Real Millennium Falcon?

[Luna]

I'm liking this Noriko fellow, he speaks my language

Back to the matter at hand, having done a bit more research I am now 90% sure that the object is naturally-occurring. The missing 10% is simply the result of my inability to let go of the idea that it might be a prehistoric temple.

[Manroon]

I would say the thing looks like natural materials modified by man or natural oddities.

And a final note on Warp Drive..... I'm betting that despite the MASSIVE number of problems standing between us and interstellar FTL travel will be difficult to solve, to be sure, but that one day.... perhaps soon, perhaps not, they will be overcome, and Warp Drive will be just like the other sci fi technologies that were deemed 'impossible' when they hit the TV and Movie screens so long ago.

[Kham-Ryn Kurios]

Absolutely nothing, except light ,can go the speed of light.

FTL is plausible as well as Warp but it is physically impossible for a human to travel at 299,792,458 m / s

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I'd like to know how the dang thing moved like 900 meters on the seafloor.

[Luna]

Absolutely nothing, except light ,can go the speed of light.

All massless particles constantly travel at the speed of light. Photons were simply the first massless particles discovered so what should be known as the speed of massless particles is known as the speed of light. A lot of things other than light travel at the speed of light.

You are correct, though - we have mass, therefore it is impossible for us to reach the speed of light. That's just how it is.

[Manroon]

PRESENTLY.

True, according to our current knowledge we can't be moved at those speeds, but once upon a time, we knew the earth was flat, that we couldn't go faster than 50MPH, couldn't go into space, couldn't call London from San Francisco, and a million other things. What we know now, is only that we have no idea what we'll know tomorrow.

@Kham: I'ma say earthquake or meteor. Some sort of big tectonic shift type thing shaking the world.

[reiperx]

PRESENTLY.

True, according to our current knowledge we can't be moved at those speeds, but once upon a time, we knew the earth was flat, that we couldn't go faster than 50MPH, couldn't go into space, couldn't call London from San Francisco, and a million other things. What we know now, is only that we have no idea what we'll know tomorrow.

@Kham: I'ma say earthquake or meteor. Some sort of big tectonic shift type thing shaking the world.

As far as we can understand, we cannot travel FTL. But a warp bubble doesn't break relativity and allows us to cheat the system I guess and travel FTL without actually traveling FTL.

[Kham-Ryn Kurios]

Okay when I think FTL I think instant transmission; blink out and blink in at another location.

Is that what it is because everyone I talk to has a different opinion on FTL.

[ThreadJack]

I think it's a government conspiracy.

[reiperx]

Okay when I think FTL I think instant transmission; blink out and blink in at another location.

Is that what it is because everyone I talk to has a different opinion on FTL.

That's actually how it worked in the Old Man's War series (really good 3 - 4.5 book series (3 books, 1 book written that plays in parallel with the 3rd book, and a short story between 2 and 3)).

[Manroon]

Faster than light travel is any mode of travel that moves the matter faster than the speed of light, so theoretically even a really fast teleporter would count, or time travel too I guess. And Rei, that's great. Warp Drive is it's own Inertial Dampener! LOL Very convenient.

Oh, and would someone play the 'I Dream of Jeannie' theme for Kham the next time he blinks? XD

[Noriko]

Moving faster than light IS time travel. In the wikipedia link I sent earlier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_antitelephone) this is described for sending signals with tachyons. Person A sends a FTL signal to person B, who sends the signal back to A and the return signal arrives there before A sent the original signal. If you send a person instead of a signal, it's time travel.

A "minor" problem is that this breaks causality and is thus a big no-no.

[Nhylus]

The warp bubble seems plausible if a way to maintain or create one is found. The bubble moves FTL but protects the ship inside of it from traveling through time or ripping into oblivion from the forces at hand.

[Darth Trie]

I don't see a starship. To me it looks more like Yoda's house on Dagobah.