How would tachyons help US move at the speed of light?

because we need a few milligrams of exotic matter to create a warp field

Don't we also need the energy of a billion suns

How about world peace while we're at it?

Yes, we're down to a few solar masses to move a hydrogen atom across the galaxy.

EDIT: Oh, are you talking about that completely hypothetical branch of string theory? There's no evidence that would even work, even if the numbers could be manipulated to describe remotely feasible energy requirements.

Transform into a being of pure energy.

Turn into a photon

You mean as opposed to that experimentally proven branch of string theory?

No. Alcubierre drive is based on general relativity, not string theory.

in another 30 years we'll have new scientific theories that'll hint at even more methods of FTL travel, and more after that. Hey relax guy, just play scifi games, just as imaginitive.

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  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
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Didn't you drop out of physics or something?

This thread must be joncy's domain...cause I think that what was impossible 50 years ago with science fiction related technology most of it has become somewhat possible, but thats all my two cents I want to throw in here with the troll bridge.

yeah this is it. it is pretty ignoratn to think that there is no life out there oyu know. Its like ignornat to say hey there are no aliens. its ignorant to believe that it is physically impossible to travel faster than light bending spacetime. were not the only ones.

i am literally ignorant

While it seems likely that the universe would produce many intelligent civilizations, there's no reason to expect them to be around at the same time.

Also,

Sorry I could have worded that better. I am aware that string theory is at this point entirely theoretical.

I thought you were referring to this paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/1251197/Warp-Drive-A-New-Approach



Either way, none of these technologies have yet been found to have even theoretical merit, let alone experimental.



Scientific advances help us advance because they help us understand more fully how the universe works, and consequently allow us to do more with it as a result of that knowledge. However, scientific advancement can only tell us how things are, they cannot change them to suit us. Just as science helps us understand what we can do, but it also shows us what we cannot. It is not reasonable to have any particular expectation from entirely unknown future breakthroughs. Advancement of scientific understanding cannot be confused with the more predictable process of using engineering to harness that understanding.

ahahahaha

No! No world peace. I need job security you bastards!

I thought Liberals did not believe in war

"War Never Changes"

Yes, but Liberals contradict themselves all the time.

You're just ignorant [/south park MJ]

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Note I think 90% of the people saying the "ignorant" thing comes from that interview with Stargate SG-1's Michael Shanks.

Not always.

The stargate movie was amazing. I almost never watched that show, i hated it so much. I saw 1 whole episode where, they are trapped on some alien matrix world or something (yah pretty original). It was like watching a slightly less gay version of Star Trek. Sci-fi channel (Now the sy-fy channel) used to have soo many (and still dose) original shows, most sucked.

Early Farscape..... Now that's the ****.

War does not require you to believe in it.

I don't believe in war. So it must not exist.....

I don't believe in Darth_Xasthur's brain. I know it doesn't exist.

Im not a liberal, but I think we could live without war to, its really getting old, and this is coming from a guy that was in the Army. The reason I made that statement was because Antony had earlier described himself as a liberal, but he wants to see some ballistic action. It seems Ironic.

edit: Actually Baconfish answered my question (not always)

Edit 2: On the contrary Im getting tired of the taliban and the al queda to.

When I say I want to kill ****, I'm kidding. I hope I never have to do that. If it comes down to it, I guess I'll have to, though.

Being in the Marines is definitely the requirement, but Im glad that we have you guys to defend our Liberty.

War will never truly cease as it is simply a form of conflict. On the other hand, the oft spoken of and exceptionally vague form of peace known as "World Peace" (By my definitions peace between nation states) is certainly achievable...but likely requiring war as the only way it's happening is if there is only one nation which would imply the destruction and/or annexation of all the others.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

Screw you commander 598! I hope we invade the bayou.

What? After mankind is united (by force), you then have to unite...THE UNIVERSE under your banner (by force)!

Of course. It's the only way.

Why do you have to be liberal to not believe in war?

Because you have to be a pussy, duh.

Even Liberal Pro-Democracy Space Pacifists agree on the matter.