[Styxx]

Originally posted by Shrike
Culture drives rule.

Anything that can go from cruise of probably about 150,000 times lightspeed to an overclock of 743 TRILLION times lightspeed has got to kick ass.

Granted, most of us acknowledge that Banks probably didn't mean to have the Killing Time go that fast and just fudged the numbers.

Indeed. That, or farcasters (damn you, Shrike, for pointing me to the Hyperion books and not warning me that the first one ended like that! ) - you just have to get a ship there first, and you're done.

[NeoHunter]

I don't believe in the subspace or the Babylon 5 method of travellling. Its unrealistic. Its intersting but not realistic.

I think hyperspace (Star Wars) or warp (Star Trek) are the best sci-fi method of travel but a slight modification needs to be done to this method that sci-fi writers forgot to add in.

In a single galaxy, there could be trillions and trillions of systems since there are so many stars. Each and every system may not be aligned horizontal or vertical as the other system. Therefore, you cannot simply just jump to a planet in a system from where ever you are in a system.

The navigator would need to make a short jump out of the system, make more calculations to the outer edge of the detination system then make the jump to hyperspace. When the ship arrives at the outer edge of the system, another short jump needs to be made into the system to whatever planet.

But this would mean that lanes or routes need to be specified for all ships to follow or risk crashing into other ships or space objects like asteroids or even a planet!

[Redfang]

Hmm, hard, good, and interesting thread. I was going to vote for warp, but I haven't watched ST so I don't know, good that Tiara told how it is.
 
I wonder... stargate is good, but it needs two gates. Subspace is pretty good, as you can do inter and intrasystem travel. I don't know too much about SW travelling system (though I have watched all episodes except 3 of course), but it seems to be malfunctioning a lot. Babylon 5 travelling system is also pretty good, but I'll give my vote to subspace.
 
Edit: No idea about Spaceballs.

[wEvil]

I disagree, hyperspace (SW/ST) is a rediculous idea.

There's of junk out there....

A Zero Time Spacial Translation would be the only feasable method of getting anywhere.

Subspace is maybe an idealised version of it but it holds certain feasable aspects.   Either way, I cant be bothered to argue my point cuz im too hungry.

[Kazashi]

I've always been partial to the hyperspace travel from the Foundation series. A somewhat gut-wrenching, virtually instantaneous jump from one point to the other; the ship can jump as far as it has the power to, then jump again in short order (again depending on power available).

On the downside, it requires extremely precise calculations, lest you end up running into a big rock at the other end.

[Mad Bomber]

Ludicrous speed!! GO!!

[Styxx]

Damn, I hadn't noticed one of the options was from Spaceballs!!

GO LUDICROUS SPEED!!!

[Razor]

Originally posted by Shrike
......

Um, yeah.

Was that supposed to make sense?

And you call yourself a phisics student? You see that even Thunder got this. I CAN teach you physics!

[Stargazer_2098]

Best way to travel to another star: Tachyon Subspace.


Stargazer.

[vyper]

Stardate.... unknown
Tactical Officer: "Sir, vadar has started a poll that will soon be so full of spam it will grow at an exponential rate!"
Captain: "Helm, get us out of here - warp nine, any heading! Engage!"


One thing - you are travelling faster than light at warp - you're just not doing it "inside" normal space. (hence "warp field", hence "get-out-by-gene-roddenberry")

[Snakeseyes]

Originally posted by Tiara
Correction : Warp 0.1 till 9.9 is sublight speed.

Warp 10 = Speed of light

Wrong.

Warp 1 = c

Warp 2 = c^2

Warp 3 = c^4

Warp 4 = c^8

Warp 5 = c^16

Warp 6 = c^32

Warp 7 = c^64

Warp 8 = c^128

Warp 9 = c^256

Warp 10 = c^512

c=lightspeed.

[Carl]

and that's wrong, too.

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Carl
and that's wrong, too.

 
When you say that something's wrong, you should also say what's the right answer.

[JC Denton]

How about that Singularity Drive from Event Horizon?  Sure, you looked down the gullet of hell itself, but...

[Carl]

warp scale:

warp 1=c
warp 2=10c
warp 3=39c
warp 4=102c
warp 5=214c
warp 6=392c
warp 7=656c
warp 8=1024c
warp 9=1516c

[wEvil]

Originally posted by JC Denton
How about that Singularity Drive from Event Horizon?  Sure, you looked down the gullet of hell itself, but...

[Grey Wolf]

I like the grav drive in the Honor Harrington books. Not only do you move fast, you are protected on top and bottom (in normal space).

BTW, this page show the real warp drive computations:
http://www.ditl.org/scitech/hedwarpscales.htm

[Thorn]

The Improbability Drive

[delta_7890]

I like hyperspace.  ^^;

[Levyathan]

TriOptimum's FTL Drive, definitly. Not only is it fast, it allows you to rule the entire universe as well!