There is no AI generated content in this video (save for colorization and frame rate improvements in the footage towards the end).
It feels like ancient history, but people who were teenagers during the Holocaust are living around us today.
Helen Greenspun, subject of the book Sarah’s Children, narrowly avoided the death camps where her parents and youngest siblings were murdered. Her and her older siblings were taken to Kielce, Starzysko-Kamiemma and finally to Dachau where Helen was rescued. What stands out above everything in her memory is an intensity of hunger which is hard to communicate.
In order of appearance: Jews of Chmielnik, a family immediately before their murder from The Auschwitz Album, Sonderkommando 280 (the only photo of the gas chambers as they ran in existence), footage of work camp detainees after having their clothes taken, liberated prisoners eating from various documentaries and footage from the liberation of Gusen.
Ion Propulsion has actually been used in deep space missions as far back as 1998, but primarily works by using solar panels to electrically charge (ionize) very light gasses like xenon. The concept the guest described here is most similar to Oxygen Breathing Ion Propulsion, a conceptual form of propulsion that uses ambient atmospheric molecules to replace the function of xenon or other power sources.
If the power source was infinite, near light speed is (very) hypothetically possible but per E=MC2, as acceleration increases, mass increases, meaning it takes an exponentially greater amount of power to accelerate.
In real world terms, using any sort of ion propulsion to approach even 10% of light speed would be a massive achievement, but that amount of power would be more than enough to facilitate transportation within our solar system and is hypothetically enough to visit near solar systems like Proxima Centauri, which is only 4.24 light years away.
