The was Alan Dean Foster's drive too, project a gravity well in front of the ship and fall into it.
Derek Stanley
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> On Apr 24, 2015, at 10:40, [Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:
>
> Reading the article and examining the warp drive diagram again, I am
> reminded of Marc's standard 1980s-era convention FAQ answer to how
> antigrav drive worked to propel an air/raft through the atmosphere. He
> explained that it created a positive node (or push up) at the back of the
> air/raft and a negative node (pull down) at the front of the air/raft, so
> the air/raft was constantly "sliding down hill" and that created its
> forward motion, which is similar to what that warp diagram shows. How much
> fun it would be to try that in an atmosphere is another issue.
>
> So on that basis it looks more like an inertia-less drive. Newton not happy.
>
> Bonus off-topic minefield: The ring ship looks an awful lot like the
> semi-official spaceliner Enterprise that was in a bunch of books and made
> it onto the wall of the recreation room in STTMP. How come Marc and the ST
> guys always know this stuff in advance?
>
> > Meanwhile...
> > http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/04/nasa-may-have-accidentally-developed-a-warp-drive/
> > So assuming that it can ever be scaled up to the size of something as
> > large as a manned spacecraft, are we looking here in Traveller terms as
> > reactionless thrusters or more like something akin to stutterwarp? Or is
> > it something completely different?
> >
> >
>
>
Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPhone...
> On Apr 24, 2015, at 10:40, [Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:
>
> Reading the article and examining the warp drive diagram again, I am
> reminded of Marc's standard 1980s-era convention FAQ answer to how
> antigrav drive worked to propel an air/raft through the atmosphere. He
> explained that it created a positive node (or push up) at the back of the
> air/raft and a negative node (pull down) at the front of the air/raft, so
> the air/raft was constantly "sliding down hill" and that created its
> forward motion, which is similar to what that warp diagram shows. How much
> fun it would be to try that in an atmosphere is another issue.
>
> So on that basis it looks more like an inertia-less drive. Newton not happy.
>
> Bonus off-topic minefield: The ring ship looks an awful lot like the
> semi-official spaceliner Enterprise that was in a bunch of books and made
> it onto the wall of the recreation room in STTMP. How come Marc and the ST
> guys always know this stuff in advance?
>
> > Meanwhile...
> > http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/04/nasa-may-have-accidentally-developed-a-warp-drive/
> > So assuming that it can ever be scaled up to the size of something as
> > large as a manned spacecraft, are we looking here in Traveller terms as
> > reactionless thrusters or more like something akin to stutterwarp? Or is
> > it something completely different?
> >
> >
>
>