Far Future Rocket Engine Technologies - Fission, Fusion & Antimatter 

Yes

And not just *any* rubber bands. …Only the purple rubber bands they use to bundle broccoli together in the produce aisle 🥦

as someone with adhd, these are my kind of quotes.

@@staleshortcake9442 tf does this have to do with adhd?

@@roboticfuzzball179 Maybe it's just the typical "I'm neurodivergent, I'm so quirky" comment. I have Aspergers and it's honestly just annoying how people treat mental disorders like a banner to wave around to draw attention, or even base their whole personalities around it and always feel the need to bring up the fact that they are neurodivergent in everything single conversation no matter the topic.

However the SpaceX DLC will come almost instantly... and it will crash a lot.

@@shiranaihito9720 imagine the contracts. "Rapid scheduled disassembly"

*hide the pain Harold face*

@@lolsleepyboi8388 ok

@@shiranaihito9720 just stick to no-landing and you be ok

Yeah. That’s physics. Unless you know how to warp space time we gonna throw the kitchen sink out the back of a rocket

That's literally the definition of a rocket. A "rocket that does not throw stuff out the back" is an oxymoron.

Ah, I forgot that the internet does not have a sense of humor. I also understand the physics, guys. I'm just saying physics is funny sometimes.

@@yastreb. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).

The only way to get around this is to build a craft that uses magnetic energy as propulsion a craft than can tap into unseen waves of magnetic energy would work on earth not sure about space

A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive.

Greatest show ever

@@meowmeowmeow594 Protogen.

Hey that way you don’t need a launch pad, you just.. unpeel the rocket like a banana right where it was built.

Really, any sufficiently powerful engine doubles as a very powerful plasma cutter.

No it’s a metallic hydrogen motor but yes it is being magnetically contained

@@JohnnyWednesday Suddenly I'm having a craving for baked beans. . .

Its not a nozzle its the engine bell btw.

Go to progectrho they have stockpile of information like this and nerd humor.

@@cyborghobo9717 I tried to search that up and found nothing. Do you have a link by chance?

Atomic rockets enjoyer, I assume

@@oberonpanopticon yupp

Link please?

@@sErgEantaEgis12 I’m not sure, but if you just search up atomic rockets, it should be easy to find.

Maybe you can make one of these drives. Just make the ship look like some thing out of star wars for us lol

Not sure how the engineering undergrad to physics grad school path is supposed to work. Qualifying and comp exams for physics graduate programs would be well beyond the scope of what is covered in electrical engineering. You would basically be self studying an entire 4 year degree.

*GOOD LUCK!!!!*

@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Thanks! :)

@@lachyt5247 Here in Sweden (where I live) we don't have the under/postgrad education scheme (what I know). I study a 5-year engenering program called "Electrical Engenering" that is based on 3 years of ground level courses (kandidat) followed by 2 years of advanced and specialised courses of your choice (master). A lot of the ground courses are like calculus, multivariable calculus, vector calculus, linear algebra, but also introductions to datasystems, analogical digital design, electrical circuit analysis and electromagnetic field theory. It sets the foundation to many different masters you can choose from, and before you choose a master you will also study some other courses that makes your program more personalised! I've spoken to some scientist in plasma physics and they have said that my plan seems pretty good when it comes to getting into the business of fusion research :)

So.... Reagan.

How could someone make such an extreme oversight? Like its already done the money has been spent why not let it operate for a year?

@@scottmanley I know it is super awfully late and also anoyingly pedantic to point out but Im afraid Curium-247 has a half life of 1.56(5)E+7 years which is not about one and a half million years :D Good video as alway anyway !

@@shastro6939 How else will the military afford their 50$ cases of diet coke?

Thanks Obama.

I mean, they dont fly the building around, yet ;)

One word: Highfleet

I am reminded of a Monty Python film with moving buildings, insurance companies and piracy.

KSP 2 handles colonies as things made up of parts. If KSP 2 in its base form doesn't let you fly a surface-built VAB round, maybe a modder could patch the colony parts to have vessel physics.

@@innacrisis6991yep

Another formulation is: "Any propulsion system for interesting stories is a WMD".

"There is no such a thing as an unarmed spacecraft."

@@n1k32h wtf?

Safety glasses should be fine

James ..oh no your sure to want the supa-safe type..

Do not look directly at Dirac Antimatter-Initiated Microfusion Engine with remaining eye.

Just make sure you're wearing your "Safety Tie" and everything will be fine!

As long as you are not wearing a red shirt you will be fine..

Yes.... someday

@@scottmanley antimatter spacecraft thermal control system video coming 2201

@@scottmanley What about the output particles? Are future generations going to curse us ?

Find abou liquid metal droplet radiators they are very lightweight and effitient.

As a player of Children of a Dead Earth, I have a new appreciation of spacecraft heat management.

@LurchTheBastard Angel-125 also has some amazing mods. Their Blueshift is an especially awesome replacement for Roverdude's warp drive (though I'm really missing the 1.25m drives)

Clearly the KSP2 devs agree with you because they’ve literally hired him, which is an extremely good sign

@@PwnedDuck I was extremely happy to hear about that, the Near Future mods plus the Station Parts Expansion are amazing in every aspect.

I don't think they can make atoms yet. One particle at a time.

@@Noughmad atoms are particles

@@Noughmad The ASACUSA experiment at CERN would like a word. First successful anti-hydrogen beam produced in 2014.

@@meowmeowmeow594 atoms are collections of different particles

At present, it's a by-product of other things they're trying to do. Nobody produces it, just for itself. (ASACUSA experiment at CERN excepted apparently. The Penn St articles were before that.) The Penn St Physics articles about anti-proton initiated micro-fission/fusion pulse ships say that a fairly small investment could produce the tiny amounts that would be needed for a robust and *_fast_* interplanetary ship, and it's fairly easy to say that readily produced storage would be good for ~6 months. If your mission doesn't return to Earth orbit in that time, then a separate return stage or fuel storage could be sent out to anything that you're trying to get back.

gasoline? lamesauce

@@Broockle no u

@@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife no u

@@Broockle WHERE IS THE LAMB SAUCE!?!?!?!?

Anti-gasoline?

Your clever and subtle suggestion of potentially spitting out your coffee from laughter could've made me done the same if I was drinking coffee :)

Are You Cleaning It With Rubber Bands?

monke

Not only that, but it also explains the design problem of fusion reactors properly

@@Phelan666 Donke

More like "problem is most of the energy of annihilation is in hard gamma rays and there's not really a good way to convert that into usable energy"

@@44R0Ndin That sounds like something Issac Arthur would say...

Could we make some weird combination of both?

Lots of lasers

If you've ever seen how cats react to lasers, herding them is not that hard as long as you have one laser per cat.

@@brainmind4070and also multiple sets of limbs for all the laser pointers. What? You’re telling me you don’t have that yet? Lame.

@@judet2992 You soon will if you take shielding as lax as the Kerbals around these exotic nuclear reactors.

I machined some parts for the NIF a long time ago. Capacitor racks and beam guides if I remember correctly.

Boom

Yep!

There is another facility with the same mission here in France, the Laser Mégajoule.

Was looking for someone to mention him here; great taste in RU-vidrs!!!

Or ditch solar panels altogether, as the further you get from the sun, the less power they generate. If you're running a fusion reactor, then you're basically carrying a mini-sun with you. One proposal is to use either an alphavoltaic or a betavoltaic array lining the reactor chamber, then use fuels like Hydrogen+Boron11, which emit these particles as a byproduct of the fusion reaction. These would produce electricity directly in nearly precisely the same way solar panels (photovoltaics) do. You would still need a battery to start up, and likely a set of supercapacitors to provide the large burst of energy, but you would want those anyway to smooth our electrical system fluctuations.

You'd need some way to turn heat into electric energy. Classically this means either steam turbines or thermoelectric generators, both of which aren't easy to do in space.

@@tharqal2764 I disagree: turbopumps on rockets are already the futuristic version of steam turbines, when you have a fusion reactor on board that already has to be cooled attaching a turbine in the loop is primitive in comparison

@@theophrastusbombastus8019 The problem is that you need to release a relatively large fraction of the reaction energy to start the next reaction. A turbine will only generate a smaller, continuous power, so you would have to find a way to efficiently store energy that can be released quickly. It's not likely to be as easy as "turbine and supercapacitors, done".

@@MushookieMan If the pulses are close enough together the total inertia of the system (thermal+momentum) can propably smooth out any peak, if not it can be by design increased. Unless the pulses are every few minutes I think there are no big problems there.

There's a line from the books where Amos is discussing modifications to the Epstein drive in a torpedo, and Holden wryly remarks that 400 years ago, propulsion engineers would sell their firstborn child to get the sort of knowledge that Amos is just chucking around in casual conversation

You may need to add a few "great-" prefixes, but yeah I think it's less about 'if' but 'where to' and 'when'.

@@unsafevelocities5687 Stanton. Wednesday.

@@unsafevelocities5687 i would just say children imo, technology advances far faster than expected and some of this technologies are already well understood and developed

@@carso1500 I'd be surprised if we leave this solar system in the next 500 years. Interstellar travel by humans in 1,000 years sounds more realistic, but that's with me being optimistic that we actually send living, breathing humans and not an artificial lifeform. Humans watched birds fly for around 200,000 years before being able to replicate it. Knowing something is possible and doing it are very different things.

@@unsafevelocities5687 progress is exponential. We pushed AI to a high level where it replaces artist in a span of 10 years and it's about another 10 to create general AI.

Methane and LOx. That's how it will be for the foreseeable future.

There is only one thing to hope first - getting rid of capitalism. After that it's much easier to hope for whatever is good for humanity.

@@AntonBrazhnyk I know you're trolling but I'll bite. Capitalism has brought us almost all new space travell techniques you see today.

@@gert-janbonnema You ate to much of cap-propaganda. It's science which brings technology, not capitalism. It's fear of socialism and USSR fueled development in this area not the capitalism itself. There is still no profit in space exploration. And today it's China which still fuels it and create artificial profits for SpaceX and the like.

​@@LaughingOrange Ion drives are a thing and have been for awhile, greatly outperforming chemical rockets in vacuum. Also there are experiments planned to test solar sail craft, and there are technically feasible (but unlikely to be built at this point) beamed power options like Breakthrough Starshot as well. And if we do establish a permanent presence on the moon, a big benefit will be the ability to test things like the nuclear saltwater rocket from the other video safely away from the Earth. Methalox really only comes out ahead for heavy lift into orbit, and none of the drives mentioned in the video are capable of being fired in atmosphere anyways.

Yes. *searches up torch drives*

Also I have a channel. New subscribers welcome Scott😁

Me too!

That's what having 1.19 million subscribers does I guess

Wait what? There is a new season?

@@among-us-99999 Yup, 7 episodes of season 5 are out. I barely saw any advertising for it so I understand why you’re surprised

@@nicholasn.2883 Holy shit, I was worried the show got canned or delayed because of COVID. They really need to spend a bit more on marketing for the sake of the show.

@@nicholasn.2883 Not Sci fi enough. AKA no rubber masks. The robot was cool though, looks very human built. Needs more focus on Aliens for my taste, even if they are too alien for us to understand. The way they are treated like a force of nature also seems pretty close to what I would expect. I can remember reading that a spider sees humans as a moving piece of landscape, similar thing.

@@lesserspottedmugwump.363 i have diferent opinion, i like the more "realistc" stuff, its just humans with normal tec in space, not counting their engines and radiation meds

Project Farm is a great channel

bang bang

Nasa doesnt even launch big missions anymore

@@pekka-zg1wx why do you think that is lmao

It would mostly stop, damage the engine and maybe send off a bunch of radiation, but likely not a mission killer if you can fix the nozzle

@@antaresmc4407 Yes, except the pure antimatter one. Amat, (at least when we rule out the theoretical Magnetic matter) is inherently unstable in larger quantities and just a little error in the Amat tanks' magnetic field would lead to a pretty epic, but still very undesirable explosion.

@@petrpodskalsky1785 in the engines it would be as I said but with more radiation. In the plumbing it will be bad. In the tanks *you wouldnt even notice* ~if you know what I mean~🤣

So, it would be triple (or more) redundant, right?

@@AntonBrazhnyk ...RIGHT?

Still have to wait for a playable game though

@@pappi8338 hahha good point.

Hello there! KSP2 is dead!

@@calluxdoaron1903 "Eeeheheeee" -voldemort

That’s KSP 2

This mod does the job better than Squad would tbh

@@hugojoly1831 Squad aren't the only ones doing KSP 2

@@scottmanley True, but the only downside is, that KSP 2 is postponed; to around mid/end 2022.

@@jerryham5659 They aren’t involved at all with ksp2 as far as I know. I was talking about ksp 1. Can’t play the game without Nertea’s mods anymore.

The atomic rockets website has a lot of interesting content, but it is a complete mess. Someone with some web design sense really needs to do an overhaul of that website.