Right now, there’s only one great sci-fi show on television that’s more science than fiction, and I got on a dang spaceship just so I could tell you why, and why that’s so important.
The scene with Dominique and Steven was discussed on another RU-vid channel with a physicist in tow and when that moment was mentioned, at first, the physicist said "that's wrong" but almost immediately after he corrected himself and said "No wait a minute. I'm wrong. That was perfect! That is exactly what would happen!" I've got a lot of respect for a scientist who can admit a mistake.
Thats the fun thing about physics. Until you sit down an do the maths, even a full blown professional physicist might have a wrong hunch about it. (The faster-than-air-car thing on veritasium was a classic example. The physicist was hell bent that it was impossible. But he handn't sat down with the maths.) Cos physics can be pretty counter intuitive sometimes and even a physicists intuition can get it wrong. But the math never lies.
@@R4Y2k Every correct answer established by science is built on a foundation of a thousand wrong answers. "I didn't fail to make a light bulb 2,000 times. I found 2,000 ways it didn't work. I only needed to find the one way in which it does." -Thomas Alva Edison
Can we talk about how Kyle met the Actors of the best SciFi-show ever, visited the sets AND met a random adam savage all in ONE episode. That would be enough for a life's worth of experiences for me.
Well, as it turns out, the TinTin books actually took the concept of space travel to a whole new level when the characters in this book went to the Moon the spaceship has two Motors the regular motor and the nuclear motor the regular motor is used for takeoff and Landing which is obvious enough but the nuclear motor is used to actually make artificial gravity by the constant acceleration that makes you feel the same gravity as on Earth but when the nuclear motor got turned off near the end of page 5 of this book everyone in the spaceship started floating around in the ship as you normally would if you were on the International Space Station so that means the TinTin books got this right first I think but I'm not exactly sure because I don't know when the TinTin book: "the adventures of TinTin explorers on the moon" came out if you want to know what page of this book it's explained in go to page 6 😅😅😊😊😊😊
@@HexxuSz The books are always better. But you have to admit Wes Chatham does an amazing job of portraying Amos's struggle to understand why certain actions are good and why others are bad. You can genuinely see the confusion in his eyes sometimes when he says or does something and everybody kind of freaks out over it.
@@kurokaze511 I'm really looking forward for the following seasons, since his character in the books gets more attention end deepness toward the end of the series.
10:10 The ship being supposed to go "upwards" to more easily give people artificial gravity is actually what I always wanted from any other scifi setting ahah
@@thatonedude2228 Ships with rings to provide spin gravity are generally more on the realistic end of propulsion, which is to say that they'll be running something like 0.02g's or more likely far less, in that case if you have 1g spin gravity down, and 0.02g's laterally to the spinring, all that'll do is cause an almost imperceptible slope on the ring.
@@kataseiko He has indeed done model work for the show so that's probably why he was on set - he was also in a scene in an earlier season, season 2 I think? He was killed when the protomolecule dissected the ship he was on that was investigating the activity on Venus.
Same! I've looked at everything I've written over the years and thought, "Okay, but how does it actually work?" and it feels like I've breathed completely new life into my own project.
Totally. The Expanse made me VERY passionate about realistic sci-fi. In my own writing and game modding, I only use realistic science unless there's a thematic or plot reason not to. Like, in Empyrion, 90% of my ship designs have the gravity generator on top of the engines so that "down" is towards the stern.
I always bang on about how accurate this show is. My favorite subtle part is when Miller pours a drink on Ceres and the Coriolis force twists the flow. If there like an extra long version of this anywhere? I'd love to see more of this ... episode?
Also the scene where they board the roci for the first time escaping from the donnager under fire, so short yet so exhilarating with the conservation of momentum...
@@becausescienceYou can even start small by having Mr. Savage come on to BS just to explain something he's well-versed in like miniature cinematography, how to get realistic looking explosions and stuff in 1/8th's scale, and what is correct or incorrect about what we see in movies, like the giant explosions of fire coming from things that have no business producing such large flames like a grenade or C4.
@@becausescience A few ideas: 1.) Just like in this episode when you were debunking getting sucked out of a hole on space station- debunking tropes. 2.) Going along with the last idea- Go to the extreme; see what it takes to achieve what pop culture gets wrong. Like what would it take for zombies from the walking dead to become a reality. 3.) A blend of Mythbusters and Because Science? kH and Adam do the abstracts on the marker board and then do live tests/demos. 4.) Do more or less mythbusters+because science, BUT you just ask a simple question and test it while explaining how it would work. Ex. What would happen if I had laser vision? "Well your eyes would melt out of your skull. Here's how it would happen/what it would look like!" Hope this gives some inspiration!
Yeah, it wasn't what I expected at all. I expected another dark, serious, gloomy, sci-fi series like westworld with a short life span. But instead, I got a consistently brilliant masterpiece of a show with fun and entertaining characters and plots
That's one thing I always appreciated about the Battletech universe. Dropships were built the same way as they are in The Expanse, they used acceleration and deceleration to create artificial gravity.
The best scene I remember when someone was dying in no gravity, and she was crying, and the tears did not float away but generated this watery bubble around the eyeballs, that was some effed up scene.
Don’t think we missed that you loaded this last night long enough for us to get the notifications but then set it to private. That’s how a Supervillian would torture the masses all at once.
I’m no Star Trek expert, but I always assumed when they come out of Warp, they’re still going the same speed as when they were in it. But being in Warp is actually warping space around the ship, and coming out is just being in regular space.
Yes. There is no acceleration involved. You can imaging it like creating a air bubble inside water which represents space and then moving the water around the bubble and thus no acceleration.
Fair, but when a Galaxy-class starship is doing donuts at impulse speeds, all 1,012 passengers will be painting the insides of all the Jefferies tubes. At least, without the "inertial dampeners."
So I tried to get into the show a couple times in the past but never got past episode 3 or so. Not really sure why. But after watching this I decided to really sit down and watch it for real..... yeah I just binged all the way up to the most recent episode in a couple days. I can't get enough of this show!
Yep, episode 3 or so sounds right. And I know exactly why. Because episode 4 is "CQB" ft. the Donnager & some rocky bois, wherein the show suddenly slams on the accelerator and you realize episodes 1-3 hadn't even left the training area haha Whenever I'm recommending new people to check out The Expanse I say, watch the first FOUR episodes - that's precisely when you'll know. For me, I'd started watching while S1 was still coming out... Took me over a month to get through Eps. 1-3; then I saw CQB and proceeded to binge up through the latest released episode that same night.
The reason why is that season 1 is a "syfy" channel show.. and it's very obvious from the quality that it's made by syfy channel. The first season even though well acted and even though it has a decent story line feels very B tier. Made me almost give up on it, I'm so glad I didn't. Because it's the most brilliant sci fi show out there. It's a shame they ended it when there is still plenty of book material to use.
I guess you have to be a geek like me to really appreciate the little things they do in The Expanse that are scientifically accurate. There's a moment about 21 minutes into Season 3 Episode 11 (Fallen World) in which the character Tilly is dying. They are in Zero G and she's crying. Her tears don't fall and they don't float away. They cling to her eyes. The detail for someone like me is absolutely remarkable for something so seemingly trivial.
I would love the show way more if they didn't ignore physics more and more when it gets inconvenient. S1 Was excellent, and then it degraded more and more, starting small until all you have are moments like you described. What gets me really angry is, that they just have to follow the books guidance, since they stay true to hard science fiction the whole time.
@@RabenmundK That's a ridiculous take. Everything _except_ minor details that the show got right in S1 is fundamental to the setting, and continued being right throughout the series. More than that; while navigating increasingly alien story elements the later seasons took care to keep grounding it in reality. Hell half the examples of scientific accuracy in this video are from S3+ - frankly I can't think of anything in the later seasons that strained credulity more than, say, the scientific verisimilitude of any modern-day action film (or show).
I love the part where one of the characters on Ceres pours a drink and has to aim at an odd angle because of the corolis effect from the high spin speed of the asteroid needed to maintain a 0.3g centripetal force.
One of my favorite scenes in this show is during the battle over Ganymede when the martian marines lose their communitcation system and they have to push their helmets together to be able to communitcate with the air in their helmets. As a viewer you take that communication for granted and it really adds to the tension of the scene when they all of a sudden can't talk to each other.
@@cmkessell fun fact: they've screwed themselves a lot in the show by killing/severely injuring characters that never got hurt in that manner in the books and later return in extremely meaningful ways and plot critical roles as themselves.
@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM The show will make it work. Extremely talented writers actors and crew, and a fantastic base to work with in the form of the novels. Adaptations have to be made, and so far they've done a good job of choosing where to make them
Having a masters degree in science, The Expanse was really caught my attention! I've always been a fan of sci fi, but being scientifically accurate really enhanced my enjoyment to the story being told. I really hope books 7-9 eventually get made.
“The Expanse was really caught my attention.” An advanced degree but you fail at basic grammar? Do they not promote proof reading in them fancy schools of higher learning? 😂
I can say, I know a fair amount of established engineers who have failed to master the English language, or at least pretend to outside of a professional environment. @@peterquinn2997
@@shawngurley1957 Even if it was, a master’s level education usually involves quite a bit of proof reading. Inexcusable for an advanced degree holder but I was really just having fun busting chops. Not a big deal.
This show is pure perfection. Yet I still can't convince my friends to watch it... Fantastic video! It really highlights the detail put into the expanse!
Getting my friends to watch has been hard as well! It seems like a lot of people have a hard time getting through the first 7-8 episodes of the first season. I don't understand why, the first episode had me hooked!
@@1014p Much faster than pod racer speeds. They go about as fast as an airplane. A spaceship goes way faster than that. Especially one from the future that has to travel to other planets fast.
@@NaudVanDalen the Y que is a slingshot racer... so while it has a torch engine to do "non racing" navigation and braking when arriving at a destionation.. most surelly Maneo didnt used it to avoid being detected by the fleet of ships he was going to dart by... so most likelly he was going over 50000kmh (14kms) and was "decelerated" in 5 seconds down to 18000kmh.. thats changing your speed in over 30000kmh in 5 seconds.. or 6000kmh per second..1 G equals to change your speed in 36kmh/s so 6000 in 1s equals to arround 170Gs .. thats the minimun G force asuming he was flying at "just" 50000kmh and the ring decelerated him down to the speed limit in the 5 seconds the book says and not instantly
one of the most impactful things for me was the crying in 0g, the way the tears stay on the eye because of the surface tension. I really really hope they come back in another few years to finish the series, I know the characters age quite a bit in the novels so it can't be done just yet without a lot of money put into aging the characters, but we're getting closer to the point where it will be feasible
Space itself is one of the characters... yeah the *titular* character - the whole show is named after it. Some of my favourite "Hard Science Fiction" moments were when the Donnager suddenly loses thrust while Naomi and Holden are trying to sprint across the gantry to the Tachi and Holden uses Naomi as "remass" to push himself back towards the gantry so he can anchor himself and reel her in (Space Etiquette 101: when using your crewmate as remass, first attach a tether so you *can* reel them back in afterwards) and the scene when the Roci's in the midst of a fire fight, undertaking violent evasive manouevres, and Amos is trying to cross the room to reattach Prax's oxygen line - and the tool cabinet that Prax failed to properly secure opens up, filling the room with deadly projectiles. Those scenes beat a bit of wobbling about in your seat on the bridge while someone shakes the camera! _THE EXPANSE_ is indeed the most scientifically accurate SF TV show. Im da sheng, kopeng! And the cast and crew are all top notch - writing, linguistics, directing, acting, camera work, set/prop design and all the other minutiae that go into making that show are on point.
Such a Big fan of this show. Rebinged it this week and forgot how awesome it is with it's characters, the belters lingo and kick ass marsians. Soooo well done.
There was a scene back in Season 1, where James and Naomi were on a Space Walk repairing the breach and to communicate with each other they put their helmets together to communicate. I believe the vibrations, and in essence, sound transferred to the next person so they could hear. That was an amazing scene of scientific realism.
@@Wyatt125 well given the setting is in the near future and in theory scientist could make a helmet allow vibrations to travel and meet the safety requirements. It’s not crazy to assume that’s a near future possibility for that as an for emergency online communication. It’s not like the expanse pulled out a antimatter death ray. Space safe vibrating glass is a real world possibility that we know would work given our current understanding
this happened for real, on a set, of another great sci-fi; The Abyss. If you watch the making of the movie, they mentioned about the actors inside the water discovered they can talk to each other by putting their helmets together.
Thank you so so much for this! Years back thanks to this video you made I started watching "The Expanse". After just minutes ago finishing my first rewatch I've come to the obvious conclusion it's my favorite show of all time. Needless to say it's near and dear to my heart and I'd be remiss if I didn't give credit where credit is due to you for this vid. Thank again good sir. ❤
This video got me to watch the expanse, i probs would have found it later but, Thanks Kyle. That was over 2 years ago now. And its now my favorite show ever.
You have been telling me about The Expanse for years, but it was my friend Tony's damn near televangelist passion for the show that finally got me to watch it. For reals, his wife maintains that he is slowly starting a cult around the show lol
I’ve gotten at least ten or fifteen people to watch it and they’re always hooked. Funny thing is, I started watching it when it was airing weekly on SyFy and just couldn’t get into it after 4 or 5 episodes. Fast forward to a month before season 2 and I decide to give it another try and I was hooked immediately. I think being able to binge the first season really helped. I then read all the books and novellas and now preach the gospel of The Expanse.
His arc gets even better in season 5. He steals the show with what he goes through in the newest season... Like fuck me. Won't ruin it, but god at the end of his arc I felt so warm inside.
This video was recommended after the Adam Savage interview, for a second I thought the actors always wear the same things no matter what day or something
Even just seeing a little glimpse of your time being on set, I can see how much fun everyone involved must be having with the show, and all parties involved.
Even beyond ALL the science it gets right, the sociology of the groups, the reactions, the fear responses among the different groups makes SO much sense! It even gets the Human aspect so believable and realistic that it makes so many moments more powerful because they're realistic and not just an ideal good or ideal bad response.
Yes! How spot on they are with the sociology in the show is extremely underrated, it is just as impressive as their attention to detail in the scientific accuracy. In fact I can't think of many shows that have done just as well in that regard.
we've just finished series 5 of Expanse. it's the best thing on. The space part, the characters and plots and the language/dialect/accent work - all superb. It has a very european feel to m eand I also love the 'colour blind' casting.
"Amazon Studios graciously put me on a transport to Toronto." Does this mean Amazon Studios have free access to the void where Kyle lives?... Should we be worried?
Dom and Steven are wearing the same outfits as they were in the interview Adam Savage did with them, so clearly they did both of these interviews on the same day.
I just started watching this video two weeks ago without knowing "the expanse" I stopped the video at 0:56. Now I'm back to watch the rest off the video and telling you that I had a great time watching the expanse. Thank you for making this video
Check out the books in the mean time. The audiobooks are phenomenal. You'll notice some differences but both the book and show are great in their own ways and they both own the media they're presented in.
My favorite part in the new season was when people on the ships got shot and they were dead but still standing up because their boots were stuck to the floor. Such a little thing but it was accurate and just made the scene look cool as hell!
Yeah they have done that before and its always cool. Although, the martian that the opa were interrogating, when he was shot he fell to his knees. Seemed more like a mistake on the actors side that the director didn't take notice of though.
@@carlosreid51 I mean , the core theme is about the evil of colonialism, and of unrestrained corporatism, with also themes of bigotry (though every faction is very multiracial, so the bigotry exists through different lines) . There are main characters of color, women in important roles, important characters who are gay etc... so it really depends on what you call SJW crap.
Sadly that won't work. :( It takes s long time for a dead body to freeze solid in space. When you die your body will just default to a default position while still quite warm. What you could do is hire someone to fixate your limbs in a position of your choosing and then freeze your carcass before shooting it off into space. I see a potential business opportunity here...
@@psionx1 you are correct. I didn't consider the radiant energy of the sun. At earth distance from the sun (1AU) the energy from the sun is about 1400 W/m². And the normal human have about 2 m² surface area, half of it will be hit by sunlight resulting in 1400 W of energy input. To freeze a body i needs to get to 0 C° (~237 K). That gives a black body radiation of our body to about 500 W. So we gain more energy than we lose. What we must do is to get further from the sun as you say. At Mars distance (1.4 AU) the energy from the sun is about 700 W/m². That's not far away enough. About 2 AU the sun the solar energy and the black body radiation levels out so that the temperature levels or at about 0 C°. You can also dress the corpse in a reflective body suit to reflect most of the sunlight thus lowering the radiant energy absorbed by the body. A good enough reflector suit and you can toss your deceased loved ones in low earth orbit. To look cool in heaven.
This show has set the standard me. Because they took no liberties in the science that most shows and even movies do, just for the sake of budget. And even the stuff that was really minor seeming that might otherwise be overlooked in most shows, was addressed. Sure, everyone was human, but they actually addressed the changes in physiology for the belters, and how the Martians and earthers used that against the belters. All their science was so accurate. I was literally stuck on the show from the pilot debut.....and never was disappointed
I noticed you didn't bring up the fact that almost all ships in the show are powered by fusion reactors. Solid science, if evolved, since we are today on the verge of sustainable power generating fusion reactions. Furthermore, the ships all use "Ion Drives", yet another solid science evolution. Today, we have multiple satellites in space which are propelled and or maneuvered by ion drives or ion thrusters. The ion drives in use today are very efficient, though they lack the thrust power needed to push a mass like the Space Shuttle in any kind of timely manner or sufficient energy to move such vessel with acceleration that human passengers would appreciate. That said however, both of these "advanced" technologies are based in solid science, and given the time frame between modern day and the Era of the show, it is very reasonable to believe that these sciences would have developed and refined to the levels in the show. Finally, the points about space combat.....almost any space show employed the common trope of energy based weapons, be it phasers, disrupters, plasma guns, pulse laser cannons, ion cannons, etc......and the trope of energy shields, or massive armor plating, etc. The Expanse ignores those tropes, their combat is the most realistic portrayal of space combat I have ever seen, show or movie,(yes, better than Star Trek or Star Wars). Almost all of the space combat in the show involves just two types of offensive weapon, solid projectile, in the form of railguns (another actual science) or systems similar to rotary cannons or miniguns, firing a hail of inert kinetic kill rounds or the occasional explosive rounds. The second type being missiles, rockets and "torpedoes". Rockets being a small to medium unguided explosive projectile, and missiles and torpedoes being guided or homing explosive projectiles, torpedoes typically being a larger slower and more powerful missile. As for defense, most ships in the show had very little to no armor for general protection, and really only ever had small amounts of armor protecting critical spots. There were no shields, no deflectors, the biggest two means of defense being the ships thrusters, essentially maneuverability, and "PDA"s, Point Defense Array or Point Defense Artillery. Small caliber solid projectile systems designed to disable, ablate, and or destroy incoming missiles rockets and torpedoes. Such systems are already in use by ships of almost all navies around the globe today, such as the CWIS system or older Phalanx Defense system.
The absolute best modern sci-fi show ever. I just finished watching it all the way through for the 2nd time and am now on the 3rd book. Really enjoyed this video.
I've always enjoyed sci-fi but I've always felt like an outsider or casual observer in regards to the genre. That said, I absolutely love "The Expanse." I think it's so enjoyable, because their version of the future seems possible maybe even plausible.
I always thought the warp drive moved space and time around the vessel so the relative speed was constant for said vessel. This would mean no red splat on the enterprise. Brilliant video as always btw
Yes, thank you. That is what a warp drive does, it literally "warps space." The ship doesn't move that fast, it shortens the distance from where you are and where you're going. It always irritated me, when, in the new Star Trek movie, Scotty says "it never occurred to me space that was moving." Of course it would have occurred to him, that is literally what warp travel is. Interestingly, that is largely considered the most plausible form of FTL travel in the real world, which, tbh, is why I'm as familiar as I am with it.
@@alexdoan273 Nor does it explain why they always have gravity, but that's all because ToS was so cheaply produced they kind of needed to make excuses, later series kept those in place for continuity. The point about the warp drive, however, is the ship doesn't go from X*the speed of light to barely moving, the ship is just barely moving the whole time, it just bends space-time to move further at that speed.
I love your content so much and I’ve watched this specific video six or seven times on my own. I send this video to my engineer friends who’ve never seen The Expanse as a reason for them to give it a chance. (My fantasy friends just get told “it’s Game of Thrones in space but better.”) Thank you so, so much. I was a liberal arts major so a lot of my arguments boil down to “because SCIENCE!!” This actually helps me articulate what I mean. Again, just thank you. ❤❤❤
Although I agree with the deceleration that killed the slingshoter, I am shocked the fact that the spaceship remained fully intact despite the deceleration.
This series is one of the best pieces of entertainment I’ve ever seen, it’s up there with Terminator 1 & 2, Alien & 2001. The first episode when they Flip and burn made me stand up and yell FINALLY!!! Lol it was like in John Wick when a gun is fired underwater and the bullet just kind of dribbles out of the barrel. And the acting on the show is top notch
The thing that got me totally pumped for the Expanse was when they show the Cant doing a course correction in the very first episode. "Prepare for flip 'n burn" OMG so cool
When you grow up with certain dangers you develop an attitude towards them that simply isn't accessible to people who are new to those dangers. The Expanse is the only scifi show I've seen where the actors' reactions to the various perils of space made it clear that they understood those dangers and how to deal with them. That really impressed me, because I'm sure the desire for drama would make one want to put the audience in a panic with every situation, but they instead showed characters dealing professionally with dangers that were just part of space living. There were plenty of new situations to panic them; so just having a little hole in the ship or a cracked helmet didn't qualify. I loved that.
maybe in the future the social pressures have ingrained hygiene so deeply into our society, that even the lower classes maintain that standard. Almost all of our society lives a much more hygienic lifestyle than even the high upper class of the 18th century.
@Felix B another thing is filtered air makes it easier to not "taste" bad smells. Like when your eating bad airplane food? That food wasn't bad tasting on the ground it just got dulled. A cabin pressure enviroment in a space station or asteroid might have the same issues. Then again, there are other ways to clean the bacteria and dead skin off your body without needing Exorbitant amounts of water. I.e. On nuclear submarines the water is more plentiful than when compared to old diesel boats but they still use two bursts of shower water. One to get wet and soap up with and the second to wash off the suds and gunk. They can reward crewmembers with a "Hollywood" shower where your allowed to let the water run the whole...glorious... time.
@@dragonsword7370 that is honestly fascinating. Even with today's salt cleaning and water purifying subs still run on low water? That's truly interesting.
@@augurseer Surface ships as well. Fresh water is a luxury at sea; desalination is very energy-intensive. (There are membrane filter systems but they can't produce anything like the quantities needed for hundreds or for aircraft carriers thousands of showers every day.) Toilets use salt water for the same reason.
The accuracy of the science is nothing compared to the story, and acting. If you like pirates, Black Sails was about as good, but you have to get through the first season before it hits its stride.
