Hyperspace is SO becoming a reality!

by E.doc


Okay. Get ready for the coolest thing EVER! Well, in nerd terms, which I totally am, even though I am not really the spacey type of nerd.

I'm not a Trekky, but the idea of hyperspace becoming reality is AWESOME!

The machine they are working with is even endowed with a totally corny totally unorginal science-fictiony name too...(insert music from 2001:A Space Odyssey)

The Z Machine!

Apparently this machine was originally intended to be used as a device that tested materials in extreme conditions of temperature and pressure, but it is also the worlds largest x-ray generator. It can propel things at 34 kilometers per second. For all of you with no idea how fast that is, it is faster than the speed that the Earth travels around the Sun. It is also three times faster than is required to get out of Earth's gravitational pull.

Let's make this easier. One Kilometer is about 0.6 miles. 34 kilometers is about 21.13 miles. Imagine traveling 21 miles in one second. That's like...pull-the-skin-off-your-face fast.

This technology could make it so that we can visit Mars on a daytrip! Total Recall style!

All of my science fiction fantasies are coming true in an instant. I love you Arnold!