[unknownkadath]

I feel really bad for this undergrad; The student's advisor did not do him any favors by letting him go and give this talk to the IEEE. It is perfect material for clickbait farms and the wider krank-net.

If you can access it, the doi link to the conference paper is: doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-4288

This is not a serious attempt, and in no way indicates that scientists are starting to "take warp drives seriously." It is pitching that same silly stuff White et al have been promising is "real close now" for around 15 years. I also cringed at the equations and figures that were obviously copy/pasted from White's PDFs to Word and back.

Having this kind of kooky thing hanging from a baby undergraduate's name--a name that I'm not going to propagate on the web for his own good--is not going to help his future career, and everyone involved should feel bad for wasting his time. Sorry this is boiling my grits so badly, am I over reacting or is this awful?