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crankylinuxuser on Aug 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Alcubierre drive

And don't think for a minute that the first human company that gets that tech wouldn't do the exact same thing.

Wilbur and Orville Wright did precisely that for flight until the US govt dismissed the patents due to WWI. The patents, and their insane lawsuits, were poisoning the whole US on flight. Europe grew by leaps and bounds, and had all sorts of aircraft.

throwawaykf05 on Aug 15, 2018 [–]

This story is oft-repeated here but this paper provides convincing historical industrial evidence that it's a myth: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2355673

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