It is unlikely to ever be "massive" in scale (that being relatively commonplace or even accessible for multi-millionaires) though I could believe that more companies than SpaceX & Blue Origin will be serious contenders for extra orbital flight. We *may* see a Oil-Drilling Company dynamic where an oil company purchases the services of a drilling company to dig wells and prospect. But in Space terms where a Industrial company would purchase the services of someone like SpaceX to ship their modules & materials to an asteroid.
@snoweefrost4412 I think the ultra wealthy will subsidize the first forays into space besides the moon. They'll make money off of it and with Musk I think he believes in it. Others may only if a profit is foreseeable.
@@snoweefrost4412 It's never going to happen. No one is actually thinking of the consequences of displacing/ relocating large amounts of matter from stellar objects. Everything the general public "knows" is possible about space, comes from science FICTION.
Think of it differently. You are born too young to explore space, but if you were born any earlier then you wouldn’t have even been able to see much of the Earth besides what you could see in the country you were born. Planes are a brand new invention.
The Expanse is based on the false premise of surpopulation to justify space colonization, like Starcraft and Halo. Demographics projecting are actually going to decreased sharply after 2100. The only 'space expansion' that he and serious people talk about is : mining a few asteroids (with robots, not 'belters'), space tourism, an Antarctica-like scientific lunar base and maybe some flag on Mars (all of that in the next 50-100 years). Anything else is pure sci-fi.
Eh. Not really. Space is an entirely different domain. Quite literaly. Exploring the ocean, is dangerous and difficult. But it's still on a place where we evolved to survive. Humans did it for thousands of years. Space though? It's one of the most hostile environments you can imagine. We can't even exist up there really, because without gravity, our bones start to become weaker. So it really is like comparing a walk with flying.
@@CrniWuk yea but we got planes now who’s to say there won’t be craft that simulate gravity so that we don’t lose bone density ect it’s like when sailors used to get scurvy and then boom lemons
@@user-RCSTbruh it wasn't for semantics they still used that bridge lol. Also why are you simping for a billionaire? They would literally liquify you into nutripaste if they could. You are nothing to them.
@@user-RCST Why should a bridge that is still being used _and_ has historical significance to it's residents be deemed less important than a random guy's vanity. Also I don't think you know what "semantics" means.
@@jeffwirth6356 both, they are two bodies of the same system and I'm not talking about US exclusively, it's the same in the entire world. Either this system goes, or life on this planet.
Without "tycoons" we wouldn't have space exploration. Not to mention anything involved with any industry such as cars, electronics, food to feed the world. But yeah, let's hate them cause they greedy and rich and you're poor and useless lol
Your comment is exactly the point that should be made in this discussion. People have nothing to eat because of the inequality created by the system. These guys want to go to space so that this same system keeps creating more inequalities, instead of changing it
There's potentail that the arrival of AI will rapidly accelerate our scienetifical growth to the point where its possible in our lifetime if harnessed well. AI is so many times more intelligent than us that its impossible to predict what will be possible. Of course we may not exist as a species if AI goes too far but aye I'll keep saying ty to my toaster when it pops and I'm sure all will be well
No there’s not. You have to factor in enough of the natural environment to remain as to not disrupt the ecosystem to unrecoverable levels, which we’re already barely not doing.
@@airanator1212 where do you think earth will be in a thousand years a million? if things keep going the way they are now we'll be lucky to last another couple.
@smrutismarak9503 I didn't see any blaming. The person actually left a clue for you...contrast. being able to assess cotrasting perspectives is essential to critical thinking...oh wait it's probably mostly americans or people from american vassal states...critical thinking not allowed.
I'm sure the interplanetary Amazon workers will have a jolly good time. Best not be having too many bathroom breaks during your fuck-off long voyage to anywhere in the Solar system.
“Hasn’t even reached orbit yet” is an absurd statement. It’s like a person who can’t jump 20” saying a person who jumps 48” hast even jumped 60” yet🤦🏽♂️. It’s crazy how ppl find other ppls accomplishments so unimpressive yet they themselves have done nothing significant. Bezos built Amazon a top 5 company worldwide, he’s built rockets that can leave earth, and he’s changed the way 90% of all Americans think about shopping. He pays his employees 50% more than other shipping companies. But I guess him not reaching orbit is your idea of failure? 😂😂😂 so I guess you’re much more successful? 🤔
But we aint living shoulder to shoulder tho are we? We move and grow and reproduce. Im against capitalism but he is right, we will need to expand somehow without fucking the planet up further.
It’s all about land usage. Farmland for crops and livestock, urban land for cities, industries like mining and lumber... And we don’t want to completely destroy Earth ecosystem so there needs to be natural untouched land too
@@willjackson5885farmland, livestock, whichever one you mention, none of them have to be ruining the environment. We just decided not to pursue regenerative farming. Mining is only more expensive to do cleanly. Not impossible. We decided on it 👍
Living on something orbiting the Earth and then being able to go down and go on a wildlife safari on a pristine earth without any humans inhabiting it. That would be so amazing.
@@gengis737: We can have trillions of people living in space. Planets are an extremely wasteful way to create gravity, which is the only reason we like planets.
I like him but he's basically an intellectual which makes him dangerous because he's naive and far removed from real life. This guy should have enough education to NOT listen to Musk or Dr. No (Bezos). The way he speaks is like he's promoting these guys for having revolutionary ideas; one guy sells books and the other pretends he's Nikolai Tesla.
people are only scared because everyone wants to enjoy the future BUT not all of us will, but accept the fact that SOME of us, truly want a brighter future for everyone else
no one is trying atleast they are trying if they want to try then why are you jealous what they will do with that money and i think they not will sleep with your mom with that money
@@ShriMorningstar-sn5ez Because the wealth they got, they have gotten off the backs of all the workers they barely pay anything. Do you actually people that people that become that rich deserve it? They only got there by exploiting people and resources.
Why not? If it's pushing humanity to becoming a stellar or even possibly an even interstellar species faster I am all for it. Cause right now we're not doing much in terms of that.
Humanity's biggest enemy will remain to be stagnation. We must reach new limits. New heights and new grounds. We keep getting better. We keep expanding. To infinity and beyond
"Expansion is good", "We will expand"... Reminded me of the TV show "The Expanse", which dealt a lot with the asteroid belt. What a great show it was, wasn't it? 😃
Space holds such hope for humanity. A fresh start, a chance for old grievances to whither and die. Colonizing the Sol System is our birthright as a species.
I do love the idea of zoning the Earth residential or as a wildlife refuge and moving all heavy industry off-planet. Hope I live to see that process started.
i dont remember from who, but i once saw a video of someone explaining how the earth is basically a closed system. berely anything gets in and barely anything gets away from it. yes we can get energy from the sun, but we cant just get metal from other planets. i think it will take at least a few thousand years before we will ever be able to effectively harvest recources from other planets, that is, if humans still exist then.
ever thought of expanding downwards covering your house in trees and as a bonus building underground gives more protection if anything happens to earth
We have enough resources and capabilities to feed, house, cloth, with transportation to all humans in the World! The equation only gets better with growth! We are hindered bc the free market is hindered by big business, big govt, big tech, etc
Expansion is only good if we restore and preserve our planet. Not to mention, true expansion is so far ahead of us that we might push our luck here passed the point of no return.
The future of humanity is in space (and of course on earth). I just think that space travel is so much less important than solving the issues on earth when it comes to what we should be doing right now. The only thing about space that I think is urgent (that I've heard so far) is anti asteroid tech.
I hope that if and when we truly begin to explore our galaxy and colonize other planets, we do it as a means of survival or to broaden our understanding of the universe rather than pure greed and profit-making
They are right, but a huge amount of dense material exists under our feet. What we don't have as easy access to is the sun's power. It also helps not being at the bottom of a gravity well. With certain technologies like active support, the restriction of gravity can be mitigated. It is much easier to mitigate that restriction, though, on less massive bodies.
Incredible how people will spend so much energy thinking about long term space developments that won't be viable for 200 years, but won't give equal attention to the much more pressing, much more important climate concerns. Cimate refugees, rising sea levels, desertification, loss of agriculturally prosperous land - preventing these things will have a much greater long-term impact to human civilization than space industry.
Mmmmmno. A Dyson Sphere is specifically a megastructure that encapsulates a star. You're looking for the term "Ecumenopolis". For prime examples, see Coruscant of Star Wars, and Trantor from Galactic Empire.
@@Silmerano Oh definitely not. We as Human civilization can't even comprehend the sheer amount of materials that would be required to construct a fully encapsulating dyson sphere. A swarm is more feasible even with current technology, and it's theorized a full-shell sphere may not even be physically possible.
@@JohnnyShagbot the sun is 109 times the diameter of the earth. It's not incomprehensible we know exactly how big it is. The sun's mass is enormous but that's irrelevant when we're talking about just constructing a hollow shell around the outside.
@@Silmerano Ah but that's where you're wrong. A dyson sphere being constructed to encapsulate a star is going to be an exceedingly massive object, and depending on how far you intend to extend it, that'll only grow exponentially due to square-cube law. A shell intended solely to harness solar energy is one thing, but some fictional spheres have even been used for habitation and were out to the habitable range of the star in radius! In any case, it's not the size that's incomprehensible, it's just how mind-bogglingly resource intensive it would be. Megastructures like that are simply not feasible to build.
Talking about expansion and an industrialized astroid belt, and sci-fi - you should read/watch 'the expanse''. Really elaborates exactly on all of this.
Well, having robots working factories, on other planets to preserve the earth, seems so lovely those people are going to say there was never a better time than today❤
Reminds me of the game Elite Dangerous where interstellar travel is commonplace and only wealthy high-class people with good reputation can even visit the Earth and the solar system. And I think its inevitable that one day, living on Earth is gonna be a privilege and some people are gonna work hard to maybe visit one day.
The problem is that the resources are up there and bringing them down takes a huge amount of energy and propellant mass. Asteroid resources only make sense if you use them in orbit and only land very expensive and highly advanced products. Even if one launch of of Starship was only $5M at some point, consider that the entire launch can lift ~150 metric tonnes to low earth orbit and the starship can land a small fraction of that to earth. Think about it. 150 tonnes of copper is worth $1.2M. Even something relative as valuable as copper is absolutely not worth bringing down all the way from the asteroids unless it's already inside very advanced high-tech devices.
Space x has done some truly amazing work, but the turnaround time for 1st stage boosters is at best still 20x slower than early projections, which means the $$/kilo for payload to orbit is still nowhere near a game changer for commercial space ventures…yet. 2018 projected turnaround time for falcon 9 booster: 24 hours 2023 fastest actual turnaround time: 21 days 2023 average turnaround time: 61 days Most Falcon 9 boosters have been reused once, with several months between 1st & 2nd launches.
Bezos the type of dude to make the earth a gated community.
Interesting perspective
New dystopia just dropped.
@@metastatic746I'll oil 😅😊😅😊oi
Unfortunatelly thats when he buys it all up and the rest of us are living on the asteroids we mined for him to have the gated naighbourhood.
Lol
The rarest building material in the universe is wood.
man thats deep
I've got wood!
This is probably the most intelligent comments I’ve ever seen
Yes, we are experts on a particular scope
yeah ..but you wont build something in outer space out of wood because it can easely burn . Than you have a great problem :D
I truly believe space exploration on a massive scale will only take place once it become profitable by means of extra planetary resources.
It is unlikely to ever be "massive" in scale (that being relatively commonplace or even accessible for multi-millionaires) though I could believe that more companies than SpaceX & Blue Origin will be serious contenders for extra orbital flight. We *may* see a Oil-Drilling Company dynamic where an oil company purchases the services of a drilling company to dig wells and prospect. But in Space terms where a Industrial company would purchase the services of someone like SpaceX to ship their modules & materials to an asteroid.
@snoweefrost4412 I think the ultra wealthy will subsidize the first forays into space besides the moon. They'll make money off of it and with Musk I think he believes in it. Others may only if a profit is foreseeable.
@@snoweefrost4412To prospect for oil? Do you know what oil comes from? That would be the most amazing discovery ever!!!
@@snoweefrost4412 It's never going to happen. No one is actually thinking of the consequences of displacing/ relocating large amounts of matter from stellar objects. Everything the general public "knows" is possible about space, comes from science FICTION.
Exactly. No corporations are going to spend a penny on merely saving the planet alone
“We don’t wanna do that”
Jeff, who definitely wants to do that
💯
Born too late to explore the Earth, born too early to explore space. Feelsbadman
Ikr 😕
Think of it differently. You are born too young to explore space, but if you were born any earlier then you wouldn’t have even been able to see much of the Earth besides what you could see in the country you were born. Planes are a brand new invention.
Born in the right time to see the birth of AI and AGI technologies
We've still got the deep ocean though so thats nice
@@jamesrutterford576Phones and Computers are fairly new too allowing us to do so much that we couldn’t 100 years ago
Brian casually describing the plot of The Expanse.
Beltalowda!
The Expanse is based on the false premise of surpopulation to justify space colonization, like Starcraft and Halo. Demographics projecting are actually going to decreased sharply after 2100. The only 'space expansion' that he and serious people talk about is : mining a few asteroids (with robots, not 'belters'), space tourism, an Antarctica-like scientific lunar base and maybe some flag on Mars (all of that in the next 50-100 years). Anything else is pure sci-fi.
Only he forgot to point out the rare resources in space- air and water.
This is literally us discovering sailing and navigation in the past now just on a slightly bigger scale
Eh. Not really. Space is an entirely different domain. Quite literaly.
Exploring the ocean, is dangerous and difficult. But it's still on a place where we evolved to survive. Humans did it for thousands of years.
Space though? It's one of the most hostile environments you can imagine. We can't even exist up there really, because without gravity, our bones start to become weaker. So it really is like comparing a walk with flying.
@@CrniWuk yea but we got planes now who’s to say there won’t be craft that simulate gravity so that we don’t lose bone density ect it’s like when sailors used to get scurvy and then boom lemons
I am so happy that Brian chose our planet to live on
Remember when Bezos tried to make the Dutch dismantle a 300 year old bridge so he could move his yacht upriver? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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@@user-RCSTbruh it wasn't for semantics they still used that bridge lol. Also why are you simping for a billionaire? They would literally liquify you into nutripaste if they could. You are nothing to them.
Bezos couldn't make Denmark do anything. The ship's builder requested the bridge be modified, which they didn't do.
@@user-RCST Why should a bridge that is still being used _and_ has historical significance to it's residents be deemed less important than a random guy's vanity.
Also I don't think you know what "semantics" means.
In this comment section: bootlickers of the most powerful man on the planet.
There’s plenty of space left on the planet. But if we want to preserve it as is, then we will undoubtedly have to expand outward.
We already can see how well tycoons run the planet...
Are you confusing "tycoons" with politicians?
@@jeffwirth6356which are paid off by the tycoons
@@Deaf_Notes so who would be more guilty, the person offering the bribe or the "public servant" who accepts it?
@@jeffwirth6356 both, they are two bodies of the same system and I'm not talking about US exclusively, it's the same in the entire world.
Either this system goes, or life on this planet.
Without "tycoons" we wouldn't have space exploration. Not to mention anything involved with any industry such as cars, electronics, food to feed the world. But yeah, let's hate them cause they greedy and rich and you're poor and useless lol
Meanwhile I eat sleep for breakfast so I only have to buy two meals a day.
Your comment is exactly the point that should be made in this discussion. People have nothing to eat because of the inequality created by the system. These guys want to go to space so that this same system keeps creating more inequalities, instead of changing it
So...?
@@borisbaran TLDR
its weird how that works isn't it go to bed starving wake up full.
just like peter pan.
@@Carimbo575 i love avatar, i love james cameron
I hope the colonization of the rest of our solar system happens in my life time.
Spoiler alert.. it won't
There's potentail that the arrival of AI will rapidly accelerate our scienetifical growth to the point where its possible in our lifetime if harnessed well. AI is so many times more intelligent than us that its impossible to predict what will be possible. Of course we may not exist as a species if AI goes too far but aye I'll keep saying ty to my toaster when it pops and I'm sure all will be well
Not in our time probably the third generation will see the expanse
Bet, I can live that long@@LeMMon-e7o
The destruction of civilization as you know it around you is a more likely probability.
It’s not half empty btw.
It’s just not full at all.
800 story mega skyscraper that encapsulates the earth?
Everyday we drift closer & closer to Warhammer 40k…
Brian just described Coresant 😊
Knowledge is power and is what will lead humanity into the future
Imagine how long ago we could've had reusable rockets if NASA had even 1% of the federal budget
I agree, more money for space. Its amazing. We need more space telescopes too, bigger ones
Imagine spending that money on bettering Earth.
@@chetsenior7253 i wonder if this guy knows the reason he's able to say this comment is because of NASA
So many public resources are being given to SpaceX which is a purely for profit corporation that has no obligation to give back
@chetsenior7253 imagine everyone just bettering earth instead of ruining it, in every form.
There is PLENTY of room left on this planet to expand.
But there is not enough room for everyones greed.
No there’s not. You have to factor in enough of the natural environment to remain as to not disrupt the ecosystem to unrecoverable levels, which we’re already barely not doing.
@@airanator1212bollocks.
Get dem underground facilities goin
@@airanator1212 where do you think earth will be in a thousand years a million?
if things keep going the way they are now we'll be lucky to last another couple.
I just slept more today because I had to pay rent and I could buy dinner tonight.
Just to contrast
Didn't you have to go to work?
Isn't this your own fault at least partly? Why blame everyone else for your own lack of useful money making skills?
@smrutismarak9503 I didn't see any blaming. The person actually left a clue for you...contrast. being able to assess cotrasting perspectives is essential to critical thinking...oh wait it's probably mostly americans or people from american vassal states...critical thinking not allowed.
What of it?
"I think we will expand, because it sounds really cool"
Man those labcoats are something else
Bezos hasn't even reached orbit yet.
I'm sure the interplanetary Amazon workers will have a jolly good time.
Best not be having too many bathroom breaks during your fuck-off long voyage to anywhere in the Solar system.
“Hasn’t even reached orbit yet” is an absurd statement. It’s like a person who can’t jump 20” saying a person who jumps 48” hast even jumped 60” yet🤦🏽♂️. It’s crazy how ppl find other ppls accomplishments so unimpressive yet they themselves have done nothing significant.
Bezos built Amazon a top 5 company worldwide, he’s built rockets that can leave earth, and he’s changed the way 90% of all Americans think about shopping. He pays his employees 50% more than other shipping companies. But I guess him not reaching orbit is your idea of failure? 😂😂😂 so I guess you’re much more successful? 🤔
Not much room left? There is so much to expand on this planet
you can fit the whole population shoulder to shoulder in los angeles…there’s room on this planet 😂
But we aint living shoulder to shoulder tho are we? We move and grow and reproduce. Im against capitalism but he is right, we will need to expand somehow without fucking the planet up further.
It’s all about land usage. Farmland for crops and livestock, urban land for cities, industries like mining and lumber... And we don’t want to completely destroy Earth ecosystem so there needs to be natural untouched land too
@@willjackson5885farmland, livestock, whichever one you mention, none of them have to be ruining the environment. We just decided not to pursue regenerative farming. Mining is only more expensive to do cleanly. Not impossible. We decided on it 👍
there'd be more room than that.
@@youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629 ?? 😂
Most logical thing ive herd this year
Living on something orbiting the Earth and then being able to go down and go on a wildlife safari on a pristine earth without any humans inhabiting it. That would be so amazing.
Horizon Zero Dawn!
Once the billions of human who could not possibly be housed in space stations have been starved to death on a planet stripped of its resource, yes.
@@gengis737: We can have trillions of people living in space. Planets are an extremely wasteful way to create gravity, which is the only reason we like planets.
Would be amazing to see the planet in a few hundred years. I hope it will be as strong as ever.
It’s time to manifest our destiny again.
You can’t control destiny. I
We are in control of nothing.
I CAN'T WAIT FOR 40K FUTURE
everytime i see his shorts, i get to urge to re-watch: The expanse, Silo, Foundation and Raised by Wolves.
For All Mankind
But what about his jeans? Do they not inspire?
I thought of the expanse as well, tien to re-read
This is the future i dream of
He’s like a small child with innocent optimism, oblivious to the multi-level self destruction we are in the midst of.
You’re not better than him. As a matter of fact you’re much worse than him
Which makes him useless. If you can’t apply your knowledge to the real world, it’s fantasy, not knowledge.
You both are cynical and lacking in information of your world. Glad to leave dense boys like you behind
I like him but he's basically an intellectual which makes him dangerous because he's naive and far removed from real life. This guy should have enough education to NOT listen to Musk or Dr. No (Bezos).
The way he speaks is like he's promoting these guys for having revolutionary ideas; one guy sells books and the other pretends he's Nikolai Tesla.
people are only scared because everyone wants to enjoy the future BUT not all of us will, but accept the fact that SOME of us, truly want a brighter future for everyone else
I can only imagine what technology and space exploration will discover 100+ years from now.
We can’t let the billionaires become trillionaires by reaching those resources
no one is trying atleast they are trying
if they want to try then why are you jealous what they will do with that money
and i think they not will sleep with your mom with that money
@@ShriMorningstar-sn5ez Because the wealth they got, they have gotten off the backs of all the workers they barely pay anything. Do you actually people that people that become that rich deserve it? They only got there by exploiting people and resources.
Why not? If it's pushing humanity to becoming a stellar or even possibly an even interstellar species faster I am all for it. Cause right now we're not doing much in terms of that.
So who will? Those poor africans?
why not
Humanity's biggest enemy will remain to be stagnation. We must reach new limits. New heights and new grounds. We keep getting better. We keep expanding. To infinity and beyond
Hive worlds baby!!
I think it would be easier to fix the issues we face here than it would be to try to find ways to do what we currently do in space.
The expanse explores this and I think it's one of the most accurately depicted science fiction out there
Except the struggle to get water. Water will never be an issue.
Imagine earth as home, and you have to travel through space to get to Ganymede to work every day.
"Expansion is good", "We will expand"...
Reminded me of the TV show "The Expanse", which dealt a lot with the asteroid belt.
What a great show it was, wasn't it? 😃
Yes. Great show
Rumor has it there's already a Dollar General on Mars
"Reusable" is very gracious.
He is so well spoken.
That's just the British Accent.
This is the first argument that makes slight sense as to why we r rushing to get out to space
I want to see Brian May and Brian Cox have a talk about the planets!
Getting heavy industry off earth would be one way to save it.
Star field is all I got to say
"He thinks very simply"😂😂😂
There’s plenty of room to expand on this planet as well as reduce waste still a good idea
I hope i see it in my lifetime
I love this man.
I also love this man
Space holds such hope for humanity. A fresh start, a chance for old grievances to whither and die. Colonizing the Sol System is our birthright as a species.
I do love the idea of zoning the Earth residential or as a wildlife refuge and moving all heavy industry off-planet. Hope I live to see that process started.
I’ve got a bridge to sell you buddy
@@dagothhyde7297 Lol. Well, Earth is zoned residential, that bridge will have to be on Europa, 😂
absolutely.......we shouldn't even be picking leaves off trees whilst all those recourses are floating around just above our heads
i dont remember from who, but i once saw a video of someone explaining how the earth is basically a closed system. berely anything gets in and barely anything gets away from it. yes we can get energy from the sun, but we cant just get metal from other planets. i think it will take at least a few thousand years before we will ever be able to effectively harvest recources from other planets, that is, if humans still exist then.
ever thought of expanding downwards covering your house in trees and as a bonus building underground gives more protection if anything happens to earth
man these are the videos i dont want coming up on my algorithm cause im sure im not here anymore if this is gonna happen
Actualy a good point
THATS SOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
“Reusable rockets” getting awfully close to straight up spaceships
"Jamie, pull up that video of Urus Major building a space elevator"
yes lets protect earth by moving to space, sounds very smart
Brown Cox confirmed for Manifest Destiny!
We have enough resources and capabilities to feed, house, cloth, with transportation to all humans in the World! The equation only gets better with growth! We are hindered bc the free market is hindered by big business, big govt, big tech, etc
Dude has soulless eyes
That’s sound like some old Armored Core lore lol
Expansion is only good if we restore and preserve our planet.
Not to mention, true expansion is so far ahead of us that we might push our luck here passed the point of no return.
This is basically what the mark rylance character is in the “don’t look up” movie
Yeah all you guys please expand asap
The future of humanity is in space (and of course on earth). I just think that space travel is so much less important than solving the issues on earth when it comes to what we should be doing right now. The only thing about space that I think is urgent (that I've heard so far) is anti asteroid tech.
I hope that if and when we truly begin to explore our galaxy and colonize other planets, we do it as a means of survival or to broaden our understanding of the universe rather than pure greed and profit-making
They are right, but a huge amount of dense material exists under our feet. What we don't have as easy access to is the sun's power. It also helps not being at the bottom of a gravity well. With certain technologies like active support, the restriction of gravity can be mitigated. It is much easier to mitigate that restriction, though, on less massive bodies.
Never really thought about doing polluting industry in space rather than on earth , it would solve a lot of issues.
Tony Stark was right back in 2012 😂😂
Incredible how people will spend so much energy thinking about long term space developments that won't be viable for 200 years, but won't give equal attention to the much more pressing, much more important climate concerns. Cimate refugees, rising sea levels, desertification, loss of agriculturally prosperous land - preventing these things will have a much greater long-term impact to human civilization than space industry.
I believe it is of utmost importance to commence the construction of towering structures in the great expanse of outer space.
It's just a logical step for many reasons to spread outwards for me... i probably dont will see that but i know we will expand.
You know what a 800 foot skyscraper covering the entire Earth sounds like to me? A Dyson sphere.
Mmmmmno. A Dyson Sphere is specifically a megastructure that encapsulates a star. You're looking for the term "Ecumenopolis". For prime examples, see Coruscant of Star Wars, and Trantor from Galactic Empire.
@@JohnnyShagbot I was saying that amount of material sounds like enough to make one.
@@Silmerano Oh definitely not. We as Human civilization can't even comprehend the sheer amount of materials that would be required to construct a fully encapsulating dyson sphere. A swarm is more feasible even with current technology, and it's theorized a full-shell sphere may not even be physically possible.
@@JohnnyShagbot the sun is 109 times the diameter of the earth. It's not incomprehensible we know exactly how big it is. The sun's mass is enormous but that's irrelevant when we're talking about just constructing a hollow shell around the outside.
@@Silmerano Ah but that's where you're wrong. A dyson sphere being constructed to encapsulate a star is going to be an exceedingly massive object, and depending on how far you intend to extend it, that'll only grow exponentially due to square-cube law. A shell intended solely to harness solar energy is one thing, but some fictional spheres have even been used for habitation and were out to the habitable range of the star in radius! In any case, it's not the size that's incomprehensible, it's just how mind-bogglingly resource intensive it would be. Megastructures like that are simply not feasible to build.
Talking about expansion and an industrialized astroid belt, and sci-fi - you should read/watch 'the expanse''. Really elaborates exactly on all of this.
Fun fact. The earth is about 10% occupied atm. " We have no space to expand " is total bs
I think he is referring to farmland and food production
Well, having robots working factories, on other planets to preserve the earth, seems so lovely those people are going to say there was never a better time than today❤
Reminds me of the game Elite Dangerous where interstellar travel is commonplace and only wealthy high-class people with good reputation can even visit the Earth and the solar system.
And I think its inevitable that one day, living on Earth is gonna be a privilege and some people are gonna work hard to maybe visit one day.
The problem is that the resources are up there and bringing them down takes a huge amount of energy and propellant mass. Asteroid resources only make sense if you use them in orbit and only land very expensive and highly advanced products. Even if one launch of of Starship was only $5M at some point, consider that the entire launch can lift ~150 metric tonnes to low earth orbit and the starship can land a small fraction of that to earth. Think about it. 150 tonnes of copper is worth $1.2M. Even something relative as valuable as copper is absolutely not worth bringing down all the way from the asteroids unless it's already inside very advanced high-tech devices.
This man couldve changed humanity if he had more popularity
If you think that there's not much room left to expand here on earth, you're dreaming.
Yes i hope we expand sooner than laiter
Best idea I’ve heard. If we are going to try to do shit in space, make it industrial. Leave earth for living. Drop goods from sky. Perfect!
If you haven't seen The Expanse yet it's all covered in that fantastic Series!
If time is cyclical we are on the path to become creators. Gods.
Not til you conquer gravity.
Every. Single. Person. Saying. "Why should we invest money in space". Must. Watch. This.👏
Eh, I live in Midwest and the amount of unused land here is insane… there used to be plenty of space to expand… except the high density urban cities
You can hear Brian Cox talk all day.
Careful people. Expansion means territories to claim. Territories to claim means conflict and conflict means war.
The unity of the minds leads us into a new world. Nature has been prioritizing the brain and we haven’t payed attention to that.
Antarctica and Canada's frozen North: "Do I mean nothing to you?"
Yup, brilliant! it is like clearing the last forest to build a large ship to explore new lands. Never mind if we desertification the forest.😅
Space x has done some truly amazing work, but the turnaround time for 1st stage boosters is at best still 20x slower than early projections, which means the $$/kilo for payload to orbit is still nowhere near a game changer for commercial space ventures…yet.
2018 projected turnaround time for falcon 9 booster: 24 hours
2023 fastest actual turnaround time: 21 days
2023 average turnaround time: 61 days
Most Falcon 9 boosters have been reused once, with several months between 1st & 2nd launches.
Talked exactly like Alex Albon in F1
"not room left to expand on this planet" spoken like a true bugman.
Best stuff ive ever heard