Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind?

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1. I still don't get the tether and counterweight. Is the tether solid and holding the counterweight up? Just from the names that doesn't sound right. But if it's flimsy, then how would the counterweight not wrap around the Earth? I... I just don't quite get it.
2. Make a video about asteroid farming!
3. what about terrorism lol
4. we spend trillions blowing each other up on dirt piles and mud huts on the other side of the planet, with smart weapons that cost more than the average person makes in a year. Oddly enough we wont spend 25% of that to at least TRY to expand space travel.
   
   Meanwhile we exhaust thousands of lives in wars yearly, and have done so for our existance... however, we lose a few astronauts in a freak accident and its a catastrophe of the highest order.
   
   So, why don't we spend trillions on space exploration, and risk the lives of thousands of astronauts. We might not need to spend trillions on blowing up each other, in mud huts on the other side of the planet, with smart weapons that are too expensive for most people to ever afford. Thus saving the lives of thousands of soldiers who probably didn't want to die anyway.
5. I'm supposed to be watching this science video, but this one black hole keeps taking my mass...
6. Why dont we just establish a base on the moon? ;l
7. I don't get it. I'm using the mobile app of YouTube, and it shows the video tittle in my native language (Finnish) Is it just the sublities or what?
8. Antering hyperspace. Made my day.
9. What if the cable snaps?
10. doraemon reference is nostalgic
11. I love you guys - but seriously, you have GOT to fact check your numbers. The ISS weighs close to 400 metric tonnes, and not 500,000 tons as you imply here! That is wrong by more than three entire orders of magnitude.
    
    Additionally, it's not possible to put a figure on how much an elevator would cost, and hence, what the price to orbit would be.
    
    And there are so many reasons not to build an elevator! And, if you do build one, you have to build two - so you have one as a back-up, otherwise a single failure results in the total loss of the entire system.
    
    I am not in favour of any kind of space elevator until we are at least a Type I civilisation, and already have easy and cheap access to space. In the mean time, beamed power launching is the correct way to launch mass to LEO - such as the Laser Light Craft which have been well demonstrated. If all your mass is taken care of by cheap laser launches, then you only need small craft like the Dragon 2, to ferry people to and from orbit. If hardware can be made to be reusable on a massive scale, then the reasons for building an elevator almost disappear.
12. Learning while procrastinating. This is the best way to procrastinate.
13. 2:36 did nobody notice him saying that 1 million tons is the weigt of 2x the ISS?
    
    the ISS is like 400t, not 500.000t!
    
    in fact, 1 million tons is ALOT.
14. This video reminded my of the Halo movie Forward Unto Dawn, specifically the scene where the Covenant blow up the space elevator.
15. Hey, make a video about Nuclear pulse projection, it's the only known possible way to travel between stars!
16. Wouldn't this effect the spin of the Earth on its orbit around the sun? Wouldn't the counterweight have to possess a large mass?
17. 54MJ is 15 kWh?
18. I squeak every time I catch a Doctor Who reference in your videos
19. Antering Hyperspace Lol
20. Then it would take alot of money to get to the moon and build it