Re: the race for warp drive

"a425couple"  wrote in message news:[email protected]...

On 6/27/24 06:50, [email protected] wrote:
> Warp Theorists Say We've Entered an Exotic Propulsion Space Race to Build 
> the
> World's First Working Warp Drive
> The Debrief, 27 Jun 2024
> An international team of physicists behind several revolutionary warp
> drive concepts, including the first to require no exotic matter, says
> that recent unprecedented breakthroughs in physics and propulsion have
> launched the world powers into a Cold War-style, 21st-century space
> race to build the world's first working warp drive.
>

My opinion - Yes, we need better propulsion for space travel.
But NO, we do not necessarily need to go faster than
the Speed of Light.  That feat, may indeed be impossible.
But slower than the speed of light still allows great
human exploration.

I think it is just incredible what we are doing with
robot machines and artificial intelligence in
our exploring on Mars.  Flying a helicopter!!

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This is the enabling technology for stable self-balancing flight:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrating_structure_gyroscope
I worked on a redesign of the Segway "gyro" which uses miniature motion and 
gravity sensor modules.
https://segwaynz.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/segway-gyroscope-silicon-sensing-keeps-pt-in-balance/

The "Kettering Bug" drone of WW1 had a gyroscopic inertial guidance system 
designed by Elmer Sperry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettering_Bug

Torpedos have a similar 2 dimensional guidance control to keep them on 
course, which in WW2 was automatically set by a sophisticated 
electromechanical computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_Data_Computer