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Warp Engines In Development?
Toloran writes "Although a staple of Sci-Fi space travel, it is often deemed to be just that: Fiction. However, it seems that one is currently in development. "The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft. Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.""
What if my Apocalypse battleship slipped into a different dimension where the speed of light is slower, and it would take me another 200 years to move my finger to the 'OFF' switch 2cm away just to come back again.
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Where can I sign-up to test something like this? Please, someone -- anyone -- get me off the fucked-up people on this crazy rock!
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In another dimension, this would already be a dupe...
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
Maybe it'll be powered by somehow catalyzing really bad Star-Trek fanfiction.
This story is clearly an attempt to manipulate the dilithium futures market.
Anyone else find it amusing that the warp engine story appears on 'scotsman.com'? James Doohan's probably smiling somewhere...
He's dead Jim!
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I think more "Fake" sci-fi stuff becomes reality than not, but honestly I never thought there would be a way to implement a practical FTL engine.
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On top of this, it works exactly as specified on startrek, with the "Warping" entering another dimension,
If they figure out that they can creat some new crystal that will power such a monster, I'm going to quit my job and start designing a world that can wrap all the way around a star.
It's not a Star Trek explanation until you see statements such as "reversing the polarity" or "low-yield tachyon burst". Or a red-shirted ensign gets killed on the planet's surface.
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All I want to know is why no one on Slashdot has pointed out yet that the link about warp drives comes from scotsman.com.
It's a half-baked Star Trek explanation because they haven't invented a new particle and reversed that particle's field polarity.
As Scotty said, "I canna break the laws of physics!" I'll believe this when I see an actual FTL ship.
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Just think of the horsepower that warp engine must have...
Clearly a warp engine in the garage would more than make up for science and progress failure for not delivering a practical flying car and dishwashing robots.
Don't forget to reverse the shield harmonics when you vent plasma from the warp core.
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"The bullshit press release works by creating an intense bullshit field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Rube Goldberg in the 1950s, would produce a suspended disbelief field and result in trust for the bullshit. Also, if a large enough bullshit field was created, the press release would slip into a different dimension, where the trust in bullshit press releases is automatic, allowing incredible levels of naivete to be reached. Switching off the bullshit field would result in the press release reappearing in our current dimension, where none of this bullshit makes any sense."
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When you start going faster than the speed of light some joker with a faster warp engine in another dimension, the locals there are going to get pissed and start putting in transparent aluminum speedbumps and jersey barriers. They rip the tranny right out of your spaceship and knock your head on the ceiling faster than light. Your own grandpa will be shaking his rocket cane at you. Then we'll see who's boss, "mr what's-my-hurry".
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A stable of science fiction travel is the barn where you keep your faster than light-speed horses.
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And the primary buffer panel just fell off my ship!
My ship don't crash! If it crashes, you crashed her!
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I'll pistolwhip the next man who says shenanigans!
Pfft. If it can kill Keith Richards, roaches don't stand a chance. Then again, any force actually strong enough to kill or even injure Keith Richards would probably have to be based in interstellar space to avoid cracking the Earth like a quail's egg.
Ce n'est pas un vrai mouvement de robot!
ah ... but how will you see an actual "faster than light" ship...
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SANDURZ: Prepare ship for light speed.
HELMET: No, no, no, light speed is too slow.
SANDURZ: Light speed, too slow?
HELMET: Yes, we're gonna have to go right to ludicrous speed.
SANDURZ: Ludicrous speed? Sir, we've never gone that fast before. I don't know if this ship can take it.
HELMET: What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz, chicken?
Well I'm sitting over a 4.2 Tesla field so hopefully none.
On a side note, when you start losing magnetic field integrity in CDFs tracker, the twilight zone theme starts playing as an alarm. Never thought much of it (apart from really freaking me out the first time I heard it late at night) but after reading this article, perhaps its meant to warn you that you may be that you may be entering another dimension where time and space have no meaning...
Remind me to someday tell you about how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb ...
If videogames have taught me anything it's that these types of dangerous experiments should only be conducted off-world. Like on Mars. What could possibly go wrong there?
abort, retry, fail?
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1.21 GigaWatts?
We dinnna think ye could handle it, laddie.
Um, no. they *THOUGHT* it wouldn't ignite the atmosphere, but einstein did bring up the possibility of it doing so. Of course the nazis were a bigger threat then the vague chance it would end life on this planet...
But pork chops are so cheap! Are you suggesting the government invest in pork belly futures to offset the glut of would-be time travellers?
Mmmmm... pork chops...
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I've been waiting for this for a long time. Maybe it will allow me to go back in time and make my first marriage never have happened.
Every time you call tech support, a little kitten dies.
This reminds we of the phlogiston engine I heard about a while back. It uses a crystal piramid catalyst to react phlogiston with the universal ether. The resulting field pushed against the inherant tension of dark matter to propel a vesel. Of course one needed tremendous phycic power to stear such a vesel, but with proper dyanetic training that's not unreasonable. Aparently the project was well under way when the government cut funding for fear such a craft would discover the truth about UFOs.
Colonel Sandurz: Prepare ship for light speed!
Dark Helmet: No no no, light speed is too slow!
Colonel Sandurz: Light speed too slow?
Dark Helmet: Yes, we're gonna have to go right to... ludicrous speed!
"The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft"
;-D
Of course a magnetic field that strong would pull all of the fillings out of your teeth but heck, some sacrifices must be made!
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
So, an early form of the CowboyNeal option?
Considering the high magnetic fields we create for scientific research into plasma containment and the fact that no gravitational anomolies have been detected from these it scares me a bit to think about the magnetic field that they would need to generate to supposedly make this thing work.
I can see it now...
One of the engineers mistakenly wears a belt with a ferrous buckle during a test. The belt destroys the engine, flying at it at near C speed, but the scientists realize that the engineer was sliced so fast and so cleanly that his abdomen and torso just cold-weld back together. After a week and a half of intense psychotherapy and drug treatment the engineer is back at work, however he will only wear clothes made from trash bags and duct tape. This then becomes THE party prank to pull on the new recruits.
Many of the socialites in the surrounding suburbs of the testing center are exposed to ridicule and mockery when those with imitation flatware are suddenly relieved of it. The testing lab becomes a large contributor to steel recycling mills in the area, thus subsidizing the experiments.
After numerous complaints the lab is moved to the moon. As the experiemntal engines are about to become flight worthy someone knocks a dial during a pre-flight test, sending the engines into full power mode. The dinosaur extinction event pales in comparison to the moon smacking into the Earth repeatedly, like a super bouncy ball attached to a ping-pong paddle with a rubber band. The remainng earth-moon-blob-thingy then accelerates tangentially to its former orbit, soon reaching near light speed. The Plutonians wave slowly as we exit the solar system destination: the heart of some pulsar at the edge of the universe.
Damn, I'm glad this idea is just as far fetched as my insane scenarios.
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Jiga what?
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The Warp Drive comes with a free copy of Duke Nukem Forever.
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Are you saying that my ... *cry* ... Star Fleet Technical Manual .. is.... WRONG?!
That's good, but my explanation is more concise. And it has a monkey in it.
Right below the article it says you can buy the magnetic ring at shopping.com :)
Maybe the air force doesn't have internet connection eh?
Interestingly, due to dilation the rear door is in front of the entrance!
The headline says "a three hour trip". The truth is that this is just hype for the upcoming reality show: Gilligan's Island - The Next Generation.
They've already got Paris Hilton to play Ginger and David Spade to play Gilligan.
Or crust the patient
Only for the cannibals in the audience.
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If I had to listen to REM 200-300 times in a row, I'd most likely experience the same ill-effects. Or you'd be looking around for some poison yourself.
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Because Zephram Cochrane is a red-blooded American from Montana?
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Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.
What about the rest of the ship and its crew?!
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