The Space Race to Build the First Working Warp Drive

This article smells off. Unless I missed a breakthrough paper in the last few years, the mass/energy required to move an actual warp vehicle is measured in Jupiters. Given that we're talking about messing with spacetime, there's no reason to assume we can knock many orders of magnitude off that number any time soon. At any rate, it will probably be centuries before humans have the ability to start engineering something like that.