{"id":35118,"date":"2025-11-07T15:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=35118"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:12:24","slug":"guest-contributor-tregonsee-07nov2025-ftl-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/guest-contributor-tregonsee-07nov2025-ftl-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor &#8211; Tregonsee &#8211; 07NOV2025 &#8211; FTL Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well at least there is a theoretical model for an FTL drive the Alcubierre drive(\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcubierre_drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcubierre_drive<\/a>\u00a0) proposed in 1994. At present it has so many reasons we can\u2019t do it (several different flavors of unobtainium, VERY large energies that even Antimatter would struggle to provide, and a likelihood that you can\u2019t really steer the darned thing once you start it) that it is practically unachievable. Depending how all this dark matter\/dark energy stuff falls out (and that is beginning to look pretty dodgy) things may get far better or far worse.<\/p>\n<p>That said an antimatter drive (even a pulse antimatter drive, essentially an Orion drive using small matter antimatter\/matter explosions) would be a godsend for reaching Mars the Asteroids or any other celestial body outside the Earth\/Moon pair. Currently a Hohmann Orbit (minimum energy) to Mars runs 8-9 months of time and the window is only open every two years (26 months I think). At .01 G (a centi-G engine) this takes 64-112 days i.e. 2-4 months and position only affects time. At .1g (a deci-G engine) this drops to 36-76 HOURS (i.e. 1-3 days). The first matches early trips from Europe to the New World (e.g. the Mayflower took 70 days) which were ultimately commercially viable and establishing colonies was possible. The second is like rail trips across the US at rail\u2019s peak in the 40\u2019s and 50\u2019s. That totally changes the relationship between Earth and the colonies.<\/p>\n<p>Ad Astra per Aspera!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well at least there is a theoretical model for an FTL drive the Alcubierre drive(\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcubierre_drive\u00a0) proposed in 1994. 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