NASA Starts Work on Real Life Star Trek Warp Drive

[Sita]

gizmodo.com/5942634/nasa-starts-development-of-real-life-star-trek-warp-drive

"Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility." These are the words of Dr. Harold "Sonny" White, the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate. Dr. White and his colleagues don't just believe a real life warp drive is theoretically possible; they've already started the work to create one.

This makes the Trekkie (and all around sci-fi nerd) in me all giddy

[The Mad Hatter]

Sweet!

[ayezatulbrite]

The trick is to eliminate inertia. To eliminate this thing we call "mass".

NASA.... Never A Straight Answer!

[marisol]

I would think it would take years to build. Exciting though!

[MOLEY]

I only did warp speed in my dreams

[Shanti]

I would love to see the day we can really reach for at least another planet!!! LOL
I know we have to leave this rock we call earth someday as she wont live forever. Thats just fact.
I hope our kind do make it to the stars so we dont disappear in the blazing end of our solar system. (If our species survives itself that is. )

[The Mad Hatter]

Let's hope no one lives out there or we will colonialize their asses.

[Random Panther]

''Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility''

There's already a lot of Ster Trekesque technology in everyday use,but they have become so commonplace that we take them for granted. Touch screen computers and tablets are reminiscent of consoles and data pads,scanners in mobile phones have a hint of tricorder about them,eventually they'll have actual scanners as opposed to just barcode scanners,hyperdermic delivery systems are increasingly resembling hyposprays,there's more if I cared to look.

[The Mad Hatter]

Stephen Hawkins chair.

[Random Panther]

Hahahaha.

oooh,translation aps=universal translater.

[marisol]

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Shit! I'm still waiting for my flying car!