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  • kkk coisa doida

  • L do you know gods of death loves apples

  • most dumbest idea ever

  • Ez a kis rakéta acél v. fémből van? (o_o)? mert angolul metal-t írta

  • Pont olyan fényes, mint az UFÓ járművek ami csak az ember észlelt :)

  • so now who's going to tell me the roswel story is fake, I mean COME ON where else would they get the idea to use light as a form of thrust in a circular craft powered by a satellite drawing the energy from the SUN.

  • This wouldn't work outside of our atmosphere, would it?

  • @einarssone

    Yes actually, you'd only need to inject a small amount of gas into the engine area, it could even be as mundane as compressed air.

  • We need to understand that this is a technology that is still in the development stages. As for the heat that gets generated, there would be shielding from that heat and of course an efficient way to convert the heat into useful energy that could be used for all types of applications on board the ship. I think the team working on this has made remarkable progress in the short time they have been working on it. I want to see the team succeed. This is revolutionary!

  • I wish I had all those science toys to build space ships with..

  • Now all they need is to shoot spaceships like this in a rail gun in outer space or the moon.

  • Looks like fun. I want one :))

  • that is the answer for UFO fanatics.

  • this is something i wish to be around for!!

  • Ummm the ppl inside would of died from spinning like that for a long period of time...

  • I don't get why it's called a spacecraft if this could not possibly travel in the vacuum of space.

  • i dont get iit if its 4 times hotter than the sun how would you keep any passengers from burning to smitherenes? but this is interesting anyway it may not be the next space machine in itself but this looks like a good new place to start right?

  • That why the stop making the. Space shuttle to go in spaced

  • @polancodanny

    Nice comment bro, say it again.

  • no air in space

  • always New mexico, lololo

  • cool!

  • Cool concept, but..... Problem 1: it only works in atmosphere. Problem 2: it requires a HUGEMONGEOUS laser. Problem 3: He burninated the spaceship.

  • yes, light power my car so i wont wear out treads and have to buy tires in space. what happens when you look into laser? they should make super long Frisbee with led's and sell em to kids.

  • @bluekeet I love how you dismiss the hard work of engineers as alien tech. I'm sure they'd love your gratitude for their labour and efforts.

  • @bluekeet - Not really. The engineering principles involved in this are quite simple.

    Any actual alien civilisation capable of crossing between the stars would laugh at any junk we can produce.

  • I'm curious as to what sort of velocity could this type of craft attain.

  • @norwegcat none

  • that will definetely NOT function in space,for a simple reason: the space doesn't have an atmosfere,so the laser will not heat/dilatate any gas in order to give a pulse....so try another metod....greetings from Romania

  • @draculakickyourass NICE , but cant they make special pockets of air to do so ? and hows the rockets are cruzing throu space without air ?

  • @SmokeWeedEvryDayDK the space rockets are using a special fuel,which can burn WHITHOUT air,actually a new method is prepared in Romania,a spaceship jet which will use Oxigenated water,just search in youtube for the channel named ARCAchannel,they publish videos whith the construction of the E 111 spaceship,the romanian project for Google X prize for getting a spaceship to the moon.....;)

  • @SmokeWeedEvryDayDK thank u

  • @SmokeWeedEvryDayDK Yeah but I thought the whole point was that the rocket would not need any fuel on board? To make pockets of a gas in space, it would need a tank full of it. It might as well, then, be a standard rocket.

  • i dont they put lazer on the back of plane or telescope and just fly trouh space ? sorry for bad english

  • @SmokeWeedEvryDayDK

    No oxygen in space, no super-heated plasma can be produced.

  • now do you think ufo's are so far fetched if with our primitive technology we're already considering doing this

  • So they're paid to do this? I want this job.

  • Oh, my dear! When I think about the amount of time I have spent trying to get my head around the idea of "specific impulse" and why the unit is "seconds" without success, and now hear it explained, accurately, in just a few words, at about 4:00 in this video it just makes me wonder. Even the usually trustworthy Wikipedia's article on the matter was unreasonably impenetrable back when I checked it out.

    Thank you, SpaceRip. Thank you so much.

  • i just started with spongebob and ended up here....

  • sweet

  • whether this mode of gravity are negated?

    given in this way at the moment can undo the forces of magnetic fields?

  • @dogmader What are you even saying?

  • I say lets do it!

  • THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!!!! I'm glad I got to see this. I wonder how far they have come with this laser engine since that program aired..., looks promising.

  • thats awesome:)

  • thumbs up if vsauce brought you here!

  • Look into gravity emitting diodes

  • How long would it take to get back from the moon?

  • @Danielkchoi Depends how fast you go.

  • wow that is awesome, well explained. Soon we will have to change from unidentified flying object to Identifiable flying object lol

  • I think their process of making a flying saucer is just too complex.

  • anyone ever watch gundam 00, does the craft remind you of anything?

  • What smaller fuell tanks? The energy sourse (the laserbeam) is on the ground isn't it?

  • @wybo2 It would still need fuel tanks for once it's in space.

  • I wish that when people posted segments of documentaries like this, they would tell you which documentary it came from. I want to watch the whole thing!

  • I met a guy in a Barnes and Noble bookstore who said he designed a car that could run on laser beams. I thought he was bullshitting me, even after he showed me the highly detailed schematics for it.

    After seeing this, I regret not believing him.

  • and people dont believe in aliens? this is incredible, imagine a material that wouldnt burn up or break from the heat, and imagine a constant laser beam. this would mean supersonic speeds, cmon now.

  • Vsauce !!!

  • Respect for this man, maybe he is the base founder of space travell

  • Beam me up Scotty ;) .... see what I did there? ರ_ೃ

  • @uktraceur

    Is that.... is that a monocle?

  • How da fuck did i get here watchin' deadmau5?

  • they have a great ideo but why put a satterlite to give it energy while they could build an onboard system on the craft when it is in space so it can collect energy from the sun and then beam it to its engine (supposevly it has a laser beam onboard) that would be more safe than to must have a clear optical vision from the satterlite to the spaceship... just saying

  • @xalastras21 my guess is that a satellite in space collects much more energy than when you're still in atmosphere. the gases in our atmosphere contribute to our protection so we don't fry up from the sun's solar rays.

  • @xalastras21 o and also, better to have one picking up way more energy than to give a craft more energy from earth

  • "Four to six times the temperature of the sun" MY ASS!!!, If a grain of sand was heated up to ONE TIMES the temperature of the sun, the atmosphere would burn. Six times the temperature of the sun, and boom, your breathing somthing hotter than plasma.

  • @BlackDragon4716 entropy say what?

  • @BlackDragon4716 yeah, that did sound suspicious.

  • It might be possible to maintain a large fraction of a G of accelaration for an hour or more, which would impart speeds allowing a trip to Mars in a couple of weeks or even less.

    Of course, a braking system in Mars orbit would also need to be built.

  • Many people assume that very precise tracking by the beam is necessary - it isn't. Apparently the craft is (or can be) inherently self-centering in the beam, like a pingpong ball on a jet of air.

    Orbital systems could be built (geo-stat or Lagrange) with large solar collectors which could be used to power beams for interplantery craft (to Mars, say).

  • Many people assume that very precise tracking by the beam is necessary - it isn't. Apparently the craft is (or can be) inherently self-centering in the beam, like a pingpong ball on a jet of air.

    Orbital systems could be built (geo-stat or Lagrange) with large solar collectors which could be used to power beams for interplantery craft (to Mars, say).

  • this is way cool

  • and with this "laser"...

    

  • u no the light craft doesnt seem very enviromentally friendly

  • That's cool.

  • what else could the microwave beam aim at...? hummmm...

  • GOOD

  • @gettavid As apposed to when planes were not flown with fuel in the past?

  • ok if this video was was madde in 2008, then how about a video on his reseach now? he must have had some breakthrough by now, or did he give up?

  • So basically they want to turn shuttle launches into a process not unlike attempting to golf by shooting at the ball from a mile away with a rifle?

  • ya its all good just put it on youtube so other countries can steal the idea too

  • why the fuck does youtube makes all the fucking aggravating and fucking annoying commercials unskippable, such as those quebec and car commercials, while ALL the skippable ones are ones that i would enjoy watching if left with no other choice.

    fuck quebec and those jeep or w/e kind of car commercials im going to go out of my way to never pay for any of their fucking products/services

  • If there is a material that can withstand the heat of this laser... why can't we get closer to the sun and stuff?

  • if they can make a laser so powerfull in such a small thing, what the f*ck am i doing with this little 5mw laser pen?

  • Erm, what if they mount the top part of the cone with some solar panels to generate power and attach the laser behind it?

  • @kiwiproject because solar panels can't generate that much power yet....

  • @kiwiproject not enough power from solar panels that small - not by a long shot. and the only point of the laser is to project power from below, there are more efficient ways of heating the rim of the craft if it is the power source.

  • @kiwiproject solar power is actually pretty rubbish and the laser needs to be strong enough to mess with satalights :O

  • @kiwiproject @riskingeuphoria On top of the solar power being underpowered, they're using that powerful of a laser for a very small model. It would probably take even more of a powerful laser.

  • @urbandefinition its a working process :)

  • @kiwiproject Here's an idea that I had today at work: What if they could mount multiples of these on plane wings, with a laser or set of lasers timed to fire at them at different times to give smooth propulsion with high fuel efficiency?

  • @kiwiproject No. Just no, too many flaws with that logic.

  • future space flight

  • Right, let's see you make a big version. Seems more like science fiction than science fact to me

  • I saw this like 5 or more years ago. Still cool. I'd hate to be the first test pilot.

  • I saw this like 5 or more years ago. Still cool.

  • anyone know the name of the pogect mentioned at the end of the vid, i wanna research it

  • Aww..Shhh

  • why isnt this out there man

  • I think I know something...

    I saw something on the History Channel about Nazi-UFO connections, and it showed that liquid Mercury, in a spherical, closed system causes levitation in the system, so what about a mercury-powered spherical or pancake-shaped spaceship?

    The Nazis were predicted to have done experiments with mercury-filled UFOs, because most, if not all submarines and cargo ships shot down by the Allies had large amounts of cargo in the form of mercury.

  • how do you make one at home...

  • lol these people are idiots

  • @Falconpunch82

    if they're idiots...

    ...I cant imagine what a retard you would be!

  • @FrostbitexP ha -___-

  • that explains the ufo in israel

  • I guess I don't understand this. If it requires the air around it for it's acceleration, then once it's in space, how does it continue to accelerate? If it's a design that requires 100% of it's acceleration to be done in the liftoff, then why is it even being considered? Now if there was something like this beamed energy acceleration that could continue to accelerate as it went through space like that, you could just keep going till it reaches near-C and send it to a star.

  • @TheRoomy it would carry air or other gass

  • @TheRoomy Why have a craft with only one engine? Sounds like a dumb idea. No one designs space craft like that. There are always multiple systems. You need to stop making up straw men that don't work and instead look for solutions.

  • @TheRoomy I was wondering the same thing, but if you listen closely they drop this little conceptual handwaving doozy: "To fuel the rest of its journey, the lightcraft would use super-heated gas, accelerated by powerful electrical and magnetic fields." Which seems to be saying, "someone in the ion-thruster department figures that out, we just get the thing to orbit." Though if you're gathering such amounts of solar energy, why not use it to refine a fuel like hydrogen cells so it has other uses?

  • @TheRoomy it can accelerate in space too, just minimally. very minimally. google radiation pressure.

  • @TheRoomy it can accelerate in space too, just minimally. very minimally. google radiation pressure. a bigger problem would be slowing it down if u want a manned mission, or communications, if u just want a probe.

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  • oh no! they discovered our secret... back to nibiru...

  • The downfall of this is that the propulsion system must maintain line of sight. Suppose a bird or cloud blocks the beam as the craft is ascending. Whats to stop it from crashing to the ground?

  • @randomgamer8201  that bird or clooud would get incenerated HAHAHAHA

  • ment a short range lazer weapon.

  • HEHE, by the blast it did to the paper, I can see why it was canceled as the star was project, its probably being tested now as a lazer weapon.

  • however, you'll need "solid" ground to make this system work. a beamer in space would just shoot itself away from the target.

  • nice toy

  • everyone realize this was in 2008 what about what we have now we can probably got to space ain a few seconds

  • wow.,. i knew sumthing like this would work.,., but attach the laser to it .,. it would go on 4ever.,.,

  • aerospace engineer is too strong.

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  • im scared to watch this >.< should i watch ?

  • all I heard was blah blah blah I'm a faggot

  • WHY ISNT ANYONE FUNDING THIS!?

  • this is not Laser ... This is Nuclear Propulsion ...

  • COOL!!

  • WOW… and this is where our tax dollars are going??? NASA needs to get turned over to the privet sector immediately.

  • this is the dumbest way of propulsion!! this is a waste of time , and a distraction of the effective ways of propulsion being used in black opps!

  • i thoaght that micro waves ignited metal and wouldnt it be dangerus for people below

  • @gettavid I don't want to get X-rayed on earth by getting blasted with a microwaves from a powerful Satellite!

  • All is fine and dandy until the laser source breaks or loses power and it takes a team of scientists 3 days to fix it. Meanwhile, oops...you're drifting into outer space in the wrong direction. No biggie. :-P

  • can we use any laser or is there a specific pulse laser

  • Those 'little monkeys' have been onto something for the last 50 years, backward engineering stuff, yes backward..

  • Very intriguing...I think the stability and safety of such a craft would have to be ironed out, obviously, but if feasible, it would make transportation of matter into space, even civilian space flight, considerably cheaper. Granted, it still doesn't solve the complications involved in interstellar travel- covering distances that light takes thousands of years to cross in one lifetime...but if it means you and I can walk on the moon in this lifetime, I'll back it!

  • the nazis had better shit sadly. mercury spinning and creating a gravity field

  • @conciousness88 You're an idiot.

    All of the people who believe nazi had all the greatest technology are conspiracy nut jobs.

  • @AgrivatedKillah fuck you , i dont give a fuck about conspiracy theories, but i have seen the declassified documents. fuckin dumbass. who said anything about greatest technology? america has it too. and besides all that , the top government scientists of flight enigeneering back in the day were p.o.w.s from the war that were given sanction here aslong as they worked for america.

  • @conciousness88 I think you man 'sanctuary' not 'sanction' but I see your point

  • @AgrivatedKillah

    lol.. and let me guess your from America right? Im from england, and yes we fought vs the nazi's but even i know how to admit which countries had the biggest technological advancements and it was the Nazi's - FACT.

    Then all you need to do is check your history books and find out the scientists which worked on the Atom bomb and many other 'American Invented' advances after WWII. You will see that many of the major leading scientists were infact german...

  • @Akb0r

    uhuh.

    Britain pretty much had the best technology, nazis were just superior in other areas when it came to aviation.

    Germany was never really that much of a threat to the world at all.

    Just Europe.

  • thumbs up if mankind should take a break and look at what we've done and enjoy it

  • Je connais un clip incroyable, regardez-le vous croirez pas vos yeux tapez malik illoul sur youtube. Le musicien utilise un instrument inédit un synthé laser

  • 34,000 Kelvin? I'm having a hard time believing that. At those temperatures I expect to hear explosive shock waves.... just like lightning when it produces thunder.

  • most space aliens come here and make planes to look like the ones we have hereand fly around and say nice place to vist wouldnt want to stay here

  • Aliens thought of it first :D

  • They must work at area 51. Its their fault hundreds of mentally disabled cash collectors see UFOs, aliens and dead people.

  • @Beefer413 its area 54

  • these little monkeys may be on to something!!! At least more interesting than current approaches.

  • В жопу засунь себе свою рекламу, гандон блядь!!!

  • What happens when you're in space and there's no air to turn into plasma?

  • The basic idea still goes back at least 2 centuries. Heating a substance then making use of the resulting high pressure gas for propulsion.

  • Problem is .. they won't work outside the atmosphere ... we need to propel with photons instead of electons

  • What if you were able to get some powerful generator to be on the craft itself? Since the laser has no recoil (I think) you could wire the generator up to the laser, point the laser at the "saucer" shaped piece that is strongly mounted onto the craft, and get forward motion. Then, for acceleration, just lower or heighten the intensity of the laser. For reverse, just give the "saucer" thing symmetry, with another laser pointed at it. Then, no "cooking" people with giant microwaves. :)

  • @16awala - adding a generator will mean more weight less room for cargo which means less efficiency.

  • @ctcentralinfo, Yes, it would. But it would increase the range at which it would travel by a pecentage as well as the overall safety. In the example I gave, the entire system is enclosed so no "accidents" would happen off of the ship in case something decided to float in front of the microwave beam. This also means the scenario of a microwave misfire is eliminated completely. During lift off, the ship may encounter turblence and move off coarse, allowing the microwaves to reach the ground.

  • When russians developed a parashoote for a tank, government requested main constructors son to be in the landing tank. Constructor was watching the test with a gun in his pocket. Now, ok who wants to test a flying saucer with a humongous laser pointed at it? "Fried definitely fried"

  • Amazing! We as a human race are on the fast track to achieving fail proof interstellar travel. One thing is for sure, NASA alone cannot handle it all, it has to be a collective effort by all nations. We really should stop segregating ourselves over relegion resources land and race and start embracing the philosophy that we're all together in our endeavours. United Citizenry of Earth.

  • i like the apple in this vid...can i have it..pls...

  • i don't get it why can't scientist just make a primitive teleporter, send a ordinary spaceship into space and finally just put the teleporter on the moon and just simply come back to earth, wouldn't it be simpler?

  • The problem with some scientists is that they never consider the human element when coming up with their pie-in-the-sky ideas. Sure, a space-based beamed energy transportation system sounds just gee-whiz neato, but can you imagine what other countries would say about the United States encircling the globe with LASER platforms? More to the point, could you imagine what the US would do if China or Iran tried to do the same? Nice idea, and probably very green, but it ain't gonna happen, EVER

  • @pudgimelon They have plenty of time to work on the diplomacy. They didn't get this thing 40 feet up without destroying one of them, I'd say some more R&D is needed.

  • @pudgimelon 5:18 he says in place of a lasers it would use microwave energy and goes on to explain the other details,

  • @starcinders Oh, yes, because microwaves are TOTALLY SAFE. :P

    A space-based microwave powerful enough to lift a ship would certainly be powerful enough to cook a few people too (or knock missiles out of the air). Remember, this guy used to work for the SDI, and this just looks like another excuse to put military weapons, pointing DOWN, into space. Call it a "missile defense shield" or a "transport system" it's the same thing. And EVERY nation on the planet won't tolerate it. Period.

  • floydddddd

  • yeah, looks good, spinning with thousands of rpm..

  • wait a second?

    How can this aircraft go into space if it's powered by propulsion from it's environment?

    And in space their is vacuum

  • a good theory.....overlooks many facts....how will it propel in the empty vacuum of space?

  • ALMOST! I have a better way. Lasers capable of fusion which trigger plasma to actually create fusion, ejecting plasma out of the back and resulting in sun-driven propulsion. Beautiful concept but he's missing the secret ingredient!

  • @brian12934 totally true... really this is what we need. money spend in experiments to free or more efficient energie for everything we use on earth... lets hope we get the ingredients as you say soon before its to late and we used our resources..