Warp speed possible?

[Hellgrinder]

But the ship itself is in a bubble of normal space-time that exists inside the distorted space-time. It's not the ship that's moving FTL. It's just along for the ride.

[hyde]

No.

This is too conventional and you need the mass fuel size of a Jupiter to send a FOOTBALL SIZED ship into FTL.... FOOTBALL SIZED SHIP. Well I guess that means we can send probes into deep space at reasonable rates - but where are we going to find a Jupiter sized mass of fuel? I don't know what Jupiter is composed of, but I do know it acts as a strategic shield for Earth by pulling in asteroids/meteors.


Also, it doesn't answer how can humans survive FTL. From what I read, gaining that much speed causes some sort of mass build up or an incredibly violent exit upon slowing down. To be honest, I'm a believer in Aliens and I think they've visited Earth. I don't think they use conventional fuel-force-propulsion, the evidence by the Belgium/Mexican/NASA footage screams something along the lines of some completely undiscovered method of movement.

[Hellgrinder]

You read the article wrong. VERY WRONG. Almost as if you just took a brief look at it, and then decided to post about it. It would require a Jupiter-mass of exotic matter if the FTL Ring was a flat disc. However, if the ring was a torus, like a doughnut, the mass of the exotic matter would only need to be that of a small space probe. And it was a Football-SHAPED, not SIZED, SHAPED starship. Not to mention that the ship itself doesn't actually move. Space-time itself is doing all the propelling. The ship stands still in a bubble of normal space-time that's carried along by the distorted space-time, just along for the ride.

[hyde]

You read the article wrong. VERY WRONG. Almost as if you just took a brief look at it, and then decided to post about it. It would require a Jupiter-mass of exotic matter if the FTL Ring was a flat disc. However, if the ring was a torus, like a doughnut, the mass of the exotic matter would only need to be that of a small space probe. And it was a Football-SHAPED, not SIZED, SHAPED starship. Not to mention that the ship itself doesn't actually move. Space-time itself is doing all the propelling. The ship stands still in a bubble of normal space-time that's carried along by the distorted space-time, just along for the ride.

I didn't even read it hahaha man I got it so wrong . I just listened to the youtube briefly.

But that is amazing...but I don't think that's the way to do it to be honest. Getting the fuel seems to be still a problem.

[Quirel]

I didn't even read it hahaha man I got it so wrong . I just listened to the youtube briefly.

But that is amazing...but I don't think that's the way to do it to be honest. Getting the fuel seems to be still a problem.

You mean the ring of dark matter? Yeah, definitely problematic.

[solidsamurai]

The information about jupiter in that video report is very vague. At best, it sounds like yet another pseudo science publicity scam. There's no way to construct a ring or platform or whatever they wanted to do without first testing it in the right conditions (jupiter's mass). In other words, not in our lifetime. :/

You read the article wrong. VERY WRONG. Almost as if you just took a brief look at it, and then decided to post about it. It would require a Jupiter-mass of exotic matter if the FTL Ring was a flat disc. However, if the ring was a torus, like a doughnut, the mass of the exotic matter would only need to be that of a small space probe. And it was a Football-SHAPED, not SIZED, SHAPED starship. Not to mention that the ship itself doesn't actually move. Space-time itself is doing all the propelling. The ship stands still in a bubble of normal space-time that's carried along by the distorted space-time, just along for the ride.

That's all in the article?

[Carsickness]

Just an update:

NASA has begun development on creating a FTL drive using the principles in this thread:
http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will...rst-warp-drive

Transporting humans in starships isn't practical without reliable cryostasis technology. Even traveling at 10 times the speed of light it would still take 4 years to reach the nearest star.

Acording to this drive; it would take about 2 weeks now