Planet Express Ships Engine

Scene from futurama season 2 episode 14 a clone of my own. Disclaimer "I do not own the rights to this in any way."

[bmtfirstaidtutorials]

If Matt Groening isn't a time traveller, or interdimentional traveller I'll eat my hat.

[Whether-Man]

The ship travels through space using Alcubierre drive...

[ninny]

Futurama predicted the casimir effect and it's related mechanism in warp bubbles to surf spacetime rather than rely on propulsion

[azbrunner]

This reminds me of the futurama episode when Hubert explains the ship doesn't travel faster than light, but that the ship stays still and instead it moves the universe around it.

[yerxiong]

You think the whole world revolves around you don’t you

Ship: we’ll actually…..

[devildavin]

this is how space travel in starfield feels.

[Alxium]

The reason the ship doesn't burn up or the crew experience insane g-forces is because the ship canonically moves the universe around it, while it stays stationary; a version of the alcubierre drive. Of further note, is that is takes about the same amount of time for the ship to reach the moon as light does, around 1.2 seconds. (The writers absolutely knew what they were doing here, a lot of them have PhDs)

[zigzagzwag]

mentioned this to my physics prof today. turned into cool conversation lol

[Verrisin]

Well, that's how all engines work... or movement in general...

[Saki-Malo]

Almost as cool as the planet express ship moving the entire universe around it

[lowearthsurfer]

This is exactly in 3D graphics math:
Alias : when a point In the world is moved but the coordinate axis are fixed

Alibi: when the point in the world is fixed, but the coordinate axis changes

Both modes of transforms achieve the same result, but each act upon a different frame of reference. (Fun fact, Futurama was made by math PhD's)

[whitemagicalhat]

What he is describing is an Alcubierre Drive.

[DizzleGamerViewer]

Cubert: The engines don’t move the ship at all, the ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it!

Atreus: What!
Kratos: That is madness!

[satireisnotdead]

You missed out the best bit, when he closes the hatch and says "Let's ride" all dramatically.

[vladislavakm]

what if there are 2 ships treveling in opposite directions from the origin?

[Viennery]

This explains those tic tac UFOs, the US military has already cracked gravity propulsion!

[ShyGuy]

I've had a couple weird dreams recently involving Kath Soucie the voice actress. One of them was two months ago where I'm working at some big chain store and she walks in like she's just an average customer, and for some reason, I'm the only one there who knows who she is. She approaches me, says hi, and I get all butterflies in the stomach nervous and my cheeks blush redder than a tomato, even though she's super sweet and down to earth. I say hi back in some weird squeaky high pitch tone, but clear my throat to try to talk more normal. She asks me about some item we have in stock, and when I try to look and sound all tough and manly to help her out, and she giggles and says I'm really cute. Another dream is where she's the voiceover of some annoying bratty smart aleck kid who acts and sounds like Cubert and I'm a weird hybrid of Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Lundgren who saves the boy after his parents get captured by some evil totalitarian regime.

[JoseLuis-gzim]

Bob lazar documentary says thats how the aliens space ship works

[catbert]

you cut off the best line in the entire series

[stephenv]

if u use a hadron collider try to move a heavy or immovable atom u can use that atom to propel the collider instead of the collider propelling the atom this will allow u to move like a ufo depending on the atom u are using it would have to be an atom that is everywhere including in the vaccum of space it also came to me in a dream its like whoever made this cartoon is from the fucken future or were all drawing from the same well hopefully someone figures it out cuz im a complete idiot