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Just some more studies on Star Trek style warp drives. Seems research is doing well http://news.yahoo.com/warp-drive-may-mo ... 01109.html

Fox News website covered that story as well. First warp is possible, then it takes more energy than the entire universe contains, then the output of a small star but possible, then some other problem, not it is possible again... Well, hope is hope.

Right now, the biggest outstanding problem (aside from technical feasibility) is the creation of gamma ray bursts at the destination. That's a killer (pun more than intended)

Whats the burst radius or no idea yet?

I think it's like a gamma ray laser, with gamma rays shot out in the direction of movement, and spread dictated by diffraction (which for gamma rays I'd imagine is very tiny)

I'm still waiting on the thermo nuke fueled pusher rocket to be tested :p (nucluer pulse rocket) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Or ... pulsion%29