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  1. Oct 20, 2019 · Not much is known as to how it does this, but, suffice it to say, improbabilities have a lot to do with it. And when it comes to ranking FTL travel in a science-fiction world, the acknowledgement of how improbable the whole venture is makes Infinite Improbability the coolest means of transportation.

    • Amanda Hurych
  2. Sep 30, 2016 · Why the Infinite Improbability Drive Is Really, Really Improbable. An aerospace engineer from NASA on why science fiction can be so inspiring and so disappointing. by Elisabeth Sherman. Sep. 30,...

  3. The Infinite Improbability Drive, used by the Heart of Gold. As soon as the drive reaches infinite Improbability, it passes through every conceivable point in every conceivable universe simultaneously.

    • Chris Heasman
    • X-wing. "Wait," I hear you say, scanning through this list to see which spaceships made the cut. "Where's the Millennium Falcon? Surely you couldn't be so foolish as to omit cinema's most famous sci-fi spaceship?"
    • USCSS Nostromo. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her Xenomorph nemesis might be the stars of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece, but a scary story is only as good as its setting — and "Alien" would be nothing without the USCSS Nostromo.
    • The Event Horizon. Sometimes, of course, a spacecraft can be overtly villainous, and none are as depraved as the Event Horizon. Early on in Paul W.S. Anderson's 1997 sci-fi horror "Event Horizon," the eponymous ship appears to be just that: a faster-than-light spaceship that disappeared, and then reappeared, under mysterious circumstances.
    • Friede. Friede might not look like much to a 21st-century audience. The spacecraft in Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou's 1929 silent film "Woman in the Moon" is essentially the archetypal depiction of a rocket ship.
  4. Mar 4, 2015 · The Infinite Improbability Drive affects reality itself, greatly increasing the odds that something improbable will occur. As stated in the books, each time the drive is used, there is not only a major local event, but also random minor events scattered throughout the universe as well.

  5. Jan 8, 2013 · He worked out how improbable it was, fed the data to a finite improbability generator, and created an infinite improbability drive out of thin air.

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  7. May 17, 2012 · The Infinite Improbability Drive is one of the more purely mathematical systems of faster-than-light travel, making quantum calculations determining the least likely point in space and then ...