Spacerip is legendary. Truly one of the first TH-cam channels dedicated to space. I get a feeling of great nostalgia when I watch their videos. The godfathers/mothers of space content.
mars has air,water,grav., &,id say inhabitants under ground, same as we had thousands of yrs ago here on earth. desert under ground dwellings 10 storeys down. nasa,,= reality show.
Listen to her voice sends me into a sleep where I feel like I'm totally awake even though I'm asleep? I know this sounds weird, even freaks me out so much!. When it happens I immediately wake up.
Yes. Spacerip is amazing. I also am very fond of PBS Space Time although, that particular channel gets VERY deep into physics that I`m not at all familiar with. Still, they put out some absolutely captivating content.
Ok I think I figured out why the thumbs downs, the bloody music is drowning out the person talking. I watch TH-cam mostly on my phone through my stereo and all I hear is a whisper and crazy over powering music.
After getting over the miss-hearing of 40 trillion miles for the correct 40 trillion kilometers, I enjoyed this entry into popular understanding of how large 'space' really is and the monumental effort it will take even to get to members of our local planetary neighborhood. The narrator, Perry Ann Norton, did a most commendable job, with a very smooth and lucid tone, cutting through the sometimes over exuberant background music. I look forward to hearing Ms. Norton's voice on more video's from this channel. Overall, an outstanding production.
A tidally locked planet would be unlikely to possess a magnetosphere due to its lack of rotation. Without that, it would be unable to retain its atmoshere and transfer heat from the light side to dark side. Most red dwarfs are what's called flare stars, frequently producing CMEs that would make our Sun's superflares look like a kitten's sneeze.
I was going to write that I just don't think that there is life on tidally locked planets due to the extreme temperature differences of the 2 sides. Your argument is a better explanation..
@chuck sellers With your example, we have already can see the effect of that, in the case of the planet, Mercury. In a Young Adult novel by Arthur C. Clarke, he speculated that if there is life, it would exist in the 'Twilight' Zone between the 'Day' Side - permanently facing the Sun - and the 'Night' Side - permanently facing away. Given the extremes, iifc (I haven't read that book in decades) then life would be in the form of giant 'beetles' far bigger than humans, that survive on the minerals in the rocks, but also uses its 'wings' as solar panel, if the terminus on the 'Day' Side shifts just slightly into the 'Twilight' Zone. I think he wrote that they were openly hostile, perhaps because they're territorial, as one threw a rock at one of the Astronauts, that was part of the first, or so, manned mission to the 'Twilight' Zone, damaging his space suit, in his legs, to the point they both had to be amputated ... I can't remember the title, but the key theme is of a young man, whom, having won a space competition to go anywhere on Earth, as a much larger space station, in LEO, has been internationally declared as being on 'Earth', he argued the point to get on board ...
Great video, great 4k quality. I disagree with the comments about the music. The music was OK, I could hear the narrator without issues. I think they need to test this idea of laser-powered probes first. For example, they can try to actually reach Pluto in a day.
What an absolute, marvellous content. I WAS waiting for somebody to make 3D visualisation of the stars in relation to our star (Sun). 4K on 4K 📺 is so good as if you’re flying through space even faster than the speed of light. Just saying.😇
Until we can travel Light speed plus there is no reason to check out planets this far away. Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light-years from Earth, a distance that would take about 6,300 years to travel using current technology. Even at LS 4.2+ years.
3 things I want to experience before I die: 1. Use an appropriate amount of paper towels for a mess at hand. 2. Use up an entire tube of chapstick before losing it or running it through the washing machine. 3. Watch a full SpaceRip video without falling asleep.
I love her voice too. This channel has two speakers with great male and female voices to help me learn and tuck me to bed. But please keep the background music and noise to the minimum, because they distract me from fully enjoying that beautiful human voice. Thank you.
Amazing, totally amazing that EVERYBODY making these films forget totally that we HAVE such a planet in Venus here that practically gravitationally locked and faces the Sun on one side only (practically), with its day being longer than its year. And still its dense atmosphere rotates the planet every few days, distributing heat and air all over the planet. The temperature on the dark side is the same as the light side, thanks to this. The gravitationally "locked" planets around Proxima Centuri do not need to be any different than Venus, with their thick atmospheres distributing the heat (and water vapor, if any) around the planet. No need to assume an oven on one side and a deep freeze on the other side of a gravitationally locked planet.
Great documentary and as stated before, very relaxing while being informative. I'm going to be sharing this with those I know who are interested in space exploration. I look forward to more from this channel. P.s. I could hear everything just fine.
Life on a locked planet would probably be shocked by our day/night cycle in comparison. *"Your planet is literally spinning 365 times per cycle and gets thrown into darkness perpetually. wtf."*
Haha, by comparison, they may boast how they have it easy. "Yeah, we just live in this planetary band of great weather and constant conditions all the time. Sure, there are the sand worms in the Great Desert and ice beasts on the Dark Continent, but nobody lives there anyway."
Damn, you really have to sit and admire what our telescopes can do. Anxiously awaiting for the JWST photos slated to release on July 12th. I remember when I first saw the Hubble Deep Field image and was in awe when I was younger … so much from just one small spot in the sky. Then again to see the Ultra Deep Field? Made me both feel excitement and sadness. Exiting to see what we’ve been able to do with our short time here on Earth compared to the universe’s estimated age as a whole, but extreme sadness knowing that there are so many galaxies out there that we’ll never get to visit or see, let alone really know if intelligent life is on any of them. Just imagine … we sit here and dream of a day of being able to find an exoplanet that is able to inhabit intelligent life. We wonder if there could be a group out there just like us, on a planet way out there in space wandering if other life exists. It’s a wild thing to think about. You wonder if they’re advanced, going through their early years, or in a similar timeframe as we are with advancements. Can’t help but let your mind wonder to think what words they have for their everyday items, if they believed in God(s) or believe in a religion, if they ever discovered electricity, radio, or have something like the internet or even music. Saddens me to never know.
I love this channel. Grab your bong and Take a big ole fat SpaceRip! *note: If you turn your bass up and turn your surround speakers down, Her voice is perfect!
Then you should leave the bong along and come to grips with reality!! It would take 70,000 years to reach that pale red dot! I repeat for the slow witted, 70,000 years!
This discrepancy is common. I think peoples' audio setups differ greatly regarding which frequencies get the most amplification. I could hear it pretty well too.
@22;30 The narrator talks about the long awaited James Webb Telescope, due to launch in 2018. If 2018 is the future for the narration then it suggests 2016 or earlier for the production date.
We humans should unite to make space our priority. I dont know why we focus in things that will be not important in the future. We all should be focus in the universe only and live just for it.
Well 22 years is alot better than 54,400 years! My problem with sails is they're even more fragile, they MUST NOT come into ANY contact with Meteors "pretty difficult", otherwise it'll be useless..
All speculation in a video game looking simulation, but makes a nice chill bedtime story. Old story for it talks about the James Web telescope to come online in 2018 to replace Hubble which hasn't happened yet and it's 2021 now leaving some scratching their heads asking why it's taking so long.
I think that the Earth and the life that is on it is something that is incredibly rare and in my opinion if there is other life out there we will never know it because the likelihood is so small
To answer my own question out loud, this film was produced in 2017 (which has not been launched yet, according to Wikipedia it's supposed to launch in October 31st 2021 - next year)
I enjoyed the video's narration and quality, but feel that before we can adequately and efficiently explore the cosmos we'll have to figure out how to warp space and find dilithium crystals.
I enjoyed the video myself, but I feel that before we can adequately and efficiently explore the Cosmos and not destroy any other beings,, we must look deep inside "Our Soul r system" and Choose the path of Light!!! Only Light!!!
Great video, it kept me awake whilst her soothing narration put me to sleep. Like one of those tidal locked planets. Poor things might be without a protective magnetic field, because there not rotating.
They are rotating - exactly once per revolution. Still, it's unlikely to be enough to generate much of a magnetic field, even with an 11.2 day year like Proxima B
When I have my PC audio (which is hooked up to a 7.1 ch. home theater via HDMI) set to "Dolby Atomos for home theater" the narrator is easier to hear over loud background music but still music is too loud. When I have PC audio set to 7.1 ch. non-Atmos background music is way louder and cannot hear narrator as well. When I have speakers set to 2.1 ch. it's even harder to hear narrator. Basically, background music is just way too loud.
A more realistic location for the light sail launch system is actually the dark side of the moon, considering that our natural satellite is tidally locked to us, building a high powered laser battery there would present no danger to earth ever and thus be a much easier sell to the nations of earth, and the lack of an atmosphere would enable the lasers to get much more propulsion to the sails of the micro probes.
Serious question: Wouldn't that mean that they would be effectively "off line" for two weeks a month as the moon orbits the earth? I suppose the same is true on ground based systems, but the cycle would be daily. I suppose 12 hours daily vs 2 weeks monthly isn't an issue in the void and over 20 years. And the answer isn't going to change my life, but this is a comments section and I'm curious.
There is no 'dark side' of the moon... But if you mean the *far* side, that would unnecessarily bring HUGE extra costs for the ground structure, just for lifting all the lasers, dishes, generators/solar batteries and all other equipment all the way into space, then lunar transfer, then deorbiting everything, assembling, etc. Not the mention the costs of maintaining a human base there, with everything that it requires. Or alternatively having an AI automated infrastructure to deal with deploying the laser array, which would bring even MORE HUGE costs of manufacturing, carrying to the moon, etc etc etc etc. Are you even serious.
I watch stuff like this before I go to bed when I'm nice and relaxed I enjoy watching this type of stuff
That’s what I’m doing right now
@@mgavin7451
me to 🥱🥱
@@mgavin7451 it's about that time for me to
I started it so it will be in my history when I get to bed. Now I will move onto dirt bikes and come back.
I fall asleep to it and then wake up to space lectures
Spacerip is legendary. Truly one of the first TH-cam channels dedicated to space. I get a feeling of great nostalgia when I watch their videos. The godfathers/mothers of space content.
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I swear spacerip makes the most relaxing space videos in existence
eeeh.. maybe u should try cool worlds out.
@YourBakaSenpai we all cant have inquisitive minds i guess.
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By far the best explanation of star distances from our sun , easy to understand, lovely 3d graphics… great watch🤩
Am I the only one that thought this would be about Mars?
Naaah, reaching Proxima Centauri is impossible anyway
@@cropunisher5879 for now.
@@ItsMeQuill For thousands of years
@@JamesHarris- if it falls off,spider,if it gets closer,planet.
mars has air,water,grav., &,id say inhabitants under ground, same as we had thousands of yrs ago here on earth. desert under ground dwellings 10 storeys down. nasa,,= reality show.
Love this video. Finally a video narrated by someone who knows what they're doing, and knows HOW to narrate properly.
She is the best narrator out there, She makes these documantaries amazing to not only watch but to listen too.
Her voice and the music are so relaxing 😌
The best video about Proxima B I have seen. Great job!
Edit: The best documentary about exoplanets in general
Watching documentaries likes this makes me feel sad for flat erethers and what they are missing out on.
Haha the thick bastards
They don’t deserve this science
@@oneactionman lmao
I absoulty love this channel so much and the girl that narrates has a voice I could listen to for hours! She definitely pulls you in!
The music was so loud, that Alpha Centauri can hear it. 🤦🏻♂️
I’ve watched this documentary 10 times now And can’t even make it 10 minutes without falling asleep
You may be engaging the subconscious. That happens to me. Sometimes its a memory catalyst and I head for deep meditation.
She has a very nice sleepy voice :)
@@SamVekemans that's why I can't watch this.
Listen to her voice sends me into a sleep where I feel like I'm totally awake even though I'm asleep?
I know this sounds weird, even freaks me out so much!.
When it happens I immediately wake up.
I know, boring af video eh
This is literally the softest, most soothing and peaceful documentary, ever. I love it so much… 🌸
The narrator and music literally soothed my old bunny to sleep. ❤️
Great video, so many comments saying music is too loud but, i heard the narrator just fine. 😁
Agreed, must have been they were wearing headphones or something
How can some people unlike this absolute amazing content is beyond me! Spacerip is the best out there.
lol ‘out there’ yes yes i am childish
Yes. Spacerip is amazing. I also am very fond of PBS Space Time although, that particular channel gets VERY deep into physics that I`m not at all familiar with. Still, they put out some absolutely captivating content.
There's always a troll out there unless the narrator pronounced glaciers as glass ears that bugged the fire out of me
Ok I think I figured out why the thumbs downs, the bloody music is drowning out the person talking. I watch TH-cam mostly on my phone through my stereo and all I hear is a whisper and crazy over powering music.
Haters gonna hate.
After getting over the miss-hearing of 40 trillion miles for the correct 40 trillion kilometers, I enjoyed this entry into popular understanding of how large 'space' really is and the monumental effort it will take even to get to members of our local planetary neighborhood.
The narrator, Perry Ann Norton, did a most commendable job, with a very smooth and lucid tone, cutting through the sometimes over exuberant background music.
I look forward to hearing Ms. Norton's voice on more video's from this channel.
Overall, an outstanding production.
DITT0
This ia a high quality documentary. SpaceRip is the best!
The music is competing with the narrator to disastrous effect. I can't watch it how it is.
A tidally locked planet would be unlikely to possess a magnetosphere due to its lack of rotation. Without that, it would be unable to retain its atmoshere and transfer heat from the light side to dark side. Most red dwarfs are what's called flare stars, frequently producing CMEs that would make our Sun's superflares look like a kitten's sneeze.
How stupid do they think we are!!!
Spot on! Proxima is a *very active flare star* per recent new reports. Any orbiting planet is blasted by these flares making life impossible.
I was going to write that I just don't think that there is life on tidally locked planets due to the extreme temperature differences of the 2 sides. Your argument is a better explanation..
@chuck sellers
With your example, we have already can see the effect of that, in the case of the planet, Mercury.
In a Young Adult novel by Arthur C. Clarke, he speculated that if there is life, it would exist in the 'Twilight' Zone between the 'Day' Side - permanently facing the Sun - and the 'Night' Side - permanently facing away. Given the extremes, iifc (I haven't read that book in decades) then life would be in the form of giant 'beetles' far bigger than humans, that survive on the minerals in the rocks, but also uses its 'wings' as solar panel, if the terminus on the 'Day' Side shifts just slightly into the 'Twilight' Zone. I think he wrote that they were openly hostile, perhaps because they're territorial, as one threw a rock at one of the Astronauts, that was part of the first, or so, manned mission to the 'Twilight' Zone, damaging his space suit, in his legs, to the point they both had to be amputated ...
I can't remember the title, but the key theme is of a young man, whom, having won a space competition to go anywhere on Earth, as a much larger space station, in LEO, has been internationally declared as being on 'Earth', he argued the point to get on board ...
Great video, great 4k quality. I disagree with the comments about the music. The music was OK, I could hear the narrator without issues. I think they need to test this idea of laser-powered probes first. For example, they can try to actually reach Pluto in a day.
Launch one at Oumuamua to get a better look. :)
The music is so loud, I can barely hear the narration. Please fix it. Thank you.
Background music should be in the background, that is, a little lower.
Perfect voice for narrating this subject
Wow.
Just outstanding & brilliant.
Great narration. Amazing music bed.
Can't say enough about this video.
Thank you!
This narrator has a pretty voice. I can fall asleep to her narration - Dick Rodstein is still the OG tho
Perry Ann Norton. I think she actually owns a company for female voiceover actors. She does several space documentaries herself.
Nasa should make the voyagers probe with super shining materials so it can be easily detected by our neighbors.
Soothing music and her voice make me falling asleep
Yes yes yesssss! Music is a bit loud over her whispering though.
Just a tad bit, that or it needs to be EQd just a bit, lower all those high notes
Yeah . all the videos of thus channel has a loud music background .
Honestly I could just watch it with out a musical background. It's about learning stuff, if I want music ill go to a concert.
Yea wayyy to loud.
This documentary would have been a masterpiece if it had Sir Attenborough's voice!!!
Nah.
Great Video with proper Research 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
I’ve watched this documentary 10 times now And can’t even make it 10 minutes without falling asleep
The truth is that we will never reach a planet like ours.
Wish I could have watched it...music was annoyingly loud so I gave up
What an absolute, marvellous content. I WAS waiting for somebody to make 3D visualisation of the stars in relation to our star (Sun). 4K on 4K 📺 is so good as if you’re flying through space even faster than the speed of light. Just saying.😇
download space engine.
Music was roo loud. I never understood why video makers wish to use music throughout video and make it hard to hear the narrators voice?
Until we can travel Light speed plus there is no reason to check out planets this far away. Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light-years from Earth, a distance that would take about 6,300 years to travel using current technology. Even at LS 4.2+ years.
3 things I want to experience before I die:
1. Use an appropriate amount of paper towels for a mess at hand.
2. Use up an entire tube of chapstick before losing it or running it through the washing machine.
3. Watch a full SpaceRip video without falling asleep.
😂😂😂😂👍👍
4. Watch a full youtube video vidout unskippable adds
@@mikec3405 get youtube premium.
Numerous ad blockers let that happen. Where have you been the past 5-6 years ?
I just start it halfway next time I go to sleep .
Her voice is pure bliss
I love her voice too. This channel has two speakers with great male and female voices to help me learn and tuck me to bed. But please keep the background music and noise to the minimum, because they distract me from fully enjoying that beautiful human voice. Thank you.
weeb James space telescope needs to get launched already!!
The Weeb James Space Telescope, built to find the hottest Anime girls in the galaxy.
Don't trust his spelling, it's James webb
Your music is too loud....
good docu in every aspect! PLEASE MORE LIKE THIS 👍👍😎😘
The music is too damn loud. The video would be better without it.
It's so beautiful. It's beyond our imagination.
Amazing, totally amazing that EVERYBODY making these films forget totally that we HAVE such a planet in Venus here that practically gravitationally locked and faces the Sun on one side only (practically), with its day being longer than its year. And still its dense atmosphere rotates the planet every few days, distributing heat and air all over the planet. The temperature on the dark side is the same as the light side, thanks to this. The gravitationally "locked" planets around Proxima Centuri do not need to be any different than Venus, with their thick atmospheres distributing the heat (and water vapor, if any) around the planet. No need to assume an oven on one side and a deep freeze on the other side of a gravitationally locked planet.
Amazing show! Thank you 🙏
Damn music is so loud it creates gravitational waves.
😂😂😂
What an amazing video. I am now looking at the Southern Cross in such a different manner now.
Well done lay person description of current ideas of space exploration and finding extraterrestrial life, with good narration and CGI.
Background voice-over is too loud, can't hear the music properly.
keep it quiet, would you?
lol. sound mixer was drunk. or high. or both.
Great documentary and as stated before, very relaxing while being informative. I'm going to be sharing this with those I know who are interested in space exploration. I look forward to more from this channel.
P.s. I could hear everything just fine.
Life on a locked planet would probably be shocked by our day/night cycle in comparison.
*"Your planet is literally spinning 365 times per cycle and gets thrown into darkness perpetually. wtf."*
Haha, by comparison, they may boast how they have it easy. "Yeah, we just live in this planetary band of great weather and constant conditions all the time. Sure, there are the sand worms in the Great Desert and ice beasts on the Dark Continent, but nobody lives there anyway."
Magnificent doc, thanks for this great work!!
I love watching this while in my bed .🙏🙏
Damn, you really have to sit and admire what our telescopes can do.
Anxiously awaiting for the JWST photos slated to release on July 12th.
I remember when I first saw the Hubble Deep Field image and was in awe when I was younger … so much from just one small spot in the sky. Then again to see the Ultra Deep Field? Made me both feel excitement and sadness. Exiting to see what we’ve been able to do with our short time here on Earth compared to the universe’s estimated age as a whole, but extreme sadness knowing that there are so many galaxies out there that we’ll never get to visit or see, let alone really know if intelligent life is on any of them.
Just imagine … we sit here and dream of a day of being able to find an exoplanet that is able to inhabit intelligent life. We wonder if there could be a group out there just like us, on a planet way out there in space wandering if other life exists. It’s a wild thing to think about. You wonder if they’re advanced, going through their early years, or in a similar timeframe as we are with advancements. Can’t help but let your mind wonder to think what words they have for their everyday items, if they believed in God(s) or believe in a religion, if they ever discovered electricity, radio, or have something like the internet or even music.
Saddens me to never know.
This might be brilliant but the music is far too loud to enjoy.
What a magnificent video!
I actually googled the narrator of this video. I’m watching it again, her voice is so calming.
Who ever is responsible for the music has messed up far to load and distracting .
Was so bummed to read this
I love this channel. Grab your bong and Take a big ole fat SpaceRip! *note: If you turn your bass up and turn your surround speakers down, Her voice is perfect!
Then you should leave the bong along and come to grips with reality!! It would take 70,000 years to reach that pale red dot! I repeat for the slow witted, 70,000 years!
Watching these videos in 4K.... wow just wow!!!
Great documentary many thanks..
For a 5+ year old documentary, this was excellent.
Welcome to 2020still waiting on that James Web
😕
@J G They keep delaying Launch
I ask just be alive when that day comes!!
Im so anxious. To see this happens!!
The backup music isn't to background. I'm out.
I, m you. Gives me headache. So uneccessary.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out
What does this mean?
"Well....bye." -Curly Bill Brocius
Is this a re-upload? Says JWST is slated for launch in 2018. I wish.😅
Most likely.
Only stuff worth watching. Thank you
I don't know why people are complaining about music being loud? For me it was not a problem.
This discrepancy is common. I think peoples' audio setups differ greatly regarding which frequencies get the most amplification. I could hear it pretty well too.
OPTIMUS PRIME!!! ITS YOU!!!!!!!!!
Does Lyft go there
Did not finish. Music too loud.
An amazing documentary. Love the narrative.
This went from cool to BOOM very quickly...
@22;30 The narrator talks about the long awaited James Webb Telescope, due to launch in 2018.
If 2018 is the future for the narration then it suggests 2016 or earlier for the production date.
I've been subbed for a decade now. Half way to Proxima!
We humans should unite to make space our priority. I dont know why we focus in things that will be not important in the future. We all should be focus in the universe only and live just for it.
Well 22 years is alot better than 54,400 years! My problem with sails is they're even more fragile, they MUST NOT come into ANY contact with Meteors "pretty difficult", otherwise it'll be useless..
I'll never see a trip to another star...I'll be dead by then. Maybe if I pray hard, my soul will see it.
This is high quality and informative.
All speculation in a video game looking simulation, but makes a nice chill bedtime story. Old story for it talks about the James Web telescope to come online in 2018 to replace Hubble which hasn't happened yet and it's 2021 now leaving some scratching their heads asking why it's taking so long.
I love love love this!!
great video, very informative with nice voice. thank you
too loud but I still love you SpaceRip :)
I think that the Earth and the life that is on it is something that is incredibly rare and in my opinion if there is other life out there we will never know it because the likelihood is so small
Amazing 3d videos displaying near reality stuff, good one
VO is a grunt's hair from sounding just like cortana. made it a lot more fun.
Wow, beautiful animations and explanation, thankyou! Subscribed!
To answer my own question out loud, this film was produced in 2017 (which has not been launched yet, according to Wikipedia it's supposed to launch in October 31st 2021 - next year)
I enjoyed the video's narration and quality, but feel that before we can adequately and efficiently explore the cosmos we'll have to figure out how to warp space and find dilithium crystals.
I enjoyed the video myself, but I feel that before we can adequately and efficiently explore the Cosmos and not destroy any other beings,, we must look deep inside "Our Soul r system" and Choose the path of Light!!! Only Light!!!
Yup music too loud. Lose the music.
I wish they would start sending them now so I can see those planets in my late 60s.. that would be such an amazing feat from human kind..
Ones energy can travel faster then any thing the mind could see 👀 we are all here to learn and grow with are energy this is just a one stop of many
Great video, it kept me awake whilst her soothing narration put me to sleep. Like one of those tidal locked planets. Poor things might be without a protective magnetic field, because there not rotating.
They are rotating - exactly once per revolution. Still, it's unlikely to be enough to generate much of a magnetic field, even with an 11.2 day year like Proxima B
This video would be perfect if it weren't for that train.
Nice video. But, the music is louder than the voice over.
Helen Keller could hear this music.
I thought she was blind
@@nycgweed yes. Also that.
Headphones not so bad.
Spacerip releases another video.
Well screw studying..
When I have my PC audio (which is hooked up to a 7.1 ch. home theater via HDMI) set to "Dolby Atomos for home theater" the narrator is easier to hear over loud background music but still music is too loud.
When I have PC audio set to 7.1 ch. non-Atmos background music is way louder and cannot hear narrator as well.
When I have speakers set to 2.1 ch. it's even harder to hear narrator. Basically, background music is just way too loud.
A more realistic location for the light sail launch system is actually the dark side of the moon, considering that our natural satellite is tidally locked to us, building a high powered laser battery there would present no danger to earth ever and thus be a much easier sell to the nations of earth, and the lack of an atmosphere would enable the lasers to get much more propulsion to the sails of the micro probes.
Serious question: Wouldn't that mean that they would be effectively "off line" for two weeks a month as the moon orbits the earth? I suppose the same is true on ground based systems, but the cycle would be daily. I suppose 12 hours daily vs 2 weeks monthly isn't an issue in the void and over 20 years. And the answer isn't going to change my life, but this is a comments section and I'm curious.
There is no 'dark side' of the moon...
But if you mean the *far* side, that would unnecessarily bring HUGE extra costs for the ground structure, just for lifting all the lasers, dishes, generators/solar batteries and all other equipment all the way into space, then lunar transfer, then deorbiting everything, assembling, etc. Not the mention the costs of maintaining a human base there, with everything that it requires. Or alternatively having an AI automated infrastructure to deal with deploying the laser array, which would bring even MORE HUGE costs of manufacturing, carrying to the moon, etc etc etc etc.
Are you even serious.
I think the inhabitants of the far side would take issue with that.
@@krshna77 Honestly by the time your sending even probes on interstellar journeys you should have a well developed cis-lunar economy.
the old narrators were so much better
Dick Rodstein OG