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[ChairmanPoo]

By "science" you mean "cracked" right?

This is gonna be sweet until the first ship comes back full of demons.

I wish Cracked was more accurate... I stopped reading it a while ago after I noticed how far its credibility was stretched in my head.

Cracked is inaccurate in its facts. Also, often has an agenda when they raise certain issues. Still, it's worth a visit as a time-killer once you've exahusted the webcomics of the day

Daemons aren't gonna eat your eyes. I mean, they're not unreasonable.

However I'd like very much to take a peek into the warp. Just, ya well, to see what it looks like.

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Demons aren't unreasonable, they said...
Just take a peek, they aren't gonna eat your eyes for that, they said...

[Darvi]

Daemons aren't gonna eat your eyes. I mean, they're not unreasonable.

However I'd like very much to take a peek into the warp. Just, ya well, to see what it looks like.

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Demons aren't unreasonable, they said...
Just take a peek, they aren't gonna eat your eyes for that, they said...

TOTALLY WORTH IT.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The demons better hope our FTL doesn't take us to them. You don't want to play the extermination game with humanity, oh no.

[warhammer651]

The demons better hope our FTL doesn't take us to them. You don't want to play the extermination game with humanity, oh no.

If it does take us to them, will I be able to drive a tank into battle against the legions of hell?

[Helgoland]

Yes you will, Timmy. Yes you will.

[Starver]

I'm sorry, Timmy, there's no more budget for tanks.  Here's a baseball bat.

(I'm sorry, demons, there's no more budget for tanks.  We're giving Timmy a baseball bat.  You may find what happens next now slightly more painful that it could have been, even though it isn't even your fault that the children of humanity have been let loose on the Legions Of The Damned.  What can I say?  You were in the wrong meta-dimension at the wrong meta-time...  If it had been up to me, I'd have sent in my friends' 10-year-old with a sniper-rifle to do the job cleanly and efficiently, but he's too busy fighting recalcitrant Covenant factions, whatever Flood remain, Forerunners and any other humans and fellow Spartans who get in his way.)

[Zrk2]

The demons better hope our FTL doesn't take us to them. You don't want to play the extermination game with humanity, oh no.

Unless you're better at it then us. While humans are extremely hard to kill, we're also extraordinarily fragile.

[RedKing]

Do you think the demons are there, telling stories about the humans committing severe acts of depravity, destruction and horror, whilst they go around in a cultured, peaceful hellish landscape?

"By Qliphoth! I read that they...they...JOKE about breeding mermaids in captivity to harvest for their skin and bones."
"Monsters...."

[kilakan]

Mostly posting to watch this and to say...  I don't care how destructive it is, this would be an incredible milestone for science and technology.  I can never believe the amount we move forward every decade..

[Urist McScoopbeard]

So if this works out they way in which most references point (Event Horzion, bitches) we're going to need Lawrence Fishburne to fight random white people in space... AGAIN.

[Flying Dice]

"Fly me closer, I want to hit them with my bubble of distorted space-time!" works for me.

[Luke_Prowler]

Takes "Ramming Speed" to a whole new level.

[Lightningfalcon]

Does this mean that when I graduate from college and get a job at DARPA that I will have a valid reason for project Space Marine?

[Virex]

As I recall, this still requires some exotic matter. Also someone will need to explain to me how they plan to accomplish the expansion of space-time; contraction is easy comparatively.

Well, under some circumstances the Casimir effect could do that, IIRC, but then you're looking at a nanometer-scale device.


Edit: the Scharnhorst effect, which is a consequence of the Casimir effect, could increase the speed of light. If I'm not mistaken, the geometry of space is tied to the speed of light, so in a sense the Scharnhorst effect changes the geometry of space. Don't ask me if you can generate an Alcubierre drive in this way though.

[RedKing]

"Fly me closer, I want to hit them with my bubble of distorted space-time!" works for me.

Yeah, I was thinking that firing a host of drones with small Alcubierre drives on them would make a great weapon. Have them go superluminal close to the enemy hull (or enemy planet) and watch the fireworks. Sure, the drone will get cooked in a sea of plasma shortly thereafter, but if that plasma was formerly the hull of the ship (and some of its innhabitants), then mission accomplished.

Or in the case of planets, see how far it can penetrate into the atmosphere before failing, leaving behind a downward pressure wave of expanding plasma. Not to mention if the drive stops suddenly, you're going to have a shockwave created by that compression front suddenly not being compressed. Only, it's not just an atmospheric pressure wave, it's a spacetime pressure wave. Not even sure what the fuck that would do, but I'm assuming it would be bad for the target.

This is assuming that the drives become relatively simple and cost-effective to manufacture, of course.