No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive

StartsWithABang writes: As Slashdot has previously reported, NASA Spaceflight has claimed to have vetted the EM Drive in a vacuum, and found there is still an anomalous thrust/acceleration on the order of 50 microNewtons for the device. While some are claiming this means things like warp drive and 70-day-trips-to-Mars are right on the horizon, it's important to view this from a scientist's point of view. Here's what it will take to turn this from a speculative claim into a robust one.

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intentional

[electrosoccertux]

hah HAH! they INTENTIONALLY invented warp drive!!! now make it so!

Re:intentional

[Adriax]

Dunno, but possibly huge like dark matter interaction.
It's like with radioactive elements a hundred years ago. They didn't know what the stuff could actually do, so they painted it on clock faces to make them visible in the dark.
Here they could have the key to warping space/time, and the first use is to putter along in orbit cheaply.

Re:intentional

[ShanghaiBill]

Here they could have the key to warping space/time, and the first use is to putter along in orbit cheaply.

You know someone is a small scale thinker, when they miss the bus, and wish they had a Star Trek transporter device, so they could beam themselves to the next bus stop.

Re:intentional

[electrosoccertux]

You'd be better off taking modern meat back in time and selling it for mint condition 1958 and earlier coins.

*whoosh*

that's the sound a timetravel machine makes when it whizzes over your head

wapr drive

[Anonymous Coward]

The Vulcans will be here soon, swooping in like a returning Jesus Christ to save us from ourselves at long last, show us the true path of wisdom, and help us complete the application (an on-line PDF form, no doubt) for membership in the United Federation of Planets.

And then we will all live happily ever after.

Re:wapr drive

[quantaman]

The Vulcans will be here soon, swooping in like a returning Jesus Christ to save us from ourselves at long last, show us the true path of wisdom, and help us complete the application (an on-line PDF form, no doubt) for membership in the United Federation of Planets.

And then we will all live happily ever after.

They'll step out of their spacecraft and inform us that our newly invented warp drive was invented 324,123 years ago and we cannot use it without paying the license fees of approximately 2.3 earth planets per earth year.

Otherwise we will need to wait another 14,675,877 years until it enters the public domain.

Re:wapr drive

[Boronx]

Fermi paradox solved.

Re:anomaly

[almitydave]

I watched the show! My favorite episode was the one where they encountered a space-time anomaly while someone was on the holodeck.

Re:Nay Sayers Are As bad as the Hypers

[PvtVoid]

Because liberals hate actual science - new inventions their leadership doesn't control (the majority of billionaires in the world are liberal because it is the new Christianity to control idiots) are decried. This one comes with a double-whammy because not only is it an incredibly disruptive technology, it is also something created entirely from theory to initial testing by a guy in his garage - the very idea of such a person existing goes against the idea that people need huge government research groups and megacorps leading the charge because science is just so overwhelming that individuals can't do it themselves anymore - which is the entire basis of most of the liberal leadership power base. But be assured, if they can figure out a way to drive the inventor to suicide or just wait for him to fade away to get their hands on the tech themselves we'll have asteroid-mining within the year.

Damn. Our evil plot is exposed.