The US military released a study on warp drives and faster-than-light travel ..

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From https://www.businessinsider.com/warp-drive-study-department-defense-real-fake-2018-5?r=US&IR=T

The US military released a study on warp drives and faster-than-light travel — here’s what a theoretical physicist thinks of it


A 1998 illustration of a spacecraft using negative energy to warp spacetime and travel faster than light-speed.
Les Bossinas/NASA

Dave Mosher

• The US Department of Defense funded a series of studies on advanced aerospace technologies, including warp drives.

• The studies came out of a program that also funded research into UFO sightings.

• One report describes the possibility of using dark energy to warp space and effectively travel faster than light.

• However, a theoretical physicist says there's "zero chance that anyone within our lifetimes or the next 1,000 years" will see it happen.

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More at link.

[marylandblue]

1. Of course we can't do it yet, we don't have any dilithium crystals.

[Bob Loblaw]

3. Dammit Jim...

nt

[csziggy]

7. Or Beryllium Spheres nt

[meadowlander]

14. All you really need is tilium though

[0rganism]

15. hell, we're still working on transparent aluminum

or at least we were in 1984

that's the ticket, laddy

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. How do we know he didn't invent the thing?

[marylandblue]

26. We already have transparent aluminum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride

[MineralMan]

32. We always have had that. Sapphire, which occurs in a colorless

form, is pure aluminum oxide. It's beautifully transparent.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Is this the same military that doses on LSD?

I know a lot of people who would like to join the military if they are still accepting applications.

[TheBlackAdder]

21. That's only the ICBM crews :-D

[Blue_true]

23. How do you think they came up with that "research"? nt

[marylandblue]

29. Well they also test chemical weapons

So your friends should think twice before joining.

[Kirk Lover]

4. Fascinating.

[greytdemocrat]

5. Hmmm...

What did they say about the Personal Computer....

[TheBlackAdder]

22. What did they say about breaking the sound barrier?

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Speed of light? Why does our military think so small?



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[Takket]

6. The Vulcans will be along to help us in 2063

[Blue_true]

24. Yes.

Any beings that travel faster than the speed of light will be way, way smarter than us and can enslave us if they wanted to, but my guess is they will be too smart to do such a thing.

[Solly Mack]

8. I was born way too soon.

[lapfog_1]

9. to hell with warp drive

I want the Improbability Drive!!!

[neeksgeek]

31. The INFINITE Improbability Drive!

No more of that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.

[Scurrilous]

10. Bummer.

[procon]

11. These guys have access to way too much time and money. nt

[triron]

13. Makes me wonder if they have possession of extraterrestrial spacecraft

and are trying to reverse engineer.

[Blue_true]

25. You understand.

The nearest planet that MAY have life in around 19 trillion miles away from us. Let that sink in for a while...................................................... An alien craft that can reach us is unlikely to break down and get left here. The being running it would be so much smarter than we are that they would know how to completely disguise it from us, or vaporize it. Scifi movies are great, but believe me, if alien beings reach us, we have big problems if they are anything but pure pacifists. We won't be collecting their hardware, because we will likely have no idea that it is here.

[edbermac]

16. What about Ludicrous Speed?

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. Just buy a Tesla

[TheBlackAdder]

20. H v. L

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[TheBlackAdder]

19. Better build those shields first. A small rock would be like a cannon ball at those speeds.

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It takes over 8 minutes for light to travel from the sun to the earth.

In order to to have the stars appear like that, you'd have to travel hundreds of thousands of times the speed of light.

WARP 2 Million.

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[Blue_true]

27. My guess.

Is if there is an undiscovered force that make rapid transport possible, it would also make instantly dodging hazards possible.

[brush]

30. Wonder what the braking distance would be at warp speed?

[Mc Mike]

28. They can't even reliably launch a space shuttle into orbit.