Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind?

Anyone here ever played Sonic Colors?

These videos use to be so hopeful about the future of humanity

varied counterweights to lift rather than the elevator do the climb. The real problem would be the amount of space debris or satellites the cable and elevator could collide with.

Why is the estimate cost for a space elevator $20 billion? Wouldn’t it be closer to, like, $20 trillion? I mean if the ISS already costs billions and the space elevator is way bigger then it just makes sense

"Why did humans begin prioritizing personal compensation for their contributions to society and the planet? The pursuit of financial reward was born out of human greed, despite Earth's abundant provision of life-sustaining resources. This mental construct of compensation has led humans to become imprisoned by the monetary system, which now controls our behavior and thoughts. It is regrettable that we have reached a point of no return, where the majority of people are under the spell of money, and our minds are enslaved by its power." ✅💯

Funny how they mentioned LV-223 and Jakku

excellent thank you

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why wouldn't they make a hot air balloon that raises what every they want take you up then have a cable or something that extracts out from space and hook to the pay load and pull it up the rest the way. Or rocket that engages for the rest the flight. Be a lot cheaper.

Viví para presenciar el día que Kurgesagt le dió la razón a Moreno, hay que hacer costos

We need one of those in bathurst ppls... -_- XD

On second thought I think we're actually a bit late for it looks like the weather is going to crap!

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I hope @nasa @esa @isro @jaxa considers building a space 🛗 elevator on the moon... The engineering knowledge exists to accomplish that... The structure of the elevator 🛗 could also be used to efficiently transfer energy gathered by solar power collecting satellites 🛰️ to the lunar surface... The experience of building lunar elevator/s on the moon 🌙 could help build similar structures on the Earth 🌎 and Mars (those would require stronger materials)... Space elevators 🛗 would be LESS polluting than rocket 🚀 launches, although vessels would still be needed to get between worlds...

Maybe first build a space elevator of 400 km rather than 40000km

About the ,,expenses'' just shut money down for a project and boom!

A possibility with a space 🛗 elevator... Is that there would be "breather" satellites 🛰️ that would collect atmospheric gases in close earth (or Mars) orbit... Once they filled a tank, they could shoot it off towards the counter-weight on a space elevator... Near the space elevator there would be a net 🥅 attached to regenerative braking device that would catch filled gas (plasma-electric propellant) tank and convert much of the kinetic energy to electric energy... Then reel the tank in... The same net 🥅 could catch satellites 🛰️.nearing the end of their life for refurbishment or recycling ♻️... Which is better than letting a satellite become space debris or collide with a planet (or moon) surface and break into millions of pieces... The point being that the counter-weight on a space elevator 🛗 would in many ways function as a space station as a hub of activity in orbit... where a variety of orbital manufacturing would occur... Having a system to refill plasma-electric propellant is important for satellites 🛰️ to be mobile and flexible on their orbits... For example, flexibility in space based 🌞 solar 🛰️ satellites orbits and positions relative to each other... Would better enable them to exert desired effects on weather/water 🌊 cycle (lower temperatures, induce rain 🌧️, etc via mechanisms like eclipse effects)

Experimenting on the moon would definitely be a good idea.
Also do we really need to make in 36k km , why not just a little above Karman line.

Who’s here in 2024

Fully aware I’m 8 years late but: what if we made the elevator have an external tube rather than a central cable, like in Halo? The same problems exist, yes, and it would be far more expensive to build due to the increased material cost, but it could theoretically provide added stability to the elevator. Additionally, it would be less likely to break from micrometeorite impacts and could be more easily designed to withstand radiation and weather. Just some ideas I had

It will take 80 minutes...

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no one :
a random location named Selatapura :

we need xenonite!

Just had an idea, what if you could launch things one by one with big cannons.
Its an old idea, but if you keep launching with a identical path, the air resistance should be lower? Like when riding behind a big truck.
So you could make a sort of tunnel... The first one or two or three would require more energy of course.

If we built a space staircase it would take 180.000.000 steps.
For someone with some good physical abilities it would take 90.000 hours of constant climbing the steps to reach the top. If you consider the need for sleeping and resting it would take roughly 18 years to walk all the way up.

Why would it not use the vacuum to lift producing power on the way down.
My vision would be to have these on maltaple continents producing infernate power .

Who’s watching after the first space elevator was assembled?

Satisfactory reference?

Was waiting for Vault Boy to raise his thumb at the end of the video.

Guys I think Kurszgesgat likes Star Wars

Yes but nothing 😊

The video cuts off kind of abruptly. What happened?

Your also talking about the most vital sunlight to Earth's solar energy... along the equator.

Why not just make the elevator “climb” the tether rather than fly up along it using some sort of propulsion.
By “climb” in this context, I mean something similar to how a human may climb a ladder or rope by holding on to it and pushing/pulling up.
But then, it seems to be much slower than propulsion.

What do you think @kurzgesagt and guys?

Dude my dad thinks all of this real space stuff is fake. Steve Taylor, your'e a great human, i cant thank you more. At my college, anybody who has space questions, they come to me, thanks!

Imagine this on real life 😮😮😮

Thank you for using Indian flag on the rocket

Gundam 00 anyone?

Or elevator

Some asshole tik toker will probably break it

Nonsense

Interesting video. But the price per kilogram is outdated, given the drop in launch costs thanks to SpaceX. And Starship will cost far less than $200 per kilogram to orbit.

Again, a presentation that claims to be realistic, yet completely ignores the reason that the concept of a space elevator is flawed: angular momentum. Where is your mechanism for increasing the angular momentum of the climber as it goes up? The tether can’t support lateral force. If your climber goes up the tether without such a mechanism, it will drag the counterweight out of its orbit, and introduce waves to the tether.