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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Different Types of Statites

specific Impulse, abbreviated as ISP, is a measure of how efficiently the engine creates thrust. Statite varies from most proportion systems in that its aim is to keep an object stationary rather than moving it. Teleportation can refer to any drive that circuments travel between two places and deposit you immediately there. High Thrust is good as we cannot get off a planet without a high thrust - but all technologies are almost entirely based on this principle. Hyperdrive: The faster they move, the more thrust they need to push themselves into space.

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