SpaceEngine - From Andromeda to Earth in 3min without any navigation

[@aresinamorta.staring-atthe-sun]

Most people memorize the whole GTA 5 map, this guy memorizes the whole universe.

[@Gofffycarn]

true

[@ninostaolindos]

this guy is faster than gta 5 taxi (with skip)

[@aresinamorta.staring-atthe-sun]

@@ninostaolindos yo he was even tokyo drifting through space 🤣 what an intergalactic boss!!!

[@amarlopezmagana7165]

True mentat here

[@onkelkleno5408]

„Some of our kind seek useless knowledge, while I merely require the wisdom of space itself“

[@Yonkage-ik5qb]

Long before SE was created, when I was a kid learning about space, I had an idea for a short story about a guy who becomes immortal, and then learns to teleport just by looking at something. He can look at a distant mountain, and then in the blink of an eye he will be standing on that mountain. Of course, he can also do it with farther things; as long as he can see it, he can jump there. He explores the moon, and the other bodies in the solar system. Then one day he gets an idea to try jumping to Betelgeuse to see if it's gone supernova yet, and when he does so he turns around and realizes with horror that he has no idea which of the millions of stars he can see is the Sun. He has no way to get home and wanders around the cosmos in futile desperation. Anyway, he could have used this guy as a navigator.

[@urektus69]

Dude this story is amazing, you should totally do something with it!!!

[@bashirosman456]

Hm, I'll have to try this out on SE. Betelgeuse is close enough that you can navigate back to Sirius and from there the solar system but it sounds like a fun challenge.

[@BifidokKefir]

​@@urektus69there is a French science fiction novel with a similar plot in the beginning though about travelling in a space ship but unfortunately I forgot the name of it.

[@Shaft0]

Hes immortal, he'll be fine.

[@GoonCity777]

My ChatGPT movie about a teenager dousing a sorority girl (Mireille) in doody from a septic truck and getting arrested is so much better.

[@auwa69]

This is the guy that can find my dad

[@Di0genes729]

Nah, not even he can do it.

[@rodrigaogo]

dont toold me he went for me

[@CoolRock16]

he go for milk right ?

[@Auroral_Anomaly]

He’s your last hope.

[@whyamihere-be7hg]

Bros father is a species from All Tomorrows 💀

[@Xcreator999]

I need this guy as my taxi driver

[@МайкалДжексон-т9м]

Don't forget to give him 5 "stars"

[@maesizmayonnaise2745]

You need a starport

[@HunnitFlat]

What’s a taxi?

[@МайкалДжексон-т9м]

@@HunnitFlat Ubearth

[@HunnitFlat]

@@МайкалДжексон-т9м that’s sick

[@redcarnotaurus323]

i read the title wrong so i was like "oh yeah thats easy i could do that" then i realized you started in the andromeda...

[@Atmoswehr]

same lol 😂

[@The1astGuardian]

That's kinda cool in a way. They know their way home

[@mrrp_mrowp]

same

[@julestloid]

Not only that but they started on a random planet in Andromeda

[@Fragolux]

@@julestloid I misread the title and thought it said "from earth to Andromeda" and was trying to figure out where his starting point on earth was...

[@DefleMask]

Literally geoguessr players

[@tygical]

ig it would be like astroguessr or something

[@frankg7786]

Literally not guoguessr player

[@KiyoshiAoi-h7e]

Rainbolt be like

[@GeoMeridium]

I've beaten a couple WC players in Geoguessr, and this still looks impossible.

[@chrische02]

"You only find this kind of sand in the Andromeda galaxy. With some googling, I immediately found the correct planet."

[@Spacecoke]

A lot of people wont even understand how impressive this is.

[@bestopinion9257]

Not sure about that. You have some numbers on top of the screen that might help you with navigation.

[@ketshisama]

​@@bestopinion9257but the numbers on top in the middle are the speed of movement, and on the side are the distance to the selected object, but he didt look at the distance to the solar system

[@onkelkleno5408]

Of course! They have no idea of both the milky way nor the Andromeda!

[@bestopinion9257]

@@ketshisama The simulator is not accurate with billions of stars because we do not even know them. So, you can make some highlight points, you select them, travel to them and voila. With some practice it's not that hard.

[@GDT-Studio]

​@@bestopinion9257 Then i wanna see you do it

[@Bash-245]

Not sure which ones, but he used supergiants as waypoints. Clever

[@FLaT95]

What else could he use? lol

[@omarabdul2864]

​@FLaT95 the constellations duhhhh stoopi

[@Nanonn3]

​@@omarabdul2864 The constellations are a 2d projection of the stars from earth. From another pov the constellations are completely different

[@Jarmsik]

​@@omarabdul2864while he could use some sort of star arrangement for recognition, it wouldn't be nearly the same as the constellations we know.

[@alexritchie4586]

Probably used Betelgeuse. It's very near Earth and pretty unique even as supergiants go.

[@floatingsandbox6147]

bro doxxed himself to the aliens

[@A_packet_of_chips]

Nah bro doxxed aliens

[@cosmoscenti5173]

do not answer! do not answer!! do not answer!!!

[@diamondzoyd]

He doxxed us all

[@ShoddySheep.]

@@cosmoscenti5173🫚

[@electricminecrafter]

@@cosmoscenti5173 bros gonna be tear dropped or photoid-ed

[@Shumpywumper]

This honestly really helped me understand the scale of the universe

[@codymoe4986]

If this game is accurate, you are seeing 2 galaxies out of trillions. We understand nothing....

[@Shumpywumper]

@@codymoe4986 well I mean yea, but it still helps me understand that the “galaxy” we see in the sky without any light pollution is in fact the perspective of us being inside of the galaxy as if we were in a massive cloud. It just helps me understand how large galaxies are.

[@johnwirk]

​@@codymoe4986 Trillions with billions of stars and planets to go along. We know and understand absolutely nothing. "Starwars" may be closer to the truth than our own assumptions.

[@SupaSlugga17]

@@johnwirk and that's only covering the observable universe in the 3 dimensions our brains are capable of comprehending. According to string theory, there may be 10 or more spatial dimensions (directions that are perpendicular to all of the preceding ones) that our brains don't allow us to see.

[@positronikiss]

Negative hyperbole. We understand actually pretty much everything. Its just a couple of tiny mysteries that are still elusive. The real important stuff doesnt need understanding. Wouldnt you agree? Attempting to rationalize every single bit of existence is dissecting a and tearing a flower apart to grasp its beauty. ​@@codymoe4986

[@prodJBeyaz]

Bro smoking that Dune spice

[@yossarian00]

HAHA YES

[@SONNENKVLT]

Lisan al-Gaib

[@LordGeneralOHara]

Bruh I thought spice rarity was over at the 1900's why is spice so important in the far future

[@ran631]

Spice is a drug also known as baller liquid​@@LordGeneralOHara

[@AImeriia]

This might be common knowledge for space sailors in the future and this man is the first man to know the way!

[@2010ngojo]

Born in the wrong millennium.

[@kotovasiya-tv]

I bet space sailors in the future will use a bit more efficient ways:D

[@changluo2182]

​@@kotovasiya-tvThe more efficient way is in the newest video.

[@themodelcitizen988]

Space sailor Space(star) in Latin “Astro” Sail in Latin “Nauti” Put them together and there’s a neat word you can use instead of “space sailor.”

[@bitterlemonboy]

You have a faster than light spacecraft but you don't have a navigation computer? Lol

[@leBIGTROLLL]

When I die, I want to be able to spectate the universe like this

[@railworksamerica]

/gamemode spectator

[@COLLAPSARQ]

​@@railworksamerica you will able to see from point of view of every person in the world 💀

[@Don_Ramiro]

@@COLLAPSARQ Imagine the handjobs!!!

[@user-gy9hq5cb1f]

From islamic believes. We will be able to. We will get answers for all our universe questions. Crazy

[@Don_Ramiro]

@@COLLAPSARQ Imagine the fapping!!!

[@bashirosman456]

Wow! That’s insane. I haven’t timed myself but I wouldn’t be able to do it in 3 mins. My route is find the Milky Way, find the Carina Nebula and locate Deneb then find Orion’s Belt and pick out Rigel. From Rigel, look towards the center of the Milky Way then look upwards and you’ll see a cluster of stars, the Pleiades. Navigate to the Pleiades and you’ll see another cluster of stars, the Hyades. From the Hyades, you can locate Aldebaran and then looking towards the center of the Milky Way again, you’ll see a square root shaped constellation with the smallest and furthest left star (if you’ve done it correctly) being the Solar System. I thought you were going to do something like that but it seems like you found Orion’s Belt and just extrapolated from there. Crazy!

[@bashirosman456]

Also credit where credit is due, I found this technique on KZbin through an old space engine video about finding your way to earth. The author starts you off in a distant cluster of galaxies and navigates you back to earth, super cool

[@ljushastighet]

i just find carina nebula and find pleiades and line the stars up and go forward or backward until i find the sun

[@bashirosman456]

@@ljushastighet I’ll have to try that out, any tricks for getting the stars to align? I assumed it was like memorizing the stars from Pleiades and just replicating that on SE

[@ljushastighet]

@@bashirosman456 Yes it's memorizing the stars

[@James-zp5po]

@@bashirosman456 sry the universe doesn't exist earth is still and motionless and covered by a dome and the twinkling lights in the sky are twinkling lights in the sky they are not round

[@darthhunter69]

that's super impressive, you need to be the first person to pilot an intergalactic vessel

[@miawmiawgary2024]

I read it like "Andromeda to Earth, oh that's kinda easy (i didnt focus)" until i realize it was Andromeda to Earth

[@DeMooniC]

same lmao

[@kev4ev]

I travel from this far to Earth regularly in SpaceEngine for years (but usually it takes more than hour for me). The travel gives me a pleasure of realizing how valuable our Home is. This app changed my perception of everything. I've also traveled to Alpha Centauri (the closest star system) "in real time" about 12 years ago - this one took me, if I remember correctly, half a year (I kept launching SE weekly and fast forwarded ship flight sim up to date so it accelerated FTL in mid way - it was possible in SE back then).

[@tygical]

shouldn't have taken only half a year, should have been over 4 years if you were travelling at the speed of light

[@kev4ev]

@@tygical note that I've mentioned faster than light speed (FTL) which was possible in that version of SE

[@sachiekat1238]

FTL is still possible, unless you're talking about the space craft mode which I've never used so idk​@@kev4ev

[@altoids79762]

@@tygicaldue to relatively a flight from his perspective would be instantaneous at light speed

[@T3ss3R]

If imagine a super being eyeballing his way back to his home world at FTL speeds, this is what it would look like

[@renjiaow3742]

I wish we were born in a time where it was common.

[@KT-hi1rp]

The ultimate cameraman

[@muinfaH_ehT]

bros long term memory is so long that we need him for something i just dont know what

[@LeakyJAZZ]

I was faced with sheer dread from the idea of having to find Sol from outside the galaxy.

[@sobreaver]

Congratulation, you have now passed your novice exam for becoming a SpaceGuildNavigator, you now have unlocked access to the spice melange and the real trip begins XD

[@lordyoda607]

Thanks, this video will be useful the next time I wake up near Andromeda.

[@verleptehenk]

The space guild might want to hire this dude.

[@Sh1nGaming]

When he's located the Earth, and as he got close to it, I shed tears; our blue marble. "That's here. That's home. That's us.".... 🌏

[@appleslayer3337]

This is definitely one of those videos that randomly blows up in some number of years and people consistently come back to it and say "how the hell did this guy do that..."

[@Sivanot]

This guy was born way too early.

[@sanger1265]

Everything has to start with something.

[@SONNENKVLT]

Blud was born at the Big Bang 🔥🔥🔥☄️

[@960456]

Bro became a Guild Navigator

[@cjaria444]

No one: The drummer in our band when rehearsal starts in 10 mins:

[@bluelagoon5]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Joao-1114]

"What are you doing, mate? You can't drive in reverse!!"

[@nameistanya]

you've heard of rainbolt, now get ready for hailscrew

[@Livinghighandwise]

Space Engine absolutley blew me a way when it first came out.. And it was free..

[@puterboy2]

If only we could travel this fast in real life.

[@milde_underscore]

Google maps sucks in this area!!! Thanks for the tutorial

[@bluelagoon5]

🤣

[@ViPER5RT10]

Crazy how we’re literally in the ass end of nowhere within the Milky Way and people still believed Earth was the center of the universe only centuries ago…

[@SomeFinnishGUY33]

in reality we're just a rock orbiting a star not different from any other stars

[@rfichokeofdestiny]

Doesn’t seem that crazy to me. They observed everything rotating around us and came to a perfectly reasonable conclusion. They even worked out elaborate mathematical models to describe it all-just like we did after we pushed their models far enough that we discovered the holes in them. Now we have our own holes that stump us, like quantum gravity and dark matter and energy. It’s the same process. We’re just a little further down the road so we see the things they couldn’t.

[@CombineWatermelon]

It is the center. God made it all for us.

[@87axal]

​@@CombineWatermelonStop beeing so entitled and self-centered. Grow up.

[@puppergump4117]

@@87axal He does have a point, we may be the only planet in the universe that has sustainable life.

[@lynxf]

must be an experienced galactic hitchhiker

[@87axal]

He should write a guide.

[@puppergump4117]

Not as a video, maybe a book

[@ripoutyourintestines7029]

If there’s ANY space agency with a hidden FTL drive, I’d like to recommend this person for chief navigator.

[@hardboiled7467]

Bro definitely consume Spices🗿

[@splatterberry]

If he was born in the 31st century, he would’ve been the greatest interstellar vessel captain the universe had ever known.

[@aerolifts]

this guy isn’t a geoguesser, he’s an astroguesser

[@Qermaq]

"We gotta take back roads. Buckle up."

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

Outer space actually has the equivalent of "backroads" and that's the void areas where there aren't much star clusters, cosmic matters, nor even black holes. It's a literal empty void. Boote's Void is one of these.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

Earth is so precious, it always makes me feel like wanting everyone just to get along in peace and security as human life is precious

[@jefferinno]

This man’s mind has mastered the universe

[@frankquither4980]

Mind boggling how in reality that journey would take around 2.5 million years if you were travelling at the speed of light and Andromeda is considered a close Galaxy.

[@nickmonks9563]

London Cabby : "Bloody amateurs."

[@bitterlemonboy]

I should learn this too, just in case I get lost in the andromeda galaxy with a faster than light spacecraft

[@Gigatless]

Finally a guy who can find my guitar picks

[@chocoatemilk9227]

bro took “i know where you live” to the next level

[@ultraflopp2802]

Amazing! I have came up with an idea of a sci-fi novel where mankind is forced into leaving Earth but then they need to comeback for some reason and they will acknowledge that in the same manner as cats humans are also capable of backtracking their way back home no matter the instance

[@jasonharrison25]

My idea for a novel/TV show is not too far off of yours. But instead their ship is sucked unto a wormhole (or other similar macguffin) that sends them back to the early universe. The crew has to figure out where they are, calculate the age of the universe and navigate back to earth. But the trick is they need to carefully travel at the right speed to take advantage of relativity so slow their time so they arrive at the same moment they left or got sucked into the wormhole. But now knowing how the event unfolds they are able to avoid the wormhole. So they would need to traverse the universe from star to star navigating and updating their star maps and gathering information on the universe along the way. But their traveling needs to be close to the speed of light for the effects to take place. They would have to stop every so often to recalculate and set a new course. And they have to do all of this with the skeleton crew and only the resources they had with them for fear of changing the universe too much by altering the early universe and butterfly effect. fortunately for them the universe isn't altered enough to make a noticeable difference at home. Or has it....

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

Leaving Earth and not being able to find your way back has the same panic feeling as not being able to find your way back home when you've ventured too far out of your neighborhood as a little kid 😂

[@LDSCars]

words cannot describe how small this video made me feel

[@Metallimad06]

Humans with our intelligence, music, culture, eras makes us more valuable than any star or nebula

[@fly463]

​​​@@Metallimad06 nice copium Those billions of nebulas will live trillions of years & will give birth to many life forms in the process while humanity hasn't even been around for more than a million years 😂.

[@Metallimad06]

@@fly463 nihilism is cringe and 15

[@fly463]

@@Metallimad06 Dumbn€ss & ignorance is even more cringe

[@fly463]

@@Metallimad06 ign0rant and straight up d*mb statements are even more nihilst!c in the sense that they have just given up on thinking about reality & are just straight up delusional now 😂🤣.

[@MildPsychedelic]

"Plot a course, ensign." "No need, Captain!"

[@Pidrox]

So this is how Omniman went to Earth from viltrum xD

[@BabyInYellow44]

NASA needs to hire this man

[@HelicopterDown]

he's like rainbolt for the stars

[@Wmann]

I can’t fathom that the stars seem so close but are really lightyears apart. Everyone knows this but space is just too big to be comprehended by us

[@OdieErabi]

this video is a masterpiece, your talent is incredible!

[@ZeKermet]

As someone who's played SE before, this is super impressive

[@mob1235]

Planets obits is a kind of navigation. You should also try with reallife brightness settings

[@Vik-wy3it]

I refuse to believe there exists no life in the universe. It's impossible. We may never find it as humanity, but the odds are infinite for it to be there

[@The_Guy_On_The_Penny]

Agreed, since the universe is 93 billion years across, with hundreds of billions of stars in each galaxy, there has got to be atleast 30000 planets with live in the galaxy.

[@Metallimad06]

There's the same mathematical possibility that we're totally alone aswell. I honestly just care about my life and what I can do for other people, animals, and my planet as my home and existence. The things I can do like learn a new skill, ride a motorcycle, and find true love.

[@The_Guy_On_The_Penny]

@@Metallimad06 Honestly, same here.

[@fly463]

​​​​@@Metallimad06 lmao sure buddy "We could be totally alone" xD There are TRILLIONS of planets 1,000,000,000,000+ in JUST Milky Way alone.

[@Metallimad06]

@@fly463 reddit nihilism cringe out moment "we are small n shiet", I'm not denying anything about life I'm just saying the other part could be possible

[@Dvpainter]

I love doing things like this in Space Engine I'm shocked a video even popped up similar to it

[@cosmicprison9819]

“Now, THIS is speedrunning.” -Anakin Skywalker

[@mbox1510]

Driving so fast and only looking back is considered dangerous

[@apelsin9094]

Nah geoguessers are bored of finding locations on earth, they try to find the earth from other galaxies now

[@g.r.senterprisevenatorclas7314]

I saw another comment similar to this, but I also misread the title and for some reason though it said 'Alpha Ceuntari' and thought that seems pretty easy. And it was only when the camera zoomed out that I remembered 'Andromeda' is a different *Galaxy* and I kind of just went 'O-Oh...'

[@Curiouscosmosman]

This man will never lost in space

[@joeGamming1990]

He'll be the navigator for interstellar journey.

[@R2Bl3nd]

If I ever get lost in space, I hope I have this guy with me.

[@Elikashki]

In the 4 thousands... What you did right now, will be the basic knowledge in Nasa's Astronauts. Like... Imagine you're an astronaut that flew far away to Andromeda, and then had to come back to Earth. (And yes, I know that traveling faster than light is impossible for us, but who knows?)

[@SFCProJunior]

"Im the other side of the universe" This guy: "i gotchu"

[@Moechtegernpilot1]

Going from Andromeder to the milky way is easy but I’ve got no idea how he pulled of that stunt of finding the sun amongst a sea of stars

[@djfull4442]

Is that Betelgeuse at 1:05

[@birbeyboop]

If you're talking about the big red blob on the right, no. That's the Carina/Keyhole nebula and it's ~8,500 light years away from us anti-spinward, as opposed to Betelgeuse which is ~650 light years away in the rimward direction

[@djfull4442]

Ooo, thank you

[@Sobhancraft]

Yeah

[@Sobhancraft]

To spot it, you need to spy the Skima star ant to the left there is a galaxy cluster called the moon Tara and according to science, the andromeda galaxy has a visible star with a size of ^63^9[1] or greater that will show our sun smaller than normal so we can size it 67^[9] times better than ^5103572[8.09] so scientists have been able to detect the skima moon that is the brother galaxy of skima’s cornered galaxy and to spot the carina, you need a size of 3845(385) [8(995)] 95 ly wide telescope to spot the carina and in short ride do carina, 74446[38447575657835757759374]ee764463[856448423(84474647)93844747474739384747] is the minimum ly/8346[3846(8374[8363]8374)83747[847463884(847474)8448]] second of carina tell and some reflection of uuuuuu(736) light (orange blue red) will see and so we can spot the carina Btw it’s hard to spot the carina

[@Tjita1]

Kinda hard to fathom how infinitesimally small we are.

[@kjul.]

He's moving faster than light isn't he

[@byelmoreira1690]

Earth is so beautiful in the middle of the empty space 🤯 Our home is definitely a very special place in the whole universe!

[@puppergump4117]

Every type of planet in one

[@The_Guy_On_The_Penny]

While Earth is no doubt beautiful. Its not special considering that there's tens of billions of stars in our galaxy and many of the planets that orbit those stars have life.

[@somerandomname3124]

This is the guy who becomes a guild navigator and is forced to get a spice addiction in Dune.

[@samueleraffa6383]

What geoguessr pros do when earth becomes too easy for them

[@TopatTom]

Dont let this dude even see a pixel of your home

[@TheNoBeC]

ah, georainbolt‘s lost twin, unirainbolt

[@splatterberry]

He doesn’t need a star chart.

[@brookzhang333]

哥们的未来职业是太空的哥👍🏻

[@arjunramamoorthy9109]

As always Kudos to the cameraman 🎉

[@BrvtusVG]

Someday this will be someone's drive home from the shops.

[@BigBrotherMateyka]

"He's too dangerous to be left alive..."

[@SCPRED]

This is the guy we need to guide us on our interstellar voyage

[@ohmss069]

If you could traverse space at this speed you could basically see the whole local group in like five minutes 😂😂😂

[@snappingturtle8917]

Aliens be like “No take Andromeda to IG-50. I don’t care if it’ll add 15 minutes to the trip it’s more direct!!!”

[@arandominternetperson4462]

First were Geoguessr tryhards, now this dude. Bro has memorized TWO GALAXIES.

[@heakhaek]

This man is literally a Spacing Guild Navigator

[@alinzzzzz]

Brb, gonna send this to an alien.

[@Skilledarkmagician]

Bro might be an alien

[@spaceenjoyer8304]

"Nooo, we'll never master space, we're too little to explore it!" Literally what human brain is capable of:

[@KingJAB_]

Damn, finding the sun would be like spotting a specific grain of sand in an entire dump-truck's worth of sand, how did bro find it among 100000000000 other stars!

[@LukasBrockton]

I feel like the series Lost in Space plays with this idea, just without teleportation. Instead its just hyperdrive off course.

[@omeryakc1536]

I will have to give control of my spaceship to this guy.

[@Soloohara]

Beautiful video, this software it’s amazing

[@bobgdogedoghi8817]

Nobody can comprehend how difficult there is there are already hundreds of stars just 100 light years away from the sun and the Milky Way harbours several billion stars we know where we are in the Milky Way but to find earth is pretty much impossible for a human without practice from auto navigation beforehand

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

One can try to find the biggest star near the solar system, Betelguese, and work their way from there to other prominent stars near the Sun like Sirius.

[@bobgdogedoghi8817]

@@_Just_Another_Guyyes, but the stars are still small in comparison to the scale of the galaxy

[@silvervisage5096]

Seeing such reminds us again how small and insignificant we are.

[@robinsparrow1618]

what are you looking for in the milky way to find it? i've been doing what i call The Building Orion Method, but i'm still not able to reliably do it

[@jaymac7203]

The distances are incredible 😮