Is hyperdrive possible?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In movies and TV shows spaceships can often travel faster than the speed of light. It’s an idea often called a hyperdrive or warp speed, and it would let you explore the whole universe! So is hyperdrive possible in real life? We asked NASA aerospace engineer Erik Axdahl to help us find the answer.

Got a question that’s out of this world? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll bring the answer down to Earth.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on this is the moment of um.
0:05.0	Um, um, um.
0:07.0	Um, um.
0:09.0	Um, um.
0:12.0	Um, um, um, um.
0:16.3	Moment of um, comes to you from APM studios.
0:19.2	I'm Brainson producer Molly Artwick.
0:21.6	Um. on producer Molly Artwick. Space, the final frontier.
0:30.0	These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.
0:33.8	Its mission to explore strange new worlds,
0:39.6	to seek out new friends and new snacks, to boldly go where no podcast has ever gone before.
0:47.0	Captain's Log, Star Date 24601, All quiet in Sector C53.
0:55.0	No sign of those terrifying Grumble Graxians.
0:58.0	Good thing too. We barely got away from them last time.
1:02.0	Speaking of which, I really need to brush up on my
1:05.3	intergalactic etiquette. Apparently, on Grimble Gracks, offering someone a stick of gum
1:11.1	means you curse their whole family to smelly breath for all of
1:14.0	eternity. Who knew?
1:16.3	Alert enemy.
1:18.1	Alert.
1:19.1	enemy.
1:20.1	Oh no!
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