Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium (Narration Only)

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than modern rockets offer. Fortunately, when it comes to possible ship drives, the sky is not the limit.

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Credits:

Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium

Episode 388, March 30, 2023

Produced & Written by: Isaac Arthur

Narrated by:

Isaac Arthur

Sarah Fowler Arthur

Editors:

Darius Said

David McFarlane

Sarah Fowler Arthur

▬ Spaceship Drive Index ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

0:00 Intro

3:12 Alcubierre Drive

4:10 Antimatter Ablated Light Sail

5:06 Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion

6:13 Antimatter Rocket

8:12 Arcjet Rocket

9:15 Bias Drive

10:02 Black Hole Drive

11:23 Bussard Ramjet

14:04 Caplan Thruster

14:39 Chemical Rockets

16:24 Clarketech

17:30 Diametric Drive

18:51 Disjunction Drive

19:31 Electric Solar Wind Sail

21:26 Electrodynamic Tethering

22:59 EM Drive

24:15 Exhaust Velocity

26:03 Field Propulsion

26:34 FTL or Faster Than Light Drives

27:20 Fuel

27:59 Fusion Torch Drive

30:02 Gravitational Dipole

31:31 Gravitic Propulsion

32:58 Hall Effect Thruster

34:46 Hawking Radiation Drive

36:45 Helicon Double-Layer Thruster

37:22 Helios Drive

38:41 Hyperspace Jump Engine or Hyperdrive

40:09 Inertia Reduction Drive

41:39 Ion Drive

43:15 Krasnikov Tube

44:52 Laser Sail

47:21 Magnetic Solar Wind Sail

48:03 Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster

49:41 Matter Beam

51:09 Medusa Drive

51:43 Microwave Electrothermal Thruster

52:57 Negative Mass Propulsion

54:25 Neutrino Rocket

56:08 Nova Drive

57:41 Nuclear Electric Ion Drive

57:11 Nuclear Lightbulb

58:09 Nuclear Pulse Drive

1:00:40 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion

1:02:19 Orion Drive

1:02:40 Oxidizer

1:03:10 Photon Rocket

1:05:48 Pitch Drive

1:06:38 Propellant

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,
0:05.2	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:20.4	In order to reach the stars, we will need spaceship drives of Titanic output, even those powered
0:26.2	by the stars themselves.
0:30.6	So over the years, we've reviewed a lot of spaceship designs in our overall discussions
0:35.2	of humanity's future and of space colonization
0:37.9	in general, some in depth and some only in passing, and some in episodes that were made
0:43.1	so long ago that they're buried in search-injured results. And since our megastructural
0:47.5	Compendium episode from last summer was well received, I thought we might follow that up today,
0:52.0	with a list of all the various advanced spacecraft
0:54.2	proportion methods that are either on the drawing board, represent popular theories, or even
0:59.1	just things that are regularly and seriously discussed in science fiction. Each will have
1:03.0	its own alphabetical entry, and those on YouTube should see a chapterized version available,
1:08.2	and will have a time index of topics in the description on all of our platforms.
1:12.7	If you review those, you'll note that some aren't very advanced drives at all, or even
1:16.7	propulsion methods, as I felt that certain critical topics like the rocket equation or what
1:21.4	specific impulse is should be in the episode, especially as while you can listen to this
1:25.8	episode all the way through, it is not
1:27.7	necessarily intended to be absorbed in that way like most of our episodes inclined towards.
1:32.3	It's also going to be a long one, so a drink and a snack is advised, and my wife Sarah will be
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