Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets 1 - BBC

[Naylte]

Some bits are like a combination of 2001, 2010 and Thunderbirds.

[weldonwin]

30:00 What? No Life on Mars by David Bowie?

[bumfez]

Jeez... you'd think a show made by the BBC could have afforded an ending.

[xusmcguy]

@bumfez Umm, did you watch part 2?

[Jappermenu]

i'm confused.. is this now real or not?

did they go to venus?

[xusmcguy]

@Jappermenu Nooooo, and we never will; much too dangerous and manned missions are WAY too expensive.

[Chunkboi]

@xusmcguy You can do things with manned missions that you can't do with robots. The distances are way too far for signals and retasking of automated devices.

[gsgaidan10]

@Jappermenu

no, unfortunately not and for the following reasons:

1) this is a sci-fi documentary showing what it may be like in the future if a trip like this is attempted

2) we don't have the technology as of late

3)if they did land on venus now, they will be burnt to a crisp, but that depends on whether or they get disolved by the acid first...

[420choky]

capcom made street fighter vid game lol

[MtothamuthafuckinK]

Every damn planet oh it has the potential for life, aint no life out there we are it and if you think you can find some you are never going to reach it. Looks to me that we would get more out of life from loving each other and taking better care of each other on this planet. Live a loving good life and educated life and i really believe after you die and become pure energy alot of this will be made know to you. Science is a gift from GOD please dont use it to try and prove he doesnt exist.

[SanchezAfricano]

@MtothamuthafuckinK Curiosity and the need to explore are part of human nature. I don't know whether science will manage to disprove the existence of God, but it is inevitable that humans will explore as much as they can. You can't say that there's no life elsewhere in the cosmos simply because you think humans are special. The chance of earth being the only safe harbor for life is extremely unlikely. People shouldn't give up searching just because it *seems* hopeless.

[hungarygator]

A manned mission makes no sense. Robots can do all the science and even if we were to do a manned mission, it certainly wouldn't be to a place as hostile as Venus. The risks to human life are absurd - not to mention the cost of sustaining humans for the voyage. Oh, and can the Beeb EVER slow down with their eco-zealotry? It sure doesn't seem like it. We're treated to a lecture with just about every program they make.

[gsgaidan10]

@hungarygator

tell me, do you honestly not dream of going?

it is more of a gamble, but humans give the element of improvisation and on the spot response.

besides, its worth the risk. I would go in a heart beat.

[weldonwin]

@gsgaidan10 To quote a great man "We choose to go to the moon and do the other things too, not because they are easy but because they are hard"

[afa78djd]

Why do they always hypothesize that wherever there's water, there's life. That's only true here on Earth so far. They could be so wrong. It's like when they used to believe that there had to be Sunlight and Oxygen for there to be life.

[nabillion]

@afa78djd read some books bud. if there is water it means the chemicals of hydrogen and oxygen must be present .. 2 of the needs of sustainability of life.

[afa78djd]

@nabillion "2 of the needs of sustainability of life", HERE ON EARTH you mean! As we all know lifeforms produce waste which would quickly overwhelm the water source and pollute it to the point it would be unlivable. No other planet but Earth has rainfall (water) which is the planets natural form of recycling and filtering/cleaning its water supply. A lot more has to go on than just simple presence of water molecules. THAT is my point.

[GoongalaGoongala]

This is awesome. Looking forward to the rest of it. So interesting.

[mphet26]

1 dislikes... hmmm.... martians have internet connection.

Martians, you can like or dislike our approaches but Mars will be occupied.

[mphet26]

Thx, british documentary. British can not fly into space, but they made a good movies.

[ruat15]

Creo que estamos jugando en tiempo de descuento y aun el ser humano no ha podido encontrar la manera de viajar por el espacio a velocidades cercanas a la luz...si no lo logramos antes de ocurran las cosas que estoy seguro pasaran en nuestro planeta...la humanidad no tendra otra oportunidad en otro planeta...comoe staremos de atrazados que este documental muestra como algo expectacular llegar a explorar solo los planetas de nuestro sistema solar...

[Bertolucci]

PLUTO'S NOT A PLANET! GET THAT OUT OF THERE!!!

[AcruxSolus]

@Bertolucci Pluto is a "Traditional" Planet...

[CreatureFeatureFred]

@Bertolucci Pluto WAS a planet when this was filmed.

[MartianStories]

This is BRILLIANT! Never even knew this existed. THANK YOU FOR POSTING! Subbed.

[TheMegaMcnew]

Is there a part 2

[briandongfan]

what is the band piece that is played in the beginning? it sounds amazing

[MrDNema]

Someone please upload HD and add english subtitles!

[91Varacolaci]

haha 69 likes xD

[KurdstanPlanetarium]

Great voyage, thank you for sharing with us :)

[THAJaknblak]

Just navigating through the jungle with a compass requires military personal or even natives to be at their most serious and masculine and I'm supposed to watch this effeminate documentary with a bunch of comics acting like a bunch of workmates heading to Olive Garden on a Friday night. I'm surprised nobody burst into tears. smh..

[THAJaknblak]

I wish these videos were more 'fact finding' and less emotional drivel, faux climaxes with poor acting. Visiting the entire solar system is difficult enough. When the female astronauts and mission control team members sound like a pack of flighty women kidnapped from a kitchen on their period, this little skit seems even more comical. The physics of this journey, and what it takes to survive this journey should be of the utmost manliness.

[GoongalaGoongala]

@THAJaknblak What would you know about manliness? By the sound of your comment it appears that you are currently experiencing your period. What I mean by that is that you sound like a bitchy woman. Maybe you should try and get that sand out of your vagina, you'd probably feel much better.

Cheers!

[cloverfield911]

this is what makes the BBC so great at making tv documentaries ect ect. Always the best at what they do.

[qed100]

Some parts of the flight plan (1:25) don't make any sense. The leg from Earth to Venus does a switchback: it runs retrograde. Why would anyone waste a rocket's delta-v budget doing something as needless as that? And there are other parts where the path's concavity is retrograde, implying sustained thrust for millions of miles, also needlessly, and I'm inclined to think impossibly.

[EntertaningAmerica]

@qed100 shut up and watch the movie damnit im a doctor not a aerospace engineer

[helljumpr5150]

@qed100 Either in the film they have a really high specific impulse on the engines used on Pegasus, or they left out the details all together. With our current tech, it'd be better to send out individual missions to each planet without having to wait for a too-rare time period for the planets to be conveniently aligned.

This special is merely as an overview of visiting the most likely targeted manned mission worlds.

[filmflipful]

THIS ROCKS!

[jamestripney]

this is beyond most peoples imagination as we are all so worried about the bills the taxes etc , if we could all grow together , WE as a race COULD do this , the technology already exists all it takes is the will and desire to do it , i hope i live long enough to even see it started although i will be lucky to see us re visit the moon , the human race is so petty and short sighted .

[filmflipful]

@jamestripney I think you summed up my exact thoughts well!

[Prankkaller2011]

@jamestripney id love to see that and i might coz im 13

[SuperUFB]

@Prankkaller2011

Isn't that a great thing?

:)

[Prankkaller2011]

@SuperUFB i know but my main interest is birds

[moleman124]

no landing on mercs ice caps?

[moleman124]

AWESOME SHIT ^_^

[TheA5554]

This is a well made video series. The reality of the situation is the space agencies can only work on a limited budget and unfortunately most nations don't regard space exploration as a top-ranking priority. The truth is if it is 100-200 years we could actually go extinct before then, but I hope that mars is landed on in my lifetime.

[Boogyman4050]

They need to skip Venus landing. Waste of money and most likely life. The only feasible mission is to Mars. Then maybe start going for the moons of Jupiter and Head to Titan and Triton moons of Saturn and Neptune. Those are doable over the next 100-200 years. We need better space crafts and better space suits.

[VladiSSius]

@Boogyman4050 dont worry, in next dozen years, we may able to achieve that.

[GoongalaGoongala]

@Boogyman4050 Didn't you listen to their explanation about Venus?!! They mentioned that they've discovered life on Earth living in extreme conditions (extreme hot & cold)and based on those findings it is enitrely possible that life could survuive the extreme conditions of Venus.

They call these organisms Extremophiles.

[favouritesstuff]

I dpn't care if I die there. I will be willing to die after I explore the solar system.

[TheFrednutts]

16:50 - Poyehali!

[helljumpr5150]

So wait,a documentary as this that realistically shows that it could be possible to explore our entire solar system in a manned mission, but only has less than 600 views?! And videos of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber have tens of millions? What the fuck is wrong with people?!!!

[MinecraftSheep2]

@helljumpr5150 IKR

[1Nekit1]

@helljumpr5150 sad

[filmflipful]

@helljumpr5150 too true, so sad :(

[EntertaningAmerica]

@helljumpr5150 Its called humanity's greatest failure.. Capitalist Western Society. USSR recovered from WWII then went into space less than 20 years later. I'm not saying we should all be communists but a united humanity is the only way for THIS ^^^ to happen. unfortuntely the ppl capable of doing this are too busy watching gay music videos and beating there meats to do something useful for Humanity like cure cancer or go to mars

[helljumpr5150]

@EntertaningAmerica Even some of the USSR's goals weren't entirely for the benefit of mankind but for their own geopolitical interests, but i understand that a scientific utopian society would be a wonderful thing to have. But its an entirely human trait to not try to do something hard if other earthly things get our attention, be it in East or West.

Just be glad we don't live in the dark ages where dictatorial theocracy reigned supreme.

[boarding5401]

@helljumpr5150 This is why the world is in mental decay.

[Infocollective22]

@helljumpr5150 I'm with you here, society is way too lopsided...... another example is when people are paid the most for doing less important things, like getting paid millions a week to kick a ball through a field.

[iLeoVlogs]

@helljumpr5150 I was asking the same question to myself...

[TheSpankymonkey]

@helljumpr5150 - It's just more difficult for teenagers to masturbate to, that's all.

[GoongalaGoongala]

@helljumpr5150 People can't view something if they don't know about it.

[oldlite]

@helljumpr5150 Hey they voted for Obama didn't they.

[xmodalloy]

@helljumpr5150 It's capitalism. Money is God! Not knowledge... What kind of hippy are you? :P

This is why I do not like living in America, I'm surrounded by idiots who idolize money and other idiots, Aka Justin Beiber/Lady Gaga/Any other artist who comes up with crap that has no socially redeeming value.

[ArcanaIntellego]

@helljumpr5150 yah, of course, but there isn't a translation...

[Sc0ttPrian]

163 views? that needs to be millions of views :(

[AtheistsAreSkeptics]

@Sc0ttPrian

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[helljumpr5150]

@Sc0ttPrian it should be a James Cameron movie.

[club4ghz]

@Sc0ttPrian there is no lady gaga and justin biber in space so nobody is interested