To be clear guys, in my Titan video I did say that we haven't formulated a methane-based respiration that produces more than 10% of the energy our respiration uses, so the possibility of complex methane-based life, at least according to the models we have, is highly unlikely. That said, the universe is under no obligation to conform to our models.
the mitochondrial proton pump is a pretty complex mechanism that bears to me, more than a resemblance to a rube goldberg machine. We suspect that the fantastic efficiency of chloroplasts is down to quantum superpostion of incoming photons. we breathe the waste of plants, and plants breathe the waste of animals. there is no reason to reject the possibilty that similarly complex mechanisms and interactions have evolved for organism respirating methane, producing waste respirated by another class of life, producing methane again. there is no need for methane respiration to be efficient to allow for animal life, as long as breathing the waste of methane respiration is efficient.
@@pyalot _there is no need for methane respiration to be efficient to allow for animal life, as long as breathing the waste of methane respiration is efficient._ But how active would such animals be? Would/could they be anything more than bacteria, especially orbiting a planet on such a dim sun?
@@RonJohn63 You didn't follow the reasoning. If you have plants breathing methane expelling a waste gas, that can be breathed, like we breathe oxygen which is a waste gas of plants breathing CO2, and if that waste gas can be harnessed sufficiently efficiently, like oxygen in mitochondrial proton pumps, then it doesn't matter how inefficient methane respiration is. The main difficulty about this is that oxygen will ignite with methane in relatively low concentrations (unlike CO2). So whatever waste gas is expelled from methane respiration would have to have to be chemically reactive (like oxygen) but unable to readily react with methane. There might be candidates for this, but i'm not a chemist.
Florian Bösch plants also breathe oxygen, that is a reason among others you shouldn't put plants in your dorm... plants eat carbon dioxide and produce more oxygen than they need
Excellent. The right balance between talking over/talking under a listener, dry but personable, informative but not boring or pedantic. You deserve more subscribers. Good luck.
Really enjoyed this in-depth discussion on Barnard, and on Peter van de Kamp in particular. I worked at Sproul Observatory while I was in high school for, Wulff-Dieter Heintz, who was Van de Kamp's chosen successor. Ironically, Heintz demonstrated that Van de Kamp's observations were incorrect. A few years later, I did my undergraduate at Villanova University, with Edward Guinan as one of my professors. Guinan was part of the Barnard b discovery team. So I can say that I worked at two of the institutions involved in the search for Barnard's planet at exactly the wrong times to have any contribution to the finding :)
Wow! Well at least there's still plenty left to learn about that star's system. You may have missed Barnard's Star b, but maybe you'll find Barnard's Star c.
I’m a sucker for odd coincidences. To think Barnard became an Astronomer just because a delinquent childhood buddy couldn’t pay him back and instead gave him a book he know he would appreciate acquired no doubt through dubious or lucky means. “Cant pay you back, but I know you’re a nerd so here’s a tattered book about stars.”
They are doomed to plod along those methane shores? That's too poetic to evade mention. But what a marvellously researched piece this was! You are on the road to JMGodier and Isaac Arthur territory, but with an arts degree. Can't be bad for us all.
This popped up in my recommendations today and I am left very impressed, very subscribed, and wondering how one of the best space science channels on YT has evaded my notice for two years.
Ho boy, I forgot what Star this was right up until I heard you say the words "99% certainty" and then I had flashbacks to the tour of our neighbourhood.
@@LaserGuidedLoogie If you think they and their planet are trippy just imagine how they see Earth. To them Earth is a place of bright, piercing, burning light. And if one of them were to set foot on it, they'd burst into flames... Things can get really strange when you consider the other side of the story.
Nick, I just want to say i only recently discovered your channel, and BOY what a hidden gem it is. I don't know how you don't yet have 100 000 subs or more, your videos are AMAZING. maybe the fact that they are lecture-lenght essays scares off more casual viewers, but DAMN do I LOVE getting bombarded by information for 30 minutes to an hour at a time. I mean jesus christ THEY'RE ALL LECTURE LENGHT ESSAYS you're a madman dedicated to astrophysics and even if sometimes you go into details that are a bit hard to understand for me, I still drink your every word. Thank you for your hard work and dedication. Godspeed to you and your channel.
Thank you for your wonderful videos @ParallaxNick - I've now watched all of them, and they've re-ignited my love of astronomy. I hope one day The Sky At Night BBC TV show recruits you as a presenter, given your brilliant narration and speaking skills. By the way, Barnard's Star featured heavily in a brilliant 1980's science fiction computer game called Elite, and it's early 1990's successor, Elite II. I've been a fan of our near neighbour ever since playing them as a boy :-)
A superb video, perfectly pitched to those of us with minimal specialised knowledge but a real interest in such matters. I thank you for creating this.
This is the first video I saw on this channel. The quality of the storytelling and the richness of material is amazing! I can learn a lot here. Not just about astronomy but also about how to create professional content.
I knew about the star, but I didnt know about Barnard until now. What a story. This reminds me of this book I had from the 60s or 70s that was a compendium of all the known multiple star systems, including orbits/distance etc.
Just dropped some gummies a little while back, getting the buzz going,hit on this channel by accident. So glad damn that I did,almost slid right into the screen Thank you so kindly, I am subscribed as of now... Now onto the rest of the buzz
Definitely subscribing. I was on the edge of a horrible anxiety attack/paranoia attack, but this video has calmed me down somehow. I'm very surprised that this has helped me, but thank you very much for making this! ^^
I learned more astronomy from this one video than dozens of other documentaries. And I've seen tons of them. I miss the days when TV used to have in depth documentaries like this.
I line in very rural SW France. It's lovely! It's also great to walk just under 1 kilometer with my binoculars and a blanket, to a small hill - well out of range of the one village light. Great viewing - thanks for the post.
Excellent professional diction, and packed with all the interesting side notes that give the scope and historical context and which you can't find in any other documentaries.
I stumbled onto this channel, this video... and discovered the spiritual successor of Carl Sagan. I love the science, but I love the history behind it even more. Thank you for some serious quality content.
I knew about Barnard's Star for over 30 years (1975/76 to be exact), when in the Jr High School Science Club we were discussing about each other's up-coming science fair project, and my brother wanted to do a map of the 100 closest stars. Long story short - part of the discussion fell onto Bernard's star because its stellar path has a bit of a sine curve to it, speculating that it must have a large planet orbiting it that effects its stellar path; making Bernard's Star one of the first stars, in theory, conjecture and observation, to have a planet orbiting it.
I'm no astronomer. But it always used to annoy me that the existence of planets around other stars was somehow a controversial idea. More small things than big things = makes sense to me. Of course we need to actually find them first, but that should always have been almost a foregone issue just awaiting improved detection. And somehow it wasn't in the 70s and 80s. I never understood that.
Finally a in depth video about this subject. Would love to find videos with facts/theories/new info on Planet 9, Oumuamua, Oorts Cloud, New Horizons , Curiosity etc like this video. that is longer than five minutes and not filled with 20 minutes of just repeating what was just said. From Sweden, love your channel and this video just added the IQ lost after watching clips of the chaos politics around the globe. Thank You!
As always the amount of research dedicated to these topics astounds me. The narration is pitch perfect. I do so look forward to these informative bountys. My sincere thanks.
“Great Teacher that YOU are”. Your Teaching & Narrating both A/V/Scientific skills are simply TOO GREAT for words to explain. A sincerest thank you is in order// SS//
Stumbled upon your channel somehow, probably due to watching other videos of similar nature. Anyway, thanks. Really enjoyed this video. Very informative and entertaining.
I can't for the life of me figure out the word you said at: 6:52 and it seems fairly crucial to me, as it defines the very narrow set of only 6 named stars... Starting at 6:48 you said: "to date only 6 stars have been formerly named for people beyond _______" The _______ sounds to me like it definitely starts with an "M", beyond that I'm clutching at straws to fill in the phonemes. The vague impressions I get are: 'mel', 'mil', or perhaps 'meh'... haha! If you could be so kind as to clear this up for me, I'd be very grateful! As always, thank you for all your hard work in creating some of the best content on TH-cam! I sincerely hope that you soon achieve the widespread reach you (and the world) deserve, and the compensation that comes with it!
@@parallaxnick637 Wow, thanks for actually replying, and so quick too! I hope you didn't have to go to the trouble of digging through to actually listen to the line. I imagine not though, given how blatantly obvious it seems now that you've told me. I actually feel rather silly for not figuring it out just based on context and the limited appropriate solutions. But of course, such is simply to be human. Occasionally capable of incredible leaps of intuition, whilst often stumped by the simplest of puzzles; trapped in a thought loop of narrow perspective. Anyhow, thanks again for helping me out with that answer and demonstrating another facet of your awesomeness!
stumbled onto this video, not into astronomy that much, but this one kept me watching to the end. the subject was interesting and the execution was very nice indeed.
Almost no impact in science fiction? 🤨 Let me direct you to a five book series by physicist and author Robert L. Forward, who set his stories entirely around Barnard's Star and an expedition to it's exotic worlds via a laser-pushed lightsail craft. They are all excellent reads, in my humble opinion. Listed, in order, as published by Baen Science Fiction: 1. Rocheworld (an expanded edition of "Flight of the Dragonfly" originally published by Tor Science Fiction) 2. Return to Rocheworld 3. Ocean Under the Ice 4. Marooned on Eden 5. Rescued from Paradise
+Downbelow station, 1982 Hugo award from C.J.Cherryh, Alpha station is at Barnard start. Cyteen too has it, actually pretty sure it's in most of her Alliance-Union universe books.
I once had a dream of red dwarf plants, thick and fibrous, curling in on themselves as a response to an impending solar flare. Tonight I hope to see giant methane slug creatures, lumbering slowly along the hydrocarbon beaches, imagining their slow thoughts forming something rather poetic over a thousand years, as the stars above zip across the sky in a relatively speedy fashion.
@@DAYBROK3 The same damn thing they have been doing for ages now, feeding royal berries to the queen slug who then excreates the hip refreshing beverage known as SLURM! into large vats that the worker slugs use to fill up the cans in the beverage manufacturing warehouse cave while the grunka lunkas sing short diddy's warning visitors not to dwell too deep into the ingtedients and methods behind the making our the galaxies favorite refreshingly addictive beverage! So in the words of the late Slurms the party slug mcKenzie, party on contest winners, WIGGGITY WHAMMM WHAAAM WOZZZLE! Check out the documentary in the linked video, it's only a minute or two and should answer all questions th-cam.com/video/VtbuW_9hXKg/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/8UNHp98Bkrw/w-d-xo.html
perfect, simon - was just thinking "why should they move at the same relative pace as us?". There's no reason they have to, after all. Talking to them for us would be much like digital space vs meat-space in the HeeChee series
I actually cut a lot out. He was a fascinating person. I think my favourite story was that when he discovered Amalthea, a woman whose surname was Barnard wrote to him saying she would name her son after him.
@@parallaxnick637 I'm reading about that incidently, lol! Para, have you considered making a second channel to upload these extra chunks? I'm sure there would be people who'd love to watch that.
This is an exceptional, descriptive video. From start to finish, a clear, informed narration tells everything the viewer wants to know....oh that all similar subjects would be as expertly explained!
Found you through the 2001 movie critique, but now subscribed. Love your gestalt approach to the subject including the history. In this case the wobbly orbit of the star mirrors that of the history of the thinking bout the planet. Loved the graph at 31.50 illustrating the point about different "sweet spots" for life. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I'm loving the videos Man. I'm an avid watcher of anything you put out, I wish however, the audio quality was much better or even slightly better. If you have a patreon and you need a decent mic I'd be willing to donate per se to help you achieve that.
I was way out in the country in Morocco where there are no street lights or any other lights from businesses or houses. The night sky over my head look like a velvet Bowl turned upside down full of diamonds. I will never forget it
The idea of Barnard's Star being a quiet, reserved, wise old man on a pilgrimage through the universe who's seen it all, done it all is too quaint. I like to think of it (in human terms) as him being a new neighbor who moved in next door to Sol and between her and and the Centauri family. Hey this sounds like an awesome plot for a slice-of-life anime! :P Ofc the REAL question everyone wants to know is: "If these aliens breathe methane, does that mean we can sell them our farts?" - Joel Gawne, circa 2019
What a insanely fantastic review. So well done... its honestly crazy to me that a human can contain this much knowledge across a whole slew of fields and time... Nick you are a genius. Thank you for your videos!!!
0:54 - I think Barnard's Star was also mentioned in a Star Trek TOS episode wherein the Enterprise responds to a distress call from a lonely man living on a planet in that star system, who desperately needed a jar of salt tablets -- because his girlfriend was secretly a salt-sucking vampire alien. That assumes I remember correctly, anyway. I only saw the episode once, decades ago.
I love your videos more than fried chicken! I want a Parallaxnick Shirt... I just bought a HistoryGuy Coffee Mug, you are my favorite TH-cam channel... Thank You and Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays - From your #1 sycophantic fan - Joe
I must apologize for my mis-use of the word sycophantic (defined as - "behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage"., I never actually read the definition and I thought it just meant something similar to "being blindly loyal". I did not understand that there the ulterior motive aspect to the word... so Thank You from your dorky, non-academic, yet blindly loyal youtube fan - Joe
I very much enjoyed this documentary. I am also your newest subscriber. I look forward to seeing more wonderful videos like this one. Thank you. Have a good night. 😊💕
@17:40 A recent discovery in the past few weeks suggest we may have , in fact, just identified our first Population III star. The vast majority of these were gigantic and short-lived, but this lucky find appears to be a red dwarf survivor from this period, having by far the lowest metallicity of any stellar object yet discovered. I forget the name, but I read the article less than two weeks ago. Try Googling it and see if you can find it.
To be clear guys, in my Titan video I did say that we haven't formulated a methane-based respiration that produces more than 10% of the energy our respiration uses, so the possibility of complex methane-based life, at least according to the models we have, is highly unlikely. That said, the universe is under no obligation to conform to our models.
the mitochondrial proton pump is a pretty complex mechanism that bears to me, more than a resemblance to a rube goldberg machine. We suspect that the fantastic efficiency of chloroplasts is down to quantum superpostion of incoming photons. we breathe the waste of plants, and plants breathe the waste of animals. there is no reason to reject the possibilty that similarly complex mechanisms and interactions have evolved for organism respirating methane, producing waste respirated by another class of life, producing methane again. there is no need for methane respiration to be efficient to allow for animal life, as long as breathing the waste of methane respiration is efficient.
Anaerobic beings perhaps?
@@pyalot _there is no need for methane respiration to be efficient to allow for animal life, as long as breathing the waste of methane respiration is efficient._ But how active would such animals be? Would/could they be anything more than bacteria, especially orbiting a planet on such a dim sun?
@@RonJohn63 You didn't follow the reasoning. If you have plants breathing methane expelling a waste gas, that can be breathed, like we breathe oxygen which is a waste gas of plants breathing CO2, and if that waste gas can be harnessed sufficiently efficiently, like oxygen in mitochondrial proton pumps, then it doesn't matter how inefficient methane respiration is.
The main difficulty about this is that oxygen will ignite with methane in relatively low concentrations (unlike CO2). So whatever waste gas is expelled from methane respiration would have to have to be chemically reactive (like oxygen) but unable to readily react with methane. There might be candidates for this, but i'm not a chemist.
Florian Bösch plants also breathe oxygen, that is a reason among others you shouldn't put plants in your dorm...
plants eat carbon dioxide and produce more oxygen than they need
Love learning all of the history.
The notorious JMG. Why dont you go interview someone!?
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Excellent. The right balance between talking over/talking under a listener, dry but personable, informative but not boring or pedantic. You deserve more subscribers. Good luck.
Really enjoyed this in-depth discussion on Barnard, and on Peter van de Kamp in particular. I worked at Sproul Observatory while I was in high school for, Wulff-Dieter Heintz, who was Van de Kamp's chosen successor. Ironically, Heintz demonstrated that Van de Kamp's observations were incorrect. A few years later, I did my undergraduate at Villanova University, with Edward Guinan as one of my professors. Guinan was part of the Barnard b discovery team. So I can say that I worked at two of the institutions involved in the search for Barnard's planet at exactly the wrong times to have any contribution to the finding :)
Wow! Well at least there's still plenty left to learn about that star's system. You may have missed Barnard's Star b, but maybe you'll find Barnard's Star c.
Good idea, brb.
Did you find it? 😊
I’m a sucker for odd coincidences. To think Barnard became an Astronomer just because a delinquent childhood buddy couldn’t pay him back and instead gave him a book he know he would appreciate acquired no doubt through dubious or lucky means.
“Cant pay you back, but I know you’re a nerd so here’s a tattered book about stars.”
Milky Way Galaxy: "Mmmm, tasty, I'm going to eat that galaxy."
Barnad's Star: "Hey! That was my family! Get back here!" *starts chasing us*
Milky Way: * _burp_ * * _produces Fermi bubble_ *
They are doomed to plod along those methane shores? That's too poetic to evade mention.
But what a marvellously researched piece this was! You are on the road to JMGodier and Isaac Arthur territory, but with an arts degree. Can't be bad for us all.
Every time I watch your video's I'm in awe about the mountain of work you have put in. The way you tell your story. The choise of music. fantastic!
This popped up in my recommendations today and I am left very impressed, very subscribed, and wondering how one of the best space science channels on YT has evaded my notice for two years.
Same here. Why did TH-cam wait so long on the recommendation?
Ho boy, I forgot what Star this was right up until I heard you say the words "99% certainty" and then I had flashbacks to the tour of our neighbourhood.
We truly are living in the bad timeline.
And again you have giftet us a really wonderful example of what quality content looks like. BEST CHANNEL ON TH-cam - EVER
Dude! Please keep making these videos! Your smooth voice and researched content makes your videos a joy to watch.
"...at a time when such orbits were considered unbecoming of a planet." - how very dare you,sir!?
I for one welcome our methane overlords.
They'd be our cattle on planet Earth.
The would be easy to dispatch. Just lure them to our planet, then watch them go up in a ball of blue flames every time their gas masks exhaled.
@@LaserGuidedLoogie If you think they and their planet are trippy just imagine how they see Earth. To them Earth is a place of bright, piercing, burning light. And if one of them were to set foot on it, they'd burst into flames...
Things can get really strange when you consider the other side of the story.
They'd fart us to smithereens
Nick, I just want to say i only recently discovered your channel, and BOY what a hidden gem it is.
I don't know how you don't yet have 100 000 subs or more, your videos are AMAZING.
maybe the fact that they are lecture-lenght essays scares off more casual viewers, but DAMN do I LOVE getting bombarded by information for 30 minutes to an hour at a time.
I mean jesus christ THEY'RE ALL LECTURE LENGHT ESSAYS you're a madman dedicated to astrophysics and even if sometimes you go into details that are a bit hard to understand for me, I still drink your every word.
Thank you for your hard work and dedication. Godspeed to you and your channel.
What sorts of things do you find hard to understand, if you don't mind me asking?
@@parallaxnick637 mostly the fact that english is my second language and i have to wrap my head around english terminology.
Also anytime there's numbers cuz I failed my highschool maths lmao.
This is one of the best channels on TH-cam. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your wonderful videos @ParallaxNick - I've now watched all of them, and they've re-ignited my love of astronomy. I hope one day The Sky At Night BBC TV show recruits you as a presenter, given your brilliant narration and speaking skills.
By the way, Barnard's Star featured heavily in a brilliant 1980's science fiction computer game called Elite, and it's early 1990's successor, Elite II. I've been a fan of our near neighbour ever since playing them as a boy :-)
Same here! :)
From someone who lives very near to Brecon, amazing views x
@ 23:04 "...unlike the gravitational house-party that is Alpha Centauri," LMFAO!!!! That was hilarious!!
I just found your channel and this is the first of your videos I've watched and I already love all of it! Thank you
A superb video, perfectly pitched to those of us with minimal specialised knowledge but a real interest in such matters. I thank you for creating this.
This is the first video I saw on this channel. The quality of the storytelling and the richness of material is amazing! I can learn a lot here. Not just about astronomy but also about how to create professional content.
I knew about the star, but I didnt know about Barnard until now. What a story.
This reminds me of this book I had from the 60s or 70s that was a compendium of all the known multiple star systems, including orbits/distance etc.
This is a truly beatiful video, will rewatch definitely
Another great video; thank you! :) Merry Christmas and a happy 2019!
So much drama over Betelgeuse having planets, and none, and one, and not really! Is the dust ring confirmed at least?
Just dropped some gummies a little while back, getting the buzz going,hit on this channel by accident. So glad damn that I did,almost slid right into the screen Thank you so kindly, I am subscribed as of now... Now onto the rest of the buzz
Definitely subscribing.
I was on the edge of a horrible anxiety attack/paranoia attack, but this video has calmed me down somehow.
I'm very surprised that this has helped me, but thank you very much for making this! ^^
We've got a planet at last! Rocky, hot, probably airless, half the mass of Earth...but a planet.
I learned more astronomy from this one video than dozens of other documentaries. And I've seen tons of them. I miss the days when TV used to have in depth documentaries like this.
I will always think of Elite II when I see or hear the name of this star as that was where I first learned of it, and I visited it often in that game.
This is my first viewing on the channel ParallaxNick. Wow, I’m hooked. Well done and thank you.
I love listening to this channel while in bed b4 I fall asleep. It's a wonderfully calming channel.
Thanks for making this story of Barnard's Star. It is astronomically good quality. :)
I line in very rural SW France. It's lovely!
It's also great to walk just under 1 kilometer with my binoculars and a blanket, to a small hill - well out of range of the one village light. Great viewing - thanks for the post.
Absolutely brilliantly written and produced video. Thank you.
Now I really want to be a scientist when I grow up
Then I've done my job :-)
ParallaxNick yep thanks
Excellent professional diction, and packed with all the interesting side notes that give the scope and historical context and which you can't find in any other documentaries.
Amazing as always.. I am so glad that I found your channel this year. P.S you have an amazing voice by the way 😊
Clever, witty, and funny, yet informative. Edutainment at its finest. Thank you kind Sir
I stumbled onto this channel, this video... and discovered the spiritual successor of Carl Sagan.
I love the science, but I love the history behind it even more. Thank you for some serious quality content.
I knew about Barnard's Star for over 30 years (1975/76 to be exact), when in the Jr High School Science Club we were discussing about each other's up-coming science fair project, and my brother wanted to do a map of the 100 closest stars. Long story short - part of the discussion fell onto Bernard's star because its stellar path has a bit of a sine curve to it, speculating that it must have a large planet orbiting it that effects its stellar path; making Bernard's Star one of the first stars, in theory, conjecture and observation, to have a planet orbiting it.
I'm no astronomer. But it always used to annoy me that the existence of planets around other stars was somehow a controversial idea. More small things than big things = makes sense to me. Of course we need to actually find them first, but that should always have been almost a foregone issue just awaiting improved detection. And somehow it wasn't in the 70s and 80s. I never understood that.
you deserve so much more attention for the quality content you make... really hope the algorithm does pick you soon...
Finally a in depth video about this subject.
Would love to find videos with facts/theories/new info on Planet 9, Oumuamua, Oorts Cloud, New Horizons , Curiosity etc like this video. that is longer than five minutes and not filled with 20 minutes of just repeating what was just said.
From Sweden, love your channel and this video just added the IQ lost after watching clips of the chaos politics around the globe.
Thank You!
One of the best TH-cam videos I have seen in months.
As always the amount of research dedicated to these topics astounds me. The narration is pitch perfect. I do so look forward to these informative bountys. My sincere thanks.
Got that right. The amount of research Mr ParallaxNick puts into his vids boggles the mind!
*Congratulations for reaching 10k!*
“Great Teacher that YOU are”. Your Teaching & Narrating both A/V/Scientific skills are simply TOO GREAT for words to explain. A sincerest thank you is in order// SS//
Your way of explaining is great...keep it up.
Yet another outstanding contribution. Absolutely stunning. It's a cheese phrase but "Keep up the good work !!"
I'm a huge fan of cheese phrases. With real cheese though
Stumbled upon your channel somehow, probably due to watching other videos of similar nature.
Anyway, thanks. Really enjoyed this video. Very informative and entertaining.
I can't for the life of me figure out the word you said at: 6:52 and it seems fairly crucial to me, as it defines the very narrow set of only 6 named stars...
Starting at 6:48 you said: "to date only 6 stars have been formerly named for people beyond _______"
The _______ sounds to me like it definitely starts with an "M", beyond that I'm clutching at straws to fill in the phonemes. The vague impressions I get are: 'mel', 'mil', or perhaps 'meh'... haha!
If you could be so kind as to clear this up for me, I'd be very grateful!
As always, thank you for all your hard work in creating some of the best content on TH-cam! I sincerely hope that you soon achieve the widespread reach you (and the world) deserve, and the compensation that comes with it!
"people beyond myth".
@@parallaxnick637 Wow, thanks for actually replying, and so quick too! I hope you didn't have to go to the trouble of digging through to actually listen to the line.
I imagine not though, given how blatantly obvious it seems now that you've told me. I actually feel rather silly for not figuring it out just based on context and the limited appropriate solutions.
But of course, such is simply to be human. Occasionally capable of incredible leaps of intuition, whilst often stumped by the simplest of puzzles; trapped in a thought loop of narrow perspective.
Anyhow, thanks again for helping me out with that answer and demonstrating another facet of your awesomeness!
stumbled onto this video, not into astronomy that much, but this one kept me watching to the end.
the subject was interesting and the execution was very nice indeed.
Almost no impact in science fiction? 🤨
Let me direct you to a five book series by physicist and author Robert L. Forward, who set his stories entirely around Barnard's Star and an expedition to it's exotic worlds via a laser-pushed lightsail craft. They are all excellent reads, in my humble opinion.
Listed, in order, as published by Baen Science Fiction:
1. Rocheworld (an expanded edition of "Flight of the Dragonfly" originally published by Tor Science Fiction)
2. Return to Rocheworld
3. Ocean Under the Ice
4. Marooned on Eden
5. Rescued from Paradise
+Downbelow station, 1982 Hugo award from C.J.Cherryh, Alpha station is at Barnard start. Cyteen too has it, actually pretty sure it's in most of her Alliance-Union universe books.
What a great Storyteller you are. I found myself glued to the video
Superb history and review of Barnard’s star.
@ParallaxNick Intro song name? Love your content, keep it up!
A New World by Purple Planet
www.purple-planet.com/dreamy
Marvellous video. Loved it. Thankyou.
I once had a dream of red dwarf plants, thick and fibrous, curling in on themselves as a response to an impending solar flare. Tonight I hope to see giant methane slug creatures, lumbering slowly along the hydrocarbon beaches, imagining their slow thoughts forming something rather poetic over a thousand years, as the stars above zip across the sky in a relatively speedy fashion.
High gravity, low energy, low light. You know, it would make sense if life was a bit more... leisurely.
When is the book coming out? I would like to know what those slugs are doing.
@@DAYBROK3 The same damn thing they have been doing for ages now, feeding royal berries to the queen slug who then excreates the hip refreshing beverage known as SLURM! into large vats that the worker slugs use to fill up the cans in the beverage manufacturing warehouse cave while the grunka lunkas sing short diddy's warning visitors not to dwell too deep into the ingtedients and methods behind the making our the galaxies favorite refreshingly addictive beverage! So in the words of the late Slurms the party slug mcKenzie, party on contest winners, WIGGGITY WHAMMM WHAAAM WOZZZLE!
Check out the documentary in the linked video, it's only a minute or two and should answer all questions th-cam.com/video/VtbuW_9hXKg/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/8UNHp98Bkrw/w-d-xo.html
perfect, simon - was just thinking "why should they move at the same relative pace as us?". There's no reason they have to, after all. Talking to them for us would be much like digital space vs meat-space in the HeeChee series
Quagigitymire Grunka Lunka guards running around singing cheerful songs like "We catch you where you should be not, we will kill you on the spot!".
That was a beautiful essay........thank you so much. Got me to subscribe.
Love ur work mate. GLAD I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL.
Ok, ok, ok, ParaFans! We need a group to honor Barnard. An absolutely amazing man. Great job, Nick, learnt a lot today.
I actually cut a lot out. He was a fascinating person. I think my favourite story was that when he discovered Amalthea, a woman whose surname was Barnard wrote to him saying she would name her son after him.
@@parallaxnick637 I'm reading about that incidently, lol! Para, have you considered making a second channel to upload these extra chunks? I'm sure there would be people who'd love to watch that.
This is an exceptional, descriptive video. From start to finish, a clear, informed narration tells everything the viewer wants to know....oh that all similar subjects would be as expertly explained!
Found you through the 2001 movie critique, but now subscribed. Love your gestalt approach to the subject including the history. In this case the wobbly orbit of the star mirrors that of the history of the thinking bout the planet. Loved the graph at 31.50 illustrating the point about different "sweet spots" for life. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Fantastic! You are a You Tube star! This film made my Xmas. Thanks so much.
I'm loving the videos Man. I'm an avid watcher of anything you put out, I wish however, the audio quality was much better or even slightly better. If you have a patreon and you need a decent mic I'd be willing to donate per se to help you achieve that.
Very nice work. Thirty seven minutes well spent. Subscribed and notified.
The history of this planet:
First, we didn't know it was there, and now we do.
The End.
3:58 Now I know where they got the name for one of Batman's villains.
I was way out in the country in Morocco where there are no street lights or any other lights from businesses or houses. The night sky over my head look like a velvet Bowl turned upside down full of diamonds. I will never forget it
This made my day. A new upload!!! Yeah!!
I'd never heard of Barnard's before. As usual, fascinating and thorough history of something strange and wonderful. Thank you!
The idea of Barnard's Star being a quiet, reserved, wise old man on a pilgrimage through the universe who's seen it all, done it all is too quaint. I like to think of it (in human terms) as him being a new neighbor who moved in next door to Sol and between her and and the Centauri family. Hey this sounds like an awesome plot for a slice-of-life anime! :P
Ofc the REAL question everyone wants to know is:
"If these aliens breathe methane, does that mean we can sell them our farts?" - Joel Gawne, circa 2019
Fascinating! Thank you for creating this well-done story. I can find Barnard's star but didn't know the history.
As always, well written, informative, and entertaining.
What a insanely fantastic review. So well done... its honestly crazy to me that a human can contain this much knowledge across a whole slew of fields and time... Nick you are a genius. Thank you for your videos!!!
Subbed so I can watch the rest of your stuff as time permits. Very interesting.
I don't know what else to say but that your videos are simply amazing.
0:54 - I think Barnard's Star was also mentioned in a Star Trek TOS episode wherein the Enterprise responds to a distress call from a lonely man living on a planet in that star system, who desperately needed a jar of salt tablets -- because his girlfriend was secretly a salt-sucking vampire alien.
That assumes I remember correctly, anyway. I only saw the episode once, decades ago.
I love your videos more than fried chicken! I want a Parallaxnick Shirt... I just bought a HistoryGuy Coffee Mug, you are my favorite TH-cam channel... Thank You and Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays - From your #1 sycophantic fan - Joe
I must apologize for my mis-use of the word sycophantic (defined as - "behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage"., I never actually read the definition and I thought it just meant something similar to "being blindly loyal". I did not understand that there the ulterior motive aspect to the word... so Thank You from your dorky, non-academic, yet blindly loyal youtube fan - Joe
I always assumed red dwarf stars were more violent because they have a Napoleon complex.
I very much enjoyed this documentary. I am also your newest subscriber. I look forward to seeing more wonderful videos like this one. Thank you. Have a good night. 😊💕
I love the enthusiastic plunge into some of these pronounciations. Onwards!
Love it! Another great video. I think the whole idea of methane based life is fascinating.
Thanks dude, I really enjoyed this, and learned a lot of stuff!
Excellent presentation, thank you!
Flight of the Dragonfly by Robert Forward is set in the Barnard system.
Excellent presentation on Barnards Star. Subscribed.
The first 7 minutes of this video is a masterpiece of an intro
What do I do if I am Finnish or are my any hopes of seeing this star finished?
Thank you. Fantastic video!
Came back to watch this a second time. It's worth it.
Highly engaging - very well written, with great narration to match.
It's like listening to Shakespeare tell us the history of astronomy. Absolutely brilliant!
Thirty years ago I used to frequently visit Barnad's star to trade when playing Elite.
Well presented, thanks from Orlando
Fantastic video! Thank you! Bravo!
You have an amazing, soothing voice. I could listen to you speak about almost anything. J
I just want to say that I found ParallaxNick before he was famous.
@17:40 A recent discovery in the past few weeks suggest we may have , in fact, just identified our first Population III star. The vast majority of these were gigantic and short-lived, but this lucky find appears to be a red dwarf survivor from this period, having by far the lowest metallicity of any stellar object yet discovered. I forget the name, but I read the article less than two weeks ago. Try Googling it and see if you can find it.