[jbwbubba]

Of course we will have to get our Dilithium Crystals from the Martians, because they won't let us drill in Alaska.

[edcoil]

This used to be called a WARP bubble

[Billthedrill]

By "studied" they mean we've taken apart the one we have in Area 51 and are figuring out how to put it into a DeLorean.

[Brilliant]

if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster...

I don't think it takes 3 hours for light to get from Earth to Mars.

[billorites]

For God sakes man!
I'm giving you all she's got!

[jaydubya2]

I bet the G forces would be killer!

[ArrogantBustard]

Already operational:

[onedoug]

It would seem to mean having to change the fabric of spacetime everywhere in the universe, but for going into some hypothetical dimension change.

[Range Rover]

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm

Apparently there is a rumor floating around that the Navy tried something like this once.

[Brilliant]

The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.

He, he. I guess Heim must not have gotten a physics degree. Maybe this is just an attempt to make the Iranians divert their attention from the a-bomb to this thing.

[canuck_conservative]

"... where the speed of light is faster ..."

Garbage.

[SittinYonder]

Of course we will have to get our Dilithium Crystals from the Martians, because they won't let us drill in Alaska.

ROFLOL.

[johnandrhonda]

186,000 miles per second..it's not just a good idea, it's the law!

[cvq3842]

Will Howard Dean be the first passenger? Maybe he already made the trip. :)

(A swipe at Dean, not the technological efforts.)

[RosieCotton]

Feasible or not, this is kinda interesting.

[Vaquero]

are ye daft man? ye canna mix mater and anti-mater cold.

[RegulatorCountry]

If there is anything to this, above and beyond science fiction, we're fooling ourselves if we think that it will be used exclusively for space exploration. This would make for one heck of a rapid deployment force, militarily. Also, the proverbial "slow boat to China" could be replaced with a high speed transport to Siberia, or the Oort Cloud, for that matter ... so, dissidents, watch your mouth, lol.

[LibWhacker]

"If the theory is correct then this is not science fiction, it is science fact," Prof Hauser said.

DOH!

[Frenetic]

Chances are that if somebody is talking about it...it has already been done a long time ago.

I'm sure our government has a whole bunch of advanced technologies nobody knows about.

[IronJack]

The three hours includes a layover in Phoenix.

[Bratch]