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Author Topic: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"  (Read 26073 times)

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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #135 on: December 01, 2012, 01:37:56 pm »

Unless of course the laser is strong enough to shove them out of the way.
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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #136 on: December 01, 2012, 03:38:24 pm »

I don't think any methods we have to detect space distortion work at faster that light...
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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #137 on: December 01, 2012, 06:30:15 pm »

Sending messenger ships back and forth, carrying information between locations. Sort of like how we had runners in the past to relay information, but in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.
And name the organization managing all of that the Spacing Guild while we're at it.
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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #138 on: December 01, 2012, 06:32:26 pm »

Sending messenger ships back and forth, carrying information between locations. Sort of like how we had runners in the past to relay information, but in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.
And name the organization managing all of that the Spacing Guild while we're at it.
Could we call it the Space Post Office of Space?
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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #139 on: December 01, 2012, 06:41:41 pm »

Could we call it the Space Post Office of Space?
Needs more Space.
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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #140 on: December 01, 2012, 06:43:43 pm »

Needs more spice.
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« Reply #141 on: December 01, 2012, 07:32:18 pm »

Now, if only I could fully quote here the list of public holidays that the Babylon 5 post office observed...
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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #142 on: December 01, 2012, 07:35:20 pm »

Needs more spice.
This. FTL travel can kill you without the stuff.
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« Reply #143 on: December 01, 2012, 08:21:26 pm »

Needs more spice.
This. FTL travel can kill you without the stuff.

Hehe... speaking of which, the whole reason for the spice was to give Navigators the prescient vision needed to know the one trajectory that wouldn't warp your ship into any solid matter. When you're traveling at near-relativistic speeds, a pebble or cloud of dust will collide with you and generate enough heat and pressure to trigger explosions of plasma and nuclear fusion. And that's during the fraction of an instant that they completely slice through the ship, you, and everything else you're carrying.

However... since these are only moving on a 4D/Time Axis, and not in 3D Space, I wonder if this bubble of local space/time will repel other matter from outside. And if so, that has a whole 'nother set of awesome applications in things like force-fields, etc.
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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #144 on: December 01, 2012, 08:49:06 pm »

What's your favorite thing about space? Mine is space

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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #145 on: December 02, 2012, 04:45:31 am »

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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #146 on: December 02, 2012, 05:21:34 am »

Needs more spice.
This. FTL travel can kill you without the stuff.

Hehe... speaking of which, the whole reason for the spice was to give Navigators the prescient vision needed to know the one trajectory that wouldn't warp your ship into any solid matter. When you're traveling at near-relativistic speeds, a pebble or cloud of dust will collide with you and generate enough heat and pressure to trigger explosions of plasma and nuclear fusion. And that's during the fraction of an instant that they completely slice through the ship, you, and everything else you're carrying.

However... since these are only moving on a 4D/Time Axis, and not in 3D Space, I wonder if this bubble of local space/time will repel other matter from outside. And if so, that has a whole 'nother set of awesome applications in things like force-fields, etc.
It won't repell it. It will rapidly compress it (turning it into plasma), then cool it down when it leaves on the other side. The fun fact is that neither the ship, nor the particle are moving at relativistic speed inside the bubble (Unless the particle collided at relativistic speeds). So yeah, it'd be just as dangerous as a vapourized micrometeroid.

Edit: For FTl communications, how about Quantum entanglement?
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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #147 on: December 02, 2012, 07:08:43 am »

Can't transfer classical information that way, sorry. Any attempt at modifying the system in a way that is measurable as a definite 'bit' on the other side will break the entanglement, since the particles have to be in thermodynamic equilibrium.
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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #148 on: December 02, 2012, 07:12:22 am »

PTW, because FTL!
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Re: NASA developing Warp Drive, "Alcubierre Drive"
« Reply #149 on: December 02, 2012, 10:14:40 am »

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