Breaking one law of nature should allow you to break all the others, right?
September 24, 2012 2:42 AM Subscribe
Would cheap FTL flight mean free unlimited energy?
Say someone gave you a school bus sized vessel that could transition from a dead stop to 10 times the speed of light using only the amount of energy stored within an ordinary car battery. The vessel is not capable of going any other speed and appears to accelerate instantly. It is irreproducible and you have no idea how it works.
Using this vessel, how would you go about permanently solving the world's energy problems? Bonus points if, aside from this vessel, your solution requires only existing and readily available technology.
Say someone gave you a school bus sized vessel that could transition from a dead stop to 10 times the speed of light using only the amount of energy stored within an ordinary car battery. The vessel is not capable of going any other speed and appears to accelerate instantly. It is irreproducible and you have no idea how it works.
Using this vessel, how would you go about permanently solving the world's energy problems? Bonus points if, aside from this vessel, your solution requires only existing and readily available technology.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry but this is hypothetical chatfilter, and not really what Ask Metafilter is for. -- taz
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posted by Chocolate Pickle at 3:53 AM on September 24, 2012