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Could we ever actually build a starship and travel
to another star? In this video we go
through every serious starship design ever proposed,
from ion engines already flying in space today, to
solar sails pushed by lasers, to the ramjet fusion
engine that uses the universe itself as a fuel tank,
to Project Orion, the nuclear bomb powered spacecraft
that was killed by a treaty rather than bad physics,
all the way to antimatter rockets and nanoscale
probes the size of a grain of sand. Based on Michio
Kaku's Physics of the Impossible, this is the honest
answer to one of humanity's oldest questions.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - The Ships We Grew Up With
1:10 - The Letter That Started Everything
1:44 - The Quiet Engine
3:07 - Riding Light
4:20 - The Universe as a Gas Station
6:04 - The Bomb Riders
8:39 - The Human Problem

SOURCES:
The entire scientific content of this video is drawn directly from Chapter 9: Starships in Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku, published by Doubleday, 2008. Every concept, name, date, calculation and project mentioned in the script comes from this chapter, including the ion engine history, the VASIMR design by Franklin Chang-Diaz, the Kepler solar sail reference, the Bussard ramjet calculations, Project Orion, Project Daedalus, the antimatter specific impulse comparisons, the Russian cosmonaut research on weightlessness, the suspended animation experiments at the University of Pittsburgh, and the nanoship proposals by Dan Goldin.

Specific claims and their sources within the chapter: The Deep Space 1 ion engine firing for 678 days is documented in the chapter and verifiable through NASA's own mission records. The Hayabusa xenon ion engine mission is documented by JAXA. The Bussard ramjet paper was published in Acta Astronautica in 1960. Project Orion's history including Freeman Dyson's involvement and the Super Orion specifications are drawn from Kaku's account, which Dyson himself corroborated in multiple interviews. The Project Daedalus study was published by the British Interplanetary Society between 1973 and 1978 and is publicly available. The University of Pittsburgh dog suspended animation experiment was published in the journal Surgery in 2005. The hydrogen sulfide mouse experiment was published in Science in 2005.

Based on Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku. We recommend reading the original book for the complete scientific detail behind every concept covered in this video.

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