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Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources.
A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter weight, that catapults spaceships from earth orbit into the depths of space.
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I love it
Element 115 :)
Seems legit.
Why don’t we just go to the moon and build space ships there and launch them so you don’t need to go as far
Probably wont happen in less than yo, this require extreme calculus, consideration of so many factor, without real efficient quantum computer this is not a good solution and even when the tech get there you need the program, the ai, so much preparation, its just not practical, the space elevator already is much less fiction compared to this, since it is going nowhere, I just suspect that this is an idea that you personally like and wanted to give credit to and this is not objective.
Imagine the CONSTANT calculations having to be done to accommodate this. Shuttles latching on to the hook, automatically rotating the momentum of the hook with engines.
Amazing we should be telling elon musk about this. Though we will still need FTL Drives if we want to leave the solar system.
Yaa make a cable and make it rotate once space debris and asteroid shows up you can't undo momentum causing collision
This'll end up being something like the oil industry in that it'll be difficult to shift away from it to something better once the technology is readily available. There will then be hundreds of whirling cables swinging around the earth (I doubt, by the time we come up with something better, we'll have gone further than Mars) that will require synchronicity with all nearby satellites and shuttles. It's a quick and cheap solution but I think it is not a long-term one - hence my comparison to the oil industry (which is now obsolete - for energy, anyway). My goodness that is some primitive technology. Look up the "atlatl" an ancient javelin which utilizes the same physics trick. I hope someone figures out a better idea before somebody actually tries this. The soundtrack on this video is awesome.
Ok so build this then the Dyson Sphere then the thing that makes us all go to insane speeds
Another thing that could make it easier to get to space would be a fusion reactor rocket. It’s like 10,000 times more efficient than a standard rocket
@elon musk
Elon Musk:write that down! Write that down! (No really, Elon Musk’s Goal is to make us get to mars and make the space tether)
Correct me if I'm wrong but to keep the thing going there needs to be ships coming in right ? If the tether is built spinning so that it's moves slower when closer to earth and faster when further from the earth wouldn't it be hard for ships coming in to lock on to it ? English is not my first language so i apologize for any spelling and grammatical mistakes or that something isn't clear. Thank you
The problem is not dying immediately once you get there
Imagine if the cord breaks and you are sent into outer space with nothing but a small engine😟
If we hav the technology WHY DONT WE DO IT
Video: Doesn't have a "but" Me: Holy sh*t this actually possible!
when you watch video then press ins near the arrows on your keyboard
Try to build a tether at Triton, Neptune's moon
That's a lot of acceleration at once
Don't forget about g forces and get spattered on ur seat
Then no space station or sats
THIS IS FUCKING GENIAL WTF
w o w space exploration cheat code
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
0:54 The yellow box is from the moon base video. Cool video tbh
Something tells me this idea might have something to do with angry birds..
s we make this?
"Mom?" "Yeah honey?" "I feel skyhook-sick."
Skyhook.. isn't that the new bond film?
"Does not require huge investments", well...
Tethers would be usefull to colect space trash for the orbit
Tethers would be also useful to take the mirrors to the Sun from Mercury to construct Dyson Swarm
Do you mean... space handball?
Elon Musk can do this XD
OOOOOOO I’m excited now
The “Skyhook” sounds rather boring. Why not call it the “Spaceship Yeeter?”
Stuff like this is theoretically possible. With an emphasis on "theoretically". I'm sceptical of the claim that the materials exist that are tough enough to make the cable from - the current construction materials can't even support their *own* weight over such distances, let alone the weight of a massive rocket, let alone a massive rocket which is also being accelerated to escape velocity and back down again. Humanity may be doing this sort of stuff one day, but almost certainly not within any of our lifetimes. I genuinely think that cold fusion is a more credible way of solving the fuel-payload problem.
That's like one of those roller coasters that launch you super fast
0:04 RIP future astronauts
Making a hypersonic high altitude vehicel is hard, but its also something we've done so in theory the hook part of the sky hook is feasible, but how do you get the tether to survive hypersonic reentry (if only partial reentry into the exosphere) over and over and over again?
This is incredible! I had no idea such a technology was feasible already.
kurzesagt can you make a video about the planet pluto?
Did you miss that friction from being regularly in atmosphere also slows down the tether?
Maybe instead of using a rope, we can use a ringworld? Ship are not catching ropes, but berth into harbor of ringword, waiting ringworld to rotate into certain position, then depart again ... imaging how spectacular it can be...
Well i wanna to be the part of this great deed
If we gave all money and resources to these people we would be thousands mabye even millions of years ahead in civilization
Imagine our grand kids watching this video and laughing at how dumb we are because they discovered a better way to space travel…
I'm okay with this hook throwing me towards my destination (in theory) but what about space junk huh 🤨 so it won't work in practical at least now However when it comes to receiving (at least living) should for too risky even in theory as variables(like and including space debris or solor flare or technical malfunction or simply maintenance) needed to be calculated for dispatchment between the planet to the hook than receiving at the destination stop as they will be very difficult to calculate plus in greater quantity unless we already have a well-established base at the destination from the one where they will be receiving it. So it will only truly be economical and safe when we have actually reached a little further into type 2 civilization that is at least 500 years which is basically science fiction considering we have no experience with this. I may sound a condescending but i am a huge fan.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Though I only started watching it lately. Again a huge fan.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
You might make more Money by selling that to Looney Tunes
"Nothing is stopping us in the longterm from making an interplanetary network" Erm, apart from the global ecological and social crises which are putting a very real, short term time limit on a civilisation capable of doing this.
NASA is like we have a job for you
I don’t understand a space elevator because of you connect it to another planet it’s just going to throw itself out of orbit and there would be no daylight cycle
I hope I'm alive when this happens. No need to experience it directly, but know that it has been successfully created.
Kurzgasagt : “this good change the whole world!” Government : “Who the fuck cares? Were too cool to use that thing called “Tether”
This channel always hypes me up for the future, but the further we get into "the future" the more it feels like a false advertisement.
What about a rail gun- like a huge ass electromagnet?
0:18 robocraft vibes
Lol, look at all the different languages in the subtitles
The only thing that's stopping humanity from doing this is politics.
Kurzgesagt: SPACE TREBUCHET SpaceX and NASA: hehe Rokkettt go boom...
wait, are you saying the spacecraft using the sky hook would basically be like doing an aerial refueling at mach 12? that sounds......feasible,
Let's *YEET* OURSELVES TO MARS
Tether: YEET
Anyone who understands this respect, Kareem abdul-jabbar 33.
Why arnt we funding this ???!!?
Elon Musk: Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!
Elon musk needs to hear about this
Meanwhile isis fling themselves to mars civilization...... Crash lands Allah u akbar style