oh damn! I'm 29, however I feel so blue watching this video beacause I know that I won't live the years enough to see something like this with my own eyes.
@olesteynak6065
10 жыл бұрын
We need this asap to ensure the survival of our species even if earth goes boom.
@nightlightabcd
5 жыл бұрын
You are assuming that we would not take our "boom" with us!
@TalkingAboutYooh
5 жыл бұрын
There would have to be a hell of a lot of engineering in the making of that river to keep it from turning into one huge lake.
@e4arakon
2 жыл бұрын
maybe I didn't get the irony, or there just wasn't any. Yes, with the rotational speed shown, it likely would, though you know the concept of creating 'artificial' gravitiational pull, right? no disrespect, just wanna make sure
@MartianStories
12 жыл бұрын
This really is a gorgeous animation. You should make a feature-length animated sci-fi film.
@EmperorOfMars
12 жыл бұрын
Oh that's easy, the space station is shaped like a wheel and spun to produce centrifugal force. It simulates gravity well enough to allow long term human habitation of space.
@centaurusa99764
10 жыл бұрын
Maybe the giant space habitat could be made to travel back and forth to Mars and back in a 16 month period.Technology could allow it to move out to the solar system by 2140, making every ones dream to go out and visit other planets in are solar system.
@PersonOfBook
10 жыл бұрын
Great idea indeed.
@caav56
6 жыл бұрын
A.K.A. Cycler.
@CarFreeSegnitz
4 жыл бұрын
Aldrin cycler... Buzz Aldrin, second man on the Moon, spent part of his post-Apollo career working out the math for it.
@111zen111
11 жыл бұрын
I had a dream about something like this a while back, very good.May I ask what kind of software did you use to create this amazing work?
@fmsynths83
12 жыл бұрын
You have a very positive point of view, I hope to see something like that, and also I would like to live for many years more, one day the wars on the earth will finally stop and then the cientists will have the economical support enough to make a real strong advance on the cience and the developing of space programs and why not, they could start to build an experimental space habitat like the wonderful one that we watch in this video. Totaly agree.
@r0l3kr0l3k
10 жыл бұрын
Cool concept, but you spelled 'year' wrong... lol
@leerman22
9 жыл бұрын
Building this thing in orbit around the moon would be a lot easier than around earth. You would have to have a sustainable mining colony on the moon first. Building rockets that can reach orbit from the moon is much easier than on earth.
@dougmc666
6 жыл бұрын
Going outside the Van Allen belt would be a lot of extra radiation.
@zZrEtRiBuTiOnZz
11 жыл бұрын
They spell "year": "Yaer" in the future btw. In case anyone was wondering. :)
@MoonRegolith
11 жыл бұрын
Just gorgeous!!! Thanks! loved the music on this.
@ycaruzob
13 жыл бұрын
OMG.. no way... because "Larry Niven" and "Halo" are EPIC.
@DariusTheTenth
11 жыл бұрын
If there is no life on a planet, we will seed them with life. A universe teeming with life. How awesome. Actually, we should tear down (sounds kind of disturbing but I will explain) whole planets and remake them into rotating habitats like these. If you do some calculation you will see that this way actually maximises the surface area and living volume that are possible for a given mass of matter.
@Dondragmer
12 жыл бұрын
Very impressive and beautiful rendition. Even as big as it is though, it's kind of like a giant shopping mall and I wonder if for some people even something this grand may be too small and stimulate claustrophobia. To prevent this you may need something as big on the order of John Varley's alien/artificial habitat Titan, (about 780 mi diameter). But then again maybe not; some people seem adaptable to closed areas, like people who spend months in submarines, and maybe ok for those born on it.
@Neuronaluniverse
14 жыл бұрын
Nice video ,I really like it.thanks from Valencia.
@Antares03
12 жыл бұрын
I'm 21 and I'm somewhat confident at this point that if I stay healthy enough, I'll be around for when our species achieves immortality from aging. After such point, it will be possible to modify and rejuvenate organ tissues to their optimal state, effectively reverting the body to the adult prime (25-35 years old). If one can manage to maintain a healthy physical state, avoid risks, and employ available medical technology as it develops, it is quite possible they will see this happen.
@MiniBuster2
3 жыл бұрын
I would love to se an updated 2021-version of this video. :)
@domsau2
10 жыл бұрын
Why 2 times?
@votejoiner
12 жыл бұрын
things the average person absolutely zero chance of experiencing whatsoever
@fmsynths83
12 жыл бұрын
You're in the right point of view, and at the same time it is sad but it's true, otherwise, if there was a real possibility that an asteroid could collide with earth, then a project like this space habitat could have the enough support to be built.
@perfectionbox
Жыл бұрын
Very nice, but I take it the Earth is modeled as a small nearby sphere because it shrinks in the distance way too quickly as you dolly away from the station. Normally the Earth would barely shrink and the station would recede to a pixel.
@fuzzywzhe
8 жыл бұрын
There would be no reason to ever build up in such an environment. Also, no need for cars, transport would be be done under the surface. You wouldn't waste space for roads, you might have some pools of water. You wouldn't have trees or forrests, it would be confined to crops.
@SuperMrMuster
12 жыл бұрын
Glad to have lifted your spirits; here's more. I don't believe it is reasonable to say wars prevent scientific progress. The truth is contrary, war has always given a strong boost to technological development. Many technologies were born during WWII for example, out of necessity or to get an edge, any edge, over the enemy. For example, German scientists had to research and discover a synthetic rubber as they could not get import for natural rubber.
@theknightlynews
13 жыл бұрын
If you were flying in a craft going in the opposite direction of the spin, would the craft be subject to the artificial gravity?
@JulianGardna
12 жыл бұрын
Beautiful video. It's a pity that space colonies will never be built.
@DariusTheTenth
11 жыл бұрын
Wow. Only 64 kb. I guess exponential growth is responsible for the incredible abundance of computing power we have today. Aside from large storing space and high CPU clock speed, we need better softwares, or artificial intelligence. And I agree that human determination and will power matter, too. Most people in this modern world have less faith and zealous feeling in their governments than people in the 1960s to 90s. Corporations are the next pioneers. Also China and India, new superpowers.
@centaurusa99764
11 жыл бұрын
half a million inhabitants could fit easily in some thing like that.
@votejoiner
12 жыл бұрын
As long as there are humans, there will be wars. Open up space to them, and there'll be star wars.
@kittylactose
12 жыл бұрын
Mobile Suit Gundam is where we are most likely to end up.....
@samysasy419
13 жыл бұрын
@LeifsDen 20,000 people would be more than enough. Remember, it's not the size that matters, it's the oxygen, a station that size could house 100,000 people if it were on Earth, but it's in space where oxygen is very limited.
@DariusTheTenth
11 жыл бұрын
Matter transfusion (changing the number of protons in a nucleus of atom, resulting in a element change) might be great, but one major problem is how to do that. We probably need particle colliders and other similar high energy-cost machineries.
@BedniiPapan4eg
9 жыл бұрын
Я бы не смог жить в такой металлической коробке. От одного вида этого корабля мне становится плохо.
@mikecombs61
14 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video! Great subject matter, and outstanding animation!
@jasonasdecker
5 жыл бұрын
It probably wouldn't be in LEO orbit because of orbit decay. Objects in LEO encounter atmospheric drag from gases in the thermosphere (approximately 80-500 km above the surface) or exosphere (approximately 500 km or 311 mi and up), depending on orbit height. I shudder just to imagine the boost need to prevent it from falling.
@JulianGardna
12 жыл бұрын
@Alblasker The problem with settlements on other planets/moons is the same with settlements in Antarctica, Sahara, Australian Desert, northern Canada, etc... : we have the technology to live there but few/nobody want to live there because of the harsh living conditions and no nation wants to invest money in colonizing those places. The problem with orbiting space colonies is the same: nobody has built floating colonies on the seas/oceans of our planet despite we have the technology to do it.
@GabiN64
5 жыл бұрын
We should look for these in space with the james webb. An advanced alien civ could also build some giant megastructures like this.
@snapamarcjon
13 жыл бұрын
im impressed, nice one
@EmperorOfMars
12 жыл бұрын
Don't let politicians fool you, we've had the technology to colonize other stars since the 1970s.
@themystic1938
Жыл бұрын
One golf ball size asteroid could undo all of this beautiful animation. Nice thought, but impractical.
@psyfertech
11 жыл бұрын
i was just thinking that lol. Basically meaning that it wouldnt generate gravity in the way that its represented because the middle of the ship doesnt have a stationary point to be able to spin the circular part i believe if there was enough thrust in the opposite direction of the circular motion then it would allow it to spin but would it create gravity throughout the entire length of the circle or just in one spot
@christopherterry5984
9 жыл бұрын
umm did anyone else think of halo when they saw this?
@tvmanchetebrasil
Жыл бұрын
Futuro 2100 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 Robôs sim
@artofnick
12 жыл бұрын
actually... it's pretty damn impossible. consider the centrifugal forces being exerted on the cable system extending from the axis. it would be equivalent to hanging a city from a cable. given the current materials at hand, the failure point would be far exceeded even with nanomaterials, even considering that the center cable column holds up the rest of the body of the structure like a back bone. again, the same situation applies. forces in excess of 100 Gpa.
@aniballenin
12 жыл бұрын
I love your work, is a master work.
@SailorBarsoom
11 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the tube diameter alone must be several Km. The overall diameter would have to be at least 25 Km. That isn't unreasonable, but the population could easily be a lot more than 20 thousand.
@candr
12 жыл бұрын
Got to build a jumping off point somewhere, not to mention a lot of low gravity research can be done there, like the cancer research developments and micro bead injection process, new generation of pharmacologicals that are currently in preclinical or clinical trials for diseases such as T-Cell Lymphoma, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, AIDS, influenza, stroke and other cardiovascular complications,done on the ISS today, or the new metal and plastic work experimented. Imagine if it was bigger.
@suryavamsi8058
4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful
@MultiPleaser
6 жыл бұрын
If it were residential we could pay for it and build it. And every residence would need to be a small farm, of course (garden, fruit trees, chickens). The Earth is made of rock, and has plenty of materials. Endless energy from the sun.
@scarceliving
12 жыл бұрын
There wouldn't be any; the centrifugal force would cancel itself out.
@artofnick
12 жыл бұрын
i'm trying to figure out just that. might as well try solving the problem now, even if there's no money for it. the two biggest engineering problems are the radius of the station. it needs to be big like that to minimize the coriolis effect so people don't get sick, but when it gets big it gets expensive. also when it's big materials fail. look up a paper called "on the strength of the carbon nanotube-based space elevator cable: from nanomechanics to megamechanics".
@JFrazer4303
Жыл бұрын
O'Neill designed a 400 meter radius "Bernal sphere", for ~2RPM. The Stanford Torus of the NASA Ames studies wanted ~800 meter radius, for 1RPM, so that by far most people could move in without really noticing it. They found that the largest diameter we could build (with then-available technology) for 1G and to have adequate shielding for cosmic rays was ~30km diameter, for 1/4RPM.
@bou222
11 жыл бұрын
Excuse me... make that 3 million people wow
@simen1231
11 жыл бұрын
If humans every would build this, It will take over 100 years at least.
@nicholasforrester8587
5 жыл бұрын
I believe that this is our future.Thanks
@centaurusa99764
12 жыл бұрын
Its more then 20,000 inhabitants,Probably could fit one million or so from looking at it.The year 2100, is most likely the ring world construction time.
@stevenjackson1501
7 жыл бұрын
Would my 14 year old son be able to use a few scenes from this amazing clip in a Judge Dredd movie he's making with his iPhone? We can make a link to your clip in the credits if you like? Thanks!
@candr
12 жыл бұрын
Actually no they are not in some cases, and remember the spin only helps in the living quarters on the rim not the central part. They ask the public for ideas because they want people involved, they have more then enogh going on as it is,but since we foot the bills, they want the public to think they have a hand in it as well. But there always will be a few that would rather stay as ground huggers and see only what they wish to see. Much easier then imagining outside our limited sphere.
@Birdsarentreal529
2 жыл бұрын
Arthur C. Clarke would approve.
@SailorBarsoom
14 жыл бұрын
I like it. Yeah, it is pretty big. Any numbers? No reason it, or something like it, couldn't be built.
@DariusTheTenth
11 жыл бұрын
One of the 5 Lagrange Points (see wikipedia entry) will be good place for colony, especially Lagrange 3. A Klemperer Rosette (see wikipedia entry), in which many habitats and planets share a roughly same orbit will good as well, but a bit unstable according to mathematicians' calculation. ONeil Cylinders and Bishop Rings are even larger rotating habitats.
@BlindMango
12 жыл бұрын
Is this the Citadel? I'm looking for Commander Shepherd.
@experimentsteam
12 жыл бұрын
I wish i could be alive when this is built...unfortunately, i probably won't...
@DariusTheTenth
11 жыл бұрын
Wow, cool logo. Are you really an Humanity Plus member/contributor? BTW, I am skeptic (I dont like Singularity-skeptics but I have to be) about the prospect of nanotechnology. People seems to imagine that a puff of utility fog rise in to air and a building (or even megastructure) materializes. At least today this sounds magical thinking. I will go read some Drexler's essays, though.
@haimbenavraham1502
4 жыл бұрын
What shall be done to protect from cosmic radiation?
@aldosalmon1994
3 жыл бұрын
Bad Ass Living Station Amazing How Beautiful Life
@EmperorOfMars
12 жыл бұрын
It's not a matter of whether you believe it can be done, it's the laws of physics. A centrifugal force is produced by a body spinning around a common axis, regardless of external forces acting on it. Basically, it doesn't need to be tested it's just the laws of physics. You may continue to believe what you want, but I just want you to know it goes against what millions of scientists and physicists know.
@antred11
13 жыл бұрын
@NLwino I disagree. It may seem impossible now, but that doesn't mean it will remain so centuries from now. I'd wager that for the cost of the wars in Afghanistan + Iraq we could probably at least have built something that could serve as a stepping stone to allow further, bigger space colonization projects, and eventually something as large as this or even larger (maybe even O'Neill type cylinders in the remote future).
@JonathanM-JMart
12 жыл бұрын
how do u get gravity in the mid section?
@unknownfromkashmir
3 ай бұрын
I dont understand .How do we get it off Earth in the first place ?
@lucjanl1262
Ай бұрын
Simple, don't build it on the earth in the first place
@giuseppegavarian4894
5 жыл бұрын
Esta increíble!!
@007TruthSeeker
12 жыл бұрын
As a charter member of The Moon Miners, I must disagree about the resources available on the Moon. As long as it has so much oxygen, aluminum, silicon and many other metals and minerals in abundance, it will reward the effort, time and resources to establish multiple colonies on the Moon. Then there is the great amount, relatively speaking, of He3 (helium-3), on the surface, which was deposited from the solar wind, and which is a particularly attractive "fuel" material for fusion power.
@DariusTheTenth
11 жыл бұрын
Dont forget the exponential growth in Information Technology. We will be in a post-singularity world by the time we mass migrate to space. We will probably become infomorphs, uploaded minds living in supercomputers, so no coriolis effect or bone/muscle density loss will have to be worried about. But anyways, it would be great if you do figure out a good design for rotating habitat.
@franssouail3073
11 жыл бұрын
Merci pour cette belle vision :-)
@akeel_1701
8 жыл бұрын
This is excellent work! what did you use to create it?
@BatusaiJack
12 жыл бұрын
nice animation
@thregar
14 жыл бұрын
sheer brilliance!!
@Orbitalfear
12 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! I was wondering if i could use this and i will give you all the credit! I was just wanting to put a Cyber metal song over it! Im Cloud Walker.hit me up
@Number1HaloFreak
12 жыл бұрын
Gundam called they want their colony design back just kidding
@votejoiner
12 жыл бұрын
true, but technological advances are hardly worth the lives thrown away in the wars that inspired them. Plus, in the end, the greatest benefit of these new gifts is always reserved for the war machine rather than making everyday life more affordable and comfortable: drone aircraft, global monitoring, supersonic jets, nuclear arms, yet gas still costs 3 dollars a gallon and people struggle with their utility bills. So, for any POSITIVE benefit, there actually is no advancement.
@greenhorns99
14 жыл бұрын
amazing! wow!
@leifgiering
13 жыл бұрын
I love it! However, I think that could much more than 20,000. Great job, though.
@dracaufeusefaitmet
13 жыл бұрын
great job
@SocksyyAU
11 жыл бұрын
only 20000 people? man looks like a lot more than that could live in that huge place.
@007TruthSeeker
12 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, but the stresses on such a huge toroid, without much more cross-bracing, would make it much more expensive, and heavy, than the cross-bracing would cost & weigh. Otherwise, it should probably be farther away from Earth, to avoid the Van Allen belts and the need for much heavier shielding therefrom. Geosynchronous orbit would work, and has other advantages, too. Multiple, smaller toroids would cost less, requiring less structural weight/person.
@RaffinDK
11 жыл бұрын
reaching out to the stars
@DariusTheTenth
11 жыл бұрын
I wish to add: According to the Holographic Principle, the amount of information that can be held in a given amount of mass is proportional to its surface area. The ultimately compact habitat, with (vvery large number of) uploaded minds reside in supercomputers will probably have very large surface area.
@maujo2009
6 жыл бұрын
I wish there was a higher def version of this video.
@JourneymanHuman
12 жыл бұрын
@JulianGardna Not from earth - that would be too expensive. It will come about after infrastructure is established on the moon to use materials mined there, which can be lofted cheaply. And it will be done to make travel cheaper - keep the ships travelling through the solar system parked away from gravity wells like even the moon, and they can be built much larger. Travel to and from the moon's surface will be by tether, use lunar and other non-earth sources for all materials.
@SuperMrMuster
12 жыл бұрын
Don't be hasty. Presumably, we'll see many manned moon missions in the 2030s, made by different agencies; NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, CNSA, maybe even JAXA, among them. Conceivably, in the 2050s or -70s, the technology will exist to set up the space elevator. You'll be in your sixties or eighties, unless you die in an accident. After a space elevator becomes a reality, the cost of orbital travel will go down quick, and space exploration will positively explode. What do you think?
@Adampetersen2011
13 жыл бұрын
image you was life in there!
@PersonOfBook
10 жыл бұрын
How much people can we accomodate in one Stanford Torus. I guess, we would require thousands of Stanford Toruses to have a significant amount of population living there.
@astrophonix
9 жыл бұрын
The torus is just a first stage, next we could build Bernal spheres and then O'Neill cylinders, each holding bigger populations as they have more surface area for a given diameter. Or we could build carousels for more Earthlike environments.
@quote3000
12 жыл бұрын
Make sure it's a cold fusion engine.
@JourneymanHuman
12 жыл бұрын
Humans will go to space for the unlimited solar energy. As we exhaust non-renewables here, it will become increasingly attractive. Mining the moon will be necessary to construct any off-earth infrastructure, because it will be vastly, vastly cheaper and easier to use materials from outside the earth's gravity pit. We will do what we can remotely, but at some point the unlimited available energy will make living off-earth the logical next step. It will offer freedom and adventure, in comfort.
@JulianGardna
12 жыл бұрын
@JourneymanHuman I see but why do you think humans will build mines on the moon since there are plenty of untapped ore resources on Earth (unpopulated areas, bottom of the oceans) and why you think human controlled ships would be needed since the moon is so close that real time remote control of ships/mining machines is feasible.
@mrgravyman
12 жыл бұрын
@DigitalAlpine I guess it would keep on going..so no ball games in space lol
@raffofiction
12 жыл бұрын
cool...
@joemasters2270
11 жыл бұрын
Hopefully this will be a reality for our great grandkids.
@observer4916
10 жыл бұрын
Building something like this would be very, very costly of Earth's resources.
@PersonOfBook
10 жыл бұрын
You don't need anything from the Earth to make this. You can get all the minerals and water from Asteroids and Moon.
@jackmclellan1884
12 жыл бұрын
reminds me of the Halo ring, or the presideum on the citadel in Mass Effect :p
@quote3000
11 жыл бұрын
Well, until better and cheaper technology is available, we'll just have to wait a while.
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