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But apparently NASA is optimistically working on actual FTL.

http://techland.time.com/2012/09/19/nasa-actually-working-on-faster-than-light-warp-drive/

It sounds extremely hypothetical right now, and I doubt we will see any progress in our lifetimes, if ever. Nobody squash these hopes and dreams, though - I've always wanted to be able to travel to other worlds, read new books. (No, that's the whole appeal for me, new branches of alien fiction. Also, that's why I would like to travel to parallel universes, so I can watch the awesome second season of Firefly and the actual, non-bad third season of Gargoyles.) Even though obviously that's not happening, I want to preserve the fantasy that it might happen.

I'm more interested in counting the conspiracy theories in the comments to this article on whatever was found on Mars.

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=130002VDRYP8

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From:

crystalpyramid

antimony says:
NASA has been throwing a tiny bit of its budget at a warp drive for ages, and every once in a while the media finds out about it and geeks out over it. It's basically a theoretical physics lab with a cool name and a propulsion focus, plus an open SBIR (small business research grant program) topic for proposals in case a hobbyist invents a prototype in their garage.

Edited Date: 2012-12-01 03:24 pm (UTC)

From:

conuly

Interesting, but I'm going to go ahead and pretend I never saw this comment. It squashes the little hope I had for the future. You understand.

From:

crystalpyramid

It's fine. Personally, I figure that just because people have been working on something a while doesn't mean it will never happen, but maybe I'm the only one still holding out hope for fusion...

From:

conuly

Well, we already do have fusion, and if we just put up more solar collectors we'll be veritably in the clover.

Me, I'm old school. I hold out for perpetual motion, and squaring the circle.