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New Nasa enterprise interplanetary warp ship.
Post by Lord Skimper   » Thu Jun 12, 2014 3:39 am

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http://sploid.gizmodo.com/holy-crap-nas ... 1589001939
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Re: New Nasa enterprise interplanetary warp ship.
Post by Daryl   » Thu Jun 12, 2014 5:47 am

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Pretty neat model. Unfortunately for them we know what an interstellar ship actually looks like, and it ain't that.
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Re: New Nasa enterprise interplanetary warp ship.
Post by turol   » Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:04 am

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Have they figured out where to get the unobtainium to run that thing?
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Re: New Nasa enterprise interplanetary warp ship.
Post by Emo Otaku   » Thu Jun 12, 2014 12:12 pm

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The last time I looked into this the energy requirements for a Alcubierre drive were down to the Mass-Energy of Jupiter, which is about the same as your average supernova


(IIRC the requirements first calculated where more than the Mass-Energy of the entire universe)
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Re: New Nasa enterprise interplanetary warp ship.
Post by The E   » Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:11 am

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Emo Otaku wrote:The last time I looked into this the energy requirements for a Alcubierre drive were down to the Mass-Energy of Jupiter, which is about the same as your average supernova


(IIRC the requirements first calculated where more than the Mass-Energy of the entire universe)


We're currently down to a requirement of ~700kg. But the additional requirement for a bunch of exotic matter is what's killing this thing at the moment, given that noone has so far managed to find any out in the world.
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Re: New Nasa enterprise interplanetary warp ship.
Post by Lord Skimper   » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:48 am

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Makes you wonder if you made the impeller ring this large would the compensator also be this large and allow for ship docking for LAC or the like.
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