sci- fi shows means of interstellar propulsion

[jasoncran]

Which is better warp drive or the hyderdrive( this aslo includes jump engines , faster then light drives)

no worm holes, or the stargates seen the movie stargate, or the tv series, and babylon 5, and buck rogers. those are totally different category.

jason

 

[Sparkey]

Hey Jason!

I don't know the theory of the hyperdrive. I could probably follow you if you took a second to explain it though. The "Warp Drive" is based on the thought that we are able to "Warp" past the speed of Light in a Vacuum. Hence "Warp 2" would be 2xC (where "C" is the absolute, the "constant" aka, the "Speed of Light").

An Alcubierre warp drive could (theoretically) create a bubble of energy behind a ship and a bubble "lacking energy" in front of the ship itself. Thus matter (mass) would not need an exponential increase of energy to approach the speed of light because space itself would be influenced to stream past the relatively stationary ship. The problem with the warp drive concept that would quickly appear would be how to avoid the creation of a black hole that would suck the ship then the entire earth past the event horizon. The other possibility would be that the warp drive would destabilize in the opposite direction and burn out in explosion creating heat approximating 10^32 degree Kelvin.

Where's my SPF 2000?

 

[jasoncran]

Hey Jason!

I don't know the theory of the hyperdrive. I could probably follow you if you took a second to explain it though. The "Warp Drive" is based on the thought that we are able to "Warp" past the speed of Light in a Vacuum. Hence "Warp 2" would be 2xC (where "C" is the absolute, the "constant" aka, the "Speed of Light").

An Alcubierre warp drive could (theoretically) create a bubble of energy behind a ship and a bubble "lacking energy" in front of the ship itself. Thus matter (mass) would not need an exponential increase of energy to approach the speed of light because space itself would be influenced to stream past the relatively stationary ship. The problem with the warp drive concept that would quickly appear would be how to avoid the creation of a black hole that would suck the ship then the entire earth past the event horizon. The other possibility would be that the warp drive would destabilize in the opposite direction and burn out in explosion creating heat approximating 10^32 degree Kelvin.

Where's my SPF 2000?

you are talking standard warp of star trek, in the original series, sorry this thread is on fictional methods on the tv shows,

I'll look up hyperdrive, some shows use the concept of creating a wormhole then traveling throught it. Like the ones on Babylon 5, and also stargate.

jason

 

[walter]

I forget which series had ion drive. Was it Lost in Space? :nag

 

[jasoncran]

I forget which series had ion drive. Was it Lost in Space? :nag

yes, they did, and that is actually real, it was used in the recent launch of probe to Jupiter, i will propel the probe after its slingshot several times, to its final destination

I forgot Lost in Space, i havent seen that in about 12 years

 

[walter]

Nasa has been working on it for quite some time :amen :yes

 

[jasoncran]

blake seven was another old sci-fi show ran on bbc, any one in the commonwealth of Brittian recall that one?