why not just build a earth-spaceship that is simular to earth that has the atmosphere to protect from uv and asteroid and stay healthy on the spinning earth's gravity?
seems impossible, but i'd say it's better idea than this video's
If you haven't seen this guy before... He's living completely in his own fantasy.
...Anyway, when he built his starship, what's he gonna do? Go out in space, billions of light years from here and shoot aliens of the size of a man ??
Funny, isn't it, that all aliens are two-legged creatures with two eyes, two arms and still the same size as a man; so they must be from a planet, which has a size and gravity similar to earth, or they would have a different size... Argh! I'm a Star Trek fan btw.
@halfamused antimatter is produced by the tons around the north poles and south poles of the sun stars and black holes. no particle accelerator is efficient enough to produce that much here on earth
This scientist assumes a starship will first need to travel through the asteroid belt in order to reach other star systems. That may be true for a small portion of them but space is three-dimensional, Most stars will NOT be on the plane ot the ecliptic ( roughly, the "disk" where all planets, asteroids and comets orbit our Sun ). This demontrates astonishing two-dimensional thinking for a "space expert"... OK, let's see some credentials here pal.
@chialeux514 I'm not sure of its density, but the Oort cloud is spherical, and thus will have to be crossed by any ship, regardless of its destination.
@chialeux514 Let ME see some credential there buddy... You seem to think the Oort cloud is on a 2 dimensional plane... Also asteroids exist outside of asteroid belts, and although that risk is small, as Michio stats, even an asteroid the size of a pin head could cause a catastrophic issue.
Now a cylinder spining to create gravity works for a space station, but did he forget that the acceleration of the ship will ALSO create artificial gravity, which would, when combined with the spining section, create a gravity that would cause the exterior corners of teh spining section to be the ground. Now I dont know about you, but I like my floors to be flat.
@dave19941000 The ship won't be accelerating constantly. When it reaches peak velocity, it won't generate the equivalent of gravity from acceleration. And when it decelerates, it will have "gravity" on the opposite surface. A torus makes more sense because it will ALWAYS generate the equivalent of gravity.
@ElGringoCastellano True, but to travel the massive distance between stars a 1G acceleration followed by a 1G deceleration is the most logical speed to travel as it allows for more of the materials used in the ship to go towards maximizing the space that could be used for storage, housing or whatever else. A constant 1G acceleration provides about 77.48% of light speed after 1 year and after 15.84 years almost light speed, allowing for the 1st generation to see the planet.
@ElGringoCastellano It also eliminated the need to design a ship that can suport artificial gravity from two different directions depending on the phase of the mission, which would make the ship needlessly more complex then it would need to be.
CAN ANYONE, think of some sci fi books that are about 200 pages or less?????, but avoiding "short stories" the only book ive read was ringworld by larry niven and i loved it, i think that indicates that i like adventure ones, thankyou very much for helpful replies.
The danger with anti-mater is that if we have a problem with a piece of insulation on a fuel tank (sound familiar?) One teaspoon of it if it exploded over a city would destroy that city. Now an ocean or island launching station would be good though.
@whyamisogood1 A ship big enough to support a human population for 40 years is too big to build anywhere but in space. Thus no danger to the denizens of our planet.
@r8wing I think it's because of propulsion ... if the entire ship will rotate the rotating propellers becoming almost impossible to make a move ... for example the project goes through a pipe with a spiral groove to rotate out the bullet from the gun to rotate the same and not change its trajectory...
that is one ugly looking starship,,, also it cant be called a starship because it doesnt have the size requirement of a ss,, picture the usg ishimura from the game deadspace, now that is a freaking kickass starship
by placing a starship out of phase or totally in a dimmension or sub dimmension you have problems with debris hitting your ship so why the need of massive shielding
Building a doughnut-capsule doesn't make sense, I think, if he's planning to use centrifugal force in substitute for gravity. The heads of the astronauts (closest to the center) will be under stronger pull than the feet, which probably isn't too healthy.
You need a force field to get throgh the asteroid belt? Serously? Because "a pinprick" would kill the whole ship? Shame on you. How fast do you think it would be be going by then, on a 40 YEAR JOURNEY? And how do you build one anyway? I stopped watching at point
Someone once said that movies depict asteroid belts as "porous brick walls". Uh, just look up how many deep space probes have already passed through the asteroid belt WITHOUT "force shields".
As you get closer and closer to light speed, small particles can do large amounts of damage. Those probes are traveling at just a tiny fraction (less than one percent) of the speed of light. This starship would be traveling much faster than that.
ok ... asteroid belt .. every one that tlk about travelling to space talk about crossing the belt but why ....i mean you are in space loll why run into asteroid when you can go around ....
@GHOSTTOYS Obviously you go around the large asteroids. The problem is that spaceships move at speeds that are hard to imagine. Driving fast in a car doesn't come close to comparing. If a pebble hits your car, you will at worst suffer a scratch, -maybe- a cracked (but not entirely broken) window. If a pebble-sized asteroid hits a spaceship going 50% the speed of light, the effects are catastrophic.
@GHOSTTOYS And by catastrophic, I mean that as soon as you go beyond tiny pebbles, the energy released can go into and beyond atomic bomb scale. It's serious stuff. :)
@SignificantOwl loll i know micro particule is dangerous ... but i meant about the asteroid belt why crossing it .....because the asteroid belt is like saturn ring ... so if you want to go on saturn you wil not take the pat that bring you to cross the belt to get to the surface .. so why crossing the belt if you want to get out of our solar system ...
@SimKoning exactly ... i mean with a slight degree from the starting point you can avoid the belt ... its like scientist always travel on the galaxy central plane .. they dont seem to remember they are in space ..
@GHOSTTOYS ...becaus it will use reaction mass. Besides, the asteroid belt are not a fictional style belt. There are hundreds of thousands of km between the rocks.
@xanosdarkpaw1 loll i know thats but it seem that scientist are bound to travelle on the astral plain .....and by the way if the asteroid belt si large then its a wall .. dont you think ..
Why a spinning section ? Why not spin the entire ship ? The friction between the 2 sections will cause the spinner to slow down and the static section to rotate. You would waste precious fuel just to maintain this instable state. /// Also, the asteroid field is not as dense as what you see in movies. Space probes to Jupiter and beyond constantly cross it without a hitch. The rocks are several thousand miles apart. Granted, you may need a force field anyway, to protect against interstellar junk.
it makes no sense to have astronauts live for 40 years it is just a waste of your life so why not have them just sleep in hibernation pods like in the movie pandorum it has been done before a Japanese man was in suspended animation for weeks with no food or water so the ships mass can be reduced no need for food water or your ship to be shaped like a giant wheel for artificial gravity.
@AnnikaAolaniMinges well theres emergency situations and other things and supplys for landings A.I.'s can handle the rest though. Also theres self defence it we ever face alien threats.
@AnnikaAolaniMinges True, if it's practical. Some animals hibernate for a few months but how long could humans manage ? Years ? Decades ? Centuries ? Millenia ? Depending on how fast the ship is and how far away your destination star is, it may be that the longest we can manage without tissue damage may not be enough ( leave a vaccuum-wrapped piece of meat for 20 years in a freezer and it'll still go bad ). Except for our immediate neighborhood, we may still need a multi-generational ship.
hawkings starship design is better &more realistic without even having to explain it.. (stephen hawkings rocket to the future) but i still find it funny the amounta pseudo scientists on here "dissing" the credibility/possibility of anti-matter propulsion when its in fact THE most viable/possible/probable form of reliable interstellar propulsion theoretical or otherwise.. the only hindrance is the specific technique or sheer amount of energy needed to create anti-matter.
@theblaquebaastid one emp blast from who knows what and when the system go down for even a microscond the ship will shine brighter than any thing even the largest star and nothing will remain because the heat will melt the ship and the areas where the anti-matter hit will cease to exist.
@theblaquebaastid and scientist made a new particle that can go faster than light so it puts more bang for your buck than dumb ass anit-matter thats only good for weapons really. Plasmas better for power on ground based buildings as it is more stable even though radiation is emmited.
@theblaquebaastid if we could obtain even a small amount of anti matter it is my understanding that we will be able to henceforth make antimatter without having to tap into resources aside from that the original antimatter provided
@chuckles731 why.. as an energy source..does it increase exponentially? idunno all the numbers.. but apparently theres sumthin about dissipative effects or the risks to our environment that are holding back making the neccessary amount to achieve full perpetuality
Unfortunately that's not the way it works :/ Single positrons were first observed in 1929! Scientists can now make 100 billion positrons at a time just by shooting gold with a big laser o.O
@theblaquebaastid ...........Reverse engineering has been taking place a very long time, this is fact. We already have (in secret) ovecome inertia, that = Freedom.
@theblaquebaastid Anti-matter would indeed provide the necessary power not only for propulsion, but for ships' power. The biggest problem is, as you say, getting enough of it together to power a flight to an exoplanet nearby.
I am not only the man 1000 years latter but I am a person of the beginning of time that is a person before the Big Bang and I am the Big Bang and I am the man after Big Bang and I am not Allah (God) (Amlakh). Because Allah is the creator and I am the created one. Moreover because I am of the beginning time all the Mathematics and Physics formulas deos not exist to me yet. I have my own formulas and I am just starting to understand x+1 and x-1 or n+1 and n-1 so lets begin &thank u for the reply!!
Antimatter does not provide 100% conversion of matter into energy. There's no conversion. Matter is annihilated by antimatter upon contact, causing massive lethal gamma ray production. Oh, and good luck with storaging the antimatter.
Second, solar wind sail is cool when you're close to a star, otherwise there's not nearly enough solar wind to make the presence of sails meaningful.
The more I hear this guy speaking, the more I feel like he's just a charlatan.
@sunamori hes pointing out the possibility :) of course starship design is not as ugly as he drawn here. many aspect counted, not only about energy but also space effect itself. Not simple job, but if we can make it simpler, it is right.
@VladiSSius Actually nonsense is when something does 'not make sense' not when its not real.
Something can in fact be real and still make no sense to many people... for example entangled particle physics is mostly nonsense to most people... because they are incapable of making sense of it. But its certainly as real as the nose on your face.
However this idea of a propulsion system for a starship is total nonsense even for a physicist ;)
@MumblingMickey Totally. Faster than light space travel will be achieved through teleportation, which as we all know relies on entanglement. No need for artificial gravity
what he said about Anti matter stuff - Star travel only possible via Anti matter . But one problem is there Anti matter + Matter = Boom ;) .. Storage of Antimatter is a problem.
Small objects in space can damage Spaceship :D
What about the G force which generate while accelerating the speed of Spaceship?
Oh yes, forcefields. They're everywhere. In fact, just this morning I forgot to shut the forcefield off on my toaster and I could get at my toast when it was finished.
I wish people could remember that this show isn't about making the impossible probable, it's about providing a THEORETICAL model of fictional technology based on real-world physics.
Merkabah space ship moves within an all-embracing energy field which is composed of multiple magnetic, electromagnetic, and magneto-hydrodynamic domains unified into a “field stasis” using multiple polar denominations. The vehicle operating within the field the ability to go faster than the speed of our common light. With instant acceleration with power to travel at 2.9 times (or more) the speed of light as defined by man. The vehicle can go through these portals time tunnels or “wormholes :)o*o
To continue our travel to dreamland.. how are you going to fill the tank with anti-matter if you can't even produce it? Perhaps greys could lend us some of their's
Id say the forcefields that are made to strengthen the hull are not that good, id say a typical Sci-Fi dome shield that goes around the ship is better.
@dasudosomia There is a way for that not to happen, saw it on Discover, can't explain it to you. And there is always a choice of liquid Helium3 option for the engines.
Well no... the forcefield is to minimize the friction effect of atoms and gasses primarily. But this is such an entirely torpid approach it wouldn't begin to quality as a starship at all, it's a menace to starship navigation is all. Werner Von Braun wouldn't even think something like this second rate version of Jules Vern, so why do these idiots like Kaku bore us with it?
@HaploidCell check out plasma technologies. by enveloping plasma in a magnetic field you can create a "force field". by layering hot and cold plasmas, it makes this more effective, however, the technology is still being developed and the machine they use to create a dime-sized field is massive and takes great amounts of energy to produce. when they are able to get the machinery smaller and create larger fields it will be possible.
Anyone understand a word of this apart from me? They should have explained this a bit better for people who don't know what antimatter is or how a rotating section produces gravity. And before anyone starts I know the answers to both of those.
Michio Kaku is a piece of shit. He calls humans little less than insects as a reference to useless eater. Well Yeah people like him are useless eaters. But the rest of us who goto church and try to help society? Im going to use Gravitons to propel my ship to FTL.
dude your a retard. we are incects comapared to the universe. in fact even smaller. and the fact you brought chruch to it has nothing to do with anything.
@RetardedAnime Some people have moral and personal values unlike Micuchilicker mc Doodoo. It does little for a civilization to have space travel. If there spiritual and moral values do not survive. with it . If you could visit 20 Intergalactic traveling aliens they would agree. What spiritual or cultural values does your species bring to the universe. Cutchilicker mc Doodoo brings the spiritual values of an egotistical, ignorant, bottomfeeding insect.
@websuspect He could be referring to deity worshiping, red-necks in bill-caps, Hasidim Jews, Muslims, x-ians, Anne Rice, the Pope, George Noory, Delmart Mike Vreeland, ladies who love horses, people that keep dogs in apartments or doublewides, tea-party supporters, et al.
Step One....buy "a wookie"...step two,...ensure he has his own set of "hydro-spanners"...step three, take him to a dump and tell him to get building..
how about a plasma outter shell instead of a force field to melt any thing in our path? I don't know HOW to create a force field, but I DO know waht plasma is-- we just have to know how to contain it for amounts of time- which I think we'll be able to do when we create that Starship... and we're probably gonna create it in 70 years later...
The presenter is Michio Kaku, PhD in physics. He's one of the founders of M theory, which has given us, among other things, dark matter as it is now understood. Watch some TV shows on the structure of the cosmos or the universe, and you'll see him on it.
instead of trying to reach the speed of light which is impossible in normal space for anything that has a rest mass, we should try to figure out ways of faster than light travel, aka "warp" travel or look for subspace domains or tachyon particles. IMHO that would be better than light speed travel as in the grand scale of the universe & intergalactic distances, light speed is still pretty damn slow! 2 MILLION years at light speed to get to the nearest galaxy to the milky way?!?! (Andromeda) WOW!!
@BeamMeUpSir We could look into wormhole physics, they are mathematically plausible and do not yet break our current understanding of physics, Should we succeed in creating viable wormholes for travel, we'll be able to travel through star systems while physically only moving a few meters.
@DominateKiller6 Yes, but that also requires the use of exotic matter.
I think our current best bet is the idea of the warp engine. This is also theoretically possible. You shrink the 11th dimension in front of the ship, then expand the 11th dimension behind the ship, and you cause space itself to move. Using this method, FTL speed is possible because it's space itself that moves and not the ship. No laws are broken. Problem is it would require the same amount of energy that is in Jupiter.
@xXxM0nteNegr0xXx lol nah it's based on super string theory, and more specifically in M-theory. You can look it up. Great article on it at discovery com
@Mandanara You need to learn more about this stuff, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, go kill yourself instead of posting shit on the internet and waste people's time.
This whole thing so so vague all this stuff he talks about is so under explained that i'm surprised people are taking him seriously. i guess its his use of vocabulary that gives him power here cuz i havent seen one real equation for this.
@Madcow800 Other than the forcefield, I seen no problem with his design. Well, the shape isn't as purely functional as today's spacecraft, but other than that, no problem. Antimatter engines are possible, and the only problem is the generation and storage of antimatter. Centrifuges are a tested tech too, NASA, and most air forces use them to train and test their pilots for high G forces.
@Madcow800 the thing is that most people lose interest as soon as a capital sigma pops up on the screen. After all, we have to watch sci-fi on TV as what it is - entertainment.
@Madcow800 Fair enough point but this is an entertainment piece of work not a blue print. This is supposed to captivate our imagination and not so much as 'prove' but speculate from what we already know in order to overcome problems and create.... A spaceship.
If you want solid proof, hard equations, stacks of reports & experiments, supporting equations and an accurate blueprint of a spaceship you better have a few degree's in physics to understand all of this.
@Madcow800 I agree with you... and indeed... most vague of all... what is this "force field" that will protect the crew from asteroids? How does it work? There is no such workable concept in science that I know of.
@efamstin I imagine he is hinting at something that would work like earth's magnetic field but then again this is all these are all theories that they are talking about. I can make shit up to lol
@MrThirdstring I do actually respect Michio Kaku, (the grey-haired man in the video)... and the work he has done... but this video clip here is not really so interesting. People in science have been talking about antimatter engines for a long time... and it will be quite a while still before that technology is really useable and practical... if ever... it could potentially be very dangerous by its very nature... and hugely expensive. I still stand behind my force-field comment.
1st starship is supposed to be build in 2110! However maybe 30-40 years sooner
teo1000t 2 hours ago
why not just build a earth-spaceship that is simular to earth that has the atmosphere to protect from uv and asteroid and stay healthy on the spinning earth's gravity?
seems impossible, but i'd say it's better idea than this video's
WiLdHaCk3r1 3 days ago
Well that looks a bit like a star drive with necells. Wait for grav generators, then add a main hull - its the Enterprise.
MrFreesearcher 6 days ago
hey what if we find other life and there we smarter then us and they are not friendly and attack this ship ?
storeguy333 6 days ago
If you haven't seen this guy before... He's living completely in his own fantasy.
...Anyway, when he built his starship, what's he gonna do? Go out in space, billions of light years from here and shoot aliens of the size of a man ??
Funny, isn't it, that all aliens are two-legged creatures with two eyes, two arms and still the same size as a man; so they must be from a planet, which has a size and gravity similar to earth, or they would have a different size... Argh! I'm a Star Trek fan btw.
68HC060 1 week ago
Anybody know where I can get some antimatter and a force field?
halfamused 1 week ago
@halfamused i have know idea =(
storeguy333 6 days ago
@halfamused antimatter is produced by the tons around the north poles and south poles of the sun stars and black holes. no particle accelerator is efficient enough to produce that much here on earth
sukhoi35a 6 days ago
This scientist assumes a starship will first need to travel through the asteroid belt in order to reach other star systems. That may be true for a small portion of them but space is three-dimensional, Most stars will NOT be on the plane ot the ecliptic ( roughly, the "disk" where all planets, asteroids and comets orbit our Sun ). This demontrates astonishing two-dimensional thinking for a "space expert"... OK, let's see some credentials here pal.
chialeux514 2 weeks ago
@chialeux514 I'm not sure of its density, but the Oort cloud is spherical, and thus will have to be crossed by any ship, regardless of its destination.
ElGringoCastellano 2 weeks ago
@chialeux514 Let ME see some credential there buddy... You seem to think the Oort cloud is on a 2 dimensional plane... Also asteroids exist outside of asteroid belts, and although that risk is small, as Michio stats, even an asteroid the size of a pin head could cause a catastrophic issue.
rich1051414 1 week ago
Now a cylinder spining to create gravity works for a space station, but did he forget that the acceleration of the ship will ALSO create artificial gravity, which would, when combined with the spining section, create a gravity that would cause the exterior corners of teh spining section to be the ground. Now I dont know about you, but I like my floors to be flat.
dave19941000 2 weeks ago
@dave19941000 That's actually true.
CheaterGuy1998 2 weeks ago
@dave19941000 The ship won't be accelerating constantly. When it reaches peak velocity, it won't generate the equivalent of gravity from acceleration. And when it decelerates, it will have "gravity" on the opposite surface. A torus makes more sense because it will ALWAYS generate the equivalent of gravity.
ElGringoCastellano 2 weeks ago
@ElGringoCastellano True, but to travel the massive distance between stars a 1G acceleration followed by a 1G deceleration is the most logical speed to travel as it allows for more of the materials used in the ship to go towards maximizing the space that could be used for storage, housing or whatever else. A constant 1G acceleration provides about 77.48% of light speed after 1 year and after 15.84 years almost light speed, allowing for the 1st generation to see the planet.
dave19941000 2 weeks ago
@ElGringoCastellano It also eliminated the need to design a ship that can suport artificial gravity from two different directions depending on the phase of the mission, which would make the ship needlessly more complex then it would need to be.
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CAN ANYONE, think of some sci fi books that are about 200 pages or less?????, but avoiding "short stories" the only book ive read was ringworld by larry niven and i loved it, i think that indicates that i like adventure ones, thankyou very much for helpful replies.
bentotheclarke 2 weeks ago
Polarize the hull plating! We're going in.
rrtthh13 2 weeks ago
It looks like a Vulcan StarShip From Star Trek
Clone683 2 weeks ago
@Clone683 I noticed the similarity too.
CheaterGuy1998 2 weeks ago
The danger with anti-mater is that if we have a problem with a piece of insulation on a fuel tank (sound familiar?) One teaspoon of it if it exploded over a city would destroy that city. Now an ocean or island launching station would be good though.
whyamisogood1 3 weeks ago
@whyamisogood1 Or an orbital launching station. Fuel and launch it there, and risk nothing on Earth
Dragonsecho3 2 weeks ago
@whyamisogood1 A ship big enough to support a human population for 40 years is too big to build anywhere but in space. Thus no danger to the denizens of our planet.
ElGringoCastellano 2 weeks ago
@mrcarlito976 An antimatter engine is better.
rasheeqhere 3 weeks ago
better use the good old nuclear fusion as a powersource
mrcarlito976 3 weeks ago
this star ship sucks ass, you can do better phyicist. at least i can.
frogfan101 3 weeks ago
nice
nanographics21 3 weeks ago
The Eurocode have 44500 pages, good luck.
noslenmars 1 month ago
weell y havent you made it yet
ThePrime2100 1 month ago
2034.......
themanso08 1 month ago
still in that speed you cant make cource corections, you need something to bend space around the ship to avoid crashing
enkopingsbo 1 month ago
Finally, legitimate scientists design a ship that doesn't look like shit.
GangsterHutterite 1 month ago
That spinning ring is just adding complexity to an already complex design. Why not spinning the whole ship to create artificial gravity?
r8wing 1 month ago
@r8wing I think it's because of propulsion ... if the entire ship will rotate the rotating propellers becoming almost impossible to make a move ... for example the project goes through a pipe with a spiral groove to rotate out the bullet from the gun to rotate the same and not change its trajectory...
ignaciojork 1 month ago
that is one ugly looking starship,,, also it cant be called a starship because it doesnt have the size requirement of a ss,, picture the usg ishimura from the game deadspace, now that is a freaking kickass starship
Asleepymystikal 1 month ago
by placing a starship out of phase or totally in a dimmension or sub dimmension you have problems with debris hitting your ship so why the need of massive shielding
pvhn 1 month ago
Building a doughnut-capsule doesn't make sense, I think, if he's planning to use centrifugal force in substitute for gravity. The heads of the astronauts (closest to the center) will be under stronger pull than the feet, which probably isn't too healthy.
At least that's what I suppose...
tropchouette 1 month ago
Heres an idea: WORK ON FUCKING SHIPS!!
SCIFIguy64 1 month ago
You need a force field to get throgh the asteroid belt? Serously? Because "a pinprick" would kill the whole ship? Shame on you. How fast do you think it would be be going by then, on a 40 YEAR JOURNEY? And how do you build one anyway? I stopped watching at point
Someone once said that movies depict asteroid belts as "porous brick walls". Uh, just look up how many deep space probes have already passed through the asteroid belt WITHOUT "force shields".
FizzXXX 1 month ago
@FizzXXX
As you get closer and closer to light speed, small particles can do large amounts of damage. Those probes are traveling at just a tiny fraction (less than one percent) of the speed of light. This starship would be traveling much faster than that.
piplupsingularity 1 month ago
i could imagine something something better
903harman 1 month ago
who is this person??. a white haired guy. because i see him all over the internet predicting... creating,,, and etc.
markjason2 1 month ago
@markjason2 he is intergalactic spy
parasempatik123 1 month ago
@markjason2 Michio Kaku
spenceII 1 month ago
Hey, that guy was the narrator of a space documentary in Netflix!
HouseflyOfficial 1 month ago
very interesting!
gtp591 1 month ago
ok ... asteroid belt .. every one that tlk about travelling to space talk about crossing the belt but why ....i mean you are in space loll why run into asteroid when you can go around ....
GHOSTTOYS 1 month ago 14
@GHOSTTOYS Obviously you go around the large asteroids. The problem is that spaceships move at speeds that are hard to imagine. Driving fast in a car doesn't come close to comparing. If a pebble hits your car, you will at worst suffer a scratch, -maybe- a cracked (but not entirely broken) window. If a pebble-sized asteroid hits a spaceship going 50% the speed of light, the effects are catastrophic.
SignificantOwl 1 month ago
@GHOSTTOYS And by catastrophic, I mean that as soon as you go beyond tiny pebbles, the energy released can go into and beyond atomic bomb scale. It's serious stuff. :)
SignificantOwl 1 month ago
@SignificantOwl loll i know micro particule is dangerous ... but i meant about the asteroid belt why crossing it .....because the asteroid belt is like saturn ring ... so if you want to go on saturn you wil not take the pat that bring you to cross the belt to get to the surface .. so why crossing the belt if you want to get out of our solar system ...
GHOSTTOYS 1 month ago
@GHOSTTOYS you can't go around the asteroid belt because of its size , it would take way too long
hi9580 1 month ago
@hi9580 loll we talk about space ... there is no real plain axe there is no real sence so to me the beld is like block a small way in the pat ...
GHOSTTOYS 1 month ago
@GHOSTTOYS Not to mention the asteroids in question are millions of miles apart...
SimKoning 1 month ago
@SimKoning exactly ... i mean with a slight degree from the starting point you can avoid the belt ... its like scientist always travel on the galaxy central plane .. they dont seem to remember they are in space ..
GHOSTTOYS 1 month ago
@GHOSTTOYS ...becaus it will use reaction mass. Besides, the asteroid belt are not a fictional style belt. There are hundreds of thousands of km between the rocks.
xanosdarkpaw1 1 month ago
@xanosdarkpaw1 loll i know thats but it seem that scientist are bound to travelle on the astral plain .....and by the way if the asteroid belt si large then its a wall .. dont you think ..
GHOSTTOYS 1 month ago
@GHOSTTOYS not if you're traveling near the speed of light, it would be too difficult to go around small objects and it would waste a lot of time..
Traces1000 3 weeks ago
@GHOSTTOYS cause if u r in warp speed factor 8 or 9 u havent much time to avoid it.
MasterNeiXD 2 weeks ago
forcefield capable of breaking through space-debris, comets and other objects ??
questionable ..
martinmartiini 1 month ago
Why a spinning section ? Why not spin the entire ship ? The friction between the 2 sections will cause the spinner to slow down and the static section to rotate. You would waste precious fuel just to maintain this instable state. /// Also, the asteroid field is not as dense as what you see in movies. Space probes to Jupiter and beyond constantly cross it without a hitch. The rocks are several thousand miles apart. Granted, you may need a force field anyway, to protect against interstellar junk.
chialeux514 1 month ago
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enzowillis 1 month ago
I'm in, where do I sign up for the 40 year journey?
hightekkrednek 1 month ago
where can i talk to this guy ???
Tobius11 1 month ago
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titanicpiano14 2 months ago
Earth fits the bill... very special materials and has gravity.. and its already spinning... it starts with a thought.... building as we fly...
Sukshma 2 months ago
it makes no sense to have astronauts live for 40 years it is just a waste of your life so why not have them just sleep in hibernation pods like in the movie pandorum it has been done before a Japanese man was in suspended animation for weeks with no food or water so the ships mass can be reduced no need for food water or your ship to be shaped like a giant wheel for artificial gravity.
AnnikaAolaniMinges 2 months ago
@AnnikaAolaniMinges well theres emergency situations and other things and supplys for landings A.I.'s can handle the rest though. Also theres self defence it we ever face alien threats.
IsaacD39 2 months ago
@AnnikaAolaniMinges True, if it's practical. Some animals hibernate for a few months but how long could humans manage ? Years ? Decades ? Centuries ? Millenia ? Depending on how fast the ship is and how far away your destination star is, it may be that the longest we can manage without tissue damage may not be enough ( leave a vaccuum-wrapped piece of meat for 20 years in a freezer and it'll still go bad ). Except for our immediate neighborhood, we may still need a multi-generational ship.
chialeux514 1 month ago
What will happen if your ship collide a tiny sand dust with that speed. :)
BateYasho 2 months ago
Anti-matter reaches the 10th of the speed of light, they have the technology but unfortunately don't know how to store it.
tayyabno10 2 months ago
hawkings starship design is better &more realistic without even having to explain it.. (stephen hawkings rocket to the future) but i still find it funny the amounta pseudo scientists on here "dissing" the credibility/possibility of anti-matter propulsion when its in fact THE most viable/possible/probable form of reliable interstellar propulsion theoretical or otherwise.. the only hindrance is the specific technique or sheer amount of energy needed to create anti-matter.
theblaquebaastid 2 months ago 21
@theblaquebaastid one emp blast from who knows what and when the system go down for even a microscond the ship will shine brighter than any thing even the largest star and nothing will remain because the heat will melt the ship and the areas where the anti-matter hit will cease to exist.
IsaacD39 2 months ago
@theblaquebaastid and scientist made a new particle that can go faster than light so it puts more bang for your buck than dumb ass anit-matter thats only good for weapons really. Plasmas better for power on ground based buildings as it is more stable even though radiation is emmited.
IsaacD39 2 months ago
@IsaacD39 No, they measured the speed of neutrinos. It'll be a long time before we can do much with them. And do you actually know what plasma is?
TehOrkyMan 2 months ago
@theblaquebaastid 1 word: theoretical
FreeTh1nk3r 1 month ago
@FreeTh1nk3r so was the plane train &automobile.. your point is?
theblaquebaastid 1 month ago
@theblaquebaastid Alternate realities allow for God to exist, which he does not. There is reality, and there is fiction.
FreeTh1nk3r 1 month ago
@theblaquebaastid i have no idea what you just said(all chinese).
THE16THPHANTOM 1 month ago
@theblaquebaastid if we could obtain even a small amount of anti matter it is my understanding that we will be able to henceforth make antimatter without having to tap into resources aside from that the original antimatter provided
chuckles731 1 month ago
@chuckles731 why.. as an energy source..does it increase exponentially? idunno all the numbers.. but apparently theres sumthin about dissipative effects or the risks to our environment that are holding back making the neccessary amount to achieve full perpetuality
theblaquebaastid 1 month ago
@chuckles731
Unfortunately that's not the way it works :/ Single positrons were first observed in 1929! Scientists can now make 100 billion positrons at a time just by shooting gold with a big laser o.O
captainTubes 4 weeks ago
@theblaquebaastid ...........Reverse engineering has been taking place a very long time, this is fact. We already have (in secret) ovecome inertia, that = Freedom.
thespectra 1 month ago
@theblaquebaastid Anti-matter would indeed provide the necessary power not only for propulsion, but for ships' power. The biggest problem is, as you say, getting enough of it together to power a flight to an exoplanet nearby.
FSAthe1st 1 month ago
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theblaquebaastid 2 months ago
Hurry up and build it.
RSmatthewdj9 2 months ago
wish he would describe how the force field works lol
117cam 2 months ago
@117cam Oddly enough, you could armour a ship well enough to deflect most particles. Replace 'force-field' with 'beryllium plates' and you have it.
TehOrkyMan 2 months ago
Looks good ill take 2 please.
MrNumberFour 2 months ago
Michio Kaku beat up Chuck Norris!!!
TWICE! :)
gruja22vajar 2 months ago
I am not only the man 1000 years latter but I am a person of the beginning of time that is a person before the Big Bang and I am the Big Bang and I am the man after Big Bang and I am not Allah (God) (Amlakh). Because Allah is the creator and I am the created one. Moreover because I am of the beginning time all the Mathematics and Physics formulas deos not exist to me yet. I have my own formulas and I am just starting to understand x+1 and x-1 or n+1 and n-1 so lets begin &thank u for the reply!!
Iberedmas 2 months ago
In your dream yes. In reality NO.
Iberedmas 2 months ago
@Iberedmas hahaha u sounds like mankind 1000 years later, "wanna fly? in your dream!" hahahaha that sounds right buddy :)
VladiSSius 2 months ago
it looks like blakes 7`s liberator.
thanqualthehighseer 2 months ago
Antimatter does not provide 100% conversion of matter into energy. There's no conversion. Matter is annihilated by antimatter upon contact, causing massive lethal gamma ray production. Oh, and good luck with storaging the antimatter.
Second, solar wind sail is cool when you're close to a star, otherwise there's not nearly enough solar wind to make the presence of sails meaningful.
The more I hear this guy speaking, the more I feel like he's just a charlatan.
sunamori 2 months ago
@sunamori hes pointing out the possibility :) of course starship design is not as ugly as he drawn here. many aspect counted, not only about energy but also space effect itself. Not simple job, but if we can make it simpler, it is right.
VladiSSius 2 months ago
great ship no doubt but the design is very similar to ufo-s hided in s4 and explained by Bob Lazar
realist807 2 months ago
zawsze smieje sie z mechanicznie krecacych sie fregmetow staktów kosmichnych....po co????? przecierz caly statek moze sie obracac woków wlasnej osi.
BOOGY110011 2 months ago
all we need to make now is a sun-engine drive (S.E.D). with sail. and shield. for the ultimate spacecraft.
zulu23100 3 months ago
lol...total nonsense....but its dreams like this that inspire people to study science, so it can't be all that bad....
MumblingMickey 3 months ago
@MumblingMickey nonsense is when something is not real, yet. When it becomes real, its sense.
VladiSSius 2 months ago
@VladiSSius Actually nonsense is when something does 'not make sense' not when its not real.
Something can in fact be real and still make no sense to many people... for example entangled particle physics is mostly nonsense to most people... because they are incapable of making sense of it. But its certainly as real as the nose on your face.
However this idea of a propulsion system for a starship is total nonsense even for a physicist ;)
MumblingMickey 2 months ago
@MumblingMickey Totally. Faster than light space travel will be achieved through teleportation, which as we all know relies on entanglement. No need for artificial gravity
C4eternity 2 months ago
@C4eternity Well it might be, it might not... I'm not Phillip K. Dick... so my prediction of future inventions won't be as prophetic as his.
However what I DO know... is that atoms cannot be entangled in spacetime... only subatomic particles are capable of this...
This leaves only 'information' which can be 'transported'...
now, so long as you can work out a way to use just information... then fair enough.
There are numerous ways to do that.
MumblingMickey 2 months ago
michio was the only smart one there we need more brains like that,, i cant because im hy rite now lol
0x0marlo0x0 3 months ago
what he said about Anti matter stuff - Star travel only possible via Anti matter . But one problem is there Anti matter + Matter = Boom ;) .. Storage of Antimatter is a problem.
Small objects in space can damage Spaceship :D
What about the G force which generate while accelerating the speed of Spaceship?
HUSNIDJ1991 3 months ago
I want hyperdrive. Not that 40 year crap. However this is a start.
highflyender 3 months ago
Oh yes, forcefields. They're everywhere. In fact, just this morning I forgot to shut the forcefield off on my toaster and I could get at my toast when it was finished.
notablegoat 3 months ago
i would still prefer making a star destroyer by cutting up mars
therasmet 3 months ago
absolute bullshit
MrBrianDunbar 3 months ago
So, if everyone is frozen, who flys the ship?
squeekieballs 4 months ago
@squeekieballs, A smart Autopilot. Or my own preference: A clan of Space Monkey`s.
EuroSon99 3 months ago
NOW "LSD" THE MOVIE
ImTheMan725 4 months ago
some as been smoking to much weed
xxxwartrek 4 months ago
I wish people could remember that this show isn't about making the impossible probable, it's about providing a THEORETICAL model of fictional technology based on real-world physics.
csklimowski 4 months ago
i guess people don't understand the meaning of sci-fi, they want equations lol
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TimeTravelTruther 4 months ago
To continue our travel to dreamland.. how are you going to fill the tank with anti-matter if you can't even produce it? Perhaps greys could lend us some of their's
Zalamedas 4 months ago 3
Everytime i see this man on Discovery Channel i fall to sleep..
ZeroController 4 months ago
Id say the forcefields that are made to strengthen the hull are not that good, id say a typical Sci-Fi dome shield that goes around the ship is better.
DaedalusTV 4 months ago
how are you going to hold the anti matter, it would be a casing of matter which means it will boom once it touches it :S
dasudosomia 4 months ago
@dasudosomia m.a.g.n.e.t.i.s.m
wyCerBotMyNem 4 months ago
@dasudosomia There is a way for that not to happen, saw it on Discover, can't explain it to you. And there is always a choice of liquid Helium3 option for the engines.
DaedalusTV 4 months ago
Well no... the forcefield is to minimize the friction effect of atoms and gasses primarily. But this is such an entirely torpid approach it wouldn't begin to quality as a starship at all, it's a menace to starship navigation is all. Werner Von Braun wouldn't even think something like this second rate version of Jules Vern, so why do these idiots like Kaku bore us with it?
ChicaWolverina 4 months ago
I guess they have cut out A LOT of Kaku's plan.
Antimatter - I can see that happen, what with CERN on the case even today.
Solar sails - check. No problemo.
But force fields?
I am almost certain Kaku explained to these people how that would be possible but it must have been cut out for time reasons.
I know of no research or development that suggests something like force fields are even possible.
So far it is just science fiction.
And our spacecraft seem to work fine without them.
HaploidCell 4 months ago
@HaploidCell Running an electrical charge to polarize the hull would result in a "Force Field" to repel asteroids (and Mass Driver weaponry)
sejemaset 4 months ago
@sejemaset So apparently this technology, taken straight from Star Trek Enterprise, actually works.
It improves you hull armour.
But we don't even have that much armour - since shipping it into space would be immensly expensive!
So we really need a real life force field.
And at present I can maybe see an anti-magnet field being developed but that would only be useful against metal asteroids.
I cant see hull armour or force fields in any practical sort of way happening.
HaploidCell 4 months ago
@HaploidCell check out plasma technologies. by enveloping plasma in a magnetic field you can create a "force field". by layering hot and cold plasmas, it makes this more effective, however, the technology is still being developed and the machine they use to create a dime-sized field is massive and takes great amounts of energy to produce. when they are able to get the machinery smaller and create larger fields it will be possible.
TruthseekerYgg 4 months ago
@TruthseekerYgg Holy shit. I will google that RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. this is awesome. Thank you.
HaploidCell 4 months ago
@HaploidCell np :)
TruthseekerYgg 4 months ago
Anyone understand a word of this apart from me? They should have explained this a bit better for people who don't know what antimatter is or how a rotating section produces gravity. And before anyone starts I know the answers to both of those.
babylon218 4 months ago
Michio Kaku is a piece of shit. He calls humans little less than insects as a reference to useless eater. Well Yeah people like him are useless eaters. But the rest of us who goto church and try to help society? Im going to use Gravitons to propel my ship to FTL.
websuspect 4 months ago
dude your a retard. we are incects comapared to the universe. in fact even smaller. and the fact you brought chruch to it has nothing to do with anything.
RetardedAnime 4 months ago
@RetardedAnime Some people have moral and personal values unlike Micuchilicker mc Doodoo. It does little for a civilization to have space travel. If there spiritual and moral values do not survive. with it . If you could visit 20 Intergalactic traveling aliens they would agree. What spiritual or cultural values does your species bring to the universe. Cutchilicker mc Doodoo brings the spiritual values of an egotistical, ignorant, bottomfeeding insect.
websuspect 4 months ago
sorry, but im an athiest and i think what your saying is doing the opposite. plus he's done more than you ever have. don't insult scientists.
RetardedAnime 4 months ago
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@websuspect He could be referring to deity worshiping, red-necks in bill-caps, Hasidim Jews, Muslims, x-ians, Anne Rice, the Pope, George Noory, Delmart Mike Vreeland, ladies who love horses, people that keep dogs in apartments or doublewides, tea-party supporters, et al.
ChicaWolverina 4 months ago
@websuspect Some people can argue without having to insult their opponents by making horrible puns with their names, too.
sciencoking 4 months ago
@websuspect You're quite the religious nut.
AgrivatedKillah 2 months ago
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ChicaWolverina 4 months ago
@websuspect "go to church"
The same church that told africans not to use condoms which basically exploded the aids/hiv rate?
AgrivatedKillah 2 months ago
I fart out antimatter ;)
greydotjaguar 4 months ago
Step One....buy "a wookie"...step two,...ensure he has his own set of "hydro-spanners"...step three, take him to a dump and tell him to get building..
homerbear46 4 months ago 25
dude everything is fucking possible, michio knows that, even if you havent seen the damn equation, work on it.
jasontrail 4 months ago
Heh heh sorry for the loss of grammar I was in a rush when I typed that =P
ultislasher1 4 months ago
how about a plasma outter shell instead of a force field to melt any thing in our path? I don't know HOW to create a force field, but I DO know waht plasma is-- we just have to know how to contain it for amounts of time- which I think we'll be able to do when we create that Starship... and we're probably gonna create it in 70 years later...
ultislasher1 4 months ago
The presenter is Michio Kaku, PhD in physics. He's one of the founders of M theory, which has given us, among other things, dark matter as it is now understood. Watch some TV shows on the structure of the cosmos or the universe, and you'll see him on it.
MottyGlix 4 months ago
how are we supposed to create a force field
sv14pe 5 months ago
But will it blend?
alex007152 5 months ago
I liek this
TheHappyWhaleshark 5 months ago
instead of trying to reach the speed of light which is impossible in normal space for anything that has a rest mass, we should try to figure out ways of faster than light travel, aka "warp" travel or look for subspace domains or tachyon particles. IMHO that would be better than light speed travel as in the grand scale of the universe & intergalactic distances, light speed is still pretty damn slow! 2 MILLION years at light speed to get to the nearest galaxy to the milky way?!?! (Andromeda) WOW!!
BeamMeUpSir 5 months ago
@BeamMeUpSir We could look into wormhole physics, they are mathematically plausible and do not yet break our current understanding of physics, Should we succeed in creating viable wormholes for travel, we'll be able to travel through star systems while physically only moving a few meters.
DominateKiller6 5 months ago
@DominateKiller6 Yes, but that also requires the use of exotic matter.
I think our current best bet is the idea of the warp engine. This is also theoretically possible. You shrink the 11th dimension in front of the ship, then expand the 11th dimension behind the ship, and you cause space itself to move. Using this method, FTL speed is possible because it's space itself that moves and not the ship. No laws are broken. Problem is it would require the same amount of energy that is in Jupiter.
Landrar 4 months ago
@Landrar Did you hear this on Futurama? lol
xXxM0nteNegr0xXx 4 months ago
@xXxM0nteNegr0xXx lol nah it's based on super string theory, and more specifically in M-theory. You can look it up. Great article on it at discovery com
Landrar 4 months ago
@Landrar I'll have to check that out. Thanks for sharing.
xXxM0nteNegr0xXx 4 months ago
lol force fields and antimatter engines, hate this guy for the loads of bollocks he tells
Mandanara 5 months ago
@Mandanara You need to learn more about this stuff, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, go kill yourself instead of posting shit on the internet and waste people's time.
lkaruga 5 months ago
This whole thing so so vague all this stuff he talks about is so under explained that i'm surprised people are taking him seriously. i guess its his use of vocabulary that gives him power here cuz i havent seen one real equation for this.
Madcow800 5 months ago 13
@Madcow800 Other than the forcefield, I seen no problem with his design. Well, the shape isn't as purely functional as today's spacecraft, but other than that, no problem. Antimatter engines are possible, and the only problem is the generation and storage of antimatter. Centrifuges are a tested tech too, NASA, and most air forces use them to train and test their pilots for high G forces.
Helge129 5 months ago
@Madcow800 Consider the audience he's talking to. The average person has an IQ of around 100. Have to talk down to them, more often than not.
Landrar 4 months ago
@Madcow800 He scribbles his drawings on notebook paper. No equations required. lolz
xXxM0nteNegr0xXx 4 months ago
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@Madcow800 He scribbles his drawings on notebook paper. No equations required. lolz
xXxM0nteNegr0xXx 4 months ago
@Madcow800 That's because this is a video fragment, ripped out of context, dumbass.
L1b3rta 4 months ago
@Madcow800 the thing is that most people lose interest as soon as a capital sigma pops up on the screen. After all, we have to watch sci-fi on TV as what it is - entertainment.
sciencoking 4 months ago
@Madcow800 Fair enough point but this is an entertainment piece of work not a blue print. This is supposed to captivate our imagination and not so much as 'prove' but speculate from what we already know in order to overcome problems and create.... A spaceship.
If you want solid proof, hard equations, stacks of reports & experiments, supporting equations and an accurate blueprint of a spaceship you better have a few degree's in physics to understand all of this.
Target audience is the key.
539forgotten 4 months ago
@Madcow800 I agree with you... and indeed... most vague of all... what is this "force field" that will protect the crew from asteroids? How does it work? There is no such workable concept in science that I know of.
efamstin 4 months ago
@efamstin I imagine he is hinting at something that would work like earth's magnetic field but then again this is all these are all theories that they are talking about. I can make shit up to lol
MrThirdstring 4 months ago
@MrThirdstring I do actually respect Michio Kaku, (the grey-haired man in the video)... and the work he has done... but this video clip here is not really so interesting. People in science have been talking about antimatter engines for a long time... and it will be quite a while still before that technology is really useable and practical... if ever... it could potentially be very dangerous by its very nature... and hugely expensive. I still stand behind my force-field comment.
efamstin 3 months ago