5 Mind-Blowing Projects NASA Is Actually Working On | Answers With Joe

NASA gonna NASA Dan real last what are your thoughts on the Impossible emdrive NASA is talking about so I started looking into this EM Drive and I found out that NASA is actually working on a lot of really cool stuff right now so I'm going to do a video where I talk about the 5 coolest nets has always been working on new engines throughout its history but one that's gotten some really positive and interesting results recently is called M Drive but the reason the M drives in the news is because these positive results they've been getting tend to kind of break all the laws of physics and scientists don't like it when their physics don't work anymore which actually seems to be happening a lot lately now M Drive has been a theoretical idea since around the year 2000 but it was always dismissed outright because it breaks Newton's third law that's the one that states that every action has to have an equal and opposite reaction see that's how spaceships work they move this direction because there's an opposite force going that direction but this drag works by bouncing microwaves around inside of an enclosed chamber which produces quantum fluctuations that provides thrust without any kind of actual force being applied to the outside of the engine and as a scientist once said that this is like moving your car forward by pushing on the steering wheel its miniscule thrust at the subatomic level but it's constant acceleration which means it adds up exponentially and over time you could go incredibly fast and since it only uses electricity it requires no fuel and since it uses no fuel Texas will probably ban it all of this was totally theoretical until just a few months ago when they tested the engine and found that it was producing 30 to 55 micro Newton's which is incredibly small but still measurable it's so small in fact they thought it might have just been produced by the air pressure around the engine so they tried it again in a total vacuum and guess what it still worked and it still shouldn't so let's see an engine that uses no fuel has no moving parts and could make interstellar travel possible yeah let's play with that one so NASA's been working on long-term plans to send humans to Mars for decades now it was always a foregone conclusion right the next logical step in space exploration but is it while everybody else has been looking out towards Mars a small team at NASA has been looking the other direction at Venus now anybody that knows anything about Venus knows that going and landing on that planet would basically be like dropping right into a giant earth sized oven because the temperatures at the surface can melt lead but that doesn't scare NASA scientists they work in Texas they are pressure at the surface of Venus is 93 atmospheres for reference the air in the room that you're sitting in right now is one atmosphere Venus is 90 times higher pressure than Earth this sounds impossible but if you were standing on the surface of Venus you would experience the same amount of pressure as if you are swimming a kilometer below the surface of the ocean it would crush you like a soda can Jay this sounds like a great place why are we going there because of such high pressure is a lightweight craft pressurized or the same level as here on earth would never even get close to the ground it would just Bob around in the upper atmosphere like a cork on the top of the water dirigibles Zeppelin's blimps all kinds of lighter-than-air vehicles could be connected forming an entire colony just floating around in the clouds of Venus an actual cloud city and the temperature is up at that level of the atmosphere might be quite comfy as opposed to Mars which averages somewhere around 100 degrees below zero and Venus is half the distance of Mars for all these reasons there are people around NASA I think that Venus might be the better option look if we're going to get a cloud city I get to be Lando I called it going from Cloud City to Waterworld and the search for life beyond Earth one of the most promising places to look is Europa one of Jupiter's moons it's almost entirely covered with ice but it looks like a good contender for two reasons one it's got a very smooth surface which means that it's constantly refreshing itself it's it's it's an active place and the other thing is that the Hubble Space Telescope actually spotted plumes of water vapor coming off of the surface which means there's probably a lot of liquid water underneath all that ice it's not that it's an ocean kept warm by tidal flexing caused by the extreme gravity around Jupiter that that makes the water and the ice and the rocks inside of the planet rub up against each other and creates heat warm liquid water works pretty well here on earth so we think that there might be a chance for life on Europa but the problem how do you get past all that ice NASA is developing a robotic drill that would drill through the ice and then swim around in the water using motions based off of squids it would be the first interplanetary underwater Rover a robot squid with a giant drill and its head swimming around inside the waters of the moon around Jupiter and still no jetpacks really last year the European Space Agency scored one of the biggest victories in science when their rosetta mission landed a probe on a comet which led millions of Americans to look up at the sky and ponder the question Europe has a space agency never one to shy away from an international pissing contest NASA said oh yeah well we're gonna go do the same thing except we're gonna bring it back stupid Europe and they gave it what is easily the coolest space probe name of all time osiris-rex but Cyrus Rex's mission is to land on the asteroid Bennu and collect samples from underneath the surface and bring them back home so that the scientists can study them right there with their own hands or multiple hands should it contain some kind of mystical cosmic element that would cause them to grow extra appendages and have special powers comic books don't lie the mission will give us a first-hand look at the building blocks of our solar system as well as give us information on how we might someday destroy the asteroid yeah yeah yeah building blocks with solar system whatever weight we're gonna blow something up we may want to destroy venue someday because the projected path shows that it might possibly collide with earth sometime the late 22nd century I am been a destroyer of worlds Oh hail abou Oh Oh Bennet by the way it was named after its Discoverer his favorite piece of Ikea furniture that's probably not true finally after 25 years of the hubble space telescope sending us mind-blowing pictures that have made us reconsider the scope of the universe and our place inside of it nASA has decided to make that telescope its [ __ ] the James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to be launched in 2018 and it's being called the Great Pyramid of our generation and for good reason the mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope measured 21 feet across as opposed to the Hubble's 8-foot mirror and it can collect seven times more light this extra girth allows it to penetrate more deeply into space giving us a more full experience of bang because light travels at a constant speed the further we see out into the universe the further we see backwards in time for example when we look at a star that's a hundred light years away what we're really seeing is what the star look like a hundred years ago because the light that left at a hundred years ago is just not reaching us through its giant mirror and it's focused on infrared light the James Webb Space Telescope should be able to see up to about a hundred million years after the Big Bang which means we're going to be able to see some of the first galaxies in the universe forming this will give us a better understanding of the rapid expansion and cooling that took place at the very beginning of our universe which gives us a better understanding of the forces that guide our universe today so maybe we'll finally understand how emdrive works alright thanks for watching and thanks to Dan for a great question if you've got a question you want to ask you can ask it in the comment section down below or hit me up at any of my social media channels and we can get smarter together this is your first time here and you enjoyed what you saw check out all these playlists over here to get a better idea of what I do and if you want to catch me every Monday and subscribe up above and come back every Monday with cool thought-provoking videos they'll give you something interesting to talk about with your friends in the water cooler at work and you can catch me on periscope by actually in periscoping the recording of this right now I don't know how I'll be doing that but you can follow me there at joe scott writer and i do fun stuff time-to-time and you can be perfect alright thanks again for watching love you guys have a great week see you soon you it's projected trajectory okay projected trajectory what a horrible combination of words projects a projected trajectory projected trajectory I'm not even try

Channel: Joe Scott

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Keywords: NASA (Spacecraft Manufacturer), Astronomy (Field Of Study), Europa (Moon), James Webb Space Telescope (Telescope), Em Drive, OSIRIS-REx (Space Mission), Rosetta (Spacecraft), Philae lander, Venus (Planet), Mars (Planet), Jupiter (Planet), the big bang

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Length: 7min 51sec (471 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 17 2015