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NFL Warp Drive!

09/18/2012 7:38 AM

Imagine a starship the shape of a National Football League football - laces included - with a basketball hoop around it and you have what may be the most plausible warp drive system.

Here is the link to the story.

I just hope the inside of the starship will not smell like the inside of a locker room.

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09/18/2012 10:39 AM

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

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09/18/2012 10:43 AM

Thanks for the link AH.

From the story:

"space-time to warp around the starship, creating a region of contracted space in front of it and expanded space behind"

Which sounds eerily familiar to "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":

First Voice

But why drives on that ship so fast,
Without or wave or wind?

Second Voice

The air is cut away before,
And closes from behind.

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09/18/2012 11:53 AM

And we can power it with the Harlem Globetrotters!!

Is this the Coanda effect on a cosmic scale?? Interesting concept anyways.

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09/18/2012 2:17 PM

It looks a bit like the Dyson Air Multiplier. I looked but there is no equivalent light speed word for Supersonic. How about, "The Super C Multiplier"

When I'm practicing mind control, instead of trying to move my car through will power, I will move the air from front to back instead, or maybe the earth so that there is always a downward slope!

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09/18/2012 2:30 PM

Super luminal speed.

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09/23/2012 6:59 PM

first comes Light speed, then ridicules speed, and finally Ludicrous speed, but just don't go to plaid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Smoke em if you got em.

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09/18/2012 7:28 PM

I am just trying to move the other people and their cars out of my way.

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09/19/2012 12:14 AM

For faster than c, how about "tachyonic" or "superluminal"?

[Edit: I see that tcmtech got there first.]

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09/19/2012 12:24 AM

Why not WFO?

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09/19/2012 12:50 PM

Seems like 'warp factor' would be an obvious choice. Just need to decide if the warp factor is linear or logarithmic.

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09/19/2012 12:54 PM

That's where I was going with WFO. Warp Factor One.

Or, the other, more popular version from my dirt bike days, Wide Fu**ing Open.

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09/18/2012 5:01 PM

Interesting....

But not logical....

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09/19/2012 5:50 AM

The graphics is done. Now where do I get some of this exotic matter to build the machine?

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09/19/2012 6:34 AM

ACE (Hardware) is the place!

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