Topic
Space propulsion
Space propulsion covers the technologies and theories used to move craft beyond Earth.
Danny Jones Podcast·Culture
Andrew Aurigema says a $1.50 foam warp-drive thruster could get a 45-ton ship to Mars in 3 and a half days
The pitch is part garage project, part Star Trek fever dream, and the gap between two pieces of paper of thrust and a Martian landing is the whole story.
Danny Jones Podcast·Culture
Charles Buhler says he has built a Star Trek impulse engine that needs no propellant
The electrostatics researcher’s claim is wildly specific, wildly consequential, and still miles from the kind of public proof that would make physics Twitter stop throwing chairs.