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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.
Virtual Betting on Facebook for non-geeks.
In another dimension, this would already be a dupe...
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
Anyone else find it amusing that the warp engine story appears on 'scotsman.com'? James Doohan's probably smiling somewhere...
Thanks, W!
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.
Can't spell slaughter without laughter!
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.
"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."
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
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".
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
***ducks***
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
A stable of science fiction travel is the barn where you keep your faster than light-speed horses.
.. paranoid crackpot leftover from the days of Amiga.
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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ah ... but how will you see an actual "faster than light" ship...
*an infinite number of monkeys wrote this sig
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?
We dinnna think ye could handle it, laddie.
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.
So, an early form of the CowboyNeal option?
Jiga what?
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
The Warp Drive comes with a free copy of Duke Nukem Forever.
paintball
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.
That's OK. I remember her name perfectly and we've been getting on quite well. ;P
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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5th Kyu Genbukan Ninpo/KJJR student
Be the darkness that allows the light to shine.