Quote from: Angus on October 07, 2009, 02:20:39 PM

Quote from: BrandonKea on June 06, 2009, 12:32:23 AM
Now we just wait for 2030 for Zefram Cochrane to be born, and another 33 years on top of that for First Contact.... get a book folks, it could be awhile.

Who's Zefram Cochrane?

Careful, we have an uninitiated one among us!

Quote from: Angus on October 07, 2009, 02:20:39 PM

Quote from: BrandonKea on June 06, 2009, 12:32:23 AM
Now we just wait for 2030 for Zefram Cochrane to be born, and another 33 years on top of that for First Contact.... get a book folks, it could be awhile.

Who's Zefram Cochrane?

http://tinyurl.com/ycvylgu

Quote from: Eclipse on June 09, 2009, 06:26:55 AM
FWIW


In 2007, physicist Richard Obousy proposed that a warp drive could be created by directly manipulating the extra dimensions of string theory.[7] His idea suggests the expansion of space-time is a consequence of the vacuum ground-state of higher dimensional graviton fluctuations. The vacuum energy equations can be expressed as:



In this model, it is the radius of the extra dimensions that directly controls the expansion of space. Obousy suggests that it is superstrings that wrap around the extra dimensions and thusly keeping them compact, but that a sufficiently advanced civilization might influence a string and locally adjust the size of the extra dimension creating a controlled expansion and contraction of the space surrounding an interstellar craft. In July of 2008 it was reported that two Baylor University physicists have outlined how a faster-than-light engine could be created by manipulating the 11th dimension, a special theoretical construct of m-theory.

According to research by Finazzi, Liberati und Barceló the "warp bubble" seems to be unstable.

I hope that clears things up...

That must have been included in the other 90% of the brain we dont use. 

Quote from: caphistorian on October 07, 2009, 02:44:34 PM
I hope that clears things up...[/i]

That must have been included in the other 90% of the brain we dont use. [/quote]

I had dinner with a friend last night who works at one of the major accelerator labs and he was telling us about the increased funding and exciting nature of th research, etc.

To which I replied, "Well, who would actually even know if you're just making it all up?"   

I can see that this thread virtually disappeared into a black hole on June 11th then suddenly blazed back to prominence on Oct. 7th. So are we testing the actual theory or just displaying the results at this moment in time and space in the universe.

Quote from: Smithsonia on October 07, 2009, 03:11:21 PM
I can see that this thread virtually disappeared into a black hole on June 11th then suddenly blazed back to prominence on Oct. 7th. So are we testing the actual theory or just displaying the results at this moment in time and space in the universe.

Time is finite, but has no boundaries.

"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
                                                           The Sacred Scrolls...

^ Actually I have checked with all the characters acting as me in the 9, 10, or 11 parallel universes and they all agree that I haven't been involved in anything approaching this level of rash speculation ever before.

Y'all are scary (in a good way....I think)

Way to warp forward again! Bwahahaha

Quote from: Gunner C on June 11, 2009, 06:54:18 AM
Speed doesn't have to be FTL to be good. 

"We're making good time, with an emphasis on 'good' rather than 'time'."

Something to try and get this string back on track, you can't go wrong with Alpha III, especially since you can get them in kits complete with the launching equipment. One of my squadrons (I'm a model rocketry instructor) once ordered Big Berthas by mistake. We made the rocket work by ordering egg-lofting nose cones and worked wonderfully.

For advanced projects, you might want to try and morp rockets. In other words, take a rocket like Mean Machine and make it a multiple stage rocket or combine two Comanche rockets together and you have some interesting rocket launches.

Try scale models or designing payloads with scientific applications. One of the college's out in the midwest built model rockets with chambers containing marbles for atmospheric sampling.

Mr. Spock would be proud!

This thread reminds me of one of my favorite Carl Sagan videos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlikCebQSlY