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- Egroh08, on 08/18/2008, -1/+36We don't even have damn flying cars yet and they are already predicting that we could have super-luminous, dark-matter fueled, space ships that morph the space-time fabric in some uber-complicated way??? Cool!
- Khast, on 08/18/2008, -2/+22Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes.
- FcukAllYall, on 08/18/2008, -3/+20I have no doubt this can be done...we Aliens have already done it, catch the ***** up silly humans...your species is so *****' slow, GOD!!!!
- Gloogle, on 08/18/2008, -0/+16I'm a scientist and I believe that having sex with a super model is a possibility.
- quomen, on 08/18/2008, -2/+16We all know it's "possible".
When the ***** is it going to HAPPEN? - MeatyMcBeef, on 08/18/2008, -0/+14Dude. I am drunk as hell right now and even I can see that flying cars are an ass-bad idea. We have 3 lane highways with enough accidents. Imagine adding a third dimension to that. 9 lane highways. 3 across 3 down. WTF that's some pretty rough lane changes there. We'd have the elderly and asians being strung up in trees for the atrocities they would be causing on a daily basis. No dude. No flying cars anytime soon.
- Calcularius, on 08/18/2008, -0/+8I can't wait to get off of this ***** planet.
- xhazerdusx, on 08/18/2008, -1/+8No gravity, no g-force...
- ExRe, on 08/18/2008, -2/+9http://digg.com/general_sciences/Scientists_Star_T ...
- travis6690, on 08/18/2008, -3/+10It must be already possible, because someone must have USED IT TO GO BACK IN TIME AND POST THIS ***** ARTICLE ON DIGG TWO DAYS AGO!
I'm getting sick of dupes on Digg.. seriously, who the ***** diggs this *****?
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Scientists_Star_T ... - ripple123, on 08/18/2008, -1/+7you really don't get relativistic physics do you. simpleton...
- bigballerrob22, on 08/18/2008, -2/+8and in other news, I enjoy looking at pornography while surfing digg.
- Stormwulf, on 08/18/2008, -0/+6Not if you have the necessary inertial dampening system in place!
- TwwIX, on 08/18/2008, -3/+8quit spamming with dupes you turds
- Advenger, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4Hands above the keyboard please.
- curtisag, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6oUz1v17Uo - ripple123, on 08/18/2008, -1/+5we do have flying cars. there called airplanes.
- LemonChicken, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4Both of 'em!
- Murdats, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4actually we have quite a few flavours of flying car, some available for potential pre-order, but we are having enough trouble shifting from one method of propulsion in the same type of car as it is, how long do you think it would take to shift to a whole new type of car?
- jplkeekif, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Actually, the Futurama ship doesn't move itself, but moves the universe around it... I am a horrible nerd
- jnordb, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Anyone who's ever watched ANY scifi knows how crucial I.D. systems are to space flight...come on!
- Rivetgeek, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.
- NaziHatinChimp, on 08/18/2008, -2/+5When I loaded up digg and saw this story I thought it was a glitch in the Matrix.
- funklor, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Ultra Sci-Fi looney. Note, I don't believe anything said here is likely, just a utopian vision.
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I don't think you'd don't ***need*** FTL technology for interstellar travel, in fact I'll take my equally fictious incredibly expensive ships that can nudge themselves relatively close to the speed of light. Easily enough reach our immediate neighbours, and then leap-frog further.
It'd be "fast enough" to reach nearby stars and colonize planets but not fast enough -- and this is why I love it -- to allow the creation of some sort of homogenous empire, it's guranteed to splinter, each planet on their own, I love it. I'm not saying we should stuff the Chinese in a rocket and send them to their own planet, but in such a universe there is no reason why communists, capitalists, fascists, anarchists -- demarchists couldn't break off a chunk of their own without the threat of being attacked, large scale conflict would be too unwiedly, too costly. - f821, on 08/18/2008, -1/+4Did you guys actually RTFA?
"The energy to kick start the drive turned out to be equivalent to turning the entire mass of Jupiter into energy, by Einstein's famous E equals Mc squared equation, where c is the speed of light. Given the mass of Jupiter is around 2000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms, that is a big number."
We don't have a power source anywhere NEAR close enough to do something like this. As much as I hate to say it, it won't ever happen in our lifetime. Buried. - ClockworksNine, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3We would hurry up if our leaders would focus more on education.
The fact that there have been over 200 reality TV shows since 2000 , multiple spin-offs of MTV, school is viewed as stupid chore that results in boredom, and society rewards selfishness over general prosperity, really puts a wrench in the whole system.
Help a brotha out and score me a U.S.S. Enterprise (D or E if you can). - thedsack, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Make it so!
- joshua850, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3How is this different than the Alcubierre Drive? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_metric
Science Editors seem to bring this concept up every 6 mos - but nothing has changed since 1994.
PS Star Trek Warp drives supposedly create a traveling warp in subspace(or hyperspace) that is bound to the ship that stays in normal space. So, the ship doesn't ever really accelerate much avoiding all kinds of issues with exceeding light speed (time dilation, etc). - thedragon4453, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2citation?
- PrometheusBorn, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2People can't even navigate ***** roundabouts without nearly causing an accident every 3 minutes. Flying a car? I sure as hell hope not.
Give me vacuum tubes. - yingjai, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2another duplicate article... why do these keep appearing on frontpage?
- whiteguysamurai, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2I feel like such an idiot that i don't fully understand the physics behind this idea.
- wafflez, on 08/18/2008, -2/+4telegraph.co.uk
Are you seriously wondering why this article is so bad? - jmpeagle, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2except we can't even prove dark energy exists...we merely infer its existence based on the Universe's rate of expansion. This sounds like a load of horse ***** that would never be published in one of the main peer reviewed physics journals.
- ripple123, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2the proof is in the ***** pudding damnit. AND I WANT SOME PUDDING.
- candyman420, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2I do hope we stay away from system J25.
- Osirus1156, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Isn't this the same thing they use in Futurama to fly their delivery ship?
- newl, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2As a scientist AND a Digg user, you sir, will never have sex.
- curtisag, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Jnordb: But the shields on the Enterprise C have only half the heat dissipation rate compared to the D. Can't hang long in a firefight like that, now can you? :)
- LemonChicken, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2That's what they said about internets and James Blunt.
- Metasquares, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2It's the educational *system* that's broken, not the policy towards it.
99% of college students go to college for job training. The ones who would attempt to design superluminal spacecraft are in the other 1%. From there, not those interested in physics enough to want training in it, but those interested in ONLY physics to the extent that they don't also want training in anything else, are given the training required to do so - but only after being an indentured servant for 5-6 years while everyone else is working in industry.
From there, only those who buck the system and work on something long-range and unconventional, with little possibility of funding and a high chance of failure, would do something basic like this. If they succeed, they'll be hailed as geniuses, but if they fail, they could end up without a job. You perhaps have 10 people in the world working on this problem at any given time.
How can you ever expect to make advances with such a system? It's not the leaders who have caused this, however; it's academia itself. - Gloogle, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2I think this might increase my chance of scoring by 45%. :)
- Alex2, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2I got into my space ship, got it up to warp 10, went around the sun backwards, travelled BACK in time just to do that.
- Gloogle, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Thanks old chap! My scoring probabilities increased by 45%!
- jnordb, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Last I checked, he was dead....
- johnnyboy239, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2That's not what they said. If you want to use nuclear energy then you would have to vaporize a planet. If they come up with a new source of energy such as antimatter they may only need a few feet.
- craighoxton, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2*spins up FTL drive and gets the frak out*
- inactive, on 08/19/2008, -0/+260 years ago?
- joshua850, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1I mean approaching light speed (time dilation, et al) and exceeding light (infinite energy, time travel, etc)
- feureau, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1Good, now take us out of this stink hole they call earth.
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