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Zero gravity, infinite potential. #TEDTalks
Is space the “final frontier” — or the perfect place to revolutionize life on Earth? Space architect Ariel Ekblaw reveals how self-assembling structures could build orbiting real estate in space dedicated to solving humanity’s greatest dilemmas on Earth, leading to scientific and medical breakthroughs only possible in zero gravity.
@tqdinh2
July 31, 2025 at 12:07 pm
Now invent the gravity drive and magnetic boots 😅
@maje9448
July 31, 2025 at 12:09 pm
Constitutes
@angryhairpeice
July 31, 2025 at 12:31 pm
mElony Musk?
@NewWitNip
July 31, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Like the iron man suit?
@mikebolton3816
July 31, 2025 at 1:17 pm
When nobody ever mentioned… Hey you know we have an actual budget … You do know that this’ll cost 500000 gazillion trillion billion dollars, all stolen from citizens, by governments threatening death or confinement of the citizens, who by the way will zero benefit, so 6 people can monopolize it all and claim ownership and be trillionaires.
Kinda like how MUSK, and Branson, Bezos, have monetized everything nasa did, all so dirty Katy Perry can go around claiming she’s an astronaut for simply being a passenger for 15 minutes.🙄
In my opinion. The space program is the biggest waste ever. And it’s the most obvious place for blatant fraud and theft of billions, because the public is completely kept in the dark. But it’s for ALL HUMANITY…
SURE🙄
@HydesAthleticsRevealed
July 31, 2025 at 1:23 pm
Interesting
@JoeyP946
July 31, 2025 at 1:54 pm
but how does this apply to gender studies and social crap, is what I expect the video to eventually be about
@liamblack15
July 31, 2025 at 7:21 pm
Bro, you okay? You created a false reality and got upset about it.
@JoeyP946
August 1, 2025 at 3:30 am
@@liamblack15 do you know what upset means?
Do you understand that watching 10 earlier ted talks all about the same nonsense would make someone think the next vid will have that same topic?
you’re weird
@Sinusoid-
August 1, 2025 at 12:11 pm
Haha, I think Ted talks are going back to what made them watchable to begin with
@frankiewinters1255
July 31, 2025 at 2:36 pm
This sounds expensive O_O
@mpumelelomdlalose9509
August 1, 2025 at 4:26 pm
Yeah it is
@TheHigherFury
July 31, 2025 at 4:59 pm
Oh wow that’s really holding space for us
@bennobassosaurus7078
July 31, 2025 at 5:14 pm
Yeah yeah 😂
@PastorJury
July 31, 2025 at 5:27 pm
Wow! Brilliant minds are doing amazing things.
@Tbonetiger21
July 31, 2025 at 7:57 pm
Who’s got there ticket for mars😂
@windigo_joe
July 31, 2025 at 11:42 pm
what a load of bullshit
@a1ar127
August 1, 2025 at 3:58 am
She sounds like she’s cloning. LIV golf. Never heard of her
@robertwhisnant
August 1, 2025 at 7:27 am
Will the company that paid the largest criminal fine in history for killing people for profit yet managed to stay out of prison going to have anything to do with this? Probably not a good idea.
@kennedykf
August 1, 2025 at 4:39 pm
Which company is that?
@manfredconnor3194
August 2, 2025 at 3:33 am
Yeah, which company is that? Space-X?
@HansiDevi-fr5mf
August 1, 2025 at 9:01 am
🙏🙏🎉🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️❤️👍
@fazer79
August 1, 2025 at 12:45 pm
How about keeping earth better and not polluting it?
@SimicDuty
August 1, 2025 at 12:50 pm
Sure but that has nothing to do with this video?
@fazer79
August 1, 2025 at 1:31 pm
@@SimicDuty it is, it will take massive amounts of fuel and reaources from earth to make projects of that magnitude. Colonizing mars is not a joke. And yhis will ruin earth. We better stay where we are rather than immigrating to other planet.
@kengregory1541
August 1, 2025 at 1:35 pm
@@SimicDutyNot very good at connecting the dots? It’s pretty obvious. Or just trolling away, tra la?
@SimicDuty
August 1, 2025 at 2:23 pm
@@kengregory1541not trolling, and no I don’t find it obvious. I understand that pollution is a problem but that has nothing to do with these self assembling space panels. Maybe you can spell it out since I’m “no good at connecting dots”
@kengregory1541
August 1, 2025 at 5:34 pm
@@SimicDutythe comment you don’t get is saying let’s not dump more resources into new space tech while we’re destroying the most valuable resource of all. Connx is obvious
@SimicDuty
August 1, 2025 at 12:48 pm
The coolest part about this is that it’s resilient to space junk cascades. If a station gets destroyed by debris a lot of pieces still work and assemble
@RamonQuiro7
August 2, 2025 at 9:55 am
Wouldn’t it break into smaller pieces?
@LimeDude9999
August 3, 2025 at 9:16 am
@@RamonQuiro7and then because they’re magnets clump into a larger piece?
@RamonQuiro7
August 3, 2025 at 4:57 pm
@@LimeDude9999probably yeah, but how would it form into the correct shape?
@manfredconnor3194
August 1, 2025 at 2:44 pm
How about spending the money here to fix our planet.
@blackpearl1-477
August 1, 2025 at 3:55 pm
Short-sighted. Money is actually getting increasingly obsolete. Ubi will be implemented first, after that it will be phased out.
It’s more important we focus on multiple things than just “fixing our planet”.
Our ways of thinking and doing things will change to a point that you won’t recognize.
@patmacrotch5611
August 1, 2025 at 5:38 pm
Obviously this type of work will lead to discoveries and knowledge that can be used to better life on Earth. That’s always the point.
@manfredconnor3194
August 1, 2025 at 7:10 pm
@@patmacrotch5611
That’s always the arguement, but I suspect there is lot of wasted effort and ressources for few gains. Of course, proponents push the propaganda about how great it is.
@lelandb2400
August 2, 2025 at 12:49 am
How about we move away from Keynesian scarcity of resources thinking, and realize that we have infinite resources available to both fix our planet and explore others
@lalakarme-k1f
August 3, 2025 at 8:52 am
it’s helping our earth
@jackiegarcia7800
August 1, 2025 at 2:50 pm
Mars is our next victim after we’re done with earth 😂
@manfredconnor3194
August 2, 2025 at 3:32 am
We’ll never successfully colonize Mars.
@redguyphil1
August 1, 2025 at 3:14 pm
We will not live on Mars. But this stuff is interesting and useful though.
@ScottRichardson-m9h
August 1, 2025 at 3:36 pm
Can we move into them
@RoyCoffee-w5b
August 1, 2025 at 4:24 pm
It sounds good, but that doomsday clock; can we make it before the end? You can’t save everyone but maybe our species will have a few more generations.
@Reptex_krka
August 2, 2025 at 2:15 am
Elon is working on an Elysium type solution for the elite.
@manfredconnor3194
August 2, 2025 at 3:31 am
@@Reptex_krka
No one here is part of that. Considering the way Elon’s rockets have been blowing up and his devil may care attitutes towards Aerospace, not to mention the realities and distances involved, I doubt even his elite solutions are viable.
@FibonacciWhale
August 1, 2025 at 4:37 pm
Space magnetiles
@MrVisionneur
August 1, 2025 at 6:28 pm
Considering you’re on a TED talk and considering that it’s Elon Musk that’s putting people on Mars are you now against people going to Mars?
@manfredconnor3194
August 2, 2025 at 3:34 am
We might leave a few skellies on Mars before we go extinct.
@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid
August 2, 2025 at 7:18 am
Doesn’t seem airtight. You can pressurize these magnet buckyballs?
@admiralpegasuscc
August 2, 2025 at 2:05 pm
So you’ve tested in space twice. Was that on a space station that has Oxygen and Nitrogen, or was it built actually in the vacuum of a oxygenless and nitrogenless environment.
@markc7440
August 2, 2025 at 4:43 pm
Okay, my science qualification is high school and watching far too much sci-fi, so maybe there’s a really obvious answer to my query (so please be gentle 😁). If uses magnetic joints, couldn’t the wibbly wobbly magnetic field of the Earth, or any cosmic stuff, mess up the joints?
@Bastispark
August 2, 2025 at 6:54 pm
Let’s put more junk into space yay! we poluted earth enough space is next
@whatisthisall
August 3, 2025 at 7:55 am
Interesting! Will the plasma environment of space influence anything?
@Chethakmp3
August 3, 2025 at 11:05 am
Nice. Thanks for your speech. You look beautiful too : )
@AnnieB-v8j
August 3, 2025 at 1:34 pm
Surely such powerful magnets might have an effect on the iron in our blood? If this level of wealth and investment in time and creative energy were focused on bringing everyone above poverty-level existence and cleaning up the environment, we would be free to create in the world we were given rather than taking our war-like and destructive colonizer mentality out into other realms. ET consciousness doesn’t want our selfish and immature mindset to spread further than we are. Nest-soiling, arrogant super-predator super-parasite. We break our own children! Our potential for fully embodied decency is squandered on these ego projects. IMO. Folly of the fallen.
@SakshamBorkar-y7b
August 4, 2025 at 11:18 am
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