Petition for Obama administration to help NASA to develop a warp core by 2073

[Aaronquah]

If you want to see a warp core developed by NASA in the future, please sign the petition below:
http://wh.gov/lqZY9

[DetlefK]

1. Bullshit. NASA is already working on a warp-drive, but you can't force discoveries to happen.

The NASA is currently trying to build a device that would cause space-time-disturbances similar to the warp-drive proposed by Alcubierre, but so far they haven't been able to filter out the noise (micro-earthquakes) from their measurements. The experiment was moved to a new site and currently set up anew.

And Alcubierre's warp-drive would be a bad idea anyway: Would need an amount of energy roughly equal to one ton of matter-antimatter-reaction and would double as an interstellar weapon of mass-destruction.

Major improvements need to be done in that field, to find a better warp-field-formula and to find a better warp-drive-architecture, but you can't "mandate" that a discovery is supposed to happen before an arbitrary date.

[backscatter712]

4. It's going to be a long time before this kind of thing even starts to turn into a spaceship engine.

IIRC, the Alcubierre drive required matter with negative mass in order to work. That stuff's a wee bit hard to come by...

[DetlefK]

6. They wanted to circumvent this by somehow employing the Casimir-effect.

The articles were nebulous at best on the details.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Perhaps we should lock in our Dilithium Crystal technology first.

http://www.businessinsider.com/newest-fusion-engine-is-powered-on-star-trek-like-dilithium-crystals-2012-10

"Dammit, Scotty, I want all power to the impulse portapotties!"
"I canna give you any more, Keptain! She's about to blow!"
"So am I! Have you ever had Saurian Burritos?"

[RandiFan1290]

3. So dumb

The White House should scrap the petition page. Americans are too silly and childish to take it seriously.

[burnodo]

5. Impulse drive would be a better project

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