Adventures of an interplanetary architect | Xavier De Kestelier
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2018
- How will we live elsewhere in the galaxy? On Earth, natural resources for creating structures are abundant, but sending these materials up with us to the Moon or Mars is clunky and cost-prohibitive. Enter architect Xavier De Kestelier, who has a radical plan to use robots and space dust to 3D print our interplanetary homes. Learn more about the emerging field of space architecture with this fascinating talk about the (potentially) not-too-distant future.
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As an architecture student an space enthusiast.... this video made my year.
Wonderful.
Dara Stardust Sorry to break it to you but SPACE does not exist !!
HeavyMetalRuinedMyLife1971 oh no you poor soul
@@HeavyMetalRuinedMyLife1971a bro what
Thank you so much for this video ted. I'm studying architecture and so much interested in space . So this video make my year.
This is a very interesting project from the perspective of any engineer.
Gotta admit, nice solution to the problem they've come up with.
He talked in such a way that made me feel as if i had been to the moon or i was there as he was speaking
I don't have words for this .... really awesome to watch
Wonderful talk, thank you for this! TED is one of the most important channel on YTube, this stuff should be shown in schools !
You need to put cameras all over the construction site! :D i really want to see those printers in action!!! :D
TheSkoove they probably will have cameras on the printers I’m sure they would also live stream it
AWESOME. THANKS. Hugs
Set playback speed at 1.25 or 1.5.
Thank me later.
Thanks :)
Thanks
dam i should have read the comments before i watchhhhhhhhhhed
2 is great too
LMAO! saved me 6 minutes of my life.
Actually 401 million km is the longest distance possible between Earth and Mars, the shortest is about 54.6 million and the average is at 225 million km
For communication, you need to assume the worst delay for all systems.
Alexander Osper Who told you that nonsense? Do you "believe" Everything you're told ??
I had the same interest like him but I didn't know how to transport building materials to Mars or Moon for that matter...kudos ! Great video
November 2016 Oo? You really take your time with uploading those videos.
Thanks for this great video
Whats the binding material that's used to solidify the regulate? Glue?
I'm having a feeling that something that grows organically is better than stacking layers of rock
The Bigelow inflatables are not that fragile. In fact they hold up better then metal and much less expensive to construct and transport!
FRC 2018: Deep Space anyone? Those 3D printer bots would be perfect for the competition, and it matches the theme!!!
Xavier is a good thinker! (and designer)
Spaaaaaaaceee!
Spaaaaaaace Ghooooost.
Ovnis
I would love to work on those projects.
Wow! Interesting!
Excellent. Great T Talk :)
Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for mankind to keep all its eggs in. What do you think?
Mars asap
Decode Channel imagine trillions of humans around the universe xD
Decode Channel EARTH is FLAT and STATIONARY !!!
It is currently much easier to find a cure to dangerous diseases than to conquer space in order to flee from the very same. The main reason why we are going to space is that we as a race are adventurers and explorers, not caretakers. Sure, it is good for the survival of the human race that we are spreading to other planets but I think our survival as a species will never be the primary reason for space colonization unless we see an asteroid coming for our planet.
Decode Channel, what is small and fragile is the human brain. If human beings always act in everything, from 100% rational way, the problems will end up. The solution to current problems is simple: no growth at all. Growth may not be unlimited, the example we see in nature; a person begins as a tiny cell and grows up to die of 1.80 m on average. The Conference is very interesting.
This thing is so appropriate.
Brilliant...
Maybe you could bind material with, either organic material that could be farmed, or some kind of hot fusion using thermal/solar power.
And as you go forth today remember always, your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.
Thank you.
Extremly Interesting
Awesome
Seems like it would be way smarter and easier to find a cave on the moon, like those volcanic tunnels we apparently just discovered. It'd be faster and sturdier than building a whole new structure.
The one entrance seems a little unprotected. At least build two entrances. Or better still, two entrances and make them part of the "sand" structure. :)
Wow👍
Shouldn't TedX talks be on the TedX talks channel?
Yey Leuven!
Nice
It sounds like his accent is changing every few seconds
It's hot af
Ice should be a much more better idea right! If we can teach the swarm to build a giant igloo!! Instead of printing they can shape the blocks n place them! Less moving parts=less problems
He's making this sound so easy lmao
He looks like Kamakaze
The distance from Earth to Mars is 400.000.000??huehuehue
Daniel Alcântara technically is 54 million km at the best point. 220 something on average
It's expensive to get stuff to the moon sure, and space is limited, so you should take a Falcon Heavy. It will lift a lot more for a fraction of the price. It reuses rockets and whenever block 5 comes out it'll be even cheaper!!!
I think there should be Vietnamese subtitles.
Good content for once.
Ironic how there's a lack of space in space.
Great presentation, really! But don't you think that, unfortunately, human will destroy the moon just as they are destroying the earth?..
How are these autonmous robots on mars powered? Is solar energy enough for that? Will they be selfreplicating and be able to fix themselves?
What if the dome falls before they cover it with sand
Then these robots will continue with their duty, burrying that sign of our shame underground and commit seppuku afterwards, because they disgraced their masters
Анна Шеремет it’s possible but I think they just have to take that chance
Pretty good desighn, but first rule for a shelter is safety, has anyone told him that moon is ful of cratiers fom meteorites?
I think so, since he mentioned it in the talk.
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Ola
Wouldn't it be easier to go underground completely?
Silkworm we think there are caves on moon but tee don’t know for sure....and this is probably cheaper than digging holes
Reacting to the realities of the universe & problem solving at its finest
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Wow ! now days nasa working in best discoveries on sciesnce in Space. but on was history is huge ideas. so Since 1969 Great Ideas , is best year to discovery. but that was been Adventures had been very rulest knows discoveries, most amazing sciences in space. so in past was be like dog lika, and more things in history. but now very great technology. in space. in mars or earth is Science real, so How about nano and Working, with Robots time is sure amazing Time.
Humanity sends a space ship to land on the planet Mars while back on planet Earth, we kill each other over a parking space.
Awesome. Why not use that idea to make homes for the homeless, right here on earth?
when you do this on earth, it is not necessarily cheaper, because moving heavy things on earth is not as expensive as getting heavy stuff on the moon, the robots are expensive to build and there is not as much regolith on earth
He looks like Ollie from Mumbo Jumbo.
Poles had same idea
Igloo in space?
First among all
I don't know much about architecture but would it be possible to build a base under the ground? Like a cave?
he said himself that would be ideal, but imagine how much it would cost. Their goal was to minimize the cost.
what about the boring company
Aq
Who's that
Normally I comment and people get great pleasure from my words, I dont think we should worry too much about this video, obtaining material goals wont make you a better person.
How bout we figure out how to solve our problems here before we export them to the galaxy?
James Oxford you will be surprised by the amount of problems we have solved indirectly through the ages, specially with space. Space make people dream and imagine beyond anything else and that can be a very powerful force for innovation
I understand your view, but if you take an honest look at civilization, particularly post industrial revolution, we look a lot more like parasites than some benevolent species.
There is no reason why we couldn't work on multiple problems at a time.
I'm not saying we shouldn't. If people were to get off this planet and successfully start a new colony on another planet, it will be a very small number of people. On a macro level it looks like a jumping from one host to another, and is that really what we want the legacy of our species to be?
...or a virus lysing from a cell, setting out to go set up shop in new cells.
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zaz tat you are actually first my friend
What if we plant some bases on the moon for a quicker signal speed to mars?
As far as I understand the Problem is not he signal strength, but simply the distance. Since we can not send any information faster than the speed of light, we can only communicate at that very speed, and since Mars is pretty far away, there´s no going around a time delay with any mars to earth communication.
Not only that, consider how often the Moon revolves around the Earth, you'd have signal occlusion with the Earth in the way of the signal between the Moon and Mars pretty often, which is not something any controller would like. Which is i would seem like the only other alternatives would be to have an AI operated swarm like the speaker suggested, or the even more challenging option of having a space station orbiting Mars, in areostationary orbit, which is a geostationary orbit equivalent for Mars, or other options of signal relay.
It wouldn't help much, because the signal is limited by the speed of light. It would still need to travel the same distance, at the same speed, but with an intermediary stop. But there are benefits with having relay stations, as signals can degrade over time, so if you send a signal over a smaller distance, for it to be retransmitted, without any degradation to the signal. However, the moon wouldn't be an ideal relay, both because the earth moon distance is pretty small (in astronomical terms), and the moon is orbiting the Earth, meaning that the moon will not always be aligned properly to get a signal to Mars. You would ideally have several satellites in solar orbit, with multiple satellites in the same orbit at different positions, with several orbits so that there are always several relay satellites in between Earth and Mars.
Yea the moon orbiting Earth certainly presents its problems; seems like having satellites orbiting Mars would be the safest bet.
slipknotsk8ter89 it wouldn’t be viable since at some times it may be closer to mars than earth is, which is good and would decreases the time taken, which is pretty small. But the problem is that sometimes the moon is on the other side of earth and that would make it take longer for it to send data to mars than to do it from earth. Sometimes, earth would get completely in the way of the moon and mars connection and the moon couldn’t send messages to mars at all.
Pure science fiction, the cylinder(s) sent ahead does(do) not have enough interior space to house all the materials needed to build the living space (floors,equipment, etc) only perhaps in the movies, and if Tony Stark is in charge of the project,
Starcraft, zergs are coming. hurry up the bunkers
You Should be working With space X and Elon musk to make this a real Thing 2 entusiastic could make this possible !!
so... why cant we use this to print homes cheaply on earth?
when you do this on earth, it is not necessarily cheaper, because moving heavy things on earth is not as expensive as getting heavy stuff on the moon
sorry but first this guy talks about mass, but then puts in hollow spaces. How is that going to SHIELD against radiation??? I don't think much of this architect. He can design, but still has no idea about physics.
FIGHTTHECABLE Did you even watch the entire talk...?
Antonio Sarosi Yes I did watch the entire speech. The fact that you need mass to shield from radioactivity is true. Hollow space is not mass. Thus, building in hollow spaces makes it a no brainer.
FIGHTTHECABLE And that is why hollow spaces are covered with mass
If you take the mass as a constant and use hollow spaces you can make it much thicker. Which allows to use the same mass to build a stronger shell, if you design it correctly. So you get the same amount of shielding against radiation and a stronger shielding against meteorites.
why not build this on earth - fix the homeless problem
Wow...
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Wow...
boring
Simon J Research Flat Earth, here.... CZcams this... 200 proofs Earth is not a spinning ball. I dare you !!
hahaha, good one. I go one step further than flat earth, its one dimensional. A single line ^^
I have a feeling this was extremely dull. There's nothing new in the design of the bases, these sketches are known for few years; the swarm robotics is already solved problem - their little swarm being able to work together is not an impressive achievement anymore.
Hopemankind will first sort itself out and work for the continuation of life on Earth.....why to mess up other planets? I cannot trust humanity, we are not sane/conscious enough.
That guy might be a good architect, but he should be more careful with what he says publicly. Mars has no atmosphere? It will take 20 minutes for a message to get from the Earth to Mars? Misinformation is never good, even if you’re just exaggerating in order to simplify or enthuse people.
hobbitvillage in space
Yeah but what about feminism?
Awful talk!
The main thing that is wrong with it is that the guy is talking about building on Mars and the Moon, like we are already there doing it, we've solved the problem and everything is fine, while the truth is that we probably won't be able send a man to Mars and return him here in our lifetimes. Maybe we won't even find a reason to send someone to the Moon again.
And the other thing that i highly dislike is that the guy is generating hype around something that doesn't need any, it is already interesting and everyone is interested in it.
This talk doesn't contain any useful information whatsoever.
I speculate that again somebody is trying to sell us something that we pretty much do not need.
PS.
And they even had the balls to include the word "adventures" in the name of the vid. like they've actually done it... Fu*ing ads...
CZcams this....200 proofs Earth is not a spinning ball !!!
Wiktionary this… _proof_
HeavyMetalRuinedMyLife1971 except that gravity wouldn’t work if earth was flat
Tiny din0 Bouyancy and density explains why objects rise and fall. "Is a helium filled balloon an anti gravity device? Remember, it was Georges Lemaitre Jesuit priest who came up with the big bang. Copernicus (Priest) the Heliocentric model....
Lugh Summerson There is no measurable curvature . Spherical trigonometry for a sphere of 25 000 Miles is, 8 inches per mile squared. Ships don't travel over any curvature !! Try it yourself 😎
HeavyMetalRuinedMyLife1971 yes they do actually. It’s called gravity. Earth pulls on an object. It’s why we do t fall off. m.czcams.com/video/VNqNnUJVcVs/video.html and also I’m not say trigonometry for curvature I’m saying for an object to be reflected.
I see people still believe in space unicorn in 2018 how sad
can you elaborate?
He believes that space is a hoax created by the government. Sounds crazy af but NASA have lied to the pubblic about many things so it would not shock me if space was a hoax
hmmm interesting, would be a massive cover-up if you ask me
a year ago i was laughing at all these lat earth videos. Now i truly dont know. Dont listen to some random dude on youtube. People will always say do your own research and thats the best recommendation ever.
Omer Bloch, what makes you lose confidence in globular Earth? It's more easier to start believing in god than in flat Earth IMO 'cause god is unprovable myth and you can made things up endlessly to "prove your point" but shape of Earth is pretty scientifict fact that can be proved in many ways.
Space doesn't exist !!!
Lmao trolling at its finest
One comment that makes sense, and the earth is flat guys ;) no space, no moon landing, no mars no planets
HeavyMetalRuinedMyLife1971 what’s your proof
Tiny din0 just a start
czcams.com/video/sKSLVGB_9Z0/video.html
Natedabarber Figueroa all his facts are wrong if you used basic trigonometry and physics. Water will reflect light depending on the angle. Just like how your shadow is bigger when the sun is far in-front of you. Learn science
Awesome