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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
Lex Fridman Podcast
Halo Drive - A New Approach to Space Propulsion
In the case of the Halo Drive, you can use black holes. Freeman Dyson suggested that you could use neutron stars as an interstellar propulsion system. You shoot your spacecraft through, right through the middle light, through the eye of an eagle and do a slingshot around one of them. In principle, you can sell up to twice the speed. And so that's maybe something we can imagine down the road.
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