Can We Turn Earth Into a Spaceship? | The Wandering Earth

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World ending disasters are common place in science fiction, and usually an inventive plan is required to save the day. In the new Chinese film, The Wandering Earth, a truly unique solution is presented when the human race discovers that the Sun is dying and will soon expand, destroying the Earth-- turn the planet into it's own spaceship by building thrusters along the surface and moving it out of the Solar System. Kyle takes a closer look to find out just what it would take to pull off such a plan in this week's Because Science!
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  • @becausescience
    @becausescience4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching Super Nerds! It turns out that orbital mechanics is really hard when you haven't really studied it. Who knew! See you in Footnotes -- kH

  • @gamingjose2960

    @gamingjose2960

    4 жыл бұрын

    🤙

  • @zaczane

    @zaczane

    4 жыл бұрын

    Question What about Massive ION Engines the size of Everest? Would they start slow, but start climbing to an eventual useful speed?

  • @CC-oj5qf

    @CC-oj5qf

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was a wonderful video, but an idea that wasn't addressed was using the moon to fuel the nuclear engines, somehow harnessing it's mass in order to lessen the amount of mass taken from Earth significantly. It's still implausible, but doing that again and again over the course of the time taken to get out of the solar system using other planets and their moons could potentially work. Only theoretically of course, as the technology required to absorb the other astral bodies is not technology we necessarily currently have, but the first step to reaching the stars could potentially be destroying Mars rather than walking on it. I'm not nearly as smart as you though, so I'm sure that there's a fault in the plan that you'd see that I don't, other than just current limitations in technology, but either way, keep up the good work.

  • @adamwitt7788

    @adamwitt7788

    4 жыл бұрын

    So what you're saying is the Chinese equivalent of Hollywood isn't spinning out movies with complete garbage science? Examples of garbage movie plot points: you only use 10% of your brain, Dark Side of the Moon, "physics". Facts: you use 100% of your brain just not all of it at once because it doesn't all do the same thing, it's more accurate to call it The Far Side of the Moon because the Moon is in a locked orbit but still receives the same amount of light from the sun as Earth we just only see one side of the moon, this channel would be finished if Hollywood was more accurate according to science.

  • @Crabomax

    @Crabomax

    4 жыл бұрын

    So, our planet is a prison. Great video again!

  • @germandragoon6p108
    @germandragoon6p1084 жыл бұрын

    Alien: “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!” Other Alien: “IT’S A FREAKING PLANET SPEEDING TOWARDS US!”

  • @cherrydragon3120

    @cherrydragon3120

    4 жыл бұрын

    XD they would be scared for their lives lol. Especialy when earth would get in the range of their planets gravity

  • @GrexTheCrabasitor

    @GrexTheCrabasitor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Other other alien liberated from area 51: "yo just me flexin on yall"

  • @shlang23

    @shlang23

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's no moon

  • @daniellee8162

    @daniellee8162

    4 жыл бұрын

    Independence day: we have spaceships nearly the size of your Moon Us:...ummm, ok. Don't bother coming, well just bring our home to you...literally.

  • @ArkaSaurusRex218

    @ArkaSaurusRex218

    4 жыл бұрын

    Earth: Omae wae, Mo Sinderu Alien race: NANI!

  • @alphaxalex1634
    @alphaxalex16344 жыл бұрын

    Anyone getting a Patrick vibe from this? ‘We need to take the *Earth* and push it somewhere else!’

  • @darthvader0219

    @darthvader0219

    4 жыл бұрын

    Patrick: Push!! People of Earth: (grunting)

  • @PaleGhost69

    @PaleGhost69

    4 жыл бұрын

    I thought that when we got the sneak peak

  • @Nmethyltransferase

    @Nmethyltransferase

    4 жыл бұрын

    I can imagine the Republicans trying to suggest this solution in the near future, when climate change becomes unbearable.

  • @rickbautista2504

    @rickbautista2504

    4 жыл бұрын

    I instantly remembered that Patrick idea when he said that

  • @augustuswayne9676

    @augustuswayne9676

    4 жыл бұрын

    I love sponge Bob square pants !!

  • @Adahn99
    @Adahn994 жыл бұрын

    Because Science: "You can't turn the Earth in a spacecraft" Kurzgesagt: "How to make your own Solar System spaceship at home"

  • @Adam-yu1dv

    @Adam-yu1dv

    4 жыл бұрын

    System

  • @jeconiahjoelmichaelsiregar7917

    @jeconiahjoelmichaelsiregar7917

    4 жыл бұрын

    To be fair, Because Science explored what it would take to move only the earth with the goal of escaping a dying sun. Kurzgesagt's Stellar Engines video was about moving the whole solar system using the sun (even if it's partly for moving earth out of dangers like asteroids).

  • @sphee4149

    @sphee4149

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jeconiahjoelmichaelsiregar7917 The stellar engine also extends the suns lifetime

  • @killkick177

    @killkick177

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hahahaha ein deutscher haha :D

  • @Lokitellus

    @Lokitellus

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jeconiahjoelmichaelsiregar7917 it’s about moving the sun to escape stars and black holes

  • @ilikegamestoo9
    @ilikegamestoo94 жыл бұрын

    Today: “We did surgery on a grape.” 3000: “We turned Africa into a jet engine!”

  • @alamdaali8776

    @alamdaali8776

    4 жыл бұрын

    😠racist fuck. turn america into that

  • @lixzx007

    @lixzx007

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@alamdaali8776actually in the movie the entire north hemisphere was covered with engine due to more land coverage if it makes you feel better.

  • @2dark_4fortnite88

    @2dark_4fortnite88

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@alamdaali8776 awwwwe did you get butthurt

  • @sireducky8123

    @sireducky8123

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alamda Ali wat? Are relly that sensitive 2019 relly hit u smh

  • @adwans1491

    @adwans1491

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@alamdaali8776 african would be better because its in the center

  • @moonboogien8908
    @moonboogien89084 жыл бұрын

    Mars: "hey earth, where you headed off to?" Earth: "cant talk, still thrusting"

  • @Titanic_Tuna

    @Titanic_Tuna

    4 жыл бұрын

    Giggidy ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

  • @denzeltaylor9336

    @denzeltaylor9336

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @dannyscipio1777

    @dannyscipio1777

    4 жыл бұрын

    Who's Earth *-pounding-* thrusting?

  • @benstandard4196

    @benstandard4196

    4 жыл бұрын

    Earth: "real people is ... haizz, I will die before they reach another solar system"

  • @shido00

    @shido00

    4 жыл бұрын

    You look great, did you loose some pounds?

  • @poweroffriendship2.0
    @poweroffriendship2.04 жыл бұрын

    _CAN WE TURN EARTH INTO SPACESHIP?_ *Elon Musk:* _Don't do that. Don't give me hope._

  • @sepalmq1229

    @sepalmq1229

    4 жыл бұрын

    XD

  • @RyujinNoKami

    @RyujinNoKami

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bruh

  • @thecountalucard666

    @thecountalucard666

    4 жыл бұрын

    Considering Musk baselessly called a man a pedophile for not endorsing his submarine… yeah, we probably shouldn’t give Musk hope.

  • @metalspider7735

    @metalspider7735

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bro how many channels are u subbed to, i see u everywhere

  • @GaloreInfernoLionGaming

    @GaloreInfernoLionGaming

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh don't worry sir we're not exactly giving you hope we're giving future man kind hope *I say in a deep movie trailer like voice*

  • @abdurrahmanf.a.5624
    @abdurrahmanf.a.56244 жыл бұрын

    People when Earth is close to Uranus : "Look at that, Uranus is so big"

  • @Corpsman01

    @Corpsman01

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s all relative!

  • @theysaidimasian9766

    @theysaidimasian9766

    3 жыл бұрын

    Everyone: *"pffffft"*

  • @digitalis2977
    @digitalis29774 жыл бұрын

    Didn't even mention everyone suffocating after 2 days as the thrust nozzles blow all of the atmosphere off the planet in a giant rooster-tail wake of sadness and sparkly ice.

  • @Apersonfromasia

    @Apersonfromasia

    3 жыл бұрын

    If all the rockets was activated at once. Imagine the super loud boom it would make enough to kill some living organisms.

  • @sunflu

    @sunflu

    2 жыл бұрын

    In that case. We have to cancel all Hollywood productions. 😂

  • @Ariel_emerald

    @Ariel_emerald

    2 жыл бұрын

    this happened in the movie bro

  • @rollinghippo2940

    @rollinghippo2940

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Apersonfromasia not just some but completely lol

  • @LineOfThy

    @LineOfThy

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah. It's already established that most of earth's atmosphere is gone, and it's even less considering jupiter ate a bigger chunk of it.

  • @DreadtheMadSmith
    @DreadtheMadSmith4 жыл бұрын

    Getting Invader Zim flashbacks. Also those rockets would burn off the atmosphere when used.

  • @xbleaksquidx

    @xbleaksquidx

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hologram: My people worked themselves into extinction making our planet a working vessel! Zim: Why would you do that? Hologram: Because it's cool.

  • @pankajranga7611

    @pankajranga7611

    4 жыл бұрын

    And create earthquakes and tsunami also

  • @theAraAra

    @theAraAra

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's mentioned in the story and alluded to in the film. That's why humans end up staying underground

  • @YeviCoulson

    @YeviCoulson

    4 жыл бұрын

    lmao i mean at least global warming isn't a problem since your leaving the sun but what would a hole in the atmosphere really do

  • @josephburchanowski4636

    @josephburchanowski4636

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Also those rockets would burn off the atmosphere when used." Preferably those rockets are burning beyond the atmosphere. Since they are taller than mountains, it isn't a completely unfeasible at least with active support.

  • @gekoultima6668
    @gekoultima66684 жыл бұрын

    In the great words of an even greater scientist “We should take it and push it over there”

  • @Elewisisking

    @Elewisisking

    4 жыл бұрын

    is this the krusty crab?

  • @ceu160193

    @ceu160193

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, this is Patrick.

  • @stevenpeven258

    @stevenpeven258

    4 жыл бұрын

    - Patrick Star, 20** (don’t know exact year)

  • @alphadragonn3685
    @alphadragonn36854 жыл бұрын

    The first thing I thought of was, once we leave our sun, wouldn't we have a HUGE problem of not HAVING a sun until we arrive at Alpha Centauri?

  • @jacob.rausch

    @jacob.rausch

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly what I was thinking!!!

  • @Rosawww

    @Rosawww

    Жыл бұрын

    well in the movie is literally iceage everywhere

  • @jacob.rausch

    @jacob.rausch

    Жыл бұрын

    @Michael Skinner i do not know what that means

  • @toddboyce3599

    @toddboyce3599

    Жыл бұрын

    What about running nuclear reactors? They provide warmth. We can still keep the atmosphere not frozen if we take huge chunks of frozen nitrogen and oxygen over to the reactor, where it will evaporate, go up into space, and go into orbit around earth again, and repeat. We can either survive in a (frozen over) submarine (Horrible idea.) or get the required infrastructure to build all those reactors. "what about cost?" It would be the end of the world. We could tell the companies that inflate the prices "Either you give us those building blocks for reactors for free, or we all die together."

  • @tuoshiwan5046

    @tuoshiwan5046

    Жыл бұрын

    In the movie, they put everyone in underground cities that are built under the thrusters, since they provide hear. The rest of the planet does indeed completely freeze over.

  • @CryptoJordanVR
    @CryptoJordanVR4 жыл бұрын

    This is legitimately a strategy that Patrick Star would come up with! 😂

  • @CP-kq4eh

    @CP-kq4eh

    3 жыл бұрын

    We should take planet earth... and push it somewhere else!

  • @lucithesick854

    @lucithesick854

    3 жыл бұрын

    Is Earth an instrument?

  • @angelhare8374

    @angelhare8374

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol yeah

  • @andrewsebree4333

    @andrewsebree4333

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lucithesick854 no Patrick. The Earth is not an instrument

  • @user-xc4no5hd7d

    @user-xc4no5hd7d

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewsebree4333 *raises hand*

  • @cjzyx1354
    @cjzyx13544 жыл бұрын

    Kyle: "earth orbits the sun more or less in a circle" Kepler: am I a joke to you?

  • @DwarfInBlues

    @DwarfInBlues

    4 жыл бұрын

    Meh, eccentricity of our orbit is a puny 0.017, technically still an ellipse, but really basically a circle.

  • @rajeshdas6539

    @rajeshdas6539

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DwarfInBlues *keppler triggered*

  • @jackielinde7568

    @jackielinde7568

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DwarfInBlues That puny 0.017 is 5 million kilometers. Also, our orbit deforms and springs back over the course of eons. That's how you get ice ages.

  • @balintkeszthelyi1293

    @balintkeszthelyi1293

    4 жыл бұрын

    Also it is not elliptic the way people after Middleschool think (perihelion precession). In reality newtonian mechanics is not what you need to use in space since it is not true in bended space.

  • @peterhacke6317

    @peterhacke6317

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jackielinde7568 Iceages are almost entirely based on reasons comming from earth itself. After all the time of year earth is closest to the sun is the depth of winter for the mayority of people (around 3rd january).

  • @Jak_Nobody
    @Jak_Nobody4 жыл бұрын

    Kyle: Do you feel like you're moving right now? Probably not. California: Am I a joke to you?

  • @MachineRot

    @MachineRot

    4 жыл бұрын

    Keith Campbell fuck earthquakes man that shit shook my house

  • @InvntdXNEWROMAN

    @InvntdXNEWROMAN

    4 жыл бұрын

    Legit thought I was about to live the San Andreas movies.

  • @michaelkeith4322

    @michaelkeith4322

    4 жыл бұрын

    Keith Campbell California is a joke. So many stupid politicians.

  • @Jak_Nobody

    @Jak_Nobody

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelkeith4322 I don't disagree with that part, for sure!

  • @xBrabus76

    @xBrabus76

    4 жыл бұрын

    And do I amuse you? - Homie the clown!

  • @Justicar333
    @Justicar3332 жыл бұрын

    Just a few things to point out here. First off they aren't using the engines they entire way. Their getting up to speed and then coasting. Second they are also using gravity assist to reach speed. First from the sun and then followed by Jupiter where as the trailer reveals, problems arise. I wish you would have addressed those two factors in your video.

  • @AncientEvilSaiyan

    @AncientEvilSaiyan

    Жыл бұрын

    most lack simple common sense, especially these KZreadRS.

  • @doritoboi3504

    @doritoboi3504

    Жыл бұрын

    nerd explains give a great video on why no one would survive it

  • @villager736

    @villager736

    Жыл бұрын

    Another problem, what happens if you get off course or need to slow down, what then?

  • @thecomentingcat6280

    @thecomentingcat6280

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@AncientEvilSaiyanUnreasonable hatred

  • @man-tb6xu

    @man-tb6xu

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@villager736turn off the engine on the back then turn on the front engine

  • @emhgarlyyeung
    @emhgarlyyeung Жыл бұрын

    The Wandering Earth ll is out there now! The movie is awesome! Blow my mind! Please also review and make some science video about it!

  • @M85331

    @M85331

    Жыл бұрын

    I like the first one better

  • @MWU8639

    @MWU8639

    Жыл бұрын

    @@M85331 The second one is prequel of the Original movie

  • @farklegriffen2624
    @farklegriffen26244 жыл бұрын

    “Why don’t we take Bikini Bottom and push it somewhere else...” -Patrick Star (Oct. 12, 2001)

  • @caru93

    @caru93

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure that was way before 2012.

  • @xeth9074

    @xeth9074

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why don’t we take our problems, and push it somewhere else.....

  • @farklegriffen2624

    @farklegriffen2624

    4 жыл бұрын

    Joey Robinson, just checked and it’s 2001!

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache4 жыл бұрын

    I don't know Thor... Can we? *Let's turn real life into a real movie, Asguardians of the Galaxy.*

  • @ceptor699

    @ceptor699

    4 жыл бұрын

    Speaking about Thor..... Why Asgard is flat?

  • @SkyRecruit18

    @SkyRecruit18

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ceptor699 because the author probably thought earth was flat

  • @DrD0000M

    @DrD0000M

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SkyRecruit18 The au-Thor?

  • @patnaikunidivijprithvime6982

    @patnaikunidivijprithvime6982

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ceptor699 Asgard is not flat its basically a floating island above some kind of spherical portal

  • @mr.cschaosworkshop4100
    @mr.cschaosworkshop410011 ай бұрын

    Kyle you scared the hell out of me at the end there with the “thank you so much for watching, Tedy” and I applaud you for it. I dont know the odds of me coming across a video where my name was randomly said, but I was happy to see it!

  • @Zulisian
    @Zulisian3 жыл бұрын

    I knew this youtube video was from The Wandering Earth film. Absolutely loved that film too, I put it on one night because it was a chinese with english dub thinking it'd put me to sleep, ended up watching it all. Such a fantastic movie.

  • @kerbonaut2059
    @kerbonaut20594 жыл бұрын

    Now that you've done moving the earth part, can you PLEASE do the 'igniting jupiter' part?

  • @tarrantwolf

    @tarrantwolf

    4 жыл бұрын

    And how badly would earth be ripped apart by that ignition.

  • @bigdump8206

    @bigdump8206

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tarrantwolf agree

  • @dariondavis2488

    @dariondavis2488

    4 жыл бұрын

    Let me save you the time Long story short R E A L L Y B I G B O O M

  • @AnthonySomes

    @AnthonySomes

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Owen Yin Jupiter... Possibly a great source of fusion fuel?

  • @joshchu

    @joshchu

    4 жыл бұрын

    we've already hit the science wall before that, some people did the math, roche limit for earth and jupiter is actually inside the jupiter radius.

  • @HayderAbdulridha
    @HayderAbdulridha4 жыл бұрын

    But Kyle, you forgot about our friendly surrounding neighbors. We can use them for everything needed.

  • @Falcodrin

    @Falcodrin

    4 жыл бұрын

    We would definitely have time to set up massive operations pulling fuel from other planets.

  • @donalddavenport5224

    @donalddavenport5224

    4 жыл бұрын

    We could easily move the earth to a safe place before or while it's becoming a red giant and gather fuel from asteroids to not deplete resources from earth. We are talking billions of years from now. We'll probably be visiting other planets or be dead from religious/political ideas by that time

  • @FelipeKana1

    @FelipeKana1

    4 жыл бұрын

    True, but the rockets still look unfeaseble. And I think so much trust would possibly break the planet apart.

  • @kylefortner8709

    @kylefortner8709

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@donalddavenport5224 not even considering what type of technology we would likely have developed. We're talking about a civilization that would be a few rungs (if not three) on the Kardeshev scale. There exists the possibility that conventional fuel types would be irrelevant as that we would be using some sort of magic-esque engine/thrust device. Perhaps something that runs on mini blackholes?

  • @aronious291

    @aronious291

    4 жыл бұрын

    We wouldnt need to go to alpha centauri. Lets just go to the new goldilocks zone. K mr. Goldilocks?

  • @johnny_roots
    @johnny_roots2 жыл бұрын

    Cool video bro. In the movie mentioned in the beggining, they push Earth out of its orbit and use Jupiter's gravity to slingshot Earth away from the Solar System. But still I guess it wouldn't be nearly feasible lol

  • @astrochef7766
    @astrochef77662 жыл бұрын

    Ive been asking this questions for years that’s awesome this video exist thank you so much !

  • @ZeeengMicro
    @ZeeengMicro4 жыл бұрын

    Imagine that you turn on the thruster while the earth still spinning. You could make the largest beyblade in the universe.

  • @dboot8886

    @dboot8886

    4 жыл бұрын

    hans kris God forgive me... LET IT RIP!!

  • @humblesoldier5474

    @humblesoldier5474

    4 жыл бұрын

    That would be so awesome until the forces atomized... asteroidized the planet. I used the universe sim, and upped Earths rpm... it doesn't look to good when we go super fast.

  • @KainaX122

    @KainaX122

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJ6M0cqtfJqpgJc.html

  • @NeP516

    @NeP516

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, that's a quasar

  • @patnaikunidivijprithvime6982

    @patnaikunidivijprithvime6982

    4 жыл бұрын

    You have to do it anyway in order to get the required tangential velocity . You need some wheelocity to it as well

  • @Canadian_Ry
    @Canadian_Ry4 жыл бұрын

    No-no-no, light speed is too slow!... we're gonna have to go right to... Ludicrous speed!

  • @seekertosecrets

    @seekertosecrets

    4 жыл бұрын

    Spaceballs reference! Nice!

  • @Jakobman76

    @Jakobman76

    4 жыл бұрын

    Earth has gone to plaid

  • @ericthomas5963

    @ericthomas5963

    4 жыл бұрын

    You fool! The ONLY solution is to turn it to 11!

  • @adampancechowski5965

    @adampancechowski5965

    4 жыл бұрын

    Brings back dem memories

  • @mariebcfhs9491
    @mariebcfhs94914 жыл бұрын

    "Earth is so dang heavy" Earth-chan: duck you I'm not heavy~!

  • @justagenosfan

    @justagenosfan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tsundere earth

  • @bac0n202

    @bac0n202

    3 жыл бұрын

    wtf

  • @bac0n202

    @bac0n202

    3 жыл бұрын

    this is the universe B)

  • @eamonia
    @eamonia Жыл бұрын

    You're great, dude. If I had kids I would insist they check your channel out. Thanks for being so cool. You're a great inspiration to young minds everywhere. I mean, I'm 37 and I love watching your stuff. Keep up the great work.

  • @Y0uWinY
    @Y0uWinY4 жыл бұрын

    Can the earth crust even withstand the pressure from the rocket engine even if we can reach that amount of force?

  • @STartist.

    @STartist.

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gb6710 haha yo mama joke funny

  • @myguychris7739

    @myguychris7739

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gb6710 Damn 😂

  • @darrekworkman8685

    @darrekworkman8685

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, it would be a matter of distributing the force across the surface and not concentrating it all at a single point. That is for the case of 'breaking' or 'puncturing' the Earth's crust. There would be another concern with 'deforming' the Earth's surface. There would need to be some method of compensation to prevent this from happening.

  • @darrekworkman8685

    @darrekworkman8685

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Rose arias Jenna prieto If the ground under them is soft enough they do.

  • @devlinmcbane7255

    @devlinmcbane7255

    4 жыл бұрын

    You Win Yeap good question! If the physics was sound and it did shear; I imagine the solution would be a quad pillared dyson sphere anchored in four points to the earth’s more stable upper crust points... though these pillars would need a lot of geologists and physics majors to watch over due to the drifting tectonic plates... its a huge undertaking to even make a model of.

  • @bologna32
    @bologna324 жыл бұрын

    We should throw the water on earth but first dont forget to have 2 water bucket to make infinite source again

  • @gumedrop5214

    @gumedrop5214

    4 жыл бұрын

    Clever thought😉😅

  • @silentdrew7636

    @silentdrew7636

    4 жыл бұрын

    *3 water buckets.

  • @CharlesBalester

    @CharlesBalester

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@silentdrew7636 you can use 2, if you have a 2x2 hole in the ground and put water at 2 opposite corners the other corners fill themselves!

  • @Warfrog101

    @Warfrog101

    4 жыл бұрын

    **snickers**

  • @silentdrew7636

    @silentdrew7636

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@CharlesBalester last I checked that didn't work.

  • @RedMenace446
    @RedMenace446 Жыл бұрын

    love how he tries not to laugh when he starts explaining the crazy premise

  • @stevenkaeser8583
    @stevenkaeser85834 жыл бұрын

    The concept of flying Cities, carrying manufacturing to resources in the Cosmos. Thank you, James Blish.

  • @David-yy6hp
    @David-yy6hp4 жыл бұрын

    Great video, but you missed a very big point. The gravity of earth would reduce the rocket engine's efficiency quite a bit, so depending on the height of the rocket, it may not even make a difference. In the case that it did have enough force to push its exhaust out of Earth's SOI(Sphere of Influence), unless the exhaust didn't collide with any large amount of gas on its way out, the force of the exhaust would slowly strip earth of its atmosphere.

  • @ninjahombrepalito1721

    @ninjahombrepalito1721

    4 жыл бұрын

    The tzar bomba moved the Earth..

  • @David-yy6hp

    @David-yy6hp

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ninjahombrepalito1721 Newton's third law, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, proves that nothing could move the earth in relation to space unless something is ejected from earth. The bomb may have shaken the earth or possibly(I haven't done any research) changed the earths rotation, but if nothing is ejected from earth, how could the earth move in a certain direction.

  • @prestonc1483

    @prestonc1483

    4 жыл бұрын

    There is also if the earth was used to power the rockets( by sacrificing the earth's mass for fuel) the earth would become easier to move over time with less and less mass making it possible to use some mass and need less fuel

  • @vincenoname

    @vincenoname

    4 жыл бұрын

    This will probably be on Because Science Footnotes

  • @patnaikunidivijprithvime6982

    @patnaikunidivijprithvime6982

    4 жыл бұрын

    That is basically the rocket equation on a nutshell

  • @baconboy1547
    @baconboy15474 жыл бұрын

    I'm no scientist. But my gut tells me all those rockets would destroy our atmosphere, right? Wrong?

  • @seekertosecrets

    @seekertosecrets

    4 жыл бұрын

    Depending on the source of fuel. Destroying it? Maybe. Creating enough heat to cook everyone else? Most likely.

  • @peterhacke6317

    @peterhacke6317

    4 жыл бұрын

    Depends on what exactly comes out of them, but yes we should probably put their tips out of the atmosphere.

  • @stewartleslie3292

    @stewartleslie3292

    4 жыл бұрын

    To be fair, I think that's the plan of the CCP all along.

  • @badrequest5596

    @badrequest5596

    4 жыл бұрын

    well if you made the rockets big enough so they'd go way beyond the edge of our atmosphere and ignite in space, i think we'd be okay. maybe. but it's firing inside our atmosphere, say goodbye to all that oxygen

  • @bengoodwin2141

    @bengoodwin2141

    4 жыл бұрын

    If they were short enough to still be in the atmosphere, yes

  • @Gabdube
    @Gabdube4 жыл бұрын

    It also really important that the exhaust begin higher than mt Everest, because otherwise it would eject a lot of the Earth's atmosphere along with it. The thruster's exhaust needs to be higher in altitude than most of the atmosphere, and preferably higher than the ozone layer even, 'cause we kinda need that too. Keeping the planet's atmosphere along with us is kinda the whole point of making the planet itself our seedship.

  • @edward3190

    @edward3190

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't think we would care much about atmosphere at that stage. The plan is to save the maximum number of people possible, not protecting the Earth.

  • @doggy101

    @doggy101

    11 ай бұрын

    @@edward3190 then how would they live without an atmosphere

  • @edward3190

    @edward3190

    11 ай бұрын

    @@doggy101 they live underground, the atmosphere underground and the atmosphere below the thrusters are not gone

  • @doggy101

    @doggy101

    11 ай бұрын

    @@edward3190 Without it, life as we know it wouldn’t exist. Not only does it contain the oxygen we need to live, but it also protects us from harmful ultraviolet solar radiation. It creates the pressure without which liquid water couldn’t exist on our planet’s surface. - nasa how are you gonna get water without water???

  • @edward3190

    @edward3190

    11 ай бұрын

    @@doggy101 did you not read my last comment? a significant amount atmosphere is not lost. the atmosphere underground and the atmosphere below the thrusters are not gone

  • @angelofhell3701
    @angelofhell37014 жыл бұрын

    2:12 “how much energy would be needed to FLING it out of it’s orbit?” Me: _Sees the Earth smash into a random Star Nearby._ Well, shit.

  • @aylbdrmadison1051
    @aylbdrmadison10514 жыл бұрын

    This is like if cavemen 40,000 years ago thought: _Hey, one day we will go to the moon. Shouldn't we be working on that now?_

  • @sid6280

    @sid6280

    4 жыл бұрын

    they were its just we procrastinated 40,000 years :P

  • @Handles_Are_Bad.Phuk-them-off

    @Handles_Are_Bad.Phuk-them-off

    4 жыл бұрын

    the problems that had to solve 40k years ago towards that end were domestication and agriculture, they managed those in a mere 25-30k. What total mad lad's, i'd have thunk i'd take twice that.

  • @sid6280

    @sid6280

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Handles_Are_Bad.Phuk-them-off they wanted to go to the moon to get away from agriculture

  • @joevenespineli6389

    @joevenespineli6389

    4 жыл бұрын

    Probably worried about what to eat and not getting eaten

  • @LandeTLSgPlus

    @LandeTLSgPlus

    4 жыл бұрын

    Warhammer 40k is set roughly 40,000 years i the future. Id say we are working our way towards that now:-P

  • @empireempire3545
    @empireempire35454 жыл бұрын

    Because Science: Can we turn earth into a spaceship? Isaac Arthur: that's level 1. Next thing: the entire solar system.

  • @SashaMinkh

    @SashaMinkh

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, little bit of SFIA lite today.

  • @jejcnsjdndjskdjrn8329

    @jejcnsjdndjskdjrn8329

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, The whole galaxy

  • @humblesoldier5474

    @humblesoldier5474

    4 жыл бұрын

    Today we're going to be discussing how to deconstruct the entirety of the Sol system to move it to another system while the Sun enters the Red Giant stage of it's life, so get a drink, and some snacks...

  • @BrokenLifeCycle

    @BrokenLifeCycle

    4 жыл бұрын

    Naw. We'll star-mine the Sun to extend its lifespan. Remove the iron and helium and put hydrogen back into it. By doing so, we can use the sun as the engine to push us to a new solar system.

  • @3moirai

    @3moirai

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am surprised he didn't reference Isaac Arthur's discussions on this.

  • @TheAndrewWorleyable
    @TheAndrewWorleyable4 жыл бұрын

    What's that thing that looks like a scar around your neck? Thank you for this video, the perfect compliment to an original idea. I really enjoyed the movie, and was excited to find a video like this as soon as It was over. Much love from Oregon!

  • @Rosawww
    @Rosawww Жыл бұрын

    if yall thinking why not build a space ship. watch the upcoming second movie.

  • @ArthurEKing8472
    @ArthurEKing84724 жыл бұрын

    Hey Kyle, love the show, and in total, I want to say that I actually really thoroughly agree with your assessment in the end, but yeah, there's a lot more I think that can be said on the subject. First of all, I think that the whole "fusion-engine" would be mandatory yes, but for more reasons than would be immediately apparent. A very large portion of the mass ejected through fusion-reactions would be ionized gasses and free-floating electrons. In other words, plasma. This is MANDATORY, as the only conceivable way to get the kinds of thrusts you'd need to have in order to produce the kinds of isp (Specific Impulse, or the level of efficiency of a rocket-engine) required would be to use a magnetic acceleration, much like ion-drives in the New Horizons mission. Basically you'd be turning the rocket-nozzles (Already the size of mount Everest) into massive particle-accelerators, accelerating the exhaust to a sizeable fraction of the speed of light to be able to get the highest isp-value possible. with isp's in the 15k+ range it IS doable. Unlikely, but do-able. Even the best ion drives today do reach somewhere close to 15k isp. So it's not impossible. Also, with the kinds of course, or trajectory you're talking about, the slow-spiral method, it makes it actually MORE efficient than a lot of other possible options. Also, you could use the slow-spiral to slow down the heating-up of the planet, as you'd be farther away from the sun. Lastly on that same subject, you could time your acceleration and vectors to sling past massive objects in the solar-system like Jupiter in a sling-shot maneuver, stealing some of their angular momentum on your way out of the solar system, to accelerate Earth fast-enough that it's feasible. This way you don't have to provide all the thrust yourself. And if you can (Like the voyager probes) can get to multiple gas-giants on your way out, it's actually a lot easier to get the velocity needed to escape the solar system. That said, there are LOTS of other problems that exist afterwards. Firstly, the atmosphere, and biosphere aren't static. So you'd need to take ALL of that below the surface. Seal off things like the volcanos and other things that spew matter out onto the surface of the planet, as almost none of that is going to survive. Also, even getting to Alpha-Centauri at 42 km/s is still going to take centuries. And then there's the problem of slowing down once you get there. Not only all of that, but you need to continue a lot of those fusion-reactors to be able to provide enough heat and power to supply the Earth with the energy it's entire bio-system needs to survive the several centuries in space. Also the Magnetosphere isn't static either, and would need to be maintained, or else the only thing keeping us safe from cosmic rays goes away... There are SO many logistical problems that need to be resolved, I don't think it's necessarily feasible, practical, or plausible. Possible? Well, nothing's impossible, lol. But highly unlikely. If you want to save a significant portion of the life on Earth there are lots of other methods. You're probably better off doing things like using a ground-based linear accelerator to accelerator generational ships out of the Solar System, leaving the planet itself to die. It's harsh, but it's a lot more likely to succeed. And if you can send enough of those ships, giving them all the technology to set up first an asteroid-based culture, I mean, you wouldn't even have to leave the solar system for that one! Start setting up shop around Jupiter, Saturn, etc. Titan, and Europa would have a pretty good chance of being liveable for at least a few million if not billion years. Giving you lots more time to spread farther, out to Alpha Centauri and beyond. Heck, visit places like Trappist, or Teagarden's Star, both close with possibly Earth-Like candidates, that would take far LESS work setting up a new Earth 2.0 than rebuilding Earth into a starship. In the end, it's just a question of what's more feasible. And this option, I think is one of the least feasible. You do manage to touch on a lot of the key points, and I'm just trying to bring to light a few of the others.

  • @torgrimmyt3549

    @torgrimmyt3549

    4 жыл бұрын

    Worthwhile read; thanks. :)

  • @ArthurEKing8472

    @ArthurEKing8472

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@torgrimmyt3549 Glad I could give you some food for thought, lol.

  • @ArthurEKing8472

    @ArthurEKing8472

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SapioiT Well thanks for that. Never heard of it. But What's SFIA stand-for?

  • @ryanlange6766
    @ryanlange67664 жыл бұрын

    Arthur Issac's "Planet Ships" video sums it up and goes beyond, he should be the supernerd :) great vid tho

  • @JoelFeila

    @JoelFeila

    4 жыл бұрын

    OH my another fan of Issac here

  • @becausescience

    @becausescience

    4 жыл бұрын

    He does good work. Just talking about this movie specifically though, because so many of you asked about it! -- kH

  • @ryandoesstuffapparently1540

    @ryandoesstuffapparently1540

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think in one of Isaac’s episodes he mentions parking gravitational body opposite our point from the sun and using the gravitational attraction to slowly pull our orbit outward. At least enough to survive the red giant expansion, and then reversing the process to get closer to the white dwarf stage of the sun. This could extend the life of the earth by billions of years.

  • @daniel.u.thibault
    @daniel.u.thibault3 жыл бұрын

    4:00 Energetically, increasing the Earth's velocity from 30 to 42 km/s is the same (in magnitude) as slowing it all the way down to zero.

  • @BattGaming
    @BattGaming4 жыл бұрын

    My question: what happens to the earth's core in this scenario? Wouldn't forcing the rotation of the earth to stop also effect the fluid dynamics happening in the core? If so how would that effect everything we depend on, even the magnetic field generated by the movement of core and mantle material?

  • @hanneswiggenhorn2023

    @hanneswiggenhorn2023

    Жыл бұрын

    The earthquakes would probably be devastating and having winds with 1000km/h of speed all around the equator wouldn't make it any better. The magnetic field could also suffer. The thing is, we don't stop the core from rotating, we "just" stop the crust, so the magnetic field might even stay unchanged for a good amount of time

  • @gorilladisco9108

    @gorilladisco9108

    Жыл бұрын

    Also what will happen to the earth's crust? Earth currently is like egg, with hard shell and gooey insides. The shell (crust) may not be able to sustain that much force, and the rockets will sink or worse, pierce through to the other side.

  • @Rippleman5974

    @Rippleman5974

    Жыл бұрын

    Somebody been smokin some weed man.

  • @conqiucius
    @conqiucius4 жыл бұрын

    Aliens earth invasion strike group halfway heading to earth... Aliens: What the hell is that thing in front of us? Aliens captain: WTF, who are they? they are on a collision course with us! Earthlings UEG: Please divert your course 15 degrees to your right side to avoid a collision. Aliens captain: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to your right side to avoid a collision. Earthlings UEG: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to your right side to avoid a collision. Aliens captain: This is the Captain of HMS krypton lance. I say again, divert YOUR course. Earthlings UEG: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course. Aliens captain: THIS IS THE HMS KRYPTON LANCE, THE FASTEST AND SECOND LARGEST STAR BATTLE SHIP IN THE KRYPTONIC EMPIRE INTERSTELLAR FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY 1000 STAR DESTROYERS, 5000 GALAXY CRUISERS AND ONE MILLION SUPPORT STAR SHIPS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES TO YOUR RIGHT SIDE, I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES TO YOUR RIGHT, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF OUR FLEET. Earthlings UEG: This is a planet, over...

  • @richterman3962

    @richterman3962

    4 жыл бұрын

    U made me laugh, here's a cookie🌮

  • @Neion8

    @Neion8

    4 жыл бұрын

    Love your reference to the American navy's dispute with a lighthouse legend!

  • @simplyoranges9387

    @simplyoranges9387

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@richterman3962 that's a taco 🌮

  • @serendipitymusic2989

    @serendipitymusic2989

    4 жыл бұрын

    simply oranges no thats a cookie 🌮

  • @simplyoranges9387

    @simplyoranges9387

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@serendipitymusic2989 ._. k

  • @jacobv3396
    @jacobv33964 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a problem for Isaac Arthur! Isaac Arthur has a video called Planet Ships that delves into this topic.

  • @RevantheBlack

    @RevantheBlack

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jacob V exactly! moon- based Gravity Tractor

  • @Sherool

    @Sherool

    4 жыл бұрын

    I believe those would theoretically require a fully functional Dyson Sphere and some artificial blank holes. Sure once you have that kind of tech and resources moving planets around become more feasible, but strapping rockets to a planet, fusion or otherwise I don't think will ever be a thing.

  • @nicolas2654
    @nicolas26544 жыл бұрын

    Venus: "Aw shit here it comes" Earth: "yeeey I'm out" Mars: "wait that's illegal !" Jupiter: "hello there !"

  • @KrissofallTrades

    @KrissofallTrades

    3 жыл бұрын

    Star Wars Obi

  • @feprastyo8859

    @feprastyo8859

    3 жыл бұрын

    also jupiter : YEET

  • @WORLDPEACE2628
    @WORLDPEACE2628 Жыл бұрын

    This is, after all, a movie where everything is possible.

  • @BlankPicketSign
    @BlankPicketSign4 жыл бұрын

    how does the math change if we just raise Earth's orbit out of the surface of the new sun, and into the NEW Goldielocks' Zone? Why leave the solarsystem when we can just move to a higher, more comfortable orbit? (As if that even helps the math of this ridiculous idea XD) By the way love the show *Fistbump!

  • @Falcodrin

    @Falcodrin

    4 жыл бұрын

    That would require much more difficult math. You would have to map a trajectory and figure out where the new orbit should be. Predicting that new orbit accurately would be difficult and if you missed you wouldn't have time to correct your error

  • @Handles_Are_Bad.Phuk-them-off

    @Handles_Are_Bad.Phuk-them-off

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Falcodrin its not like the expansion of the sun will be an overnight event, it will happen imperceptibly over the course of millennia as such you totally could just start out in about 5 million year's from now and course correct as you go/need

  • @BigGoronSword

    @BigGoronSword

    4 жыл бұрын

    That may buy us a little more time, but it'll be best we move out before then sun goes supernova.

  • @BlankPicketSign

    @BlankPicketSign

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@BigGoronSword Uuuuuh I HIGHLY DOUBT our sun has enough mass to go super nova... like.. at all

  • @jnawk83

    @jnawk83

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@BlankPicketSign given the limit is defined in terms of.solar masses and is greater than 1.....

  • @onichow4313
    @onichow43132 жыл бұрын

    'Beautiful, isn't it. The only home we've ever known' That the reason why in the movie humans take the earth with them.Just because it's The only home we've ever known

  • @ivosarak959
    @ivosarak9594 жыл бұрын

    Gravitational pushing by using some close passing asteroid has been proposed as a solution for planet moving, but there are other bodies (like Jupiter) what may throw wrench into the mix to prevent safe voyage to much higher orbit around the Sun.

  • @toryunaminosaki1022
    @toryunaminosaki10224 жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure it would be easier to just build an actual spaceship

  • @Neonsilver13

    @Neonsilver13

    4 жыл бұрын

    Agreed, the movie is quite good, but I did wonder why they didn't just build a fleet of spaceships and put as many people as possible into cryo and send them off. Considering the time and resources all this engines must have taken, I'm sure they could have easily built as many spaceships as they needed to take in the people they allowed to live in their underground cities. Besides, even if all this works, there is still the question wether or not the planet could be integrated in a new solar system once they arrived in a viable system or if the planet could be made hospitable again after the voyage, just looking for a new viable planet seems far more practical. And a bunch of spaceships would have decentralized the humans and lowered the chance of a single event wiping out humanity as a whole.

  • @ionsilver557

    @ionsilver557

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Neonsilver13 In the original sci-fi novel , human civilization actually splits up to two parties: the spaceship party and the Earth party. And the Earth party finally wins because spaceship party admits that they cannot build real "generation spaceship fleet" that can support a whole civilization. In my opinion it's just not a very convincing reason. But the author himself once told the truth in an interview: he called himself a solid spaceship party member, and believe that generation spaceship fleet is the form of a higher level civilization, but "the planet spaceship" is an absolutely epic sci-fi scene, so epic and thrilling that he cannot just let it go. So... it's there.

  • @meteorbullet3474

    @meteorbullet3474

    4 жыл бұрын

    think of it in another way, if it's just building spaceships, it will be just another common scifi movie without any new ideas and lack creativity. we've seen hundreds of spaceship migration films.

  • @apopirate

    @apopirate

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@meteorbullet3474 was there really hundreds of "spaceship migration films"? Can you name some? I would like to watch them. Or, you know, one or two will do...

  • @toryunaminosaki1022

    @toryunaminosaki1022

    4 жыл бұрын

    If you're gonna move the planet, it would seem like more sense to push Earth further out as the sun expands, rather than kicking it out completely. But I admit, haven't watched the movie, so I'm not sure what the issue with the sun is, exactly

  • @nekowerewolf9769
    @nekowerewolf97694 жыл бұрын

    "do you feel like youre moving right now?" Me: *starts shaking violently* "YES"

  • @sirenhead4046

    @sirenhead4046

    2 жыл бұрын

    U have a extra e in your

  • @BrainSlugs83
    @BrainSlugs833 жыл бұрын

    I know it's an even harder physics problem, with much more sci-fi craziness around it -- but I feel like turning Sol (our star) into a spaceship would be the better idea -- (because stars aren't stationary anyway, ours is hurtling through space already and taking us with it). -- If we could, over the course of a million years, get our system's trajectory and velocity more closely matched with a neighboring system (i.e. if we could change the course of our star), at least we'd be in a better position to explore a neighboring system... A hundred million years seems like a long time -- but life keeps re-evolving on earth -- like faster than it should -- so even if we fucked the planet up -- and a billion years goes by before sentient life comes back and finds the plastic in the ocean has turned into fossil fuel, maybe that generation of Earthlings will be in a better position to explore the galaxy.

  • @maozedong8370

    @maozedong8370

    Жыл бұрын

    You would NEVER be able to change the course of a star. The forces acting upon them are far greater than anything any era in human civilization could ever come up with. "Driving" the star wouldn't even be possible because not only do you need a destination, but you also need a method to propel it. Nothing humans could ever invent could drive the tar into a direction humans pleased, it is a violation of all physics. Even Dyson spheres which are also absolute nonsense have more plausibility than driving a star system.

  • @LineOfThy

    @LineOfThy

    Жыл бұрын

    the only issue is, the point of the movie is to _escape_ Sol

  • @user-fiF5ei8tyah

    @user-fiF5ei8tyah

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@LineOfThyBrainSlugs. Sluggish. Slow... 😂

  • @juanmillonschik3945
    @juanmillonschik39459 ай бұрын

    12:06 ...and that's why i've always thought of this movie as a prequel to The Little Prince

  • @julianroth326
    @julianroth3264 жыл бұрын

    Reads title: How d'you solve the icing problem?

  • @raincloud5259

    @raincloud5259

    4 жыл бұрын

    Elon: the earth is advance in any waay

  • @Videosv135

    @Videosv135

    4 жыл бұрын

    Might wanna look into it

  • @AnjanaBSubba

    @AnjanaBSubba

    4 жыл бұрын

    Watch the movie...it has an explanation.

  • @roberthicks1612

    @roberthicks1612

    4 жыл бұрын

    IF we were to use Mercury as a gravity engine (i.e. use it to accelerate the earth and moon gradually) the moon would still be orbiting the earth. We could build huge Fusion plants on the moon and build huge infrared radiators that would heat the earth was it orbited the earth.

  • @davidbosch7061

    @davidbosch7061

    4 жыл бұрын

    OMG I love you 3000 julian

  • @nil981
    @nil9814 жыл бұрын

    The most impressive feat of engineering ever? Isaac Arthur: hold my coffee.

  • @becausescience

    @becausescience

    4 жыл бұрын

    Meaning if it actually happened -- kH

  • @nil981

    @nil981

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@becausescience then yes, it would be supremely impressive. Like how Kyle can convince everyone that he isnt thor from the mcu.

  • @abhinavavenkatakrishnamarr6929
    @abhinavavenkatakrishnamarr69293 жыл бұрын

    This channel is seriously underrated

  • @jpvibe
    @jpvibe4 жыл бұрын

    This is Awesome !!!

  • @eldritchangel4058
    @eldritchangel40584 жыл бұрын

    Patrick: We should take the Earth, and PUSH it somewhere else! Squidward: That idea may be just crazy enough...TO GET US ALL KILLED! Me: We'll never know till we try.

  • @Dan-rw2dq

    @Dan-rw2dq

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking of that episode.

  • @logantidwell7698

    @logantidwell7698

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think we could know.... But let's just say screw it and go anyway

  • @1whoDoesSimply
    @1whoDoesSimply4 жыл бұрын

    8:57 I just started laughing because of how damn overkill this is conceptually

  • @Tactical_Fatty
    @Tactical_Fatty2 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't the process of using material lighten the load thus meaning less thrust is needed overall as time goes on to push us farther?

  • @clementjohn1787

    @clementjohn1787

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh.... U r... Right

  • @donk5058
    @donk5058 Жыл бұрын

    Idk where or when but I remember hearing about slowly pushing the Earth out of orbit wit mirrors and the power of the sun

  • @Enzo-pr1mj
    @Enzo-pr1mj4 жыл бұрын

    but if we escape the solar system, we'll die stone cold

  • @mitochondria794

    @mitochondria794

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can I get a "hell yeah"

  • @ScorpSt

    @ScorpSt

    4 жыл бұрын

    We'll be able to survive with cybernetic enhancements. We'll become a sort of "Cybermen" if you will.

  • @DwarfInBlues

    @DwarfInBlues

    4 жыл бұрын

    That is assuming 100% efficiency of thrusters. I think the opposite is much more rlevant. We'd liquefy our planet long before we move sufficient distance away. (Same applies to vast energies from the actual planet rotation that needs to be dissipated)

  • @96ace96

    @96ace96

    4 жыл бұрын

    We can make our own sun. We'd just need some really big lamps.

  • @ziggy78eog

    @ziggy78eog

    4 жыл бұрын

    And that's the bottom line, 'cause Stone Cold said so!

  • @LunarDelta
    @LunarDelta4 жыл бұрын

    There's an old science fiction story called "With Friends Like These" by Alan Dean Foster where humanity *does* convert all of Earth into a giant factory/spaceship. The effects this Earthship exerts are powerful enough to not only fly the Earth around space, but to bring the moon along with it.

  • @DarkSparkIe
    @DarkSparkIe6 ай бұрын

    This had me in tears cracking up 😂😂😂❤❤❤

  • @Nanorasmus
    @Nanorasmus4 жыл бұрын

    Nice reference to the Netflix series “lost in space” 3:50

  • @rammuertoanimations4664
    @rammuertoanimations46644 жыл бұрын

    I freakin KNEW you couldn't resist doing an episode on this movie/book! :D

  • @Moxxuren
    @Moxxuren4 жыл бұрын

    Scientists from the year 3019 watching this: just use a tractor beam lol

  • @fruz1378

    @fruz1378

    2 жыл бұрын

    If there are any humans left in 3019, which is really not a given already lol

  • @dak3278
    @dak327811 ай бұрын

    Good explanation for a great underrated movie

  • @xxlordbelxx1368
    @xxlordbelxx13684 жыл бұрын

    Tidal force equations argue that stopping the spinning of the earth would also cause it to draw into the sun. Increasing the rate of spin however would cause us to drift away as the spin resists gravity per gyroscopic flux.

  • @niels8096
    @niels80964 жыл бұрын

    Hi Kyle, Question: would the earths crust also be able to handle the pressure of the earth rockets thrusters? Or would the tectonic plates warp so much that the rockets will end up in giant Volcano's? Love your show, Niels

  • @kindlin

    @kindlin

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, the mantle, while being rock, is plastic and mobile on geologic timescales. The thing is, Kyle set the timescale to be but 15 years, which is ridiculously fast for how large of an engineering project he is proposing. Knowing the sun will explode in 5 _billion_ years gives you some heads-up for preparing for and implementing the solution to the problem.

  • @SunflowerSpotlight

    @SunflowerSpotlight

    4 жыл бұрын

    I wondered as well!

  • @ArmoredNeko

    @ArmoredNeko

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kindlin But in the story the sun is exploding, like right now? I didn't watch the show but I remember the sun exploded when they get to the edge of the solar system.

  • @lordundeadrat

    @lordundeadrat

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow, if that was the only problem this would create. The earths crust couldn't really put up with this kind of abuse, no. But you wouldn't have to worry about that because the rocket exhaust would heat the atmosphere to boiling in no time flat. You'd have to build the rockets tall enough to prevent that. Like sub orbital height. No measly little mountain sized rocket is gonna be tall enough to avoid that. Then there's the little problem of the earth quickly freezing solid as the sun becomes more distant. This would happen alarmingly fast and result in the surface becoming totally uninhabitable after just a tiny fraction of the trip. Tectonic activity would skyrocket the globe over, though. It might not shove the crust in to the mantel right away. But it wouldn't be a pleasant ride on the safe side of the planet ether. There is a safer way of ejecting the earth from the solar system. Instead of using the rockets to push the Earth. We could, instead, push much smaller (relatively speaking) objects along Earths orbit. This would require a deep time scale and countless billions of flybys. But would could eventually gravity assist the whole planet out of the solar system. We save lots of energy doing this too. As we don't have to push these other objects nearly as hard. We're just sort of redirecting them to Earth and robbing them of their orbital velocity. Do not do this. This is an awful idea. The longer you think about it. The worse it gets.

  • @Knight-Bishop

    @Knight-Bishop

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lordundeadrat Oh, it gets better. Or worse, I should say. I haven't seen it but I've heard and seen a bit about it. Stopping the rotation causes the oceans to wipe out a huge chunk of the population but they let it happen because they'll only be able to support a much smaller one. The planet does freeze almost right away, and it looks like most of the time anyone is outside of anything pressurized on the surface they are in environment suits; the visual effects show the planet leaving a trail behind so I'm assuming that is supposed to depict the atmosphere being blown off but I would've figured it would've been gone so quick that there wouldn't be anything left. Yet, they don't mention tectonic stuff until the main drama of the plot occurs. Get this: they decided the best place to put most of the people was in underground shelter cities adjacent to the thrusters, not in the leading hemisphere. I'm assuming to be support and repair laborers the for the systems. The rest are probably constantly mining out fuel. So, clearly they weren't thinking about pushing down on the crust. If that's where they put everyone. But, that's not all by far: they plan to use a cliché slingshot around Jupiter for an assist (and Jupiter's horrific radiation belt just seems to have been completely ignored); but apparently only NOW is when everyone suddenly remembers the Earth's tectonic system, not when coming up with the engines. The tidal effects of Jupiter start causing massive gravity-driven quakes that, among other massive issues, take some of the engines offline. Offline though, not collapsed, I think that and surface displacement are part of the explanation for why they have all that mountain's width of superstructure built around them (again not talking realism but I guess that's the idea). So... With several of the engines down, while everyone rushes to repair them, Earth starts to approach Jupiter's Roche Limit; which I believe they put faaaar too close to the visible atmosphere. You know what their big idea is? Use some of the bigger engines facing Jupiter's atmosphere to ignite the hydrogen with a particularly large, focused blast from the exhaust. Yeah. Igniting Jupiter's atmosphere with the fusion engines will simply blow the Earth away. 🤦‍♂️ This movie makes Mortal Engines look like a logical, reasonable approach to the end of the world. Also, like Mortal Engines, the original written story doesn't focus on the mechanics or feasibility of the setting, rather the political and personal effects the situation creates. In the novella, they don't get so close to Jupiter to have all that additional drama; rather people start to wonder if the sun is actually going to have the event predicted, and talks of the unrest and distrust that creates within the remaining population.

  • @blackmage-89
    @blackmage-893 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if a warp field (or mass effect field) that gradually allowed to change the Earth's orbit until leaving the solar system would necessitate the same crazy energy requirements?

  • @cerruti1881au

    @cerruti1881au

    Жыл бұрын

    Warp field would be more effective if we could invent.

  • @RCT335
    @RCT3352 жыл бұрын

    You should do a video on the Kaplen Thruster.

  • @rachparov
    @rachparov4 жыл бұрын

    Humans : We might expect huge asteroids passing by. Aliens : We might expect flying earth passing by.

  • @helloanb
    @helloanb4 жыл бұрын

    Hi Kyle! Love your videos (and envy your hair). Lets say a few thousand years from now we develop those fusion engines and that reduces the fuel and space requirements and we find a way to use the magma inside earth as a propellant. Is the earth structurally strong enough to undertake such a journey or will it fall apart like a dried lump of clay?

  • @MoraFermi

    @MoraFermi

    4 жыл бұрын

    In that aspect, the Earth is mostly a balloon filled with (wery hot) goo. It would get completely torn apart.

  • @ninjahombrepalito1721

    @ninjahombrepalito1721

    4 жыл бұрын

    Anythibg can be pushed if accelerated gently.

  • @jeremybrimmer1990

    @jeremybrimmer1990

    4 жыл бұрын

    There is possibility, and then there is probability

  • @JustSayingitslore

    @JustSayingitslore

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jeremybrimmer1990 What if we just use mars and other planets and bodies in the solar system

  • @jeremybrimmer1990

    @jeremybrimmer1990

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@JustSayingitslore a kinetic chain of planets magnetically and gravitationally balanced making their way thru the universe; a super cool slinky.

  • @Chazulu2
    @Chazulu27 ай бұрын

    So, the difference between 0.3% and 98+% is fairly significant, and I think a large portion of the difference could be addressed by considering more specifically the type of engine and portion of the earth, comets and asteroids used. If we picture the engine as reaching up into the high atmosphere where heat loss and inefficiencies are less, then it's plausible that the lower .3% figure could be more relevant. Specifically, if the crust and tectonic plates of earth were solidified and made more solid, for example by using shale oil in the crust to expand and create concrete throughout the crust of the earth closing the ring of fire, then not only could humanity prevent earthquakes and volcanoes, but we could build a large engine on a volcanic mountain, like the mountains near Argentina Chile, Bolivia, and Paraguay, that could act as a much more efficient type of rocket due to the scale, while adding water to lava which would sink to the core when solidified. The water could be refueled using comets and asteroids, and moving the planet to the orbit of Jupiter, and then using a particle accelerator built near mt Everest could induce fusion deep in Jupiters great red spot allowing us to push it towards the sun, and use star lifting to make the sun last longer, while giving us another star.

  • @RewindOGTeeHee
    @RewindOGTeeHee2 жыл бұрын

    The movie version of this concept was really cool.

  • @sinamehdizadeh1433
    @sinamehdizadeh14334 жыл бұрын

    Hey Kyle You can use solar sails to accelrate earth away from the sun. But in this scenario you would need a sail with the surface area of about 4 × 10¹⁹ m² which is about 600,000 the surface area of one hemisphere of earth! You would need a circular sail with a radius of 3.6 millione kilometers! That is nearly 600 times the radius of the earth! So it doesn't matter what method you are going to use, it is really really improbable. Thnx for the video. It is so cool

  • @aurigo_tech

    @aurigo_tech

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, quite a lot, but still way easier to do than moving the earth using rockets.

  • @Mastermind8908

    @Mastermind8908

    4 жыл бұрын

    You had my attention with your professional calculations until you used "witch" instead of "which".

  • @sinamehdizadeh1433

    @sinamehdizadeh1433

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Mastermind8908 Thnx for the corrction

  • @LineOfThy

    @LineOfThy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aurigo_tech that's just wrong. a solar sail that size is 100% infeasible

  • @runefaustblack
    @runefaustblack4 жыл бұрын

    Now please adress the consequences of stopping the Earth on its tracks and/or taking it out of the Sun's gravitational influence and heat zone.

  • @HyperionaSilverleaf

    @HyperionaSilverleaf

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cronch splat

  • @koori049

    @koori049

    4 жыл бұрын

    I can do that. Everyone everywhere dies. Done.

  • @adriantryingstuff

    @adriantryingstuff

    4 жыл бұрын

    OBJECTION!!!!

  • @skabbymuff111
    @skabbymuff1114 жыл бұрын

    Well holy f**k.... Nice idea, well explained, not happening anytime soon! Thanks for thinking about this all the same! Instantly it was always going to be a problem regarding us moving further and further away from the sun and its energy and everything dying due to this, let alone the many other issues. Always good to have ideas and think them through though, especially crazy ones!

  • @crazyjay6331
    @crazyjay63312 жыл бұрын

    great video but you missed an idea: maybe the best way would be to build thrusters on other massive planets or moons ect.. in space and use them to start a chain reaction that results in earth getting flung out of the solar system. With good enough simulations and proper planning maybe it's possible, problem is what do we do when there is no sun? maybe we could feed the sun another planet to sustain it instead? idk if it would help XD. Also maybe could earth be made to orbit another planet that has some kind of energy we could harness, and then fling them both out?

  • @Peusterokos1
    @Peusterokos14 жыл бұрын

    Nobody in the galaxy: Kyle/Wandering Earth: "Can we make our planet a spaceship?" WH40k Orkz: *heavy breathing*

  • @campkira

    @campkira

    3 жыл бұрын

    what is this tranfromer... you can try pushing the planet but problem with weight is there are garvityu and the earth are spinning... while spinning around the whole... a blackhole can not push it... and what the hell you think you can techlogy it.. fucking nut...

  • @Fishysoldier-ix6rh

    @Fishysoldier-ix6rh

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@campkira it was a joke/ meme question

  • @eleethtahgra7182

    @eleethtahgra7182

    2 жыл бұрын

    Paint it res for speed.

  • @mycool8980
    @mycool89804 жыл бұрын

    What about a gravity tractor? Rather than stopping the rotation and covering half the earth in engines

  • @CarFreeSegnitz

    @CarFreeSegnitz

    4 жыл бұрын

    Correct. A gravity tractor would take the form of a swarm of asteroids. These asteroids would be aimed to just in front of Earth in its orbit around the sun. The asteroids' orbit would be much closer to the sun and the Earth's would be shifted outward slightly. And the asteroids could be reused repeatedly. Rigged with solar sails these asteroids would build their orbits up again then made to pass in front of the Earth again. But this scheme would take millions of years to have a significant effect on Earth. Attempting to fling the Earth into interstellar space inside of 15 years would inflict the Earth with massive catastrophe likely liquifying the Earth's crust.

  • @simonwinn8757

    @simonwinn8757

    4 жыл бұрын

    If we talking futuristic technology, we would make a swarm of satellites around the sun to power some Nicoll-Dyson lasers, that would be aimed at the Moon to push it, in turn dragging Earth with it gravity.

  • @gandalftheantlion

    @gandalftheantlion

    4 жыл бұрын

    Simon Winn it will be negligible because the sun is bigger and the moon a thousand times smaller.

  • @nantaplayztdsroblox6068
    @nantaplayztdsroblox6068 Жыл бұрын

    what about the engine along the equator? (Torque Engine)

  • @childaidstealsbabychildren2277
    @childaidstealsbabychildren22773 жыл бұрын

    Damn this is crazy mind blown

  • @quincytheodore
    @quincytheodore4 жыл бұрын

    The movie has this guy shooting machinegun to Jupiter while shouting "Screwww you jupiter!", how can you argue with that lol?

  • @Lucivius27

    @Lucivius27

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was epically stupid and hilarious scene

  • @thassalantekreskel5742

    @thassalantekreskel5742

    4 жыл бұрын

    May I just say I love your icon? Okami was definitely one of the most stylistically iconic games of all time, not to mention just a load of fun.

  • @quincytheodore

    @quincytheodore

    4 жыл бұрын

    oh ty, yeah it's so underrated. I had fun with it, and it'd be nice to see Okami franchise with current gen power. Too bad it didn't sell well.

  • @ChengHooSew

    @ChengHooSew

    4 жыл бұрын

    I don't even know why he's carrying a gatling gun to begin with

  • @jonathonpolk3592

    @jonathonpolk3592

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, the gatling gun scene was a bit unnecessary, but it wasnt really funny. It was sad; he was shooting at jupiter out of despair because they were all going to die. Nothing funny about that.

  • @PyroMancer2k
    @PyroMancer2k4 жыл бұрын

    It would be easier to just stop the sun from going Red Giant with Star Lifting. EDIT: Because people ask about star lifting check out Isaac Arthur's vid on it. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oq6pqtqFZamqZbg.html

  • @ChemoshKamos

    @ChemoshKamos

    4 жыл бұрын

    What is Star Lifting?

  • @alexyadayada4487

    @alexyadayada4487

    4 жыл бұрын

    xenodorian en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting

  • @EnragedPlatypus

    @EnragedPlatypus

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@ChemoshKamos It's a term for extracting the matter from stars. Changing how much matter a star has, would allow us to control how quickly it's burning through its fuel, but that's like "We created a solar system from scratch" levels of tech.

  • @Falcodrin

    @Falcodrin

    4 жыл бұрын

    Arthurians represent!

  • @Nukepositive

    @Nukepositive

    4 жыл бұрын

    It would be even easier to just build colony ships totaling the volume of earth's biosphere and roam around from there.

  • @stefanhoffmann5281
    @stefanhoffmann5281 Жыл бұрын

    Sorry but the Galactic Handbook for Developed Civilizations has a whole chapter dedicated to the problem. Namely Chapter 3: Preparations and Strategies for the Red Giant Problem. Including pictuered solution! It describes the weak and the strong strategy. The weak strategy for underdeveloped species goes like this: We provide 20k larger asteroids with ion engines, and harvest with the help of swing by maneuvers from planets in higher orbit kinetic energy which we supply to the earth. After 15 million years already first successes are measurable. But it is only about staying the earth in the habitable zone of the sun. The journey to another star is the strong strategy - if e.g. a supernova is pending. For this we need a Dyson sphere / Dyson swarm to collect energy in form of antimatter. Having enough together ( I think it was 10 ^ 8 tons) we can start: We need only 1-100 thrusters. There we accelerate the masses to 99,995 % of the speed of light. Changes 1 kg to 100 kg. Some civilizations have alternatively chosen photon engines. This is also possible. Before, of course, the lithosphere must be adapted: At least 30% of the liquid lava must solidify otherwise we have an hupty dumpty scenario. And of course the journey must to be short in time. The earth surface is uninhabitable from the very start. The goal is always that the oceans do not freeze to the bottom.

  • @ClimberD-tn3xl
    @ClimberD-tn3xl4 жыл бұрын

    When he said "push it somewhere else" did anyone else think of the spongebob episode when they pushed bikini bottom somewhere else to save it from the Alaskan bull worm?

  • @drakontisaraptikos9927
    @drakontisaraptikos99274 жыл бұрын

    During a storyline in Schlock Mercenary, my favorite Webcomic, a race of robots overthrow their fleshbag overlords and send them out on a colony planet. However, instead of using a rocky planet, they use a gas planet. With a dual rocket system, two rockets end to end, they fire both into the planet and out of it in order to balance the rocket, using the planet's own gasses to feed the rocket. Then they just have habitats orbiting around the planet as satelites and even use the rocket as a "new sun". This whole concept was created by Larry Niven.

  • @d2factotum

    @d2factotum

    4 жыл бұрын

    In Niven's "A World Out of Time", they move the Earth to an orbit in the habitable zone of the prematurely red giant Sun by using a giant rocket to move Uranus around--is that what you mean the concept being created by him?

  • @justinsims7935
    @justinsims79354 жыл бұрын

    What if instead of all of us escaping we just sent one baby to another planet, this would of course result in the baby gaining super powers because its a different sun.

  • @ThisBoiDraws

    @ThisBoiDraws

    4 жыл бұрын

    🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @mariosuarez6656

    @mariosuarez6656

    4 жыл бұрын

    we are not kryptonians hahaha

  • @nickm6751

    @nickm6751

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mariosuarez6656 what if we are? All other life could be alot weaker so if it was a cool sun u know if weather was always nice on a planet a human could be pretty strong if the other sentient life is like small or something

  • @swanclipper

    @swanclipper

    4 жыл бұрын

    joking or not. how sick would it be if it was true. there's no reason to think it is true, but anything is possible. a red sun should do it. or a dwarf star. you know what, i'm starting to think this might be plausible.

  • @bjrabang3111

    @bjrabang3111

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking of goku, then I saw different sun.

  • @derrenmarcusturner408
    @derrenmarcusturner4084 жыл бұрын

    13:50 Proof Kyle is a Super Villain

  • @williamschnl
    @williamschnl Жыл бұрын

    I think we can do it (theoritically on sci-fi), in 5 steps: 1. Space mining, we mine planets, gather resources. 2. Use the resources to build extremely huge batteries and extremely huge solar panels. 3. We store solar energies for years before starting the expedition. 4. Build huge electric propulsion systems while we're waiting for the batteries to be fully charged. 5. Once it is built, and the batteries are fully charged, we can start the expedition.

  • @attila535
    @attila5354 жыл бұрын

    "You can't crusade with a planet. Believe me, we tried."-High Marshal Helbrecht

  • @rippspeck

    @rippspeck

    4 жыл бұрын

    Do you know /tg/'s The Ship Moves? Big E decides to ditch the Milky May, instructs mankind to build an enormous ship and even invites some xenos along for the ride. You can find it on 1d4chan, it's a great read.

  • @geochan8836
    @geochan88364 жыл бұрын

    Your necklace gives off an eerie resemblance of a vivisection. Now I cant get it out of my head

  • @aikonomic

    @aikonomic

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm 0:50 into the video and I'm freaked out as shyte here. Looks like the perfected version of Maester Qyburns research. 😱

  • @NETkoholik

    @NETkoholik

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can't be unseen..

  • @simbaking6338
    @simbaking63384 жыл бұрын

    It works for the movie because its a movie....but in real life,the whole concept is totally nuts!!!!!

  • @iAN-in9en
    @iAN-in9en2 жыл бұрын

    would the engines need to be on the entire time of the 2000+yr journey? or only need to be on to get up to speed and turn on to adjust trajectory.

  • @MEG1T
    @MEG1T4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Kyle, With the mass of the moon being just over 1% the mass of the Earth, then with the fusion engine approach we could simply use that as fuel, without giving up 30% of the 1% of Earth we know and love. And another thing, with the Earth being the gravity well that traps the moon, would the moon follow the rocket-Earth through space, or would it fall behind?

  • @midnightgear2616

    @midnightgear2616

    4 жыл бұрын

    It would probably follow

  • @cherrydragon3120

    @cherrydragon3120

    4 жыл бұрын

    If we go slow enough the moon would probably follow. Unless we get too close to other planets like Jupiter wuch would outclass earths gravity. Either pulling the moon away or pulling the moon into the earth. Depending on the moons location at the time

  • @patnaikunidivijprithvime6982

    @patnaikunidivijprithvime6982

    4 жыл бұрын

    If you add the moon first off you need to slow it down and then keep it from colliding with earth

  • @blindbrailleable

    @blindbrailleable

    4 жыл бұрын

    I would hope so. I like tides.

  • @Power5

    @Power5

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@cherrydragon3120 When that happens we just have to ignite the atmosphere of jupiter with our engines and it will explode us away safely. :)

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