Why An Undersea Space Station Is Long Overdue
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ธ.ค. 2020
- Since the 1960s, mankind has dreamed of living under the waves. Some habitats were even built on the seafloor, but our yearning for the stars left them abandoned. Now, Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the most famous explorer of the deep, wants to build "an International space station” down there. Called Proteus, he hopes it will add to human knowledge not just of the seas, but the entire planet.
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Calling it an underwater space station is like calling the space station an
“in-space underwater station”
gotta get more views
we’re all in space man, no matter where you are
Yeah the only reason I clicked on this video is to complain about the stupid name. So I guess my house is a land based space station then?
@FridayGood “the dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move”. But I guess you might have a better answer, could you enlighten us with your knowledge?
@FridayGood oh you mean Outer Space
Hilarious that the French guys back in the 1960s continued to smoke cigarettes in that tiny habitat under the waves. Besides replacing nitrogen with helium in that can they had to deal with carbon monoxide coming from burning tobacco.
I laughed at that too! Very 1960's. Reminds me of the other goofy smoking related old thing: The hindinburg had a specially designed room so people could SMOKE.
The filter will catch it
@@CHMichael Will it clog up the LUNGS is the important question lol, hard to fit a wet gas scrubber in your throat!
Gotta get that nicotine boi
@@clearcontentment3695 I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT !
Nothing more French than smoking a cigarette under the sea
And giving everyone around 2nd hand smokers lung
Lights up a smoke in underwater house. Oh Jaques....
1:28 Limited air supply because you're under water? Lets smoke a cigarette in a closed room!
Its not that deep is it? Why not have a pipe to the surface
I think that was the best bit about the whole program smoking underwater trust the French
@@ben8718
They are about 30 metres deep in that footage from the 60's. the habitat had an open section on the bottom where the divers could enter and exit with ease. In order to stop the water from rushing in you have to have a higher pressure to push on the water. if you had a pipe to the surface then the pressure could escape and the water would rush in. HOWEVER, if you could maintain the pressure you could have a pipe to the surface. Its just very hard to regulate, as far as I know
Air is a premium down here, I'll have cigarette anyway. lol
So then in an underwater city would the price of real estate be more expensive when closer to the surface shorline?
Lol, imagine an atlantis. 'Surfacescrapers' and condos that can actually see the sky would be expensive :D
Damn, I really want to see a sci-fi property where the Earth has undergone some kind of cataclysm and humanity was forced to live underwater. I mean, the sea makes sense as a shelter from the elements.
All radiation would be blocked... cosmic and otherwise. a possible problem we might have since we've evolved to have homeostasis regulate with the sun/earth rotations . . . so as long as have the proper light exposure you'd be fine tho 🤔
Sort of. You want to be far enough down that you don't have to worry about storms on the surface while still being close enough to have some sunlight for solar power.
@@2KOOLURATOOLGaming Bioshock
@@tangomango8474 Ye, but an up-to-date one.
I think the advantages of this cant be underestimated! Im no marine biologist, but ive heard that contamination and depresurization of specimens makes research very difficult and obviously costly and slow. Some deepsea creatures cant live at surface pressure as well, a deep sea science station could significantly increase our understanding of the ocean and could lead to many important discovories that could save lives!
It’s gonna get people killed probably, bywater dolphin
How long before a underwater space station is worth it's weight in gold?
Jacques Cousteau, here to spit flow. Invented SCUBA, captained the Calypso.
The man, the legend, the trendsetter all other ocean explorers look back on.
"It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the ocean. It was impossible to build it anywhere ELSE." -Andrew Ryan
7:15 Well that's a spontaneous interview... 😁
Indeed ! hahaha
Why would it be a SPACE station. It would be an underwater base
TEN THAUSAND fathoms below the surface!? That's, dare I say it.... unfathomable!
Sealab 2021?
If 'undersea space station' isnt an oxymoron i dont know what is.
I know right .....who greenlights posting such titles 😂
They discussed in the video how ‘space’ used to have a double meaning, outer space (outside the earth’s atmosphere), and inner space (things on earth that we haven’t yet explored, like the ocean).
Aquaman : I'm gonna wreck that guy's career.
I think that the real promise this Underwater Habitats (UHs, for short) represent is the actual test labs to create the necessary habitats that would be used in colonizing the Moon, Mars and beyond; they are a sort-of test environment for Lunar Habitats (LHs for short).
Think about it:
Underwater Habitats have to deal with the management of pressure which, as stated in this video, involves changing the gas mixture of regular 'air'. On that front, they can be used as test grounds to see what effects they have on the body after, say, a full year of living there; to say nothing of the psychological 'pressure' of remaining inside such an enclosed environment for an equally extended period of time. Now, while the usual crews involved would be scientist, it would be advisable to include regular civilians with jobs unrelated to science as part of the roster. This issue addresses the other matters besides supplying the habitat with food, oxygen, communications and maintenance for said long term stays.
While it is true that supplies can be sent down to the UH, since in the end it is a matter of letting the packages sink (in a controlled fashion) towards their destination; it would be much more efficient to grow food in-situ... Therefore providing another real-life 'simulator' for LHs. Producing food on site at such depth in enough quantities to ensure both the meeting of health requirements and dietary variety is a crucial factor for any sort of long-term habitat. Yes, the 'logical' choice in this case is to take advantage of whatever the deep sea has to offer; but green food, and more important vitamins like Vitamin C (to avoid scurvy) are not, to my knowledge, readily available underwater. Plus the challenge of doing conventional farming underwater, while not the same as doing it in space, involves the same issues of a land-based lifeform adapting to a pressurized environment, with the different 'air' mixture mentioned above. How would potatoes, for example, fare and develop in such an environment? Or fruits?
Those are just some examples of the wealth of developments such Habitats can provide. But like stated above, you need to include civilians. By the nature of their work and their goals, scientist have a predisposition to "sacrifice themselves" willingly to pursue their goals. But if we intend to make those Habitats, Underwater or Lunar, viable to the average grunt that would do the heavy lifting, there is the need for us to know if they can cut the mustard, or in this case, "hack the deep". How would a dedicated farmer fare, physiologically and psychologically, under such conditions (pun intended)? And regular 24/7 maintenance crew servicing the facilities, or a communications specialist?
Mr. Cousteou and his illustrious father already proved that Scientist and trained specialists can survive and perform their jobs in an underwater environments. Now it is time to move to the next stage and address the above issues, and whatever stems from them. Because there lies the actual key for so much progress, just waiting for us to... ahem, dive deep enough to find it.
Under See Space Station?
How would it be with undersee sation
Fascinating 🖖🏼
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I like underwater city concept, because it was very interesting to do
great idea I agree
I would love that too
watever u do, make sure u dun wake up cthulhu
I wanna see an underwater greenhouse, close to the surface
I so want this to flourish. This science could greatly enhance our future 🤘
it's not under the sea, it's in the sea
The sea is the water not the ground.....
So true!
Underwater stations have their benefits not only for scientists but also for the oil and the mining industries as well.
He said, "I've been to the year 3000
Not much has changed
But they lived underwater
This is what I want to study and bring to life..
Lmao I was Hoping for subnautica b-roll
Bioshock!
3:16 Ça va? - heheheheeh
i cant even get a tree house
Excited to see this happen!
Why hasn't this continued? 😕 It is really just sad how humans don't care at all.
Seems like a missed opportunity to not call it Sealab 2021 and hire Capt Murphy
Hmmm... The intro suggested using under-sea stations to combat overpopulation, but I’d think that off-shore floating cities would be a whole lot easier!
There is a lot of land. No need to do anything like that.
Do you mean land based space stations?????
underwater robots controlled by vr with hand and finger control
Boston dynamics got your back
I hate to see videos so cool whit so low views and comments.
SeaLab 2021!!! Let’s go!!! Fig Nuts!!!
There is a technique of using direct current from something like a floating wind powered generator, that causes accumulation of a calcium like coating on wire mesh. With time that coating can become like a clam shell apparently and resist such things as rust and moisture intrusion. And still act to act as a bubble or enclosure, able to last for generations.
I read the title my first thought
BIOSHOCK
Deep see tycoon 2 let's go!
Outrageous no SpongeBob references... than where do they get their Data from... Space?
Sealab 2021
Maybe because we're all scared of something like Sphere by Michael Crichton happening
I still don't understand that book
Intro music?
*SEALAB 2021*
Dont let it be a repeat of SkyLab
Living underwater is so complicated. A home is still just some wood, bricks, & insulation.
I believe these projects are very important not only for underwater investigation but also can be used to prepare the future Moon and Mars exploration on dealing with air pressure and very limited resources.
Remember NASA use huge sized pools for training.
If the facilities are big enough it may be possible to grow plants, food and whatever is necessary to become a self sustainable environment and apply that knowledge in future space exploration missions.
If the construction is modular it can be adjusted according needs and can easily be moved to other place.
These facilities can be safely powered by an underwater nuclear power plant and it can also be a module.
There are submarines using this technology so it's not something new.
That’s a smart ass couple
get the grant to build and call me i'm totally ready to do it! i even have new adaptions that can do this!
Welcome to... RAPTURE!
I am a nobody and I have said for 30 years we should be building small cities underseas. We don't need to go to the moon to explore. 90% of the ocean is unexplored.
Yeah it could be like SOMA or Bioshock :p
Hey SOMA only went wrong after the entire planet got wrecked, if anything that's an argument *for* making a few of thess.
What was that movie in the first few seconds?
If you're looking for me
You better check under the sea
Cause that is where you'll find me
Underneath the
Sealab, Underneath the water
Sealab, At the bottom of the sea
Sealab 2021
Weird place for it but anyone with a track id for 0:06 would be much appreciated
How cool would an hotel/ lab/ station deep under the water be. If it had windows it would be super cool I think.
They exist.
Subnautica players would be all over this.
How does deep sea laboratory?
or deep sea station?
or deep sea research center?
If you're looking for me, you better check under the sea
Cause that is where you'll find me, underneath the sealab
Underneath the water
Sealab, at the bottom of the sea 🌊
The weirdest thing ever, is being able to float beyond the sky, but not sit in the sea.
Saying we know more about the surface of the Moon than our Oceans is a misnomer. It's just that there is a lot more information to be gathered about our Oceans. So as far as data is concerned we know much more about our Oceans.
Under water on Earth hmmmm Geothermal eneregy transfered into the elctricity and at some depth there is constantly the same temperature. The water through simple electrolysis gives 2xHydrogen and 1xOxygen (2xEnergy hydrogen plus oxygen ingredient of the breatheable mix :) )
I’m just not smart enough to know why this can’t work
@@warwickclark2143
Electrolysis is used in hydrogen production from water and after compressing and condensing is used as a fuel. I have played with the same simple process long time ago but without condensing stage.
Sealab 2021....where's Stormie and Marco?
if the body of the station made of thick rubber with steel skeleton or net like heavy duty tire i think it is quite possible to take the pressure of deep water
I don't see why they have to be pressurized. Why not just make them water tight and run a hose up to the top? Then it would be about the same pressure as the surface.
Making hybrid human-dolphins probably dagnum gubbmint
JERRY!!!!!!!!!!?
You mean a sea station?
uNdEr SeA sPaCeStAtIOn
Wasn’t there a go fund me or Kickstarter for one, now looking back at that it might’ve been a scam
Would you live under the ocean?
if i had no other choice than why not
i lived on a submarine for a couple years...
Who lives in a pineapple....
that would be hella expensive
Undersea cities are brilliant because it is brutal, like mars-- mainly no oxygen, and one small mistake could be catastrophic. We could learn much.
Great presentation but a little dry. HNY!
Subnautica in the making.
I can't imagine 10,000 fathoms of innerspace 🃏
_Andrew Ryan has entered the chat_
Subnautica bros?
If you'd like a newly dive certified, disposable, grunt to join you on proteus. I would be happy to get my own certification, and come do dangerous menial labor for your crew while you guys do the science. 😁
How do you know there isnt?
Well it’s not a space station if it’s not in space is it
ah yes, a *spacestation* under the *sea.* we shouldve been doing this years ago
whatever happened to seahab?
OMG they are fucking smoking in underwater habitat :)
One already exists.
Ive been saying this for years. By the way we should have 10,000 people on the moon by now too.
Yeah , you're naturally completely right. Problem is social Media sucking the hell and all ambitions out of many people.
But there already is an underwater long term station. Not as big as the ISS but yes it exists. It’s too bothersome to keep taking divers from very high pressures and have to bring them up slowly everyday so they built a long term pressurized capsule underwater so they don’t have to keep coming up everyday. They stay in the capsule for days weeks at a time then come up to normal pressure all at once.
Hey, can you NOT show a zoomed-out shot of a laptop when the actual screen capture is available? What do you think that adds? Why are you deliberately zooming out for no reason?
You'll notice that the "macbook pro" logo is nice and clear, clearly a sponsored segment.
*subnautica theme intensifies*
Will there be Wi-Fi
could use a bouy to the surface that has a cable that can provide satellite internet or something cool like that. Could even collect solar power or something idk.
well I mean internet cables are on sea and ocean bottom anways so I guess they could connect it
@@Paco1337 nah you can't just tie into transatlantic cables.
welcome to rupture.
Things are so bad on the surface, we are about to go under
Why isn't there an Industry for Undersea Tourism!? Serious answers only please. 🤨🤔😑
Helium enriched air! No thanks! 😬
How much?
"Siri play ocean man"
We’ve had these things for decades wdym haven’t you seen abyss?
It is almost 2021...