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by KejalBuris » Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:10 am
Yep. Heard about it. Quite happy, actually, because it brings FTL to people who were some real downers.
As I've said to many people who've asked me why I follow with bated breath every small piece of news that comes out of any particle acceleration facility, when the first starship is built, we already know her name. We know more about her than we probably should, because the funny thing is, life imitates art. What is it that allows us to control M/AM reactions? Lithium crystals. And what's the best fission material? Yep, deuterium. Which means that one of the most pure M/AM reactions is from deuterium and anti-deuterium. And ODN is just high-density fiber-optic connection, similar to a T3 line. To create the processing needed, we just use a multi-processor setup, like, say... 1024 of the 2.8GHz Intel Xeons? And storage is just as simple. Several 2TB SSDs linked together in a high-level RAID structure.
When we get the Enterprise, there will be wars among Trekkies just to be onboard, let alone hold a real post. I just hope it's in my lifetime. Because the tools are here in front of us, begging to be used together. Someone with the authority and the knowledge will get it together.
That one small step closer to a working theory for a warp drive 
