Warp Engines In Development? 1016
Toloran writes "Although a staple of Sci-Fi space travel, it is often deemed to be just that: Fiction. However, it seems that one is currently in development. "The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft. Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.""
Slower Dimension (Score:5, Funny)
Where do I sign-up to test? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Slower Dimension (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Warp FP (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder what kind of mileage it gets. (Score:3, Funny)
Nonsense (Score:2, Funny)
The engines cannae takit captain! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Death (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is SO neat! (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks, W!
Re:Slower Dimension (Score:5, Funny)
Or worse yet, due to a great miscalculation in size, the entire battlefleet could be swallowed by a small dog.
OMGWTFBBQ! (Score:3, Funny)
On top of this, it works exactly as specified on startrek, with the "Warping" entering another dimension,
If they figure out that they can creat some new crystal that will power such a monster, I'm going to quit my job and start designing a world that can wrap all the way around a star.
Re:I call shenanigans! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Original article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I call shenanigans! (Score:3, Funny)
As Scotty said, "I canna break the laws of physics!" I'll believe this when I see an actual FTL ship.
Re:Where do I sign-up to test? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Word Usage (Score:3, Funny)
At last (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slower Dimension (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I call shenanigans! (Score:2, Funny)
translation (Score:5, Funny)
Watch out for the transparent aluminum! (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds good, (Score:4, Funny)
***ducks***
Re:*Staple*. *Staple*. *Staple.* (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slower Dimension (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is SO neat! (Score:5, Funny)
And the primary buffer panel just fell off my ship!
My ship don't crash! If it crashes, you crashed her!
Re:I call shenanigans! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Would it be fit for human travel? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slower Dimension (Score:3, Funny)
Me, brain size of a planet, and stuck here calculating improbabilities for /. jokes.
Re:I call shenanigans! (Score:5, Funny)
Oblig. Spaceballs Quote: (Score:1, Funny)
HELMET: No, no, no, light speed is too slow.
SANDURZ: Light speed, too slow?
HELMET: Yes, we're gonna have to go right to ludicrous speed.
SANDURZ: Ludicrous speed? Sir, we've never gone that fast before. I don't know if this ship can take it.
HELMET: What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz, chicken?
Re:Would it be fit for human travel? (Score:2, Funny)
On a side note, when you start losing magnetic field integrity in CDFs tracker, the twilight zone theme starts playing as an alarm. Never thought much of it (apart from really freaking me out the first time I heard it late at night) but after reading this article, perhaps its meant to warn you that you may be that you may be entering another dimension where time and space have no meaning...
Re:This is SO neat! (Score:5, Funny)
Remind me to someday tell you about how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb ...
Re:This is SO neat! (Score:5, Funny)
You're Early (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is SO neat! (Score:3, Funny)
1.21 GigaWatts?
Smoke me a kipper... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Original article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is SO neat! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:*Staple*. *Staple*. *Staple.* (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh, *come* on, now... (Score:4, Funny)
Mmmmm... pork chops...
Finally (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slower Dimension (Score:5, Funny)
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50 years later.
Ooog! OOh! Aaak!
Mr Jenson: Oh fuck!
Similar idea (Score:1, Funny)
Light speed to slow? (Score:2, Funny)
Dark Helmet: No no no, light speed is too slow!
Colonel Sandurz: Light speed too slow?
Dark Helmet: Yes, we're gonna have to go right to... ludicrous speed!
Right.... (Score:2, Funny)
Of course a magnetic field that strong would pull all of the fillings out of your teeth but heck, some sacrifices must be made!
Re:This is SO neat! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Come again, please? (Score:3, Funny)
I can see it now...
One of the engineers mistakenly wears a belt with a ferrous buckle during a test. The belt destroys the engine, flying at it at near C speed, but the scientists realize that the engineer was sliced so fast and so cleanly that his abdomen and torso just cold-weld back together. After a week and a half of intense psychotherapy and drug treatment the engineer is back at work, however he will only wear clothes made from trash bags and duct tape. This then becomes THE party prank to pull on the new recruits.
Many of the socialites in the surrounding suburbs of the testing center are exposed to ridicule and mockery when those with imitation flatware are suddenly relieved of it. The testing lab becomes a large contributor to steel recycling mills in the area, thus subsidizing the experiments.
After numerous complaints the lab is moved to the moon. As the experiemntal engines are about to become flight worthy someone knocks a dial during a pre-flight test, sending the engines into full power mode. The dinosaur extinction event pales in comparison to the moon smacking into the Earth repeatedly, like a super bouncy ball attached to a ping-pong paddle with a rubber band. The remainng earth-moon-blob-thingy then accelerates tangentially to its former orbit, soon reaching near light speed. The Plutonians wave slowly as we exit the solar system destination: the heart of some pulsar at the edge of the universe.
Damn, I'm glad this idea is just as far fetched as my insane scenarios.
Re:This is SO neat! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Slower Dimension (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone else was thinking it was a Macross reference.
Missing Information (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Come again, please? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My attempt at explanation (Score:5, Funny)
So what's the hold-up?? (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe the air force doesn't have internet connection eh?
Re:*Staple*. *Staple*. *Staple.* (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slower Dimension (Score:5, Funny)
Like when Gilligan broke the Professor's new coconut-and-bamboo mecha prototype?
Re:Sounds good, (Score:3, Funny)
You cant talk to your computers?
Re:Slower Dimension (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, only Americans would send an entire battlefleet on the first testrun.
... a three hour tour ... (Score:2, Funny)
The headline says "a three hour trip". The truth is that this is just hype for the upcoming reality show: Gilligan's Island - The Next Generation.
They've already got Paris Hilton to play Ginger and David Spade to play Gilligan.
Re:Paper this is based on (Score:3, Funny)
Only for the cannibals in the audience.
s/crust/crush/
Re:How could smart people be so obviously wrong? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is SO neat! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slower Dimension (Score:3, Funny)
I'd rather have that hot green-haired Zentraedi chick - Milia. Oh yeah baby. She knows how to pilot a Valkyrie.
Of course, I'd have to kill Maximilian first.
Re:Original article (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I call shenanigans! (Score:3, Funny)
And a big gaping hole... (Score:3, Funny)
What about the rest of the ship and its crew?!
Re:3 of the six dimensions describe "meaning"? WTF (Score:3, Funny)
You just have to believe in them. You do believe in them, don't you, Brother? Oh, and we need more money now (passes the hat)...