@jack1966jack it is. a satellite would be made first with a carbon fiber tether rolled up in it. It would then be slowly lowered. now the sat is in geo sinc orbit so it is always in the same spot above the ground. the cable is then tethered to the ground and the centrifugal force will keep the sat from ever having a decaying orbit. and the carbon fiber is many times stronger then most would think, it would have no problem holding for years and years of use and strain.
Connecting it to other planets is a bad idea. All planets rotate, and they all orbit the sun. The conflict in rotations would snap the tether. You could try to stop the planets from rotating right? No. Even if there was a way, it would be entirely too expensive. Besides, rotation=centrifugal force=gravity. If the tower is to tall, the Earth would be slowed down, also reducing gravity considerably. This isn't going to be built because if it was, it would, one way or another, destroy the world.
@MrUnit666 Your right and i love that, (no homo) but you left out the big part. fuck the rotation what about the orbit of the sun. the earth and mars for say, is only for a short time together as close as it can be. is spends more time on the other side of the sun then it does in reachable distance from us.
Space Elevator will be a major achievement for mankind. power sources for this elevator seem to questioning the best method of providing power to the elevator for the climb. I say what about using two Carbon Nanotube tethers and taking advantage of there electrical conductive ability to provide the added power for the elevator and renforce the strenght of the vanderwall effect.
The problem here that was not addressed in the video is the space debris traveling at tens of thousands miles an hour. There needs to be a mechanism that allows these carbon elevators to "dodge" all the space debris.
@eddyecho not doge repel, if you can turn anything into a super conductor by super freezing it, if we could find out how to revers that, and make the tether be the conductor but push the stuff around much like the earths magnetic field and the solar rays. now this i feel is possible but not for a long time, super conductors work like a south pole to a south pole and retracting, only it does it with the earths magnetic field.
@turkanator123 Are you serious?.....even if the bottom part collapsed the top part would just burn up in the atmosphere and the bottom would hardly cause massive damage, its not like they'd build the first few of these in the middle of cities.
@fleppleman something i feel people need to under stand is the geo sync orbit. the tether would keep the sat station at the top from floating away from the centrifugal force, if the tether breaks the sat won't move, and if need be, can be let alone tell it floats away from the earth, its like an opposite decaying orbit, slow but would happen to an object that big.
In the long run it's better to do this than to launch rockets burning tons of fuel every launch. With this we have easy access to our orbit without having to constantly do burn fuel.
are you all stupid it wont work because the orbits are at different speeds. one year for mars is longer than one year on earth. the moon orbits the earth so if the moon and the earth were connected by this the moon would eventually wrap it around the earth or just snapping it cause an enourmous waste of money. c'mon even a middleschool kid could tell you this.
@randyrhoadsbgp i don't think you understand quite fully how an orbit goes into work it can all be easily neutralized by zero gravity materials which we have enough on for earth to stick in such an 'space elivator' which would cancel the effects of gravity on it but the time change cannot be altered and shouldnt cause that doesnt make one little difference its the same thing with airplanes on earth the time difference
@CamperzHappy let shortent what i said into super add format. The earth rotates and revolves around the sun. the moon rotates and revolves around the earth. the moon revolves around the earth about 13 times a year. that would cause the so called "elavator" to wrap around the earth.
also do you even read. i didnt say we couldnt get zero gravity, i said it would wrap around or just break right in space. if they all revolved at the same time then this would be possible but its not.
@randyrhoadsbgp that's basic knowledge but that's why the elevator HAS TO REVOLVE AT THE EXACT SAME TIME but that's very possible with the equipment we are given these days this will the pyramid of the modern age
@CamperzHappy the elevator doesnt revolve the planets and the moon do. this wouldnt be the pyramid it would be insanity. it is an impossibility. getting to mars is probable and possible. building an space elevator is impossible. i somehow doubt we could build this right now. we havent even been to mars and you want to build an elavator out there? the rover missions alone costed billions of dollars and you think we can build this? get real.
@randyrhoadsbgp exactly same thing they said for the for building a pyramid for cheops thousands of years ago which is still incredibly amazing and still has its allignment perfectly straight with the north star not to mention incredible detail how you explain that :) because people united for a cause which can be done these to however now it's not the time to do it yet it should take a few more decades before they can realise it
@MrCantstandliberals, he is doing virgin galactic but I don't recall anything about him building a space elevator, this won't be feasable in his lifetime.
My grandfather told me of a time when they had a toilet for every four homes, when they thought there would never be a glass network with info at your fingertips and have tv's in every home, let alone in colour, let alone flat ones. Things go faster the farther we come.
If Branson gets old enough he just might see a space elevator.
@Chimpa110 Haha. You're wrong. We should definately let the Chinese build this, everything they build is meant to last, like the Great Wall of China. If we let the US build it, it wouldn't last at all. The US and China provides the brains and funding, ESA, JAXA and the Chinese Space Agency builds it. That's how it should be done.
3rd and last is the simple things of the van allen belts the radiation in these belts is above leathal dosage for longer than a few hours in them. the shielding to protect live passengers through these belts would be too much for even the already taxed support cable to bear. I found the web between worlds a great read and would love to see a space tether built ...
Not to burst any ones bubble but 3 things are prohibiting this at this time... 1 carbon nano tubes while being extremely strong are not going to be able to support the necessary tension between an earth based to geosyncro "asteroid" in orbit. 2 it would have to be constructed in space and then lowered to the ground as nothing we currently have would be able to support itself that high. what we would possibly gain in fuel would be spent getting the materials into space to build it.
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What about the thousands of satelites and other debris in polar orbit, every one of which will impact such a structure in time at a minimum of 17,000 mph? .
The space lift is great science fiction from the late Arthur C Clarke, but that is all it will ever be.
The satelite at the top would have to be well beyond the geostationary orbit altitude of about 23,000 miles, possibly are far as 30,000 miles. So now we have to get up there. It the lift went up at 50 mph it would take almost a month to get to the top.
Then there is the small issue of getting millions of tons of material up there in the first place.
so why r they always in amercia why not china ,russia,or europe for eg if history can tell us anything its that Europeans have been hugely successful so why not pionear in this way
Space elevator will not be built any soon. At lest because We don't have technology to produce nanotube longer than few inches. Hidrogen Canon and Floathing Tower are less expensive, less massive, less dangereous, and can be build with current technology in less than 5 years.
this guy has posted a video saying in 2030 we will be at mars. by rocket or elevator. i think he must be a 5 year old kid with a you tube account. as he contridicts all his videos with other videos with different theories. yes a space elevator is an idea on the table. but we have been usning rockets. developed and desighned nearly half a centrury ago. unless we can carry a rocket that will get us into space thats in the shape of an iphone. i dout it as humanity is all about personal gain atm!!!
Not a bad idea. But what if the satillite malfunctions or stops responding to ground transmissions. You have a 1000000000 ton pipe killing everyone in one half of the world. But still cool.
@Antimoniter1993 The gravity of the earth would keep the sattalite in orbit even if it shuts down. Sattelites shut down all the time to avoid damage from solar flares.
Im not sure if you can connect a cable with mars tho that im not too sure, but it would make it very easy to gain access to outerspace from earth and mars.
A direct way to moon? Try to connect earth and moon with a cable... 1st possibility: the cable collapses. 2nd possibility: the moon slams the earth because it was pulled on earth by the cable. The only way to make such an elevator work is a space station in a geo-stationar orbit.
if we get enough time on earth, we could eventually be able to make water out of nothing, as well as food. And when the animals over populate we use them for some kinda of resource. And then eventually technology will take us all out to the point where technology goes to then we would have to start from scratch, or if God would end the world
if we ever build an elevator to the moon or space) we would ahve to plant trees everywere for oxygen and then build a hydrogen machine for water and we would have to have 50% of all the animals on the planet for food or just have them as pets oh, and we would walk to everything
Thats really smart and you could connect a gasoline pipeline that would go with it to connect to gasoline space station so it could refuel spaceships along the way to the moon.
hahah just one thing that we forgot is that the earth spins and there are millions of things that could/would go wrong...even a small astroid could hit that thing and bamm end of the world lol
Making 2000 miles of carbon nanotubes would be quite an achievement in of itself.
I just found out something surprising:
Shuffle around the budget a bit and we can all have our own NASA!
Nasa cost per annum: $12b/£8b
United Kingdom budget 2011: $1.15t/£711b
£8b as a percentage of the annual UK budget is: 1.12%
So what does that mean? The UK, France and Germany each could have a NASA equivalent for little more than 1% of their annual budget, Germany would probably be closer to 0.5%.
I don't see this happening. I've already seen plenty of physics at to why it won't work, and this is just another pie-in-the-sky idea. Back in the 50s they were telling us everyone would have sky cars in 20 years. In the 60s and 70s, they said we would be colonizing the moon in 20 years. We haven't even been back to the moon. Give me a break.
Lofstrom Loop, 1000 times easier and much more efficient. No carbon nanotubes with 130 GPa tensile strength needed, just a long iron loop with a big power source and a protective sheath.
First step to peace. The world turning against America and beating the crap out of both the terrotist and their military. I hate the american government because it is in NATO and it gets in every possible war in poor countries only for resources. The USA won't last the test of time. No warmonger did. Humanity must awaken from the illusion but too many people are retarded and narrowminded. People fail to understand what they do, until, we are close to extinction. Corruption, crime, greed=death.
@muratira It's not people in America, I can tell you that much for certain. We just supply children to be used as soldiers and our blood, sweat and tears to supply the money and tools for the NWO war machine. It's international banker Jews who've usurped our government's power structure that are the REAL problem. And we Americans are realizing it now. Until they started the bank system we were isolationists. The Fed was created and we were in WWI the following year.
@matthewakian2 personally i'd be more worried about the hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk flying around up there, that are much harder to track and are not stationary like the space elevator.
@witz85 several space agencies are looking at tackling the space debris problem, as it will be a big issue moving forward. Hopefully they will sort this out soon.
Cheap, YOU KNOW HOW MANY TRILLIONS IT WOULD COST TO BUILD AND KEEP IT WORKING WOULD BE?!?!?!
Plus you cant build an elevator to the moon, if you do, shifting orbits and slowing rotation speed of the earth and moon will rip the elevator to pieces less then a week after it's built!
its will cost like 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000mil
were going to make this shit ? AWESOME!!!!!!!!!They are also trying to invent a NAVY WARSHIP LOL HOW FUCKING COOL THAT I WAS BORN IN THE 20th century!!!
@SuperColonel77 Sorry but according to scientist Harold Klein achieving this within a century is optimistic at best. They technology exisits but the money just isn't there.
@spacecowboy5000 Your a fucking buzz kill.When people like you say this shit it makes thw whole world kill eachother. People like you wil mercilessly destroy the world you buzzkill.
@SuperColonel77 Are you fucking high? I'm not the buzzkill. The bastards that are not sharing their billions and billions are. Go bitch to them, vacuum head. Think before you type cuz now you're nothing but a Class 1 black hole asshole. Wait! I know! Why don't YOU give the Billions to the project?
@spacecowboy5000 totally the kind of guy who would fuck a person in the ass and not have the godamn curtiosy to give him a reach around. Who gives a fuck about your opinion definety not me who listens to your lame comeback.
I mean take a look at space theres trillions if not more out therethe value of a space elevator is only going to go down if they keep building more of these massive feats in engineering and I'm not trying to be an asshole on this one im being straight up and i partially agree with ou that counries are not going to invest in this more like blowing themselves up with Nukes 100'00 of times bigger then the FATMAN that was dropped on Japan.
@SuperColonel77 If they built the space elevator it would SAVE NASA many billions of dollars. And it would allow them to do more work in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and would let them build orbital facilities to build ships to go to Mars (my dream). Most of the cost of lauching a ship from the ground is the fuel used for launching it and its cargo. The space elevator would cut the cost greatly. But whenever there are budget cuts NASA is always the first target.
@SuperColonel77 Today, the last shuttle ever was launched for the final time. I was little when they cancelled the Apollo program and I was a sad little fuck. When they launched the first shuttle me and my friends had a crazy party. Beleive me, I'd love to see a space elevator. But all the money people think anything doing with space is impractical and a pipe dream.
@spacecowboy5000 Well bro were both guys who should speak up. I gor one am going to be a rocket scientist and try to invent the anitmatter rocket. Or a Spaceship Engineer or even try to design this . This space elevator is my dream and believe me my generation is all about drugs.:). Mankind i beleive will have another boom in technology between 2020-2070 and I would like you to chat with me on my channel we could talk about these things becauuse no one else knows what I am talking about.
@spacecowboy5000 Bro just think if NASA didnt build it don't always look at NASA look at all the other countries Space Agencies. In the Industraial ERA it didn't take one company to inet the car it took 20 companies and they all helped develop something.This is most probably the same thing NASA and the other Private Space Companies to team up and build this engieering masterpiece I know in 20 years (in my heart) that this thing will be seen from the beautiful EARTH.
1 If a space elevator was broken, there would NOT be massive debris like in ODST, just one long cable and a counterweight that would actually FLY AWAY if it the cable was cut (and the the actual elevator car itself)
2 Where ever it is built, a strictly enforced no fly zone (think patriot missile defense system) with a radius of 50 miles would keep any airplane hijack happy terrorists at bay
@ajman411 The Cable would Fly away, but the Tether's Support Rings would fall from sub orbital heights...still not that bad just a bunch of random craters in the African Savannah.
There's only a few problems. 1) The maintenence to be done on the solar panels reaching all of the way up to space will cost a heep just to keep in repair. 2) The friction of the atmosphere while going up. Can't go too fast. 3) If it takes 14 hours on a commercial jet going at 500 MPH 14000 miles away, imagine how long it would take to get to space. I'ld get a little crazy if it were me, I'm just sayin.
@CoxisBack1234 The solar panels are just an idea. They're not an integral component. Also the speed can increase as the atmosphere gets thinner on the way up, and on the way down it can fall back down along the cable at high speed (with some braking of course to prevent it from burning up in atmosphere, creating excessive G forces etc)
You wouldnt be able to make a space elevator to the moon or mars because the rotations and orbits would break the shaft. Also, to get the materials and equipment there would be nearly impossible.
I'm not so sure after playing Halo 3 that having a Space Elevator is such a great idea but what about a Mass Driver. Instead of having a shaft of elevator tube to transport things into space it would simply be like a large gun that would launch large scale payloads into space.
@Nightshift10000 Problem is, you won't survive being fired in a coil or rail gun. Due to high G's. Space elevator is "human friendly" and could transport astronauts as well.
Btw, I don't know Halo 3, but I know enough common sense that you can't consider games realistic. Even simulations are not 100% realistic, let alone fps games that you play for fun.
How could such thing even be stationary? You do realize that our planet moves right? And you mentioned a space elevator to Mars... We don't have such resources on earth because of the distance from earth to mars... A funny thought though:)
@FuldkornsBaronen Ever hear of geostationary satellites? They move, yet they are "stationary". Funny how that works huh? And that's exactly the idea. A space elevator to Mars won't work, for multiple reasons including the one you mentioned.
@DarthBalrogTV in asthetic terms i would say the average skyscraper sucks. yet we still build them. besides whos gonna care, its out in the middle of the ocean. unless you actually use it the most you will ever see is the thin line of the cable.
@CommanderMethos Until some terrorist or accident causes the trunk to snap and fall, wrapping around the entire planet as it falls , and if you happen to have real-estate where the fall occurs, well, the less said about that probably the better.
@CommanderMethos True enough, as they say if you're going to fly you can't be afraid of the wind. I suspect, if we manage to not kill ourselves, getting off-world will be like booking a contract to work in Antarctica or some other remote location for work or a rugged vacation. Again presuming we don't off ourselves somehow, you will probably see such elevators on all the worlds we choose to colonize, the moons of Jupiter, etc.
@Albinswede 20 year is fairly realistic. all it is is essential a very long elevator. all we need to develop is a strong enough cable and it becomes viable.
would take like a thousand years and how would they build it when its in space? doesnt everything float in space, wont we need something like a space ship to stay in the same place so we can build it in a specific place?
@Papptherapper i said like, i mean a really long time, what do u mean suspended in space toward the top? srry i dont know much about this im new, but in space doesnt eveything float? cuz wont we need something that stays in the same place to beable to built it in space ( for example between the moon and earth)
@omardude2 saying everything floats is technically wrong. it may seem like that due to a lack of gravity. but to answer your question the station would stay in orbit in much the same way as the dozens of satellites in orbit around the planet right now. it is moving around the earth at such a speed that it falls around the earth. its own momentum balances the pull of gravity and prevents it from falling back to the planet.
@omardude2 yes this is known as geo sycrones orbit. or GSO. it stays in space above the same spot on earth. satnav relies upon gso satellites to work.
i do have a main issue to pick at though. the counterweight for the elevator would have to be placed beyond geo stationary orbit if it is to balance the lag created by the climbing cars.
Its to mutch risk what if stones land on it then what?
and people wouldn't go that way to moon it takes to long and what if we dont find anything then wee would spend about 100 trillion dollar (just a guess) to make this thing. then what could use this to then? we would use just for fun? or would we brake it down? if we use this for people to take vacation? it would cost about 3-4 million dollars if we do this we ain't joking!
in the long run a space elevator is far cheaper than using conventional rockets. besides which with an estimated 100 million tons of helium 3 as well as the ability to use it as a launching pad for lunar and space based colonys the risk taken to build it is worth it.
Seeing the environmental problems and massive overpopulation of earth, we have 2 Choices: 1. We massacre each other mercilessly 2. We invest and colonize space
@ket543128 We can take them easy, it would be another WWII at worst, anyway we are not spending dozens of trillions of dollars on defense for nothing!
@ket543128 actually a great question but historically speaking we already know the answer. This time around I am not sure I could be wrong. But if the world does come together and stands together like the USA-CHINA-INDIA we reach world wide peace which I predict that will happen as soon as we hit population peak & decide which renewable energy is the most efficient to the world. Will socially get behind projects like Space elev8tr but I am not a fan of it Space Fountain is more likely I think :)
It is impossible because no one can breath upper than oxygen limit. It is crazy. And besides an earthquake will knock it down........
jack1966jack 2 weeks ago
@jack1966jack it is. a satellite would be made first with a carbon fiber tether rolled up in it. It would then be slowly lowered. now the sat is in geo sinc orbit so it is always in the same spot above the ground. the cable is then tethered to the ground and the centrifugal force will keep the sat from ever having a decaying orbit. and the carbon fiber is many times stronger then most would think, it would have no problem holding for years and years of use and strain.
TheScarab19 2 weeks ago
Connecting it to other planets is a bad idea. All planets rotate, and they all orbit the sun. The conflict in rotations would snap the tether. You could try to stop the planets from rotating right? No. Even if there was a way, it would be entirely too expensive. Besides, rotation=centrifugal force=gravity. If the tower is to tall, the Earth would be slowed down, also reducing gravity considerably. This isn't going to be built because if it was, it would, one way or another, destroy the world.
MrUnit666 3 weeks ago
@MrUnit666 if the earth stopped moving time would be stop too, and we would all be stuck forever
BRBSHUTUPNOOB 2 weeks ago
@MrUnit666 Your right and i love that, (no homo) but you left out the big part. fuck the rotation what about the orbit of the sun. the earth and mars for say, is only for a short time together as close as it can be. is spends more time on the other side of the sun then it does in reachable distance from us.
TheScarab19 2 weeks ago
Space Elevator will be a major achievement for mankind. power sources for this elevator seem to questioning the best method of providing power to the elevator for the climb. I say what about using two Carbon Nanotube tethers and taking advantage of there electrical conductive ability to provide the added power for the elevator and renforce the strenght of the vanderwall effect.
MrDMeans 3 weeks ago
WHY space ELEVATORS? Why no Space ESCALATORS?
WhentheworldendsWWYD 4 weeks ago
The problem here that was not addressed in the video is the space debris traveling at tens of thousands miles an hour. There needs to be a mechanism that allows these carbon elevators to "dodge" all the space debris.
eddyecho 1 month ago
@eddyecho not doge repel, if you can turn anything into a super conductor by super freezing it, if we could find out how to revers that, and make the tether be the conductor but push the stuff around much like the earths magnetic field and the solar rays. now this i feel is possible but not for a long time, super conductors work like a south pole to a south pole and retracting, only it does it with the earths magnetic field.
TheScarab19 2 weeks ago
do you know how expensive carbon nanotubes are? and we cant even convince people to use renewable energy, they wont go for this. 100+ years
chulo1996 1 month ago
Fuck the stairway to heaven, I'm taking the elevator.
zZJKProductionZz 1 month ago
remember the tower of Babel!!! lol.
creamone 1 month ago
we shouldnt do this!!! if this thing collapses all hell will break loose
turkanator123 1 month ago
@turkanator123 Are you serious?.....even if the bottom part collapsed the top part would just burn up in the atmosphere and the bottom would hardly cause massive damage, its not like they'd build the first few of these in the middle of cities.
fleppleman 1 month ago
@fleppleman something i feel people need to under stand is the geo sync orbit. the tether would keep the sat station at the top from floating away from the centrifugal force, if the tether breaks the sat won't move, and if need be, can be let alone tell it floats away from the earth, its like an opposite decaying orbit, slow but would happen to an object that big.
TheScarab19 2 weeks ago
straight way to moon or mar ?? earth rotate moon rotate & mar also rotate. how are you going to keep it pointing to your destination planet ??
stealhty1 1 month ago
@stealhty1 Not to mention the cost of building such a huge structure.
biowon 1 month ago
In the long run it's better to do this than to launch rockets burning tons of fuel every launch. With this we have easy access to our orbit without having to constantly do burn fuel.
MIDNAq1LINK 1 month ago
man i cant belave what we can build these days its just amazing
jacks1820 1 month ago
20 years? I wish that were true -.-
bertazoid 2 months ago
The only problem is that we don't have enough metal to do it. Or at least that's what I've been told
argetlam1111 2 months ago
@argetlam1111 Carbon nanotubes dont use metal... I think...
nordicberserk 1 month ago
@nordicberserk You're probably right. Carbon is coal as far as I remember, and we have lots of coal.
argetlam1111 1 month ago
your right tezz only way is to past it through mars core go all the way inside it 0_0
MagpieEpicdude 2 months ago
How can you connect two planets that constantly rotate and orbit a sun. The rotation alone will break the elevator.
tezzyr 2 months ago
are you all stupid it wont work because the orbits are at different speeds. one year for mars is longer than one year on earth. the moon orbits the earth so if the moon and the earth were connected by this the moon would eventually wrap it around the earth or just snapping it cause an enourmous waste of money. c'mon even a middleschool kid could tell you this.
randyrhoadsbgp 2 months ago
@randyrhoadsbgp i don't think you understand quite fully how an orbit goes into work it can all be easily neutralized by zero gravity materials which we have enough on for earth to stick in such an 'space elivator' which would cancel the effects of gravity on it but the time change cannot be altered and shouldnt cause that doesnt make one little difference its the same thing with airplanes on earth the time difference
CamperzHappy 1 month ago
@CamperzHappy let shortent what i said into super add format. The earth rotates and revolves around the sun. the moon rotates and revolves around the earth. the moon revolves around the earth about 13 times a year. that would cause the so called "elavator" to wrap around the earth.
also do you even read. i didnt say we couldnt get zero gravity, i said it would wrap around or just break right in space. if they all revolved at the same time then this would be possible but its not.
randyrhoadsbgp 1 month ago
@randyrhoadsbgp that's basic knowledge but that's why the elevator HAS TO REVOLVE AT THE EXACT SAME TIME but that's very possible with the equipment we are given these days this will the pyramid of the modern age
CamperzHappy 1 month ago
@CamperzHappy the elevator doesnt revolve the planets and the moon do. this wouldnt be the pyramid it would be insanity. it is an impossibility. getting to mars is probable and possible. building an space elevator is impossible. i somehow doubt we could build this right now. we havent even been to mars and you want to build an elavator out there? the rover missions alone costed billions of dollars and you think we can build this? get real.
randyrhoadsbgp 1 month ago
@randyrhoadsbgp exactly same thing they said for the for building a pyramid for cheops thousands of years ago which is still incredibly amazing and still has its allignment perfectly straight with the north star not to mention incredible detail how you explain that :) because people united for a cause which can be done these to however now it's not the time to do it yet it should take a few more decades before they can realise it
CamperzHappy 1 month ago
@CamperzHappy just cause you unite for a cause doesnt mean its going to work.
randyrhoadsbgp 1 month ago
fuckin goofy looking tho,
0x0marlo0x0 2 months ago
Thats totally impossible.
legioVmacedonica 2 months ago
What if it were to be the target of a terrorist attack, (by any nation). To detach it from the base. That would be so disastrous.
Nahkranoth8 2 months ago
this is already in progress being built by billionaire, sir richard branson, guy is copying someone elses shit
MrCantstandliberals 2 months ago
@MrCantstandliberals, he is doing virgin galactic but I don't recall anything about him building a space elevator, this won't be feasable in his lifetime.
isthereanythathasnt3 2 months ago
@isthereanythathasnt3 I wouldnt be too sure about that.
My grandfather told me of a time when they had a toilet for every four homes, when they thought there would never be a glass network with info at your fingertips and have tv's in every home, let alone in colour, let alone flat ones. Things go faster the farther we come.
If Branson gets old enough he just might see a space elevator.
JustineBieberxoxo 2 months ago
@MrCantstandliberals this idea has been around for decades. No one owns the idea.
goodcat1982 1 month ago
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arthuroliveiracastro 2 months ago
dont let chinese build this ;) . it will fall off in 1 week
Chimpa110 3 months ago 12
@Chimpa110 Haha. You're wrong. We should definately let the Chinese build this, everything they build is meant to last, like the Great Wall of China. If we let the US build it, it wouldn't last at all. The US and China provides the brains and funding, ESA, JAXA and the Chinese Space Agency builds it. That's how it should be done.
samysasy419 2 months ago
@Chimpa110 If the chinese did build it, the sign at the bottom would likely say "made in china"
OminesDragon 1 month ago 8
@OminesDragon If the Chinese did get the contract it would be done by cheap laborers.
youme1414 1 month ago
does anyone remember this was on a episode of Voyager
RyanBlockb5 3 months ago
3rd and last is the simple things of the van allen belts the radiation in these belts is above leathal dosage for longer than a few hours in them. the shielding to protect live passengers through these belts would be too much for even the already taxed support cable to bear. I found the web between worlds a great read and would love to see a space tether built ...
rob3612 3 months ago
Not to burst any ones bubble but 3 things are prohibiting this at this time... 1 carbon nano tubes while being extremely strong are not going to be able to support the necessary tension between an earth based to geosyncro "asteroid" in orbit. 2 it would have to be constructed in space and then lowered to the ground as nothing we currently have would be able to support itself that high. what we would possibly gain in fuel would be spent getting the materials into space to build it.
rob3612 3 months ago
What the name of the music? Is great!!
Karled2010 3 months ago
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curingaging00 3 months ago
this is a really good idea!
ApocalypticDay 3 months ago
bet the Chinese will build it
MrGidderz 3 months ago
people are busy waging wars and shit they don't have time to advance humanity
sultankraver 3 months ago
space elevator, with artifical gravity, a skydiver's dream
halo3pwnguy23 3 months ago
Halo, its fuckin real.
halo3pwnguy23 3 months ago
Fuck the US dollar... we have a country full of engineers! So let's assemble them and make this happen!
CognitiveNetwork 3 months ago
What about the thousands of satelites and other debris in polar orbit, every one of which will impact such a structure in time at a minimum of 17,000 mph? .
The space lift is great science fiction from the late Arthur C Clarke, but that is all it will ever be.
TheSpiritof1969 3 months ago
The satelite at the top would have to be well beyond the geostationary orbit altitude of about 23,000 miles, possibly are far as 30,000 miles. So now we have to get up there. It the lift went up at 50 mph it would take almost a month to get to the top.
Then there is the small issue of getting millions of tons of material up there in the first place.
TheSpiritof1969 3 months ago
so why r they always in amercia why not china ,russia,or europe for eg if history can tell us anything its that Europeans have been hugely successful so why not pionear in this way
cerfh254649 3 months ago
Space elevator will not be built any soon. At lest because We don't have technology to produce nanotube longer than few inches. Hidrogen Canon and Floathing Tower are less expensive, less massive, less dangereous, and can be build with current technology in less than 5 years.
PleasureTV 3 months ago
@PleasureTV maybe carbon nanotubes would be more easily produced in space then lowered to earth the iss can be the first elevator station.
circusboy90210 3 months ago
this guy has posted a video saying in 2030 we will be at mars. by rocket or elevator. i think he must be a 5 year old kid with a you tube account. as he contridicts all his videos with other videos with different theories. yes a space elevator is an idea on the table. but we have been usning rockets. developed and desighned nearly half a centrury ago. unless we can carry a rocket that will get us into space thats in the shape of an iphone. i dout it as humanity is all about personal gain atm!!!
maffew286 3 months ago
will this not be a big trouble for the gravity?
94kricco 3 months ago
" a direct way to moon or MARS" ?!?!?!?!
anatolesokol 4 months ago
Can you imagine if a space junk hits the cable and snap? yikes...
greydotjaguar 4 months ago
inly problem about it going to mars, it my pas through the the sun
dafrandle 4 months ago
Not a bad idea. But what if the satillite malfunctions or stops responding to ground transmissions. You have a 1000000000 ton pipe killing everyone in one half of the world. But still cool.
Antimoniter1993 4 months ago
@Antimoniter1993 The gravity of the earth would keep the sattalite in orbit even if it shuts down. Sattelites shut down all the time to avoid damage from solar flares.
redelman43199 4 months ago
The space elevator WILL NEVER HAPPEN in a million years.
Why? MUZAK!
greenseaships 4 months ago
No doubt terrorists will try to blow it up.
xWeMakeVidsx 4 months ago
@xWeMakeVidsx doesnt stop goverenments building really tall towers.
CommanderMethos 4 months ago 2
Space elevator will be built soon
curingaging00 4 months ago
Im not sure if you can connect a cable with mars tho that im not too sure, but it would make it very easy to gain access to outerspace from earth and mars.
curingaging00 4 months ago
A direct way to moon? Try to connect earth and moon with a cable... 1st possibility: the cable collapses. 2nd possibility: the moon slams the earth because it was pulled on earth by the cable. The only way to make such an elevator work is a space station in a geo-stationar orbit.
MrRammsteinKicksAss 4 months ago
tower of babel sound familiar?
CyklykParadigm 4 months ago
@CyklykParadigm its not a tower its a cable extending from ground level to orbit.
CommanderMethos 4 months ago
if we get enough time on earth, we could eventually be able to make water out of nothing, as well as food. And when the animals over populate we use them for some kinda of resource. And then eventually technology will take us all out to the point where technology goes to then we would have to start from scratch, or if God would end the world
CrustyChrisStudios 4 months ago
if we ever build an elevator to the moon or space) we would ahve to plant trees everywere for oxygen and then build a hydrogen machine for water and we would have to have 50% of all the animals on the planet for food or just have them as pets oh, and we would walk to everything
mrhilov8 4 months ago
Thats really smart and you could connect a gasoline pipeline that would go with it to connect to gasoline space station so it could refuel spaceships along the way to the moon.
omega4chimp 4 months ago
@omega4chimp Although I get your point, I thought I should let you know that spacecraft don't run off gasoline.
BoskoRedblade 4 months ago
hahah just one thing that we forgot is that the earth spins and there are millions of things that could/would go wrong...even a small astroid could hit that thing and bamm end of the world lol
karpaty1000 4 months ago
Making 2000 miles of carbon nanotubes would be quite an achievement in of itself.
I just found out something surprising:
Shuffle around the budget a bit and we can all have our own NASA!
Nasa cost per annum: $12b/£8b
United Kingdom budget 2011: $1.15t/£711b
£8b as a percentage of the annual UK budget is: 1.12%
So what does that mean? The UK, France and Germany each could have a NASA equivalent for little more than 1% of their annual budget, Germany would probably be closer to 0.5%.
Ashitaka255 5 months ago
you can all dream o.o
fucking stoners
evilbrain100 5 months ago
I don't see this happening. I've already seen plenty of physics at to why it won't work, and this is just another pie-in-the-sky idea. Back in the 50s they were telling us everyone would have sky cars in 20 years. In the 60s and 70s, they said we would be colonizing the moon in 20 years. We haven't even been back to the moon. Give me a break.
PhrynosomaTexas 5 months ago
wait if the moon orbits us and we have that elevator 3 things might happen
1 the moon will pull us change our days screw up seasons and eventualy throw us into deep space
2the moon will hit it and thats that
3it will stop earth and the moon from turning /we loose the moon
ImovarNinethouzand 5 months ago
@ImovarNinethouzand None of those will happen...
Devialx10 4 months ago
Lofstrom Loop, 1000 times easier and much more efficient. No carbon nanotubes with 130 GPa tensile strength needed, just a long iron loop with a big power source and a protective sheath.
mrHckyfan 5 months ago
so... thats cool but whats the name of that song?
SoldierOfThePen 5 months ago
Where do we get the money AND the materials for this?
Timmytimmy123123 5 months ago
NEED TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE CARBON NANO-TUBES CHEAPLY AND ON A MASSIVE SCALE. THE REST RELIES ON EXISTING TECHNOLOGY.
witz85 5 months ago
First step to peace. The world turning against America and beating the crap out of both the terrotist and their military. I hate the american government because it is in NATO and it gets in every possible war in poor countries only for resources. The USA won't last the test of time. No warmonger did. Humanity must awaken from the illusion but too many people are retarded and narrowminded. People fail to understand what they do, until, we are close to extinction. Corruption, crime, greed=death.
muratira 5 months ago
@muratira It's not people in America, I can tell you that much for certain. We just supply children to be used as soldiers and our blood, sweat and tears to supply the money and tools for the NWO war machine. It's international banker Jews who've usurped our government's power structure that are the REAL problem. And we Americans are realizing it now. Until they started the bank system we were isolationists. The Fed was created and we were in WWI the following year.
gvman3670 5 months ago
@muratira The americans are peacekeepers, thanks to them and the rest of NATO, the world doesn't turn to complete chaos.
Devialx10 4 months ago
It will be a Federal crime to fart in the space elevator.
Sieffadiddle 5 months ago
I'd hate to be the astronaut in Low level orbit, trying to avoid that hard ribbon travelling at 17,500 miles per hour.
matthewakian2 5 months ago
@matthewakian2 personally i'd be more worried about the hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk flying around up there, that are much harder to track and are not stationary like the space elevator.
witz85 5 months ago
@witz85 several space agencies are looking at tackling the space debris problem, as it will be a big issue moving forward. Hopefully they will sort this out soon.
matthewakian2 5 months ago
one problem,theres no way in hell im going up that high! im afraid of heights!
dylanlp1999 5 months ago
aufzug steckengeblieben!!!
LOLder42 5 months ago
Cheap, YOU KNOW HOW MANY TRILLIONS IT WOULD COST TO BUILD AND KEEP IT WORKING WOULD BE?!?!?!
Plus you cant build an elevator to the moon, if you do, shifting orbits and slowing rotation speed of the earth and moon will rip the elevator to pieces less then a week after it's built!
Shuttheheckup735 5 months ago
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this looks the way ahead..
davycrocketful 6 months ago
Space elevator, the ultimate in phallic extensions.
GerrohTheCommie 6 months ago
hurp durp yeaaa because it'll actually work like that.
sentientagent 7 months ago
0:35 it would also produce less/no polution
MrYellowChello 7 months ago
is this the halo unsc space elevator?
localSickened 7 months ago
@localSickened no its a real experiment thats been planned and tested
MrYellowChello 7 months ago
the heighest thing now 830 meter and u want to do 20000 mil O:o
MrAhmedUA 7 months ago
its will cost like 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000mil
MrAhmedUA 7 months ago
@MrAhmedUA WTF?
SuperColonel77 6 months ago
were going to make this shit ? AWESOME!!!!!!!!!They are also trying to invent a NAVY WARSHIP LOL HOW FUCKING COOL THAT I WAS BORN IN THE 20th century!!!
SuperColonel77 7 months ago
@SuperColonel77 Sorry but according to scientist Harold Klein achieving this within a century is optimistic at best. They technology exisits but the money just isn't there.
spacecowboy5000 7 months ago
@spacecowboy5000 Your a fucking buzz kill.When people like you say this shit it makes thw whole world kill eachother. People like you wil mercilessly destroy the world you buzzkill.
SuperColonel77 6 months ago
@SuperColonel77 Are you fucking high? I'm not the buzzkill. The bastards that are not sharing their billions and billions are. Go bitch to them, vacuum head. Think before you type cuz now you're nothing but a Class 1 black hole asshole. Wait! I know! Why don't YOU give the Billions to the project?
spacecowboy5000 6 months ago
@spacecowboy5000 totally the kind of guy who would fuck a person in the ass and not have the godamn curtiosy to give him a reach around. Who gives a fuck about your opinion definety not me who listens to your lame comeback.
SuperColonel77 6 months ago
I mean take a look at space theres trillions if not more out therethe value of a space elevator is only going to go down if they keep building more of these massive feats in engineering and I'm not trying to be an asshole on this one im being straight up and i partially agree with ou that counries are not going to invest in this more like blowing themselves up with Nukes 100'00 of times bigger then the FATMAN that was dropped on Japan.
SuperColonel77 6 months ago
@SuperColonel77 If they built the space elevator it would SAVE NASA many billions of dollars. And it would allow them to do more work in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and would let them build orbital facilities to build ships to go to Mars (my dream). Most of the cost of lauching a ship from the ground is the fuel used for launching it and its cargo. The space elevator would cut the cost greatly. But whenever there are budget cuts NASA is always the first target.
spacecowboy5000 6 months ago
@SuperColonel77 Today, the last shuttle ever was launched for the final time. I was little when they cancelled the Apollo program and I was a sad little fuck. When they launched the first shuttle me and my friends had a crazy party. Beleive me, I'd love to see a space elevator. But all the money people think anything doing with space is impractical and a pipe dream.
spacecowboy5000 6 months ago
@spacecowboy5000 Well bro were both guys who should speak up. I gor one am going to be a rocket scientist and try to invent the anitmatter rocket. Or a Spaceship Engineer or even try to design this . This space elevator is my dream and believe me my generation is all about drugs.:). Mankind i beleive will have another boom in technology between 2020-2070 and I would like you to chat with me on my channel we could talk about these things becauuse no one else knows what I am talking about.
SuperColonel77 6 months ago
@spacecowboy5000 Bro just think if NASA didnt build it don't always look at NASA look at all the other countries Space Agencies. In the Industraial ERA it didn't take one company to inet the car it took 20 companies and they all helped develop something.This is most probably the same thing NASA and the other Private Space Companies to team up and build this engieering masterpiece I know in 20 years (in my heart) that this thing will be seen from the beautiful EARTH.
SuperColonel77 6 months ago
someone blows up the ground floor then the whole thing is guna fall down xD
NiPpLeSpAzM 8 months ago
@NiPpLeSpAzM Are you saying you're a terrorist?
spacecowboy5000 7 months ago
1 If a space elevator was broken, there would NOT be massive debris like in ODST, just one long cable and a counterweight that would actually FLY AWAY if it the cable was cut (and the the actual elevator car itself)
2 Where ever it is built, a strictly enforced no fly zone (think patriot missile defense system) with a radius of 50 miles would keep any airplane hijack happy terrorists at bay
So lets build one already!
ajman411 8 months ago 11
@ajman411 Yes, I am sure the USA is perfectly capable of preventing terrorists from flying planes into extremely tall, important stru--ohwait...
GerrohTheCommie 6 months ago
@ajman411 The Cable would Fly away, but the Tether's Support Rings would fall from sub orbital heights...still not that bad just a bunch of random craters in the African Savannah.
16piller16lol 5 months ago
@ajman411 technically depends on where the cable is cut
CommanderMethos 4 months ago
One problem..:
Some terrorist is probably gonna fly a plane into this to, soo eeh... Bye bye, 60 years of work! BOOM!
TorEinarG 8 months ago
this technology is too amazing.
matthewakian2 8 months ago
There's only a few problems. 1) The maintenence to be done on the solar panels reaching all of the way up to space will cost a heep just to keep in repair. 2) The friction of the atmosphere while going up. Can't go too fast. 3) If it takes 14 hours on a commercial jet going at 500 MPH 14000 miles away, imagine how long it would take to get to space. I'ld get a little crazy if it were me, I'm just sayin.
CoxisBack1234 8 months ago
@CoxisBack1234 The solar panels are just an idea. They're not an integral component. Also the speed can increase as the atmosphere gets thinner on the way up, and on the way down it can fall back down along the cable at high speed (with some braking of course to prevent it from burning up in atmosphere, creating excessive G forces etc)
ajman411 8 months ago
You wouldnt be able to make a space elevator to the moon or mars because the rotations and orbits would break the shaft. Also, to get the materials and equipment there would be nearly impossible.
Coldie75 8 months ago
an easy target for terrorists :(
TriggerHappy838 8 months ago
HA! try to fly into that, you silly terrorists!
thedorantor 8 months ago
I'm not so sure after playing Halo 3 that having a Space Elevator is such a great idea but what about a Mass Driver. Instead of having a shaft of elevator tube to transport things into space it would simply be like a large gun that would launch large scale payloads into space.
Nightshift10000 8 months ago
@Nightshift10000 Problem is, you won't survive being fired in a coil or rail gun. Due to high G's. Space elevator is "human friendly" and could transport astronauts as well.
Btw, I don't know Halo 3, but I know enough common sense that you can't consider games realistic. Even simulations are not 100% realistic, let alone fps games that you play for fun.
hardstyle905 8 months ago
We all seen what happened to the space elevator in Halo 3 ODST?
MrHallAone 8 months ago
@MrHallAone The SEs in Halo are extremely unrealistic.
Helge129 4 months ago
How could such thing even be stationary? You do realize that our planet moves right? And you mentioned a space elevator to Mars... We don't have such resources on earth because of the distance from earth to mars... A funny thought though:)
FuldkornsBaronen 8 months ago
@FuldkornsBaronen then it moves with the earth. if its bolted to the ground it should move. lol but a elevator to mars. thats a diffrent story haha
rash56000 8 months ago
@FuldkornsBaronen Ever hear of geostationary satellites? They move, yet they are "stationary". Funny how that works huh? And that's exactly the idea. A space elevator to Mars won't work, for multiple reasons including the one you mentioned.
hardstyle905 8 months ago
This is all fine and good until a rouge meteor clips the cable, and the entire thing rockets off into space.
tlucentefl 8 months ago
In terms of safety and cost I do not judge, because I don't have sufficiency data.
But in aesthetics terms it sucks.
DarthBalrogTV 9 months ago
@DarthBalrogTV in asthetic terms i would say the average skyscraper sucks. yet we still build them.
CommanderMethos 9 months ago
@DarthBalrogTV in asthetic terms i would say the average skyscraper sucks. yet we still build them. besides whos gonna care, its out in the middle of the ocean. unless you actually use it the most you will ever see is the thin line of the cable.
CommanderMethos 9 months ago
@CommanderMethos Until some terrorist or accident causes the trunk to snap and fall, wrapping around the entire planet as it falls , and if you happen to have real-estate where the fall occurs, well, the less said about that probably the better.
proadmin1 8 months ago
@proadmin1 lol. still nothing ventured nothing gained. besides im sure itll only be approachable by sea.
CommanderMethos 8 months ago
@CommanderMethos True enough, as they say if you're going to fly you can't be afraid of the wind. I suspect, if we manage to not kill ourselves, getting off-world will be like booking a contract to work in Antarctica or some other remote location for work or a rugged vacation. Again presuming we don't off ourselves somehow, you will probably see such elevators on all the worlds we choose to colonize, the moons of Jupiter, etc.
proadmin1 8 months ago
Only 20 years away? Then i guess you mean when we start to build it? and thats probably longer in the future anyway.
Albinswede 9 months ago
@Albinswede 20 year is fairly realistic. all it is is essential a very long elevator. all we need to develop is a strong enough cable and it becomes viable.
CommanderMethos 9 months ago
@CommanderMethos ok
Albinswede 9 months ago
would take like a thousand years and how would they build it when its in space? doesnt everything float in space, wont we need something like a space ship to stay in the same place so we can build it in a specific place?
omardude2 9 months ago
@omardude2
1 it would be suspended in space towards the top
2 it wold not take one thousand years they would use existing pre fabs
Papptherapper 9 months ago
@Papptherapper i said like, i mean a really long time, what do u mean suspended in space toward the top? srry i dont know much about this im new, but in space doesnt eveything float? cuz wont we need something that stays in the same place to beable to built it in space ( for example between the moon and earth)
omardude2 9 months ago
@omardude2 saying everything floats is technically wrong. it may seem like that due to a lack of gravity. but to answer your question the station would stay in orbit in much the same way as the dozens of satellites in orbit around the planet right now. it is moving around the earth at such a speed that it falls around the earth. its own momentum balances the pull of gravity and prevents it from falling back to the planet.
CommanderMethos 9 months ago
@CommanderMethos so something can stay in its play in space?
omardude2 9 months ago
@omardude2 yes this is known as geo sycrones orbit. or GSO. it stays in space above the same spot on earth. satnav relies upon gso satellites to work.
CommanderMethos 9 months ago
@CommanderMethos o ok, do all satellites stay in the same place or do do some move around the earth? sorry i dont know much
omardude2 9 months ago
@omardude2 no some fly in lower and higher orbits and move around the earth. but for the purposes of the elevator it would have to be gso
CommanderMethos 9 months ago
i do have a main issue to pick at though. the counterweight for the elevator would have to be placed beyond geo stationary orbit if it is to balance the lag created by the climbing cars.
CommanderMethos 9 months ago
Its to mutch risk what if stones land on it then what?
and people wouldn't go that way to moon it takes to long and what if we dont find anything then wee would spend about 100 trillion dollar (just a guess) to make this thing. then what could use this to then? we would use just for fun? or would we brake it down? if we use this for people to take vacation? it would cost about 3-4 million dollars if we do this we ain't joking!
sverrirbrh 9 months ago
@sverrirbrh 100trillion dollars? The gdp of the world is 63 trillion how can you have 100 trillion?
tlages 9 months ago
@sverrirbrh
in the long run a space elevator is far cheaper than using conventional rockets. besides which with an estimated 100 million tons of helium 3 as well as the ability to use it as a launching pad for lunar and space based colonys the risk taken to build it is worth it.
CommanderMethos 9 months ago
6 people rode the elevator and died from a free fall and I'm not one of them.
Pinkergloop 9 months ago
1 thing is sure, and that is: This is not cheap!
SuperGameGalaxy 9 months ago
Seeing the environmental problems and massive overpopulation of earth, we have 2 Choices: 1. We massacre each other mercilessly 2. We invest and colonize space
What will it be gentlemen?
ket543128 9 months ago 20
@ket543128 Massacre; it's more cost effective.
kurtnelle 7 months ago
@ket543128 well....looks like ill need to buy some guns
imabee232 7 months ago
@ket543128 we have plenty of room.
ganaschico 6 months ago
@ket543128 3. Starve to death or die of AIDS first.
illustriouschin 5 months ago
@illustriouschin or go to war with North Korea (and the PRC)
ket543128 5 months ago
@ket543128 We can take them easy, it would be another WWII at worst, anyway we are not spending dozens of trillions of dollars on defense for nothing!
illustriouschin 5 months ago
@ket543128 Sadly humans are stupid, we will decide our fate in number 1.
Sad :(
marcusFOREVER 5 months ago
@ket543128 You hit the fact right on the head.
ph11p3540 5 months ago
@ket543128 actually a great question but historically speaking we already know the answer. This time around I am not sure I could be wrong. But if the world does come together and stands together like the USA-CHINA-INDIA we reach world wide peace which I predict that will happen as soon as we hit population peak & decide which renewable energy is the most efficient to the world. Will socially get behind projects like Space elev8tr but I am not a fan of it Space Fountain is more likely I think :)
InternetGuy1975 5 months ago
@ket543128 new generation of After Colony :D THERE WILL BE GUNDAMS :o!!
Adilshit 5 months ago
@ket543128 Well, we're already pretty good at option 1. Just putting it out there. XD
HiIeric117 4 months ago