{"id":97423,"date":"2019-10-14T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T17:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/former-nasa-scientist-demonstrates-why-star-treks-warp-speeds-are-painfully-slow"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T17:42:50","slug":"former-nasa-scientist-demonstrates-why-star-treks-warp-speeds-are-painfully-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/former-nasa-scientist-demonstrates-why-star-treks-warp-speeds-are-painfully-slow","title":{"rendered":"Former NASA Scientist Demonstrates Why Star Trek\u2019s Warp Speeds Are Painfully Slow"},"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\/G-oI5Y4sAi8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the sci-fi universe of \u201cStar Trek\u201d, spaceships with warp drives can zoom past the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/warp-drive-study-department-defense-real-fake-2018-5\">normally impenetrable limit of light speed<\/a>, or about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>This trouncing of theoretical physics makes reaching alien-rich planets across the galaxy seem like just a convenient TV-commercial-break-length trip away.<\/p>\n<p>But a new animation by the planetary and space scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/physicsJ\">James O\u2019Donoghue<\/a>, who used to work at NASA and is now employed by JAXA (Japan\u2019s national space agency), grounds the warp drives of those fictional spaceships in reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the sci-fi universe of \u201cStar Trek\u201d, spaceships with warp drives can zoom past the normally impenetrable limit of light speed, or about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a vacuum. This trouncing of theoretical physics makes reaching alien-rich planets across the galaxy seem like just a convenient TV-commercial-break-length trip away. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97423","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=97423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}