The Real Stars and Scale of Sci-fi

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3 ай бұрын

Some of the franchises mentioned: Star Trek, The Martian, Dune, Bobiverse, Halo, Mass Effect, Firefly, Serenity, Stargate, Guardians of the Galaxy, Known Space, Hyperion, The Expanse, Foundation, and A Fire Upon the Deep.
Thanks to @MrHulthen for the Mass Effect music. Check it out and his channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=57-xI...
CORRECTIONS:
There is an error in the depiction of the tilt of the earth: it is tilted away from the galactic core, not towards it. I am publishing a high-resolution standalone video of the galactic scale animation soon.
Also, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it was a fictional Voyager 6 launched in 1999 that then fell into a wormhole. But still unlikely that there's a wormhole hanging out outside the solar system...
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Star Wars
02:25 - Voyager 1
03:15 - Galactic Scale
04:45 - Intergalactic Scale
05:13 - Andromeda
06:10 - Stargate
08:48 - Starship Troopers
09:11 - Foundation
10:17 - A Fire Upon the Deep
10:59 - Star Trek Galaxy
12:21 - 1000 Lightyears
16:29 - 100 Lightyears
26:00 - Firefly/Serenity
29:40 - Dune
31:21 - Known Space
33:16 - Bobiverse
34:09 - Homo Sideria
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SCIENTIFIC SOURCES
The data used for the star positions are the astronexus AT-HYG and HYG 3.5 databases.
github.com/astronexus/HYG-Dat...
github.com/astronexus/ATHYG-D...
Oort Cloud:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cl...
arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512256
web.archive.org/web/201801232...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
www.universetoday.com/32522/o...
Sol 26,000 lightyears from the core: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/201...
Size of the Milkyway:
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/199...
2,000,000,000,000 Galaxies:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
Sagittarius A*:
adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1974A...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/200...
Betelgeuse Supernova:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
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ATTRIBUTION
"Stargate - USS Daedalus | BC-304" (skfb.ly/o8pJw) by NepsterCZ is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
"Star Wars Bantha Walk" (skfb.ly/ov9Sp) by michael50 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution
Pillar of Autumn by Archandachxs is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license. www.thingiverse.com/thing:295...
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LEGAL-ISH DISCLAIMER
All non-licensed clips are used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).
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@isaacarthurSFIA 3 ай бұрын

Great video! As best as I can tell it's pronounced 'eck-you-men-op-oh-lis' though I used to pronounce it 'you-kuh-men-op-oh-lis' a lot.

@elmoteroloco 3 ай бұрын

(respectfully) almost perfect 'eck-uh-men-op-oh-lis' and you got it

@shizsker54 3 ай бұрын

Hi Isaac Arthur 👋

@keithwinget6521 3 ай бұрын

@@OverviewEffectsImmediately, you got IsaacArthur. lol It's a small universe, this internet...

@DerMacko 3 ай бұрын

why not eh.cue.me(h).noh.polis, like i dont think the c sits in the same syllable with the starting e, and the latter part 'polis' is a greek word on its own (eg acropolis). (also metropolis, same thing) but anyways, hi dude! Looking for some inspiration for new vids? :D

@Brian-yk5kx 3 ай бұрын

@@OverviewEffects You made a great video and its awesome to have Isaac comment.

@lordpoundcake2317 3 ай бұрын

I love the constant use of the Mass Effect star map. This little melody will always and forever be ingrained in my soul.

@Alftura 3 ай бұрын

so fitting for a video like this!

@nimblehuman 3 ай бұрын

Still rockin the N7 on my car, this music really is burned into my soul too (and my son who watched me play the game, a gamer now in his own right)

@wolfieinu 3 ай бұрын

It honestly makes me want to replay the whole trilogy XD

@CaptainBanjo-fw4fq 3 ай бұрын

Ditto. I thought it a cool feature

@ScottServais-poet 3 ай бұрын

I used to just leave the star map open and listen to it sometimes. Especially how the music changed depending on your zoom level

@Dung30n 3 ай бұрын

That Mass Effect scanning/map music is just *chefs kiss*. never gets old.

@VoidLantadd 3 ай бұрын

I heard the music and spent a minute trying to work out why it was making me feel so much nostalgia.

@VoidLantadd 3 ай бұрын

@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist0 Repent to the Reapers

@lettherebedragons8885 3 ай бұрын

Sooo beautiful ❤

@rapidrotation 3 ай бұрын

Vigil and the map OST are two of the best tracks in all of scifi gaming

@crYzook 3 ай бұрын

@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist0repent to the machine gods for they shall return to harvest all life. Their numbers will darken the sky of every world. You exist because they allow it & you will end because they demand it. RTEPENT! THE END IS NIGH.

@The_Pariah 2 ай бұрын

Did anyone else notice the "RIP Pluto" at the very beginning in the solar system zoom out? Love it.

@beflyaudio 7 күн бұрын

I chuckled :D

@blahanger4304 Ай бұрын

The humor of hitchhiker's guide never fails to crack me op

@firebrony101 3 ай бұрын

15:40 the Pleiades are also called "Subaru" in Japanese, and are where the Subaru car company gets its iconic name and logo from.

@theSpian1 3 ай бұрын

Plenty of star references in Re:Zero, and the main protagonist goes by the name of Natsuki Subaru.

@Zissou42 3 ай бұрын

The Pleiades are also known as Yuri Alpha, Lupusregina Beta, Narberal Gamma, CZ2128 Delta, Solution Epsilon, Entoma Vasilissa Zeta, and Aureole Omega.

@joshr8666 3 ай бұрын

Woah, i didnt know that.

@lechatrelou6393 3 ай бұрын

@@Zissou42Do they orbit around a mysterious, unobserved entity akin to magic ?

@Gyrfalcon312 3 ай бұрын

Zoom, zoom.

@LuDux 3 ай бұрын

30:42 Actually spice melange allows navigators to see the future and avoid obstacles in spacehip's path. Folding is done by Holtzman Engine

@jimbojones9665 3 ай бұрын

This.

@jennymckinnon9528 3 ай бұрын

@@jimbojones9665I’ll ever forgive Lynch for this

@JannPoo 3 ай бұрын

I paused the video immediately just to see if anyone had already corrected that mistake.

@RipOffProductionsLLC 3 ай бұрын

I mean he made the mistake of saying System Shock takes place in Tau Seti, when System Shock takes place in orbit over Saturn. System Shock 2 takes place somewhere near Tau Seti, or at least somewhere close to it since that's where the ship picked up The Many and the fragment of SHODAN.

@WolfWalrus 3 ай бұрын

The confusion comes from the opening narration of the 1984 _Dune_ movie, in which Princess Irulan says "The spacing guild and its navigators [...] use the orange spice gas, which gives them the ability to fold space,"

@GCLeverne 23 күн бұрын

You, Sir, are the God of the manmade Sci-Fi universe! This is the map of the universe I wanted to have when I was 12.

@JakeSezz 24 күн бұрын

2:06 Hearing the Mass Effect galaxy map music is as important, to me, in a video like this as Hitchhiker’s references are. Well done 🤌🏻

@sentientmop317 3 ай бұрын

It's so nice seeing the bobiverse even being mentioned

@longshot7601 3 ай бұрын

I thank this video for introducing me to the Bobiverse. I bought the audiobook in hopes of listening to it on my drive to and from work. That proved to be exceedingly dangerous as I found my mind wandering into the Bobiverse and out of surounding traffic. The voice actor is excellent. Now listening to it is a home only activity.

@dl5244 3 ай бұрын

@@longshot7601 you are in for a treat with this series! (4 books and a 5th coming later this year)

@samuelgreene8613 3 ай бұрын

My very 1st audio book on audible was We Are Legion and that was years ago and hundreds of books later! I still miss Bob, Riker and the gang of probes! Check out the skippy universe if you are a trek fan!

@ryer9646 3 ай бұрын

I would love nothing but for this series to get more attention than it is (and for Audible to stop dicking around with it's release schedule. Book 5 is done and recorded... Why the fuck are you waiting until September?). It's such a fun and lighthearted series that still manages to have a lot more depth and emotion than you would expect.

@seanknox5785 3 ай бұрын

Best book ever.

@SeleniumGlow 2 ай бұрын

Bro. Hats off to you for doing this much of data collection and collation to make sense of all of it and then to visualize it to boot. I wish I had even 1% of enthusiasm as this to do anything in life.

@concept5631 2 ай бұрын

Same

@lightyearsawaythejourneyaf6144 2 ай бұрын

very interesting, especially for science fiction fans and authors. Thanks for the video 👩‍🚀

@justinbachand4254 23 күн бұрын

You forgot that Khan was marooned on Tau Ceti 5 after failing to take the Enterprise from Kirk.

@wizardohjero Ай бұрын

Loved the entirety of the video and the end note. Thank you so much for putting in the effort to make this!

@ronin7997 3 ай бұрын

Loved the effort to show these locations along the z-axis. Many sci-fi maps rarely take into account the "depth" of galaxies, so this was a fantastic element of your presentation.

@NeneExists 3 ай бұрын

You can thank Elite for that, back in the 80s

@wesandell 3 ай бұрын

Like Khan, most people have "a pattern of 2 dimensional thinking", due to lack of experience.

@morenofranco9235 3 ай бұрын

This is a LOT of work. Painstakingly detailed. Well done.

@OverviewEffects 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@Noqtis 3 ай бұрын

Imagine how much work it took creating all that stuff? Amukparatuk, the creator of the universe is truly amazing. To create so much stuff he needed lots of women obviously. Truly a chad. Not like the abrahamic virgin god who creates everything out of nothing. that shit makes zero sense!

@bb_binx 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I agree with you.

@harriehausenman8623 Ай бұрын

So true.

@lawfulgoodgaming4836 21 күн бұрын

You forgot the greatest sci-fi space saga of all time: SPACE BALLS

@doctordogelordtmg9637 5 күн бұрын

Hell yeah

@sftf557 2 ай бұрын

I am baffled that I never heard of this channel before. The amount of research in this video is crazy. I'm subscribing.

@Frank_theWitch 3 ай бұрын

THIS. This is why we're on youtube. Such a great, educational, fun, surprising and entertaining video. You sir are a great content creator, watched your channel: You should create more. You are very talented.

@studlord9970 3 ай бұрын

In Star Trek: The Motion Picture it was explained that the Voyager 6 probe was lost when it fell into an anomoly (referred to in the movie as a "black hole", but now canonically assumed to be an unstable wormhole), and emerged on the other side of the galaxy. There it encountered a race of intelligent machines which repaired and upgraded it, and sent it back towards Earth. This explains how it travelled so far in such a short amount of time.

@jacquestuber628 3 ай бұрын

I don't care for retcons where they tie everything together @@XX-qf5zj

@Asfgxff 3 ай бұрын

@@XX-qf5zjWhat's the book? Sounds interesting.

@mitchlogan4796 3 ай бұрын

@@Asfgxff It is "The Return", one of the weird Trek novels written by William Shatner. It is goofy but entertaining.

@JFrazer4303 3 ай бұрын

It's always been canon that it was Voyager 6 - which of course we never made.

@epicsmashman6806 2 ай бұрын

Also canon that it travelled back in time, possibly millions of years

@jessegriffin9 Ай бұрын

I don't completely realize what's going on. English isn't even my first language. But I love your dedication.

@Ed_Morningstar 23 күн бұрын

Man, I'd love to see 40k in here

@grandreefer 3 ай бұрын

As a sci-fi super nerd, I just gotta say, this video is amazing. Love how it uses locations a lot of us have watched or gamed in and actually provides some sense of scale based on those points of interest. Just such a really good idea.

@ryang8040 3 ай бұрын

Hearing the Mass Effect music in the background warms my heart.

@user-cl2my7sw4v 3 ай бұрын

yeah best one

@ibezjak007 3 ай бұрын

I was searching for someone else who noticed it.. Awesome

@davids5566 12 күн бұрын

Yes.

@llspragulus Ай бұрын

The amount of research you did is amazing! Thanks so much for this video!! I love it.

@TTocsxic 21 күн бұрын

Dude. This channel is AWESOME! Even just watched your 30second-explainers and I'm still not asleep.. you keep me hoooked! SUBSCRIBED

@stevoyd 3 ай бұрын

Regarding the Stargate bit about 2D representations of star clusters forming symbols; This is intentional to be a 2D representation because the seventh symbol (unless 8 for the galaxy jumps) is the point of origin. The gate builders were “ancients” that existed on earth. So they mapped the stars from the perspective of earth and then created a unique symbol for each gate to have its “origin” symbol for dialling out. Therefore the symbols would differ from gate to gate, which is often mentioned in SG1, and one of their pre-mission objects was to send the M.A.L.P through to determine if there was a DHD (dial home device) and ascertain what the origin symbol was, and what the return coordinates would be to gate from that planet to earth.

@03silvercobra 3 ай бұрын

Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis are still my go to re-runs when nothing good is on. At this point, it’s like every day! Never gets old.

@lettherebedragons8885 3 ай бұрын

I ❤ Stargate

@stevoyd 3 ай бұрын

@@03silvercobraSame! I have the SG1 complete box set... the only reason why I have a DVD player still.

@mustashman260 3 ай бұрын

I remember seeing the original movie in the theaters when it came out. I was instantly hooked. Then when the SG1 series came out I never missed an episode. My absolute favorite series! Two of my favorite episodes: S4 E6 “Window of Opportunity” which is like Groundhog Day and Atlantis S2 E14 “Grace Under Pressure” where McKay sees Colonel Carter in the sinking puddle jumper!

@krucker1045 2 ай бұрын

@mustashman260 "Window of Opportunity" is one my favorite SG-1 episode as well

@Zikar 3 ай бұрын

Why is there something so incredible about Captain Picard saying the name of star systems? The way Patrick Stewart says them, like "I know where this is, and you know where this is because this is a log for my superiors" just gives them such a sense of solidity.

@QuartuvLarry 3 ай бұрын

The Seven Sisters is what you fly past in the opening title to the latter TNG seasons

@leewightman8619 3 ай бұрын

That man can make anything sound cool

@cjc363636 3 ай бұрын

@@leewightman8619 That Royal Shakespearian stage training for sure! Why he works so well with Ian McKellen and David Warner, RSC veterans.

@CesarinPillinGaming 3 ай бұрын

@@leewightman8619 I remember when him and Ian McKellen both were tasked to read instructions from a kitchen oven and make it sound interesting.

@marciusnhasty 3 ай бұрын

Skill. Just like Rowan Atkinson can make any word sound ridiculous. Some actors just know how to add specific desired property to the words themselves, allowing for less explanation and old golden rule "show, don't tell". Shows lacking actors with that skill, way to often get stuck in overexplaining everything.

@curtisoliver-le5ey 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for putting this together.

@schmodedo Ай бұрын

Great video. It's difficult for many to imagine the sheer scale of interstellar distances thanks to all the wonderful sci-fi stories and their suspension of disbelief. I also enjoyed the Mass Effect background music and Hitchhiker's Guide references.

@fierylightning3422 3 ай бұрын

The fact that both harvest and reach are less than 20 light years away is insane

@spartanhawk7637 3 ай бұрын

Honestly explains why the standard procedure for escaping the Covenant was to jump *away* from Sol, lose the pursuing fleet, then jump back to Sol.

@xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhu 3 ай бұрын

Makes the covies look pretty dumb for being stymied as to the locations of Reach and Earth for the first 20-25 years of the war, instead of just figuring human FTL was comparatively primitive and sending some scout ships to the immediate stellar neighbourhood of Harvest and Arcadia after finding those colonies first. Although I guess a certain degree of plot-motivated stupidity is consistent with their ruling triad's mental state.

@fierylightning3422 3 ай бұрын

@@spartanhawk7637 there's 2 problems though. Canonically Reach was at Earth's Doorstep while Harvest was a far off fringe colony. secondly if harvest was as close to earth as reach was then humanity would not have survived for 27 years in the war. they would have instantly died in a few weeks because of those distances.

@Bary_McCokner 3 ай бұрын

Remember Reach.

@spartanhawk7637 3 ай бұрын

@@fierylightning3422 Another comment explained the answer to the first issue, and the second issue was explained by Halo 2. The distance issue with Harvest being a fringe colony is due to the way UNSC slipspace drives worked up until the 343 games. Effectively they brute force tore open holes in the fabric of space-time, so rather than having a wormhole open up, it was more like a series of wormholes which would *eventually* lead to the target destination. Less like the "folded piece of paper" method, more like crumpling the paper into a ball. As for the Covenant not reaching Earth earlier, they literally didn't know Earth *existed* till Guilty Spark brought the Prophet of Regret there. Why would you randomly assume some planet in the middle of nowhere is your mortal enemy's home planet?

@jonathandevries2828 3 ай бұрын

"the edges of any galaxy are a bit nebulous" was on the fence about subscribing...this line pushed me over!

@Nicolau_Flamel 3 ай бұрын

Is it a reference? 😅

@jonathandevries2828 3 ай бұрын

@@Nicolau_Flamel No i just love puns!

@jonathandevries2828 3 ай бұрын

@@CaptainPilipinas umm...wha-....what?

@primusro 2 ай бұрын

What a beautiful video! I'm like Pavlov's dog. As soon as I hear the Mass Effect space map music, I start imagining travelling trhough the galaxy. Thank you so much for doing this. More!

@krugerherman 2 ай бұрын

Brilliantly put together and beautifully crafted. The humour is... hillairs. An eye opener. I've been trying to find something to put everything into perspective. Love the sci fi references! ❤

@theurbanshaman 3 ай бұрын

When that Mass Effect background music hit, nice.

@jojogh10 3 ай бұрын

Came to the comments for this 🔥

@GabrielKozsar 3 ай бұрын

Yes.

@anonymous-zo5ml 3 ай бұрын

Something that is somewhat worth mentioning. In Halo: First Strike, Tau Ceti was the location of the covenant mobile repair and refit station Unyielding Hierophant, as well as an invasion fleet of over 500 ships manned by brutes under direct command of the Prophet of Truth for the invasion of Earth. Sometime after the events of Halo: CE, the survivors of the PoA come across the fleet and detonate the refit station, taking all but 12 ships with it while the UNSC survivors retreat to Earth aboard the Gettysberg.

@chief1721 3 ай бұрын

I was expecting a Halo mentioning when Tau Ceti came up, but could not remember why. thanks for the help.

@chief1721 3 ай бұрын

I was expecting a Halo mentioning when Tau Ceti came up, but could not remember why. thanks for the help.

@chief1721 3 ай бұрын

I was expecting a Halo mentioning when Tau Ceti came up, but could not remember why. thanks for the help.

@bahlalthewatcher4790 3 ай бұрын

Probably more significantly, Halo is the spiritual sequel to the Marathon series, which began at a human colony at Tau Ceti. The player never returns to Tau Ceti after the first game (the second and third games are set in a fictional alien system). But the new Marathon game that's supposedly coming next year is apparently going to be set entirely among the ruins of the Tau Ceti colony.

@theaveragefryingpan 3 ай бұрын

I was expecting a Halo mentioning when Tau Ceti came up, but could not remember why. thanks for the help.

@williewanker42 20 сағат бұрын

Holy cow. I stumbled on this video and it had me intrigued, racing to check out ideas it gave me, and laughing. Don't change the style of the videos at all. Great stuff.

@Dana-nv4ej Ай бұрын

My God, the amount of research and time to put this together. My hat is off to you, sir. This was highly entertaining, and also the ability with the star chart to see where stars are in relation to us, and the Galactic plane found that highly entertaining.

@HostileTakeover2 3 ай бұрын

Using the music from the map system in Mass Effect was brilliant!

@MBW600 3 ай бұрын

The Douglas Adams narration of the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxyis the best. The original author spoke his book better than anyone else could ever.

@dukestt5436 3 ай бұрын

Unless you grew up listening to the Peter Jones narration, in which case, there can be only one. And that's a completely different universe altogether.

@MOSMASTERING 3 ай бұрын

As much as I love Fry.. I grew up listening to the original radio and then was obsessed as a child with the 6 episode BBC adaptation.. Peter Jones has this fantastic dry style of delivery, like.. 'I have no idea what I'm saying, but I'm going to put my alol into it anyway!' Also, I'll never give up an opportunity to vent and get some small catharsis from how much the Hitchhikers film hurt me. I looked forward to it for months and left the theater almost in tears. The 80s BBC adaptation, despite AWFUL 'spaceship-on-a-string' type special effects, had more charm and comedy in a single frame than the entire movie. It's THE standard for me.

@quazar912 3 ай бұрын

I think Vincent Price would do sooo much better

@MOSMASTERING 3 ай бұрын

@@quazar912 Vincent Price in small doses, in a conversational style on film or for announcements is fine - but an entire book narrated by him in that accent would drive you nuts after just a few pages, I'm sure. It's not neutral enough to be enjoyed in theat passive listening way you need.

@nothingsurprisesmeanymore 3 ай бұрын

@@MOSMASTERINGyes the film was a let down, there's way too much material for one film anyway.

@andrewgordon790 Ай бұрын

This was incredible! Thank you on soooo much for putting this whole thing together. I’m definitely subbing🖖!

@82jp Ай бұрын

I can't even imagine the amount of work that went into this. Impressive. Thx for the quality entertainment.

@MawGinBoo 3 ай бұрын

Two things: 1. It’s been a while since I’ve watched Stargate, but I think the idea is that the constellation codes were unique to each gate. The gate on the other planet had completely different markings that James Spader had to figure out because they weren’t Earth constellations 2. The thing about Starship Troopers is that I think it’s implied the asteroid was a false flag committed by the government in order to garner support for an invasion

@cosmictreason2242 3 ай бұрын

In one episode they make it clear that the dialing sequence draws a line between 3 pairs of constellations, with the intersection of their lines in 3d space being a coordinate system for a gate. Because that allowed you to dial gates even as their location shifts from stellar drift. Then the 7th symbol identified the Galaxy in question, if dialing "internationally."

@CatherineStark7 3 ай бұрын

7 is point of origin. 8th is for another galaxy

@cosmictreason2242 3 ай бұрын

@@CatherineStark7 right i forgot

@RipOffProductionsLLC 3 ай бұрын

Point 2. There is no implication that the asteroid that destroys Buenes Aries(spelling?) was a false flag. At least not on any way that isn't a product of the non linear editing of the movie, where we're shown the anti-asteroid defense network that is set up after the attack working perfectly before we're shown the attack itself. As well as the weird subplot about the Federation refusing to believe the Bugs are intelligent conflicting with the idea(which is not the case in the book) In the book the attack is 100% the Bugs doing, since in the book it was an actual raid with a starship.

@dieucondorimperial2509 3 ай бұрын

@@RipOffProductionsLLCthe book is a different kind of story from the movie, without the anti-fascist narrative.

@spartanhawk7637 3 ай бұрын

Dude, you made a childhood dream come true with this video.

@marvac-r7916 3 ай бұрын

😁🖖🏼

@robertjordan5524 Ай бұрын

That was a wonderful presentation covering all the nearest stars. It allowed me to visualize the size of our galaxy.

@igelbofh 2 ай бұрын

This was great! If you ever update here is a list of questions I had that the current version didn't answer: 1. Where was Alf's planet (ALF series) 2. Where were they going to in the movie Passengers 3. Where did the aliens in the series Defiance came from 4. Where are the stars and plants from the Altered Carbon book series 5. Where did the Taelons in the Earth, final conflict series come from 6. Where do events of the Farscape series take place. 7. Where is the planet Solaris from the book of the same name. 8. Where are the planets and stars from the Andromeda series (cpt Dillan Hunt) 9. Where do the space quest games take place 10. Where do the protagonists in the Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince series come from. 11. Where are the planets and stars from the Lexx series 12. Where are some notable places that the Planet Express crew from the Futurama series visit.

@Planag7 Ай бұрын

Very good suggestions although with Lexx you're going to have to deal with the fact that there was a different dimension so that will be a challenge! I'm still trying to put together from memory some of the star systems that were mentioned (when they are mentioned) in the Commonwealth Saga (the first place I know for sure mentioned as a "dead end" was alpha centauri)

@Antares2 Ай бұрын

Apparently Alf was from the Andromeda galaxy, so no way to pinpoint the star system In Passengers, I didn't find any reference to where they were going, except it was called "Homestead II" and it would take 120 years at unknown speed, so its anyone's guess. This is the difficulty with a lot of soft science fiction as the writers don't want to be bothered with finding "suitable" star systems for their story, so they just invent systems.

@Vazik05 Ай бұрын

@@Antares2 I think Passengers could be calculated. He's woken up 90 years early, or 30 years into the trip. and we see it would take 55 years round trip to get a message back from Earth, 19 of which spent getting to earth, and communications travel at the speed of light, meaning they're 19 light years from Earth at the time he wakes up. If they're 1/4 of the way into the trip(30 years is 1/4 of 120), that's 19x4, or 76 light years away. As far as how fast they are going, well. 76 light years divided by 120 year travel time= roughly 63% the speed of light.

@davidanderson2357 8 күн бұрын

@@Vazik05 Applause to you, sir or madam, for your fine arithmetic.

@wh1ter0se 3 ай бұрын

The Homo Sideria speech at the end gave me goosebumps. As an astronomy nerd i've always been looked down upon and told repeatedly to "ground myself" and bring my mind back from space by people around me. That doesn't stop me or my interests in any way, but it certainly is a relief to hear some good words about our cosmic interests :) Thank you for the amazing research and stellar video, you earned my subscribe

@ruthmckay9086 3 ай бұрын

"Ground yourself"?! How rude. Why do people think they're entitled to an opinion on your interests? You are harming nobody, why the problem? It seems that people with limited imaginations and the wilfully blinkered believe that everyone should live like that, and they get upset when they find otherwise. Furthermore, they probably couldn't imagine such a thing, but you are perfectly capable of being 'grounded' and looking up at the stars, all at the same time! Good luck, and never stop looking up and wondering .

@philosotree5876 3 ай бұрын

It's because humans are prone to being monsterous scumbags that hate anything and everything that isn't like them because it makes them feel powerful.@@ruthmckay9086

@SomebodyHere-cm8dj 3 ай бұрын

well here's a random fact to cheer you up: if Rigel or Betelguese were within 100ly of Earth, they'd be brighter than Venus, be visible during the day and cast shadows

@icosthop9998 3 ай бұрын

@wh2ter0se You are among family here 💙🤗💙

@Hawk7886 3 ай бұрын

It took two minutes for the Mass Effect map music to kick in. Unwatchable. (subbed, this rocked)

@Gilgwathir 26 күн бұрын

The themes and quotes you chose are just adding a really nice touch.

@TheBeetle1 Ай бұрын

This was F’ing spectacular sir,extremely great work!

@ZwaetschgeRaeuber 3 ай бұрын

Cool to see bobiverse getting more recognition. One of my most beloved series so far

@alanyura644 2 ай бұрын

Audible needs to get their ass in gear and release the new one now.

@wolfgangjr74 2 ай бұрын

@@alanyura644 exactly. Need to know what the other bobs been up to.

@lannielemons2227 2 ай бұрын

Great books I was surprised to see it here

@topogigio7031 2 ай бұрын

@@alanyura644do you think "Audible" is the name of the author?

@topogigio7031 2 ай бұрын

You Zoomers are truly subhuman.

@kirkenstiensmonster6522 3 ай бұрын

So happy to hear you mention Hyperion. Multiple times. I love the Cantos so much.

@eveadams7785 13 күн бұрын

WOW! thank you for all the hard work. I have enjoyed watching this immensely. Very COOL😎

@HuskySansVergogne 2 ай бұрын

Such a cool concept for a video. Very well done sir, enjoyed it a lot.

@thunder7135 2 ай бұрын

12:23 OMG, BEYOND THE AQUILA RIFT, thanks so much for adding it to this video. When I started the video, I was HOPING we'd see Love Death + Robots mentioned here too. That episode was a big mindblown to me. Perfect animation and perfect story.

@efxnews4776 2 ай бұрын

Yeah! I love that ep!

@walkingcontradiction223 Ай бұрын

Alastair Reynolds has a somewhat large collection of hard sci-fi books; Revelation Space being the dominant series. Beyond the Aquila Rift is mearly a very short story which takes place in that expansive collection.

@harriehausenman8623 Ай бұрын

@@walkingcontradiction223thx for the hint. will check it out!

@1963creole Ай бұрын

This was amazing. I plan to share this with any kid interested in the sciences! Thank you for this!😉👍🏽

@CheeseburgerDanny 2 ай бұрын

That was one of the greatest videos i've ever seen. Thanks!

@johnwright1447 3 ай бұрын

I wrote a hard SF series called COUNT TO A TRILLION where I quite deliberately put all my extraterrestrial star systems in real places, with the real distances noted, and used a modern computerized storm app to make sure I had the distances between the various stars correct. Putting in the extra effort to get the details correct would be rewarded if and only if a detail oriented reader like yourself ever came across the work. This is a long and indirect way of saying you give authors like Frank Herbert and Larry Niven the reward for their extra effort.

@cthulhufhtagn7520 3 ай бұрын

I just pirated it, I'll tell you what I think when I get around to reading it 👍

@jph7472 3 ай бұрын

@@cthulhufhtagn7520LMAO

@cthulhufhtagn7520 3 ай бұрын

Hey I really like your book, where can I buy it that gives you the largest percentage cut?

@cthulhufhtagn7520 3 ай бұрын

Nevermind I went to your channel, I'm keeping it and not recommending it to anybody

@NaliTikva 3 ай бұрын

Ironic username

@joelrasdall7662 3 ай бұрын

I enjoyed this immensely. It also taught me how many star names I unwittingly learned from Star Control 2. I feel like I should probably be ashamed that I can picture where these stars are on SC2's hyperspace map much, much, much more readily than I can picture where they are in real life.

@AAhmou 3 ай бұрын

Also the funny part is that in Star Control, stars had to be renamed since the way hyperspace works made it much harder to find out exactly where in the galaxy each star system exists once they jump to it. They had to rename the stars they can jump to in accordance to their location hyperspace.

@diamondthree 3 ай бұрын

Same! SC2 was my reference for all of this

@xphunterlee8948 2 ай бұрын

It's the Mass Effect music in the background that got me! You even got Warfare in there! LOVE IT!

@bradycameron9179 28 күн бұрын

The xenomorph homeworld is way too close for comfort

@Z0N1C38 3 ай бұрын

Knowing how many stars are in the game universe, BattleTech/ MechWarrior would also be perfect to add to the list you made

@efxnews4776 2 ай бұрын

To much, talk... No Man's Sky has 255 galaxies, and 18 quintillion of worlds, and you can travel to all of them (if you are immortal and want to play this game until the heat death of the universe).

@nuance9000 2 ай бұрын

@@efxnews4776And a deck of cards has !52 different combinations... 😅😂

@anastasiabeaverhausen8220 2 ай бұрын

Well done! This is like visiting old friends. Been reading (and watching) SF all my life. (I'm 70.)

@tom-vf1xv Ай бұрын

my condolences.

@matthewkeebler2326 16 күн бұрын

@@tom-vf1xv Hold your tongue! This person is young enough to be president!

@adriantumiati3075 Ай бұрын

This was such a cool video. Love the Marathon 2 shout out!

@coolkoreamag Ай бұрын

The amount of research in this video is absolutely crazy and jaw dropping !!! You're a CHAMPION for sci fi fans worldwide and in our universe ahahah thank you so so much for this very enjoyable video. Painstakingly detailed AND BEAUTIFULLY WELL DONE.

@keipfar 3 ай бұрын

Legend of galactic heroes ...

@Eledore 3 ай бұрын

I second this to be added. As well as BattleTech's 'Inner sphere' and maybe some of the Pentagon worlds.

@valerian_earthling 3 ай бұрын

Love it: "it’s 3 million lightyears away - not too far from Andromeda". Indeed! Great work! Thanks!

@nickfoster9350 Ай бұрын

This is incredible. Your passion is evident. Bravo.

@tr33br06 11 күн бұрын

This is such a cool freaking video. great work! First time seeing this channel.

@smiddyman 3 ай бұрын

These videos have been incredible. The kind of videos I dreamed existed when I was a kid watching scifi. I hope this is the beginning of something that keeps going. Whenever you said "if you'd like to see that" the answer is yes. Yes to everything. Please make as much as you can because this is honestly beautiful work. You should also consider producing some merch with these maps. Some posters would look great. Thank you for making this.

@babbaracos 3 ай бұрын

Owyeah some posters❤

@opinyinatedhomeydonpladat3212 3 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same, finally something that feels more reliable than "cold, dead space"... It is cold tho, bin there. Each doorway, actually.🧊🚪🧊 🗑 🌆👳‍♂️👳🏿‍♂️ A.chemical D.ep¡××¡○ⁿ THE GAL💁‍♀️A××🪓 E🥸

@burmecian123 2 ай бұрын

My star wars galaxy name: The Farfara Way.

@EmanuelRotter 2 ай бұрын

What an overview. Great Video. And very good decission to run Maas Affect Star Map Sound in the backround.

@FemboyChaos Ай бұрын

dude this video had me cheesing SO HARD. just amazing. Pure nerd. Awesome video ❤💜

@melaniephillips4238 3 ай бұрын

Your research and your 3D map was so extensive and brilliant, even a picky nerd like me can overlook a few mispronunciations! I'll bet many of us mispronounce some of them also. Amazing work!

@johnp8131 3 ай бұрын

It would probably have helped if some had been spelt correctly in the first place?

@georgebarfield3730 3 ай бұрын

The fact that I can recognize both the STO and Elite Dangerous maps makes me very pleased that you mentioned them. 🖖👍

@PhilipRhoadesP 2 ай бұрын

Wow! This is fantastic! - it should be turned into an app so I can find my way around for stuff I haven't read yet and where I should be going next . . Love it!

@techmonkey11 4 күн бұрын

Thanks for the video, this was amazing! I held my breath when you got to Tau Ceti as I was certain you wouldn't mention Marathon... But you delivered. again, this was incredibly fun and the nerd flag flew the entire time! Long live Foundation!

@luttrwe7688 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for mentioning Elite Dangerous. That game gives you a great perspective of the size of our galaxy.

@Baleur 3 ай бұрын

25:20 i kinda zoned out here... it's just too much man.. Now, imagine in real life, with all the civilizations that must be out there, and the ancient civilizations long forgotten history over the past 10 billion years or so.. It's unfathomable.

@florianschneider3982 3 ай бұрын

At least in this galaxy we are probably the only ones

@litigioussociety4249 3 ай бұрын

It's probably zero. Based on statistics it's zero, since we have no evidence of other intelligent/advanced life forms on earth, and no evidence of even simple life outside of earth. The existence of one doesn't imply the other, and the existence of life on earth has no implications for the possibility of life elsewhere without proof of abiogenesis, the means of it, and evidence of the possibility of those means elsewhere. On the other hand, you can have a Mormon attitude that God or gods have populated other worlds with human like creatures. Again, there's no extraterrestrial evidence of such a thing. The assumption with humans is that the organ in our brain that allows for the usage and understanding of complex speech is why we've innovated in ways animals have not. However, there may also be certain intutions that affect it as well. Without that, it may be other sapient beings would be living harmoniously with nature more like animals, and would never develop civilizations. Similar to the Nox in Stargate, they would probably consider us evil and destructive.

@stavinaircaeruleum2275 3 ай бұрын

@@litigioussociety4249bullshit. There are nigh infinite amount of planets. There has to be at least a couple with life. I'm sorry but probabilities don't lie.

@fergushancock3567 3 ай бұрын

Define civilisation. We have spent a great amount of our history denying other human beings have or ever achieved civilisation. How are we to do that for any alien species? Plastic, perhaps? Pollution? War? Nuclear waste depositories?

@florianschneider3982 3 ай бұрын

@@stavinaircaeruleum2275 You obviously don't know how probability works.

@lars3283 2 ай бұрын

It is crazy how much time and effort you put into this incredible video. I can only imagine how many hours you must have spent researching everything. You deserve 20x more subscribers!

@blake7908 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing watch, thanks for this!

@OwenPhillipsMBA 3 ай бұрын

Fav video; the 3d plotting graph is astounding. Really increased my understanding of space distances. Thank you!

@chrisfrost1649 3 ай бұрын

The Mass Effect Exploration Music sold this for me. good job.

@danjapanful 2 ай бұрын

Great work. Loved every minute of it.

@AllPurposeNerd 3 ай бұрын

26:24 - Ah yes, Uranus, the place from which Joss Whedon pulls many of his ideas.

@indetigersscifireview4360 3 ай бұрын

Uranus is properly pronounced You reign us.

@JoshuaFare 2 ай бұрын

You mean where all the woke crap comes from

@contractcooker 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is about sci-fi. Which is often "woke"@@JoshuaFare

@concept5631 2 ай бұрын

@@JoshuaFare *[UNIRONIC USE OF THE WORD "WOKE" DETECTED]* *[OPINION IMMEDIATELY DISCARDED]*

@JoshuaFare 2 ай бұрын

@@concept5631 yep, us decent folk discarded yer opinion

@nofunallowed3382 3 ай бұрын

Sirius is the star system where the elite of society fled to during Fero Plague, as revealed in Horizon Forbidden West. Great video, I love to finally see the scope of different sci-fi universes. When mentioned C.J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station I gasped in excitement, my favourite book ever got a mention!

@danskkr Ай бұрын

Definitely love to see some content on Known Space. As maybe one of the first future space history settings for a wide a range of stories, i fear it has been much overlooked and in danger of being forgotten.

@TheSanvichMann 2 ай бұрын

thank you for mentioning Project Hail Mary. im beyond excited for the movie.

@Cheater357 3 ай бұрын

I absolutely clicked on this because I saw that you included the Bobiverse in this. My absolute favorite audiobook series of all time. I've listened to it several times and never get tired of it. I noticed you do refer to the series as "the first 3 books" and the thumbnail was of those 3; for anyone interested the fourth book is called Heaven's River and there is a fifth coming out soon under the title Not Til We Are Lost.

@kinseyjr21 3 ай бұрын

I would love to see a deep dive into the Bobiverse series. I'm currently on my 3rd read-through and can't wait for the 5th book to release later this year.

@JaRyCu 3 ай бұрын

Are you secretly me and I just don't know it? Your first 2 sentences are exactly what I was getting ready to type until I saw that you already had. Audible told me for a year to get this book when it first came out, and (stupidly) kept saying no. When I did get it... well... I've listened to the original trilogy 20+ times. I didn't like book 4 as much as it veered away from the exploration-centric focus of the first 3. I just checked Dennis Taylor's website, and it looks like he is aiming at Sept 2024 for book 5! Can I make it 7 more months? We'll see.

@cecilstewart7986 3 ай бұрын

I would definitely watch a Bobiverse video

@Cheater357 3 ай бұрын

@@JaRyCu I feel obligated to point out that the lack of exploration in the general theme of book 4 was a major plot point of book 4. This wasn't just oh the author got distracted and forgot to write about this, it was a situation that showed up after the war with the others. In chapter 10, Hersh and Neil are discussing what to do now that the colonies are set up and Earth is evacuated. They complained that the Bobiverse has become a bit stagnant and there are very few Bobs still going out and exploring the universe. The skippies with the matrioshka brain, the gamers playing games, even Bill and Will with their projects. He says most of the Bobs have turned to some form of navel gazing. So they decide to take the Bellerophon out with a group of humans to establish a distant colony in case something happens in the main human sphere. Also bear in mind that for the most part the perspective of the story is told mostly by the senior Bobs. If they don't have contact with those Bobs that have just decided to drop everything and leave the human sphere without establishing SCUT relays then we won't hear about them either. Perhaps we will hear more when some of them come back. We also don't know what gave Starfleet their collective PTSD, whether their ancestor got some major drift after the war with the others or if they came across something else out there and none of them want to talk about it. I felt that the books hinted that there is something else out there that gave Starfleet the stick up their collective ass. They're afraid of something but we don't know what it is. I'm hoping book 5 will explore that more, as well as the group going out with Hersh and Neil. Their plan is to load up the ship with materials and AMI controlled ships and have them go out to the stars they pass to set up SCUT relays so they stay in touch. So they are planning on taking up a big portion of that exploration motive you would expect for von Neumann probes. If anything in here looks weird, I typed it using Google's voice to text which is absolute ass right now. I've tried correcting most of it, but I'm sure some nonsense slipped through.

@mdimascio 3 ай бұрын

Bobiverse, Dennis Taylor, and the legendary narrator Ray Porter!!! Looking forward to many books!

@stephenshaw3565 3 ай бұрын

Watching this video was such a trip after playing hundreds of hours of Starfield. So amazing to get a more clear image of just how "Large" the Starfield really is

@AdrianSrs Ай бұрын

What a great video this is! I love the combination of sci-fi lore and fun-facts about the actual stars!

@pressrepeat2000 2 ай бұрын

What an absolutely stunning video. Incredible.

@The_Viscount 3 ай бұрын

You have no idea how happy I was to see my favorite childhood video game series, Freespace, get a mention. Incredible game, amazing modding community, and great story. I highly recommend it.

@DiavsArt 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely stunning work to a mind-blowing level of depth and attention to detail. You deserve every view and more for this level of quality

@WardorOfLandroval 21 күн бұрын

Great video, I really enjoyed that. Thank you!

@rodrigodea 2 ай бұрын

Amazing video! It must have been a herculean job to research all that! Thank you very much for this wonderful piece of entertainment.

@Kisseyhersh123 3 ай бұрын

The Pleiades were pretty big back in Elite Dangerous, as they were the first contact systems with the Thargoids. You can also travel to Proxima Centauri to get a free Anaconda and some cool souvenirs :)

@MNewton 3 ай бұрын

I love that this is still making the rounds.

@TheFberry100 3 ай бұрын

The Pleiades and Orion are mentioned 3 times in the bible! Amos 5:8 Job 9:9 and Job 38:31.

@cmdr_Yourmata 3 ай бұрын

yea… definitely… a free anaconda 😀

@andrewwarman1459 3 ай бұрын

The Mass Effect map music is just the best.

@gasperstarina9837 Ай бұрын

OMG this literally is one of the best space videos made🙌

@DeclanMBrennan 9 күн бұрын

That was a real *tour de force galactique* and a nostalgic trip through some amazing books that I have been lucky enough to read over the years.

@DeaconBlues117 3 ай бұрын

The Rush reference comes from the song "Cygnus X-1, Book One: the Voyage" (more commonly known as just "Cygnus X-1"), on the album " A Farewell To Kings". It's the Rocinante's course toward Cygnus X-1: "I set a course just east of Lyra, Northwest of Pegasus, Flew into the light of Deneb, Sailed across the Milky Way..."