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NASA'S Latest Warp Drive Design Looks Very Familiar

NASA'S Latest Warp Drive Design Looks Very Familiar


Have you ever wondered what a real-life ship designed for faster-than-light travel might look like? Matthew Jefferies, legendary designer of Star Trek's Enterprise, took a pre-Enterprise stab at it in 1965, but NASA engineer/physicist Dr. Harold "Sonny" White recently joined forces with artist Mark Rademaker and longtime Star Trek graphic designer Michael Okuda to create a model -- using genuine mathematics -- of an updated version of such a ship. Oh, and guess what they called it?