The Alcubierre drive
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I kind of feel that warp drives are a bit like time-machines - if it was possible, we'd have seen somebody using one by now.
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I kind of feel that warp drives are a bit like time-machines - if it was possible, we'd have seen somebody using one by now.
@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
I kind of feel that warp drives are a bit like time-machines - if it was possible, we'd have seen somebody using one by now.
From the article:
Jean-Luc Picard would probably see it similarly. “Things are only impossible until they are not,” the character noted in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But that’s also easier to say when you live 300 years in the future.
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@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
I kind of feel that warp drives are a bit like time-machines - if it was possible, we'd have seen somebody using one by now.
From the article:
Jean-Luc Picard would probably see it similarly. “Things are only impossible until they are not,” the character noted in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But that’s also easier to say when you live 300 years in the future.
@george-k said in The Alcubierre drive:
@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
I kind of feel that warp drives are a bit like time-machines - if it was possible, we'd have seen somebody using one by now.
From the article:
Jean-Luc Picard would probably see it similarly. “Things are only impossible until they are not,” the character noted in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But that’s also easier to say when you live 300 years in the future.
My point was that if time machines were possible in the future, we'd have seen time travelers from the future.
If warp drives were possible by advanced races, we'd have seen evidence of advanced races other than humans using warp drives. Of course, some people will say UFO's are that, but I don't buy it. Or the aliens could be ignoring us or avoiding us. Or the universe is so freaking massive that even with a warp drive you can only explore a minute portion of it.
I also think that some things are just impossible. Saying that anything is possible isn't really realistic.
I was only joking
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@george-k said in The Alcubierre drive:
@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
I kind of feel that warp drives are a bit like time-machines - if it was possible, we'd have seen somebody using one by now.
From the article:
Jean-Luc Picard would probably see it similarly. “Things are only impossible until they are not,” the character noted in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But that’s also easier to say when you live 300 years in the future.
My point was that if time machines were possible in the future, we'd have seen time travelers from the future.
If warp drives were possible by advanced races, we'd have seen evidence of advanced races other than humans using warp drives. Of course, some people will say UFO's are that, but I don't buy it. Or the aliens could be ignoring us or avoiding us. Or the universe is so freaking massive that even with a warp drive you can only explore a minute portion of it.
I also think that some things are just impossible. Saying that anything is possible isn't really realistic.
@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
Or the universe is so freaking massive that even with a warp drive you can only explore a minute portion of it.
The single most absorbing mystery ever is the question of what the edges of the universe are like and what lies beyond them. The edges are impossible even to envision: what they look like, what caused the universe to even have edges, what would happen if you could somehow get to the edge and look over it. What would you see?
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@george-k said in The Alcubierre drive:
@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
I kind of feel that warp drives are a bit like time-machines - if it was possible, we'd have seen somebody using one by now.
From the article:
Jean-Luc Picard would probably see it similarly. “Things are only impossible until they are not,” the character noted in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But that’s also easier to say when you live 300 years in the future.
My point was that if time machines were possible in the future, we'd have seen time travelers from the future.
If warp drives were possible by advanced races, we'd have seen evidence of advanced races other than humans using warp drives. Of course, some people will say UFO's are that, but I don't buy it. Or the aliens could be ignoring us or avoiding us. Or the universe is so freaking massive that even with a warp drive you can only explore a minute portion of it.
I also think that some things are just impossible. Saying that anything is possible isn't really realistic.
@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
@george-k said in The Alcubierre drive:
@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
I kind of feel that warp drives are a bit like time-machines - if it was possible, we'd have seen somebody using one by now.
From the article:
Jean-Luc Picard would probably see it similarly. “Things are only impossible until they are not,” the character noted in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But that’s also easier to say when you live 300 years in the future.
My point was that if time machines were possible in the future, we'd have seen time travelers from the future.
If warp drives were possible by advanced races, we'd have seen evidence of advanced races other than humans using warp drives. Of course, some people will say UFO's are that, but I don't buy it. Or the aliens could be ignoring us or avoiding us. Or the universe is so freaking massive that even with a warp drive you can only explore a minute portion of it.
I also think that some things are just impossible. Saying that anything is possible isn't really realistic.
If humans populated the universe and multiplied into the trillions, quadrillions, etc, and for billions of years, the chance that your life experience as a human would be down here on earth in the species' nascence is near zero...
On the other hand, if humans were a fart in the wind as a species, highly adaptive for a time until something took them out, well, chances are good that your life would occur somewhere in the bulk of all the human lives. Sometime within spitting distance of the sharp decline. Just sayin'.
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@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
Or the universe is so freaking massive that even with a warp drive you can only explore a minute portion of it.
The single most absorbing mystery ever is the question of what the edges of the universe are like and what lies beyond them. The edges are impossible even to envision: what they look like, what caused the universe to even have edges, what would happen if you could somehow get to the edge and look over it. What would you see?
@catseye3 said in The Alcubierre drive:
The single most absorbing mystery ever is the question of what the edges of the universe are like
Well, that and what's the point of Eurovision.
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@george-k said in The Alcubierre drive:
@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
I kind of feel that warp drives are a bit like time-machines - if it was possible, we'd have seen somebody using one by now.
From the article:
Jean-Luc Picard would probably see it similarly. “Things are only impossible until they are not,” the character noted in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But that’s also easier to say when you live 300 years in the future.
My point was that if time machines were possible in the future, we'd have seen time travelers from the future.
If warp drives were possible by advanced races, we'd have seen evidence of advanced races other than humans using warp drives. Of course, some people will say UFO's are that, but I don't buy it. Or the aliens could be ignoring us or avoiding us. Or the universe is so freaking massive that even with a warp drive you can only explore a minute portion of it.
I also think that some things are just impossible. Saying that anything is possible isn't really realistic.
@doctor-phibes said in The Alcubierre drive:
If warp drives were possible by advanced races, we'd have seen evidence of advanced races other than humans using warp drives.
Fermi sort of smiled.
Read "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds.
