Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Warp Engine and going really, really fast

Found this article on "warp engines" and space travel near the speed of light.
http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-drive

 How NASA might build its very first warp drive
It really sounds good but the amount of energy needed puts it out of reach at this time and who know maybe we will come up with some sort of anti-matter cores that produce all sorts of energy like in Star Trek. The warp engine isn't called a warp engine but The Alcubierre Drive. Michio Kaku dubbed Alcubierre's notion a "passport to the universe." Just need to solve that power problem. Have to have a infinite power supply which doesn't sound like something humans are going to be doing anytime soon when we are still burning coal, something out of the 19th century. Well they were burning coal to heat homes and buildings because they cut the trees down and burned them so getting out of the burning era and into something new is a bit far off.

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