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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Basics of Spacecraft Propulsion

A bias drive is an example of a clock-tech engine that works not by warping space or time, but by locally altering physical constants. Black hole drives can range from using naturally-accuring ones to accelerate and redirect to space ship to co-opting one to move an entire star system. Hawking radiation drives are covered in their own section. See also, antimatter-ablated light sail,. antimatter-catalyzed fusion, photon rocket.

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