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Thank you very much to everyone who commented on and 
ed this piece! 
This image looks OK on my screen, but the color intensity, brightness and overall balance varies somewhat on the screens I have viewed this image on. Please keep that in mind when commenting! This is an illustration of a NASA warp ship concept design, created by NASA scientist Harold G. White. It was revealed at SpaceVision 2013. In fact, NASA are working on a 'warp drive' concept, very close to what is used in science-fiction TV shows such as Star Trek, because this drive concept does not break the theory of relativity, it circumvents it by compressing space-time. Thus, the ship never actually reaches light speed, but can even travel faster than. Note: This is a very simplified explanation.
RESOURCES:
- The Washington Post: The IXS Enterprise
- GIZMODO: How NASA might build its very first warp drive
- NASA Eagleworks Laboratories: Advanced Propulsion Physics Research
WIREFRAME:
MESHES: NASA Warp Ship Lightwave model by Ron L. Long (original design concept and model by Mark Rademaker & Dr. Harold G. White), Earth, background, composition & FX by me.
My artworks are not endorsed, sponsored, or affiliated with the NASA space program, all names & logos are © copyright NASA and their respective owners, and are used under "fair use" guidelines.
Comments and critique welcome.
Thank you to my wife TreeClimber
for inspiring me, and for all the memories! More of my works:
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Yes, Mark Rademaker created the original mesh. It is not currently available to the public. This particular mesh was created by Ron L. Long. Marks design has been out there for people to see for some time and you can see that there are differences between the two. Some of the proportions are not quite the same as well as small details. The biggest difference, however, is that Ron's model doesn't have the Centerdyne Drivers and Sublight engine. I built that to go with Ron's model.
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Thanks for your feedback. The credit for Ron L. Long came with the 3D model I used, and is for the Lightwave version (which is the software I use). I have no problem including Mark Rademaker as well, and I have updated the credit information accordingly.
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I applaud your vision and energy to speak out in this rendering, we have enough weapons, we need to use the resources we have to step out of our own backyard! Great piece!
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Thank you kindly, and yes, I couldn't agree more.
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The Alcubierre drive is as Comander Data would say "theoretically possible" although I wonder about causality violation? Nevertheless I badly want it to happen! Also I assumed the Hermes used a VASIMIR type drive but I could be wrong. Nevertheless brilliant job! I love realistic looking spacecraft....
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The Gaia's Hope ( dolphinsilverwolf.deviantart.c… ) is maybe a century ahead of us, and I based her on cost-effectiveness and engineering limitations of necessary components (a working fusion reactor, the particle accelerators, magnetic field generators, machine shops, labs, and of course, the crew spaces).
This design is centuries ahead of the Gaia's Hope, in which a bazillion engineering problems have been solved and technologies advanced, and the machinery needed to generate the spacetime torsions can be constructed in this manner.
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This is personally one of my favorite Enterprises. Not because it is famous, but because it is actually doable. That it might one day carry us to other stars in short periods of time.
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Thank you; yes, it's certainly in line with accepted design schematics and is a viable concept. Now we just need to figure out how create anti-matter without it completely destroying Earth's economy.
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Love this.... Thinking outside the box with accepted concepts. Seriously well done!!
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Nice job. Isn't it the spacecraft form "The Martian" ?
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No, the ship in The Martian was called Hermes and is a fictional design. But, the novel/movie definitely moved in the right direction. The Hermes uses an Ion Drive propulsion, a technology we already employ (for instance in the Dawn space craft), but we don't have anything quite as powerful for something the size of the Hermes.
This ship here is a conceptual design created by NASA scientist Harold White. It was shown at SpaceVision 2013, and is a prototype for a theoretical faster than light vessel design. Have a look at the links above in the description if you like. They explain further.
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Thank you very much! Nature at its best. I just imitate it!
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I know this is a farfetched thought but hopefully we'll able to start traveling faster than light in the next 40 or 50 years.
But nice work on the image by the way. Instant favorite
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Thank you!
Yeah, I would like to see at least some kind of experiment happen in my life time. Even a probe or otherwise unmanned space craft. Even if it blows up in the process. Just the notion that we're trying!
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I did read somewhere that we are doing unmanned test flights. But as of yet no success in breaking the warp barrier
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Nothing confirmed as far as I know, probably simulations if any. But this website might interest you: Tau Zero Foundation
The Tau Zero Foundation is a global volunteer group of scientists, engineers, writers, and entrepreneurs working together to advance the goal of interstellar flight.
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Hopefully faster than light travel will become a reality in our lifetimes
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The dreamer in me hopes so very much; the cynical realist, however, doubts it. As a species we are far too much in our own way to make such a fundamental progress within 200 years from barely understanding electricity. I hope, for once, I'm proven wrong.
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Look at aviation how far that's gotten since the Wright Brothers. I mean even before that many tried to make a successful flight and now after a century since Kitty Hawk we already have jet propulsion. I honestly think Warp capability is a very real posibility
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I agree. A lot of the things they said could never be done 20 years ago, is now almost possible due to advances mainly in computer technology and storage capacity. Warp drive's main hindrance is the requirement for anti-matter which is very hard to create, and very, very costly in today's economy. Certainly no longer an impossibility.
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That and artificial gravity
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All you need for that is ship that can rotate slighty; similar to "The Martian". For now anyway...
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A nicely done piece of work; I flashed back to the 2001 space station.
The research is interesting, but Eagleworks Laboratories have made big claims in the past that haven't substantiated.
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Thanks! Well, we'll just have to see. Doesn't help that NASA gets scraps for funding... on the other hand, without visions, there can be no progress.
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As they say in the aerospace business: "No bucks, no Buck Rogers"
Let us hope there is another James Maxwell out there.
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Well, there kinda is with Professor Stephen Hawking; quantum physics made a lot of progress just because of him. Without Hawking we wouldn't even have a concept about singularities/black holes etc.
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No doubt about it that Hawking is beyond brilliant, but Robert Oppenheimer was the first to propose black holes (1939) which I suppose means there could be someone out there who might find a way around the speed of light glass ceiling.
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