The reason I'm saying it's a dumb idea is that by using much the same things arranged differently you can get a better result for less effort. It's like arranging us, houses, roads and cars. Right now the houses are next to the roads, the cars run on the roads. We could be beside the road, the houses on the road, the cars under the road. Cars could move the road with the houses on it so we could get from one house to another. It would work but it would be dumb.
@sk83502 it would probably be more like a train taking multiple people and materials up and down all the time, with shuttles at the top taking people to space stations, we could assemble an entire starfleet without ever launching a rocket, lots of scientists would go up but people from all around the world would pay for a ticket to space for a weekend
Use a rotating tether instead of a fixed one. We can build it now with existing fibres. 30 minutes to orbit instead of days or weeks. A fresh payload every 90 minutes instead of days or weeks. Can deorbit payloads without a heatsheild. google Momentum Exchange Tether.
@UniteForgetLeftRight Not a very large counterweight for a rotating tether. Total system is about 2-300 times payload mass. You can have a small solar power station for the counter weight and by driving against the magnetic field of the earth you can add or subtract orbital velocity without reaction mass. Allowing more mass up than you bring down. I have no idea why they're not talking about it. In the time an elevator can lift one payload, it can lift a second system
@UniteForgetLeftRight So with a rotating tether you can double the capacity every 4 weeks (given lifting is the limiting factor) because you can lift about 1/300th of the mass every 90 minutes. That makes starting small and working up to a large system practical. A space elevator can only lift perhaps 1/10000th of it's mass every 15 days. So capacity would double every 400 years. It's a deeply stupid idea.
@UniteForgetLeftRight Maybe deeply stupid is harsh. Still, for a space elevator you have to lift about a million tonnes to GEO and it would take around 400 years for that elevator to lift a million tonnes of payload in total. In the end it would be a two week trip to orbit. With a rotating tether you'd need to lift 300 tonnes to orbit then spend around a year building it up. In the end it would be a 30 minute trip to orbit repeatable every 90 minutes.
@UniteForgetLeftRight I don't think rockets (of any sort) are the answer. The space elevator is along the right lines, but misses the opportunities of a rotating tether. Imagine a braided rope perhaps 1000 km long (not 70000 km). Put it in low earth orbit. Have it rotate end over end. Arrange it so the tip closest to the ground is going against the direction of orbit. Fly a hypersonic aircraft up, grapple with the tip. Hold for half a rotation and you're in orbit.
@UniteForgetLeftRight I think it's a huge opportunity. Cheap mass to orbit makes solar power practical. Rotating tethers put the Moon surface as close as a quick sub orbital flight so all that raw material is just waiting. Big tethers make shifting around asteroids practical. One nickle-iron asteroid covers 90% of the earth's mineral needs for the next 1000 years. Solar vacuum smelters make raw materials cheap to refine. Titanium, aluminium and iron from the moon...
@UniteForgetLeftRight Not just ordinary smelting. Using mirrors you can heat the raw materials into a plasma and then use magnetic fields to seperate the individual atoms. Take any old rock and turn it into bins of pure elements. Then when you want to make an alloy it doesn't matter what the densities of the metals are, you can mix them perfectly. The lighter material doesn't float to the top.
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How about meteors ?! I believe that nano-pipes are super strong but 20Lb rock or piece of iron hitting the line or cabin with speed 100 faster that bullet is also pretty "strong" And 23miles line is a huge target
@CommanderMethos I know that the line is tiny but still the area effected by meteor or bolid could be few meters or more wide so we should make the calculation considering the bigger size item. Why? Because any part of the meteor hitting the line is danger, not only center of that space bullet. If you got let say huge bolid 10km wide flying thru that area it doesn't matter how timy is the line, its matter how big is deadly area indicated by the size of the bolid
@KoziolekMatolek2010 if a meteor that big gets close enogth to hit the cable we would of been able to do something about long before it hits. it doesnt matter how big the object it. its the chance of an object passing through the same space as the cable that is remoptly small.
@Sims3101lover It would be bad. But that won't be a problem because there will be no fly zones around the space elevator. Planes won't even be allowed to go within 90 miles of it.
like rocket fuel pipeline being connected to it also so you could refuel spaceships in space and rocket fuel space stations,would make it cheaper and more time saved.
how about first u take MY money and fix the fkn potholes. if nannoo tubes can build a cable to the moon. and are stronger than steel.. then surely they can fill pot hole in the road. then with the money we save on highway maintance we can build the entire road outta this amazing carbon. fk the moon lets fix this planet ... why go to the mooon to look back on garbarge...........................................
The Earth is a cradle in mind,but one cannot live eternally in a cradle. If I'm Albert Einstein I would say this is totally possible. In the Victorian age Physicists aid a rocket could not fly through space and airplanes would never work becuase they were too heavy and not aerodynamic. When Albert Enstein came he changed Physics forever if it wsn't for Al we'd still be paranoid dilssuionals like in the Victorian Age so go figure this is the same thing be skeptic you have to be sometimes.:)
amazing that since this video batch formatin of carbonnanotoube is fairly common & used in industry fairly regularly. time to update and delete this old video.
@prashantkarade Centripetal force is the concept here and it applies universally at the macro level of physics. Granted the Yo-Yo is a bad metaphor. The nano-tube cable is the string, a counter balance in space would be the actual "Yo-Yo" and Earth is the guy spinning it around and around. Pretty simple stuff.
@arbitorseal The idea is to move very heavy things into space on the cheap. Solar power plants being one of those things to lift into space. Helium-3 collection would be another one (a type of fusion fuel.) Launches to distance locations would cost less, most of the energy is consumed just getting the dang thing into space from Earth. Orbital factories that require precision environments (zero-G makes it happen.) Many other things too but mostly to reduce the cost of ground to space launch.
Space based technology is going to be the industry of the future. Those who fail to invest, will be left behind. Imagine if for whatever reason, the USA didn't see any future in something as absurd as a "computer"/microchip. With out them, we'd be a 19th century, 3rd world country. The main problem with space industry is the cost of an investment, that will yield little to no return, initially. It WILL happen eventually. It's only a matter of when/by who. Hopefully the USA is involved.
@thisisnotjustinhi This is a debate that's been going on for decades.The situation in Africa is far more complex than people know - even the head of UNICEFadmitted that. One of the biggest stumbling blocks is that the African's don't know something's wrong. They've been living this way so long they think it's "normal". It's hard to make someone "see" that it isn't. There's a saying,"Give a man a fish you feed him for a day. Show him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." That's very hard.
@spacecowboy5000 You also have to take into consideration that for decades, covertly, the west has been intentionally helping to destabilize/overthrow the governments (democratically elected or otherwise) of various African nations, so as to exploit their resources. Look @ Patrice Lamumba & the following 40+ years of hell on earth that is, Zaire/The DRoC. Even the UN & World Bank have a hand in exploiting Africa. It's really sad & doubtful whether Africa will ever "get it together" or not.
@gjc82071 Well said! Most (if not all) governments in Africa are corrupt in the extreme and that's why they're so easily manipulated by the West (also corrupt). But even if we were to make all of that magically disappear other factors make it nearly impossible to help impoverished countries. Money, donated or otherwise, goes through banks, corporations, etc. Then there are taxes and fees. After all that only a small percentage makes it to those in need. Now add all the corruption...
I watched a documentary about water (Blue Gold I think?) about the terms of a loan that the World Bank gave to Kenya, demanding they follow certain "agricultural reforms". They demanded that Kenya, an extremely arid country already short of water, grow....."tulips" (a water intensive crop/plant) for export to Europe. So basically they are forcing an arid country to export it's already scarce water supply, to the EU! HIV/AIDS is also a HUGE problem in Africa, consuming vast economic resources.
@thisisnotjustinhi The most realistic program developed by UNICEF and other groups would take a little over a century and $30 billion. So far not one nation has offered to help either financially or with manpower. So what are we supposed to do? Keep pouring in money from independant groups into a situation that worsens? At the same time a new technology that can actually arise from all this R&D that will help them. I'm keenly aware of the situation in Africa and worked 8 yrs. with an aid group.
@thisisnotjustinhi They need to be educated, innoculated and provided with the means to build housing and plumbing. To teach them self-dependance we can only help them but in the end they have to do everything themselves. Africans truly beleive that the more children they have the more chance there is of one of them making it. Because of that and what the Catholic Church teaches them they don't practice birth control.
@thisisnotjustinhi Money has never been the problem. For the past 60 years there's been a greater effort than ever to help Africa. In all that time there has been little or no effect despite the amount of money and manpower poured into the project. To a lot of people that sounds like a gamble. One of the problems is that the starving in Africa are living in a pre-industrial society while the rest of the world is in a technolical society.
@thisisnotjustinhi I was just reading about that. Even if you were a billionaire and spent every penny on an African recovery program you would affect about 1% or at most 2% of the affected people. When your money ran out they would starve to death anyway. If we could find a nearby planet, like Mars, we could send people there to grow food in greenhouses and send it back to Earth and to Africa. Financially this makes more sense until we can teach Africans how to farm and train them as doctors.
How much energy would it take to power into space off a pulse laser beam? Can the intensity be regulated enough to control it like a gas pedal? Would it cause holes in the ionosphere? Could something like a pulse laser be used for propulsion in space?
Alright, so it's an idea that we're not ready for. What kind of backup systems would there have to be if the ribbon snapped, got fried by lightning, or the reverse, caused lightning. Hurricanes? What would happen if whatever was at the top couldn't keep it's orbit (smacked by an asteroid, or the propulsion system failed). I just think they should think of more things than just if can they make it work. A lot of our inventions either fail, or cause other problems. We race through everything.
@alextlbass yeah, what he said didn't really make sense. but think about it. there is not much purposes or reasons why they are building the space elevator. it's just for the discover of the universe, and tours. which is not going to help the poverty around the world.
@GamingLogics You're*. Why are all of you alarmist, conspiracy knuckleheads such fuckwits? It's either bad grammar or factless twaddle. Great video by the way. Thanks for the upload!
@turgore dont use the date of an attack to discribe another act of terrorism, and your right, 9/11 wont happen, it will happen on another day nutcase. oh yeah, bin laden didnt perform the terrorist attack, it was al qaeda "soldiers doing what they believe is right.
@GamingLogics they will make sure that nothing get close to the elevator. and as you heard its made of carbon so it may not break. again may not break
@CastawayRY we need this and green technology and no money,which will equal the unification of the human race in most areas,every heard of the venus project?its very famous,it covers alll these areas.
@counterclockwise123 Very very true. but If the Human race United under a single banner, One Global Nation, all Space programmes Unified, all the costs that go into the different programmes like Nasa, the one in Russia, China n others could go into one.
@counterclockwise123 It's interesting you should say that, I was reading about the Tower of Babel before I came here, apparently God doesn't want us to be unified...
@RubberToadstools There is no salvation. The human race won't last forever. You think 2 billion years from now that there will be any evidence we ever even existed?
@counterclockwise123 In 2 billion years if humans had survived we would already have evolved into something far different.
In 5 billion years the sun will have engulfed the planet. And possibly after 100 billion years the universe would no longer exist. That is just a guess, I have no idea as to when the estimated time the universe will end.
@counterclockwise123 I actually can't think like you do, not even if I tried. I am too optimistic. I know our day will come to an end, but I feel that one day we will do great things before then. Humanity is still a primitive species but has a lot of potential.
I don't think we should tether the earth; its tacky. Nanotube tech is nice tho! It reminds me of Peter Parker's webbing. As for elevators, Tether- free energy- efficient methods of "jet" propulsion is still my fave pick for stellar commuting.
Carbon tubes also make way for unrippable fabrics (sub- level torsion armor, perhaps for physically dangerous sports or rescue workers). That'd be nice to cut down on even abrasions & lacerations, let alone, breaks & bulletproofing.
The problem with attaching a space elevator to, say, the moon, though, is that both the moon and the earth are rotating, so that would definitely destroy a direct connection.
@1amayzingman Why attach it to the moon when they could attach it to an orbiting space station, which can act as an airport for ships heading in different directions
@trypapayapie Even then it wouldn't work so well. The same space elevator would have widely different distances from any given point in space because of the earths rotation. At one point, it's only a bit aways from the moon. Ad another, it's moved dramatically. Possibly if you built more than one it may work out better, or schedule them based on the time of day.
Harmonics can be defeated by design; terrorists have to be dealt with no matter what you're building - a NoFly zone is an obvious starter. Weather is a matter of both material and design, just like bridges and skyscrapers.
But I have to say, I'm stumped by the scary idea of the elevator music . . . :-[
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Ever since I first heard of the concept way back when, I've had serious doubts about it. My only consolation right now is that all I can do is hope I'm wrong. I can only hope to God that I'm wrong.
This would make a trip into space no more expensive than a transcontinental flight. We'd have easy access to the moon, Mars, and the ability to build complex space stations far into the solar system, and eventually, the galaxy. Why would this possibly be a bad idea?!
I'm tired of the scientific ignorance. If you want to make a viable statement, do the research. Honestly, throwing out the term "trillions of dollars" isn't a very accurate appraisal of anything.
@DaBuGzLiFe The all caps really helps your argument. Yes the earth spins, thats why its in geosynchronous orbit, so it stays directly above its base on earth. Yes there is space debris, however, I'm sure by the time this is feasible we will have implemented solutions for earth orbit clean up. As for terrorists, thats just stupid. What if we said that about everything? Power Plant?? What if terrorists attack?! We just dont do it? Isnt that when they win? When we let them control us.
But a space elevator would cost ALOT of money and to build a structure 62 miles high is impossible duo to current technological and structual limitations not to mention it woild take about 100 years. The highest structure now is only 2700 feet high which is about half a mile or so and we have go to build something 60 times the hight that will withstand high altitude winds and pressure aswell as the Earth's gravity. It's not a cake walk.
why not just launch a metor into geo stationary orbit then get a stalite about 265 km above sea lvl then atach cables so it wont get get destroyed that simple then you can make it wider and safer you see easy pise!
What would a collision from something even the size of a pebble travelling at 20000 mph do to this thing? I don't see how it would be safe from cosmic debris. And what would keep it straight? Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
Sounds quite unique, but the disadvantages would be due to , how to say it, natural disasters if you will. Such as hurricanes, tornados, earthquaks etc from within the atmosphere, and meteor showers and solar winds from outside the atmosphere. If they were 2 find a way to prevent these things from harming the elevator, I would love 2 c this thing jump into reality and make a difference in the way we can travel through space.
Firstly, every single one of these mainstream religions are in its core incompatible with each other. They can't all be right.
They all assert a certain truth about the universe. However neither of them come close to the ultimate truth - especially with evolution/creation - that the God hypothesis is not required in order for this universe to exist.
One requires natural explanations, the other supernatural. You couldn't ask for a bigger contradiction.
@ElDuorPaso That's not true. Islam for example explains creation very similar to modern science. It mentions the Big Bang, expanding universe, etc. The way I see it is, God created the Laws of Science. Everything that happens is based on these laws/forces of science. If you believe in the Big Bang, what was before it? Where did this one little atom or mass come from? Where did the laws/forces come from?
I don't mean to sound condescending. But give that Islam says this and that a rest.
Islam can also be read to justify a belief that the Earth is flat. But you don't take that part literally, right?
What you are doing is cherry picking your way through that particular holy book.
It is just the case that most of the Christians here will tell you that the exact same thing is found in their book i.e. Big Bang/Evolution. Because they cherry pick their way through it also.
The Hindu Rigveda is perhaps the only one to actually come close to the true age of the universe.
But are you going to argue for it's accuracy?
In order to interpret the Quran/Bible/Torah to justify an Evolutionary cosmos you have to not take them literally. And if I can't take my God literally and has to hide everything he says in metaphors and symbols, and picks only one race to start his religion, than he is not a God, but a man made invention.
Yes. But everything happens in this universe because it's that type of universe. Laws are human observations to explain certain aspects of the universe. And they certainly don't require a law maker. They are just a method of explaining a physical constant that is intrinsic to this universe.
What happened before the Big Bang is really irrelevant -space and time didn't exist. But what is amazing is that the laws of physics actually allow for matter to come into existence for no reason.
I for one still can't get my head around the thought of nothingness. Because when our minds prescribe to the thought of nothing it still within something :)... I can say that it is a possibility (though small) that something did create the universe, but most definitely not the small and petty gods of these mainstream religions. The gods who command armies to do their bidding.
If there was a God he would be much grander and bigger and more pleasing then Allah & Yahweh.
Questions like where did the big bang come from etc. Don't do anything for me. I would phrase the answer exactly as Carl Sagan said it (without writing it FFS):
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One thing I do like is that you realise scientific truth. I don't like that you then try to amalgamate it with religion. But my opinion. Cheers!
sorry to tell everyone but it is imposable you would burn up in the upper atmosphere and thats if you even get to it.if you dont you will just fall back down to the earth
@cam117d things only "burn up in the atmosphere" from the friction of falling so quickly in a vaccum and then hitting the "rough" gases that make up the atmosphere. its not the "upper atmosphere" meteorites or falling sattellites disintergrate in, its just plain any atmosphere, which we happen to be in. right now.
Flying testicles at 2:47?
newtongrace 1 day ago
Could you imagine the wait time for an elevator like that?
PizzaguylolXD 1 day ago
How can they keep that thing steady several hundreds, maybe thousands of km up in the air?
It sounds completely impossible to build this
94kricco 2 days ago
Watch out we got a badass over here
MrTreApor 1 week ago 3
hmm this seems a good idea but what about airliners how would they see it
darknessthehedgehog3 2 weeks ago
@darknessthehedgehog3 Easy, just route all flights around it.
Linkage1992 1 week ago
It would be nice to make them big enough to haul, supplies and ships as well as people
altha2008 2 weeks ago
The reason I'm saying it's a dumb idea is that by using much the same things arranged differently you can get a better result for less effort. It's like arranging us, houses, roads and cars. Right now the houses are next to the roads, the cars run on the roads. We could be beside the road, the houses on the road, the cars under the road. Cars could move the road with the houses on it so we could get from one house to another. It would work but it would be dumb.
gasdive 2 weeks ago
you sure its gonna be cheaper? the costs to build that might be worth a billion space ships :)
sk83502 4 weeks ago
@sk83502 it would probably be more like a train taking multiple people and materials up and down all the time, with shuttles at the top taking people to space stations, we could assemble an entire starfleet without ever launching a rocket, lots of scientists would go up but people from all around the world would pay for a ticket to space for a weekend
UniteForgetLeftRight 3 weeks ago
What are they going to do about spacr trash hitting it and damaging it?
Themasterpiece6969 1 month ago
@Themasterpiece6969 forcefields ;D
Mirozenx 1 month ago
some great inforamtion here thanks
shoppittsburghnow 1 month ago
Can anyone say DROP ZONE MUTHA FUCKA!!! I WOULD RIDE THAT!!!!
TheMaximumTroll 1 month ago
Use a rotating tether instead of a fixed one. We can build it now with existing fibres. 30 minutes to orbit instead of days or weeks. A fresh payload every 90 minutes instead of days or weeks. Can deorbit payloads without a heatsheild. google Momentum Exchange Tether.
gasdive 1 month ago
@gasdive so they need a large counterweight for this to work right? how come they arnt talking about it?
UniteForgetLeftRight 3 weeks ago
@UniteForgetLeftRight Not a very large counterweight for a rotating tether. Total system is about 2-300 times payload mass. You can have a small solar power station for the counter weight and by driving against the magnetic field of the earth you can add or subtract orbital velocity without reaction mass. Allowing more mass up than you bring down. I have no idea why they're not talking about it. In the time an elevator can lift one payload, it can lift a second system
gasdive 2 weeks ago
@UniteForgetLeftRight So with a rotating tether you can double the capacity every 4 weeks (given lifting is the limiting factor) because you can lift about 1/300th of the mass every 90 minutes. That makes starting small and working up to a large system practical. A space elevator can only lift perhaps 1/10000th of it's mass every 15 days. So capacity would double every 400 years. It's a deeply stupid idea.
gasdive 2 weeks ago
@gasdive wait deeply stupid? your talking a little over my head here ill have to reread lol
UniteForgetLeftRight 2 weeks ago
@UniteForgetLeftRight Maybe deeply stupid is harsh. Still, for a space elevator you have to lift about a million tonnes to GEO and it would take around 400 years for that elevator to lift a million tonnes of payload in total. In the end it would be a two week trip to orbit. With a rotating tether you'd need to lift 300 tonnes to orbit then spend around a year building it up. In the end it would be a 30 minute trip to orbit repeatable every 90 minutes.
gasdive 2 weeks ago
@gasdive so should we go back to the shuttle? ive heard of launch pad theories using super powerful magnets
UniteForgetLeftRight 2 weeks ago
@UniteForgetLeftRight I don't think rockets (of any sort) are the answer. The space elevator is along the right lines, but misses the opportunities of a rotating tether. Imagine a braided rope perhaps 1000 km long (not 70000 km). Put it in low earth orbit. Have it rotate end over end. Arrange it so the tip closest to the ground is going against the direction of orbit. Fly a hypersonic aircraft up, grapple with the tip. Hold for half a rotation and you're in orbit.
gasdive 2 weeks ago
@gasdive im no astrophysicist, i do know there would be massive recreational and commercial demand for cheap space travel
UniteForgetLeftRight 2 weeks ago
@UniteForgetLeftRight I think it's a huge opportunity. Cheap mass to orbit makes solar power practical. Rotating tethers put the Moon surface as close as a quick sub orbital flight so all that raw material is just waiting. Big tethers make shifting around asteroids practical. One nickle-iron asteroid covers 90% of the earth's mineral needs for the next 1000 years. Solar vacuum smelters make raw materials cheap to refine. Titanium, aluminium and iron from the moon...
gasdive 2 weeks ago
@gasdive i never thought about smelting metals in space, without reactive gasses there isnt much need for fluxing agents
UniteForgetLeftRight 2 weeks ago
@UniteForgetLeftRight Not just ordinary smelting. Using mirrors you can heat the raw materials into a plasma and then use magnetic fields to seperate the individual atoms. Take any old rock and turn it into bins of pure elements. Then when you want to make an alloy it doesn't matter what the densities of the metals are, you can mix them perfectly. The lighter material doesn't float to the top.
gasdive 2 weeks ago
cc, audio transcribe...
sialuab 2 months ago
King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Oleh2011 2 months ago
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Justin Bieber stole that.
enzoTHEferrari 2 months ago 2
thats a long time in an elavator
hullohulloRFC 2 months ago
What about a space escalator?
leahcimrac 3 months ago
@leahcimrac Its called a stairway to heaven Duh! lol
skateozzy 3 months ago
Lol this is my plan for debate. The resolution is 'The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth's mesosphere'. Never lost an affirmative round with this plan
SkillsthatKills99 3 months ago
hey alread have a space elevators operational by the secret government
raypsi 3 months ago
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curingaging00 4 months ago 2
one word, quantum levitation might solve the power problem
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Man you people are depressing
thetwistedtool 4 months ago
baskoro!!!
symen13 5 months ago
If I will be in the small cabin that high like satelite at 01:22 on movie watching down the Earth I will piss and shit my pants at the same time:)
AllanMZ54 5 months ago
How about meteors ?! I believe that nano-pipes are super strong but 20Lb rock or piece of iron hitting the line or cabin with speed 100 faster that bullet is also pretty "strong" And 23miles line is a huge target
KoziolekMatolek2010 5 months ago
@KoziolekMatolek2010 the chances of meteor hitting a taget 5cm wide even if it is 36000 km long are remote at best.
CommanderMethos 5 months ago
@CommanderMethos I know that the line is tiny but still the area effected by meteor or bolid could be few meters or more wide so we should make the calculation considering the bigger size item. Why? Because any part of the meteor hitting the line is danger, not only center of that space bullet. If you got let say huge bolid 10km wide flying thru that area it doesn't matter how timy is the line, its matter how big is deadly area indicated by the size of the bolid
KoziolekMatolek2010 5 months ago
@KoziolekMatolek2010 if a meteor that big gets close enogth to hit the cable we would of been able to do something about long before it hits. it doesnt matter how big the object it. its the chance of an object passing through the same space as the cable that is remoptly small.
CommanderMethos 5 months ago
700 years later - plans for halo rings.
BeakyRed 5 months ago
A space elevator would change the economics of space. This is something I'd really like to manifest in reality.
FTLFactor 5 months ago
Why not electrify the nanotube cable instead of using light and solar cells?
redelman43199 5 months ago
so what happens when a plane crashes into accidentally
Sims3101lover 5 months ago
@Sims3101lover It would be bad. But that won't be a problem because there will be no fly zones around the space elevator. Planes won't even be allowed to go within 90 miles of it.
redelman43199 5 months ago
@Sims3101lover The plane will have to go to the hospital
RubberToadstools 5 months ago
like rocket fuel pipeline being connected to it also so you could refuel spaceships in space and rocket fuel space stations,would make it cheaper and more time saved.
omega4chimp 5 months ago
i was thinking more of a giant Gasoline space pipe line or a combination of both that would be better.
omega4chimp 5 months ago
never say never. justin bieber strikes science~
asd7247286 6 months ago
and to imagine that aliens with their UFOS have the technology to take u from earth using a light!!??
AndyAngelZ 6 months ago
Immagine the awkward conversations that you can have in 22000 miles of elevator
FoolyCoolyMabase 6 months ago
@FoolyCoolyMabase Imagine if someone farts in the elevator.
Virtuoso80 4 months ago
@Virtuoso80 It would be the most awkwar moment possibly immaginable by the human mind
FoolyCoolyMabase 4 months ago
this outdated technology yet?
and I don't even care who won...
Tampajoe77 6 months ago
i still wanna be alive when that happens! ): lol
mith1111 6 months ago
Why don't they just weawe power lines into the carbon nanotube?
Beef1188 6 months ago
@Beef1188 Or use the carbon nanotubes itself as power lines.
redelman43199 5 months ago
I'd hate to be the astronaut in Low level orbit, trying to avoid that ribbon travelling at 17,500 miles per hour
matthewakian2 6 months ago
@tonman842
The space elevator won't be going to the Moon. It's a concept for reaching outer space at a fraction of the cost.
HipHopMafiaGang 7 months ago
how about first u take MY money and fix the fkn potholes. if nannoo tubes can build a cable to the moon. and are stronger than steel.. then surely they can fill pot hole in the road. then with the money we save on highway maintance we can build the entire road outta this amazing carbon. fk the moon lets fix this planet ... why go to the mooon to look back on garbarge...........................................
tinman842 7 months ago
Megaman X8
Headshot4Fun 7 months ago
space fountain > space elevator
Brightgalrs 7 months ago
vamos ver si ele cair
é bom qui ele demora a chegar na terra
da tempo de horar e pedir perdão pelos nossos pecados
lucianojlm2010 7 months ago
The Earth is a cradle in mind,but one cannot live eternally in a cradle. If I'm Albert Einstein I would say this is totally possible. In the Victorian age Physicists aid a rocket could not fly through space and airplanes would never work becuase they were too heavy and not aerodynamic. When Albert Enstein came he changed Physics forever if it wsn't for Al we'd still be paranoid dilssuionals like in the Victorian Age so go figure this is the same thing be skeptic you have to be sometimes.:)
SuperColonel77 7 months ago
amazing that since this video batch formatin of carbonnanotoube is fairly common & used in industry fairly regularly. time to update and delete this old video.
circusboy90210 7 months ago
Awsome idea.... but unfortunately "yo-yo" principles don't apply in space :(
prashantkarade 7 months ago
@prashantkarade Centripetal force is the concept here and it applies universally at the macro level of physics. Granted the Yo-Yo is a bad metaphor. The nano-tube cable is the string, a counter balance in space would be the actual "Yo-Yo" and Earth is the guy spinning it around and around. Pretty simple stuff.
linuxBlob 7 months ago
If anyone can do it, America can do it.
AntipodeanStar 8 months ago
Ugh, and just imagine if they put regular ELEVATOR MUSIC in those, I bet people would arrive INSANE xD
makotomikami 8 months ago
I'm all for it but what's the point? What would u do once u reach space?
arbitorseal 8 months ago
@arbitorseal make perminate space only ships and build space stations and go to planets
duchashes 8 months ago
@arbitorseal The idea is to move very heavy things into space on the cheap. Solar power plants being one of those things to lift into space. Helium-3 collection would be another one (a type of fusion fuel.) Launches to distance locations would cost less, most of the energy is consumed just getting the dang thing into space from Earth. Orbital factories that require precision environments (zero-G makes it happen.) Many other things too but mostly to reduce the cost of ground to space launch.
linuxBlob 7 months ago
7:02 ... OMG it's materialising before our eyes... fucking incredible advances :o
NMWMN 8 months ago
please check out my blog, where I have written about this:
google my attempt at engineering
Dontbechattincrap 8 months ago
Space based technology is going to be the industry of the future. Those who fail to invest, will be left behind. Imagine if for whatever reason, the USA didn't see any future in something as absurd as a "computer"/microchip. With out them, we'd be a 19th century, 3rd world country. The main problem with space industry is the cost of an investment, that will yield little to no return, initially. It WILL happen eventually. It's only a matter of when/by who. Hopefully the USA is involved.
gjc82071 8 months ago
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Freedomloveandtruth 8 months ago
@thisisnotjustinhi Any time, dude. Always happy to share. :)
spacecowboy5000 9 months ago
@thisisnotjustinhi This is a debate that's been going on for decades.The situation in Africa is far more complex than people know - even the head of UNICEFadmitted that. One of the biggest stumbling blocks is that the African's don't know something's wrong. They've been living this way so long they think it's "normal". It's hard to make someone "see" that it isn't. There's a saying,"Give a man a fish you feed him for a day. Show him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." That's very hard.
spacecowboy5000 9 months ago
@spacecowboy5000 You also have to take into consideration that for decades, covertly, the west has been intentionally helping to destabilize/overthrow the governments (democratically elected or otherwise) of various African nations, so as to exploit their resources. Look @ Patrice Lamumba & the following 40+ years of hell on earth that is, Zaire/The DRoC. Even the UN & World Bank have a hand in exploiting Africa. It's really sad & doubtful whether Africa will ever "get it together" or not.
gjc82071 8 months ago
@gjc82071 Well said! Most (if not all) governments in Africa are corrupt in the extreme and that's why they're so easily manipulated by the West (also corrupt). But even if we were to make all of that magically disappear other factors make it nearly impossible to help impoverished countries. Money, donated or otherwise, goes through banks, corporations, etc. Then there are taxes and fees. After all that only a small percentage makes it to those in need. Now add all the corruption...
spacecowboy5000 8 months ago
I watched a documentary about water (Blue Gold I think?) about the terms of a loan that the World Bank gave to Kenya, demanding they follow certain "agricultural reforms". They demanded that Kenya, an extremely arid country already short of water, grow....."tulips" (a water intensive crop/plant) for export to Europe. So basically they are forcing an arid country to export it's already scarce water supply, to the EU! HIV/AIDS is also a HUGE problem in Africa, consuming vast economic resources.
gjc82071 8 months ago
@thisisnotjustinhi The most realistic program developed by UNICEF and other groups would take a little over a century and $30 billion. So far not one nation has offered to help either financially or with manpower. So what are we supposed to do? Keep pouring in money from independant groups into a situation that worsens? At the same time a new technology that can actually arise from all this R&D that will help them. I'm keenly aware of the situation in Africa and worked 8 yrs. with an aid group.
spacecowboy5000 9 months ago
@thisisnotjustinhi They need to be educated, innoculated and provided with the means to build housing and plumbing. To teach them self-dependance we can only help them but in the end they have to do everything themselves. Africans truly beleive that the more children they have the more chance there is of one of them making it. Because of that and what the Catholic Church teaches them they don't practice birth control.
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@thisisnotjustinhi Money has never been the problem. For the past 60 years there's been a greater effort than ever to help Africa. In all that time there has been little or no effect despite the amount of money and manpower poured into the project. To a lot of people that sounds like a gamble. One of the problems is that the starving in Africa are living in a pre-industrial society while the rest of the world is in a technolical society.
spacecowboy5000 9 months ago
@thisisnotjustinhi I was just reading about that. Even if you were a billionaire and spent every penny on an African recovery program you would affect about 1% or at most 2% of the affected people. When your money ran out they would starve to death anyway. If we could find a nearby planet, like Mars, we could send people there to grow food in greenhouses and send it back to Earth and to Africa. Financially this makes more sense until we can teach Africans how to farm and train them as doctors.
spacecowboy5000 9 months ago
How much energy would it take to power into space off a pulse laser beam? Can the intensity be regulated enough to control it like a gas pedal? Would it cause holes in the ionosphere? Could something like a pulse laser be used for propulsion in space?
robertslistening 9 months ago
Alright, so it's an idea that we're not ready for. What kind of backup systems would there have to be if the ribbon snapped, got fried by lightning, or the reverse, caused lightning. Hurricanes? What would happen if whatever was at the top couldn't keep it's orbit (smacked by an asteroid, or the propulsion system failed). I just think they should think of more things than just if can they make it work. A lot of our inventions either fail, or cause other problems. We race through everything.
robertslistening 9 months ago
Could carbon nano-material have armor potential?
pudding0023 9 months ago
@thisisnotjustinhi You suck. This would be the greatest structure to be ever built.
alextlbass 9 months ago
@alextlbass yeah, what he said didn't really make sense. but think about it. there is not much purposes or reasons why they are building the space elevator. it's just for the discover of the universe, and tours. which is not going to help the poverty around the world.
usefulchannel 9 months ago
we will call it the Tiara. Or the Quito orbital space elevator. (Halo reference)
Aritakeclan 9 months ago
and if a aeroplane hits it?
GamingLogics 10 months ago
@GamingLogics Bin Laden is dead. 9/11 won't happen again.
turgore 10 months ago
@turgore haha you think bin laden did 911? your so brainwashed, its time to wake up
GamingLogics 10 months ago
@GamingLogics You're*. Why are all of you alarmist, conspiracy knuckleheads such fuckwits? It's either bad grammar or factless twaddle. Great video by the way. Thanks for the upload!
movezig1 10 months ago 10
@GamingLogics you should stop believeing everything you read on the internet.
turgore 9 months ago
@turgore dont use the date of an attack to discribe another act of terrorism, and your right, 9/11 wont happen, it will happen on another day nutcase. oh yeah, bin laden didnt perform the terrorist attack, it was al qaeda "soldiers doing what they believe is right.
111anakin111 5 months ago
@GamingLogics they will make sure that nothing get close to the elevator. and as you heard its made of carbon so it may not break. again may not break
dethtour 9 months ago
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jaber2341 10 months ago
Yup
MrDeamon1 10 months ago
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Wouldn't this be prone to damage from Galactic debris..i.e. meteorites and such?...
ReDhAvEn1993 10 months ago
Wouldn't this be prone to damage from Galactic debris..i.e. meteorites and such...
ReDhAvEn1993 10 months ago
awesome
mikengray 10 months ago
Who won the challenge?!
counterclockwise123 10 months ago
we need this
CastawayRY 10 months ago
@CastawayRY we need this and green technology and no money,which will equal the unification of the human race in most areas,every heard of the venus project?its very famous,it covers alll these areas.
thedarkcow64 10 months ago
@thedarkcow64 i love Jacque Fresco!
CastawayRY 10 months ago
@thedarkcow64 There will always be money and the human race will never be unified. It is the sad truth.
counterclockwise123 10 months ago 7
@counterclockwise123 Very very true. but If the Human race United under a single banner, One Global Nation, all Space programmes Unified, all the costs that go into the different programmes like Nasa, the one in Russia, China n others could go into one.
paldesic2009 9 months ago
@counterclockwise123 It's interesting you should say that, I was reading about the Tower of Babel before I came here, apparently God doesn't want us to be unified...
Alzdr 8 months ago
@counterclockwise123 Your idea of the future is a s dark as your username.
SolidSnake032486 8 months ago
@counterclockwise123 If we don't become unified one day, we will meet our demise, and if you can't be unified, we deserve to be destroyed.
RubberToadstools 5 months ago
@RubberToadstools Regardless of whether or not we are ever unified as a species, our time in this universe is finite.
However, our demise will most likely come sooner if we are not unified, yes.
counterclockwise123 5 months ago
@counterclockwise123 So maybe the only salvation for humanity is that whole new world order stuff.
RubberToadstools 5 months ago
@RubberToadstools There is no salvation. The human race won't last forever. You think 2 billion years from now that there will be any evidence we ever even existed?
counterclockwise123 5 months ago
@counterclockwise123 In 2 billion years if humans had survived we would already have evolved into something far different.
In 5 billion years the sun will have engulfed the planet. And possibly after 100 billion years the universe would no longer exist. That is just a guess, I have no idea as to when the estimated time the universe will end.
RubberToadstools 5 months ago
@RubberToadstools I hope it all happens sooner rather than later.
counterclockwise123 5 months ago
@counterclockwise123 I hope the opposite. But my life has actually been pretty good.
RubberToadstools 5 months ago
@counterclockwise123 I actually can't think like you do, not even if I tried. I am too optimistic. I know our day will come to an end, but I feel that one day we will do great things before then. Humanity is still a primitive species but has a lot of potential.
RubberToadstools 5 months ago
@counterclockwise123 Absolutly. Voyager 1 and 2 wrapped that one up.
monokhem 5 months ago
Tower of Babel?
I don't think we should tether the earth; its tacky. Nanotube tech is nice tho! It reminds me of Peter Parker's webbing. As for elevators, Tether- free energy- efficient methods of "jet" propulsion is still my fave pick for stellar commuting.
Carbon tubes also make way for unrippable fabrics (sub- level torsion armor, perhaps for physically dangerous sports or rescue workers). That'd be nice to cut down on even abrasions & lacerations, let alone, breaks & bulletproofing.
MarcusDarling4026 10 months ago
What happens if a 22,000 Km elevator falls to Earth?
SuperGijoe19 10 months ago
@SuperGijoe19
Then you are ****ed . ;)
kinamina1 10 months ago
that world be the next thing a plane would crash into if that was built
stoner1768 10 months ago
For the love of Gos i hope they don't play Zeplins Stairway to Heaven.
poodtang1 11 months ago
Look for "graphene" this is the shit.
lorent123 11 months ago
The problem with attaching a space elevator to, say, the moon, though, is that both the moon and the earth are rotating, so that would definitely destroy a direct connection.
1amayzingman 11 months ago
@1amayzingman Why attach it to the moon when they could attach it to an orbiting space station, which can act as an airport for ships heading in different directions
trypapayapie 11 months ago
@trypapayapie Even then it wouldn't work so well. The same space elevator would have widely different distances from any given point in space because of the earths rotation. At one point, it's only a bit aways from the moon. Ad another, it's moved dramatically. Possibly if you built more than one it may work out better, or schedule them based on the time of day.
1amayzingman 11 months ago
Harmonics can be defeated by design; terrorists have to be dealt with no matter what you're building - a NoFly zone is an obvious starter. Weather is a matter of both material and design, just like bridges and skyscrapers.
But I have to say, I'm stumped by the scary idea of the elevator music . . . :-[
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justicepartyuk 11 months ago
14 people are afraid of heights.
Pinkergloop 11 months ago
"In one moment, Earth; in the next, Heaven."
-- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Fruit
GhostInTheShell29 11 months ago
Ever since I first heard of the concept way back when, I've had serious doubts about it. My only consolation right now is that all I can do is hope I'm wrong. I can only hope to God that I'm wrong.
1958boomergirl 11 months ago
Soon after that they'll probably be making Halos to contain the H1N1 and other deadly viruses. Lol.
BeakyRed 11 months ago
"Were as easy, and as cheap, as riding an elevator." *doors slide shut*
Cameraman: Oi! Open the bloody doors! Where's me ticket?!
TANSKBD 11 months ago
This would make a trip into space no more expensive than a transcontinental flight. We'd have easy access to the moon, Mars, and the ability to build complex space stations far into the solar system, and eventually, the galaxy. Why would this possibly be a bad idea?!
Pacmanghost 1 year ago
I'm tired of the scientific ignorance. If you want to make a viable statement, do the research. Honestly, throwing out the term "trillions of dollars" isn't a very accurate appraisal of anything.
quickstart90909 1 year ago
UMM... PEOPLE! DOESNT THE EARTH SPIN? WHAT ABOUT ASTEROIDS! AND YEAH LIKE THE OTHER GUY IN THE COMMENT SAID, "TERRORISTS"
DaBuGzLiFe 1 year ago
@DaBuGzLiFe The all caps really helps your argument. Yes the earth spins, thats why its in geosynchronous orbit, so it stays directly above its base on earth. Yes there is space debris, however, I'm sure by the time this is feasible we will have implemented solutions for earth orbit clean up. As for terrorists, thats just stupid. What if we said that about everything? Power Plant?? What if terrorists attack?! We just dont do it? Isnt that when they win? When we let them control us.
ataraxic89 1 year ago
This video is 4 years old ... If you want to know what's going on in the space elevator community today, check out "The Engineer's Pulse"
positivechange2020 1 year ago
theres a space evevator on killzone lol. thats is a very good way to see how one could work
lolurdead12 1 year ago
Watch out for space terrorists.
ruffy445 1 year ago
Send Justin Bieber up and cut the cable...
SoloWing808 1 year ago
can we use this to send our trash to outer space?
UglyToontown 1 year ago
@UglyToontown - or we can just send non biodegradables to the sun
three0234 1 year ago
But a space elevator would cost ALOT of money and to build a structure 62 miles high is impossible duo to current technological and structual limitations not to mention it woild take about 100 years. The highest structure now is only 2700 feet high which is about half a mile or so and we have go to build something 60 times the hight that will withstand high altitude winds and pressure aswell as the Earth's gravity. It's not a cake walk.
NANOFORGE 1 year ago
why not just launch a metor into geo stationary orbit then get a stalite about 265 km above sea lvl then atach cables so it wont get get destroyed that simple then you can make it wider and safer you see easy pise!
harrycolvile 1 year ago
What would a collision from something even the size of a pebble travelling at 20000 mph do to this thing? I don't see how it would be safe from cosmic debris. And what would keep it straight? Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
whiskeygoggles 1 year ago
Sounds quite unique, but the disadvantages would be due to , how to say it, natural disasters if you will. Such as hurricanes, tornados, earthquaks etc from within the atmosphere, and meteor showers and solar winds from outside the atmosphere. If they were 2 find a way to prevent these things from harming the elevator, I would love 2 c this thing jump into reality and make a difference in the way we can travel through space.
pumbkinpie320 1 year ago
Something like this would give all those religious nuts a different perspective on the world. How petty and childish their claims are.
ElDuorPaso 1 year ago
@ElDuorPaso What does this have to do with religion? Science and religion are not contradictory.
aahmed215 1 year ago
This doesn't... But my comment does.
Firstly, every single one of these mainstream religions are in its core incompatible with each other. They can't all be right.
They all assert a certain truth about the universe. However neither of them come close to the ultimate truth - especially with evolution/creation - that the God hypothesis is not required in order for this universe to exist.
One requires natural explanations, the other supernatural. You couldn't ask for a bigger contradiction.
ElDuorPaso 1 year ago
@ElDuorPaso That's not true. Islam for example explains creation very similar to modern science. It mentions the Big Bang, expanding universe, etc. The way I see it is, God created the Laws of Science. Everything that happens is based on these laws/forces of science. If you believe in the Big Bang, what was before it? Where did this one little atom or mass come from? Where did the laws/forces come from?
aahmed215 1 year ago
@aahmed215
I don't mean to sound condescending. But give that Islam says this and that a rest.
Islam can also be read to justify a belief that the Earth is flat. But you don't take that part literally, right?
What you are doing is cherry picking your way through that particular holy book.
It is just the case that most of the Christians here will tell you that the exact same thing is found in their book i.e. Big Bang/Evolution. Because they cherry pick their way through it also.
ElDuorPaso 1 year ago
@aahmed215
The Hindu Rigveda is perhaps the only one to actually come close to the true age of the universe.
But are you going to argue for it's accuracy?
In order to interpret the Quran/Bible/Torah to justify an Evolutionary cosmos you have to not take them literally. And if I can't take my God literally and has to hide everything he says in metaphors and symbols, and picks only one race to start his religion, than he is not a God, but a man made invention.
ElDuorPaso 1 year ago
@aahmed215
Yes. But everything happens in this universe because it's that type of universe. Laws are human observations to explain certain aspects of the universe. And they certainly don't require a law maker. They are just a method of explaining a physical constant that is intrinsic to this universe.
What happened before the Big Bang is really irrelevant -space and time didn't exist. But what is amazing is that the laws of physics actually allow for matter to come into existence for no reason.
ElDuorPaso 1 year ago
@aahmed215
I for one still can't get my head around the thought of nothingness. Because when our minds prescribe to the thought of nothing it still within something :)... I can say that it is a possibility (though small) that something did create the universe, but most definitely not the small and petty gods of these mainstream religions. The gods who command armies to do their bidding.
If there was a God he would be much grander and bigger and more pleasing then Allah & Yahweh.
ElDuorPaso 1 year ago
@aahmed215
Last one I swear!
Questions like where did the big bang come from etc. Don't do anything for me. I would phrase the answer exactly as Carl Sagan said it (without writing it FFS):
watch?v=LeVhkXW6BKY
One thing I do like is that you realise scientific truth. I don't like that you then try to amalgamate it with religion. But my opinion. Cheers!
ElDuorPaso 1 year ago
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johnnycanales1 1 year ago
sorry to tell everyone but it is imposable you would burn up in the upper atmosphere and thats if you even get to it.if you dont you will just fall back down to the earth
cam117d 1 year ago
@cam117d
Do some research please mate
NinjaPiratePenguin 1 year ago
@cam117d things only "burn up in the atmosphere" from the friction of falling so quickly in a vaccum and then hitting the "rough" gases that make up the atmosphere. its not the "upper atmosphere" meteorites or falling sattellites disintergrate in, its just plain any atmosphere, which we happen to be in. right now.
enlightenednihilist 1 year ago