How 100,000 Satellites Will Change Earth Forever by 2040

[@RealLifeLore]

Yep at 6:37 I meant to say $100, not $1,000. I can't read 0's sometimes 🙇

[@Aespha]

RIP

[@zebraz3839]

Idea 💡 what if all Nordic countries United

[@SharonDraws]

Lolll

[@SharonDraws]

2nd like

[@SharonDraws]

Why you didn't pin yourself, RealLifeLore?

[@ln5321]

"40 years ago, when the first Space Shuttle launched" *shows footage of Saturn V*

[@ricojes]

it wouldn't be a RLL video without a couple glaring errors.

[@HermanVonPetri]

Talks about "incredible cost reductions" for space launches - shows the SLS.

[@calholli]

6:30 .. He said Thousand.... but the chart says Hundred. RIP proof reading.

[@shivalingarajklingaiah705]

@@HermanVonPetri isn't it like 1 billion dollars per launch

[@HermanVonPetri]

@@shivalingarajklingaiah705 It depends on how often the SLS will fly, how large the payloads will be, and how long they continue using it. But one-billion is probably on the low end per-flight. The White House appropriations bill estimated over two-billion per-flight back in 2019. For comparison the Saturn V works out to about 1.2 billion per flight when adjusted to today's money.

[@yahlifenigstein580]

Imagine how 100,000 Toyota corolla's would change earth...

[@righteousgamer778]

That would change the earth.

[@Trippze]

i dont get this reference

[@droftrop4135]

@@righteousgamer778 that would be life changing

[@SharonDraws]

12th like

[@daandanx]

How about a million?

[@blackJJseventeen]

The 2020's will become the most important decade in space travel... obviously nobody wants to stay on this planet after the first 1.5 years of this decade

[@pixfixstudio7027]

Agreed

[@rashidisw]

Rare mentioned feature about 2020's that is somewhere in April Friday 13th 2029, the asteroid Apophis would pass close very close to the earth, closer than distance of Geosynchronous satellite path to Earth's surface. Scientists have calculated that on that day Appophis will not strike the earth surface. But it may changes, because the math used in the prediction did not account for lots of *new satellites* that would be placed into the orbit. Those increases of satellites may slightly alter the gravity field that could potentially alter the Apophis' path, or perhaps something worse that new satellites debris would collides with Apophis, causing Apophis to be captured by Earth's gravity field which may plunge the Apophis into the surface of this planet.

[@sandravangeffen8297]

@@rashidisw damn

[@starblaiz1986]

@@rashidisw While this would make a great plot for a Hollywood movie, there's some major plot holes in it: 1) The mass of the satellites is orders of magnitude smaller than that of either Apophis or earth, making any gravitational effects smaller than the margin of error and thus irrelevant. 2) If it were relevant, Apophis is passing between many of these satellites and the earth, so their mass would pull it further AWAY from earth, not towards it. 3) Apophis is 26.99 billion kg in mass, while your average satellite is only around 5,000kg. Collision would have negligible (read: within margin of error) effect on Apophis' velocity or trajectory, unless it manages to hit pretty literally EVERY satellite, which seems comically unlikely (and even then, i don't know if even that would be enough).

[@LemonDan]

Cap

[@TECHN01200]

I propose we invest in tractor beams to reclaim and recycle these satellites.

[@74wf]

Very Magnetic Harpoons Space pirates

[@aaliyahdelrosario4497]

Agreed

[@downwithputinsaveukraine1313]

@Minecraft guy and we would call it "Flying Spaghetti Monster".

[@Sheridantank]

A net

[@xray8876]

I think there was a plan to launch an incredibly strong magnet into space to collect space junk and just pull them down toward earth.

[@bigmike9128]

We need to start removing old satellites.

[@digitalnomad9985]

We need to start using them as raw material for orbital construction.

[@digitalnomad9985]

Vid says "There isn't any protocol for removing old satellites from orbit." That's incomplete and misleading. Modern satellites for LEO reserve enough station keeping fuel to deorbit themselves. This is where there are the most satellites and the least volume in which to put them. Satellites for higher orbits can't do this. But satellites for important limited orbits like GSO, can use their station keeping thrusters to get out of the way to a storage orbit to make room for new satellites.

[@kaboomwinn4026]

removing old satellites back to earth? Why not reuse the part to build a new satellites space. We can even build a junk collector station. They can pick up Space debris, to turn to raw material and can start cleaning the space. This is going to be cheaper when they can turn it to 3-D printing wire to used in 3-d printing any part of building For space commercial habitat then launch 🚀 To space. If they let it fall to earth the toxic can pollute the ocean of earth.

[@P_i_l_s_o]

Space salvage will be a huge thing. Some, if not most, of the satellites are just out of service and have components and raw materials that can be recycled.

[@Lucas-GR]

@@kaboomwinn4026 that's exactly what Nanoracks is about to do. Things are going to be amazing, really fast!

[@DistnguishedIDegenerate]

Legend has it. He is still getting sponsored to this day (Not from Toyota though)

[@SharonDraws]

Yea

[@Chrono_topher]

Squarespace, Skillshare, Nord VPN, Nebula, Raid Shadow Plus-

[@RealLifeLore]

Plz daddy Toyota

[@wolflexz]

Neat

[@asylumskp4391]

@@RealLifeLore caught in 4k

[@puredruid]

9:20 - Internet for the entire human species? Can't wait to see dank memes from all the uncontacted tribes around the world.

[@jesuslopez5105]

😂😂😂😂

[@lidallyhim]

Lol

[@Mike_Toreno]

Cannibal tribes be like: Pranking my wife by hiding my child in my stomach(Prank) (gone wrong)(gods called)

[@Chrono_topher]

Zimbabwe: *It’s only one satellite, but hey atleast we own one*

[@pulkitmohta8964]

Exactly

[@E4439Qv5]

It's worth trillions! 😁

[@Thorfinn_editZ1]

@@E4439Qv5 million’s-billions*

[@mahakshshetty]

@@Thorfinn_editZ1 you didn't get the joke lol

[@Thorfinn_editZ1]

@@mahakshshetty he said it’s worth trillions and I corrected him. He could’ve easily been serious.

[@mrgoats]

For a channel I love for their level of research, this was an incredibly poorly researched subject. I used to work on this specific subject for the US army. Space around earth is MASSIVE. remember, only a tiny fraction of earths surface contains 8.6 billion people. Earth orbit is hundreds of times larger than earths surface due to the addition of range and a 3rd plain. Additionally, all satellites that share the same orbit are going exactly the same speed as required by orbital physics. That means each satellite sharing the same orbit are effectively stationary to each other due to the laws or relativity. The run a similar risk of your house running into your neighbors. Despite the fact the world spins at ~1000 mph your house and your neighbors are going the same speed, making them stationary objects. The one thing that is an issue is astronomy. However, it’s likely astronomers will be using satellites soon too. They always would have of it wasn’t for the cost, as it’s far superior. As you mentioned costs are dramatically reducing. However you failed to mention that this is specific to visual astronomy. Which is one of the least used forms of astronomy already. Another point you failed on. Low earth orbit does not take over 100 years to naturally decay. LOE has atmospheric resistance and only takes a few years. Which is why loe satellites all either have a short lifespan or have boosters to push them back into a higher orbit. The ISS is boosted almost every month.

[@deeptoot1453]

Hey, great insight into the topic! I was already assuming astronomers would be using satletie telescopes because it would make so much more sense. Makes sense now that the costs or launch have been reduced greatly they're finally about to make the switch.

[@somephysicist]

I like how when the astronomers complain about how these satellites pose a danger to scientific research all the laypeople join together to tell the scientists that they should just also make some satellites. The only problem is that the telescopes on earth that we are talking about are very large and very expensive and take a very long time to build. The ones we put on satellites are even more expensive and take even longer to build, like billions of dollars and decades of time. Also, satellite clusters are expected to interfere with radio astronomy as well, not just visual astronomy, which does seem pretty obvious if you think about it.

[@ydhamitch7971]

I agree, although it is still an interesting video to get people interested and answer some of their basic questions. And to add to their short mention of space debris collisions, it's always possible satellites lose control and crash into others, causing the exact same issues. And micro meteorites that could shred those satellites to pieces. Plus, if we crowd the orbit with too many (assuming we left dead satellites in orbit forever until it burns up on its own), how we launch missions to other planets for research, exploration, colonization, etc

[@hikodzu]

Future me: far far away in forest, in a house, playing online games with peace

[@MrDasfried]

Nah you need a direct visual line to the satelites... So forest is kinda of for this technology... Exept you do build your self a big ass tower next to your house

[@comradecapybara]

​@@MrDasfried Ever heard of a Glade?

[@maxvonh]

funny that you assume we'll still have forests once we've reached this point /s

[@Blaz1ngFury]

I feel you man good comment

[@alphareborn9908]

Forest in a house, house playing online games lol

[@than217]

James Webb Telescope: "Soooo any room on the next rocket for me?" ~Just keep sitting in the waiting room, please. We'll be with you shortly. James Webb Telescope: "But that's what they told me in 2007!"

[@gljames24]

James Web should be up in November of this year. Everything is set for launch.

[@JB17521or]

So stupid to wait for an Ariane 5... go euth Falcon Heavy, Delta IV heavy. Ariannespace always needs decades to prepare and 2 launches a year is kinda garbage..

[@briandiehl9257]

@@gljames24 I believe it has since been delayed again

[@Dac_DT_MKD]

@@briandiehl9257 No, it still says November of this year.

[@NopWorks]

@@gljames24 James Webb telescope has been delayed to 20021.

[@seansargeant7966]

I would call out a little error (although I don't know if I would call it even that). You mention that there is very little regulation, specifically regarding corporate actions, with the example of space debris. While this is kinda true, most companies and nations do actually comply with a unspoken agreement, mostly to deorbit satellites, safe batteries and fuel tanks, or move satellites out of the way if possible. This was relatively rare early on, but iirc, is currently done for 99%-ish satellites. So there are few laws, however, some agreements (if informal) do exist for companies.

[@abhishekrao1525]

If it's unspoken and voluntary, it's not really a regulation.

[@bread9803]

Kinda sus

[@PK1312]

@@abhishekrao1525 Yeah, they do it right up until it's cheaper not to do it. (see starlink, which swears it has some kind of collision avoidance and deorbiting mechanism, but curiously refuses to divulge any details about it)

[@faizanmirza6597]

This is so high iq my heard hurts

[@digitalnomad9985]

@@PK1312 What could be mysterious about these mechanisms? Orbital mechanics and station keeping thrusters, like +Sean Sargeant says.

[@ohnowhy700]

I imagine that in the distant future, if there are still little to no enforced laws on retrieving and recycling satellites, the future upper atmosphere would look like the blanket of space clutter that covered the dead world of Wall-E when he first left Earth.

[@Shauma_llama]

That's what'll happen.

[@mastinho6761]

@@Shauma_llama So you have a Crystal Ball, then?

[@enderkatze6129]

Unlikely, there's active benefits to bringing Junk ones Back down, or atleast Out of the way, namely Not losing new ones or having Them jeopardized by space junk

[@us3rG]

they drop some of them in the pacific, some burn on entry Also people seem to forget how small these things are compared to everything when they show you satellites moving around earth from the satellite perspective. As long as it's in one piece it can be dealt with, the problem is when/if they broke apart,

[@cypherbrittainnethegodofsl4988]

Random fun fact : If R136a1 (The most massive and most luminous star) is at the distance of 4 light years from us, it would be brighter than the full moon.

[@mycroftselene3326]

Yeah sure eh that's not true that we can get to it though because there is a thing called the Firmament above us which protects us from the waters above and below okay you should know that by now unless you didn't read the Bible correctly eh???

[@asylumskp4391]

@Jack BURDETT religious guy who doesn't understand science

[@dr.rodrigo554]

@@mycroftselene3326 What does that even mean exactly?

[@cranjusmcbasketball2052]

Yeah but what if it was UY Scuti

[@cypherbrittainnethegodofsl4988]

@@cranjusmcbasketball2052 UY Scuti's luminosity is pale in comparison to R136a1. UY Scuti's luminosity is around 100,000 to 400,000 times our sun. R136a1's luminosity is around 6 to 8 million times our sun.

[@heiakimsunofficialson2639]

They better bring unfunctional satellites back to earth that I can watch RealLifeLore

[@jonathanpalmquist4894]

He made a pretty big error here. He said the many Low Earth Orbit satellites will stay up for centuries as they crowd the orbit. But the LEO satellites operated by companies like SpaceX come back down with just gravity after only a few years (

[@heiakimsunofficialson2639]

@@jonathanpalmquist4894 good for us that satellites get cheaper and cheaper otherwise it couldnt happen

[@Max-hn5fs]

@@jonathanpalmquist4894 and you are only talking about space x satellites here, but there are other companies that want to put garbage into space that can and will have higher orbits and take longer to decelerate. I will continue being critical until there are worldwide regulations that will fine the operator a big amount of money if they can or do not remove the satellites after their service time. And those regulations need to be signed by the USA as well, because i just know that the USA will not sign them, because muh freedom and such...

[@asylumskp4391]

How 100,000 satellites will change earth in 2040: the Earth will have 100,000 more satellites

[@JdUkGAming]

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[@asylumskp4391]

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[@mr.stealyourspaghetti8004]

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[@asylumskp4391]

@@mr.stealyourspaghetti8004 no homo

[@criogenic1839]

Les goooo

[@mustang5132]

4:58 talks about incredible cost reductions while showing one of the most expensive rocket projects in history

[@Likeaworm]

Lol

[@6z0]

I was just re binging all your old videos… Couldnt have been better timing

[@Aespha]

SAME

[@SharonDraws]

Same

[@mrcrazycrocs]

Same

[@Chrono_topher]

Broke the chain 👉👉

[@marcelloberry6829]

Nice

[@jackinthebox301]

4:55 Talks about cost reductions, shows the 2 billion dollar per launch SLS.

[@kenz8128]

Scientists : *working very hard to launch satelites into space* RealLifeLore : *SPACE GARBAGE*

[@pedropedrohan102]

well i mean it's technically true

[@confusedwhale]

Humanity isn't great at dealing with its trash.

[@fxonevr]

I mean you cant argue with that

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

They don’t do anything, they’re time is up. You call dead people corpses right, despite the fact that they had to be taken care of and taught and lived a long and happy life, but you call them a corpse because they serve no purpose now.

[@tomasmugicamoreno8499]

Humans be sending these Things into space for millions of dollars while my AT and T wi-fi gives me one bar when my phone is two inches from the hotspot

[@Someone-sc2hk]

3:45 are we just gonna ignore the giant Family Guy mural?

[@stefan-x9g]

ehheheheheheh

[@bobby_greene]

Shut up, meg

[@Realitycheck18]

That is the entrance to the Fox studio lot in Century city, Los Angeles. There is also a huge Die hard mural, A sound of music mural, Simpsons, star wars etc. too.

[@coreyhenderson172]

at 6:38, you made a mistake and said "under $1000 when the graphic says $100"

[@KonigHoff]

I mean _technically_ that's under 1000

[@aaliyahdelrosario4497]

@@KonigHoff well…true.

[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

I think he meant $100. It'd be a shame if 20 years later we only reduced it by half.

[@AlanShortySwanson]

this whole graph is infuriating

[@freedomofspeech2867]

>Making it impossible and illegal for people to see what's in space for themselves. Great idea.

[@haroldinho9930]

@user that’s not a swastika

[@lilmane1070]

5:27 uhhh that’s some pretty brave extrapolation there chief

[@nuzayerov]

7:11 I was actually scared that the video somehow ended a bit too soon and that there would be a transition to a Skillshare ad.

[@TheGeographyBible]

How can space, which is absolutely massive and empty, be messier than my room?!

[@tjs200]

do the world's wealthiest coporations and governments spend exorbitant amounts of resources to stuff your room?

[@rushabhjoshi30]

Then in geography, students will learn earth has more satellite than Jupiter!

[@Tsirkon]

I mean it is true , well depends what satellite we're talking about Since there's 2 types of satellite -Natural satellite ( like the moon ) -Man made satellite ( well those satellites in this video talking about )

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

... ge... geography???

[@mnd7381]

@@gearandalthefirst7027 well in elementary school syllabus of some countries, geography contains the solar system and satellites and all that (basic things just)

[@mnichols1979]

I didn't realize that space was part of Earth's geography. I figured that would be more of a sciene kinda topic.

[@mnichols1979]

@@mnd7381 and which countries would those be? Must be the ultra right wing bible thumping countries that don't believe in science.

[@johnkabiro7098]

There is risk in everything,so be prepared for ups and downs.

[@tonywells9608]

Diversification is relevant, and once you have confidence in your investment, you can adjust your profit and make bigger bets.

[@johnkabiro7098]

Just do the necessary research, study and analyze before making any investment.

[@tonywells9608]

@@johnkabiro7098 From the research I have done so far as old as the pandemic the word is out, Bitcoin May reach $100k by next year, and is going to change a lot of people's life.

[@genitarraw5463]

Many people are struggling from grass to grass, the concept of Bitcoin after it became a household name.

[@johnkabiro7098]

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[@Wilson2005WAW]

It feels like BF2042, seriously.

[@samj4567]

RIGHT

[@Chuked]

We haven’t even seen actual gameplay yet…

[@erikhaar490]

we have a five minute cinematic thing what are you on about lol???

[@Chuked]

@@erikhaar490 we don’t have actual gameplay tho

[@erikhaar490]

@@Chuked correct…? Was more about how the “just like bf2042” was a poor attempt at saying something relevant despite there being nothing but a little demo reel of flashy cinematic animation

[@TBH_Inc]

Very well rounded video. Covered the upsides, like better communication, and downsides, like astronomy and doomsday. Seen similar videos but don’t usually cover everything. Nice job!

[@checcmac8693]

“Poland can into space” is a new whole meaning after 2040

[@joehoe222]

No, Polan cannot into space.

[@ghostrider115]

Sad angry poland ball noises

[@gillesparmentier1414]

"incredible cost reductions across the entire space industry" Proceeds to show SLS launch, with an estimated cost of over 2 billion dollars, this is even more than saturn V s 1.25 billion

[@3rkid]

Biggest rocket ever made to take the first humans into deep space doesn't come cheap!

[@yorneustein7851]

You need to account for inflation dude , 1,25 Billion dollars in 1960s is worth 10-17 billons in today’s money

[@SuperSMT]

@@3rkid SLS + Orion program cost over $40 BILLION so far. SpaceX developed Falcon Heavy (biggest rocket in the world) for $0.5 billion, and Dragon 2 human-rated spacecraft for $2.5 billion

[@juanieboy1519]

i’ll be ballin till 2040 i promise i’m not for the moment - Lil baby

[@elvarfn2086]

Who's lil baby

[@lynoska1951]

@@elvarfn2086 your dad

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

This is why I think we should have some kind of gravitational satellite or net or magnetic satellite, it could function as a space garbage truck and bring the space junk back down to the atmosphere, where there it could burn up or land somewhere in the desert to be picked up and possibly melted down and reused . It could be able to solve this problem

[@SauronThe3rd]

Could have a laser zapping satellite in the future. Something thY shoots space debris down while above the ocean. I have faith that we can solve space debris in the coming future easily enough.

[@RyanMariners]

Imagine if Toyota Corolla's could travel in space. 👀

[@inigobantok1579]

Corny meme

[@buddyclem7328]

They can. There is already a Tesla Roadster up there.

[@unlucky5442]

at least there's a tesla up there

[@stealtho]

If Toyota Corollas has propulsion systems and could withstand radiation from space, and etcetera, at this time of technology it wouldn’t go that far such as the moon

[@Perririri]

N👁‍🗨rmie

[@Esgarpen]

5:50 jesus that graph took me some time to grasp on the Y-axis.......

[@letsseepaulallenscard1140]

Now give them all high definition cameras and you've got a world where there's no place on Earth left to hide, i can't wait!

[@prithvishetty6938]

hide in plain sight

[@thwalesproductions]

The world is already mapped in UHD so like why the fuck worry about it

[@honkhonk8009]

You dont need cameras. You can use radio waves and see through walls with good definition. Its not clear enough to actually spy on people, but its cool ig

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Earth is 75% ocean, more than enough to hide a submarine. Then there are caves and abandoned mines. Or just leave your electronics behind and live in the woods where no one will bother looking for you.

[@letsseepaulallenscard1140]

@@thwalesproductions _It can get worse, so why worry about it?_

[@hankieboi8633]

I am on a spree of watching your videos and they are so entertaining

[@finaldestination41]

Don't know if humanity really moving towards its glorious days or something worse.....?🙄

[@jayess7350525]

@@KarmG-fo4xr Beat me to it

[@droftrop4135]

@Isaac BA I do hope the governments start using more nuclear power of something quickly, it will go bad if they don't.

[@JohnnyL69]

it's both

[@toxic6085]

@Isaac BA Fossil fuels will never run out . Most probably we will just shift to other forms of energy . Fossil fuel would be dirt cheap at that time and only the low economy countries will use it .

[@-Faris-]

@Isaac BA That’s going to be a couple centuries till we reach that stage

[@Musk_musk636]

Really enjoyed all of your video keep it up.

[@kennycouch6135]

"Every eye will see him on that day" I always wondered how that would be possible but now its becoming clearer. Interesting.

[@lesweenmachine]

You are laying out a future FF and showing how you’d be susceptible to it 😂

[@kennycouch6135]

@@lesweenmachine am I? Or are my eyes just being opened up to what is already predestined to happen?

[@FoggyMcFogFace]

@@lesweenmachine What's an FF?

[@lesweenmachine]

Thinning the Fog a flag of the false category

[@lesweenmachine]

Kenny Couch you are. God shouldn’t need the motivation of the entire international religious community in order to usher in the end times and build the third temple yadda, yadda, yadda. wake up brother. Eat some damn mushrooms

[@Apache148414]

It’ll be cheaper to send flat earthers in space so that they can see that the earth, in fact, is round. Just a one way trip though, we don’t need them back down.

[@ricojes]

probably better to send them back. only way to correct flat earthers are former flat earthers it seems.

[@Apache148414]

@@ricojes you got a point. But then they will claim that the ones sent to space have been “brainwashed” or “deceived”.

[@FoggyMcFogFace]

@@Apache148414 okay but imagine if they all get sent off and don't come back, the conspiracy theories will run wild

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Free ticket to space? I’d be willing to pretend to be a flat-Earther for a free ride to space.

[@mmartel99]

Talks about cost reduction to space, shows SLS

[@anthonyitaliano7316]

legit lolz at this comment. It'd have more upvotes if people understood it

[@paulinephan05]

@@anthonyitaliano7316 *likes, and a ton of people have already said the same thing

[@davidthomas4489]

This guy’s videos are awesome. I’ve learned so much about geography and other things by just watching his 10 to 15 minute clips!

[@basedamogus]

5:05 ahhhh yes the space shuttle

[@MrGmori]

Satellite junkyard will be our shield from alien attacks

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

"Space travel has never been cheaper" Shows SLS launching 🤣🤣

[@criogenic1839]

Haha 🤣🤣

[@DrToonhattan]

Yeah, I laughed when I saw that too.

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

*CGI of SLS launching. It might launch one day… and then only once. At about $2 billion per launch the economics will be untenable. If SpaceX’s Starship launches first SLS will be scrapped. Even without Starship SLS is already ridiculous. Multiple Falcon Heavy launches could loft a modular version of Artemis at a third or quarter the price that SLS could.

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

@@CarFreeSegnitz I pretty much agree, except the first 5 SLS have already been paid for, so they will not be scrapped. But afyer that definitely SLS will be retired

[@bentoth4324]

"... the entire astronomy profession will be negatively affected, potentially forever." This is a teething issue. The Hubble and similar space telescopes revolutionized astronomy. Plummeting launch costs and increased payloads will only negatively affect astronomy in the very near term, and afterwards effects will be positive.

[@austinreed5805]

Internet loading times are gonna be insane.

[@dazzaMusic]

Yeah one day we’ll be on 10g

[@breastmilkgaming]

Chrome wont let that happen ong

[@6pprii]

Remember that Wall E Movie Scene when the Space Ship Passes through the pile of Satellite above Earth.

[@CerdurTV]

it seems foolish to get so excited about this especially with the glaringly obvious space observation issues if they were to be this numerous. by 2040 i would hope that it's just cheaper/better to transmit from the ground to locations, or perhaps technology for the satelites themselves could be improved to where they do not need to be this close or dense.

[@kaboomwinn4026]

I hear they planing to put the space observation on the moon for clearing scene. Then on earth with Weather and space satellite interfering the Scientific research.

[@Max-hn5fs]

@@kaboomwinn4026 oh please that is like the, with nuclear fusion there will be clean energy thing. Yes it will be, but it is still future technology, just like a lunar observatory is something that might happen in the future. The satellites in space are a thing that not just likey happens, it happens and is underway, there are gonna be thousands of satellites in space in a few years. but the other stuff like moon landings and observatories and whatever is still only a concept and has yet to happen. we have to act now and put regulations in place, making it mandatory for every satellite operator to remove the satellites after their service time is up and it has to be signed and enforced by every nation.

[@gottagobuy6436]

One of my favorite things to do sometimes is keep an eye on the international space station orbit tracker and see when it's coming over me. Hoping it'll be somewhere in between dusk and dawn (early morning is the easiest time to see it) and see the white dot quickly move across the sky at an incredible speed. Sometimes I give the astronauts a wave as they pass. Idk always liked space stuff I cried when I heard Cassini was going to crash into saturn.

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

If you have emotional attachments to satellites and are into video games, I'd really recommend Outer Wilds

[@ethanlewis2963]

Another great video.

[@valhalla9688]

Your mask is ugly

[@coltonpannier724]

LOVE The Longer Videos! Thank You For All You Do!

[@malachisgeofacts1637]

Imagine having this many Satellites orbiting Earth that A huge metal ring would go around Earth. I think Saturn would be jealous😂😂

[@Swayam2716]

🤣

[@jwinthepro]

In case you don’t already know, you’d probably have to string together millions of satellites to accomplish this, and at that point it wouldn’t even be visible from the surface (same reason you can’t see Great Wall from space)

[@mnichols1979]

One man's space junk is another planet's treasure.

[@malachisgeofacts1637]

@@jwinthepro Yeah. But hypothetically, if 100,000 Satellites somehow forms into a giant metal ring, it would be an eyesore and cool at the same time. Especially for the astronauts in the ISS.

[@tesstickle6974]

@@Prussia_ you can also see an ant from space, it's just very very very very hard and complicated to find

[@jakkakasunset5485]

Just finished Space Camp and I learned all about this stuff, good to see you doing stuff with space

[@11andy]

This video: *exists* Elon Musk: *I'll pretend that I didn't see that*

[@Chrono_topher]

Elon be carrying the whole Space industry. Move over NASA, a new king is here

[@mfaizsyahmi]

a lot of things about this video is not clearly researched and communicated. Elon Musk knows a lot more and he certainly doesn't need to waste time on this video.

[@valentinaou6579]

@@Chrono_topher NASA is giving SpaceX lots of money. They both need each other. NASA is the new administrator, SpaceX does the work.

[@Perririri]

If SpaceX were named by Julius Caesar, it would be called LatinX!

[@gusfisher]

He says "Incredible Cost Reductions" while a 2 billion dollar non-reusable rocket launches on the screen.

[@buddyclem7328]

12:43 ...by deorbiting all defunct sattelites directly onto the continent of Africa.

[@straytakermusic]

"Don't worry. It's Africa. Nobody cares about Africa".

[@sampatton146]

I think most intentional deorbiting is done into the South Pacific to the west of Chile since it is so uninhabited

[@briangarcia7384]

@@straytakermusicwell its in the sahara, so its kinda like droppin it in the ocean

[@burpkrazy298]

Amazing new informational video :)

[@Caboose4859]

I really like how the model of the earth didn't have icecaps in order to properly show what the future would look like. Nice attention to detail!

[@Think_Inc]

That was probably not the reason.

[@Caboose4859]

@@Think_Inc ._.

[@prettypic444]

"star light, star bright, damn- it's just a satellite!"

[@calholli]

6:30 .. You said Thousand.... but your chart says Hundred. RIP proof reading.

[@samcrabtree32]

Real life lore, infographic show, wendover productions and kurzgesagt- the four horseman of educated me about things I’ll never need to know🙏

[@madlad1511]

13:10 unfortunately right now most launches are made through space companies and their focus is not to preserve space for future generations or save astronomy, theyre just there to make money and peace out whenever theres a problem

[@matrick1356]

4:57 "incredible cost reductions" - shows SLS, the rocket that costs 1 billion just for the tower beside it, only existing so the government will keep funding the Artemis moon and mars program

[@nuzayerov]

10:38 Am I the only one who got a bit dizzy because of seeing satellites circling the Earth for more than a minute?

[@ricardom.r.finkelstein1795]

same here. the worst part: the only graphic he held for so long

[@tusharsharma8216]

29-1

[@HeroManNick132]

10:38

[@Relaxico100]

First guy to find a video on this channel that isnt sponsored is a god

[@laceystonerock6609]

It is sad to think about satellites becoming an issue in the future. Like that one scene in Wall-E. However, as someone who lives in a rural area with no internet connectivity, in a world ever increasing in internet reliance, I am so cheering on Starlink to bring this necessary service to so many people! At least they have addressed the space garbage issue!

[@furriesinouterspaceUnited]

Dial up speeds lmao?!

[@tuptap2457]

It's kinda scary that it might just be imposible to ever see the night sky in it's full glory. As if it wasn't bad enough now...

[@ifrahhudle7017]

Most of those satellites won’t be big enough to block the sky

[@tuptap2457]

@@ifrahhudle7017 they obviosly wont block the sky, but they really do reflect light and that is quite noticeable

[@brandonvelde5774]

They are way too tiny for that to be possible.

[@tjs200]

This is also only an issue during certain times of the night, like close to sunset and sunrise. in the middle of the night any satellite overhead will be in the earth's shadow and therefore won't reflect any sunlight, at least at all but the most extreme latitudes.

[@tuptap2457]

@@tjs200 that isn't true at least for the bigger satelites, you can spot them even in the middle of the night at times.

[@lukadoncic1772]

That two dislikes are from karens

[@SharonDraws]

Yea

[@SharonDraws]

2* dislikes

[@pojk07]

Very nice video! I work in the USSF in the organization that operates the GPS satellites. A quick note, not all satellites (commercial/military) operate in LEO, many operate in the MEO and HEO orbits as well. However, that does not take away how congested LEO is getting. Space debris is an honest concern, a piece of debris as small as 0.1% of a satellites mass can cause that satellite to get destroyed...causing more space debris. The chance of a satellite getting hit by a meteor is around 1 in 1 million compared to a piece of man made debris which is 1 in 50 thousand.

[@michealdrake3421]

Great video, as always. Although, instead of simply making a law, I feel like it would be better to incentivize companies and governments to clean up after themselves. Like making them foot the bill if their derelict satellites have to be recovered and disposed of by someone else. They're motivated by money, so we could try and find a way to make it more expensive to leave stuff up there

[@angbald]

That's what laws are for. They incentive people to do the thing or pay a fine. There are no incentives good enough to get someone to do what you want them to do. You have to threaten humans with punishment in order for anything to get done.

[@tylermartin7245]

@@angbald You are talking about individuals, we're talking about corporations. Corporations rarely face the repercussions of their mistakes.

[@SiddharthPrabhu1983]

Oh, the irony of showing an image of SLS while talking about reductions in the cost of space launches.

[@hellelujahh]

I can only hope it was meant to be a joke

[@proxy2497]

4:57 because of the incredible cost reductions across the space industry Shows the most expensive and uninnovative rocket designed to launch humans back to the moon (SLS)

[@Marcus_Postma]

I remember when I was deployed to Afghanistan in ‘09, you could look into the night sky and see 3 satellites at any time.

[@lukewallace1]

You know how everyone 40+ years ago didnt realize how bad plastic was then it kicked us in the ass? I feel like thats what we are doing with our space junk

[@peterbradshaw8177]

Great video as always, but there were some pretty surprising errors throughout the video.

[@johntuffield1457]

Imagine WWIII putting a halt to this whole thing.

[@Chuked]

?

[@bagel29]

5:08 almost sounds like “haul ass into orbit” 😂🤣

[@ariyune7007]

Everyday brother eye comes closer to reality. Can't wait to be tracked even in the thickest of the wilderness.

[@Barthaneous34]

I think people forget how vast the atmosphere is.. when you have 100,000 satellites the size of loaves of bread and microwaves. You'll likely never hit a single one.

[@maxvonh]

the ugandans/congolese might not be too happy that we're gonna send all the satellites straight at them all at once like in that animation lol

[@vctrsigma]

Confusing chart at 6:38, the narrator says get cost under 1000 $USD/kg, but it adds a point for

[@nicocchi]

7:30 I feel kinda stupid now, I've always thought satellites were huge. I mean, I'm not exactly looking out for pictures of satellites being built or with people near them, so all I ever see are those fancy videos of them floating in orbit, maybe with a nice perspective of the sun shining in the background, aka in a way that is completely impossible to tell how big they actually are One thing remains constant though, they've always looked dope as hell. It's like they're actively trying to get them to look cool.

[@MetaSynForYourSoul]

The first guy to make satellite reclamation a thing is gonna be a gazillionaire.

[@jgr7487]

now, gov't agencies do have real incentives to build telescopes on the Moon.

[@jigsaw6991]

They will put satellite around moon as well. Satellite around satellite.

[@nathanbanks2354]

Watching 8:30 in HD using Starlink internet. It's a good reminder that HD wasn't possible last year when we used a single crappy Xplornet geostationary satellite for internet. The difference in latency and upload bandwidth is huge.

[@cosmictreason2242]

General geographic location?

[@nathanbanks2354]

@@cosmictreason2242 Close to Vancouver, BC. Only a 45 degree tilt to see the geostationary satellite, so there's not much atmospheric disturbance like there would be from way up north. The Xplornet problems were directly related to it being so far away.

[@spaceperson613]

Doesn't this mean space travels gonna be harder since we'll have more satellites to avoid?

[@hellelujahh]

4:57 It would be difficult to find a more inappropriate image for illustrating the "incredible cost reductions" 😄 This is SLS, a monumentally expensive program offering a massively expensive (per pound of mass delivered to orbit) ride to space. The main driver of price reduction of space launches in the past decade has been SpaceX, so their Falcon 9 would be the most appropriate illustration, but pretty much any other launch provider would make more sense here than showing us the SLS 😄

[@briancherry8088]

It's convenient how prices per tonne don't really seem to drop until a launch isn't funded with taxpayer money.

[@andromeda9340]

To an alien civilization,they probably either think our world has lots of defensive vehicles protecting it or simply lots of artificial rings.

[@Recon3Y3z]

We need moon and satellite observatories.

[@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587]

I'm calling it: Space Sweepers from Netflix is gonna become a reality.

[@deptfakex7472]

Space Sweepers? Have you lost your mind?

[@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587]

@@deptfakex7472 have you? tf are you saying?

[@deptfakex7472]

@@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587 Nobody goes to so-called space. Look into it.

[@verticalfracture]

There were a lot of errors in this one. The numbers you used for total satellites in orbit Starlink alone currently has >1440.

[@airbornejay4962]

@@SaiKumar-dz5mz His grammar is fine but nice try

[@MortalBane]

Also Starlink are super low orbit and de orbit themselves within 5-10 years

[@themockingjay8645]

The upper bound for a Toyota Corolla weight is 1465kg. Given the most recent cost of launching a kilogram payload into low earth orbit of $1891, it would cost about $2,770,315 to send a Toyota Corolla into low earth orbit I think the RealLifeLore space programme can be financially viable in the near future

[@davidmedlin8562]

Rockets could still pass through the junk field because they don't spend much time there

[@whyme1855]

Unless the junk field covered almost all of low Earth orbit, then rockets would risk colliding with the junk at high speeds. It only takes a little splinter of a metal shard to completely destroy any sort of space craft meant to escape Earths gravity...and if satellites formed a sort of junk field, there would be **A LOT** of little metal shards like this.

[@0x0michael]

You both have no idea how big space is.

[@whyme1855]

@@0x0michael it’s not really about how big space is, more about how much we could ruin our chances of actually reaching into space for a very long time

[@ATIMELINEOFAVIATION]

me in da future: y’know lets just launch a satellite tomorrow for fun