5 Fictional Star Space Craft with Realistic Designs 

Its so pretty and shiny i love it

yeah it has an interesting design while the movie itself was meh, like some kind of sci-fi version of Titanic

I didnt really get the story in that one. The design was nice, but the story was incomprehensible.

yes yes... the "story"

They really did a great job of alienating both the origin and destination, and focusing solely on the ship and it's passengers, creating an overpowering sense of loneliness that perfectly sets up the rest of the plot. I love it.

Agreed. Plus the use of thrust acceleration gravity is not seen a lot in sci fi so it really does need more exposure.

Literally, every ship in the expanse would fit in here. Just kick out Dooku's ship and add in the expanse

Minus the epstein engine, yeah, it actually could fit in quite easly.

The Epstein drive utilizes magnetic coil exhaust acceleration to increase drive efficiency, which enables spaceships to sustain thrust throughout the entire voyage. A ship fitted with the efficient Epstein didn't kill himself.

I love that the Starfury is first on the list. Forget the Solar Sailer. It shouldn’t be able to hyperspace. Travel. No sunlight in Hyperspace

Ha, I'm glad I wasn't the only person that caught that!

Same. lol

Yeah, I thought I must leave a comment about it... whoops, too late :D

"Low Orth Erbit" lmao sounds like a term out of Kerbal Space Program. Loved this video already but that little goof was the icing on the cake lol

Quaaludes...their not just for breakfast anymore

@Trey Stephens/videos And she's batshit crazy.

Matt Damon was not in interstellar Mathew McConaughey was. Get your info correct I understand your talking about sci-fi but at least give correct movie actors to the movie they are in

@@lexluthor9231 He was😂😂😂😂 He's one of the "Pioneers" who were sent to scout planets, then was resqued by said Matthew and Anne. And the robo sidekick. ...Did I mention that his character is insane?

@@lexluthor9231 if you've seen the movie you'd know when Matt Damon shows up.

Someday we'll have something Matt Damon proof, someday

Im glad someone mentioned the Discovery.

Also. "Im afraid Dave. Will I dream?"

What about the resolute from the lost in space reboot?

ISV Venture Star from Avatar is another good one, it pushes tech further than most of the ships in the video or list as it (partly) uses antimatter annihilation but it travels at sublight speeds and uses realistic materials and construction. For the outward bound leg of the journey it uses a fixed laser in our solar system and solar sail with an acceleration of 1.5G until it reaches 0.7c and then uses the antimatter engines to decelerate at the same rate, to return it uses the engines to accelerate and the laser to decelerate. Other interesting features are how the ships structure is built in tension, the materials used allowed greater strength for less mass when in tension. The ship has massive heatsinks and radiators to bleed out the excess heat of its reactors and fuel cells too, its a great design imo.

moonbase alpha - scenes where the characters are in compartments on the surface with big panoramic windows - the windows will be broken either by space crazed astronauts from the inside or alien attack vessels from the outside, and someone is going to go on an unscheduled without-a-space-suit spacewalk

I got a kick out of that. We've all done stuff like that, but it caught me off a bit when he first said it.

@@grahamcracker_Photography Leo

Don't you just hate those annoying flat orthers?

I said this out loud after I heard it.

we have our own ways of talk.

Everyone rode a living ship?

I think the matter-antimatter reactor keeps the Venture Star off a "realistic" list like this. That's Star Trek territory.

@@PongoXBongo Unlike Star Trek ships which use that to power warp fields and such, the Venture Star (I believe), just uses the reaction as propulsion.

@@wolfbyte3171: Actually an antimatter reaction is only useful as propulsion. All it produces is gamma rays, so there's no known way to use that to create electricity directly. Its only real use would be to rapidly heat some reaction mass made of stuff that absorbs gamma rays, accelerating it out the back at dizzying speeds. It would be hideously expensive and dangerous to gather and transport useful quantities of antimatter, so fusion reactors are much more practical.

Venture Star is not straight matter-antimatter beam core, the annihilation reaction actually only provides a tiny amount of the total energy output from the engines. Majority of the energy is actually D-T fusion, with the fusion catalyzed by the annihilation rather than inertial or magnetic confinement. The D-T fuel is scooped out of the atmosphere of Prothemus by old valkyrie shuttles. The antimatter fuel is made in the Sol system using a giant solar farm on Mercury

@@Temstar04 Venture star is such a fantastic ship, I wish more people knew about it!

I would have thought the Omega class destroyer might have got a nod too though.

Are you a physisist?

I think carrying just a few thousand tons of helium 3 and deuterium would be enough to keep the plasma shield active.

I never quite got how 20th century space probes managed to reach the Delta Quadrant which is tens of thousands of lightyears away. Friendship 1 was warp-capable but could go only lightspeed.

@@Zorro9129 watch the show? They explain it right there with dialogue and stuff.

there's the emergency rigging of a solar sail in " Star Trek the Voyage Home" one of the crippled Fed ships.

it dropped into a spinning black hole.

Yeah, freezing any uncooked veggies breaks the cell walls... and no more structure.

@@paultrappiel9943 corn, peas, green beans all do fine.

Aren't there living things that can survive freezing and still thaw out just fine? Who's to say we can't genetically engineer humans to do the same thing?

@@saucevc8353 yes there are. Some frogs, insects and worms. Scientists are studying why their cells walls do not rupture.

@@ericjones3692 FLASH frozen is how those items are processed.

I agree with you

The answer is the compared to the features presented in this video, the expanse is not more realistic. the overall universe probably is but not the features. The thing is the ships of the expanse rely on the incredibly powerful Epstein drive and whilst the power produced could be realistically produced by nuclear fusion their are other major issues. The drive is so powerful that if just i think i found 0.1% of the energy radiated into the ship it would turn into a fireball. reaching that kind of efficiency would require a major technological leap. without that powerful drive no thrust gravity and suddenly the ship are rather impractical. This is not the case for any of the other features presented. The feature are either already being used or are feature we know would work with only minor advancements in technology. the only one we don't really have is nuclear fusion but it could be replace with fission for most of the cited applications.

@@gavinkemp7920 But the video did include the Avalon, which can burn its engine for a full century, which would require even crazier thrust to mass ratios or thermal radiation systems. I’d say a ship like the Donnager Class is far more possible than the Avalon.

@@dionemoolman no it wouldn't. being able to burn for a long time does not require high thrust to weight ratio. In fact the super efficient engines have fairly consistently low thrust. the most powerful ion engine weight about 230kg and has a thrust of 5.4 newtons, that a thrust to weight ratio of 0.002. but that low thrust used over months adds up to a lot of speed. It uses about 100 kw which is a lot of power in france we have a limite of 10 kw in most houses. scaled to the size of the avalon we are probably in the gigawatt range and would produce about 10000 tons of force. For the donnager which is smaller, it would in the thousands to millions of terawatts with a for in the millions of tonnes. and whilst we could get that energy from fusion if we get but a tiny fraction of the energy goes into the space craft as anything other than speed it will be vaporised. the yatch of epstien would have produced about 5 terrawatts of energy and that craft is probably 10000 time smaller than the avalon. The way the expanse universe is better though out around physics and how thing would feel with a Epstein drive than most universes and the ships are better designed around the epstien drive than most starships are. but the epstien drive it self is not more realistic than any of the tech sighted in this video and thus the ship would be less realistic. I'd put an exception on dooku's ship that can't produce gravity but it was cool talking about solar sails.

Mistake or not that's funny

And if you compute the volume of the fuel tanks, there's enough space to get the Discovery to Jupiter and back using ammonia to fuel the NERVA style engines.

That's hardly a deal breaker, given the actual technical hurdles of just getting that much mass in the shape of a spaceship the coupling disappears into a haze of minutia. A potential solution given the setting is a simple plasma window, the technology can easily retain a single atmosphere against absolute vacuum. Power requirements are relatively high but can be scaled down with tighter tolerances in the structure. Given the generous power supply such a ship must have it's hardly an unthinkable expense.

THANK YOU!! I CAN'T STAND ANYMORE THIS KIND OF NON SENSE ROTATING WHEEL WITH A FIXED CORE!!

I´d disagree, as commonly known, the discovery lacks radiators, the ISV Venturestar from Avatar is probably the most realistic

@@deathsinger1192 if the problem is rotating segments around a fixed core, the venture star also has those... though that is more far future so more plausible they figured out a solution. i still think hermes is the most realistic spaceship in popular science fiction, the rotating ring seal is an issue, but i doubt that it cant be fixed with enough research. if space agencies got more funding then i think the hermes would be possible to build and use in reality within the same timeline from the movie

Imagine being a test pilot for the first experimental FTL drive and nobody even being able to tell you if you'll even survive.

Laser sails, on the other hand, are really useful. The _Venture Star_ from Avatar had one.

@@ReddwarfIV on what principle Do those work?

@@selectthedead Basically you have a Nuclear reactor that powers powerful lasers on the ship which then shoot the sail. Though as you can imagine there are issues with it. I think they actual got the math right too with Relativity. The ship took ~6 years to get to Pandora from Earths perspective (at half the speed of light) but because of Relativity on board it was only 18 months.

@@selectthedead The ship has a big reflective sail on it. A normal solar sail would work. The big difference is that a static installation somewhere in the Sol system mounts a _huge_ laser, and has access to far more power than you could ever afford to mount on an interstellar spacecraft. The laser station shoots the solar sail, which imparts momentum on the spacecraft. In this way, you can get the advantages of a solar sail without the dramatic loss of thrust as you head out-system.

@@jacara1981 You're confused. Mounting the lasers on the ship and shooting the ship's own sail would be like mounting a fan on a sailing ship to blow its sails. You would generate no thrust that way, and even if you could troll physics into making it work, you'd have increased the mass of the spacecraft by fitting reactors and lasers, reducing your available delta-V.

and the sierra nevada dreamchaser was shown as the crew transport

Right

I am a big fun of the show

“She purrs like a kitty at 12G”

The Roci it's like a future version of SpaceX Starship, the crew stands at the top of the ship (where usually it's located the fairing, capsules and cargo in conventional rockets).

For a better take on a similar premise, read _Hull Zero Three_ by Greg Bear. A genetic colonist wakes up on a malfunctioning interstellar spacecraft and has to figure out what's going on, why, and how to stop the spacecraft from committing genocide. The spacecraft itself (known only as Ship) is three rotating spindles attached radially around an icy minor planet.

@@ReddwarfIV Yes, thats an amazing story!

@@ReddwarfIV I loved that book, always thought it was solid adaption material, from high budget mini series to SYFY B movie of the week! Hell, the opening sequence felt like a survivor horror game. Done in the style of Alien Isolation it would be awesome.

I really like that movie. I watched it at least five times and I still enjoy it. It‘s pretty obvious he hasn‘t seen the movie. That tokamak is impossible to miss

Sounds a bit like Pandorum except that adds a Resident Evil feeling by having part of the guest complement having woken up a long time ago and then degenerating into cannibalism.

There actually is a working one in Germany, the Wendelstein 7-X. They needed a (1980s) supercomputer to design that thing because the magnetic confinement field is so complicated.

@@Schlachti10 isn't there one in the us as well?

it says ships with realistic designs

@@jesusmora9379 Thats the expanse realistic ships.

@@jesusmora9379 The ships of the expanse are as if not more realistic than the ones mentioned in this video lol

@@wurzel9671 no they aren't; they operate via continual 1g thrust. There is absolutely no fuel that could even vaguely accomplish that without making the ship 99% fuel. (Except on very short timescales.) This could still be done via lasers to push ships continually, since then it won't have to use fuel save for maneuvering. But in the Expanse they explicitly use some kind of fuel.

@@Cyberwar101 They fly at 1/3g , not 1g Also compared to pretty much every other ship on this list (except for maybe the endurance) That's still pretty damn realistic lol Also in The Expanse they do not use chemical rockets for propulsion

What degree of sci-fi are you willing to go to? You could be anywhere from science fantasy like warhammer and starwars or pure hard sci-fi like children of a dead earth.

@@marrqi7wini54 I'm not sure what children of a dead earth is so I'd just go with starwars/Warhammer/star trek etc sci fi

@@RetractedandRedacted It's a very hard sci-fi pc game. (Hard as in hard sci-fi. I cannot comment on the difficulty of the game.)

It would just be cheating, the expanse could take all 5 spots, easy!