Investigating a Real Alien Signal in Elite Dangerous VR

The Wow Signal was not an Elite Dangerous event. This was not a DLC or a story mission. The Wow signal was real. This was a real event in astronomy. Science confirmed it and still cannot figure out what the wow signal was. And because Elite Dangerous is an impossibly accurate space simulator, I can fly out to where the wow signal came from in VR. And gaining that sense of perspective and scale that only VR can give you was so fascinating, again...
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[@EricBurns1]

Elite dangerous I believe has all catalogued stars in it. It also has randomly generated stars/planets using something called “stellar forge.” Stellar forge was so accurate that when TRAPPIST-1 was found, players realized there was a star system that was nearly identical to the TRAPPIST-1 system in almost the same spot.

[@habie147]

That is mind blowing, I'm pinning this

[@timtaxevasion]

thats really cool, even after 250 hours in elite dangerous i never knew this wonder how stellar forge works

[@garmonzaloni8476]

I don't think that they made 945,592,683 stars, but the TRAPPIST-1 thing is so cool!

[@beatboy6690]

@@garmonzaloni8476 yea they didnt all the stars near the outer edges of the milky way are mapped 1-1 whilst the denser core is cut down significantly

[@gooberdoober8848]

This is the coolest space or game fact I’ve ever heard in my entire life

[@PuReAFROz]

From the wiki "In 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the Wow! signal, Arecibo Observatory beamed a digital stream towards Hipparcos 34511, 33277, and 43587.[36] The transmission consisted of approximately 10,000 Twitter messages solicited for the purpose by the National Geographic Channel, bearing the hashtag "#ChasingUFOs" (a promotion for one of the channel's TV series).[37] The sponsor also included a series of video vignettes featuring verbal messages from various celebrities" So basically the aliens tried to contact us and we shitposted twitter memes back

[@pascal1823]

I don't want to know what this aliens think of us when they receive that message in 150 years. 😂

[@alzaeem79]

We live in a society.

[@simpson6700]

out of all the things we could've sent, we sent Twitter posts, we're doomed

[@LeonserGT]

If I'd be another planetary civilization, and receive a shitload of twitter posts, I'd declare war on the sender and use all WMDs in my possession.

[@fazlox]

oh we're so dead

[@samuelconnell4609]

I guess this video requires a sequel. I need to watch the smoothest brain fly through our galaxy on a journey to find the source of an Alien Scream

[@gulp1n93]

habie do this

[@simpson6700]

the story is much more exciting than the actual gameplay

[@neon1867]

agree

[@WackoRelyk]

Your first discoveries won't really 'matter' until you're out in the boonies of space. A lot of what you see, like 'first discovered LHS 451' is YOUR first time discovering it! Now, for it to actually 'matter,' you'll have to travel a ways out of inhabited space, think 400-600ly (maybe even more, depending on how unlucky you are with routing) and you'll have the possibility of getting your name on a system, or planetary body using FSS.

[@PSking_]

Nice! 👍

[@realburglazofficial2613]

I’ve found that sometimes _one_ planet in a system was overlooked when the system was mapped. So all it takes is dropping a few surface probes to get your name on a discovery. Especially in an uninhabited mining system between systems.

[@boldCactuslad]

yeah. remember most players have some sort of destination in mind - a nebula to explore, a black hole, or just going back to the bubble - so most discoveries are largely on accident while taking the shortest path. multiply by thousands of ships passing through and you still have little gaps everywhere for anyone who likes to smell the space roses

[@thed3m0n0id9]

I make pretty good credits doing exploring and mapping of systems while I'm taking VIPs out to SagA. I've got my name all over various systems scattered between here and the Center.

[@nenocen4109]

@@boldCactuslad yup, that's how I found my first batch of undescovered systems. Went to Bernards Loop for my first trip outside the bubble and then headed over to the heart and soul nebulas. Was using EDScout and on the way back I found a handful of undiscovered systems. I know its just a collection of data at the end of the day and chances are nobody else will ever see it, but there's still something cool knowing that my name is attached to those planets until elites servers go down. (Protip for any aspiring explorers, filter the planets on your map to ones you can't fuelscoop from. You'll have a much higher chance to find undiscovered systems that way. Just make sure you don't get stranded out there)

[@catphotos9836]

7:40 if you did actually sit there for the amount of time the display showed, you wouldn't actually arrive at the system. The hyperspace jumps are basically loading screens for next systems, so if you did wait you'd just arrive at the marker with the game thinking you're still in the previous system since it couldn't load the one you were flying to

[@OfficialYondoth]

Sadness.

[@simpson6700]

that is if the game doesn't shit itself because of floating point inaccuracies and overflow.

[@crota5059]

@@simpson6700 farlands but its actually elite, would be a fun experiment

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

@@simpson6700 Presuming they use the same tried and true method most games do to mitigate that now, the rendered and physics simulated worldspace actually moves around the player. Then the player actually more or less sits still at/near center and floating point calculations pretty much become moot, at least unless you have objects at the edges of a massive world interacting with each other absurdly far from the player/center.

[@zatchbellgaming3433]

@@ossiehalvorson7702 it does not I tested it summer years back using slipstream for around an hour and when I "arrived" at the system where the star should've been was just nothing.

[@beelzebub4074]

Thought you should know habie there are much better ships to do these long range journeys in and for not too expensive! for instance with a "Diamondback Explorer" you could probably do that entire trip in 2 if not 1 jump! Also I believe you may have the route planner set to "Most economical" not "Fastest" as your ship should have been able to do that journey in about 7 jumps if my math is correct! If people wouldn't mind throwing a like or two so habie can see this it would save him alot of time when exploring the galaxy!

[@ookami5329]

he's too smooth-brained to know that. He pointed out that fact himself

[@AWACS_Snowblind]

DBX gang.

[@EchoNovemberDelter]

@@AWACS_Snowblind DBX gang 4 life

[@beelzebub4074]

@@ookami5329 "When I play elite dangerous I always play as space amazon so my ship is very ready to make any sort of long journey like this" 4:56

[@ookami5329]

@@beelzebub4074 I haven't tried Elite Dangerous yet, I'm afraid I'm too smoothbrained myself to figure out the controls. One of these days, I'll give it a go.

[@xDoomSquirrelx]

The Sagittarius label you saw on the map actually said Sagittarius A*. It's the name of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It was however, directly behind the Sagittarius constellation from the perspective of Earth which is how it got that name

[@not_an_o5]

I wanted to say this and also now I want him to go to Sgr A* for himself. Don’t worry Habie, it’s only some 25kly from Sol, you’ll be fine.

[@ISmellMopWho]

@@not_an_o5 Unfortunately the black holes in ED are a little underwhelming, they don’t look how they would look if you saw them with your own eyes, they still look somewhat cool but they could definitely be improved.

[@birdie8644]

I found two systems next to each other that were less than 1 light year apart once. Took a few hours to get to the other system in súper-cruise. Unfortunately when you arrive at where the other system should be it’s just empty space, however it does in fact mark it as a location on your HUD. If your HUD says something is X light years away, it actually just put a point in space that many light years away from you. It’s just that nothing is actually there in the game engine until you travel to the system through hyperspace. That’s how I also learned Elite generates a new skybox for each system your in every time you go into hyperspace, manually placing all the stars in the sky as they would appear.

[@dadmitri4259]

wow, that's interesting props for taking all that time to figure it out for yourself

[@baba226]

well, less than a ly would (irl) mean attraction btw the two suns and therefore destruction...

[@anomalycenter1197]

@@baba226 the attraction would be minimal and even then both of those stars are moving, theyd have to be moving parallel to collide and if they aren't they'll go into an orbit with eachother

[@jimeththemelancollie351]

I also performed this experiment some years back, and it was also how I learned that the maximum supercruise speed is 2001c

[@xxmeanyheadxx]

@@baba226 Alpha Centauri A and B closest point in orbit is 11.2 AU which is 0.000177 lightyear, both are 4.25 ly from Sol

[@donkzo1899]

I died laughing when you were talking about wr 111 and how it's a shrimp boat 💀

[@tajkoreddeninthearctic194]

Google is wack man I was looking up adventure time and it refers to an old CBC show but yet it says it has 10 seasons liek the new show

[@tSp289]

RIP

[@nochilljay6369]

Elite dangerous tries its best to be a "1:1" model of the milky way. If a new star or planet is found they have it or try to update it. They even have voyager continuously moving away from earth in the game

[@reesetorwad8346]

I might be mis-remembering, but I think they announced that was going to stop, because more and more exoplanets are being discovered, exponentially

[@mrjack08722]

Habie just going to square up because some alien in 1977 talked shit.

[@Cow-Moth-With-A-CRT-Head]

5:25 Unfortunately, that message is, indeed, letting you know it's your first time there. *However,* if you go into the system map and you don't see a "discovered by CMDR Bob" tag, then when you go back to the bubble you can sell your nav data and get your name in the galaxy. Bonus points if you also shoot probes at the surface of the planetary bodies to map them. 7:47 People have tried that and also unfortunately, it turns out that to load the next system you actually have to do a hyperspace jump. Fun fact: since the Thargoids live in witch space, they effectively also live in the loading screens.

[@Loli_lover206]

@@ReanuKeevesAus they suck

[@pazzeth]

It’s 2:20 am here in Australia and I’m watching Habie. This is the life.

[@Aesthics]

but what if the aliens were just prank calling Earth?

[@davidolson7168]

"Is your garlac running?" *200 years later* "Do you have Galactic Prince Alltorz in the can?"

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

They detected interception of their signal somehow, came to visit to see who it was, and promptly left when they saw us killing each other over fossil fuels. lol

[@A_Toastonawhiteplate]

Or it was a ring call since they don't have credit amd they wanted us to call back

[@4orks976]

Well, if the signal got here in 1977, and if they're calling from 200 lightyears away, that means they sent they message in 1777, so they were probably just as lost as we are

[@shotgunsideshow8958]

@@ossiehalvorson7702 I really doubt they wouldn't be doing the same lol

[@masterzabrak6797]

Always bringing that cheery content. Great stuff mate, we all appreciate it

[@ozwilliam4987]

7:48 I thought I'd give some perspective of how long that would actually take to get there, seeing as ">1 year" is pretty vague and can mean anything from 1 year to an infinite timespan. So you are travelling at 138 m/s, and 7.95 light years is about 75,211,200,819,750,160 metres. 75,211,200,819,750,160 divided by 138 is about 545,008,701,592,392 seconds, which when we convert to years is about 17,270,283.6 years. You'd have to leave your pc on for about 172,703 centuries to get to that destination at that speed. Of course, your ship would've run out of fuel much before, before the first day, considering you consume about 0.42 tons of fuel per hour, and with the Adder's (the ship you are currently flying) base fuel capacity of 8 tons (assuming you have not added any extra fuel tanks), you would run out of fuel after about 19 hours of flying. Of course you could turn off the unneeded modules to reduce this, those being your weapons, shield etc. (anything that isn't the reactor and life support, as you could turn off your thrusters and let inertia carry you the way there) to marginally improve this, however it would not be much of an improvement in the grand scheme of things, I'd estimate at most doubling your time that you are able to float there while remaining alive, which isn't nearly enough to make it there. Without the luxury of supercruise or the frame shift drive. You'd be unable to make it even a percent of a percent of the way there. Even if we miraculously made the ship have an infinite amount of fuel, would your computer be able to handle running for that long? Probably not... Would Elite Dangerous servers still keep going? Hell, would humanity even still be alive 17 million years in the future? Considering we don't have either of those technologies in real life (yet), and our closest stellar neighbor being Proxima Centauri at only 4.24 light years away, we have marginally less distance to travel. However, the furthest away object that we have sent out of our solar system, voyager 1, which has been operating for about 45 years. Has only made it out 23.307 billion km, while it may sound like a lot, it's only about 0.0024 lightyears away from us. We have made shockingly small strides in terms of space travel. Humans have never been past our own moon, and it is unlikely we'll see much progress similar to Elite Dangerous, in our life time, our children's lifetime, or even by the current time in Elite Dangerous, the year 3308. Which is why I'm grateful for something like Elite Dangerous, Because I can get a taste of the enormous amount of things out there, as well as the enormous lack of things out there. Something that I know that I would probably never get to experience. I'm also grateful I have a VR headset, because I have experienced what you have, standing in the shoes of the Commander of a spacecraft capable of travelling incomprehensible distances in the blink of an eye. I'm grateful that I live in the time that I can experience video-games, which can put me in a fantastical setting and allow me to experience it, rather than being a bystander to a story.

[@macandfries6765]

Awesome comment

[@DefaultMale_]

tldr but same

[@blueechodragon99]

HE HAS WRINKES IN HIS BRAIN. HE IS NOT A SMOOTHBRAIN. GET HIM OUT.

[@Peztllence]

I step within your footprints. You cannot hide, you can only keep moving. Keep running. I will catch you, and you will die tired.

[@ozwilliam4987]

​@@Peztllence Thy kind shall follow me to the ends of the earth but sheer force of will will force me to carry on. One foot in front of the other, never ceasing. Death will one day catch up to me, however not in the near future. I will continue posting long comments for you to find me through, and you will have to search tirelessly for the next

[@danielwisell3836]

About “being in the exact right spot” Signals and noise are transmitted in waves, so they go in most/every direction. Chances it hits us are not that low, but the fact that hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago a noise came from there and we heard it is wild

[@Deathstorm501]

I don't like being the 'well, actually' guy, but assuming the signal was travelling at light speed, and with a distance of 200 light-years between us and the signal, it would have been sent around 200 years before we received it. Assuming, of course, that there's not a lot of stuff getting between us and the signal, which is reasonable I feel since space is made of mostly nothing.

[@danielwisell3836]

@@Deathstorm501 you’re right on the “things getting in the way” bit, but I’m pretty sure the signal wasn’t made up of photons, so it would’ve been traveling much slower and therefore taken way longer. If it was a light signal, then yeah it’d be about 250 years old at this point

[@jonathancarter5120]

It isn't that crazy to be fair. Signals and noise bounce and reflect off of things- it would have gotten here eventually even if it has been muddled beyond comprehension.

[@nadavperry2267]

@@danielwisell3836 "exact frequency" its light, its photons.

[@CStrbel]

You guys have to start thinking four dimensionally. "When" is just a flavor of "where"

[@froginaboxVEVO]

Glad to see Habie is still flying the worst ship in the game

[@awesomenerd5584]

My ship could have done that in one jump

[@habie147]

This made me laugh really hard

[@abird5575]

I tried to get him to see the light with an anaconda. It didn't work :(.

[@RabidDisposition]

There's different ships?

[@froginaboxVEVO]

@@RabidDisposition yeah there are at least two dozen. Habie flies the Hauler, a ship manufactured by Zorgon Peterson and I very much dislike it.

[@lc7664]

The Wow Signal's source was discovered in 2017 to have been caused by a twin pair of comets! Great video though and it's always fun to see someone so passionate about space

[@WBF_III]

I got deep into alien conspiracies when I was your age. This is very nostalgic ♥️ Stay golden, Habie.

[@blackhatstudios5673]

It’s so hard to fathom just how large and accurate elite dangerous is/can be

[@tSp289]

Nearly infinite star systems and endless adventure. Except they're all the same so there's no point in going to any of them.

[@soheil5710]

​@@tSp289 'Tell me you've played the game without telling me' lmao

[@gooseyboy3868]

Habie, with all my heart, thank you so much for being there, when no one really was checking up on me. I thank you

[@indecentanalyst]

Everyone in 2022: used to fly Anacondas and FDLs, went to the galaxy's core and back, and left Elite Dangerous since the Odyssey debacle and the total lack of scenario development since 2017-2018. Habie: discovers the Bubble in a Hauler... Happy to see there is still freshness in this world 🤣

[@huxleyleigh4856]

Man this video inspired me to go get back in my slightly engineered hauler and go look at some pretty things

[@tedstriker4278]

Hahahaha Yeah, it was awesome in VR, sad its a dying Game

[@Vynirian]

one day habie will realize, with every brain cell in his miraculously smooth brain, that he actually, genuinely, is a fantastic content creator.

[@KickstandOptional]

If you were to manually fly to that system you would find that none of the planets or anything actually spawn around you, and you're treated as though you're on the far outskirts of your departure system. We tried this out several years ago.

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

Great video!

[@spooky5057]

7:35 each system is its own server so you cant get to another system without jumping to it because the jumping screen is just a loading screen that takes you to the next server/system

[@ISmellMopWho]

At 7:36 it actually says more than one year to get there, and since he’s not in supercruise and “only” going 138 m/s, assuming I did my math correctly, he would actually have to leave his computer on for roughly 17,392,131 years in order to get there in game. Mind blowing how big this game is.

[@Ozric42]

Great video, especially loved you waiting to leave the station, really nice to see you having fun in Elite too. One of the things I love about it is you can go to any star you can see in the night sky. I hunted down my avatar early on, and although V838 Monocerotis isn't in the game, it is in there as 22 Delta Monocerotis. So I could even visit that 😄 One thing though, you have a direction now. Now you have a point 78Ly away you can "draw" a line from Sol to that, and then extend it until you are around 200Ly from Sol and check that area. There's a lovely group of crazy lunatics called Canonn Research, and we do area searches fairly often. Would love to see you try to find something there 😃

[@resentfusion5634]

Elite Dangerous is such a crazy game for casual players because theres so much depth but for me I just jumped around taking in the sights getting lost and shit. Great video glhf

[@grubhunter2298]

Elite Dangerous looks amazing and I would buy it if I didn’t just buy No Mans Sky and Into the Radius (thank you for making me buy it after seeing that stream Thursday.)

[@daradacro23]

You’re not missing much. Elite has been on a constant degrading of quality versus NMS. It could have easily reigned as a king of the space sim but the devs/studio really wanted to go min effort maximum profit. And they cut so many corners.

[@astral6749]

Elite Dangerous is a perfect game if it isn't such a mess of missed opportunities.

[@defenestrationismyfavoriteword]

the greatest lie Fdev ever pulled was making people think Elite Dangerous was a good game

[@Kallodus]

It's a different kind of experience. No man's sky is living fantasy and fantastic for exploring wonders and strange. Super Star Trek. Elite gave me that "omg I'm flying a spaceship!" Experience (HOTAS really helps with emersion). And it feels a lot more down to Earth so to speak.

[@OHNOKite]

@@daradacro23 Frontier: "Lets just stop all future content updates for the console players. They can all go fuck themselves!!" Me, a console player since Dec 2014: "...say sike. right now" Frontier: "Don't worry! Buy a decent computer, aaaand another copy of the game, and we will give you the credit balance of all of your assets (after a couple of months of runaround with our customer service department!)" Me, Combat Elite and Trade Elite: "I get to keep my ranks too right?" Frontier: "HAHhaaaaa.... You get to do a fresh start!! Doesn't that sound fun?!" /ALMOST/ makes me want to get my hopes up for Star Citizen ...almost

[@danielrafferty4108]

Nice random video I came across while looking at tactics to yeet out of Thargoid range when interdicted for current evac missions. In case nobody else has answered. People have tried in the past to travel to star systems using supercruise. Someone did it with a system that was a lightyear away at full throttle, still took then a couple of days.Nothing popped up, the ship computer was still locked on other system. It confirmed what everyone thought, that the FSD Hyperjumps are a loading screen for the system (Makes sense, especially if you're jumping into a newly discovered system for the first time and it needs to procedurally generate stellar bodies.). Great video though, always envious of those playing in VR. Fly safe CMDR o7.

[@thirteen3678]

Actually interesting history lesson about intriguing topic from my favourite youtuber. Today is a good day.

[@AQDuck]

Elite's map is 1:1 to our galaxy, they partnered with NASA to make it. You can even find Voyager 1, and wouldn't surprise me if there was a Tesla playing David Bowie floating around.

[@DabaronDaVinci]

This was the first video I've seen from habie, I completely forgot it was his video, then I watched every single video from the VR playlist and came across this again.

[@smactork]

Habie was the last guy on earth to learn about the Wow! signal

[@livetonfnv3176]

This is a great birthday gift, and I award you with the best award a random stranger on the internet can give. I always watch you videos when I eat dinner.

[@tillson8686]

Loved the video! Got a question for you Habie: How do you feel about warping through Hyperspace (or otherwise called Witchspace)? Does it make you anxious? I know I'm always anxious flying through witchspace in VR because based on the Elite lore, we have no idea what's in that hyperspace. We only know it's a higher dimension we can temporarily pass to cross vast distances but other than that yeah no idea. Thargoids started pulling players out of Witchspace some time ago, that was definitely fun knowing. Also did you ever hear the whispers or wondered what those clouds were? Anyway, hope you have save travels my friend! Would love another video of Elite!

[@MagMan105]

fun fact: Our solar system, containing a single star (a G class, main sequence star that has a 10 billion year lifespan) and planets orbiting it is actually an anomaly. Earth is also a fantastic anomaly, we are within a zone called the "habitable zone"- which is the area around a star (determined by its mass and temperature) that liquid water can exist. anyway, binary star systems are actually way more common in space and star clusters of course exist throughout space on abundance. this is super amazing you took the time to explore this star, very interesting video!

[@MediocrityPrime]

Gomez's hamburger needs to be the name of the first fast food restaurant in space. Do it.

[@crusaderkaiser2000]

The "wow signal" is by far the most amazing thing to happen in space related history that I could think of. The fact that we not only missed part of it (supposedly), but also still don't know its actual source is insane! You'd think we as a species would pour more effort into such an incredible event, yet we haven't :(. I hope we find out the answer to this mystery before I die, or at least get a solid theory like the asteroid wiping out the dinosaurs (which I think was only proven (sorta) in the past 10 years or so).

[@majorbogart3476]

Pouring one out for this game. The best vr experience out there, and they dropped development...

[@Kallodus]

I had such an experience with this game, and it's sad to see it going downhill

[@RabidDisposition]

Aw man, I was just about to get into it. I've had it installed for so long, but as an idiot, I've gravitated towards no man's sky, which is the idiot's space travel game. It says a lot about society when NMS is going strong while elite dangerous drifts away into obscurity lol

[@Kallodus]

@@RabidDisposition I think elite is still worth getting into, it's still a great experience, and the community is still strong. The problem is the game's future is in doubt, so enjoy it while you can, because it might only be a couple years until everyone starts leaving if the game feels abandoned.

[@cardboardcomputing]

you are by far my most favorite youtuber, keep up the good work!

[@lunaisbestpony4217]

It's always a good day when Habbie uploads.

[@unturned1529]

Space related games are some of my favorite. I remember playing Signal Simulator for weeks straight because it just awe struck me.

[@someoneishere3106]

Just to clarify, if there was a repeat signal, we would have most likely heard it. Since radio is apart of the light spectrum, the inverse square law applies here and long story short, the father light travels, the more spread out it is. Considering that this signal is 200 light years away, it is lost definitely going to cover our entire solar system and we should have heard it as long as we pointed our receivers in the general direction of the star. Other than that, I loved the video and great work!

[@noimageavailable2934]

Hey habie, just in case you haven't checked it out yet, there's a mod for Skyrim VR called PLANCK which lets you interact with people and animals outside of combat.

[@nicolasv.villarreal897]

you know what also would be a great tour: TRAPPIST-1 system. its a real star system, pretty small, but with a lot of its planets being candidates to terraformable or habitable, and Elite Dangerous "discovered" it first than NASA (Elite's system that procedurally generates star system generated this system, and then NASA found a system with the exact same characteristics in the almost exact same spot, to celebrate Elite re-named this system to its now known name: TRAPPIST-1). I know you're going to love this one

[@Frenchiezy]

Oh habie 😅 I love going down rabbit holes. Ancient history like 10k yrs and older is my favorite 💁‍♂️

[@spex4558]

This is an example of youtubers teaching something, thank you habie.

[@vrmonkilive9100]

Honestly I have no idea have you don't have more subs than this you deserve more

[@LatishLynx]

Amazing video Habie. I love space, its so hard to think about the scale, even just the amount of boring shit. Absolutely mind blowing.

[@DapperDemon]

I own elite dangerous, and the only thing preventing me from diving down that rabbit hole is that the controls apparently need a ~$250 throttle controller to make any sense at all

[@spontaneouslucario6161]

i absolutely adore how habie came out of nowhere and in such a short amount of time bolstered such a large audience, all while just being himself. i hate how current youtubers put on fake personalities for their channel, content feels so much better when you know the person recording it genuinely enjoys what their doing and appreciates their audience. you, my friend, are an inspiration and easily in my top 5 youtubers of all time. keep up the amazing work

[@VaupellGaming]

If you look up "Frontier: Elite II" the original game from 1993, it has the constellations and stars of the known universe coded into it, and one of the most amazing things about this game was it actually fitted on a SINGLE FLOBBY DISC,, you know what your generation call the "Save icon" Such an amazing legacy on this game.

[@jakecolefilms]

IM SO HAPPY YOURE PLAYING ELITE AGAIN OMG I'm happy to help you get set up Thargoid hunting with the AXI!

[@caltheuntitled8021]

7:44 people have tried doing things like that. While you can travel between locations in a system at sub-light-speed, you can’t travel between systems without activating the frame shift drive on high wake mode.

[@oigliyj]

It's good to see more content creators playing Elite Dangerous even though the state of the game has declined. If at any point you feel like you need help getting around in the galaxy or just want a nice bodyguard ship to help make sure you don't get ganked by some space pirates, I'd be more than happy to help. I have 2 Corvettes, 4 Anacondas, and a Fleet Carrier. Edit: When you fly in game to a star instead of hyperjumping, you drastically speed up but never actually show up at the star. the hyperjumps are how you load into a new star system. Keep up the great videos!

[@keitheilish7983]

A signal from 5 thousand light years away would have taken approximately over 436,009,500 years to reach the earth

[@kmungal]

one of the coolest things ive ever done in a video game was in elite dangerious: i booked a cruise around the universe sight seeing with a pilot out of France, it was so engaging i had to adjust my sleep schedule so i could wake up when we arrived at sights and dock back on the ship before departure so i didnt get left behind. it was very well done because all the sights had tourest info, it felt like i was on a legit digital cruise and had to wait days sometimes before arriving at the next destination but every arrival was so exciting. the shit that i saw ill never see again but ill carry it with me always.

[@syzygy2464]

I didn't know you played ED too. I wish I had friends who actually play it, I've sunk about 2000 hours into it and the only thing that ever really gets old is just not having a friend to occasionally fly with

[@MarkZeroGaming]

Man I'm just happy there's a positive video about Elite Dangerous in 2022.

[@TheMadDrD]

6:41 "Any life that could possibly be on this planet grew up with having three sun." Three Body Problem flashbacks Intensify

[@TrumpCardMAGA]

Tips to make your space game a little more fun.... A: Why don't you have a fuel scoop? I can't remember when I ever last had to stop for gas, that will make your long distances easier. B: Engineer your stuff to stop from overheating, or worst case get a heat sink launcher.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

If you do the math, you can also find voyager 1, even hear the golden record. If you touch it, 4 to 6 Federal navy Anacondas will be on your scope almost instantly. Very touchy about F'ing with history in motion. There are even generation ships between the stars if you are lucky enough to randomly drop out on one.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

Using supercruise is how they find generation ships. lol leave it on and walk away until you hear a distress signal, or need to jump for fuel.

[@morebagels]

i quite enjoy exploring in elite. if you have enough for an asp / phantom / orca / anaconda you should go to the galactic centre. it's wild

[@salamanda550]

Every time you use that track at the start, I think you're playing a really nice remix of Cosmo Canyon/Red XIIIs theme.

[@Rezorrand]

I just watched a video on that signal recently (I wonder the channel was Astrum or something) which had a plausible explanation for it in form of some hydrogen gas amplification caused by insane amount of luck. The "shout" was basically just noise without any data on a very specific spectrum.

[@michaelcausey4268]

Yeah that's pretty much every encounter in any space fairing games. "I see a ship! I don't wanna go towards it..."

[@smithyMcjoe]

The wow signal has intrigued me for such a long time. Our physics teacher told us when we were about 13-14 so at least 14-15 years ago for me. It's an amazing prospect that we aren't alone in the universe. It never stops. The nightmare always goes on ON MR BONES WILD RIDE

[@thesuit4820]

This has to be one of your best episodes made. Love watching you nerd out on this.

[@thesuit4820]

And, a few minutes after posting that I realised you were smooth brained enough to nerdgasm over the wrong star system. Ace. Keep up the good work. The work... Keep up the work.

[@CMDRCrunchButtsteak]

We have to get Habie in some Thargoid fights. Ya know, to see some aliens up close.

[@carbonatedegotistical4880]

The fact that you called a wiki rabbit hole research is the true proof you are relatable

[@majorbogart3476]

Sadly, you have to use the jump to go from system to system. FTL will eventually get you there, but it will be an empty floating point in space, and you need to do a short jump to load the system.

[@GremlinSciences]

Conversely, you can just keep going in a straight line uninterrupted and then do a zero-distance jump to load in right at your destination. It's a matter of perspective. The system might not load unless you do a jump, but neither does anything else and all you need to do is perform a jump to load once you actually get there. By the time you _do_ get there though they might have rolled out an update that removes the need to jump.

[@AnActualDuck]

Something that is crazy to consider is the signal that was received from a star that was 1800 light years away from us. 1800 years ago that message was sent so even if we wanted to reply it'd be another 1800 years before they'd receive it. If that's the closest intelligent life out there it's safe to say it'll be a very long time before contact is made

[@zerobanana]

as a explorer. i love jumping into the sweet nothing of space with my heat sinks and fuel scoop, to get to places where no one has ever been before. try it its fun.

[@valajonny9162]

Dude, you HAVE to try Space Engine, not only you have the entire universe at your disposal, but you can fall into a black hole. In VR.

[@dynamic.staccatto8241]

I would love to see Habie play Kerbal Space Program. Given his ability it Vtol VR, im sure it would be a blast.

[@antonbr8183]

also if you didn't know Elite Dangerous has all the data from NASA of all the exoplanets we know. If you want to visit absolutely all the planets, galaxies, nebulas, etc that we know you should try Space Engine, is not exactly a game, is more like a virtual planetarium but you can visit literally the whole universe I really recommend it, it also has vr support

[@deglenlikesbutter]

Habie already gave me a midlife crisis 2 minutes into the video about the fun space ship game

[@RayBoyo]

We've got a decent answer now. Something about a pulsar agitating a cloud of hydrogen in our direction.

[@fishfsh3514]

I love your curiosity, that was a super neat video

[@polaris3c0]

"either we are alone in this universe, or we are not. both possibilities are equally terrifying"

[@TheMidnightMinute]

At 6:37 you say "it screamed at us in 1977" but with it being 200 LY away from Earth and radio waves travelling at the speed of light, it actually screamed in 1777, shortly after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

[@synthetic240]

You may also want to check out the version that exists in Space Engine. It also includes known stars and known exoplanets, but (also like Elite) it'll make up planets and moons and comets are there based on science. It's honestly just as beautiful as Elite and also supports VR. I think you'll like it!

[@Grandilex]

2:00 I laughed WAYY to hard at this LMAO "Oh you think you're soo special" 😂😂😂😂

[@theangryscouser1433]

You should use HCS voice packs in VR, So cool to have Captain Kirk as your ship ai all voice controlled, plus it helps a lot with not being able to see outside the headset

[@souporwormgaming]

Game Suggestion: Vertigo Remastered. It's a single player pcvr game that is kinda like a bridge between half life alyx and boneworks. Pretty adventerous like boneworks, but polished and has a good story like half life alyx. Also, it has a sequel coming out soon. Also the reload animations for the guns are just... sooooo fricking good.

[@cozymonk]

Everything we know exists in our Galaxy, exists in ED.; it was a big selling-point of the kickstarter. The only time you'd find something that doesn't exist in ED is if it was discovered after the game came out. The major discrepancy is that there are tons of celestial bodies in ED that are generated and don't have real-life equivalents. So, from that perspective, there is "more" space in ED than we know about IRL (because it's guessing to fill in the gaps in our knowledge).

[@c0der23]

Idk why i was reccomended this only today, but I gotta say I find the size of space incredible and would be immensly dissapointed if we turned out to be the only ones around

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

Pfft, 14 jumps. I have done 340 to get to the edge of the galaxy. it is like 50 jumps to get out to Obsidian orbital in Maia. Cool vid man.

[@graylinbeaudry4651]

After playing this game in vr I can never go back to the flat version. And the wonder of exploring the galaxy is simply phenomenal

[@Stonk_cat]

I am sitting here in my bed at writting this and just enjoying the video Best youtuber i jabe ever found on my time on KZbin.

[@Banthah]

This was a really good vid. Interesting, educational and funny. Thanks for posting

[@khmnc]

2:05 you're in a huller, you're so small you don't need to wait in the queue if you don't want to, just take it out manually

[@eth_4]

You gotta visit Sagittarius A*. I spent 10s of hours preparing the right ship, I got the FSD booster and even did a little engineering (I hate engineering in this game). I got my jump to around 60 I think and plotted my course on neutron stars for boosts. I did the journey over three long sessions and it was great. It is insane how fast you stop seeing stations when your FSD jump is that big. As a humble miner, it was truly incredible to go so far out, and I'm not even in vr. There is also Colonia to visit which was special in its own way. Highly recommended. For anyone who does it, use the Krait phantom! Waaaaay better looking and feeling than the ASP explorer!

[@eth_4]

Oh yeah also getting the FSD booster is a hell of Journey in and of itself.

[@BNanaRamen]

Next years video title "Flying to the Nookiest Cranny of Space in a YEAR", definitely gonna need another PC.

[@jonathand.mcnaughton4205]

“I will eat my own teeth” is one of the most grotesquely hilarious things I’ve ever heard

[@casualpariah]

Good rabbit hole I love your content brother keep up the good work

[@Dark-kk4jo]

7:45 the time estimate is > 1 year, which means greater than one year at 200m/s it would take millions upon millions of years to actually get there lol

[@habie147]

Lmfao whoops. missed that little carrot