Non-Equatorial Space Elevators 

Personally, I like the tethered ring more, but anything that gives us easy access to space is good.

Imagine one day you'll always see the tether when the light is right.

Gotta be quick with the drink & a snack with these RU-vid shorts.

Non equatorial space elevators are a central idea behind my RPG setting. I hope we can see them in our lifetime.

I think the thether being away from most of civilization is a feature, not a bug. This piece of infrastructure would be so god damn expensive it would basically make it necessary to defend it against any possible threat, that is a lot easier to do if you can start from scratch in the middle of nowhere.

Here's the thing. If you are an equitorial nation, you might want to drum up some IMF loans and build one of these things. Afterward, you might find that a major city or two has sprung up on the equator.

One is advised to exercise caution for spacefaring scissors, which have become a hassle for many developing civilizations.

Dude, multi-tether?!?!? First I hear of it 🤯

These shorts are absolutely great! Keep them up!

I can’t wait, a day when space travel accessible by everyone. Except, I can wait until nutritionally rich food, clean water, and safe shelter is accessible by everyone.

Skyhook first, then elevator.

I've seen the episode when it came out. I'm now wondering how this can be protected from debris in orbit. Not sure if you talked about that. I do remember how you explain that it crashing down isn't the end of the world :)

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Ad Astra has a really great concept on it

Not me going through every last short and liking it.

Most of the advantage of a space elevator is just to exceed the thickest part of the lower atmosphere so the only reason to reach geosynchronous orbit in excess of 22,000 miles is to achieve tensile strength from centrifugal forces to hold the structure up. In truth, the structure would only have to extend to perhaps 60 miles up to significantly economize launching spacecraft into space. I can see structures similar to marine spars such as oil drilling rigs, where the base of a tower holds a landing strip and most of the habitat as a ballast, the tower rises to a spacecraft launch area at a sufficient altitude above most of the atmosphere and lighter than air buoyancy balloons attached to the spar above the center of gravity perhaps even up to the launch area as less gas pressure is needed the higher you go (also as atmospheric pressure is also significantly lower at altitude, hydrogen could be used due to the lower oxygen in the atmosphere for disasters to occur, even adding methane which is also a weak lifting gas to the hydrogen at those altitudes could prevent the ratios need for flammability at those altitudes, note that fire prevention gases such as FM-200 are technically propanes that are simply out of the flammability ratio ranges for certain volumes of room air to fire prevention gases). That way, contrary to the favourite strategy of this channel, much smaller megastructures are all that's needed that is a tower structure of only a few to tens of miles tall that is not dependent in being equatorial instead of in excess of 22,236 miles at equatorial locations for the concept of a space elevator. Buoyant structures such as the marine spar space tower is rarely discussed even though they would be much easier to build with material technologies and construction methods that we have today and if course would not be limited by geography as the space elevator is. Note that other non-equatorial proposals such as orbital rings involve are also incredibly massive structures as the ring must encompass the perimeter of the planet. It may be contrary to the favourite belief of this channel but the megastructures only need to be a small fraction of what is commonly discussed to achieve the goals of the structure. Brute force is almost always using far more force than is needed.

My biggest concern is that the wires will hopefully either be non-conductive or able to withstand a gigantic amount of power. I'm sure that the potential energy between two places on earth is probably even more than between ground and cloud height.

The technology that will enable “affordable for everyone” space travel is a continually appreciating currency.

I watch all your videos, but I really LOVE watching your content in short form!

I have been fascinated by the idea of space elevators ever since I first heard about them. But so many challenges.

The forces that would act on these structure will rip any material apart. This simply do not work.

A space elevator is briefly seen in Ad Astra. Brad Pitt's character works on it for his day job, before he gets called away to help with something more important.

Tiny lil drink and snack !

I'm sure no terrorist would ever attack this structure

SO BIG BRAINS, can anyone tell me what happens when you shift a weight on a rotating Object?

That's brilliant.. .hopefully there are kids now that will be alive to see it...even to travel on them

Is this how we access the BWC's in space? The Big White...Crafts.

Socialize space

I like tethered rings better... But would bet that a lofstrum loop would be the first to be built. One that used He for extra support...

• What floor sir? • Penthouse please. • Haha very funny..you know the top floor is the space station where EVERYONE is already heading up to... • 😣

His voice is the cutest

Nope,no way... After the Titan sub,I wouldn't get on something going the other direction either .... Insert meme video of little kid in car seat saying 🐂 💩 over and over.. 😂

Right now I can see so many ways how this can go wrong 🤔

Why do these equatorial space elevators necessarily require big cities on the ground below to be anchored to? To maximize options, what's to stop us from anchoring them to oceanic crust or offshore oil platforms repurposed to function as spaceports for these elevators?

Scientist know that you can make individual piece s with bigger volumetric size like balloon steel. If you make a stick float up straight like a rubber duck in a bath tub it can probably be 60- 80km high with 2km underwater . Just another 80 to go

Boy A-pole shift would throw a wrench in that thing

Woah😮😮😮😮 My only dream for the time being that I'm working on. Progress is too slow though.😊

Shut up, Barry! Lol!

Why not simply pulling off "vertical" from any point? As long as the axis remains paralell to the plane of rotation, it should be fine. Imagine the North and South poles stations, where the elevator would start totally flat like a normal train, but then you'd start skipping the curvature into a seemingly endless railtrack to nowhere. Plus the train cabin should rotate like the cabin of a ferris wheel :) Totally off topic but an example of which I don't see any inconvenient. Anybody else? Thanks :)

Huh, I didn't know the solution could be so simple.

Re "Space travel affordable to everyone": - Isaac and his "Bill Nye in the sky" optimism. 😇 #spacejamtomorrow

We need to build a tethered ring ASAP. I feel that Governments will just get in the way.

Imagine the geo-politics in a NESE.... sounds like a nightmare.

How do I get a space elevator to start here in a small town in Tennessee?

Build it and it will become a mega coty

To be fair since your tethered uyou can use engines to station keep the elevator from a nmore northly/southernly point and or at lower altudies like the more useful low earth orbit or even in atmo.

Is Barry Cripke narratoring this short?

With space we are stuck in a loop, we can't make putting stuff in space cheaper without a butload of stuff already in space. 😅

Dont we need a Reason to elevate into space , before these are rational? What is that reason?

Is there is any reason that having them on the poles would be a bad idea, since it deals with the whole spin issue.

His voice

There's no point to build a space elevator. By the time we have non equatorial space elevators we won't need non equatorial space elevators

The dude from the big bang is narrating this?

Is this the first SFIA short?

elevatooor i cant 🤣

Imagine that shiet detaches and launches you into the deep space.... 💀💀💀💀💀

space elevators cant happen because it would require the entire planets economy and resources to produce.

Van Allen Belt wants to know your location

Won't be done , far too many satellites in LEO ie Space X Starlink with upto 40,000 satellites when finished plus many many more .

Such an easy target for terrorists. Humans.

THis is never going to happen. You might do it on a smaller planet. On earth the tether would have to be 30,,000 miles long. No material will ever be strong enough

I don't really understand the depth of materials, cost, and effort to build. What this hypes is the alternative context of construction. Multiple tethering is physically stronger. Physics isn't my problem so much. We are a ways off from interstellar travel on the constant. You are inferring that there are unplanned projects in multiple vectors, which is rad. Funny little despotism that Titan, gosh, I just love to visit, or is it Europa? I can't tell them apart without references, the facilites look exactly the same to me. Darn. Is that what people are ultimately going to say about Earth? Is that why we haven't made first contact, because beyond our inherrent violence as a species by interstellar comparason we are less than amusing somehow? I also worry about indentured servitude in the frontier. Maybe it's too many poli-sci reviews and not enough sci-fi, the trends validate both positions relative to space elevation speculation in a lot of ways that I believe you get, but the mainstream might ashew, at least it isn't entirely practical to worry about such things in the moment, just to keep in mind that we already have a 'space villain' concept and we haven't ventured out much yet. I think I'm just glad that you are undetered by the physics, and that's pretty inspirational.

Wouldn't something like that really slow down the rotation of the earth?

Let's build something that could fail and kill everyone where it falls. Stupid

Like i said many times before nimrod tried but God said no. Why do you think it's ok now. And don't blame it on he wanted to take over heaven bs because he couldn't but us now we take over things we're ever we go.

Space Junk

I don't know how anyone can get past the way he speaks.. maybe BC I'm Australian.. but it's too distracting for me

It’s wabbit season!

“Affwordable for evweone” 😂

Heavy lift reusable launch vehicles will make space elevators unnecessary. Once we establish a space infrastructure using these launch vehicles, the need to lift lots of stuff off the Earth's surface will be greatly reduced. The era of needing to lift millions of tons into space may only last a few decades. The only thing we'll need to send to space then are people and possibly specialized equipment that can't yet be made in space. You don't need a space elevator for that.