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The New Warp Drive Possibilities
Season 7
Episode 15
Einstein's "nothing travels faster than light” rule seems to ensure that exploration of even the local part of our galaxy will be excruciatingly slow. But Einstein also gave us a glimmer of hope. He showed us that space and time can be warped - and so the warp drive was conceived.
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