Kerbal Space Program - Interstellar Quest - Episode 96 - Testing The Warp Drive

[@lancasson9667]

"Your EVA packs are more than capable of lifting yourself against the puny gravity of this tiny moon," said Scott, in high orbit over the dwarf planet.

[@chickenman297]

When do the Kerbal equivalent of Vulcans, who were just passing through when Sean fired up the drive, decide to land on Kerbin?

[@Ichinin]

The Kerbal version of Vulcans sent a ship, it exploded during launch. They sent another, it exploded on entering the atmosphere. The third ship did not have radiators and was never heard from again. The fourth ship is under construction...

[@Theyesac18]

As soon as Zeffrum Kerman is finished with his drink

[@SpaceNavy90]

I just watched First Contact today :)

[@ogxbmc]

SpaceNavy90 gaben.amigocraft.net/ I did over 1000 seconds, can you?

[@RinIsArty]

***** So im not the only one! :)

[@myuphrid]

5:50 "Is that Kerbin?" "That's it!" "... it's so small..." "It's about to get a whole lot bigger."

[@WMarcilVA]

Nice touch. Naming the craft after Joeger, this first kerbal to give his life for this dream.

[@McgoganLives]

With the implacable sound of the Universe sneezing, the Joeger disappears into the void in a flash of the colour spoon... It appears that Kerbalkind are close to accomplishing the Official K.S.P Science Manifest Towards Exotic Matter-Induced Travel, or 'Interstellar Quest'. For the Kerbals, it means the next step in their exploration of space; for me, it means that I need to find some more KZbin stuff to fill the gap that the conclusion of both this and Freeman's Mind will leave...

[@Westonsammy]

I'm sure more Robbaz will do

[@McgoganLives]

Westonsammy Y'know, I'm starting to think I'm getting somewhat of a reputation...

[@thunderbolt997]

ive subscribed to you only for your comments :D

[@Vedvart1]

Just spend your time becoming a more religious man and worshiping our holy leader. gaben.amigocraft.net/

[@Cuttl.e]

McgoganLives SMTEMIT

[@Agnus958]

Worth the 1 year following of this awesome series!

[@zackferguson1661]

i think this is roughly how a warp drive works, think of it like this: your space ship is a checker piece and space is the checker board, instead of moving the checker piece, like you would with rockets, with a warp drive, you would move the entire board while keeping the checker in the same place as it was before. am i correct?

[@angrynpc5477]

Well , that's close, but it's more of "detaching" the only square below your checker piece , then just tilt it so the piece falls onto the next square, then reattach that square from where you picked it and repeat with the next square... You move solely / "tilt" a piece of space, in your case, a square of your checker board.

[@IceLordCryo]

I am reminded of the Star Trek: TNG movie "Generations" where Picard went back in time and met the guy who invented the warp drive.

[@Zentonuos]

First Contact?

[@noluckst2]

Data and the Borg queen tho. And don't you mean First Contact ?

[@ChristofUK]

That one was "First Contact". t'was a good film

[@IceLordCryo]

lol, its been awhile, but yes i do mean First Contact

[@TheAgamemnon911]

IceLordCryo Still the best of the lot, right?

[@callumbessinger5406]

Scott can make something that is potentially mind blowingly boring into something that I will take time out of my day to watch. I would call Scott one of the best entertainers on KZbin. Great job Scott!

[@mrsmoonjelly9522]

Sean sees a small flash on the window, seeing joeger's ghost manifest in front of him, realising many first missions fail too +25 science

[@wraith444]

This really makes me appreciate the destination lock on Elite:Dangerous' frameshift drives...

[@mdrsmeltracy]

Fantastic episode! It's been a long time coming and it was worth the wait!

[@Ichinin]

Just a quick note, if you warp into the planets gravity SoI, it can be used to decrease the inherited velocity using the drag of the planets gravity. You have to jump a few times, but eventually you can get a stable orbit, then circularize using way less fuel. (I know you have the Fusion engine which have tonnes of Delta V, but its a nice trick to use the warpdrive).

[@entitydotexe6138]

"Kill our velocity, not our grandfather" XD I love that time travel paradox joke

[@toolowgo]

I checked every day since the last episode to watch this! Awesome stuff Scott

[@KashouWannabe]

Yay more IQ! Finally we are getting our grubby mitts on the warp drive =3 Hope you are enjoying the new version of KSP! Looking forward to bootstrapping a new career game once some mods get updated :) And I know its a little early, but Merry Christmas to you and your family! Have a great holiday period.

[@Spinikar]

HAHAHA Dammit Scott. I had a mouth full of Coffee when you had the idea of activating the warp drive when the kerbal was outside. Nearly spat it out on my work PC :D

[@bigglesfligerfaust3911]

As well as being a kick-ass warpship, the KSS Joeger is an SSTO, too!

[@Zorn27]

Scott needs to warp drive into a planet... for science!

[@Xenro66]

I'm so glad KSP is now in beta, and you finally have the warp drive! It's a good end to the year, people! :D

[@ixeon1169]

Scott Manley you are the man for building rockets!

[@coffaytalks]

Great job Scott ! Seen every episode sine you posted the first, I love this game and this mod is great! Looking forward to the end with teary joy..

[@musFuzZ]

The inability to scratch me nuts is driving me chin.

[@fweezie9659]

I stroke thinking im a have?

[@Aerolfoz]

It may be tall, but hey, it has landing gears! I still remember trying to take off from my first interplanetary craft... it was a nuclear engine, a fuel tank, some Science! gear, pod and parachute. Not easy to land :P

[@ilexgarodan]

It's been a long road Getting from there to here It's been a long time But my time is finally near And I will see my dream come alive at last I will touch the sky And they're not gonna hold me down no more No they're not gonna change my mind 'Cause I've got faith of the heart I'm going where my heart will take me I've got faith to believe, I can do anything I've got strength of the soul And no one's gonna bend or break me I can reach any star, I've got faith I've got faith, faith of the heart

[@Ultramanfan14]

Who needs tv series when you have Interstellar Quest!

[@GenaTrius]

You should be able to get special crew reports for when you're in warp.That seems appropriate to me.

[@stpark7706]

Congrats on 1000 videos keep up the good work

[@NixodCreations]

For the big interstellar jump, are you going to be installing the multiple star systems mod? Because that would be fantastic.

[@highvis_supply]

the warp speed bass is making my subwoofer go crazy

[@hvymtal8566]

THE HONOR SHOULD HAVE BEEN JEB'S :'(

[@paistinlasta1805]

Sean Kerman is the Jeb of this series. He has achieved much more and frankly is more awesome than Jeb.

[@wickednoreaster]

I'm disappointed by the lack of "Engage"

[@bountyHG]

Sean Kerman: Pilot. Veteran. Hero

[@caramida9]

Wait... wasn't there a kerbal who got POW...? and what about all the controversy surrounding Sean and the moon signal... and the Duna malfunction... don't think we are going to let that slip away... by the end of the series, we will want a throughout explanation of what happened behind the scenes... of the Kerbal Space Program...

[@samedwards5327]

In memory of Jogur Kerman. Day one, year one - day one, year one. Lest we forget.

[@MakoRuu]

I hope I live to see real FTL technology.

[@imbibe9891]

don't we all? I'd like to see it, but I'll stay here on earth, thank you very much

[@General12th]

You won't. None of us will.

[@MakoRuu]

We already have it, fool. We're just waiting on the Government to release it.

[@twistedyogert]

@@General12th You never know, I'll bet that people back in the year 1900 would have you committed if you said that in 60 years men would walk on the Moon.

[@twistedyogert]

If someone is going faster then light, wouldn't any particles in their path be dangerous if they hit them? Particle beams traveling near light speeds have a tremendous amount of kinetic energy.

[@GwaveProductions]

I remember reading the old calcs around the size of jupiter, and now the modern layout requiring a reactor around the size of our standard nuclear reactors.

[@danmcneil3496]

there is a kerbal speed of light!? MIND=BLOWN

[@TheT7770ify]

when you were talking about warp/ftl systems in fiction one of my favorites is slip space from the halo series; it's talked about allot in the books. i think its very interesting version of subspace, a super condensed version of the universe that can be used by going a short distance in there and coming out in a much farther distance in the real universe

[@revampedharpy09]

ok im going into deep stuff here but imagine a future where we do this and become a type 3 civilization. this sounds like an awesome future. the question is will such a future ever happen for us.i mean in that scenario our technology has advanced so much it has elevated us to a point that compared to where we are now we would be godlike. unfortunatly if you think about it by the time we get that kinda tech i think we will have to deal with AI uprisings very frequently.

[@micahve]

+revampedharpy09 no we could convert matter in energy right now think of atomic bombs they do it so why not doing it in a space craft we could do that right now so well why not why not expand to a other planet like 50 light years away they could be there in days it only takes 1 ton of matter (1000 kg of wood) as a exaple

[@revampedharpy09]

micahve yes but what you have to remember that currently the ONLY way we are truly capable of changing matter into energy is with antimatter. yes nuclear/thermonuclear bombs do so but not fully they convert some of it into energy and the rest either stays as matter but in its plasma form or turns into radiation. that's the other problem, if we detonated nuclear/thermonuclear weapons in space, 1. nuclear weapons aren't all that destructive/powerful in space but 2. the nuclear radiation is still very much a problem. so why not use antimatter? It would work but it takes more energy to create antimatter than you get out from it so (these aren't the correct numbers but I'm using this as an example) say you got 100 joules of energy out of the antimatter, you'd need to put 100,000 joules in just to get that antimatter so you are better off using the energy you would have used to get the antimatter to propel you directly.

[@Gruff46]

If you exclude the warp drive, this is much less than type 1. A type 3 civilization can harvest the energy of a whole galaxy

[@GregoriusKek]

my spaghetti bolognese was just ready, and what do i see? a new episode of interstellar quest - awwww yeah!

[@whitetrooper]

You are a genius. Thanks for posting.

[@evespirit]

This is too much OP for a pro like you.

[@MrAshleyR]

'The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one!' they said...

[@erikkorzon6218]

Robbaz and Manley on the same day?! It's like Christmas!

[@andrewmacian1063]

Minor correction: Both John W. Campbell the long-time editor of 'Astounding' SF mag (now 'Analog') and E. E. Smith used FTL drives in their famous novel sequences, written in the 1930s timesframe(s).

[@DragcoDavid]

Actually, from what I heard, the latest Warp Drive has gotten down to like 75 kg of negative mass-energy.

[@PTNLemay]

At the engine efficiencies we're seeing here (where the engines can produce a very appreciable amount of thrust while sipping tiny amounts of remass) it implies an exhaust velocity of tremendous speeds, doesn't it? We can shrug aside how that's achieved with technobabble about super fusion reactors and future mega-materials that can withstand million-degree temperatures without melting, but... Still, the exhaust would become a weaponized particle beam. Even if we ignore the whole "irradiating the landing site", wouldn't the beam strike the ground with enough force to cause the top-layer of soil to essentially explode? The soil would get flung upwards with enough force that it would risk striking the ship itself. I don't remember the exact equations, but I do remember that as you increase the deltaV without changing the mass ratio (or worse, if you decrease it) the needed exhaust velocity starts becoming a percentage of the speed of light. With all of the kinetic energy that comes with it. Another thought that came to me, for use in interplanetary maneuvers it wouldn't be so bad, because the exhaust "beam" would be moving so quickly it might actually surpass the escape velocity of the sun. So you just mark the path of the beam as "danger zone" so that other ships don't accidentally cross it, then in a few years it will just leave the solar system.

[@mattmalenda6585]

ok before i watch it i love interstellar quest keep up the nice work scott :)

[@dominichines9996]

Here's a feature squad should add: The ability to take photos of your surroundings ingame, then sell them for funds and/or reputation.

[@misterfister8641]

Once-a-week broadcasts of IQ are a drag to wait for, man! (A compliment) Are you timing it to engage an interstellar craft for Episode 100? (Possibly to inaugurate upgrade to .90 and / or installing a multi-star systems mod?)

[@nicolastvo]

Scott, I'm not sure if you're familiar with Alastair Reynolds' series of books (the first one is Revelation Space), where he posits an interesting twist in the whole interstellar travel dilemma. In his universe FTL technology is beyond human capabilities, but there are ships called lighthuggers that, as the name implies, travel at just a few percent off the speed of light. The huge time dilation makes the elapsed time more bearable, at least for the crew. The energy for all this speed comes from a tiny wormhole which links back to the big bang, powering the ships' engines. I believe he worked for a time in the ESA, so his work tends to be harder science fiction.

[@mashiroikaze]

Popular bumper stickers found in the parking lot at KSC: "FTL: Kill the drive, not your grandfather." "Irradiate EVERYTHING!"

[@Freepepsi42]

The Kerbals are so close to first contact.

[@S3PT1M1]

i seriously canot WAIT for the skill progression of individual kerbals, SUPER hyped for .9

[@woolfoma]

it came out a day ago

[@S3PT1M1]

woolfoma did it?? and i just got my mods set up nice too :P

[@Tfin]

S3PT1M1 Yup. The limits placed on... everything... do slow you down. I had to scale back my third rocket because it was too heavy, so it couldn't quite achieve orbit. But that was OK, because I could only take the "56km" and "space" contracts.

[@NikkyElso]

Good job on 1000 Videos Scott

[@wantacpa]

You should call your next warp ship the Derdos memorial ship in honor of one of the kerbals who died delivering the last bits of science for warp drive and alcubeire rings.

[@scottgauer7299]

Second star to the right and strait on till morning!

[@fsxpilot02]

I cried as it lifted off

[@henryigdal5247]

Scott, I am a very big fan of your videos, and I am just amazed at how good you are at it. You make these awesome space planes that I am very jealous of, I have tried to recreate them, but they never work. Do you think you could post the craft files of your space planes? It would make my space program much easier!

[@gillianorley]

In Episode 100 the universe implodes and Matthew McConaughey gets to see his daughter again.

[@MrRiccars]

Funny, that landing site is exactly where I made my Dres base. Its a good crater.

[@timothymclean]

To be fair, not only are there differences between jump/hyperspace/etc and warp drives, there are also major differences between Alcubierre warp drives and Abrams warp drives. Nice to see the warp drive works, but where's that crew that was sent to Jool some time back? Have they reached a distance from Kerbin comparable to that of this crew? What lies in their future? Will there be a small "resort" that warp-capable vessels set up on Laythe waiting for them?

[@jebediahkerman1478]

So, in one of the Star Trek movies, when Zefram Cochrane is getting ready to test the Phoenix (First warp capable ship) and there were three people in the command module, William Riker, Jean Luc Picard, and Zefram Cochrane himself, now you did the same thing with our people.

[@hydrohornet558]

Your test flights land on dres.... My test flights make Kerbal orbit at best :p Great video, love the series

[@ThePerfectHunter]

Hey, Scott. I was wondering that with the new "Beta Than Ever" update that introduced Fine Print, if you would consider making a proper "How To" on capturing an asteroid. I watched your live stream of you trying to capture one, but the long format made gathering information difficult. If you could us out, that would be awesome. Thanks, and I love your videos.

[@KASASpace]

So... why is no one interested in slower than light warp drive? It's guaranteed to not violate causality, at the very least....

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

Because with slower than light, it still takes more than 4 years to Alpha Centauri, it still takes more than a human lifetime to get to the nearest black holes. We'll never see a supernova, then be able to tell the kids about it back home. To never be able to do something so amazing is.. disappointing to say the least. And less likely to get you funding too.

[@brainmind4070]

There's probably more efficient methods of traveling at fast sub-luminal speeds, although maybe there are some advantages to a warp drive, as you'd experience no time dilation.

[@Wolf5698s]

The honor of flying the first warp drive powered craft should go to Jeb

[@AntonLennikov]

Now we need decent destination for this drive. Sentar expanson or similar mod could fill the gap.

[@meezalamazala279]

I'm pretty sure it originally required more energy than was in the known universe, which got narrowed down to the energy of Jupiter. A lot less than before but more than a ton. I could be wrong though.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

I celebrated this episode by turning it up to 1080p! \o/

[@jeb_kerm1671]

God, squad needs to make the majority of what's in this modpack stock. especially the Alcubierre drive.

[@MrHamof]

12:23 Would someone explain to me how faster than light travel translates into sending messages into the past?

[@scottmanley]

It's long and complicated and I need a whiteboard.

[@MrHamof]

Scott Manley OK, I guess that means we'll have to rely on subspace or even couriers for FTL communication. (I know of at least one sci-fi universe where they had FTL travel but not communication, they had to have their ships fly around delivering mail.)

[@Killercomma]

Scott Manley Correct me if i'm wrong here but wouldn't the warp drive's method of traversal kinda preclude the transmission of a signal to the past, as it still has travel time and doesn't create any sort of space time bridge, if you traveled in a direction at X speed for Y time wouldn't it still take (X*Y)/c units of generic time (where X is your percentage of c) to get back and regardless of apparent velocity that time would still be greater than the time it took to get there?

[@puct9]

Scott Manley Hang on, how would you be able to transmit data of you are at light speed because light speed is how fast radio goes... Doesn't it.

[@BlueEyesWhiteTeddy]

Scott Manley New video explaining it????????? :D

[@BlackWolf18C]

Now there's a question... If Admin Kerman was directly in front of the spacecraft and Sean did hit the warp drive button, what would happen to him? Would he simply be bent around the ship along with the spacetime he's occupying and be perfectly fine if a bit shaken as it vanished? Would he splat into a wall of spacetime at 0.1c? Would he cry because he's now a new satellite of Kerbol with not much chance of rescue?

[@BlokeOnAMotorbike]

he'd go splat, the vessel is still a solid mass and a lot bigger (and harder) than he is. To go superluminal they'd have to somehow figure out a way of reducing the incidence of the vessel in our normal frame of reference (our four dimensions of space-time) by moving it at least partially into another (ie subspace) dimension so the energy requirement to go superluminal is reduced from infinity to a finite value.

[@RoflZack]

Jim Moore That's not how an alcubierre drive works. The whole point is that you're not superluminal. Spacetime bends around you. You just threw out warp drive and decided this was hyperdrive. What?

[@RoflZack]

Jim Moore Quick clarification: the warp drive in IQ is an alcubierre drive, not the warp drive from the Federation book.

[@aunibbww]

Zachary Taylor not locally superluminal, but from an external observer you might be observed to move at a speed higher than c0

[@NATIK001]

Simon Nee An object in the path of the spacecraft wouldn't be able to observe the spacecraft until after it's passed. Though when the object enter the warpbubble they would be hit by the craft going at sublight speed (unless the edge warpbubble tears them apart first). The fact that the spacecraft can be observed as superluminal non-locally wouldn't affect the situation where a Kerbal is in front of a craft with an active warpfield.

[@Magmafrost13]

Ok, so if negative matter warps space-time in the opposite way to normal matter, presumably that means it repels in the same way gravity attracts, so you'd still need much more of it than you could fit on a ship that size to do anything, since the entire damn ship doesn't noticeably bend space-time.

[@AsboJunior]

I kept forgetting that this was a genuine Interstellar mission and not a mod video. :D

[@GargantuanMonster]

Historic! Is there any more science left to unlock? What's next for the space program?

[@KayleDevanandAWSOME]

When you take the warp drive interstellar, Bill, Bob, and Jeb should be at the helm of the ship. Only seems fitting.

[@wintercorvid1886]

Scott Manley, one thing that I would be quite interested to find out is whether, like with a sonic boom at supersonic speeds, there would be a consequence of superluminal speed? Also, to an observer what would happen to the image of the spacecraft?

[@darkfangulas]

I really hope ksp2 has cryo sleep ships that if you lose radio contact with because you set up aerials and comms wrong and then have to go connect with them to get your favourite kerbals back

[@GabrielButler88]

defo waiting for episode 100

[@SolemnHeretic]

Couldn't we theoretically destroy planets with a warp drive? Wouldn't being in front or behind the object generating the warp drive mean obliteration, due to being so physically distorted by the bending of space-time? Also, how would one use instruments to gauge ones position if one is in an isolated bubble of space-time that does not let in light, magnetic fields, or any other particle for that matter?

[@michaelianbone]

Nice Grandfather Paradox reference

[@Grapthor24]

Shouldn't the ends of the ship get left behind? It seems that anything not within the rings, or guessing the warp field, shouldn't accelerate to warp... right? It should be part of the space and time being bent around those rings... or does the field extend beyond the rings? In which case Admin's irradiated corpse would have been drug along for the ride, right?

[@DallasHerrmann]

Not sure what your plans are from here, but if you haven't seen it, check out the Kerbal Construction Time mod.

[@soejrd24978]

Scott, I must say I greatly enjoyed this series now that it's nearing its end. I think it may be a great idea to have a "real solar system" career next, with tons of mods obviously! I'd like to hear your opinion or others opinion about it!

[@blackholegaming4839]

Real solar system is incompatible with career mode, you can play it but it is hugely imbalanced and less fun

[@woolfoma]

real solar system is actually less proper than the kerbal solar system. in KSP everything is scaled down, planets, parts and distances, it would be like trying to fly around the solar system in model rockets.

[@captainobvious9233]

Not sure if I am doing something wrong or if there is a glitch somewhere but I always get the message "Not enough power to initiate a stable warp field" I even edited the batteries from 1000 to 90,000 and stacked over 10 of them, and stacked six each antimatter reactors and generators along with antimatter storage tank. My craft had enough power to power the whole universe... but all I get is "Not enough power to initiate warp field"

[@devon5714]

"have not yet visited Dres" neither has anyone ever.

[@cynic2201]

YES FINALLY WARP DRIVE

[@Bramswarr]

at long last, the warp drive episode! interstellar quest can truly become interstellar (if someone decides to put stars in)

[@781destroyer]

There are mods that do that

[@Bramswarr]

now that ive watched the video, i can say something relevant. is it possible to get into orbit or land using only the warp drive?

[@781destroyer]

no

[@TheMysteriousXi]

Yes, if you're clever with your maneuvering in gravity wells. I think EnterElysium did it at some point, but I can't remember which video.

[@Tiisje]

Bram Swarr Yes, but it would be like trying to kill a mosquito with a trebuchet.

[@JustSomeGuy489]

The kerbals... they've gone to plaid!

[@joeylantis22]

At your speed during the worm hole trip you were travlling 134222713.851mph. This is 20% the speed of light!

[@HolidayTheLeek]

I got to Dres in 4 hours (Including landing) I just warped VERY close to it and started firing my engine to make an orbit.... You must be doing the longer way for safety...

[@twistedyogert]

I'll admit that as a layperson I'm a bit skeptical of the Warp Drive. Also, if there are alien star-ships flying all over the galaxy using FTL tech, does that mean that a telescope wouldn't see them because they are going faster then light?

[@jordanjay29]

I was disappointed not to find an included rendition of Magic Carpet Ride during the inaugural flight. Did Sean forget the music disk?

[@TheInnerEvil]

Scott have you played "Universe Sandbox" ? it's alot like Space Engine except you can grab, change properties, and numerous other things to not only the planets and other small bodies but up to the large entire galaxies. personally I think it's fun to throw two spiral galaxies into eachother and watch them fling all the stars and such away lol

[@ducky8075]

Yes he has

[@TheInnerEvil]

aww I missed it, thank you for the answer though c:

[@TCWordz]

It's time for the _"weekly-not-weekly"_ edition of KSP-IQ! _woooooooooooooo_

[@AstroHopefulBenjaminGottsch]

With the new system in .90, you really miss the SAS ability when you send Bob or Bill into orbit on a surveying mission. I should try and unlock SAS maybe.

[@parlamedia]

Would be pretty funny if during the warp drive the kerbins would shake and change color and hallucinate like in 2001: Space Odyssey.

[@pseudocoder78]

Pretty sure you should have lost your radiators at 11:35! What, in theory would happen to them? I'm assuming the warp field would shear any matter apart or possibly annihilate it? What about random matter in the ship's way such as rogue hydrogen atoms (Thank you Orson Scott Card en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card .)?