Interstellar Travel Without Breaking Physics with Andrew Higgins
Interstellar travel can be real. And you don't need to break the laws of Physics to do it. In this interview, I discuss a realistic way we can send missions to nearby stars in our lifetimes.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:02:06 How hard is interstellar travel
00:13:19 Ride solar wind like a bird
00:23:15 How a realistic mission can look like
00:40:20 Exploring the Solar System
00:46:50 Fastest gun in the world
00:55:39 Best way to get off planet Earth
01:01:08 Interstellar Symposium
01:04:00 First interstellar mission. When?
01:13:53 How to become an interstellar engineer
01:19:17 Outro
Interstellar Symposium
https://irg.space/irg-2023/
Andrew Higgins' group web page:
https://interstellarflight.space/
Twitter
https://twitter.com/McGill_AdAstra
Jeff Greason’s idea for a “Reaction Drive powered by External Pressure” (the so-called q-drive).
https://tauzero.aero/wp-content/uploads/JBIS-May-2019-Greason.pdf
New paper on Dynamic Soaring
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frspt.2022.1017442/full
RC gliders reaching nearly 900 km/hour by performing dynamic soaring on wind shear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nyYaL0dGAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eFD_Wj6dhk&t=0s
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