Wow. 100,000 views! And so quickly too! Thanks everyone. I do appreciate every view, and rest assured, I also read every comment, even if I don't always respond to them individually, because it would clutter up the section pretty quickly. I want thank everyone who has subbed in the last few weeks, which have been the best my channel's seen so far. I only hope I can keep coming up with content you find interesting.
You really think we wouldn't have the technology to travel to other sun like star systems within our own galaxy in 600 billion years? Puleeeeze. Proxima B will be an afterthought probably within less than 50 years, since warp technology will probably up and running by then.
Parallaxicality I just saw this video, and watched it immediately. Great job! I have subscribed. I wish we knew more about this system, since it's the closest to us. What are you doing for the solar eclipse? (I'm going to Clemson, SC for a few days.)
"Midnight, Twilight and Noon would not be times on such a world, but places you could visit." That's poetry right there. Effortless and flawless scientific poetry.
I find myself revisiting your older videos over and over since I discovered your channel. Partly because I can’t retain all the information in only one view, but mostly because late at night when I need it most there’s nothing on TH-cam so calming and comforting as your content. Thanks for the hard work! I know I’m not the only one who finds your method of presentation relaxing, so your work helps us in ways you may have never imagined. Thanks again.
Comprehensive, scientifically accurate, imaginative and gripping. I've been following this topic and your points on orbital resonance and electromagnetic fields were enlightening. Your style reminds me of Sagan and that's the best compliment I can give.
David Murphy thanks now after this comment I really give this video a try. The comments here and the like/dislike ratio is a good hint for the quality of the video.
When someone puts your name in a same sentence as Carl Sagan, you have done a great service to humanity. I'm subscribing and I want more of this. Got the notification bell and all.
Part of the reason the 'moon landing hoax' conspiracy theory persists is that some people don't want to accept that humanity could go there and then just stop.
+Jack Shephard What do you mean by _in-between the time of no space travel and space travel_ ? Surely, the transition took place in an instant, for example at the moment of Yuri Gagarin's launch into orbit.
Actually if you think about it, we are just as lucky. Our generation is the one that will pave the way up into the space for our descendants who will look up to us as great ancestors who strived to see beyond this little sphere of rock and water. The thought that we are the ones who will build that bridge to outer space is unbelievable.
Well u could even be born when earth was considered flat.. But ya it would be fantastic to be a space traveler.. Were we could recycle the fuel and oxygen and can keep travelling whole our life..
13:10 "The sun would neither rise or set but hangs motionless in the sky. Midnight, twilight and noon would not be times in such a world but places you could visit. There would be no count of days since days would not exist. only one eternal day and one eternal night separated by a realm of twilight. the shadows cast by mountains would be permanent features creating islands of night where plants cannot grow." was it written by Edgar Allan Poe?
...actually... "Barsoom" there , probably has a ridiculously long day . Similar to Venus , but much slower . The far-thinner atmosphere explains the 》 century - long days . Expect tundra/ice-cap on the back-side . The arid atmosphere should be just thick enough to breath (1/2.atm.) , with plenty of fossil (dissacotiated) oxygen . Overall , a walk-about world . D.H.
Well done! You dont dumb it down so much as to insult the intelligence of non-astrophysicists, and it yet it is not so technical as to alienate us either. Very well done! Subscribed!
Listen guys. I'm all for debate, even of fringe ideas. But I will not stand for insults. Anyone who stoops to that will be blocked from the comments without warning.
Moronvideos1940 Up above it currently says that this video has 218K views, and the channel has just 4.8K subscribers, which is good, but is considerably less than 1/8 th of a million, which would be 125,000 subscribers
It felt like a "multi-disciplinary" course in all relevant areas of science: physics, chemistry, climatology, geology, astrophysics, cosmology, optics, planetary science, biology.....
As a casual astronomy fan, I cannot believe I sat through nearly half an hour of technical spew. And that's because you've structured it so well, articulated it so well that anybody can understand. Great job. Very insightful. Big love from Dubai.
Excellent video, thank you for taking the time and effort to make this. You sir have not only earned my like and subscription but also my respect, keep up the good work!
Doug Zartman yup, I knew "virtually nothing" (despite having taken Physics and Astronomy courses at University) before watching; and now I'm "well versed" too : ) It's all great new stuff; and it keeps on coming, year after year!!
What a pleasure your descriptive explanations are to watch. I have to watch several times to comprehend. Your calm, polite, informative approach to your subject is refreshing. I would love to watch your approach/explanation to the Puma Punku ruins in western Bolivia. Calm, intelligent, informative is why I want to watch more. Again, what a pleasure to watch an explanation of a subject without the wild speculations I see so much on TH-cam videos. Thank You......tm
Randomly found this video and this channel. Very nice video. Your narration is perfect! And the topic isn't to well known which is perfect in it's on right. Keep it up on these type of videos!
Dearest Sir, you have no idea how much I love the beginning of your video. The whole video is filled with great pictures, but this, zooming to those stars- I always have the feeling to fly there. I am sad, I wished we could see this star here in the north, too! Sometimes I think the southern sky has the 'better' stars. The southern cross, the coal sack, and so on, are so breathtaking. ANd I am ashamed, I did not know these lucky ones in fact see Alpha Centauri. Oh my... One thing I would like to add: I think we should not always think, if a planet could be 'our new home'. We could enjoy it, and still try to save the earth: I don't want to occupy a strange planet and force it to be ours. We have one. Let these planets enjoy their own history If Aliens would exist and would do this to us, we would not be so happy. Though I must say, this half dark world looks cosy to me :)
Love your videos. I've spent a lifetime studying astronomy and space sciences, and I learn something every time I watch your videos. Keep up the good work...!
this was pure excellence. I wish you were my primary school teacher. You would have stirred up my imagination from its early developing stages to unprecedented outcomes. Plain, informative, engaging, plausible and thoroughly supported with scientific data.
I like that this guy is commentating based on known facts instead of some imaginary Peter Pan bullshit. He is combining what he knows and throws out the potential theories with out any inspirational music along with some HD CGI with no added MSG, just organic.
thay way it should be done mybe ppl wont be so stupid towards nasa thares ppl that think its all fake and i blame dicovery channel and nasa i realy do fucking hate american made tv so fucking stupid sounding and thay want ppl to believe in space and the reality we live in
When I made a comment on the Science Channels website about how ashamed they should be of their programming I was told that it's "Entertainment". They should be hung from the nearest rafter. If their only point in life is to make money at all costs they should change the name of the channel. Even Nat Geo does more science than Discovery and they're programmed by Fox! At least NatGeo Wild is usually(but not always by any means) down to earth and willing to take a less commercial path. This worship of the almighty dollar over fact is disgusting, worse, it's creating a nation of idiots, I have to assume this is how the liar won the election. Oh, and Fox .....Fox and AM talk show hosts....Yeah, I'm talking about you Hannity, should be brought up on modified treason charges, spin doesn't begin to describe the nonstop lies but...worse...flippin' idiots believe it. It all goes back to Discovey and their Mermaids that the show claimed were real. (In all {LOL} fairness, they put a .25 second disclaimer somewhere in the credits) Sorry about my rant, it certainly wasn't aimed at you, just something I needed to get off my chest :)
Hello Nick. Just wanted to stop by and drop you a comment in this video. It was the first one I discovered which introduced me to your channel some years ago. Since then I've watched most of your videos. I really enjoy stopping by your channel and going on a journey with you. You have a real talent. I must admit I think this video is still my favourite. I love all your history videos, but must admit I love the exploration into the current science (and best theories) into our stellar companions. :) this will remain the definitive video on Proxima to me. Just wanted to stop by and pass on positive feedback and say hello. Please keep doing what you do. Cheers.
So, who was the narrator, he did a very good job; almost the perfect delivery for the type of material covered. As a science reporter and voice-over chimp, congrats on a fine piece of work. You are hereby awarded the Golden Banana, the most coveted award in chimpdom. Narrators never get any credit-please...pity us. :) Addendum: Had to read a bunch of comments but from doing so I think the narrator was David Murphy? If so, nicely done, David. But, next time give yourself a credit in the credits...you deserve it.
Fantasitc, engaging, intelligent and thought-provoking programme. Thanks for this really great presentation - even better than a lot of stuff pumped out by Nova and National Geographic which these days have tended to dumb down and appeal to the sensational, rather than to get us to think. Very enjoyable - should be made part of every high-school science curriculum.
At 6:09 you say that you can estimate the planet mass using planetary transit data. Thats wrong, you only get orbital period and radius of the planet. Mass can be estimated with radial velocity method. Apart from that, nice video!
Yeah, true. My bad; you *can* still get mass if you employ radial velocity alongside transit, which is nifty because it gives you density. Which is what I think I was trying to say.
If there are two planets orbiting relatively close around a star one can use transit timing variations to calculate the masses of the planets. No such luck here though, at least not yet.
Parallaxicality- you should contact Issac Arthur and Fraser Cain for a triple collaboration video. I can't imagine the material the three of you would come up with. Also, subbed.
I am so very thankful for this video. And somehow I hope we WILL see how it looks there. WHo knows? Maybe in this moment they find out how to fuse atoms, then space travel will be possible in a few hours. Or We will see it with a new telescope, I don't know, but let us think how much was possible in the last time! I have a book from the 1930, where it is said: We will never be able to look from outside on our planet, and not how the sun system looks. We will never be able to take a look on Venus or Mercury, they are way to close to the sun, so the light is much to bright. And MAYBE there IS life on Mars, because the best telescopes only can show us a point, which is in fact as big as thirty kilometers, and this of course is too far to see anything. No, it will not be possible ever to make better ones! And we will, of course, never leave earth. The old dream of going to the moon is impossible in reality. -- All this was written by a very good and intelligent Astronom, who still is popular here in this circles. My own Grandfather was born in powerty in a village of 50 people in East Prussia, he was barfeet. Then moved as a child near to Berlin, became a locksmith, learned to drive a car, saw the rise of the cinema and the radio, and when he was old, he sat in our comfortable flat and watched the mankind walking on the moon, live on TV. (I am sad he never flew by plane. He brought me to our airport, when I was six, and I begged, but he ould not come with us. I wished he had experienced this in his lifetime!) WHat, if somebody would have told him all this, when he was five and on his way to that village near Berlin? No, he would not have believed it. So, hey... We do not know what future will bring. I am sad for all those which I loved, and which had to leave, bef0ore we saw the pictures Hubble brought to us, or even much more long ago. But I am happy for all we see now, and as long as we are here, we can hope each new day brings us something great :)
Jeff O, I think they are safe. By the time we get the technology to go there we will have left so much crap in our orbit we won't be able to leave our planet to screw up their planet.
I'm guessing before we "pack our bags" for Proxima B we will have sent robotic probes to really scope the place out, including whether there are indigenous life forms that would be hazardous to us, and vice versa. At least that is my hope.
So nice to see such an excellent video. Modern documentaries nowadays are dumbed down somewhat so as to appeal to as large an audience as possible. Yours is a refreshing change. Excellent narration too - you have a great voice and delivery.
I think someone will eventually find a way to go faster in space, and we will be colonizing (at least) the solar system in the next couple of hundred years.
No... they are working on a microchip that they will propel with a laser beam pushing a 'sail'. A craft capable of carrying people and the supplies it would need for 20 yrs is maybe... 20,000 yrs in the future!
The moon is almost the size of pluto. It occurs in the habitable zone. It's never had an atmosphere and its never harboured life. I'm a scientist and an atheist, but declaring a potential for life on a distant planet is like choosing 7 lottery numbers and telling everyone this ilcould well be the one.
Actually, the Moon is much larger than Pluto. And the reason it doesn't have an atmosphere is because it lacks the gravity to hold onto one in the face of the solar wind. Conversely, Titan, which is smaller than Mars, has an atmosphere thicker than Earth, because the solar wind is weaker out where it is . We can't say for certain what the parameters are yet, because we haven't found enough examples.
Because looking at other planets is one of the best ways to learn how our own planet works. There's an old medical saying: If you want to understand the norm, look at the freak. If you want to know how bones calcify, look at someone with overcalicifed bones. If you want to know how blood catches oxygen, look at someone with low blood oxygen levels. If you want to know how CO2 affects a planet's climate, look at Venus; if you want to know how our planet would do without an ozone layer, look at Mars.
Why can't we get there? There are already projects underway to get a probe to the syste in 20-30 years. Anyways, the budget for these kind of things is only around 0.1% of the US budget. Far faaaaarrr less cash goes into it than ost people think. And I' sure you can figure out which key on y keyboard currently isn't working.
+Czar Peppers Those projects hope to *send* the probe in 20-30 years, which means it would _arrive_ no earlier that 2065 *at best*. Just wanted to clarify in case people get idea that they can expect to see pictures or such nonsense in 25 to 35 years :)
A veritable smorgasbord of fascinating scientific information, concisely and understandably presented, on a subject that should interest all inhabitants of this planet. That being another one that is close, and possibly also "habitable" for us at some future date, either due to dire need, or for simple exploration, and/or our species' expansion into the Galaxy.. Well done!
First vid of yours I've seen. Liked it so much I subbed. Great to get recent and accurate info on trips and places I've been dreaming about all my life. Thanks and looking forward to more.
Thanks for the video; very nicely done - as usual! Memory is a funny thing. Every time you said, "...synchronous rotation..." I was reminded of the lyrics of the song Chain Lightning, by Rush [from 1989's Presto.] Lines 3 & 4 are: "Tides respond to lunar gravitation / Everything turns in synchronous relation." It's one of my favorite albums. Also, I had a rather sobering thought in regard to your statement about Earth in 600 million years. What if one of the partial solutions to the Fermi Paradox is simply that, although civilizations have arisen elsewhere before, none of them (or not enough of them) were socially or politically capable of truly long-term planning? Anyway, thanks again. Rikki Tikki.
I know this is 3 years later but thanks for this video. Lots of info and not just a passive glance at the detail. Very fun to know about an earth like planet so close to us!
I've got myself immobilized and nothing to do but revisiting space poetry. "The sun would neither rise or set but hangs motionless..." The whole passage is brilliance.
Awesome content. I'm glad you don't dumb things down like most space documentaries. It must have taken quite a while to compile all of the research. Thank you.
This is very interesting and well-explained! And also very useful for me personally as I was already planning to do a speculative video on what life may be like on Proxima b, if it exists. :-)
Just found your channel. Usually I listen to music while i work away on my PC but you, your delivery holds my interest and you are easy to listen to, while the subject matter is right up my street. The only thing that bugs me a little bit (and I mean only a little bit!) is the gating on your mic. I don't mind a little background 'hiss' or ambient room noise while you talk. Sometimes the gate cuts in on your sound, truncating it and adding pauses of inky black silence. Anyway subscribed and coming back for more. Proxima B vegetation might be inky black too eh?
Ever check out the Wise stars mentioned around 2:40 minutes? They're both brown dwars; but, i think it's 1040-5319 that is a double brown dwarf system!
We did. Proxima b is potentially habitable. Mars and Venus are potentially habitable worlds, but they don't have life. Heck, the Moon could be considered potentially habitable. The phrase refers to any planets (At least rocky ones) in the respective habitable zones of their stars.
@@davidk1308 yup, such a relatively easy concept, amazing so few get it. I blame "public education" system, world-wide, for lack of critical thinking, particularly among last two generations, we see so prevalent now a days.
@@ronschlorff7089 I forgot about this comment, I think I goofed. But I feel I should add Mars, Venus, and the Moon would be considered potentially habitable by an _outside_ observer until otherwise observed... Mars and such are definitely uninhabitable by our standards. Likewise, until we can see what Proxima b is like, it'll remain potentially habitable. A better general term would probably be habitable zone planets.
@@davidk1308 I understand, and agree, but plenty of places on this planet were uninhabitable years ago. I live in such a place, the deserts of Arizona! Nothing remains the same.
One of the planets around Alpha Centauri might have a better operating system than either Mac or Windows and we may be able to download it remotely for our own use.
My favorite part was when you said "wobble". Hahaha but seriously, very informative. Thank you for your awesome videos and all the work you do. Thumbs up!
Wow. 100,000 views! And so quickly too! Thanks everyone. I do appreciate every view, and rest assured, I also read every comment, even if I don't always respond to them individually, because it would clutter up the section pretty quickly. I want thank everyone who has subbed in the last few weeks, which have been the best my channel's seen so far. I only hope I can keep coming up with content you find interesting.
excellent writing, I hope you have taken or will take your writing further, please let us know if you do
You really think we wouldn't have the technology to travel to other sun like star systems within our own galaxy in 600 billion years? Puleeeeze. Proxima B will be an afterthought probably within less than 50 years, since warp technology will probably up and running by then.
Parallaxicality I just saw this video, and watched it immediately. Great job! I have subscribed. I wish we knew more about this system, since it's the closest to us.
What are you doing for the solar eclipse? (I'm going to Clemson, SC for a few days.)
Zeyberlin Baez lmao right back.
scblue864: I live in London, so I got my eclipse fix back in 1999. Partied like it was then. :-)
"Midnight, Twilight and Noon would not be times on such a world, but places you could visit."
That's poetry right there. Effortless and flawless scientific poetry.
Some people just have it. Most of us don’t.
I find myself revisiting your older videos over and over since I discovered your channel. Partly because I can’t retain all the information in only one view, but mostly because late at night when I need it most there’s nothing on TH-cam so calming and comforting as your content. Thanks for the hard work! I know I’m not the only one who finds your method of presentation relaxing, so your work helps us in ways you may have never imagined. Thanks again.
Excellent science video! Well made, well narrated, well designed, and well just really , really good!
i need a cure for aging so i can move there, i want to go so bad, i'm looking forward to being there
@@SylkaChan I'm looking forward to being here longer! But I get what you mean! :)
You said it best - I cannot in any terms improve...😊
“Watch yer step” parallax Nick talking space ca. always. Good show mate.
Comprehensive, scientifically accurate, imaginative and gripping. I've been following this topic and your points on orbital resonance and electromagnetic fields were enlightening. Your style reminds me of Sagan and that's the best compliment I can give.
Wow. Thank you. That is indeed a compliment. It is one of my goals to someday do him justice.
David Murphy thanks now after this comment I really give this video a try.
The comments here and the like/dislike ratio is a good hint for the quality of the video.
That truly is an Compliment.
When someone puts your name in a same sentence as Carl Sagan, you have done a great service to humanity. I'm subscribing and I want more of this. Got the notification bell and all.
Here, here!
Beautifully written spoken and shown. Best video on TH-cam. 👍🤓
❤️ you ParallaxNick.
Well, how depressing... born in-between the time of no space travel and space travel. So close but yet so far.
Part of the reason the 'moon landing hoax' conspiracy theory persists is that some people don't want to accept that humanity could go there and then just stop.
Alas, Jack, you'll just have to stay alive via quantum immortality
+Jack Shephard
What do you mean by _in-between the time of no space travel and space travel_ ?
Surely, the transition took place in an instant, for example at the moment of Yuri Gagarin's launch into orbit.
Actually if you think about it, we are just as lucky. Our generation is the one that will pave the way up into the space for our descendants who will look up to us as great ancestors who strived to see beyond this little sphere of rock and water. The thought that we are the ones who will build that bridge to outer space is unbelievable.
Well u could even be born when earth was considered flat.. But ya it would be fantastic to be a space traveler.. Were we could recycle the fuel and oxygen and can keep travelling whole our life..
13:10 "The sun would neither rise or set but hangs motionless in the sky. Midnight, twilight and noon would not be times in such a world but places you could visit. There would be no count of days since days would not exist. only one eternal day and one eternal night separated by a realm of twilight. the shadows cast by mountains would be permanent features creating islands of night where plants cannot grow."
was it written by Edgar Allan Poe?
H.P. Lovecraft, perhaps?
...actually...
"Barsoom" there , probably has a ridiculously long day . Similar to Venus , but much slower . The far-thinner atmosphere explains the 》 century - long days . Expect tundra/ice-cap on the back-side . The arid atmosphere should be just thick enough to breath (1/2.atm.) , with plenty of fossil (dissacotiated) oxygen . Overall , a walk-about world .
D.H.
Yea mate I'm going away with the wife and kids this year .
Where you going ?
Booked 2 weeks off to go visit noon .
i feel sorry for the 'Flat-Earthers'. The Universe is SO amazing.
+Eric R
I think flat earthers are afraid of the truth. Indeed, the universe is amazing, but also terrifying.
Love the Hunter S Thompson pic!
Flat earthers have members all round the world!
That seems like a random statement. How does that relate to this video?
Eric R science, logic and theories rule!
Well done! You dont dumb it down so much as to insult the intelligence of non-astrophysicists, and it yet it is not so technical as to alienate us either. Very well done! Subscribed!
You did a terrific job in this video! Very well presented. Thank you
Nice comment! You get to stay!! :)
Listen guys. I'm all for debate, even of fringe ideas. But I will not stand for insults. Anyone who stoops to that will be blocked from the comments without warning.
Hear hear! Excellent and thought provoking video. I just suscribed.
Oh yeah ? Is that so ? Well, buddy, in that case...
thank you ! :D
Parallaxicality Really, well then you can go........
Make another cool video !
Whatever!! truth hurts11
Worldstar!!!!!
wow it absolutely blows my mind how you have so few subscribers I mean come on people give this guy some much deserved love
Since when is over one eighth of a million subscribers just a few ?
Moronvideos1940
Up above it currently says that this video has 218K views, and the channel has just 4.8K subscribers, which is good, but is considerably less than 1/8 th of a million, which would be 125,000 subscribers
Ok already I subscribed lol
Juan C You might find this Wikipedia article interesting:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
As of 01 Oct 2018, there were 369,861 views.
Subbed because of Isaac Arthur and you guy's collab, Isaac and I both were Artillery men and likely crossed paths.
So much science compressed in this one video. These are real physics people! Subscribed+
It felt like a "multi-disciplinary" course in all relevant areas of science: physics, chemistry, climatology, geology, astrophysics, cosmology, optics, planetary science, biology.....
As a casual astronomy fan, I cannot believe I sat through nearly half an hour of technical spew. And that's because you've structured it so well, articulated it so well that anybody can understand. Great job. Very insightful. Big love from Dubai.
Excellent video, thank you for taking the time and effort to make this. You sir have not only earned my like and subscription but also my respect, keep up the good work!
Proxima B vid was outstanding - I'm pretty well versed in this stuff, but I learned a lot anyway. Thanks!
Doug Zartman yup, I knew "virtually nothing" (despite having taken Physics and Astronomy courses at University) before watching; and now I'm "well versed" too : ) It's all great new stuff; and it keeps on coming, year after year!!
What a pleasure your descriptive explanations are to watch. I have to watch several times to comprehend. Your calm, polite, informative approach to your subject is refreshing. I would love to watch your approach/explanation to the Puma Punku ruins in western Bolivia. Calm, intelligent, informative is why I want to watch more. Again, what a pleasure to watch an explanation of a subject without the wild speculations I see so much on TH-cam videos. Thank You......tm
Thank you for not ruining your video with annoying distracting music throughout. Excellent content
First Class. I was gripped by your commentary and accompanying video.. Congratulations
That intro music is just perfect.
That was excellent, my friend! Informative and up-to-date in its research!
Fascinating and inspiring. Enjoyed it a lot.
Randomly found this video and this channel.
Very nice video. Your narration is perfect! And the topic isn't to well known which is perfect in it's on right.
Keep it up on these type of videos!
Concise. Factual. Interesting. A great video - thank you!
Dearest Sir, you have no idea how much I love the beginning of your video. The whole video is filled with great pictures, but this, zooming to those stars- I always have the feeling to fly there. I am sad, I wished we could see this star here in the north, too! Sometimes I think the southern sky has the 'better' stars. The southern cross, the coal sack, and so on, are so breathtaking. ANd I am ashamed, I did not know these lucky ones in fact see Alpha Centauri. Oh my...
One thing I would like to add: I think we should not always think, if a planet could be 'our new home'. We could enjoy it, and still try to save the earth: I don't want to occupy a strange planet and force it to be ours. We have one. Let these planets enjoy their own history
If Aliens would exist and would do this to us, we would not be so happy. Though I must say, this half dark world looks cosy to me :)
Love your videos. I've spent a lifetime studying astronomy and space sciences, and I learn something every time I watch your videos.
Keep up the good work...!
Awesome video, thanks a lot for the effort to make it, subbed and I'll be watching more ;)
this was pure excellence. I wish you were my primary school teacher. You would have stirred up my imagination from its early developing stages to unprecedented outcomes. Plain, informative, engaging, plausible and thoroughly supported with scientific data.
I like that this guy is commentating based on known facts instead of some imaginary Peter Pan bullshit. He is combining what he knows and throws out the potential theories with out any inspirational music along with some HD CGI with no added MSG, just organic.
en español
this was very informative.
thay way it should be done mybe ppl wont be so stupid towards nasa thares ppl that think its all fake and i blame dicovery channel and nasa i realy do fucking hate american made tv so fucking stupid sounding and thay want ppl to believe in space and the reality we live in
When I made a comment on the Science Channels website about how ashamed they should be of their programming I was told that it's "Entertainment". They should be hung from the nearest rafter. If their only point in life is to make money at all costs they should change the name of the channel. Even Nat Geo does more science than Discovery and they're programmed by Fox! At least NatGeo Wild is usually(but not always by any means) down to earth and willing to take a less commercial path. This worship of the almighty dollar over fact is disgusting, worse, it's creating a nation of idiots, I have to assume this is how the liar won the election. Oh, and Fox .....Fox and AM talk show hosts....Yeah, I'm talking about you Hannity, should be brought up on modified treason charges, spin doesn't begin to describe the nonstop lies but...worse...flippin' idiots believe it. It all goes back to Discovey and their Mermaids that the show claimed were real. (In all {LOL} fairness, they put a .25 second disclaimer somewhere in the credits) Sorry about my rant, it certainly wasn't aimed at you, just something I needed to get off my chest :)
Michael Merzhoev lol....
Not too many "facts" here....
Hello Nick. Just wanted to stop by and drop you a comment in this video. It was the first one I discovered which introduced me to your channel some years ago. Since then I've watched most of your videos. I really enjoy stopping by your channel and going on a journey with you. You have a real talent. I must admit I think this video is still my favourite. I love all your history videos, but must admit I love the exploration into the current science (and best theories) into our stellar companions. :) this will remain the definitive video on Proxima to me.
Just wanted to stop by and pass on positive feedback and say hello. Please keep doing what you do. Cheers.
I am making my through your vids Nick. 😘👍🤓
Great video! I feel like I went on a research mission :) Had to subscribe to do it again. Thank you.
What a video... Thanks. First time saw a video on this topic which is so detailed and not too loud unlike other videos. Subscribed.
So, who was the narrator, he did a very good job; almost the perfect delivery for the type of material covered. As a science reporter and voice-over chimp, congrats on a fine piece of work. You are hereby awarded the Golden Banana, the most coveted award in chimpdom.
Narrators never get any credit-please...pity us. :)
Addendum: Had to read a bunch of comments but from doing so I think the narrator was David Murphy? If so, nicely done, David. But, next time give yourself a credit in the credits...you deserve it.
Thank you! That means a lot :)
Your channel is golden.You deserve Way more subscribers.KEEP Working Hard Buddy.
Fantasitc, engaging, intelligent and thought-provoking programme. Thanks for this really great presentation - even better than a lot of stuff pumped out by Nova and National Geographic which these days have tended to dumb down and appeal to the sensational, rather than to get us to think. Very enjoyable - should be made part of every high-school science curriculum.
Really, really well-researched and written. What a treat.
Great content! Love the commentary!
Great video!
wow. what a great video!
Really enjoyed this. Content, narration, production all top notch. Well done.
Good video! Subscribed, keep it up mate.
A very nicely written and made video. I subscribed instantly. Hope to see more quality Cosmological and scientific vids. Thanks.
This was absolute;y fantastic; watched twice :)
Thanks for all your hard work Nick, I’m astonished you only have 35k subscribers. You deserve 100x that number in my eyes.
i recognize the music, is it stellardrone?
Yes :-)
Because you can't have deep space without good keys and synth music.
Absolutely fantastic and enthralling video!
At 6:09 you say that you can estimate the planet mass using planetary transit data. Thats wrong, you only get orbital period and radius of the planet. Mass can be estimated with radial velocity method.
Apart from that, nice video!
Yeah, true. My bad; you *can* still get mass if you employ radial velocity alongside transit, which is nifty because it gives you density. Which is what I think I was trying to say.
If there are two planets orbiting relatively close around a star one can use transit timing variations to calculate the masses of the planets. No such luck here though, at least not yet.
How do you not have more subscribers? This is awesome, well made, and well researched.
Thank you! :-)
Parallaxicality Beyond fascinating!!!!.......you've earned a new subscriber !!
Parallaxicality- you should contact Issac Arthur and Fraser Cain for a triple collaboration video. I can't imagine the material the three of you would come up with. Also, subbed.
Cool, Sparks the imagination.
Venus's 'Nightmare Hell-scape' gets me every time
I am so very thankful for this video. And somehow I hope we WILL see how it looks there.
WHo knows? Maybe in this moment they find out how to fuse atoms, then space travel will be possible in a few hours.
Or We will see it with a new telescope, I don't know, but let us think how much was possible in the last time! I have a book from the 1930, where it is said: We will never be able to look from outside on our planet, and not how the sun system looks. We will never be able to take a look on Venus or Mercury, they are way to close to the sun, so the light is much to bright. And MAYBE there IS life on Mars, because the best telescopes only can show us a point, which is in fact as big as thirty kilometers, and this of course is too far to see anything. No, it will not be possible ever to make better ones! And we will, of course, never leave earth. The old dream of going to the moon is impossible in reality. -- All this was written by a very good and intelligent Astronom, who still is popular here in this circles.
My own Grandfather was born in powerty in a village of 50 people in East Prussia, he was barfeet. Then moved as a child near to Berlin, became a locksmith, learned to drive a car, saw the rise of the cinema and the radio, and when he was old, he sat in our comfortable flat and watched the mankind walking on the moon, live on TV. (I am sad he never flew by plane. He brought me to our airport, when I was six, and I begged, but he ould not come with us. I wished he had experienced this in his lifetime!)
WHat, if somebody would have told him all this, when he was five and on his way to that village near Berlin? No, he would not have believed it.
So, hey... We do not know what future will bring. I am sad for all those which I loved, and which had to leave, bef0ore we saw the pictures Hubble brought to us, or even much more long ago. But I am happy for all we see now, and as long as we are here, we can hope each new day brings us something great :)
Whoever made the minute-long intro of the perspective to tunes is a genius and needs to please keep making stuff like this
I just wish it had lasted longer....and not only because I'm high
I feel sorry for the life on proxima already if we ever get there!
Jeff O, I think they are safe. By the time we get the technology to go there we will have left so much crap in our orbit we won't be able to leave our planet to screw up their planet.
Let's hope for their sake that we've gotten over things like war, religious fundamentalism and Justin Bieber.
i see your point
Don't forget the Zionists
I'm guessing before we "pack our bags" for Proxima B we will have sent robotic probes to really scope the place out, including whether there are indigenous life forms that would be hazardous to us, and vice versa. At least that is my hope.
So nice to see such an excellent video. Modern documentaries nowadays are dumbed down somewhat so as to appeal to as large an audience as possible. Yours is a refreshing change. Excellent narration too - you have a great voice and delivery.
WOW... I feel like a genius now with all the info you gave me.
one of the best astronomy videos i have ever seen.if not the best. keep up with the good work!
I think someone will eventually find a way to go faster in space, and we will be colonizing (at least) the solar system in the next couple of hundred years.
Next couple of millenia.
Superb explanations, clearly broken down so that any intelligent person can understand but rich in detail and logic.
No one will be going here any time soon! If you want to send people then it will take about 70,000 yrs! Good luck!
They are working on a space ship that can get there in 20 years or so. It's called StarChip
No... they are working on a microchip that they will propel with a laser beam pushing a 'sail'. A craft capable of carrying people and the supplies it would need for 20 yrs is maybe... 20,000 yrs in the future!
impressing how you filled all the information into this short video and still its easy to understand
The moon is almost the size of pluto. It occurs in the habitable zone. It's never had an atmosphere and its never harboured life.
I'm a scientist and an atheist, but declaring a potential for life on a distant planet is like choosing 7 lottery numbers and telling everyone this ilcould well be the one.
Actually, the Moon is much larger than Pluto. And the reason it doesn't have an atmosphere is because it lacks the gravity to hold onto one in the face of the solar wind. Conversely, Titan, which is smaller than Mars, has an atmosphere thicker than Earth, because the solar wind is weaker out where it is . We can't say for certain what the parameters are yet, because we haven't found enough examples.
Late to the party, but THIS is the best SCIENCE channel I've found so far on YT. Brilliant!
why spend billions searching for planets we can never reach.... instead of spending billions to study our own planet?
Because looking at other planets is one of the best ways to learn how our own planet works. There's an old medical saying: If you want to understand the norm, look at the freak. If you want to know how bones calcify, look at someone with overcalicifed bones. If you want to know how blood catches oxygen, look at someone with low blood oxygen levels. If you want to know how CO2 affects a planet's climate, look at Venus; if you want to know how our planet would do without an ozone layer, look at Mars.
We already spend billions researching our own planet.
Why can't we get there? There are already projects underway to get a probe to the syste in 20-30 years.
Anyways, the budget for these kind of things is only around 0.1% of the US budget. Far faaaaarrr less cash goes into it than ost people think.
And I' sure you can figure out which key on y keyboard currently isn't working.
MmmmmmKay then!
+Czar Peppers Those projects hope to *send* the probe in 20-30 years, which means it would _arrive_ no earlier that 2065 *at best*. Just wanted to clarify in case people get idea that they can expect to see pictures or such nonsense in 25 to 35 years :)
Wonderful... A great hour of thought provoking edutainment.
Very well done. It wasn't to speculative while still imaginative. Scientific, but not boring. I love it!
Excellent work with a unique narrative delivery.
A veritable smorgasbord of fascinating scientific information, concisely and understandably presented, on a subject that should interest all inhabitants of this planet. That being another one that is close, and possibly also "habitable" for us at some future date, either due to dire need, or for simple exploration, and/or our species' expansion into the Galaxy.. Well done!
Just found this, still relevant. Great work.
Excellent. I watch again and again.
Loving your channel, nice work, and thanks for your efforts to put these videos together.
First vid of yours I've seen. Liked it so much I subbed. Great to get recent and accurate info on trips and places I've been dreaming about all my life. Thanks and looking forward to more.
Thanks for the video; very nicely done - as usual! Memory is a funny thing. Every time you said, "...synchronous rotation..." I was reminded of the lyrics of the song Chain Lightning, by Rush [from 1989's Presto.] Lines 3 & 4 are: "Tides respond to lunar gravitation / Everything turns in synchronous relation." It's one of my favorite albums. Also, I had a rather sobering thought in regard to your statement about Earth in 600 million years. What if one of the partial solutions to the Fermi Paradox is simply that, although civilizations have arisen elsewhere before, none of them (or not enough of them) were socially or politically capable of truly long-term planning? Anyway, thanks again. Rikki Tikki.
Another stunning one Nick, all power to you bro.
Excellent detail and use of language. Thanks.
I know this is 3 years later but thanks for this video. Lots of info and not just a passive glance at the detail. Very fun to know about an earth like planet so close to us!
I've got myself immobilized and nothing to do but revisiting space poetry.
"The sun would neither rise or set but hangs motionless..."
The whole passage is brilliance.
Nick. You are an absolute beast of a narrator.
Very well done... informative and accurate.
Awesome content. I'm glad you don't dumb things down like most space documentaries. It must have taken quite a while to compile all of the research. Thank you.
A fascinating and very well presented discourse. Thank you!
@parallaxnick Just found your channel. Can't wait to get through your entire backlog of videos. I really like your presentation style!
I really enjoyed this. Very informative and straight to the point.
thank you for your videos, they are so relaxing and fascinating. Just what I need after a 9 hours at work. ☺
This is very interesting and well-explained! And also very useful for me personally as I was already planning to do a speculative video on what life may be like on Proxima b, if it exists. :-)
I liked the way they explained the physics behind all this. Great work.
I would love to see you do an update on this topic. Fantastic video!
you describe things so well. excellent video.
Just found your channel. Usually I listen to music while i work away on my PC but you,
your delivery holds my interest and you are easy to listen to, while the subject matter is right up my street. The only thing that bugs me a little bit (and I mean only a little bit!) is the gating on your mic. I don't mind a little background 'hiss' or ambient room noise while you talk. Sometimes the gate cuts in on your sound, truncating it and adding pauses of inky black silence.
Anyway subscribed and coming back for more.
Proxima B vegetation might be inky black too eh?
Ever check out the Wise stars mentioned around 2:40 minutes? They're both brown dwars; but, i think it's 1040-5319 that is a double brown dwarf system!
it's quite amazing that we find a potentially habitable planet right next door!
toamaori we didn't. No life on it (probably)
We did. Proxima b is potentially habitable. Mars and Venus are potentially habitable worlds, but they don't have life. Heck, the Moon could be considered potentially habitable. The phrase refers to any planets (At least rocky ones) in the respective habitable zones of their stars.
@@davidk1308 yup, such a relatively easy concept, amazing so few get it. I blame "public education" system, world-wide, for lack of critical thinking, particularly among last two generations, we see so prevalent now a days.
@@ronschlorff7089 I forgot about this comment, I think I goofed. But I feel I should add Mars, Venus, and the Moon would be considered potentially habitable by an _outside_ observer until otherwise observed... Mars and such are definitely uninhabitable by our standards. Likewise, until we can see what Proxima b is like, it'll remain potentially habitable. A better general term would probably be habitable zone planets.
@@davidk1308 I understand, and agree, but plenty of places on this planet were uninhabitable years ago. I live in such a place, the deserts of Arizona! Nothing remains the same.
One of the planets around Alpha Centauri might have a better operating system than either Mac or Windows and we may be able to download it remotely for our own use.
My favorite part was when you said "wobble". Hahaha but seriously, very informative. Thank you for your awesome videos and all the work you do. Thumbs up!
Thank you ParallaxNick. An open mind is an open universe.
Please what is this music its amazing?
"Airglow" by the fantastic Stellardrone.
This is an excellent and entertaining video
I learned a lot watching this. Thanks