Is Artificial Gravity Really Achievable? | Answers With Joe
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- Rotating habitats and artificial gravity are a staple of science fiction movies and TV shows, but the realities of space travel means that someday we'll have to get serious about artificial gravity to keep our astronauts and space travelers healthy. The question is, what's the best way to do that, and is it even possible with today's technology?
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"We could turn gravity off and on however we wanted!" Yeah, I trust that ability bestowed on the species that designed the Ford Pinto.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAA
AHHHHHH i love pinto slander. That car was a nightmare. Pay $12,000 to become a car bomber.
Probably like light bulbs though, making one to get of Earth at first is likely very difficult (and who knows what that does to time)
Perhaps even more funny in Brazil "Pinto" means "Dick" in Portuguese.
@@francuarayan736 bruh moment
"Optimal conditions... ...in a 50 degree temperature range"
*sweats in celcius*
As my trucking trainer, a former Navy seal, suffering from PTSD after Iraq, explained: if you are thinking in celcius, meters, and kilograms, you are basically enemy of America, and we are coming for you.
@@a4yster Uh, o... k?
a4yster 😭 please don’t do that!
I’m so scared 😭😭😭
Momma 🏃🏻♂️
a4yster You friend won’t do well in science.
The temperature "range" is from the coldest to hottest that we can to live in, comfortably. And was probably stated in °Celsius.
He didn't mean we would be happy in 50°C
The Expanse did an amazing job showing the effects of gravity levels in different situations. It was amazing
I thought they did as well as the could. Loved that show.
Like how terrible a wound is in space. I never thought about bleeding in space. Figured you would bleed less, and it would be easier.
Scott is right about how much space we waste in our homes. We must fix this to stop being wasteful. I demand all houses to be 7 foot ceilings unless you are over 7 foot!
Same height, but instead of two floors, and an attic? Seven floors!
That would be a crazy house. If I were filthy rich I would build it then rent it out for super cheap. Break even basically!
Then if it succeeds I would buy a ton of highly sought after houses, and build these monstrosities as three people homes. Call it the rat house.
I always imagine the first relativistic space travelers, finally arriving at a habitable world, only to find hyperspace travelers from later generations have already come and gone with all the resources.
that's a cool thought
@ayy lmao nope, why? It's like swinging past the pilgrims in the Atlantic while they are heading to the States but it's 2022. Imran, those dudes didn't party, so why bother?
@ayy lmao Maybe.
If they could.
There's too much nothing in space to find such a tiny speck of matter in the vast void between stars. Even if you know when and where they started and where they were supposed to be heading.
It's a short story called "Far Centaurus". A science fiction story by A. E. van Vogt, first published in 1944.
Read Niven
When I'm on the toilet I'm so glad there's gravity
Thank God we don't have to pay 19 million for a toilet
I just saw NASA announced a $35k reward for the best design of a toilet that would function on the moon and after thinking about it I realized a lot of things could go terribly, terribly wrong on a moon toilet 😂
Same 🙂
@@ValensBellator A, shit must stick to the inner walls of the toilet; second, by whatever means the toilet must remove the feces from its bowels inwards; lastly, the materials inherent and present upon the user, with the exception of the wastage thusly expelled, must remain undistrubed during and after the process.
Suggestion: a diaper disposer.
Just poop harder
I always found it funny on Star Trek when the ship has MASSIVE damage and absolutely nothing works anymore... the artificial gravity still works...
Yes! Just once it would’ve been nice if Picard’s tea would’ve gone floating up in little sphere’s! Control panels sparking everywhere and redshirts getting tossed all about, but that AG is indestructible. You’d think that is one of the first things that Q would’ve messed with….. the gravity. Not the tea. Well maybe the tea too.
Not in all the Start Trek films is doesn't. One of the newer ones, can't think of name
It depends on how it works, if it's an active system that needs electricity or something I agree, but if it's plating or something that just has a magical property of gravity than it would work regardless.
@@Natintx088 Mess with the tea????!!!! Have you NO conscience???!!!
After hard day of exploring the universe, all a guy wants is a nice cup of tea.....and we think the Aliens will be vicious.....
Well, consider that it's one of the most critical systems on a ship, along with inertial dampening and probably more critical than life support and you'll see why it rarely fails. There are several episodes of ST where gravity fails temporarily or a dead ship has no gravity requiring the crew to use "gravity" boots. Generally though you ignore it unless you need it as a plot device. I think it's more amusing that the vast majority of planets they visit have a gravitational force similar to earth.
Topic I've thought about for some time! We understand a LOT about Gravity, its properties, how to calculate it based on the mass of objects and their distance apart. But the "mechanism" of gravity (Gravitons or some other as yet undiscovered thing) remains elusive. Being able to manipulate Gravity would be the game changer!
Ha! "The Orion Boom Boom Machine" that's totally what I call it.
Alien astronomer: "We've detected a crazy uninhabitable planet. It's mostly water and the atmosphere contains high levels of oxygen!"
Alien superior: "Deadly combination, indeed. Any life there would either be dissolved or died of poisoning."
Alien astronomer: "I'll just put 'barren' as a status on these types of planets."
Alien superior: "Good work!"
Now I wonder how many alien ships have oxidation problems so they just avoid oxygen
It’s weird how we tend to always assume that life on other planets probably requires water and oxygen, while in reality something like water could poison them
@@mumblbeebee6546 dihydrogenmonoxide
@@mumblbeebee6546 you said h2o2 aka hydrogen per oxide
@@Kesiif Well, what he said was certainly true.
Joe : "Get back to work!"
Astronaut : *[sad astronaut noises]*
@peace leader Wot
In space, no one can hear you make sad noises
As a pothead, I appreciate the perfect balance of elements in our atmosphere that allows me to take a breath of fresh air and makes the super-fat bong toke possible. Praise be to Jah!
I went to the Home Depot the other day, I asked the guy... "Where are the little aerator screens that go in the faucet."
He walked over & showed me. He said "Some people get these for their pot pipes."
I said,, "That's what I wanted them for."
I get so excited about the idea of future space travel, but the more I learn, the more impossible it seems. We are nowhere near it yet. All the more reason to look after the planet we've got because we aren't going anywhere else for awhile.
Sounds logical and sensible to me!
And we have never been able to reproduce a sustainable biosphere even with no limit to energy input. Even here on our own planet.
It's a great idea that sparks the imagination, but seriously, realistically, sending humans to Mars is a flight of fancy that WILL either kill or serious damage the people that go there. I'm afraid science fiction has created a population of people deluded into thinking it is nearly within our grasp. No, it's all about the robots. We just need to send better ones. Humans should stay home. No resources required for biological sustainment means a huge savings too.
@@cytherians I agree. Humans are never going to be able to adapt to space travel or life on any other planet, bc the cost to keep humans alive is enormous and we have NEVER been able to come anywhere close to sustaining a biosphere, even one on earth with unlimited energy input. I believe the future for space living will be either AI or some type of transhumanism.
@@nettewilson5926 Excellent point, about the biospheres. They were insightful test cases of a totally contained and isolated ecosystem with humans in the mix, to see if the system could be sustained... and in all cases, things went awry. It proved that a natural ecosystem is a highly complex interdependence of many things which we, as humans, can't sufficiently replicate. "The Martian" was precisely that--fiction.
"My biggest problem with the future is that I am not allowed in most of it."
You never know. ^^
You can have all the surveillance and people / corporations in positions of power spying on you.
Hate to break it to you.. You will live forever.. In one of two places.
@@rbelf001 I'm picking the third one.
Alcor. Written revive when immortality it freely available.
Joe you’re the best science teacher I’ve ever had
One of the reasons I love this channel so much is that it constantly challenges my brain with bits of information or scenarios that I would never normally think of. Even though this video was no different, I did have a small anxiety attack at 4:15. The idea of being in a weightless environment with nobody else around me and no way of propelling myself forward, just floating without the ability to get to my food, water or help... is terrifying. The idea that you're free to move but at the same time completely trapped and cut off is bizarre.
Just take a deep breath then blow out hard many times in the same direction. It'll take time but it will work. Works just like a rocket.
The arguments/solutions always seem to boil down to this maxim: “If we had some ham, we could make ham and eggs...if we had eggs” 😉
Makin bacon 🐖😉
Gosh, I thought my father-in-law was dead...!
NOW IM HUNGRY DANG IT
Kyle Shepherd ...LOL!!! You made my morning! Good day to you 👍👍👍
@@richardsilva-spokane3436 I finally remembered what all this talk about having ham and eggs in space was reminding me of - it was a line in Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Sentinel" (which eventually became the centerpiece of *_2001: A Space Odyssey)_* in which someone is frying sausages aboard a spaceship on the Moon, only to get distracted and ruefully smell that those sausages "had made their quarter-million-mile journey in vain".
"The Sentinel" is a very good story, and holds up well in spite of being so old it makes reference to the drying up of the water in the Lunar seas. I took pleasure in reading it to my son recently.
During a recent accident in a laboratory, a man was frozen to absolute zero, but he is 0K now.
That must have brought him to a complete standstill.
Excellent 😂👍🏻👏🏻.
I shouldn't like the inaccurate science joke, but... hell yeah. Reaching an actual 0° K could bring us a doomsday or time travel or something (not shure about the lowest energy level ever), but the lowest we've managed in a lab is around 0.15° K or -371°C. So there is no practical 0°K, plz.
I had to read it twice to get the joke but it's a good one. Well done
@@dannydetonator they've used lasers to hit 0'k by stopping the molecule vibration. You end up with a blurry molecule since you can't precisely know motion and location at the same time.
Man every Sci-fi question I'm had in my head lately you've done a video on thanks!
By far the most frustrating thing about Gravity is how incredibly weak it is: Results from gravitational experiments we attempt in labs are ridiculously difficult to measure, and the only other option is looking up into space and hoping something happens that tests whatever it is we're studying; It's practically impossible to include gravity in any Quantum theories since it's effects don't even register at that scale; And even if we somehow figured out a perfect theory of Gravity that works seamlessly with the Standard Model and we discovered some way of controlling it, we would still only be able to generate tiny effects unless we were willing to make planet sized machines.
Every video on this channel is a *master piece*
Watch Isaac Arthur for true scientific masterpieces
@@MrOj59 - I like both, of course. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
@@MrOj59 I really want to but his videos are just too long! I've had him on my list for so long but just keep pushing him back.. :)
I agree. Perfect mix of science, future tech, basic knowledge and geek-out theory. Joe is quite a natural if he does it all himself!
That statement is 100% factual! The best kind of statement.
Joe: talks about gravity stuff
Marty McFly: this is heavy
There's that word again: heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
@1000dots >>> You beat me to it...😊
"unless we have a massive breakthrough in plasma drive technology"
*The epstein drive*
Expanse be like
thanks to Epstein's private island craziness, I don't think we'll ever see an Epstein drive realized.
even if the inventors last name happened to be Epstein!
epstein drive is just daedalus engine except it magically doesn't need radiators
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
Beltalowda!
Thank you for all your hard work, you did amazing! I appreciate you taking the time to share your knowledge 😊
He said here on earth gravity is a force that pulls us down...so then why would artificial gravity have to be a force that pulls us up? He should say on earth we are being pushed up therefore in space travel we need to be pushed up. Gravity does not pull us down.
Douglas Adams was right, the art to flying is throwing yourself at the ground and missing.
I thought it was tripping and forgetting to fall down.
If you want to have ago at this I recommend very low jump off points. As a first timer, never throw yourself at the ground from more then a few inches.
That is exaclty, what the moon does all the time.
Right, as Douglas Adams observed. Throwing yourself at the ground and missing is called being in orbit. :-)
The problems you mention for the 4-mile wide cylinder are only really applicable on a small scale. There would be virtually no discernable difference when throwing a ball or turning your head because the effects on your body are relatively the same when compared to the speed of the core since it's 4 miles wide.
"The Orion Boom-Boom machine!"
Yea, that one was funny.
I think I paid for one of these once in a trip south of the border...
This is great Joe! Well done on your research. Amazing
Your channel is amaaaaaazing , I bingwatched your videos for two hours straight . Amazing
Oh s**t!! I’m still laughing at the thought of being stuck in the middle of a large room!😂 Oh no! Bouncing round the rocket!!😂
You can always fart yourself across the room.
Hey hey hey hey... Eat beans every day
Let everyone have a superman cape and use it to wiggle thru the room with a little flapping. Problem solved by Superman.
do the worm!
I can imagine a new fashion accessory for astronauts - a small folding hand fan to propel oneself with!
@@chrismuir8403 then suddenly realizing it just makes you spin!
Understanding the theory of a person traveling at the speed of light and its effect on time. Just means you end up behind your book shelf for who knows how long !
You don't need to travel at the speed of light. Just fit the stealth bomber with space capability and a supercomputer to control the navigation and imagine the speed it would travel at. They already travel 3 times speed of sound, but take that thrust into space and it triples its speed exponentially. High speed its not the issue anyway, the issue is they don't have supercomputer to navigate the stars and such high speed man cannot navigate manually, it must be automated.
@@tapgatewayltduk also atmospheric engines don't work in space
@@blakelang2574 how do you think they use jet thrusters in space then th-cam.com/video/qWj7wBHB_rE/w-d-xo.html they do because they carry their own combustion fuel
@TAP Gateway Ltd the reason regular "jet engines " such as the ones on the bomber uses air mixed with fuel to create combustion. Rockets carry their own mixed fuel which happens to include oxygen. This is the reason you can't have fire in space. Just a fyi.
@@tapgatewayltduk stellar navigation is child's play. A handphone processor can do it. Hell, people were doing MANUAL calculations to navigate the seas centuries ago.
Love your videos! So simple, yet full of content and fun. I like how you use the same boring soundtrack in all videos, it feels like those science shows from the 90's - Nostalgic!
Appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Human stupidity is presenting us in 2020 as our biggest existential threat. Education is fundamental for the survival of our species, so thank you for your service!
Your comment is ironic given what he talks about. I don't get how someone can run a science based channel yet completely ignore how everything they are explaining is clearly fine tuned and designed and pretend naturalism can produce it while flat out knowing there is no mechanism or logic that can. Mindless unguided process can't magically code information based life. There is no physical process or natural phenomenon that can create such communicative information. It's an immaterial concept to start with information. Rationality does not come from irrationality, the burden of proof is on those who say it does the naturalist. Natural selection is variation allowed within the genome. It's not a mechanism for evolution, it can't create anything. Turning genes on and off and swapping them isn't creating the genes to start with. No new information is being created. Entropy and information theory all point towards information decaying over time not the reverse. The statistical probability and logistics alone make evolutionary theory patently absurd. Whole thing is ridiculous to even entertain. It's all predicated on a mechanism that does not exist and logically can not exist.
I thought I recognized my dad's project on the page and I was correct. I just want to point out that the credit for the Nautilus-X design should not go to "NASA" but to the two engineers who painstakingly designed it - Mark Holderman and Edward Henderson.
Patents are routinely awarded to companies/entities and not the individual employees
As I commented to Tim. How far would Holderman and Henderson get, with out the funding?
You get hired and paid to design and innovate, but the company gets the rights, unless otherwise negotiated. I would be in favour of them getting some or more recognition, same others who have designed or invented something.
But...but..
2001: A Space Odyssey promised me a giant space wheel!
They also promised a murderous AI that likes to sing lullabies, yet here we are
@@DagarCoH Give it time. They say you can't rush genius.
@@DagarCoH They promised no such thing - they warned against imparting nuances of human social behaviour on psychology of alien, not entirely understood intelect.
@@piotrd.4850 so right u are pete
@Oma Cool The people working on nuclear fusion are doing precisely that. Spinning massive plama to create a synthetic mass so it fuses like the sun. It produces an artificial gravity well because it reacts like mass. At the moment its effects aren't very controllable. Not to mention it takes 10 GW in to get 3GW out. Until it makes more energy than it takes to produce it isn't commercially viable.
Artificial gravity produced by rotation would certainly be different. I think people would be able to adapt fairly well at least in the short term. Years ago my wife and I took a train ride in Canada. The tracks weren't very smooth and the train accelerated randomly in various directions. None of us passengers could walk without holding on to something. Yet in the dining car the waitress was fully adapted she walked easily carrying trays of food. Then unbelievably poured coffee without spilling any. Although artificial gravity would be different . I doubt it would be as difficult as the random movements of that train.
Try playing ping-pong under those conditions
Thumbnail the spaceship from the cover of Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson? 👌🙏 Literally my favorite book of all time, loved this video!
Ah, great to see you popping up on my feed in pre-virus mode. I loved this vid btw
Joe, great video. I'm the Senior Design Architect for the Von Braun Space Station. If you ever want to get into the weeds on the physics of living in low gravity rotational environments let me know.
@Wade We let you think that to keep you happy. However, we do have a special round filing cabinet for all your designs!
Please, enlighten us all Mr.Alatorre.
@@Frejborg Oh, it's just a fairy tale. But supposedly a private foundation is going to build an earth-orbiting hotel in five years or less. Should make for some good comedy, methinks.
Cool
Will there be a Goering suite at the Von Braun hotel?
It just blew my mind that we could cross the milky way in 12 years with a constant 1g of acceleration.
EDIT: Stop telling me this isn't possible.
EDIT2: So many nerds acting like I said we have the technology to do this. Even if the laws of physics prevent it, I said nothing false.
All for one, Crew-1 for all!
But we can't though.
@@BigDaddyWes Not with that attitude.
Yeah if you were on board the ship. The ship still takes over 100,000 years to do it, just not to you.
Red 5, reporting in
Interesting content and the delivery is entertaining!
2001: A Space Odyssey was such a masterpiece and Kubrick's SFX team did an amazing job of helping to make it fully believable that rotation was so plainly the way to create artificial gravity. There was a flaw, though... the moon. Everyone moved about the Clavius base like there was 1G gravity. Anyway, the one thing that made the most sense was suspended animation. Wake the crew up for short periods of doing work, then put them back in hibernation. Of course, assuming it's a perfect kind of hibernation where no bone or muscle mass is lost...
Your vids are outstanding man! Keep up the awesome work!
@3:52 marker when he says " but seriously, even if your sitting on the toilet watching this"
😳👀🤷♂️🚽🧻 Busted
When I hear about concepts of anti gravity I can't help but think of coral castle and how one guy was able to supposedly move tons of coral.
10:20 ‘Perfect efficiency, which doesn’t exist’
Superconductivity: *You dare challenge me to a dual?!*
Very clever. Me likee!
„... even if you’re just sitting on a toilet in the bathroom.“
Oops. You’ve got me.
Same lol
Where I was when I _started_ watching or where I was while I was finishing watching it to justify myself procrastinating (by watching this video)?..
*US
Literally here rn lmao
Yup. He got us 😅
Hey Joe, the symbol you used for O2 is actually the logo of a mobile carrier in Europe
I always found that the worst name for a mobile carrier ever. I mean wtf where they thinking?
3:56 Dude, how'd you know that I like to watch your TH-cam channel while sitting on the toilet? I can't explain it, it just feels right.
Fricken amazing joe...just amazing
Joe reminds me of Charlie Day from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Spaceship!
The Bearded Seeker only a lot smarter haha
Charlie work is hard
It's not him?.....
Ikr
The Gravity of this is situation immense.
Thanks Joe, great job!
In 2006 the ESA did an experiment proving you could create gravitomagnetic fields to warp space time by rotating superconductors at high speeds, prior to that it was shown in two separate experiments in the 90s, one by a Chinese-American named Dr. Ning-Li researcher at the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research and Eugene Podkletnov at the D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia in Moscow.
One of my first memories of having a strong dream when I was a kid was in my house but there was a light switch I could use to turn off gravity.
Such a strong dream I woke up once and thought it was real.
My 1st and only "strong dream" is living regularly doing something regular, the only difference is the planet (not sure if its earth) has a mirror planet. When looking at the sky you see another "earth". On that earth is also have another version of you and you somehow feel the connection with the mirror person. The dream is so strong and realistic I felt like I've been living there my whole life.
Cool, can't wait for the gravity bomb that will inevitably be developed right alongside artificial gravity in space ships
I was imagining a large cone-shaped surface on the Moon where all the living quarters and exercise areas would be. The whole thing would rotate to provide 1g. Moonbase Alpha on the '70s TV show "Space 1999" should have been designed that way.
animation at 7:27 is gold... pure gold :D
Hey Joe, I love your coverage of space technology but lately I've been thinking about oceans. I think you've mentioned the importance of oceans to the climate, but I'd like to hear about stuff people are doing to understand and protect the Earth's oceans. Like Boyan Slat! Could you do a video on The Ocean Cleanup or anything else ocean-related?
Actually you would be flying away from the blasts since those keep their velocity but you start moving backwards faster and faster.
I had this same thought but then I wondered if he means you are flying through the blasts you fired to accelerate in the first place. The ones fired before spinning the ship around to begin the deceleration phase.
I've been watching your videos for 4 years and i've yet to have noticed your texan accent until today, when I watched your video after smoking weed. I no ain't a native english speaker...but I had no idea how noticeable your accent was. Dude, it's amazing.
Thanks for the in-depth episode that made me get my toaster out, and try to make simple propulsion with speaker wire, fork, and a bucket of water. Yea, I felt no gravity until I felt the ground ..What a ride of positrons, and a electric bill. Great video and I hope there is more to come. What about talking about the 33 raptor internal heat exchange, and if they can fire and fight each other for cooling. (dumb question but curious). Keep up the great work, and stay funny but true.
You are part of my hangover cure. Cheers from Greece!
They need to add gyms to space ships. Like what Goku used to train for Namek 😂
Love your videos!
great, insightful vid... thanks...
Do you know that "O2" image you pasted at the beginning is the logo of a famous telekom company?
I saw that too:D
I lost my shit when I saw it.
Ya, best the joke ever!
He didn't
:D
No mention of The Expanse? Would have been perfect for this episode.
I loved how based in current technology the Expanse is.
@@robt7713 Agreed. A lot of movies show how all technology changes in the future. I think in most cases that wouldn't happen simply because ergonomics mean that the devices need to remain the same shape and appearance.
QuickFireGaming they have all those technologies now, but are hidden until space force comes about.
@@hunterg.6310 Space Force is a silly Trumpoid concept meant to make the public look in that direction while the money is thrown into a black budget hole.
We already have, and have had a Space Force for some years now under the auspices of the Air Force and the Navy.
TheConspiracy Realist Very true. Since the 40’s I believe. Nazis Germany was the first to travel far beyond this solar system. Paper clip infiltrated the US after the UFOs appearance at Washington. Any the re-emergence of technologies that we had since the 40’s-50’s will push forward humanity into a golden age like Star Trek era secretly from the emergence of space force and patients ready to be unblocked. Hopefully this comes sooner then later my dude.
Good explanation !!
That’s why new technology and the production of new materials is so important. One technology leads to the creation of another etc. You don’t always get there in one jump.
Under pressure strikes again!😂
I think we will solve this problem soon. You know the saying, "Where there's a will, there's a weigh."
that may explain my weighlessness
Sorry, Master Therion, but that pun is bringing me down. :(
Eh kinda weak tbh. Just like Mars' gravity :P
Just because we desire something has no bearing on us being able to achieve it or obtaining the resources or finances to put it into action even if we could solve it. Unfortunately dreams are not always achievable. Sorry to sound like such a buzz kill.
Hey Joe. I am quite new here but I absolutely love your channel!
1G thing, how fast is it? How can you calculate how fast in it lets say after an hour of constant acceleration?
Also, how does it work with speed and time? I can’t wrap my head around it.
1:46
tells you
Awesome video!!
>O'Neill Cylinders
First thing I thought at the title. Where are my Gundam boyz at?
At your Side, see what I did there? ;)
Lt. Quattro, he is a CHAR
You have made a mistake: If you flip your direction when using Orion drive you are not flying into your nuclear explosions. You can get some "wind" of your previous (before you flipped) explosions, but they should dissipate very well in a day or two. So you can completely avoid contamination from the flip.
Because there is no stationary atmosphere in space (or at least: practically), firing your Orion drive opposite of the direction of your velocity does not result in flying into nuclear explosions at all. Things are quite a bit different if you are travelling at relativistic speeds.
Exactly! Whether you're speeding up or slowing down, the ship would always be moving away from the explosions. (Or the explosions always moving away from the ship, if we want to look at it that way.)
BTW, in the near perfect vacuum of Space, I wouldn't be surprised if a smallish nuclear explosion would dissipate to the point of harmlessness in just a few minutes.
@@johnborden9208 Not saying you're wrong, but I'm not convinced. The radioactivity produced by a nuclear explosion would travel in all directions from the impact, I don't how see the lack of atmosphere magically makes it instantly disappear and/or become harmless
Accelerating with 1G constantly or reaching very high speeds in space has one essentiell problem: crashes!
The relative speed with which you hit an object (in the worst case frontal and traveling in the opposite direction) makes even the smallest gravel sized rocks into pretty deadly shots into the ship.
Indeed, you would need navigational shields.
Arthur Clark came up with the Idea of a rotating Space Station in one of his short stories in the 1950s which was realised in 2001 A Space Odyssey. He also came up with the idea of Satellite communication in the 1940s
One of the most interesting concepts that was explored recently in science fiction is the concept of a ring ship, where the WHOLE SHIP is rotating. Including the engine block. I'm talking about the Endurance in Interstellar. In all the previous movies and in the literature in general, we imagine a ship with a static (non-rotating) center core with engines, and then a rotating ring attached to it. There are major issues with these designs. The rotating ring needs to have a rotating airlock with the center core, which is a nightmare of engineering. And you have a rotating thing with mechanical parts and lubricants.
So The Endurance's design makes much more sense. Make the whole ship rotate. Any ship with multiple rocket engines can be easily controlled by computers. Without the assistance of computers, it would be hell to pilot. But it's true for most designs anyway.
That is a fantastic idea. The only problem would be the faster you accelerate forwards, the more the "gravity" of the ship moves towards the engines. Imagine standing on a 45 degree angle relative to both the floor and the wall! I'm sure there could be some way of dealing with this, but it certainly would be a crazy experience. =^x^=
Just scrolled down to the comments to see if someone from the ISS commented🤣
O:52 its still pretty cool to think you could maybe live on titan without a space suit, just an oxygen mask and very very warm cloths, maybe with some sort of electrical heating system lol
Love Your channel Brotha!! The dry sophisticated Humor snuck in both Obviously as well subtle means. Both enjoyable in it's own right.. Yet You bring It!!! I GREATLY Appreciate You-n-Counter parts, for the Energy of Knowledge. With in itself.. Yet "You spin me round round baby" was being spoken as typing this is comment of owns 2 cents- HAHA thought that was comical
“Even if just like, sitting on a toilet in the bathroom”
Me: *homer_simpson_bush.gif*
Lol how did he know???
you mean that the Astronauts can not call home to Houston and tell them that they have a problem WOW with out Gravity there is a problem HOW Shocking that Would be
@@claycoates5056 You aren't wrong. If you haven't seen the current space toilet, which is a nightmare, you've missed something. It uses suction and you have to have good aim or crap all over the crew compartment.
*is sitting on the toilet in the bathroom*
Artificial gravity has to happen, because among other things we need it on a cellular level to survive in the long run, so we need it to stay alive in space and on other planets.
With that said, I'm leaning towards quantum mechanics getting us to the sweet spot technologically...might be worth looking into.
Artificial gravity from fundamental will never be discovered. If it is we then have the ability to go back in time and the universe bashes it's own head in with a brick.
@Ail Fawka
Dreamer, oh let me be a dreamer...
We might be able to do something with the higgs boson/higgs mechanism.
@@AutismIsUnstoppable Science Fiction is not to be read by gullible folks.
@@NICEFINENEWROBOT 200 years ago the world we live in now would be unimaginable. Who knows what we could work out in the next 200. I wouldn't rule it out.
I'm sure I've seen this suggested somewhere before, but what about putting two habitats (or a habitat and a counterweight) at the ends of a long cable and spinning it up with rocket thrusters? It seems to me that, for either a permanent space station or a long interplanetary mission, you could achieve 1 G (or whatever fraction desired) with a much longer radius than with a rigid structure, which would eliminate or minimize the problem with coriolis effect. Of course there would be some engineering challenges with that approach.
The problem with this approach is the harmonic vibrations that the cable/tether would experience in a two body system. A three or more body system would be easier to control with thrusters. The natural tendency of the paths of three or more bodies is to remain in in a circle, that is constantly "trying" to escape its containment.
Imagine a flexible wheel, as opposed to a flexible rope...
As far as I know, there are two problems. First, there is always the possibility of the cable breaking. Second, a system like that would be very difficult to accelerate, decelerate or just plain manoeuvre.
@@johnlshilling1446
"A three or more body system would be easier to control with thrusters. "
ok, so add a 2nd counterweight, for a total of three bodies.
It's still much easier to build than a 4 mile wide functional structure 🙂
As for rotation, I suggest a small rotational section of the spacecraft, where you'd spend your time exercising sufficiently to make up for zero g's bad effects.
Like the Discovery ship in 2001: A Space Odyssey
When you listed the issues with "weightlessness" I think you missed one of the biggest problems: Reproduction. While no space agency has done rigorous experimentation on it, small scale tests have failed to get a successful incubation of any vertebrate. Some invertebrates have been hatched, but Mice and Frogs fail to develop embryos, and it seems very likely humans simply wouldn't be able to get pregnant without gravity; which kinda puts a kibosh on long term colonization of space without being able to replicate gravity.
Interesting... I wonder why, and how much gravity would be needed.
I always figured the tethered ships in formation would be the way to go. You could extend the tether enough that the rotations could be slow, and the difference between pull at head and feet would be minimal. Then maybe have some sort of 'climber' unit attached to the tether, to transport people and items between the ships.
@@michaelnewton1754 My guess is that there are many points in orientation and migration of cells during embryo development that uses gravity as a guide. I'd wager that it doesn't take much gravity to get embryo development of vertebrates, but micro gravity (which is pretty much none) just won't work. Like I said this hasn't been thoroughly tested, but NASA has failed to get fertilized frog eggs to develop in micro gravity and mice fail to reproduce and get pregnant; that's all we have to go on at this time. Spiders, ants and most plants are just fine though, if it is an issue it only seems to effect vertebrates.
...if a fetus did develop in
Animals have lived for generations in hypergravity in centrifuges. They're stronger and more healthy with linger lives, than controls.
"Look around you, even if you're sitting on the toilet in the bathroom "
Yep that's me.
Video viewing has replaced the ever popular magazine for such entertainment
You are not alone
i am genuinely curious to know, 'what the most popular places to watch videos are?'
i bet toilet is in top 3
Joe Scott gave me internal hemorrhoids for sitting on the toilet for 19 minutes
@@livethefuture2492 Car, toilet, bed....
Litres.
Liters are what you lit 🔥 at the start of your video. Love from Melbourne, Australia.
Suggestion for a video topic: The studies of Viktor Grebennikov (opposite of artificial gravity?)
Hey, you brought back under pressure joke from earlier episode. Nice!!😬👍
Lying down while sleeping nearly eliminates negative coriolis effects meaning a much smaller radius on the order of a few tens of meters, if that, would be sufficient to provide intermittent exposure, which would be better than none at all. There is some work being done along these lines. We should not allow a demand for the perfect to eliminate the good enough.
1-rotor principle has a side effect. That is why there is the idea of the 2-rotor principle to compensate side effects on both sides. This is only possible in combination with magnetism. The rotors have to be very large to compensate the 90° angle with differential. However, it is not yet clear which interval the magnetism must have. + and - must be on both sides at the same time, that's for sure. Ideally, many rotors form a system circuit.
You know the artificial gravity tech they have in Star Trek is next level because it doesn't matter HOW bad the damage to those ships are... engines down, life support failing, hull breeches on every level... but they'll be damned if you catch anyone floating!
Can confirm I was sat on a toilet when watching this video. Thanks Joe.
Not going to alarm you, but the O2 symbol you used is the (afaik trademarked) company logo of a german telecommunications company going by the name O2.
Just FYI...
Chemical symbols are trademark-able? Lemme trademark the letter H then.
@@Thumbsupurbum Nah, but Telekom trademarked their pink over here, so not far off they would trademark that specific design with the blue fade and specific font.
Just double checked, they have been absorbed into the Telefonica cooperation, haven't bothered checking any further yet.
And British.
Now I think about it we have some silly telecom company names: O2, EE (including Orange), Three, Virgin (named by Richard Branson IIRC).
The scene at 14:50 highly reminiscent of Kubrik's 2001: a Space Odyssey; surprised the rotational artificial gravity depicted in that great movie isn't mentioned here.
Wow. kudos to me... first thing I thought of was a batch, which is a different complexity, same result. thanks you for confirmation to my little mind.
"hundreds of muscles activated right now to keep me from slumping to the floor" are you sure about that?
You had to make me sad by mentioning Pete Burns... 😭😭😭😭😭
RIP Pete, we miss you... :'(
Albe Van Hanoy
I didn’t know he died. 😭
Is he Dead Or Alive?
@@AntneeUK DAMMIT.
Nice job!
Firstly the whole inner ear thing only applies if the axis of rotation is not perpendicular to your net experienced downward force. This applies to all experiments done on earth with gravity also present, making down not in line with the radius of rotation. This would not be an issue in space where your plane of balance is orthogonal to the axis of centrifugal force (from your rotating reference frame), meaning there isn’t a difference in angular momentum when turning your head side to side (although dipping your head may still present some minor discomfort, so don’t do that).
second that Coriolis effect on a 4 mile (6.4 km) radius would be relatively minor as it only effects movement between different positions along the radius of rotation, so long as you throw and catch at the same height (more or less) and don’t make an arc to makes up a significant fraction of the radius (who’s throwing balls several km in the air?) you would not observe it. Remember it is the difference is speed that gives rise to the Coriolis effect, 1 m height represents less than 0.02% of the radius and in turn less than 0.02% change in linear velocity (v = omega x r).