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>>10563682
Alcubierre drive is a meme. Once they started hammering down the details they realized how freaking impractical something like that would be.

You'd have to flash convert the mass of Jupiter into energy in order to generate a bubble large enough for a spaceship.
The interior of the bubble heats up to Planck temperatures, cooking anything inside of the bubble into a quark-gluon plasma.
You can't see through the bubble, you can't steer the bubble, you can't control the bubble, you can't tell it to stop.

Space is not an ocean, it's its own thing with its own circumstances, the largest ocean is insignificant by comparison. It's more likely that we will adapt ourselves to the rigors of space travel rather than find some workaround in the laws of physics. Our AI descendants with billion-year-long lifespans, for example, probably wouldn't mind the 15,000 year trip to somewhere more interesting than our boring little backwater.