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Topic started on 15-6-2009 @ 04:08 PM by MysterE

Introducing the Warpship!


dsc.discovery.com
Until now, there has been little idea about what a spaceship propelled by a warp drive (or a warpship) would look like. Would it resemble the sleek Starship Enterprise? Or will it be like nothing we've seen before?

After speaking with Dr. Richard Obousy, he shared his concept for a futuristic, yet scientifically accurate, warpship design.

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reply posted on 15-6-2009 @ 04:08 PM by MysterE
This is pretty interesting! It is a theoretical design that runs on "dark energy"







dsc.discovery.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

[edit on 15-6-2009 by MysterE]

[edit on 15/6/2009 by Mirthful Me]


reply posted on 15-6-2009 @ 05:10 PM by muzzleflash
reply to post by muzzleflash



i dont know i take that back

i thought the TIE series were ugly as heck too, but honestly, they grew on me and now i think they rock

so maybe this would grow on me too

by the way, heres a cool link for tons of SW concept star fighters (which i think most are really good)

starwars.wikia.com...

theres so many designs - im sure at least a few of them would work if only we had a engine system to make it work
and a mass barrier deflector system...

no, im not a star wars geek - i just know good sci-fi when i see it


reply posted on 15-6-2009 @ 06:46 PM by Gorman91
reply to post by mystiq



Because cool isn't viable. Quirky has always been superior.

Nothing cool comes from primitive creations. Always one starts out with what works first.

you need a mainframe for that car before you can put a tailfin on it

[edit on 15-6-2009 by Gorman91]


reply posted on 15-6-2009 @ 08:06 PM by sharps
Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
Very interesting find. For those who believe FTL travel is impossible, the same was said about the sound barrier until Chuck Yager broke it. Kinda funny since the crack of a whip is actually a sonic boom!

Originally posted by muzzleflash
They are acting like this is all "matter of fact" when in reality, this is little more than fantasy (aka modern physics is mostly inaccurate)


And you got your doctorate in Physics from....


He doesn't need a doctorate. It's common knowledge to anyone with a passing interest that dark energy is thus far purely a hypothetical force.

However, the amount of energy required would be enormous, equivalent to converting the entire mass of Jupiter to energy. That amount is at least feasible, whereas Einstein's original calculations found that simply traveling at the speed of light would take an infinite amount of energy.

Baylor researcher Richard Obousy said the required energy needed to warp space could potentially be sharply reduced in the future.

"Early calculations indicated that a warp drive would require more mass energy than was available in the entire universe," Obousy said. "Later, a more ingenious calculation demonstrated that it would require about the mass energy contained within an entire galaxy. What is exciting about our warp drive paradigm is that we have further reduced the energy requirement to the total mass energy contained in a typical gas giant--the planet Jupiter, for example


www.eetimes.com...

We currently have no means through traditional engineering techniques to produce enough power to make such a ship work. I suspect suspect teleportation will be easier to achieve, or even travel by the power of thought.


And another thing, it always bugs me when I see these sort of mock up prototypes that no one seems to understand that a sphere is the best possible shape for any craft, especially one that rolls forward on a blanket of scrunched up spacetime.



reply posted on 15-6-2009 @ 08:21 PM by JaxonRoberts
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The poster didn't say dark matter was a farce, they said most of modern physics was a farce. So I would still like to know how this poster knows more than those who have actually studies physics.


reply posted on 15-6-2009 @ 08:26 PM by Gorman91
reply to post by Cyberbian



Dude, it isn't impossible. What the scientists wrote is a far easier and advanced version of what we can do now. if you made a ring of black holes around you, spinning in opposite direction to the one opposite to it, you could alter gravity waves so as to create a big bubble around you of black hole-level relativity. Then use the waves to create another bubbles inside that goes faster to your own relativity (earth). Then place the ship in Earth-like relativity bubble along side the faster bubble. Accelerate the fast bubble with normal engines. The slow relativity bubble won't allow the bubble to leave because light cannot escape, and so information cannot escape to provide the information of movement. When the fast bubble propels the slow bubble faster than light, no information can reach the contents to tell it to stop, so the craft zooms away in this gravity wave concoction at speeds greater than the speed of light to our relativity.

This is not difficulty. It can be done today. We just don't have the money or want


reply posted on 15-6-2009 @ 09:40 PM by ahnggk
reply to post by muzzleflash



I have currently three designs, a sphere, a double-cone shape(that resembled a real UFO), and something that looks like a Trekkie ship, only with warp nacelles that ran the whole length of the ship and may number in in three or four, not just two which is common in Trek 'verse.

I call the warp engines, 'harmonic emitters' and may have similarity to one of Tesla's inventions.


reply posted on 15-6-2009 @ 09:51 PM by Gorman91
reply to post by ahnggk



Tesla's work is not directly linked to warp speed but his designs are viable in warp engine construction because their shape and operation are very efficient and useful.

I too have designed such things. PM me your designs and I'll do the same. Learning such things are always fun.
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