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Submission + - Space.com: Warp drive not impossible 1

Submitted by Trunks on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @02:38PM

Trunks writes: No doubt trying to ride the hype train that's currently going for the new Star Trek film, Space.com has a new article detailing how warp drive may not be impossible to acheive:

"The idea is that you take a chunk of space-time and move it," said Marc Millis, former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project. "The vehicle inside that bubble thinks that it's not moving at all. It's the space-time that's moving." One reason this idea seems credible is that scientists think it may already have happened. Some models suggest that space-time expanded at a rate faster than light speed during a period of rapid inflation shortly after the Big Bang. "If it could do it for the Big Bang, why not for our space drives?" Millis said.

Simple, right?

Comment But Media Factory is a JAPANESE company. (Score 1) 972

by Trunks on Tuesday February 01, 2005 @10:54AM (#11540586) Attached to: Fansubbers Under Fire

My opinion as a very minor fansubber (and this is held by various large fansubbing sites I'm not going to link from slashdot) is that it is fine to fansub until some American company announces they have aquired the licence to an anime, at which point you stop.

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These companies don't appear to be going after fansubbers who are fansubbing things which haven't had, and probably won't get, an American release.

In this case with Media Factory, it's the original Japanese company behind the anime requesting fansubs getting pulled, and many of their titles aren't licensed and may never get picked up by an American distributor either since they're pretty niche such as Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien.

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