oh, tasty!

[solarbird]

This is fun:

Warp Drive Engine Would Travel Faster Than Light
Eric Bland, Discovery News

July 28, 2008 -- It is possible to travel faster than light. You just wouldn't travel faster than light.

Seems strange, but by manipulating extra dimensions with astronomical amounts of energy, two Baylor University physicists have outlined how a faster-than-light engine, or warp drive, could be created that would bend but not break the laws of physics. "We think we can create an effective warp drive, based on general relatively and string theory," said Gerald Cleaver, coauthor of the paper that recently appeared on the preprint server ArXiv.org

The only downside is that there's no idea yet about how to do the engineering. Oh, and, you need a star to power it. Hm...

Your results:
You are Dark Phoenix

Dark Phoenix 80% Poison Ivy 71% Mystique 69% Catwoman 67% Apocalypse 61% Green Goblin 57% Magneto 53% Mr. Freeze 53% Two-Face 49% The Joker 44% Venom 43% Dr. Doom 43% Juggernaut 41% Riddler 25% Lex Luthor 23% Kingpin 20%

A prime example of emotional extremes: Passion and fury incarnate.

Click here to take the "Which Super Villain am I?" quiz...


(Original quiz image here, I like this one better)

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Eh, once it's gotten around the Laws of Physics, it's just a matter of time before someone manages to work out the engineering and come up with the power for it.

As for the super-villain thing: Mr. Freeze? I'm supposed to be Mr. Freeze?!?!!? WTF?

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Is that an illustration of a Cardassian ship on the second page of the warp drive link?

[solarbird]

I don't know - they clearly got it from somewhere tho'.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen that picture before somewhere. I don't think it was Star Trek, though, some other SF series or something.

[epawtows.livejournal.com]

Hitchhiker's Guide?

[solarbird]

Okay, if that's the Heart of Gold, they earn +5 lulz.

[kairee.livejournal.com]

It is from Star Trek. They've taken a picture of the Klingon Negh'Var-class dreadnaught.

The original image seems to be here:

http://boi.alt-starfleet-rpg.net/index.php?title=Klingon_Imperial_Navy_Neghvar-Class_Warship

I get negative points for geekery...

[solarbird]

Dammit! I so wish that'd been the Heart of Gold.

Oh well. Nice spot, well done, One geek point to House Kairee.

[oh6.livejournal.com]

I guess this is better than the relativistic approach, which I recall required negative energy.

[meowse.livejournal.com]

I'm really quite encouraged. The Alcubierre warp drive has been around for a long time, (18 years, sheesh!), but it always took "more negative mass than the total energy in the universe" and such things. The fact that they've got it down to merely Jupiter's mass, and that no negative mass seems to be needed, is really quite hopeful.

Another few decades, another twenty or thirty orders of magnitude of shrinkage, and we'll be warping all over the galaxy in antimatter-powered starships. You wait and see.

[solarbird]

Awesome.

[loopback.livejournal.com]

I took that test. I'm Magneto, with The Joker a very close second.

What an odd result.

[solarbird]

YAY! CRAZY!

[ravyngyngvar.livejournal.com]

Bow before Dr. Doom!