NASA's New Design for a Warp Drive Ship

[SlayerZ99]

But...

But that's just regular friction. :/

stfu nerd

Is there friction in the vacuum? citation needed...

stfu nerds

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[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

Is there friction in the vacuum? citation needed...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927994.100-vacuum-has-friction-after-all.html
according to this, there is

[Night Fox]

You can't make a warp drive by pouring rocket fuel into the wonderful sci-tech. It uses energy, which can come from fuel, but you don't power it directly from fuel. That's like saying your computer uses coal to run. It may use energy that comes from coal, but it doesn't directly use coal.

and therefore you need a lot of fuel...

[BluetoothBoy]

Is there friction in the vacuum? citation needed...

Well, not in the vacuum the ship is in, but the "bubble" would experience some friction, even though it's in space. After all, space does have some matter, just not much.

and therefore you need a lot of fuel...

Why do you assume fuel is needed to provide the energy?

[Night Fox]

Why do you assume fuel is needed to provide the energy?

I think you might have a fundamental misunderstanding of what fuel is

[Aide33]

Quite certain faster than light goes against all laws of physics.

This concept that they are researching is a "loophole" in the laws of physics

it's all theoretical right now but it works by contracting space in front and expanding the space in back of the spacecraft.

[lolz??]

Yeah

Good luck then
Also lol at people acting like they understand theoretical physics because of some movie with steven hawking commentary

[Menen]

Quite certain faster than light goes against all laws of physics.

Its not that they are accelerating faster than the speed of light, they are distorting time-space, which means they moving without moving.

[Mouse droidz 21]

where does nasa want to go now? mars?

[Cybersix]

Where no blockland has gone before

Boo doge makes this comment even better

[BluetoothBoy]

I think you might have a fundamental misunderstanding of what fuel is

"fuel: a material such as coal, gas, or oil that is burned to produce heat or power"

By your logic, wind, moving water, and photons are also fuel.

[Harm94]

Quite certain faster than light goes against all laws of physics.

If light is the fastest thing, then how come it get sucked into black holes and never escape?

[Night Fox]

"fuel: a material such as coal, gas, or oil that is burned to produce heat or power"
By your logic, wind, moving water, and photons are also fuel.

"Fuels are any materials that store potential energy in forms that can be practicably released and used for work or as heat energy."

none of those things you listed even make energy by being burned so idk what you're getting at

If light is the fastest thing, then how come it get sucked into black holes and never escape?

how does this make sense to you? what is it you think is going faster than light when a black hole sucks it in?

[Blockzillahead]

lets build a farm in space where farmers haul truck loads of dark matter and dark energy to power up this warp drive that will send us back to 1995

[Jubel]

If light is the fastest thing, then how come it get sucked into black holes and never escape?

it can never escape because 299 792 km/s isn't a fast enough escape velocity to get past the event horizon.

Almost like a rocket with not enough fuel. It just ain't going fast enough.