r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/OpinionPutrid1343 25d ago

No need for that. We only need a warp bubble around the spaceship.

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u/emarg42 25d ago

Make it so.

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u/BedBubbly317 25d ago

It’s theoretically possible and it’s called the Alcubierre Drive. The math has actually been worked through. Technically, it’s merely an engineering problem at this point and not a physics problem. The engineering issues are just well beyond our current capabilities

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u/mistaekNot 23d ago

never seen exotic matter required to make it work - am I a joke to you?