What If We Had Working Warp Drive Technology?

If you could travel faster than the speed of light, where would you go? Mars?

The nearest star system Alpha Centauri? The distant stars in far galaxies? Does faster-than-light travel have its limits?

For all we know, nothing can travel faster than light. Lightspeed seems to be the universal speed limit for everything that’s moving in space.

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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere." — Carl Sagan

Produced by Underknown in Toronto, What If is a mini-documentary web series that takes you on an epic journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities. Join us on an imaginary adventure — grounded in scientific theory — through time, space and chance, as we ask what if some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence were different.

[soccerislife]

Would take 75 seconds to get to Mars but still 4 hours if you're passing through L.A.

[ThompterSHunson]

We need 155 days to get to Alpha Centauri, in an x10 times the speed of light. That really demonstrates the vast distances in space.

[illfuckyouwithachopsticks]

kid in year 5020 : mom im going to kepler-152b to buy shoes, I'll be back in 10 minutes

[thomasjdigennosr]

Space cop-Sir, you were doing warp 3 in a warp 2 zone!

[nayankulshrestha]

Travelling at the speed of sound was considered impossible before but here we are.

[Nisunsu]

What if Microsoft stop updating windows 10 so much?

[s.a.m]

When a spacecraft moving at speed of light, how it can manage to pass through another space object (meteors, comets, etc)?

[tk]

"How far into the cosmos would we make it?"
Indeed, how quickly would we warp ourselves directly into a black hole, out in interstellar space where they are all but invisible?

[Muhammad-fiwy]

The Problem with the Interstellar travel is that even the light speed is still too damn slow

[DontTripChocolateDrip]

Fun Fact: Even if we developed the energy and technology to travel the speed of light (and beyond)

We'd still need a navigation system that can perform its duty at the speed of light. The navigation system would need to include a suite of sensors capable of detecting the smallest of foreign particulates just as fast.

Colliding with a single grain of sand at the speed of light is theorized to be more devastating than a nuclear warhead

[andresmith]

@3:13 blew my mind. It's moments like that when you realize how small and how young we ALL really are as a species. It takes 20 years at traveling at light speed to even get near the edge of OUR OWN existence and solar system, and mind you once we even got THERE we would not even touched the beginning of a whole NEW solar system at that point. 🤯

[jdmlover]

1819:what if we can travel faster than sound?


2019:what if we can travel faster than light?

[MCUShortVids]

Thumbnail: NASA has warp drive


Title: *What IF we had warp drive?*

[RenMagnum]

If only we had a upgraded version of a warp drive that can go 9, 000, 000x the speed of light (hyperdrive speed)

[kellyrayburn]

I fully expect for us to have a working warp drive by 2150. Not sure how fast it will compress/expand space but I fully expect us to have made the leap by then. Heck, even 5 times the speed of light would be a quantum leap. And we won't stop at a measly 5 to 10 times lightspeed.

[JeanCarlos-hvzt]

I was about to make a joke about what if




but thats a topic for another what if...

[DevelopingRhYmEs]

Well, you wouldn’t want to travel to the sun.. that’s for sure.

[martyjoosten]

With that speed, your eyes are in the back of your head when you arive🤣

[TheExoplanetsChannel]

Where would I go? to the Earth-like *exoplanet Kepler 442-b*

[anasahmad]

Note my words "This would be possible one day."