Warp field discovered by accident?

Just what's needed. Exporting mankind at his present level of development to the stars...what could possibly go wrong? 

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 1

Just what's needed. Exporting mankind at his present level of development to the stars...what could possibly go wrong? 

 

Everything Doc... most likely extinction.  

Well we are the race that satirises aliens as being hell-bent on an Earth-shattering Ka-boom, when actually it's more likely that we'll accidentally (or intentionally) space modulate ourselves out of existence.

Brace yourself universe, the humans are coming.

There is another way to look at this which could mean a more peaceful life for most of earths inhabitants.  If the malcontents and radicals can be convienced that their adventure lines in the stars that leaves Earth to those who are of the mind set to find a way to get along with one another.  Worth consideration, don't you think?  

[Humor]  Have you ever wondered why a universe teeming with life, (some sentient, some perhaps intelligent enough to stop using 'rationalizations' to justify doing stupid things) doesn't make an obvious undeniable public meet and greet with us earthlings (Terraites)?  Think of the original movie 'Day the Earth stood still' style meet and greet.  Why?  Because, unbeknownst to us, we humans are on a protected galactic reservation - nature preserve.  Ours is similar to the aboriginal tribes in that area of the Amazon Rain Forest:  controlled access.  Now all the saucers who fly by and startle some of us humans are really teenagers from Galactic society buzzing us, 'mooning us' if you will.  Or maybe all the 'probing' is part of one of their frat hazing projects? 

[Seriously]  The very evolutionary biology/sociology forces that have catapulted us to dominance in Terra's biosphere are the very same forces that will probably enable us, as a species, to rationalize the continued unbridled consumption / destruction of our planet's ability to sustain us.  Assuming, of course, that all our drilling, mining, and chopping down whole mountains for building materials,doesn't poke enough holes in the mantle - increasing magma migration to the surface.  Or... adding all the energy to the troposphere doesn't put our weather on steroids to the point we cannot safely go outside. Or...  never mind.  As long as we are able to rationalize treating some other humans as objects to be used, this will continue to its very end.  Welcome to Midden Planet.  Terra is just a larger Easter Island waiting to happen.  Earth is still the Planet of the Apes...   

[Disclaimer] IMHO  Be afraid, be very afraid.

Um......okay.

this is just NASA trolling, what has a laserbeam to do with a warpfield? and it's not even confirmed that the beam was faster than light and the test wasn't even setup to determine that and no care whatsoever has to been taken to avoid pausible faults.

we already know that there may be particles at the edge of the EM field around neutron stars that are slightly faster than lightspeed, but this, the above NASA fail "experiment" or the fictional Alcubierre drive brings us practically nothing in forming a space-faring civilization. because for that, we need to accelerate a huge amount of solid matter and not some near massless quantum particles.