"A small nuclear reactor uses highly controlled fusion reaction..." Glad they have a firm grip on physics before they build this thing. Must be the same guy that designed the wheels to stay down the whole time. Speaking of which I love that it's the size of a city but has like 20 wheels. Overall it's a win.
@@Seq-ei2pwIf a plane is going down then you probably won't get to a spot where you can actually jump out with a parachute, thats if U can get a parachute before too
"Thanks to nuclear energy, the hotel never runs out of fuel and can remain suspended in the air for several years without ever touching the ground." The passengers and crew on the other hand must fight to survive in the evolving aero-thunderdome.
I didn't want to go on this until I heard "evolving aero-thunderdome". Now I'm fully on board with the idea. I'm going back up to the buffet did you want anything honey? More shrimp please Ok, be right back... (Takes off shirt and sprays face) WITNESS MEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did they need to specify that the nuclear reaction was "highly controlled?" Nuclear reactions that are not highly controlled are usually referred to as "atomic bombs."
Atom bombs are also controlled. That big of an explosion doesn't happen by accident. Uncontrolled reactions look more like Chernobyl. (The event, not the unrelated film of the same name)
Cool idea. You probably would need a super long runway, or you could bring it up into space in pieces, assemble it, and launch from there or high up in the atmosphere. Knowing how much planes need maintenance, I doubt this thing could stay in the air longer than a week. This is definitely giving me Titanic vibes...
I'm not an engineer but but DAMN. I understand the basics of heavier than air flight. My thoughts are that there may be like a 1% chance that it could take off, but it's stall speed would be like 500 mph, and I'm probably being too generous. Realistically, I'm guessing it would just fall apart lmao.
Sky cruise uses innovative nuclear energy which can keep sky cruise suspended in air for several years. So by the time your cruise is over, the screaming 3 year old will be a screaming 6 year old.
wouldn't they make it more like a blimp than a jet? It's bigger than a space shuttle and would probably need help getting in the air in the first place, also landing, OMG...
Hilarious! It's like someone got in a time machine, traveled to 2070, found a retrofuturism video based on our era (as opposed to the 1950s or 1800s) depicting what people from our era thought our future would look like.
Nuclear fusion is at least 100 years from being possible as an energy source. That's just for viewers thinking this is a polished glossy ad for an existing product. This is a fascinating sci-fi story. I love your imagination. I don't think people understand your superior creative intelligence correctly. I love it. Thank you.
And if they did I think it would only be a matter of time before we would be watching some breaking TV news report that includes the phrase "Oh, the humanity!"
Even though we know an aircraft like that would absolutely never come into fruition, this is nevertheless still quite a fun video to watch right here. Don't you guys agree?
Tbh it's not because the amount of news that unironically turned this literally work of pure mythical fiction into an actual serious article infuriates me down to the bone
Cool, so we just need to perfect fusion, invent miniature fusion reactors, then figure out how to use those to power insanely powerful jets that somehow keep that thing in the air and then boom. Probably see it flying by next year I reckon.
@@gregoriohb a few huge condensers, massive airfoils to direct the air stream in, and a few 100,000 gallon holding tanks might do the trick. Have a series of pumps with redundancy move the closed loop around.
@@spacemanrick2014 I am not saying this is possible, however I think collecting condensation from condensers, and using air handlers to manage steam for comfort cooling. Making this orbital makes more sense, Turbines wouldn't be needed lowering power consumption. Now time to deal with gravity.
If your curious about noise complaints... don't worry one of these things actually landed around 66 million years ago and the residents still haven't complained...
That's what I noticed the most. The two main forces you need to overcome to travel in the air: gravity and drag. Those wing shapes won't work, that's not how the Bernoulli effect works. And as for drag, well those struts holding up the observation deck are terrible, and the external lifts are ridiculous. It looks like they've been designed by the people who created the Yorkshire Airlines sketch for the Hale and Pace comedy show.
No matter how silly this concept may seem, I like that people give thought to such potential advancements in technology. Beautiful dream but that's all it is, for now.
Even assuming that this thing can fly (which it can't) and that it somehow does have enough nuclear energy to stay up in the air for years (which it won't) there is such a thing as wear and tear on all the moving parts and good luck repairing it while it is in the air.
Not only that, they're talking about resupplying MID FLIGHT, using hook up elevators to regular sized planes which will have to be custom fit to use these elevators..... It's like these people aren't even thinking at all, not that I'm certain they even have a brain.. I'm 1000% certain this is some type of crypto scam.
Or the crushing pressure of being 100km in the air just suffocates you as you move between the pressurized cabin into the no way it can be pressurized enough elevator.
If Incorporated Quantum material using frictionless aerodynamics; it's somewhat possible with fusion. Helion fusion has a fusion engine in stage ~7, let alone possible anti-gravity tech being researched at universities. Considering gravity is just energy to energy attraction. Everything is made of Energy and has a gravitational field.
I feel like this is where all the rich people are going to hide during the apocalypse, and just fly around above all the rest of the world while everyone is fighting each other Mad Max style
@@pythontf188 plus the plane need to be resupplied. So, if the whole world is wasted and everyone is fighting each other....where will the supplies come from?
@@AaronSethPrice good on them if they managed to keep control of airstrips large enough to operate their cargo planes to supply the mighty sky hotel. :P
@@reese3881 no it isn't. Inventions are born from new ideas based on theories using information we know to be true. Not some half baked concept that fails to answer even the simplest questions such as how do you get this thing off the ground given it would have to be the size of a small town, how do you service essential/hard to reach systems during flight, how do you land during an emergency.
The Technology and Aerodynamics aside this thing is gonna cost billions of dollar to make just to begin with, and I very much doubt whether it will even be a profitable enterprise. But the design and animation in this video is damn good. The guy's clearly put effort
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And I bring to you, the one-billion-dollar tire. Imagine the factory needed just to make one tire. One tire would need a series of massive compressors running for 36 hours pumping an unheard of amount of nitrogen just to pressurize one tire.
So cool to be the first one in the whole history to enjoy this cruise as I last night had a vivid dream I was on a such cruise! I feel like a Jetset and rich but it cost me $0
That thing is massive, it's at least 20 times larger than any commercial airplane. I can't even imagine the amount of maintenence something this massive would need. And how many pilots would you need to fly that thing??
@@MrCCollins1993 It's not. It's an abomination. The ghosts of the Wright brothers would be strangling these guys in their sleep if they'd stop suing Mr. Curtiss for violating their patent on undeath. Although Tony Holmsten is great, and you should absolutely check out his work.
Easily more. That first clip had it sat on the ramp around a load of Boeing 747s... If you've ever seen one up close or been on one - Those are some massive freakin' planes!! For pilots required, if you do your avionics properly, you could still get away with two pilots and a flight engineer tops. the only reaon for the flight engineer would be to monitor all twenty EDFs. They'd probably also have to be nuclear trained for the reactor but that's a minor technicality :) lmao
Forget the maintenance, can you imagine what would happen if that thing hit a turbulence? (And no, "anti vibration technology" is bullshit) With all those open spaces, malls, restaurants and pools? It would turn people into needle cushions and completely wreck all of those posh vanity temples. Even if the concept art was designed by an actual engineer and not some random 3D artist, It is an absurd idea that will never work. At this size, this thing would never lift from the ground, not with the current technology anyways. And the fusion reactor that they are showing as the power source? Yeah, it's obvious that whoever thought of that had absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
They lost me with swimming pools.. still trying to imagine the pools on those rare take off and landings... and loved the anti turbulance... animation and the "say goodbye to fear of flying" yet to get there... YOU FREAKING FLY
Ok. Pools. Did you notice how they progressively limit the baggage weight? In practically empty aluminuim tubes with wings? And now we have several tonns of water :) (Small 10 meter pool 5 m wide and 2 m depth weights 100 t) Somehow you should clean this water. I hope not with nuclear fission :) Another matter: trash. One thing when you sit in one place and fed with two dishes. Other thing - when you live. Look outside and check how many garbage produce... say... big household with 300-400 occupants. Multiply 10-15 times. And before that garbage become garbage you have to deliver it. So aerodynamics... Maintenance... Energy... Logistics... Psychology...
Titanic and Hindenburg combined into one. Can't imagine a city sized plane with a nuclear reactor crashing any where is not going to have any types of fatalities
Love how it takes off from an airport that couldn't even handle anything larger than a 747. And what kind of pilot flies with the landing gear down? That's not a Cessna 172 you know.
Dear Mr. Al-Ghaili, I work as a journalist for DW - one of the biggest media brands in the world - and would like to use your footage for our Facebook channel. I would be delighted if you would contact me. I look forward to hearing from you! Maximilian von Mauch Deutsche Welle (DW)
Many news sites and articles have jumped on a bandwagon sharing this guys work as a “planned nuclear powered airship.” But this guy wasn’t trying to pretend this was a real idea, he originally posted this video on Reddit world building, a place for fictional projects. This guy is just passionate about sci-fi airships and these news articles stole his stuff straight from Reddit, without fact checking it, and claimed it to be a real project in the works. To give this guy credit he never claimed it was real, posted it on a fiction Reddit page, and actually made it really cool. More effort went into this that the majority of real “futuristic” project scams.
Apart from some fancy imaginations, looking at this video with just the bare minimum of knowledge in engineering gives you a lot of "wow this is not even remotely feasible
Kind of sad to see everyone hate on this concept. This particular design might be unrealistic but luxury air travel is absolutely possible and is worth exploring.
This is something I've dreamt of as a child. This is genuinely striking my soul. It is actually a life mission of mine to have one one day. I cant begin to put into words how thankful I am that you are making that concept of mine a reality. This is making me so happy, I wish you guys the bestest of luck. This HAS to come intro fruition. I pray for you and your success, even if i dont obtain one, knowing it has come into existence in and of itself is enough for me. Please please please make this a reality. This is true class and elegance.
The disproportion is ridiculous. Compare the size of windows in the 747s and the Flying Hotel, the scale is clearly wrong to make the FH look bigger than it is
First off, those exposed elevators are a big nope for me. Uneven drag would also like a word on those. The engines look suspiciously like jet engines, fusion reaction is used as a magic future energy source, and your animation never bothered to raise the landing gear. Edit: Also, huge wheel chocks that lift the rear end off the ground? Come on, man. End edit It's a neat idea that could be done with nuclear fusion, but it needs more experts in several fields and multiple iterations to become something workable
The maintenance alone on this would make it impractical. Any flight longer than a week could possibly put it into a maintenance cycle of Weeks to MONTHS.
The 16 year old boy who designed this is as talented as the person who thought up Solar Roadways. Neither thought about engineering much. But they made a fun animation. Problems: * The giant skydome would take so much weight in plexiglass to make something thick enough to withstand both the pressure differential and the outside force on the bubble in flight, that you would need wings bigger than the plane to lift it. There is a reason why the windows on plane are so small. * As others have noted, those elevators would both destroy the aerodynamics of the plane and take ridiculous amounts of engineering to keep them on the mother ship while in flight. * The sheer weight of such a vehicle would be so much that *even if* you were able to engineer runways that would survive the impact of landing, there are no wheels known to mankind that would survive that kind of weight above it, without adding to the weight, which would then increase the amount of weight that the wheels would weigh.... etc. Not to mention getting something that big to spin on landing??? That first touch would most likely rip off all of the gear. * What is that air conditioning duct cover on the top of the plane, forward? Is that to vent all of the cooking fumes from the food that you'll run out of on the second day? * Every amenity they add has weight. There's a reason why planes keep amenities low. A pool? The very reason why ships can have so many amenities is because they float in the water, and as long as there is more "air" inside the boat than outside of the boat's edges, there's a lot to keep it above the water. In a plane, carrying water is akin to carrying gas; its dead weight.
Solar panel roadways, while not designed by a 16 year old are a viable idea, though it ran in to problems such as keeping the road clean, and folks stealing the solar panels for there own personal use. Ther are companies world wide, most notably in the US looking for ways to make the idea more viable.
@@typhonplume9374 "Solar panel roadways, while not designed by a 16 year old are a viable idea..." Its not only one of the worst ideas out there, but entire videos have been made to explain why its such a bad idea. Short version: Why use roads, the #1 place in our world where heavy vehicles constantly travel over (literally leaving their treads behind), for solar panels, which are notoriously fragile and need to be kept clean? Why not put the panels literally anywhere else? Don't believe me. Believe the EE guy. czcams.com/video/obS6TUVSZds/video.html
I must say, one of my recurrent dreams features this plane. More precisely, it has the glass dome in the middle, white rooms with beds and a smaller version of the mall.
Bro my dreams are always so boring and anxiety filled. Like a normal day where I've forgotten to do something that I needed to. I wanna visit the sky hotel in my dreams
Well, fusion reactor. The image they show is clearly a Tokamak, which is reasonably safe. Worst case scenario is that the reactor loses containment, and throws rapidly cooling hydrogen plasma all over the interior. It'd absolutely thrash the plane, and due to the aircraft's mass alone, it'd be like dropping a Tall Boy on whatever it crashes into, but the fusion reactor would be the least problematic part of that scenario.
Interesting concept and looks pretty, but this video suggests that the designer knows very very very little about aircraft design, product engineering, systems engineering, weather patterns, airport design, and numerous other areas. The aerodynamic concept is horrible. The double wing with the engines sandwiched like this would result in enormous drag. The same for the external elevators and the tail configuration. Other aircraft might have a tough time approaching for delivery or pickup as shown, due to flow patterns around this aircraft. The elevator for docking would suffer extreme vibration. There are many areas that will not be able to receive maintenance in flight because they require work external to the aircraft. There are no airports that can support such a large aircraft, both in terms of runway width and runway load capacity. The huge glass surfaces and the overall shape of the fuselage and tail panoramic platform will have severe structural stresses due to pressurization and aeroelastic and other loads. Other than providing redundancy for safety purposes plus thrust for takeoff,, the 20 engines might not add much. Artificial intelligence might be able to rely on weather radar for the prediction of turbulence, but may not always be able to predict accurately and could have erroneous predictions (machine learning is only as good as its training and is non-deterministic). Perhaps not all turbulence could be avoided in time. Also, producing an interference vibration might not logged the structural loads even if it improves passenger comfort - just flying through it may not be a great idea for something that has such terrible structural considerations. Overall, this concept -might- be okay for a ***spaceship***, as long as it is built in space and never needs to re-enter any planet's atmosphere.
@@s2garage Nah. It's just one point of view. Just two more, for example: 5000 people is quite enough to escape from the problem of "5 men in one compartment" but still - small space, same people - it's a hotel. You have to deliver and get people back. So simple transit problem. They eat, they (pardon me french) shit. So you have to deliver quite wide range of food to the taste. Ok, trash you can just drop. You know the name people will choose for the plane, right? :) Personnel. Ok, it will be like english service - family under the stairs. Once and forever :)
They did somewhat test a nuclear powered version of the B-36 Peacemaker, envisioned with the idea of allowing the military to always have an A-bomb carrying airplane in the sky. It all got scrapped cause it didn't work and because ICBMS were starting to appear. This however is immensely harder to accomplish and more dangerous so we will never see it in real life. By the time we will have technology to do something like this we will be looking at traveling to other planets.
As mechanic I'm going to take training on plumbing, gas fitter, etectricity and nuclear reactor... Sound like a lot of fun to work on... Sure is a nice idea. Imagine flying weeks... When is maintenance?... After a crash just to be blamed.. Funny toy
Attention passengers! This is your AI Pilot speaking. We are currently at an altitude of 30,000 feet travelling at approximately 800 knots. Today has blessed us with beautiful clear skies and next to no turbulence so please feel free to enjoy all of our on-board facilities. We will soon be transitioning from VR-mode to R-mode which will cause a slight course-correction, please brace for impact.
How fast would this beast need to fly in order to create enough lift to keep it aloft? But more importantly, why would anyone want an airplane that doesn't take you anywhere?
@@InsertCleverUsername You don't need any lift with 20 nuclear engines :) Even now there are models staying vertically in the air just because of single engine. They are models, of course, but still - if your engine is powerfull enough... :))
@@sergevolkoff8650 You're absolutely correct! But the energy demand of this vessel would be astronomical. Correction, this plane would fly for about.. 5 seconds before it'd need a refuel of trtitum for its fusion reactors. (Which is the most expensive fucking substance the world literally doesn't have to offer.)
Ok so hear me out, what if we did something like the Hindenburg and Titanic, but then also put Chernobyl on it? And make it look like Passengers and 2001: A Space Odyssey so we really freak them out when we tell them the ship is run by a nameless HAL. Great.
There was a proposed "Atomic Bomber" back in the 1950s (I think). There was even a model kit of the idea. They didn't bother to land the thing, instead using "parasite" fighters that would rendezvous and dock with the bomber for both crew relief and (I assume) fighter escorts, like something out of the "Thunderbirds". It wasn't electric powered: the "atomic engines" channeled exhaust directly from the reactor. A ground test in Montana (?) killed several hundred acres of forest. The project was cancelled.
That's because they didn't use electricity from the reactor to power the engines they used heat, and they didnt isolate the reactor in any way. It's not even close to the same thing.
Lisa, in this house we respect the laws of thermodynamics! To comfortably accommodate 5000 passengers you also need thousands of crew. However big that thing is it will never be big enough to be a living space for so many people AND also take off. Then, you have to land for some kind of emergency, and you will, and then there’s no airport that can accommodate this behemoth. If it could be built, and it can’t, I would want no part of it.
What if we combined the Titanic with the Hindenburg and then put a nuclear reactor in it? What if.
This deserves more likes
I cant breathe 🤣😂 best slogan ever
HahahaHAahaha 😆 😂 😆 😂
Omg im dying 🤣🤣
Nothing could go wrong!
If physics and aerodynamics didn't exist, then this vessel might actually be able to take off.
best comment
Better made it as dirigibles.
oh but you forgot about the exotic element Unobtanium which can defy gravity :)
damn it i was excited about this for a second.
I’m saying bruh this don’t look like it’s meant to be in the sky
Looks bad ass
"A small nuclear reactor uses highly controlled fusion reaction..."
Glad they have a firm grip on physics before they build this thing. Must be the same guy that designed the wheels to stay down the whole time. Speaking of which I love that it's the size of a city but has like 20 wheels. Overall it's a win.
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It's not even real, it's from reddit.
agreed OP this is the most stupid thing I've ever seen in my entire life. who is this guy? is he some kind of scammer to get Investment money?!
@@skeetrix5577 He's an animator. It's just a fun video. No one is supposed to take it seriously, but a surprising number of people do.
It's a Titanic with ZERO lifeboats. Amazing.
wont you need a parachute?
@@Seq-ei2pwIf a plane is going down then you probably won't get to a spot where you can actually jump out with a parachute, thats if U can get a parachute before too
"Thanks to nuclear energy, the hotel never runs out of fuel and can remain suspended in the air for several years without ever touching the ground." The passengers and crew on the other hand must fight to survive in the evolving aero-thunderdome.
I love it. It's like Snowpiercer, but in the air! Coming soon to Netflix!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Easy for maintenance (reactors ??) when you konw that for a regular plane there is at least a basic check every 500 hours.... this thing is so dumb..
I didn't want to go on this until I heard "evolving aero-thunderdome". Now I'm fully on board with the idea.
I'm going back up to the buffet did you want anything honey?
More shrimp please
Ok, be right back... (Takes off shirt and sprays face) WITNESS MEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will make for a hell of a bioshock game.
The designers at Fisher Price must be proud to see their vision come close to reality.
I knew that plane reminded me of something😂
Lol
Looks more like a LEGO plane to me....
still waiting for the nuclear popping law mower
🤣 I stop breathing 🤣
Hindenburg meets Titanic meets Chernobyl. Anyone who tries to build this belongs in a mental hospital.
This is literally what we all imagined flying airports would look like
Need a movie on a post apocalyptical world where everyone stays on the sky hotel
Skypiercer!
@@Necrometer Nice!! Bring on the Skypiercer limited series.
That's called wall e
I believe it’s called wall-e haha
USS ENTERPRISE
Did they need to specify that the nuclear reaction was "highly controlled?" Nuclear reactions that are not highly controlled are usually referred to as "atomic bombs."
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So you mean it's a civilian bomb
Can’t wait for this thing to explode mid-air and causes an entire continent to be trapped in a nuclear wasteland.
@@ThePotionMaster413 stalker 2
Atom bombs are also controlled. That big of an explosion doesn't happen by accident. Uncontrolled reactions look more like Chernobyl. (The event, not the unrelated film of the same name)
This is completely insane and i love it
Cool idea. You probably would need a super long runway, or you could bring it up into space in pieces, assemble it, and launch from there or high up in the atmosphere. Knowing how much planes need maintenance, I doubt this thing could stay in the air longer than a week. This is definitely giving me Titanic vibes...
Every single aeronautical engineer is crying right now
I'm not an aeronautical engineer, but I know a bad design when I see one... and this one... is bloody horrific!! XDD
every single human with a brain and basic understanding of physics is freakin crying. as an aero engineer, my gut is hurting and i want to vomit.
I'm not an engineer but but DAMN. I understand the basics of heavier than air flight. My thoughts are that there may be like a 1% chance that it could take off, but it's stall speed would be like 500 mph, and I'm probably being too generous. Realistically, I'm guessing it would just fall apart lmao.
That might be true... but.. i bet you its not for the reason you are thinking
As a kerbal space program player I cry
This is literally just the Axiom ad from Wall-e lol
The whole high tech medical bed looks like it’s straight out of Elysium too lol
The fantasy is hillarious! Kudos to Hashem and his team for such attention to detail in this fantastic (fantasy) production.
it's like seeing my crazy kids machine drawing come to life ! amazing renders !
You can draw it. You can hire voice actors. You cannot hide that this is an impossibility
Anything is possible if you put your mind to it
@@daytonmedcalf197 not this
@@daytonmedcalf197 incorrect
@@daytonmedcalf197 well lets see you put your mind to it then homeboy. go on do it.
@@daytonmedcalf197 no, physics can still win regardless of how hard you try to violate it
I bet I still end up next to someone else's screaming three year old for the entire trip
Sky cruise uses innovative nuclear energy which can keep sky cruise suspended in air for several years. So by the time your cruise is over, the screaming 3 year old will be a screaming 6 year old.
Push him off
Bro you were litteraly quoted on some news website 😂
wouldn't they make it more like a blimp than a jet? It's bigger than a space shuttle and would probably need help getting in the air in the first place, also landing, OMG...
@@FreezyOffTheWall who was lol send the link if you don’t mind
We had something like this in the 1910s, but it was actually functional. It was called a blimp.
Hindenburg 2.0
Looks as aerodynamic as a pug dog, and about as well designed.
@@hrmn4694 This isn't built for lift either.
It's a pretty obvious troll. A good way to test which "engineering news" websites are completely idiotic though.
designed by Homer Simpson
What's with the pug hatred?
You're not throwing your pugs hard enough
Hilarious! It's like someone got in a time machine, traveled to 2070, found a retrofuturism video based on our era (as opposed to the 1950s or 1800s) depicting what people from our era thought our future would look like.
Leave Britney alone
Like a Bantha
More like someone found out how to use cg software and ignore science
I wish I had as nice of a vision of the future as you, I'm from the US and oh boy....post apocalyptic fiction is a big hit for a reason here.
😂🤣😆 Right, if you're going to build something this big. Then it might as well be a Starship in space. 🤔🤔👍😎
Hindenburg + Titanic + Chernobyl = greatest transport disaster in history.
Anyone who tries to build this is the definition of insane.
Nuclear fusion is at least 100 years from being possible as an energy source. That's just for viewers thinking this is a polished glossy ad for an existing product.
This is a fascinating sci-fi story. I love your imagination. I don't think people understand your superior creative intelligence correctly. I love it. Thank you.
But don't they already use it on ships?
Good job honey, I will pin it on the fridge to your other drawings.
That thing would need a runway as long as the one in Fast and Furious 6 just to take off and land lol.
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wont even be enough
but it NEVER LANDS (lmao)
@@MidgarMerc just like titanic never sinks (lmao)
could be a seaplane!!
So we're giving the Titanic wings now and it's Nuclear powered .... yea this ought to work out just fine
Woooou amazing..... I love it.... Perfecto
"Sleek design".
Glad to know I can now start calling myself sleek.
Lmao
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
It would be impossible to convince investors this thing would fly
And if they did I think it would only be a matter of time before we would be watching some breaking TV news report that includes the phrase "Oh, the humanity!"
I am pretty much convinced and now I am ready to invest 1 $ 😂
Even though we know an aircraft like that would absolutely never come into fruition, this is nevertheless still quite a fun video to watch right here. Don't you guys agree?
Agreed
You never know man, shit we thought that wasn’t possible were invented and at this point idk what’s viable and what isn’t anymore
@@gogurt836 That's honestly so true.
Tbh it's not because the amount of news that unironically turned this literally work of pure mythical fiction into an actual serious article infuriates me down to the bone
it`s straight out of 30`s , 40`s and 50`s sci fi ! read about things like this when I was just a kid ! lol
انت ياهاشم ممكن اقول انك الوحيد اليمني الي افتخر فيه
Cool, so we just need to perfect fusion, invent miniature fusion reactors, then figure out how to use those to power insanely powerful jets that somehow keep that thing in the air and then boom. Probably see it flying by next year I reckon.
Yeah... no big deal.
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Also a nuclear reactor that doesn't need water to be cooled down. It seems pretty easy to take all that water up there, constantly.
@@gregoriohb a few huge condensers, massive airfoils to direct the air stream in, and a few 100,000 gallon holding tanks might do the trick. Have a series of pumps with redundancy move the closed loop around.
@@spacemanrick2014 I am not saying this is possible, however I think collecting condensation from condensers, and using air handlers to manage steam for comfort cooling. Making this orbital makes more sense, Turbines wouldn't be needed lowering power consumption. Now time to deal with gravity.
This looks like it was designed by someone familiar with the concept of an "airplane" but doesn't understand how they actually work.
designed by Apple in California
I'm a pilot and small plane owner. I can confirm they have zero understanding.
If your curious about noise complaints... don't worry one of these things actually landed around 66 million years ago and the residents still haven't complained...
Ok so this behemoth can stay in the air for years. Question? If i want to book a stay how do you board this plane if it on always fying??
It's like something a child from the 80's thought 2020 would be like. It just needs a race track adding.
The designers forgot this thing is supposed to fly… Ergo, they need to adhere to the principles of aerodynamics 😂
What is aerodynamic?
It's not about the principles of aerodynamics. We simply don't have the technology yet... for a thing like this.
Aerodynamics? You mean Plane-Magic?
That's what I noticed the most. The two main forces you need to overcome to travel in the air: gravity and drag. Those wing shapes won't work, that's not how the Bernoulli effect works. And as for drag, well those struts holding up the observation deck are terrible, and the external lifts are ridiculous. It looks like they've been designed by the people who created the Yorkshire Airlines sketch for the Hale and Pace comedy show.
Fuck aerodynamics. They damn thing would never fly due to its sheer weight.
No matter how silly this concept may seem, I like that people give thought to such potential advancements in technology. Beautiful dream but that's all it is, for now.
It is true that I am very proud because the one who designed this thing is a Yemeni and his name is Hashem Al-Ghaili
There are better things to dream and think about concepts and designs and progress... THIS is not, it is just moronic
@@user_mubarak4Maybe it's Yemen to you, but it's "No, man" from me
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Building something pointless isn't an advancement.
Even assuming that this thing can fly (which it can't) and that it somehow does have enough nuclear energy to stay up in the air for years (which it won't) there is such a thing as wear and tear on all the moving parts and good luck repairing it while it is in the air.
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Imagine going down the external elevators and hearing the metal buckle and screech as air friction is trying to tear it off with you inside.
Not only that, they're talking about resupplying MID FLIGHT, using hook up elevators to regular sized planes which will have to be custom fit to use these elevators..... It's like these people aren't even thinking at all, not that I'm certain they even have a brain.. I'm 1000% certain this is some type of crypto scam.
Or the crushing pressure of being 100km in the air just suffocates you as you move between the pressurized cabin into the no way it can be pressurized enough elevator.
If Incorporated Quantum material using frictionless aerodynamics; it's somewhat possible with fusion. Helion fusion has a fusion engine in stage ~7, let alone possible anti-gravity tech being researched at universities. Considering gravity is just energy to energy attraction. Everything is made of Energy and has a gravitational field.
Great idea, looking forward to inspiring hope for interstellar voyages in the future.
I feel like this is where all the rich people are going to hide during the apocalypse, and just fly around above all the rest of the world while everyone is fighting each other Mad Max style
Well good news for you gravity is a thing so this can never take off
@@pythontf188 plus the plane need to be resupplied. So, if the whole world is wasted and everyone is fighting each other....where will the supplies come from?
@@pythontf188 😂, fair point
@@alexhurlbut secret rich people societies that have already hoarded supplies? the Illuminati?
@@AaronSethPrice good on them if they managed to keep control of airstrips large enough to operate their cargo planes to supply the mighty sky hotel. :P
I love when people come up with engineering concepts with very little consideration or understanding of engineering.
Or physics, gravity, science in general.
Wheres the washing machine
That's how inventions are made. Everything starts as an idea and evolves. Guess a degree can't teach you common sense.
@@reese3881 no it isn't. Inventions are born from new ideas based on theories using information we know to be true. Not some half baked concept that fails to answer even the simplest questions such as how do you get this thing off the ground given it would have to be the size of a small town, how do you service essential/hard to reach systems during flight, how do you land during an emergency.
@@cheesybean158 so what did the Wright Brothers know to be true about flying? Cause that was a completely new concept. Exactly
Stack one problem with many other problems in an ineffective and messy way, which fixes them, but is it safe?
وبمثل هذا يفتخر المسلمون!
The Technology and Aerodynamics aside this thing is gonna cost billions of dollar to make just to begin with, and I very much doubt whether it will even be a profitable enterprise. But the design and animation in this video is damn good. The guy's clearly put effort
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@@user-wt2ud5mj3j сколько воды в бассейне нужно для фильтрации воды и замены ее дождевой водой
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With people like you we would never have had computers
Surely it can given savings on fuel and 5000 passenger per flight. However the idea is quite flawed atm.
The landing gear being permanently down was a disappointing oversight
And I bring to you, the one-billion-dollar tire. Imagine the factory needed just to make one tire.
One tire would need a series of massive compressors running for 36 hours pumping an unheard of amount of nitrogen just to pressurize one tire.
At this point I think it'd be better off as a sea plane.
@@Scottagram too bad we dont have huge ships who work as floating hotels with all that stuff. We could call them cruise ships.
@@ashitaka1337 Imagine that. Ocean liners what a concept? /s
So cool to be the first one in the whole history to enjoy this cruise as I last night had a vivid dream I was on a such cruise! I feel like a Jetset and rich but it cost me $0
This thing is going to be the Titanic, the Hindenburg, and 9-11 all rolled into one
That thing is massive, it's at least 20 times larger than any commercial airplane. I can't even imagine the amount of maintenence something this massive would need. And how many pilots would you need to fly that thing??
Probably all AI controlled. It's like something out of Thunderbirds 😅 Still, an... interesting concept
If you look closely, each wheel is about the size of 747s.
@@MrCCollins1993 It's not. It's an abomination. The ghosts of the Wright brothers would be strangling these guys in their sleep if they'd stop suing Mr. Curtiss for violating their patent on undeath. Although Tony Holmsten is great, and you should absolutely check out his work.
Easily more. That first clip had it sat on the ramp around a load of Boeing 747s... If you've ever seen one up close or been on one - Those are some massive freakin' planes!!
For pilots required, if you do your avionics properly, you could still get away with two pilots and a flight engineer tops. the only reaon for the flight engineer would be to monitor all twenty EDFs. They'd probably also have to be nuclear trained for the reactor but that's a minor technicality :) lmao
Forget the maintenance, can you imagine what would happen if that thing hit a turbulence? (And no, "anti vibration technology" is bullshit) With all those open spaces, malls, restaurants and pools? It would turn people into needle cushions and completely wreck all of those posh vanity temples. Even if the concept art was designed by an actual engineer and not some random 3D artist, It is an absurd idea that will never work. At this size, this thing would never lift from the ground, not with the current technology anyways. And the fusion reactor that they are showing as the power source? Yeah, it's obvious that whoever thought of that had absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
They lost me with swimming pools.. still trying to imagine the pools on those rare take off and landings... and loved the anti turbulance... animation and the "say goodbye to fear of flying" yet to get there... YOU FREAKING FLY
Maybe they drain the pool everytime they take off of land...
@@shart7660 it will NEVER happen. Not the pools nor the flying nuclear hotel
Ok. Pools. Did you notice how they progressively limit the baggage weight? In practically empty aluminuim tubes with wings? And now we have several tonns of water :) (Small 10 meter pool 5 m wide and 2 m depth weights 100 t) Somehow you should clean this water. I hope not with nuclear fission :) Another matter: trash. One thing when you sit in one place and fed with two dishes. Other thing - when you live. Look outside and check how many garbage produce... say... big household with 300-400 occupants. Multiply 10-15 times. And before that garbage become garbage you have to deliver it. So aerodynamics... Maintenance... Energy... Logistics... Psychology...
The pools are still the most plausible Thing on this plane
Think of the waste water tanks.
Lots of aerodynamic & logistical questions, but the first thing that came to my mind was, “who can afford to fly on this?”
Titanic and Hindenburg combined into one. Can't imagine a city sized plane with a nuclear reactor crashing any where is not going to have any types of fatalities
Not sure that being nuclear powered would be enough to allow you to ignore aerodynamics.
True, but with enough thrust anything can become airborne; keeping it from falling apart is a different story...🤔🤪
Come on. Gotta grift investors somehow.
Or... How is it nuclear powered anyway?
Nuclear power is not power directly derived from fission/fusion, it just boils water that runs turbines to generate electricity. Yeah, this is stupid
@@footose Fusion reactor drives the engines in the wings, he even says so in the video
Love how it takes off from an airport that couldn't even handle anything larger than a 747. And what kind of pilot flies with the landing gear down? That's not a Cessna 172 you know.
It said in the video that it would have NO PILOTS 😂😂😂
The number of people who didn't understand this was science fiction is astounding.
Does it have life boats/life planes like what if the engine fails and it the plane cruise falls it
Looks like the elite are preparing a ship to escape Armageddon.
I like the part where they are flying in the middle of aurora borealis at 100km with the landing gear down.
Yea they probably have no idea that the landing gear increase drag ( they don’t know how planes work )
There wasn’t any energy left for that. All of it went to making of steamed hams!
We like every part of this video :)
@@miroslavbriza You call hamburgers "steamed hams?"
I would never even dream of going on this sky cruise! Noo way!
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Many news sites and articles have jumped on a bandwagon sharing this guys work as a “planned nuclear powered airship.” But this guy wasn’t trying to pretend this was a real idea, he originally posted this video on Reddit world building, a place for fictional projects. This guy is just passionate about sci-fi airships and these news articles stole his stuff straight from Reddit, without fact checking it, and claimed it to be a real project in the works. To give this guy credit he never claimed it was real, posted it on a fiction Reddit page, and actually made it really cool. More effort went into this that the majority of real “futuristic” project scams.
That's disappointing, yet comforting at the same time. Thank you for enlightening me. *confused slant face*
Apart from some fancy imaginations, looking at this video with just the bare minimum of knowledge in engineering gives you a lot of "wow this is not even remotely feasible
Kind of sad to see everyone hate on this concept. This particular design might be unrealistic but luxury air travel is absolutely possible and is worth exploring.
This is something I've dreamt of as a child. This is genuinely striking my soul. It is actually a life mission of mine to have one one day.
I cant begin to put into words how thankful I am that you are making that concept of mine a reality.
This is making me so happy, I wish you guys the bestest of luck. This HAS to come intro fruition.
I pray for you and your success, even if i dont obtain one, knowing it has come into existence in and of itself is enough for me.
Please please please make this a reality.
This is true class and elegance.
Love it. The video creator was like "lets make all the 747s look small and make this thing look gigantic while still fitting on a taxiway"
The disproportion is ridiculous. Compare the size of windows in the 747s and the Flying Hotel, the scale is clearly wrong to make the FH look bigger than it is
I'm honestly more worried about the apparent CO² levels. Look at those trees!
First off, those exposed elevators are a big nope for me. Uneven drag would also like a word on those. The engines look suspiciously like jet engines, fusion reaction is used as a magic future energy source, and your animation never bothered to raise the landing gear.
Edit:
Also, huge wheel chocks that lift the rear end off the ground? Come on, man. End edit
It's a neat idea that could be done with nuclear fusion, but it needs more experts in several fields and multiple iterations to become something workable
I thought the same thing about those elevators. They should be built inside the same structure it protrudes from
@@Hell-yeah420.69 Also the loading elevator for mid-flight passenger and cargo transfers makes me shudder.
@@tetsatou2815 i made a separate comment about that too 4:00 like how is that even possible!? You need an entire track to land a damn boeing
Not to mention everything is out of scale. Compared to the decks and the other planes on the ground the elevators are massive.
The maintenance alone on this would make it impractical. Any flight longer than a week could possibly put it into a maintenance cycle of Weeks to MONTHS.
البرفسور هاشم الغيلي المثال اليمني الذي نفتخر به،نفتخر بك وبالعلم الذي تنشره ♥
if this stops flying over an ocean, does it just become a regular cruise?
I like the aesthetics of it looking like a giant single seater.
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It neads a giant head in the glass dome to complete the illusion.
The 16 year old boy who designed this is as talented as the person who thought up Solar Roadways.
Neither thought about engineering much.
But they made a fun animation.
Problems:
* The giant skydome would take so much weight in plexiglass to make something thick enough to withstand both the pressure differential and the outside force on the bubble in flight, that you would need wings bigger than the plane to lift it. There is a reason why the windows on plane are so small.
* As others have noted, those elevators would both destroy the aerodynamics of the plane and take ridiculous amounts of engineering to keep them on the mother ship while in flight.
* The sheer weight of such a vehicle would be so much that *even if* you were able to engineer runways that would survive the impact of landing, there are no wheels known to mankind that would survive that kind of weight above it, without adding to the weight, which would then increase the amount of weight that the wheels would weigh.... etc. Not to mention getting something that big to spin on landing??? That first touch would most likely rip off all of the gear.
* What is that air conditioning duct cover on the top of the plane, forward? Is that to vent all of the cooking fumes from the food that you'll run out of on the second day?
* Every amenity they add has weight. There's a reason why planes keep amenities low. A pool? The very reason why ships can have so many amenities is because they float in the water, and as long as there is more "air" inside the boat than outside of the boat's edges, there's a lot to keep it above the water. In a plane, carrying water is akin to carrying gas; its dead weight.
Solar panel roadways, while not designed by a 16 year old are a viable idea, though it ran in to problems such as keeping the road clean, and folks stealing the solar panels for there own personal use. Ther are companies world wide, most notably in the US looking for ways to make the idea more viable.
@Mysticꀭ
SEE: Solar Roadways.
If people hadn't taken solar roadways seriously, I wouldn't feel the need to explain why this is also a bad idea.
@@typhonplume9374
"Solar panel roadways, while not designed by a 16 year old are a viable idea..."
Its not only one of the worst ideas out there, but entire videos have been made to explain why its such a bad idea.
Short version:
Why use roads, the #1 place in our world where heavy vehicles constantly travel over (literally leaving their treads behind), for solar panels, which are notoriously fragile and need to be kept clean?
Why not put the panels literally anywhere else?
Don't believe me. Believe the EE guy.
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And the landing gear just hangs out the whole time on the bottom...? 🤦🏻♂️
You used more time writing this than the designers with the plane
I drew this when I was 5 yrs old. I want my drawing back.
نحن فخورون بشخص مثلك في بلادنا هاشم. ❤
I must say, one of my recurrent dreams features this plane. More precisely, it has the glass dome in the middle, white rooms with beds and a smaller version of the mall.
Mine too and I'm a flight attendant.
Does yours have a bowling alley? Miner's got a bowling alley. But no mall.
I had a dream of something like this years ago, was like half the size and I mostly remember it having a pool
Bro my dreams are always so boring and anxiety filled. Like a normal day where I've forgotten to do something that I needed to. I wanna visit the sky hotel in my dreams
welcome to a non-aerodynamic, atrocious, ugly, fragile, badly made, psychics-bending, expensive absolute hellscape! :)
Great idea putting a nuclear reactor in something that could malfunction and fall out of the sky.
Well, fusion reactor. The image they show is clearly a Tokamak, which is reasonably safe. Worst case scenario is that the reactor loses containment, and throws rapidly cooling hydrogen plasma all over the interior. It'd absolutely thrash the plane, and due to the aircraft's mass alone, it'd be like dropping a Tall Boy on whatever it crashes into, but the fusion reactor would be the least problematic part of that scenario.
Cutest toy in Science Fiction ever 😂 !!!!
But how will they get off without air pressure causing problems
Interesting concept and looks pretty, but this video suggests that the designer knows very very very little about aircraft design, product engineering, systems engineering, weather patterns, airport design, and numerous other areas. The aerodynamic concept is horrible. The double wing with the engines sandwiched like this would result in enormous drag. The same for the external elevators and the tail configuration. Other aircraft might have a tough time approaching for delivery or pickup as shown, due to flow patterns around this aircraft. The elevator for docking would suffer extreme vibration. There are many areas that will not be able to receive maintenance in flight because they require work external to the aircraft. There are no airports that can support such a large aircraft, both in terms of runway width and runway load capacity. The huge glass surfaces and the overall shape of the fuselage and tail panoramic platform will have severe structural stresses due to pressurization and aeroelastic and other loads. Other than providing redundancy for safety purposes plus thrust for takeoff,, the 20 engines might not add much. Artificial intelligence might be able to rely on weather radar for the prediction of turbulence, but may not always be able to predict accurately and could have erroneous predictions (machine learning is only as good as its training and is non-deterministic). Perhaps not all turbulence could be avoided in time. Also, producing an interference vibration might not logged the structural loads even if it improves passenger comfort - just flying through it may not be a great idea for something that has such terrible structural considerations.
Overall, this concept -might- be okay for a ***spaceship***, as long as it is built in space and never needs to re-enter any planet's atmosphere.
@@s2garage Nah. It's just one point of view. Just two more, for example: 5000 people is quite enough to escape from the problem of "5 men in one compartment" but still - small space, same people - it's a hotel. You have to deliver and get people back. So simple transit problem. They eat, they (pardon me french) shit. So you have to deliver quite wide range of food to the taste. Ok, trash you can just drop. You know the name people will choose for the plane, right? :) Personnel. Ok, it will be like english service - family under the stairs. Once and forever :)
its already busted
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This video literally played out like the beginning of a movie where the plot is the most horrific, explosive, action-packed airplane accident ever.
I'll take: "What if we combine the Titanic and the Hindenburg and Chernobyl ? " for a thousand Alex.
They did somewhat test a nuclear powered version of the B-36 Peacemaker, envisioned with the idea of allowing the military to always have an A-bomb carrying airplane in the sky. It all got scrapped cause it didn't work and because ICBMS were starting to appear. This however is immensely harder to accomplish and more dangerous so we will never see it in real life. By the time we will have technology to do something like this we will be looking at traveling to other planets.
“Zero carbon footprint” so are we just gonna ignore the 747 just hanging around as the supply ship 🤣
I'd still want an old-fashioned arcade where I can turn my tickets in for cheap-azz prizes.
As mechanic I'm going to take training on plumbing, gas fitter, etectricity and nuclear reactor... Sound like a lot of fun to work on... Sure is a nice idea.
Imagine flying weeks... When is maintenance?... After a crash just to be blamed..
Funny toy
Can I take the hyperloop up to this sky plane?
Imagine getting married on the deck of this hotel-plaza-wellness plane, and several years later filing for divorce...
yeah marriage is so retarded. it's basically like if you want to be in a JRPG in real life and share your party's gald for some fucking reason
Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Looks cool anyways.
This is about as realistic as that space hotel they say will be ready in 5 years
Attention passengers! This is your AI Pilot speaking. We are currently at an altitude of 30,000 feet travelling at approximately 800 knots. Today has blessed us with beautiful clear skies and next to no turbulence so please feel free to enjoy all of our on-board facilities. We will soon be transitioning from VR-mode to R-mode which will cause a slight course-correction, please brace for impact.
What are aerodynamics?
How fast would this beast need to fly in order to create enough lift to keep it aloft? But more importantly, why would anyone want an airplane that doesn't take you anywhere?
It could fly as fast as it can and even then never fly, the wings wouldn't be able to create any lift.
@@InsertCleverUsername You don't need any lift with 20 nuclear engines :) Even now there are models staying vertically in the air just because of single engine. They are models, of course, but still - if your engine is powerfull enough... :))
@@sergevolkoff8650 You're absolutely correct! But the energy demand of this vessel would be astronomical. Correction, this plane would fly for about.. 5 seconds before it'd need a refuel of trtitum for its fusion reactors. (Which is the most expensive fucking substance the world literally doesn't have to offer.)
Ok so hear me out, what if we did something like the Hindenburg and Titanic, but then also put Chernobyl on it? And make it look like Passengers and 2001: A Space Odyssey so we really freak them out when we tell them the ship is run by a nameless HAL. Great.
How many black boxes does this thing have?
There was a proposed "Atomic Bomber" back in the 1950s (I think). There was even a model kit of the idea. They didn't bother to land the thing, instead using "parasite" fighters that would rendezvous and dock with the bomber for both crew relief and (I assume) fighter escorts, like something out of the "Thunderbirds". It wasn't electric powered: the "atomic engines" channeled exhaust directly from the reactor. A ground test in Montana (?) killed several hundred acres of forest. The project was cancelled.
Isn't there a documentary about this?
That's because they didn't use electricity from the reactor to power the engines they used heat, and they didnt isolate the reactor in any way.
It's not even close to the same thing.
Lisa, in this house we respect the laws of thermodynamics! To comfortably accommodate 5000 passengers you also need thousands of crew. However big that thing is it will never be big enough to be a living space for so many people AND also take off. Then, you have to land for some kind of emergency, and you will, and then there’s no airport that can accommodate this behemoth.
If it could be built, and it can’t, I would want no part of it.
I really wonder how the side rudder should work at all being in turbulent airflow.
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