[Fireskull]

Hi, eveyone

http://news.yahoo.com/warp-drive-may-mo ... 01109.html



Fireskull

[Serpiko]

I hope they'll also think about a way to BRAKE, after. :mrgreen:

[Deutschmark]

They have... They brake by slamming into any planet.... :OO :lol:

Deutschmark

[caldrail]

Think outside the box is fine and dandy, but do I really want starships flashing past me at warp speed using these ideas? I've got a bad back as it is - I don't want to be all twisted. I could end up quite bitter about that. You'll have to send huge orbital signs on popular routes telling astronauts to "Bend Carefully - Inhabited Planet Nearby". And sooner or later your hyper-velocity starship is going to pulled over by Galactic Space Lane Police, telling you you were bending in a dangerous manner and please blow into this device.

Oh come on people, grow up

[Fireskull]

:lol:

Awww...I doen wanna gwow up!


Fireskull

[Serpiko]

Cit. from dontrememberwho:

"The rational man adapts to the world. The Irrational man tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all the progress relies on irrational men"

[caldrail]

But that's only true if the progress is limited to the irrational man's perspective, indicating an inward focus of development and quite possibily without reference to the enviroment beyond his immediate experience. Since warp travel could not occur without finance and oversight, being a complex and expensive research project, it therefore follows that the irrationbal man is directed by rational men holding the purse strings and thus his irrationality is constrained, or perhaps widened in scope to encompass other individuals, rational or not. Or something like that.

[Serpiko]

In short, this means that the achievement of warp drive requires such an amount of resources, that it will be considered worth pursuing only if it will offer a huge and widely recognised reward, be it resources, or survival.

In this sense, I think you're probably right.