https://youtu.be/9X9laITtmMo?si=0D3fhWnviF9eeTwU

This video showed up on my youtube feed today. The title claims that the topic is debunking low earth orbit space elevators, but the video quickly moves on to the more realistic geostationary type.

I could get behind videos like this if the title was something like "Why we don't have space elevators right now." But the writer pretends that technological advancement doesn't exist, and never considers that smarter engineers might be able to solve a problem that is easily predictable decades before the hypothetical technology comes to fruition and lables the whole idea "science fantasy."

In the cringiest moment, he explains why the space elevator would be useless for deploying LEO satellites - the station would be moving too slowly for low earth orbit. So it's totally impossible to put a satellite into LEO from the geostationary station. I mean, unless you're one of those people who believe that one day we'll have the technology to impart kinetic energy on an object, like some kind of fantastical "space engine."