Space Station with Horizons Space Music (HD)

[ItzTheDean]

If launches into orbit were as cheap and routine as flying on planes, we would have space habitats similar to the one in "2001: A Space Odyssey", even by today's engineering standards in as little as 10 to 20 years. But unfortunately rockets are not efficient enough to get large payloads into orbit that routinely. But there is a promising technology employing the use of magnetic levitation to launch such large payloads into orbit that might change all that. look up StarTram, seems promising

[StationXXrama]

The worst part of this video was at the end. You know, when it ended.

[ZechsMerquise73]

What is this from?

[tbird56mark]

@ZechsMerquise73

The video is a animation of "Arthur C. Clarke's" book Rendezvous with Rama. The music

is from Epcot - Horizons ride (permanently closed) Space section.

[ESUNintel]

It's all great until someone decides to start a war and crash the colony into Earth

[StationXXrama]

@ESUNintel it was supposed to harvest the sun in the gardens of rama!

[necrophadian]

Char Aznable: "nice colony you have there...would be a shame if someone were to drop it"

[Odysseus154]

Its not big enough, seriously. That ocean was describe a lot bigger, plus its missing recreations of 5 other worlds, including, Kazim

[mudkipping]

now just imagine if it stops spinning

[striderfly]

This is very nice.

[TechnoClassic]

what a fucking epic futuristic video in HD that I just watched OMG. O_O

[fuxu123]

what that place needs is some mcdonalds and starbucks and oil fields

[DragonBoy425]

Universal Century 0079.

[gushernandez25]

Love it when I see a future of harmony and one with greenery!

[moparcarsonly]

watching this with Pink Floyd's Us and Them, was mind blowing

[MrNinjaMittens]

Looks like Nintendo!

[bagofbarn]

WOW!!! Beautiful.

[OmegaF77]

lol, imagine if gravity just exist on the other side... I bet that everyone on the other side would start falling toward the other and the beautiful music would turn horrific.

[Deathawaitsnoone]

This may seem a bit stupid but would gravity on this Space Station be produced through the constant spinning of the station in a similar way to, say, a washing machine does?

[petersupermann]

@Deathawaitsnoone jep

[Terran123rd]

@Deathawaitsnoone I've read the book. That's exactly how it's done. It's called centrifugal force. I've never been able to understand how, but you're basically "forced" against the inner surface of a spinning drum, like those rides at carnivals. While it isn't gravity, per se, it mimics gravity very, very closely

[blackmichael75]

@Deathawaitsnoone Yeah, it is centrifugal force. Like if you get a open paint can and spin it around fast enough, the paint doesn't come out.

[gurra1351]

it looks cool but wtf is it? ;)

[Terran123rd]

@gurra1351 An alien starship named Rama by Man. It's basically a giant can flying through space. Read Arthur C Clarke's Rendevous with Rama. There are atleast two: this appears to be the second one, circa book 3 of the series or so.

[gurra1351]

@Terran123rd Nice :)

[ShadowSoldior]

Not sure about anyone else, but I'd constantly be afraid some of those goddamned buildings would crumble and roll down the slope.

[chrisrt88]

@phyerboss exactly what i was thinking!

[omg122448]

Although we say Horizons is gone, it really isn't. It's only been set free from the 6 walls surrounding it and is now spreading all over the world.

[Clay3613]

@omg122448 I want my machine maintained orange groves and underwater restaurants! :(

[Clitmukis]

....I am gonna bet that building that this video zoomed in on was the artists apartment...thats what I would do if I had made this!

[testiclesDOTca]

a place where the view is better from the ground than from the top of a skyscraper. NICE WORK!

[cyion2000]

magnifique!

[StationXXrama]

nicely done! Great book! Did you do all the animation?

[OutsideofTime]

If the world wasn't the way it is now with Capitalism affecting literally everything, we would already have habitats orbiting the planet. We have the resources and the engineering capability but all of our governments and rich classes are obsessed with owning and controlling everything with no purpose and no goal in mind. They just want to sit on their wealth and their political positions. If it weren't for them our world would be so much more advanced. Nowadays it's just a joke...

[learlessfeader]

@OutsideofTime oh, yeah, if we were more like the soviet union with it's technological progress and engineering capability, we would surely be in a golden age of progress and equity!!! oh, wait, the soviet era was a nightmare! Sorry, nothing to see here, move along.

If you look at the history of progress, you will see that it has been capitalism that has moved progress forward every time. Only capitalist systems have the flexibility and incentives to drive societal improvement.

[learlessfeader]

@learlessfeader If we ever have orbital space stations, it will be because of private enterprise, not because of goverment.

[Joe35983]

@learlessfeader let's hope so

[del1000005]

@OutsideofTime What I find sickening about your comment is not that you made it, but the fact that you went out of your way to make them on a video where people are coming just to relive their childhoods by listening to music from Horizons. People like you on the hard left simply need to go out of your way to ruin people's good times. It shows how pathetic people like you are, incapable of simply enjoying a good video with some nice music.

[OutsideofTime]

@del1000005 : Are you on crack? I state a simple opinion and that means I'm trying to ruin people's moods? Uh huh... And why reply anyway? Do you support capitalism? Are you a prejudice bastard who believes in social and economic classes? How is what I said in any way a bad thing? All I meant to say was that I believe in equality and that civilization would be much more advanced if it weren't for the greedy SOB's who don't. You're the one trying to ruin people's moods. Dick.

[cadman2300]

For those who like to be precise, the correct name for this kind of colony is the O'Neill Cylinder, proposed by physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his book "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space".

Other space-based colony types include the Stanford Torus, the Bernal Sphere, the Globus Cassus.

Then there's Larry Niven's Niven Ring, a torus-like colony similar to Halo that takes up the entire Goldilocks zone of a star system which is just plain silly.

[antred11]

Man, it would be so cool to live to see the day when the first of these gets built. Alas, I doubt it. :(

We need more money for space exploration!!! :P

[DandAinTac]

This looks like Arthur C Clark's Rama spaceship, renovated to include NYC. I agree with others who say this would be a great setting for a sci fi movie. I think a similar colony closer to Gerard O'Neil's cylinders would be better though. Perhaps Ben Bova's "Colony" might make a good starting point for a screenplay.

[ausparkles79]

Wish they would make a movie out of this.....it would be....incredible!!!

[Neuronaluniverse]

Good music and very nice video .thanks

[EmperorOfMars]

Space Manhattan, I like it

[DraconianSilenced]

Wow this is really awesome, to bad we will all be dead before we see this :(. Maybe the people in the future can somehow bring us back :D

[EasternMerchant]

@xMoonaticDestiny If only I could extend the lives of my friends, family, and myself long enough to see this!