Kind of reminds me of when I did beta testing on the Jupiter II for the Microsoft Flight Simulator. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bMW25wexiOI.htmlsi=f-quqOOpMzUY9s4v
ALL IN ALL, NOT TO SHABBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN MANY WAYS, IN KEEPING WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE ORIGINAL JUPITER 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE ARE THINGS I WOULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY, BUT IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was no cryogenics in use. It was an energy field of some sort to protect passengers from the effects of inter-dimensional travel. (Similar to This Island Earth)Thanks to the traitor Dr. Smith, who failed to get off the ship in time, the Jupiter V never did achieve hyper light velocity. So Smith survived without benefit of the tubes. I think the flying saucer design was chosen for faster than light travel through hyperspace. It means humans were so advanced they were nearly caught up with alien UFO tech. Hence interstellar travel took a relatively short time.( Again, its like Exeter's saucer traveling to 'Metaluna' - "beyond - the - Moon" - in This Island Earth)
Great work! Just watched the movie for the 100th time two nights ago. It never occurred to me the inner layers of the saucer, but I liked the shape of the ship cause it resembled a radical design from the 50s. Thank you.
Good idea. I did it and did not like it. Shelved and have not gone back. The problem was the source of power. I could think of nothing new and fit into the flat bottom saucer.
No.. They filed the tail section a declared it as unknown. Radio activity was still present. I made up that some of the fuel was left, and it exploded under the heat of melting the ice.
Nice job. Love this movie. Fun fact: When they accidentally blow up the saucer, the camera pans up following the blast, right over the top of the fake snow backdrop, revealing the sky around the ice factory.
Also... the nuclear engines irradiated the crew to such a degree, that it caused them to vomit profusely off camera. This not only kept them lean and mean, but also removed any need for a galley and or restrooms, being that the vomit was instanteniously sucked out the rear porthole, known as the vomit flute. Hence we get the term "vomit comet" that was later adopted by parabolic flight aircraft, used to train hopeful space cadets
I like this. It gets away from a pure saucer into a aerodynamic shape. After 1966, Star Trek made every other flying saucer obsolete. Yes, the USS Enterprise is an interplanetary flying saucer modified for interstellar travel. Nobody seems to have caught on to the fact the underside of the saucer is generally shaped like an aerospike nozzle. With all the incarnations of that show, it's funny how nobody ever reconciled the evolution in Matt Jeffries' concept, from a saucer to a dispersed structure to embrace the story inherent in the design.
@Scifisteve1954 are you going to do the updates on the graphics? I'd like to see how you would handle them now. (This isn't a complaint about current graphics!) TY.
I usually like your videos. But this one does not follow the original designs for the Jupiter 2 at all. And it looks nothing like the show. I'd rather see you try to incorporate the original designs. (See RU-vid Channel "Haselius00" for terrific re-interpretations of this saucer.)
Are you sure this isn't the 52 b ? I see no gravity plating or bosons helm, both clearly present in the 52 d (but not on the hemell scale reproduction). A common mistake .
How about a workup of his jetpack? It was used in four serials by three different characters but, true to serial budgets, they used the same film cuts for the jetpack shots in all four 😁
Just an update from a fanboy, I believe the Silver Moon was an ugrade / replacement for the Orbit Jet, and the upgrade was the subject of an episode or two. Any plans to do a workup of the Rocky Jones Silvercup Bread Rocket or any of the other touring rockets (Space Patrol, etc.) of the era?
