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2008-08-04 Science & Technology

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Posted by 3dc 2008-08-04 16:10|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Warp speed, Mr. Sulu!

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-04 16:36|| 2008-08-04 16:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh great, research possibilities, just what the human race has been waiting for.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-04 16:56|| 2008-08-04 16:56|| Front Page Top

#3 There are two ways to approach a concept like this. The first that most people think of is "God from a machine" (Deus ex machina), a "faster than light spaceship". But it is generally more practical to be "Using the machine of God" (Usura apparata Deus).

Think aircraft and the jet stream. Flying against the jet stream using engine power at full thrust, you will get to where you are going, even if it takes ten times as long; but if you are flying with the jet stream, you use minimal engine power, because the air current does most of the work.

At this very moment, each of us are hurtling around the universe at high speed, in all sorts of different vectors. If we could just stop moving, in a short period of time we would be millions of miles away from where our relative position in space had traveled.

If you could just cancel, neutralize, one or more of these vectors, you might be able to have the universe, or the galaxy, move around you as you stand still.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-08-04 17:32|| 2008-08-04 17:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Cosmic Rays are the engine signatures of these vehicles!

;)

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-08-04 20:25|| 2008-08-04 20:25|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm still struggling with 4 dimensions. Damn gravity and the ravages of time.

Posted by ed 2008-08-04 20:31|| 2008-08-04 20:31|| Front Page Top

#6 GUAM-WESTPAC's got the [Proto = "Baby"?] WORMHOLES > just gotta learn to make 'em bigger and above all controlled vv time-space = warp travel.

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Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-04 22:41|| 2008-08-04 22:41|| Front Page Top

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