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Space travel is the most exciting adventure for humanity, but in an irony of history we may stop ourselves from going into space the more we do it. With every rocket launched we are creating a deadly trap for mankind.

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End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity

To support Kurzgesagt and learn more about Brilliant, go to https://www.brilliant.org/nutshell and sign up for free. The first 688 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription. Space travel is the most exciting adventure for humanity, but in an irony of history we may stop ourselves from going into space the more we do it. With every rocket launched we are creating a deadly trap for mankind. Sources and further reading: https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/ https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt?ty=h Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz Kurzgesagt Merch:  https://bit.ly/2GeuQxZ Facebook: http://bit.ly/1NB6U5O Twitter: http://bit.ly/2DDeT83 Instagram: http://bit.ly/2DEN7r3 Discord: https://discord.gg/Fsstncs The music of the video here: Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/2w8eYsN Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2xpnhU2 Facebook: http://bit.ly/2qW6bY4 THANKS A LOT TO OUR LOVELY PATRONS FOR SUPPORTING US: Sean McGuinness, Kris Lang, Ashwin Rajesh, Trent Brown, Jens Jakobsson, Aleksandr Panchenko, James Ringold, Szabó Márton, Anson Thong, Eric Larmouth, Nnenna, Michael Wagner, Marco pescia, Ryan Luong, John Graves, Olivia Aramendi, Steve Austin, Yue Wu, Dire, Naked Vin, Anas Alamri, Cheryl Wang, Paco, Ben Cannon, Corentin Bienassis, Jan Šimonek, ceemdee, Carsten Müller, Kevin Templar, Robert Rosca, Gor Isajanyan, Lucas Meyer, Simon Sotak, devor, oligo, Diagon, Quentin Domon, Jérôme Grossé, Étienne-senpai, Soeren Apel, Tor Valstrøm, Nagamasa Inomata, Cesar Salazar, HYBRID, Morgan Allen, Arthur Tong, Giovanni Lanzoni, Jacob Niebloom, Marcus Julin, Cliff Warnstaedt, Gauste, Roger Cawkwell, Abhishek Modi, Joey Ephron, Julius Nass, Christian Kaiser, Ada Napiorkowski, Nathanael Baker, Alex Podgorski Help us caption & translate this video!https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q&tab=2

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Caleb Mathre

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Anonymous

Too bad, too sad, I'm turning mad

L4m3ness

Awww. I hope the guys and gals of Epic Mountain will feel better soon. (Also I clearly listen too much to the Kurzgesagt OST, so I noticed the recycling within 3 seconds and was immediately able to tell what track was used^^')

Anonymous

That’s a terrifying video. I lived through the 70s it was awful and lonely. I’m mostly bedbound nowadays and like other people with disabilities, I need Technology and the Internet to keep me alive.. Currently I’m suffering from the MRSA bug which they’re trying to get rid of stuff that I can have my ileostomy. I’m also due to have an MRI To track an abscess that may or may not have anything to do with the above.

Mike Spalding

Space is big. Even just the low Earth orbit part is big. But this bit is finite. So yes, this could become a problem. But I think we have time to develop various solutions.

Anonymous

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Anonymous

Question for smarter people: If most material in low earth orbit was launched eastward to take advantage of the earth’s rotation, and assuming most orbits are within a relatively narrow band of obliquity, why are we talking about relative velocites of 30,000 kph? Seems like most debris would have far lower velocities relative to debris in the same orbit. I can see where crossing this band perpendicularly might be difficult, in the same way that crossing a busy expressway perpendicularly would be asking for a crash.... but that’s why we merge into traffic.

Anonymous

Various aspects of GPS technology would be tricky to replicate at short notice, but a lot of internet infrastructure is based off fibre optics rather than satellite relays, so it's unlikely that the web itself would be shut down completely. The long-term danger to space exploration would be a shame though.

Anonymous

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Anonymous

hi, please take a look at this information. Collisions between satellites have taken place before and it was not nice. Objects orbiting Earth develop these high speed velocities and there is nothing to stop them (except when they crash or when they reenter into the atmosphere and burn up). You could not do the same on Earth, because there is friction and they would lose speed as more distance is traveled <a href="https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Space_Debris/About_space_debris" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Space_Debris/About_space_debris</a>

Drone0

The prison named earth

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

This video is amazing and upsetting at the same time.

Anonymous

I like it

giosann

I would suggest anyone here to read Planetes. A really good manga that in large parte treats the same argument: orbital space debris.

Anonymous

Love it!!... Kurzgesagt, Inkstall and Lemmino are my favourite youtube channels

SmansNob

that looks really dope dud

SmansNob

nice :)

XIAOHE ZHOU

is it too late already?