Elon Musk Reveals New Plan For Interstellar Travel!
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Starship stands to interstellar travel, like hot air balloons to a modern fighter jet.
That is a good analogy. Hot air balloons are VERY slow
That one left me laughing 🤣
You’re not an aviator, clearly
Nobody's sending Starship to other star systems, but chances are that when we start building ships that will go to other stars, SpaceX will be the ones building them
I think comparing a person jumping to a modern fighter jet is a better analogy.
Actually, I listened to some biologists. They say to ensure generic diversity we need at least 10,000 people in a colony.
Good chance you'll run into a Duster cousin on Mars, so it's also a good idea to keep tabs on the lineage before you hit up the first bar.
But a fully self sufficient colony. Not just bare minimum humans there. 10000 is a very small city.
For survival that number could be way lower. Also could freeze reproductive cells and they probably would do this regardless
@@883kodiak exactly. you can't run a self-sustaining technological civilization w/ 10k ppl. Unless you have post-scarcity tech, which we don't currently have.
That's probably for an indefinitely self-sustaining colony. 100 could get you through 2 generations of travel but that's assuming you'd be able to meet many more at your destination.
If I ever get out to space, I don't really care if my journey ends there. I'll have witnessed the greatest sights ever known to man
We'll erect a plaque in your honor.
If your a young man make sure you have shagged a lot of girls and drunk plenty of beer before you go - Mouse The Wise.
Trips to Mars are currently NOT when Earth and Mars are "closest" as stated in the video. It is when Earth and Mars will be lined up for a minimum energy Hohmann transfer orbit, which is an elliptical solar orbit that has a maximum distance from the sun at the orbit of Mars.
Nice when somebody adds scientific notes to the comments. Thanks 😊
SpaceX could use Starship to loft materials to build EarthMars Aldrin Cycler ships to be boosted into solar orbits that have a short leg and long leg, and encounter Earth and Mars during every orbit. Once established into solar orbit, they wouldn't require further major ∆v changes.
Starship could ferry people and freight to meet these Cyclers that would consist of two groups, such that people would board the "short" trips each way, while freight would be shipped via the "long" return legs of each group's orbital periods between Earth and Mars
SpaceX Aldrin Cyclers would be the efficient way to move people and supplies between Earth and Mars.
I’m very doubtful that the person who makes these videos knows what they’re talking about
No one is going to colonize space without us producing a space craft that is very very large. And at least a nuclear propulsion system. All else is pie in the sky. Probably also able to create artificial gravity inside the space craft.
we need to colonize the moon to build those. low gravity, no atmosphere, easy to get lots of mass into orbit.
@@JOlivier2011 noone huge ship is to dangerous both to build and to finance. it will be done by armada of small aND MDIUM SIZED SHIP REDUNDUNCY INCASE A VECHILE FAILS HALF WAY THERE,
@@alexisdespland4939 still a lot of mass.
@@JOlivier2011 DOSE THE MOON CONTAIN THE RIGHT MINERALS FOR THAT IN SUGFIENT QUALATY AND QUANTANTY TO BE ECONOMICALLY EXPLOTABLE.
@alexisdespland4939 You don't mine the moon, the moon is the base/port for it. You mine the belt for resources.
a rooster, duck, and a sheep were the first hot air balloon passengers in 1783 in France. The de Havilland Comet was the first commercial jet airliner to carry passengers, debuting in 1952. Just a matter of time.
Realistically it'll be robots and space probes that go first, if only to test out the technology. They'd also be helpful in giving us detailed info on what we'd find before we go. It doesn't seem likely to me that there are any Earth-like planets in any star systems nearby (I'd love it if I were wrong, though). Anything less would require a heckuva lot of supporting infrastructure, like we'll need for Mars. My guess is that we're more likely to be expanding humanity in our own solar system for a long time before we venture far outside of it
Keep in mind robot batteries don’t do well at cold temperatures, but being SpaceX they will find that out once robots are on mars but they can’t figure why the robots don’t power up 😂😂😂
Maybe send the power plant and charging stations to mars first 😂
THE GALAXY????
I was one of those people commenting about your colleague sounding like AI earlier. I recently watched one of the Tesla videos he made. I’ve adjusted and like his narration a bit more now. One key reason I like your voice more is the way you pause, especially through the first 48s of this video. Your copy is well done, the pause lets it sink it more and demonstrates a calmness duration narration.
Its all a pipe dream, (for now). Looking at least 50 years away. We just have to focus on the Moon, and Mars.
Thanks for the episode.
50 years??? only 50???
Colonizing the solar system is a 200 year long task. Which is what we should be focusing on right now.
Mars has somethings asteroids do not, starting with a gravity well that is expensive to get out of, more expensive than the moon and less expensive that the Earth. In comparison the fuel needed to get to an asteroid is tiny. It also has sandstorms and almost as much radiation as empty space.
Its actually more economical to go to any of the million or so main belt asteroids than to Mars *or the Moon* because of those pesky gravity wells.
Also large spinning space habitats are easier to build when you are right next to the materials needed to build them.
Pipe dream for now and for ever…🎉
@@Robweisenhowsermaybe like Christopher Columbus we find a new continent on our way to India? At least he was clear he was looking for spices. 😂
Traveling these extremely vast distances with no gravity ( even a rotating attempt) wouldn't be feasible for multi generational humans.
That’s why “thrust gravity” is more attractive/preferred/natural(?) than gravity by rotating (especially when traveling and not being a station in orbit). But the issue is fuel efficiency..
Now assuming we’ve solved the fuel issue and have loooooots of energy for less fuel then:
A constant acceleration along the direction of moving will create gravity in the opposite direction (the expanse is the best example). The spaceships will be like buildings flying on their side with people walking perpendicular to direction of motion.
1/3g constant acceleration for 10 months - turn of thrust (and gravity for the flip) - flip the ship 180 degrees - deceleration of 1/3g for next few months. Now the floors become ceiling.
Accelerate at 1g. Decelerate at 1g
But our lord and right-populists saviour Elon says so, so his bot army believes it
the old wheeled space station would be a simple idea
@@errolfoster1101 The issue with spin gravity is that the radius needs to be huge so that revolutions need not be too quick. Also if ship is big, it’ll need huuuuge thrust and energy to accelerate/decelerate, change direction even a little bit. That’s why thrust gravity is more versatile/preferred I guess.
Spin gravity will be perfect for stations that will only stay in orbit and don’t need to travel.
The biggest enabler of all this are the Starlink revenues.
What idea that I think is often neglected is laser propulsion. Facilities on an airless body like the moon could use locally generated power to operate arrays of lasers. These lasers are then focused on a highly reflective, and huge, parachute. Light has momentum, and gigawatts of light has quite a lot of momentum. The more of these facilities along a route, the more they can accelerate interstellar ships. Those ships can then use their fusion engines just to slow down, allowing for a much higher top speed. If similar facilities are built at the end of a routes, ships can be slowed down in that matter. In fact, this system so outperforms even antimatter, once it's built, that ships being propelled by these lasers could conceivably achieve speeds close to the speed of light. Fortunately, all this laser light everywhere is the perfect solution to deal with the interstellar medium.
3:40 I always found it dumb how people say that things like quadrillions of dollars are in an asteroid as if somehow prices of rare metals wouldn't crash as soon as the technology to mine and return metals from asteroids was proven.
Supply and demand dictate that if we increase the supply of gold and platinum and iron, et al, (barring some DeBeers diamond cartel situation) then the prices of metal will become so cheap that the money in these asteroids will immediately be lowered by a titanic margin.
In the same vein we better start aggressively protecting our forests more because wood will be more valuable than gold as soon as we starting mining asteroids.
Did some reading on the Alcubierre "Warp" Drive. While physicists agree it's achievable within the realm of known physics and possibility, it only takes the energy of a Neutron Star to power it. Anyone got one of those handy ? 🤔
No but the jupiter is there 😊
I hope I'm wrong but this may all be a mathematician's fantasy as yet no one to date has produced a real world demonstration.
The first calculations showed the mass of half the universe required, the next the the suns mass, then Jupiter mass and currently Dr Harold Sonny White, formally of NASA's Eagleworks calculates the "mass energy" Equivalent of the voyager space craft (one ton matter+ one ton anti matter?).
Ideas and calculation's on possible field geometries are changing all the time who knows but its nice to dream "Mr. Sulu ahead warp factor one."
The Hawking radiation produced makes the Alcubierre drive untenable. That and many other issues.
Not yet.
Over the past several years they have managed to reduce the energy requirements down from that considerably.
I luv that phrase, " JUST a hundred tons of uranium" that's ALL !
A hundred tons of uranium is very easily gotten. It is far from rare on earth. Shit, the US spies foound 23 tons of it hiding in German hands in 1945 before mining had even taken off.
This one was fun! Appreciate your efforts.
Excellent Reporting and Analysis 🖖🏽
This is awesome my love
Sending a robot with AI and a science lab with a lot of materials is how we could possibly seed life on another planet.
Once they get a fueling station on the moon, well, "Sky's the limit" Would be an understatement.
Launching form the moon, takes far less fuel.
Launching Full Fuel Tanker Starships, for refueling, from the moon would be the goal.
Assuming there will be no accidents during this Mars journey is unsafe... it is safer to assume there will be accidents - then you can ask relevant questions about these hypothetical accidents and prepare for them realistically. Then those risks can really be acceptable enough to take... Not preparing for accidents is an accident waiting to happen - as Murphy's law states, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." - at the most inopportune time...
Something that I have not really realized until now. All of our spaceflight rocket building companies are the ancient humble beginnings of our interstellar vehicle creations lists of the future. Given how we treat vehicle modes; turning old battleships modernized over time, riding horses being a unique thing in our modernized time but their stables and tack modernized, and planes being modernized over time to jets; generally all of our old modes of transport aren't lost but modernized over time with better materials and techniques. Thinking into the future far is fun. I hope we make it.
The important thing to note about a warp drive is that you're creating a bubble around the ship essentially and it is the bubble that's moving through space FTL, not the ship which means all the contents or passengers and cargo in this case within that bubble are fine and stable once the ship reaches it's destination the warp bubble dissipates almost instantly bringing you to an abrupt stop. Keep in mind though the ship was never moving just the space around the ship was So even though you're coming to a complete and abrupt stop you will not fly forward as you would on here on Earth if you are to do something that in atmosphere.
Super Interesting video! I loved it
When and how, for now after forty years of trying, no Earthling can survive the conditions of the moon, how many centuries will it take to survive on Mars.
Great point, keep in mind that the mars goal is just to justify SpaceX and its supreme leader marketing and $$$ plans. No one is going to mars… 😊
We can survive as long as we stay inside or suit up, just like anywhere else in space.
This is why the development of Starship is very important. We need a large vehicle to transport building materials to create livable spaces. Starship is reusable too, so they can make many round trips, as often as possible, to build a sturdy colony.
Melon Tusk is good at creating hype, but even for its size the Starship is just a delivery van and not a cruise ship.
I wonder if Starship is even a good choice for the route to Mars.
Why would it not be?
we probably wont go to mars on a starship, too slow and the cosmic radiation would be unacceptable over 9 months, we'd probably use a nuclear powered redundant spacecraft, but without starship we wouldn't even be able to build said spaceship, and ss is VITAL for future space economic growth
In the past 4-5 years, Elon is a liability to any company he is involved in. He is too terminally online, too petty, too thin-skinned and too egocentric.
It's not, it's too slow. Mars can be reached only with nuclear propulsion.
@@Orangefalcon-hp4wn Because it runs on chemical propellants. Nuclear rockets are just around the corner and make way more sense for a journey to Mars.
Elon/Tony Stark makes going to space like catching a plane 😮 love it... space x team you hot right now
Would be great if it got to deliver anything to the Moon, an return to Earth.
Don’t hold your breath!!
no, breath holding is helpful, add that to the list.
Very insightful 😂
I can't breathe
Thanks for an amazing, thought provoking video. As crazy as Elon's idea seems, it makes more sense than anything else I've heard. And he's just the man to make the impossible mearly late. Lol
The first mission will be done by Optimus.
SpaceX's vision is currently driven by Elon Musk. The question should be: Who is going to continue that vision after Musk? My fear is that after Musk, SpaceX will end up as another Boeing.
I believe this is more Gwynne Shotwell's vision.
@@favesongslistGwynne simply runs the company, Elon is the visionary.
theyll probably focus on just the economics, lower earth orbit and missions to the moon. Just have to hope NASA is properly administered and funded by then when that happens.
@@sethjansson5652 Suggest you watch Gwynne's TED interview
Hopefully the governments of the world will realise that privatising space and allowing greedy corporations to control entire areas of land on other planets is an awful idea and Space X will be absorbed into NASA.
Either that, or, the colonists on Mars get tired of being treated like trash by Musk and the corrupt businessmen of Earth and revolt
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In another way thinking , That's fine if we wish upon a star travel but we may have to start from scratch one day again and approach how we are going to build a space baron society.
I sincerely doubt would make a worthwhile candidate for an unquestioned leader of an incredibly isolated & remote “kingdom”.
Good grammar. No one knows what you were trying to say, ya simp
I think we should focus on the solar system for the next centuries, there are many moons to create settlements from and and a few planets we could actually terraform, after that we will have the tech to start thinking interstellar
Thank you for sharing 😀🙃💔💯
There's a huge gap in technological advancements between nuclear fission drive and an antimatter one. Like, with fission we can actually imagine how to build one, today, but with antimatter one we aren't anywhere close and is more along the lines of science fiction for now. I would imagine the much better tack is to invest in nuclear fusion drive as an interim if we are serious about it.
Ohhhh this should be good!!
I love learning about interstellar travel from a guy who pretends to be an engineer on TV!
Awesome thanks
Asteroid is valued at up to umpteen Trillin dollars… Only by idiots who assume that mining will cost nothing and that increasing the supply of barely in demand rare metal X won’t crash the price…
The cost of transport and mining will fall rapidly over time. Minerals will be introduced slowly, like De Beers does with diamonds.
Yes those NASA people must have done it on April 1st
The true value of anything mined off Earth is if industry that can use it is also up there or even local to source. It does highlight a major problem any talk of off world purpose has which is why? If there is no money and huge profit in it nobody will bother.
My thinking on that asteroid is big business down here would pay not to have it come down for the very reason it would destroy the delicate balance they control.
@@billweberx This is silly. Jewel grade Diamonds are a luxury good that have a high retail price (but are worth only a fraction of the price of you try to resell) because of that controlled supply. They contribute nothing, nada, to the functioning of the the productive economy. And if the supply increases even slightly - which is what will happen to rare metals mined in space - the price will fall. A lot. You can’t have increased supply and artificially maintained scarcity at the same time!
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It would be interesting building 1000 star ships as the improvements between the first and the last and how would you work on maintaining the differences for the passengers who gets the "old" ones and less features interesting
Have you ever flown on a plane with no seat back screens?
@@garikloran8175 yes
Cosmic rays really are an easily overlooked problem. Why so few thoughts on better shielding?
Someone has been watching th Expance. Bag of pipe dreams
Do you associate every idea with some silly show? Take a break from the TV
Says the theoretical physicist commenting from his couch eating Doritos
Says the guy with blue hair
Even the Expanse didn't have interstellar travel
Lol, says the guy with blue hair.
I'd lay off the pipe yourself, buddy.
I would be happy if spacex is able to go to the damn moon without 10 refuels and cost overruns. That would be a good starting point. The rest is typical musk fantasy blabla.
But im happy to be proven wrong.
Over all i would say im really into that stuff and i would love to see any of that, but if you dig a bit deaper and see what scientists are currently up to (spaceX or not), this idea sounds a bit silly... A nuclear fusion drive would probably be the closest bet to archive enough efficency to archive the needed speed, and even that in comparison "simpe" concept is incredible hard to archive... Man i dont dont think spaceX will archive any of that anytime soon.
Asimov wrote a story called The Martian Way which wasn't really about interstellar travel but the business of purpose of Mars. I don't think the goal should be travel but business and making things sustainable. The destination should be mining asteroids and harvesting minerals.
Orbits and EM spectrum are public goods. The only way SpaceX sees most of a 1 trillion dollar market is if they are able to maintain a monopoly where they are the only company allowed to use those public goods, privatizing them.
I would think it would be cool if Elon Musk narrates a Star Trek esque opening for a next SpaceX presentation.
What about the Mach Drive Engine!!??
It's being talked about as you post this.
And could move a huge ship with a relatively small reactor
Plus we will be using fusion soon!!
my idea is that different types of ships will be built. first earth orbit ships, second type tankers, third moon ships that can land on the moon so they do not have a heat shield. fourth mars ships that can also land but have a heat shield for mars .fifth are not actually ships, but ships can connect to them and then travel faster and further using nuclear power.
I so want in on all this
The future is bright but the path has yet to be lit.
Clearly, looks like marketing does the engineering at SpaceX 😂😂😂😂
SpaceX launches rockets since 2010 and never controlled anything outside of LEO.
The highest priority of the company is hype and spamming satelites into orbit.
I would be highly amazed if they are actually capable of landing somebody in Starship and the Mechazilla-chopstick-manouver
Epic! 😎
One thing that was not addressed in relation to faster than light travel. Notice that we appear to be zooming at incredible speeds past stars, nebula, planets, etc. How are we going to be able to navigate in faster than light travel without crashing into upcoming objects?
AS in.. antimatter, that of which we have barely seen it, and only mathematicians agree
The first colonisers of Mars my be Chinese . ."All your base belong to us!"
Can you make a video about the spacecraft we see in games like No Man Sky and Star Citizen. I am talking about the ones with four legs which can easily leave orbit and re enter easily
We have to remember that those are video games. In real life it doesnt work like that.
@@renetuuliranta they can make a more knowledgeable video about this topic then you just saying it doesn't work like that
@@pranjaydass6240 Sure. And who knows what we will have in the future 👍
@@renetuuliranta you are right
Well come back
I would miss the wind, our sky, the sea and all the wonderful life on Earth.
I reckon SpaceX will try for 75 to 100 launches per year & within 2 years SpaceX will try for 200 launches per year each from at least 5 & up to 20 launchpads for going to Mars. Even if SpaceX launches 20 Starships within one day or less & takes 2 days between repetitive launches it will take 10 days to put 100 Starships into orbit & it will take around 100 days or a little over 3 month's to put a thousand Starships into orbit to send to Mars.
Also There will need to be around 12 month's of launches every 2 days from 20 launchpads to take enough fuel into orbit to fill 1000 Starships to send to Mars which is what he is planning to do just to build a city there. But before all that can happen SpaceX will need to build up landing platforms, a fuel farm & temp buildings for the influx of possibly 100,000 people going to Mars on that trip. So making a Mars colony is a long way off, I would say that perhaps Elon's children or grandchildren will be in charge of all that progress.
You don't actually have to leave the solar system for our sun to appear like "nothing more than another speck of light in an infinite sky". It would look like that, from Pluto's orbit. Just saying...
Mega starship, dark matter, warp drive....What the hell was that?😅
SpaceX should create some type of structure in space. Where they can dock 6 or more Starships in circle and use its own thrusters to create artificial gravity. This would help on long trips for astronauts to stay healthy and safe. if anything goes wrong in any Starship they can just ditch it and transfer everything to another Starship and continue with their mission and also they can land multiple Starships anywhere in our solar system.
Edit.. Another thought came to my mind if they're gonna go nuclear propulsion. They should build the propulsion system in the center of the structure, so they don't have to beef up each starship from radiation inside.
Would subsurface mercury and venus have a habitable temperature like planets in the goldylocks zone?
Go Elon!
Small steps of proof will get us there. Reusable rockets are an example, Starlink is an example, the successive steps of Starship is an example. The more Elon and SpaceX state something, then see it through, the more investment and faith people will have just like building trust in any other way.
we already have the tech to go anywhere, sadly it locked away in the black budget. we could use the TR3B. made by Lockheed Martin
I dont think one million is necessary with enough robots 🤖
Nah,
Why are you speaking to interstellar travel?
A more tangible "100 year goal", on the colonization of Mars along with its initial government setup would make for a more interesting video.
On Mars...
What argriculture would work?
What technologies would dominate?
Laws and order.
Infrastructure building.
That would make a great topic covering the years 2050-2150.
lab grown meat can't afford space for massive freezers and gibes doctors stuff to do betweeen patiennt that everyone would care about and also an on going leveryone coversation topic of wnat meat do you want to have next, that would become what you grret those you do noy tlk to ofen about when you meet,
Vaulttec in space
Wouldn't it be better to build a city underground as Mars is bombarded by radiation, It would also be much warmer also saving on heating costs.
I am very optimistic that optimist is planned in the game of chess and originally being designed for Mars to start building the city!
1st would have to be a consolation of satellite communications between Earth and Mars...
2 learn how to get there and land....
3 send Optimus to explore, map out in human point of view.
4 materials & more Optimus.
5 animal & or human....
Maybe 🤔
Solar system is much more humble start
I expect that the first real interstellar colonial ships will be mobile Banks Orbitals pushed by focused light from the sun. These will be built in the Oort Cloud and moved to systems which are nudging close to Sol anyway...this will take some time to complete and Alpha Centauri won't be the first such target.
Eventually our descendants will simply move the stars as system sized ships.
Good if you can do it.
In dreams...
It would make more sense to send an unmanned mission to a planet with an AI that will seed the planet with genetic material for life.
The mind boggles..
I could see a future Starship variant with some type of new engine perhaps nuclear in nature.
Let them reach the moon first 🌕
How about a magnetically charged plasma that shot out the back like a railgun! And it pulses a purple beam every 20 seconds.
Is it just me or the thumbnail looks like the rocket from the movie 'away' from Netflix?????
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Fever dream
Elon Musk: Space Messiah
There's a lot of interesting details about how humanity might eventually travel beyond our solar system. Whether any particular corporation aspires to that task and the wealth that would accompany it? Not so interesting.
Whahhhhhhh says the baby 😂
Interstellar travel will require spaceships built in space. Maybe turn Pluto or something that size into a spaceship capable of supporting a human population for hundreds of thousands of years. That should be feasible once a space economy based on Mars becomes established. It would need nuclear power and propulsion. Maybe by then fusion power will be practical. I suspect anti-matter propulsion is not likely to be practical any time in the next dozen centuries or more. Similarly Alcubierre drive requires negative energy which is not accessible to anything we know about the laws of physics. Just ionizing and accelerating to near c a significant fraction of the mass of Pluto to accelerate it to (say) 10% of c seems like something that could be accomplished even with fission based nuclear reactors and would be relatively easy to do with fusion power. The only way humans could survive a trip at those speeds through the interstellar medium's rain of particles would be to have the mass of something like pluto between the side facing the direction of motion and the habitat of the crew.
Problem with Asteroid mining is economics. The value of a resource is determined by its relative scarcity. One thousand quadrillion dollars becomes pennies when the supply of those metals is multiplied by a thousand. Unless you are also engaged in future tech mega structure building on an extra planetary scale, what are you going to do with a hunk of antimony the size of Delaware?
Build interplanetary spaceships - the size of Delaware, out of glass.
@@jackreacher. Great goal for humanity but explain to me how the economics works.
@@ricosuave6898 Paul Thomas Anderson's, "There Will Be Blood", represents a paradigm for this type of economic upheaval. The guy who does it will refuse to even hear the yappy naysayers. Damn the cost. The Will to power can make it happen. My glass space ships and your antimony asteroid are imaginary seeds of inspiration which find fruition through the passage of time. Patience, weed hopper, will find you your impossibility.
Not sure if anyone has an. Idea of the order of magnitude we are talking here. Each launch of a starship would carry about the weight of a few pickup truck to Mars… so if you think about the millions of founds of gas to get a pickup to mars you get the picture of what we are talking here… even if it was 10 pickups then add the cost repairing the launch tower cost after each launch … 😂😂😂😂
Miles?! If you make a space channel you should adopt the IS units: this isolationist situation of the US still using nonsensical units while all the world is on another more scientific side is hilarious.
BTW it is a very speculative episode. One of the main point is time: time to obtain the technology, to finance it, and so on is not in the same ballpark of standard lifecycle of private companies. The missing piece is the role of public and politic efforts to higher aims. SpaceX can help but the main role should be played by NASA and ESA, which means people, not clever rich individuals
Yeah, let's see SpaceX catch up to where NASA and the Soviets were 60 yrs ago and then I'll take them seriously.
Starship "practicing" an orbital refueling by transferring fuel from one tank to another aboard the same spacecraft and calling that a successful test is so funny.
It's like if the first spacewalk just saw the astronauts vent the capsule but never leave their seats.
That's literally how the first spacewalk went though. Baby steps people
Transferring between tanks in 2 different spacecraft is only a small step beyond transferring between two tanks in one ship. Having 2 spacecraft meet each other in space and lock on is a solved problem. NASA has been doing that since the 60s.
@@bluesteel8376 You are completely true! Needing to vehicles anywhere is totally solved whether it be orbit or space or the atmosphere or the ocean even during storms
We still don't know enough about living on another planet and id be surprise if human presence is even pass the moon by 2100... Maybe we will be able to send human on Mars for a few days as soon as the race to land on Mars start but that's about it.
I am very skeptical that we will ever travel to another star. The challenges of that task are beyond enormous
Jip. Had the same thought. This is not possible with starship and conventional rocket engines
@@yotu9670 Haha, no. I do think we might explore the rest of the solar system but that will be it I think.
@@yotu9670 for sure
They used to say the human body could not survive speeds of more than 15 miles an hour and said trains would never take of
@@errolfoster1101 I think that is hard to compare to me saying that I think the probability of interstellar travel with humans (what I meant) is extremely low. If you go and watch some nerdy talks on the challenges of interstellar travel, I think you will agree with me.
the containment of anti matter particles around Jupiter using a magnetic scoop inside a container is a joke. I don't think we will be able to do that, because if we get near it than the particles react instantly with normal matter, so impossible to collect them ever… That is what I think about that. And the alcubiere drive is a joke too, because of the amount of needed energy (negative energy is never detected in the universe and exotic matter?? How can we create that and if yes how little we could produce, too little to power a space ship.) So the alcubiere drive is a pipe dream and will never be a reality!
needs one thing. speed
Check into DR White creating warp field bubble.
There are monumental problems that will need to be resolved for interstellar travel to become even remotely possible.
even if we could build a fusion powered ship with building sized ion engine that can reach lets say 10% the speed of light, it would still take approx 50 years to reach Alpha Century
and thats our nearest Star.
Then the ship would require shielding to protect it from the Interstellar Medium... Imagine a micro meteorite impacting the ship at 10% light speed... The ship would be incinerated in a multi mega tonne nuclear explosion.
The reality of interstellar travel will be something like the film Passengers. people spending Centuries in Cryogenic Sleep to reach a new world. People who will never be seen or heard off again once they leave Earth. There will be no communications, no help from Earth, once they leave they are on their own.
And thats just for starters. the list of hurdles that will need to be overcome is immense. As things stand right now Interstellar Travel is Centuries away....
With big subsidies from the Galactic Empire.