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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    Okay, fine. Several scientists got a grant from NASA to work on this. It's out of my hands. You can get further details from their papers. But I would point out that ZPF propulsion is a fuel hog, only viable once you have strong overunity zero-point energy production.
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    Make up a fake bit of Trek trivia!

    FACT (not confirmed as fake): Kirk's torn shirts brought more at auction than undamaged ones.
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    I saw the guy who plays Worf hanging off a cliff;

    SPOCK: The burden of leadership sometimes leads to a choppy speech pattern. KIRK: I. Don't. Have. A choppy. Speech pattern. McCOY: And exposure to humans must lead to a sense of humor in Vulcans!
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    I'll just skip responding to any trolling posts. The two links JoradRussell posted above cover part of it pretty well. One more is from 1997 but is nicely written and uses the term ZPF (zero-point field), which may be less confusing than some of what's going around...
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    I saw the guy who plays Worf hanging off a cliff;

    What's Worf's favorite sport? Ferengi tossing. :klingon:
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    Right. Those explain what I've said about gravity and ZPE, and if you view it in that way, it shouldn't be hard to see that if you can use that elusive energy as fuel, the very act of taking it in at one point on the periphery of a spacecraft would result in propulsion of a type that circumvents...
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    What I've suggested is: 1. Using zero-point energy as the basis for a means of propulsion that allows travel at any desired speed, including FTL, without g-force or time dilation experienced by the crew, which I have explained in simple-enough terms. 2. Using that same zero-point energy as...
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    Well, then, here's the YouTube link to see Daffy Duck lay a golden egg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B7VzMr2gz0 The triangle thing should require no further explanation, but in the Wikipedia article Triangle it's explained in detail under the heading Non-planar triangles...
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    Of course. It's obvious that you know the answer. But the question was for Deckard. Time's up. If you draw four lines pole to pole 90 degrees apart on a sphere then draw the equator, you've divided the surface into eight equilateral right triangles. How about some more basic ones? 1...
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    Why should they nail themselves down about the source? A lot them were just admitting that the evidence showed some weird stuff going on. But if you speculate that advanced aliens somewhere out there might be viewing Earth with large space-based telescope arrays, that's not hard to imagine...
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    Here's an article from Nature on repulsive Casimir effect achieved at Harvard, which is a small step forward in the field of nanotech, since the Casimir effect caused by the not-really-empty vacuum creates a problem with tiny gears, which repulsive Casimir could solve nicely once developed well...
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    This elaborates on what Einstein is heard saying in the video (Einstein"s views on the aether, near the bottom of the page). The last sentence, in my view, points out the problem here: that most physicists today don't go along with Einstein's concept of the new aether (as opposed to the 19th...
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    Watch the video. If Einstein himself was satisfied, what's to argue about?
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    Make up a fake bit of Trek trivia!

    FACT: Boob twtching among Vulcan females is a common sign of trellium-D addiction.
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    Would we really know they are there?

    I don't thiink SETI is going to find anything. But if you want an answer, here's the NICAP free online book download link. The books are rather old and some were best-sellers in their time. I just downloaded four, read the first three, and started the fourth, which builds a very strong case...
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    Well, like gas molecules in a sealed container, these so-called virtual particles would only static in a statistical sense in relation some arbitrary point in their midst for convenience in constructing a theoretical model. It's not hard to see how a clock would be affected if physical processes...
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    I doesn't, but I already have in this thread. It's like wind resistance except that this wind is made of not air molecules but stuff (ZPE/gravitons) that affects every particle of you and your vessel's structure, causing what may seem like time dilation but is merely slowing down of phyical...
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    It's official: FTL is impossible

    I've already explained upthread how to get around time dilation and why FTL doesn't result in going back in time, by addressing the mechanism itself of Special Relativity. By the way, about never achieving FTL, well, perhaps you've heard of Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development...
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