If you could do space travel any way

Any way you wanted. What would it be? How would you wanna see space and travel through it? Like outer space.

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I would like to travel in a ship that can bypass the limits of light speed by a significant fraction, but does so in a way that doesn't cause all the problems with time dilation that would be caused by actually travelling at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light. Something like the hypothetical Alcubiere warp drive that would contract spacetime in front of the ship and expand it behind.

It would also be nice to have some reliable artificial gravity system, whether that's a spin habitat or graviton emitters or what have you. And decent shields to protect from cosmic rays and micrometeroids and the like.

You know. Star Trek. I want to live in Star Trek.

Ananke · 26-30, F

@DunningKruger Love it! Let's tell the scientists to get on it!! Haha!

DunningKruger · 61-69, M

@Ananke Saw a paper a while back about some physicists who came up with some ideas on how to fix the problem Alcubiere had with his drive requiring negative energy in order to work, so, hey, it's coming along.