Water found in other planetary systems

[az]

We need something like artificial, short-term, stable (and after use completely vanished) worm holes, or "warp tunnels"

We just need to bend time and/or space

AZ

[Corran Horn]

Originally posted by az

We just need to bend time and/or space

AZ

I don't think I want to be the pilot of that test flight.

WHOOPS! I'm swallowed by a black hole and lost forever.

[PowerHungry]

That would totally suck.


Live long and prosper...

[PowerHungry]

On a serious note, wouldn't the time it takes to accelerate be the same time it takes to decelerate, so the higher the accel, the higher the speed and the less time it takes to decell?

[Dogbert]

Bah, you just crash land.

[Greebe]

Not really... as it's far harder to accellerate than to use gravity to slow you back down/use some technique like atmospheric drag/balloon approach to slow a ship.

[Technoid]

2010.......

[efty]

It is inefficient to approach the speed of light with a regular propulsion system since the more you approach c your mass increases and the more energy you need to accelerate. Even if we do get to travel at c it makes no difference.

[Greebe]

But to propel a warp bubble would be most certainly easier.

[mutz]

...check me out Mr. RPI, but doesn't it take the same energy to accelerate an object as to decelerate it, whereas time is a factor of the rate of energy application ?

Also assuming that the weight of the accelerated object is reduced by the expenditure of fuel, deceleration energy and time expenditure is proportionately reduced?