The Launch of Perseverance to Mars

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  • Опубліковано 29 лип 2020
  • This was a pretty extraordinary experience - thanks to NASA for inviting me! The Atlas V 541 rocket took off carrying the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity the Mars helicopter at 7:50 am July 30, 2020. They should arrive in about seven months on February 18, 2021
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  • @veritasium
    @veritasium  3 роки тому +4473

    Did you see laminar flow?
    No, neither did I.

    • @ThatWarioGiant
      @ThatWarioGiant 3 роки тому +69

      Ha!

    • @iliashdz9106
      @iliashdz9106 3 роки тому +5

      first i guess..

    • @realesoj1864
      @realesoj1864 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah

    • @ikjadoon
      @ikjadoon 3 роки тому +116

      lmao. The rivalry continues.
      But really, what amazing camera was this? The dynamic range is massive: pointing at the sun and you still had a bright blue sky?! I felt like I was really there.

    • @rwallztv5561
      @rwallztv5561 3 роки тому +17

      Ha, more like turbulent flow!

  • @ryanaiden
    @ryanaiden 3 роки тому +1902

    “taking off from the shore of the cosmic ocean” man that guy painted a masterpiece with his words

    • @chillaxTF
      @chillaxTF 3 роки тому +85

      Agreed, that was beautiful. "Punching a hole in the sky." That man has a way with words.

    • @christopherdinoguy8346
      @christopherdinoguy8346 3 роки тому +27

      It's true, since the beginning of the space exploration we've only wandered on the shore of the vast cosmic ocean. Now it is time for us to set sail to what lies ahead.

    • @aqeel930
      @aqeel930 3 роки тому +94

      He got this phrase from Carl sagan

    • @Sciencedoneright
      @Sciencedoneright 3 роки тому +2

      he's Shakespeare II man

    • @julienteychene6022
      @julienteychene6022 3 роки тому +40

      Carl Sagan s quote

  • @smartereveryday
    @smartereveryday 3 роки тому +3103

    Awesome my dude.

    • @kspmissions9314
      @kspmissions9314 3 роки тому +9

      Hey man, how’s it going lately?

    • @DjSapsan
      @DjSapsan 3 роки тому +69

      No laminar flow, huh?

    • @paddor
      @paddor 3 роки тому +4

      DjSapsan 🤣🤣🤣

    • @MarkLuis
      @MarkLuis 3 роки тому +1

      Hi Destin!

    • @aidanclark7095
      @aidanclark7095 3 роки тому +3

      Hey Destin Your Right this is awesome

  • @darklion13
    @darklion13 3 роки тому +1774

    imagine being on your first launch and forgetting sunglasses.

    • @JoaoRaiden
      @JoaoRaiden 3 роки тому +50

      And a cap! If I didn’t have a cap when I saw a starlink launch back in february my whole experience would’ve been ruined

    • @creamcheese6236
      @creamcheese6236 3 роки тому +65

      Imagine watching it in an empty field with a mask on 😪🤦‍♂️

    • @haroldmontano837
      @haroldmontano837 3 роки тому +56

      @@creamcheese6236 let my veritasium dude in peace lel

    • @ightmatehaveaniceday8158
      @ightmatehaveaniceday8158 3 роки тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/x___rkh8sVs/v-deo.html

    • @andrewmartin1123
      @andrewmartin1123 3 роки тому +8

      doesn't work as well for connecting with viewers. i'd tip he ditched sunnies on purpose.

  • @christians6974
    @christians6974 3 роки тому +1903

    It’s nice to see someone so genuinely happy about things like this

    • @yatharthsaxena175
      @yatharthsaxena175 3 роки тому +26

      Yep! I appreciate his appreciation.

    • @azerwhite8870
      @azerwhite8870 3 роки тому +19

      Yo, check out Everyday Astronaut, fr fr his community (me included) are stoked about everything space.

    • @Sharal3D
      @Sharal3D 3 роки тому +3

      it was few days earlier i found the helicoptor vid and sooo happy thatr they did launch in this time of crisis

    • @saranshgautam6551
      @saranshgautam6551 3 роки тому +5

      @@azerwhite8870 Yes!! So many people are hyped. My UA-cam feed has been all Perseverence for the past week

    • @azerwhite8870
      @azerwhite8870 3 роки тому +1

      Saransh for real tho, my Twitter is blowing up, and Everydays astronauts discord is crazy

  • @ukn4045
    @ukn4045 3 роки тому +1225

    2012: Let's see where our CURIOSITY will take us.
    2021: Let's see where our PERSEVERANCE will take us.

    • @julescpp
      @julescpp 3 роки тому +78

      And let's see what our INGENUITY will show us.

    • @apratimdutta2223
      @apratimdutta2223 3 роки тому +33

      2031:Let's see what the humans show us on mars.

    • @ukn4045
      @ukn4045 3 роки тому +15

      it's very great that we have so many optimistic people about what is gonna come into the future, the science and the information behind this missiond will be of great gift for the next generations.

    • @ightmatehaveaniceday8158
      @ightmatehaveaniceday8158 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/x___rkh8sVs/v-deo.html

    • @wcbuerste7
      @wcbuerste7 3 роки тому +4

      @@ukn4045 this kind of optimism seems blind to me. In the short term, we need to fix climate change, this is something we know will have catastrophic consequences otherwise. Space exploration comes afterwards.

  • @user-he4ef9br7z
    @user-he4ef9br7z 3 роки тому +711

    When you feel like you are the only one about to look at a rocket launch, there are 2 possibilities:
    1) it's a pandemic
    2) you are too close

    • @lauritoivonen2162
      @lauritoivonen2162 3 роки тому +6

      XDDD Great!

    • @jacobbudd2011
      @jacobbudd2011 3 роки тому +20

      3) They are returning to earth without you. That's what you get Dave for getting chip crumbs all over the couch.

    • @adityarajsrivastava6580
      @adityarajsrivastava6580 3 роки тому +22

      4). All your friends are making Tiktok and you are the only one who loves Science.

  • @torybruno7952
    @torybruno7952 3 роки тому +872

    Derek,
    I have only recently discovered your channel. Love it! Sorry I missed you at the launch.
    Even after 20 missions to Mars for ULA, it never gets old for our team.
    If you'd like to do this again and be a little closer to the pad, just let me know. I know a guy. ;)
    -Tory

    • @Wallus81
      @Wallus81 3 роки тому +8

      hello Tory

    • @JonahFouts
      @JonahFouts 3 роки тому +25

      This is when you know you have an incredible science/space channel 💪🏼

    • @HACKINGMADEFUN
      @HACKINGMADEFUN 3 роки тому +5

      Oooo Iam smelling a colab ; )

    • @matty7834
      @matty7834 3 роки тому

      Oooo

    • @neovaze1035
      @neovaze1035 3 роки тому +1

      Hello Tory👋

  • @earth117
    @earth117 3 роки тому +642

    It’s on my bucket list to see a rocket launch one day

    • @zukacs
      @zukacs 3 роки тому +10

      I wish I lived on a continent where they launch rockets

    • @loganjeffery7030
      @loganjeffery7030 3 роки тому

      Same here

    • @earth117
      @earth117 3 роки тому

      Rushabh in person obviously

    • @LightningShiva1
      @LightningShiva1 3 роки тому +10

      My bucket is to ride one of those rockets someday
      (not bucket list, whole bucket)

    • @Mike_Toreno
      @Mike_Toreno 3 роки тому +1

      Shiva Reddy 3⃣3⃣0⃣1⃣ so you will ride flying buckets instead of rockets😅😅

  • @prohli18
    @prohli18 3 роки тому +1628

    VSauce, and Veritasium posting on the same day...
    EPIC

    • @mathusuthanvenkatesan
      @mathusuthanvenkatesan 3 роки тому +105

      Coincidence .
      Or is it ?

    • @TheTrioBrozGt
      @TheTrioBrozGt 3 роки тому +3

      Coinsidences?

    • @sacalius_papalagius
      @sacalius_papalagius 3 роки тому +12

      together with the nasa launch and physics girl vid

    • @cwtrain
      @cwtrain 3 роки тому +7

      Only this video didn't watch like a 103° fever dream which I am thankful for.

    • @dioptre
      @dioptre 3 роки тому +4

      sciencephile also

  • @angus3963
    @angus3963 3 роки тому +185

    I get that same feeling of being on this rock when I look at the moon through a telescope and you can see it actually moving, the faint shimmer of atmosphere between me and this celestial body... Always amazes me.

    • @terryhaines8351
      @terryhaines8351 3 роки тому +14

      I get the same feeling when I see the ISS pass over at night. It occurs to me that people are like ants, scurrying around, not realizing what's going on in the sky overhead.

    • @erblinbeqa6550
      @erblinbeqa6550 3 роки тому +3

      Technically you can’t see the Moon moving. It appears to be moving because of the rotation of Earth round it’s axis.

    • @angoose503
      @angoose503 3 роки тому +1

      Hey Angus we have the same name lol

    • @JaydeRyan
      @JaydeRyan 3 роки тому +1

      @@erblinbeqa6550 have you ever looked at the moon thru a telescope? If you magnify close enough on a windy night the atmosphere obscures and bends the light, making the moon sorta wobble . I'm pretty sure that's what they mean when they say 'move'

    • @xxTHExxABYSSxx
      @xxTHExxABYSSxx 3 роки тому +1

      If you stand still enough, you can witness the moon and stars moving at a noticable speed. I do it all the time.

  • @TacticalReconSquad
    @TacticalReconSquad 3 роки тому +378

    It's honestly depressing how little some people care about space exploration.

    • @terrariabookshhelf6317
      @terrariabookshhelf6317 3 роки тому +4

      why?

    • @Knightly_Artworks
      @Knightly_Artworks 3 роки тому +43

      just think tho, in the next couple years when we return to the moon, and then following this we send people to mars, everyone's gonna be crazy about it! I, personally, am so grateful to be alive to witness the first human to step foot on another planet!

    • @ElHal04
      @ElHal04 3 роки тому +2

      I’m passionate about it but why do other people?

    • @nomeruim1957
      @nomeruim1957 3 роки тому +7

      I think it's because humanity is not on point, in 2030/50 when the first human step on Mars it's gonna be trending on the Internet, news, movies, just like in 1969 when they got on the Moon

    • @voiq1764
      @voiq1764 3 роки тому +7

      @@nomeruim1957 they're planning on sending humans to mars within 5 years.

  • @liz_3d
    @liz_3d 3 роки тому +945

    The sound of this lifting off is something different man...

    • @nunyabusiness8538
      @nunyabusiness8538 3 роки тому +9

      rolling thunder

    • @LightningShiva1
      @LightningShiva1 3 роки тому +7

      Kinda like the A-10 Warthog *brrrrrrt*
      Love the sound.. and even more the sight..

    • @RigelNV
      @RigelNV 3 роки тому +11

      Near my city has testing pad of «proton» engines (Russia), when they are ignite in 50 km area we hear powerful low freq noice, even inside old brick buildings.

    • @asahiorbit4565
      @asahiorbit4565 3 роки тому +3

      fart

    • @asahiorbit4565
      @asahiorbit4565 3 роки тому +3

      a really long one

  • @cwtrain
    @cwtrain 3 роки тому +470

    "Taking off from the shore of the cosmic ocean."
    Yeah. Tucking that away for later.

    • @Axel-Jett
      @Axel-Jett 3 роки тому +18

      He said it exactly at the same time when I started reading this comment

    • @davidr2421
      @davidr2421 3 роки тому +40

      That's a quote from Carl Sagan's "Cosmos". Check it out if you haven't seen it!

    • @cwtrain
      @cwtrain 3 роки тому +4

      @@davidr2421 Of course it is. Why wouldn't it be?

    • @thomaswilbrink6446
      @thomaswilbrink6446 3 роки тому +2

      @@Axel-Jett you're not the only one

    • @maxwelljames3573
      @maxwelljames3573 3 роки тому +2

      @@cwtrain wasn't he just awesome?

  • @jackojambo
    @jackojambo 3 роки тому +235

    Nobody:
    Some guy with a funny mustache in 1933: 1:52

    • @olfmombach260
      @olfmombach260 3 роки тому +8

      Wrong arm

    • @harryswingler5009
      @harryswingler5009 3 роки тому +9

      I’m both appalled and impressed

    • @1gorSouz4
      @1gorSouz4 3 роки тому +16

      Hahahahah Holy damn, took me a while to get it

    • @ElHal04
      @ElHal04 3 роки тому +1

      Olf Mombach yea the left arm is for KKK 😂

    • @gabrielhermesson9926
      @gabrielhermesson9926 3 роки тому +4

      Took me a minute. Initially I thought you were talking about his villain laugh.

  • @lorehamilton2672
    @lorehamilton2672 3 роки тому +5

    Literally goosebumps hours and miles removed in time and still when that sound wave arrives....damn.

  • @paulec252
    @paulec252 3 роки тому +747

    His pure glee watching this. Not everyone is like us.

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 3 роки тому +1

      KAKAKAKAKAKAK this is wonderful! PRANK! It is terrible! I looked in the mirror and saw something UNPRETTY: my face. KAKAKAKAKAKA! But I am happy agayn because I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS and I use them to get views on my videos! KAKAKAKAK!!! Good day, dear 9aul

    • @CharlieTheNerd91
      @CharlieTheNerd91 3 роки тому +25

      @@AxxLAfriku I have never seen a channel with such a consistently high number of dislikes, good job!

    • @joshuathomas512
      @joshuathomas512 3 роки тому +11

      @@AxxLAfriku u ok?

    • @morpheas768
      @morpheas768 3 роки тому +24

      @AxxL
      Whatever drugs you're on, are clearly not good for you. Get some help.

    • @Poatatero
      @Poatatero 3 роки тому +12

      AxxL
      Oh god not you again

  • @D.Poison
    @D.Poison 3 роки тому +50

    1:41 Just a guy running with his Suitcase on Stone

  • @cyberlolo_Fr
    @cyberlolo_Fr 3 роки тому

    Thank you so much. Watching you having so intense fun and joy and redistribute it so nicely is the best thing I’ve seen since a lot of time. Thank you.

  • @N0Xa880iUL
    @N0Xa880iUL 3 роки тому +136

    2:34 The streaks of shadow cast by the exhaust look so cool.

    • @gordonrichardson2972
      @gordonrichardson2972 3 роки тому +15

      Ashutosh Kapre Crepuscular Rays.

    • @N0Xa880iUL
      @N0Xa880iUL 3 роки тому +4

      @@gordonrichardson2972 Didn't know that word...Thanks!

    • @Dinara1up
      @Dinara1up 3 роки тому +9

      @@gordonrichardson2972 thank you, sir! This is also an option in video games to toggle. It looks really pretty when turned on but slows down yhe computer quite a bit!

    • @samkes1061
      @samkes1061 3 роки тому

      Sunbeam

  • @DJignyte
    @DJignyte 3 роки тому +246

    Was stoked to see you on the NASA live stream of the launch.

    • @veritasium
      @veritasium  3 роки тому +143

      I was stoked to be on it!

    • @DiscoveredMate
      @DiscoveredMate 3 роки тому +5

      @@veritasium I am an astro physist it would be great to talk and collab with you

    • @bdulAhad0
      @bdulAhad0 3 роки тому

      @@birdsplaybs1234 thanks

    • @iamsurajgiri
      @iamsurajgiri 3 роки тому

      @@birdsplaybs1234 thanks thomas

    • @giammy0
      @giammy0 3 роки тому

      Same!

  • @NigelStratton
    @NigelStratton 3 роки тому

    Launch videos never give you the spectator's view of a launch. This was awesome, and thanks for good audio that rattled my room.

  • @Pssst.ByTheWay
    @Pssst.ByTheWay 3 роки тому

    child like awe and fascination is truely one the best and purest parts on humanity.

  • @moos5221
    @moos5221 3 роки тому +392

    0:24 I thought you were going to say: "It's me and Destin.".

    • @moos5221
      @moos5221 3 роки тому +1

      @Chandan Sinha Yeah, I've watched those videos, hence my expectation for him to be there. But he is probably safer in his area with the out of control pandemic in the USA. :-/

    • @ightmatehaveaniceday8158
      @ightmatehaveaniceday8158 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/x___rkh8sVs/v-deo.html

  • @timothyschindele6288
    @timothyschindele6288 3 роки тому +44

    "When you see something like this, it just changes your world view for a minute." Well said. Thanks

  • @systemhendrix
    @systemhendrix 3 роки тому +1

    You're lucky to see and FEEL a rocket launch with no one around. No crowds of people around or anyone talking. It's just you and an awesome machine taking off into a nice clear sky.

  • @MatthewCrumley
    @MatthewCrumley 3 роки тому +2

    The part about realizing we're really on a rock hurtling through space really hit me because that's exactly how I felt watching the eclipse. Something about seeing the moon physically blocking the sun with my own eyes just made it all feel more "real" to me. The sun and moon weren't just abstract lights moving through the sky, but they along with the earth were very real objects moving through space. It was definitely the most awe-inspiring moment of my life.

  • @savagedarin1236
    @savagedarin1236 3 роки тому +174

    That's cool, i saw you talking on the NASA Live Stream, where you were asked some questions. :)

    • @aaron_r.5743
      @aaron_r.5743 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah. I was confused when he said "Veritasium will be joining us"

    • @elieweiss1049
      @elieweiss1049 3 роки тому +21

      “He’s really smart”

    • @veritasium
      @veritasium  3 роки тому +22

      @@elieweiss1049 lol

    • @xersxo5460
      @xersxo5460 3 роки тому +2

      What a flex

    • @elieweiss1049
      @elieweiss1049 3 роки тому +7

      Veritasium I thought it was pretty funny. I’m bummed I missed the launch but from your video it looks awesome!
      Actually my Aunt and Uncle (Tanja Bosak and Ben Weiss) are two of the leading scientists on the Mars Mission and are both professors at MIT.

  • @sujaybelsare4743
    @sujaybelsare4743 3 роки тому +170

    Launching a space craft at the current situation of the pandemic is just mind blowing
    WOW!!

    • @veritasium
      @veritasium  3 роки тому +114

      Yeah, I'm amazed they pulled it off with the lockdown happening right at crunch time for getting everything set to go.

    • @DiscoveredMate
      @DiscoveredMate 3 роки тому +5

      @@veritasium can you collab if not can you shout me out in your next video

    • @GryphonB
      @GryphonB 3 роки тому +11

      NASA already had experience with quarantining with astronauts before flights and the make sure everything is sterile with their equipment so there no contaminants that could mess with the other planet and the science that is found.

    • @fergalkidd91
      @fergalkidd91 3 роки тому +9

      Careful, you’ll set off the conspiracy theorists

    • @sujaybelsare4743
      @sujaybelsare4743 3 роки тому

      Wow no way He replied

  • @JohnDoe-dj3lw
    @JohnDoe-dj3lw 3 роки тому

    Yes Derek, it will NEVER get old. By the way, that sky dude...can't get clearer than that. Awesome view....really awe inspiring...just beautiful!!

  • @ismaelbrowne9003
    @ismaelbrowne9003 3 роки тому

    After some time without videos, we finally see you again, and it's when you are in a moment of joy. Perfect.

  • @shashay1344
    @shashay1344 3 роки тому +9

    Doesn’t look like much until you hear the blast and then you realize that is some real power up there. Badass!

  • @achmadfaridz7828
    @achmadfaridz7828 3 роки тому +267

    I genuinely confused and surprised when seeing derek getting himself interviewed lol

  • @darklordsajan
    @darklordsajan 3 роки тому

    Ah just watching him enjoy it is so endearing. Made the entire video so worth it. Thank you!

  • @yadsewnde8699
    @yadsewnde8699 3 роки тому

    This is very very cool. I'm glad you were there to see this and thankful you showed us.

  • @entropyanonymous3385
    @entropyanonymous3385 3 роки тому +10

    This is truly a great moment that regains your hope for humanity, we dare to lift the vail of the unknown, and explore what is beyond. Wish one day there will be no countries, we can all live as one☝️

    • @magnus4g63
      @magnus4g63 3 роки тому

      government is slavery

    • @cosmicglot2297
      @cosmicglot2297 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/x___rkh8sVs/v-deo.html
      Trying to spread communism

  • @mikeyjackson422
    @mikeyjackson422 3 роки тому +7

    Saw you on the post launch commentary. That was Awesome. You did great, derek!

  • @acs197
    @acs197 3 роки тому

    So awesome. Thank you for sharing your experience, Derek!

  • @dlsgl407
    @dlsgl407 3 роки тому

    Thank you for sharing this perspective - it's so easy to be jaded by the images from on board or the chase jets - this seems more real.

  • @criskity
    @criskity 3 роки тому +292

    Flat Earthers: "It's all CEE-GEE-EYE!!"

    • @cgeyye9916
      @cgeyye9916 3 роки тому +72

      I had no hand in this.

    • @daphnereloaded3480
      @daphnereloaded3480 3 роки тому +5

      Globe idiots "It's reeeel"!

    • @4ltrz555
      @4ltrz555 3 роки тому +57

      @@daphnereloaded3480 lmao how many times did you read the Bible today.

    • @ElHal04
      @ElHal04 3 роки тому +13

      4ltrz r/woooosh it’s obviously a joke 😂 why would a flat-tard be watching Ve

    • @CNCmachiningisfun
      @CNCmachiningisfun 3 роки тому +15

      @@daphnereloaded3480
      The *STUPID* is strong in you, little dimwit!

  • @vnth2186
    @vnth2186 3 роки тому +141

    The dislikes are from 'Flat-Marsers'

    • @magnus4g63
      @magnus4g63 3 роки тому +7

      or people sick and tired of this scamdemic bs and the slave sign of subservience called masks.
      Lies lies lies, suicide up, drug use up, homelessness up - economy being destroyed while the fed prints trillions to their buddies and your natural human right are being eradicated faster than ever.
      cool rocket tho.

    • @vnth2186
      @vnth2186 3 роки тому +17

      @@magnus4g63 cool rocket tho

    • @Xatzimi
      @Xatzimi 3 роки тому +2

      Cool rocket indeed

    • @Litepaw
      @Litepaw 3 роки тому +9

      @@magnus4g63 riiiighto. 🙄
      The world is still pretty beautiful though.

    • @ronik24
      @ronik24 3 роки тому +10

      @@magnus4g63 Ah, here you are. Didn't take long.

  • @howardbaxter2514
    @howardbaxter2514 3 роки тому

    Was about to go to sleep after watching the launch on TV, as I had just gotten back from work and had a doctor's appointment in a few hours, when I heard your legendary voice coming from the TV. I immediately got up and watched your interview before I went back to bed. Good stuff getting to be interviewed by NASA in front of millions of people on live television.

  • @RREYNOLDS65
    @RREYNOLDS65 3 роки тому +2

    When I was fortunate enough to be there for a launch, the thing that got me the most was not the bright light when the countdown hit zero (It was a night launch, so the light was blindingly bright), but the shock wave that hit your chest ten or fifteen or however many seconds later. I took a crummy phone video of the launch, and you can hear me and my mates just start laughing when that happened. I'm so very happy that you got to experience it firsthand, and got the same glee from it that I did!

  • @Alkyar
    @Alkyar 3 роки тому +9

    I feel lucky to live in a part of Florida where I can see rocket launches from my front yard.

    • @humanbeing1429
      @humanbeing1429 3 роки тому

      Envy you. Pure jealousy beating in my heart right now. I've waited all my life to see one in real life. I'd have goosebumps all over for sure.

    • @cgeyye9916
      @cgeyye9916 3 роки тому

      Cool

    • @JohnDlugosz
      @JohnDlugosz 3 роки тому

      And I live in Texas where I can see shuttle landing. That used to be on the license plates... they got rid of that picture, once you could find pieces on the side of the road.
      Sorry couldn't resist.

  • @dftbarachel
    @dftbarachel 3 роки тому +257

    This just happened 😂 how u so fast bruh

    • @SandeepTiwari-kz6xe
      @SandeepTiwari-kz6xe 3 роки тому +7

      Money Bro

    • @Elias_g1
      @Elias_g1 3 роки тому +1

      @@SandeepTiwari-kz6xe What Bro ?

    • @veritasium
      @veritasium  3 роки тому +170

      this is a super fast turn around for me. I went straight from the livestream back here to edit.

    • @evan6898
      @evan6898 3 роки тому +4

      Veritasium hi

    • @kuzonio
      @kuzonio 3 роки тому +6

      Just a guess but maybe by prepping the project ahead of time and just replacing or filling the spaces with what was just captured? Wizardry sounds cooler though so I’m just gonna go with that. 😛

  • @thats_my_comment
    @thats_my_comment 3 роки тому +1

    I'll never forget the way it felt to feel the ground shake when I watched my first launch and living in Melbourne I was close to the cape and it never got old to me I still love it

  • @KomalSingh-bh8zr
    @KomalSingh-bh8zr 3 роки тому

    This is so exhilarating to watch! All I can see is pure joy in Derek's eyes as well! This is really awesome

  • @thatplane3865
    @thatplane3865 3 роки тому +79

    I was just watching the old vid of the Mars Helicopter

  • @jahrazzjahrazz8858
    @jahrazzjahrazz8858 3 роки тому +81

    2:15 "Better shield my forehead from all this sun"

    • @intyrlude
      @intyrlude 3 роки тому

      nice comment

    • @OmNom1206
      @OmNom1206 3 роки тому +4

      @@intyrlude I concur. This comment was, in fact, nice.

  • @fumblztv8979
    @fumblztv8979 3 роки тому

    Anything that can bring back that look of childhood wonder to a person's eyes is worth it in my book.

  • @andyrechenberg
    @andyrechenberg 3 роки тому

    Congrats on your first launch. It truly is an indescribable experience. A rocket launch should be on everyone's bucket list. 🚀

  • @ingeniousx2581
    @ingeniousx2581 3 роки тому +11

    "On a rock hurdling through space" i got this feeling when space x was showing starman in space and the earth was behind it ...truly incredible

  • @arinroday302
    @arinroday302 3 роки тому +4

    Anybody here after the landing ?

  • @Slantir
    @Slantir 3 роки тому

    Your description of how this feels is amazing and makes me need to witness a launch in person myself.

  • @gauravnk
    @gauravnk 3 роки тому

    His laugh and how happy he his making his content really makes me soften up

  • @makisekuurisuu
    @makisekuurisuu 2 роки тому +3

    I just found your channel; you're really awesome and I can't wait to learn more from your future contents ♡

  • @richiecuzzz1
    @richiecuzzz1 3 роки тому +6

    It’s my dream to see a rocket launch in person. Living on the west coast in California we only have launches from Vandenberg Airbase. We got to see the Space X launch a while ago but it wasn’t up close. When Space X launched the first manned mission to the ISS it made me emotional. Also it made me proud to be an American. It shows what we can accomplish when we put our problems aside and work together.

  • @mattcurls5582
    @mattcurls5582 3 роки тому +2

    As a native of Florida, I never get tired watching launches. It's an awe inspiring, almost spiritual experience. Cannot wait for the SLS to launch!

  • @Markfps
    @Markfps 3 роки тому

    You can hear the emotion in his voice. That launch was amazing indeed.

  • @hariharan224
    @hariharan224 3 роки тому +15

    "realise that you're on a rock hurdling through space" that happened to me when I was high on acid

  • @arvidbjorkman2551
    @arvidbjorkman2551 3 роки тому +81

    him blocking out the sun with his left hand is very memeable.

    • @krishmangat3224
      @krishmangat3224 3 роки тому +1

      I watched that part at 0.5 X speed . I wasn't disappointed.

    • @somedudeok1451
      @somedudeok1451 3 роки тому

      At least he wasn't pointing at it while looking directly into it.

    • @herowitho
      @herowitho 3 роки тому

      The other hand and it wouldnt be funny anymore hahahaaha

  • @RiaanLouw
    @RiaanLouw 3 роки тому

    The Sublime Experience. When something powerful, large or awe inspiring makes you feel truly small in the universe.

  • @fengatormx6
    @fengatormx6 3 роки тому

    I'm so glad to see that you're still posting great stuff

  • @thesecret6019
    @thesecret6019 3 роки тому +48

    Not just a proud moment for USA but also a proud moment for the whole world. Congratulations Nasa! 💐👏

    • @markk9840
      @markk9840 3 роки тому

      Ofcourse proud americans hehehehe.....

    • @somedudeok1451
      @somedudeok1451 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah grats America. Now if you could also stop voting for dimwits who want to de-fund all this, instead of de-funding say the police, that'd be great.

    • @totenmaarhaim5369
      @totenmaarhaim5369 3 роки тому +1

      congrats Nasa for keeping up the lies

    • @filip9564
      @filip9564 3 роки тому

      @@somedudeok1451 Kinda funny since its generally the democrats that wants to lower NASAs budget and republicans increased it

    • @somedudeok1451
      @somedudeok1451 3 роки тому +1

      @@filip9564 Not true.

  • @TheJennyWalaShow
    @TheJennyWalaShow 3 роки тому +7

    Dude! I would bawling in tears, its like seeing your kid go out to college.

  • @benlloyddavis
    @benlloyddavis 3 роки тому +1

    I felt the awe after I turned the bass up on my computer and the pure rumble of the rocket was almost like being there. I will definitely have to see a launch in person now!

  • @hinnawe
    @hinnawe 3 роки тому

    Well!
    Thank you for sharing with us this amazing moment.

  • @kunwar4709
    @kunwar4709 3 роки тому +18

    That rocket took off faster than I would've imagined

  • @yuakka
    @yuakka 3 роки тому +17

    It's incredible that we can actually send things to Mars.

    • @Zap319
      @Zap319 3 роки тому +1

      5head ofcourse 🍷

    • @Mark-Wilson
      @Mark-Wilson 3 роки тому

      its amazing yeah but it takes a long time I hope in the future we have more efficient ways of travelling faster

  • @vak5461
    @vak5461 3 роки тому

    This thumbnail was super cool! Simple yet majestic.
    Always love your videos as well Derek, stay safe!

  • @pawoo666
    @pawoo666 3 роки тому

    Media is so amazing. UA-cam is an amazing platform to spread things like this.
    Amazing images!

  • @ALPHATHEREAL
    @ALPHATHEREAL 3 роки тому +5

    The importance of scientific exploration is clear, even in these difficult times! 👏

  • @saraag6632
    @saraag6632 3 роки тому +17

    I was even more excited when they said they are going to have Veritasium in the NASA Livestream.

  • @davidcardenas9099
    @davidcardenas9099 3 роки тому +1

    I took my whole family out to the beach that morning!! We live about 125 miles straight south, the morning was so clear & blue we saw it easily. Very epic

  • @blakhorizon915
    @blakhorizon915 3 роки тому

    That sound through headphones is awesome. New thing on my bucket list. See a rocket launch.

  • @Streethagore
    @Streethagore 3 роки тому +40

    I wish there were a split screen with :
    - a video of the launch on the right
    - a video of your face on the left
    Just for those 3:34 of pure emotion.
    Just sayin, in case there is a next mindblow moment that you know for sure will happen that you can accurately predict when.

  • @saijeyaprakash8117
    @saijeyaprakash8117 3 роки тому +4

    It's good to know that in the midst of all this craziness, humans are still shooting for space.

  • @khamidullomukhammadjonov9783
    @khamidullomukhammadjonov9783 3 роки тому +2

    What the beautiful scenery 😍
    Finally, the perseverance started it is long journey to Mars. May force be with you!

  • @iggi3985
    @iggi3985 3 роки тому

    That sound just brings chills down my spine!

  • @Jaqen-HGhar
    @Jaqen-HGhar 3 роки тому +30

    ""It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning, and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go? That's who I am." - The Ninth Doctor

    • @MohamedFareedh
      @MohamedFareedh 3 роки тому +1

      This quote is from doctor who?

    • @Jaqen-HGhar
      @Jaqen-HGhar 3 роки тому +3

      @@MohamedFareedh Yes from the pilot episode of the newer series called Rose when Christopher Eccelston played the Doctor. It was the line that sold me on the show. ua-cam.com/video/68wCH07e3mk/v-deo.html

  • @adityachk2002
    @adityachk2002 3 роки тому +8

    Honestly this is actually the best achievement of man

  • @Project2457official
    @Project2457official 3 роки тому

    Seeing this video is crazy in perspective.
    I watched this live with my dad in the morning.
    Hundreds of thousands of others shared that experience, along with people on the ground such as Veritassium.

  • @kinderjoker
    @kinderjoker 3 роки тому +1

    I wish I had a friend like you. Congrats on the launch.

  • @spkspkspks
    @spkspkspks 3 роки тому +136

    Nobody:
    Some dude in his beater civic at 3 AM: 1:37

    • @alexdackfors6894
      @alexdackfors6894 3 роки тому +3

      Sounds more like a cayote engine for some reason😂

    • @acctadmin4073
      @acctadmin4073 3 роки тому +3

      More like my ‘92 Blazer

    • @mattb4640
      @mattb4640 3 роки тому

      that's me. you're welcome.

    • @cosmicglot2297
      @cosmicglot2297 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/x___rkh8sVs/v-deo.html
      Trying to spread communism

  • @lucasscopello
    @lucasscopello 3 роки тому +3

    People in 200 hundred years will see this videos and say "look how cute people were back then for something so trivial"

  • @zahraakhalife9150
    @zahraakhalife9150 3 роки тому

    Watching a rocket launch in front of your eyes is just AMAZING❤️❤️. I love this channel. I have been following it since my first undergraduate year. After two or three months I will start my PhD. I just got a warm feeling when I found a notification from Veritasium. ❤️

  • @louwozniak9363
    @louwozniak9363 3 роки тому

    I saw a shuttle launch and it truly was a visceral experience. The bright flare of the engines followed by the suspense of waiting for the sound. Several seconds later there was a surreal feeling - the ground shaking while the wind blew around you drawing the air out of you in time with the booster pulses.

  • @dioptre
    @dioptre 3 роки тому +62

    no one:
    vsauce and veritasium : we will upload same day so to blow your minds

    • @pravinnichal8147
      @pravinnichal8147 3 роки тому

      Or is it?

    • @randomblock1_
      @randomblock1_ 3 роки тому +1

      Vsauce uploaded a day ago though?

    • @squeakybunny2776
      @squeakybunny2776 3 роки тому

      @@randomblock1_ depends on your timezone I guess... For me vsauce was yesterday as well

  • @letsGoRichard
    @letsGoRichard 3 роки тому +5

    I would love to see this in real life someday.

    • @MK.5198
      @MK.5198 3 роки тому

      it is an experience like no other.

    • @letsGoRichard
      @letsGoRichard 3 роки тому

      @@MK.5198 It sure is.

  • @mduvigneaud
    @mduvigneaud 3 роки тому

    *So* awesome that you got to watch the launch in person! At some point in the not too near future I would love to see a launch in person. Ain't gonna be for a while because... yeah. I do love watching the video streams in real-time when I can or VOD. :D

  • @critneyhere
    @critneyhere 3 роки тому

    Goosebumbs .. thx for sharing!

  • @enveloreal
    @enveloreal 3 роки тому +3

    2:10
    Wow, the god rays coming from the exhaust are amazing.

    • @mechabutYT
      @mechabutYT 3 роки тому +1

      It's real time rendering and the smoke effects with reflective surface mod really does make a difference 😀

    • @enveloreal
      @enveloreal 3 роки тому

      @@mechabutYT Lol "Get amped for Ampere"

  • @hacker007300
    @hacker007300 3 роки тому +13

    1:55...
    “Hears german music”

  • @soonapaana24
    @soonapaana24 3 роки тому

    Man....I can't believe I saw this!!! Thank u dude

  • @golfnovember
    @golfnovember 3 роки тому +1

    I remember seeing my first rocket launch several hundred miles south in West Palm Beach. A few hundred people gathered at the top of the parking structure at Palm Beach International Airport. From that far away, and perpendicular to the flight path of the rocket, you can really get a sense of the speed it is reaching to get to orbit. Years later, another Mars orbiter was launched from Vandenberg AFB here in California. My wife and I got up early in the morning to see it. We found a secluded area (where other people were also waiting to see it), and we saw it leaving earth. Seeing it down range had a similar effect in perceiving the speed it had to reach. Our eyes were the last to see it in person before it left earth’s gravity to reach Mars...rockets never get old!!!

  • @s.mullin6041
    @s.mullin6041 3 роки тому +20

    Small nitpick: The rocket isn't going to another planet, its payload is.

    • @veritasium
      @veritasium  3 роки тому +14

      lol

    • @amkarkare96
      @amkarkare96 3 роки тому

      @@veritasium Some part of the rocket comes back to earth (boosters), followed by first stage and so on. At what point do we say that the rocket went to Mars or the payload?

    • @falcoperegrinus82
      @falcoperegrinus82 3 роки тому +10

      Small nitpick: its.

    • @michaelwodz9807
      @michaelwodz9807 3 роки тому +1

      @@falcoperegrinus82 small nitpick: Richard

    • @s.mullin6041
      @s.mullin6041 3 роки тому +1

      @@falcoperegrinus82 fixed, thanks! :)

  • @revieman1
    @revieman1 3 роки тому +19

    "Son we're about to break the surly bonds of gravity and punch the face of god"
    -Homer Simpson

  • @AdricM
    @AdricM 3 роки тому

    I love the quote, and totally agree. those are the moments where you are humbled by the amazing abilities we humans have achieved.

  • @sampeterson11
    @sampeterson11 3 роки тому

    Thank you for this video... Thank you for being open about what you were feeling during that experience... and thanks for the reminder- 😉😇 Love you brother!

  • @nr_0001
    @nr_0001 3 роки тому +16

    Vsauce and Veritasium both uploaded recently?
    I'm going to get +500 smart points now after watching the videos