Post: #101

(01-09-2014 02:49 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  Oh come on. We have troubles with just landing probes (not humans) on the few nearby planets, and we're going to develop a faster-than-light drive within two decades? Two centuries would be a better (if still wildly optimistic) guess.

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/11/27/n...arp-drive/

Quote:However, White has had put a bit of thought into redesigning the Alcubierre drive to renew hope of upgrading Earth from a pre-warp civilisation. He figured out that if you increase the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring, making it more of a toroid shape rather than a flat belt, and if you oscillate the warp bubble, the energy requirements drop dramatically. His approach saw a reduction of mass-energy requirements to as little at 1600 pounds!

We'll have the drive, but we'll probably implement it into something retarded.

Post: #102

(04-19-2013 01:40 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  The most exciting prospect in the world to me is the thought of other planets like earth being out there with civilizations and technology and their own cultures, philosophy, religion and history that evolved completely independent of ours.

Can you imagine the bang potential!

Entire new frontiers in pussy. World travel becomes old news.

I'm ready!

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To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

Post: #103

(01-09-2014 02:55 AM)funkyzeit Wrote:  

(01-09-2014 02:49 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  Oh come on. We have troubles with just landing probes (not humans) on the few nearby planets, and we're going to develop a faster-than-light drive within two decades? Two centuries would be a better (if still wildly optimistic) guess.

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/11/27/n...arp-drive/

Quote:However, White has had put a bit of thought into redesigning the Alcubierre drive to renew hope of upgrading Earth from a pre-warp civilisation. He figured out that if you increase the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring, making it more of a toroid shape rather than a flat belt, and if you oscillate the warp bubble, the energy requirements drop dramatically. His approach saw a reduction of mass-energy requirements to as little at 1600 pounds!

We'll have the drive, but we'll probably implement it into something retarded.

No issue with that. However:

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cg...not_a_nerd