1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook

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Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources.
A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter weight, that catapults spaceships from earth orbit into the depths of space.

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[DJay]

7000 BC : rock and a string: ultimate ranged weapon for hunting animals
2019 AD : rock and a string: ultimate ranged weapon for hunting asteroids

[CinemaWins]

Even when a Kurzgesagt video ends with, "but it's impossible for now/we probably just haven't hit our extinction filter/heat death of the universe" type stuff I usually still walk away feeling relatively optimistic because there's always a chance... But then you throw sci-fi dreams of a Star Trek future at us and there's no real "but?!" I'm ready to take on the world today!

[dpblu]

Imagine aliens bumping into our civilisation using some sort of warping technology and just see us yeeting our ships into deep space with a sling.

[RedWhite-mc]

Some kid in 3009: falls asleep on the buss, misses their stop, and is now travelling at Mach 25 towards deep space

[mustached_villain]

Now: a Phobos skyhook will keep speed forever

2819: Phobos velocity crisis

[howdyouknowmyheadphonesdied]

Ship: *accidently gets flung into the void of space*
This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years

[sirapple]

Kurzgesagt’s animators never cease to amaze me.
That animation of the 80-96% of ship size reduction was so beautifully done.

I hope you’re paying them appropriately.

[peytonwm]

Imagine Kurzgesagt develops a space colonization game with all of these elements they've discussed! And this art style would only make it better!

[XuriFenton]

2050 math teacher:
If the teather crosses the north pole at 5am at 500kmh and the spaceship takes of from Iceland at 4am at 250kmh . Calculate the speed and angle that should be taken for the ship to land safelly at the moon station by noon. Justify your answer.

[TheShadesOfBlack]

I really hope I'm alive when stuff like this starts happening

[pleasesubscribeforaburrito]

This is like missing a bus on another level

[horrorwood]

this is probably one of the most fascinating concepts i've ever heard. a concept so simple that its crazy we haven't started working on it yet.

[frostwyvern]

I love how this sounds more science fiction than just a really big elevator and yet is more reasonable to achieve

[mangoshi]

“Grandpa, how did we first get reliable access to Mars?”
“Ah, the space yeeter.”

[Otto]

I love how they have doubled their uploads this year and the production quslity hasnt changed. You go kurzgesagt!

[justrandomcontent]

Imagine seeing a skyhook just chilling in the night sky.

[fomalhaut_the_great]

Kurzgesagt: hope for humanity
Me: *waiting for the drawback*
... ... ...
:D

[Moon_Jam]

In the future:
"OMG mom, I will be late for Christmas, I friggin' missed the space hook"

[akes]

Scientists when thinking of how to get to space:

Maybe just the tip.