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kasina88kasina88 Member Posts: 8
edited May 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
NASA develops new warp drive!

http://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-tests-physics-defying-method-of-space-travel-em-drive/
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    We already have a thread for this in Ten Forward: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1441941

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  • sarcasmdetectorsarcasmdetector Member Posts: 1,176 Media Corps
    edited May 2015
    it's fake.

    cnet (and the other sites that reposted this) should really have done a fact/source check.
  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    kasina88 wrote: »
    NASA develops new warp drive!

    http://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-tests-physics-defying-method-of-space-travel-em-drive/

    Actually, if you read the article, it's more like they've invented the Impulse drive ;)(still cool though :eek::D)
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  • hatax2hatax2 Member Posts: 44 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Em Drive is more like an evolution of a technology they've been using for a few years now, Ion drive.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive

    Granted they're not exactly the same thing, but the achieve the same results and are important for the same reason, no 'fuel' beyond electricity is needed to run these engines.

    More like impulse drive, but over a very long distance these engines can reach impressive speeds. Still very much a step in the right direction... If Voyager 1&2 had engines like these they'd still be able to make course adjustments and all that good stuff, well perhaps now the reactors wouldn't be making enough power to run it.

    Amazing tech, once they figure how to 'bend' the laws of physics, stuff will get really interesting.
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