I’ve got an out of town speaking gig today and am pressed for time, so this may be a good occasion for something I needed to do anyway for the record, which is to highlight the papers given by Tau Zero Foundation and Project Icarus people at the recent 100 Year Starship Symposium. Most of the following were delivered as individual talks, although some were presented in panels. If you’re interested in reading the papers each author prepared for the conference, many (but not all, evidently) are to be published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. I’ll deliver publishing details when they become available.
Here are the presentations of those associated with Tau Zero:
- E. Davis, “Faster-Than-Light Space Warps, Status and Next Steps”
- K. Denning, “Inertia of Past Futures” (anthropology)
- P. Gilster, “The Interstellar Vision: Principles and Practice”
- G. Landis, “Plasma Shield for an Interstellar Vehicle”
- C. Maccone, “Sun Focus Comes First, Interstellar Comes Second (Mission concept)”
- J. Maclay, “Role of the Quantum Vacuum in Space Travel”
- G. Matloff, “Light Sailing to the Stars”
- M. Millis, “Space Drive Physics, Intro and Next Steps”
- M. Millis, “Cockpit Considerations for Inertial Affect and FTL Propulsion”
- R. Noble, “Small Body Exploration Technologies as Precursors for Interstellar Robotics”
- S. White, “Warp Field Mechanics 101”
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