A pair of aliens were passing Earth... The first comments to the second, " The Earthlings have nuclear weapons, should we be worried?" The second alien replies, "No, they're still pointing them at themselves." How true...
Love the comment--though my favorite earthling's comment was Will Smith's "look at the earthlings" to the alien in Independence Day. To me a UFO is simply a bullet or shell from a cannon--an "unidentified flying object" in and of itself, so UFO's do exist. As for other UFO's, like the so-called Phoenix lights before drones became popular, imagine someone flying several kites with lights on a windy night. I once flew a kite with a mile of 100# test fishing line though it was a dumb idea, because once the kite hit 3000 feet, above the surrounding mountains, it hit high winds and I had to cut the line and say bye bye to the kite. I was just a teen then, just shy of fifty years ago. Then one of my brothers comes home from seeing his friends and says to me "The weirdest thing--there is fishing line stretching from near our house to our high school, a half mile away". I said, uh, yeah, so weird. Now a pilot, I no longer do such silly things, but I do know how UFO conspiracies can happen and if there are aliens observing us, they do so as you say with amusement, being as SETI says, of higher intelligence using nuclear power for their spaceships and not for detonation.
Well all they have to do is come down and tells us about their lord and savior Larbgox, or that we need a different economic system - and suddenly those nukes will all be pointed outward.
Power isn't the limiting factor in space. The problem is shedding waste heat. Any laser sufficiently powerful enough to destroy a target in space would need massive radiators to keep from overheating during use. That would make it an easy target for retaliation. Given the cost of putting objects into space, this is a fatal flaw.
However, the efficiencies of heat radiation into space would be higher due to the relative temperatures. I don't know how much more efficient but it could be enough to be the difference between somewhat implausable to highly likely.
@@Knight_Kin Radiation depends on surface area. You need so much surface area to make up for the lack of convection. Even the relatively meager ISS power usage (up to 90 kW) requires around 150 square meters of radiators to keep cool. A powerful laser array would need many times that size if you wanted a meaningful rate of fire.
4:18 "...more than just a place to fire weapons from. ... Through sattelite guidance our phones can know where we are currently. ... We can communicate in an instant ..." I think it is highly ironic, because the GPS was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense and ARPANET, the predecessor of the internet, is also from the U.S. Department of Defense Therefore, I think it is the other way around: Humanity uses some military technology for civil use. The military have always been one if not the biggest promoter of progress.
I cry every time I think about how close we are to preventing all these disasters... and so close to fully embracing them too. The potential we have to expand our relationship with the universe is unbound, and it would be the largest travesty in our known universe if we removed the only place we know that has sentient species from existence.
You: " potential we have to expand our relationship with the universe is unbound" -- Strong anthropic principle: we are here because the universe did not let us destroy ourselves. The observer, *the human conscious observers* did not CHOOSE to destroy ourselves. -- White card or Black card: Choose wisely, and believe. Don't wimp out in despair. ☺🥰
@Embassy_of_Jupiter Strong anthropic principle suggests that the Universe did it, but realize that WE are an important part of the Universe as CONSCIOUS observers. The Observer AFFECTS the outcomes. -- So WE did it.
Careful using the word stupid, it seems like when called out as stupid they scramble to do something next to look intelligent, but it ends up being more stupid.
As per context of video... one single species is fighting for a fragile piece of rock... A rock that was made possible by a great amount of things happening in right proportion.
Germany did reach space. A test of a V-2 (then known as the A-4) made it above the Kármán line, which is 100 km for Earth. That’s the accepted edge of space. It isn’t an arbitrary altitude. It’s high enough above the atmosphere that it is possible to orbit at least once before air drag pulls a payload back to the Earth. Test rocket MW 18014 reached 176 kilometres (109 mi) on 20th June 1944. A later test reached 189 km. This is higher than the orbit of the lowest Low Earth Orbit satellite. These German tests used suborbital ballistic trajectories, so didn’t have nearly enough Delta V to actually enter orbit.
@@robguyatt9602 it’s not very complicated, but it’s hard to explain in a short comment. Ballistic trajectories are the paths traced by a projectile under gravity. The trajectory follows an elliptical path. With a small velocity the elliptical path will be smaller than the diameter of the Earth, so the projectile will hit the Earth before it can complete the ellipse. With high enough velocity the ellipse will be larger than the diameter of the Earth, so the projectile will travel all the way around the Earth and return to where it started - that’s an orbit. There are lots of details that make it more complicated. Rockets actually accelerate gradually while they are in flight. They are not just shot into space like a canon ball. The mass of a rocket decreases as fuel is burned. Then there is air resistance to consider. The rotation of the Earth also adds or subtracts to the rocket’s velocity. Practical orbits require changes of attitude during the flight because usually you don’t want a rocket to follow a simple elliptical path which would return the rocket to where it started and hit you in the back of the head. But in simple terms there is a measure called Delta V, which is change in velocity you need to put a rocket on a desired trajectory. The Delta V needed to just launch a rocket straight up to a given altitude is much less than what is needed to launch a rocket into an orbit at the same altitude. More Delta V requires more fuel for equal mass of the payload.
@@NoahSpurrier Thanks so much for your detailed reply. I actually have some knowledge of the subject as I trained at technical college in Mechanical Engineering and do recall this topic vaguely from Engineering mechanics (dynamics). I'm getting a bit doddery now and am forgetful. But I do recall creating a spreadsheet years ago to calculate Coriolis effects in rifle trajectories at various azimuths, latitudes velocities range etc. My brother was curious as he is a target rifle shooter. They shoot up to 1000m. Coriolis is clearly not an issue for that sport otherwise it would be well known in that community. But I can imagine it is taken into account in naval gunnery for instance. Thanks again.
@@robguyatt9602 Oh, yes, the Coriolis effect has to be taken into account for mortar and canon fire. I think it does even effect long range sniper fire. Foucault made use of the Coriolis effect with a big pendulum to demonstrate that the Earth does, in fact, rotate. Not that anyone really doubted it before, but this was the first physical test.
WW3 is an information war and we are in it right now, it may go kinetic at some point but if you can destroy country with information then it makes taking over easier.
I'd have thought it much easier to make a ground based laser, with orbital mirrors, than it would be to make an orbital laser. If a laser can be built which will destroy ground targets from orbit, one which can destroy orbital targets from the ground should be considerably simpler to build.
But a lot less vesatile. With a space laser you can always shoot other space stuff, and depending on the weather ground stuff. WIth a gound based laser, you can only shoot anything if you have good weather.
@@originalulix True. Depending on the expense, it might be worthwhile having a "fair weather friend" on the ground whilst you're developing the orbital weapons.
That was the proposal in a specific beamed radiation weapon from Reagan era program SDI (knows as StarWars initiative in the media of the times), they look of optical lasers, infrared, and even microwave, but the killer of those ideas was the price of putting large mirrors into space with precise tilting device included, actually few hundred at least and with few hundred of tons each, the price of that was a absolute killer in those times when they supposed to use space shuttle to launch that.
14:08 a high power / destructive laser. Plenty of satellites use laser beams for communication instead of radio. It's harder to intercept, and very high bandwidth.
Despite everything, it's interesting to see they're still trying to make weapons of lazers. Last I saw (a while ago) the state of the art was a telegraph-pole sized beam that was powered by a hollowed-out 747 filled with batteries. It could just about melt the casing of a missile at 10km. Don't give up on your dreams, eh?
My favorite space weapon is the Dyson sphere style death star. Encompassing the entire star and focusing its energy into a beam to target other solar systems.
Yeah, great idea, I will talk with my emperor on this, a planet killer would be a very cost-effective tool to fight our enemies! All we need is a name for it!
Thank you Alex. This is a fascinating departure from your usual videos. I am sure, however, there's plenty enough in the universe to get you back to more familiar and tranquil topics. Well done.
"This is a fascinating departure from your usual videos" Yeah, strange that, isn't it. 🤔 But considering the nature of the content - no, not at all. Unsubbed.
To prevent something like the Kessler syndrome, we need an intl. aggreement - before one nation has a significant advantage and blocks the aggreement to keep that advantage...
Trouble is we have international agreements/laws/protocols etc already but enforcement of such items is heavily inconsistent. There are nations that will openly disregard laws but will enforce it upon others. Nothing tells me that a similar treaty re space will be any different. Then you also have private enterprises that specialise in espionage and black ops.. your proposal is important and necessary but I can't see it being any good or will be adhered to appropriately. I'm all for regulation in order to maintain accountability, transparency and responsibility
human nature involves conflict, from little kids yelling NO when you take away a toy to 1 nation invading another, there are BILLIONS of people on this rock, you won't ever get everyone to agree on everything. I mean my god there are people that think Zelensky and Biden are the good guys when the reality is Zelensky, Biden and Putin are all corrupt asshole war mongers.
WOW I watch a lot of Military Channels and you are the second one mentoning that LASERs are useless if the weather is not nice and clear. A lot of people think they are some kind of magic super weapon. Keep it up!
Remember President Ronald Regan back in the 80’s told the World that we had a Star Wars defense system. Most likely a bluff but that was about 40 years ago………
Read the novel, Footfall (science fiction). That story is about aliens parking asteroids in orbit to control a destruction of a city or cities. We have the tech now to actually land on remote asteroids, to deflect them (subtlely) and bring back samples. Whats not to stop putting motors on them, and parking in orbit over a hostile country?
There was a court case in the US. The judge said, "Everyone knows a mobile phone or wireless phone broadcasts a 'radio waves'. When you use them, you're giving up your rights to privacy."
The scariest thing that could be in orbit would be a satellite that could launch nuclear weapons at the earth, but nuclear submarines are just as scary and we know they exist.
But there is a whole graveyard of discarded satellites and such in a much further out orbit that won't, and it wouldn't necessarily take much to cause the issue.
Very interesting material. I didn't know lasers were getting so frightening. Also, I'm surprised you didn't mention the "Rods from God", pretty scary concept.
Reminds me of Project Thor - An early 2000's proposal by the USA to drop telephone-pole size tungsten rods from orbiting satellites. Unfortunately the system was too expensive to get into orbit and no more effective than more conventional means such an ICBMs. Interesting concept nonetheless.
A real life space war isn’t very realistically possible in space maybe drones that talk to other satellites on the ground but not a full blown space war I don’t think. To many obstacles and to many risks. But you’re narration is the best I have ever seen honestly really profound and informative! ❤
Space Warfare would be messed up. You fire a slug from a cannon and missed the target. 1.5 million years later some alien is cruising along in his spaceship delivering a extraterrestrial equal event to a pizza. Only to get blown up by that slug fired Millions years before in a galaxy far far away.
hearing about them is one thing, mentioning them in public will cause all the supposedly sentient adults around you to poke and mock as they delightedly squeal the modern moron's most ignorantly parroted phrase: 'Conspiracy Theorist !' the psychopaths in power were all raised from babes to be hyper entitled, and have become so emboldened by the absolute impunity they've bravely gifted themselves as reward for their decades of unceasing and unspeakably horrific crime's, that many now truly believe that they are at least equal to the God they calculatedly pretend to serve and worship, at least whenever they suspect a camera could appear.
If military lasers are so badass and can, using their intense heat, knock out about anything that flies, why can't they burn through clouds and smoke, etc?
Don't take this the wrong way Alex, but the sound of your voice is so soothing it puts me to sleep some nights. So, basically, you have the perfect voice for putting people to sleep! Great topics! Keep this videos coming!
You are pretty naive if you believe that. There probably are anti-ICBM lasers in space, yes. But there just as likely are anti-satellite lasers in space.
We wouldn't have enough time, they (Russia) could send as many as 100 nucs at one time, all from different locations, we'd only barely have time to launch a counter attack !!!!!!
Have there ever been Satelite wars, or Satelite vs Satelite combat, as if invading other countries aerial space or having been detected with deployed weaponary conspired on use for undisclosed telegraphic military attacks???
I interned at a GPS subcontractor, and all employees were given free lectures on GPS in a war setting. It’s actually shocking how powerful and dangerous GPS spoofing is, yet how little it is known or talked about. You could literally make missiles hit their own launch sites with that like of nonsense, or recreate the Titanic by crashing ships into rocks at night.
I've always thought of GPS itself being dangerous, people wishing to cause harm using it to locate targets, without GPS something they'd find impossible to accomplish.
An interesting title. They are "worse" than nukes in the sense that they are not very useful. There is no point in building multi-billion dollar weapons systems in space when we already have very accurate, secure, and powerful ballistic missiles that do the job.
if a satelite could generate a membrane around the other, then it could retire it the environmentally friendly way from unwanted or anauthorized aerial space, wouldnt it???
The Kessler Syndrome can still happen with disabled satellites as well as any particle from space itself, dust alone can trigger it Edit: had to replace Kepler with Kessler. Brain farted hard on that one.
"Rods from god" is the phrase I remember. Tungsten cores with force similar to nukes from sheer mass. But they're essentially impossible to aim accurately I think
Isn't there supposed to be a treaty preventing nuclear weapons in space as well as arming satellites to shoot other satellites down? It kind of makes me question the need for a 'space force".
The creation of the space force simply put the control of the US military satellites into one place. They were scattered between commands on an unorganized mess previously. This became a problem as space-based assets began to be increasingly instrumental to military actions within the atmosphere. Rather like how the air force was made its own separate branch as aircraft became more important in war.
A pair of aliens were passing Earth...
The first comments to the second, " The Earthlings have nuclear weapons, should we be worried?"
The second alien replies, "No, they're still pointing them at themselves." How true...
Perfect
Sad, but true!!!
Unless the alien species is a hivemind, war and discord will always be a part of life. They'd be no different.
Love the comment--though my favorite earthling's comment was Will Smith's "look at the earthlings" to the alien in Independence Day. To me a UFO is simply a bullet or shell from a cannon--an "unidentified flying object" in and of itself, so UFO's do exist. As for other UFO's, like the so-called Phoenix lights before drones became popular, imagine someone flying several kites with lights on a windy night.
I once flew a kite with a mile of 100# test fishing line though it was a dumb idea, because once the kite hit 3000 feet, above the surrounding mountains, it hit high winds and I had to cut the line and say bye bye to the kite.
I was just a teen then, just shy of fifty years ago. Then one of my brothers comes home from seeing his friends and says to me "The weirdest thing--there is fishing line stretching from near our house to our high school, a half mile away".
I said, uh, yeah, so weird.
Now a pilot, I no longer do such silly things, but I do know how UFO conspiracies can happen and if there are aliens observing us, they do so as you say with amusement, being as SETI says, of higher intelligence using nuclear power for their spaceships and not for detonation.
Well all they have to do is come down and tells us about their lord and savior Larbgox, or that we need a different economic system - and suddenly those nukes will all be pointed outward.
Power isn't the limiting factor in space. The problem is shedding waste heat. Any laser sufficiently powerful enough to destroy a target in space would need massive radiators to keep from overheating during use. That would make it an easy target for retaliation. Given the cost of putting objects into space, this is a fatal flaw.
However, the efficiencies of heat radiation into space would be higher due to the relative temperatures. I don't know how much more efficient but it could be enough to be the difference between somewhat implausable to highly likely.
@@Knight_Kin Radiation depends on surface area. You need so much surface area to make up for the lack of convection. Even the relatively meager ISS power usage (up to 90 kW) requires around 150 square meters of radiators to keep cool. A powerful laser array would need many times that size if you wanted a meaningful rate of fire.
So, no Jewish space lasers? Who’d have though Marge Taylor Greene was wrong.
so you plop the laser down on something that can soak the heat.
You could give the weapon “ammunition” in the form of coolant that vents to de-orbitable heat sinks, maybe?
4:18 "...more than just a place to fire weapons from. ... Through sattelite guidance our phones can know where we are currently. ... We can communicate in an instant ..."
I think it is highly ironic, because the GPS was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense and ARPANET, the predecessor of the internet, is also from the U.S. Department of Defense
Therefore, I think it is the other way around: Humanity uses some military technology for civil use. The military have always been one if not the biggest promoter of progress.
I cry every time I think about how close we are to preventing all these disasters... and so close to fully embracing them too. The potential we have to expand our relationship with the universe is unbound, and it would be the largest travesty in our known universe if we removed the only place we know that has sentient species from existence.
You: " potential we have to expand our relationship with the universe is unbound"
-- Strong anthropic principle: we are here because the universe did not let us destroy ourselves. The observer, *the human conscious observers* did not CHOOSE to destroy ourselves.
-- White card or Black card: Choose wisely, and believe. Don't wimp out in despair. ☺🥰
For all we know, every civilization to ever exist is doomed to self destruct.
Its definitely not unbound
@Embassy_of_Jupiterlaws of physics definitely prevented alot of things alright
@Embassy_of_Jupiter Strong anthropic principle suggests that the Universe did it, but realize that WE are an important part of the Universe as CONSCIOUS observers. The Observer AFFECTS the outcomes.
-- So WE did it.
The sheer stupidity of our species never ceases to disappoint me.
True... I don't like the idea of nations too...
Careful using the word stupid, it seems like when called out as stupid they scramble to do something next to look intelligent, but it ends up being more stupid.
As per context of video... one single species is fighting for a fragile piece of rock... A rock that was made possible by a great amount of things happening in right proportion.
you and the rest of the universe
Like when the narrator says only in the last 100 years have these imaginings been possible. They weren't imaginings lmao
Germany did reach space. A test of a V-2 (then known as the A-4) made it above the Kármán line, which is 100 km for Earth. That’s the accepted edge of space. It isn’t an arbitrary altitude. It’s high enough above the atmosphere that it is possible to orbit at least once before air drag pulls a payload back to the Earth. Test rocket MW 18014 reached 176 kilometres (109 mi) on 20th June 1944. A later test reached 189 km. This is higher than the orbit of the lowest Low Earth Orbit satellite. These German tests used suborbital ballistic trajectories, so didn’t have nearly enough Delta V to actually enter orbit.
Fascinating. May I ask what is meant by ballistic rockets and why does that mean they can't enter orbit?
A ballistic rocket follows an arc and returns to earth. You need more thrust than the V-2 is capable of to put an object into orbit.
@@robguyatt9602 it’s not very complicated, but it’s hard to explain in a short comment. Ballistic trajectories are the paths traced by a projectile under gravity. The trajectory follows an elliptical path. With a small velocity the elliptical path will be smaller than the diameter of the Earth, so the projectile will hit the Earth before it can complete the ellipse. With high enough velocity the ellipse will be larger than the diameter of the Earth, so the projectile will travel all the way around the Earth and return to where it started - that’s an orbit.
There are lots of details that make it more complicated. Rockets actually accelerate gradually while they are in flight. They are not just shot into space like a canon ball. The mass of a rocket decreases as fuel is burned. Then there is air resistance to consider. The rotation of the Earth also adds or subtracts to the rocket’s velocity. Practical orbits require changes of attitude during the flight because usually you don’t want a rocket to follow a simple elliptical path which would return the rocket to where it started and hit you in the back of the head.
But in simple terms there is a measure called Delta V, which is change in velocity you need to put a rocket on a desired trajectory. The Delta V needed to just launch a rocket straight up to a given altitude is much less than what is needed to launch a rocket into an orbit at the same altitude. More Delta V requires more fuel for equal mass of the payload.
@@NoahSpurrier Thanks so much for your detailed reply. I actually have some knowledge of the subject as I trained at technical college in Mechanical Engineering and do recall this topic vaguely from Engineering mechanics (dynamics). I'm getting a bit doddery now and am forgetful. But I do recall creating a spreadsheet years ago to calculate Coriolis effects in rifle trajectories at various azimuths, latitudes velocities range etc. My brother was curious as he is a target rifle shooter. They shoot up to 1000m. Coriolis is clearly not an issue for that sport otherwise it would be well known in that community. But I can imagine it is taken into account in naval gunnery for instance. Thanks again.
@@robguyatt9602 Oh, yes, the Coriolis effect has to be taken into account for mortar and canon fire. I think it does even effect long range sniper fire. Foucault made use of the Coriolis effect with a big pendulum to demonstrate that the Earth does, in fact, rotate. Not that anyone really doubted it before, but this was the first physical test.
Yes, self annihilation is one of the most disturbing solutions to Fermii's paradox.
I rather a space pebble do it, but either way the outcome is the same
Do you think other alien civlisations have annihilated themselves before they could master space?
@@manoz6194 I hope not, but if so it could be the reason we haven't seen or heard from them yet.
Brilliant work yet again! Every week I get really excited when one of your videos pops up in my feed! Thank you for all you do!
As a British person I'm not too worried about giant space lasers... Good luck getting through our weather with one of those mate.
I haven't seen the sky in three days.
@watonemillion eh?
@watonemillionrecord for most insane comment this week goes to you
Project Thor has entered the chat, and laughs at your weather..... Mate.
CO2 lasers penetrate clouds with ease. Many other wavelengths do the same.
Definitely want to buy some of those pictures that you have they are amazing and would look perfect in my collection
@@AlienCyborg-gs6pw the ones in the video but your thumbnail picture is actually really cool LOL
Thanks!
Thank you!
I don't know what WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein
Drop a rock down the gravity well
WW3 is an information war and we are in it right now, it may go kinetic at some point but if you can destroy country with information then it makes taking over easier.
What a useless quote.
I'd have thought it much easier to make a ground based laser, with orbital mirrors, than it would be to make an orbital laser. If a laser can be built which will destroy ground targets from orbit, one which can destroy orbital targets from the ground should be considerably simpler to build.
But a lot less vesatile. With a space laser you can always shoot other space stuff, and depending on the weather ground stuff. WIth a gound based laser, you can only shoot anything if you have good weather.
@@originalulix True. Depending on the expense, it might be worthwhile having a "fair weather friend" on the ground whilst you're developing the orbital weapons.
That was the proposal in a specific beamed radiation weapon from Reagan era program SDI (knows as StarWars initiative in the media of the times), they look of optical lasers, infrared, and even microwave, but the killer of those ideas was the price of putting large mirrors into space with precise tilting device included, actually few hundred at least and with few hundred of tons each, the price of that was a absolute killer in those times when they supposed to use space shuttle to launch that.
@@theOrionsarms Thanks! That was very interesting!
It would be easy for any nation to spot who used it.
ALEX!! your channel is EPIC!!!! i learn SO much!! thank you, truly!!!❣️❣️👍🏼👍🏼
14:08 a high power / destructive laser. Plenty of satellites use laser beams for communication instead of radio. It's harder to intercept, and very high bandwidth.
Despite everything, it's interesting to see they're still trying to make weapons of lazers. Last I saw (a while ago) the state of the art was a telegraph-pole sized beam that was powered by a hollowed-out 747 filled with batteries. It could just about melt the casing of a missile at 10km.
Don't give up on your dreams, eh?
Hey, I've been waiting for 40 years for a real hover board
The boeing YAL-1 was flown first in 2002. We have come a very long way since then. Think about the phone you had in 2002.
Light Amplification by Ztimulated Emission of Radiation
@@hookeaires6637 You need to get a hobby.
@@justadildeaualot of alien pictures I've watched end up having the char asking for a hover board like ben ten
Dr Evil:"Space sharks with frickin' laser beams!"
Slightly off-topic but we the viewers appreciate you and your team’s contemporary interpretations of the cosmos.
My favorite space weapon is the Dyson sphere style death star. Encompassing the entire star and focusing its energy into a beam to target other solar systems.
Yeah, great idea, I will talk with my emperor on this, a planet killer would be a very cost-effective tool to fight our enemies! All we need is a name for it!
A weaponized dyson sphere would be millions of times larger than the death star.
Thank you Alex. This is a fascinating departure from your usual videos. I am sure, however, there's plenty enough in the universe to get you back to more familiar and tranquil topics. Well done.
"This is a fascinating departure from your usual videos" Yeah, strange that, isn't it. 🤔 But considering the nature of the content - no, not at all. Unsubbed.
@@sunnyjim1355good bye Mr. Turtle.
What a great video keep up the good work👍❤ love it, and at the end of your video, those were very wise and thought out words. You have much wisdom.👍😀
Oh no, Astrum's making scifi videos now.
Great video btw, you sir are a wonderful inspiration.
Alex, I laughed when you said you were your own sponsor😂
Ngl the Sun Gun sounds really cool but also damn we made and had really nightmare ideas
To prevent something like the Kessler syndrome, we need an intl. aggreement - before one nation has a significant advantage and blocks the aggreement to keep that advantage...
Trouble is we have international agreements/laws/protocols etc already but enforcement of such items is heavily inconsistent. There are nations that will openly disregard laws but will enforce it upon others. Nothing tells me that a similar treaty re space will be any different. Then you also have private enterprises that specialise in espionage and black ops.. your proposal is important and necessary but I can't see it being any good or will be adhered to appropriately. I'm all for regulation in order to maintain accountability, transparency and responsibility
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your videos are always fun and informative,keep it up.
Still hoping for a future in space without war and conflict. But it feels more far away the further we develop war-capable technology.
its gonna happen.. technology moves faster than human mentality changing
Seems like space full of pirates and merchants armed to the teeth to fight them off is more in keeping with human nature.
human nature involves conflict, from little kids yelling NO when you take away a toy to 1 nation invading another, there are BILLIONS of people on this rock, you won't ever get everyone to agree on everything. I mean my god there are people that think Zelensky and Biden are the good guys when the reality is Zelensky, Biden and Putin are all corrupt asshole war mongers.
@@windowbreezesHomo sapiens evolved for a life on the savanna. We haven’t really moved beyond that.
I fear the odds of our technology taking us out eventually are much higher than not.
Kudos for Rocinante. And thanks for the very informative vid.
Very interesting. Thank you.
Alex, your featured products are beautiful!!
This is 100% going to happen. I’d be shocked if the beginnings aren’t already happening.
WOW I watch a lot of Military Channels and you are the second one mentoning that LASERs are useless if the weather is not nice and clear. A lot of people think they are some kind of magic super weapon.
Keep it up!
Awesome video ! I love it so much . Thank you for sharing . Who will make the war in space ? Happy week-end to you !
Awesome and great video as always say.
Tq for the always amazing space information.
❤ from Malaysia
The GI Joe, Cobra satellite footage seems appropriate to this discussion.
If you thought we wouldn't try to fight each other everywhere. You must be from another planet. If so turn yourself in.
Remember President Ronald Regan back in the 80’s told the World that we had a Star Wars defense system. Most likely a bluff but that was about 40 years ago………
Is it merely a coincidence @TheRoyalInstitution posted a video on the same topic today? Within minutes actually. Unsettling.
Thank you,Alex!
Alex, you didn't even notice the bottom right corner of your Jupiter metal print that you were unboxing for us was damaged ever so slightly...
Or you could go the Gundam route of just dropping a huge space colony on your target.
Goodbye Australia 🤣
Warhammer 40k ork methods are the most efficient. Drop a Rokk on them from orbit. :D
Glory to the Principality!
8:54 that battle in The Expanse serie was awesome
Sucks that Amazon caused it to crash and burn....
@@Marin3r101 True. But at least a game has been released
Read the novel, Footfall (science fiction). That story is about aliens parking asteroids in orbit to control a destruction of a city or cities. We have the tech now to actually land on remote asteroids, to deflect them (subtlely) and bring back samples. Whats not to stop putting motors on them, and parking in orbit over a hostile country?
This is all very interesting and informative, but also saddening.
We need space garbage collection...
Just an FYI: Star Trek uses particle beam tech, not lasers
There was a court case in the US. The judge said, "Everyone knows a mobile phone or wireless phone broadcasts a 'radio waves'. When you use them, you're giving up your rights to privacy."
The scariest thing that could be in orbit would be a satellite that could launch nuclear weapons at the earth, but nuclear submarines are just as scary and we know they exist.
I think nuke subs are way scarier. Either way, let's hope no dictator with terminal cancer presses the M.A.D. button.
backpack nukes and terrorists.
I don't get it, we have all this advanced technology yet we still use it to kill each other? What is wrong with us?
'advanced'? what we have is still just the begnning
We? Those same Nazis were settled in the US by the CIA.
@@DreamOfFlying still advanced, we literally force electricity to stay in rocks and do math for us, and we have devastating weapons.
You forgot to mention that debris deorbits over time. at the altitude of the ISS anything that small would re-enter in less than a year
It would be cool to have some sort of “Space Sweeper”.
But there is a whole graveyard of discarded satellites and such in a much further out orbit that won't, and it wouldn't necessarily take much to cause the issue.
The Alien's will not let the human's destroy planet Earth 🌎
Hermann Oberth, of course, got his inspiration from frying ants with a magnifying glass as a kid.
If something Can be done, it Will be done, whether or not doing it is a good idea.
Very interesting material. I didn't know lasers were getting so frightening. Also, I'm surprised you didn't mention the "Rods from God", pretty scary concept.
Rods from God is a theoretical weapon that more than likely won't ever exist for its impracticality
@@kennydliteThanks, Sherlock
Scary concept that made for a good sci fi - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - but it lacks practicality.
@@Vlamyncksken thank you, watson. Now run along.
@@kennydlitenah vlad got ya captain obvious dlite 😂
Wow amazing thanks !
Astrum is love
Astrum died eaten by an AI
Alex, love your narrative style.
just because we aren't collectively crazy,
doesn't mean there aren't crazies among us.
this has been demon-strated time and again.
Ohrly?
I needed more wonder and imagination in this video yo
Now I want to hear the song "WAAAR PIIIIIGGSS IIIN SPAAACE!!"
......sadly, I'll have to write it first or something 😂
UN Weapons ban, pfft. Any object that can get in space and move is quite simply already a weapon.
You asked what happened to AAMA3? Very simple: it shot itself into deep space! lol
Reminds me of Project Thor - An early 2000's proposal by the USA to drop telephone-pole size tungsten rods from orbiting satellites. Unfortunately the system was too expensive to get into orbit and no more effective than more conventional means such an ICBMs. Interesting concept nonetheless.
A real life space war isn’t very realistically possible in space maybe drones that talk to other satellites on the ground but not a full blown space war I don’t think. To many obstacles and to many risks.
But you’re narration is the best I have ever seen honestly really profound and informative! ❤
*your narration
@@someonerandom704 There's more... you gonna get those?
@@BRMakesStuff true, they also messed up *too twice. I'll ignore the crappy punctuation though.
Space Warfare would be messed up. You fire a slug from a cannon and missed the target. 1.5 million years later some alien is cruising along in his spaceship delivering a extraterrestrial equal event to a pizza. Only to get blown up by that slug fired Millions years before in a galaxy far far away.
Well... this is more relevant than ever.
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Once upon a time there was a little clock and all he did was tok, tok, tok. And that just tic'd the other little clocks off!
What a lucky video tag 😁
Surprised how few of these systems I'd heard of, interesting stuff.
hearing about them is one thing, mentioning them in public will cause all the supposedly sentient adults around you to poke and mock as they delightedly squeal the modern moron's most ignorantly parroted phrase: 'Conspiracy Theorist !'
the psychopaths in power were all raised from babes to be hyper entitled, and have become so emboldened by the absolute impunity they've bravely gifted themselves as reward for their decades of unceasing and unspeakably horrific crime's, that many now truly believe that they are at least equal to the God they calculatedly pretend to serve and worship, at least whenever they suspect a camera could appear.
If military lasers are so badass and can, using their intense heat, knock out about anything that flies, why can't they burn through clouds and smoke, etc?
What 😭 It was explained 💀
It aint that badass
There are definitely DEWs orbiting Earth right now.
Thank you brother
It's funny when you play so much ksp that you start recognizing parts on satalights. Did anyone see the batteries on the zenith star sat?
Eve Online EWAR is already in use, that's wild and kind of funny to me.
Don't take this the wrong way Alex, but the sound of your voice is so soothing it puts me to sleep some nights. So, basically, you have the perfect voice for putting people to sleep!
Great topics! Keep this videos coming!
No no, the space laser just shoots down the ICBM before it really makes progress. It’s the ultimate defensive shield
You are pretty naive if you believe that. There probably are anti-ICBM lasers in space, yes. But there just as likely are anti-satellite lasers in space.
We wouldn't have enough time, they (Russia) could send as many as 100 nucs at one time, all from different locations, we'd only barely have time to launch a counter attack !!!!!!
Have there ever been Satelite wars, or Satelite vs Satelite combat, as if invading other countries aerial space or having been detected with deployed weaponary conspired on use for undisclosed telegraphic military attacks???
Posters are really beautiful! Considering order...;) You are a very smart guy! Keep up the good work!
Wars in space? Might be better than wars on Earth.
Reminds me of the movie Space Cowboys!
The year is 0079 of the Universal Century...
The problem with lasers is all you need to do is put a mirror/highly reflective material on anything you are trying to protect .
I interned at a GPS subcontractor, and all employees were given free lectures on GPS in a war setting. It’s actually shocking how powerful and dangerous GPS spoofing is, yet how little it is known or talked about.
You could literally make missiles hit their own launch sites with that like of nonsense, or recreate the Titanic by crashing ships into rocks at night.
You can disrupt an airport with a $10 chinese gadget, but it's easy to find the culprit and it's a serious crime...
I've always thought of GPS itself being dangerous, people wishing to cause harm using it to locate targets, without GPS something they'd find impossible to accomplish.
Saber Rattling Bows in the beginning of “Mars the Destroyer”
Gustav Holst “The Planets” A.I. not withstanding
Bingo! Hope we're clever enough to avoid this weaponry madness.
Spot on Alex.
An interesting title. They are "worse" than nukes in the sense that they are not very useful. There is no point in building multi-billion dollar weapons systems in space when we already have very accurate, secure, and powerful ballistic missiles that do the job.
‘Last Card’ coming soon.. 🤦♂️
10:45 pew pew indeed.
I say ol chap, good one.
if a satelite could generate a membrane around the other, then it could retire it the environmentally friendly way from unwanted or anauthorized aerial space, wouldnt it???
The Kessler Syndrome can still happen with disabled satellites as well as any particle from space itself, dust alone can trigger it
Edit: had to replace Kepler with Kessler. Brain farted hard on that one.
duh the Kesle Run in Parsec is an obvious delivery reference to mapping through less speed lights.
_oh, I'm mixing my kk's_
exactly what I was thinking when watching this part. Having a rogue satellite is as bad as shredding it.
You forgot about the neutron cannon.
Can't remember what the weapon was called but there was a design that basically launched massive steel rods at targets on the ground
"Rods from god" is the phrase I remember. Tungsten cores with force similar to nukes from sheer mass. But they're essentially impossible to aim accurately I think
@@justlooking777 They probably also decided the Tungsten would be better used as badass light filaments.
at this rate, don't be surprised if one day you would hear someone say "That's no moon.. It's a space station"
Amazon is using droidd in warehouses. Star Wars here we come. 😄
space based ground lasers would single-handedly bring back the parasol....🤔
We're a long way from star wars. Space wars, yeah. But we cant reach the stars yet.
Isn't there supposed to be a treaty preventing nuclear weapons in space as well as arming satellites to shoot other satellites down? It kind of makes me question the need for a 'space force".
Treaties can be withdrawn from.
Treaties is mere trust
The creation of the space force simply put the control of the US military satellites into one place. They were scattered between commands on an unorganized mess previously. This became a problem as space-based assets began to be increasingly instrumental to military actions within the atmosphere. Rather like how the air force was made its own separate branch as aircraft became more important in war.