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@kennygibson7445

Жыл бұрын

There is a scammer on your channel saying people won a sweepstakes you r having there acting like they are yo

@younghannibal7434

Жыл бұрын

Mammoth 🦣 cloning video please

@Valhallonex

Жыл бұрын

you might have a scammer posing as you on telegram

You guys should do a Megaprojects episode about all the channels you have. Would help people find out how many channels you have and what they go over.

@carston101

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, genius idea.

@maxtube444

Жыл бұрын

Simon, get the writers trapped in your basement to start writing that episode

@RT-pi6wc

Жыл бұрын

Have to be an 8 part video series there's that flaming many

@scrablefire

Жыл бұрын

Shut up and take my money

@phoenixfire8978

Жыл бұрын

The megaproject of Simons ego?

I'm the lead Mechanical Engineer for Stone Aerospace and was super surprised to see you guys cover this subject never mind get a mention! Been a long time subscriber to the channel. I'm usually toiling away in semi obscurity with people having no idea what a cryobot even is. Thanks for the coverage and really good explanation of the subject Simon!

@JusNoBS420

Жыл бұрын

That’s really cool

@flexinclouds

Жыл бұрын

Thats awesome! Thank you for what you do & for sharing the passion to learn more about our neighbors in space, and for searching for signs of life on them. To me its a certainty there are life forms all throughout the universe. Especially other humans just like us. But Im curious as to the nearest planet/moon with signs of past life or the capability for life. The endless discoveries to be made in space are mind-blowing.

A Megaprojects about the high-tech clean rooms these probes and orbiters are made in would be cool. It's insane the lengths they go though to maintain a sterile environment

@Darth-Claw-Killflex

Жыл бұрын

No, it wouldn't.

@weasel1959

Жыл бұрын

@@Darth-Claw-Killflex it's just an idea dude. If you aren't interested don't watch.

@hallofo8107

Жыл бұрын

That's a good point, I hope he puts that idea on his list!

@mrexists5400

Жыл бұрын

@@tst-ccnt we do *not* need bacteria that can turn hulk

"Units that function like Harry Potter money" - best phrase ever, Simon :)

@redghost5705

Жыл бұрын

Can you explain the reference I don't get it?

@RetinaBurner

Жыл бұрын

@@redghost5705 Rewatch the video, it's in there. It basically makes fun of US units of measure being inconsistent.

"Like something dreamed up by stoned MIT Engineers between bong hits" had me in stitches

@derekarmstrong3590

Жыл бұрын

The way he said it was hilarious

@MAJRRD

Жыл бұрын

I read this comment as he was saying it🤣

Like Goldblums character from Jurassic park said, “Life will find a way.”

@cyrilio

Жыл бұрын

This is one of the best quotes in movie history.

@nyarlathotep4389

Жыл бұрын

You forgot the uh.

@waynebimmel6784

Жыл бұрын

Why not detonate a neuton bomb in the vicinity of the craft before letting it land?

Absolutely fascinating video!! I had no idea NASA and JPL were even thinking about ice probes, never-mind trying to figure out how to power one, keep the planet sterile and beam back data! I know that space stuff aren’t Megaproject’s normal topics, but it’s just so fascinating! Great job Simon and team 😊👏🏻💯

@apparentlynot1stLeonchubbs

Жыл бұрын

You've also been selected to be the recipient of a like 👌

@mlee6050

Жыл бұрын

NASA always aim not to pollute other places, it like why they isolate the astronauts as they get back

There are places on Earth where we could test this out. Subglacial lakes like Lake Vostok. 4000m under the Antarctic ice is a massive fresh water lake that's been sealed off from the rest of the planet for 15 million years.

@TheCynicalblue

Жыл бұрын

Didn’t the russians drill into one of those lake and leaked the petrol they were using for anti-freeze into one?

@patrickday4206

Жыл бұрын

And contaminate it with other micro organisms

@TheCynicalblue

Жыл бұрын

You can, you just need the russians to agree to it. Same way the US used Roscosmos to put people into space for about 10 years. It's not impossible you just need to have less "antagonistic" vibe and talk it out, plus you will probably find a decent amount of natural resources under vostok.

Ooooh, that insult of imperial „system of „units““, comparing it to Harry Potter money, that was so good and so on point! I'm very much looking forward to these missions. Amazing to see that they actually are working on it.

@Vincent_A

Жыл бұрын

I believe Harry Potter money makes even more sense than imperial measures, as it has a system of vaults managed by goblins

I got a chance to talk to a guy that worked for a company that was working on a probe for Europa. He said that the best moment of his life would be if the probe broke into the ocean and then shortly after something ate it. His bosses hated that idea lol

@somerandom3257

Жыл бұрын

That would be so awesome, especially if we were able to get footage from it as it’s eaten

@STSWB5SG1FAN

Жыл бұрын

Actually that's not such a bad idea. You could design a probe with sensors that can measure the creatures digestive system... before coming out the other end.😏🤭

@MD.ImNoScientician

Жыл бұрын

Would the probe be chicken flavored? 🐓🍗

@jackgibsxxx0750

Жыл бұрын

@@somerandom3257 ... I have seen this movie. Think it was a short movie on a big sci-fi Indy YT ch.

@DebdenJohnny

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂!

I picture a robotic probe spending months making its way through the ice over a lake on planet Xeno. The moment it releases thousands of robotlets to explore the depths, dozens of hungry bass show up…

@TheTomBevis

Жыл бұрын

Or the probes soon look like barnacle-encrusted sea-turtles. lol

Micro-swimmers? I've got tissues full of them. NASA, call me.

@patrickday4206

Жыл бұрын

Lol

JPL has a "Europa Clipper Livestream" from the clean room where they are building it if you want to keep track now and then. Thanks Nasa, and Simon for reminding me. Cool missions coming up!

I love this concept. We need to get these built en mass and sent out to Europa, Enceladus, Titan and Ceres.

SIMON!!! That was HELLA interesting and new, like, normally I have some pre-existing context going into your videos, this one was totally off the map; I had no idea interplanetary ice probes were a thing! And now I know.

@katieholland4244

Жыл бұрын

Same. I clicked on the vid specifically cause it was Simon. Not sure i woulda done so for any other youtuber without having a context of sorts

@rogerwilco1777

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this is probably the closest any of us will get to confirmation of alien life in our life-times. Even if its not 'intelligent', it will still prove that life is 'common' in the universe and totally change everything.. Last I remember Enceladus and Titan are the 'best bets' due to the lower radiation levels..? ..theres also a concern about using a nuclear powerplant. If we do find some new found 'friends' it would be polite to not contaminate their environment with radioactive waste or accidentally kill them all with some stowed away bacteria.. hope we find out soon!

you can always tell when Simon is really excited about a subject he's covering he gets serious about it instead of doing a half ass job and cracking jokes. It's going to be exciting when they finally get to sending these probes I just hope I live long enough to see it I'm no spring chicken

"I'm gonna have to science the shit outta this." - Mark Watney.

Ok, new thought: Why not send a probe down one of the geysers? I mean, it SEEMS like there's a direct channel from the surface through to the water, if so, why not take advantage of this extant tunnel and go spelunking!!?

@justingrey6008

Жыл бұрын

What do you suppose makes them into geysers? Pressure. How is that generated? Personally I can't say, but I can guess it's flexing of the ice sheet. I can assure you that we can not currently make something that can both go to space and survive a moving ice sheet.

@Raz.C

Жыл бұрын

@@justingrey6008 While the geyser is "geysing," there's an open channel directly from the water to the spout. There are no occlusions from the ice for the duration of the geyser's expulsion. If there were, the expulsions wouldn't spout from the geyser, rather, they'd dribble around it. So if we see a geyser spouting water, we could take that opportunity to glide down the direct channel to the water below.

@justingrey6008

Жыл бұрын

@@Raz.C they work because of pressure differential. This is a space probe we are talking about. Fragile and under powered. And because the location and mechanism of operation I would expect a jagged non linear path with the working fluid of the geyser being the consistency of a 7-11 slushy. Mechanical stress is keeping the geysers following, not heat.

@Raz.C

Жыл бұрын

@@justingrey6008 If you're right about the jagged path, then I would expect the -ejaculation (too inflammatory)- expulsion to be brief and to certainly lack the power to send matter into orbit. Also, water is fairly- but not totally- incompressible. At higher pressures, the temperature of water changes only very slightly. However, there's a *significant* change- particularly in a dynamic system- to the melting and boiling point of water, at different pressures. I can't guess at the actual conditions of the water, under the ice. It may be highly saline/ contain various dissociated molecules. These may alter the boil/ melt temps much more dramatically than what we might expect to see from the changes in pressure. Alternatively, electrolytic activity might push these temperatures (melt/ boil) in one direction, whereas the pressure differences push the temperatures in the *opposite* direction, leaving this water with a fairly 'normal' boiling point and melting point. Anyway, all of the above is the reason why I'm NOT convinced that the water is _"the consistency of a 7-11 slushy."_ Once the water is ejected into space, I expect that both the *sudden* drop in pressure as well as the precipitous drop in temperature (pun intended and enjoyed), will cause the 'slushification' (slushyfaction?) of the water, but not before. Before its ejection, I suspect the water might be slightly viscous. It might even be a supersaturated solution of whatever ions, etc, have found themselves dissolved into the water. Again, I don't know, so I can't say with any certainty. Much of this is supposition. Based on what we CAN predict, though, it seems reasonable to think that the period of heaviest flow (pun unintended) of water from the geyser, would correspond to the straightest path for said water through the ice. There's that and there's the reasonable supposition about the consistency of that water. I believe that it's almost entirely liquid water, with little-to-no no solids and that this belief is made reasonable by the behaviour of water under pressure. I'm willing to concede that the water may be somewhat viscous, but not that it runs rich with solids.

@justingrey6008

Жыл бұрын

@@Raz.C what I would be expecting is some fractured chambers with a water/slush mix being compressed and forced through a small number of openings on the surface, this sort of hydraulic action would allow for low pressure under the ice but high pressure at the outlet. As far as consistencies are concerned, your right, we can't tell if it's liquid or not, but moving water can go well before it's freezing point regardless of what is mixed with it, it can however slush up in the process. Ultimately I think we can both agree that we need deep imaging probes to scan the surface so we can get a better understanding of what lies beneath.

Imagine how many of these you could send into space for $44B…or you could buy Twitter 😂

The billion-dollar interstellar equivalent of, "We're going to use a hot bullet, some Ethernet cable, and WiFi extenders to go ice fishing." Great video.

Hahaa did not expect the Demon Slay shout out

This should be titled “How the killer squids of Europa got nukes”

It's insane it's now believed that a ton of moons in the solar system have underground liquid oceans. Not only that but these oceans seemingly have every building block needed for abiogenesis.

You know, these new technologies are absolutely amazing, but you know what's equally amazing? The acronyms they come up with to name these technologies lol

I love this stuff! Thanx Simon.

Great video!

This is completely beyond exciting!

I like the idea of us starting a whole world by just launching a a drone full of little bacteria and see what we can achieve.

1:16 target world's 5:07 meltdown 8:11 advertising 9:53 into the depths 14:12 the swarm 18:06 shattered dreams

Thermoelectric generators have been in use since the 1960's

Micro Swimmers makes me think “Oh if there’s no life there when we arrive there will be by the time we leave.”

@patrickday4206

Жыл бұрын

Yeah wait there's mermaids on europa

I've been excited about the prospects of Enceladus for a couple of years now. If we want to find life outside of Earth, we should put Mars on hold and focus on Enceladus and Europa.

Woohooo... all hail the superfreaky space dolphins 🤣

JPL scientists were discussing swimming robots on Europa as a follow up when Galileo reached Jupiter in 1996.

"All these worlds are yours, except Europa, attempt no landings there."

“Micro Swimmers...” neat name for uhh...never mind.

It is SO fun all the ways your team has come up with to mock Imperial units.

I'm thinking that making the micro-swimmers rechargeable (back at the drill) might greatly extend our explorations.

@GateKeeper-nx8yq

Жыл бұрын

They are recharged at the drill 😂

05:11 - Wowzas 😮 This has massively garnered my attention...

@GeoffreyNoPants

2 ай бұрын

DEFINITELY not a penis 😆

"...units that function like Harry Potter money." 😆I wonder who started THAT system?

What if a drill is mounted on it? Wouldn't that be a faster way to dig all the way down into the ocean? Plus it might be able to deal with any unexpected rock layers within the ice shield.

Hrm. Does Simon know he made an anime reference there at the end?

The contamination possibility seems to be the most difficult. It reminds me of the under ice lake, I think in the artic. There are worries about microbes not only fouling up data, but possibly destroying the life in the lake because the microbes are foreign to that environment. Imagine the damage 1% earth microbes would cause on a foreign ocean teeming with life.

@waynebimmel6784

Жыл бұрын

It shouldn't be overstated too. In orbit we could be much more aggressive with sterilization (detonating a neutron bomb near the craft before it enters the jovian system) than at the arctic lakes. Also, better f up and spread life than sit around doing nothing. Panspermia is plausible enough. Helping it a bit on its way is probably not that bad.

@patrickday4206

Жыл бұрын

@@waynebimmel6784 technology wouldn't survive the neutron bomb?

"All these worlds are yours. Except Europa. Attempt no landing there.”

I feel like I should have known about this already!! Whaaaa??

Simon making anime references 🤣

YEAH LETS GET THERE🤜🏻💥🤛🏻

I feel like NASA could slap together something to go check the surface ice for life near one of those cryo-geysers and maybe get there a lot sooner. If those oceans are teaming with something like alien microbes then they're frozen all over the surface in the ice that's spewed out of the cryo-geysers...probably for billions of years.

SW is NOT trying to take over YT. But his whiskers are.

"something stoned MIT engineers came up with in between their bong hits." Don't be ridiculous! It's Caltech engineers who come up with the crazy space stuff.

In the artist renderings there are thermal vents spewing water at the surface. Why not land at one of those and sample for life there?

Drop a probe down the vents that open up spewing water into atmosphere.

Harry Potter is a wizard of metric, he just observes imperial measures

aliens are angels

If we discover complex life on Europa, one of two things could happen IMO: 1. We discover a deep sea acid trip on steroids. Or 2. In the monstrous depths of Europa: No one can hear you scream. If it's option 2, I'm really glad we're sending robots 😬 But, if we're worried about contaminating Europa.... We could actually see if Jupiter could lend us a hand there. Let Jupiter's intense radiation basically completely sterilize everything.

Hey, you mentioned Universe Today! Great channel and interview!

The real question about drilling into an alien world is less about "could we" it's "should we" do we have the right to potentially destroy an alien world just to satisfy our curiosity?

Random thoughts while listening to Simon and having a smoke 😁 So there is a set amount of space we can see and analysis. To me, it makes the most sense that there is no singular Great Filter, just lots of really "good filters". It's the calculation of the odds of life, multicell, intelligence, not fucking yourself up on your own planet etc. All together, it doesn't seem too unfeasible that we can still be the only intelligent life we are aware of and yet also not alone out there. I personally believe these past filters to also play a greater role than the predictions of the self inflicted ones to come. I find that it requires us to put too many human assumptions too broadly over all other alien civilizations. Though maybe human personality is the required step to "intelligence". In Which case, who knows. Then there is also the fact that we are not looking at the stars as they are now. Maybe it was God and he seeded life all over the world and all alien life is right now burning alien coal at the same time as us. The light from their stars or any other signals, simply wouldn't have reached us yet. Or more generally, maybe we are looking in the write place at the wrong time. High ramble over lol.

@istvansipos9940

Жыл бұрын

" Maybe it was God and he seeded life all over the world..." or maybe it was Odin, Donald Duck, or Artemis. Jokes aside, what's the point in any deity-based argument in science? you cannot even define god. First, we need a reasonable god definition. All the current ones make 0 sense and/or debunk themselves in mere seconds. Then we need testable claims about a well defined deity. Once those tests bring us to some good evidence, THEN we can start the research and find out what that deity did and did not do. to sum up: you are several steps ahead in planning, and yet some MILLENNIA back in primitive mythology whenever you ask what a god did. Sane adults have n0 reasons to think that any of our deities exists. Thus the only sane conclusion now: deities did nothing.

The disease theory isn't farfetched as that is exactly what happened to the First Nations peoples in what is now Canada from the initial french explorers who landed here. The diseases they brought decimated the indigenous peoples.

That's an impressive beard you are rocking, Simon! +1+1+1 edit: plus some nice jokes and fascinating topic. Well done. +2+3+4+5

Excuse you, Simon; in terms of measurement units that function like Harry Potter money, 1 km is just less than 1/5 of a League, or ~4.971 Furlongs 😜I remember in Physics, in High School, giving my teacher my answers in Furlongs per Fortnight, rather m/s. Mr. Corbin tried his best not to encourage me 😂😂

These are a lot better then the first sub probs proposed to go to Europa. Originally there was a prob on the docket for proposal that was something something like JIMBO and it was going to be a fully nuclear powered prob that would land, use heat from nuclear material to melt the ice, and drop a nuclear powered sub into the water table below that would just have been left to fall apart after the fuel was depleted. I think this was back in the mid to late 90's when they were proposing this as their best option for searching Europa and it's possible oceans.

@travellingshoes5241

Жыл бұрын

No probs.

It would be interesting if they try beam energy from main probe to robots and up (if connection was cut), is not best form of transporting energy, but it would allow probes to work longer. Something as wireless charging but advance version with directional beam of energy (as Starlink is beaming to terminals on Earth)

I needa try me some icy moon calamari! I bet it would be very salty and translucent!

FUNKY SPACE DOLPHINS 🐬🤣

This was great. I always wondered how they would get data back up through the ice after collection. I hope I'm still alive when, and if, they do this. My opinion....we should be spending lots more on exploration than we currently do. Also...if there's not life down there...we should put it there. Just for seeing what it does....if it could survive.

@banzairx7

Жыл бұрын

We're working on that problem right now- kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5OatbiFdquWh8Y.html

5:30 killed me 😂

on this side of the pond we call them freedom units...lol

There already here my friend's.

I would definitely sign up for a year long round trip to Venus if there was a stable base set up. I am curious though, what would it take to land in the atmosphere of Venus without hitting the melty bits.

Please make a video on the F22 Raptor!!

Mammoth cloning video please

6:20 Wouldn’t they need to be good conductors to create heat?

Melt probes using radioactive material

Rechargeable Swimmers come to mind

Seems like it would be easier to get these things in (I believe) Saturn's moon that has existing steam vents on its surface. Further away but saves all the digging.

100 baud is used to transmit data through drill mud. Slow but it works.

They should send a group of oil riggers

I remember reading Arthur C Clarke’s ‘2010’ when it came out and loved the depictions of life not only in Europa but also in the clouds of Jupiter, and when you mentioned how NASA crashes probes into the Jovian atmosphere, i couldn’t help wondering if we’ve already contaminated that possible biosphere?

@magnusgreel275

Жыл бұрын

Possible, of course, but very unlikely--the pressure and friction caused by the plunge, e.g. of the Gemini probe into Jupiter, would be enough to crush and vaporise the probe, including any bacteria etc. That said could the act of crushing and vaporising the probe cause contamination? Maybe. Temperature does tend to be a good sanitiser, but who knows? Hopefully not.

@pakde8002

Жыл бұрын

Man is a plague.

@padawanmage71

Жыл бұрын

@@pakde8002 And I heard that in Agent Smith's voice. 🙂

Rare? I give you ice ball Earth. Look it up.

Imagine if it turns out there’s intelligent life on Europa and we just drill one of these things straight through their homes.

"Everywhere we find water, we find life." To be fair, where on earth don't you find life? Look under a microscope and you find life literally everywhere here

Thanks Simon!

SIR, PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON INDIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONISATION PROGRAMME. YOU WILL DEFINITELY FIND LOTS OF FASCINATING INFORMATIONS.

I'm glad you covered this subject as the Sub had plans to be used for Accessing The Russian underwater Lake at the end of the now contaminated SG3 Bore hole. Amazingly capsule like robot heating it's way while sealing its entrance to minimise environmental interference.

Imperial , Harry Potter reference, love it Inside! 🇦🇺

The film and book The Andromeda Strain deals with 'alien' contamination.

I watched this type of stuff as a kid, thought the submarine was the Europa clipper mission, disappointed tbh now lol Still excited it’ll be in the distant future

To really make it worth-while, the micro-swimmers would HAVE to have Cameras.

I'm betting they just find water, lots and lots of water, and none of it drinkable cos it's just salty as heck... :P

I was thinking like fins come out the side to angle the probe then turbine on back then Radiation? What if it affects any living that use tunnel to go up to and get killed

Makes me sad, we're busily making Urth uninhabitable simultaneously casting about all over whatever we can see of the observable cosmos looking for "life." The Stoopid is...monumental.

Imagine popping a hole on surface of enormous liquid pressure underneath.

Heat could be taken from a radioactive element encased within the spacecraft as it would be the likely choice for the fuel due to time constraints with other sources of energy.

@TheBooban

Жыл бұрын

10:27 maybe watch first then comment.

If we found microbial life, I hope we’re not stupid enough to bring it onto earth lol

1:20 - Chapter 1 - Target worlds 5:10 - Chapter 2 - Meltdown 8:10 - Mid roll ads 10:00 - Chapter 3 - Into the depths 14:15 - Chapter 4 - The swarm 18:10 - Chapter 5 - Shattered dreams

Harry Potter money, had to giggle

Imperial system burn 🔥

*Micro Swimmers*-- Hehheh