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2/2: #Interstellar: Project Valkyrie spacecraft can achieve 92% of the speed of light. Charles Pellegrino, Project Valkyrie.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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2/2: #Interstellar: Project Valkyrie spacecraft can achieve 92% of the speed of light. Charles Pellegrino, Project Valkyrie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Valkyrie.

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0:00.0

You do up your seatbelt and check your rearview mirror.

0:04.9

You've got airbags and anti-lock brakes.

0:07.8

Everything in your car is designed to protect you, but none of that will protect you from

0:12.2

this.

0:13.2

The air you're breathing.

0:16.2

According to research, one of the most polluted areas in London is inside your car.

0:21.4

That's why the U-Lez is expanding across all London Burrits.

0:24.9

Search U-Lez 2023 to find out about the support available.

0:28.8

Let's clear the air.

0:30.8

This is CBS I On The World.

0:37.0

I'm John Bachelors with Charlie Pellegrino.

0:39.0

Charlie is an author and an inventor and telling a story of the Valkyrie project, Operation

0:45.5

Valkyrie, designed with his colleague, the late Jim Powell, from the Brookhaven National

0:51.2

Laboratory.

0:52.2

This is a spaceship that can carry robots that can also carry human beings.

0:58.1

At 10% of the speed of light accelerating to 92% of the speed of light maximum, to travel

1:03.6

through Alpha Centura, which is featured in the Avatar series, but also much farther

1:08.5

out.

1:09.5

So we're identifying now a planet called T-O-I-700-E.

1:14.2

This is in a star system 100 light years from Earth.

1:17.5

It is 95% the size of the Earth and is, and NASA says, likely rocky.

1:23.2

It was discovered with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Test.

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