1000 Subscribers! We've smashed a goal I had for this year!

[@RyanRidden]

Jokes aside, if you do find my pace slow feel free to increase the playback speed, I don't mind!

[@TheLoneStreamer]

Dude! This reminds me a little of cools worlds, which is where I found your channel.. I subscribed to cool worlds when they were at 3k, in the space of a year or so they were over 100k. So, keep pushing. You you least expect it you’ll be a big time educational KZbinr 👍🏼

Oh man, the algorithm of KZbin just pointed me to one of your videos. I gotta say, I love your pace. As someone who has grown up with English as a second language from school, it's good to have scientific videos presented in a speed where you can actually follow. Also, one more subscriber from Germany. ;-)

[@jordanmarch2864]

I find it too relaxing to speed it up :)

[@peter26514]

I very much enjoy thew slower pace, as some said, easier to understand for a non-native english speaker but also kinda refreshing compared to lots of the fast paced science channels.

[@breakinglost3740]

Your voice has such a soothing quality, I can't stop listening to you, you're like the Bob Ross of Astrophysics. Keep bringing those videos!

[@CoolWorldsLab]

So happy to see you get rewarded for your hard work on here

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks! It's definitely a great motivator to keep making videos!

[@douglasdeans2839]

Here's another Expanse fan.

[@RyanRidden]

I really wasn't prepared for how many Expanse fans there are!

[@douglasdeans2839]

@@RyanRidden The stories are alway better if there is at least some small truth attached.

[@RyanRidden]

I couldn't agree more!

[@silviomanuel473]

Congrats on a 1000 and 2000 subs together, man, good that your audience is growing. You've already answered three of my questions before I asked them, but here's what I'd really love to hear is: What are the dangers of space travels at high speed, approaching the speed of light? Is it even possible? At such high speed, isn't even a small rock, the size of a walnut, able to breach the ship's hull? Maybe there already are theories on how that might be avoided? because clearly at such speed you just cannot maneuver to avoid anything... Anyway, if this looks interesting to you, I think I'm not the only one who would love to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks in advance!

[@kassistwisted]

And now you're at 3200! Congratulations. You speak at the perfect speed for you. #UBU Thanks for your videos. They are quite cool.

[@ssusanchef1047]

Congratulations! And a personal thank you ... I had been stewing for a week over Naomi's suitless EVA; your explanation was timely and cogent.

[@RyanRidden]

Glad I could help clarify the scene! It really seems to defy logic that any time in the vacuum of space could be survivable.

[@bhuvaneshs.k638]

I'm a Expanse fan.... I subscribe any channel who does videos on The Expanse

[@jonathandevries2828]

Here comes the Exponential growth!!!! nearly 4k a week later!

[@PeterHamiltonz]

Congrats on the achievement. Next stop, 10,000. And the rate at which you speak is perfect for the content you're delivering. Just like Cool Worlds, which is one of my favourite channels. 😁

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks! Cool Worlds is really a channel that inspires me!

[@themadman5615]

Congratulations on the nearly two K subscribers

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks! It's pretty crazy how fast it picked up!

[@sebastianj.82]

Congratulations! Really loved your expanse Videos... looking forward watching your other videos too :D Hope this year will be great for you and your channel :-)

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions you want answered!

[@JamesVDBosch]

The following channel also did something similar for The Expanse: kzbin.info/door/EkuXQw10MFr3eOKNfzsfrQ Unfortunately the creator had stopped producing videos some years back. I think fans of this show wanted this type of analysis on The Expanse's science as it's a pretty major element to how the show functions and what makes it relatively unique, and a lot of people likely also don't have the physics knowledge themselves to know for certain whether stuff was done properly, which is where these types of videos really find their footing.

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks for the reference, I think you're certainly right about Expanse fans wanting to understand the science!

[@MrSpatafrano]

Congrats, doc. Came for the expanse, subbed for the scientific questions I didn't know I needed the answer to. Answer surprisingly easy to understand, even for my prehistoric mind.

[@RyanRidden]

I'm glad I make sense! If you have any questions you want answered, let me know!

[@MrSpatafrano]

@@RyanRidden I have one. One day the ISS will need a replacement. It would be interesting to know if a rotating space station like in 2001: a space odyssey could be feasible. On a sidenote, what is the minimum gravity for human to feel okay-ish long term? I guess this can nicely be connected to belters and the expense.

[@RyanRidden]

That's a great suggestion! As it turns out I have a video going live soon pretty much covering exactly this!

[@MrSpatafrano]

Incredible, everything I asked you already answered in the new video

[@RyanRidden]

Great to hear!

[@vladpp8031]

Hi Ryan! First of all, I like your style of presentation of the material and of course the musical background :) As a tip on how to gain even more audience interested in space topics - consider a variety of TV shows and computer games from the point of view of science. So, for example, it comes on the Shadiversity channel in the subject of the Middle Ages.

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind!

[@Shadow__133]

Jeez this channel is booming! Great content and presentation, very glad I found it!

[@yanis905]

Loved your videos on the science of The Expanse and habitable exoplanets. Looking forward to your next content and in the meantime, I’ll go through your existing material. And congratulations on your subscription hike. It’s just the beginning👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks! Be wary of going too far back in my videos, past me really wasn't the best on camera or editing!

[@jonathandevries2828]

can you explain the edge of the universe or the lack there of? If the universe is infinitely large then everything happening now is also happening at another loci infinitely many times...brain bending to me...

[@RyanRidden]

Great suggestion!

[@tonysaliba5802]

I really enjoy the videos! Keep the great, informative science coming. I really like that you don't have a lot of fluff, you clearly know what your talking about and you can tell you enjoy making the videos and speaking about science. Don't change a thing. Not even your tone or pace. haha

[@stuff9624]

I hope you keep growing! I have just found the channel and I absolutely love the way you explain everything. Keep going!!

[@jeffreydamm1085]

Yeah the Expanse brought me to your channel. Looking forward to digging into some of your other video too!

[@RyanRidden]

Just like the Mines of Moria, be careful of delving too deep! My older videos certainly aren't the best!

[@ronmani9476]

You snared me with my curiosity about whether naomi could have survived her leap. That was about 3weeks ago.... Since then you piqued my interest with the "aliens seeing dinosaurs" so looks like I'll be hanging around a while.

[@RyanRidden]

Great to hear!

[@ronmani9476]

@@RyanRidden On your video about faster that light travel you mentioned a light sail. I was wondering what you thought of Prof. Loeb's thoughts on oumuamua being an alien light sail?

[@RyanRidden]

I'm planning on doing a video on that which should hopefully be up around the weekend

[@williamgorham7339]

I’m super excited to see your channel doing well my friend! If you need any help researching or making future content I would love to help where I can.

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind!

[@OscarTorresToServeYou]

Congratulations on your success! I hope to reach that milestone one day!

[@RyanRidden]

Good luck!

[@Kristjan_N]

Thank you Ryan for your excellent content! As an idea for a video: as I understand, the Sun moves on its orbit at around 200km/s. So, usually I've only heard talk about impacts with objects orbiting the sun, but I started wondering: could there be some space rocks that were ejected from their solar system and are now hurtling towards us like a missile?

[@caffiend81]

I love Cool Worlds but must've missed the video where they recommend your channel. Thank goodness for The Expanse! 🤣

[@RyanRidden]

Glad the Expanse lead you here!

[@q4fire]

I enjoy the pace that you speak. It reminds me somewhat of Dr. Sagan's pacing. You seem to be following in his vein if I'm not mistaken.

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks! I have a turtle neck for a reason ;)

[@SuperAngela40]

Omg this TOTALLY made my day !

[@SuperAngela40]

Hahaha I tell my daughter to talk way slower than she wants to for presentations bc people usually talk way too fast unless they talk extreeeeeemmmely slowly (at least as they hear it in their head ) . Prevents one from getting out of breath .

[@RyanRidden]

You're quite right! I learnt how to talk about science from giving heaps of lectures to schools, so maybe in person talking speeds are just a bit too slow for a lot of people online.

[@SuperAngela40]

@@RyanRidden not for me, I find the speech rate (? correct term) extremely calming, especially when talking about alarming things like the fate of the universe, the fate of the dinosaurs, or fates in general 😂

[@Casmaniac]

Congrats !

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks!

[@ClayAdams]

Yay I’m sure your expanse video helped. That’s what got me subbed yesterday

[@RyanRidden]

Awesome, thanks for subscribing!

[@JamesRoyceDawson]

I think I was your 1000th sub since I saw it tick over to that when I subbed. Happy to be on this channel early. Pretty sure you're gonna go far :)

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks for being lucky 1000!

[@NizioCole]

You deserve it mate

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks!

[@global_nomad.]

and a week later you're up to 3.87k subscribers....expansive

[@RyanRidden]

Doing videos on the Expanse has really lead to a rapid expansion!

[@peter26514]

Wow and in just two weeks you got nearly six times the number! Great videos, I love the slower pace! So, did you stop making subscriber plans for 2021 or did you already prepare something for the 10k goal? ;-)

[@RyanRidden]

Incredibly 10k actually looks pretty achievable this year! I'll definitely need to do something cool to commemorate that!

[@michaelmayhem350]

You should do a video on why it's not currently possible for people to live on Mars much less get there because Elon Musk has a lot of people hyped for his unrealistic goal of colonizing Mars

[@RyanRidden]

Great idea, I'll add it to my list! Generally I think we are getting pretty close to being able to send people to Mars, but it sure won't be easy!

[@colourandmotion]

Hey Ryan! Congratulations on all the new milestones! You've earned every one of those subs. I have a question about black holes and the speed of light: If light is unable to escape a black hole, is the gravitational force from the black hole pulling the light backwards at a faster speed than the speed of light? I've never really understood that.

[@RyanRidden]

Great question! The best way to understand how gravity acts on light is to think in the ways that Einstein thought about gravity. In the Einstein framework mass bends and warps the fabric of the Universe. If you put a black hole down, lines in the Universe that were straight now appear bent to someone watching from far away. As for light it is a very simple object, and will always follow a straight line as it sees it in space. This means that to us far away from the back hole watching a bit of light passing by, we see it follow the straight line that is now bent by the black hole. The closer the path is to the black hole the stronger the bend to the straight line, until eventually a straight line through space now seems to wrap around the black hole. Any light that strays even closer to the black hole will follow a straight line that is bent all the way into the black hole itself. So the black hole doesn't really do anything to light. Instead, it simply bends space, and the light follows right along in a straight line in a bent spacetime. It might seem a bit strange to think this way, but all experiments so far say this is the case!

[@colourandmotion]

@@RyanRidden Amazing! Thanks for taking the time to respond. That makes total sense. What a cool world we live in. :)

[@ralfpape7557]

Hey the yt algo brought me to your spacewalk video. Funny enough your video made me think to give the expanse another try, after I stopped watching it for no particular reason. I was quite suprised about how small your channel still is, so one more sub for you 👍🏻 Im interested in anything regarding space and did I understand it right that you are an astrophysicist?

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks! I am indeed an astrophysicist, my PhD was awarded not too long ago!

[@ralfpape7557]

Dr. Ryan Ridden Congrats to that accomplishment and to your nearly 1000(?!) new subscribers since I wrote my first comment! So what was your dissertation about?

[@RyanRidden]

Thanks! I'm now sure where all these new subscribers are coming from! My thesis was focused on developing new analysis techniques to discover supernovae and other transients in data from the now dead Kepler Space Telescope.

[@ralfpape7557]

Dr. Ryan Ridden Cool! I was always fascinated by the thought of observing phenomena from aeons ago. While maybe it wouldn't be such a views magnet like your Expanse series, I definitely would be interested to learn more about that. So if your research is something you can translate for everyday people that would be awesome and your credentials would back you up obviously.

[@josecarlosamador]

Well.... 1001.

[@solstice2318]

Can you make a video about the oumouamoua phenomena? What is your opinion on the subject?

[@RyanRidden]

I was thinking about doing a short video on this. Hopefully it will be up sometime in the weekend!

[@solstice2318]

@@RyanRidden wow😊, that's just fantastic. Thanks a lot sir. I will be waiting for it.

[@epieter]

Could you do a video about how accurate the Rocinante is? In season 4 it lands and takes off on a close to earth planet. Would this be actually possible taking in consideration the shape of the Roci?

[@RyanRidden]

Great suggestion! I have a video going live soonish in general talking about the ship design in the Expanse, but this could be a fun point to make a short video on!