The Future of Space Tech

Sorry, dear subscribers, that I have not posted anything in a while, but I hope this will make up for it. The trouble is these animations take a very long time to make. This is a compilation of six clips depicting various types of future space technology. The Stanford Torus (space colony) scene alone took well over two months to create. The six clips depict:
1. Asteroid mining
2. Venus cloud habitats
3. A space elevator
4. A type of space colony called a Stanford Torus
5. A terraforming station on Mars, and
6. Starships from Earth arriving at an alien planet.
All work was created in Blender on Linux, and rendered on two graphics cards. Music is by the AWESOME Utho Riley (uthoriley.com), with extra music and sound effects from ProductionCrate.com.
Most of the modeling was done by my but a small part of it is kitbash.
Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE.
See much more of my work at www.space-art.co.uk and www.markgarlick.com.
Thank you, and enjoy!

[@kumbah2006]

This needs way more views and likes, seriously ! :)

[@spaceboffin]

Sigh. Yes.

[@musafawundu6718]

Man, Isaac Arthur should hire you straight up, cuz! You is da real deal!

[@erideimos1207]

Wow! Fantastic! Enormous amount of work. Thank you. Subbed.

[@spaceboffin]

Cheers, pal.

[@kumbah2006]

Wow ! Just simply incredible - mostly for "Asteroid Mining", and the Stanford Torus ! :) It's all great, but those 2 are my favorites! Much love, and thanks for all the hard work. :) Am surprised you weren't hired out for a movie with some of these incredible animations !

[@spaceboffin]

I wish. I do the odd animation for documentaries but that's it. Thank for your kind words.

[@johnmcpherson5137]

Frickin' inspiring! I've watched this a few times, and get flooded with emotion each time. This is the future we need.

[@spaceboffin]

I agree wholeheartedly. Thanks, John.

[@David_Kelly_SF]

Amazing quality, several of these could be scenes from my books! The music adds a wonderfully epic feel to the images. Outstanding.

[@spaceboffin]

Thanks, David. Yes, I love this music. It fits so well!

[@lollerfist6099]

Fantastic, really! Did you use real hypothetical dimensions for the stanford torus?

[@spaceboffin]

Thanks. I used the dimensions from NASA's original proposal.

[@mikea140]

Made me wish i could be there to see it! Bravo!

[@ChristopherDoll]

Awesome, Mark. Really awesome. I love all of this

[@spaceboffin]

Thank you so much

[@madhatter5921]

priceless contribution to the future

[@taqyon]

Wow, so inspiring and uplifting!

[@spaceboffin]

Thank you very much

[@pgarlick]

Good stuff. The fly-through the space colony was my fav!

[@spaceboffin]

That sequence took eight weeks!

[@pgarlick]

@@spaceboffin Time to get a quantum computer!

[@spaceboffin]

Actually, ten weeks.

[@winkekatze5593]

@@spaceboffin Impressive

[@kumbah2006]

It's one of my favorites, along with the "Asteroid Mining", as well ! :)

[@SidBarnhoorn]

Hi Mark, just discovered your YT channel. I remember being very inspired by your artwork while creating my music, a long time ago! This video is beautiful and again very inspiring!

[@spaceboffin]

Thanks, Siddharta,

[@johnhetherington2667]

Certainly a wonderful and inspiring video. I applaud you on the technical and artistic effort contained here. Good luck with you future. Long live Linux, I use Q4OS, knowing you use Linux has made 2024 for Me.

[@spaceboffin]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jimplaxco6249]

Wonderfully done Mark.

[@spaceboffin]

My thanks, Jim

[@HowardBloomInstitute]

fabulous, mark. f***ing fabulous.

[@spaceboffin]

Cheers, Howard!

[@iaaavideo3094]

Magnificent!

[@CarlosWong54]

Wow this just leaves one speechless 😮

[@spaceboffin]

Thanks

[@Maytrx]

Can Isaac Arthur use your videos as footage in his SFIA presentations?

[@willease]

Oh, for Christ's sake, how are you not famous? Watching this with VR headset later!

[@johnmcpherson5137]

Yes! This is the future we must have, the future we deserve! It's akin to "The Expanse", but hopefully without all the politics, infighting, war, sabotage, drama, etc. Our expansion into the solar system should be more collaborative and peaceful. Out there we're all equally "babes in the woods" relying on each other for mutual aid. The result should look a bit like "The Culture" or the Star Trek Federation during an extended peacetime.

[@spaceboffin]

Thank you. I myself am not at all optimistic. I don't this we'll be seeing much of this in my lifetime, or even my daughter's. Too much greed, lust for power and lack of willingness or ability to work together on grand scales.

[@dixonhill1108]

The problem with the expanse is the idea that colonies wouldn't be beautiful to live on. Minor nitpick, but picture if the sides of the torus had diverse architecture and cultures within it. A china town, eurotown, little USA etc.

[@Godzillafanboy89]

​@@spaceboffindid you quit yt or something cause it's been a year

[@spaceboffin]

@@Godzillafanboy89 no I'm still here. These things take time. Posted about two weeks ago, and another one is coming soon.

[@richardgreen7225]

Windows are 20th century thinking. Space-craft will use something like web cameras and software to stabilize the view on wide-screen TVs to avoid causing motion-sickness. Wide-screen TV are approaching the same cost as windows. They will make windows obsolete (or not needed) in some contexts.

[@spaceboffin]

The windows (I assume you mean in the roof) are an integral part of the Stanford Torus' design. They let sunlight in via a system of mirrors. And since people don't typically walk around with their head craned to look directly overhead, I don't see motion sickness being an issue. If they did, they'd see only the central hub, which rotates with the ring, so it'll appear stationary.

[@World_of_OSes]

@@spaceboffin Wouldn't it be better just to use solar panels and LEDs?

[@kumbah2006]

@@spaceboffin- I'm really curious though: just how big is the "space wheel"? Just going by the video itself, it would look to have a similar "fade" distance, of an observer within the torus, to be about the "size" of Earth, or maybe I am misjudging the true size? A person might not be able to view the hub without the help of a pair of binoculars, maybe? Still, majorly complex and awe inspiring, that's for sure ! Again, more "thanks" can't even begin to express the sheer amount of work this had to take ...

[@spaceboffin]

@@kumbah2006 It's way smaller than that, only 1.8 km across the entire torus with and internal diameter of about 150m. Probably the haze effect is too strong.

[@spaceboffin]

@@World_of_OSes Why, when sunlight it free?

[@JFrazer4303]

The asteroid mining allows the Torus habitats, which make terraforming irrelevant. Terraforming is a silly idea anyway: we can't live in low G (unless and until its proven that we can). A fully terraformed Mars, Venus, the Moon, Titan, Europa etc would give maybe 2x the land surface of Earth. In just the inner Solar system small bodies, there are materials for space habitats for hundreds of times the Earth's land surface, in better conditions than down on any body - including better than much of the Earth. In the main Belt, thousands of times, and the "habitable zone" around the Sun goes out into the Oort cloud and beyond by varying the mirror sizes. The '70s NASA Ames space settlement studies found that the largest pressure vessel which we could build to hold shielding and everything inside was ~30km diameter, by maybe as long; drum shape or torus. (no long cylinders because they are unstable). That's with concrete and steel; no magic futuristic materials. With titanium (which isn't rare out there) maybe twice as big.

[@notbrandon8612]

What animation software do you use for this?

[@spaceboffin]

Blender

[@michellemartine]

19th century imaginings of the the 20th century reveal how difficult it can be to anticipate even the near future. The primary truth about predictions of the future is how hilariously wrong they often are.

[@spaceboffin]

I agree. I am under no illusions here. Most of this will not happen in my lifetime or that of my daughter. If ever.

[@chinmaychandraunshuh]

However Stanford torus and o Neil cyclinders are concepts from 50s or 60s, well over 50 years now, but still are relevant

[@Sven_Dongle]

I once dreamed of destiny in space, but then those whose ancestors watched the waves and felt the wind for 10000 years, yet never dreamed a sail became ascendent somehow. Through some memetic mind virus and ethnomasochistic defect, those who never devised writing, nor even the wheel, somehow gained dominion over the future of space.

[@spaceboffin]

Er ... ok.

[@Sven_Dongle]

@@spaceboffin Sad, isnt it? Despite your grandiose renderings, the future of humanity appears to be to wallow on this mudball until drowning in the feces and garbage of those that cant do basic math.

[@spaceboffin]

@@Sven_Dongle I tend to agree. I'd love to see some of this come to fruition but I have serious doubts it ever will.