Statites & Quasites

[@exoplanets]

I love the uniqueness of this channel !!

[@cassgraham7058]

I love the idea, and have ever since I learned about it from Isaac Arthur in 2017.

[@bigdumpz]

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[@aaronmoore1238]

Very good idea! This channel is criminally underrated.

[@philofblood855]

wow you actually found the right word!

[@yasnac7576]

I think it's because he has too much math in his presentations. Math makes people's head explode 🤣

[@davidkennedy8929]

@@yasnac7576 I agree, I love the space education but find the maths a bit difficult to understand! Maybe I’m just stupid!

[@koloskantor]

Besides all the positive comments everyone else have already left, can I just highlight how I appreciate the carefully noted Reference section? This is how you know you are dealing with real science. #noplagiarism Thank you Professor! Please keep up the good work, commoners like me really do appreciate the access to this sort of content.

[@flexyco]

Wonderful reply!

[@BeckettBehel]

I'm a rising freshman physics major looking to pursue astrophysics, and your channel is one of the best things I've discovered on this site. Too many educational channels seem to parrot the same concepts, but I love how you and the others at Cool Worlds not only find obscure things to talk about, but also research new things. Absolutely insane. Keep it up

[@blankblank2370]

How are you doing now?

[@md123180]

PLEASE always show the math in future videos. I was already really interested in your videos, but now that you showed the math involved, I'm hooked. It's too bad I can't subscribe a second time.

[@tysonelijahhill575]

Dave C agreed. Please continue to show the math as you did in this video.

[@jeffin8029]

i suck at maths.

[@robertsheerin4902]

Literally my favorite channel on this website

[@TitaniumHydra]

Material science bachelor from austria here. Discovered this channel very recently and i really love it. Motivates me to grab for bigger goals in humanitys sake, thank you so much. ps. im sry for any spelling or grammer mistakes i made haha

[@CoolWorldsLab]

Hello to Austria! Beautiful country

[@mikip3242]

These videos are so awesome and so underrated. I've been watching this channel since the first month it came out. Such a fantastic outreach project! Congratulations David and the rest of the team.

[@CoolWorldsLab]

Hi Miki! Yes I absolutely remember your handle from the early days! Thanks so being on this journey with us so long, I’m excited about the future here

[@NoPulseForRussians]

You sir, should launch a Patreon. I would be more than willing to support your work. And my family and I appreciate the great content on your channel. keep it up 👍

[@ChicagoRobotCombat]

I too would donate.

[@prototropo]

In case you both don’t already know, Dr. Kipping has set up a support fund. I send a bit each month because, like you, I think his work is so meaningful, his enthusiasm for bringing us along is entrancing, and it’s so rare to find such a dynamo of authenticity today.

[@Wazupeth]

Hi David. Thank you for taking the time to make your vids and upload them here on YT. I recently(about a week ago) found Cool Worlds and immidiately subscribed thanks to the mesmerizing "Journey to the end of the universe". I now cought up to the channel, watched and liked every previous vid and all I can say is WOW!! The way you can explain and communicate mindbending concepts is fantastic. Your calm voice and demeanor helps with that as well ;) I always loved space and wanted to be an astrophysicist, but somehow I deviated from that path. That magic and curiosity never left my heart/mind though, so channels like yours are what I "waste" my time in internet on :D So again a big THANK YOU for making the time to show us all the "amazingness" of the universe. Thanks to all your guests and co-workers for their time and knowledge. And a big congratulations on all the discoveries, past and future. I wish you all more cool worlds to discover, more subscribers and more videos, so we can all learn from you every now and then. Cheers and greetings from the birthplace of Heliocentrism :) Until the next video, stay thoughtful and stay curious.

[@CoolWorldsLab]

Kamil Poncki so wonderful to hear - thanks for your kind words!

[@THX..1138]

WOW! You've basically just invented a synthetic Sun/fill in the blank Lagrangian point. I don't know if the Halo Drive will ever be built before we figure out warp drive or something, but I'd put the odds at about 100% the Kipping Quasite will end up in space, probably in our lifetimes...Very cool!

[@toddsmash]

So glad i found your channel. Keep it coming. My wife and I sit here after and blow each others minds with the topics. Its awesome!!!

[@pled8395]

Unbelievable, how do you do this? Video after video is topnotch quality content and those 17 minutes feel like only 2-3 minutes. Insanely interesting content.

[@metametodo]

I really really like how putting this video together for us instigated you to make a short research paper on detecting quasites. This is one of those marvellous moments, when explaining and doing things for others helps yourself not only in understanding better the subject, but also bringing ideas and wanting to explore further.

[@tickletoot7806]

my favorite thing about this channel isn’t that you go into great detail on advanced subjects, but you are the one coming up with the subjects

[@gregurbanek186]

You have been blessed with a gift. Thank you for taking the time to share it. Great stuff!

[@leonardovargas4489]

Thank you Professor for taking the time to share your knowledge. Your channel is among the best science channels on the internet.

[@kunneman]

My first video of this channel was "Why me might be alone in the universe" and since then I am hooked! I think you're doing a terrific job including all the people who are involved! I've watched the last couple of videos like 20 times because they are very well made. I'm hooked!❤️

[@CoolWorldsLab]

Schmoo thanks for joining Cool Worlds!

[@RonioFOX]

Same

[@Maestro4862]

I discovered your channel about a month ago and I just want you to know I really, really enjoy your content. You definitely have a gift for presentation and you have my attention from beginning to end! Thanks so much!

[@mykobe981]

Check out his interview from a couple months ago on the channel Event Horizon. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4q7eWeofZaGra8

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@@mykobe981 hmm I never got a notification to your comment. Thanks, I'll check it out!

[@ArcherAC3]

You have no idea how thankful I am for this channel, it's amazing (for the lack of a better word) the passion you show and the love to share all of this info with us - and almost wrong for it to be free. THIS is exactly the type of content that should be trending on KZbin! I always finish these videos with an unavoidable smile and hopeful for the future of space exploration!

[@AntinKalliMason]

I love cool worlds even if it ruined by dreams of exploring the universe. You've done such an amazing job explaining this that even a person a person who is just interested slightly in this stuff can understand it. Thank you Prof.

[@LEDewey_MD]

All I can say is.....WOW. Lots of food for creative thought!! Thanks for sharing this info and your ideas!

[@daydreamerprod]

Awe, first David thank You (all) again, the enthusiasm alone leaves me with so much inspiration. I have So many things on my mind; Geo & Helio Statites, Quasites & Techno Signatures! Also good looking out reminding us the of the solar cell programs, I had personally completely forgot about solar push. Too cool to read a number of articles (seconds after) about JAXA & IKAROS progress and the varying inter related missions ahead for those teams. All too cool; immediately brings to mind Oumuamua! I see your talking space mining applications for all those listening.. Love that you wrote a paper! Cant wait to catch up on other videos. Health & Prosperity, EveryOne.

[@wadewilson9023]

An article about Oumuamua brought me here how odd.

[@alanwhite3154]

I think you are a goldmine for sci-fi writers.

[@CoolWorldsLab]

and they're a gold mine for scientists!

[@V01DG0D]

you mean to tell me that science is a good source for science fiction? no way!

[@yahccs1]

@@CoolWorldsLab Sci-fi (and astronomy text books) got me loving science, and science makes me want to write sci-fi stories... if I can think of things that are scientifically plausible enough to make sense! But my English is not good enough to be a proper writer... or it will just take a very long time!! (I'm still working on the story I had in mind when I was at school in the late 1980s!)

[@mikefoylan6612]

One of the best channels on KZbin for expanding your mind, outlook and wonder. Thank you Sir!

[@robydee920]

I love your passion for physics and space and also you're great narrator. Greetings from Croatia to You and all of your subscribers.

[@CoolWorldsLab]

Love to Croatia (your football team is a worthy adversary for England!)

[@ButterflyAngle12]

Cool Worlds is the best You Tube channel available

[@MaddEndd]

Against the trend of going faster and faster we now want to build a quasi static object. Considering that cubesats become cheaper and cheaper there is a serious chance that a university could build a "Quasite", with a bit of help. And then you try to stear it with sails so you need no propellants.

[@88888888tiago]

Just leaving a comment to help your video with the algorithm. Very good video.

[@AlbertWillHelmWestings2618]

I really, REALLY LOVET HIS CHANNEL!!! I love how it get my brain going and just thinking of all these ideas he's brought up over this video with Statites and Quastites, makes my brain feel good being able to understand and go further on differing ideas for these technologies.

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Best Channel on KZbin.

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[@UltraOmega-cj7yz]

I've been following this channel for the last month and a bit. I'm not a researcher or a mathematician (I understand process but numbers are a touch off for me) but I am a space and physics enthusiast. These videos have been fantastic and I find the equations are explained in a way that makes sense (if not, some) to someone like me. I'm loving seeing what's at the forefront of the advances in thinking and discovery; how we can better our advancement and understanding of the universe. Big thanks, all the best to your work and keep these videos coming! :)

[@ethansmith5560]

i love videos like this. they calm me down and i like to fall asleep listening to them which is weird. i end up rewatching them the next morning though lol. they are also really fun to imagine. i think my favorite video of yours that ive seen so far is the halo drive. ive thought about that one a lot.

[@davidturpin9135]

Sufficiently large quasites could be used for geoengineering or even terraforming. Make the solar sail material opaque to infrared light and it becomes "easy" to cool down a hot planet. You could theoretically cool Venus down enough to cause the atmosphere to condense as a first stage towards terraforming that hellhole of a world.

[@justinkruger]

David Turpin yeah I was watching Isaasc Arthur’s channel and reading Wikipedia, and at L1 you would need a sun shield 4x the diameter of Venus, but if you can use Quasites I wonder how small you could make a star shield that can cool Venus.

[@matfax]

You could not only "terraform" other planets. It could even partially stop global warming. A quasite right between the earth and the sun that is large enough can block the right amount of light to control the earth's temperature. Carbon dioxide has other issues though, so it doesn't fully solve the climate change. But it can give us more time at a reasonable price. The sails don't even require high loads.

[@jonadams8841]

Read 2312.

[@andyhug90]

I love the effort you put in sourcing your information. Subbed!

[@andyhug90]

wut, just 6000 views and i got this suggested?! The algorithm is finally working i guess..

[@saeedeev2042]

This channel is an academic research generator..i love it

[@nagazaki2596]

You are absolutely amazing man I wish this world had more brains like yours

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Cant believe It took so long to accidentally find this channel.....among thE very best of its kind imo.

[@The_Byzantine_Ottoman]

I am so pleased I found this channel. Thank you for all the work you do, and sharing all this fascinating information with us!

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You have 62k subs now wow. Been here since 30 🔥🔥🔥

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69k Nice

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Tristan McCarthy 70k now yeah

[@PuckLokin]

One of the first things I thought of about this and the terrascope was the idea of a pusher laser! Say you wanted to push tiny spacecraft up to very high speeds (project Star Shot), you use the sun's upper atmosphere as a lasing medium (stellaser - stolen from Isaac Arthur) which you reflect into quasite who's orbit mirrors the desired escape trajectory of your interstellar probe on the opposite side of the sun, the quasite focuses the laser into a halo around the sun, lensing it to focus down into a beam which the probe rides out of the system. Provides very high levels of focus for very long duration accelerations. Not so good for the initial in-system kick, but FANTASTIC for the long haul.

[@Metaldetectiontubeworldwide]

A goldnugget of a video as always ... What suprised me is that we can spot a transitting starsail in front of an alien star 🤯...what sensitivity!!

[@CoolWorldsLab]

Well it would have either be big or many of them given current telescopes, but yes in principle it’s possible

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You are absolutely brilliant at making these complex ideas accessible. I commend you!

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Extra points for referencing Bob Forward. I would encourage anyone who's never read his books to dive in.

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Love it! One day this channel will be massive

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no wonder youre a professor pretty insightful proffessin. love your channel. love life for having people like you in it. hope the younger gen gets it..

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These cool worlds videos are absolute brain food!!

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So glad i found this channel, super interesting.

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Do love the way you think and equally the way you explain - great mind exercise. Also excellent graphics. Thank you.

[@cjhackerz]

As kid I grew up watching Stephen hawking's special and into the universe show on Discovery channel and always had curiosity in knowing how our universe works in first place. And i loved all physics classes from high school, I used to hold discussions on black holes and various ways of time travel with my friends. Astro physics have special place in my heart and always like to know more about it because it always exciting to know as it provides amazing solutions to progress and expand humanity far beyond in space. Years passed by and same curiosity shifted towards knowing how computers works inorder to find flaws in them, bcz of the poor education system of mine it never allowed me to dig any deeper into APH and lack of practical knowledge in maths was hindrance otherwise i could have choose it as my career but no regrets on where i am. On sunny day KZbin recommends me cool worlds channel which brings me those amazing childhood memories back and again my curiosity to know Astro physics ignites and lits bright fire of curiosity in my heart. Thank you so much for your amazing quality content, keep on going people needs to have all of these knowledge for progress of humanity.

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Underrated channel indeed

[@demilishing]

Throughout my degree in university I had 2 electives, I took astronomy for both of them haha. When you talked about how the light will be blocked I think I can remember how to visualize it! Going to read your paper! Great video :)

[@Junon15]

One of the only videos on youtube that I wish I could like more than once!

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Your channel is absolutely awesome.

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This channel is incredible. 🤯

[@drreason2927]

That presentation was fascinating. Very impressive ideas and concepts that seem to have very plausible enactments.

[@runningman5871]

Really nice video. Lots of ideas to ponder.

[@ButterflyAngle12]

I cant stop watching these videos ever since i discovered Cool Worlds!

[@tmzwcky]

Really interesting video! So for the "quasite" concept it seems like rather than manipulating the mass or reflectivity of the sail material, you could adjust the incident angle of all or part of the sail, which would also generate the sideways thrust needed to create your desired oribtal speed...

[@CoolWorldsLab]

Yes you could probably use light and mirrors to modify your orbit

[@starshipenterprises4356]

Another great vid. Food for my mind!

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Amazing, insightful, and knowledgeable videos like this are hidden gems. It amazes me that a horrible, bastardized English Snapchat rant that Cardie B. uploads will trend #1, while thought provoking content like this isn't shown at all.

[@michaelwensley]

We presently live in a crazy mixed up world. I hope tommorow's world is predicated on the same curiosity, ingenuity, and hard realism exemplified by this channel. Hard truth need not be cold. Thank you, David.

[@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE]

This channel is really cool.

[@lamar5665]

I always enjoy your instruction, and passion for sharing science. Your background music should be downloadable, would be great for nap music. I have to say i have never been sleepy and excited at the same time until seeing your videos...HEHE. Keep up the good work!

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Keep up this type of content! Love to see science like this

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Awesome channel! A youtube video binge is a dead cert.

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Insert great comment here: YOU'RE AWESOME! And you're probably the most handsome astronomy geek/teacher/master I've seen so far. Thanks for all the amazing content

[@mykobe981]

"Insert great comment here:" I know exactly what you mean. His videos are so amazing, it's hard to come up with a comment that does them justice.

[@stephenmneedham]

Professor Kipping keeps blowing me away.

[@stevencoardvenice]

Another cool idea with this "quasite" thing. As with the "halo drive" from a couple months ago, you have a knack for naming these technologies. You have a career in advertising and marketing if you get tired of astrophysics!

[@smarajitdwan3445]

Thank you sir, love the way you explain... I wish we could get more from you.

[@colineckstrand271]

Excellent info David, thank you!

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You're breathtaking!

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I love you and all of your information.

[@Connor.Macleod]

David, I find it amazing that you haven't been awarded a Nobel Prize yet.

[@firestarter923]

Thank you for another amazing topic! Really hooked to this channel, your explanations and insights about how you come up with your research topics are amazing (and you promote out of the box thinking, which I think is great as a scientist). If developing this kind of ideas leads to new "technosigns".. wouldn't it be a common sense idea to compile the detection patterns (after refining possible technologies and deriving possible patterns) and retro-actively apply them to previously recorded data and see if they match somewhere? Damn, this actually is getting me curious about how to build large-scale physical simulations and test setups. You're onto something for sure :)

[@Coachnickhawley1]

Thank you for the very thoughtful video

[@evgenigeorgiev7952]

Amazing concept. Keep going.

[@nobiggeridiot]

I'm curious about the light sail projects? Is there no turbulence in space from ejected particles from the sun, or other sources that would compete with the light pressure from the sun ? Is the light pressure uniform and consistent enough ? Thank you so much for the wonderful videos !

[@mykobe981]

I thought the same thing. I'm sure it would require some amount of correction occasionally. This could probably be easily achieved using a fraction of the light hitting it to generate electricity to power a small ion drive.

[@kevinwalker2529]

Thanks for the video. It was very interesting and informative.

[@veritas41photo]

This narrator is excellent!

[@MrAsificare]

Brilliant. Thank you so much for your work.

[@sririshi5134]

this deserves way more likes and comments. i love this channel.

[@francepiffa]

So well explained and such good ideas!

[@smith24117]

It is inspiration that moves humanity up the ladder.

[@Dragrath1]

Fascinating concept I never even considered such an application but in hindsight it seems obvious given light sails are possible

[@promerops]

Absolutely marvelous!

[@Dave0zz]

AMAZING video!

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Did he say “cool worlders”? Full blown KZbin channel now lol Great vid by the way!

[@CoolWorldsLab]

Juan R. there’s off-worlders and then there’s cool worlders

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Your a Unique-worlder!

[@aivokallo77]

KZbin captioning translates "cool welders". In one other video, David's greeting gives "hey koalas" :D Joking aside, Cool Worlds is certainly my most watched channel for the last two months.

[@3revos503]

I love science... so I love your videos

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It's amazing what youtube can do. I feel like i'd need to be at caimbridge or oxford only 20 years ago to get intellectual content such as this.

[@marcelosinico]

I just found your channel. And you just got a subscriber. Great work!

[@carterpochynok4874]

A Quasite fleet would make an absolutely amazing means of transmitting signals throughout the solar system more efficiently. Send one to a moon-like orbit, an asteroid belt-like orbit, a kuiper-like orbit and a Venus-like orbit. Then you have the prototype for a sort of "stellar internet" you could use to significantly reduce the time it takes to send images from the outer solar system as well as increasing the data bandwidth possible. Then, launch a giant Lazer into orbit near one of the Lagrange points and use a combination of a hall effect thruster and the photonic sails that these Quasites would already be to propel them into their desired orbits using small boosters and the hall effect thruster to align them properly. Then use that Lagrange Lazer and hall effect combo system to power a whole array of probes throughout the solar system. You could even make the basic probe design/flight control code open-source with a set of principles for designing modifications and specialty components so that universities and even high school robotics teams could operate their own space probes and design their own missions. An open-source space exploration program is a big dream of mine, if you can't tell. I think it'd be great for increasing public interest in science and producing a whole lot more viable data so we could learn about our universe exponentially faster.

[@usptact]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing!

[@yohannesgemechu8854]

Great insight, Professor!

[@offtheball87]

I just recently came across your channel but I really love what you put out. I really hope your channel grows to a point worthy of the quality of your videos. With regards to inclined statites, I wonder how they would deal with being eclipsed by the Earth. It seems to me that each day, for a little under half of it, they'd begin falling (or rising) across the equatorial plane. I could envision pairs of twins which switch positions, folding up their reflective surfaces to make up for the fact that they don't quite get through half an orbit in the Earth's shadow, then deploying them again to maintain their position throughout the day. I think it'd also be possible to have inclined quasites if you angle the reflective surface appropriately towards the ecliptic and thin it out. This could be useful as the first steps in a full-surface solar monitoring network, cutting down on the need for relays from the distant side of the sun.

[@olemuell5979]

you do always such great videos!!

[@jerrylarch6556]

Then actually they are all quasites since everything is in motion in relation to everything else. Even if in static orbit around the sun, the entire solar system is in motion within the galaxy, etc. etc. These vids are so great! Love these concepts! Keeps expanding my mind. I'm always amazed at how much more I enjoy learning now than I did in my school years!

[@6tyNine123]

Just here to help... Love your videos and thank you