So I was chatting with one of our clients yesterday, and he brought up a really
good point: We need a way to bend space-time, to allow for faster than light
travel or what we'll call "beaming technology" We're branding it as "Beam-Outs"

Here are the requirements:
*It must have two mouths which are connected to a single tube (called a
"Throat") Nikki mocked this up here: http://skitch.com/tylerwillis/xrpe/wh
*The wormhole must be traversable, meaning that matter can travel from one
mouth to the other by passing through the throat.

I think we've figured out how we can get it to work for us:
We should implement a wormhole that fits our client's needs. An inter-universe
wormhole would probably be overkill, as he's looking simply to travel to other
locations on Earth (and perhaps within this solar system). Let's go for the low
hanging fruit on this one and simply build an intra-universe wormhole.

There's currently a solution released by Albert Einstein under the Creative
Commons Share-alike license, which I think we can adapt for our needs as long
as we update it with new contributions. If needed, we can also reference the
work of Dr. Evil. Most recent research indicates that wormholes must be made of
spacetime foam (or "quantum foam" if you will) and must connect D-branes
together by way of a flux tube.

We need to build a special type of Lorentzian wormhole, which would allow a
human to traverse unharmed. We'll call this a "Krasnikov Tube"

Firstly, we must acquire some exotic matter (any substance with negative energy
density), perhaps we can put our new outsourced guys on finding this?  We'll
also need a flux capacitor and an energy source capable of putting out 1.21
gigawatz.

We must be careful that we use the proper mathematics for a Krasnikov, it would
be simple to make an error that would render the wormhole un-traversable.
Here's an example of what the wormhole metric might look like, see this mockup:
http://skitch.com/tylerwillis/xrpc/use-this-one-or-people-die

Eventually, the larger strategy is to implement a roman ring, which is a
configuration of more than one wormhole. This ring seems to allow a closed time
loop with stable wormholes, but we can probably wait until public beta for this
feature. For Launch, we'll need service between the following locations:
Redwood City, Switzerland, Mountain View, New York, Western Siberia, South
Beach, Taipei, and Canada.

Here are some resources that might prove helpful:
Creating a Traversable Wormhole by Mohammad Mansouryar
(http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=561)
Questions and Answers about Wormholes a comprehensive wormhole FAQ
(http://webfiles.uci.edu/erodrigo/www/WormholeFAQ.html)
animation that simulates traversing a wormhole
(http://www.spacetimetravel.org/wurmlochflug/wurmlochflug.html)

Until we can hire an astrophysicist (Matt has a listing up on craigslist, and
I'm pretty confident that we can get a student who's still finishing up their
studies pretty cheap), Noah will probably have to do most of the work himself.
Knowing that, I've found some "primers" that might get you moving in the right
direction:
**  http://science.howstuffworks.com/time-travel3.htm
** 
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Back_to_the_Future/60010110?lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=1404851132_0_0
**  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/strange/html/wormhole.html

I was thinking, we might want to higher a new QA team for this project, it
would be a shame to loose the ones we've already trained to the deadly grip of
space. Let me know your thoughts on this.

Let us marketing guys know if we can help.

Fixed!
It was actually pretty easy.  The user of the wormhole simply ingests a
compound to make their mind amenable to wormhole travel
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD) and then allow them to enter the actual
wormhole (http://www.acehose.com/mcart/images/ventduct22.gif).  More portly
users may need to use our add-on product (http://www.crisco.com/) to make it
through the wormhole.

Hi Tyler-

I'm reopening this bug. For some reason, a few of our testers are getting
really hot (body temp is skyrocketing) going through our staging wormhole.
Fortunately, they are not exploding into fireballs or anything like that. I
should say, though: The testers who have had to apply Noah's Crisco add-on
prior to wormhole entry are essentially getting pan-fried.

Resolving this into perfection will require a big collective effort on our
part. I don't want to reassign this reopened bug to Noah, since everyone really
needs to be working on the next iteration simultaneously and all the time.
Therefore, I have created a new collective assignee email account in Bugzilla.
In case you need to use it in the future, just type this into the relevant
assignee text field: NERDS@rapouts.com.

Best, N

God damn it - I am tired of you all adding requirements after we are done 
implementing the product.  You guys specified a wormhole, we gave you a 
wormhole.  If you have requirements like 'Living human entering the wormhole 
must be alive when they come out", they had better be there in the initial 
requirements.  I am not going back and changing this after I have already spent 
weeks bending the laws of physics.

Noah,

We must remember that we're all on the same team here. I thought it was pretty
clear that when we typed "which would allow a human to traverse unharmed," we
intended to have surviving travelers.

I'm afraid you'll have to go back to the drawing board -- and if you refuse to,
we'll just recruit someone who's both able AND willing. I've recently received
the resume of some very good candidates.

http://tinyurl.com/yodj4c
http://tinyurl.com/6ystec
http://tinyurl.com/6ztzsn

This has been fun, but I am cleaning out the bug system and it needs to go  :(

This needs to close now