Richard Mansell

Just a servant of God to mankind, Assistant Pastor and CEO of IVO Ltd. Welcome to the Future!

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

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.

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

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

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

@DrKristyJackson What is it?

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

@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.

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

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!

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

@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.

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@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.

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

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

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

@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).

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

@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!

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

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

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

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.

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

@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.

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

@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.

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

@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. "

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

@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. :)

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

@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.

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

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

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

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

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

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.

[Richard Mansell @RaMansell]

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