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- roflcopterdown, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Don't forget to reverse the polarity on the neutrino field around the dilithium crystal warp core to offset the burn when going warp nine in the delta quadrant. And duct tape that primary buffer panel down nice and good or it'll fall off when reaching atmo.
- carlosglz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Dude... its surprising to see how many bitter/sarcastic/jaded people are reading this site. Don't you remember what it feels like to dream awake? To be a kid and actually believe you can fly to the stars one day? Don't forget what one of the most brilliant scientific minds of our time said:
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8My question is this, is Digg JUST about finding fun stories? Is there no aspect of it that is meant to evangelize certain topics that the many diggers think are important/fun? I can see that digging the same exact article may be a problem (it might not) but is digging an article that is different but covers the same topic necessarily a bad thing?
I don't know, I'm asking. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Don't forget to add some salt. :D
Mod this down - dintlu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This article is just a summary of a discussion of all the cool space travel research that's been flopping around the web for the past few weeks.
- fletchowns, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6So what's your math/physics background like?
- 1337geek, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8you said it , theory.
I predict i will get a pizza tonight, and eat it.
in theory, this is possibly true, since i am A) Hungry for Pizza, B) I have money to buy one, C) i live and work next to atleast 15 places which sell it.
Odds are HIGH - desiv, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Considering the article was posted: 08 March 2006 06:53 am ET, it's doubtful you saw this a few weeks ago. Though there has been a fair amount of quantum theory recently, and there was some warp theory discussed. It doesn't specifically mention Heim theory, although I'm not saying they aren't related. If it's a dupe, it's a concept dupe, not an article dupe. :-)
- V-Spec, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2its america saying that theyre almost done back engineering crashed ufos from the 50s
hopefully this will happen in my lifetime - AndrewMayne, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's the same information that's been going around for months now about a research paper based on "Heim theory". Nothing new. Nothing to see here.
- starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so let me get this straight. you are critisizing a speculative article... about space travel... and comparing it to evolution. from the point of veiw of let me guess... a right wing christian I.D./creationist? you people need a life. i'm beginning to think the big problem here is that as basic authoritarians they just can't stand being told not only are they wrong but in la la land. :D
- oxigen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ahh, so that's all it takes huh? Looks like i'm gonna be pretty busy in my shop for a few weeks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5There is absolutely no known way to make an Alcubierre drive work. Zero, none. You'd almost certainly need either matter with negative mass or non-baryonic matter or some such unattainable and purely theoretical substance. There will always be quacks who claim that magnets will let us build warp drives or anti-gravity generators or some such nonsense. I think we'd have better luck driving through black holes.
- monolith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't you wish!
The world is full of wonderful beautiful things! The crackpots go 'woo woo' and ignore it all. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4The handy man's secret weapon: duct tape.
- linnerd40, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can't quite say I think all of the content in the article is true ,but it sure does prove some interesting points. Yet even if this kind of "travel" were possible, it probably wouldn't be efficient for quite some time. Still, people who say this is bs are stupid. This kind of stuff could actually be possible some day.
- TheGalacticFork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does it really matter if we don't have inertia dampeners?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just look at those words, it's literally like science fiction has a chance of becoming reality... it's jules vern syndrome all over again! :)
- frosted, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Pure *****.
Everyone knows you can not make a wormhole. Only worms can do that! - nuxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2do we really have to encourage the jaded cynics?
- Oxygen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21.21 GIGAWATTS!?!
- infra172, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1About as believable as global warming theory.
- alistairf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0While I think a healthy does of skepticism is good, let's not throw out the baby with the bath water. It is just a theory.
I attended the STAIF conference and the "warp drive" presentation. While a few were skeptical, others were very interested. Most of us did out best to keep up with the discussion of brane cosmology, though others were lost.
Definitely a lot of optomists, or should I say, want to believers at the conference.
The STAIF conference was very interesting. It's held every February in the Albuquerque, across town from the "Z machine" which hit several billion degrees recently. I'm suprised there's not a big smoking hole where Kirtland AFB and Sandia Labs used to be.
But I digress - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Good news for space travel fans--when I invent my time machine, I'll travel to the future, snatch some plans for hyperdrives, and bring them back into the past right...about...now! Uh...now? Damn my future self, he's as unpunctual as I am.
- geekcorerob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0at some point every technology started out as theory. i do not see why this would be any different. hell 100 years ago the computer was BS. if you look at how we have progressed you can see a clear path of were we are heading. providing we can get more people to become engineers instead of wanting to get paid millions of dollars for throwing a ball.
- etherdog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The electromagnetic fields required for this drive are on the order of 10 tesla. That would turn all meat popsicles into pink mist within a radius of about 1 km. I've read the physics papers on this idea and the big problem is that they have not proposed testable experiments to substantiate their claims.
Bogosity: -4
No digg. - ctheory, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Take one part high-frequency gravitational wave generation, then add in a quantum vacuum field. Now whip wildly via a gravitomagnetic force in a rotating superconductor while standing by for Alcubierre warp drive in higher dimensional space-time."
What the hell did you just call me? - markos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Just point that thing away from me!
- bootle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Guess what, that's not a theory!
Best spend your pizza time getting edumacated... A theory, in science, has very specific implications involving repeatability, universality, etc.
The vast majority of people do not understand the consequences of calling something a theory. "Oh, it's just a theory." in regards to evolution, for example, only shows that the speaker doesn't understand the word they are using... - Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i suppose I should digg this for all the big words i dont understand assuming they are important and thus legit
- scott1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It says that it's using the Alcubirre drive(a.k.a the warp drive since it seems very similar to how they did it in star trek).The Alcubirre drive works by causing the space "ahead" of a spacecraft to contract along the axis the spacecraft wishes to travel in and the space "behind" it to expand.That would require exotic matter.Exoctic matter might exist but there a problem,you need to generate enough matter to keep thought of the wormhole opened which is the problem.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Blah blah blah. I've seen several digg stories on this already.
- KingChango, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I shouldn't have laughed at the wormhole joke as much as I did.
- mckinnej, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Need to get that Mr. Fusion thingie installed.
- Proginoskes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4"Warps into Reality" -- which reality is that? I don't see anything in the story about an actual *device* or anything like that.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Mod dongiaconia insightful!
- TheOtherGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1well put carlos..
Nothing annoys me more than armchair scientists who frequent these pages and who think reading chapter or two of 'A Brief History of Time' means they are suitably qualified to critique complex scientific theory.
+dugg - just to spite you all. - TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Wow. I had that up and it was dugg to the front page. I found 2 people before me that got it to the front page. Now your's did. I need to submit this same story a second time next week. This is awesome.
Eric Wilson - FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1A theory is a scientific idea with a LOT of research, etc done to back it up, and if often supported by a large part of the scientific community.
A hypothesis, on the other hand, is just a possible answer to a scientific question.
Or at least that is my understanding. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Yeah I know, I've spent many a day commenting on /. Guess it was a subconscious thing.
- scott1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I think your correct expect on the last about scientific community
- Grayfox777, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Childrens' childrens' childrens' children? I think you're stretching it. Either way, yeah, it will be a miracle if FTL space travel happens during our lifetimes. :(
- ryogahibiki, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Don't forget about the Dilithium Crystals!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Could be worse. Could be a couple proteins and some fats and hoping to get a human.
- DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Sounds like they are throwing as much scientific crap against the wall as they can, seeing what sticks, and maybe getting a Rembrandt out of the results. That's mighty wishful thinking.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5This is complete BS. "gravitomagnetic force in a rotating superconductor" definitely set off my ***** alarm. Story reported.
- monolith, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Do we really have to encourage the crackpots?
- panicofficer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Check out a German scientist by the name of Jochem Hauser. He's written a number of papers on theoretical space propulsion particularly Heim Quantum Theory which is what this article is about. It'd be cool if this works some day (right now it's all theory... as the name implies) but I doubt it will get anywhere any time soon. I agree with Grayfox777, FTL will almost certainly not happen in our lifetimes. Who has the money for this research anyway? NASA is scrounging for whatever it can get and is still having to ax programs left and right... oh well.
- emo1313, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Ifn ya cant fix it with ducttape and chicken wire, it must be broked.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Let's sensationalize this stupid headline the way we do evolution. And then, just like evolution, people will read the headline and believe it without understanding what's actually going on. Welcome to ignorance. Good job tricking the masses, though.
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