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We’re getting dangerously close to critical dudebro mass. Read more

Diabloville(tm) Read more

You’re right. Exactly. Take two points and shine a laser between them, close the distance between points, separate it with a sheet of platinum...wait, nevermind. I kept reading, and it seems I’m wrong. Jesus, I’ve been explaining it this way at parties for years! Boy do I feel like a donkey-tool. Read more

I like that concept Read more

Hi I’m a 15 year old from sc and I’ve always thought that the warp engine (used a matter/antimatter reactor to creat plasma and then the plasma was sent through a high heat resistance coil that was introduced to a electromagnetic current created a warp field to bend space and make it go faster than light). But what… Read more

no, what you do is think that the distance from here to the end of your room is like 4m, right (I’m guessing, let assume it’s 4m) you require a certain amount of time and energy to travel 4m

but what if you were to squeeze the room in front of you, so the distance in front of you contracts so the end of your room is… Read more

No, it doesn’t make it move faster. It changes the space to *allow* a higher speed of light. Read more

Won’t gef fooled again ! Read more

Exactly.
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There is a flaw in Einstein’s saying “nothing can go faster than light”. It should be “nothing can go faster than light inside this continuum”. The Alcubierre drive creates a “warp bubble” which detaches a spaceship from this continuum by bending spacetime. You can think of it like a gas bubble floating up in water.… Read more

Great,thx Jason , much appreciate it! Read more

Hello Jason, nice work, you’ve just about covered everything worth mentioning on the topic.but i wanna know why some of my comments are still pending? Read more

You are vastly mistaken.Please do some reading. Exotic matter creation through transmutation on an atomic scale below the feynman barrier is just around the corner.It is estimated that a single cube of this high density exotic matter will be weighing a mere 1,000,000 kgs or even more.This would be still 10,000 times… Read more

we should try Sulfuryl Fluoride then...thousands of times more effective than anything else. Read more

Bioengineering might be quicker indeed, but it yields serious, terrible racial issues, as if we humans, still fight hard to resolve our pending ones , not to mention other, yet unforeseen results. In short terms,you just can’t go around mingling with things and expect to get away with it unharmed.Nature does n’t work… Read more

I like the way you think.But,please,think BIG:Thus,enter, NANOTECHNOLOGY. Read more

ALL OF THEM.

1000 times this. Wing Chung was a badass. It should probably top the list. Read more

So many cool bits in that movie. The "bounce a sword off a guy's chest and casually snatch it out of the air on the rebound" move is the apotheosis of badassery. Read more

Considering the trouble bastards (original meaning — not the insult) caused and can cause within a system of rule by blood or divine right or whatever, you'd think it would be very important to NOT go around sleeping with the kitchen wenches and the peasants. At least not until you had firmly established a line of… Read more