New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What about designing a subluminal warpdrive

Ask HN: What about designing a subluminal warpdrive
2 by JPLeRouzic | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Dear HNners, I am a bit sad about the current state of space exploration. I am thinking of an online Website that would help design with great details a warp-drive à la Alcubierre. Recently Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire claimed that, in principle, a class of subluminal, spherically symmetric warp drive spacetimes can be constructed based on physical principles, such as positive energy. This website would be a cross thing between Kerbal Space Program and a CAD program dedicated to high-energy manufacturing, the kind they may have used to design the HLC. The goal would be to design a subliminal warpdrive that could reach a speed of 1/100 of C speed. That would enable to reach Jupiter in 3 days. This website would be a serious thing, destined to attract talented people and ultimately inspire them to attract funding and build such a warp drive. Do you have any suggestions, particularly are there already some similar online efforts or efforts that could be modified and reused with not too much work (several man years?). I am thinking of online games without having anything specific in mind. Thank you!

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