Imagine a microscopic web that spans the entire cosmos. An intergalactic ecosystem. An infinite number of roads leading everywhere."
– Gabriel Lorca, 2256 ("Context Is for Kings")
The displacement-activated spore hub drive, commonly shortened to spore drive or s-drive, was an organic propulsion system the Federation experimented with during the 2240s and 2250s. The technology used mycelium spores harvested from Prototaxites stellaviatori to jump or leap across the mycelial network. During such jumps, the ships were not in normal space but in the mycelial plane. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings", "Choose Your Pain")
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Origins and concept
Program history
Super-mycelial reactor
Technical details
Background information
Origins and concept Edit
Mycelium spores
P. stellaviatori mycelium spores, key to the drive technology
The spore drive was based on the ideas of two colleagues and friends, Paul Stamets and Straal, who had been working on the concept since 2244. They were eager to get to the "veins and muscles" that held the galaxy together.
Their research was based on the insight that at a quantum level, there was no difference between biology or physics, and specifically that spores were not only the progenitors of panspermia, but also the building blocks of energy across the universe. This allowed Stamets and Straal to approach physics as biology. As such, the equations involved were reminiscent of both quantum astrophysics and biochemistry.
– Gabriel Lorca, 2256 ("Context Is for Kings")
The displacement-activated spore hub drive, commonly shortened to spore drive or s-drive, was an organic propulsion system the Federation experimented with during the 2240s and 2250s. The technology used mycelium spores harvested from Prototaxites stellaviatori to jump or leap across the mycelial network. During such jumps, the ships were not in normal space but in the mycelial plane. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings", "Choose Your Pain")
Contentshide
Origins and concept
Program history
Super-mycelial reactor
Technical details
Background information
Origins and concept Edit
Mycelium spores
P. stellaviatori mycelium spores, key to the drive technology
The spore drive was based on the ideas of two colleagues and friends, Paul Stamets and Straal, who had been working on the concept since 2244. They were eager to get to the "veins and muscles" that held the galaxy together.
Their research was based on the insight that at a quantum level, there was no difference between biology or physics, and specifically that spores were not only the progenitors of panspermia, but also the building blocks of energy across the universe. This allowed Stamets and Straal to approach physics as biology. As such, the equations involved were reminiscent of both quantum astrophysics and biochemistry.
by Captain Lorca April 04, 2019
A person whom farts near others and then simply walks on or out of the room, leaving the stinky aftermath and avoiding blame.
Can be called a DBF for short.
Can be called a DBF for short.
Adam: Umm bye guys, got to go.
*leaves*
Jake: *sniff* Aww man, was that you?
Dave: Nah it was Adam, he's such a Drive-By-Farter.
*leaves*
Jake: *sniff* Aww man, was that you?
Dave: Nah it was Adam, he's such a Drive-By-Farter.
by doodledotcom123 May 23, 2012
by dfntud January 17, 2011
To vomit kneeling in front of the bowl of a toilette. Because you are holding the bowl with your hands, it looks like you are driving a bus.
by Doppelstern April 08, 2009
1. Basketball: to dribble the ball towards the basket.
2. Derived from 1: To hit on a girl aggressively.
2. Derived from 1: To hit on a girl aggressively.
1. "That balla wanted to drive the rack, he was calling for the rock all game."
2. "I went to drive the rack on that broad, but she was having none of it."
2. "I went to drive the rack on that broad, but she was having none of it."
by Christian Zeigler May 03, 2007
To engage in sexual intercourse with the sole intention of gaining information to aid with decisions.
Alex likes to test drive other woman, ultimately looking for an acceptable replacement of his current partner.
by LAJVXO January 05, 2020
A road in Leeds where the sexiest, funniest, bestest people live. Anyone found to be inhabiting on this road is automatically a legend. Blates.
Person 1: "Shall we go to Manor Drive where all the cool people live?"
Person 2: "Blates."
Person 3: "Totes."
Person 2: "Blates."
Person 3: "Totes."
by SexyLeedsGirlBlates March 30, 2009