1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from house Stuff 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and that 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: makes this stuff you should miss. So did you hear 5 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: Snap Dog's son got a football scholarship to I think 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: you see? Yeah? So did uh P Diddes? No way? Yeah? 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: And actually Sean Combs was the first to happen. It 8 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: was about a month ago, and a lot of people 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: got upset because they were like, we shouldn't you know, 10 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: be paying for this millionaire multimillionaire son to go to college. 11 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 1: But it was all explained. The sports guys came out 12 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: and really defended and said, it's not you paying for it. 13 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: It's athletic scholarships that are earned by athletes. And it's 14 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: a well probably, but it was like, basically, it's not 15 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: like some kid missing out on an education. Because Pete 16 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 1: Eddy's son earned a football scholarship, he should be treated 17 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: the same and so should Snoop Dogg sign. Where was 18 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: there an outcry about Snoop Dogg sign? Uh? Not as 19 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,839 Speaker 1: much because he's the g you see. No one likes Puffy. 20 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: I don't understand he seems like a nice enough guy. Uh, 21 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: here's friends with Biggie Smalls. I was in his house once. 22 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: I'd ever tell you that I had to. I was 23 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: working on a music video with him and I had 24 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 1: to deliver as a p a something to his home 25 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills. And I went to the door and 26 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: I rang the doorbell, and some really large guy in 27 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: a warm up suit and like a Kane gold hat 28 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: invited me in and took my thing and then escorted 29 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: me out. So I was like in the little fourier 30 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: and it was like lots of white marble, and I 31 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: mean it looked it could have been like the King 32 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: of France living there as far as I know. Yeah, 33 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: there's like a fountain of sur rock. It was really 34 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: like pretty plush. Of course, you know he's rich. But 35 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: I took your thing. Is that lead? Are you talking 36 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: about everything above the boards? Oh? Yeah it was. It 37 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: was like a video cassettes for the shoot or something 38 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: like that. I wouldn't be delivering anything illegal. Well, I 39 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: didn't know if he did something illegal to you by 40 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: taking your things, you put it. It was all on 41 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: the up, could go and chuck anyway. I haven't been 42 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: to Snoop's house yet, although I did seem one night 43 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 1: in Atlanta, you did. Yeah, I can't tell that story. Though, 44 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: let's hear part time, doesn't he I'm used to, I believe. 45 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what a weird start for the show. Yeah, 46 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: it is a little weird, especially since we're talking about 47 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,679 Speaker 1: space elevators. Has nothing to do with it. This is 48 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: not like we're talking about like p Funk or George 49 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: Clinton andthing like that, or even Bill Clinton. Although I 50 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: bet George Clinton could build a space elevator in his mind. 51 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: You know he has many times chuck. Um, Well, I've 52 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: got I've got something. I have an actual Yeah, it 53 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: seems kind of stupid, now let's hear it. Uh well, okay, 54 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: um five fifty seven am. On July one, thousand eleven, 55 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: About a year ago, something big ended, something that really 56 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: helped with our childhood, like really was an icon of 57 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: our childhood. I'm not even gonna let you guess. The 58 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: Space Shuttle. Of course, the program ended. It started in 59 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: one and it went all the way to two thousand eleven, 60 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: thirty great years. Yeah, um and uh more missions um 61 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: and actually there's this awesome thing on gizmoto. It's you 62 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: can watch all of the space Shuttle launches at once. 63 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: It's just like a hundred and thirty five little tiles 64 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: on the screen, and it's like, you know, starting from 65 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: countdown to lift off and like it's got everything. Well, 66 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: they probably don't have the one ill fated attempt. There 67 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: were two accidents, one of yeah, it's there, I think 68 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: I found it, and it just goes dark at about 69 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: the time the Challenger UM exploded. Yeah. Um, but it 70 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: was the was a huge deal for our childhood. But 71 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: it's also you know, a huge deal for the space 72 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: program because when they launched the first shuttle I think 73 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: it was Columbia. Um, it was the first time that 74 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: anyone had ever shot a spacecraft into space and then 75 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: brought it back intact usable. Is huge. Yeah, we're not 76 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 1: talking like a capsule where like Larry Hagman comes down 77 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: and splashes into the sea and then gets out, because 78 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 1: those capsules weren't reused. This was like, we have an 79 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: appropriately named space shuttle there and back basically exactly. It 80 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: even looked like a plane. So it was a big 81 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: deal when this happened and it proved like okay, we 82 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: can go to space and back using the same equipment. 83 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: It brought costs down tremendously. Sure, they're still pretty high. Um. 84 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: And then the space Shuttle program ends and everybody's like, 85 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 1: how are we going to get to space and back? Now, Obama, 86 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: did you think it's through? And uh, Obama didn't say it, 87 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: but I'll bet he was thinking it when he was 88 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: kind of skulking away after being shouted at for basically 89 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: closing NASA. Not true. Um, he probably thought, have you 90 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: ever heard of the space elevator? Dummy? You should say that. Yeah. Uh, 91 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna talk about. Josh, and I thought 92 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: this was a thrilling article. You thought the article itself 93 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 1: was thrilling. No, no, no, the concept of the space elevator, 94 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: well it is. Yeah, the article self was a little 95 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: It was a little two thousand five. It's at outdated, 96 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: but it's pretty cool. Um. So you mentioned the Space Shuttle. 97 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: Even though the Space Shuttle took place over the span 98 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: of what do you say, thirty years? Yeah, anyone to 99 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, the price of getting the thing going 100 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 1: didn't change a whole lot, which was pretty remarkable. Yeah, 101 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: it stayed about ten thousan dollars per pound, right, And 102 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: they originally predicted when they were working on the Shuttle 103 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: program before it started, that it was gonna be about 104 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: fifty million a mission. Yeah. It came to about five 105 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: million a mission. In every mission. They spent half a 106 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:03,119 Speaker 1: billion dollars on the shuttle the Shuttle mission. Um, and uh, 107 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: that ten dollars per pound of that is fuel? Yeah? 108 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: Is that the per pound of everything on there? Yeah? 109 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: I think it's just like that kind of equation. So 110 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: a lighter astronaut would be cheaper, don't don't really symbolic, 111 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I know. I think it's more like 112 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: like if you if you take the full weight of 113 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 1: this this, yeah, and divided by the money spent. Yes, 114 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: I get it. So in theory, a lighter astronaut would 115 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: make it cheaper, but not really not really okay, um, 116 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: because I think they had those astronauts like way down 117 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: to the Graham exactly what they wanted in a way, 118 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 1: like they would probably be like, you need to excrete 119 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: because you're about to suit up, go excrete. You need 120 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: to p six ounces right now. I'd be a great 121 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: astronaut then because I can be on command. Can you 122 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: really almost always Okay, so I've got something for you 123 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,559 Speaker 1: about six ounces. Um there. Have you seen the little 124 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 1: diagram him of a solo cup? You know the lines 125 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 1: on a solo cup. Yes, their measurements the bottom one 126 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: are they really is an ounce? The top one so 127 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: like liquor. Yeah, the the middle one five ounces for wine. 128 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: And then I'm not kidding the the the lowest top 129 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: band report that's that's twelve ounces for beer. I never 130 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: knew that that's ingenious, it is. I love little tidbits 131 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: like that, Like the amount of matches in a matchbook 132 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: is equal to the amount of cigarettes in a pack. 133 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: I didn't know that that makes sense. We should just 134 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: talk about those things all day instead of space elevators. No, 135 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,239 Speaker 1: let's talk about space elevator. All right, let's talk about it, 136 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: um quickly, a space elevator and we'll get into the 137 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: specifics here. But what it basically is, it's a ribbon, 138 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: a carbon nano tube composite ribbon anchored to a platform offshore, yeah, 139 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: way out in the Pacific Ocean. And it's has a 140 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: counterweight way up in space six And they basically would 141 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: that would be the elevator shaft, and they would send 142 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: stuff crawling up and down this ribbon? Uh two outer space? Yes, 143 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: have you ever seen somebody like a piano mover lift 144 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: the piano? Sure, a second story apartment that except in space. Yeah, 145 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. I don't like the comparison to 146 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: the game of tether ball here. I thought it was 147 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: a terrible, terrible analogy, So let's just skip it because 148 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: it didn't make much sense to me. Yeah, I think you. 149 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: I think you said it like, basically, we're connecting a 150 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: line between a platform in the ocean and the satellite 151 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 1: up in space, and we're putting something on it that 152 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,719 Speaker 1: can go up and down. Yeah, and the whole thing 153 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: of we should just stop right there. The cool thing 154 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: about this is to me is that every single part 155 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: of this is feasible right now to do, except for 156 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: the one thing that they need to do it, which 157 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: are the carbon nanotubes that go sixty two thousand miles 158 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: into space. Yes, they're around right, but we can't make 159 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: them that long yet. Right. There's um that's I think 160 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: I think that's that's a really good point, Like we 161 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: all of this is just waiting. And I saw a 162 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: little video that Michio Kaku or cucku Um made about 163 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,079 Speaker 1: this explaining it, and he was saying, like everything's been 164 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 1: surmounted now, like now it's all in the realm of 165 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: physical possibility. There's just a few more breakthroughs and it's 166 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: all carbon nanotubes, which are we've talked about graphine before, right, 167 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: strongest substance known demand or humankind. That Um, it's one 168 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: atom thick layer of carbon, incredibly strong. It's like a 169 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: hundred times stronger than steel at about one fifth of 170 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: the weight. And a carbon nanotube is a layer of 171 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: graphine rolled into a tube like it looks like chicken wire, 172 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: exactly like a soccer ball. Chicken wire. Yeah, it's like 173 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: like if you spread out a length of chicken wire 174 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: and then roll it up, Nana, it's yeah. And we 175 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 1: say soccer ball because the shape of the traditional soccer ball, 176 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: not these crazy ones are using these days. I don't 177 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: even recognize it as a soccer ball. Yeah, but the 178 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: old school soccer ball, that shape is the same, the 179 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: same shape as as these carbon atoms, which is the 180 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: key to it its strength. Um. I've been at I've 181 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: seen it described as um stiff but flexible like a 182 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: steel guitar string. So it moves, but it's still super 183 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: super strong and um, even though it's just a few 184 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: atoms across, they are ten million times as long as 185 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: they are wide. Once you get this thing going, so 186 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: like a guitar string. Yeah, well, because these are nanotubes, 187 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: so like they're diameters like a few billions of a meter, 188 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: I think one. Is that right? Yeah, because nano is 189 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:54,839 Speaker 1: a billion a billion, yes, yeah, but so so it's 190 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: very thin, very thin. Um. That's the point. And ultimately 191 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: I saw that the sixty two a mile cable would 192 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: be it could be as thin as a piece of 193 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: seran wrap. Yeah, it would still be strong enough to 194 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: not snatch under its own weight sixty miles. Like, there's 195 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: no quality of material outside of this that wouldn't just 196 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: snap like a hair, like pulling one of your hairs 197 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: in in half. Agree, this one will. But the problem 198 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: is is you don't make carbon nanotubes. You grow them. Yeah. 199 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: There's a really cool nova video too on YouTube where 200 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: it shows a guy in the lab pulling a uh 201 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: braided forest of carbon nanotubes and he starts pulling it 202 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: and you see it all like coalescing together, and he 203 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: gets like ten ft away and then it finally snaps 204 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: and then it just it's like smaller than a human hair. 205 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 1: It just like floats away almost. Okay, so that's that's 206 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 1: longer then I've I've seen the record that I saw 207 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: was four centimeters in length. Yeah, well this was uh, 208 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: I don't think I think it was stretching. I don't 209 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: think it was the original. Okay, So they they the 210 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 1: carbon nanotubes grow and then after like, that's the world 211 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: record four centimeters, which is like a one point six inches, right, 212 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: that's short, and then it just stopped one of the 213 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: right exactly. One of the problems with them not being 214 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: able to figure out why it stops growing is that 215 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: scientists don't know why it grows in the first place, 216 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: Like they have no idea. They're just like, oh, this 217 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: happens when you when you do this, um. And they 218 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: figured out that there are some things like hydrogen gas 219 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: in certain amounts makes it grow longer. Um, if you 220 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: do a little too much hydrogen gas, it won't grow 221 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: at all. So that there's they're they're figuring this out, 222 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: but they still are really at a point where they're 223 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: not they don't understand carbon nanotubes at all. They were 224 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: only officially discovered in which is a blip in the 225 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: scientific community. But we're making headway. And like you said, 226 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: once the carbon nanotu technology is able to be made 227 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: into things that are maybe several meters long, or they 228 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: can figure out how to basically wrap it smaller pieces 229 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: together in like you know, how you insulate wires with 230 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 1: plastic something like that, without the the alloy coming away. 231 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: Then we'll be able to make this space ribbon ribbon 232 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: for the elevator space ribbon, which essentially is going to 233 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: be like a there. They would braid these things together 234 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: like a rope, correct, yes, which would still be tiny though. Yeah, 235 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: so it'll either be like you know, several meters in 236 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: length branded together or really short ones braided together. But 237 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: either way they're not just gonna make one continuous sixty 238 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: two there's sixty two mile strand yeah. The one thing 239 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: I didn't get though, if it's so small, like it 240 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: needs to be a certain size to have these lifters 241 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: attach to it, you know, like it can't be a 242 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: human hair, right like that, what what could you attach 243 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: to that? They have to gain traction with it? So yeah, there, there, 244 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: It couldn't It couldn't just be as thin as plastic wrap, 245 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: even though strengthwise it could be. So that's one of 246 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: the things they're working on, is bulking it up. I 247 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: guess so, because you have to put the lifter on it. 248 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: Like you're saying, so the lifts are all from now on, 249 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: everything like this all exists. We can make this today, 250 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: you and I can make it right now. Well, let's 251 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: get it into space first. What what the idea is 252 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: that they would spool the sing up. Once they've created it, 253 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: they would shoot it into space with some kind of spacecraft. Uh. 254 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: Once it's in space, they would start lowering it back 255 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: to the Earth um towards the platform out in the 256 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: middle of the sea. While it's still going out into space, right, 257 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: they'd start lowering the ribbons. Yeah, so it's continue, it's 258 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: still going in. It's going in two opposite directions. It 259 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: would be like some kid walking the dog. Yeah. Uh. 260 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: And eventually it it's lowered and there's a dude standing 261 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: on a platform saying all right, back it down. Then 262 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: he would take it and clip it onto a c platform, 263 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: although it would be much more complicated than I think 264 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: about that operations. So this platform is going to be 265 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: like four miles from any shipping or air lanes, which 266 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: is important in the Equatorial Pacific, and a sixty two 267 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: thousand mile long strand of rope. Even they could say 268 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: it's it's thick as like a cable, one of the 269 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: cables holding the Golden gate Bridge. Imagine catching that. I 270 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: mean it's obviously not, but still like there's somebody piloting 271 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: machine that like, and you I don't know how you 272 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: would move the counterweight around the spool so that how 273 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: are you going to get the threat? This is the 274 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: most difficult aspect of the whole program, if you ask me, 275 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: I think grabbing that that ribbon and connecting it. Although 276 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: they act like they've got that all figured out. They're like, 277 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: we had this nanotube that was this long. We're all 278 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: set to trust. Like they've got a guy out on 279 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: a platform just sitting around waiting waiting for this thing 280 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: to come down from space. So they so that guy 281 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: catches the ribbon, ties it off probably with a pretty 282 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: decent sailors not um, and then you attach the lifter 283 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: to it. Right, that's right, Um. The lifter is a 284 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: robotic thing. It basically it's it's sort of like a 285 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: train track it uses these traction shread rollers. Uh, and 286 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: it would clamp onto this ribbon and through something a 287 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: little more advanced than a gasoline engine. I think, what 288 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 1: are they using a free electron laser to create the 289 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: energy to do this? Basically, what they're doing is they're 290 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: gonna put solar panels but made of stuff that really 291 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: absorbs light from a laser right on the bottom or 292 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: on the top, probably on both sides, and then they're 293 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,479 Speaker 1: just gonna shoot lasers up and down the ribbon and 294 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: then that laser just powers It's basically like directing sunlight 295 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:13,880 Speaker 1: onto full of photovoltaic cells and then converting that to electricity. 296 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: Then it's just plain old mechanical energy. It's like a 297 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: little motor that would crawl at a hundred and eighteen 298 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,479 Speaker 1: miles an hour. Mind you, it's not exactly a crawl 299 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: that it would shoot up this ribbon into space to 300 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: the final destination, which would be anything. I think that 301 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,479 Speaker 1: first they talked about capturing an asteroid to serve as 302 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 1: as the which is just as the counterweight to um 303 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: what I think is smart which would potentially be a 304 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,439 Speaker 1: satellite or the spacecraft that brought it out there to 305 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: begin with Yeah, just unfolding or reconfiguring or whatever, and 306 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: of a sudden bam, there's your counterweight. There's the other 307 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: end of the string, right dude, that's it. I mean, 308 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 1: after they get this going, they're saying it can basically 309 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: be a constant operational elevator to the sky, lifting as 310 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: much as thirteen tons of payload at a time in 311 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: some cases humans maybe eventually, Yeah, crazy. I guess the 312 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: whole point now would be to just shuttle stuff to 313 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: say this. The International Space Station UM supplies that kind 314 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: of thing, gruel food UM, or if you had some 315 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 1: sort of asteroid mining operation, you could take your daily 316 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: hall to the space elevator to be brought down. The 317 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: point is this thing could be used for trips to 318 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 1: UM lower Earth orbit every day, several times a day, 319 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: because I think lower Earth orbit is UM between five 320 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: and fift hundred miles, so that's like UM four to 321 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 1: twelve hours trip basically, and they're talking about going further 322 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: than that, right, But Lower Earth orbit is where like 323 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,719 Speaker 1: all of the all that's where all the action is 324 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: generally UM. The problem is is that's also where all 325 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 1: the space to bree is. Yeah, and I think I 326 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: don't think we mentioned what the best part about all 327 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: this is is that it would cost about the closest 328 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: system I've seen is about two hundred dollars a pound 329 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: to deliver stuff to outer space, and what was the 330 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: Space shuttle costs dollars a pound. So that's why they're 331 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 1: pursuing this is because it's much much more affordable. They 332 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: likened it to the Transcontinental Railroad back in the day, 333 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: linking space to Earth. Yeah, okay, so the problems Josh 334 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: avoiding um junk flying around in space Like it would 335 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: suck if you got this thing all looked up and 336 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: some asteroid came flying out of nowhere and snapped the 337 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 1: thing and half well, not just asteroids, apparently space debris 338 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 1: UM largely refers to junk man made jump and lower 339 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: Earth's orbit is allows you with it. Um. One, there 340 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: was a satellite, an old out of use satellite, collided 341 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: with a new in use satellite recently and blew it up, 342 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, two pieces became four thousand pieces. 343 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: And that's nothing, that's a drop in the bucket. It 344 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: is so um. The problem is is like even a 345 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: small like one centimeter diameter piece is a threat to 346 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: the space elevator. Um so right now, nora D tracks 347 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: things as small as ten centimeters. Did you know that? 348 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: I didn't once I read this, but I was pretty 349 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: I was pretty shocked. But they're gonna have to start 350 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 1: tracking stuff down to one centimeter. So this is another 351 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 1: kind of challenge that I don't think people talk about, 352 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: is tracking space debris. Or they're also proposing that we 353 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:42,719 Speaker 1: just go up there and get rid of it, like 354 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: pay contractors to go to space and bring these things 355 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: down and clean up exactly. That'd be a unique approach, right, 356 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: Um it's called active avoidance, and UM, it's pretty amazing 357 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: that you could actually, potentially, because this thing is tethered 358 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: to a c platform, move the c plat form to 359 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: dodge these things. But that would mean that there's like 360 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: some guy whose job it is to like, yeah, joystick it. Yeah, 361 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: that's crazy. It sounds very far fetched, but it's supposedly 362 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: not super far fetched. I mean, this company Liftport, they're 363 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: they're one of the private firms that are have been 364 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: I think they partnered with NASA for a while until NASA, 365 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 1: you know, they're funding has dried up to a large degree, 366 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: so they had to scrap things like partnering with Liftport, 367 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: but um Liftport as of now, I think I read 368 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: in two thousand eleven they have sort of scrapped or 369 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 1: not scrapped, but they put on the back burner the 370 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 1: space to Earth version and they're working on a lunar version. 371 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so they want to put one of these 372 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: on the Moon. Um, which can be done right now 373 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: if they had the money. That makes sense to me. 374 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: Um not as much gravity, so they don't need the 375 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: carbonano tubes. Yeah, they could use the stuff called zylon. 376 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: It's a synthetic polymer. And apparently they could like do 377 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: this within the decade. Like everything's in place, it's just 378 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: a matter of doing it. So yeah, I thought about 379 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: having one that goes from the Earth to the Moon, 380 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 1: or one that goes from the Earth to Mars or 381 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: you know, and you just well and then from the 382 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: Moon tomorrow. You know, you could connect them like station 383 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 1: one is here, then you have another one that goes there. 384 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: And the ideas are going to build a bunch of these, right, 385 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: that's the idea, because if one goes down because of 386 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: some space to breathe, hey, no problem, We've got another 387 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: one that we've built even cheaper over here in this 388 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: part of the ocean. So that's the idea. What's awesome 389 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 1: is this is I mean, this is far reaching, it 390 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: sounds futuristic, it's actually pretty smart. Simple idea like where 391 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: it's gonna build an elevator that goes to space, and 392 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,919 Speaker 1: it's actually kind of an old idea. There was a 393 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: Russian UH scientists named Constantine Ciokowski who proposed this in 394 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: heard about that and then um kind of went. I 395 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: think everybody thought he was a crack pot for a while. 396 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,640 Speaker 1: They thought da Vinci was too, though yeah, actually did 397 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: they No, not da Vinci. They think he was a 398 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: genius back then too, probably except for his flying machine. 399 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: I think that's credibility. Um. But then Arthur Arthur C. 400 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 1: Clark comes along and writes about this in UH Fountains 401 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: of Paradise, and he was he very clearly saw like 402 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 1: the big problem was the ribbon. If you could figure 403 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: out the ribbon, everything else would be fine, which is 404 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: still the problem. Arthur C. Clark way ahead of his time. 405 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 1: So that's pretty much it. I mean, if they get 406 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: this lunar and we're going there, they're talking about deep 407 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: space exploration from a lunar based system, which you know, 408 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: the benefit there is is it cost a lot of 409 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 1: money to get from here to the moon. If you 410 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: could shuttle a the components of a rocket up to 411 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 1: the moon and just get it going up there and 412 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 1: be a lot cheaper, right. We talked about that with 413 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: asteroid minding that that was another their idea is you 414 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 1: could launch things from these asteroids or whatever because the 415 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: a vast majority remember the weight of the space shuttles 416 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 1: in the fuel, almost all of that is just used 417 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 1: within the first like ten miles. Then after that you 418 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: start to escape births or a bit and exactly. So um, yeah, 419 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: if you could, if you could get rid of all that, 420 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: like you just dropped the cost tremendously base I know. 421 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm curious to see within a decade if 422 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 1: we're gonna have a space elevator from the Moon to 423 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 1: something else, we will be riding one. So yeah, well, 424 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: it all depends on funding. That's like, these ideas are 425 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: all great in practice unless you have billions of dollars 426 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: to get it. But think about Jeff Bezos has billions 427 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: of dollars um ms Kirt Cameron, that's think James Cameron 428 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: Elon Musk. These guys have cash and this is what 429 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: they're putting their money into, this kind of thing. So 430 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,119 Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna come down NASA funding. I 431 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: think it's gonna come down to the will of guys 432 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: like Kirk Cameron. Well, Kirk Cameron does not have billions 433 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 1: of dollars, but he does have a fine collection of 434 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: faith based movies. Yeah, directive video anna that you can 435 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: check out, but not the dirty kind of directive video. No, no, no, no, 436 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: I guess it's about it, right, it's pretty much I'm 437 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 1: looking forward to it. Yeah, private space exploration is definitely 438 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,479 Speaker 1: the way of the future. We should put in a 439 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: request for this article to be updated, but I'm a 440 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: free to think they'll be like, have at it. Yeah, 441 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: I'm afraid to do that. Dude. Well, if you want 442 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: to read a hilariously out of date article on how 443 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: Stuff Works that still captures what's going on with the 444 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,959 Speaker 1: space elevator um and with some cool artists rendering of stuff, 445 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 1: you can type in space elevator that's at the handy 446 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 1: search bar and a great little website called how stuff 447 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,719 Speaker 1: Works dot com. And I said search bar, which means 448 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:03,120 Speaker 1: it's time now for a listener mail Josh, I'm gonna 449 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,160 Speaker 1: call this dead Sea follow up UM, and I should mention. 450 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: We got a lot of emails from Dead Sea visitors 451 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: and tourists and a lot of photos and one thing 452 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: we did not cover because I haven't been there and 453 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: experience this, but we said, swim in the Dead sea 454 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,239 Speaker 1: a lot. You ain't a lot of swimming going on 455 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: in the Dead Sea. There's there's a lot of floating 456 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 1: and flailing because they just say it's really disorienting because 457 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: you're so used to the way you move in water 458 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden that's totally different. So people 459 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: are like gasping, and eventually they'll learn to trust and 460 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 1: relax and float on their back. You don't want to 461 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 1: go on your stomach. You don't want to try and 462 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 1: swim UM, and you don't want to get it in 463 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: your face because it will really sting your eyes and 464 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: it tastes really bad. And we had this one that 465 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: wrote in his husband was suffering. They advise you not 466 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: to go on with cuts or open sores. Obviously her 467 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 1: husband was suffering from a little UM. It's called many 468 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: different things. When you walk a lot and you get 469 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 1: chafed between the legs. Yeah, it goes by many different 470 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: crude names. But he had a bad case of this 471 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 1: and uh didn't tell his family that he was traveling 472 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 1: with his wife knew and he went in the Dead 473 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: Sea promptly got out and the family was like, where 474 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: did you know the sum in law go? And she 475 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: was like, maybe he's just not into it all right. 476 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: So this is from Daniel, but thanks to everyone else. 477 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: He wrote in just finished the dead Sea podcast had 478 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: a couple of interesting tidbits. You briefly mentioned the Great 479 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 1: Salt Lake when talking about the high salinity the Dead Sea. Uh. 480 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: These two lakes actually have quite a bit in common. 481 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: Both lakes are located in the desert region, although the 482 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 1: elevation is drastically different. Like the Dead Sea, the Great 483 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: Salt Lake here in Utah has a very high salt 484 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: content about, making it hard for anything but hello philic 485 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: bacteria and some Brian shrimp to grow. Uh. This guy's 486 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 1: a graduate student. By the way, b y U. Both 487 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: lakes are fed mainly by a smaller freshwater lake roughly 488 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: fifty miles away, the Dead Sea being fed by the 489 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: uh Sea of Galilee to the north by way of 490 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 1: the Jordan River. The Great Salt Lake is fed by 491 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 1: Utah Lake to the south, also by the Jordan River coincidence, 492 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. In both cases, the water leaves the 493 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: lake only through evaporation. Uh. And like the Dead Sea, 494 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,959 Speaker 1: there are many areas the Great Salt Lake that are 495 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: quite stinky at times, mainly in the muddy waters with 496 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,880 Speaker 1: a level is low. The Great Salt Lake is also 497 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: dense enough for you to float with little to no effort. 498 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,880 Speaker 1: So if you're not able to ever make it over 499 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 1: to Europe to visit the Dead Sea, I would say 500 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: the Middle East, wouldn't you. Okay, you can head on 501 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: over for a float. And it's little American cousin out 502 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: here in Utah. Keep up good work, guys. I really 503 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: enjoy the wide variety of topics that it's from. Daniel. 504 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: He was a grad student at b YU studying microbiology. 505 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: So good for you, my friend, nice much smarter than 506 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: I you. Yeah, well, yeah, great students. All I have 507 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: to say English undergrad microbiology grad as a well rounded 508 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: human beings agreed. Um? Oh wait, you're the English undergrad. 509 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: I love to put the two of you together. You're 510 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 1: a well grounded human exactly. UM, if you have some 511 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: ideas of how to put me in chuck together to 512 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: form another superhuman UM, we want to hear him. 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