Shields Up! Real Life Energy Shields

[@joeltashinian5888]

This was so PERFECT! Every fact I needed to know and nothing I didnt. So concise! Why isn't learning always like this?

[@toxicity6629]

As someone that grew up in a family studying science and parenting ideas, I think this video might be more helpful than you know even if I don’t finish what I start and someone else does. Thank you.

[@Bill23799]

I'm old school, I would just close the blast doors and polarize the hull plating.

[@blue280485]

Or add something like a laser based Rafael Trophy / IMI IronFist adapted for space warfare🤔

[@cedricproper5256]

serious research will bother to correctly pronounce the word Nu Clear. New Kleer. Nu-clear. Nuclear. It's not Nuke yeller. If you're going to bother with science, please at least speak the language. SMFH. People who don't get the basics and then sail off into the unknown scare me. They inspire me too, but mostly they scare me.

[@Bill23799]

@@cedricproper5256 If there is one word I am sure about pronouncing it is the word " Nuclear ". I worked with tactical nuclear missiles in the US Army and we went through more nuclear inspections than I care to remember. ( NSI...DNI....ASP...etc. ) It always bugged me when former president Bush would pronounce the word " Nucular "

[@fredg.sanford634]

Bill, that show became incredible, but just too late to save it. They were filling in so many TOS gaps... I wish they had been allowed to continue...

[@cedricproper5256]

@@Bill23799 nook yeller is not a word. I'm pretty sure this is true.

[@prismaticbeetle3194]

shields need to protect the vessel from micro particles (small asteroids and derbies) and radiation, those are the deadliest things to any fast moving ship. if we do invent the warp drive, shields will be IMPERATIVE to keep the ship safe from the Hawking (theoretical event) radiation it will be subjected to, and from any objects that might slip through the warp bubble... although its debatable if any "physical" object can punch through, its all speculation anyways. anyways, shield ARE needed for man vessels their is no way around that.

[@kaiusernameisbetter2522]

or a hyper drive

[@tnc9458]

@@kaiusernameisbetter2522 Subspace doesn't exist

[@cancelanime1507]

፳TNC፳ maybe wormholes could count as sub space? Although we don’t know yet if worm holes exist but they are certainly possible

[@cancelanime1507]

Mike Davidson because u watch to much Star Trek maybe? Lol

[@kamieaston3016]

Not only that but having shield technology would allow us to create a Space Elevator.

[@deathbreach3448]

FTL speed needs to be created and energy shields before I turn 60. I'm 20 now so that gives science 40 years to do this. Plenty of time. People my not be ready for aliens, but we're over due for multi-planetary existence honestly. We're slacking as an entire race.

[@maxorbit357]

FTL is never coming. Living effectively forever, maybe, fusion, maybe, FTL never.

[@deathbreach3448]

@@maxorbit357 Just knowing how we are, you aren't wrong.

[@donutwindy]

FTL will happen! How do I know? Because it is already happening! Right now, galaxies are moving away from us faster than light. If they can do it, we know it's possible and could therefore one day duplicate it. How one expands space is not known but we know it happens, and a ship (and entire galaxy) can ride that expansion. In our lifetime, unlikely. Maybe we proof of concept a micron of space (and maybe we blow ourselves up playing with this dark energy stuff and this is the great filter). But to me it's not a never. The energy required may take 1000 years, but as we do not know much about dark energy and space expansion.. it may not.

[@robinhyperlord9053]

@@maxorbit357 Alcubere Drive...

[@keanueraine]

@@maxorbit357 Nothing is faster than light. Nothing. Now imagine Nothing...as something. When the big bang happened, nothingness expanded faster than light. We can theoretically warp space to ride a wave of nothing/space to achieve speeds faster than light. The math says so, so it's only a matter of time. It might be hundreds, even thousands of years (if we live that long as a species) but we humans have the potential to do it. Never for you and I, almost certainly. Never for a thousand great grandchildren down the line, I disagree. Traditional ways of going fast, yah, not going to happen. Dune/BSG folding of space just uses waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much energy, like black hole levels, so effectivey never. Star Wars hyperspace is maybe akin to wormhole travel, again using vast, vast, vast amounts of power to tear space and tunnel to another location. On top of that they are likely super unstable once theoretically created, so again, most likely never. But Star Trek Alcubere Warp drive, give it a couple hundred years. Star Trek might be more prophetic than you give it credit for.

[@dantracy3641]

I liked the self-regenerating shielding most but compressing matter and antimatter together in a magnetic field seems counterintuitive to survival. love these videos.

[@goodolzimm5827]

Too bad futuristic science isn't introduced in our school systems. Maybe the beginnings of the Star Fleet Academy.

[@toddmolloy311]

Well... It would impose the scary thought of peaople thinking on there own lol

[@threepwood56]

Nah, we can't have students switching on to science. THat's not how it's done.

[@asteronx]

Maybe one day ;)

[@jurgennolte7577]

Yes it still looks like fiction but so did walkin on the moon back then.

[@Denruter]

What's wrong with fake history?

[@kevincrady2831]

Interesting ideas. However, it sounds like they would require *tremendous* amounts of energy to work. Granting that we would be able to develop fusion, antimatter, black hole power, or something else sufficient to the task, there's still the issue of getting rid of the waste heat from generating and using all that energy. Would there be a Red Queen's race between radiator size and shield power (need to have huge radiators to shed heat, shields need to be bigger to protect them, requiring bigger heat radiators, requiring bigger shields...)? Also, the shields themselves would be radiating energy, and apart from some way to make them radiate energy only outward, roughly half of the energy would radiate inward toward the ship. So, there'd be the problem of the shields cooking your spaceship like a TV dinner... :)

[@asteronx]

Plasma radiators. But yes, there are challenges to overcome, and this video is in no one meant to be comprehensive--it is just an overview to get the brain juices flowing ;)

[@ThanksIfYourReadIt]

in xenonauts game aliens energy lora said that the way they got so much juice in a small space ship that the place where they burned,the fuel was wraped around and captured radiated heat and,recycled back to boost energy output. In real life the,main issue is finding something that can carry energy and something else that can use it up fast enough so it wont turn to heat.

[@asteronx]

@@ThanksIfYourReadIt It's just a matter is cycling enough material, and ensuring that material has sufficient surface area to dump heat faster than it is taken up.

[@phantomwalker8251]

@@asteronx ceramic.or,,,go ask nasa,,,or,,area 51..been doing it for 50 yrs...

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

Dude , where's the microwave? We're in it :)

[@AVClarke]

Effective shielding will have to be developed for deep space travel outside of the Earth's magnetic field. If we wanted to send people to Mars for example, the astronauts would be exposed to all kinds of dangerous cosmic radiation. Electromagnetic shields could be a good solution for that.

[@VeryDeathlyShiny]

And that's not even the really bad stuff. If in the future, we ever want to send humans past the heliopause... we need to really take a long, HARD look at advanced radiation shielding.

[@ShadeofGaz]

Need shielding just from small space debris

[@voidkat4202]

We could start small first on the moon

[@MarleneBlackwinter]

I'm a science-fiction writer, but I always prefer to ground the tech of my stories in reality/real world research as much as possible. Thank-you so much for your vids, you provide me with a wealth of info I very much need and appreciate so very much!! You WILL be mentioned in the dedications of my stories!!

[@asteronx]

Thank you! We are working on our own science-fiction story as well. It is a wonderful medium for science education, or science inspiration. The cell phone was inspired by Star Trek's communicator after all, and then there's the Alcubierre Warp Drive...

[@lolsflint7598]

7:25 then it is most likely that some group would develop a shield much more powerful than that which is used for regular ships for the specific purpose of war/combat.

[@richarddeese1991]

Thanks. There are so many possible ways to create defenses, and there is so much progress in science right now, that I think shields will be both common and fairly customized. From aerogels, to cold plasma, to metamaterials, to lasers, to magnetic fields and more, shields could be active, passive, or some combo of both. It'll probably depend on what is needed (and affordable!) for a given purpose. It's exciting to think about. But I also hope ships will have multiple ways of generating both power and thrust. I know I wouldn't want to take any chances somewhere in the Oort cloud! 𝕥𝕒𝕧𝕚

[@asteronx]

If you had not already seen our propulsion video, you’ll want to have a look. This engine, whilst at the moment is not much more than a design concept, once we have developed and built it, will have a realistic exhaust velocity of 8% the speed of light. The video is called, Muon Catalyzed Aneutronic Fusion Drive - 8% Lightspeed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5ukhourgZJppcU

[@richarddeese1991]

@@asteronx Thanks! I did see that one just the other day. Great video! I'm thinking of some crusty asteroid miner out there in the asteroid belt, or maybe someone going out to the moons of Jupiter or Saturn. Me? I'd want a sort of combo engine, that had conventional exhaust thrust (that could run on most anything I could get my hands on), plus, say, a ring of ion thrust. At the very least. Don't depend on only one plan when your life is at stake! Ideally, we'd have nuclear for both power & thrust, but even that might conk out! Flexibility should be built-in. Maybe one day we'll all have Mr. Fusions! 𝕥𝕒𝕧𝕚.

[@asteronx]

@@richarddeese1991 Actually, we're also planning on also using Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters powered by our muon-cat reactor. The MPD thrust would allow us to use a variety of propellants, as you stated, for the purpose of flexibility. www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/fs22grc.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoplasmadynamic_thruster

[@sulanis8444]

So, All of these theories were pretty awesome and look to be using the concepts in physics known today, but seem to support future applications as well. The one, that I like the most is the one that surrounds the ship completely because I like safety. I also like the fact that we can travel in space protecting both the ship and crew from radiation and potentially particle weapons. I didn't hear, but could these technologies other than the gravitational shield, help with small asteroids?

[@NoXion100]

I quite like Isaac Arthur's approach. Have you seen his Interstellar Travel Challenges video? He describes a system that combines laser interception, modular hydrogen-based radiation shielding that can be repaired in-flight, and layers of foil shields deployed just outside the effective range of the lasers in front of the ship as it travels.

[@kmyase1]

You can also add 90% air pockets of honey combs structure made of steel sponge by 3d printer and compress the steel by laser to generate armor which can absorbs kinetic energy. Like airbags and water barrels on the highway. You can use a very thin steel wires to print and compress in a very fast pace.

[@usquanigo]

Your plasma sheild design is like some of the warp drive proposals. Sounds great, and maybe not a violation of physics, but likely to need a universe worth of energy.

[@jimbob6490]

you should learn math

[@BJCMXY]

It's interesting how no one has mentioned using sound to manipulate matter into a shield...

[@patrickseaman]

Assuming a warp field is possible, would it not, itself, have a 'shield' effect?

[@asteronx]

Yes and no, the more achievable variants have fairly gentle tidal forces across the bubble boundary, and so do nothing to deflect much of anything. However, with a redesign, it could very well be possible.

[@patrickseaman]

@@asteronx Some of the warp drive models worry about accumulating particles along the flightpath and that on termination/stopping, these would be released - potentially in a very destructive way. This implied to me that the field might be effective at stopping incoming particles or even 'objects.' If it were somehow possible to 'balance' the field in such a way as to avoid accumulating these particles, as some have suggested, then perhaps the field might still be an effective 'shield?'

[@stephenlangsl67]

@@patrickseaman Perhaps the theoretical work of Mr. Froning could provide effective shielding for pretty much all of those warp drive models.

[@scifirealism5943]

Yes. A warp drive consists of a repulsive gravitational field, or antigravity. Gravity and inertia are equivalent. With this in mind you could deflect matter. If you move forward at 1,000 gs, and produce an opposing gravitational field of 1,000 gs, the net g is 0. This type repels all matter, plasma, asteroids, particle beam weapons, slugs, etc, since all matter had gravity

[@eliasbinde2629]

Patrick Seaman A “Warp Field” the way we know it from Star Trek isn’t really possible and none of the concepts really apply. The closest thing we could create is an Alcubierre drive. This would warp space around the vessel expanding it behind and contracting it in front. This would negate the need for shields because the vessel is not actually moving.

[@robertwestfall_M.A.R.S.O.]

This sounds a lot like a shielding system *I* recently came up with, where the energy bombardment of enemy weapons fire is first dispersed over all of the shielding matrix frame network, until the power being flooded in is sensed as being hazardous to the shields. At this point, the shields' safety system would then begin to *shunt* the excess collected energy to weapons &/or drive unit. Let me know what you think of the Automatic Ablative Transference Shielding Matrix (or 8-SiM) system I've imagined...

[@krane15]

Depends on what you want to repel. Electra-magnetic would seem to the first step.

[@armadasinterceptor2955]

This is So Exciting!!

[@asteronx]

It is indeed.

[@philgiglio7922]

Shielding is above my pay grade; loved the shoutouts to Dune and The Expanse thankx for the explanation on the rail guns.

[@botondkalocsai5322]

There are some difficulties with these realistic shieldings. The first one is that these shielding (except maybe gravity shielding) are rather impermeable instead of the the semi-permeable shielding depicted in sci-fi-es. This means if you want to communicate, of get useful information from the sensors, or just deploy weaponry, you have to leave large openings in the shield for these subsystem, otherwise the shield's and the these subsystem's operation will be heavily interered by each other. So the zonal shield is the go-to shielding solution of the spaceship's crew want to do anything more then just drifting in space (even the propulsion system's exhaust material can interfere with the shield). Obviously these openings are weakpoints on the ship. The plasma shielding doesn't seem to perform well against solid projectiles, although there are some interesting technology such as the "plasma window" that is capable of separating a standard atmospheric pressure gas from the space of the vacuum via using viscous plasma (that's what the wiki say about it). Another problem with the plasma shield is that prolonged contact with low temperature high heat capacity medium that cools down it quickly. On the other hand gravity shielding has some very strange property. Even though it won't defend against laser weapons, just dampen its effects, it is excellent against solid projectile weapons. However this type of shielding may be useful as full-enclosure shielding a fully repulsive. Obviously a fully-enclosure repulsive gravity shield will definitely interfere with many subsystems, but in a way that can be compensated for, if one knows the precise properties of the repulsive field. For example EM waves that comes through this shield may suffer heavy red shift, and defflection. However, the effects of the gravity field are accurately known, then it is possible to reconstruct the the sensory data that would have been obtained if the gravity field weren't there, via some calculations to a certain degree. Similar problem is present for other subsystems such as weapons and communications. In case of weapons the fire control system has to take account the effects of the gravity field on the projectile into the firing solution. There's an additional benefit in this shielding is that it can massively boost the weapons's performance, because laser beams may suffer massive blue shift, and solid projectile (or or particle beams) will get a massive speed boost. Overall I would use a full-enclosure fully repulsive gravity shielding and beneath that I would also employ a zonal plasma shielding. This way the protection is maximized while the ship can interact with the environment with minimal interference. The added benefit of this pairing is that this shield complex can be used in denser mediums because the gravity shield can keep away the medium from the plasma shielding.

[@chrisp6458]

Personally, I like Spartan shields. They have that side cutout so you can still stab the enemy.

[@nil981]

Shields in halo are based on Bose-einstein condensate being shaped and controlled by electromagnetic fields.

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

Ineffective in 🚀 space

[@chrisp6458]

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[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

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[@chrisp6458]

KZbin will not allow me to say the shortcut for semper fidelis.

[@dirkstarbuck6126]

Great stuff! This is where the channel excels. Thank you!

[@billmcgee6941]

I'm interested in learning more about gravitational shielding. I plan on writing a sci-fi story that has it, and I'm trying to imagine how it would work. Like, what would happen if something fast moving hit a gravitational shield? Would it bounce off? Shatter? And what about something slow moving? Would it be like touching something solid? Would it feel like a force pushing your hand away? If someone could suggest what would happen in these scenarios, I would appreciate it.

[@josiahketelsen1286]

when you through a ball up in the air, does it stop instantly? No, it slows to a stop and falls away. I would think that projectiles would also slow, likely slowing faster and faster until they either get through or stop and fall away, even the ones that to get through will do so at slower velocity, and might not do damage, but that would depend on the size and strength of the shield and speed of the projectile.

[@lillyanneserrelio2187]

This feels like college level material yet this is one class I'd love to take if I was still in school

[@jessecates7265]

Will you talk about directed energy weapons or plasma weapons like the Marauder project?

[@carlcox7332]

How would a magnetic field condense a vaporized metallic material though? Since metals stop being magnetic thousands of degrees before ever reaching the gas phase. Steel looses its magnetic properties before it even becomes a liquid

[@nickwalker4936]

First impressions, I like the idea of making use of energy shields, but I wouldn’t have guessed they’d be a thing, or if it did, magnetics would be more involved (like a magnetic field acting as a “net” or “bubble” to catch or deflect debris of projectiles). I’ll be a bit on the skeptical side for now and stick to my slanted armor or, if I have to, whipple shields.

[@asteronx]

Armour is pretty useless against particle beam or x-ray lasers, and as The Expanse demonstrates--even against railgun projectiles.

[@bluewavebluewave1600]

Very thought provoking. My geeky inner self however has a brain itch induced by your mentions of Star Wars when I think you meant Star Trek :D I guess it does apply to both "universes".. but still :D

[@asteronx]

@@bluewavebluewave1600 Yes it could apply to both, though the second mention, of angled projectors--definitely Star Wars ;)

[@nickwalker4936]

AsteronX to an extent, yes. I hear all the time that slanted armor helps with deflecting projectiles, and on the other end I hear it’s best to just not get hit because projectiles will just rip you to pieces. I usually fall under the middle ground and assume that they will hold for some time, but you’ll still get killed in the end if you don’t initiate GTFO or kill the enemy- as you’d see in something like Children of a Dead Earth. X-Ray lasers would be absolutely devastating for anything, but the big problem is actually getting them. Project Excalibur involved having automated x-ray laser devices that were bomb-pumped by a nuclear detonation. They’ll emit a powerful x-ray laser nearly immediately before being engulfed by the blast- this was meant to destroy nukes. These were the main weapons of the battleship “Michael” from the novel “Footfall.” It was an orion spacecraft so it made use of nukes, so you’d spurt the lasers out the back, they’d aim at the marked target, then you’d launch a pulse unit and detonate it, propelling the craft and firing the laser at the same time. Problem is, they’d be destroyed in the blast- and they ain’t cheap. For Non-bomb-pumped x-Ray lasers, you might need a device over a kilometer long, so I could imagine it either being mounted on some massive rocket, or be stored away as connected pieces and then “folded out” when the time is right. In the end, I focus on range. No need for armor whipple shields or energy shields when you can shoot first. Excellent video, guys!

[@asteronx]

@@nickwalker4936 Thank you :) As to the non-bomb-pumped x-ray lasers... Consider the recent advancements in plasma wakefield accelerators, laser or proton driven. And consider fusion and/or antimatter power, that changes things. Also, considering the kinetic energy of a railgun or any other mass drive projectile, a ship would probably need armour many feet thick. On this topic, you might find this site interesting: www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunconvent.php

[@DadJeff-jo7pm]

Very interesting. Thought provoking.

[@hintzofcolorconcepts]

Shields need to be developed before sending people beyond the magnetosphere. As energetic particles hit the hull out there, the hull would release enough x rays to cook astronauts without lead sheilding

[@ConCon05]

These shields do work for solid projectiles like bullets or missiles, right?

[@asteronx]

Yes, most the shields in this video would vaporize projectiles outright, while the grav-shield would instead deflect incoming projectiles.

[@donavanbangs]

many years ago i came up with a concept of using an ion stream as shielding based on my work with x rays anode and cathode. one in the front one in the back with a field to push the stream outward to envelop the ship. The stream would deflect most incoming particles or anything affected by matter like trying to poke a stick in fast-moving water. This would also have an added effect of propelling the ship forward and as the rear unit is bombarded by particles ( which it has to be to complete the circuit that could be directed back for propulsion or targeted in another direction like a vectored thrust. However, it should be used carefully as it would be a very powerful x-ray beam. You would need additional materials on long journeys but perhaps with breaks for asteroid harvesting on very long runs. The propulsion would work in a similar fashion to an ionic drive. I suppose a plasma field could be used to help deflect the ion stream but I am not well versed in plasma mechanics.

[@quoniam426]

Plasma shielding would be ideal for atmospheric reentries given our current level of technologies, push reentry plasma a little further from the ship to protect it from heat.

[@plinkbottle]

Quite good, suddenly the energy shields shown in old outer space movies, have real meaning. Basic essentials for preserving the health of humans travelling in outer space, by protecting them from radiation.

[@Loverboy-rc7pq]

In the first Karate Kid, Mr. Miyagi said the best way to take a punch is to NOT BE THERE. If we can get particles, space debris, energy to not actually impact us like "AIR AROUND A BOTTLE", flow around us and off into space, this would take a lot less energy than absorbing, deflecting or withstanding a direct hit.

[@asteronx]

You are absolutely correct, we have yet to figure out a means to do this. A gravitational shield is a good start, but would require great amounts of energy to start with.

[@phoenixx5092]

A super static charged plate can also deflect. Example, charge a non-metal (by rubbing it on fleece etc) rod and hold it below a narrow stream of water, it will deflect the water, apply a massive charge to a metal rod, and avoid contact with the ground, and it will also deflect things. Some of you may have done similar experiments in science class at some point.

[@JamesBartlett.]

Personally, I have to say we have no idea what we are going to come across, once we get into traveling the universe. So my thought is to use all the different kind of shield that are compatible, and use the one or ones best suited for what ever we come up against in our trek through space. (Being prepared for all contingencies and possibilities)!

[@asteronx]

Yes, that is the best option. In which case the starship's 'shield' will be less a solid wall per se, but more a combination of dozens of different kinds of sensors and protective devices.

[@LiLi-or2gm]

Kudos on the mention of Holtzman Field. I always liked Niven's "Langston" shields- hyper-absorbing systems that basically stored the incoming energy from weapons and radiated it away from the protected craft. And weren't the shields on Star Trek based on the Cochrane warp field equations? Also, EE Doc Smith had screens of "high order rays" in his Skylark series.

[@michaelfickel]

I just finished A Mote in God's Eye and the Gripping Hand again. Great read.

[@michaelcopper7635]

I would incorporate all of those shields, where I could switch to one or the other or use all at the same time if needed. But I know something like this would take a large ship, and primarily would be used as a defensive or offense of military battleship or even like a space Aircraft carrier. With fighter spacecraft that are lightweight I’m bored this large starship. And if possible the technology was there, I would equipment I would equip it with warp Propulsion.

[@johnspartan98]

The combination shield a.k.a Constellation Shield. In laymen's terms, the everything shield, or the whole nine yards shield.

[@asteronx]

Indeed, of course, the "whole nine-yards shield" has some... Let's say... "bugs" to work out.

[@KarrGalaxyStudios]

Awesome Video! In a previous video you mentioned photonic shield system when discussing warp drive which was virtually imperveous... how much different are these designs from that one, the practicality and how many years off do you think we are from each and finally what are all the effects these shield systems on the crews? I imagine the Anti-matter plasma shield you mentioned could have some downsides in terms of radiation to the crew and even material fatigue or containment issues relating to the ship itself.. thanks again for a very thought provoking video!

[@nil981]

My first choice of energy shield would be the ambient matter-antimatter energy shield. My version would be regional, adjustable, and held in place by magnetic fields so that the matter and antimatter components dont annihilate each other and produce intense gamma radiation. My shield would be able to open up windows in it for sensors, weaponry, escape pods, or for extravehicular activity. But I would also have a backup laser point defense system with layered composite armor that has a thick outer layer of metastable metallic hydrogen or helium with subsequent layers made of graphene aerogel, diamondoid/sapphiroid, and steel alloy.

[@asteronx]

That, would be a fairly durable ship. It's "ambiplasma" by the way ;)

[@nil981]

@@asteronx well, with a solar systems' worth or even a galaxy's worth of materials, armoring wouldnt be much of an issue. Heck, due to the famous square cube law, armor actually gets cheaper when you build bigger.

[@asteronx]

@@nil981 Not very nice to look at though ;) And actually, if an x-ray laser or particle beam can drill through a ship the long way, well, more armour won't do that much good.

[@nil981]

@@asteronx or use materials that are good at protecting against a certain wavelength of light or particles.

[@dominiccart8967]

@@nil981 exactly

[@TomMcD71]

The paragravitic with ambient plasma shields would be my shield of choice.

[@asteronx]

We agree, it's "ambiplasma" by the way, an older term for matter-antimatter plasma.

[@kennethsalyers3809]

the type of shields would depend on what your doing with them

[@RickyPonline]

Very interesting.. I've seen flying vehicles of your description from silver footballs to Disk Orbital array lighting.. For some reason I believe I'm part star child, "Hence the sightings" I've always felt disassociated and lost. Your video is very fascinating and enlightening.. Always been a big fan of Tesla and Schauberger. Magneto hydrodynamics etc. I like what you have to say. What is your background? Are you scientist? Curious? Passing a message? What you have to say has validity.. I dig it.. I've seen it.. Thank you for your channel..

[@anthonyho4688]

The problem with the gravit shield is that unless you have the gravity of a black hole bieng generated, which would kill you, the enemy could us by building a rail gun type weapon using gravity which could launch it with the force we’re repulsing it at. I like the quantum Field laser idea, but their forced apart with lasers so couldn’t the enemy bump them auround randomly until they anahilate against each other? Plus you can’t fire back with any of these shields since the would affect all object attempting to pass through. With the plasma shields could they use ablative rounds with a solid core like we do for space capsules? For now I remain skeptical, though I thought this video had good information.

[@asteronx]

The ambiplasma (matter-antimatter plasma) shield is metastable and continually being replenished. You could fire out of most kinds of plasma shield by using it as a plasma lens.

[@asteronx]

But yes, there are problems with gravitational shields.

[@williamtessier5449]

Just want to say i LOVE your channel! Keep up the great work and please say hello to the ET's helping you with this tech lol ; )

[@asteronx]

Yes... ET means entire team? Right? :)

[@richardcranium6081]

I wrote a sci fi series where the spaceships did have shield technology (Cosmic Secret). In the early 23rd century, military grade shields for battle cruisers are the most effective, capable of withstanding missile, laser and torpedo shots (for a short period of time). Eventually the shields will collapse and they are only activated when combat is imminent. This is due to the power drain on the secondary ship power systems. Naturally military ships have the strongest shield capabilities. Industrial and commercial ships have shields, primarily to protect them against wayward meteorites or asteroids. After a period of time, the shields will weaken and in some cases will only cushion the blow from a laser, missile or meteorite. Smaller, privately owned ships do have shields, however they are illegal for small civilian ships in most star systems and have industrial strength at best. Space pirates, space salvage companies and mercenaries have small ships that can carry at most 7 people comfortably. They have shields, enough to withstand ONE missile or one meteorite impact with minor to moderate external damage to the ship. After that, they have to rely on their external weapons system which is really no match against military ships with state of the art 23rd century firepower. Also, I mentioned in the stories too that shields are really only good for a few minutes before collapsing or draining their power reserves. Power restoration takes some time. Therefore, they have to use their weapons systems (lasers, torpedoes and missiles) to try and destroy the enemy ship, or disable it enough to send an elite boarding crew to take over and force the enemy to surrender.

[@americanrebel413]

WOW! What a challenge! I think deflection is more suitable for a starship then stopping an object, Whether it be a projectile, a rock i.e./asteroid, Or even a laser or particle beam, My personal opinion is deflection of some kind of course who am I, I know nothing! LOL!I I just think that deflection would be easier then stopping an object. Awesome video thank you.

[@jasonlisonbee]

Why not just use a front bumper from a 1970's heavy sedan?

[@americanrebel413]

@@jasonlisonbee LOL! Sounds like a Plan!

[@rezaganjizadeh4263]

So if the enemy has thick shields but a weak hull is there a chance a 16 inch ap shell can punch through? (With graphite coating)

[@jefferystrawn5210]

A plasma forcefield shield would be useful for atmospheric re-entery of earth atmosphere

[@asteronx]

Indeed, you should see our latest video on Magnetohydrodynamics ;)

[@geixiong5749]

Electromagnetic and plasmas shielding would be achieveable . I would use that . Actually , you just gave me an idea . I have been brain storming about the shield for my project for a while . My research on papers have been completed . Now , I just need funding to build the prototype . I also have an idea for a Electron Torpedo .

[@peterpalumbo1963]

Everyone talks about high speed and acceleration. What about a shield to protect the crew and cargo from this extreme acceleration, up to 100 g or more, an energy or gravity dampening field?

[@miken7629]

I was thinking a field in motion would deflect debris around the craft. A MHD rail type thruster positioned in bow of vessel and rails curve around the vessel to stern providing thrust. Debris caught in front of vessel as it proceeds through space would be deflected and become part of the mass generating thrust. A space jet.

[@James-fe7wd]

Where the heck did you find out all this stuff!?

[@timothynechville8326]

Very interesting, of course doing is harder than saying. They have real problems containing antimatter with any fields. What part of all that do you have up and running?

[@BigBearAce]

I love how the "original" idea is then referenced to the Dune shielding. Super original. Especially making a bomb part lol

[@cancelanime1507]

How would they be able to communicate though? What are the options?

[@cancelanime1507]

An answer would be appreciated, thanks!

[@robertlvincent681]

In the self-regenerating shield design, two questions:If it continues to be reinforced via by cosmic radiation, perhaps recursively, how do you turn it off?When you turn it off, what will you use to protect the ship from the gamma radiation and plasma when the positrons and electrons are recombined?

[@asteronx]

Cosmic rays would not provide enough energy to maintain the shield. So no worries ;)

[@lukapapez]

I would firstly spawn full shield all around the ship. Then I would spawn zone shields inside of that full ship shield. So if main shield fails there are still zone shields to protect the ship.

[@dondattaford7608]

Ship shielding is possible say you can contain a specific particle that reflects most other particles and have your particle reflector like a cocoon around your ship

[@VINAYKUMAR-fu8cj]

This what I am over thinking on so nice....

[@mmonnens]

Anyone else think about the "pin-point barrier" shielding on Robotech (Macross for the Anamie fans)? Also the overload of a full shield.

[@asteronx]

Is the "pin-point barrier" a kind of point defence then?

[@mmonnens]

@@asteronx think of a shield that only covers a limited area, but it can be moved to intercept incoming fire, if you can move it fast enough.

[@asteronx]

@@mmonnens Sure, that sound a lot like a real-life point defence shield--highly effective, if you can move it into place swiftly enough that is.

[@mmonnens]

@@asteronx Here is the Pin Point Barrer System in action. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJWll4WPfaisa80

[@VerisimilitudeDude]

The problem with that is, it wouldn't work for front shielding if the space ship was travelling at super high speeds because they wouldn't know where the projectiles were coming from next. There wouldn't be enough time to react, especially if there's a lot of debris at once.

[@tristanlockerbie928]

i think the asteron x shield could be a means of propulsion or actually vac um slip. the lasers rip the quanta and the hole left in the wake of the lasers or(this is the funny bit) vacuum lets the ship constantly fall into the hole. literally in any direction you want to point the hole.

[@matushonko7223]

interesting, however most forcefields would be unusable against basically any kind of conventional projectile (thus making them impractical in the expanse series) and a good old relativistic railgun shot would be usefull even against gravity shields

[@darnorkymitz2970]

I think the second sheild's bombardment would would direct photons backwards and thrust the ship in the forward direction, making the ship harder to hit as well.

[@asteronx]

You refer to the ambiplasma shield, correct? The shield would more absorb photons than reflect them, but this would still produce a back reaction, so it is something to consider, yes.

[@darnorkymitz2970]

@@asteronx so upon absorption, i understand that the field becomes excited because of the plasma state. have you considered the possibility of probing the field for exciton activity to obtain information about incoming photons?

[@asteronx]

@@darnorkymitz2970 That, is a distinct possibility, and yes, we have considered that. ;) Any bombardment of the shield does give you information about whatever is bombarding it.

[@LoungingBacon]

Are personal energy shields possible?

[@jessereiter328]

As a child I understood earth is a perfect example of a spaceship with a shield. we could not exist without this relationship!

[@DarksoldierX2]

Very awesome! Subscribed!

[@youdidwhatnow]

Your question about what shield to use.. I think the right answer is, the more the merrier. Having a multiple choice would be great for different situations

[@asteronx]

Very good point, a real-life "shield" will be a combination of many different kinds of shields, point-defence screens, and sensors. All with the purpose of protecting a space vessel from the dangers of space and against other hostile ships.

[@halburd1]

if you can connect the paradruvidic field procector to the mega simpleex flux capacitor that would fix the shield voltonic density field and everything will be great :)

[@jarredeagley1748]

Did you switch to using Eevee over Blender Internal? Your renders are looking significantly nicer

[@asteronx]

That we did, Eevee is quite remarkable.

[@jarredeagley1748]

Cool! Whoever is responsible for the renders has done a good job of placing reflection and light probes. The renders look as though they were done in Cycles most of the time!

[@asteronx]

@@jarredeagley1748 Thank you! It has been a long time coming to get to where we are now. Sometimes we look out our older renders and cringe (particularly renders from before we started making videos).

[@TheRenegadeMonk]

How effective would these shields be vs projectiles or explosive weapons?

[@gwynevans6088]

Are there any theoretical shields that could stop a pilot of a craft experiencing G-Force through the high acceleration moment, does anybody know?

[@dr.plague6897]

I really liked this video. If I were to build an energy shield that blocks scalar beams where would I start? Tesla managed to figure out how to manipulate scalar energy into a dome shaped shield but I am unable to find any more information on this device. thanks

[@mylesdaysog2127]

Is there a way to make the AsteronX Plasma Shield Design work inside an atmosphere?

[@barrybretz6073]

Maybe a shield around a laser is how you get the laser sword.

[@asteronx]

It is many, many, lasers firing in all directions. But yes, maybe one could make a "ray sword" with something like this ;)

[@nil981]

@@asteronx apparently photonic matter could be created and shaped by Bose-einstein condenses and em fields we could potentially create sci-fi style energy shields.

[@darkideas2088]

Very cool! Thank you for the hard work. One correction. You mean the other star story. Star trek had shields for ship, cargo holds, fighter bay's and emergency shields for ship hull leak. Star wars only had shields for the cargo hold and fighter bay's. Out side you made your self into star jerk. I have to say thanks for the foot hold of info for people can leap off on

[@l.clevelandmajor9931]

It seems to me that some type of combination would be the best choice of energy shielding. The drawback of this approach would however be likely to require large amounts of energy to maintain indefinitely. I must also point out that a lot of what is being said here is theoretical, meaning that at least some of it might be possible, but none of it is completely confirmed as being fully effective. I do think that you are on the right track though.

[@asteronx]

A starship must manage an energy output sufficient to maintain a shield, or else endure the severe mass penalty of physical armour. And yes, it is hypothetical, everything begins as hypotheses.

[@gem_femboy6761]

Hello I was wondering if energy shields could protect us from lava/ toxic ash in the air please let me know.

[@chuck3982]

Could we theoretically create an energy shield that can absorb or reflect explosions created by nuclear weapons, especially if said weapons were hypersonic? Just a question

[@guytech7310]

Impractical because every watt of power used to produce the plasma must be radiated away. Any active plasma shield is going to produce a lot of heat and this going to accumulate in the ship until its turned off. In the case of Laser induced virtual particle pairs (matter & anti matter) its going to produce a lot of gamma radiation which is going to kill off any occupants in the ship.Plasma shields would also be producing a very bright beacon that enemy ships could use to target, Weapons could include a magnetic pulse just prior to the warhead detention which would disperse the plasma protecting the ship.

[@davisgreen2099]

Are you not talking about spaceship shields from STAR TREK not Star Wars? Very exciting development making shields from the realm of Sci-fi to Science fact! This is why I love Sci-fi films and books!

[@jar-jarnotbinks7685]

star wars ship has shielding as well, they even went as far as developing personal shielding during the old republic, and some droids do have shielding (destroyer droid) (reference : KOTOR) however the personal shield tech has been dropped out due to blaster yield improving faster than shields.

[@asteronx]

We meant Star Wars in this case, as their "deflectors" can be angled in different directions--a prime example of a zonal shield. Star Trek on the other hand, utilizes complete/full-enclosure shields.

[@Idazmi7]

@@asteronx Star Trek actually uses separate shields: you can both hear the different shields referred to in dialogue and see the separate shields individually accounted for on the status displays. _"Damage to deflector number four"_ and so on.

[@Mezcon2]

Hey, is that the MCRN Donnager? Thanks for including that in this video!

[@asteronx]

It is! And you're welcome.

[@221b-l3t]

But Donnager comes from a universe distinctly lacking energy weapons and shields. They use guided missiles, railguns and nukes. And metal for shielding.

[@martinwilliams9866]

Longitudinal pulses of increasing amplitudes can be designed so the later higher amplitude pulses catch up with each other at a predetermined distance, as larger pulses travel faster than smaller ones.

[@gglobot]

why not using a distortion shield ? it requires a lot of energy but it is basically the same as the distortion engine so nothing should be able to penetrate this kind of shielding as long as the ship is moving in the distortion. the ship won't be able to fight, but it is a fairly good way of safely travel through space.. Plus it is not really complicate to build, we just don't have the generator to power it on for a space ship, but it will come sooner or later.

[@kmyase1]

What about a blanket of focused laser beams near/far away from the ship and pulsing that beam with directed electrokinetic field at a certain frequency. The beam can be used as excited particles for the electromagnetic field to generate particle expansion similar to the sonic boom.

[@asteronx]

In a kind of sorta way this is how 'point defense' systems function.

[@quacksackerthegreatstarfir6996]

FTL is everyone's dream but if the first little pebble sized piece of cosmic debris hits your ship at that speed the trip is over. And the there's all that weird radiation. Shields and artificial gravity first

[@asteronx]

It's worse than that, if a pebble hits a ship at 70% of the speed of the light, it's like an antimatter explosion. The kinetic energy of something travelling that fast (relative to the ship) equals its rest mass.

[@Tounushi]

I have three shield types in my setting: plasma sheath for atmospheric entry and flight, an energy shell around a ship and further-projected "plates" of compressed space-time, which can be stacked like lenses. The effect of the last would be lensing an energy beam away from the target and to shred incoming projectiles. Furthermore, armor would have a magnetic field to spread out charged particle beams or pulses.

[@asteronx]

Must be highly energy intensive, what is the energy source in your setting? And a small correction: spacetime cannot be compressed, only curved.

[@Tounushi]

@@asteronx Terms aside, whatever is done to the space preceding a ship while using an Alcubierre drive. On the power sources, depends on the ship size (as would the availability of shield types). Fusion reactors (stacked aneutronic stellators with direct energy capture, mostly); m/am annihilation cores with the antiprotons produced in vast clouds of automated satellites around stars; kugelblitz black holes (also serve as hazardous waste disposal); and something I like to call knot reactors. The last ones are purely sci-fi with no hardness as far as I can tell, but there's enough wiggle room for the technobabble. Basically it consists of a "pure" vacuum sphere (as much as pure vacuum can be achieved even without factoring virtual particles) with pairs of emitters on the inside surface, which project an artificial String between each instance in a pair. The emitter pairs move in such a way that the Strings start knotting in the center and start feeding back into the emitters. The knot itself could be described as a naked singularity with a lot of associated weirdness, the least of which is seemingly free, untapped energy. There is no actual structure to the knot, as there would be with a representation with yarns, since the 3D structure of the knot's volume collapses back into 1/infinity. This collapse is the primary energy source in the feedback. And it can be regulated with the pattern of the "knotting" emitters and the speed at which they move. As a precaution, the power feed to the mechanisms that move the emitters are separated from the feedback collection systems, so the reactor doesn't simply go into a feedback loop.

[@asteronx]

@@Tounushi Quite an interesting and creative energy source.

[@cynthiaayers7696]

Question. How do you thrust forward with full Shields surrounding the ship. Example. Having holes that go around engine thrust ports makes them weak spots. And having The Shields cover the thrust ports cannot get out if nothing can get in.

[@asteronx]

The shields make good nozzles, so your "engine" will be partially outside the shield.

[@cynthiaayers7696]

@@asteronx example. You're above a planet that is exploding, now you don't have time for thrusters, Shields first. But you still need to move the ship because some big rock is headed your way. So how do you move if your thrusting against your own Shields that are protecting the very engines that are being threatened by the planet debris From Below? Or for that matter any matter that is going faster than the ship- could fly up its backside. I see like the ship in a bottle. It can't go anywhere except inside the bottle. The bottle is the shields.

[@asteronx]

@@cynthiaayers7696 A rocket engine must be protected from the fury of the reaction within, using a plasma shield with a fusion rocket is no different. Yes, the shield does need to be rearranged to work as a rocket nozzle, namely, reshaped into a nozzle shape (chamber > constriction > expansion)

[@cynthiaayers7696]

@@asteronx thank you for getting back to me in answering my questions.

[@asteronx]

@@cynthiaayers7696 You're welcome. We do our best to reply to comments--and there's a lot of them.

[@jirachaipanyarith3969]

Really very interesting ! I hope human can build higher technology of space craft in nearly future.Thanks for new technology information .I'll keep watching this chanel for sure.

[@jefferystrawn5210]

Asteroid shielding would also be nice

[@novoscorp7275]

I can see polarized hull plating to slow incoming projectiles and low energy point defense lasers to scramble missle/projectile guidance systems being practicle by 2150. BTW. Can see propulsion to 10 percent lightspeed as early as 2070.

[@Wilge_Zomer]

could these things be used for the bfr or starship future versions? just as a protection against solar reys from our sun

[@larrydeavenport469]

I have experimented with electrostatic fields from a Van De Graff and Tesla Coils generators It seems that the higher the voltages are that there is a more noticeably stronger electrostatic field present. To some limited degree this could be used as a shied to envelope an aircraft at high speeds.

[@Todd.P]

I think you meant "like on Star Trek" (not Star Wars). While it is assumed that ships on Star Wars probably use shields of some sort, it is Star Trek that refers to them in every episode where there is starship combat (I don't recall them ever being mentioned on screen in Star Wars). Star Trek ships use both "complete shields" and "zonal shields".

[@asteronx]

We did indeed mean Star Wars in this case, specifically referring to where they "angle their deflector arrays". Ultimately the Star Trek-style complete shields are preferable.

[@EnraEnerato]

Is that a "Perry Rhodan" Sphere Spaceship (Kugelraumer) at ~1:20 ? Yeah it's a sphere with a "Ringwulst" around it's aquator, definately Terran or Arkonide design!

[@asteronx]

Glad someone noticed! But actually, the design is a very good one for warp drive starships. The safe or habitable zone of a warp drive is a spherical region inside the warp torus--the Ringwulst ;) why not take full advantage of all the volume available?

[@EnraEnerato]

@@asteronx That's axactly what I read in one of the older magazines (?). A sphere offers most volume per surface, it can't get more efficient than that, so why would anyone ever change it? Don't remember which character said that but they woke up from cold-sleep and knew of the lemurians.

[@asteronx]

@@EnraEnerato We have not yet read Perry Rhodan directly, but we have scoured the Perrypedia ;) Yes, a sphere is the most efficient shape when the primary concern is minimizing mass. Early on (such as before grav-control, or when such tech is immature), structural concerns will probably force more conventionally rocket-shaped vehicles. Not like the rockets we know today however! More like flying skyscrapers. And for surface area, nothing beats a disc! We noticed that Perry Rhodan has a few of those as well.

[@EnraEnerato]

@@asteronx The Fantan and some other species have so callled "Walzenraumer" (drum spaceships?) basically a cylinder with halfspheres on both ends rounding them. And then there is the weird ones though they usually only appeared in some story arcs of the old Perry Rhodan magazines. Haven't read PR-Neo beyond issue 40 yet so I don't realy know what they will keep and what they will change. Funny thing is when my stepfather was young his father told him not to read those trash storries to often (Perry Rhodan mostly) and he said things like how a man on the moon was something that wouldn't happen ever. Than th US did exactly that and he acknoledged maybe not all of it was that made up.

[@asteronx]

​@@EnraEnerato Yes, science fiction seems just that: fiction, until it happens. Except for our earliest years, most spacecraft of the near, and more distant future will be relatively smooth, for reasons of minimizing mass: especially if a ship is to have enough shielding to make it safe even during the worst solar storm. It may be possible to make space travel safe against the usual radiation of space, safe enough to eliminate the risk of Alzheimer's anyway, but should a solar storm, or something unexpected hit, then the crew would be forced to cower inside a small heavily shielded safe room. And as to spacesuits: for the time being, EVAs will probably have to be limited to orbit, planetary surfaces, or during low-radiation periods in interplanetary space. Packing enough physical shielding on a suit is basically impossible, so a suit must rely on active shielding, but again, the small size of the suit prohibits really comprehensive shielding.

[@LabrnMystic]

So what would this mean for weapons? Can such dense or gravity Shields fully prevent conventional weaponry? Ballistics would have their kinetic energy absorbed or the rounds would just vaporize in the plasma? Missiles or bombs have their explosions melt into the shield? Change things to all energy weapons just to combat these shields? What would an EMP or pinch do to such shields? Generate weaponry that creates miniature black holes to absorb the energy of the shields to bring them down?

[@IvanTuroc]

oh my god I tried so hard to wrap my head around what this guy said. I could not understand it. But mu hat off to the creators of the future