“The overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as ‘a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus’.”
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If no one has said it, Richese is probably pronounced "ree-sh-ehs." The second vowel is the same vowel that's in "head." The French word for "riches, wealth" is "richesse," and there are a number of other French and French-inspired/derived words throughout the Dune canon.
I have a small correction to make 🤓. The original Star Trek movie was based on a probe named Voyager 6 being captured by aliens. This probe was launched in the 1900’s in Star Trek canon so it’s still wrong, but I’m a nerd and I knew that so I have to be an annoyance in your comment section. Great video though
Fantastic video!!! It's so cool seeing things mapped out and the comparison between fictional settings. As they say, "mispronunciation is a sign that one learned a word through reading". For a very long time, I also got the rhythm and emphasis of 'hegemony' wrong... I assumed it rhymed with 'matrimony,' not 'anemone'. DeForest Kelley stumbled over the work "nuclear", so it can happen to the best of us nerds!
Soft Science-Fiction deals with "soft" science like psychology, philosophy or political science. Eg. "The Dispossessed" would be soft sci-fi while Star Wars is just (really awful and naive) fantasy.
Folding space was described in "Event Horizon." That is, the ship 'folds' space like a piece of paper. The origin point and destination point essentially merge for a moment, the ship transfers from Point A to Point B, then the space 'unfolds'. The ship didn't "move" in the traditional sense but it now orbits Point B. The 'folding process' takes tremendous energy and extremely difficult and complicated mathematical calculations. This complexity, absent computers, is how the Guild continues to exist.
2:40 You already messed up here. The "premise" of the movie is that Voyager was transported to some distance by a wormhole, it didn't just use its regular speed to arrive to an alien civilization who souped the probe up.
@@KJames2345 I’m sorry I ruined your fantasy .. humanity will never traverse the stars .. neither can anything else , you’re stuck here . Can I get fries with that?
the fact is that there are so many deal-killer conditions for life on earth that not only is life anywhere else in the universe impossible, it is just as unlikely (ie, impossible) on earth as well. Life exists on earth only as the result of a miracle. Which means we really don't know how, but if it's any help, we do know Who.
In quantum physics, there is something known as superposition where a particle can occupy more than one location in space at the same time. But remember, this is Sci-Fi, so who really knows how Frank Herbert visualized it. In Star Trek, we have the warp drive. Star Wars we have hyperspace. The reimagined Battlestar Galactica used a jump drive system. Right now, it appears that warp drive is the way to go with current research that NASA is doing.
Note for the narrator: stop stammering! It doesn't make the video better. You're a good narrator, and this is a very good video, so stop trying to adorn your stuff with stuff which does not help. You also deserve some credit for narrating it yself instead of using AI. Proud to be your newest subscriber.
Ya. In starship troopers there was a scene where a ship dodges the astroid heading for earth. In that, I figured it couldn't be going much more than 200mph. So randomly factoring a nearby star of about 4Ly away. I calculated, trying to remember, about 46 billion years to arrive. So, they sent the asteroid far before our sun was born.
As we only sent out Voyager 1 and 2 up to now and the space probe in Star Trek - The Motion Picture was Voyager 6, we can assume that it was built much later with more advanced technology and therefore more possible speed.
Read through all of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the Bobiverse in the last month. I really enjoyed them. Hadn't considered that all of the stars and planets there are real. Crazy to think that the Deltans live just a few lightyears away from us. I wonder what they are doing right now.
Now I'm inspired to get back to working my own SciFi story. I had to restart it (yet again!) after I realised I had based a major plot-point around the idea that tidally-locked planets don't rotate (which, of course, they do - at the same speed as they orbit their star! - big head-slap moment, since I actually knew that already!). The setting is pretty local, with most of the story taking place around Ross 248, a relatively-stable red/orange dwarf about 10.4ly from Sol - I needed humanity to be able to get there in about 4k years (and not sooner) in a nuclear-fission-powered ship not much more advanced than what we can manage today. And a bit of dodgy not-quite-cryonics for the passengers, since I didn't really want to use a generation-ship.
Star Wars isn't science fiction, it's a space opera. The Warp drive in Star Trek has a scientific basis, the Hyper drive in Star Wars works on the pricipal that George Lucas said it works.
07:30 you are missing an important fact of stargate. the gates are built by a single race. one that was living on earth when they made the coördinate system for our galaxy.
That's a good point, though I have to counter that over the tens of thousands of years (IIRC) since the Atlantians inhabited Earth, a lot of the stars in the visible sky have drifted around enough for the constellations that we see today to be quite different to back then (they are even drifting enough to distort the constellations to a wacky extent over our own real human history of a few thousand years). IIRC, Carl Sagan's Cosmos tv series included some visualisations of this both from the distant past and into the far future. To be fair, the SG1 writers even used that drift as an explanation for why only one destination originally worked in the movie, though they fumbled a bit mixing intra-galactic stellar drift with the general expansion of the universe, which doesn't really have any noticeable effect within the local cluster of galaxies where their mutual gravity is sufficient to overcome it (for now, at least, depending on which theories one subscribes to on the matter!).
This was nice, I have always wanted to se a GOOD comparison. Been a scifi and space nerd my whole life (even created my own space world, stupidly and naivly called "Galaxy Explorers" ... I was young once, and filled with creativity and imaginations). Well my own world isnt public realy (it was made for RPG for my group of friends) and was mostly inspired by things that existed in the 90s, but I wanted to place it somewhere in real space. It spans around 10 thousend ly from earth (and also fills the ca 1-2K thinkness in 3D). But everything outside 2K ly is considered the "frontiers" or "wild territories" and was sparsely controlled or explored by humans, or occupied by some alien faction. So it was Filled with alien sentient creatures (at least 20 described). FTL was inspired by Star Wars, Gunbuster, Warhammer 40K and a space fleet combat anime I forgott wat it is called. ;) (I Didnt want instant travel, as in Stargate or Dune, but wanted it to "sound" scientific, and also wanted it to be more like "sailing" the deep seas/oceans). Anyhow. Great video. Cheers.
