https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/science/space-travel-physics.html

Where’s Our Warp Drive to the Stars? (11/19/2018)

>Back in 1994, Miguel Alcubierre was a physics graduate student at Cardiff University in Britain. “I was watching ‘Star Trek’,” he recalled last year in a talk at Starship Congress 2017. (Yes, there are scientific conferences about how to build starships.)

>“It got me to thinking,” Dr. Alcubierre said, “if there was any way in which you could come up with a geometry of space-time that was similar to this idea of warp drive in science fiction that allowed you to travel faster than light.”

NASA hid WARP DRIVE from us, and then this schmoe pretends he discovered it after the fact.

Not coincidentally, the logo for Starfleet depicts the tip of a serpent's tongue just like classic NASA. Star Trek was waving it all in our faces, all the nice toys we were never going to have…