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what exactly is hyperdrive? is it similar to warp drive?

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Exactly? I dunno. A magical Go-Fast thingy. It dumps a ship into a sub-realm of reality where you can exceed the speed of light.

Similar to warp drive? Yeah, in that both allow superluminal travel and are totally bogus, made-up sci-fi tech.
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Dr. Curtis Saxton did write a good article on it:

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SPOOFE wrote:Exactly? I dunno. A magical Go-Fast thingy. It dumps a ship into a sub-realm of reality where you can exceed the speed of light.

Similar to warp drive? Yeah, in that both allow superluminal travel and are totally bogus, made-up sci-fi tech.
Warp, made up?
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The Alcubierre warp drive has virtually no relationship to the ST warp drive.
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phongn wrote:The Alcubierre warp drive has virtually no relationship to the ST warp drive.
What? Why do you think that. Both warp space to be able to "surf" on spacetime.
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Look at the operating mechanics behind either warp drive, for one. They are not remotely similar.
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phongn wrote:Look at the operating mechanics behind either warp drive, for one. They are not remotely similar.
Thats true but they look to be based on the same idea.
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Looking at the date on that abstract, it's obvious the ST warp-drive is not the Alcubierre drive. Also, I may be mistaken, but I always figured ST warp was an alternate-universe drive - the ship moves in subspace, not 'realspace'.
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I heard in Star Trek a portion of a starships mass is submerged in subspace and then is accelerarated to FTL, the rest of the mass is dragged along. Not exactly like the alcuibree warp drive.
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The Shadow wrote:I heard in Star Trek a portion of a starships mass is submerged in subspace and then is accelerarated to FTL, the rest of the mass is dragged along. Not exactly like the alcuibree warp drive.
Which episode is that from?
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Gustav32Vasa wrote:
The Shadow wrote:I heard in Star Trek a portion of a starships mass is submerged in subspace and then is accelerarated to FTL, the rest of the mass is dragged along. Not exactly like the alcuibree warp drive.
Which episode is that from?
Not episode, I read in a fan site theorizing how a warp drive in trek might work. So it is not offical or canon, just pure speculation.
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