starship-design: purported "warp-drive" breakthrough

[Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>]

I can't believe I seem to be beating Kyle to posting this, but
one of the top stories on slashdot.org today concerns a paper
claiming that the energy requirements for an Alcubierre-style
"warp bubble" can be drastically reduced, particularly that the
negative energy required is now only on the order of grams
(still, assuming you can make negative energy at all).

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9905084