The 100 Year Journey to Proxima Centauri B (Sci-Fi Documentary)
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2024
- This is a sci-fi documentary, looking at the 100 years it will take a nuclear fusion spacecraft to travel to Proxima Centauri b. The closest habitable planet to Earth, with a distance of 4.24 light years.
A journey venturing far beyond Earth’s solar system, showing the future science of space travel, exploration, and future space technology.
Personal inspiration in creating this video comes from: the movie Interstellar, The Expanse TV show, and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos TV show.
Other topics in the video include: the population growth over the 100 year timelapse journey to Proxima Centauri b, how bacteria evolves in a closed loop system, the design of the spaceship habitat ring, the rotations per minute needed to generate 1-g of artificial gravity, the conservation of angular momentum in space, the living conditions on Proxima Centauri b (the higher gravity, and the red light), and time dilation is explained (how many extra days will pass on Earth when the spaceship arrives at the destination planet - just like the movie Interstellar).
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Created by: Jacob B
Narration by: Alexander Masters
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Proxima Centauri B concept art: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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A future timelapse sci fi documentary of interstellar space travel to a new world, Proxima Centauri b, to create a new space colony.
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The grand crossing to Proxima Centauri B.
Some personal inspiration for this video came from: the movie Interstellar, the Nauvoo generational ship from The Expanse tv show, and Carl Sagan's Cosmos tv show.
Areas of the video where I would want to expand in more detail include: the ship design and how it was built, specific technology on board such as medical tech, and maybe more about the nuclear fusion engines. 🖖
Will you be doing a video for the first 10,000 days on Proxima Centauri B to follow up this video? I look forward to it if you are. I love watching all your videos!
I'd also like to see more detail about food and recycling, science discoveries while dealing with problems, reasons for not going faster, and maintaining mental and psychological health.
Well done.
On the next video: The great crossing to Gliese 581G.
A brilliant mini documentary!
On a par with and even better than some mainstream corporations documentaries.
Most enjoyable.
👍👍
As an older person, I want to ask one question. -
FOR WHAT?
Why do you want to fly into space? What do you want to find there? New Earth? So, are you having a hard time living on your old one? Then who is to blame for this?
We still don’t know how to live properly on Earth!
Look around!
What's the point in these flights if the same assholes that walk around you on the ground fly on advanced ships!!!
Until we make leaps in social development here on Earth, we have nothing to do in space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the 1980s our high school science teacher made the class figure out how far Alpha Centauri was using a large roll of paper. We had to make it to scale with our universe. Then he made each of us write a paper and give a speech on how our class would survive the trip. May you live long as star dust Mr. Miller. You made me become a scientist.
One thing these space travel videos always forget... Meanwhile back on earth, they discover a way to travel twice faster and send a new ship, the Helianthus II. Helianthus II arrives to Proxima Centauri about 25 years before the first. When the passengers of Helianthus arrive at Proxima Centauri, I would love to see the look on their face when they realize humans are already there.
I always think of this when the Voyager spacecraft are discussed. We could in the future, catch up to something that we blasted into space 100 years earlier. This always leaves you thinking, should we just wait until we have warp drive before sending people off on 100 year missions?
@@FlyingGuy
No reason to wait. If people volunteer for such missions then let them do it asap.
@@FlyingGuy There was a Twilight Zone episode that touched on that: An astronaut was placed in cryosleep on his way to a system authorities believed could support life, but his pod malfunctioned. Meanwhile, back on Earth they developed technology that gave them the answers they were looking for long before he got there. He returned as an old man.
Since the first ship is still in radio contact with earth I don't think it would be a surprise.
Or we are able to open a wormhole that can make travel only a matter of second
whoever makes these videos is either
1)a time traveller
2)a really smart physicist
3)a spiritual guru
I really cant believe how accurate these videos are
👏👏
cheers to the human race and all our efforts to know more
I wouldn't be surprised if text for the video was written by chat-gpt 🤫
Columbus was a boy in the schemes of discovery. Anyhow, humans have no boundaries.
by AI lol.
I enjoyed this video. It was very interesting to watch. Well done to the production team.
Like many would love to see a Part 2....the next 100 years on the new planet.
It would be 5 minutes. All died because their immune system got fucked over the long journey and wasn't able to adapt to a complete new ecosystem with own bacteria and viruses that mankind never had contact with. 😂
Nah no idea...but I also think it would be interesting to hear how they could overcome such problems.
@@JoshTyrReece Their immune systems would have adapted to space over the years and would make it easier for them to adapt to a new planet. Doesn't mean it woudn't be challenging tho and take time to overcome the things you pointed out.
Next - they passing by the ship coming from Proxima towards Earth - where hell are you going, we just left Proxima which is going to explode 😉
Fighting, arguing, segregation, communities that spring up with violently opposing views. You can hand pick the original 'perfect' crew but after that nature just takes over. I wonder if the first murder will be celebrated as the first birth was? Then we can truly say that human beings have arrived.
@@JoshTyrReece exactly what i think
This is better than Hollywood sci-fi movies.
Is this on VR or something? Why did they have that Thumbnail???
@@-TheMaskedMan- I think this is all IA generated. Text, voice and images.
Watch the movie "Pandorum". 😅
@@MarcusBadithey did a great job.
@@ericpowell4350 i like it!!
Best sci fi I ever watched on UA-cam
Videos like this are what makes UA-cam great! The first step to actually creating this spaceship is to imagine it. Next time I come across a video saying, "People will never leave the solar system," I'll put a link to this video in the comments. I wish you would have said a few words about radiation shielding. And maybe maintenance of the spacecraft over the 100 years, as that would probably be needed.
probability works against it. Do you live in a city? Just look around the public places.
@@paolameyer4937 this isn't a concept that would be put into action anytime soon. honestly this is probably the most probable outcome in terms of us settling on another planet. knowing humans, we probably have the brains to figure it out and the money to make it happen. but the only way humanity would come together to send a new civilization to another planet would be if we all worked in unison, and for that to happen would mean that humanity is on the brink of being wiped out. which means that things would be ALOT more serious and not as laxed and sloppy as it is right now. an advanced civilization such as the one portrayed in this UA-cam video would need very strict rules with dire consequences if broken. Wed actually have a real task on our hands and a reason to improve ourselves. right now humanity is basically a 45 year old alcoholic who only talks about quitting sometimes.
The levels of redundancy in such a craft would have to be enormous - building a 'vehicle' that won't have a fatal flaw over 100 years is a staggering ambition
100 of them ?
or enough to take on a shipwreck x
Humans already made probes in 1977. that flawlessly working today. Technology advanced since then. Don't judge technology by a quality of your home appliances. Anyway, it's not about machines that might fail, it's about humans that would go mad certainly.
Not really. The ship would have fabrication resources on board, and a crew to maintain it. It might even have a companion vessel, for redundancy.
The real challenges with generation ships are all social and biological. It's keeping the ecosystems in balance and the humans onboard from killing each other that we would have a problem with.
@@Helloverlord Those probes aren't working flawlessly. Several components on each have failed and were turned off years ago.
Would love to see a sequel: how they settle the new planet.
I fear that astronomers do not yet know enough about Proxima Centauri b for such a film to make sense in the style of this channel, which closely sticks by established facts.
Replay the Robinson Crusoe adventure cartoon. Awesome
@@charleskuchenbrod8400 Robinson Crusoe finds water and food on his island, even a native human being. It's not likely that you'll find such things on Proxima Centauri b, but if the presence of, say, plants is ascertained after you have made a sequel to the video here offered with no plants being present, it could appear as a little ridiculous. Like all that fiction with the jungles on Venus of the pre-Venera period, just vice versa. And in this case, you could not even argue that a grandiose fictional panorama still retains its value, like with Nelson Bond's Venusian scenario _The Last Outpost_ - because you're dealing with a documentary approach advancing into fiction but mildly.
They would probably kill it, the new germs we bring to it, or germs on the planet would kill us or predators!
@@HansDunkelberg1We recently learned the planet (and the others around red dwarfs) is Tidal Locked. Like our Moon, one side faces the master gravity. One side of the planet would be extremely hot and the other side extremely cold. Any atmosphere on the cold side would probably freeze. Multiple reasons they could not be habitable.
It would have been much more cost-effective to maneuver multiple asteroids, into a large enclosed rotating cylinder orbiting 6 months behind earth exactly opposite of earth from the Sun.
To think of this would require a lot of research and creativity well done :) Thanks!
This is the best time dilation explanation that i've heard
In a more realistic scenario, there will be more than 1 spaceship. A whole armada in-fact. Some ships are habitable, some are not. The unhabitable ones carry supplies such as ship repair parts, construction equipment (for use on the new planet), land vehicles etc. Another un-habitable (or rather semi-habitable) ones may even be some sort of environment laboratory and training ship. They simulate the living condition on Proxima Centauri B. To prepare and to acclimatise these pioneers.
They would be also several follow-up armadas sent from earth. Sent several years later to keep the whole mission succesful and to keep the link to mother earth intact.
I would make all 100 inhabited and within a flight of each other, but far enough apart one exploding wouldn’t damage a neighbor. Survivors can be rescued and divided across the remaining ships.
I agree, ships would have to be staggered. That would increase the population and add genetic diversity
Yes cool, and a few army ships sould not be missing either, before these colonists forget to pay earth back for the starting help. Later that will change in taxes.
Wrong. There is a whole lot of much more serious problems with this scenario. How are you going to stop the ship or ships? It would take a huge amount of energy to do that. The system may be a complete garbage dump. We don't know enough about it.
In a more realistic scenario, there wouldnt be humans at all. We wouldnt risk it for a planet we know absolutely nothing about. We arent even sure if Proxima Cen B is habitable
This was very well done. Thank you.
Brilliant and beautiful ! Thank you for this gift....
That was fantastic and far too short. I loved every single second of it and felt sad when it ended. Well done
Thank you. Yeah there is a lot more I would want to include. Maybe for another video, or for a blog post.
watch the expance series its fantastic just like this short documentry but 100 plus episodes
@@VentureCity another video preferably ; )
@@VentureCity holding a baby up to a light, maaaaaaaaa. lol. Lion king reference.
ChatGPT and AI thanks you
Great video, but Proxima Centauri B has an average temperature of -39C (-38F) and is tidally locked to a red star, much like the planet Krypton, so will only be habitable in a small ring around the planet, with desert on one side and tundra on the other side, and that is if it even does have an oxygen - nitrogen atmosphere, which is most likely does not, with atmospheric models showing it most likely has a carbon dioxide - oxygen atmosphere. Also, being so close to the red star that it orbits, the UV radiation and X-rays will most likely kill anything unshielded, if the solar winds haven't already stripped off the atmosphere leaving it more like our Moon or Mars. What we need to find is a young white star like our own.
exactly. we will not be sending any Gen Ships towards Alpha Centari... nothing for us there
@@blitzmotorscooters1635 you confuse alpha centuari with proxima centauri
alpha centauri a and b are yellow and orange stars, so it worth to observe and launch probe there to check their Goldilocks Zone, if you find planets and moon there chance are good to find planets or moons with liquid water ocean or few lakes
@@vkobevk yeah we need to know for sure
X-rays and other short-wave lethal radiations would likely be the main factor to consider before even envisioning any place (even with a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere) to inhabit. Otherwise, it's going to look like life on Mars. Better terraforming Mars if we are to accept to live enclosed in bunkers and other shielded habitations, or underground. Much closer and much higher chances of success.
The thing unmanned exploration should determine first is the presence of a magnetosphere on any candidate Elysia. This, ideally along with ozone, is the factor that'll protect us from lethal radiation from the star near which we'll choose an Earth 2.0, which is to look for before sending any large contingent of people.
Like Earth, in a small habitable Sun ring… meant for us…Terrans… Unite…☀️under this sun…
This was well done. I really enjoyed it.
This film makes me think about sci-fi movie about this ship: after a few dozens of years in space the ship is in total disarray, the remains of crew formed clans, fighting each other over the access to the rest of their supplies or control rooms, people going mad, cannibalistic and so forth. Sort of a postapocaliptic movie but in space. Looking at what we do on Earth, that what would happen on board fo sure.
“Civilization is the thin, fragile veil loosely covering Man’s barbaric nature.” -Sir Winston Churchill
They did make a movie about that, it was called "Pandorum", except they had no clue how long they had been on the ship because generations had passed. There's a bit of a twist at the end but people on board going crazy and killing each other as the structure of the "society" on board has long broken down is the main beat of the story.
Great stuff. If you ever decide to let it be made into a dramatized series, please maintain creative control 🙏🏿.
That would be cool
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@@VentureCity It would be imperative. Don't let blood sucking Hollywood in.
As an older person, I want to ask one question. -
FOR WHAT?
Why do you want to fly into space? What do you want to find there? New Earth? So, are you having a hard time living on your old one? Then who is to blame for this?
We still don’t know how to live properly on Earth!
Look around!
What's the point in these flights if the same assholes that walk around you on the ground fly on advanced ships!!!
Until we make leaps in social development here on Earth, we have nothing to do in space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love how you give us science through storytelling. The graphics are awesome as well. Congratulations.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it
Yes, it is very well done.
AI FTW
@@VentureCityI’m on my knees begging a part 2
Y u 88⁸
Fascinating content. Thank you!
That was well presented. A lot of things taken into consideration. I quite like the eye evolution
What a fantastic short film. In a way I feel sorry for those born on the ship and who die on the ship without ever reaching humanities new home.
we should count ourselves lucky we are taking living in this Earth 🌍 for granted
You should also feel sorry for the billions of people who are born and die on planet Earth, since they never get to see Utopia either.
But without them the trip would not have been completed so they would feel some satisfaction from that I'm sure.
@@mantirig4139 yes agreed, however, the first people onboard volunteered, the last people off go to a planet, the people that are born and die on the ship were never asked.
There’s a TV series called Ascension that deals with a lot of these issues.
@@intothemultiverse1033 None of us were asked one way or another but either by not having a choice or wanting to contribute we carry on. I do see your point in those in the middle getting the short end in a way though.
It amazes me how surprisingly good and also how incredibly bad AI is at drawing human faces.
Heh, and even worse with fingers!
scary how its almost life like.
How did they animate the AI pictures? Which AI software allows animation?
Loved the idea of this. Great sci-fi. Which will one day become fact.
The time dilation explanation was really nice
I applaud the effort that went into making this. Thoroughly enjoyed ❤
'....along the way, a reactor malfunction damages the ship, precipitating a crisis amongst the ships 7 most powerful leaders. As they enter the proxima centauri system, the crew splits into 7 distinct factions, divided not by nationality, but by ideology and their vision for the new world. After the ship breaks apart, the 7 leaders guide their chosen crew down to the planet surface, seeking their destiny beneath an alien sky.'
@@user-sc3ts6lf8rlol indeed, the scenario above (which I borrowed from Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri) is more realistic than this utopian vision 🤣
@@willc1294 sounds like "seveneves"
It's probably real and been on it's way for the last 50 years
Effort? This was entirely created by AI.
The number of things to think of and not miss for this kind of journey to succeed is a lot. What a journey indeed
OUTSTANDING!!! The entire time I was watching this, I was putting myself on that ship.
And that is where you will stay forever.
This is wonderful. Thank you.
This needs to be turned into a movie
It has check out Pandorum the movie with Dennis Quaid
This is what I was thinking. I would love to know more about the lives on the ship as it crossed. The idea of dropping a pebble from earth with every birth is a masterful touch.
Try a book. 'Songs of distant Earth' by A C Clarke.
With Matt Damon being stranded by himself on the planet Elysium
Kudos to the team that made this video! They've already spent more time on the mission than anyone else ever will.
This was made by AI!
@@mrwigley9883 No such thing as AI.
It was made by Ai, I agree. @flying guy, you should have left out the "A" in your comment.
No such thing as AI.
Hopefully these ships will not absolutely carry any corrpt politicians especially the swamp people that believe in chaos, hate, anger and a very low vibration to the point of dark matter.
can you imagine being born on a space station and all you know of your home world is through pictures and movies. and your world you live in now is a space station moving to a new planet with a unknown future. Crazy to think about
Many children will hate u for taking their choice and some will do suicide. Placing rocks in space for born children is dumb. Just another source for damage for other ships on this route.
That is kind of already how it is for people that look back fondly at pictures and movies from 30+ years ago.
I’ve read enough science fiction and lived long enough to know how this turns out. Dissent, factionalism, Revolt, violence and then the breakdown of the systems keeping everyone alive.
Ye of little faith! Au contraire! One of Elon Musk's kids will figure out how to construct a spacecraft powered by a rudimentary warp speed capable engine that will get the attention of the Vulcans who constantly monitor Earth, and then together humans and Vulcans will form the Federation with the Tellerites and the Orions! 😄
Alas, you may be right though considering Earth history up to now. We may indeed be already at the peak of our civilization and it's all downhill from here. But I still hold out hope for the future of humanity.
@@georgehenderson7783 I've read a shipload of downers, detractors, pessimists, those saying that it's too expensive, not worth it & it gets OLD.
There are several factors that make Proxima Centauri b a challenging place for life as we know it. Its parent star is prone to solar flares, which could strip away its atmosphere and pose a danger to potential life. Additionally, the planet is tidally locked, meaning one side always faces the star and the other is in constant darkness, which could create extreme temperature differences.
they would be living around the prime meridian
Why do you have to be the turd in the punch bowl?
Why? Because, FACTS! @@edgein3299
So? Send some Aussies to the sunny bit - she'll be right mate.
'No Shit' as the saying goes. The destination for these people may be a nightmare, the culmination of all of their hopes and beliefs for a century. A Roanoke Island.
You really went all in with using AI to make this documentary...amazing work.
For a one man or a small team you did a fantastic job.
Thank you, glad you liked it
May I ask what is AI? Do you mean computer-generated imagery? It's very weird this was never referred to as "AI" until 2-3 years ago.
@@debussy843
AI means artificial intelligence, and images generated with AI are made using a bunch of prompts, meaning no real effort or skills went into making these images, unlike the computer generated ones which take a huge amount of effort and skills
@@vowel8280 Thank you for this explanation.
Glad I scanned the comments and got it confirmed so I could skip this!@@vowel8280
Awesome, so amazing to think about. More please.
Wow, this was a great video!
My initial reaction was this journey will never happen. Too many obstacles to overcome. How many years to develop the technology? The cost. Who’s paying for it? Who’s going to decide who can volunteer for this mission? What about the need for continuing pharmacology development? Diseases will evolve, especially in such a closed environment, just as Covid 19 has. What about the ability to enjoy life itself? Can that be met on a spacecraft, regardless of its size? We are destroying our home, earth, without a doubt. Perhaps the money would be better spent on preserving what we already have. Having said that, my grandparents were born in a time before man could fly. As a young kid in the 60’s I remember waking up early to watch the early American space flights and the Apollo missions. Man on the moon? Impossible! If mission to Proxima Centauri is ever launched it will be many years after my passing. If it happens, I wish the crew a resounding success.
You seem to be thinking in you, there are others who are willing to do it. You can even bring religion if you want, as it was hinted in The Expanse. A baby that is born in a ship has nothing to miss. Right now you can see fantastic landscapes in movies and games, you may want to be there but know its impossible. Same for them, for all they know the ship is their home and may even refuse to leave it when it reaches its destination, preferring to die in it but encourage the new ones to try a new life in the planet below. It'll be just a space colony. Heck even on this Earth, if you are born in the wrong place, living in a place like you do right now is fantasy for others. "Oh i have a rough idea how Americans may live from watching several movies and shows, but i can't even afford a ticket and they don't allow entry without a visa that is expensive and only available in another country that my gov doesn't allow to visit in the first place" (and this is not fiction).
Destroying Earth would mean destroying human population. The exact opposite is happening last I checked unless the globalists cause an all out nuclear war.
Wow. That was incredibly intriguing! Very very well made! A lot of research and well founded considerations went into this. Whoever made this, please do more of these. I want to know about the first 10000 days!
ikr, it's like the scientists themselves made this video, this is a super quality video that feels REAL
After 500 days everybody killed each other, story of humanity.
This perfectly describes my 3-mile drive home from surfing here in Kona.
Very thought provoking and so interesting!
I usually don't leave any comments on videos, however, I just have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed your well-crafted short documentary. Nice work. Truly nice work.
First of all, this is a great format and i really enjoyed the video, thank you for creating it!
The setting itself felt like a common trope for movies where new generation rises up against the set-in-stone routines and rules (how to spend time, whom to like, whom to make family with, how many kids to have, when to die). I believe, this is the unaddressed part - how to include such tendencies into the overall plan so that it won't fell apart the usual way it happens in such stories.
At last someone who does not point this for concluding "thus we will never make it". Thanks 🙂
@@jige1225 Every time I read the comments on a video such as this, there are a gaggle of commenters saying that very thing.
They don't mention religion. Tremendous problem.
@@brianbell3836 How so ? Maybe they rediscover it. Like Dune's Zensunni faith with the Orange Catholic Bible or something similar. Maybe NONE of the Abrahamic religions.
Imagine dying of old age just months before arrival...
And then oops. Crash landing. Everyone perishes. It was all for nothing.
Very nicely done. Thank you.
I guess that if you could accelerate from 0 to 4.2% of C in a couple of weeks you may as well accelerate a bit fast or a bit longer to drop the journey time to 40 years or so. Either way, by the time this ship arrives there will be a colony built by people who arrived on the mark 2 or mark 3 ship.
Thought they'd be overtaken by colonists in a better (ie. faster) craft. Fascinating stuff.
most definitely. we've seen this already with satellites. It took new horizons just 405 days to reach Jupiter. while it took voyager 1, 546 days to reach to reach Jupiter. By the time that space craft is in it's 70th year voyage, we may have figured out how to go 25% of the speed of light by then and could get there in 20 years time instead of 100 years time. which would have surpassed the original ship by 10 years to its destination.
@@SteelRhinoXpress You neglected to notice that Voyager 2, which launched 16 days prior to Voyager 1, took 688 days to reach Jupiter. It's not so much a difference in technology, but a difference in the specific mission requirements. For their gravity assists to work, the probes needed to arrive at Jupiter at the right time, in the right place, at the right velocity and at the correct angle. For Voyager 2, that was compounded by the the necessity to do the same at Saturn and then Uranus, for it to be able to reach Neptune.
One problem is that higher speeds would require exponentially greater fuel requirements: More fuel to decelerate the ship at the destination, more fuel to decelerate the fuel to decelerate the ship, more fuel to accelerate the fuel to decelerate the ship at the launch of the ship, and so on. Higher speeds would also increase the energy of impacts with interstellar dust. And, any problems with the engine during the deceleration phase could cause the ship to risk overshooting the target. Higher speeds would reduce the time available to react to any issues and increase the fuel requirements needed to recover.
Didn't the Lost in Space movie (1998) show something like that happening, where the pioneering vessel got beat out by the next gen vessel to arrive at the destination?
a part 2 will be welcome.... was really interesting ! thanks for sharing !
Makes you realize how good we have it on this planet. I'd rather die on earth then go on that trip.
Yep, you will.( like ALL the rest of us)
I think ur crazy honestly. 100+ generations have passed on earth and will continue to pass and the biggest questions in life are that of our significance and what the universe is and what it means. I don't think humanity was ever meant to die on earth but due to our own ignorance and flaws, we just might. id gladly go on the trip. I don't care, I'm sure if that ship can make a trip to another star, it will have ways to suit the needs of people who previously lived on earth. simulating sunlight and the warmth, simulating wind and rain, simulating the smell of fresh air to a degree that you wouldn't even be able to distinguish. we wouldn't be just humans anymore. wed be the advanced civilization that we think aliens are. wed be the aliens. wed be more than just bacteria on a spec in the universe and it would also give humanity a WAY better chance at continuing forward. we may not see another 100 generations on earth. if we could live for another 100 or 200 generations. the shit we would be able to accomplish is incomprehensible. not only that, but youd be a legend. after numerous generations. stories would be told about earth. movies would be made, books, and you would be one of the few amongst billions in the now evolved world to have been from earth. i think it would be amazing. im tired of living on this rock.
So you get there only to find the ground is dead, no way to grow anything, the planet resembles Mars…. Quite a shock for the travellers.
Or you get there and another civilisation is already there and they don’t want alien invaders arriving and kill everyone.
Hmmmmm… space travel and planet colonisation ain’t so cool after all 😢😅😊
Beautifully narrated. There shd be a TV show on this epic journey!
A spaceship with a Greek name, towards a new Sun that will have the same name (in Greek) as the sun that we have now : Helios.
I congratulate you not only for your idea but also for its result. Great story, beautifully narrated and fantastic documentary.
Only to find out the planet is populated by a far advanced civilization who has an entirely different name for their planet and their sun.
They could even find the planet already occupied by hostile people.
@@mteokay1246if the planet is inhabited by wild uncivilized peoples that could be a problem.
That the inhabitants 3:25 would be more civilized is difficult because they would have already made a travel to their closest planet or sun: to us.
@@mteokay1246 That would be a great outcome, as the generational ship would be able to send a message to earth to finally confirm the existence of intelligent alien life.
Wow What a great presentation. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Very informative and, like others have said, would love to see a part 2
This is beyond beautiful....lovely documentary. I fell into a light sleep half way and dreamt I was on the ship!!!
Good Day. Very Cool & Enjoyable. Quite different and well done.
Thank You All & Best Regards.
Part 2 Maybe?
Very entertaining and thought provoking. To find willing families to spend the entirety of their lives and to die there and never see the new planet would need some rare individuals.
0:28 - this image right here is stunning. The children born on the space craft, listening to campfire stories from the only elder they've ever known. Relaying truths about that they're travelling to a star system light years away for the future of mankind, and all hopes rely on their survival and success. Something about this image is utterly haunting, yet beautiful. Knowing the elder will pass before their arrival, and that elder probably helped helm the decision to even begin this journey to begin with. What a fantastic video. Thank you.
Very interesting 🤔, can you TransUnion ,be bopp
sorry kids but we are stuck with earth, we can't ever colonize the galaxy.... EVER.
Bring it on please.
I feel kind of sorry for the first few babys: Never having known earth and will never see the end of the journey.
@@Valfara770 In other words the same as ever.
Surely, this was one of the most well-crafted and beautiful videos I've ever watched regarding the potential human colonization of another planet. Fantastic!
This was so cool!
This is one of the most beautiful and pure documentaries about space travel and our human future I've seen
This fantasy explains why we will never send people to explore the universe only robots.
Thankfully this is 100% fantasy. Imagine being born on a tiny cramped spaceship and find out that when it finally reaches its destination you will be 95 years old...
I guess it'd be like being born in any other situation you can't escape from. Imagine being born into a tribe on a tiny cramped island, knowing that you'll die there and nothing will have changed. Imagine being born in a small town with no prospects and no expectation of change. The reality is that if we ever build generation ships they'll be a lot bigger and a lot busier than most small cities. They'd have to be to support a functional ecosystem.
I would be interested in watching the episode where the wealthy types in the cryolabs are flushed from the ship mid-journey, thereby ensuring the success of the new home base.
Yeah, flush those A holes!
One of the first things I would do, Upon discovering them.
I wanna say how much I appreciate this video. I'm 20 now but when I was a child I loved looking at the night sky and being in complete ignorance of what it was. And the more I learned about it, the more I dreamed that one day I may be able to go to space myself. and I learned about other aspects of it and how space travel is a real possibility. I grew to believe that humans aren't meant to stay here. I feel as thought earth is a test to see if we can surpass ourselves enough to actually have the reward of unlocking the ability to explore the universe and expand humanity and find all the answers to our questions. But it saddens me because now adays you cant walk outside without seeing how much greed is in this world. greed consumes us, money and war and death are all biproducts of greed. I'm an adult now and have come to terms with the fact that I will likely pass away on earth and never experience what its like to travel through space. this video makes me feel as if I'm actually part of this voyage. and it made me smile. Its not too late for humanity to shape itself. our main issue is thinking that we as individuals have no say and cant change the world. it has to start with one person, then a group, then a whole community and so on and so forth. we cant be divided like we are now. the only way this is possible is if we all set our differences aside and work as one on achieving this goal but its almost as if everyone has lost hope and given up. it may be too late for this generation but there will be another one and it starts with us. you will have children one day if you don't already have children. teach your kids to love one another and not look at their fellow humans as different. teach them to have bigger aspirations and to not think of themselves as too insignificant to have a voice or make a difference. if enough people do that, we can start to build ourselves back up and one day this could be very possible. just because were not on a spaceship getting ready to leave doesn't mean the mission hasn't already started. We have a mission, all of us do, and that is to simply do our part and do what's best for everyone as a whole. you're kids are going to be the future of this world and how you bring them up will determine if that generation is the one to finally stop all this none sense and finally start taking the steps needed to get out of this place. the new civilization is going to need experts in all fields which means that not everyone has to be a scientist to help this cause. just be a good person and make sure you're children are good people.
People do love these sorts of videos. And a lot of effort does go into creating them, which is laudable.
But the content creators fail to mention Proxima Centauri is a flare star (look it up, folks), so Proxima B is almost certainty uninhabitable. It may very well have oceans, and perhaps even ocean life-- but no oxygen atmosphere and practically zero possibility for humans to live on the surface.
I'm sure little research went into this video and it's just ai rehashing facts with an ai voice.
if you can live in space for 100 years, why look for a planet? obvious we'll make artificial gravity space stations to live on.
@@murderdoggg That's a possibility, since the whole video is AI generated.
From the beginning, they specified that it is a science fiction documentary. Anyway, the documentary brings many interesting and objective things into view. congratulations.
I loved it because Im really hungry for Solar system/Milky Way galaxy perspective videos. I was always so curious of the distance comparisons
This would make for a really kick ass TV series. Imagine 1 hour long Episodes. 5 seasons.
First season taking place on Earth, and building everything, the politics of who gets to go, and all that drama. 3 Seasons of the lifes on the ship, Each season being 1 Generation of people and how they change over time, and the final Season being on the new planet. The stuggles they face starting from nothing, and how right as soon as they land. Humans be humans and branch off into tribes.
I even ahve a good name for the TV series. "Helios"
;)
There is already a TV serie on this topic...Lost in Space
How about 100 seasons!!?
Except the humans would branch off into tribes in the second season/generation. Thousands of people living there would make it hard to grow close to everyone, hence, people would form their own little communities within the ships. It would be chaos in the ships before even getting to the planet. Assuming it doesn't end in tragedy (which is a viable option), you still have an alien planet to deal with. From potential similarly intelligent species to bacteria that kills, the final season of the show would be wild. Personally, I would assume the few that survive would adapt and become only slightly human somehow.
@@svedese69 And "The 100"
@@svedese69 Exactly - the Robinsons were headed for Alpha Centauri. Humans being humans branch off into tribes is already done too - read "Lord of the Flies." About a bunch of school kids lost on a deserted island following a plane crash...(gosh that also sounds familiar.....).
I love that there is a segment of nerds that are dedicated to this formula for our education.
I inspire this videos. I always watch this ...thanks
I know alot of work goes into making a vid like this.
Thank you for making it. It was awesome! Hope you make one of the colonist first 100 years on planet.
Glad you liked the video
Ai and they still can't make a proper electric car
@@VentureCity How many hours have been worked on this creation?
Zero chance a dead body would be discarded. In an absolute closed system any body, waste everything, would be precious and irreplaceable. Everything would be recycled.
I was thinking the same.
Yep. That leapt out to me. Gotta have a closed system.
Proxima Centauri B is tidally locked with its star which is known to have violent outbursts of intense radiation flares, which at the close distance would likely severely damage any atmosphere. The planet would be interesting to explore, but is likely uninhabitable.
I watched a doco on this very subject 20+ years ago, it was suggested that multiple space crafts would be deployed, however as each space craft were up graded the first craft that left Earth would be pasted by the second one and so forth as each space craft was bigger and more powerful, so the first craft that left could be the last to arrive over a hundred year journey.
The inspiration from The Expanse is made clear right in the first second, where we can see the spaceship identical to the Nauvoo. Amazing job. Please release a part 2 of this 😆!
When I saw the ship I thought the same thing. I've seen that before.
Yup, moon mining state ship with rotation gravity. That's a good tv series.
Moon mining? The LDSS Nauvoo had exactly the same purpose as the Helianthus, but with a destination of Tau Ceti.@@TheForgottenVoter
@@kontrarien5721 Tau Ceti: The Lost Star Colony
Even the quote from Fred Johnson.
Proxima Centaury is the closest star to Earth, but up to now, the planet Proxima Centaury B is not considered habitable. For one side, no atmosphere has yet been detected. Also, the star is not as 'quiet' as the sun, it is very variable prone to emit huge ammounts for electromagnetic radiation with enough power to strip any atmosphere around the planet.
Good points. It would also be a hard undertaking to build something, say, on the side of the planet which always looks away from the star. One currently still - or already - needs about a hundred million people for autarky on Earth. Until a generation ship can be built, you can expect an even stronger specialization of production methods. You can argue that robots may take over many tasks, but where do you take a hundred million or more of such helpers from, on Proxima Centauri b?
Imagine being sent there just to see an advanced human colony that came there first because of a more advanced technology and thinking that they have found aliens
What makes me sad is, before reaching Proxima B people on earth already find the way to travel at the speed of light and arrives earlier even leave earth 95 years later
I thought the entire idea was thoroughly depressing, being born into an environment where your entire future is pre-mapped out for you, much like the vault-dwellers in the game Fallout, but I loved the golden eyed children. Truly beautiful. Great graphics throughout Venture City.
All who works in NASA, also knows, EARTH IS A CLOSED SYSTEM, NOBODY CANNOT LEAVE EARTH, THERE IS NOWHERE TO GO. They all know it, yet willingly deceive.
+ they are in the masonry club - that says it all.
NASA deals with CGI and Hollywood basements, making “SPACE”, to deceive mankind.
They, masons, wants to finally break the firmament, that`s the only and simple reason for NASA and all its missions.
Yes, I can only imagine the numbers of revolts, breakdowns, why not sabotages, civil wars and new religions... I would say they would have 10% chance of success.
@@profepik7525 Looking at modern America, and 1939 Germany, it's dismaying how rapidly a seemingly sophisticated society can descend into anarchy or barbarism. And that's without someone telling you from the second you are born, what your entire life will be.
As I see it, it would be far too risky to transport colonists in their conscious state.
Just like central planning Democrat Socialists😉
@@RareGenXer ua-cam.com/video/6HQaz4VuRF4/v-deo.html
The example of time dilation at 8:03 using a boat on a river was nicely done.
yeah that was great
I'd grow up hating my parents for bringing me on this journey I'd likely never see the end of.
Great stuff. You have even covered knowledge sharing between generations, bacteria evolution, bridging with pebbles, comms delay, time dilation.... great stuff! Make a movie or approach Christopher Nolan.
Beautiful visuals and good science (I work in the space industry, so I'm pretty picky.) I'd probably start the spin up so the generations arriving on the new planet are born and spend their entire lives in the destination's conditions. I happen to have recently asked a guidence, navigation, and control (GNC) engineer whether doing maneuvers required that you stop spinning. She said that it wasn't, and I think maintaining spin has some advantages. Y'all did great work!
One other thing--rather than having my body ejected into space, I'd rather it be carried to the destination, possibly by being recycled and becoming part of the ship's ecosystem.
On this planet cremations distribute your ashes over a vast area, while burials are carried out at places at which the soil isn't used for food production. Thus you'd have the uncommon experience of eating your dead ancestors if you recycled corpses on such a ship, I fear.
Well, since you are in the space industry, I have a question, how do astronomers know which direction to take when a space ship is light years away from Earth? For example (hypothetically of course!), let's say that you are in a space ship 100 light years away from Earth, how would you know which direction to take to get back? This always boggled me!
@@sns862 You'll make a three-dimensional model of the part of the Orion Spur - our location in the Milky Way - concerned. Stars move quickly, but you can foresee how they'll do it.
@sns862 Actually, you mostly know the answer already--a map. Of course, the map has to be three-dimensional. We already know where the stars are around us for a pretty good distance, so this information already exists. Unlike a map on the Earth, which may be useless if you are randomly dropped in a forest and can't see any landmarks that might appear on your map, space is really empty and you can see the stars all around you. You can use color, brightness, spectrum, variability in brightness, etc. to figure out which star is which. Then you match that to locations on your map, and, no matter where you go, there you are.
In the present, we don't go that far, so we have multiple ways to find out where you are. If you are close to Earth, we can bounce radar off of you. You can send out a radio signal that someone on Earth can use to track you. If you know the time, you know where everything in the Solar System is. If you can find, for example, the Earth and Moon, you can use trigonometry to figure out where you are. There are other methods, as well, such as using pulsars, which are stars that can be used as clocks and timing their signals to figure out how fast away they are and compute where you are.
Lastly, you can use an inertial navigation system. This tracks each movement you make. Since you know where you started and everything you did to get where you are, you now know where that is.
This is a very quick summary and not comprehensive, but I hope it gives you a starting point to learn more.
@@davidvomlehn4495 How much accuracy will inertial navigation systems provide? After all, they'll be tiny as compared with the movements they trace, especially when they're used between stars.
Man, what a hell of life! I’m sorry for those inside the ship in the future and I’m very happy I’m not one of them. I will even walk on the grass and between trees in a matter of minutes just to get rid of this suffocating nightmare.
What a great movie or series this would make.
As others have pointed out: 1) Red dwarfs are prone to be flare happy. Being that any planet in the habitable zone based on rad/temp will be much closer, it would be like being fired at with a sawed off shotgun vs a rifle (G class like our sun). You'd be hit often and by alot of material. Not good for atmospheres and not good for you. 2) spinning around at 1G isn't the same as experiencing 1G of gravity. It may keep you on the 'floor' but it does not have the same effect on your body systems. 3) the minute difference in gravity from Earth to Elysia is negligible and inconsequential and random variance and mutations alone could offset any effects. 4) Psychological effects from living on the ship and later, a planet with a red sun will have varied, unpredictable and multi generational consequences. One psychopath or one nutbag could place the entire mission in jeopardy before they even get a quarter way there.
5) you need FTL, you need real artificially generated gravity (takes care of inertia too), there are better power sources than fusion that the US Navy is already aware/in possession of, you need energetic shields/fields, you need a variation of quantum predictive computers for sensors and navigation due to velocity, you'll need to survey with these systems prior to barreling down the road, you'll need weapons and defenses for the possibilities not everyone is neighborly. Perhaps most importantly we have to realize that the galaxy is very old. There is a high likelihood that anywhere we go someone will have been. That someone may still have a claim to a place we find out there. Any place we find habitable will have things living on it already. Some of them may be sentient. Do we go Manifest Destiny or Prime Directive? We may not even have claim to our entire solar system or we may have to 'actively enforce' our 'borders' from interlopers, rogues and thieves. Evidence suggests this has occurred already and as is true of our national border, we catch only a minor portion of offenders. What did the rest of them get away with? If you could only find the facility that has all these pieces sitting or stored within...imagine the possibilities. Happy hunting!
Awesome video 👏🏽 Great stuff! Would love to see another part of the first 10000 years on the new planet
This production was excellent. Covered all bases, cross all t’s and dotted all the I’s . Such a wonderful piece of video. I wish it could come true and I wish I could be one of those wonderful people to experience it.
Excellent ? Maybe for those who have no clue about the Science involved ! Ignorant always believes any crap. This upload is 99,9 fiction and BS, and only 0,1% science.
This would make a great movie. And of course, we should be on this project like yesterday making this happen.
imagine in 1 billion years when this will be our only option, what an unbelievable journey. I hope we make it.
please continue making space related stuff series this is a true masterpiece
Remarkable video. I wonder if, during the 100 years it would take for the journey, the technology on Earth progressed to the point of perfecting faster-than-light human travel and the 100-year travelers found a human welcoming committee and outpost already established on Elysium! What fun!
Rather horror ....
Lol have you read Forgotten Planet? The stranded passengers left at a time prior to FTL ships and were essentially forgotten
that would be dumb.
we would send a second ship to another location.
we want to explore and colonize the galaxy, not relocate from one planet to another.
also, his story is bull. we have the technology to go 10% the speed of light.
just too expensive. but if we were launching generation ships, cost will have been worked out one way or another.
sorry dude but fast than light is just science fiction
and we are in space since 70 years and our current rocket are not so different than soviet rocket, it is still the old chemical propellant, only difference it is we want to try to use methane
we made some progress with ion truster, but anyway for space we are still at same spot than soviet and american in 50s
Excellent movie/video. 7:28 -- instantly laughed when I saw that 1 second clip. 😆🤣
Excellent!
This is an amazing view of what will very likely be our first voyage to another star. It is intriguing, engaging, and very instructive. Along with others, I would love to see Part 2. I've now become a fan of Venture City!
You should read Arthur C Clarke's The Song of Distant Earth. This was influenced by a lot of his ideas.
We'd much likely be able to go much faster than that by the time we need to do this.
@@GrabbaBeer NO chemical rockets, we need something like an Alcubierre Drive that can " fold " space ( I think..... ).
This sounds reasonably well researched and thought out. Better than the adventure-centric dramas.
Do more!
He copied everything from Indian UA-cam channels
Really? All of these concepts have appeared in Western literature, movies, radio shows, etc. for well over a century now. He himself said in the video description that his: _"personal inspiration for this video came from the movie Interstellar,_ _the Nauvoo generational ship from The Expanse tv show,_ _and Carl Sagan's Cosmos tv show."_
I don't know why people have to be so mean-spirited and jingoistic.
yes.. but those are made for *entertainment* - much like you trying to sound smart in your comments *SesquipedaliaN*
The only way I could ever see a generation ship being built and launched is if we have no choice. Like if Earth is at a point where it is soon to be uninhabitable.
Yeah, Like in a week or so,...hurry up Musk,....( oh Hell that will do, All aboard! Prox, here we come),...R U N !!!!
Amazing detail ❤
Thank you
I usually don't comment on UA-cam videos but this marvelous sci-fi documentary enjoyed every bit of it. Thank you for making this.
I usually see a lot of people, mostly naysayers leaving negative comments on videos such as this, or else people saying that " we'll never make it without God ! ", etc. I don't see those types of comments here, & I HOPE that it stays that way.
@@DanielAppleton-lr9eq We'll never make it with God. Believe in different Gods is the most efficient way for a crew to kill each other before arrival.
Well done and most excellent science fiction, the kind that inspires others to think and dream! So many areas of technology are evolving that it's hard to predict what an actual journey will be like (or where the first explorers would go). Gotta love this kind of sci fi that takes a stab at it, entertaining and informative! One field of science to track is The Information Theory of Aging. The estimate of the 80-year human lifespan mentioned change greatly in coming decades.
Maybe eventually, but unlikely in the next several decades. Unless some smart monkey figures out how to make cell senescence obsolete!
A good video breaking down what it could be like travelling Interstellar but not possible at the present technology
Superb!
Tau Ceti is a sun similar to ours and has at least two potentially habitable worlds. It is further away, at 11.9 light years but still possible to get there with a generation ship. The ship in this video would take about 280 years to get to Tau Ceti.
Sounds like an easy task