Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium

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Credits:
Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium
Episode 388, March 30, 2023
Produced & Written by: Isaac Arthur

Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur
Sarah Fowler Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
David McFarlane
Sarah Fowler Arthur

Graphics by:
Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik
Ken York
Rapid Thrash
Sergio Botero

Music Courtesy of:
Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Markus Junnikkala, "A Memory of Earth" https://markusjunnikkala.com
Miguel Johsnon, "Strange New World" http://www.migueljohnsonmjmusic.com
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" https://aeriumambient.bandcamp.com

▬ Spaceship Drive Index ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Intro
3:12 Alcubierre Drive
4:10 Antimatter Ablated Light Sail
5:06 Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion
6:13 Antimatter Rocket
8:12 Arcjet Rocket
9:15 Bias Drive
10:02 Black Hole Drive
11:23 Bussard Ramjet
14:04 Caplan Thruster
14:39 Chemical Rockets
16:24 Clarketech
17:30 Diametric Drive
18:51 Disjunction Drive
19:31 Electric Solar Wind Sail
21:26 Electrodynamic Tethering
22:59 EM Drive
24:15 Exhaust Velocity
26:03 Field Propulsion
26:34 FTL or Faster Than Light Drives
27:20 Fuel
27:59 Fusion Torch Drive
30:02 Gravitational Dipole
31:31 Gravitic Propulsion
32:58 Hall Effect Thruster
34:46 Hawking Radiation Drive
36:45 Helicon Double-Layer Thruster
37:22 Helios Drive
38:41 Hyperspace Jump Engine or Hyperdrive
40:09 Inertia Reduction Drive
41:39 Ion Drive
43:15 Krasnikov Tube
44:52 Laser Sail
47:21 Magnetic Solar Wind Sail
48:03 Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster
49:41 Matter Beam
51:09 Medusa Drive
51:43 Microwave Electrothermal Thruster
52:57 Negative Mass Propulsion
54:25 Neutrino Rocket
56:08 Nova Drive
57:41 Nuclear Electric Ion Drive
57:11 Nuclear Lightbulb
58:09 Nuclear Pulse Drive
1:00:40 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
1:02:19 Orion Drive
1:02:40 Oxidizer
1:03:10 Photon Rocket
1:05:48 Pitch Drive
1:06:38 Propellant
1:07:26 Pulsed Inductive Thruster
1:08:41 Quantum Vacuum Thruster
1:11:22 Quasar Drive
1:13:06 Reactionless Drives
1:14:44 Resistojet
1:15:36 Reusable Rocket
1:16:57 Rocket Equation
1:19:04 Shkadov Thruster
1:19:55 Solar Moth
1:21:29 Solar Sail
1:22:58 Specific Impulse
1:24:18 Statite
1:26:24 Teleportation
1:27:25 Thrust
1:28:30 Torch Drive (Matter Converter)
1:29:35 VASIMR
1:30:41 Warp Drive
1:32:26 Wormhole Drive