http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa...e-ship-designs
More than likely it will be a reality long after everybody here is gone, but faster-than-light travel now has some solid backing and we might finally see the technology being seriously researched. So far, the concept of warp drives seems to be the most realistic way of ever attaining faster than light travel. Reaching distant starsystems is the only way we're ever going to ensure the survival of our species, and it opens up seemingly infinite possibilities for new discoveries, including resources and alien lifeforms, anywhere from full blown animal-like species to small microbes. This technology very well may be the future.
(also, look closely in the picture at what they named the ship design
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