Congrats SpaceX
Amazing launch yesterday http://www.spacex.com/webcast https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M I want a VR360 or VR180 video of Starman (it certainly would be great promotional material for the Oculus Go)...
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LZoltowski said:
One day when we achieve StarTrek level space flight. They will teach people about him in history classes at the academy.
DaftnDirect said:
yep, I was mad at forgetting about it until it was over... had to settle for watching a rerun of the live-stream. Still had my jaw dropping.
Did you watch Startrek: Discovery? He got a mention in it as a pioneer of space flight.
How are you going to move between point A and B faster than the speed of light? You can't transfer information faster than the speed of light. The phase velocity and surprising even the group velocity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_velocity#Superluminal_group_velocities) can go faster than c (the speed of light in a vacuum roughly 3*10^8 m/s or one foot per nanosecond) but not the signal velocity.
Maybe something with wormholes? Kip Thorne has talked about this but I have not really looked into it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole#Traversable_wormholes
Nothing goes faster than c except for Fortran.
https://www.space.com/28000-physicist-kip-thorne-wildest-theories.html