Saru Posted July 24, 2013 #1 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Researchers at NASA are working on developing a real-world counterpart to Star Trek's warp drive. NASA physicist and engineer Dr. Harold G. White, 43, believes it is possible to bend the rules of time and space that Albert Einstein constructed when he postulated that it is impossible to exceed the speed of light. Read more... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcos anthony toledo Posted July 24, 2013 #2 Share Posted July 24, 2013 They are slowly letting the cat out of the bag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwin Posted July 24, 2013 #3 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I don't see where light is the 'fastest'. If it was, why couldn't it escape a black hole? The 'gravitional' forces of the black hole would appear to be faster to be able to 'capture' light. Interesting...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted July 24, 2013 #4 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I don't see where light is the 'fastest'. If it was, why couldn't it escape a black hole? The 'gravitional' forces of the black hole would appear to be faster to be able to 'capture' light. . not faster Kwin, but stronger..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Grey Posted July 24, 2013 #5 Share Posted July 24, 2013 lol I was just reading an article about this. The "warp donut" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafterman Posted July 24, 2013 #6 Share Posted July 24, 2013 They are slowly letting the cat out of the bag. Exactly - it all started with Roddenberry (known NSA covert agent). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxcx Posted July 24, 2013 #7 Share Posted July 24, 2013 So, the DOD is going to bring this to the forefront? I doubt it. Anything NASA has or does is snatched up by the DOD, for national security reasons of course lol. If warp drive does make it to the public, in the next thirty years or so, rest assure that it has been used in black programs for the past thirty years then. For people to think that NASA will invent warp drive in real time, and just hand it over, is insanity. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta Reticulum Posted July 24, 2013 #8 Share Posted July 24, 2013 So, the DOD is going to bring this to the forefront? I doubt it. Anything NASA has or does is snatched up by the DOD, for national security reasons of course lol. If warp drive does make it to the public, in the next thirty years or so, rest assure that it has been used in black programs for the past thirty years then. For people to think that NASA will invent warp drive in real time, and just hand it over, is insanity. Yes that's right..... but be prepared for a verbal bashing. The flat earth society on here will soon be responding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucro Posted July 24, 2013 #9 Share Posted July 24, 2013 It is not really travelling faster than the speed of light. Warp speed as it says means warping or bending time and space. This essentially brings the point to you rather than travelling to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted July 24, 2013 #10 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Yes that's right..... but be prepared for a verbal bashing. The flat earth society on here will soon be responding. . oh.., i think they're already here..... . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacenut56 Posted July 24, 2013 #11 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Very cool. Good luck to NASA now go build that engine! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsec Posted July 24, 2013 #12 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Isn't it old news? I remember I've already read something about warp bubbles and Dr. White months ago here on UM. Anyway, it would be great if they'd be able to achieve some results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Unicorn Posted July 24, 2013 #13 Share Posted July 24, 2013 So, the DOD is going to bring this to the forefront? I doubt it. Anything NASA has or does is snatched up by the DOD, for national security reasons of course lol. If warp drive does make it to the public, in the next thirty years or so, rest assure that it has been used in black programs for the past thirty years then. For people to think that NASA will invent warp drive in real time, and just hand it over, is insanity. I agree with you, I read Tesla papers along this line of travel mentioned as a craft which did not travel but manged to stay stationary as in a "bubble" during the regular movement of time and space, but how to project accurately to the end point and return was most perplexing in theory, and the vehicle would appear as being teleported if done within the magnetic fields of earth. Point is this is not a new theory. How it's been experimented since the theories lie within black programs for sure IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 24, 2013 #14 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Isn't it old news? I remember I've already read something about warp bubbles and Dr. White months ago here on UM. There was this from April: Warp Factor And this from May: Warp speed, Scotty?... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsec Posted July 24, 2013 #15 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Thank you Waspie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted July 25, 2013 #16 Share Posted July 25, 2013 They are slowly letting the cat out of the bag. If by that you mean we have reverse engineer alien tech, anything is possible, but man in not entirely dim either, present world circumstances not-with-standing. We have made it to the moon, our probes have left the solar system (more or less), we are working on matter transporting (on a minute scale so far) and invisibility. We have invented cars, planes, rockets, robots, LASERs, surgery, split the atom, built the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge and the Space Shuttle. If warp-drive is possible we might just build that too. Sometimes the simplest answer is the most logical, earthling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rose quatz Posted July 25, 2013 #17 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I don't see where light is the 'fastest'. If it was, why couldn't it escape a black hole? The 'gravitional' forces of the black hole would appear to be faster to be able to 'capture' light. Interesting...... dark speed...? faster than darkness, Dont know if it sounds as good.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skookum Posted July 25, 2013 #18 Share Posted July 25, 2013 We can't even get human beings to Mars, and now they think warp drive is possible 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta Reticulum Posted July 25, 2013 #19 Share Posted July 25, 2013 We can't even get human beings to Mars, and now they think warp drive is possible Yep, and that sort of thinking has been around for hundreds of years. Remember, they kept saying if you sailed over the horizon, you would fall off the earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlyeh Posted July 25, 2013 #20 Share Posted July 25, 2013 They are slowly letting the cat out of the bag. That's why NASA still uses rockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krypter3 Posted July 25, 2013 #21 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Second star to the right, and straight on till morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted July 25, 2013 #22 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I agree with you, I read Tesla papers along this line of travel mentioned as a craft which did not travel but manged to stay stationary as in a "bubble" during the regular movement of time and space, but how to project accurately to the end point and return was most perplexing in theory, and the vehicle would appear as being teleported if done within the magnetic fields of earth. Point is this is not a new theory. How it's been experimented since the theories lie within black programs for sure IMO. If you remember, Scotty was able to beam a person from one ship in warp to another once he determined that Space was moving, not the ship. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted July 25, 2013 #23 Share Posted July 25, 2013 We can't even get human beings to Mars, and now they think warp drive is possible We can get someone to Mars. If the Rover can land, so can a LEM or would that be a MEM? It would just take a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 25, 2013 #24 Share Posted July 25, 2013 (edited) We can get someone to Mars. If the Rover can land, so can a LEM or would that be a MEM? It would just take a long time. The technique used to land the early rovers (Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity) was a combination of parachutes and air bags which could not be scaled up to be useful on a vehicle even the size of Curiosity. The skycrane method used by Curiosity would almost certainly not scale up to a vehicle large enough to contain a crew. We have never returned a vehicle to space from the Martian surface, something that will be necessary unless the astronauts are going on a one way trip. Last but no means least, rovers do not contract radiation sickness or cancer. Given these factors skookum is correct, at the moment we can't a crew to Mars. Edited July 26, 2013 by Waspie_Dwarf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted July 26, 2013 #25 Share Posted July 26, 2013 "Scotty, power down the warp engines and keep the nose up" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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