Quote: (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/
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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.