Your Own Personal Spaceship 

[banjo noises from the direction of Engineering] "Sounds like the Engine Thrall tribe are active again. Time to leave, quickly. No, not that way. We don't go into Organics Recovery since..."

That looks very 40K on paper, but how would they get their food and water though?

@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 corpse-starch...... solves some of the problems.

@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Raiding of course. Wars on ships that large are not just possible, they are nearly inevitable...

@@mrp782 I don't think you can feed a population on its own bodies. In it's lifetime a human consumers more then their bodyweight in food. I swear that GW takes grimdark to ridiculous extremes, Or it's the old saying, scifi writers are clueless to scale. And warfare. And logistics.

LITERALLY. Isaac has helped me write better genuinely

Why not a Joe-Schmoe space farmer in a rolling, private owned O'Neill Cylinder that drifts space station to space station selling and trading wares and crops for space stations orbiting ground stations-- it's long journeys fitting the time required to grow crops, ect? I see bonus points if he is growing... less-than-legal, but highly valued crops?

Theoretically, that's true - but it is also a mostly meaningless statement because by that point, _EVERYTHING_ should be cheaper than the most expensive Star Citizen ship. Nonetheless, we will find more inane ways to spend our money, and the absence of necessity only ends up making non-essentials more valuable. It's impossible to predict whether or not we'll be spending the majority of our money on novelty Halloween masks year round as a sign of social standing in 10,000 years.

Damn, Star Citizen is like nuclear fusion

I seriously do not understand how people can spend that must on an in game asset Freaking play Kerbal space program or no man's sky Jesus Christ

oLev's Law

@@chistinelane Imagine that you bought some super expensive vehicle with a computer system that can be remotely turned off because you don't really own the vehicle you paid for.

the defiant in startrek was one of the best personal spaceship, probably as big as a 2 bed apartment to cruise through space...awesome.

Louis Wu from Ring World does finish off with the most amazing ship in all SF. It combines Pak and Puppeteer technology.

I want to do that to my room. I want an airlock, a fake window to view space outside, and a hammock from the ceiling to get a floaty feel. IDK just me? Ok...

Wow I had no idea other people did this to fall asleep!

My two primary personal spaceships are a maxed out S-Class fighter named "Paladin" and maxed out Exotic class named "Valkyrie". They are both very formidable - when a pirate or sentinel ship sees them they usually say "wait, I'll just blow myself up". I also have an interstellar freighter attended by a host of frigates. We have visited many strange star systems.

Didn't asimov sit in on nasa meetings as an ideas guy

@@cthulhufhtagn7520 yes

Space Engineers is cool, but it's way too hardcore for me. The complexity of even the simple things that you build in that game are just so crazy that I feel like I need an actual engineering degree to properly play it. Beyond that, the early game in survival mode is so tough and slow that me and my friends lost interest so quickly. I remember we'd get attacked so often, and that would often take us back to the stone age with no power. Mining for resources takes so long even for basic things. I'd be mining for hours, and it still wouldn't be enough for anything. Building a ship? Hah! That's funny. No ship at all. It was so complicated that I couldn't even get through the damn tutorial. Neither me nor my friend could. Even in creative, I couldn't understand what the heck was going on. I couldn't actually design anything. I like Empyrion a bit more. It's more simple, and the survival mode isn't nearly as grindy. Problem is, the simplicity is also its biggest weakness. You don't get as much creativity as you can with SE. Ships kinda just do all the same thing, just in different scales. You can't really build your own missiles or anything like that. Still, I can role play having my own giant capital ship with a hangar full of starfighters and vehicles. The game also seems to run more smoothly on my computer. The other problem with Empyrion is that the gameplay loop in survival is kinda...stale. You just go around collecting resources so that you can go around more and collect more resources. And at the time that I was playing, there wasn't that much of a universe to explore, so once you gathered everything, that was it. I hope it got better now. The value I see in both of these games is the ship designing aspect. And being able to see other people's designs. My best design in Empyrion was a starfighter that I built by modifying somebody else's existing design. I essentially just made it more powerful in every way, and that was a great way for me to learn some of the basic design mechanics in the game.

SE is really run, 100% agree. I will say though, I spend more time planetside making mechanically complex systems than ships. I am generally bad at aesthetic design 😛

The problem with space engineers is that it’s mostly survival oriented I want to found my own business from small freighter to basically running your own nation and influencing the wider world that’s why I play x4 foundations and other games of the series unfortunately you dont get the satisfaction of designing and maintaining your own ship but you get to enjoy a full sandbox in a living breathing world without the hassle of dealing with other people like eve, elite dangerous and Star citizen. Also the deep lore is a +

Space engineers is the bees knees. Been playing that since it was available for purchase lol the only dev company that will add mistakes the community finds to the game as features (that time we had to break a small rotor inside a large rotor in order to connect large and small grids) Theres an ingame scripting console which is unheard of in games.

[THROWS DICE] Come onnnnn, Epstein Drive!

I would personally go with a large plastic barrel and duct tape. The internal air can be released from small holes in the side by peeling back or poking through the tape providing thrust.

A Star Trek transporter would solve that problem quite neatly.

I know, the launch costs of $10,000 to $25,000 per kilo must come down!

@@ChickensAndGardening Are you talking about the small impulse drive ships or the teleportors.

The best you will see in your lifetime living in meta, owning nothing, with no permission to go outside and eating bugs 24/7 by the looks of where things are going.

When we can get to orbit and get around space as easy as we get around on earth. That well come when we have antimatter technologies which believe it or not could be possible in less than a decade. It take miligrams of antimatter used as a heat source for a propelant instead of oxidizer. Oxidizer is 2/3rds of the weight. This means a ship could take off with a lift body from a air port into orbit and farther. Then if you use it in fusion it only takes micrograms. This is called antimatter catalyzed fusion. This is not my idea I got it from Omni 3 or 4 decades ago. The thing is at the time we had no idea how to make enough antimatter now we do. A factory out in the middle of nowhere solar powered with a 2 mile track can make 2 grams per year of non specific large atom antimatter. Most of the physics of how to do this has been figured out. On the moon 6 times for the same type factory. This is using new technologies the accelerater is only 1-1/2 foot wide. What is made now is anti hydrogen. It takes enormous amounts of energy to make cool and store. But if you make large atom antimatter like carbon and other large atoms it is a lot easier and takes a lot less energy. And you can store it for years.

@Moth Moniker If you are talking to me it would be a lot farther than that. A small spaceship with 30 miligrams of antimatter and 200 gallons of water could get to the moon. 1 gram of antimatter has 3 times the energy as the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese. And you don't have oxidizer which is 2/3rds of the weight of the fuel and dry weight to hold it. Then if you use antimatter with fusion it takes in the micrograms that is a thousand times less antimatter.

@@clementvining2487 small scale fusion would more than do it and be much safer. And we'd probably need stupidly large scale fusion to make antimatter a cheap enough fuel source for even US military uses. At roughly $2.7 quadrillion a gram right now you could make it a thousand times cheaper than today and even then Apple and Amazon combined couldn't afford enough for a trip.

@@MechanicaMenace Dude you have no idea what you are talking about you see too much RU-vid. You talking about anti hydrogen for experiments and research. Making the right type in the right way. Then using it for a heat source for propelants the cost would compare to what it cost now to get something into orbit. What you are saying is nonsense but most people believe like you because they listen to these you tube influencers who have no idea what they are talking about.

Yes, motherships are going to be huge than many people expected.

It is actually under study, some models of dark matter use chameleon particles which change mass. I think in EVE onllne warp drives also work on the similar principle by "depleting" vacuum fluctuations.

Niven's has a knack for fun ship designs, and names too :)

The crew died in the beginning and millions of years passed.

Hate this guys face, the cheap 5x5x5 feet set and the same set of jokes copied from Fawlty towers, There was no british humour before Chapman.

Yeah, space elevator will be get here before personal space ships.

Do you own the best retail telescope out there?

@@jsbrads1 Them 16 inch are upwards of $10k so no.

@@bengsynthmusic looks like they have 10 inch for $650. Also try to see if there are any groups in your area that meet on cloudless, moonless nights. Also worth seeing entire galaxy, clear night above 8000ft.

@@jsbrads1 That's cool. I'd love to experience that. But my main comment is a lot more ambitious. I meant seeing the rings of Saturn upclose from the window of my spaceship.

@@bengsynthmusic you are better getting a wide angle view from far away. I think the planetarium has some amazing gazillion K views projected, major upgrades… for now 🤷

Value is relative, didn't they trade humanity the blueprints for a hyperdrive in exchange for sole ownership of Neptune's moon Triton?

i like the Delta Flyer

unless we crack the mystery of antigravity. Just imagine a totally silent ship that you could just slingshot into orbit because it's weightless.

Consider the space-yacht equivalent of a private rail car. You don't really need to own the whole railroad to make use of it. You might own a space-yacht the size of a rail car and hire a booster, space-tug, or a mass-driver when you are ready to change venues.

Agreed, far easier to build a Space RV that stays in space, that it would be to make a single seater spaceplane to go between surface and space. And the space RV can give you space and resources to enjoy long trips, even if you need to meet up with the equivalent of a interplanetary Ferry to go between the planets, while using it's own engines to move between space colonies and moons

that's the equivalent of mowing lawns until you get a bike, so tell me again about the price of tea in China. you're small-time, all of you.

@@kingmasterlord I blew up small pirate ships and ran minor cargoes until I could afford a bigger ship, then repeated the process at a larger scale. Eventually, I ended up with a fleet of fairly large ships, running my own cargo while playing the markets. Then the economy crashed, I got sick of people following my freighter home to try and rob me, and I was faced with a bill the size of my entire petty cash fund and most of my assets to continue my lifestyle after changes to the system, so I quit in disgust.

Ahh, a fellow Escape Velocity player 😉

That goes for a lot of us. Well said.

Based! I agree.

Thank you, it always makes my day when folks say something like that.

Yeah me too, its unrelated to the title but kept popping into my head when making the video

Me too. Even wrote the chorus out!

This is why I scrolled through the comments first before posting this very comment lol

Thank you for introducing me to this band!

@@revenevan11 Good 80s/90s pop band. Unique sound. Glad you caught a new thing for you!

So no range and huge recharge time, got it...and the price...

@@MS-gr2nv only if you assume they are powered by batteries, instead of fusion reactors, and that batteries don't improve much in the future

@@MS-gr2nv You only need a 50 hp pump for a 50'000 hp rocket engine. The fuel has a lot more weight than the batteries.

Picture the lenght of the extension cord...oh thats my project...and it actually works to get things into orbit :-)

@@808bigisland Just use batteries.

I had the same experience, the game is wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle. I remember making a massive odyssey from the Bubble to Saggitarius A and Colonia during the lockdown, it was fun at first but I would never really do it again.

With the way things are going, it almost seems like it's going to *have to* be personal enterprise that takes us to space. Governments are far more interested in maintaining their own power than they are on bettering humanity.

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Quibble: “setting,” not “plot.”

33 million will buy you a used space shuttle.

@@sid2112 :( I was thinking more about something that gets me to Proxima Centauri in a week.

@@johannageisel5390 Ok then I'll need a rubber band, pringles bottle, and the magnetron out of a 1972 General Electric oven. Hurry up dude I've made Stardrives with less.

@@sid2112 Uff, ok, I'm on my way. Shall I pick up some antimatter too?

@@johannageisel5390 The magnetron collects it. Just make sure the rubber band at least an inch long or it'll wink out of the universe I made for it.