Zero-Gravity Civilizations 

Since I live in Earth, with gravity, I get to say it. How’s it going my sinka?

Universe brain scale racism

I wanna like this comment, but that would un-nice things.

Humanity first! Flat landers only!

I thought being called a "Chad" was a bad thing.?.

lmao

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@@freedomhq4075 English only

@@freedomhq4075 oh no baby found the computer

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@Robin Yabanks But a bag of potatoes at the store costs a billion dollars

Well its not like the cosmonauts on Mir couldn't have came down any time they wanted in their Soyuz, they were just worried about leaving the station unoccupied until Russia could scrape together enough money to send the next crew.

Check out the Tom Hanks movie “The Terminal”

Why so few?

The first rule of warfare is to grab a drink and a snack :)

First Rule No. 1002: Always compose a compendium.

So would the suicidal Floaters be called Splatters? I'll show myself out... I don't want to be introduced to the Airlock.

Maybe you'd just keep your bones strong in a different direction, such as only from the crash couch position instead of the standing up position. A microgravity metahuman might look like a bizarre cross between a turtle and a monkey - agile four limbed climber in 0 g, sturdy four legged crawler in 5+ g.

@@r3dp9 That sounds more like a Heavy Worlder who's had lots of practice in microgravity.

You carbos are weird. Synth bodies are where it's at

@@bryanburgess3950 Bah...you can all keep your solid matter.....Its the upload life for me...:)

i know right, the entrepreneur in me wants to create structures where you get the best view, and then connect them with roller coasters that you don't have to strap into because if you fall off its no big deal!

Atmosphere isn't perfectly clear, even without sooty pollutants. So it does eventually fog line of sight if your looking through many miles/kilometers of it.

@@Empmortakaten well in my sci fi super floaty inside out planet the atmosphere is made of patented "clearium" "for a clearer view!"

You'd just need massive fans on each side of the cylinder, and air filters

@@forgefathereli8354 I feel like falling off a roller coaster in 0g would still be a big deal, after all you'd still carry momentum and if you crash into anything you're dead!

Beltalowda

alex deserved more than that....

Dey no sasa ke....

But to harm the Homeworld... Birthplace of all the life that makes life as we know it possible from our atmosphere to soil. I've always imagined preserving earth's habitability well longer than our star is capable. Wonder how many animals would evolve technology and civilization over 100,000,000,000 of shifting environmental practices. Or what we'd see in protected animal habitats in orbit.

Fred Johnson's death must never be in vain. Belters must unite! OPA for life!

Has been done. They get very confused.

“Oh god, what the fuck is happening in here!” *Pained and confused screaming*

I want to see parrots in microgravity - they'd rock that shit once they got used to it.

@@DogFoxHybrid Corvids too

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That's probably what we'll see before anything else. Robert Zubrin proposed that a flight vehicle to Mars would be in two parts connected by a tether, swinging around like _bolas_ to create "gravity." ("Centrifugy?")

@@falcychead8198 All aboard the bola-mobile!!

@@falcychead8198 actually speaking of Mars, the ship used in The Martian also used that. Rooms attached by sealed bridges, rather than a full drum.

@@falcychead8198 That's similar to the spacecraft design in Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary". During flight the spaceship is a single hull, once arrived at its destination it splits into two parts connected by tethers and spins to generate gravity.

To na kang setóp da mesach!

Remember the Cant!

sasa ke bossmang

@@IGameChangerI yes boss mey

@@sethapex9670 sorry I don't speak rock hopper

Help! I've drifted out of the airlock and am being bombarded by high energy radiation!

@@saucevc8353 was not the imposter

His Clarketech episodes are just him flexing on all of us.

Gravity wells will remain the large piles of resources and living space they are, meaning weighters will have the means to develop the needed megastructures to have easy access to space, and will have the energy budget to simulate gravity in their habitats. I wish good luck to floaters to reliably and cheaply simulate zero g in gravity wells. This asymmetry doesn't seem to count in favour of floaters, who would end up trading biological flexibility for the very effective yet incredibly dangerous path of fully adapting to space as a medium. Mass extinctions of species are full of dead species that were so well adjusted to their environment that any significant change wiped them out. That said, we could also take the opposite perspective and see inhabited gravity wells as the rarity, and space life as the interstellar norm, meaning weighters would be the ones being endangered. Could go either way, depending on how hard exactly is life in space going to be (we're still working with mostly 20th century assumptions about space life here).

@@lucofparis4819 If you're a "floater" you can just vaporise the planets to extract any material you need and create way more livable surface than a dense sphere can, not to mention that while planets are big resource deposits, most of it is inaccessible below a few kilometers. Even the "grounders" would likely dismantle every object in the system to create more living space and resources. Not being able to reside in gravity wells seems a lesser problem compared to having to spend energy escaping them and simulating them once outside.

@@Soken50 You cannot 'just vaporize planets', as the amount of energy required would be so large you'd be much better off spending that to land and physically pick the planet apart one layer at a time. The advantage of habitable gravity wells is that they're already habitable. No effort required (or so little in comparison). So it is untrue that they're somehow less interesting just because they're less effective in terms of available living area. As for mining deep within gravity wells, it's about dealing with compression, something active support can deal with, so we're not just talking about a few kilometres deep, but probably one or two orders of magnitude deeper, which offer circumstances where mere active cooling to render underground structures habitable would offer great geothermal power opportunities. Last but not least, the mere existence of floaters entails the existence of infrastructures allowing for cheap access to space from the surface, i.e. the associated tech would be already researched, proven and quite well refined in the era when floaters would begin to exist. Furthermore, these structures would be necessary for the development of the space infrastructure that ought to exist for floaters to exist and work, making them initially dependent on terrestrial shipments. The same would apply to rotating space habitat tech and mass production industry. So, it isn't so clear how these apparent problems would remain a dissuasive factor for future gravity well colonizations and exploitation. All this to say: I'm not so certain floaters would be so advantaged.

​@@lucofparis4819 You can 'just vaporise planets', it takes the output of an entire star and a few years, but you CAN. I take it you're not a regular of the channel ?Because melting down planets to access resources and create more living space is FAR from the craziest idea you'll encounter here, enjoy your stay. As for the rest, I don't have the energy to rebut each point as many were already adressed in the video. We can certainly overcome many of the challenges that gravity poses but I remain convinced skipping gravity entirely would prove more beneficial in the long run.

Yes "Falling Free" is a nice little story and the other times Quaddies show up as well.

Really excellent examples, and you can traveling to the 55th century and tell your boyfriend we will dating 300-400 years, because life span is 750-1050 years on average. 🤣

All Tomorrows was a fantastic read. I came across it years ago online.

These damn skinnies!

You never needed airtight bearings. Let the airlock spin and have the rotation interface be in an unpressurized section, and be sure to use a lubricant that doesn't outgas.

Magnets

Or use a nuclear fission rocket, and have constant acceleration for the entire trip then orient the floors so that the floor will be perpendicular to the line of acceleration creating a simulated gravity.

@@KRYMauL cant accelerate constantly if you want to stay in orbit

@@MrMelonMonkey I didn't realize that you always want to stay in orbit even still if you curve you acceleration you can stay in orbit by always being ahead of the planet enough to stay in orbit.

Oh, I love this idea!

Well, there are humans born with tails due to a gene defect.

@@marcusrauch4223 not a real tail. Just a skin growth deformity with no bones or useful muscle.

Oye, Belterlowda!

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@@OnxGrid Nope. Co-writer of the episode. :-)

@@jerrysstories711 POG

An interesting idea, though how that would work. I can see one problem with being farsighted on the ISS. Everything is nearby, which would necessitate glasses. Glasses can float away, which can be solved by tethering them to their outfits.

Although the company that made those glasses went bust.

Every improbable event will happen given enough time, even you being laid.

A.H.: Bed-bound?

The thing about colonizing Venus is that you're not gonna live on the surface. We're gonna live in floating habitats in the upper atmosphere

but that is the most realistic thing to happen though, if our own astronauts who were born and raised on Earth have to relearn how to walk and go through physical recuperation for being 1 year on space imagine how F%^^^^ gravity might treat someone who was born in an asteroid with practically no weight in space. it's awful but it might become a reality if we somehow get off this planet before blowing ourselves up in the present/future.

The expanse is awesome but the way they portray belters is stupid. Nobody with 1/8th of a brain would live in a low G rotating hab when they can easily spin it up to 1+ G. Even on Ceres which would split apart if you spun the whole thing, you could build rotating habs inside ceres. Terraforming or colonizing planets is also stupid. Every single moon or planet including Earth is less ideal then a rotating hab.

Shit. Sound the cookie and soda alarm

Mr. Dothe Twist , Any of these "spin the ship" or "spin-section" architectures will not be practical . They will be too problematic and weak ; providing inadequate gravity before malfunctioning . The practiceable and safe approach is to employ split-ships/tethered-ships . Either one of these designs has the advantage of providing a lifeboat , in case of accident or impact . They also provide full gravity for the entire ship , not just partial-gravity for part of it ! 😎 *To examine this subject in more detail , read my post at : quora.com/How-would-Martian-settlers-cope-with-the-lower-gravity-What-would-be-the-health-implications/

@@Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it. I'll check it out.

It will go wrong Mice can't even develope with no gravity. I guess DNA only works in gravity.

@@rexmann1984- ya it’s pretty interesting really. In that sense, gravity is just as necessary for life as oxygen and H20.

@@rexmann1984 DNA works just fine in micrograv otherwise you would die very quickly on account of not being able to make any proteins. its mostly a matter of mechanics and plumbing(digestion, circulation, gestation & delivery, etc.).

T E N N O

Indeed.. Tenno XD

Embrace the worm! Embrace the cycle! The worm loves you, gravity is desire!

Embrace THE ROIDS

@Robin Yabanks maybe build the electro stim into clothes/suits? (A pressure suit doesn't need to be a full space suit, it just needs to keep you alive in case of emergencies. So I would imagine many would wear a minimal pressure suit at all times). Also there are some genetic conditions that result in too much bone growth/muscle growth. Those are awful to have on earth, but might be highly desirable in a controlled gene therapy in microgravity.

NASA's tortillas are still on the menu! 😆

Yess with their long fingies

Yes! I love All Tomorrows, especially the Asteromorphs.

YES! Such an underrated book!

@alex coolt dissing me like that ain't coolt alex

@alex coolt obviously with a heavy head

@alex coolt hey man no need to be so rude

Yeah the claim was very USAian centric. Although it very well could be that many offworld cultures have no interest in Earth aside from learning about it in history. If that lol.

I think it's a financial thing too. I don't have money to go to Europe. I don't even have money to figure out what parts of Europe my ancestors are from.

@@zs9652 Applies to any colonies. Australia, South Africa, Bolivia.

@@zs9652 It wasn't US-centric, it was using the US to illustrate his whole point, which you agreed with. People from colonies (like the US) don't care much about visiting their ancestors homeland.

@@jbtechcon7434 Well not all cultures behave that way. Some have cultural or religous motivations for making trips back to a traditional region.

welcome back :)

You beat me to it.

There was already a crowd source funding for 2 porn stars. They raised a few million dollars. My understanding is that they will launch as soon as commercial tourist flights are available.

I love your personal ad. They could also use that text to recruit astronauts for zero-g breeding!

It's very plausible, maybe even "easy" (Or as "easy" as anything involving genetics can be.) We've done related experiments on flies that have turned their antenna (which are homologous to legs) *into* legs growing from their head. There are probably a handful for hormones during development that kick off the differentiation. I imaging the hardest part would not be turning legs into arms, but doing so while *not* messing up the rest of the anterior/posterior development. (It doesn't help if you have four arms, but no anus/genitalia/bladder)

Lol I saw that "documentary" 🤣

reject humanity return to monke S P A C E M O N K E

Why you ask? Because monke... That is all

One of my favorites

There's no "up" in zero-g

@@jbtechcon7434 I was talking about me, sitting on my a*s in front of my pc on Earth, but whatever floats your boat my friend :)

@@Korkuthan87778 Everything floats in space.

@@jbtechcon7434 Alright, I am not playing this game. Bye.

imagine disney world but planet sized where they breed and set dragons lose so you can ride dragons around floating islands if you want. How much would you pay for that experience? All your Actinium reserves maybe?

STRONKS!

Rule #1 "don't die for you country, make the other poor b****** die for his".