One day, one day, one day.  It is clear that interstellar travel will not happen in my lifetime unless there are interstellar traveling aliens that decide to share their technology with us.  

Truth is....all of those tanks are filled with flatulence and there is an igniter in the middle of that dish!  Talk
about achieving light speed! 🚀

I only skimmed though the video, I didn't have the patience to listen to all of what he says. I notice that there are no references in the Youtube channel to publications or specific companies. Maybe he did that in the video, I can't tell. In any way, I think it is much more probable that all Avsim members will become billionaires than that a warp drive will be constructed.

Excellent. I will be able to retire next week, and then plan a round trip to Proxima Centauri B before the end of the year 

click bate 

3 hours ago, qqwertz said:

I only skimmed though the video, I didn't have the patience to listen to all of what he says. I notice that there are no references in the Youtube channel to publications or specific companies. Maybe he did that in the video, I can't tell. In any way, I think it is much more probable that all Avsim members will become billionaires than that a warp drive will be constructed.

 

It's not warp drive, Mr. Peter. He talks about a sub-light antimatter drive. 

 

 

 

28 minutes ago, martin-w said:

It's not warp drive, Mr. Peter. He talks about a sub-light antimatter drive. 

That explains why I couldn't find anything about exotic energy 🙂. Thanks for pointing out my mistake, I stand corrected. 

An anti-matter drive is conceivable, although it will probably not happen during our lifetime. What we can currently do with anti-matter is

- creating small portions of it in colliders and nuclear fission. Natural production in the atmosphere is much larger. And what we and nature create quickly disappears when it hits ordinary matter.

- Storing tiny amounts of anti-hydrogen atoms in a magneto-optical trap, typically less than 100 atoms at a time. They are well isolated from nearby matter and can survive for hours, but it's certainly not enough to create an anti-matter drive 🙂

Yep... just 10 nanograms of anti-hydrogen has been produced, to date. 😀

We'd have to find a way to generate if at a much faster rate. Seems a dangerous prospect to me in terms of storage. Would be quite nasty if your anti-hydrogen containment system failed. 

Nuclear fusion is a much more promising and accessible technology at this time.

If we can ever get large fusion reactors built it they will provide all the energy we could ever want, and cleanly to boot.

They could also provide the power necessary for huge plasma and ion engines for spacecraft, so no more chemical combustion required except maybe to get into orbit.

Dave

Edited November 1, 2025Nov 1 by dave2013

And of course Antimatter is so safe and stable, would you know what wrong as there won`t much left find out. It could make nuclear look like a grenade.