What Is A Space Elevator?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Natural Sciences, Physics, Science, Astronomy

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey Daniel, did you ever think about being an astronaut?
0:10.4	I always wanted to be an astronaut from some points of view.
0:13.8	Like I wanted to be out in space, I wanted to see the stars, I wanted to see the earth
0:17.7	under me, but I was also sort of terrified of getting up there.
0:21.6	It's really extremely difficult.
0:23.6	Like I talked to an astronaut last year and he said it was like writing the tip of an
0:27.8	explosion to be on a rocket.
0:29.7	And that scares me, especially after the Challenger disaster, and that was very vivid in my mind
0:34.7	when I was a kid.
0:35.9	It seems terrifying and it seems dangerous and it is.
0:40.2	You're just basically you strapped to a rocket.
0:42.8	Yeah.
0:43.8	You're literally writing an explosion.
0:45.8	Sorry, you're like surfing a fireball.
0:48.6	Yeah.
0:49.6	But would you want to go to space if it was easier?
0:52.0	Yeah, I think so.
0:53.2	If you could just like get in your car and say, take me to space or something like that.
0:59.8	Siri, take me to space.
1:01.0	Sorry.
1:02.0	Google directions to space, please.
1:05.2	Well, what if it was just as easy as getting into an elevator and then pressing the space
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