Richard Mansell

No measured thrust yet, but the Quantum Drive is fully operational in space! It has passed its testing phase with flying colors. Congratulations to the @ivo_ltd team for successfully producing space hardware that survived launch & 6 months in space! Now the fun can begin.

@NateHaselton83 @lukecaverns @grok This would be Taʻū Island. 14°14′S 169°28′W

@lukecaverns @grok reveal the GPS coordinates of this island and provide information.

I’ve found an uncharted jungle with ancient sites on it… that doesn’t have snakes. This island was made for me

@DrKristyJackson What is it?

This was one in 30,000 for me… as a shelter vet I find new things every day.

@SJuan1797 I'm not against them being interstellar. (In reality, that would be very cool!) I'm just going to wait for actual data instead of relying so confidently on a theory that has to be constantly fudged to fit the data.

@SJuan1797 None of the 3 "interstellar visitors" have actually been observed entering or leaving the solar system. Their "interstellar" status is only inferred by applying a theory that doesn't have a good track record at predicting interstellar body movement.

It amazes me that 3I/ATLAS is considered an interstellar visitor based on a theory of movement that has incorrectly predicted the rotation of every spiral galaxy. If you apply a different theory that actually fits observations such as @memculloch's QI, then it's not interstellar!

@IvoneFitzGerald @astroteuthis @OK47649 @SJuan1797 @memcculloch I'm not stating it's validity or invalidity, just a description. I'm definitely not going to rule out other means of propulsion. We will let time and data take care of that.

@RaMansell @astroteuthis @OK47649 @SJuan1797 @memcculloch By saying that it’s a Mach drive you are allowing for drives with technologies other than that you are espousing?

I can't give details, but the IVO QI Quantum Drive is definitely thrusting. I have collected a lot of data on it now. Need more data to be sure it is QI.

@astroteuthis @OK47649 @SJuan1797 @memcculloch Ha! You got me there. :) True.

@RaMansell @OK47649 @SJuan1797 @memcculloch Technically electrons are moving mass ;)

@OK47649 @SJuan1797 @memcculloch Definitely not like the Quantum Drive. Their system sounds like a Mach drive in the sense that they accelerate and decelerate a mass within their drive in a linear motion using electromagnetics. So there is no mass expulsion but there is moving mass (unlike our solidstate drive).

@memcculloch I read about genergo.space for the first time today. It sounds somewhat similar to the Quantum Drive experiment, or not?

@skdh One of the issues with the Drake equation is that if any of the variables is 0, then the result will be 0-no matter how favorable the other variables are!

A mathematician has calculate the odds that we’re the only intelligent life in the universe. I've had a look at the paper. youtube.com/watch?v=6aJ3MN…

@David_Hambling A month ago! In reality, perhaps January.

@RaMansell When would you hope to have results you can share?

Quantum Drive tests are ongoing. Be careful of analysis you get from Grok Fast-free version. I've found it cannot get TLE dates correct at times let alone orbital mechanic calculations. It also at times gets simple things like the satellite's size (8U) or weight (11kg) wrong.

@Jolinar_cz @coyote1942 @Jordan_W_Taylor Lots of assumptions/simplifications in this theoretical mission. Thrust staying the same is one of them. Top speed would be about 0.281c.

@RaMansell @coyote1942 @Jordan_W_Taylor does the thrust changes with speed? Lets assume you are going something like 0.1c or 0.5c... is it still 55.6N ?

There's something wonderful about the NASA Kilopower reactor: A tiny solid HEU core with one control rod that needs moving once a decade, pumpless capillary water cooling, Stirling engines, a molten sodium primary and it looks like a crown headpiece for a mad alien emperor.

@MarcoParigi1 @coyote1942 @Jordan_W_Taylor No, that's direct from LEO to Alpha with no gravity assists. I did check to see what a boost from a fully refueled Starship from LEO would add, and it is negligible.

@RaMansell @coyote1942 @Jordan_W_Taylor Does that factor in a potential gravity assist at Proxima Centauri?

@astroteuthis @coyote1942 @Jordan_W_Taylor About 0.5N/kg. This would definitely be a better thrust to weight ratio than our current Drives. That's why the "Theoretically doable. "

@RaMansell @coyote1942 @Jordan_W_Taylor What thrust to weight are you assuming for the drive there?

@coyote1942 @Jordan_W_Taylor IVO's Quantum Drive is scalable. If we assumed a total mass of 300kg for a spacecraft, we could get an orbital insertion around Alpha Centauri in 30 years with a 55.6N Drive! Theoretically doable. :)

@RaMansell @Jordan_W_Taylor Conservatively how long would a trip like that take with ivo's best drive?

@MWSieb Testing is ongoing. That does not mean that the Drive is continuously on, but rather that we are continuing to work with Rogue on getting testing done.

Good morning @RaMansell can you please advise if OTP-2 testing is still ongoing, we at day 50 of testing..thank you.

@memcculloch @ThirteenFathers @JustinTarquin Yep! ≈8.11×10^−31 K

@ThirteenFathers @JustinTarquin QI means, for example, that there is a minimum temperature that it not 0 Kelvin.

#QI has two dynamical effects. The first is a change in a body's sensitivity to forces as its inertial mass changes. The second is an acceleration due to the conservation of momentum as the body's momentum changes. For the first time I've modelled them both, using fortran.

@pompanoj @memcculloch If and when IVO does publish papers on the subject, @memcculloch will indeed be a valuable name/contributor in that area!

@memcculloch But you are going to be on the paper when it gets published, right?

The stress of all this. I've been working for 20 years on QI. Biggest thing out there but academia is still cold. A satellite is thrusting (?), but I can't give details. Funding may come but my position is now extra-academic. You have to see the funny side or go belly-up.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that math can communicate how the universe works, but it must be blind to our wishes and based solely on physical reality.

If math is the language of the universe, surely it is written in braille.