Read more about the LightSail 2 Launch on WIRED.com: www.wired.com/story/spacex-is-launching-a-solar-sail-the-size-of-a-boxing-ring/ And to find out more about the mission and the Planetary Society, visit www.planetary.org
I really can't believe we've gotten to this level of deception by "The$cience" and utter stupidity by the masses. Can't ppl really tell this "technology" is nonsense?
@leicanoct Bill Nye was a mechanical engineer at Boeing. He helped developing the sundials on the Mars Exploration Rovers, he has written two books on science... And what have you done in your life except shitposting on the internet?
as a supporter of the first cubesat and will continue to support the endeavours of TPS, i'm so glad to see how far this has gone and people realizing how big of a change something so small can establish in our culture that's generally used to seeing astronaut-centric spaceflight.
What about focusing sun light with arrays of giant curved reflecting sheets in space for this light sail propulsion system instead of power hungry lasers?
@@pierregabory8772 I know that, true. But earth is moving around the sun + turning around every day making lasers on earth available only part time, whereas an array around the sun would be continuous and stable since it would barely move. I think it's possible to adjust the focusing point of such system controlling individual panels with a simple differential equation to match the focusing point with the position of the light sail, and the energy needed to move this array would actually be tiny. Obviously I don't know enough to determine if it's a good idea but of the top of my head, it seems like there is no physical law making it impossible 🤔
Joannot Fampionona changing the geometry would require knowledge of the position of the spacecraft with extreme precision. Which might be more difficult if its the size of a postage stamp.
Joannot Fampionona When it reaches the far outskirts of the solar system and even way before at around Mars it wouldn’t even reach the lightsail, ( atmosphere, distance )... lasers seem like the best idea.
The host is a writer, proof that you just can’t ask any random person to host (and people think being a UA-camr is easy). Probably edited by a writer too, the colour of the whole video is so dull.
There are some sail ideas based on absorbing rather than reflecting. I would like to know if you could essentially make a light solar sail into a solar power array and have it use that energy collected to power an ion thruster to get greater acceleration.
Is there any ways to make a spacecraft that uses a combination of this as well as ionic propulsion fit to carry humans across the solar system it even to other systems?
It can get significantly faster than a rocket with propellant, but would require the spacecraft to be super tiny. Still wouldn't be even half-way to speed of light at best. Probably top out around 10% for the tiniest ship
Guys, I need your help. The basic principle is inertia, right? But how does lightsail 2 get any push by massless particles (photons)? If the mass is 0, the whole inertia equation equals 0. how is it pushed by it. Thanks guys, I appreciate your help understanding this.
Let me help u with that; this technology is nonsense, it's not a real thing, it's mostly about NASA "sailing" across the low IQ of the general public, all made possible by exponential levels of deceit and corruption within the world of academia and specially thanks to the insane stupidity of "quantum mechanics".
Yes, I've seen a boxing ring on "the" TV. That one box with the clicker and the power cord and the 600ft antennas. The solar sail is pretty dope though.
Bill Nye, please construct the biggest and highest space elevator possible with the current technology available. I truly believe you and a couple of others if you put your mind into it you absolutely can do it, you absolutely should do it. This event will change this era of evolution in the next one, I believe so
What if you build a big lazer connect to the light sail behind it a bit far behind it but not connected with strings or anything like that but like metal would it have thrust or not?
So when we Master fusion technology to get fusion reactors why don't we build a massive spacecraft with massive engines and then they have solar sail materials inside and they shoot the thing with high powered lasers thus the craft itself propelled we could also use gyroscopic forces to steer The Craft it could be the real life USS Enterprise
Solar sails for a human-scale ship would be measured in kilometers in width, probably quite a few of them. If you have mastered fusion power then solar sails aren't really necessary anymore.
@@JohnnyShagbot I don't think it would be that hard and that big you know about those things that rotate whenever you shine a flashlight on them they using the measure the amount of light you can get those things spinning kind of fast depending on the flashlight you're using or if you have them outside and technically you wouldn't need a fusion reactor you could use a RTG the same thing that powers the Mars rovers and the Voyager spacecraft and have that charged alternating ultra capacitors that would power a high-powered Lazer which can be crazy efficient even at the focal point I think I'll be more effective than the ion drive and would require no fuel.
I am the founder of the planet. And it's got a human in it .and we humans will stand on proxima b in three to four hundred years time. I can see. Best of luck for future generations scientist only way to travel there by rocket and need refill ln planet Mars. 🔭🙂👍🚀
ancient egyptains believed to enter heaven your heart had to be lighter than a feather .. a one gram soler sail 50 feet across to alpha centuri may be .. did they know something we dont but are about to find out .. aleiens may be ? ... skeatesybubbygoddess2021
I’m sure Daniel is a wonderful person but he’s quite stiff and lifeless in front of the camera. Feels like he’s a robot reading a script. Maybe it’s nerves? He’s like that in all his interviews. Surely he’d be more useful in a different position! Nothing to be ashamed about! But this content could be improved with a warmer, looser interviewer.
Dolph Lundgren is more qualified to be a scientist than Bill Nye. www.rallypoint.com/shared-links/fact-check-does-dolph-lundgren-have-multiple-scientific-degrees
@@scotthenrie5674 No, Dolph Lundgren is more qualified to be an _engineer_ than Bill Nye since he has a Master's (in chemical engineering) and Bill Nye only has a BSc. (in mechanical engineering). I doubt either of them could get a job in their fields now (Nye would stand a slightly better chance since he has 10 years industrial experience as an engineer whereas Lundgren graduated and immediately became a bodyguard then actor).
@@anonymes2884dude they're both actors, Bill Nye is just an actor, this stuff is just too dumb, I can't believe normal thinking ppl believe a sail is propelled by light.... unlimited stupidity
Read more about the LightSail 2 Launch on WIRED.com: www.wired.com/story/spacex-is-launching-a-solar-sail-the-size-of-a-boxing-ring/
And to find out more about the mission and the Planetary Society, visit www.planetary.org
Bill's all about opinion pieces... Not science... Tired of seeing his biased unscientific opinions all over the net.
What can we tell about Oumuamua so far? The calculations show that it is possible it had a solar sail.
Science Revolution there’s so much wrong with what you’re asking.
I like how at 06:22 when he's talking about how this complicated machine works, they actually show how it works, but just for a brief 4 seconds.
Yh without that I really wouldn't know what they're on about.
I really can't believe we've gotten to this level of deception by "The$cience" and utter stupidity by the masses. Can't ppl really tell this "technology" is nonsense?
Aliens: What is that shiny thing coming at us?
Humans: Hello we are humans and this is our way to say hello *boom*
Would've been a catastrophic catastrophe, cause Bill sez so. :-)
@leicanoct Bill Nye was a mechanical engineer at Boeing. He helped developing the sundials on the Mars Exploration Rovers, he has written two books on science... And what have you done in your life except shitposting on the internet?
leicanoct shutup trash
as a supporter of the first cubesat and will continue to support the endeavours of TPS, i'm so glad to see how far this has gone and people realizing how big of a change something so small can establish in our culture that's generally used to seeing astronaut-centric spaceflight.
This could in theory reach 10% of light speed.
Could reach our closest star in about 40 years
9-40!? 💀 bro try 40-50
@@ohare7820 what was i smoking. Yes about 40
It sails by catching "solar photons" aka regular light (masless) ?? 😂
@@pamelapamper HAHAHAHH SO FUNYYYYYYYYY
@@hoonan1874 it's not funny, it's sad that science has become such a joke, it's just a scam really. 😭
I have never heard the term "momentum wheel"
sounds like someone was just trying to reinvent the ... gyroscope
World : CM,M,KM
USA: loaf of bread , school bus
My first thought when i saw him
Bill Nye: "the planet's on F*CKING FIRE!"
Omg same!!
Our science teacher still let us watch bill nye before he talk more about the lesson.
That's not a good thing.
What about focusing sun light with arrays of giant curved reflecting sheets in space for this light sail propulsion system instead of power hungry lasers?
Joannot Fampionona lazers focus in a line, lenses focuses in a point. You need continuous thrust to acheive high speeds.
@@pierregabory8772 I know that, true. But earth is moving around the sun + turning around every day making lasers on earth available only part time, whereas an array around the sun would be continuous and stable since it would barely move. I think it's possible to adjust the focusing point of such system controlling individual panels with a simple differential equation to match the focusing point with the position of the light sail, and the energy needed to move this array would actually be tiny.
Obviously I don't know enough to determine if it's a good idea but of the top of my head, it seems like there is no physical law making it impossible 🤔
Joannot Fampionona changing the geometry would require knowledge of the position of the spacecraft with extreme precision. Which might be more difficult if its the size of a postage stamp.
@@pierregabory8772 I agree it might be more difficult.
Joannot Fampionona When it reaches the far outskirts of the solar system and even way before at around Mars it wouldn’t even reach the lightsail, ( atmosphere, distance )... lasers seem like the best idea.
Nye is a natural in front of the camera.
Your host? Kinda boring. Sorry, kid.
Completely agree. He is very under whelming
He seems completely uninterested, like he's a robot that just want it done.
The host is a writer, proof that you just can’t ask any random person to host (and people think being a UA-camr is easy). Probably edited by a writer too, the colour of the whole video is so dull.
lokon1979 well they gotta UA-cam channel and they got writers why not get someone actually good to host it
Science Revolution What?
Clearly inspired by Count Dooku's Solar Sailer.
Was looking for a comment like this hahaha
1:45 The Sail becomes SWZZZT
For someone with a vague scientific background, he's still pretty well versed on how it works which is great!
There are some sail ideas based on absorbing rather than reflecting. I would like to know if you could essentially make a light solar sail into a solar power array and have it use that energy collected to power an ion thruster to get greater acceleration.
That's what I was thinking, but I guess it loses the benefit of moving extremely quickly
Omg i love bill he helped me out in science class. Now science is my favorite subject
How would it slow down? When it reaches high speeds???
Is there any ways to make a spacecraft that uses a combination of this as well as ionic propulsion fit to carry humans across the solar system it even to other systems?
Bill Nye selling that space program as hard as he can.
Joostin Kookel he was asked to talk about it. So he is.
It's might get damaged to the left over space debris. Then you'd have to conduct a space mission to go repair the wings of the spacecraft.
yeah stupid idea.
I loved Bill Nye the science guy
Watching this in tandem with the 3 body problem
I wonder what the max velocity of this would be? if it's pushed by light could it go close to the speed of light?
It can get significantly faster than a rocket with propellant, but would require the spacecraft to be super tiny. Still wouldn't be even half-way to speed of light at best. Probably top out around 10% for the tiniest ship
223,000 mph.
When will Solar sail launch?
My space agency NADA (which doesn’t mean nothing in Spanish) is the best
Kim Jong-un hey I saw you on another video
Kim Jong-un nuke space no?
Best leader SALUTE
[Everyone (was forced to) like that]
Guys, I need your help.
The basic principle is inertia, right? But how does lightsail 2 get any push by massless particles (photons)? If the mass is 0, the whole inertia equation equals 0. how is it pushed by it.
Thanks guys, I appreciate your help understanding this.
Photons DO have mass, but actually no, it's a quantum thing.
Let me help u with that; this technology is nonsense, it's not a real thing, it's mostly about NASA "sailing" across the low IQ of the general public, all made possible by exponential levels of deceit and corruption within the world of academia and specially thanks to the insane stupidity of "quantum mechanics".
@@rommdan2716a photon has no mass, stop.
I am so excited for these
we hear lot about super fast systems for space travel.
However. I don't see much about slowing them down on arrival.
Yes, I've seen a boxing ring on "the" TV. That one box with the clicker and the power cord and the 600ft antennas.
The solar sail is pretty dope though.
Is oumuamua the jaxta lightsail?
**pretends to be understanding**
5:45 Sail Stowage
"Stow away"
to stow away something.
stowage.
Does iT litteraly just, push? Like, actually PUSH? That’s cool
He didn’t mention it, but everyone should look up Radiation Pressure to understand how it actually works.
In order to accommodate humans, maybe one could be built in space? Could the sails be 'tuned' to use the suns energy as a 'repellent'?
Treasure planet vibes
Bill Nye, please construct the biggest and highest space elevator possible with the current technology available. I truly believe you and a couple of others if you put your mind into it you absolutely can do it, you absolutely should do it. This event will change this era of evolution in the next one, I believe so
We'll finally get to see space pirates...
What if you build a big lazer connect to the light sail behind it a bit far behind it but not connected with strings or anything like that but like metal would it have thrust or not?
What if light is the reason we are in orbit? And gravity is just a form of advanced enertia?
He still wears the bow tie 💖
"can entropy be reversed?"
"As of yet there is insufficient data for a meaningful answer"
can someone explain why the camera that attached on solar sail didn't froze all the time ?
kuncoro hadi the heat as nowhere to go to.
Man Bill 9 the science guy has sure have aged.
Yeah, he's been on television for thirty years. That kind of thing can happen
The Science Guy
We are nothing without science...
I will always love Bill!
Do you have any plans to build hundreds of space reflectors to reflect and focus more sunlight to your sun sail spacecrafts?
Quite the too do for the lightest thing that NASA has ever sent to space! Thanks Bill!
Why does Bill Nye look like a Tim Burton clay figure.. I love it
He’s so old now 😢🥺
So when we Master fusion technology to get fusion reactors why don't we build a massive spacecraft with massive engines and then they have solar sail materials inside and they shoot the thing with high powered lasers thus the craft itself propelled we could also use gyroscopic forces to steer The Craft it could be the real life USS Enterprise
Solar sails for a human-scale ship would be measured in kilometers in width, probably quite a few of them. If you have mastered fusion power then solar sails aren't really necessary anymore.
@@JohnnyShagbot I don't think it would be that hard and that big you know about those things that rotate whenever you shine a flashlight on them they using the measure the amount of light you can get those things spinning kind of fast depending on the flashlight you're using or if you have them outside and technically you wouldn't need a fusion reactor you could use a RTG the same thing that powers the Mars rovers and the Voyager spacecraft and have that charged alternating ultra capacitors that would power a high-powered Lazer which can be crazy efficient even at the focal point I think I'll be more effective than the ion drive and would require no fuel.
Awesome. Love it !
I’m a proud member 🇺🇸
Nice vid but can you please do one with akon
Yes! It would be a catastrophic catastrophe!
"The Air Force is involved in this.."
So its fair to say the military is at the forefront of technological development.
Yes!
Who knew kites will one day replace rockets😁
💡!!!!!!!!!! Just got the next idea!!!
The cells come YEET
shill nye the Biased guy
At first i thought he was Benedict Cumberbatch omg 😥
poor americans dont understand what he is saying,good job using metric Bill keep it up lmao.
Lol
BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL...
Literally no one:
Let's bring Bill Nye
Best decision
Wouldn’t a spacecraft using a sail be extremely vulnerable to space debris?
Space debris in interplanetary space are extremely rare, for that small spacecraft.
I don't think so Right ok. An orbit around Earth might be full of debris but not interplanetary travel. Thanks.
Truly weird guy
This is incredible. Science has advanced so much.
Loved bill, interviewer was horrible
O Bill parece que não envelhece
What's a boxing ring?
Title is somewhat misleading... This explores how the craft was engineered rather than the physics of how photons can propel the spacecraft
Louis Genin well bill is an engineer....
Bill Nye
conecting lots ofdots here guys wtf
Treasure Planet anyone?
Just use nuclear fusion to push the dang space craft
I am the founder of the planet. And it's got a human in it .and we humans will stand on proxima b in three to four hundred years time. I can see. Best of luck for future generations scientist only way to travel there by rocket and need refill ln planet Mars. 🔭🙂👍🚀
Who is this guy?
I dont know Rick...
ancient egyptains believed to enter heaven your heart had to be lighter than a feather .. a one gram soler sail 50 feet across to alpha centuri may be .. did they know something we dont but are about to find out .. aleiens may be ? ... skeatesybubbygoddess2021
sail stowage? owo?
Yay more bill nye
These are the palest men on Earth. Rx: sunlight. STAT.
and all the flatearthers scream at those pictures, saying it's cgi and fake and the earth isn't round
Bill bye the science guy..
Yes
Anyone else think the guy looks like Onision?
Waitwaitwaitwaitwait BILL NYE IS A CEO?
I thought he was a science guy
Citizen funded flight by light! Like it
people like bill nye and Elon musk should collaborate with each other to complete outer space missions
BILL BILL BILL!!
I’m sure Daniel is a wonderful person but he’s quite stiff and lifeless in front of the camera. Feels like he’s a robot reading a script. Maybe it’s nerves? He’s like that in all his interviews. Surely he’d be more useful in a different position! Nothing to be ashamed about! But this content could be improved with a warmer, looser interviewer.
Daniel is a twink, his media sugar daddy needs to get him off the camera and back where he belongs, in the makeup department.
...!!
BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY
Bill Nye: one of the smartest scientists on the planet
Also Bill Nye: Catastrophic Catastrophy
he does that type of word redundancy game on purpose. see his often used gem the "electronic computing machine all the kids use these days"
Bill Nye isn’t a scientist. He’s actually a comedian.
Dolph Lundgren is more qualified to be a scientist than Bill Nye. www.rallypoint.com/shared-links/fact-check-does-dolph-lundgren-have-multiple-scientific-degrees
He is a scientist what are you guy's talking about.?
Celina Kyle no he isn’t.
@@scotthenrie5674 No, Dolph Lundgren is more qualified to be an _engineer_ than Bill Nye since he has a Master's (in chemical engineering) and Bill Nye only has a BSc. (in mechanical engineering). I doubt either of them could get a job in their fields now (Nye would stand a slightly better chance since he has 10 years industrial experience as an engineer whereas Lundgren graduated and immediately became a bodyguard then actor).
@@anonymes2884dude they're both actors, Bill Nye is just an actor, this stuff is just too dumb, I can't believe normal thinking ppl believe a sail is propelled by light.... unlimited stupidity
We need to make sure that man has continued access to a quantum computer.
treasure planet