Tech...

[abditus]

I've been meaning to come up with a list of technologies that I never honestly expected to see in my lifetime, even if only in the theoretical stages.

Well, a warp engine is now one of them.

Comments

[emberleo]

Holy....

Um, the first thing that comes to mind is "What does generating that kind of field do to anything near it?"

--Ember--

[devonapple]

Rumors indicate that tests just like this one took place or caused the Bermuda Triangle. How much of that is pure speculation or fantasy, I haven't researched, so chalk it up as Rumor.

However, as I have heard a first-hand report of how the government took a generation of schoolchildren and irradiated their heads to see what would happen, I imagine that people have already found out what a high magnetic field would do to the human body.

[abditus]

Yeah, I was wondering about that myself. But there are already experiments with high levels of magnetism -- the ones where they levitate frogs. (Though these experiments obviously don't generate enough magnetism in such a way to create a warp field). The short term effects of levitating frogs seem to be harmless. But I suspect the warp engine will end up altering DMA due the the quantum flux of the something-or-other-Star-Trek-related if you get too close to it and cause sterility/cancer/god-like-powers.

[ivorjawa]

Can I get the sterility and god-like powers without the cancer, please?