5 Fictional Star Space Craft with Realistic Designs

[@wolbaman]

I think the reason I like “Passengers” so much is because of the ship!

[@ES-qy2ju]

Its so pretty and shiny i love it

[@darassylmoniakam]

yeah it has an interesting design while the movie itself was meh, like some kind of sci-fi version of Titanic

[@auroraglacialis]

I didnt really get the story in that one. The design was nice, but the story was incomprehensible.

[@boiwithadoge]

yes yes... the "story"

[@C.Sharpe]

They really did a great job of alienating both the origin and destination, and focusing solely on the ship and it's passengers, creating an overpowering sense of loneliness that perfectly sets up the rest of the plot. I love it.

[@3RAN7ON]

How could you not even include the Expanse series on your list? Every single ship on that show is practical and realistic

[@pranavsingh5666]

Agreed. Plus the use of thrust acceleration gravity is not seen a lot in sci fi so it really does need more exposure.

[@Apollo-zc2rj]

Literally, every ship in the expanse would fit in here. Just kick out Dooku's ship and add in the expanse

[@crashstudi0s]

Minus the epstein engine, yeah, it actually could fit in quite easly.

[@casbot71]

The Epstein drive utilizes magnetic coil exhaust acceleration to increase drive efficiency, which enables spaceships to sustain thrust throughout the entire voyage. A ship fitted with the efficient Epstein didn't kill himself.

[@sithisarcanis]

I love that the Starfury is first on the list. Forget the Solar Sailer. It shouldn’t be able to hyperspace. Travel. No sunlight in Hyperspace

[@casbot71]

6:30 "Completely Matt Damon proof". Sorry no, it's *Matt Damon resistant,* but not _Matt Damon proof_ - nothing is. Not even Gwyneth Paltrow.

[@PongoXBongo]

@Trey Stephens/videos And she's batshit crazy.

[@lexluthor9231]

Matt Damon was not in interstellar Mathew McConaughey was. Get your info correct I understand your talking about sci-fi but at least give correct movie actors to the movie they are in

[@danielawesome36]

@@lexluthor9231 He was😂😂😂😂 He's one of the "Pioneers" who were sent to scout planets, then was resqued by said Matthew and Anne. And the robo sidekick. ...Did I mention that his character is insane?

[@jeffumbach]

@@lexluthor9231 if you've seen the movie you'd know when Matt Damon shows up.

[@krysc3278]

Someday we'll have something Matt Damon proof, someday

[@DeadlyAssets]

9:46. "Constructed in low Orth Erbit, using..." I had to go back and listen again I thought I had misheard, made me laugh Lol :-)

[@toddstidham8374]

Ha, I'm glad I wasn't the only person that caught that!

[@StuartSmithHandForgedKNives]

Same. lol

[@martythemartian99]

Yeah, I thought I must leave a comment about it... whoops, too late :D

[@vikinginfidel4293]

"Low Orth Erbit" lmao sounds like a term out of Kerbal Space Program. Loved this video already but that little goof was the icing on the cake lol

[@brodefineportraiture446]

Quaaludes...their not just for breakfast anymore

[@casbot71]

Honorable mentions [that could've taken the place of Dooku's complete fantasy ship]: The Eagle from _Space 1999_ (It pioneered the same technology that Voyager from Star Trek had, to have a infinite supply of replacement shuttles - damn I'm old]. Discovery (and the other spacecraft) from _2001_ and the Lenov from _2010_ The Viper from the Battlestar Galactica reboot is also a good Newtonian fighter. But of course if you want to go hard science - _The Expense_ Every ship.

[@wrongway1100]

Im glad someone mentioned the Discovery.

[@wrongway1100]

Also. "Im afraid Dave. Will I dream?"

[@ratbat1072]

What about the resolute from the lost in space reboot?

[@Tuberuser187]

ISV Venture Star from Avatar is another good one, it pushes tech further than most of the ships in the video or list as it (partly) uses antimatter annihilation but it travels at sublight speeds and uses realistic materials and construction. For the outward bound leg of the journey it uses a fixed laser in our solar system and solar sail with an acceleration of 1.5G until it reaches 0.7c and then uses the antimatter engines to decelerate at the same rate, to return it uses the engines to accelerate and the laser to decelerate. Other interesting features are how the ships structure is built in tension, the materials used allowed greater strength for less mass when in tension. The ship has massive heatsinks and radiators to bleed out the excess heat of its reactors and fuel cells too, its a great design imo.

[@richardhockey8442]

moonbase alpha - scenes where the characters are in compartments on the surface with big panoramic windows - the windows will be broken either by space crazed astronauts from the inside or alien attack vessels from the outside, and someone is going to go on an unscheduled without-a-space-suit spacewalk

[@Revelationsvidya]

9:45 "Low orth erbit" lol

[@grahamcracker_Photography]

I got a kick out of that. We've all done stuff like that, but it caught me off a bit when he first said it.

[@MimeHTF5]

@@grahamcracker_Photography Leo

[@DeathBYDesign666]

Don't you just hate those annoying flat orthers?

[@WallHaxxx]

I said this out loud after I heard it.

[@darassylmoniakam]

we have our own ways of talk.

[@CamillusofRome]

I love the inclusion of the Starfury from B5!

[@simonoleary9264]

I would have thought the Omega class destroyer might have got a nod too though.

[@sherpajones]

I like the Avalon's approach to a navigational deflector. It appears to inject a stream of charged plasma ahead of a magnetic field that spreads it out to form a bubble in front of the craft. Any space debris that impacts this bubble of super hot plasma would be super heated into charged plasma itself and deflected away by the same magnetic field that supports the plasma shield. Totally seems like it could work with modern technology, since fusion reactors use magnetic fields to direct plasma. One wonders though where the material that forms this plasma comes from. Are there massive holding tanks for some sort of gas that is used? Do they use a version of a bussard collector to capture interstellar gasses? Do they recapture the used plasma once it cools by use of a magnetic field at the stern of the craft?

[@stargamerlp87]

Are you a physisist?

[@leonzhang7821]

I think carrying just a few thousand tons of helium 3 and deuterium would be enough to keep the plasma shield active.

[@tomastomasi975]

The star fury is my favourite fighter in fiction. The Hermes looks great, I hope we build something like it in the near future.

[@marloyt7786]

The avalon used a nuclear fusion reactor and not a nuclear fission reactor. There's a scene where they try to exhaust the plasma from the overheating reactor.

[@wolfbyte3171]

Other ones that may have been discussed elsewhere but are absent on this list: - ISV Venture Star (Avatar): A massive starship designed for interstellar near-lightspeed travel. Uses laser propulsion from Earth to accelerate, then uses matter-antimatter reaction engines to slow down. And monstrous radiators to get rid of the heat. Reverse process for trip to Earth - Europa One (Europa Report): Not quite as technical, but still near future. Gravity is only featured in two rotating pods that house crew quarters. Command pod of the ship separates to act as a lander on Europa. - Odyssey (Oblivion): We don't see much of this ship so I understand why it wouldn't be picked, but it was still a realistic design with artificial gravity through a ring and also suspended animation pods. Biggest flaw was realtime communication with Earth from Saturn, but hey, quantum stuff maybe - Every ship from the Expanse: Duh.

[@PongoXBongo]

I think the matter-antimatter reactor keeps the Venture Star off a "realistic" list like this. That's Star Trek territory.

[@wolfbyte3171]

@@PongoXBongo Unlike Star Trek ships which use that to power warp fields and such, the Venture Star (I believe), just uses the reaction as propulsion.

[@pahtar7189]

@@wolfbyte3171: Actually an antimatter reaction is only useful as propulsion. All it produces is gamma rays, so there's no known way to use that to create electricity directly. Its only real use would be to rapidly heat some reaction mass made of stuff that absorbs gamma rays, accelerating it out the back at dizzying speeds. It would be hideously expensive and dangerous to gather and transport useful quantities of antimatter, so fusion reactors are much more practical.

[@Temstar04]

Venture Star is not straight matter-antimatter beam core, the annihilation reaction actually only provides a tiny amount of the total energy output from the engines. Majority of the energy is actually D-T fusion, with the fusion catalyzed by the annihilation rather than inertial or magnetic confinement. The D-T fuel is scooped out of the atmosphere of Prothemus by old valkyrie shuttles. The antimatter fuel is made in the Sol system using a giant solar farm on Mercury

[@Joel-bh5xd]

@@Temstar04 Venture star is such a fantastic ship, I wish more people knew about it!

[@markvaughan653]

Star Trek also played with the solar sail idea in the DS-9 episode "Explorers." The ancient Bajorans made a "lightship" that used the same method. Also in Star Trek: Voyager ("One Small Step"), the USS Voyager encountered the derelict Earth spacecraft Ares IV from 2032 that used an advanced ion drive. I could also mention Friendship 1 ("Friendship One," ST:VOY) and Nomad ("The Changeling," ST: TOS) but those were basically space probes.

[@Zorro9129]

I never quite got how 20th century space probes managed to reach the Delta Quadrant which is tens of thousands of lightyears away. Friendship 1 was warp-capable but could go only lightspeed.

[@DrewLSsix]

@@Zorro9129 watch the show? They explain it right there with dialogue and stuff.

[@douglasmiller8607]

there's the emergency rigging of a solar sail in " Star Trek the Voyage Home" one of the crippled Fed ships.

[@douglasmiller8607]

it dropped into a spinning black hole.

[@animal9432]

The engine on the Avalon from "Passengers" was a Fusion Reactor not a Fission Reactor.

[@victortenma5512]

Elon Musk taking note: Gotta get them Dragons Matt Damon proofed.

[@Clan_AlbertheGrey]

Everyone rode a living ship?

[@guysthisisntreal.1057]

9:46 low orth erbit. I love this channel.

[@mrandrossguy9871]

Mistake or not that's funny

[@dionemoolman]

Us three months ago: Why didn’t you include any ships from The Expanse? Generation Films toady: Hippity hoppity The Expanse is how my property.

[@GENESIS-bj4bp]

I agree with you

[@gavinkemp7920]

The answer is the compared to the features presented in this video, the expanse is not more realistic. the overall universe probably is but not the features. The thing is the ships of the expanse rely on the incredibly powerful Epstein drive and whilst the power produced could be realistically produced by nuclear fusion their are other major issues. The drive is so powerful that if just i think i found 0.1% of the energy radiated into the ship it would turn into a fireball. reaching that kind of efficiency would require a major technological leap. without that powerful drive no thrust gravity and suddenly the ship are rather impractical. This is not the case for any of the other features presented. The feature are either already being used or are feature we know would work with only minor advancements in technology. the only one we don't really have is nuclear fusion but it could be replace with fission for most of the cited applications.

[@dionemoolman]

@@gavinkemp7920 But the video did include the Avalon, which can burn its engine for a full century, which would require even crazier thrust to mass ratios or thermal radiation systems. I’d say a ship like the Donnager Class is far more possible than the Avalon.

[@gavinkemp7920]

@@dionemoolman no it wouldn't. being able to burn for a long time does not require high thrust to weight ratio. In fact the super efficient engines have fairly consistently low thrust. the most powerful ion engine weight about 230kg and has a thrust of 5.4 newtons, that a thrust to weight ratio of 0.002. but that low thrust used over months adds up to a lot of speed. It uses about 100 kw which is a lot of power in france we have a limite of 10 kw in most houses. scaled to the size of the avalon we are probably in the gigawatt range and would produce about 10000 tons of force. For the donnager which is smaller, it would in the thousands to millions of terawatts with a for in the millions of tonnes. and whilst we could get that energy from fusion if we get but a tiny fraction of the energy goes into the space craft as anything other than speed it will be vaporised. the yatch of epstien would have produced about 5 terrawatts of energy and that craft is probably 10000 time smaller than the avalon. The way the expanse universe is better though out around physics and how thing would feel with a Epstein drive than most universes and the ships are better designed around the epstien drive than most starships are. but the epstien drive it self is not more realistic than any of the tech sighted in this video and thus the ship would be less realistic. I'd put an exception on dooku's ship that can't produce gravity but it was cool talking about solar sails.

[@embott1]

Freeze a tomato. Thaw that tomato. You’ll see a horrible mess.

[@paultrappiel9943]

Yeah, freezing any uncooked veggies breaks the cell walls... and no more structure.

[@ericjones3692]

@@paultrappiel9943 corn, peas, green beans all do fine.

[@saucevc8353]

Aren't there living things that can survive freezing and still thaw out just fine? Who's to say we can't genetically engineer humans to do the same thing?

[@embott1]

@@saucevc8353 yes there are. Some frogs, insects and worms. Scientists are studying why their cells walls do not rupture.

[@embott1]

@@ericjones3692 FLASH frozen is how those items are processed.

[@spthompson6501]

The problem with Hermes, is that rotating carousel. Currenyly, no engineering solution exisys, that can maintain an airtight seal between the rotating and the non-rotating parts of the ship. The most realistic SF ship design is still the Discovery, from "2001, a Space Odyssey". In that ship, the rotating carousel was inside the spherical pressure-hull. No exotic seals needed.

[@DrewLSsix]

That's hardly a deal breaker, given the actual technical hurdles of just getting that much mass in the shape of a spaceship the coupling disappears into a haze of minutia. A potential solution given the setting is a simple plasma window, the technology can easily retain a single atmosphere against absolute vacuum. Power requirements are relatively high but can be scaled down with tighter tolerances in the structure. Given the generous power supply such a ship must have it's hardly an unthinkable expense.

[@alexandremangeot]

THANK YOU!! I CAN'T STAND ANYMORE THIS KIND OF NON SENSE ROTATING WHEEL WITH A FIXED CORE!!

[@deathsinger1192]

I´d disagree, as commonly known, the discovery lacks radiators, the ISV Venturestar from Avatar is probably the most realistic

[@MinerBat]

@@deathsinger1192 if the problem is rotating segments around a fixed core, the venture star also has those... though that is more far future so more plausible they figured out a solution. i still think hermes is the most realistic spaceship in popular science fiction, the rotating ring seal is an issue, but i doubt that it cant be fixed with enough research. if space agencies got more funding then i think the hermes would be possible to build and use in reality within the same timeline from the movie

[@desiguy55]

how could you forget the ship from 2001 space odyssey, among the earliest practical design. the ship in that movie accounted for Gravity as well as the vacuum of space as well as the time it took to get to jupiter using current rocket tech.

[@eviltimes1]

And if you compute the volume of the fuel tanks, there's enough space to get the Discovery to Jupiter and back using ammonia to fuel the NERVA style engines.

[@garyrobbins283]

Good that you mentioned Hermes from The Martian, but no shout out to Discovery II from 2001 A Space Odyseey?

[@jukio02]

When watching the passengers, I was thinking the whole time, man, what a cool ass ship, I bet they could make one just like this in real life someday.

[@christian-michaelhansen471]

My congratulations to the creators of this post, and the channel in general. The research and information discussed are a heck of a lot better than most discussions of Science Fiction. Keep up the great work, and can’t wait until the next update.

[@col.mustard2192]

Great video but I think it would've been cool if you'd also talked about the ISV Venture Star from Avatar. The ship, which transported the humans from Earth to Pandora, was sadly barely talked about in the film but it has some great lore behind it. The ship runs off a matter annihilation engine, where basically a tank of hydrogen and a tank of antimatter hydrogen contained in a magnetic field are slowly combined to generate massive amounts of energy. The science behind the engine is technically feasible as we have produced antimatter within the large hadron collider, albeit in extremely tiny amounts. I think the ship also used solar sails for braking, with super lasers positioned in orbit to fire at the sails. This is another scientifically feasible idea as the concept of producing small space probes with sails and using super lasers to accelerate them to near light speed and basically just fire them at nearby solar systems has been seriously discussed within the scientific community.

[@dalancluff9207]

Imagine saying goodbye to your family and investing all your money in traveling on a sleep ship only to miss a breakthrough in FTL travel just a few years later.

[@tackytrooper]

Imagine being a test pilot for the first experimental FTL drive and nobody even being able to tell you if you'll even survive.

[@selectthedead]

Solarsails dont make any sense outside of any star system, because the energy is reduced power of 2 the further away you go from a sun. I know its generation Films, but how come you did not include ships from the expanse?

[@ReddwarfIV]

Laser sails, on the other hand, are really useful. The _Venture Star_ from Avatar had one.

[@selectthedead]

@@ReddwarfIV on what principle Do those work?

[@jacara1981]

@@selectthedead Basically you have a Nuclear reactor that powers powerful lasers on the ship which then shoot the sail. Though as you can imagine there are issues with it. I think they actual got the math right too with Relativity. The ship took ~6 years to get to Pandora from Earths perspective (at half the speed of light) but because of Relativity on board it was only 18 months.

[@ReddwarfIV]

@@selectthedead The ship has a big reflective sail on it. A normal solar sail would work. The big difference is that a static installation somewhere in the Sol system mounts a _huge_ laser, and has access to far more power than you could ever afford to mount on an interstellar spacecraft. The laser station shoots the solar sail, which imparts momentum on the spacecraft. In this way, you can get the advantages of a solar sail without the dramatic loss of thrust as you head out-system.

[@ReddwarfIV]

@@jacara1981 You're confused. Mounting the lasers on the ship and shooting the ship's own sail would be like mounting a fan on a sailing ship to blow its sails. You would generate no thrust that way, and even if you could troll physics into making it work, you'd have increased the mass of the spacecraft by fitting reactors and lasers, reducing your available delta-V.

[@cautiousoptimist]

Down to Earth and pretty factual. I liked it.

[@isaackellogg3493]

Slightly meta but.... The solar sail was first used in The Mote In God's Eye, where the solar sail ship built by aliens was contacted by a human ship with rotation- type artificial gravity.

[@d.b.4671]

Passengers: literally has a giant tokamak on screen which plays a central role in the plot Generation Tech: "eight fission reactors" Shows just how forgettable Passengers really was. :P

[@ReddwarfIV]

For a better take on a similar premise, read _Hull Zero Three_ by Greg Bear. A genetic colonist wakes up on a malfunctioning interstellar spacecraft and has to figure out what's going on, why, and how to stop the spacecraft from committing genocide. The spacecraft itself (known only as Ship) is three rotating spindles attached radially around an icy minor planet.

[@WilhelmImperatorRex]

@@ReddwarfIV Yes, thats an amazing story!

[@DrewLSsix]

@@ReddwarfIV I loved that book, always thought it was solid adaption material, from high budget mini series to SYFY B movie of the week! Hell, the opening sequence felt like a survivor horror game. Done in the style of Alien Isolation it would be awesome.

[@karlsinger4760]

I really like that movie. I watched it at least five times and I still enjoy it. It‘s pretty obvious he hasn‘t seen the movie. That tokamak is impossible to miss

[@jeffumbach]

Sounds a bit like Pandorum except that adds a Resident Evil feeling by having part of the guest complement having woken up a long time ago and then degenerating into cannibalism.

[@hobmonger5275]

#1 Starfury! Well done sir!

[@BiggHobbit]

The Orion will use the Space Launch System. The Delta IV was used for an Orion test flight.

[@fileoffish9395]

and the sierra nevada dreamchaser was shown as the crew transport

[@Connor.SG-1Ring]

You didn't include any ships from The Expanse, like the Rocinante (MCRN Corvette).

[@joshuaandrewvives9676]

Right

[@joshuaandrewvives9676]

I am a big fun of the show

[@abbaszaidi8371]

“She purrs like a kitty at 12G”

[@IgnacioAOlivar]

The Roci it's like a future version of SpaceX Starship, the crew stands at the top of the ship (where usually it's located the fairing, capsules and cargo in conventional rockets).

[@cympimpin20]

Passengers is a legitimately entertaining movie. Change my mind.

[@victorzsasz5937]

9:67 "Low orth erbit" So amazing :)

[@ConclusiveConfusion]

Man, if any of my science teachers had sounded or presented concepts in this way I would have actually learned something in those classes instead of having to google it years later.

[@isegrim1978]

The one thing i didn't like about the movie version of the Hermes was the rotating segment. How do you keep that airtight, how do you run wires? I always imagined that the whole ship would rotate, much simpler solution.

[@T3KKI1X_5.56]

9:45 “Low Eorth Erbit” .I love that.

[@captainstroon1555]

The ISV Venture Star from Avatar is also quite realistic.

[@marcbraun5342]

Count Dooku just likes his Bajoran lightship like everyone does, maybe he reaches Cardassian space as well... ;)

[@kazjanik2572]

7:34 fun fact there's a kind of reactor, called a stellarator, that is designed around the natural movement patterns of the fusion reaction in a magnetic field!

[@Schlachti10]

There actually is a working one in Germany, the Wendelstein 7-X. They needed a (1980s) supercomputer to design that thing because the magnetic confinement field is so complicated.

[@quantum_chezburger2279]

@@Schlachti10 isn't there one in the us as well?

[@John489_2]

2:34 what is the glowing light at the tip of the ship, and how it is deflecting matter?

[@thisguydiablo]

"low oarth erbit" 9:45 lmao it just sounds funny

[@nigelyorkshiremanwadeley6263]

Low Orth Erbit is absolutely the best place to build a spaceship..

[@greensoplenty6809]

star trek DS9 had a whole episode where sisko and his kid go on a solar sailing trip, its like nautical style, but in space.

[@Deamonknight84]

I would recommend reading the book series Bobiverse By: Dennis E. Taylor. The way they handled space exploration.

[@andyf4292]

id like to see peter f hamiltons commonwealth examined combat wasps for the win

[@Terminator484]

The Hermes uses a VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) engine, not an ion drive. While they're fine for small long-term long-range robot probes, the tiny delta-V of ion engines is far too weak to be of any practical use in large manned spacecraft. An ion engine the size of the one seen in The Martian would take decades just to boost the Hermes up to the point where it could actually break Earth orbit, and decades more to then circularize a Martian orbit. The movie states the Hermes can shuttle back & forth between Earth & Mars in several months -- VASIMR is currently the best candidate capable of such a feat.

[@larousse96]

Didn't the Avalon have a Fusion reactor? I Remember seeing the Tokamak and the plasma in it

[@dunodisko2217]

9:47 “Low Oarth Erbit”

[@ashrimpcalledhank]

I am wondering if there is enough information about the 1972 movie "Silent Running" to extrapolate the technology of the ships. Mostly I would like find out how they would perform as a generational starship. They always seemed quite large compared the the biodomes mounted externally. The biodomes being self contained not just the flora and fauna but also maintance and supplies. What was all the rest of that ship used for?

[@HALOO_ANTON]

THANK YOU FOR AN AMAZING CONTENT

[@Little-Dewott-2010]

How about the ISV Venture Star from Avatar powered by ubontanium, transporting human passengers in a five year cryosleep, and bringing cargo to and from Earth and Pandora?

[@Hoigwai]

Hrm, I seem to recall the power source in the Avalon as a single very large Tokamak fusion reactor.

[@merlinbottcher7026]

Why did you choose the solarsailship from Star Wars? Star Trek had it earlier and explained it in much more detail? And what about the Viper and Ships in Battlestar Galactica in general?

[@nairbvel]

"...the Hermes was constructed in low orth erbit..." I swear, I played that segment 5 times ,and that's what I heard each time. That little glitch aside -- and it *is* a *little* glitch -- this is a great look at what we might, just maybe if we're lucky and behave ourselves, be able to put together and start traveling in sometime over the next couple of generations.

[@johanneswetzler2861]

What about the expanse?

[@johnhudson8950]

Please check out the Expanse. I love this series because the ships look like ships that we'd come up with

[@jeffumbach]

One of the things the Avalon had that you never see in film is that shield at the front deflecting debris in it's path: when you're going at a significant fraction of the speed of light being struck by the smallest things can be like an artillery bombardment. Star Trek often mentioned the navigational deflectors but we never saw it working while ships flew through space.

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

Don’t know if I’ve missed it, but have you guys ever covered any of the ships/tech/story from the movie “The Last Starfighter”? I loved it as a kid- I remember seeing it in the theater, and yeah- a lot of it was pretty goddamned silly, but it was a lot of fun, as well . Just wanted to ask! Thanks again for the videos- I hope that you guys are all safe and healthy.

[@santiago4120]

Thanks for the quick science lesson at 4:20

[@Ephilepson]

What about the us Starship from iron sky!??

[@dj7960]

I can’t believe that he included the ships from Avatar and Enders game

[@samuelreese1816]

What about some of the ships in the expanse? Like the navoo

[@gavinn9446]

no mention of the ISV venture star?

[@martinsach5599]

Seem you did miss practicaly all of ships from "Expanse" show franchise... :D

[@DimoB8]

It would just be cheating, the expanse could take all 5 spots, easy!

[@rockdog2584]

Kind of humorous how Sci-Fi has actually led to some technological breakthroughs. Amongst the leaders in this notion was Gene Rodenberry and the original Star Trek. Granted, we don't have Teleporters yet...but we've got cell phones (i.e. 'communicators'), and digital readouts (remember the old 'flipper' style digitals that they used in the show?) to thank for those 'futuristic' visions. Automatically opening doors was another innovation that grew out of that show. I'm sure that there are others there that escape me, at the moment.

[@RetractedandRedacted]

What type of sci fi spaceship do you think each country would have?

[@marrqi7wini54]

What degree of sci-fi are you willing to go to? You could be anywhere from science fantasy like warhammer and starwars or pure hard sci-fi like children of a dead earth.

[@RetractedandRedacted]

@@marrqi7wini54 I'm not sure what children of a dead earth is so I'd just go with starwars/Warhammer/star trek etc sci fi

[@marrqi7wini54]

@@RetractedandRedacted It's a very hard sci-fi pc game. (Hard as in hard sci-fi. I cannot comment on the difficulty of the game.)

[@wepaxquolim9449]

The Expanse ships are all unreal rocketpunk...🤔😹💥

[@nobleman9393]

What about this, Could The Fourth Reich(Iron Sky) defeat The invasion force of the Blaa(Battle: Los Angeles)

[@MrFederation]

What about the Zero-X from the Thunderbirds Are Go 1966 movie?

[@stephensmith3111]

Don't forget the Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Indeed, the other space ships from that film are great, the Pan Am aerospace plane, the Earth - Moon cargo shuttles, and even the little E.V.A.pods.

[@t12fa7u9]

What I think is worth mentioning is that the Hermes and Avalon have a flaw. They have a rotating section, to create artificial gravity, and a sectionthat is not rotating. The problem is the connection inbetween those, since it has to be pressurized which is very difficult to archieve without any torque losses from the rotating part. Therefore both sections have to be propelled constantly to prevent the inner section from rotating. Since neither of those ships conduct zero weight experiments, do they need those weightless section in the first place?

[@zathraspersonal]

really can't believe you never mentioned the expanse - pretty much every ship was designed with real physics in mind - especially the Nauvoo!

[@davidbradley3982]

where can i get tickets to sit in the cargo hold ?.

[@CygnusLaboratorys2056]

2:52 is the avalon really powered by nuclear fission? it seems so counter productive

[@kevinwise1997]

What about the retribution, or the tigers from COD:IW?

[@Cameron0214]

Hell yeah soon as I saw the title I said "Star fury better be in this list."

[@delta6man]

I love how you started with Babylon 5

[@glenn_r_frank_author]

overall a solid video... one very minor note... the "Orion Capsule" only TEST FLEW on the Delta IV rocket because it was a test and the only heavy lift rocket available to do the test at the time. The Delta IV is not and was not human rated although a study by ULA was done regarding certifying it for human-rating. The Delta IV has already been retired and the Centaur rocket is intended to replace it. I think the Centaur could be intended to launch Orion, or the Space Launch System rocket is the more likely candidate for the Orion Capsule once humans were aboard.

[@ES-qy2ju]

What about The dragonfly, from Oblivion, i need a part 2 with it!

[@elias_xp95]

"Freeze a potato" Oven Chips: 😶😶😶😶

[@GDR007]

9:46 Low Orth Erbit

[@baltsosser]

I hope to live long enough to see a space based shipyard for a deep space exploration ship to be built. I would feel completed after that.

[@V.B.Squire]

I loved the star fury

[@tmm]

What is the clip that starts at 7:29?

[@brandonandreski1709]

The Avilon used magnetic confignment fusion not fission. Those pannels on the hermies are not solar pannels but are radiators to keep the reactor heat from flooding the ship.

[@bigredwolf6]

Still more realistic than anything the Ancient Aliens guy thinks is real.

[@GunnerTaft]

you have one of the skateboard decks I'm waiting on

[@sredacted1647]

You should have done the Michael from Footfall. It could be built with current technology, and is completely realistic, except for its large size.

[@kenet71]

Matt Damon is in both interstellar and the Martian. He is in the Bourne series as well. And he knows how to make a bomb. In short, HE'S DA BOMB! 😁

[@italydude515]

You eeally used Dookus ship as an example?? I mean, how and why did you think that would fit?

[@livevideoart_inc]

I had frozen potatoes this morning. Hash browns are great so cryo sleep should be fine too.

[@jamesfry8983]

oh hell yeah the star fury would make a great nasa ship

[@stephanginther9051]

My dad watched a documentary that said that Gene Roddenberry's designs for a lot of things were theoretically sound.

[@42NORRIS]

Great list. But what about"The Oddessy" 2001 A Space Oddessy (1968) and"The Leonov" 2010 The Year We Make Contact (1984)."The Valley Forge" Silent Running (1972) Hard to believe those three aren't on your list considereding the topic. And to a lesser extent" The Nostomo" ALIEN (1979) "The Prometheus" Prometheus (2012)"The Covenant" ALIEN Covenant (2017) "The Botany Bay" Star Trek "Space Seed" season 1. episode 22. (1967) "Salvage 1" Salvage 1 (1979) tv series

[@martinpedersen1469]

would the solarsail be that bad? or could it be as usefull as in the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode, where they try building an ancient bajoren spaceship and using it for travel, where they somehow end up going faster than expected?

[@WallHaxxx]

They passed through an area of space with some kind of 'subspace anomaly' that accelerated them at warp velocities. It would take ages to get out of a system with only the sail. It was suggested that the ancient bajorans may have had knowledge of the anomaly and or accidentally used it to cover a great distance. It would make no sense otherwise.

[@casperhelix]

Your skateboard gives me angel soft vibes 😝

[@TJ-USMC]

COOL !!!

[@DeathBYDesign666]

Does the Avalon have auxiliary craft on board? It would need a way to ferry all those people down to the planet. The movie doesn't explain this little problem.

[@totalermist]

It doesn't need to have its own shuttles. That would be very inefficient indeed. Both on Earth and Homestead II, local shuttle services will do the job. As a side note, you can also forget about escape capsules and such, because there's no way of finding and picking up such capsules in interstellar space at relativistic speeds. Any distress signal would take years to be picked up and further decades to reach such capsules - far too long for anyone to survive or to run hibernation chambers on batteries...

[@gr3yh4wk1]

What about the Leonov from 2010?

[@alexgordon4672]

Wee smoke before this video dude ! Lol it's all good