The year is 2099. Humans have sapped all the heat energy from the planets core. The planet is about to undergo a cataclysmic event where no life will survive.

What do you mean you don't know how it'll survive?

They complete starship.

They can keep getting investments in the meantime.

I really don't know enough to say one way or the other, but they claim it's a real warp bubble, and they could use this research to make another one now that the structure works as predicted. And the picture in the article is supposedly a picture of the real experiment, a real warp bubble.

So seems like they did an experiment, recorded it all, and all the numbers worked out to be a warp bubble accidentally?

https://thedebrief.org/darpa-funded-researchers-accidentally-create-the-worlds-first-warp-bubble/

> “our detailed numerical analysis of our custom Casimir cavities helped us identify a real and manufacturable nano/microstructure that is predicted to generate a negative vacuum energy density such that it would manifest a real nanoscale warp bubble, not an analog, but the real thing.”

>“To be clear, our finding is not a warp bubble analog, it is a real, albeit humble and tiny, warp bubble,” White told The Debrief, “hence the significance.”

and by pure fluke too

>So, whether by pure coincidence or some sort of personal destiny, it appears that one of the handful of engineers on the planet who would immediately know what it was he was looking at when conducting his Casimir cavity research was in the exact right place at the exact right time to notice a striking similarity to his warp drive passion project and his current research, an observation that may have otherwise gone unseen.

Also this one has other details

>Through an incredibly serendipitous happenstance, it took an engineer conducting the research at the exact right time — one who was familiar with warp technology research and knew what he was looking at — to realize that this totally unrelated research had produced a warp bubble.

https://scifi.radio/2021/12/07/darpa-researchers-create-first-genuine-warp-bubble-by-accident/

edit: Lots of edits, sigh.

Haha reddit is great, random stories like this.

Further down someone says darpa made a legit warp bubble on a tiny (nano) scale by accident, and it seems legit, but I guess since it's so tiny it's not at black hole level?

Or it's yet another way to do it for less energy?

Well that's definitely better than of the known universe. Just gotta keep pecking away at it

I swear I read somewhere about one only requiring the energy somehow/someway involved in Jupiter?

That made me curious what was out there and my first result was Coca Cola using a smart machine for evil purposes instead of good.

>In 1999, the Coca-Cola Company tested vending machines that would automatically charge higher prices for cold beverages when the temperature got hotter. According to The New York Times, the variable pricing vending machines were outfitted with a heat-sensor and a computer chip.

If the dispenser is smart, it could even begin discounting the food as it gets older through the day to encourage purchases.