Hank discuss area elevators, and why we should not anticipate to see one whenever quickly.
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Just build a huge cannon and shoot drones/supplies into space , or build a
moon base and try to construct most of our needs there.
I certainly think the biggest issue holding a Space Elevator from happening
in the foreseeable future is terrorism.
A space elevator is like a giant sign saying “Blow me up”.
It wouldn’t be easy but I guarantee someone’d do it.
The problem this video doesn’t bring up is what to do about the space junk.
you can’t make space elevator (assume you are not using north or south
pole), because of conservation of angular momentum, the result is, the
orbital speed of earth will be lowered or the space station will be pulled
away. Please stop proposing noobish idea
A bit obsessive about sending humans to Mars, now, aren’t we.
Haha 2:25 reminded me of Matthew Perry
Never understimate Japanese people.
so it’s 2015 right now…. >.<
What would happen if one of those space elevators got blown up at the base
with some c4? What would happen if a rocket/plane impacted in the middle?
What would happen in the event of a large earthquake? Would it have the
same devastating effects as an orbital strike? How expensive would it be to
build a new one and what probability is there that a space elevator gets
destroyed several times? What would the estimated cost of the damage be and
is there any reasonable assumption we can make on the ammount of times that
a space elevator will get destroyed by terrorists or natural disaster?
The elevator has a fatal flaw. It can’t avoid space junk. Every orbit
crosses the equator at some point, so it is guaranteed that something would
eventually hit the elevator, most likely in low orbit where it is moving
faster and is closer together. There really is no practical way to move the
elevator out of the way, or get rid of every single piece of junk between
earth and geostationary orbit.
I plan on being on Mars in 2030 as well Hank! Last one there is a rotten
egg!!
A space elevator might solve the energy crisis ahead of us. Solar panels
are much more effective in space, since there’s no atmosphere, and
constructing a huge solar power plant at the edge of the elevator would
create alot of power.
I wonder if having an asteroid being pulled by earth would have any
noticeable effect on the tides or similar gravity sensitive earth
functions?
Like Gundam?
2:42 The ironic part is at this point we will have humans on mars by 2024
if everything goes according schedule.
Ok, I may have missed something or could just be dumb but; wouldn’t
whatever we connect the other end of the elevator to have to be moving with
the Earth’s rotation(of it’s axis)?
I mean otherwise it would get pulled apart … ?
You are a cynical douche, that offers nothing.
I don’t care about the moon I don’t even know what the hell the traveler
does yet!!! (Some of you might get this). :)
For some reason I masturbated 8 times today. I normally masturbate like 3
times a week. What the fuck!
What if we used a rail gun powered by a hydroelectric dam or a nuclear
power plant. But instead of bullets, we fire a spacecraft full of cargo or
people. Make the rail start off flat then slowly increase at a steady
incline like a ramp. Also make the speed start slow and steadily increase
faster and faster. It would shoot the spacecraft into orbit and even if it
didn’t completely make it the spacecraft could use rockets with much less
fuel to make it the rest of the way. Yes the building of a dam or power
plant and the rail gun would be expensive, but so would a space elevator or
sending dozens of rockets with cargo for a moon base. And we have the
technology today for a large rail gun.
Ofcourse the host is 100% fitting the nerd sterotype outfit on a channel
like this.
I plan on creating a warp drive by 2950. Accepting donations…
cool
you should post a video purely on the bloopers you guys have while making
all these videos cus the guy looks like he’s about to laugh in half of the
scenes you do
Well, crap. Another great hope shot to shit. Oh well. It would have been
fantastic, but we’ll find other ways. As sorry as I am to lose the space
elevator dream I want to thank the people at Scishow for their outstanding
channel which I will subscribe to after I post this.