Nasa faster than light engine being developed.

[bzb]

If they create a device that can travel at these speeds.. What about space debris and artifacts that can cause damage to that device???

good question. being a star trek fan i always pondered this. my guess is any material or matter in the path is temporarily displaced or even destroyed by the warp bubble or shield of some kind. depending on size/mass of said objects of course. the good thing is space is mostly empty anyway so the odds may be low.

even though we likely won't see a ship able to travel at the speed of light or faster in our lifetime, watching the progress is interesting.

 

[J-Fire]

No, time moves forward whether it slow in space or fast on earth. You can't go back.. If you catch cancer and you have one month to live, you will live for one month in space. It's that on Earth, if they had a monitor to check your time of death, it would register you as dead a year later.

If you had people making investments on earth and then going to space and back, you still return to earth in the future, not the past.

you invest in a IPO and come back 10yrs later once the stock takes off. Like if you invested in google in 2004 and figured it would be huge 10yrs later.....why not take a 10day vacation in space and come back rich?



If you catch certain types of cancer...you still need a cure to make sure it doesn't come back. people fight cancer more than once a lot of time. Why not take a 20day trip once your cured....and come back to better medicine?

 

[AgentGrey]

If they create a device that can travel at these speeds.. What about space debris and artifacts that can cause damage to that device???

I believe a spaceship's mass at the speed of light > The mass of floating debris in space.
So it would probably smash right through it.

 

[LebronsHairline]

I'd cream my pants if they figured out a way to pull the shyt off

 

[unit321]

you invest in a IPO and come back 10yrs later once the stock takes off. Like if you invested in google in 2004 and figured it would be huge 10yrs later.....why not take a 10day vacation in space and come back rich?

If you catch certain types of cancer...you still need a cure to make sure it doesn't come back. people fight cancer more than once a lot of time. Why not take a 20day trip once your cured....and come back to better medicine?

Right, I get it. But you don't know if the IPO or other investment will fail or not. You could come back to a non-existant company that folded.

As for the cure for cancer, you can come back and there isn't a cure. Then what. While you spent only 20 days in space, all your friends and family have aged and spent 20 years of time without you. All the while, you are bebopping around town talking about your 20 day space trip in Criss-cross reverse baggy jeans, a Michael Jackson-ish leather jacket with a million zippers, and shiny Jeri curls looking like a total clown.

 

[Prodigital]

I believe a spaceship's mass at the speed of light > The mass of floating debris in space.
So it would probably smash right through it.

You know, i always wondered the same question but never drew this conclusion. Good shyt breh

 

[Box Cutta]

I think that FTL is impossible. You're literally talking about time travel (And event occurring before its cause).

The truth is that....we likely aren't leaving this solar system in anything that isn't some sort of generational ship. And even that shyt will take thousands of years to reach anywhere