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Now then... I expect all you ATS geniuses to work this out as I could really use a working model by the end of the year
Originally posted by Larryman
reply to post by zorgon
Now then... I expect all you ATS geniuses to work this out as I could really use a working model by the end of the year
I already have it 'worked out'. Forget warp drive - and develop "Extended Heim Theory" f-t-l hyperspace propulsion. Warp drive requires consuming Jupiter-size masses of energy. EHT requires only spinning a strong superconductor magnetic field. Now which of those two sounds easier?
... and btw, ET never got here by warp drive in the first place. No one has ever reported a UFO, having warp nacelles engines attached. ET's don't do warp drive... so we should not waste time on it either.
edit on 12/1/2010 by Larryman because: (no reason given)
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity….. anything you can imagine we already know how to do.” - Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works
Originally posted by Larryman
Zorgon... did Ben Rich ever state 'warp drive' specifically? Perhaps he was referring (in your quote of him) to a hyperspace drive instead.
If the Lockheed Skunk Works built the TR-3B gravity-shielding triangle ship... I don't see it as a warp drive ship either. But I do see it as being a hyperspace ship. No one has ever reported seeing any light distortion preceding or trailing a triangle ship.
This process would not produce the compressed and expanded space-time fields to distort any background light near the triangle ship. But the mass-less matter of the ship it's self may look a bit funky. And there are reports by people having been directly beneath a triangle ship, that it's bottom displays moving waves of light distortion.
Ed Fouche said the TR-3B was 'nuclear powered'. There is no nuclear power, that could fit within the TR-3B dimensions, that could produce energy equal to the mass of the planet Jupiter. So, I think the TR-3B triangle is using Extended Heim Theory hyperspace physics - derived from it's spinning magnetic vortex field, albeit generated from a spinning plasma, rather than a magnetic disc.
So, although Star Trek warp drive graphics are cool... I think Extended Heim hyperspace is the way to go for practical real faster-than-light travel. And with the side benefit of silent antigravity ship hover capability. I think you would have to wait a very, very, very long time for the Alcubierre warp drive technology. But the Heim hyperspace technology could be built now. And S & F for the thread subject. I welcome the opportunity to pit hyperspace saucers against Trekies' warp drive.
Originally posted by Gazrok
Still though, it wouldn't surprise me if he did say such things.
Posted 10 March 2006 - 09:29 PM
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity….. anything you can imagine we already know how to do.” Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works
I actually have the entire speech on video....very....interesting, he died shortly after...imagine that
Originally posted by Gazrok
Another consideration is that we don't want to be atomized or transformed into energy, the first time we throttle up...
Originally posted by zorgon
Okay no problem... an Extended Heim hyperspace drive system will work for my prototype too. When can I have it by? And 'anti-gravity' is a really bad term. Every time someone uses that they get laughed out of the peer circle and ridiculed. As long as lift is supplies, an ordinary airplane defies gravity. We need to use a new term. 'gravity shielding' is one, but not quite right either.
But they have a lot of papers on that at LANL too
Originally posted by Gazrok
The power needed by the equations is always mind boggling, and far in excess of even what we could imagine producing, let alone manage or contain.
In an e-mail, dated July 29, 1999, apparently addressed to Lindemann, McDonald referenced an excerpt of a discussion with Harold Puthoff, founder of the highly classified U.S. “remote viewing” program.
McDonald said: “Well Hal, you asked for it! Now that legendary Lockheed engineer and chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation, John Andrews, is dead, I can announce that he personally confirmed the design connection between the Roswell Spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), spyplanes, Joint Strike Fighters, and Space Shuttles.