Introducing the Warpship

[BlueInkAlchemist]

Did you think the warp drives of Star Trek were an impossibility? Think again. Dr. Richard Obousy, a theoretical physicist known for his postulations on this form of faster-than-light travel, has put together a working theoretical model for a warpship. While it would require an understanding of 'dark matter' and an amount of power that's difficult to comprehend being generated by modern sources, it's heartening to think that faster-than-light travel might be more possible than previously stated.

Don't believe me? Check out the warpship here [http://dsc.discovery.com/space/slideshows/warpship/].

(Courtesy Slashdot [http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/h2itn-w_ZvE/Introducing-the-Warpship])

 

[Curtmiester]

By the time this technology is made available we'll all be too old to care.

Do you ever say anything not negative?

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

By the time this technology is made available we'll all be too old to care.

Unless they get cryostasis working. Or time travel.

 

[Legion]

My ones better.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

yeah, we already have ftl capable ships. They use hyperdrive technology to travel through subspace. We took the technology from the aliens and now have a fairly decent sized fleet killing other aliens for us. Lousy aliens

 

[kaziard]

hah, bet the a-team could snap one up outa chopsticks and latex. i <3 you mr T

 

[Viking_IV]

Wait...so this scientist is basing his theory of FTL travel on something that we know very little about, i.e. anti-matter.

I am all for FTL travel, and I am sure Einstein's theory will eventually be proven to not be the end all of physics, in a similar way to what Newton was a few hundred years ago, but until we understand anti-matter more, then we can see if this idea works.

Of course, by then I'll be a pot of ash on a descendants fireplace.

 

[darkless]

Yeah most things ins star trek are plausible, so this is no shock.

 

[Daveman]

Did you think the warp drives of Star Trek were an impossibility?

No, I saw it in New Scientist or some newspaper ages ago. It thrilled me ;D

 

[TundraWolf08]

Fingers crossed that my offspring's offspring make it onto that ship! And escape this hellish place.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Doesn't this method practically need us to convert the entirety of Jupiter to power it?

Also, once the bubble collapse everybody dies that was inside the bubble.