SPACE ELEVATOR

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In this episode we examine the concept of a Space Elevator, a popular piece of developing technology designed to lift people and cargo into space at a fraction of normal launch costs. We will look at technology as well as many of the misconceptions about Space Elevators which have emerged. "The physics of the space elevator", P. K. Aravind: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d402/ba5f97884b7398ae2a1ff79136f9c1a03993.pdf Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Support the Channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Visit the sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/upward-boundspace-elevators Cover Art by Jakub Grygier: https://www.artstation.com/artist/jakub_grygier

The first installment in a new series discussing alternative means of getting in space, from better rockets to massive structures like Space Elevators, Skyhooks, and Launch Loops. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Support the Channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Visit the sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/upward-bound-getting-into-space Cover Art by Jakub Grygier: https://www.artstation.com/artist/jakub_grygier Music by Intro/Outro: Sergey Cheremisinov "Sirius" Kai Engel "Endless Story about Sun and Moon" Koalips "Kvazar" Frank Dorittke "Morninglight" Kevin MacLeod "Spacial Winds"

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PEMBROKE, ONTARIO, CANADA — A Canadian space company wants to build a space elevator that reaches 20 kilometers high. The company is called Thoth and the concept is called the Thoth X tower. The idea is to build a tower with reinforced inflatable sections. The middle is hollow. An elevator car would encircle the tower until it reaches the top. Thoth estimates the tower would cost $5 billion to construct. As a demonstration project, it would build a precursor tower measuring 1.5 kilometers tall. One feature of the project is the wind farm about three quarters of the way up. The 50 turbines could produce 1 gigawatt of continuous energy. That’s enough to power about 700,000 homes. The main purpose of the tower is to provide a take-off and landing platform for spacecraft. If your aircraft takes off at a 20 kilometer altitude, you can get to space in a single stage without the need for additional fuel stages. Thoth estimates this would save 30% on energy costs. ----------------------------------------­--------------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter See a story that should be animated? Tell us about it! Suggest a story here: http://bit.ly/suggest-tomonews Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "Crying dog breaks the internet’s heart — but this sad dog story has a happy ending" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4prKTN9bYQc -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-

Astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson explains on the program NOVA ScienceNow how a Space Elevator could be constructed. You will see that travel from earth to space is possible through a space elevator. This future technology will change our ways by which we go to space. You will also be able to travel to space via this space elevator technology just by buying a ticket to space. In this video explore the potential of carbon nanotubes, whose strength and unique properties make them useful for a variety of applications. See animations of how carbon atoms bond to one another in different ways to make diamond, graphite, buckyballs, and nanotubes, and observe one method that is being researched to form and assemble carbon nanotubes into a long ribbon. Consider how a seemingly impossible application, such as an elevator from the surface of Earth to space, is now theoretically possible given this revolutionary new building material. It costs about $500 million to take the space shuttle out for a spin. But what if there was another way to get to space? And what if that way were as easy and as cheap as riding an elevator? Well, some people think this kind of trip might be possible someday, thanks to something known as the Space Elevator, a 22,000-mile-long cable that could lift people and payloads straight to outer space.

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Die European Space Elevator Challenge (EUSPEC) 2012 fand im Oktober 2012 an der Technischen Universität München (TUM) in Garching statt. Mehr Infos gibt es unter http://euspec.warr.de.

Die European Space Elevator Challenge 2011 fand im August 2011 an der Technischen Universität München (TUM) in Garching statt. Mehr Infos gibt es unter http://euspec.warr.de.

The third European Space Elevator Challenge will take place from September 12th to 15th, 2016 at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Teams have to build a climber that reaches the top of a 100 m rope, suspended from a gas balloon, while being as energy efficient and carrying as much payload as possible. For further information visit http://euspec.warr.de. Spectators are welcome! The competition is organized by WARR e.V., the Scientific Work Group for Rocketry and Space Flight at TUM, in cooperation with Vestner Aufzüge GmbH. Vestner Aufzüge: http://www.vestner.de Hochhinaus Luftwerbung: http://www.hochhinaus.de Linde: http://www.linde.de Aliens Bergsport: http://www.aliens-outdoor.de TENDON: http://www.mytendon.eu Güth & Wolf: http://www.gueth-wolf.de Teijin Aramid: http://www.teijinaramid.com Technische Universität München - Fakultät für Maschinenwesen: http://www.mw.tum.de Wiese Foto + Film: http://www.wiesefotofilm.de DGLR: http://www.dglr.de BESL Arbeitsbühnen & Stapler: http://www.arbeitsbuehnen-besl.de

Bill Nye answers a question submitted by Nick: is it possible to take two giant magnets and use the repulsion force between the two to lift objects into space? Do you want to ask Bill a question for a future "Tuesdays with Bill?" Click here to learn how to submit: (http://goo.gl/Joiqzo). Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/bill-nye-on-using-magnets-for-space-travel Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript - Nick: Nick here. I was wondering if it’s possible to take two giant magnets and use the repulsion force between the two to lift objects into space or can we set up stages along the way up and how that attraction and repulsion force send a type of space elevator up to the moon or anywhere we want to go. Let me know what you think. Bill Nye: Nick. It’s Nick for sure. And it’s magnets to create space elevator. So do I just start talking? We’re ready to go? Nick, Nick, Nick. This is an interesting question. Let me say though starting out we all when you play with magnets and you feel the repulsive force it seems strong. But notice that it acts over a very short distance. Just nominally it goes – it’s not perfect but you can estimate it by saying it goes off as the cube of the distance. So if you have magnets this far apart and you make them twice that far apart they only haven an eighth as much umph. So using a magnet to push things up as high as the atmosphere would take an enormously strong magnet and where would that energy come from? Read Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/uAQnVM.

Animation of ThothX space tower (US patent 9,085,897) featuring innovative elevator mounting method (US patent 9,403,607). "Elevator" song by UK band, Space Elevator (http://spaceelevatorband.com/), featuring the Duchess and David Young. Animation by Image-S media (http://image-s.ca/). For more information on Thoth Technology Inc. visit thothx.com (http://thothx.com).

Join the National Marrow Donation Program: http://join.marrow.org/practical Trying sometime a little different this time - animation. Thanks to my friend, James, for the idea. Diving into the "meat and potatoes" of engineering this literal stairway to the heavens: the Space Elevator. Hope you enjoy it! Don't forget to watch Kurzgesagt's excellent video on the Space Elevator here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPQQwqGWktE (Sorry for the jab guys!) They say the devil’s in the details, but that’s not really true for the space elevator. The biggest hang ups in this concept are the most fundamental aspects of its design: the mass of the counterweight, getting power to the climber, the strength of the tether. If it ever does happen, it will be creative and passionate engineers leading the way. Thanks for watching and let me know what you think! Website: http://practical.engineering Patreon: http://patreon.com/PracticalEngineering Music: RSF - Backfire (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dvHuTRBSa0) Sources: http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/472Edwards.pdf http://www.spaceward.org/documents/papers/SEFC.pdf http://www.spaceward.org/documents/papers/SEPSAO.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d402/ba5f97884b7398ae2a1ff79136f9c1a03993.pdf Errata: -The Clarke Belt is misspelled. -At 1:40 the earth is spinning in the wrong direction. -Kurzgesagt is misspelled.

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A Canadian company has been granted patents to realize a dream once relegated to science fiction. The ThothX Tower is a proposed space elevator with a seemingly plausible design that will be used to deliver astronauts into the stratosphere in order to make space flight all the more easier. And it will be open to tourists. Move over Babel, there's a new tower in town. Canada-based Thoth Technology was recently granted U.S. and U.K. patents for a space elevator reaching 12.5 miles into the sky.  The ThothX Tower is a proposed freestanding piece of futuristic, pneumatically pressurized architecture designed to propel astronauts into the stratosphere—where they can then be launched into space. The tower would also likely be used to generate wind energy, host communications technology and will be open to space tourists.  The goal of the tower is to reduce the inefficiency and cost of rocket flights launched from the ground, which space travel presently relies upon.  Brendan Quine, the inventor of the tower, told The Guardian, “Part of the limitation on space travel is the cost of getting to space. The tower could change space travel because professional rockets are very energy intensive and not very environmentally friendly.”  The proposed space elevator would be 20 times taller than the world’s tallest skyscraper in Dubai.

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(5 Nov 2009) SHOTLIST AP TELEVISION 1. Wide of (triangular) LaserMotive space elevator "robot" 2. Close of elevator NASA TV 3. Wide of elevator on test cable in air 4. Elevator descending as person comes out to meet it AP TELEVISION 5. Tilt down of elevator being weighed 6. Wide of team LaserMotive, Wednesday's winners 7. Mid of team UPSOUND (English) "Relief! Thank goodness." 8. Wide of Kansas City Space Pirates team in mobile lab NASA TV 9. Various of Space Pirates space elevator "robot" on test cable in air AP TELEVISION 10. Close of elevator after climb 11. Close of circuit board on elevator test vehicle 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Smith, Kansas City Space Pirates: "This is the way to do it because it will take... you can get to geosynchronous orbit for the same amount of energy as flying to Australia." NASA TV 13. Helicopter holding test cable (approximately 3500 feet)++MUTE++ 14. LaserMotive elevator reaching target, descending ++MUTE++ AP TELEVISION 15. Various of laser power module for LaserMotive elevator 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Williams, University of Saskatchewan space team: "Once we have got the technology for the lasers, and once we have pushed the technology for tracking and material science, the sky's the limit. Literally." NASA TV 17. Crew preparing to catch descending elevator AP TELEVISION 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Jordin Kare, Laser Motive: "Anybody who needs power in one place and can't run wires to it. We'd be able to deliver power to it." NASA TV 20. Tilt down elevator descending ++MUTE++ AP TELEVISION 21. Wide of LaserMotive trailer STORYLINE A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday (November 4, 2009) to qualify for prize money in a two (m) million US dollar competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators. The highly technical contest brought teams from Missouri, Alaska and Seattle to Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert, most familiar to the public as a space shuttle landing site. The contest requires their machines to climb 2,953 feet (nearly one kilometre) up a cable slung beneath a helicopter hovering nearly a mile high. LaserMotive's vehicle zipped up to the top in just over four minutes and immediately repeated the feat, qualifying for at least a 900-thousand US dollar second-place prize. The device, a square of photo voltaic panels about 2 feet by 2 feet (0.6 meters by 0.6 meters) and topped by a motor structure and thin triangle frame, had failed to respond to the laser three times before it was lowered, inspected and then hoisted back up by the helicopter for the successful tries. LaserMotive's two principals, Jordin Kare and Thomas Nugent, said they were relieved after two years of work. They said their real goal is to develop a business based on the idea of beaming power, not the futuristic idea of accessing space via an elevator climbing a cable. The contest demonstrates that beaming power works, Nugent said. "Anybody who needs power in one place and can't run wires to it, we'd be able to deliver power," Kare said. Earlier out on the lakebed, team member Nick Burrows had pointed out how it grips the cable with modified skateboard wheels and the laser is aimed with an X Box game controller. It had never climbed higher than 80 feet (24 metres) previously, he said. The day's competition began late after hours of testing the cable system, refuelling the helicopter and waits for specific time windows in which the lasers can be fired without harming satellites passing overhead. The Kansas City Space Pirates went first with a machine that initially balked but eventually began climbing. Keyword wacky You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/422641db37ee95b3259542838b2b7714 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

Elon Musk says a 3000 mile bridge across the Atlantic would be more realistic than an elevator to space. Elon Musk: "I mean I'd think it would be awesome if there was a space elevator, I wouldn't hold my breath. I mean, I don't think it's realistic, but I'd like to be proven wrong. I always think of like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when I hear the space elevator, you know. Cause people sort of meant it's like an elevator, you press up, and now you're in space. This is like a really - this is extremely complicated. Yeah, I'm not, I don't think it's really realistic to have a space elevator. Let me put it this way: At a point at which we have like a bridge to from L.A. to Tokyo, which I think is a much easier problem, then we, or you know how about across the Atlantic. You know like some sort of 2000 mile log bridge, or 3000 mile long bridge. You know something like that would be made of like carbon nano tubes. I don't think we have a carbon nano tube footbridge so far, let alone some enormous 60 000 mile long space elevator. Anyway, so I think we're - it's not the thing that I think makes sense right now, but if somebody could prove me wrong that would be great." See full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4DUbiCQpw_4#t=4248

Have you ever wondered how a space elevator would actually work? In this short talk, Oxford Physics student Ryan MacDonald discusses the physical principles underlying space elevator design and explores their significance in allowing readily available and cheap access to space. Filmed: Oxford University Physics Society - 26th February 2015.

Video streamed by http://www.AllthingsScience.com We Europeans must build space elevator first in EU (European Union) before USA. It's innovative and much much cheaper transportation to space than conventional unreliable rockets. When we build it, we will dominate the space and collonise the moon and Mars. Ribbon is build from supermaterial called nanotubes - atomically precise tubes, which weigh less and are 50 times stronger than steel. Space elevator will make it possible for everybody to get into the space. Based on european research of nanotechnology and testing in Germany. Building of space elevator in Europe, space elevator contest in California with european teams.

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Japanese company Obayashi has announced that they will have a space elevator constructed by 2050. The elevator will reach 96,000 kilometres into space and will transport people and cargo to a new space station. We look at the development of this futuristic technology, in this Lip News clip with Lissette Padilla and Gabriel Mizrahi. www.thelip.tv Newest Lip News playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGDXj-f6y8g&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGcjJDo6cQBCQprDMQyUQY3r&index=1 BUZZSAW interview clips - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3llKU3krFNg&index=1&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGeWhHPas6M9sKUhThquDNOc CRIME TIME clips playlist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STjWq4lUbg0&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGeC9DbpSnIvd2i9BHh2dBvv&index=1 BYOD (Bring Your Own Doc) Highlight Videos- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beeyZjk_W-0&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGeu2DCf6Ouo7hTsA5QB2MAL&index=1 MEDIA MAYHEM short videos playlist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV__TORzkCY&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGcz4un-zws5sMlCLk3NNjDP&index=1 https://www.facebook.com/thelip.tv http://www.youtube.com/theliptv

Obayashi, a big construction company in Japan, announced that they plan to have a working Earth to space station elevator completed by 2050. Spending 7 days confined in an elevator car with 29 other people may not sound like progress worth cheering about, but it just so happens that the lift in question is going to space. Obayashi Corporation, a large Japanese construction company, announced that they plan to have a working Earth to space station hoist completed by 2050. The idea of building such a machine isn’t new and was first suggested in the 19th century by a Russian scientist. So, what’s taken so long? Much of the delay has been due to the lack of a cable material strong enough to do the job. Recent developments in carbon nanotubes have proven promising, and the researchers at Obayashi believe that by 2030 it will be possible to fashion them into long ropes. The current record for cable length achieved with them is 3 centimeters. Advancements are already underway for several other aspects of the elevator as well. Each year universities across Japan tackle current problems and present possible solutions. Given the enormity of the project and its vast technological demands, a spokesperson for the company said a great deal of international support and participation will be needed.

With current space launch technology, eighty percent of a rocket's mass is fuel while the actual payload is only six percent. A great deal of monetary and energy resources are devoted to overcoming Earth's gravity. To send up one pound, it costs roughly ten thousand dollars. Eliminating the use of rockets to transport payloads to space could be both cost effective and environmentally friendly. One potential space transportation system to replace rocket technology is a space elevator. A space elevator is a physical connection from the surface of the Earth, at the equator, to a point in geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) approximately 35,786 kilometers above the Earth. The elevator's center of mass is placed at a point in GEO to allow the elevator to remain in phase with the same point on the Earth's surface. The purpose of building a structure of such extraordinary proportions is to provide a significantly cheaper and safer method for transporting both payloads and persons to space. If the space elevator is constructed, it would reduce the cost per pound by a factor of 1000. However, for it to be feasible, it requires cost efficient and high strength-to-weight materials that can withstand the many hazards associated with space. Given that most materials are either too dense or fragile, advances in materials are required to make elevator's construction a true possibility. With the advent of nanotechnology, scientists are claiming that the once fictitious project can now become a reality. Carbon nanotubes provide the tensile strength, lightness, and flexibility to build the tether for the space elevator. In recent studies, it has been shown that they are about 100 times stronger than steel and can stretch up to 14 percent before breaking. However, the challenge still remains of processing these carbon nanotubes to extend to macroscopic sizes. When chained together to form large bundles, the nanotubes lose some of their individual strength. To combat this, researchers are discovering new ways of processing this material to create a stronger structure. Carbon nanotubes have the real potential of bringing the space elevator to life and ushering in a new era of space exploration. Citations: Belluci, S. (2005). "Carbon nanotubes: Physics and applications". Physica Status Solidi (c) 2(1): 34-37. "Carbon Nanotube Bicycle Technology." N.p., n.d. Web. 05 May 2014. Meo, M.; Rossi, M. (2006). "Prediction of Young's modulus of single wall carbon nanotubes by molecular-mechanics-based finite element modelling".Composites Science and Technology 66 (11--12): 1597--1605. Kumar, Mukul, and Yoshinor Ando. "Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes: A Review on Growth Mechanism and Mass Production." Thesis. Meijo University, 2010. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 10 (n.d.): 3739-758. Print. Pugno, Nicola M. "On the Strength of the Carbon Nanotube- based Space Elevator Cable: From Nanomechanics to Megamechanics." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 33rd ser. 18 (2006): n. pag. Virgo. Web. 5 May 2014. Smitherman, D.V. "Space Elevators: An Advanced Earth-Space Infrastructure for the New Millennium." National Aeronautics and Space Administration 8 June 1999, n.pag. http://www.sciencebuzz.org/sites/default/files/images/carbon_nanotubes.jpg http://www.anff.org.au/micro-and-nano-fabrication/materials-node/chemical-vapour-deposition.html http://www.innovationintextiles.com/video-carbon-nanotube-fibre-breakthrough/ http://%3A%2F%2Flabs.cas.usf.edu%2Flamsat%2Ffacilities%2Ffacilities%2520-%2520deposition.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19nzPt62UPg http://www.russianspaceweb.com/tsiolkovsky_legacy.html http://www.lce.hut.fi/research/eas/nanosystems/proj_nanotubes/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwiXUAY2LuE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Types_of_Carbon_Nanotubes.png http://www.gizmag.com/threadlike-carbon-nanotube-fiber/25777/ http://www.space.com/14656-japanese-space-elevator http://news.rice.edu/2014/02/13/rices-carbon-nanotube-fibers-outperform-copper-2/ http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast07sep_1/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator http://www.bisbos.com/space_elevator.html http://lofi.forum.physorg.com/Space-Elevator-%28Beanstalk%29-Possible_19208.html http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_10.05.02_u http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/a-hoist-to-the-heavens http://www.gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/mimicking-gecko-feet/ http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=284153 http://www.wired.com/2009/03/nanomuscle/ http://en.clipdealer.com/preview/image/001/500/072/previews/5--1500072-Multi%20Walled%20Carbon%20Nanotube%20on%20White%20Background.jpg http://www.physnews.com/nano-materials-news/cluster456781896/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-QFj59PON4

A report from the from the International Academy of Astronautics claims we could feasibly have the first space elevators into Low Earth Orbit as soon as 2025, with more ambitious cables carrying 20 tonnes or so to geostationary orbit from 2035. The system could lift as much as a space shuttle every two days for a fraction of the cost, making missions to the moon and Mars, and extraterrestrial mining, more realistic. As promised, here's a link to our video five weirdest ways to get into space, which has a bit more info on space elevators: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHF7RqqOE6w Connect with This is Genius! https://www.facebook.com/thisisgenius - Facebook http://www.twitter.com/thisisgenius - Twitter http://www.google.com/+thisisgenius - Google+ This is Genius is a channel dedicated to experiencing the unusual side of life. Comedy, sketches and tongue-in cheek location reports from around the world. We use a lot of music by a chap called StoneOcean, a little label for him appears in our videos when we do. Like his stuff? Check out his channel. StoneOcean's music: www.stoneocean.info StoneOcean's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/RatedmusicOfficial Check out some of our other videos: http://bit.ly/17XvmhO -- We get our skate on with Nitro Circus http://bit.ly/17WrAQr -- Flying a helicopter with your brain. And no hands. http://bit.ly/1au5kBI -- How many pegs can I fit on my face? http://bit.ly/1hiqln1 - What's it like to be 80 for the day? http://bit.ly/17UnFXE -- We went to actual Tokyo to be actual Samurai's with the actual green power ranger. Looking for the old This is Genius? Ok, here you are: http://bit.ly/195Zhzb -- That was Genius 2012 http://bit.ly/1jKjFeo -- That was Genius late 2011 http://bit.ly/1jKjGPt -- That was Genius early 2011 http://bit.ly/Ih6WEp -- That was Genius late 2010 http://bit.ly/1dB3F0O -- That was Genius early 2010

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Launching stuff into space is expensive. A space elevator would make it cheap and easy for humans to carry stuff into space. In this video I talk about the technical challenges of building such an elevator.

Liftport, a company dedicated to building a space elevator has announced plans to build a space elevator on the Moon by 2019, is this possible? In this video, we explain not only why it is possible but also why it is a better option to build one on the Moon. Lift port website: http://liftport.com/ Engadget article: http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/09/moonshots-kickstarting-the-next-chapter-of-space-exploration/ YouTube LSEI video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9XVHhkWxpI Universe Today article: http://www.universetoday.com/68840/developers-say-lunar-elevator-could-be-built-within-a-decade/ If you like our content, like our Facebook page to see behind the scenes footage, promotional art and much more: https://www.facebook.com/Redblackproductions1

Film chronicle of SPEC2013 5th Space Elevator Challenge conducted on August 7th - 10th 2013 at Shizuoka in Japan. Tethered balloon system reached the maximum height 1,200 m. Climber succeeded to ascend and descend up to 1,100 m height on tether.

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Markus Landgraf is mission analyst at the European Space Agency ESA in Darmstadt/Germany. His is always looking for technologies that will open new doors to space. In his talk he explains how to get to space via elevator. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

So, I've had a few people suggest I build a space elevator, not all of them seriously I should add, so I decided to address this suggestion.

This is the basic model of the Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure. We call it LSEI or "Elsie" for short. The system can be constructed within 8 years, using current "Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) technology. Enjoy -Chris Maddox Videographer/Kickstarter Fulfillment Manager/Personal Assistant http://bit.ly/liftport_elevator - LiftPort's Homepage http://bit.ly/LiftPort_Facebook_Page - LiftPort's Facebook Page http://bit.ly/Elsie_Facebook - Elsie's (Our Mascot) Facebook Page http://bit.ly/Michael_Laine_Facebook - Michael Laine's Facebook Page http://bit.ly/Chris_Maddox_Facebook - Chris Maddox's Facebook Page http://bit.ly/LiftPort_Group_Google_Plus - LiftPort's Google Plus Homepage http://bit.ly/Michael_Laine_Google_Plus - Michael Laine's Google Plus Homepage http://bit.ly/Chris_Maddox_Google_Plus - Chris Maddox's Google Plus Homepage http://bit.ly/LiftPort_Linkedin - LiftPort's Linkedin Homepage http://bit.ly/Michael_Laine_Linkedin - Michael Laine's Linkedin Homepage http://bit.ly/Chris_Maddox_Linkedin - Chris Maddox's Linkedin Homepage http://bit.ly/LiftPort_Twitter - LiftPort's Twitter Homepage http://bit.ly/Michael_Laine_Twitter - Michael Laine's Twitter Homepage http://bit.ly/TheOnlyMaddox_Twitter - Chris Maddox's Twitter Homepage http://bit.ly/AboutMJL - Michael Laine's Aboutme Homepage http://bit.ly/Chris_Maddox_Aboutme - Chris Maddox's Aboutme Homepage

Hank talks about space elevators, and why we shouldn't expect to see one any time soon. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow References for this episode can be found in the Google document here: http://dft.ba/-33cf

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Space Elevator Concept (NASA ANIMATION)

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This is a promotion of Space Elevator game in Japan. JSETEC : Japan Space Elevator Technology & Engineering Competition. Mr. Takahiko Kamata produced this movie based on scenes of JSETEC 2011 on Aug. 2011. I appreceate him and Mr. Devin who check the English translated captions. Please enjoy this video and feel free to inquire us about the Space Elevator activities in Japan/Asia. Shuichi Ohno Chairman JSEA

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After successfully participating in international events, we decided to bring a Space Elevator competition to Europe. European Space Elevator Challenge 2011 took place on August 20 and 21 at TUM Campus Garching. For more information visit http://eusec.warr.de.

The Space Elevator uses an accelerometer to keep the car balanced to avoid the ribbon to get stuck.

Now that the shuttle has been retired, the hunt is on for revolutionary technologies to economically lift cargo and humans into space. And a space elevator just may be the answer. According to renowned physicist Michio Kaku, recent developments in nanotechnology may make this technological marvel a reality by the end of this century. Images Courtesy of NOVA (WGBH), NASA and The Space Elevator Visualization Group

The science behind the space elevator fiction. For more facts refer to EuSEC 2011 - European Space Elevator Challenge http://eusec.warr.de/?idea organized by DGLR student group WARR http://www.warr.de The competition takes place from 19th to 21th of August 2011 at Technische Universitaet Munich (TUM), Garching Campus, Germany. For information on the previous science fiction vision, refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise . "The Fountains of Paradise" is an Award-winning 1979 novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator. This "orbital tower" is a giant structure rising from the ground and linking with a satellite in geostationary orbit.