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Make a what if sling shot a rocket to save fuel 😅 dont u think fuel is expensive in today's time
What if Russian launch 100 megaton nuclear torpedo to make nuclear terminator tsunami to hit UK ,1. Would anybodys survive the killer .2. would UK be safe to regrow life again. 3. How long would it take to remove all the nuclear material from UK ?
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I feel like these scenarios are just made by scientists smoking weed for the first time 😭😭😭 these scenarios are always so unique and thought provoking I love it lol
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If some of the sun energy is lost and reflected because of earths atmosphere I think that a good step to that direction would be to put up some solar panels on the L1 lagrange point. Still, we had to think about how we would deal with the radiation being send back to earth without being fried.
L4 or L5 would be better as they have stability 1,2 & 3 don't
How are we getting the energy from the panels to the earth?
chicho, frying is a feature, not a bug. The military would want this.
Space cables
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These keep getting more and more insane! Love it
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Yeah, the whole "getting it back to Earth" thing has always been my most major problem with the Dyson Sphere concept.
Why not move manufacturing to the ring? Then energy demands in the planet would be negligible compared to at present
Build I giant, rechargeable battery and duct tape rockets on the back
I mean, you could use some kind of energy absorbtion unit on every section on the Dyson Sphere that can transport the energy through space, or two energy converters that can change the sun's energy into electricity instantaneously, then through super durable massive wires that connect to the Dyson Sphere, send them to an absorber region of the Earth to bring the energy to all plants that can take it. (Each one COULD be distributed evenly)
@@naruske.1911 At the very least, you're grossly underestimating just how fast the Earth moves, and just how far away the sun is.
use high power lasers then convert it back to electricity
Hi!! I really like your videos. I would really love to watch videos on these topics.
1. What if you were swallowed by Godzilla?
2.What if time started moving backwards?
3.What if we grew from old to infant?
4.What if all planets moved anti clockwise?
5.What if all the planets were living creatures?
6.What if future generations came in today's world to change the past?
7.What if every planet had life possible?How would this affect evolution of species on earth?
8.What if every planet was in their star's goldilocks zone?
9. What if diamonds rained on earth? How would it affect the life on earth?
10. What if galaxy inside a galaxy was possible?
11.What if earth was located in asteroid belt?
12. What if our dreams could become reality?
13. What if our nose really got larger by telling lies?
14. What if there was more freshwater than ocean water on earth?
15.What if cartoon characters become a reality ?
16. What if everyone had the same IQ?
17.What if Oort's cloud was present in the earth's orbit or earth was located in Oort's cloud?
18.What if no-one could see colours i.e. everyone was color blind?
19.What if we never fell ill?
20.What if we sent robots on intergalaxy missions to unwind the uncertainties of space ?
21.What if we could invent a drawing pencil whose drawings could become real?
22. What if we no longer needed food?
23. What if intelligent species on other planets discovered us?
24. What if earth had multiple moons? How will it effect the tides and revolution of earth?
25. What if sound travelled through vaccum and light did not? We would never get sunlight and we could hear astronauts talk on moon through recording.
26. What if universe expanded at a higher rate? Would gravity and other forces be affected?
27. What if every country in the world had the same currency?
28. What if everyone had equal rights in all countries ? Our planet would really become a heaven if corruption was also not there.
29. What if all natural resources were renewable?
30. What if supernova radiation encounter earth?
31. What if sun had variable magnitude from earth equal to that of omicron ceti( Mira)?
32.What if all people on earth were 2 times smaller?
1. What if dark matter and dark energy were not there?
2.What if time started moving backwards?
3.What if we grew from old to infant?
4.What if all planets moved counter clockwise? Or every planet moved clockwise?
5. What if earth captured the passing asteroid or comet in its gravity and caught another natural satellite? Will it affect the tides on earth? If it's a asteroid, could we find information about formation of solar system?
6.What if future generations came in today's world to change the past?
7.What if every planet had life possible?How would this affect evolution of species on earth?
8.What if every planet was in their star's goldilocks zone?
9. What if diamonds rained on earth? How would it affect the life on earth?
10. What if galaxy inside a galaxy was possible?
11.What if all the planets were living creatures?
12. What if our dreams could become reality?
13. What if our nose really got larger by telling lies?
14. What if there was more freshwater than ocean water on earth?
15.What if cartoon characters become a reality ?
16. What if everyone had the same IQ?
17.What if Oort's cloud was present in the earth's orbit or earth was located in Oort's cloud?
18.What if no-one could see colours i.e. everyone was color blind?
19.What if earth was located in asteroid belt?
20.What if we sent robots on intergalaxy missions to unwind the uncertainties of space ?
21.What if we could invent a drawing pencil whose drawings could become real?
22.What if we never fell ill?
23. What if intelligent species on other planets discovered us?
24. What if earth had multiple moons? How will it effect the tides and revolution of earth?
25. What if sound travelled through vaccum and light did not? We would never get sunlight and we could hear astronauts talk on moon through recording.
26. What if universe expanded at a higher rate? Would gravity and other forces be affected?
27. What if every country in the world had the same currency?
28. What if everyone had equal rights in all countries ? Our planet would really become a heaven if corruption was also not there.
29. What if all natural resources were renewable?
30. What if supernova radiation encounter earth?
31. What if sun had variable magnitude from earth equal to that of omicron ceti( Mira)?
32.What if all people on earth were 2 times smaller?
33. What if you were swallowed by Godzilla?
34. What if we found a parallel universe in the dark matter?
35. What if there was no pollution?
36. What if we never evolved into humans?or stayed in the half monkey half human state?
37. What if we could see infrared rays?
38. What if we discovered sun's twin star?( Like beyond the heliopause or heliosphere coz sun's gravity influence is till Oort's cloud)
39. What if Eratosthenes never existed?
40. What if Thea didn't collide with earth during its formation?
41. What if antimatter and matter exchange their places?
42. What if a runaway star encounter our solar system? Would it disturb orbit of all planets?
43. What if we no longer needed food?
44. What if kuiper belt didn't exist?
45. What if we were half human half dinosaur?
46. What if we lost our ability to think suddenly?
47. What if a blazar was located near the earth?
48. What if northern and southern celestial spheres exchanged their places i.e stars visible in northern hemisphere could be visible in southern hemisphere and vice versa?
49. What if neutron star and magnetar entered in binary relationship?(I have studied about binary stars eating up the mass from one another, would it be implied in this situation?)
50. What if we created antimatter?
51. What if proxima centauri was 2x closer to solar system?
52. What if strangelets encounter us?(strangelets are hypothetical strange matter particles produced when two neutron stars collide)
53. What if we bring spoonful of black hole to earth?
54. What if we orbited a black hole?
55. What if we could transform ourselves at our will?
56. What if we all were actually characters of comic world?
57. What if we discovered every species of plant and animal on earth?
58. What if life on earth evolves when universe was less than 10 billion yrs old( maybe we would see ancestors of galaxies and also a much younger sun)
59. What if shape of every planet in the universe was in the shape of donut and from the mass from which many planets are to be formed, combined into one large planet around star in shape of donut?
Also a video about Methuselah (star whose age is determined to be even older than universe's calculated age due to an error even we don't know) would be interesting
Thank you for sharing your amazing ideas with us! 🙂
In the meantime, this might interest you as it was similar to one of your ideas: th-cam.com/video/jpaHRQl6wG0/w-d-xo.html
Omg HOW LONG DID THAT TAKE TO WRITE??!!
@@Wh05th15 the amount of time it would take to binge watch all the series of what if
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all those questions are pretty illogical dumb and Anyone with the iq of a two year old can Answer them Kid
I have a question. If we didn’t build the sphere correctly wouldn’t building a sphere possibly block the sun from giving us light/heat?
@Jenna Prieto 😂
Somehow also gotta make your solar panels CME proof.
@@SevenPr1me yea
The other issue would be comets and space debris.
If we end up harnessing the energy of the sun, we can probably have a ton of artificial sunlight.
Thanks mate your videos lack of understanding has inspired me to do a video on how to do a Dyson swarm correctly in detail.
The writer/s did their job well done.. Great imagination and vision, very well appreciated.. Salary increase is waving 💯
These would be very helpful to the earth if made..
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To completely surround the sun with a habitable sphere that we could live on and that would also allow us to harvest nearly 100% of the sun's output was proposed a long time ago by a scientist named Dyson. Thus the name for such a structure, the Dyson Sphere.
Until the sun burns out
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Actually, the sun would shrink first, then go nova and expand into a red giant out to the orbit of Mars. The Dyson sphere wouldn't be able to contain the expanding red giant.
Plus, it would be a looooooooong time before the sun burned out, going through many phases before burning out.
Suns/stars measure their lifetimes in BILLIONS of years.
Yes, we watched the video where that is literally stated.
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I've found that not everyone pays attention to everything presented in the videos or other information.
So my bad.
As cool as the concept is, I don't think even the whole solar system has enough material to cover the whole sun.
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A question I have wondered, does this only work because of how large the sun is? Or could you build a dyson swarm/sphere around an artificial sun? We are still awhile away from fully being able to sustain one permanently but that could be an interesting workaround!
if you can sustain an artificial sun you also mastered nuclear fusion in the first place
it renders dyson spheres redundant :)
If you could harness fusion energy you'll get way more power from just that than using solar panels lmao
@@SevenPr1me true, we studied about it in physics. But sustaining it is a big issue
@@rivenoak does it really? Harnessing the suns energy will provide magnitudes of times greater energy than any fusion energy we can produce. A Dyson sphere is probably going to be a big milestone in humanity similar to the moon landing
Artificial Sun like Doctor Octopus’s plan?
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theres a problem with that, there are still some things like plants that need direct sunlight, and blocking out most of the sun, would be detrimental to life on earth. though solar panels sounds like it would work. it really wouldnt.
I never imagined I'd see the what if guy. Wow. He looks like you're typical scientist. Lol. Great video as always my friend. Keep it coming.
This gives me an idea. If not all of the Sun's energy reaches the solar panel farms on Earth, because of the reflections, why not we just try to put them in Earth's orbit, but far enough to the point where the Sun's energy does not start reflecting off the Earth.
How would we get the energy from the panels in space back to earth though
@@prabs1047 Lasser
@@AbdulHakim-nq4xb No, make the solar power stations have ports and reusable rockets with giant batteries to transport the energy back to earth?
Wow these videos just get more entertaining with each video!!
2:12 That hoodie is amazing!
If only we had a world union, everyone working together to do stuff like this
Unfortunately people who plan to unite the world under one government usually don't have benevolent intentions.
these are really entertaining Thank you for this also here's a What If What if The earth was as big as the sun
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@@WhatIfScienceShow What if multiverse really existed
@@potatogaming6613 Like Marvel?
@@analt4255 yes
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I like this video, but I thought of a serious downside. If humanity used all of the Sun's energy, there wouldn't be any left to power photosynthesis. As a result, all life on land and in the photic zone of the oceans would die out. Infinite energy vs the worst extinction event in Earth's history. Not a good trade-off, in my opinion. 😓
Not exacly, the solar panels aren't completely covering the Sun soo sunlight still passes through, you probably should watch more carefully
I think the kicker would probably for that would be for us to be understand and to be able to create the process which is happening in chlorophyll to be able to create something that can produce food on a scale that we can engineer to the T would be next level stuff to be able to grow our food from nothing and not have to rely so much as germinating or trying to produce something out of but we have only available
I've also thought about solar panels using up Sun's energy quicker, but luckily, we have enough to still have it lasting for like several billions of years or so.
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Pyramids can be act both as antina and powerplant which will receive and supply electricity and if i am not mistaken Some scientists have already developed wireless electricity transmission possible in a small area though!
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You have to Advance the Battery first that can store energy without aging and more capacity in mini scale without any problems. Then put the solar panels in space rather than in the earth as earth has only limited sunlight. If the batteries were charged in space then harvest them and export them to the earth.
The hell we can't possibly be alive to see this it'll probably take like a century to complete
We would have to get past the objects shooting around the sun as well as the objects floating around it first. Then we would likely have to find a way to wirelessly transmit it or use super capacitors to hold it while it is being brought back to earth.
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What if we store the energy like UPS or any other advanced machine and drop it to the earth by parachute or any other advance parachute to drop it exactly on the desire spot or place.
Or what if we store the energy for 6 months or a year and then bring it back to earth.
Or is it possible to create a realy big wire which is connected to earth and the solar panels.
This guy is literally giving scientists these crazy ideas
Love what if videos
I am trying to understand how they are classifying civilization types, when we are the only known civilization "type" in existence. It's like we invent words and classifications for no reason other than to sound smarter than what we actually are.
That it is to clasify alien civilization when we find an alien civilization which we has yet to find
Why did I had this thought the other day and now this comes up....🤔
You could make them float on the solar wind by combining a solar sail with photovoltaics.
Why are we trying to get the power back to Earth? If you're making a structure around the Sun, then you might as well just house everyone on it. It will have a much larger surface area than Earth with that diameter, which means way more room for our increasing population. With all that energy we wouldn't really need to worry about efficiency at first. You could have all the food and trees and stuff growing on the opposite side, and reflect sun around or even use full spectrum bulbs to provide the light needed for the plants to grow inside the giant structure. Put all the water in panels or pipes on the surface facing the sun to heat everything inside, provide steam power, and block some of the radiation. We could even make giant electromagnets around the structure to block some of the radiation, much like how Earth does. Removing all or most the humans from Earth will let it restore itself a bit and let some of the other animal populations grow, or just mine it to the core and bring everything to the megastructure with us, like an ark. We could try crashing Jupiter into the sun first to make it more dense, and we could feed it more planets periodically to prevent it from collapsing on itself and destroying everything, but that would also mean we would have to find a way to redirect the sun so we can travel to other systems to use them as fuel. So I guess the main concerns are steering the sun, and making sure we have enough water for everyone, the plants, and the animals. We have a ton of water in the oceans we aren't really using, so that could sustain us for a few hundred thousand years while our sun makes the journey between systems. It would be a hard decision to tear apart our solar system and get rid of all the planets at first, but if that's what it takes to ensure the survival of the human race then I'm sure we would do it if we had to. It would seem like less of a big deal once we've done it, and, I mean, there are how many other planets in the universe? So who really cares if we have to sacrifice a few uninhabited planets to survive and travel to another solar system?
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Thanks for the video, would you do a video on Bermuda triangle?
Honestly I think this is one of the things that we definitely should do. Maybe not solar panels orbiting the sun but solar power stations. I don’t think the negatives are really that risky. I’m no expert and I’m sure if they did it they’d think of the most effective way possible and it could help humanity out so much
yea we can make a dyson sphere around the sun(they made a video on this before)
@@Twizzyrich.amp1 but an actual Dyson sphere is implausible. At least for now.
He said we would have to manufacture the panels on earth but using Mercury and mining for materials on Mercury and using mass drivers to shoot them into space or even using space tethers or both anyway nice video
Perhaps use gravitational kinetic energy, like those always moving toys to create a sustainable sun
Wouldn't it be more "practical" (in terms of materials and travel costs) to go to Mercury, build a factory there and use the planet's minerals to build the solar panels to send around the Sun?
but how would you bring back the energy to earth ?
@@DVinod-oz8np Like stated in the video, maybe. Or by building highly advanced batteries to send to earth. Mercury can be used to build and send the solar panels around the Sun, it has smaller gravity than Earth, no atmosphere and it's mostly made of metals, so it would be a huge cut on the costs compared to building sending stuff from Earth I think.
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I have an idea as well. If we can't bring power to the people, then bring people to the power.
@@marrqi7wini54 I can't say if this is a joke or not but. Yeaahh let's do it
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Orbital habitats closer to the sun. With proper shielding, they can be protected from the harsh star. So no, I'm not joking. We can do it.
The background in you’re standing looks like Normandy from Mass Effect or probably is.
I feel like what if and the bright side both desided to be more physically visible in there videos and I like it! 😂 Awesome video!
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Freeman Dyson never suggested a Dyson Sphere.. what he suggested was a SWARM (and that's actually been possible to construct since 1990).
Seems like a perfect recipe for disaster
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This guy does school presentations every day. BUT INFRONT OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
Manufacturing the Panels outside the Earth's atmosphere, out of the rocks sitting between Mars and Jupiter Orbit would be a more realistic level of Civilizational Tech Capability for an Engineering endeavor of this scale, but this is an interesting idea nonetheless.
I liked the sim city 2000 microwave energy where it sends a solar paneled satellite in orbit then beams it down but it could be a weapon too or lead to bad accidents.
Solar panels on space might be very expensive. And we probably might need to consider rogue planets and asteroids that might collide with them in outer space
Love your vidoes!
I have an episode idea; What if..perpetual motion machines generated infinite energy
Gonna need some longer power lines
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We can create some jobs using human power like riding tandem bikes treadmills stuff like that to create some power I know some people going to say that sounds horrible but it is a clean source of energy and can create jobs for a lot of people
How is a dyson sphere more efficient than just using the moon with it's ultra-thin atmosphere? Wouldn't (hopefully) disturb any balance along the way as well. (Ok, should watch the vdo... Just first thought...)
What if we use black hole hawking radiation for batteries or the black holes wind ?
8:20 what movie is that?
Nice topic!
How would they get the power collected from space to Earth?? My thought is that they're making things too complicated. Instead, increase the efficiency of ground based solar so it can be installed on homes and the power generated would be more than needed. For big cities, they'd have to use Nuclear or other since it's hard to power Manhattan with that setup..
What if we use a huge mirror to focus on a particular place on earth over a solar farm ( focusing maximum light sun over a solar farm using mirror)????
That kind of thing was used in war in ancient times to sink ships incoming into a land. Polished bronze mirrors I believe were focused on a single point and would roast things to a crisp. Namely ships.
A carpark is not a very good measurement unit, especially since they are all different sizes
Please make video if we surround earth with solar pannel
Where did you get that awesome sweater???
I wish I knew how I can give a suggestion for a what if episode I do havea good one anybody know how I can contact this guy for an idea it is a good one .
A Dyson sphere around the sun is impossible because it would be dynamically unstable because each part of it would have to have different orbital velocities.
A Dyson swarm, however, would be possible. Even a Dyson swarm would not be able to intercept ALL of sun's light.
And where would they store the electricity?
I got a wat if. Since our galaxy spins what would happen if our solar system stopped spinning with our galaxy? like we just stood still and watched other solar systems in our galaxy's spun around us.
Imagine the guys on maintenance and repair duties
Love the video ❤️
Tfw I've played Kerbal Space Program since 2014, with mods since 2015, and only now do I realize that I made the little buggers a type 2 civilization just for shits and giggles.
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What if Antarctica disappeared? (Not melted, just disappeared.)
Wouldn’t be surprise
I think we just need some solar panel and its located above the ocean and unhabitated island, so we can get energy efficiently.
I keep missing your videos
Wouldn't it be better to build factories on Mercury to construct the solar power satellites? Cheaper in the long run than shipping millions of solar panels into space. I'd put the solar panels just inside of Mercury's orbit, so some of them could power the infrastructure and factories on Mercury to build more solar power satellites (SPS). It wouldn't be a solid structure, just a swarm of SPS's orbiting the sun at an angle so that the earth and the other planets would still get their normal amount of sunlight.
For power transmission, forget microwaves. You could use high power lasers to beam power to earth orbiting stations, then relay it down to surface stations built to absorb the energy without heating up the atmosphere or frying the population. You would need to build these stations at high altitudes and away from population centers as well as flight paths of course.
Long term, you could use the power and set up an antimatter factory or 10,000 or so of them on Mercury, turning locally mined materials into antimatter - the biggest issue so far with making antimatter seems to be the enormous power requirements needed to create such exotic material and then to contain it safely - then ship it to power plants on earth or wherever needed. Also it would make good fuel for starships. Or bombs, knowing humanity.
Do this one a black hole and observe the Light of power in high masses speed
Hello, dumb question here, would surrounding the sun with these solar panels have any negative impact on the amount of sunlight the Earth receives per year? Could this have a negative impact on our agriculture or climate?
aside from any impact on agricultur...well, it would be pitch black here on earth
no spheres then but the floating panels
With that much energy we could create artificial lighting on the entire earth
Nice video.
That's a story... for another... What If? I actually either say it along with the guy, or lip sync it while fighting off a grin 😂
I vote for the invention of fusion power instead. Imagine a portable pocket fusion starter and let your drinking glass of water power up all of your home. Thats nice and clean and endless power.
We cant actually i mean do we have all of the materials needed to build this contraption?
If you surround solar panels around the sun, it's called a Dyson Sphere, It's a super solar panel.
Came here to say this. This idea has been around for decades.
Let's hope it's made better than their hand dryers.
nice i love it
Request: what if the universe is inside a black hole?
We should test and more studying about this to become type 2 civilization
Being a scientist myself I know what this thing is called it's called a Dyson Sphere it's basically a bunch of solar panels around the Sun harnessing its power to build one is sci fi right now but in the future it may be possible watch kurdzgagts video.
Would make more sense to install solar panels on the Moon. No atmosphere, more energy, space enough to cover the whole thing with solar panels.
Meteorites would be a problem though, since the moon doesn't have an atmosphere there will be no "invisible shield". What if instead we built it around the Earth's orbit moving at the same speed as Earth and far enough to escape our gravity then for it to come back to earth there could be this "drones" that will collect the energy that the SP (solar panels) generated back to earth then repeat
Nice !!!
Where are you gonna bring all that material from??
This looks like a project for STARK INDUSTRIES ✅
Would it be a little wiser to put it around other stars in the galaxy that don’t habitate life?
I think kruzgest in a nutshell already covered this part
Amazing what if
Huh.... I didn’t think a what if about solar panels would result in a “and then the world would blow up.” But we got there.
Nice Video
Firstly you would block the sun, earth would die, the solar panels would be burnt, and sucked into the sun, what if the what if channel did not exist? That would be cool to know...
What about the comets, they are going to Sun all the time if one of them hits that constructio 😂