What year do we actually invent Warp 1?
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I mean, what year do we actually fly at Warp 1 as in Earth today as we know it. Will it happen? Will it not?
How they handle that stuff in 2063 in the novels will be interesting as most of us will probably long gone (some may be dipped in liquid nitrogen
) and they will not remember the days when all this started like most of us do.
You mean, when will we actually achieve faster-than-light propulsion in real life?
The most likely answer is: Never. Never ever ever, because it just can't be done.
A less likely answer is: In thousands of years, once our technology is advanced enough to harness the immense energies and exotic substances required, and then probably only in a limited form. (If you need an amount of energy equal to the mass-energy of a Jupiter-sized planet to achieve FTL travel via warp drive, as current models suggest, it's not something that could be used for regular commutes or pleasure yachts.)
An even less likely answer is: Within a century if the believers in the Singularity are right and we soon reach the point where artificial intelligence advances at an exponentially increasing rate so that the curve of progress becomes essentially vertical and we become like unto gods practically overnight (or else the AIs replace us completely and they become like unto gods overnight).
The most likely answer is: Never. Never ever ever, because it just can't be done.
A less likely answer is: In thousands of years, once our technology is advanced enough to harness the immense energies and exotic substances required, and then probably only in a limited form. (If you need an amount of energy equal to the mass-energy of a Jupiter-sized planet to achieve FTL travel via warp drive, as current models suggest, it's not something that could be used for regular commutes or pleasure yachts.)
An even less likely answer is: Within a century if the believers in the Singularity are right and we soon reach the point where artificial intelligence advances at an exponentially increasing rate so that the curve of progress becomes essentially vertical and we become like unto gods practically overnight (or else the AIs replace us completely and they become like unto gods overnight).
This belongs in the sci/tech category rather than literature, doesn't it?
Maybe but you all write about it and I get to thinking about it reading Trek Lit so the lines get blurred for me.
Warp drive as seen on Star Trek is probably not ever going to happen, but I'm pretty sure that faster methods of space propulsion could be found, or at least something worked up where chemical fuel isn't needed (thereby causing engines using it to be of limited use) to allow the probes and space craft and the like to move throughout our system (and maybe beyond someday?) with higher speeds. Then again, I don't know much scientifically, so I could be saying an all out lie or impossibility.
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