<p>It's nice to have real world warp drive in our life time</p>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwZt1Yh4-1U">
<p>Current maximum warp is calculated to be TEN TIMES the speed of light</p>

I heard NASA is updating us on this project soon.

More details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=cii8mAbiKJE&feature=endscreen

'White', why the hell couldn't he have been called Cochrane?

maybe when it is working, he will change his name by deed poll?

If he's got any sense of decency and continuity he jolly well will.

Here's hoping that it's actually going to happen in our lifetime. I'd like to see us conquer interstellar travel and can only imagine the possibilities there-in.

I'd like to see more advances in off planet construction and space habitats, etc.

I can't imagine how things would be travelling to other worlds with our current state of the art landing craft and space suits etc.

 

That's always been something that floats into my mind when NASA talk about space travel. how clunky and fragile our current systems are.

Agreed but if we could get one off-planet settlement going then I'm sure it would get easier with time.

 

The biggest issue I foresee is living aboard a spaceship for 2+ years. We'd need a whole new form of ship, nothing like we've built so far to handle an eco-system that wouldn't drive people insane and had space for all of the essentials.

 

Maybe it's time for some big space-fairing company to start making the Enterprise from Star Trek.

You guys sound like you havn't heard... this is just weird.  I'm trying to convince my wife to let us apply:

You guys should check out the Skylon earth to orbit plane the first aircraft than can take off from runaway fly into orbit and then cruise back down again without rockets.

Can't remember the exact figures but I'm sure it cuts the cost of orbital space travel to one tenth it's current price.

 

It does it by oxygen breathing sabre reaction engines that cool incoming air so it doesn't have to take it's own oxygen for flight.

 

Been confirmed to work and out around 2020

oh yeah, is that the mach 4 aircraft? I'm really looking forward to it.

Wow, this all looks incredible.  Somewhat stunned by just how fast we're advancing technologically.