one idea could be to distort space,proton bombardment engines will distort space-time and effectively make a short cut through space. how short you may ask? that depends on the intensity of the protons being bombarded.i had a dream about this. thats all i remember
Traveling at sub-light speed and even at light speed is unpractical.I believe it will be more easy to try and bend the space and make a "worm whole"....we will need to somehow create an huge gravitational force to bend the space and also we need to somehow stop the worm whole from collapsing in an black whole.But as phil said our social and cultural problems is what keeps us back ,for example we are more able to go on Mars today than we where able to go on the Moon 40 years ago.
I envision a mothership sailing through space. It has people living for generation after generation while the ship sails through space at a modest speed compared to what you describe.
The ship itself could be an iron astroid hollowed out and the insides made habitable, airtight and well shielded from radiation. Inside mining ships are built on huge production lines. Mining ships mining nearby astroids and comets for resources, fuel and building materials.
It brings with it terraforming potential. When it gets there the mining ships start herding astroids towards a planet bombarding it with water, and planting fast spreading plants and algae to make oxygen for the atmosphere.
And in orbit the mothership sits like a small moon overseeing the terraforming and keeping the people alive for the generations it takes for the terraforming to take place to a point where the planet is habitable without protective gear.
If you follow this logic, in a few thousands years we could turn the solar system into a Dyson swarm... with the rest of the Galaxy following after at most a few million years. That doesn't seem to have happened yet. So, we could be the first technologically advanced civilization in the galaxy; alternatively, it's our fate to collapse (as those before us) after a brief growth spurt fueled by non-renewable resources... Never to rise again. Or maybe we're someone's nature preserve. :)
At this point i think we should concentrate on colonising the Moon or Mars, simply to ensure the future of our species. After that i believe we will discover new methods of propulsion, or at least use our current knowledge to create very small fusion reactors we could use to power our ships to the stars.
Voyager power source: Electrical power is supplied by three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). They are powered by plutonium-238 (distinct from the Pu-239 isotope used in nuclear weapons) and provided approximately 470 W at 30 volts DC when the spacecraft was launched. Plutonium-238 decays with a half-life of 87.74 years,[10] so RTGs using Pu-238 will lose a factor of 1 - 0.5{1/87.74} = 0.78% of their power output per year.
We can never go to the stars, so I don't care about them. CELLS on the other hand, I can go inside, fuck around with, and improve human life with. Plus i can't do the math for physics :(
People ARE looking back...just how far are they? unreachable sadly ;(
Why send embryos when you could simply grow them in gestation pods after arrival? I mean, if you could create machines capable of terraform planets and setting up shop, the humans could be grown there on site.
A ball would seem to be the best shape for a ship and the best idea would it being flung by a giant arm that spins around the earth and then lets it go at this time energy is charged into it and the moment it lets go the ship hits a blast of energy this will allow the fastest speed but it would be very unstable. This or more likely teloporting ripping apart ones mater and putting it back together somewhere else this will allow light speed and would be simpler then making a ship
To anyone asking what the music is at the end. Its a remixed version of 'Ballerina' by Adam White. There are some videos here on YouTube which have it. Its also on GrooveShark.
@gothatfunk Lets be conservative and say life only have arose around one star per galaxy in the universe. That would still mean life existed in 100 billion different places around the universe. That would make it more common than people, all people, ever! And I'm willing to let myself believe that life is probably a lot more common than that. I bet there are thousands, if not millions of examples of it in our galaxy alone! Fingers crossed for Mars being the first place we discover some of it!
Can I ask you one question - This voyager probe you speak off, I have always wondered how it managed to get this far without something to run of, so what exactly is it run on? It is evident it is not run of fuel or electricity..that would be impossible, so what exactly? Peace.
@Cerbethys Good question, but a better question might be, "What's to stop it?"
Anything in motion will continue in motion, in a straight line, unless acted on by a force (or combination of forces). It isn't immediately apparent to us, stuck on a planet swamped with forces of so many kinds. That's why it took until Newton's day (the 1600s) to figure it out. We pointed voyager in the right direction, gave it an initial shove from a rocket, the rest was "gravitational slingshots" from planets.
The two Voyager spacecraft electrical power is supplied by Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) that provided approximately 470 w of 30 volt DC power at launch. Due to the natural radioactive decay of the Plutonium fuel source, the electrical energy provided by the RTGs is continually declining.
@Cerbethys it uses ion propulsion. think of the uranium used in an atomic bomb. its not a whole lot. now imagine a similiar chemical change taking place over a very long time. this is ion propulsion. as it releases just a little bit of this energy the probe is accelerated it also has no resistance to stop it. so after a very long time you reach enormous speeds. and there is still plenty of that propulsion left
I started learning a little about inflation, First I heard about anything faster than the speed of light. This occurance must have created waves of some kind, Do you think it is possible to find and then artificially create such waves to give our species the power of interstellar communication?
Just curious to see if you have any thoughts on inflation?
I really enjoyed listening to your views on our galaxy this video was very interesting I for one also believe we are not alone, somewhere out there someone or something must look our way and wonder the same thing... is there life out there on that big blue and green planet?
lol so the first star trek film is bullshit voyager would never have has the time involved to develop sentience. its unlikeley that it would heve ever met civalization by the time lol
Not gonna lie, Philhellenes' videos are of a caliber comparable to Carl Sagan's. They deserve to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the USA.
Because of the advancements in science and technology, it's impractical to travel to the stars until you can do it in a reasonable amount of time. How would you feel if you were the first asronaut to travel to the nearest star, taking 40-50 years to get there and when you arrive the first thing you see is an asteroid with a McDonald's on it?
Imagine floating around as some disembodied spirit, still able to sense the universe and think, but immune to all the dangers of outer space and able to travel immense distances by thought, and having eternity to explore. That was the one thing that I missed when admitting to myself that my consciousness is very unlikely to continue beyond death. It's good to know someone else feels similarly at times, but has come to the same conclusion I did.
@Remorselesslymine I'm really very astonished at how your moronic and shortsighted comment gained such approval. There is nothing more horrific for our species than racial nationalism. Such an ideology serves only to strengthen animosity between groups of humans divided into superficial strata, which, genetically, do not exist. But you were specific. You said that "Aboriginals" have a low IQ because their skin is dark. There's this new-fangled school of science called Genetics, check it out
@alabamamanable Have you looked at Remorselesslymine's channel? He's a fucking white supremacist neo nazi nut job, you're wasting your breath even replying to his comments! You just can't reach through a cloud of stupidity THAT dense and even if you managed to, what do you expect to find? All that will be there is a shrivelled organ dedicated to hate rather than a brain. In all likelihood he's either got a few sock puppets or a bunch of basement dwelling nazi friends upvoting his comments.
@SiriusLumino Oh look, how cute! The white supremacist bigoted assholes have learnt to roll their eyes! I'm amazed! ¬_¬ How about addressing yourself and the poison you hold within pal?
@alabamamanable "There's this new-fangled school of science called Genetics, check it out"
Check it out yourself, genius.
Google "Evidence that Racial Groupings Match Real Genetic Profiles" at Stormfront for 19 pages of links to scientific studies (mainstream sources, such as Stanford University) proving the existence of race.
@alabamamanable Oh, and Remorseless never said that Aboriginals have a low IQ because their skin is dark. You took that straight out of your backparts. If coloration was the only race difference (which your ilk obliviously chooses to believe) grizzly bears and cinnamon-colored black bears would be considered the same thing; this is obviously not the case.
@SiriusLumino You need to step out of your "White Pride World Wide" bubble and keep up with the peer review of outdated sources you link. Take a gander at what Stanford has put out on the subject a little more recent than 2005. Oh, and by differentiating between two populations using the terms "Whites" and "Aboriginals," Remorseless was absolutely saying that skin color was the culprit, you twit. I'd put myself in your shoes, but I don't think I'm capable of that level of self-delusion.
@Remorselesslymine Do you really think that IQ tests have proven/ can prove that there is a significant difference in the intelligence between human races?
Let me shed some light for you and the idiots who thumbed your comments up: There is an insufficient difference in the genes of any two humans to constitute a scientific difference in "Race". Race is a social construct.
Aboriginal people are not stupid, and when comparing their long term survival potential, they're much better off than us
@Steaksngainers I really hate it when people pretend to be all smart and knowledgeable when they actually look like they haven't seen the inside of a scientific journal in their life. Look up "Race differences in average IQ are largely genetic" at News Medical and see for yourself, smartypants.
@SiriusLumino I empathize with you. I too have noticed that "anti-racists" act all smug and condescending even though it quickly becomes apparent that most don't even have a working knowledge of the topic at hand . . .
@SiriusLumino thanks for your enlightened response to a statement that wasn't directed at you. I'll be sure to look into that well researched information.
I don't know why your life is so sad that you feel the need to believe that you are genetically predisposed to a level of intelligence unattainable by lesser races and are overcome with negativity when someone even suggests the contrary, but get over it.
economy, education, geography, and individual circumstance all contribute to intlgnce.
@Steaksngainers Cactually, I read somewhere that the Australian Aboriginie is somewhat more intelligent than other people on average. But that could be based on how they learn to use their brains more than on the construction of their brains.
I really love your videos. You're "Science saved my soul" video moved me to tears. My friends and I showed it to our children. :) I had very similar thoughts as a child and still do. Thank you for making these wonderful videos, please make more as you have time.
evolution is never slowed or stopped and its never clean we are flawed but not incapabled of perfection for a few breif moments and god is just the watcher of are existance
AMAZING CLIP. but i would like to point out one tiny thing, during all of the supposed "science v catholic church" problems ppl like to bring up(ie, Galileo, Capernicus). It was actually a conflict WITHIN the church itself. Remember, at that time the church was the only source of education. So when the groups supporting heliocentric views started winning arguments against the Geocentric supporters, the losing group accused them of heresy. since the losing group at that time was the majority
BTW, if anyone wants to read a great essay on how mankind lost 30 years of progress in the exploration of space, check out this devastating critique on the space shuttle program: idlewords dotcom /2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
It is one of the best pieces I have read concerning what one former NASA official called, a civilizational mistake. Thanks to the duplicity and waste of the shuttle program, we probably won't even be around to see a mission to Europa.
I wanted to thank you for these wonderful videos, which I only recently discovered. I can certainly relate to the perspective that you share in this video, but I cannot accept the positive spin at the end. We will never live to see another star, let alone any of the 200+ billion galaxies in the universe. The tragedy is that, unlike past generations, we know enough about the universe to know just how much we will never live to see.
Do that and the stars are approachable even at voyager speeds.
Reversing aging is the only time travel, star reaching technology that is reachable (given either Apollo style funding and will, or internet level enthusiasm) in our life times. It's the only technology that makes the stars in, not just our species reach, but our personal reach.
I saw a light ship @1:32 crossing the sky! Nice catch huh? Religion killed God in the mind of man and therefore hindered man for many centuries. The other extreme is atheism, which may seem empowering since it's "non" conforming and out of the box. I believe both are wrong. I prefer the idea that I did come from the stars because I chose to. God or no God, it was my choice. Peace.
This is the reason I am sad. In my life time, I will never see anything other than this planet and what I can see through photographs through the Hubble Space Telescope or through a telescope on this planet.
As you spoke more of our universe, the more I wished to know of our universe. The same thing happened when I went to an astronomy observatory 6-7 years ago. I am 16 now, so I was 9-10. I still wonder, and always will. I shall always be like this, wanting to know more.
Considering the advancements in technology,it really is'nt practical to travel to the stars until you can do it in a reasonable amount of time(a year or less). Imagine an astronaut spending 40 years traveling to the nearest star and when he gets there,the first thing he sees is an astroid with a McDonalds on it.
If we are not a cancer, eating up and destroying the planet and ourselves in the process.
There is hope.
If the Bolg, the univeral anti-body doesn't spot our primitive antics and we outgrow our aggressions.There is hope.
Our current levels of technology and achievements must be incomprehensible to our ancestors of a few thousand years ago. Clarke's axiom anyone? ( Any suffi etc )
If we give our offspring the chance to, I'm sure the breakthroughs will be made to reach for the stars. NURSE...!
Maybe we should concentrate on terraforming Mars and making that a livable world. We can get started on that right now. Interstellar space travel is ridiculous, Mars can be a perfectly good world with a little effort and it's only 60 million Kilometers away.
@Remorselesslymine Except for that little technicality, your argument is sound. If Whites had practiced strict White Nationalism, no non-whites of any sort would have been allowed/taken into White countries, and so no blacks would have been brought over. As for race-mixing, African Americans have app. 22% White admixture and an IQ average of 80-85, as compared to the 60-70 range of sub-Saharan Africans and the 100 of Whites. So . . . . yeah. Guess you already knew this, though. :D
@Remorselesslymine So, according to your "reasoning", the exploitation of African slaves was caused by pre-existing "multiculturalism" on the plantations? GENIUS! And Apollo 11 got there because humans have a tendency to fear people of a different colour? ASTOUNDING!
The Roman empire was not as big enough of an empire as now and so wasn't able too be as multicultural as the modern west. Philhellenes you spoke of slavery .... Being forced to live and work together with people that live in ways that interefere with your own way of life is a kind of slavery in my opinion... Every culture should have the right to be completly uncompromising in their own space which encourages diversity to exist against co-assimilation and political correctness...
ive got a question, and it may not be relevant here, but if the universe has a finite size like many modern scientists say, what happens when something goes beyond the edge.
@DeathBringer9000 The maths suggests there is no edge in the normal sense. To reach the "edge" you would have to travel in a straight line. Nothing can do that because spacetime curves. A beam of light "thinks" it's travelling in a straight line, but it isn't, it can't.
Your "weight" varies according to what planet you're standing on. Scientists refer to "mass" instead. Yes, it matters, a lot. The greater the mass the greater the energy required to accelerate (speed up or slow down).
@philhellenes "Your "weight" varies according to what planet you're standing on. Scientists refer to "mass" instead. Yes, it matters, a lot. The greater the mass the greater the energy required to accelerate (speed up or slow down)."
Next time anyone asks me what I weigh, I'm definately going to retort with that one "on what planet"?
@philhellenes Hey Phil! I just started to watch this video and heard you say that "when you were younger, if you could have chosen your dreams, you would have dreamt of going to the stars". I would just like to say that that is exactly how I feel now. But also, have you ever heard of lucid dreaming? You probably have, but if not, you should check it out! The intro made me think about it, because I actually am trying to "choose my dreams" so that I can go to the stars.
Think about an ant walking on the surface of a spherical ball. The ant thinks it's going forward, but it's actually going around the circumference of the ball. That's basically how space-time curvature works, and how the universe can be finite without having an end.
@DeathBringer9000 weight is a measure of gravitational force, so if there is no gravity, there is no weight... which is why philhellenes diverted you to 'mass'. Also, I'd like to point out that I believe (along with many other scientists) that the universe is most likely infinite. To a mathematician, the idea of infinity is a disaster. But once I attempted to answer a simple question: "At what point can you cut something in half and get two nothings?".
@bdf2718 My thoughts exactly. Larry Niven's depictions of Bussard ramjets were a staple of my childhood sci fi reading. At least potentially they're a solution to the problem of having to transport all your fuel.
Phil, if you still have an interest in sci fi and interstellar spacecraft, this is something to consider.
Phil! You have great presentation skills man. You think you could give me the name of the artisit and track playing through the first 7 minutes of this video? Would appreciate that.
So superb! I've watched this video three times so far, and it keeps getting better. It really puts alot into perspective (I'm sure exponentially if I understood more about the universe). I know I've said it before, but this video is just top knotch. Probably my favorite non-humorous video out there.
Hello. I rather enjoyed the presentation until I saw the Monkeys with guns. I am a different sort I must admit. Not to bore you I wish just to say, My stars are in repulltion by the concusion that did change all the physical world. The troubled have been set in the stars which have waxed your imagination. " Set not your eyes upon the stars no marvel at them." You are seriously talented, and brilliant other wise. Jon
200 years ago people thought they had reached the border of what was possible in terms of speed. So do we think we have reached so today theoretically.
The results of the Large Hadron Collider will hopefully spark so many thoughs and technologies that we will get anti-matter or something more potent. Who knows.
Yeah it'll all be easy once we learn how to use teleportation.Then perhaps we will be able to go anywhere in the universe at an instant. We just have to master the fabric of space and time first. Could happen.
the energy need to convert mass into energy would be like 9 atomic bombs going off all at the same location at the same time, considering you are being teleported, i think it would be easier to open a wormhole
Amazing just amazing ... I am truly inspired .Thank you sir for putting such a wonderful video up on the internet .We share similar world views .Its both a gift and a curse to be born in this particular epoch .An epoch of discovery and innovation .I always think of how the descendants of our civilization would be if they manage to avoid self destruction on the way to conquering the cosmos ...
t is my hope that our science and technology will reach a point in the future that when my physical body dies, my mind can be downloaded on to a computer and then uploaded on to a probe destined to explore, discover, and see the universe, to glean its secrets, to find life, and to stand in awe of the awesome power, beauty, and revelation this dynamic universe offers us, and most of all, to catch a glimpse of the unison of physics and nature, to stagger at the near incomprehensibility of it all..
It's sad to think that if someone invented a system that provided the nescessary energy to enable a spacecraft to reach near-speed-of-light-speed, it would most likely be used for weaponry first and foremost.
How (on earth), would someone from another planet perceive us humans, divided and fuelled by hatred to use technology to fight among ourselves? I wonder where we would be if all energy and focus was spent on constructive matters, the common good anf future humanity.
@Mofo3210 A few thousand years ago the best we could do was sharp sticks and stones. The real progress has been over the last hundred years. Look at us now, we have probes in deep space, we've put men on the moon, we can smash atoms together and even probe reality. And we've only just got started. I'd say they'd be quite impressed. Just give us a bit more time, we'll grow out of the bad stuff. I think they'd understand that.
Orion vehicle, and its further modifications, such as the Project Longshot, were available to humans 40 yrs ago. We have wasted 4 decades because of irrational fear (radiophobia ?) towards nuclear technology. Longshot vehicle would be unmanned probe and travel to Proxima Centauri for around 90-100 yrs (+ 4,5 yrs to send back data). I'm currently 22 yrs old. I feel very bad that if Longshot was fired back in 1960s I would still witness Humans to became interstellar species... Impossible now ...
Perhaps if there are an infinite number of universes there exists somewhere a philhellenes who is not just dreaming of being on a distant world but who is actually on that world, watching a galaxy rise.Perhaps if we can dream it it already exists in some part of the multi verse. If so, dream big dreams.
As always I find your videos inspiring they touch the boy in me who once spent so many hours looking up at the night sky and wondering, wondering, wondering.
But philhellenes: dont you think that there is a big possibility that the LHC maybe will expose things about matter and about dark matter??
I am naive in this field. But i think that what we will learn something from the results that we can use to harnes dark matter or maybe it will make us look at the world in another way look in other dimensions..... but if that is so, then we dont need space travel.
In regards to a previous conversation. This is great, but just as (if not more) "futurist" than the Venus Project. Just pointing that out. True indeed, our "ape nature" must be overcome. Reminds me of Nietzsche talk of the uberman. Great video again.
Very moving. I, too, look to the sky and wonder. Are we alone? I think not, but we may never have the proof -- the universe is a very big place. If there is one thing I'd like to have happen before I die, it's finding the proof that we are not alone in this vast cosmos. I'd love to just hear the question "Is anyone out there?".
Epic as always. You're sitting back with the feeling that human progress is far too slow compared to your own lifespan, and feeling bummed out about it. I won't be around at that time... Then you realize this existence is a wonder in itself. Thanks Phil.
Mr. phil you have some very impressive video's, somehow your video's put me at ease.
never stop making them :)
monochromidxliquid 1 month ago
one idea could be to distort space,proton bombardment engines will distort space-time and effectively make a short cut through space. how short you may ask? that depends on the intensity of the protons being bombarded.i had a dream about this. thats all i remember
british123able 1 month ago
Traveling at sub-light speed and even at light speed is unpractical.I believe it will be more easy to try and bend the space and make a "worm whole"....we will need to somehow create an huge gravitational force to bend the space and also we need to somehow stop the worm whole from collapsing in an black whole.But as phil said our social and cultural problems is what keeps us back ,for example we are more able to go on Mars today than we where able to go on the Moon 40 years ago.
CSRiddick 1 month ago
"The stars would weep, if they knew of our existence." One of the more profound things I've ever heard.
mithrilaztex 2 months ago
This is probably the most brilliant video I've ever seen, and yet it has less views than some of my videos. Why?
Zeldarulah 3 months ago
I envision a mothership sailing through space. It has people living for generation after generation while the ship sails through space at a modest speed compared to what you describe.
The ship itself could be an iron astroid hollowed out and the insides made habitable, airtight and well shielded from radiation. Inside mining ships are built on huge production lines. Mining ships mining nearby astroids and comets for resources, fuel and building materials.
(cont)
itsjustameme 3 months ago
@itsjustameme
(cont)
It brings with it terraforming potential. When it gets there the mining ships start herding astroids towards a planet bombarding it with water, and planting fast spreading plants and algae to make oxygen for the atmosphere.
And in orbit the mothership sits like a small moon overseeing the terraforming and keeping the people alive for the generations it takes for the terraforming to take place to a point where the planet is habitable without protective gear.
itsjustameme 3 months ago
If you follow this logic, in a few thousands years we could turn the solar system into a Dyson swarm... with the rest of the Galaxy following after at most a few million years. That doesn't seem to have happened yet. So, we could be the first technologically advanced civilization in the galaxy; alternatively, it's our fate to collapse (as those before us) after a brief growth spurt fueled by non-renewable resources... Never to rise again. Or maybe we're someone's nature preserve. :)
AlexandruSD 3 months ago
At this point i think we should concentrate on colonising the Moon or Mars, simply to ensure the future of our species. After that i believe we will discover new methods of propulsion, or at least use our current knowledge to create very small fusion reactors we could use to power our ships to the stars.
There is definitely hope.
imr22 3 months ago
philhellenes playes eve online.
logicaxe 4 months ago
You missed out the Alcubierre Drive , phil.
mynameszz 4 months ago
I take my hat off to you, sir.
eqanasif 4 months ago
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eqanasif 4 months ago
Voyager power source: Electrical power is supplied by three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). They are powered by plutonium-238 (distinct from the Pu-239 isotope used in nuclear weapons) and provided approximately 470 W at 30 volts DC when the spacecraft was launched. Plutonium-238 decays with a half-life of 87.74 years,[10] so RTGs using Pu-238 will lose a factor of 1 - 0.5{1/87.74} = 0.78% of their power output per year.
daddytomjm 5 months ago
The last 3 or so minutes of this video.....
Damn.....
Just.... damn, thats all I can really say.
Phil, you are one awesome man, and I mean that as the highest praise I can possibly give someone.
cpu46 5 months ago
This is my favorite video out of all of them, and it has the least amount of views =/
blair91234 5 months ago
I love how the video ends with Bruno's quote. After the epic ending to this video, we see that before Bruno died, he said something clever and witty.
Scott89878 5 months ago
A toast to Signore Bruno!
IzaakTaltos 6 months ago
We can never go to the stars, so I don't care about them. CELLS on the other hand, I can go inside, fuck around with, and improve human life with. Plus i can't do the math for physics :(
People ARE looking back...just how far are they? unreachable sadly ;(
unassumption 6 months ago
The atoms we're made of will last billions of years like the sun... cycling round the biosphere!
unassumption 6 months ago
What's the name of the song near the end of the vid?
luitzenhietkamp 7 months ago
Why send embryos when you could simply grow them in gestation pods after arrival? I mean, if you could create machines capable of terraform planets and setting up shop, the humans could be grown there on site.
Laughingblades 7 months ago
"stars cannot feel cannot laugh cannot think"
racist
theshiznojudge 8 months ago
Great video, thanks alot. I would love to know the first song, does anyone know?
ethanrparker 8 months ago
You make human struggle sound so beautiful.
HeyRuka 9 months ago 4
Pure poetry...
madsinamsterdam 9 months ago
Dude, your video took me into the cosmos and back! You so have soul!
VinnyMonster1 9 months ago
Please, whats the name of the tune you use in the first half of the video?
logicaxe 9 months ago
A ball would seem to be the best shape for a ship and the best idea would it being flung by a giant arm that spins around the earth and then lets it go at this time energy is charged into it and the moment it lets go the ship hits a blast of energy this will allow the fastest speed but it would be very unstable. This or more likely teloporting ripping apart ones mater and putting it back together somewhere else this will allow light speed and would be simpler then making a ship
yuo252 9 months ago
Love it!
calmreason 9 months ago
Would it be possible to use the orion nuke-ship to fling ourselves to a planet in our solar system and use the gravity to increase velocity ect.?
fcpictures 10 months ago
@fcpictures Not with out blowing us up too.
TheViolentBuddha 7 months ago
To anyone asking what the music is at the end. Its a remixed version of 'Ballerina' by Adam White. There are some videos here on YouTube which have it. Its also on GrooveShark.
happyidiottalk 10 months ago
@gothatfunk Lets be conservative and say life only have arose around one star per galaxy in the universe. That would still mean life existed in 100 billion different places around the universe. That would make it more common than people, all people, ever! And I'm willing to let myself believe that life is probably a lot more common than that. I bet there are thousands, if not millions of examples of it in our galaxy alone! Fingers crossed for Mars being the first place we discover some of it!
happyidiottalk 10 months ago
Can I ask you one question - This voyager probe you speak off, I have always wondered how it managed to get this far without something to run of, so what exactly is it run on? It is evident it is not run of fuel or electricity..that would be impossible, so what exactly? Peace.
Cerbethys 10 months ago
@Cerbethys Good question, but a better question might be, "What's to stop it?"
Anything in motion will continue in motion, in a straight line, unless acted on by a force (or combination of forces). It isn't immediately apparent to us, stuck on a planet swamped with forces of so many kinds. That's why it took until Newton's day (the 1600s) to figure it out. We pointed voyager in the right direction, gave it an initial shove from a rocket, the rest was "gravitational slingshots" from planets.
philhellenes 10 months ago 46
@Cerbethys
The two Voyager spacecraft electrical power is supplied by Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) that provided approximately 470 w of 30 volt DC power at launch. Due to the natural radioactive decay of the Plutonium fuel source, the electrical energy provided by the RTGs is continually declining.
SpaceMoesty 9 months ago
@Cerbethys solar power
subnoize123 5 months ago
@subnoize123
Fail.
mecher3k 5 months ago
@mecher3k yeah virtual keyboards kick my ass sometimes
subnoize123 5 months ago
Respond to this video... I can,t even begin, it's just brillant. Inspiring, hill your are a master story teller,a mad preacher unrelentless sanity.
subnoize123 5 months ago
@Cerbethys it uses ion propulsion. think of the uranium used in an atomic bomb. its not a whole lot. now imagine a similiar chemical change taking place over a very long time. this is ion propulsion. as it releases just a little bit of this energy the probe is accelerated it also has no resistance to stop it. so after a very long time you reach enormous speeds. and there is still plenty of that propulsion left
tanghoe 5 months ago
@Cerbethys its powered by nuclear power cells, they give it the required amount of electricity. so yes, its running on electricity.
exar420 5 months ago
@Cerbethys you say it like the voyager probe is a myth.
PhysxTV 1 month ago
This video always sends such intense shivers down my spine.
Zeldarulah 10 months ago
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I started learning a little about inflation, First I heard about anything faster than the speed of light. This occurance must have created waves of some kind, Do you think it is possible to find and then artificially create such waves to give our species the power of interstellar communication?
Just curious to see if you have any thoughts on inflation?
New fan
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Milleymusic 10 months ago
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if we dont kill ourselves...
tibaker 10 months ago
I really enjoyed listening to your views on our galaxy this video was very interesting I for one also believe we are not alone, somewhere out there someone or something must look our way and wonder the same thing... is there life out there on that big blue and green planet?
lU2BE2 11 months ago
anyone happen to know what the second song is?
l3ete1geuse 11 months ago
LOL..I had to chuckle at the way he talks about this :)
Zoelisa34 11 months ago
Favorite Daniel Jackson SG-1 quote: "Well, they didn't call them the dark ages because it was dark."
derman077 11 months ago
Awesome man!
dnlperlin 1 year ago
lol so the first star trek film is bullshit voyager would never have has the time involved to develop sentience. its unlikeley that it would heve ever met civalization by the time lol
FuckingMudaFucker 1 year ago
if there were more people to think like this, we would go to stars already ! ! !
trile666 1 year ago
wow ive never really thought about earth like that. very good video
Heliosvector 1 year ago
we share the same dream
Dustencumbie 1 year ago
6:00 Is that Drizzt Do'Urden?
thisisnotanick 1 year ago
Not gonna lie, Philhellenes' videos are of a caliber comparable to Carl Sagan's. They deserve to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the USA.
captain150 1 year ago 38
Because of the advancements in science and technology, it's impractical to travel to the stars until you can do it in a reasonable amount of time. How would you feel if you were the first asronaut to travel to the nearest star, taking 40-50 years to get there and when you arrive the first thing you see is an asteroid with a McDonald's on it?
panterguy 1 year ago
Amazing video!!!! What is the first song playing in the video anyone knows?
clarissa1133 1 year ago
Imagine floating around as some disembodied spirit, still able to sense the universe and think, but immune to all the dangers of outer space and able to travel immense distances by thought, and having eternity to explore. That was the one thing that I missed when admitting to myself that my consciousness is very unlikely to continue beyond death. It's good to know someone else feels similarly at times, but has come to the same conclusion I did.
This video is true art.
~K~
Keovar 1 year ago
The vid may have nice visuals, but I think the ongoing argument on race down below is much more entertaining. XD
HereticLikeGalileo 1 year ago
@Remorselesslymine
I agree completly!
deviantcreep 1 year ago
@Remorselesslymine I'm really very astonished at how your moronic and shortsighted comment gained such approval. There is nothing more horrific for our species than racial nationalism. Such an ideology serves only to strengthen animosity between groups of humans divided into superficial strata, which, genetically, do not exist. But you were specific. You said that "Aboriginals" have a low IQ because their skin is dark. There's this new-fangled school of science called Genetics, check it out
alabamamanable 1 year ago
@alabamamanable Have you looked at Remorselesslymine's channel? He's a fucking white supremacist neo nazi nut job, you're wasting your breath even replying to his comments! You just can't reach through a cloud of stupidity THAT dense and even if you managed to, what do you expect to find? All that will be there is a shrivelled organ dedicated to hate rather than a brain. In all likelihood he's either got a few sock puppets or a bunch of basement dwelling nazi friends upvoting his comments.
FordPrefect23 1 year ago
@FordPrefect23 Wow, that's intelligent. *eye roll* How about actually addressing the issues for a change? *eye roll*
SiriusLumino 1 year ago
@SiriusLumino Oh look, how cute! The white supremacist bigoted assholes have learnt to roll their eyes! I'm amazed! ¬_¬ How about addressing yourself and the poison you hold within pal?
FordPrefect23 1 year ago 3
@alabamamanable "There's this new-fangled school of science called Genetics, check it out"
Check it out yourself, genius.
Google "Evidence that Racial Groupings Match Real Genetic Profiles" at Stormfront for 19 pages of links to scientific studies (mainstream sources, such as Stanford University) proving the existence of race.
SiriusLumino 1 year ago
@alabamamanable Oh, and Remorseless never said that Aboriginals have a low IQ because their skin is dark. You took that straight out of your backparts. If coloration was the only race difference (which your ilk obliviously chooses to believe) grizzly bears and cinnamon-colored black bears would be considered the same thing; this is obviously not the case.
SiriusLumino 1 year ago
@SiriusLumino You need to step out of your "White Pride World Wide" bubble and keep up with the peer review of outdated sources you link. Take a gander at what Stanford has put out on the subject a little more recent than 2005. Oh, and by differentiating between two populations using the terms "Whites" and "Aboriginals," Remorseless was absolutely saying that skin color was the culprit, you twit. I'd put myself in your shoes, but I don't think I'm capable of that level of self-delusion.
alabamamanable 1 year ago 2
@Remorselesslymine I agree with you brother. ON WITH THE MASTER RACE!
googoo120 1 year ago
@Remorselesslymine Do you really think that IQ tests have proven/ can prove that there is a significant difference in the intelligence between human races?
Let me shed some light for you and the idiots who thumbed your comments up: There is an insufficient difference in the genes of any two humans to constitute a scientific difference in "Race". Race is a social construct.
Aboriginal people are not stupid, and when comparing their long term survival potential, they're much better off than us
Steaksngainers 1 year ago 49
@Steaksngainers I really hate it when people pretend to be all smart and knowledgeable when they actually look like they haven't seen the inside of a scientific journal in their life. Look up "Race differences in average IQ are largely genetic" at News Medical and see for yourself, smartypants.
SiriusLumino 1 year ago
@SiriusLumino I empathize with you. I too have noticed that "anti-racists" act all smug and condescending even though it quickly becomes apparent that most don't even have a working knowledge of the topic at hand . . .
HereticLikeGalileo 1 year ago
@SiriusLumino thanks for your enlightened response to a statement that wasn't directed at you. I'll be sure to look into that well researched information.
I don't know why your life is so sad that you feel the need to believe that you are genetically predisposed to a level of intelligence unattainable by lesser races and are overcome with negativity when someone even suggests the contrary, but get over it.
economy, education, geography, and individual circumstance all contribute to intlgnce.
Steaksngainers 1 year ago
@Steaksngainers Cactually, I read somewhere that the Australian Aboriginie is somewhat more intelligent than other people on average. But that could be based on how they learn to use their brains more than on the construction of their brains.
But on the whole, I agree with your comments.
VinnyMonster1 9 months ago
@Remorselesslymine
If by "multiculturalism," you mean the Idea that it's OK to be of a different culture, then your statement is sheer nonsense.
if by "multiculturalism" you mean an established prejudice towards other cultures, then you're using the word "multiculturalism" incorrectly.
Either way, there's a lot of stupidity floating around your comment.
Steaksngainers 1 year ago
I really love your videos. You're "Science saved my soul" video moved me to tears. My friends and I showed it to our children. :) I had very similar thoughts as a child and still do. Thank you for making these wonderful videos, please make more as you have time.
CaptBFart 1 year ago 3
I'm so glad I had this in my favorites.
vegassilenttype 1 year ago
I don't know what to say. This was wonderful.
Juni12 1 year ago
One day humans will go to the stars. May not be in my lifetime or my children's lifetime, but it may well be in my grand-children's lifetime.
IAmMeTisAll 1 year ago
One word.................... astounding
jayejj19 1 year ago
evolution is never slowed or stopped and its never clean we are flawed but not incapabled of perfection for a few breif moments and god is just the watcher of are existance
origialtych 1 year ago
7:34 how weird that i also have this dream and feel the same way after it. amazing vid, thank you very much. :)
lfcscouser2010 1 year ago
8:30 "I'm already standing on one." HA! thank you for that.
Dracanic 1 year ago
I love it , rational, intelligent, logical human thinking.....
cookgoose34 1 year ago
I hope you appreciate the effort that went into tracking this information down, and i only have half the job done so far.
The second song is "Adam White Ft Martin Grech - Ballerina"
BlackMetalWarewolf 1 year ago
they were the group that the church listened to._Other than that it was an amazing video!!
theproperwhy 1 year ago
AMAZING CLIP. but i would like to point out one tiny thing, during all of the supposed "science v catholic church" problems ppl like to bring up(ie, Galileo, Capernicus). It was actually a conflict WITHIN the church itself. Remember, at that time the church was the only source of education. So when the groups supporting heliocentric views started winning arguments against the Geocentric supporters, the losing group accused them of heresy. since the losing group at that time was the majority
theproperwhy 1 year ago
BTW, if anyone wants to read a great essay on how mankind lost 30 years of progress in the exploration of space, check out this devastating critique on the space shuttle program: idlewords dotcom /2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
It is one of the best pieces I have read concerning what one former NASA official called, a civilizational mistake. Thanks to the duplicity and waste of the shuttle program, we probably won't even be around to see a mission to Europa.
sonoki82 1 year ago
I wanted to thank you for these wonderful videos, which I only recently discovered. I can certainly relate to the perspective that you share in this video, but I cannot accept the positive spin at the end. We will never live to see another star, let alone any of the 200+ billion galaxies in the universe. The tragedy is that, unlike past generations, we know enough about the universe to know just how much we will never live to see.
sonoki82 1 year ago
Simplest possible time machine, reverse aging.
Do that and the stars are approachable even at voyager speeds.
Reversing aging is the only time travel, star reaching technology that is reachable (given either Apollo style funding and will, or internet level enthusiasm) in our life times. It's the only technology that makes the stars in, not just our species reach, but our personal reach.
neoaeonian 1 year ago
I saw a light ship @1:32 crossing the sky! Nice catch huh? Religion killed God in the mind of man and therefore hindered man for many centuries. The other extreme is atheism, which may seem empowering since it's "non" conforming and out of the box. I believe both are wrong. I prefer the idea that I did come from the stars because I chose to. God or no God, it was my choice. Peace.
kansasisaband 1 year ago
I truly enjoyed reaching the stars is easy...I thought I was the only one who wanted to skirt through space into the stars...BEAUTIFUL! thanks!
wichhead 1 year ago
what are the songs?
steamrolledboy 1 year ago
@Remorselesslymine I'm not sure the solution to racism is to embrace it.
kablamo9999 1 year ago
Just got mind fucked!!!!!and loved it...
luckyrabbitfoot99 1 year ago
This is the reason I am sad. In my life time, I will never see anything other than this planet and what I can see through photographs through the Hubble Space Telescope or through a telescope on this planet.
As you spoke more of our universe, the more I wished to know of our universe. The same thing happened when I went to an astronomy observatory 6-7 years ago. I am 16 now, so I was 9-10. I still wonder, and always will. I shall always be like this, wanting to know more.
kitamasu1 1 year ago
your videos always catch me off guard, they have a tendcany to make things I feel dissapointed about seem nieve. and they are nieve.
Yes a galaxy rise might be nice but thats about it. We already live on something rather incredible.
BlackMetalWarewolf 1 year ago
When I want to listen to some poetic prose at night, I click a random of your videos Phil...
Thanks...
Acrimonator 1 year ago
looks like 10 peole never wann drink a cold beer on the mars..
dieschlaupe 1 year ago
Considering the advancements in technology,it really is'nt practical to travel to the stars until you can do it in a reasonable amount of time(a year or less). Imagine an astronaut spending 40 years traveling to the nearest star and when he gets there,the first thing he sees is an astroid with a McDonalds on it.
panterguy 1 year ago
Such an amazing video. The second half of it always sends tons of chills down my spine.
Zeldarulah 1 year ago
If we are not a cancer, eating up and destroying the planet and ourselves in the process.
There is hope.
If the Bolg, the univeral anti-body doesn't spot our primitive antics and we outgrow our aggressions.There is hope.
Our current levels of technology and achievements must be incomprehensible to our ancestors of a few thousand years ago. Clarke's axiom anyone? ( Any suffi etc )
If we give our offspring the chance to, I'm sure the breakthroughs will be made to reach for the stars. NURSE...!
git1958 1 year ago
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git1958 1 year ago
Does anyone know the name of the two songs in this video?
snipessssss 1 year ago
Phil, I really like the music you used. What's the name of the two songs?
snipessssss 1 year ago
I've watched some of your vids before but this one took the cake. Subscribed.
chestbuster1987 1 year ago
Maybe we should concentrate on terraforming Mars and making that a livable world. We can get started on that right now. Interstellar space travel is ridiculous, Mars can be a perfectly good world with a little effort and it's only 60 million Kilometers away.
ArchNME 1 year ago
@Remorselesslymine Except for that little technicality, your argument is sound. If Whites had practiced strict White Nationalism, no non-whites of any sort would have been allowed/taken into White countries, and so no blacks would have been brought over. As for race-mixing, African Americans have app. 22% White admixture and an IQ average of 80-85, as compared to the 60-70 range of sub-Saharan Africans and the 100 of Whites. So . . . . yeah. Guess you already knew this, though. :D
SiriusLumino 1 year ago
@SiriusLumino Well, duh I already knew this! :P Preaching to the choir much, Sirius? XD
Remorselesslymine 1 year ago
@Remorselesslymine I think what you meant was multiracialism/diversity instead of multiculturalism. There is a bit of a difference.
SiriusLumino 1 year ago
@SiriusLumino Multiculturalism & diversity/multiracialism are used synonymously in everyday speech. I do get what you meant, though.
Remorselesslymine 1 year ago
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@Remorselesslymine So, according to your "reasoning", the exploitation of African slaves was caused by pre-existing "multiculturalism" on the plantations? GENIUS! And Apollo 11 got there because humans have a tendency to fear people of a different colour? ASTOUNDING!
philhellenes 1 year ago 6
@philhellenes
Multiculturalism is often the product of Imperialism. The Roman empire for example was multicultural...
deviantcreep 1 year ago
@deviantcreep
The Roman empire was not as big enough of an empire as now and so wasn't able too be as multicultural as the modern west. Philhellenes you spoke of slavery .... Being forced to live and work together with people that live in ways that interefere with your own way of life is a kind of slavery in my opinion... Every culture should have the right to be completly uncompromising in their own space which encourages diversity to exist against co-assimilation and political correctness...
deviantcreep 1 year ago
Very poetic and moving!
6stringsbrainfingers 1 year ago
ive got a question, and it may not be relevant here, but if the universe has a finite size like many modern scientists say, what happens when something goes beyond the edge.
and another thing, does weight matter in space?
DeathBringer9000 1 year ago
@DeathBringer9000 The maths suggests there is no edge in the normal sense. To reach the "edge" you would have to travel in a straight line. Nothing can do that because spacetime curves. A beam of light "thinks" it's travelling in a straight line, but it isn't, it can't.
Your "weight" varies according to what planet you're standing on. Scientists refer to "mass" instead. Yes, it matters, a lot. The greater the mass the greater the energy required to accelerate (speed up or slow down).
philhellenes 1 year ago 27
@philhellenes "Your "weight" varies according to what planet you're standing on. Scientists refer to "mass" instead. Yes, it matters, a lot. The greater the mass the greater the energy required to accelerate (speed up or slow down)."
Next time anyone asks me what I weigh, I'm definately going to retort with that one "on what planet"?
happyidiottalk 10 months ago
@philhellenes Hey Phil! I just started to watch this video and heard you say that "when you were younger, if you could have chosen your dreams, you would have dreamt of going to the stars". I would just like to say that that is exactly how I feel now. But also, have you ever heard of lucid dreaming? You probably have, but if not, you should check it out! The intro made me think about it, because I actually am trying to "choose my dreams" so that I can go to the stars.
ItsEasyIfYouThink 7 months ago
@DeathBringer9000
Think about an ant walking on the surface of a spherical ball. The ant thinks it's going forward, but it's actually going around the circumference of the ball. That's basically how space-time curvature works, and how the universe can be finite without having an end.
ANewHuman 1 year ago
@DeathBringer9000 In simple terms you would no longer be in these 3/4 dimensions of space or bound by time.
KTK401 1 year ago
@DeathBringer9000 weight is a measure of gravitational force, so if there is no gravity, there is no weight... which is why philhellenes diverted you to 'mass'. Also, I'd like to point out that I believe (along with many other scientists) that the universe is most likely infinite. To a mathematician, the idea of infinity is a disaster. But once I attempted to answer a simple question: "At what point can you cut something in half and get two nothings?".
chubbard78 10 months ago
@bdf2718 My thoughts exactly. Larry Niven's depictions of Bussard ramjets were a staple of my childhood sci fi reading. At least potentially they're a solution to the problem of having to transport all your fuel.
Phil, if you still have an interest in sci fi and interstellar spacecraft, this is something to consider.
HebaruSan 1 year ago
I suppose the world don't need my transportation machine any more... :(
I trash that crap!
Ramiromasters 1 year ago
Phil! You have great presentation skills man. You think you could give me the name of the artisit and track playing through the first 7 minutes of this video? Would appreciate that.
TheNostalgiaJunkie 1 year ago
Yes I've probably watched this video more then anyone else
redice1024 1 year ago
So superb! I've watched this video three times so far, and it keeps getting better. It really puts alot into perspective (I'm sure exponentially if I understood more about the universe). I know I've said it before, but this video is just top knotch. Probably my favorite non-humorous video out there.
vegassilenttype 1 year ago
who the fuck thumbed down this video????
Abenkin 1 year ago
This gave me chills - filled me with a giddy rapture! What an incredible gift. Thank you!
drdodson 1 year ago
Hello. I rather enjoyed the presentation until I saw the Monkeys with guns. I am a different sort I must admit. Not to bore you I wish just to say, My stars are in repulltion by the concusion that did change all the physical world. The troubled have been set in the stars which have waxed your imagination. " Set not your eyes upon the stars no marvel at them." You are seriously talented, and brilliant other wise. Jon
bridgeboy513 1 year ago
Who knows what the future will bring?
200 years ago people thought they had reached the border of what was possible in terms of speed. So do we think we have reached so today theoretically.
The results of the Large Hadron Collider will hopefully spark so many thoughs and technologies that we will get anti-matter or something more potent. Who knows.
Im sure humans will figure it out somehow
StrapOnDildoSexRulez 1 year ago
I feel your pain
RXD237 1 year ago
Yeah it'll all be easy once we learn how to use teleportation.Then perhaps we will be able to go anywhere in the universe at an instant. We just have to master the fabric of space and time first. Could happen.
CreativeFreedoms 1 year ago
@CreativeFreedoms
the energy need to convert mass into energy would be like 9 atomic bombs going off all at the same location at the same time, considering you are being teleported, i think it would be easier to open a wormhole
monochromidxliquid 1 year ago
@monochromidxliquid Ya I'd agree with monochromidxliquid; wormholing is a more reasonable idea at this time.
GodofCider 1 year ago
Amazing just amazing ... I am truly inspired .Thank you sir for putting such a wonderful video up on the internet .We share similar world views .Its both a gift and a curse to be born in this particular epoch .An epoch of discovery and innovation .I always think of how the descendants of our civilization would be if they manage to avoid self destruction on the way to conquering the cosmos ...
SonOfTerra92 1 year ago
I am come back to this video and I rediscover why I want to be a scientist and oddly a SF writer.
SteampunkPagan 1 year ago
The stars would weep if they knew of our existence! I love that quote. Awesome.
Anyone know what the music is playing at the end?
happyidiottalk 1 year ago
after watching this, why would a god even bother with our prayers?
victorscarlet 1 year ago
Now that was uplifting! You sir, have vision. Bravo!
happyidiottalk 1 year ago
1659 likes 9 dislikes. This really proves just how good his videos are. Who could possibly have disliked this?
redice1024 1 year ago
@redice1024 We could give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they mis-clicked.
happyidiottalk 1 year ago
@redice1024 Only ignorant bigots ;-) They sometimes get their face smashed by watching a video like this. Somehow that makes me smile ^_^!
Dragonitebloodline 1 year ago
t is my hope that our science and technology will reach a point in the future that when my physical body dies, my mind can be downloaded on to a computer and then uploaded on to a probe destined to explore, discover, and see the universe, to glean its secrets, to find life, and to stand in awe of the awesome power, beauty, and revelation this dynamic universe offers us, and most of all, to catch a glimpse of the unison of physics and nature, to stagger at the near incomprehensibility of it all..
7othestars 1 year ago
Beautiful is my only thought, too. Thank you for this video.
MrTsBastardChild 1 year ago
beautiful. just beautiful.
elijahsarchive 1 year ago
Excellent stuff Philhellenes. I couldn't possibly praise you enough for this. Well thought out, written and presented.
TheGodlessGuitarist 1 year ago
Very nicely done Phil.
andymcgaha 1 year ago
If religion don't kill us first. We 'may' be able to save our specie.
Wich are more important. (In my eyes) Than it's me that survive.
I only hope I will be able to see more of the major discoveries in space.
It's a lot more exciting than to discover that 'god' exist.
Why ?
Think about it. It's much more fun to experience things for your self, than to read about it.
BelieveNoGod 1 year ago
Amazing Video.
paleomangary 1 year ago
The end of this video always gives me massive chills down my back.
Zeldarulah 1 year ago
I would enjoy a galaxy rise on a cold moon too.
bouiglob 1 year ago
You'll only ever reach there by stretching and grasping with the mind...
xy11xy 1 year ago
It's sad to think that if someone invented a system that provided the nescessary energy to enable a spacecraft to reach near-speed-of-light-speed, it would most likely be used for weaponry first and foremost.
How (on earth), would someone from another planet perceive us humans, divided and fuelled by hatred to use technology to fight among ourselves? I wonder where we would be if all energy and focus was spent on constructive matters, the common good anf future humanity.
Mofo3210 1 year ago
@Mofo3210 A few thousand years ago the best we could do was sharp sticks and stones. The real progress has been over the last hundred years. Look at us now, we have probes in deep space, we've put men on the moon, we can smash atoms together and even probe reality. And we've only just got started. I'd say they'd be quite impressed. Just give us a bit more time, we'll grow out of the bad stuff. I think they'd understand that.
happyidiottalk 1 year ago
Orion vehicle, and its further modifications, such as the Project Longshot, were available to humans 40 yrs ago. We have wasted 4 decades because of irrational fear (radiophobia ?) towards nuclear technology. Longshot vehicle would be unmanned probe and travel to Proxima Centauri for around 90-100 yrs (+ 4,5 yrs to send back data). I'm currently 22 yrs old. I feel very bad that if Longshot was fired back in 1960s I would still witness Humans to became interstellar species... Impossible now ...
LechuCzechu 1 year ago
Awesome video. Elegant, informed and inspiring. Reminds me of Carl Sagan.
supermartiniman 1 year ago
Those eve online planets.
JuniorDExchangecore 1 year ago
Perhaps if there are an infinite number of universes there exists somewhere a philhellenes who is not just dreaming of being on a distant world but who is actually on that world, watching a galaxy rise.Perhaps if we can dream it it already exists in some part of the multi verse. If so, dream big dreams.
As always I find your videos inspiring they touch the boy in me who once spent so many hours looking up at the night sky and wondering, wondering, wondering.
JohnFredricksen 1 year ago
good vid
Ferosaur 1 year ago
But philhellenes: dont you think that there is a big possibility that the LHC maybe will expose things about matter and about dark matter??
I am naive in this field. But i think that what we will learn something from the results that we can use to harnes dark matter or maybe it will make us look at the world in another way look in other dimensions..... but if that is so, then we dont need space travel.
pollesnavegaard43 1 year ago
Genius...
FatexanBell 1 year ago
In regards to a previous conversation. This is great, but just as (if not more) "futurist" than the Venus Project. Just pointing that out. True indeed, our "ape nature" must be overcome. Reminds me of Nietzsche talk of the uberman. Great video again.
NihilistChrist 1 year ago
Very moving. I, too, look to the sky and wonder. Are we alone? I think not, but we may never have the proof -- the universe is a very big place. If there is one thing I'd like to have happen before I die, it's finding the proof that we are not alone in this vast cosmos. I'd love to just hear the question "Is anyone out there?".
macronx 1 year ago 13
Epic as always. You're sitting back with the feeling that human progress is far too slow compared to your own lifespan, and feeling bummed out about it. I won't be around at that time... Then you realize this existence is a wonder in itself. Thanks Phil.
anglicantian 1 year ago 2
@anglicantian Yes, that we live in the time that makes all futures possible is a terrible burden and joy.
ExtantFrodo 1 year ago