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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Basics of Propelant Drives

Pitch drive is a hypothetical clock tech reactionless drive where field or force can be used to create an effective pressure difference on the ship. Pitch drives in a wider sense do not require a source and would include technologies that simply cause some force or pressure difference to appear on your ship. This technology is also a counter-gravitational dipole drive when gravity is the force or field being used for propulsion and negative mass is available. Propelant is the term for anything leaving a spaceship with the intent of adding to its momentum, and typically this is the byproduct of combustion of the rocket's fuel with an oxidizer. See also laser sail, matter beaming, neutrino rocket

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