Hyperspace Drive?

[Suicide Junkie]

Indeed, even if it is pure balognium, I'd still like to see what happens when we generate insanely huge magnetic fields.

If nothing else, it provides an excuse to try new things.

[geoschmo]

I am hopeful that some day we will discover some means to travel between the stars in reasonable amounts of time. But it's not likely to happen in any of our lifetimes. Centuries, maybe many centuries. But if we decide it's not possible and stop dreaming and looking for ways, it will never happen. I will be happy if in my lifetime the prospect of space tourism becomes a possibility for more then just the idle super-rich. I'd like to take a ride in a rocket some day.

[Kamog]

Well, if this guy's theories are right, it sounds like it would solve all sorts of unanswered questions in physics. I sure hope he's right!

Sometimes I wish that Feynman was still alive. I'd really be interested in hearing what his opinion is on this theory, I'm sure he would have been able to tell us very quickly if it's a bunch of nonsense or if it's worth investigating.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

This thread once more proved that I am living in EXACTLY THE WRONG TIME. Just a century or two earlier and we wouldn't even know there were extraterrestrial/extrasolar planets worth traveling to, and maybe a couple centuries in the future and we're building sleeper ships (or whatever) that allow you to travel to other solar systems in what to you is a relatively short time span, but which might actually take tens or hundreds of thousands of years. Oh hell.

[Randallw]

As a Catholic naturally I don't believe in Reincarnation, but up until a few years ago I wished that when I died I'd be born in the future and experience high technology such as space travel, but then cloning was invented and spaceship 1 went into orbit and now I wonder if perhaps I am living in a time where I can experience those things some day. I sometimes joke that perhaps I will be lucky enough to live long enough that anti-aging treatments will be developed.

Edit: Actually nowadays I wonder if perhaps I died 50 years ago and asked God to put me in an age of technological explosion

[ZeroAdunn]

I don't believe in reincarnation either, that is why I make sacrifices to my dark gods daily to extend my life.

[El_Phil]

Strat there were worse times than now, to mangle a quote by Crowley

"The good thing about time is that it take's me further and further away from the 14th Century. The most boring century in God's creation."

As for the future? Overated I'd say as we are all going to die because of Ebloa/SARS/Bird Flu/Flesh Eating Necrosis/Panic.

[Kamog]

Here's another new development in space travel physics...

This article says a new solution to Einstein's equation could allow us to travel close to the speed of light!

[Wolfman77]

I'm not sure I understand all the article, but I wonder what effect this will have on his theory.

[Hunpecked]

Kamog: "...a new solution to Einstein's equation could allow us to travel close to the speed of light!"

Now all we have to do is find a suitable mass already traveling at 57.7% of the speed of light in the right direction...and figure out how to overtake it!