Alternative way of travelling 'faster than light' might be more related to string theory and popping into a different dimension where such limits don't exist - Although not sure how living creatures would survive the journey, but we do some how manage to survive the daily commute into work, so anything is possible!

"faster than light" is incorrect term. In compressed tunnel of space you will move faster than outside light, but inside light will move faster than you.

We need to be working on collision sensors, shipping lanes, survey sensors, shielding and a host of other things before we warp.

Mr. Rademaker has done an excellent job of making fine art of hard science. It is very impressive work.

There has been a lot of talk that this ship still cannot go faster than the speed of light for various reasons. However, even if it is constrained to 99% of the speed of light, it would still be a major advance in space travel. Imagine going to Mars in 5 minutes. Colonization of the solar system would be very possible. Imagine a family living on Mars that could still pop back to Earth to visit Grandma on the weekend. Scientific probes to other solar systems would be as possible as our current probes to our nearest planets.

Just build it out of unobtainium. Sheesh, people!

Yesterday, I thought I had logged in and written a comment. Today it is absent. The Warp Drive sounds good, especially after Dr. Alcubierre's theory in '94. Only problem is that Ben Rich, late head of the Skunk Works at Lockheedm declared to the graduating class of UCLA in '93, "We already have the means to travel to the stars..." Duh? And flying saucers were around in the late 40s and early fifties. Three were seen by workers in a cotton field in Arkansas. They were about a thousand feet high, one above the other. Only strange thing about the whole deal is that one of the viewers did not say a word about the whole affair, a man who had been a member of Military Intelligence during World War II. Not a single word. Talk about strange. O yes the speed of those things along with their right angle turns at terrible speeds suggest some kind of warp bubble. Whatever happened to Americans power of observation

It has only been some 80 to 90 years since Louis Bleriot, the Englishman-whose-name I cannot recall, then, the Wright brothers all flew their crummy little lawn chairs-with-crappy-lawnmower engines for a few hundred feet apiece. We now span the planet, soon there will be a very expensive way to see the curve of the earth, the ISS is still in service, etc. So maybe this warp drive and negative energy stuff justs needs some fermentation time. Too bad Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov and others are not here to see their dreams emerge into firstlight.

I want one.....now. How cool is this.

"...those are pure fantasy because the speed of light can’t be exceeded."
It cannot be exceeded using *known* physics. Who's to say we don't make a breakthrough in our understanding of how the Universe works, enabling us to do so much more than we're currently limited to?
That's the nice thing about science - it doesn't (or it shouldn't) stop seeking higher physical laws and greater truths.