Prepare your anuses for a better reason

Terradude · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:09 am

Mankind has invented theoretical FTL travel.

Nintendawg · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:48 am

Smart people wrote:

A "warp bubble" would then be generated that moves space-time around the object, effectively repositioning it — the end result being faster-than-light travel without the spheroid (or spacecraft) having to move with respect to its local frame of reference.

Oh my God.
Dude.

Futurama called this so hard.
How did that even happen?
I need to find that clip.

Prof. Chaos · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:39 pm

MY ANUS IS READY

Also how are they going to get around the whole 'running into a floating pebble at FTL speeds' thing? Seems to me that a rock isn't going to give a fuck about a vacuum warp bubble.

Terradude · **Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:17 am

Prof. Chaos wrote:

MY ANUS IS READY

Also how are they going to get around the whole 'running into a floating pebble at FTL speeds' thing? Seems to me that a rock isn't going to give a fuck about a vacuum warp bubble.

Because to my understanding, the ship isn't actually moving at FTL speeds, it's moving at regular ship speeds, while space expands behind it, and contracts in front of it, essentially making the distance they have to travel much shorter, while "pushing it" closer in addition.
So a floating pebble would only be as catastrophic as they normally are.
Which is to say, very, still.

Raiku · **Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:37 pm

Nintendawg wrote:

Smart people wrote:

A "warp bubble" would then be generated that moves space-time around the object, effectively repositioning it — the end result being faster-than-light travel without the spheroid (or spacecraft) having to move with respect to its local frame of reference.

Oh my God.
Dude.

Futurama called this so hard.
How did that even happen?
I need to find that clip.

It's the ep where they introduce Cubert.

Prepare your anuses for a better reason

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