I like Solar System Scope web site, and it has some pretty cool tools and visuals. In Star Trek, Wrath of Khan, Spock accuses Khan of "two-dimensional thinking" but in my opinion, The Star Trek Lore is full of two-dimensional thinking!! The coordinates always include a 3rd increment implying 3-d but that is about where it ends:)

Shouldn't Alpha Centauri have similar kind of cloud as our Sun has as an Oort cloud? There was none cloud for it whatsoever on graphics. Doesn't it have one, or we just dont know does it have one?

Fab video. Obviously there’s the Skippyverse too, which does a couple of interesting things with nearby dwarf galaxies.

I’m sure someone will have mentioned it, but Star Trek m-class/habitable planets are usually 3, 4, or 5 because planets are numbered ascending from the star, and it’s assumed these numbers will be planets in the Goldilocks zones.

Awesome video, really loved your animations. Since you mentioned Rigel, Betelgeuse and Bellatrix, was also hoping you would mention Mintaka - which is one of the belt stars of Orion. Home of the proto-vulcanoid Mintakans, as seen in the TNG episode “Who watches the watchers”.

Tau Ceti is a plantary destination in the game Starfield.

I normally wouldn’t be so pedantic but since this video is all about detail: Ursula LeGuin’s last name is pronounced le-GWIN

The Expanse is Hard sci fi.

And Tau Ceti is where you come across the Xenon in starfield on Xbox 😂

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See that fact about Arrakis being one of the furthest (relative to where humans could get to) adds so much to the story. Very cool thank you.

Urs Ah Lah Le Gwy N. Like you're saying Gwyneth Paltrow or Gwendolyn. Le Gwyn. Le Guin.

If I had been writer for star trek I'd want this map. For me what makes space travel fascinating is the distances and time involved. Orson Scott Card incorporates these things really well, if his char is 600 years older than everyone they knew then that's how it is, and he works with it. That's good scifi.

"I've been everywhere man," - Johnny Cash

The wind on Mars is regularly hurricane speeds, but the atmosphere is so thin. Is that the nitpick there?

Dune miniseries is more book accurate. Yhe book is very colorful

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Red dwarf.. as in the travels of red dwarf tv show.Had to edit that incase you thought i was making a radom comment about a star...🙄

As I recall, Stargate does acknowledge that constellations on other planets are different than constellations we'd know. Also, I'm pretty sure the 7th symbol represents the planet you come from (the point of origin) - in theory, every gate would have totally unique synbols. That's why they got stuck on Abydos.

I'm watching my first video from this channel and this guy is SMART. And he makes me feel smarter having watched his video. He's also very clever and humorous. I do not however, feel more clever nor any funnier having watched this video. I did get some good laughs out of it though. Thanks!

I seen uranus..earth home of the earthillians or would it be earthozoids

Question: Why do english speakers say Betelgeuse as beetlejuice but can say Barnard easily?? Just why? This is not how it sounds or is to be pronounced at all!

I'm starting to think he's purposefully mispronouncing a ton of words. Kind of grating on what would otherwise be a great video. Dice-topian? 😓

Halo next ?:D

Fantastic video And id really like a halo vid!

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That mass effect theme ambience kicked me into the space exploration gear.

Mass Effect map theme is a nice touch! Good work!

KPax was from a red star system. It is why the sunglasses were necessary and why our produce impressed him.

Of course there are always going to be many, many references that don't make the cut for a video like this. Some of the ones I would have liked to have seen: the significant systems (or at least species home systems) from the Star Control computer game series, the Niven/Pournelle Mote In God's Eye series (I think most of those do have real star names associated, though I could be misremembering), and Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series. But terrific job nonetheless.

Thank you for getting me to read "A Fire Upon The Deep".

Don’t put Guardians of the Galaxy trash in the same place as The Foundation (the book) and the Dune.

If it has not been mentioned the number system of planets relate to the planets location from it's star. For example to other space travelers Earth would be Sol 3. As in the third planet from the sun. This way all planets in a system are named after their star and given a number based on their orbit.

Sci-Fi is not half as interesting as Sci-Fact.

lol... so many names butchered. Even Le Guin's name, pronounced more like the word win so gwin, not like word wine. 😆 And of course Ring World is the more economical version of a Dyson sphere. Fun video, thanks.

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Does the solar system's Oort cloud intersect with the one for the Alpha Centauri system?

What about the Ursa Major's Cigar Galaxy?

Great stuff man! I imagine it took some research time, but it was worth it! Very interesting info! Thumbs up! And, also, I like the Mass Effect hint ;)

Really fun video to lay 'em all out like that. Oddly, your pronunciation of "Le Guin" really bugged me. It's "Le Gwin" (American pronunciation of a French surname, but even French style is closer to that than your "Gyne")

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just loved the Mass Effect soundtrack :D

The so called Oort cloud has never been proven to exist, so don't state it as fact. It is secular science's way to explain why there are still comets after "billions" of years.

All of Killzone was set in Alpha Centauri, Helghan orbiting Alpha Centauri A and Vekta orbiting Alpha Centauri B.

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17:02 You missed Larry Niven, "Protector" and "A Relic of the Empire", where Alpha Centauri is settled and known as Wunderland. 20:50 No, you missed "A Gift From Earth" by Larry Niven, where it (or the settled planet there, anyway) is known as Plateau. 31:30 Ah you got there, excellent!

Beta Lyrae has a special place in my heart from Larry Niven's fiction, so I'm super proud that I was the first player to go there in Elite Dangerous. Sadly it's not a contact binary in the game.