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iannis

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ENGAGE.

They dunno what the fuck they did. They just know that they did something, and it was not what they expected.

Which is exciting. But not a warp drive.

















Yet. By Grabthar's Hammer, by the sons of Warvan, you shall be avenged!
 
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Let's assume something like this is real. They created a warp field. After further research and experimentation, we have a working warp field generator big enough to power a ship within 20 years. What does this do for us as a race? How does it change our lives now and do we use it?
 
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Brad2770_sl said:
Let's assume something like this is real. They created a warp field. After further research and experimentation, we have a working warp field generator big enough to power a ship within 20 years. What does this do for us as a race? How does it change our lives now and do we use it?
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It doesn't. Sky wizard said we can't go
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iannis

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They run their first full power test near the Large Hardon Collector. The fields resonate sympathetically. A black hole forms. The earth is slowly devoured over the course of three weeks.

This is how The Rapture starts.
 
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Notice to all future science installations: pick a name that does not have a 90% chance of autocorrect snafus.
 
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Brad2770_sl said:
Let's assume something like this is real. They created a warp field. After further research and experimentation, we have a working warp field generator big enough to power a ship within 20 years. What does this do for us as a race? How does it change our lives now and do we use it?
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New use for deathrow prisoners!
 
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Brad2770_sl said:
Let's assume something like this is real. They created a warp field. After further research and experimentation, we have a working warp field generator big enough to power a ship within 20 years. What does this do for us as a race? How does it change our lives now and do we use it?
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Well I guess there's a couple of ways it could work right?

Is it an electrically powered drive that just creates thrust? If so, scale up, build spaceship with nuclear reactors, and boost at 1-1.5g and go explore the nearby stars in a large ship - warning, mission would take 20-50 years.

Is it actually a "warp" drive allowing FTL travel? In that case we can send out probes very quickly to explore the nearby stars for habitable planets and start sending out colony ships. It'd be the 1500's over again in our lifetime.

I don't think it changes our lives per se but it would dramatically change the course of human civilization in the long run.
 
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Brad2770_sl said:
Let's assume something like this is real. They created a warp field. After further research and experimentation, we have a working warp field generator big enough to power a ship within 20 years. What does this do for us as a race? How does it change our lives now and do we use it?
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Assuming that the warp drive creates a relatively cheap way to traverse our solar system quickly (as in, can travel to Titan in a month), a few things happen:
1. Space research is much cheaper.
2. Space tourism becomes a viable business.
3. Asteroid mining is likely made profitable.
4. Colonization is much closer to reality.


#4 is cool because it shifts the problem from "How do we get all this bullshit to X?" to "How do we make X a hospitable area?".

#3 though is the most interesting because instead of a few ships roaming around our solar system we'll have an explosion of commercial focus on space because we can now make a profit off of it. All the tech required to properly harvest asteroid resources directly translates into everything else space related and we'll make massive advancements in our space-related technology.
 
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Cad_sl said:
Well I guess there's a couple of ways it could work right?

Is it an electrically powered drive that just creates thrust? If so, scale up, build spaceship with nuclear reactors, and boost at 1-1.5g and go explore the nearby stars in a large ship - warning, mission would take 20-50 years.

Is it actually a "warp" drive allowing FTL travel? In that case we can send out probes very quickly to explore the nearby stars for habitable planets and start sending out colony ships. It'd be the 1500's over again in our lifetime.

I don't think it changes our lives per se but it would dramatically change the course of human civilization in the long run.
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Becoming an interstellar civilization is an important goal, but I think a compact, reactionless drive that can achieve 1g thrust would make huge swings in our lives long before we started looking to other solar systems.
 
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Tuco_sl said:
Becoming an interstellar civilization is an important goal, but I think a compact, reactionless drive that can achieve 1g thrust would make huge swings in our lives long before we started looking to other solar systems.
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Maybe, but we're still burning fossil fuels for power generation rather than building co2 free nuclear plants - so I wouldn't get all giddy about things changing planet-side. I'm sure the oil companies would fund some studies saying the warp drive cars cause cancer or something to get them banned.
 
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Cad_sl said:
Maybe, but we're still burning fossil fuels for power generation rather than building co2 free nuclear plants - so I wouldn't get all giddy about things changing planet-side. I'm sure the oil companies would fund some studies saying the warp drive cars cause cancer or something to get them banned.
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I don't disagree, but if we start having dozens or hundreds of groups out roaming our solar system for profitable ventures constitutes as a huge swing in our lives.

How many space vehicles are there outside of orbit? Isn't it less than ten?
 
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Imagaine what NASA could do if we gave them the funding the military gets.
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Hell, imagine what the military is doingright nowunder their cloak of secrecy. They were 40+ years ahead of the general population back in the 60's. I can only imagine that gap is even much wider with how fast technology improves and how much their black budgets have expanded.
 
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Tuco_sl said:
I don't disagree, but if we start having dozens or hundreds of groups out roaming our solar system for profitable ventures constitutes as a huge swing in our lives.

How many space vehicles are there outside of orbit? Isn't it less than ten?
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Having those groups out there doesn't change your life much unless you're one of them. You'll still go to work, earn your pay, spend it on toys. The news will be more interesting.
 
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Del_sl said:
Hell, imagine what the military is doingright nowunder their cloak of secrecy. They were 40+ years ahead of the general population back in the 60's. I can only imagine that gap is even much wider with how fast technology improves and how much their black budgets have expanded.
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The military had iPads that long before all of us?
 
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