Interesting read on a real-life attempt to develop a warp drive interstellar spaceship. Fuel source is still an issue but a car sized mass of antimatter seems more attainable than the previous estimate of a planet-sized mass.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2655105/Engage-warp-drive-Nasa-reveals-latest-designs-Star-Trek-style-spacecraft-make-interstellar-travel-reality.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2655105/Engage-warp-drive-Nasa-reveals-latest-designs-Star-Trek-style-spacecraft-make-interstellar-travel-reality.html)
I was looking over that design last night. pretty neat stuff!
First Dutch teleporters and now NASA warp drives. :o We just might get out there in 50-100 years!
if you google the guy that did the ships rendering you'll find much Trek gooderness. O0
I do love it so!
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.dailymail.co.uk%2Fi%2Fpix%2F2014%2F06%2F11%2Farticle-0-1EA9D60800000578-389_634x357.jpg&hash=9d3c53ebb4106779783c002f78ff8a57718345db)
I try to keep my expectations down every time I look at that ship, but it's still hard not to squee.
Quote from: Martok on June 12, 2014, 02:25:34 PM
I try to keep my expectations down every time I look at that ship, but it's still hard not to squee.
I'm squeeing right there with you, brother.
And I feel really dirty saying that.......
Quote from: Steelgrave on June 12, 2014, 07:17:20 PM
Quote from: Martok on June 12, 2014, 02:25:34 PM
I try to keep my expectations down every time I look at that ship, but it's still hard not to squee.
I'm squeeing right there with you, brother.
And I feel really dirty saying that.......
:coolsmiley:
I hope that they're also considering issues such as how far away such time/space warping could be detected. If others can spot us doing it, are we safe, and have we tried seeing if we can detect it going on out there ourselves?
You worried about us coming to the attention of the Giant Yang-yangs or the Creeping Blorch?
Basically.
^...or maybe the Kzin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kzin)?...or is it UberKzin? ;)
Personally, I could do without the Borg finding us. Or worse Q :P
Q probably knows about us already. We're just not interesting enough yet.
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 15, 2014, 08:14:02 AMWe're just not interesting enough yet.
speak for yourself.
Happy hour on Zeta Prime is a hell of a party.
Zema Prime maybe.
It'll be a while before we have any off-world colonies, much less ones named Zeta Prime. Until then one of the clubs in Amsterdam will have to suffice.
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 15, 2014, 09:05:28 AM
Zema Prime maybe.
It'll be a while before we have any off-world colonies, much less ones named Zeta Prime. Until then one of the clubs in Amsterdam will have to suffice.
Ha! You made the classic mistake of discounting that the cold sleep pod storing Catherine Zeta Jones was mislabeled Catherine Jones Zeta, so when the many-tentacled Zotisprodders of BadTouch IX detect our distant warp meddling as a suggestion that earth girls are easy, they rename earth post invasive invasion in honor of that most fulsome of reanimated prodettes, Zeta Prime.
/smackdown off ^-^
^ I'm not sure if I'm more disturbed or impressed by the amount of thought you had to have put into that... :P