The Al-Cubiera Drive is the name of a speculative warp drive that could make it possible to travel

anywhere in the universe in the blink of an eye. And NASA even has stuff about it on their website.

Is such a drive a reality?

Might aliens be using something similar to visit us here on Earth. With real physicists and

NASA all behind it, might we be visiting other worlds in the near future? We're

going to find out right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com

Testing Al-Cubierras War Drive

Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience, real history from fake history, and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not.

Today I want to talk about something that has penetrated a bit farther into pop culture

than I ever would have suspected, and it comes from the comments posted online to my 2023 film,

The UFO movie They Don't Want You to See.

The film talks a lot about the physical laws of the universe,

among which is the fact that nothing can travel faster than light.

This annoying limitation drastically reduces the possibility

that neighboring interstellar civilizations will ever get to visit one another.

Many of those who watched the film are among those who believe that aliens already actively visit the Earth.

And so one of the frequent comments was that scientists are wrong about the laws of physics.

Aliens, they declare, are far smarter than humans, and so have undoubtedly figured out ways around nature's absolutes.

As evidence, many of them cited the Al-Cubiera Drive,

a hypothetical Star Trek style warp drive, proposed by physicist Miguel Al-Cubiera in 1994.

And so today we're going to put the Al-Cubiera drive to the test.

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