Comments on: NASA Is Working On Warp Drive Technology

By: Sarah L Sundstrom

Sarah L Sundstrom — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:05:00 +0000

Haha, what a way to bring the Mass Effect games into this. I give you an A++ for effort!

By: swage99

swage99 — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:31:00 +0000

my best friend mark tomion electrical engineer already development of star drive engineering manual book in 2002 year in real life and build the prototype 29 feet saucer and 4 feet remote control drone and tested it and ran 1 miles and back in second and half at eight of speed can do it ! mark tomion warp drive star drive technology has always been light . yesrs ahead. N A S A.

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By: Stoney3K

Stoney3K — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:29:00 +0000

Effectively, the warp drive in ST works basically the same, just take a look at some of the ‘warp field diagram’ charts splashed around randomly on bridge displays. These look a lot like electromagnetic field lines which are formed around a *real* object such as a magnet (presumably that’s where the artist, Michael Okuda, got the idea).

The real-world version is based on a paper by Miguel Alcubièrre in the 1990′s, which was based on special relativity and a large chunk of, you guessed it, Star Trek. The ship itself remains stationary, it’s a chunk of space that’s being moved around by the effects on the space around it.

Finally, the new film pretty much confirms the principle by means of Scotty’s epiphany: “Aye, I never imagined space as being the thing that’s moving!”

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:49:00 +0000

They want to do that and yet they still can’t figure out a way to slow down global warming?

By: Stevles

Stevles — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:25:00 +0000

Can’t? Poor choice of words.
They simply have run out of reasons to go into space.. The moon has been thoroughly scoured and the Mars Rover is doing the work that men would do, thus making it pointless for people to go there.
What we need is a way of traveling further and faster and that is why they are doing this research.

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:50:00 +0000

Pulsars

By: lightwarp

lightwarp — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:55:00 +0000

I don’t want to wait for it……

By: Colin Kendig

Colin Kendig — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:17:00 +0000

Great, then whats going to happen? We will find a mass effect drive from some ancient alien species on pluto, then get into an accidental war with the first alien species we find, and then be on the low end of the totem pole of the intergalactic species council for a couple millennia. On top of that, giant hybrid android spaceships will crash into earth and destroy the last remnants of the human race. I fail to see how this is a good thing.

By: KingreX32

KingreX32 — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:57:00 +0000

I think i found s new blog to subcribe to.

By: Al Pa

Al Pa — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:47:00 +0000

tear a hole in space send stuff through.. then watch it seal itself up… it will seal up… wont it :/

By: GW

GW — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:41:00 +0000

I’ll take a ticket! (I put my order in last century)

By: Colin Scaden

Colin Scaden — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:22:00 +0000

I’d just like to add that while navigation and propulsion do work together, they are in fact separate systems and thus developed independently of each other.

By: Dan Reborn

Dan Reborn — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:48:00 +0000

I was born a few hundred years too soon.

By: Clint Sharp

Clint Sharp — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:06:00 +0000

like what, OPTIMISM!? I think it’s refreshing. I’m sorry I’m not trying to be rude. Grain of salt and all that.

By: Edward

Edward — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:19:00 +0000

I am freakying out right now, this would be awsome.

By: Chilis

Chilis — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:16:00 +0000

warp bubble? Well, at least people are finally looking at science it terms of fiction… at don’t really know what to say, because all of this sounds like a long shot to me… maybe…. and just maybe this is going to make more sense if I read more. But so far, compressing space ahead, expanding space behind, not actually moving, getting to stars in a couple of weeks, feels like… nha, i don’t know…

By: Mwani

Mwani — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:41:00 +0000

Oh God that’s exciting.

By: Daniel Parry

Daniel Parry — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:35:00 +0000

‘FTL’ engines of this type are the most plausible , the use of string theory in BSGr is another example travel without exceeding C

By: Daniel Parry

Daniel Parry — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:33:00 +0000

exactly many people don’t seem to properly grasp the complexity of navigation at relativistic speeds , i can only imagine the level of complex computer system needed to calculate those distances

By: Mark Headstomper Taylor

Mark Headstomper Taylor — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:42:00 +0000

hmmm half a ton of anti matter…

By: Mike Adamson

Mike Adamson — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:54:00 +0000

Please, providence, make it happen! It has been an article of faith my whole life through that advancement in physics and engineering would make it possible, and this is to me like the answering of that faith. Humankind will journey to the stars one day, and to be alive to see it would be the reward of life itself!

By: Denis Dendrinos

Denis Dendrinos — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:39:00 +0000

Don’t you first need to build the “typical and standard” star trek engine-glowy-thinga-ma-bob which allows them to do the normal travel before we do warp speed?

By: Void

Void — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:48:00 +0000

*Puts on sci-fi nerd hat*
All good, but the description is more along the line of the ship from Futurama than Star Trek.
ST the ‘warp bubble’ puts them in a sub-space in which the laws of physics are such that C is not the max speed.
Futurama the Professor explain that the ship gains FTL speeds not by travelling through space but make space move about the ship.
Either way it would be quite impressive.

By: Andrew Lagemann

Andrew Lagemann — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:10:00 +0000

The easiest way to insure funding would be to secretly pass all knowledge gained to Russia and China, and encourage them to publicly start their own warp drive programs. NASA would suddenly find themselves awash in trillions.
Sad that this is how Americans are motivated.

By: Andrew Lagemann

Andrew Lagemann — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:02:00 +0000

Work on the Orion system is coming right along. They recently completed a series of splashdown tests on the reentry vehicle. The first manned mission of that system is slated to be an asteroid, and they are on schedule. NASA is not going to be using the system for ISS crew rotation, that job will be left to commercial companies such as SpaceX.
Actually the warp drive research IS being funded.