It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True

Re:It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True by thret on Monday July 25, 2011 @05:38PM (#2804789)

You are of course referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Which does not actually break Einsteins limit, although it does work like a Star Trek warp-drive. Of course the energy requirements are virtually impossible to satisfy in addition to all of the other problems.

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Re:It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True by gmaslov on Monday July 25, 2011 @07:05PM (#2805124)

> Of course the energy requirements are virtually impossible to satisfy in addition to all of the other problems.

That's what they used to say about powered flight ;)

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Re:It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True by thret on Monday July 25, 2011 @11:25PM (#2805853)

Perhaps, but you are comparing Jupiters to raisins.

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Re:It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True by 3pt14159 on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @12:42PM (#2808184)

Interesting. I was just pulling a random counter explanation out of my derriere, but of course it has been already thought of before.

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