Elon Musk Reveals New Plan For Interstellar Travel!

Starship stands to interstellar travel, like hot air balloons to a modern fighter jet.

Actually, I listened to some biologists. They say to ensure generic diversity we need at least 10,000 people in a colony.

Trips to Mars are currently NOT when Earth and Mars are "closest" as stated in the video. It is when Earth and Mars will be lined up for a minimum energy Hohmann transfer orbit, which is an elliptical solar orbit that has a maximum distance from the sun at the orbit of Mars.

No one is going to colonize space without us producing a space craft that is very very large. And at least a nuclear propulsion system. All else is pie in the sky. Probably also able to create artificial gravity inside the space craft.

If I ever get out to space, I don't really care if my journey ends there. I'll have witnessed the greatest sights ever known to man

3:40 I always found it dumb how people say that things like quadrillions of dollars are in an asteroid as if somehow prices of rare metals wouldn't crash as soon as the technology to mine and return metals from asteroids was proven. Supply and demand dictate that if we increase the supply of gold and platinum and iron, et al, (barring some DeBeers diamond cartel situation) then the prices of metal will become so cheap that the money in these asteroids will immediately be lowered by a titanic margin. In the same vein we better start aggressively protecting our forests more because wood will be more valuable than gold as soon as we starting mining asteroids.

a rooster, duck, and a sheep were the first hot air balloon passengers in 1783 in France. The de Havilland Comet was the first commercial jet airliner to carry passengers, debuting in 1952. Just a matter of time.

THE GALAXY????

I was one of those people commenting about your colleague sounding like AI earlier. I recently watched one of the Tesla videos he made. I’ve adjusted and like his narration a bit more now. One key reason I like your voice more is the way you pause, especially through the first 48s of this video. Your copy is well done, the pause lets it sink it more and demonstrates a calmness duration narration.

Did some reading on the Alcubierre "Warp" Drive. While physicists agree it's achievable within the realm of known physics and possibility, it only takes the energy of a Neutron Star to power it. Anyone got one of those handy ? 🤔

Traveling these extremely vast distances with no gravity ( even a rotating attempt) wouldn't be feasible for multi generational humans.

Earth is the best ship we’ll ever have. We are going places here too.

Its all a pipe dream, (for now). Looking at least 50 years away. We just have to focus on the Moon, and Mars. Thanks for the episode.

What idea that I think is often neglected is laser propulsion. Facilities on an airless body like the moon could use locally generated power to operate arrays of lasers. These lasers are then focused on a highly reflective, and huge, parachute. Light has momentum, and gigawatts of light has quite a lot of momentum. The more of these facilities along a route, the more they can accelerate interstellar ships. Those ships can then use their fusion engines just to slow down, allowing for a much higher top speed. If similar facilities are built at the end of a routes, ships can be slowed down in that matter. In fact, this system so outperforms even antimatter, once it's built, that ships being propelled by these lasers could conceivably achieve speeds close to the speed of light. Fortunately, all this laser light everywhere is the perfect solution to deal with the interstellar medium.

Sounds like the plot of, The Expanse

The important thing to note about a warp drive is that you're creating a bubble around the ship essentially and it is the bubble that's moving through space FTL, not the ship which means all the contents or passengers and cargo in this case within that bubble are fine and stable once the ship reaches it's destination the warp bubble dissipates almost instantly bringing you to an abrupt stop. Keep in mind though the ship was never moving  just the space around the ship was So even though you're coming to a complete and abrupt stop you will not fly forward as you would on here on Earth if you are to do something that in atmosphere.

The biggest enabler of all this are the Starlink revenues.

It would be interesting building 1000 star ships as the improvements between the first and the last and how would you work on maintaining the differences for the passengers who gets the "old" ones and less features interesting

Considering the distances and the speed of light vs. the speed of a spaceship, how would we even know where the star actually is? And how easy would it be to find earth/sun for a return trip?

I would miss the wind, our sky, the sea and all the wonderful life on Earth.