The Expanse - Alex Goes Slingshotting

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The Expanse - Alex Goes Slingshotting

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Ok, so I'm going to pre-empt all the comments that have accompanied this video on previous uploads. Previous requests for this clip and a shit load of views in the past have persuaded me to post again.
Yes the "Ganymede" map on The Roci's display, is of England and North Wales. And also superimposed on top of this to make it seem like a congested mess, is the island of Guam, along with it's international airport and Andersen Air Force Base for the USAF.
Also one of the aircraft ID's is of an Easyjet plane (EZY9RA) which I used to regularly fly myself from London Luton to Glasgow, Scotland where I lived for a number of years in Angus.
The other point is the wild inaccuracies that this slingshot scene represents in flying time etc. I do believe that the novel authors, did admit once they felt afterwards this was a big mistake.
Still a good bit of fun and some nice visuals to enjoy, particularly the MCRN encounter.
From Season 2 Episode 11 "Here There Be Dragons"
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@vaniellys 9 ай бұрын

I love the detail that Martian urgency light is blue, like the Earth sky, while normal is red.

@ElderStatesman 8 ай бұрын

And the opposite is true for the UN vessels. Blue or white for normal and red for emergencies.

@theirishviking9278 6 ай бұрын

Makes sense you want a color that isn't "normal" for the crew to see

@user-si5ik5xf3m 4 ай бұрын

For me it's because blue wastes more energy - so something serious

@Hammerhead137 2 ай бұрын

Actually the donnager's "urgency light" also had some red lights in it as well if you look closely. And white is the normal lighting.

@exa_meters5383 2 ай бұрын

The Roci is in silent running so that's why the lights are red, same is shown a few times in the show like thoth station.

@centurian318 2 жыл бұрын

Alex’s relationship with the Roci made her (the ship) a living, breathing character. She was not just an mcrn gun ship or weapon of war… she was their home.

@isolinear9836 Жыл бұрын

That's why Alex took off his wedding ring - he married Roci. Match made in heaven.

@zeffmalchazeen3429 Жыл бұрын

@@isolinear9836 it is bitter sweet in the books. Before joining the Cant, Alex was about to retire (he is in his 50s in the books). His wife waited for him to return. But she noticed something wrong with Alex (like a husband having an affair kind of symptoms). As the days goes by, Alex realized that his true love is being a pilot and in space. That is why he left.

@jonathangodin4775 8 ай бұрын

It’s such a genuinely cozy ship too! Plenty of 2 man rooms for privacy, a nice mess, a gym, state of the art med bay! I bet every Martian navy officer was fighting over who would go on long deployments on one of these

@AMRAMRS 2 ай бұрын

@@jonathangodin4775 I like how he speaks to her... "NO engines, just thrusters" as the CGI trajectory plot backtracks, lol

@wetteryan Жыл бұрын

Even though it's uncharacteristically unrealistic for this show I have never had a problem with this scene. They earned themselves a grandiose spectacle for the sake of pure badassery. And when you compare it to all other sci-fi it's really not even that bad of a violation to the laws of physics. All it really comes down to is the fact that this maneuver would have taken far longer when it comes to time.

@nukepuke932 9 ай бұрын

Those ARE some very small moons, tho...just saying.

@gokkiyoutube 9 ай бұрын

@@nukepuke932Yeah, like.... 300 meters diameter.

@clarko-ow5oq 9 ай бұрын

@@gokkiyoutubeanything thats 300metre diameter is unlikely to be spherical, something of that size would be similar to the moons of Mars. The moon that they maneuvered around look very spherical, meaning its gonna be quite massive as far as moons go

@gokkiyoutube 8 ай бұрын

@@clarko-ow5oq You missed the point, sorry :

@clarko-ow5oq 8 ай бұрын

@@gokkiyoutube what point would that be?

@infernas 10 ай бұрын

I always love how, when Alex asked Roci to plot a trajectory, she started drawing a line right away, but then stopped abruptly and re-drew the line when Alex clarified "no engines". Like an actual person would. Such a tiny detail, but kudos to whoever made the map CGI for this bit, it looked like they were having some fun. ♥️ Edit: Also love how the map hologram's lines bounce off Alex and the ring when they hit them.

@SuperlunarNim 9 ай бұрын

She also responds to "sweetheart" lol

@infernas 9 ай бұрын

@@SuperlunarNim yeah I'm glad it's not an "unrequited love" sort of relationship lmao.

@pilotlist6276 8 ай бұрын

I love how they gave the ship AI personality without straight up making it a person

@jasonapplebaum9871 11 ай бұрын

Reading the comics and understanding his back story really make me appreciate him even more. His favorite thing in the world was being a pilot and for the first time in his life he was finally the pilot of a badass ship like the roci. He’s literally live his dream in this scene. In the past he was a Martian cargo pilot, essentially just a truck driver that had to follow boring routes. But now he’s on the Roci which is like being a jet pilot

@Lambrettist 5 ай бұрын

Alex already had experience flying MCRN Corvettes like the Roci, but he hadn’t since he retired. Btw, he’s still alive (as of book 8).

@VaughnKing 2 жыл бұрын

Don't Forget, Alex is still technically drunk during this scene

@thepuncakian2024 3 ай бұрын

Maybe that's why it's so scientifically inaccurate, he's drunk and is seeing things lol.

@honzasenbauer612 3 жыл бұрын

This scene is like Kerbal Space program warping between maneuvers

@alisoncrompton4054 3 жыл бұрын

Still my favorite. Gonna miss you, pilot.

@speculativefuture9568 3 жыл бұрын

As an Alex fan youll be pleased to know I'm knocking together a video looking at his background, the final episode and the possibility of re-shoots. Be about a week or so.

@gregjohnson1570 3 жыл бұрын

@@speculativefuture9568 thanks for the content. Expanse is really slept on

@speculativefuture9568 3 жыл бұрын

@@gregjohnson1570 My pleasure, always happy to churn out material. And I agree for the immense quality the show is, The Expanse is still a relatively under loved and underappreciated show

@najlitarvan921 2 жыл бұрын

@@speculativefuture9568 one of the reasons is that it falls into a very specific niche

@cantasdan 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite too

@wellthatwasdaft 2 жыл бұрын

4:23 That one time the Roci grew to several hundred km long.

@darthvader0219 Жыл бұрын

Jupter's 5th largest moon is 85km across. There may be a chance that the Roci passed by a moon small enough for it to appear big in comparison to the moon. However I doubt that such a moon would be spherical

@Xingmey 9 ай бұрын

that one time, when a few months of flying was compressed into just about a 3 minute montage

@N1lav 9 ай бұрын

@@XingmeyThis is the only time the show ignored the physics to show us a grand spectacle. I think they get a pass

@thepuncakian2024 3 ай бұрын

I don't know specifically what moon that is, but some of Jupiter's moons are pretty small, so its not entirely out of the realm of possibility. The moons are still way too close to each other though.

@zacky1312 Жыл бұрын

this is how you tell the audience how smart a character is, by showing them what they are thinking, and what they are doing.

@Cbricklyne 6 ай бұрын

Except,........if you understand the math and science of what's going on in that scene, it's not very smart at all. In fact, it's bad. Very very bad. Embarrassingly so.

@kinderdm Жыл бұрын

I don't care how scientifically inaccurate the visuals are, or reversing orbit that quickly on thrusters only when the destroyer appears. I will always absolutely love this scene, and I am glad they opted for impressive visuals and feel over trying to be overly accurate. The realistic feel of this show was one of my favorite things about it and the books. But sometimes it's better to just make an impressive scene over sticking to the truth of the matter when it comes to on screen adaptations.

@trkms 9 ай бұрын

roci and destroyer both orbiting that moon. we can safely assume visual size of ships are changed for better understanding of what's happening. when roci fired thrusters it slowed it's orbital speed so the destroyer got ahead. they still both were doing 1+km/s.

@jonny-b4954 9 ай бұрын

Ship more than than that probably. Ships can go 30k m/s or so in The Expanse.@@trkms

@Chuckf66 6 ай бұрын

I watched this episode around the time I bought myself a decent telescope and was blessed with a freezing cold, crystal clear night that granted me my first, decent view of Jupiter and the Jovian moons. I get goosebumps every time I remember how spectacular that was.

@1LEgGOdt 2 жыл бұрын

I’m a STAR WARS Fan, I respect Star Trek, but The Expanse… it has truly captured both the True Majestic Beauty and Utter Terrorizing Horror of Space. And it truly has my respect as a True Sci-fi show that Obeys all of the rules and laws of Science Facts of Orbital Mechanics

@dogemaester Жыл бұрын

Science Facts for the win brother, amen.

@christophergrat6986 Жыл бұрын

This reminded me of Farscape. John Crichton uses a planets gravitational pull to slingshot Moya to escape the Peacekeepers. A brilliant scene and writing for both shows!👍🏻

@bjb7587 9 ай бұрын

Or the time Picard took the helm to sling shot using a star. Funny how Data was so impressed over what was really not that big an idea.

@Outworlder 8 ай бұрын

Stargate Universe, where Destiny does a slingshot maneuver as it's almost out of power. And the characters have no idea what's happening until much later.

@josesanchezrodriguez1783 3 жыл бұрын

I love the way that patrol destroyer appears

@aranayailyaris73 9 ай бұрын

the sheer computing power it must take to plot a trajectory like that in a second

@Le_Fenix 8 ай бұрын

I love how Alex talks to the ship like it’s an actual human being

@hanavesela5884 Жыл бұрын

One of my top five favorite scenes from the entire show.

@Pelerin985 3 ай бұрын

When Alex goes slingshot, he goes silent as the night and as smooth as silk

@dsdy1205 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, a better way to do this might have been to do what he himself did during the Assault on Spin Station - find a couple of civilian ships whose instantaneous trajectories would take them into Ganymede, fly in formation, then make like a dropped cargo container and coast into the Jovian system at high speed.

@jjbowe 2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't that depend on how far the no fly zone extended? I thought no civilian crafts were allowed in the area.

@dsdy1205 2 жыл бұрын

@@jjbowe Nice thing about space is that something that's dropped keeps moving along its orbit. Doesn't matter how far away the ship was if it momentarily had an orbit that intersected Ganymede (and with the number of ships puttering about in the Expanse on tight shipping routes it's certainly possible), that orbit will carry whatever is dropped straight into Ganymede without a single thruster burn.

@rusher2937 2 жыл бұрын

@@dsdy1205 Sure, but at that point you're extremely fast and will zoom past Ganymede, no chance to land on it without firing up your drive to decelerate, if you do that everyone will know that you're not just a cargo container and have more than enough time to react. In the assault on the Thoth Station this tactic worked because they could decelerate until they were very close already, and only needed to appear like a cargo container for long enough to get too close for enemy missiles to guide. In the Ganymede scenario the same tactic wouldn't work.

@ryankoh917 Жыл бұрын

@@dsdy1205 thats assuming the martians dont smoke everything falling towards the surface. They might just blow up all loose cargo anyways for fear of any landing action. This was at a point Mars was effectively at war with Earth, and trying to secure an extremely valuable asset

@dusanboricic2017 Жыл бұрын

He should have been doing something like that while exploiting their gaps in sensor coverage. If he does it near a moon, that's already half of the sky gone, and at 20g a 1km/s burn is just 5s.

@katinaswanson6511 10 ай бұрын

What I find the hardest to believe about this is that the Roci can break orbit and materially affect her trajectory with RCS alone.

@galacticengineer588 6 ай бұрын

He did such a good job with his character

@1977Yakko Жыл бұрын

The Roci is truly one of the best "hero ships".

@andreazampieri5513 2 жыл бұрын

Alex Kamal… one of the best characters of the serie! Love him! And first 3 series were the best, imho!

@MarcusVCPrado Ай бұрын

Amazing scene, one of the best of Science Fiction, Alex Kamal and Rocinante, a perfect wedding. Great show.👏👏👏

@cliffdixon4211 4 ай бұрын

Wash: I am a leaf on the wind . . . Alex: "Weaselton," PLEASE . . .

@jameseichinger7262 10 ай бұрын

Probably one of my favorite sequences in the show.

@Snowy123 Жыл бұрын

To me in the whole series I think this was Alex's magnum opus best piloting ever

@RogueShadows Ай бұрын

If I ever get around to watching the Expanse, it’ll be entirely because of how god-damned _beautiful_ this scene is.

@martianpolarbeer 11 күн бұрын

Man ISS takes about 1.5 day to circle earth and then there's this guy, circling multiple planets and moons in less than 30 mins

@hellojam7965 5 ай бұрын

4:50 This scene is just breathtaking

@shogomadBFG 9 ай бұрын

I Subbed you for the Great Clips and for having the Season/Episode.

@2serveand2protect Жыл бұрын

Damn! - I was so PISSED when he died! One of the most likeable characters in any TV-series...maybe because he was always BLABBING nonsense (when not behind the comms of a ship at least). :)

@brandonreed09 Жыл бұрын

Killed off because of the actor

@spearshake4771 Жыл бұрын

Sadly the actor has too many allegations of sexual misconduct against him. If it was just one person you might still wonder but when its over 30 allegations one starts to wonder if it isn't true

@2serveand2protect Жыл бұрын

@@spearshake4771 ...REALLY??... That guy??? ...hell!- I didn't even know it! I beg your pardon but I do not follow the ..."gossip column" (call it what You will!) of American or British actors. Thanks for the infomation, though! PS. ...PITY! ...'cause I truly liked that guy he played!... Goodnight.

@PrograError 9 ай бұрын

@@2serveand2protect sadly some of the best actors around that time is also the some of the scandalous... like Kevin Spacey of House of Cards fame... metoo sniped lots of good actors with shite backroom ethics

@compmanio36 8 ай бұрын

Because the copycat effect isn't real. Strange how they always find 30 women to make allegations but those 30 women didn't say anything for a long time before that...@@spearshake4771

@horiciOwO Жыл бұрын

My favorite part of The Expanse is when Alex said It's slinshot time and then slingshoted all over everyone

@Cain-x 3 ай бұрын

I love this scene and it shows there is quite a bit of AI in the future, but more of the assistive type without any personality (or maybe some)

@theresewilliams7232 3 жыл бұрын

amazing scene from beginning to end

@bjb7587 9 ай бұрын

Visual effects 💯

@naya83443 11 ай бұрын

4:08 Im sorry, I just cant let this go 💀💀

@Michael-ez3zg 2 жыл бұрын

I really liked the character Alex Kamal, played by Cas Anvar. Sigh...

@NOOBlerMe 2 жыл бұрын

Ok I’m so confused on the whole thing. Did the actor do something?

@Terziak 2 жыл бұрын

@@NOOBlerMe He had been sexually harassing cast and crew members for years. As much as it sucks from a storytelling standpoint, it was the right decision to bin him off there and then.

@Polovene Жыл бұрын

@@Terziak but why? Did he rape someone? Hit someone? At least threaten?

@Terziak Жыл бұрын

@@Polovene There isn't a minimum line to be drawn here, that's what makes people think these actions are okay. The guy made dozens of people uncomfortable over several years and getting rid of him was the right idea. Even if it was just one person though, it doesn't suddenly make it fine.

@salmansengul Жыл бұрын

@@TerziakIf I am not mistaken, he didn't harass anyone on set. He allegedly did it to fans on events like comic con etc. Only one person from the crew came forward and claimed that she was harassed by him.

@sexyspecs5663 Жыл бұрын

Didn't realise Ganymede was over England...

@tyroned114 9 ай бұрын

😂 The space equivalent of riding a wave.

@chiefjudgedredd 9 ай бұрын

A relationship with the Rocinante a bit like Dr Who and the TARDIS.

@TrainerCTZ 6 ай бұрын

Are we suppossed to understand that the movement of the ship is sped up X1000? When he "leans" into some of the slings there is some confusion injected. Obviously he would be pulling NUCLEAR G forces in reality. I think they should have left the "leans" out and shown the passage of time inside the ship instead.

@Renuclous 9 ай бұрын

Im a leaf in the wind

@bengy2732 9 ай бұрын

The show will never be the same without Alex, so disappointed they killed him off

@theavaliengineer 8 ай бұрын

Blame Cas Anvar for sexually harassing the female cast members. At least they found a good way to send him off rather than just swapping the actor out like some other shows. He was built to play the part...

@carlosandleon 7 ай бұрын

good riddance

@ATBatmanMALS31 2 ай бұрын

Alex and his 800g turns lol

@TonyTylerDraws 7 ай бұрын

He finally takes his ring off because he found his new wife. The Roci

@alamudesky1959 10 ай бұрын

Great Scene

@Zaluskowsky 8 ай бұрын

This is the SLingshotship Rocinante .. out of the way!

@jessefurqueron5555 8 ай бұрын

@ 5:12 like the 3DConnexion SpaceMouse used as a prop.

@meat-hook Жыл бұрын

Fun scene, but the hologram filling up thr entire ops deck was weird.

@tikkivolta2854 9 ай бұрын

if that scene was real he most certainly wouldn't narrate his thoughts.

@LuisPerez-5 7 ай бұрын

People do that you know. Specially when they are alone.

@tikkivolta2854 7 ай бұрын

people do that. specially when the script demands to explain everything.

@LuisPerez-5 7 ай бұрын

@@tikkivolta2854 You didn't understand what I said

@tikkivolta2854 7 ай бұрын

@@LuisPerez-5 i understood quite well. 2 angles to the same cause. i am a film maker so this kinda jumps at me but yea, who doesn't talk to himself after a while in solitude.

@LuisPerez-5 7 ай бұрын

@tikkivolta2854 So, if it was real, he would narrate his thoughts. And here he is not narrating his thoughts but talking to the ship, so there's that.

@saundyuk 7 ай бұрын

C'mon Alex, pick up yer goddam ring!

@lemonf6859 8 ай бұрын

Least favorite scene in the whole series. Extremely unrealistic.

@LuisPerez-5 7 ай бұрын

You mean in a show with spaceships, weird alien goo, ships with almost infinite fuel but this crosses the line.

@lemonf6859 7 ай бұрын

@@LuisPerez-5 No, because even within the fiction of the Expanse this was not feasable and unrealistic. Use your brain Luis.

@LuisPerez-5 7 ай бұрын

@@lemonf6859 No, given that it's FICTION anything can be done. Use your brain this isn't a documentary. Of the many way more unrealistic things that happen in this show this is too much? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@lemonf6859 7 ай бұрын

No, given that it is fiction and the world they have created still clearly has rules within them, they themselves have set and adheres to our science. They have stated within the world itself that planets share the same size as ours and that this is not feasible. Like you sound absolutely unintelligent right now, as THE WRITERS of THE BOOKS and CO-WRITERS of THE SERIES have stated that this scene was complete BS and was just done to look cool for TV and within the universe of the Expanse this would've taken weeks to complete. The Expanse is a series which science is based on hard-sci fi, not Star Trek fantasy. The only thing unfeasable is how efficient the engine is, the rest is all feasible within our realm of science. Just because something is fiction doesn't mean it doesn't have to make sense within the setting of that fiction. Like grab a book and gain some knowledge@@LuisPerez-5

@riogrande5761 9 ай бұрын

Shame he was written off the show. I guess I'll have to get the books to find out what happens to Alex after he was written off.

@jamesash7368 9 ай бұрын

I like the the show. But I love the books. No matter how good a show is you always get so much more character development in a book.

@riogrande5761 9 ай бұрын

@@jamesash7368 That is usually true! I don't have much time to reac books but if I can get them on CD or something, I could listen in the car on my hour long commute each way to work!

@riogrande5761 7 ай бұрын

@@jamesash7368 That's nearly always the case. I don't have any time to read, so maybe I'll get the books on CD to listen to on my commute to work or while I'm working on my hobby. At least now I have a way to visualize when the story tells having seen the series several times through.

@petrowegynyolc7108 Жыл бұрын

Nice touch from Clinton Shorter using the theme from Epstein's drive test in the flight scene. Makes you realize just how easier flight with his drive really is.

@Jimholy 9 ай бұрын

Has anyone noticed how the alarms are in blue?

@PrograError 9 ай бұрын

well... it was in red. and Blue is said to increase awareness... so IIRC even IRL battleships all uses it in their ops room

@Cbricklyne 6 ай бұрын

@@PrograError Wrong! The reason the Roci has blue as the harzard light color is because as a Martian ship, Martians are generally desensitized to the color red as a warning or an alarm color and so in they're ships the colors are reversed so that red is the normal status color and blue is the harzard color status. Also they refer to Earthers as 'The Blues' (probably on account of being the only body in the Solar System with an actual (blue) sky and the blue look that the oceans give it from space. So it doubles up as the color of their enemy. Mars on the other hand is the "Red Planet", has a red sky and lots of iron and in the soil and the atmosphere means they see red a lot and have even come to associate it with their identity. It wouldn't make a great warning light color in the bridge of a ship.

@malkeus6487 8 ай бұрын

Rossi is smart enough to plot a slingshot course around multiple small bodies in a matter of seconds but can't handle some evasive maneuvers? How the hell is that s*** even sneak up on them anyway

@Cbricklyne 6 ай бұрын

The math and misjudgment of scale and distance in this scene was so laughably and embarrassingly bad, it still hurts my brain to think about it even today. That journey using only those moons' gravity to slingshot your way around should have taken MONTHS, not the mere hours or whatever they seemed to imply. Some of Jupiter's and Saturn's moons have larger orbital radii than the Earth is far from the Sun (i.e. 1 Astronomical Unit (AU)) - Which means some moons take longer to orbit their gas giant host than it takes the Earth to orbit tthe sun in one cycle (1 year). So just do the basic math from that. I love this show but this was one of the few places they really screwed the science up - understandably in the interest of time and artistic license for TV entertainment purposes, but still. Great visual effects though.

@whereuwannabe7796 8 ай бұрын

Alex is a creepy bastard. But he's our creepy bastard.😂

@rutoppgames3754 6 ай бұрын

Loved this scene but the actor was a creep

@troyezell5841 2 ай бұрын

A shame the way Cas Anvar was done. A simple allegation and then an “investigation”, then you are gone. The pathetic me too attack on society is another tentacle of socialist communism. Cas should have never been removed, his character brought a level of grounding to the show.

@dylanwall696 8 ай бұрын

Why is it the outline of England and Wales on the first screen?

@user-jt5vm3mi1w 2 жыл бұрын

If they can go this fast slingshotting idk why they bother w oh who cares

@andreabindolini7452 9 ай бұрын

One of the worst scenes I've ever saw... this show can do much better.

@mccvargues7792 3 жыл бұрын

This is and the belter slingshotter scene are me least favorite scenes. It is just way to cringe to watch (I am obsessed with tho show tho and am devestaded by what happened with Cas Anvar)

@Ariel_emerald 3 жыл бұрын

yeah they are by far the least scientifically accurate scenes but only in terms of speed and travel time of the ships. the maneuvers are theoretically possibe they would just take months instead of hours. this scene is far less accurate than the belter scene because of the time alex needs to compete the maneuver by, its implied he needs to get to the panet within a few hours to beat the MCRN ship when in reality this is laughable impossible since the real maneuver would take many days and the moons are not possibly as close as they are shown to be here. also the interaction with the MCRN ship destroys any sense of accuracy that was left. If he were somehow going fast enough to make reaching ganymede in time a possibility, there is no way he would be able to decelerate and correct his movement in order to avoid being seen by the MCRN ship after it suddenly appears in front of him. in addition it seems like the MCRN ship would have better scanners for detecting ships than "they cant see him because hes behind the moon". at least in the belter slingshot scene he's shown to be traveling at ridiculous speeds over the course of presumably weeks at least, and he doesnt make severe acceleration changes such as here.

@mccvargues7792 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ariel_emerald exactly

@tomaspabon2484 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ariel_emerald i wish they had made the timeframe more reasonable and maybe have some way to indicate the passage of time, cans of soda floating by during maneuvers, looking progressively more dishevelled as time goes by during an excruciating few days of semi-regular high g maneuvering.

@Ariel_emerald 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomaspabon2484 well the belter kid grew a beard during his trip

@tomaspabon2484 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ariel_emerald yeah that was a nice touch, just wish they did the same for the Ganymede approach scene