A Brief History of Space Travel In Science Fiction 

I agree give us this please

I'd greatly enjoy a long-form vid on space travel, no matter how long it takes. 👍

I'd definitely spend a night in watching that video 👍

No doubt

I agree too, please take as many hours as you seem necessary.

Since we are all made of stardust, does it not make sense that we yearn for the stars?

@@DavidBaronStevensPersonal It sure does, it's kind of poetic in a way.

we only need the right resources which doesn't look like a possibility.

@@DavidBaronStevensPersonal We do have our own beautiful star though.

I think it has more to do with the idea of traveling to new places and how writers use that as a way to examine the society they live in. The Tempest is Shakespeare's answer to *Star Trek* as he uses some of the same methods that Roddenberry used and for what seems to be much the same goals.

This is still the most realistic concept of 'settling' other star systems, Clarke was a true visionary

There is already a concept of an engine that could move a ship to %10-%30 the speed of light over time.. A generational ship would be needed to reach a habitable planet..

So far, this seems to be the most feasible colonization method with our present level of knowledge. Nevertheless, it's still a huge challange, for our AI, astronautical, medical and engeenering capabilities. On the CONs, there will always be the fear/hope of a new technological breakthrouh that would render such effort a futile enterprise. Thus, many would prefer to wait, on an almost eternal loop, for such an optimal method instead.

@Luis AR most of the time? Sure, but the closest potentially habitable earth-like planet is only 4.2 light-years from here. At even just 10% lightspeed thats just 42 years. At 20% that's 21. Visiting that world at those speeds in a single generation is viable

@@erenjaeger9418 unfortunately we don't have that kind of technology and even then the fuel is the most problem

I have the book, but have not read it yet. I did read Old Man's War (and hated it).

Huh, my comment about Heinlein's reaction to "The Forever War" has disappeared. Well, I can't be bothered typing the whole thing again. Wtf, though.

@@zarquondam The part where he was nervous meeting him because his political views were the opposite of what we see in Starship Troopers, but it turned out that Heinlein enjoyed it? Strange.

In many ways not just build on it, but being a mirror to it from a less fascist pov. And ye, you can enjoy starship troopers still even without agreeing with the message it's not so subtly is trying to get across. There's some rather cringyworthy ideas about homosexuality in the forever war though, though more from a "ok.. seriously?" sideways glance.

@@Langkowski That was the one, yes.

Cyrano's books were heavily influenced by Lucian's. Several of the methods he considers of getting to the moon were referenced in Edmond Rostand's play about Cyrano, in the form of a story he tells to distract an opponent.

@@zarquondam Is either book the one Mannheim Steamroller used as inspiration for an album?

The demons just want to hug you. To death. For eternity

Who's to say we are not already in that place in history??? 😮

Ralph Wiggum: Everybody is hugging.

The gateway its open, and now you are all coming with me!!!

@@AndresPluss "Do you see??" .......😂

I really like the book Time for the stars

Tried any Warhammer 40k? Gaunt’s Ghosts is great. Or the Eisenhorn books

Some suggestions: Honor Harrington, Kris Longknife, the Hexarchy trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee, The Paradox Trilogy by Rachel Bach

David Drake

@@LuciFeric137 RCN series! Nice one!

My favourite military SF are the books by Jerry Pournelle.

Yeah the movie may have butchered the meaning of the book, but if you look at it as a parody of unbridled nationalism and militarism it's actually kinda genius. I don't think it deserves to be totally written off. A lot of it has a strong satirical feel, and when viewed through that lense it really works. Just my opinion.

The movie is so much better than the book, no comparison.

@@MKBCelestial the books is far deeper.... however the movie is a better depiction of how you should treat blatant fascism.

An in-depth analysis is deconstruction done right.

@@StevenErnest We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Analysis is essentially neutral to constructive. Deconstruction, by its very definition, is destructive.

@@OntologicalQuandry "Deconstruction, by its very definition, is destructive." No, you obviously don't understand the concept and purpose of deconstruction.

Heinlein was as you may know a personal friend and great admirer of Smith

@@Langkowski I did not know that! Thanks for the little history.

​@@thesinfultictac5704 You welcome. A couple of examples. When Smith dedicated the Gnome hardcover publication of The Vortex Blaster to him, Heinlein wrote in return: "Doc, there is no easy way for me to tell you how honored and moved I feel at the printed dedication and your inscription. Perhaps it would be better for me to acknowledge in writing what I have told you orally years ago: the enormous extent of my literary indebtedness to you. I have learned from many writers-from Verne and Wells and Campbell and Sinclair Lewis, et al.-but I have learned more from you than from any of the others and perhaps more than for all the others put together.... For the past twenty years I've been trying to emulate you and any really astute literary detective could trace down hundreds of things in my stories which derive from your ideas, style, moral standards, et endless cetera. Plagiarize you I never did, at least not consciously; learn from you I always have, in every paragraph, and I am proud to acknowledge the debt." Heinlein also told how Smith helped him buy a new car: Larger Than Life: A Memoir in Tribute to Dr. Edward E. Smith August 1940 - aback road near Jackson, Michigan - a 1939 Chevrolet sedan: "Doc" Smith is at the wheel; I am in the right-hand seat and trying hard to appear cool, calm, fearless - a credit to the Patrol. Doc has the accelerator floor boarded ... but has his head tilted over at ninety degrees so that he can rest his skull against the frame of the open left window - in order to listen by bone conduction for body squeaks. Were you to attempt this position yourself - car parked and brakes set, by all means; I am not suggesting that you drive - you would find that your view of the road ahead is between negligible and zero. I must note that Doc was not wearing his Lens. This leaves (by Occam's Razor) his sense of perception, his almost superhuman reflexes, and his ability to integrate instantly all available data and act there from decisively and correctly. Sounds a lot like the Gray Lensman, does it not? It should, as no one more nearly resembled (in character and in ability - not necessarily in appearance) the Gray Lensman than did the good gray doctor who created him. Doc could do almost anything and do it quickly and well. In this case he was selecting and road - testing for me a secondhand car. After rejecting numberless other cars, he approved this one; I bought it. Note the date: August 1940. We entered World War Two the following year and quit making automobiles. I drove that car for twelve years. When I finally did replace it, the mechanic who took care of it asked to be permitted to buy it rather than have it be turned in on a trade... because, after more than thirteen years and hundreds of thousands of miles, it was still a good car. Doc Smith had not missed anything. Its name? Skylark Five, of course.

The "forgotten one" in my eyes is usually A.E. van Vogt

@@Langkowski Null-A van Vogt!

Depends on how the FTL drives work. For example in Macross the colony ships of the time cant move quickly even in FTL due to the sheer magnitude of energy required.

I think FTL would be more fun if it took time dilation into account. Travel 50LY and come out 50 years later having experienced no passage of time (or the same effective dilation by going substantially faster than light, and mathematically experiencing negative time?) and just seeing the interaction between that and the rest of the world.

What about 40k warp travel? ;)

@@HistoritorJimaldus lmao that would make me like the "harsh dark reality" of space travel

@@equidistanthoneyjoy7600 That’s basically how I imagine it (in my basic wordbuilding hard science fiction thing). When you travel at FTL, you do have a set speed but the problem lies in that when you drop out of warp, the time it took to get there has passed but it takes an instant for anyone on the ship. It takes about 10 days to go across the entire Milky Way, a bit under 35 seconds to Proxima Centauri, and over 240 days to reach Andromeda. You could theoretically travel to the other end of the observable universe (if you had the power to) and come back in a near instant, but over 24,000 years would have passed. Terrifying stuff. Some warp drives are faster than others, but most peak at 4.16667E+15 km/h.