I love elite dangerous we need more people like you to spread how awesome this game is.

1:09 - Pluto 1:14 - Pludo. I hade you, Scodd Manley.

This is so cool! I'm going to have to check this game out.

Question, Is this Elite a modern version of the game I used to play on my BBC Micro back in the early eighties? I haven't really followed games since back then, but its cool to know the legacy of those days is still a thing.

Serenity was named after Serenity Valley, so it would be a fitting name.

Does anyone else keep hearing "Friendship Drive" and then have to remind yourself that it was not what Scott said.

Nice of you to not shoot Voyager.

Now I want to play elite dangerous.... I’ve had my eye on it for a while, but cruising around the solar system seems so serene and fun at the same time.

Quite interesting that you mention the Dawn spacecraft and it officially was declared dead probably while this was being either edited or uploaded. Godspeed, robotic explorer and all your earthbound helpers. You all did exemplary work!

Your videos are always so interesting. Makes me lose track of time every time I watch one.

Loved this video, your voice suites the void so well, more videos like this please!

Warns us about not saying enchilada, says enchilada twice 👏

Man, Titans atmosphere is T H I C C

Really need to start playing ED again. Been about a year since I fired it up. Only play in VR though. Can't go back to 2d.

Hey Scott, I know you've been getting a lot less views on your game videos but I still enjoy them. I like that you combined astronomy and games with this one. Keep it up!

Now I wonder if they have slipped a red tesla into helicentric orbit.

13:24 - Somehow, I've heard "Ass Exploder" instead of "Asp Explorer" xD

Ugh. Charon... Theres a crashed ship on Charon, that is an absolute beast to get to. It's way up in the mountains, the closest I could park my cutter was 6km away, and took an hour to find a spot to land. Then the terrain is so ridiculously shaped it took 45 minutes to drive to the site. Got some goodies then it took another hour to find a place to recall my ship where I could get the SRV back into it. If you go after that crashed ship, take the smallest ship you can fit an SRV in. You may be able to land within a click and not have to struggle through mountain range after mountain range to get to it.

Let's just hope there's a mass effect relay buried somewhere in Charon.

People critisise fdev all the time, but when you visit the Voyager probes and New Horizons, you realise what the people who made this game have achieved, and it's astounding.

Loved the Babylon 5 quote

19th-20th Centety - "Earth's Moon is made of cheese" 34th Century - "Enceladus is made of enchiladas"

I remember this for the old BBC computer running on a massive 32k of memory

I love the x52Pro! Nice to see a reference to this HOTAS in your footage. :)

I wish there were more to discuss/watch. Also haven't seen any new videos from Amy. I guess after a while space seems kind of repetitive but then again there are all these interesting little bits and things like that happen and are worked on and done very well though out and procedurally.

This game is so underappreciated because people get sucked into the grind and forget about the beauty.

After the next Elite update you can locate the "ancient probe" and things like that much better via new scanning system. :)

i like the clever editing trick that made it seem like you made a micro-jump. :P

Scott you are such a great story teller, you should do audio books.

Wow this was amazing!

I stopped playing Elite about 2 years ago, shortly after Engineers update... but after watching this I so want to go back.

Scott Manley, you are the coolest. B5 reference, great maker!

I guess the Gaia mission will add a lot of stars to the game universe in the future then.

Scott, what do you think about the new exploration features in the Elite Dangerous chapter 4 beta?

There's actually a greeting from David Braben on the games probe as well, and they're now (well, in the beta) incredibly easy to find.

I found out about this game today and now i see you have a video on it.

Is this in beta? You need to try the new exploration mechanics which is a vast improvement! Give it a try if you have the time. I think FDEV is progressing in the right direction now. Great vid Scott!

Interesting to see that FDEV made their own recordings to simulate the greetings on the Voyager Golden Record, even though the original material is publicly available. Copyright issues, or the wish to make it sound clearer than the original recordings do?

Hey Scott, you should make a video analyzing First Man and identify it’s enumerable inaccuracies for us! That would be much appreciated!

I've been a fan of Zubrin's since the 90's and his book 'the case for mars'. It was not only a great plan, but very enlightening on the travails of space travel. NASA should have read it.

Only played Elite a little when it was launched, don’t remember it looking this good!

5:12 did not expect that

The word Geyser is derived from the icelandic word: Geysir That's why it's spelled like that! Europe thought of words before the U.S. was discovered, so not all words are most suitable for y'all ;)

I love just exploring the galaxy and visiting all the places in this VAST galaxy

They really could update planet textures a bit. The samy Gas giants often look very unreal. The added a bit moe diversity to landable planets but could do more there as well.

Did you ever try Elite in VR (eg. Oculus Rift)? It's gorgeous and immersive in VR! A whole new experience.

Anyone notice they're getting more and more unskippable 10-15sec advertisements?

Not sure if you actually said that, but: Titan is not the largest moon in the solar system, that's Ganymede.

VOYAGER - how easily can you find it Scott? I’ve been out 3 times looking for them, unsuccessfully, if you know how ago find them perhaps put up a video on how? Thanks. Liked this video a lot and saw the twitch nasa one too, I think you impressed them with Elite and that engineer chap seemed very interested, I’d bet he went away and bought it, he especially seemed keen on the VR aspect.

Hey Scott, thanks for the ED Tourist Tour - and just a random ED / RealWorld question: Couldn't there be stars (not planets) out there with ring systems by themself? Should be possible, I think, maybe KIC 8462852 is one...

You know, that Imperial Eagle of yours really looks an awful lot like a Romulan Raptor from Startrek.. :) So i suppose imperial eagle is correct in a double sense.

Have you had a chance to check out the new 3.3 beta Scott?

Hey Scott, you know how it's so damned hard to find the Voyager probes in the current game unless you know exactly where to look? You can find them with the new scanning mechanics that're in the beta build. I think you'll get a kick out of the new exploration stuff. Fly safe! o7

If / when there are people living on Titan, would they be called titans? :thinking:

I didn't know voyager had a greeting in my native language (Afrikaans) it plays right when Scott focused in on the golden platter. That's epic!

If you like the different languages when meeting voyager 1, you can get different in cab languages for your computer in the game ED that talks to you and the space stations computer and the news service called galnet

Awesome game, You should do an Odyssey update @Scott Manley, I didnt catch your ign either darn lol

Hey Scott, how about using a geysir for hydro-electrical power? Just a thought.

Voyager 1,2 and Far Horizons will be easy to find when 3.3 goes live 'cos they show up in the newfangled FSS so you can head straight for 'em.

Loved the Hans Solo quote

Just got judged because I watch your channel as i sit on break and eat food and learn about space😅 Thanks for making videos I find entertaining and interesting!

The Battle of Serenity-Valley'. Just didn't know that it took(will take place) on Charon....;)

Wow.. that Romanian language message took me by surprise

"[Galileo Station is] something that could only exist in a video game" Seriously? The game is set in 3300AD. You think in a millennia and a half we still won't be able to build a giant space station around the moon?

Dawn has gone silent between the recording and the release of the video

11:30 Scott I think it depends on how long you leave the enchiladas in your fridge

5:11 That's Romanian. Also, how cool does the Cruiser look next to Voyager. It looks like an alien spaceship. Very cool. Who knows, maybe one that someone, or something will find it.

What was the name of the program? I'd like to catch it on the repeat.

I'm a simple man... I hear a B5 reference, I click "like"!

1:19 Scott Manley calls Pluto a PLANET! It's official! PLUTO IS BACK, Baby! :-)

Ariel in the sol system is a moon from Uranus and it has a lot more detailed edges and steep valleys

What sort of mechanics / space craft would be needed to get in to orbit round Pluto, I mean are we talking having to turn round and hit break engines halfway there... nearly there.. ? Also explanation of the difficulty to do the same with the sun from earth

Just looked at changes in velocity, there are probably hell of a lot of gees. thousands gees.

:O i was watching the stream

if you didn't know (which i don't think so), wait for the coming chapter 4. i was so disappoint on this game but then it got a huge reboot.

cant wait 1-1-2019 ^^

It was impressive for the Apple IIe back in 1985.

About the pronunciation of the word "geyser," in the US the word gy-sur would describe steam/fluids venting out of a hole in the surface as you showed with Enceladus. Gee-zer, spelled g-e-e-z-e-r, is a older person not in tune with the times and stuck in their own ways - usually seeing things only their way as right. They are also inflexible about new things and do not speak well of younger folk, (you noticed I gave almost the same definition three times, which is exactly how a geezer would say something--telling you three different times what they could say just once to make sure you understood them!)

Does the game model Milky Way graphically or is it just static 3D skybox out there?

inb4 conspiracy nuts use this to say "NASA ARE JUST HELPING RUN THE SIMULATION!!" I mean....we could be living a simulation for all we know

Must begin to play this game again, im just not looking forward to set all controls etc again :) This is a beautiful game.

I believe Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to leave the heliosphere.

What they both have in common is doing something new that is hard. Like what J F Kennedy said in his great speech about going to the moon. All I can say is about ED look at the night sky see a star you can go there with this game. Its got a great community which is grown up and will help you.Have a good one CMDRs o7

"Fast Imperial Eagle" heh....go grab a courier and get back to me.

You entered Titan City upside down.

Asp Exploder doesnt come with a hangar to SRV, you have to buy that first XD But other wise I understand what you mean with it

RIP Kepler, you were a promise of what humanity was capable of.

Around 23 Scott M indicates how the drop in star intensity indicates a planet. What if the planet circles 90 degrees with respect to our observation? I assume we can only detect planets that are directly between Kepler and the star? Is that true?

Epsilon Eridani huh? Might have to stop by and see Bob.

any link to the NASA TV episode?

"Gezer" is the way you pronouce the name of the geyser in Iceland called "The Great Geysir", the object we get the name geyser from. In normal English its latinized as guyser

To be fair, like Enceladus, if you leave enchiladas to sit in the cold for long enough, they too may start to develop sub-surface life.

If only KSP was this polished

I appreciate the Babylon 5 references. :D

Problem with elite is it does not handle non-round objects in its procedural generation at all. Even in sol you wont find a accurate Haumea or any such dwarf/planetoid. Infact its been known to "glitch" in alot of systems ignoring the roche limit well beyond rational bounds (as such that planets are physically touching without effect.)

21:11 So, a bit like a solar-keel?

The fact that I couldn't explore the local solar system in the game was a killer for me. Had to grind to just get access, and never really figured out how.

+Scott Manely, the English language stole Geyser from Icelandic- where "Geysir" is the quintessential example for European (natural philosopher/precursors to actual scientists of modernity.prior to the renaissance or exploration 18th-century large expansion in expeditions to the Americas (before the entire continent was explored). There are examples of natural hot springs and their gases in Europe itself, though none as large or permanent in the sense of dependability and event size (a normal geothermal hot spring may be colorful, even in England and Greece, for instance, such hot springs exist) as in the Geysir, Geyser site in Iceland. But the actual Geysir is the quintessential geyser because of its regularity, the extent studied and the classification of other examples of its mechanism throughout the explored world where in English we applied the name "geyser" to those systems with the geothermal and geological features involving a classic set of a hot spring where you get a gas trap due to the geological structure of the region that boils material as it travels to the surface. The boiling creates gas pressure that eventually is released and creates a sudden turbulent acceleration to the ejecta/fluid flow resulting in a jet of that gas and generally ~100deg C water heavily contaminated with volatiles/geochemist that are characteristic of a given region of the planet and what type of exotic life is found near its surface, (such as thermophiles in Iceland, and a massive biodiversity in some instances around these types of active hot springs (where rings of different microbiota give a rainbow-like appearance to the aqueous interface in some of the locations where geysers are prominent geological feature sets- outside that single sample not too far outside Reykjavik in Iceland. from the lower strata of the earths geological strata where depths or other geologic forces are at work -constant plate movement and so on which actually heats the entire island of iceland providng its residents with completely renewable energy resources and more than ample amounts for them to not need to pay for central heating, nor much for electricity despite the climate of the nation being anything but static. the heating of the island from below melts surface glaciers and snow which then is used to provide the remaining power in hydroelectric utility sites. They have an island that is naturally set up for the "hydrogen economy" as in situ production could and has been done at each petrol station during the era of hype around hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles, especially with the heavy taxes in the nation on gas, and the more recent price jumps at the tank, which set people to the point of making sales in the nation on fuel cell vehicles which are in the best case of Hydrogen- only 80% effective at conversion of potential chemical energy of the electrolytic cells to electricity which then is used to do the kinetic work of running 2-4 electric engines in a similar manner to an electric vehicle if it could be simply refueled, rather than charged, though the trade-off is a bit large seeing as the efficiency of the fuel cell makes a lithium-ion battery more attractive when the cost of electricity in the nation is extremely low now that such battery tech if not for its relative mass manufacturing deficits in recent US Cars like $TSLA. Fuel cells themselves if energy for water splitting reactions are not a problem, or bypassed as they are able to get away with in Iceland due to ISRU in many places or driving the water-splitting reaction with the abundance of energy resources on the island are much easier to understand and construct. They would essentially be using the same components in many proposals that the electric cars of modernity use, but replacing that complex battery, -the fuel cell has a history tied really with that of manned space flight- that really started going in the early space race era as per a use. These days they still find use cases in such regions even though if you are in the US you have no infrastructure to support the H2 economy- therefore hear little of it outside the realm of manned space vehicles in which they still have a safety margin that allows them to find use cases over lithium-ion batteries due to the complexities involved in constructing cylindrical variants of such systems that have theoretically lower fire risk, but are not time-tested. Most in the US were left with a bad taste after the Samsung note problem that had their preferred device banned from air flight use due to the several cases of fire and explosive damage in the Note series device (I had my intl Galaxy s6 at the time seized by the not bright authorities aboard an aircraft that I was trying to listen to audiobooks from during transit between two locations in that 2017 time period as the airline personnel could not tell the difference- assuming if it said 'Samsung' it meant "explosive") and found its way from those electronics to more recent patents of apple for its devices as a potential battery supplanting tech. Fuel cells in space flight would actually make a interesting video if you haven't already touched on it- especially as most people have only heard of them in the context of purposefully disabling the fuel cells that were not of those that are used by the public in most situations or power the massive warehouses of modernity in forklift fuel cell power (where the use is widespread of modern hydrogen/PEM Fuel cells as a source of power), but the variety in the Apollo 13 incident where the unique reaction valve system permitted a leak of O2 from the debilitated system to pass through one of the three fuel cells (making the rate of O2 loss unacceptable without closing the valve and thus shutting down the Fuel Cell, canning a fair amount of the power supply in the process [due to the unique type and use case of the fuel cells used in the Apollo program] where O2 was in the loop of the electrochemical cells. TL;DR I digress here is the etymological root from google of "GEYSER": "late 18th century: from Icelandic Geysir, the name of a particular spring in Iceland; related to geysa ‘to gush.’ "- Google (-input query: "Define geyser")

I'm having a lot of fun with Elite Dangerous! I just picked it up a couple weeks ago and have been streaming my noobness on twitch. It makes me happy that you have been playing it too Scott. keep up the good work man, love your videos! Now I need to go find Charon (my daughters middle name ;) ) Look me up on twitch twitch.tv/johnnygoeasy

Maybe as a joke or feature, they should add the Apollo Command Module as a ship you can fly in Elite: Dangerous