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Interstellar Space Travel: Antimatter-Powered Rockets Could Make It A Reality
The current technology behind our space travel isn't nearly powerful or efficient enough to get us anywhere near our closest star system. That's why one company is developing an antimatter-powered rocket that could increase space travel by a factor of 1,000. The Voyager 1 space probe is the fastest man-made object ever invented. It can travel 14 kilometers every second, and it left our solar system a couple of...
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In other words, we're still a long way from efficiently creating the fuel needed to power this vision.
efficiently being key. We have the technology to do it, but we have to waste 999 out of every 1000 positrons.
Yes, I chose my words carefully. :) We can do it, but since 1955 we've barely been able to create enough antimatter to fill an anti-teaspoon.