>> BTW I wonder what they're going to do about the possibility of plowing into a small rock fragment at several times the speed of light? They will use superin

>> BTW I wonder what they're going to do about the possibility of plowing into a small rock fragment at several times the speed of light? They will use superintelligent AI to pilot the ship and it will avoid obstacles automatically. [Edit: jokes aside, a warp drive doesn't move the ship. It only distorts the spacetime around it. So there's no danger of hitting anything. Effectively, the ship remains immobile inside its little warp bubble and the warp bubble is displaced along space without actually moving. You know, like cats.]