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#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Alcubierre Drive, Is It Possible?
The Alcubierre drive where you warp space time in front of you so as to greatly reduce the distance. The problem I see with that beyond the practical difficulties and the energy requirements is how do you get out of this bubble through which you're riding a wave of space time? It's not like you snap your fingers and say, okay, let that space there be compressed and then I'll make it over to Alpha Centauri in the next month. That journey that you mentioned, the long journey, might be different if somehow our understanding of genetics, of understanding of our biology, all that kind of stuff would improve life expectancy.
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