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Planoforming
A form of "faster than light" travel allows for interstellar travel. (Read the full article)
| "Um, that would be Cordwainer Smith, Dr Paul Linebarger." (Charlie Martin 12/12/2010 9:03:28 PM ) |
| "Sigh... this is one of the hazards of writing your site from scratch. You see, when I pick from the author list, it only shows the last name. Who knew I'd end up with 5 sf authors named 'Smith'? I got distracted after entering the item, and forgot to go back and check to see that I had the right Smith... Anyway, thanks much for commenting." (Bill Christensen 12/12/2010 10:15:38 PM ) |
| "Oops, I just realize how redundant my description was of this. This is why I shouldn't stay up doing research. " (Gatomon41 12/13/2010 10:29:46 PM ) |
| "John Campbell wrote about a drive pushing a vehicle outside of space-time to effectively go FTL in his novel "The Mightiest Machine". That's the first hyperdrive I know of." (Adam 1/4/2012 12:30:55 AM ) |
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