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Posted: **Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:20 pm**

.. but they're working on a real-life warp-drive:
http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-bu ... warp-drive

Posted: **Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:27 pm**

"My early results suggested I had discovered something that was in the math all along," he recalled. "I suddenly realized that if you made the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger — like shifting from a belt shape to a donut shape — and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly reduce the energy required — perhaps making the idea plausible."

A doughnut shape – also known as a torus!

Posted: **Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:33 pm**

Disembodied wrote:
A doughnut shape – also known as a torus!

Damn - ninja'd!

Posted: **Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:34 pm**

Did somebody mention Doughnuts? Mmmmmm

Posted: **Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:46 pm**

Posted: **Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:48 pm**

Disembodied wrote:

<sniggers> Yep... doughnuts make the world go round!

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Might still be a bit early to pre-order your Cobra Mk 3...

Might still be a bit early to pre-order your Cobra Mk 3...

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