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Warped Imaginations: Star Wars Fans Want a NASA Hyperdrive

Posted August 24, 2010 8:13 AM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

The hyperdrive, a firm sci-fi favorite mode of transportation for zipping around the galaxy, is a propulsion technology that NASA should be researching, according to hardcore sci-fi fans who attended the Star Wars Celebration V convention in Florida last week. To put it bluntly, current space travel technologies can appear boring. When we're used to seeing spaceships on TV carrying our space exploring heroes from one star system to another (or even one galaxy to another), the fact that 21st Century humans can't even leave low-Earth orbit seems terribly pedestrian.

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Re: Warped Imaginations: Star Wars Fans Want a NASA Hyperdrive

08/24/2010 8:46 AM

Well, NASA would work on it but George Lucas has threatened copyright lawsuits on anyone developing FTL travel.

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Re: Warped Imaginations: Star Wars Fans Want a NASA Hyperdrive

08/24/2010 10:51 PM

They will do this, once the equations for sub-space are finalized. duh!

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