The next video from the September 2019 SSI 50 Space Settlement Enterprise gathering held at the Museum of Flight in Seattle is SSI Senior Associate Professor H Fearn’s Monday Lunchtime presentation “Mach Effects For In-Space Propulsion.”
This short but excellent video shows the current updates of Professor Fearn’s and Professor James Woodward’s (and Chip Akins’, John Brandenburg’s, T. Marshall Eubanks’, SSI President Gary C Hudson’s, Daniel Kennefick’s, Paul March’s, José Rodal’s and Jonathon Woodland’s) work on the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts MEGA Drive work.
As always, Professor Fearn kept even the non-physicists in the crowd fascinated and we hope that you enjoy the video as much as we all did live in Seattle.
Oh, by the way! H quickly mentions something that some folks weren’t aware of. The August 2019 issue of Scientific American featured her and Dr. Woodward and the project work in the 8 page article by Sarah Scoles entitled “The Good Kind of Crazy.”
See up at the top right, “Fringe Physics – Wild ways to propel our species to the stars”?
If you missed it and don’t have a subscription to Scientific American so you can read it online, you can buy reprints from this link. (Personally I just went to eBay and bought a couple of more physical copies to give to friends, paid about 9 dollars each.)
In any case, even newer information is now on the SSI YouTube Channel, from Professor Fearn’s Monday September 9th SSI 50 Lunch presentation.
Enjoy!
