[Interview] Interstellar Travel Without Breaking Physics with Andrew Higgins

Interstellar travel can be real. And you don't need to break the laws of Physics to do it. In this interview, I discuss a realistic way we can send missions to nearby stars in our lifetimes. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:06 How hard is interstellar travel 00:13:19 Ride solar wind like a bird 00:23:15 How a realistic mission can look like 00:40:20 Exploring the Solar System 00:46:50 Fastest gun in the world 00:55:39 Best way to get off planet Earth 01:01:08 Interstellar Symposium 01:04:00 First interstellar mission. When? 01:13:53 How to become an interstellar engineer 01:19:17 Outro Interstellar Symposium https://irg.space/irg-2023/ Andrew Higgins' group web page: https://interstellarflight.space/ Twitter https://twitter.com/McGill_AdAstra Jeff Greason’s idea for a “Reaction Drive powered by External Pressure” (the so-called q-drive). https://tauzero.aero/wp-content/uploads/JBIS-May-2019-Greason.pdf New paper on Dynamic Soaring https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frspt.2022.1017442/full RC gliders reaching nearly 900 km/hour by performing dynamic soaring on wind shear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nyYaL0dGAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eFD_Wj6dhk&t=0s 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)