The Physics of Starship Battles- Laws of Motion and Momentum

Here is a demonstration of the 1st Law of Motion. An Object in Motion Shall Remain in Motion. Using pop culture video clips I demonstrate its application in space warfare as both a tool and as a weapon, with myself as the narrator.

This video is slightly more complicated than my last one, as it has multiple concepts to explain. It took me about twice as long as well, partly owing to myself rewriting the script more often than I would have liked and some software issues. The first 60 seconds dont have the quality of the rest for that reason due to problems I had rendering, as each of these movies requires three seperate programs to cooperate with each other. Its always worth it when its done however. ;)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• isaac
• newton
• physics
• star
• trek
• Babylon
• 5
• space
• above
• beyond
• buck
• rogers
• battlestar
• galactica
• education

[SWWProductions]

good work

[SpreadingtheMuse]

@SWWProductions Thanks.  This was made with really low quality equipment and I'm self conscious about it.

[Jbudtheoneandonly]

This is by far the worst quality audio/video recording I have ever seen, however the knowledge is top quality. What gives?

[SpreadingtheMuse]

@Jbudtheoneandonly

This video is next to the oldest I ever did, originally recorded with analog equipment. (You make movies with the camera you have, not the camera you wish you had ;) ) Movies after this were all digital and look a lot better. Now that all that stuff is cheaper than it was back in the day, I'm going thru some of my movies and reuploading them at higher quality, but I dont think this one can be saved. I'll likely just remake the thing.

[Ryoske6]

If i learn more in youtube than in school, fuck school.

[SpreadingtheMuse]

@AstralDragoon

Thats from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, the last episode of season 6.

Looking at these older videos is painful. The quality is dirt poor. Maybe its time to reupload.

[AstralDragoon]

@SpreadingtheMuse What's the crash clip right before that, the one right at 5:00 where the small ship rolls across the bigger one? It's mind-blowing.

[aarontaylor94]

the only way to avoid inertia is through some form of micro teleportation

[Valen123456]

@grillinIstheLife Sorry i had to laugh a bit at this ... yes i admit Trek has got better at scifi relism in more recent works but a lot of TrekTech as they describe it is not really possible (dont get me started on Transporters) ... i still laugh a little if i watch an original (Kirk-era) episode where they find a ship and start fawning over its "Ion Drive" when all that is is a rocket with a different type of tailfire while their common-as-muck "Warp Drive" alters the fabric of space time

[SpreadingtheMuse]

@BMWM3GTRLOVER

I scoured my brain for every clip I could think of of an actual impact. I think I used every one there was of Trek and B5. Ships didnt crash until 1995, when CGI went mainstream. Trek didnt even go CGI until after TNG was over.

But good news, I'm halfway thru my next movie now.