2:39 That reference made me snort out my coffee. Totally didn't expect it.
@ibrahimtouman2279
6 жыл бұрын
Anyone who played Metal Gear Solid will understand it :)
@lezbeun903
5 жыл бұрын
I CLAPPED WHEN I HEARD THE NOISE, I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!
@halfofabucket1346
4 жыл бұрын
I saw that before.
@odenness
8 жыл бұрын
isn't it funny how me will technically be sailing in space just like how we sail on the sea and travelled the unknown sees in the first-place, except wind will now be photons aha!!
@fudgedogbannana
3 жыл бұрын
What will we use in place of limes?
@andrewreynolds912
Жыл бұрын
Well did you know the sci fi audio book the sojourn is based on sailing? I think you should watch it! You'll love it! Include theirs lore and stuff on YT and such and their dis'cor'd and web'site it's on Go'ogle books and such
@DanielFenandes
8 жыл бұрын
visuals are outstanding
@maddin4j
8 жыл бұрын
The art, animation, and explanation in this video are amazing!
@flawlessking99
4 жыл бұрын
4:02 that sounded scary!!
@hellocatz7482
8 жыл бұрын
Guys, skip this weird Time Dilation stuff and just build a Tardis.
@stm7810
8 жыл бұрын
+Hellocatz a TARDIS isn't built, it is grown! It isn't just some machine.
@hellocatz7482
8 жыл бұрын
oh my gosh i forgot! sorry.
@stm7810
8 жыл бұрын
Hellocatz I only know because I am a nerd and I was part drunk.
@hellocatz7482
8 жыл бұрын
Sebastian McIntyre i should have really known that because my bother is SUPER in to it.
@joeo6378
8 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. biggest issue I see with the laser array idea is everything is a 1 way trip. :)
@joeo6378
8 жыл бұрын
unless you sent a laser array first or soon after.
@Thought-Cafe
8 жыл бұрын
+Joe Olenick Thanks! We have discussed the one-way trip issue and it's exciting to think about the possible solutions.
@cybertronian9909
8 жыл бұрын
Unless, you used the ships to break down material at their destination and use that to create laser arrays to send them back.
@poodtang1
7 жыл бұрын
That's what I was thinking too. Then you could just re-use the same ship.
@Dazice
7 жыл бұрын
its also worth noting that when the probe reaches alpha centauri that it will need to SLOW DOWN thats gonna be really hard at 25% light speed!
@vvolfbelorven7084
8 жыл бұрын
That FTL reference! Really cool to have those in the video!
@tibees
7 жыл бұрын
I sent this video to my little brother because i want him to become interested in physics like I am. However it's hard to compete with social media for his attention. I'm really interested in science communication but seems like I can only reach people who have already decided for themselves to become interested.
@WAVEZCLUB
3 жыл бұрын
I hear you loud and clear I struggle with the same problem
@IstasPumaNevada
8 жыл бұрын
FTL, Adventure Time, Metal Gear, Wilhelm Scream... So many references! Also very cool video. :)
@HoshouNeko
8 жыл бұрын
+IstasPumaNevada oh my glob!
@jiblyjulienjj
8 жыл бұрын
Let's stop putting our resources into making Donald trump merchandise and start funding the fuck out of Nasa
@liammorrison6492
8 жыл бұрын
Hilary Clinton will fund NASA... just saying.
@_jmsci_594
7 жыл бұрын
and 5 months later are both of you just as much hillary and trump supporters and before
@kedityt
7 жыл бұрын
Fund NASA they'll merge with those companies and create one super space company
@kedityt
7 жыл бұрын
Good point. I really want them to though.
@JohnusSmittinis
7 жыл бұрын
So aka, you want us to tax people more (which are already doing not so great) to fund NASA, so that we could possibly reach a star one day.... for what reason? How about let's use the money and give it to the poor, or back to the tax payers to increase the economy.
@ireneyang5568
8 жыл бұрын
Yes! Finally you guys uploaded another video!
@ColossalCake
8 жыл бұрын
Very smoooooooth animations
@jeromeorji1057
8 жыл бұрын
Someone at Thought Café likes their space lumpy.
@DogWick
8 жыл бұрын
No Mans Sky reference 2.43 :)
@Thought-Cafe
8 жыл бұрын
+Shawn Pool It was originally going to be a Borg ship, but we thought something more recent would be better.
@TurnOntheBrightLights.
8 жыл бұрын
+Shawn Pool Also a MGS alert sound!
@DogWick
8 жыл бұрын
Thought Café I love all the little easter eggs in your videos there fun to spot.
@SALSN
8 жыл бұрын
+Shawn Pool I only caught the FTL reference :-P
@feldmarschallvonbraunschwe4463
8 жыл бұрын
+Simon Als Nielsen nope i did
@yucas997
6 жыл бұрын
This laser propulsion system seems awesome!! I hope so much that someone, public or private, will try to built this tiny exploring ship as soon as possible!! This way we could really explore, at least visually, the universe around us. :D
@mateo02_
2 жыл бұрын
fr tho
@WestSeaSpirit
4 жыл бұрын
2:38 METAL GEAR SOLID sound effect lmao 😂
@-se
8 жыл бұрын
The phased laser array idea is giving me nerdgasm.
@movvaharshasai9
7 жыл бұрын
Really awesome animation !! with real good info put into it !! keep up the good work.
@icwiz
8 жыл бұрын
25% of light speed in 10 min??! The G forces would turn the micro-craft into vapor.
@icwiz
8 жыл бұрын
There is nothing currently available that could handle that. Not even carbon nanotubes or graphene.
@icwiz
8 жыл бұрын
hyperdiamond is believed to be as hard as diamond but with better wear resistance. Lets say you can make the body of the little space craft out of this material. You still have to worry about the softer components, like lenses, ccds, sensors, etc. All of that would have to be able to withstand those colossal forces. Im not saying this isnt possible, its just that the people involved are making it seem like its something doable now. The tech to do this is still very far off. What about star dust erosion on the sail or the craft? at 25,000km/sec it would be significant.
@niboe1312
7 жыл бұрын
An easy solution is to just have the lasers be less powerful, have fewer lasers, or have the lasers flash on and off with a pattern to get slower acceleration
@icwiz
7 жыл бұрын
That would then not be 25% of c in 10 mins. By using fewer lasers or intermittently, there is less acceleration. I was pointing out that this video didn't address the obvious problems with accelerating that fast.
@niboe1312
7 жыл бұрын
icwiz Ah, okay
@futurebillionairbitch6289
7 жыл бұрын
Man I saw a FTL reference That was the starting ship Also that game was so hard I never finished it
@janusmarais7580
7 жыл бұрын
Mid Ller same here
@stanleyinouye9824
4 жыл бұрын
Yes bro the Kestrel
@gruffgruff92
8 жыл бұрын
i like that the FTL ship "the kestrel" was featured kudos to you
@TheAIKnowledgeHub
8 жыл бұрын
Overall this is a great video, and I love the animation style. I wish I was able to hire someone to do that type animations for some of my technology videos. Anyways, a few things are off on this video. I got a degree in Aerospace, and I have a background with NASA before the man spaceflight went away. There is a lot of people at NASA that thinks it is possible to travel faster than light. You simply won't be able to see the object, and might not even be able to measure it due to the speed. A lot of these people will point out how back in the day they use to think you can only go up to 60 mph, then it was 100 and something, and now the speed the speed of light. A side from the speed of light one, each time the number only increased because something did go faster than that speed. (It's been pointed out math is highly unreliable on these types of subjects. Mathematically, elephants should be able to fly due to the surface area. In fact, mathematically you should explode if you go 60 mph in a tunnel (This actually was pushed as facts when trains were first coming about) That being said, mathematically, a warp drive is possible.) Keep in mind, all of that is theoretical. One of the places the video got it wrong is 1:35 It's not an infinite amount of energy. It's the object of mass will have an infinite amount of drag going such speeds. Everything else is spot on.
@realsammyt
8 жыл бұрын
+Tech Reviews and Help Thanks for sharing that very valuable information. This is my fav part "Keep in mind, all of that is theoretical."
@TheAIKnowledgeHub
8 жыл бұрын
Tyler Sammy That's a big thing they were pushing into us when we were in school and when I was at NASA. A lot of this stuff is purely theoretical and can't be proven one way or another at this time. Most of it works, and the theory is just there to explain a possible reason why something works, or in this case a possible limitation. I think the reason why NASA and my schools were pushing that into us is because the information you learn could be wrong, and you need to be able to look up the info to make sure it's still the common belief, or if someone proved it wrong. Sadly, most people don't see a lot of this as theories, and treats almost all major theories as facts. This in itself can and has caused some major problems.
@realsammyt
8 жыл бұрын
+Tech Reviews and Help So true. We should always be reminded that the current theories of how things work should never hold us back from finding new ways to interpret and understand the universe.
@tibees
7 жыл бұрын
I also wish I had animation capabilities for my science videos. But I don't really have time to learn it at the moment so have settled for just focussing on my words for now
@delatorrecaleb
7 жыл бұрын
NASA has an inertia accelerator. A "kenitic drive." a primitive WARP Drive. A pinball machine type spring and ball that "pushes" objects to lightspeed or faster. FUNDING THOUGH EHHH
@NigraXXL
8 жыл бұрын
I just realized I was subscribed to this channel.
@rafaellewis1263
8 жыл бұрын
Awesome Shining easter egg at 1:41
@Barfigarfi
2 жыл бұрын
I love science and struggle to understand it when explained this video explained it so well
@gamezoid1234
8 жыл бұрын
Sending something like that into orbit sounds REALLY impractical. I feel like it would be better to have it on the moon, which would remain stationary, and you know, have gravity.
@Anjello
8 жыл бұрын
but then it would rotate with the moon
@gamezoid1234
8 жыл бұрын
+Alphys yeah, and if it was in orbit it would be behind the earth for half the time. and if you placed the array at one of the poles you wouldn't have to worry about it being behind the moon, not to mention it would be way easier to repair and set up a power source on the moon where there's gravity.
@4Nicholas7
8 жыл бұрын
In orbit it would also rotate around the earth, did they already account for that?
@Anjello
8 жыл бұрын
Jacob Collier yes putting it on the poles will help but bringing the array to the moon is less cost effective then just putting it in orbit.
@IstasPumaNevada
8 жыл бұрын
+Jacob Collier Lasers don't need gravity to function. The acceleration of the tiny probes would only take 20 minutes and low-Earth-orbit is ~90 minutes, so the laser station would be well within view of the probe it's launching for the entire acceleration. And bringing equipment to the Moon's surface is more costly than leaving it in Earth orbit, because you have to fight the Moon's gravity well to land on it (and you have to fight Earth's gravity to get it to the Moon).
@BoStErO1905
8 жыл бұрын
Make him stay Murph!
@8jallin97
8 жыл бұрын
S......T.......A.......Y COOP
@anthoninealexis
8 жыл бұрын
omg love that movie
@Johnykil
8 жыл бұрын
Great video! Have you considered adding an option for the community to add captions ? I could translate into Czech and I'm sure there's more people that would love to translate aswell. Thanks alot!
@didjeri
8 жыл бұрын
OMG Metal Gear! There you go! Instant Sub! Keep up those animations, they're amazing :D
@anjoujedido
8 жыл бұрын
2:40 nicely done
@MuhammadAliGOAT
3 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who thinks its crazy how Einstein's work (a man who has long passed away) still continues educating, surprising, compelling, astonishing and setting the foundation for every new era of people from BEFORE his own time and ever SINCE his own time?
@theevilwithin8946
10 ай бұрын
No.
@Kalydosos
6 жыл бұрын
Informative, great video after watching a bit disappointed I can't take a trip in the Enterprise D to look around even our own solar system.
@icancook5898
5 жыл бұрын
You literally gave me so much HOPE with that laser tech thing😭
@whartox
7 жыл бұрын
Props for the Mae Jemison reference!
@TacticalMetalJoegaming
8 жыл бұрын
2:42, GOD DAMN IT SEAN! MURRAY!
@allanlevysoundmusicandpost3213
8 жыл бұрын
Loving this fam!
@elliottmcollins
8 жыл бұрын
"Some challenges remain". So many optimistic ways of saying we have no idea how this would work.
@IstasPumaNevada
8 жыл бұрын
+Elliott Collins We have ideas, it just involves developing technology we already have the basis for.
@MuhammadAliGOAT
3 жыл бұрын
There's always going to be a Murph that will come along, long after we are all gone and come up with a simple idea and resolution to our entire current ways of space travel. Just like the creators of the first airplane, space shuttle, ship, submarine and car.
@Graphicbuddy101
7 жыл бұрын
I like the most is crash course astronomy. As I got lot of information with cool animation .Thanks for that .And I have a request to make more videos on that. Or any other astronomy related videos . Thanks once again
@ulf___
8 жыл бұрын
Thats freaking awesome. Solar sail!!!
@NukeMarine
8 жыл бұрын
Great video if only for the last part about phased laser arrays. That immediately made the most sense as something feasible and functional even in solar system travels. Having the arrays in space means one can use a solar collection device that is powered by the high energy particles of the Sun (the stuff the Van Allen belt tends to protect us from on the surface). Put an array at Earth orbit and one around Mars orbit and now there's a quick transport system. Obviously far distant tech, but better than trying to explain fantasy tech like warp drives and worm holes.
@burniesandwich2257
8 жыл бұрын
I loved your video with ASAP science!
@West996
8 жыл бұрын
explain what happens to a human body travelling that fast. Are there other concerns? Do we survive? Despite time dilation, what about radiation build up from travelling that fast? What kind of impact would particle sized space debris have on the ship? Or do we need to invent a deflector dish too?
@chaseis1badmonkey
8 жыл бұрын
+West996 All shit that's still being worked on. No one's sure how much damage small particle collision will cause during interstellar travel, or how you would block all the radiation coming through the ship and it's passengers. Those are even concerns in interplanetary travel, just getting to Mars.
@michaeldebidart
3 жыл бұрын
The laser arrays kind of give off a mass relay vibe
@Peanut_butter17
6 жыл бұрын
This video makes me depressed, "born to late to explore the world but to early to explore the galaxy".
@Romski027
4 жыл бұрын
I hope I live to see anything like this
@jameswaber6566
8 жыл бұрын
People do realize we do at least have interstellar probes already right? The Voyagers still work
@EATEROFNOOBZ
8 жыл бұрын
Amazing as always
@zexorx9157
3 жыл бұрын
I wish to be reborn in 2000 years while I have my memory right now
@ciarachisholm5788
8 жыл бұрын
That was incredible!!!!
@kevindavis1484
8 жыл бұрын
Neat. AsapScience brought me here.
@ibanix2
8 жыл бұрын
I just posted to +1 the FTL reference. Nice.
@ibanix2
8 жыл бұрын
+ibanix2 Hah, and wilhiem scream at 4:00
@seanpecson5475
8 жыл бұрын
Which is better this one or "in a nutshell"?
@kattenelvis1778
8 жыл бұрын
Yes
@nemoyang7461
4 жыл бұрын
in my opinion, the reason why travelling as fast as the speed of light is impossible is that, with the faster speed, time slows down, and, when approaching the speed of light, say e-1^-100, time slows down significantly, and, as speed gradually approaches light-speed, time shall slow down, or stop, while you shall travel to the end of existence, trillions upon trillions of millenniums after the heat death the universe, and, in my opinion, at that time, time would be meaningless. so that, Lim V->E VT. please point out the problems or improvement for my argument. :)
@NoName-hg6cc
3 жыл бұрын
Actually Universe is expanding faster. So you will never reach the dark age or the end of all. IF that's how it eeally ends
@jameshaywood2288
7 жыл бұрын
2:31 Hold up, isn't that The Kestrel from FTL Faster Than Light
@janusmarais7580
7 жыл бұрын
finally someone who realised i thought i was the only one
@hitlikemagic1276
6 жыл бұрын
Well, that laser wouldn’t work as well for human spaceships. Theoretically speaking, even if we made a laser array so big that we can go to mars, how would we get back?
@SannevanSchie
8 жыл бұрын
I've seen more articles about laser propulsion but they never answer this question: how would one get back to earth if the lasers being fired FROM the earth..?
@entreri76x
4 жыл бұрын
The problem with the light sail idea is , we certainly could launch something to a destination, but we would need the same kind of laser array system at that point to launch the probe back to earth . Honestly I think there is something that we’re missing . There has to be a more logical way to accomplish this . One day ..perhaps , it will fall on our lap.
@vheinrichxiii
8 жыл бұрын
POPPP! that was my brain exploded
@budderdtoast8458
8 жыл бұрын
Fun fact the fastest OBJECT ever was a sewer cover over a under ground nuclear test site, a normal camera caught it for I believe to be 2 frames but don't quote me on any of that
@IsysKopfparty
8 жыл бұрын
cool channel! :) It's good to push something more meaningful.
@mihailazar2487
8 жыл бұрын
That Stephen Hawking drawing is so cute
@redflare7051
8 жыл бұрын
OMG you're too good, awesome videos
@abeefab4572
7 жыл бұрын
this question has been in my head for ages. thanks for the answer! ❤️
@nonexistence1836
8 жыл бұрын
Adventure time~
@vkcintas
7 жыл бұрын
I like the fact that the spaceship used here is the Kestrel from FTL. Were the hell did they get that from? 2:30
@DanielFenandes
8 жыл бұрын
same for sound
@jerrybarnette3864
2 жыл бұрын
So we launch 40,000 small projectiles at our neighbors, at the speed of light, with no way to slow down? Lol intergalactic war here we come
@caulfield2106
6 жыл бұрын
Stephen Hawkins one of the most logic person the human race has ever had... Goodbye man.
@aliqatishat3790
8 жыл бұрын
Loved it!
@alexiapri
5 жыл бұрын
that's incredible. Absolute genius.
@Dcook85
7 жыл бұрын
Um okay, so say you send off a shuttle to another galaxy with this laser array, how is it going to "stop" when it gets there. That would be like trying to slow down a shuttle re-entry with a bottle rocket.
@annonperson3337
8 жыл бұрын
Wow - very well made!!
@tomray8765
2 жыл бұрын
It wont be by SPEED, but by a "Physics Shortcut"---Such as space warping or "space Jumping"---without the time disruptions or energy problem.
@unimpressedlion1904
8 жыл бұрын
1:50 Lumpy Space Princess
@flatearthnews7904
3 жыл бұрын
2:39 hey that looks similar, it reminds me of NMS I think it was on the game cover but I haven’t seen it for a few weeks and my memory is bad
@Novacification
8 жыл бұрын
Great video. I just want sci-fi level space travel without any downsides! Get cracking, people! K thx bye!
@onyxbones2525
8 жыл бұрын
Finally!
@satomi7230
6 жыл бұрын
it seems to me that, regardless of engineering challenges around propulsion and acceleration, there is also a practical limit to how fast we’d WANT a probe to travel before the effects of Time Dilation get in the way of obtaining results. maybe someone better at physics can correct me, but it seems that you’d want to identify a top end speed that is just right to allow the scientists asking the question to get answers before they die. if the craft is too slow, it simply takes too long to get there, so the scientist dies before a message back is ever sent. if the craft is too fast, there is too much time dilation, so even though the craft gets to the destination very fast (in its frame of reference), the time elapsed on earth is very great due to dilation, so the scientist is also dead before receiving a message. some rough calculations look to me like this optimum speed is about 70% of the speed of light.
@andreysantiago
8 жыл бұрын
Great video
@AlabamaElevators
7 жыл бұрын
Me: bye guys I'll be back tommorrow *1 day later* Me: I'm back! People: thought you would arrive back 2 days ago
@fraggs1390
6 жыл бұрын
Traveling at light speed sounds like time travel
@thesunexpress
2 жыл бұрын
It wasn't Einstein, rather the Lorentz Transformations that revealed time dilation properly, Poincaré named it after Hendrik Lorentz. Einstein in fact wrongly asserted dilation effects would occur between observers on the equator & the North/South poles.
@ujjwalchopra3528
7 жыл бұрын
The animation in so awesome. How do u make the animation??👌
@dismoica7617
8 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! I have kind of a weird question... your backgrounds and graphics in general are beautiful, how do you do it? How much time does it take, how big is your team etc etc... a Thoutght Café making of would be awesome!
@Thought-Cafe
8 жыл бұрын
Hi! Thanks for the suggestion, we'd love to make a behind-the-scenes video soon!
@sachinruparelia
5 жыл бұрын
This stuff is fascinating
@KorAllRBare
6 жыл бұрын
Using such a laser Array is quite brilliant, but the power required is still a damn sight more than simply cycling several sections of a space freighter in a sequence to their electromagnetic fields phase. "Think Rail Gun" Having at any given time, most of the bulk of the freighter tied electromagnetically together as a main mass, So that a section which is switched out of phase can be repulsed to accelerate forward and towards the leading section/s, And yes acceleration can be quite intense initially, but once maximum velocity is attained, no more energy used, "acceleration/deacceleration energy can be obtained via solar arrays" only directional navigation will be needed, and even with navigation, much the same principles can be applied, so use of energy would be at minimal. To slow down the freighter, the whole process is to simply accelerate the sections backwards.. It seems absurd, but with the right timing acceleration BTW can be demonstrated by using a toy train "via their shunts or connections removed and then first and last sections tied together via a flexible tether traced through the mid sections so that each section is allowed efficient acceleration" and yes it's all in the timing, that has the whole damn thing with an amazing acceleration..
@dannyr9703
7 жыл бұрын
If only everyone could come together to make space travel possible.
@xefair7959
8 жыл бұрын
The laser space thing will take 2200 years to launch a fully loaded (including humans?) space craft to Alpha Centauri. The "Much Bigger one" I would say would take 20 years for a fully loaded to send to Alpha Centauri. But according to my calculations, If 20 years is what It takes for a fully loaded aircraft, then traveling to mars would take 3 minutes on a fully loaded craft.
@darrenstyle8995
7 жыл бұрын
good work einstein!
@ChrisToups
8 жыл бұрын
At 2:27 is the Kestral from FTL
@marcpacheco6271
6 жыл бұрын
This information is on the Book of Stephen Hawkins "A brief History Of Time" and more, I read the book myself.
@Team-kd3fz
7 жыл бұрын
Trappist 1 solar system was just discovered... I really hope we can get the speed of light.
@damagicveggi
8 жыл бұрын
FTL reference 2:26
@TheOnlyUmbrilla
7 жыл бұрын
Soon, Starbound will become a reality.
@haydenlancaster9237
8 жыл бұрын
Would the paper clip sized probe reach Alpha Centauri in 20 years our time, or with time dilation as a factor.
@jcorbiere
8 жыл бұрын
I don't think Time dilation would be a factor for the probe other than in it's clock... Time dilation even affects our GPS satellites orbiting earth. Even at that distance their speed forces their clocks to be wound down a small fraction to be in synch with us on earth. This would be even more intense for these probes, but again wouldn't affect a living being.
@theshark84724
6 жыл бұрын
They don’t consider that you have to slowly increase the speed with humans on board and there’s a limit for electronics too. And when you’re half way there, it starts to slowly decelerate. That probably at least doubles the light speed travel time. You can’t just start right at light speed. You don’t want the acceleration for people to be more than 1x earth’s gravity so people could live on the rear of the ship, with many floors, like a tall building. And then live on the “ceiling” when it starts to decelerate. I’m sure there’s a lot I don’t know too.
@torpedomygweedo
8 жыл бұрын
ASAPScience sent me.. im staying
@jennythik2220
8 жыл бұрын
About 5 years ago I seen a red dot in the sky just still then suddenly it took off leaving a red streak in the sky
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