{"id":126474,"date":"2021-08-19T07:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/someone-is-trying-to-build-a-star-trek-impulse-engine-for-interstellar-travel"},"modified":"2021-08-19T07:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:23:44","slug":"someone-is-trying-to-build-a-star-trek-impulse-engine-for-interstellar-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/someone-is-trying-to-build-a-star-trek-impulse-engine-for-interstellar-travel","title":{"rendered":"Someone Is Trying to Build a STAR TREK Impulse Engine for Interstellar Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bp8fk5rosI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at NASA have adjusted their forecast of an Empire State Building-sized asteroid it predicts could potentially smash into the planet.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Have you ever heard of the phrase \u201clife imitates art?\u201d Well, two scientists are out to prove that science is not exempt. Or, at least, it shouldn\u2019t be. Taking a cue from <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/star-trek-playmobil-uss-enterprise-september-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Star Trek<\/em><\/a>, scientists Dr. Hal Fearn and Dr. Jim Woodward are attempting to build an \u201cimpulse engine\u201d to make <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/nasas-new-black-hole-visualization-is-straight-out-of-interstellar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interstellar<\/a> travel possible in a human lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>In the <em>Star Trek<\/em> universe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buildtheenterprise.org\/impulse-engines\/\">impulse engines<\/a> are used to provide a high thrust for a short period to break out of the orbit of a planet or moon. Which also speeds up interstellar travel and allows the team to \u201cboldly go where no man has gone before.\u201d Without that, we probably wouldn\u2019t have a <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/star-trek-struggled-lgbtq-characters-matt-baume-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Star Trek<\/em><\/a> franchise or the millions of space-dreaming fans it has accrued. But sadly, space travel is eons behind the sci-fi franchise.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fearn, it would take about fifteen to sixteen thousand years to travel to Earth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/earth-nearest-known-black-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearest star<\/a>. So unless real vampires are roaming the world, it\u2019s doubtful that interstellar travel will be reached during any human\u2019s lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at NASA have adjusted their forecast of an Empire State Building-sized asteroid it predicts could potentially smash into the planet. Have you ever heard of the phrase \u201clife imitates art?\u201d Well, two scientists are out to prove that science is not exempt. Or, at least, it shouldn\u2019t be. Taking a cue from Star Trek, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}