Many of us want to see interstellar travel. Some of us want to explore the wonders of the universe. Some of us just want off the planet.
The good news is that it is becoming closer to a reality. Unlike the famous Alcubierre drive, which speculated the existence of some factors that are still unknown, a new model is in the works on paper. It is an engineering concept consistent with known physics, and is already being refined in its infancy to answer challenges regarding its viability.
The bad news is that it is not a means of faster-than-light (FTL) travel. But this is okay. because if we achieve it, it is an efficient means of travel that will save us a lot of time in getting places. We won't have to rely on fuel conservation techniques and sling shot maneuvers using gravity. We will be able to just travel a straight and narrow path. This will at least better prepare us for our exploration and civilization within the solar system, and can serve as a first step towards interstellar travel.
Constant Velocity Physical Warp Drive Solution (HTML)
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Advanced Propulsion Laboratory at Applied Physics
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
UCLA Department of Physics & Astronomy
WarpFactory
GitHub - Nerds with Attitudes
An open source program for analyzing warp drive spacetimes
Battle of Seattle, 1999
Back in the day, people were far less afraid to make their voices heard, because they had far less to lose and were pushed to more severe circumstances. The battle of Seattle was a unique riot, because most of the riots that have taken place in the U.S. prior to it were over racial injustice, the most notable one from my generation being a result of the police brutality of Rodney King going unanswered.
The Seattle riots in 1999 weren't racially motivated, but instead motivated by the World Trade Organization meeting scheduled to take place there, and peoples' concerns over tightening international laws in favor of capitalism. For about a day, there was a peaceful demonstration with overwhelming numbers, but that soon turned into rioting after both police exacerbated the situation with force, and anarchists showed up and started breaking everything. What resulted was 40,000 people trying to burn the city down.
Living Family Heritage and Me Ancestry
It's frustrating to know since their inceptions that services like Ancestry are not a reliable sources for tracing family lineage, so imagine the frustration of some when people still use them and say they found out they are X, Y, and Z. Even despite several investigative news reports coming to the surface, Ancestry and services like it continue to grow in popularity and rewrite peoples' history. To address this, they always fall back on their "limited scientific capabilities," but it should be noted that most of them only analyze a fraction of each DNA sample and don't share their data with anyone, which makes it by definition unscientific.
