up a material with effects no one has ever observed or seriously theorized and then posit how it will destroy the universe? These people could be more useful washing dogs at PetSmart.Typo, I meant exotic matter
Rider, I did laugh.
It is funny in a dark sense, but look at the unthinking who have to push their political hatred. Where ever we go we'll take that with us. Hate and ignorance are hallmarks of our species. A line from a SF movie- "No matter where you go there you are."
Or perhaps from an alien perspective- "There goes the neighborhood."
It is funny in a dark sense, but look at the unthinking who have to push their political hatred. Where ever we go we'll take that with us. Hate and ignorance are hallmarks of our species. A line from a SF movie- "No matter where you go there you are."
Or perhaps from an alien perspective- "There goes the neighborhood."
Good. Now they need to design an inertia damper so they don't blow the ship apart during the jump.
it's not just propulsion you have to worry about, you also have to have some form of shielding. I would not want to be be in a ship traveling at warp speeds and plow into a pebble.
Thinking about FTL travel thru outer space is interesting. However, I find equally interesting, if not more so, to think about terrestrial applications. Fvck the airlines, just warp me over to Paris in a nanosecond.
Need a computer part quickly, go over to newegg's site and they could warp one over to you in a few minutes (have to wait for the CC charge to clear).
Wanna blow up Iran's nuke facility? Warp over a nuke bomb with a 10 second timer - bye bye b!tches.
Think of all the commercial applications etc.
Fern
I think you're assuming that we could safely warp space-time here on the planet surface without catastrophic consequences. I think the technology they are talking about in these articles is meant to function in the vacuum of deep space.
Wonder what kind of shock wave will result when you 'pop' back into normal space?
Assuming it is at all possible.
I don't think so.
In the article I read about it yesterday, it was specifically mentioned that there were no inertial effects. I.e., you aren't 'moving' as we understand it. BTW: the article I'm referring to was linked over at the OT thread on this topic.
Fern
It was postulated somewhere that you dump a crapload of hard gamma rays frying whatever it was you were trying to stop at.