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It's hard to get to space.
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As much as we all wish there were an easy and affordable way to see our planet floating in the dark, right now the only way is to become an astronaut or a billionaire.
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But there is a concept that might make it possible while serving as the starting point for the exploration of the universe, the space elevator.
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How exactly does it work?
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To understand how a space elevator will get us into space, we must first understand what an orbit is.
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Being in orbit basically means falling towards something, but moving fast enough to miss.
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If you throw a ball on Earth, it makes an arc through the air and then hits the ground.
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In space, gravity makes you move much the same way, but if you move sideways fast enough,
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enough, the curvature of the Earth makes the ground fall away beneath you as fast as gravity pulls you towards it.
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So to enter Earth's orbit, rockets have to go up and sideways fast.
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By contrast, a space elevator taps into energy from the Earth's rotation to get the cargo going fast.
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Imagine a child spinning a toy on a rope with an ant on the child's hand.
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As the ant climbs out along the rope, it starts to move faster and faster as it ascends.
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Compared to rockets, with cargo launched on an elevator, you only need to provide the energy to go up.
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Fast sideways movement comes free with the Earth's rotation.
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But a space elevator would, without a doubt, be the single largest and most expensive structure ever built by humans.
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So, is it worth it?
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It all comes down to costs.
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Rockets burn a huge amount of rocket fuel just to get a small amount of cargo into space.
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At current prices, it costs about $20,000 to put 1 kilogram of payload into space.
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That's $1.3 million for the average human, $40 million for your car, billions for an international space station.
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This immense cost is one of the major limitations of human spaceflight.
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Even with advancing technology, this cost isn't likely to be comparable with the price of an airline ticket anytime soon soon.
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A space elevator would solve this problem.
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After construction, a space elevator is projected to reduce the cost 100 fold to $200 per kilogram.
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If an inexpensive space elevator costs $20 billion, then we'll recoup our losses after launching only 1,000 tons,
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close to the weight of two international space stations.
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So what would a space elevator look like in real life?
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A space elevator has four major components.
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The tether, anchor, counterweight, and climber.
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The elevator part of the space elevator is the tether and the climber.
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It extends from the surface of the Earth to space.
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The climber is like a conventional elevator carriage, a chamber that works its way up and down the tether.
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At the base would be an anchor, pinning the tether to the Earth, along with a port for climbers.
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At the top is the counterweight, which holds up the tether.
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The tether is held tight like a rope and supported from above by the tension from the counterweight, located higher than 36,000 kilometers above the Earth's surface.
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At the counterweight could be a space station, a launching point for all missions from the spaceport elevator.
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But can we actually build one?
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It's hard to say.
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The biggest challenge is the tether.
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It needs to be light, affordable and more stable than any material we can produce right now.
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There are promising materials like graphene and diamond nanothreads, but even they may not be strong enough.
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And aside from being incredibly strong, the tether would also have to withstand atmospheric corrosion, radiation and micrometeorite and debris impacts.
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Additionally, it takes several days to climb the elevator.
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How do we power the climber?
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It requires a lot of energy to go up.
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Do we need a nuclear reactor on our elevator carriage?
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Or do we beam it power from the ground with a super-powered laser?
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And where do we get the raw materials for a 36,000 kilometer long tether?
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Do we make it on Earth and launch it into space, or do we make it in space and lower it down to the Earth?
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Could asteroid mining be the answer?
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Put simply, there are still some major technological hurdles to overcome.
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And a space elevator is not without risk.
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Should the tether break, it would collapse in spectacular style.
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If it breaks near the anchor, the force exerted by the counterweight will cause the entire elevator to rise up, ascending into space.
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Should it break near the counterweight, the tether will fall, wrapping around the world and whipping the end off.
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The resulting debris in orbit could pose serious problems to future spaceflight.
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If we build a space elevator on Earth, we have to do it right the first time.
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For these reasons, some experts have proposed first building a space elevator on the Moon.
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The moon's gravity is much weaker than the Earth's, so a flimsier but existent material like Kevlar could serve as a tether.
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Even with all these challenges, the payoff of having a working space elevator would be immense.
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It might be the first step to truly becoming a space-faring civilization.
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Maybe we will never build a space elevator, but in trying to do so, we might learn an awful lot.
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And when it comes to the exploration of the universe, there can't be too many dreams of a glorious future.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau C1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind? ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : space, elevator, tether, Earth, counterweight. Cette vidéo contient 65 phrases et 922 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 5:24. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 171 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. Seuls 78 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant. 10 de ses 65 phrases sont des questions : un bon entraînement pour l’intonation interrogative et les réponses courtes.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| tether nom | /ˈtɛðəɹ/ | longe |
| counterweight nom | contrepoids | |
| climber nom | /ˈklaɪmɚ/ | grimpeur, grimpeuse |
| orbit nom | /ˈɔɹ.bɪt/ | orbite |
| sideways adverbe | /ˈsaɪdweɪz/ | de côté |
| anchor nom | /ˈæŋ.kəː/ | ancre |
| rope nom | /ɹoʊp/ | corde |
| ascend verbe | /əˈsɛnd/ | monter |
| kilogram nom | /ˈkɪləɡɹæm/ | kilogramme, kilo |
| carriage nom | /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/ | carrosse |
| immense adjectif | /ɪˈmɛns/ | immense |
| debris nom | /ˈdɛbɹi/ | débris |
| rotation nom | /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/ | rotation, tour |
| corrosion nom | /kəˈɹoʊʒən/ | corrosion |
| curvature nom | /ˈkɜɹ.və.tʃəɹ/ | courbure |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| go up verbe | monter, s'élever |
| hold up verbe | retenir |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 3 contractions et formes réduites, comme can't, isn't, we'll. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: tether /ˈtɛðəɹ/, withstand /wɪðˈstænd/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: rotation /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/, corrosion /kəˈɹoʊʒən/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, inexpensive /ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪv/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, atmospheric /ˌætməsˈfɛɹɪk/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: carriage /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/, curvature /ˈkɜɹ.və.tʃəɹ/, technological /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: tether /ˈtɛðəɹ/, orbit /ˈɔɹ.bɪt/, rope /ɹoʊp/, kilogram /ˈkɪləɡɹæm/, carriage /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme tether, counterweight, climber.
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.