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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Anti-Matter Rockets

Anti-matter is matter with the opposite characteristics of normal matter. In large quantities anti-matter makes a nuclear bomb look weak. Antimatter can be easily magnetically sprayed into your equivalent of a rocket nozzle. An antimatter rocket such as the theoretical Valkyrie spacecraft was expected to be able to reach 92% of light speed, at which speed the cruise ship would be experiencing less than 10 hours for every day here on Earth.

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