> look up the warp bubble. basically bending space time around the craft so inside it's as if you're not moving but outside it can go ftl. right here would be the giveaway of the project. it would ostensibly require tons of testing and a program where pilots would rapidly age (compared to normal time) due to time in cockpit. at some point, wives/mothers or family would notice this affect on human test pilots or pilots in general. if it's drone flight, the safety issues would be near insurmountable and no fucking way you would test these over new jersey. how would you create a flight path for an object over civilian airspace for a rapidly accelerating and deceleration object with a pre-programned mission and not crash into a cessna at some point. if it's uav, how would you control something that moves so quickly over civilian airspace?
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