The 100 Year Journey to Proxima Centauri B (Sci-Fi Documentary)

This is a sci-fi documentary, looking at the 100 years it will take a nuclear fusion spacecraft to travel to Proxima Centauri b. The closest habitable planet to Earth, with a distance of 4.24 light years.
A journey venturing far beyond Earth’s solar system, showing the future science of space travel, exploration, and future space technology.
Personal inspiration in creating this video comes from: the movie Interstellar, The Expanse TV show, and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos TV show.
Other topics in the video include: the population growth over the 100 year timelapse journey to Proxima Centauri b, how bacteria evolves in a closed loop system, the design of the spaceship habitat ring, the rotations per minute needed to generate 1-g of artificial gravity, the conservation of angular momentum in space, the living conditions on Proxima Centauri b (the higher gravity, and the red light), and time dilation is explained (how many extra days will pass on Earth when the spaceship arrives at the destination planet - just like the movie Interstellar).
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Created by: Jacob B
Narration by: Alexander Masters
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Proxima Centauri B concept art: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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A future timelapse sci fi documentary of interstellar space travel to a new world, Proxima Centauri b, to create a new space colony.
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[@VentureCity]

The grand crossing to Proxima Centauri B. Some personal inspiration for this video came from: the movie Interstellar, the Nauvoo generational ship from The Expanse tv show, and Carl Sagan's Cosmos tv show. Areas of the video where I would want to expand in more detail include: the ship design and how it was built, specific technology on board such as medical tech, and maybe more about the nuclear fusion engines. 🖖 The short video, Interstellar A.I.: Writing the Encyclopedia of the Galaxy (inspired by Carl Sagan), is available on my Patreon here: www.patreon.com/venturecity New Project: This is something I've wanted to start for a number of years, creating an Encyclopedia of the Future. A collection of entries, defining future technology in the areas of space habitation, space engineering, biotechnology, cyber society, A.I. robotics, regenerative medicine, and much more. The first volume contains 31 entries with illustrations and is also available on my Patreon. It is a large ongoing project, with additional volumes to be published that will complete the final Encyclopedia.

[@FlintandSteel94]

Will you be doing a video for the first 10,000 days on Proxima Centauri B to follow up this video? I look forward to it if you are. I love watching all your videos!

[@markmcdougal1199]

I'd also like to see more detail about food and recycling, science discoveries while dealing with problems, reasons for not going faster, and maintaining mental and psychological health. Well done.

[@QuestionMark......]

On the next video: The great crossing to Gliese 581G.

[@oldtimer2192]

A brilliant mini documentary! On a par with and even better than some mainstream corporations documentaries. Most enjoyable. 👍👍

[@sleepmnan22sleepman50]

As an older person, I want to ask one question. - FOR WHAT? Why do you want to fly into space? What do you want to find there? New Earth? So, are you having a hard time living on your old one? Then who is to blame for this? We still don’t know how to live properly on Earth! Look around! What's the point in these flights if the same assholes that walk around you on the ground fly on advanced ships!!! Until we make leaps in social development here on Earth, we have nothing to do in space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Rottingboards]

In the 1980s our high school science teacher made the class figure out how far Alpha Centauri was using a large roll of paper. We had to make it to scale with our universe. Then he made each of us write a paper and give a speech on how our class would survive the trip. May you live long as star dust Mr. Miller. You made me become a scientist.

[@georgelyras1978]

Those are the real teachers. It's not about opening a book and reciting it to a class ....it's about inspiration and theory and personal effort, to aspire the next generation of physicists and astronauts and technicians

[@TheAntsNest]

I luv how ya'll think you just jump in a ship & hey presto Centuri next stop.. like the ship wont hit any trouble in deepspace & our tech wont malfunction or break down, because it never does. Hilarious 😂

[@Rottingboards]

@@TheAntsNest I don't think anyone thinks that presto you are there. Or do we even think it is possible at this stage. Not sure where you got that idea.

[@TheAntsNest]

@@Rottingboards ikr where would I get that idea, 7k comments & over half have their hed up there arses thinking its Alpha Centauri next stop 🤣

[@jamesleyda365]

🤘rad teacher🤘

[@jonathansenkerik2503]

One thing these space travel videos always forget... Meanwhile back on earth, they discover a way to travel twice faster and send a new ship, the Helianthus II. Helianthus II arrives to Proxima Centauri about 25 years before the first. When the passengers of Helianthus arrive at Proxima Centauri, I would love to see the look on their face when they realize humans are already there.

[@FlyingGuy]

I always think of this when the Voyager spacecraft are discussed. We could in the future, catch up to something that we blasted into space 100 years earlier. This always leaves you thinking, should we just wait until we have warp drive before sending people off on 100 year missions?

[@eclipse369.]

@@FlyingGuy No reason to wait. If people volunteer for such missions then let them do it asap.

[@smithbry2000]

@@FlyingGuy There was a Twilight Zone episode that touched on that: An astronaut was placed in cryosleep on his way to a system authorities believed could support life, but his pod malfunctioned. Meanwhile, back on Earth they developed technology that gave them the answers they were looking for long before he got there. He returned as an old man.

[@rexx9496]

Since the first ship is still in radio contact with earth I don't think it would be a surprise.

[@bondlevee]

Or we are able to open a wormhole that can make travel only a matter of second

[@mikeg9b]

Videos like this are what makes KZbin great! The first step to actually creating this spaceship is to imagine it. Next time I come across a video saying, "People will never leave the solar system," I'll put a link to this video in the comments. I wish you would have said a few words about radiation shielding. And maybe maintenance of the spacecraft over the 100 years, as that would probably be needed.

[@paolameyer4937]

probability works against it. Do you live in a city? Just look around the public places.

[@Leon-mn8eo]

@@paolameyer4937 this isn't a concept that would be put into action anytime soon. honestly this is probably the most probable outcome in terms of us settling on another planet. knowing humans, we probably have the brains to figure it out and the money to make it happen. but the only way humanity would come together to send a new civilization to another planet would be if we all worked in unison, and for that to happen would mean that humanity is on the brink of being wiped out. which means that things would be ALOT more serious and not as laxed and sloppy as it is right now. an advanced civilization such as the one portrayed in this KZbin video would need very strict rules with dire consequences if broken. Wed actually have a real task on our hands and a reason to improve ourselves. right now humanity is basically a 45 year old alcoholic who only talks about quitting sometimes.

[@hfontanez98]

OUTSTANDING!!! The entire time I was watching this, I was putting myself on that ship.

[@JamesMackenzie-sx2bu]

And that is where you will stay forever.

[@fahyadsingh1]

Are You on Drugs?

[@doughnutdoney997]

Like many would love to see a Part 2....the next 100 years on the new planet.

[@JoshTyrReece]

It would be 5 minutes. All died because their immune system got fucked over the long journey and wasn't able to adapt to a complete new ecosystem with own bacteria and viruses that mankind never had contact with. 😂 Nah no idea...but I also think it would be interesting to hear how they could overcome such problems.

[@Rs_-Wars]

@@JoshTyrReece Their immune systems would have adapted to space over the years and would make it easier for them to adapt to a new planet. Doesn't mean it woudn't be challenging tho and take time to overcome the things you pointed out.

[@nenadgross55]

Next - they passing by the ship coming from Proxima towards Earth - where hell are you going, we just left Proxima which is going to explode 😉

[@paulnorton3607]

Fighting, arguing, segregation, communities that spring up with violently opposing views. You can hand pick the original 'perfect' crew but after that nature just takes over. I wonder if the first murder will be celebrated as the first birth was? Then we can truly say that human beings have arrived.

[@martinschmid3636]

@@JoshTyrReece exactly what i think

[@BritishRosie-es3zr]

The levels of redundancy in such a craft would have to be enormous - building a 'vehicle' that won't have a fatal flaw over 100 years is a staggering ambition

[@xaxx0n]

100 of them ?

[@xaxx0n]

or enough to take on a shipwreck x

[@Helloverlord]

Humans already made probes in 1977. that flawlessly working today. Technology advanced since then. Don't judge technology by a quality of your home appliances. Anyway, it's not about machines that might fail, it's about humans that would go mad certainly.

[@user-hg2gt2wb3c]

Not really. The ship would have fabrication resources on board, and a crew to maintain it. It might even have a companion vessel, for redundancy. The real challenges with generation ships are all social and biological. It's keeping the ecosystems in balance and the humans onboard from killing each other that we would have a problem with.

[@taxidriver877]

@@Helloverlord Those probes aren't working flawlessly. Several components on each have failed and were turned off years ago.

[@vvkilin]

Best sci fi I ever watched on KZbin

[@aglebeismael7152]

This is the best time dilation explanation that i've heard

[@alihms]

In a more realistic scenario, there will be more than 1 spaceship. A whole armada in-fact. Some ships are habitable, some are not. The unhabitable ones carry supplies such as ship repair parts, construction equipment (for use on the new planet), land vehicles etc. Another un-habitable (or rather semi-habitable) ones may even be some sort of environment laboratory and training ship. They simulate the living condition on Proxima Centauri B. To prepare and to acclimatise these pioneers. They would be also several follow-up armadas sent from earth. Sent several years later to keep the whole mission succesful and to keep the link to mother earth intact.

[@jaylewis9876]

I would make all 100 inhabited and within a flight of each other, but far enough apart one exploding wouldn’t damage a neighbor. Survivors can be rescued and divided across the remaining ships.

[@patrickkelly737]

I agree, ships would have to be staggered. That would increase the population and add genetic diversity

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

Yes cool, and a few army ships sould not be missing either, before these colonists forget to pay earth back for the starting help. Later that will change in taxes.

[@jeffwads]

Wrong. There is a whole lot of much more serious problems with this scenario. How are you going to stop the ship or ships? It would take a huge amount of energy to do that. The system may be a complete garbage dump. We don't know enough about it.

[@orange_turtle3412]

In a more realistic scenario, there wouldnt be humans at all. We wouldnt risk it for a planet we know absolutely nothing about. We arent even sure if Proxima Cen B is habitable

[@smokejaguar67]

That was fantastic and far too short. I loved every single second of it and felt sad when it ended. Well done

[@VentureCity]

Thank you. Yeah there is a lot more I would want to include. Maybe for another video, or for a blog post.

[@johnlawrance5387]

watch the expance series its fantastic just like this short documentry but 100 plus episodes

[@slimerone]

@@VentureCity another video preferably ; )

[@micahspacetalk2237]

@@VentureCity holding a baby up to a light, maaaaaaaaa. lol. Lion king reference.

[@jamesroberts3642]

ChatGPT and AI thanks you

[@lewispond9876]

Very nice, imaginative video. In it, we see the interstellar voyagers avoid any significant meteoroid impacts, the effects of radiation from a number of sources, on-board epidemics, premature depletion of supplies, failure of critical equipment and social unrest/mutiny without any assurances that the planetary chemistry and native biologics (if any) at the destination are in any way compatible to human life. There has to be an assumption the people who planned and funded this passage have spent a few centuries sending a myriad of probes to sample the environment of the potential new home for humanity and have concluded it's just right for occupation. Over hundreds of million years terrestrial life has evolved and adapted to very specific conditions on Earth. Finding these identical conditions on a planet in another star system is a fantasy.

[@scottelly2]

I agree. In fact, it would be totally impossible. Just like the indians died when Europeans interacted with them, humans would die when they interact with life on another planet, because humans have no natural immunity developed/evolved to alien bacteria from another planet. (Think of the "War of the Worlds" scenario, where the invading aliens died from being killed by bacteria.)

[@ronaldduncan8044]

Wow, just wow! What a well thought out and imaginative vid.

[@TheAntsNest]

Sorry to break it to ya but Its garbage🚮

[@stu1c]

I applaud the effort that went into making this. Thoroughly enjoyed ❤

[@willc1294]

'....along the way, a reactor malfunction damages the ship, precipitating a crisis amongst the ships 7 most powerful leaders. As they enter the proxima centauri system, the crew splits into 7 distinct factions, divided not by nationality, but by ideology and their vision for the new world. After the ship breaks apart, the 7 leaders guide their chosen crew down to the planet surface, seeking their destiny beneath an alien sky.'

[@willc1294]

@@user-sc3ts6lf8rlol indeed, the scenario above (which I borrowed from Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri) is more realistic than this utopian vision 🤣

[@jasonrubik]

@@willc1294 sounds like "seveneves"

[@WindjumbieFPV]

It's probably real and been on it's way for the last 50 years

[@carssucksince1800s]

Effort? This was entirely created by AI.

[@Just_a_Reflection]

Great stuff. If you ever decide to let it be made into a dramatized series, please maintain creative control 🙏🏿.

[@VentureCity]

That would be cool

[@FrontGardeninNormandy]

🙏

[@ChazX]

🙏

[@Maffmatix]

@@VentureCity It would be imperative. Don't let blood sucking Hollywood in.

[@sleepmnan22sleepman50]

As an older person, I want to ask one question. - FOR WHAT? Why do you want to fly into space? What do you want to find there? New Earth? So, are you having a hard time living on your old one? Then who is to blame for this? We still don’t know how to live properly on Earth! Look around! What's the point in these flights if the same assholes that walk around you on the ground fly on advanced ships!!! Until we make leaps in social development here on Earth, we have nothing to do in space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Redcell6A]

Fascinating content. Thank you!

[@robertbe2520]

Fascinating! Very thought provoking. Well done 🎉

[@MarcusBadi]

This is better than Hollywood sci-fi movies.

[@-TheMaskedMan-]

Is this on VR or something? Why did they have that Thumbnail???

[@MarcusBadi]

@@-TheMaskedMan- I think this is all IA generated. Text, voice and images.

[@ericpowell4350]

Watch the movie "Pandorum". 😅

[@ericpowell4350]

​@@MarcusBadithey did a great job.

[@MarcusBadi]

@@ericpowell4350 i like it!!

[@cardanomm3194]

I love how you give us science through storytelling. The graphics are awesome as well. Congratulations.

[@VentureCity]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it

[@TraderRobin]

Yes, it is very well done.

[@piotr.czechowski]

AI FTW

[@thesovietflaganthemguy2344]

@@VentureCityI’m on my knees begging a part 2

[@donkimbrel544]

Y u 88⁸

[@gavdownes100]

That was well presented. A lot of things taken into consideration. I quite like the eye evolution

[@ojc147]

That was excellent. You earned a new sub :)

[@VentureCity]

Thank you, welcome to the channel

[@kruzrken]

Would love to see a sequel: how they settle the new planet.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

I fear that astronomers do not yet know enough about Proxima Centauri b for such a film to make sense in the style of this channel, which closely sticks by established facts.

[@charleskuchenbrod8400]

Replay the Robinson Crusoe adventure cartoon. Awesome

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@charleskuchenbrod8400 Robinson Crusoe finds water and food on his island, even a native human being. It's not likely that you'll find such things on Proxima Centauri b, but if the presence of, say, plants is ascertained after you have made a sequel to the video here offered with no plants being present, it could appear as a little ridiculous. Like all that fiction with the jungles on Venus of the pre-Venera period, just vice versa. And in this case, you could not even argue that a grandiose fictional panorama still retains its value, like with Nelson Bond's Venusian scenario _The Last Outpost_ - because you're dealing with a documentary approach advancing into fiction but mildly.

[@carl6352]

They would probably kill it, the new germs we bring to it, or germs on the planet would kill us or predators!

[@EatMyOats]

​@@HansDunkelberg1We recently learned the planet (and the others around red dwarfs) is Tidal Locked. Like our Moon, one side faces the master gravity. One side of the planet would be extremely hot and the other side extremely cold. Any atmosphere on the cold side would probably freeze. Multiple reasons they could not be habitable. It would have been much more cost-effective to maneuver multiple asteroids, into a large enclosed rotating cylinder orbiting 6 months behind earth exactly opposite of earth from the Sun.

[@Delosian]

Great video, but Proxima Centauri B has an average temperature of -39C (-38F) and is tidally locked to a red star, much like the planet Krypton, so will only be habitable in a small ring around the planet, with desert on one side and tundra on the other side, and that is if it even does have an oxygen - nitrogen atmosphere, which is most likely does not, with atmospheric models showing it most likely has a carbon dioxide - oxygen atmosphere. Also, being so close to the red star that it orbits, the UV radiation and X-rays will most likely kill anything unshielded, if the solar winds haven't already stripped off the atmosphere leaving it more like our Moon or Mars. What we need to find is a young white star like our own.

[@blitzmotorscooters1635]

exactly. we will not be sending any Gen Ships towards Alpha Centari... nothing for us there

[@vkobevk]

@@blitzmotorscooters1635 you confuse alpha centuari with proxima centauri alpha centauri a and b are yellow and orange stars, so it worth to observe and launch probe there to check their Goldilocks Zone, if you find planets and moon there chance are good to find planets or moons with liquid water ocean or few lakes

[@blitzmotorscooters1635]

@@vkobevk yeah we need to know for sure

[@raminagrobis6112]

X-rays and other short-wave lethal radiations would likely be the main factor to consider before even envisioning any place (even with a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere) to inhabit. Otherwise, it's going to look like life on Mars. Better terraforming Mars if we are to accept to live enclosed in bunkers and other shielded habitations, or underground. Much closer and much higher chances of success. The thing unmanned exploration should determine first is the presence of a magnetosphere on any candidate Elysia. This, ideally along with ozone, is the factor that'll protect us from lethal radiation from the star near which we'll choose an Earth 2.0, which is to look for before sending any large contingent of people.

[@alfredoreliford3329]

Like Earth, in a small habitable Sun ring… meant for us…Terrans… Unite…☀️under this sun…

[@eddiec4536]

Awesome, so amazing to think about. More please.

[@rexpayne7836]

Fascinating. Loved it.😊

[@ront.9414]

My initial reaction was this journey will never happen. Too many obstacles to overcome. How many years to develop the technology? The cost. Who’s paying for it? Who’s going to decide who can volunteer for this mission? What about the need for continuing pharmacology development? Diseases will evolve, especially in such a closed environment, just as Covid 19 has. What about the ability to enjoy life itself? Can that be met on a spacecraft, regardless of its size? We are destroying our home, earth, without a doubt. Perhaps the money would be better spent on preserving what we already have. Having said that, my grandparents were born in a time before man could fly. As a young kid in the 60’s I remember waking up early to watch the early American space flights and the Apollo missions. Man on the moon? Impossible! If mission to Proxima Centauri is ever launched it will be many years after my passing. If it happens, I wish the crew a resounding success.

[@freeculture]

You seem to be thinking in you, there are others who are willing to do it. You can even bring religion if you want, as it was hinted in The Expanse. A baby that is born in a ship has nothing to miss. Right now you can see fantastic landscapes in movies and games, you may want to be there but know its impossible. Same for them, for all they know the ship is their home and may even refuse to leave it when it reaches its destination, preferring to die in it but encourage the new ones to try a new life in the planet below. It'll be just a space colony. Heck even on this Earth, if you are born in the wrong place, living in a place like you do right now is fantasy for others. "Oh i have a rough idea how Americans may live from watching several movies and shows, but i can't even afford a ticket and they don't allow entry without a visa that is expensive and only available in another country that my gov doesn't allow to visit in the first place" (and this is not fiction).

[@europaeuropa3673]

Destroying Earth would mean destroying human population. The exact opposite is happening last I checked unless the globalists cause an all out nuclear war.

[@anwarfirdaus2155]

There are several factors that make Proxima Centauri b a challenging place for life as we know it. Its parent star is prone to solar flares, which could strip away its atmosphere and pose a danger to potential life. Additionally, the planet is tidally locked, meaning one side always faces the star and the other is in constant darkness, which could create extreme temperature differences.

[@jovicespanol]

they would be living around the prime meridian

[@edgein3299]

Why do you have to be the turd in the punch bowl?

[@WatchTheTitles]

Why? Because, FACTS! @@edgein3299

[@MotionMcAnixx]

So? Send some Aussies to the sunny bit - she'll be right mate.

[@scottzema3103]

'No Shit' as the saying goes. The destination for these people may be a nightmare, the culmination of all of their hopes and beliefs for a century. A Roanoke Island.

[@tylerfinnigan9785]

Wow, this was a great video!

[@Sebastianmaz615]

Excellent movie/video. 7:28 -- instantly laughed when I saw that 1 second clip. 😆🤣

[@ElJulioso]

It amazes me how surprisingly good and also how incredibly bad AI is at drawing human faces.

[@mkeitel]

Heh, and even worse with fingers!

[@rickmoore4776]

scary how its almost life like.

[@KaranBhatia]

How did they animate the AI pictures? Which AI software allows animation?

[@kjoseph8323]

AI is getting there. This looks like 90% AI driven imagery. It's really good until you attempt to animate the scene. You get some seriously creepy results in the faces and of course in the the hands.

[@arlaban22]

You really went all in with using AI to make this documentary...amazing work. For a one man or a small team you did a fantastic job.

[@VentureCity]

Thank you, glad you liked it

[@debussy843]

May I ask what is AI? Do you mean computer-generated imagery? It's very weird this was never referred to as "AI" until 2-3 years ago.

[@vowel8280]

@@debussy843 AI means artificial intelligence, and images generated with AI are made using a bunch of prompts, meaning no real effort or skills went into making these images, unlike the computer generated ones which take a huge amount of effort and skills

[@debussy843]

@@vowel8280 Thank you for this explanation.

[@Yesica1993]

Glad I scanned the comments and got it confirmed so I could skip this!@@vowel8280

[@tdataanalyst4874]

The time dilation explanation was really nice

[@RoyPeters1]

Loved the idea of this. Great sci-fi. Which will one day become fact.

[@intothemultiverse1033]

What a fantastic short film. In a way I feel sorry for those born on the ship and who die on the ship without ever reaching humanities new home.

[@ROBERTSANTIAGO16]

we should count ourselves lucky we are taking living in this Earth 🌍 for granted

[@NoosaHeads]

You should also feel sorry for the billions of people who are born and die on planet Earth, since they never get to see Utopia either.

[@mantirig4139]

But without them the trip would not have been completed so they would feel some satisfaction from that I'm sure.

[@intothemultiverse1033]

@@mantirig4139 yes agreed, however, the first people onboard volunteered, the last people off go to a planet, the people that are born and die on the ship were never asked. There’s a TV series called Ascension that deals with a lot of these issues.

[@mantirig4139]

@@intothemultiverse1033 None of us were asked one way or another but either by not having a choice or wanting to contribute we carry on. I do see your point in those in the middle getting the short end in a way though.

[@theevilwithin8946]

I usually don't leave any comments on videos, however, I just have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed your well-crafted short documentary. Nice work. Truly nice work.

[@scottelly2]

Ummmm . . . yeah, and I like that other documentary called Battle Star Galactica too. ;)

[@RobertPilla]

@@scottelly2 Is that the one where they kept circling Uranus in search of Clingons?

[@malsimus]

This is wonderful. Thank you.

[@claudelabadie9506]

Very nicely done. Thank you.

[@smking100]

Kudos to the team that made this video! They've already spent more time on the mission than anyone else ever will.

[@mrwigley9883]

This was made by AI!

[@FlyingGuy]

@@mrwigley9883 No such thing as AI.

[@ThesexyMrX]

It was made by Ai, I agree. @flying guy, you should have left out the "A" in your comment.

[@FlyingGuy]

No such thing as AI.

[@torineg.847]

Hopefully these ships will not absolutely carry any corrpt politicians especially the swamp people that believe in chaos, hate, anger and a very low vibration to the point of dark matter.

[@twisterwiper]

Wow. That was incredibly intriguing! Very very well made! A lot of research and well founded considerations went into this. Whoever made this, please do more of these. I want to know about the first 10000 days!

[@dairidhoritonga2393]

ikr, it's like the scientists themselves made this video, this is a super quality video that feels REAL

[@swissbiggy]

After 500 days everybody killed each other, story of humanity.

[@user-vm7db1gn6k]

Very thought provoking and so interesting!

[@yasirsaleem2914]

Beautifully narrated. There shd be a TV show on this epic journey!

[@FubarMike]

This needs to be turned into a movie

[@rickswineberg]

It has check out Pandorum the movie with Dennis Quaid

[@jeffhyche9839]

This is what I was thinking. I would love to know more about the lives on the ship as it crossed. The idea of dropping a pebble from earth with every birth is a masterful touch.

[@doug8515]

Try a book. 'Songs of distant Earth' by A C Clarke.

[@h14hc124]

With Matt Damon being stranded by himself on the planet Elysium

[@Ironighte]

The number of things to think of and not miss for this kind of journey to succeed is a lot. What a journey indeed

[@harborgirl8877]

Excellent video!

[@StrobeFireStudios]

0:28 - this image right here is stunning. The children born on the space craft, listening to campfire stories from the only elder they've ever known. Relaying truths about that they're travelling to a star system light years away for the future of mankind, and all hopes rely on their survival and success. Something about this image is utterly haunting, yet beautiful. Knowing the elder will pass before their arrival, and that elder probably helped helm the decision to even begin this journey to begin with. What a fantastic video. Thank you.

[@JeffMcgee-tz1ne]

Very interesting 🤔, can you TransUnion ,be bopp

[@Stafus]

sorry kids but we are stuck with earth, we can't ever colonize the galaxy.... EVER.

[@rossjackson7560]

Bring it on please.

[@Valfara770]

I feel kind of sorry for the first few babys: Never having known earth and will never see the end of the journey.

[@conveyor2]

@@Valfara770 In other words the same as ever.

[@michaelwalston2438]

People do love these sorts of videos. And a lot of effort does go into creating them, which is laudable. But the content creators fail to mention Proxima Centauri is a flare star (look it up, folks), so Proxima B is almost certainty uninhabitable. It may very well have oceans, and perhaps even ocean life-- but no oxygen atmosphere and practically zero possibility for humans to live on the surface.

[@murderdoggg]

I'm sure little research went into this video and it's just ai rehashing facts with an ai voice.

[@niallrussell7184]

if you can live in space for 100 years, why look for a planet? obvious we'll make artificial gravity space stations to live on.

[@marcd1981]

@@murderdoggg That's a possibility, since the whole video is AI generated.

[@yduRteKh]

From the beginning, they specified that it is a science fiction documentary. Anyway, the documentary brings many interesting and objective things into view. congratulations.

[@theultimateclass]

I loved it because Im really hungry for Solar system/Milky Way galaxy perspective videos. I was always so curious of the distance comparisons

[@mikede2464]

Makes you realize how good we have it on this planet. I'd rather die on earth then go on that trip.

[@marcozebrocozebro9923]

Yep, you will.( like ALL the rest of us)

[@Leon-mn8eo]

I think ur crazy honestly. 100+ generations have passed on earth and will continue to pass and the biggest questions in life are that of our significance and what the universe is and what it means. I don't think humanity was ever meant to die on earth but due to our own ignorance and flaws, we just might. id gladly go on the trip. I don't care, I'm sure if that ship can make a trip to another star, it will have ways to suit the needs of people who previously lived on earth. simulating sunlight and the warmth, simulating wind and rain, simulating the smell of fresh air to a degree that you wouldn't even be able to distinguish. we wouldn't be just humans anymore. wed be the advanced civilization that we think aliens are. wed be the aliens. wed be more than just bacteria on a spec in the universe and it would also give humanity a WAY better chance at continuing forward. we may not see another 100 generations on earth. if we could live for another 100 or 200 generations. the shit we would be able to accomplish is incomprehensible. not only that, but youd be a legend. after numerous generations. stories would be told about earth. movies would be made, books, and you would be one of the few amongst billions in the now evolved world to have been from earth. i think it would be amazing. im tired of living on this rock.

[@munter10]

So you get there only to find the ground is dead, no way to grow anything, the planet resembles Mars…. Quite a shock for the travellers. Or you get there and another civilisation is already there and they don’t want alien invaders arriving and kill everyone. Hmmmmm… space travel and planet colonisation ain’t so cool after all 😢😅😊

[@timmotel5804]

Good Day. Very Cool & Enjoyable. Quite different and well done. Thank You All & Best Regards. Part 2 Maybe?

[@robynsnest8668]

Zero chance a dead body would be discarded. In an absolute closed system any body, waste everything, would be precious and irreplaceable. Everything would be recycled.

[@mikesjourneycontinues7979]

I was thinking the same.

[@LymanPhillips]

Yep. That leapt out to me. Gotta have a closed system.

[@scottelly2]

Ummm . . . like it would matter if 150 lbs of human is discarded. Even 5,000 humans that weigh 150 lbs. could be frozen and kept. They would only weigh 750,000 lbs. We're talking about a ship that weighs like three or four million tons or something like that (thousands of times the weight of those dead people). There would likely be a few hundred thousand tons of water alone in massive water tanks. That's many millions of gallons of water . . . enough that wales could swim around in it. Oh, and the ship would have to be bigger than the video says, or the people would probably all die. It would probably have to be something like the size of Battlestar Galactica (ridiculously big).

[@delf197810]

A spaceship with a Greek name, towards a new Sun that will have the same name (in Greek) as the sun that we have now : Helios. I congratulate you not only for your idea but also for its result. Great story, beautifully narrated and fantastic documentary.

[@mteokay1246]

Only to find out the planet is populated by a far advanced civilization who has an entirely different name for their planet and their sun.

[@silverfletcher2560]

They could even find the planet already occupied by hostile people.

[@silverfletcher2560]

@@mteokay1246if the planet is inhabited by wild uncivilized peoples that could be a problem.

[@silverfletcher2560]

That the inhabitants 3:25 would be more civilized is difficult because they would have already made a travel to their closest planet or sun: to us.

[@h14hc124]

@@mteokay1246 That would be a great outcome, as the generational ship would be able to send a message to earth to finally confirm the existence of intelligent alien life.

[@jimkucera3485]

I enjoyed this, I hope that they do a follow up documentary about living on the planet.

[@romankrhounek5974]

Great video

[@askarkalykov]

First of all, this is a great format and i really enjoyed the video, thank you for creating it! The setting itself felt like a common trope for movies where new generation rises up against the set-in-stone routines and rules (how to spend time, whom to like, whom to make family with, how many kids to have, when to die). I believe, this is the unaddressed part - how to include such tendencies into the overall plan so that it won't fell apart the usual way it happens in such stories.

[@jige1225]

At last someone who does not point this for concluding "thus we will never make it". Thanks 🙂

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

@@jige1225 Every time I read the comments on a video such as this, there are a gaggle of commenters saying that very thing.

[@brianbell3836]

They don't mention religion. Tremendous problem.

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

@@brianbell3836 How so ? Maybe they rediscover it. Like Dune's Zensunni faith with the Orange Catholic Bible or something similar. Maybe NONE of the Abrahamic religions.

[@stevieRay3211]

They finally arrive and see that McDonald's and Google have already set-up headquarters there.

[@DennisHabecker-bf8zw]

Best comment on here

[@lavapix]

This perfectly describes my 3-mile drive home from surfing here in Kona.

[@matbroomfield]

I thought the entire idea was thoroughly depressing, being born into an environment where your entire future is pre-mapped out for you, much like the vault-dwellers in the game Fallout, but I loved the golden eyed children. Truly beautiful. Great graphics throughout Venture City.

[@theharshtruthoutthere]

All who works in NASA, also knows, EARTH IS A CLOSED SYSTEM, NOBODY CANNOT LEAVE EARTH, THERE IS NOWHERE TO GO. They all know it, yet willingly deceive. + they are in the masonry club - that says it all. NASA deals with CGI and Hollywood basements, making “SPACE”, to deceive mankind. They, masons, wants to finally break the firmament, that`s the only and simple reason for NASA and all its missions.

[@profepik7525]

Yes, I can only imagine the numbers of revolts, breakdowns, why not sabotages, civil wars and new religions... I would say they would have 10% chance of success.

[@matbroomfield]

@@profepik7525 Looking at modern America, and 1939 Germany, it's dismaying how rapidly a seemingly sophisticated society can descend into anarchy or barbarism. And that's without someone telling you from the second you are born, what your entire life will be. As I see it, it would be far too risky to transport colonists in their conscious state.

[@RareGenXer]

Just like central planning Democrat Socialists😉

[@theharshtruthoutthere]

@@RareGenXer kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHm0kq1qi9qFfJY

[@essexfarmer9610]

Very entertaining and thought provoking. To find willing families to spend the entirety of their lives and to die there and never see the new planet would need some rare individuals.

[@nazmulhassan6727]

Better than a sci-fi movie...good work👏👏

[@damonteague7442]

This was so cool!

[@davidvomlehn4495]

Beautiful visuals and good science (I work in the space industry, so I'm pretty picky.) I'd probably start the spin up so the generations arriving on the new planet are born and spend their entire lives in the destination's conditions. I happen to have recently asked a guidence, navigation, and control (GNC) engineer whether doing maneuvers required that you stop spinning. She said that it wasn't, and I think maintaining spin has some advantages. Y'all did great work! One other thing--rather than having my body ejected into space, I'd rather it be carried to the destination, possibly by being recycled and becoming part of the ship's ecosystem.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

On this planet cremations distribute your ashes over a vast area, while burials are carried out at places at which the soil isn't used for food production. Thus you'd have the uncommon experience of eating your dead ancestors if you recycled corpses on such a ship, I fear.

[@sns862]

Well, since you are in the space industry, I have a question, how do astronomers know which direction to take when a space ship is light years away from Earth? For example (hypothetically of course!), let's say that you are in a space ship 100 light years away from Earth, how would you know which direction to take to get back? This always boggled me!

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@sns862 You'll make a three-dimensional model of the part of the Orion Spur - our location in the Milky Way - concerned. Stars move quickly, but you can foresee how they'll do it.

[@davidvomlehn4495]

@sns862 Actually, you mostly know the answer already--a map. Of course, the map has to be three-dimensional. We already know where the stars are around us for a pretty good distance, so this information already exists. Unlike a map on the Earth, which may be useless if you are randomly dropped in a forest and can't see any landmarks that might appear on your map, space is really empty and you can see the stars all around you. You can use color, brightness, spectrum, variability in brightness, etc. to figure out which star is which. Then you match that to locations on your map, and, no matter where you go, there you are. In the present, we don't go that far, so we have multiple ways to find out where you are. If you are close to Earth, we can bounce radar off of you. You can send out a radio signal that someone on Earth can use to track you. If you know the time, you know where everything in the Solar System is. If you can find, for example, the Earth and Moon, you can use trigonometry to figure out where you are. There are other methods, as well, such as using pulsars, which are stars that can be used as clocks and timing their signals to figure out how fast away they are and compute where you are. Lastly, you can use an inertial navigation system. This tracks each movement you make. Since you know where you started and everything you did to get where you are, you now know where that is. This is a very quick summary and not comprehensive, but I hope it gives you a starting point to learn more.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@davidvomlehn4495 How much accuracy will inertial navigation systems provide? After all, they'll be tiny as compared with the movements they trace, especially when they're used between stars.

[@ky42]

I know alot of work goes into making a vid like this. Thank you for making it. It was awesome! Hope you make one of the colonist first 100 years on planet.

[@VentureCity]

Glad you liked the video

[@mosheridan7016]

Ai and they still can't make a proper electric car

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@VentureCity How many hours have been worked on this creation?

[@nosferatu8530]

Imagine dying of old age just months before arrival...

[@yowzephyr]

And then oops. Crash landing. Everyone perishes. It was all for nothing.

[@drex23100]

Well, that's what happened to Moses isn't it?

[@Fazie.productions]

Amazing detail ❤

[@VentureCity]

Thank you

[@archer666]

This would make for a really kick ass TV series. Imagine 1 hour long Episodes. 5 seasons. First season taking place on Earth, and building everything, the politics of who gets to go, and all that drama. 3 Seasons of the lifes on the ship, Each season being 1 Generation of people and how they change over time, and the final Season being on the new planet. The stuggles they face starting from nothing, and how right as soon as they land. Humans be humans and branch off into tribes. I even ahve a good name for the TV series. "Helios" ;)

[@svedese69]

There is already a TV serie on this topic...Lost in Space

[@aspenrebel]

How about 100 seasons!!?

[@rexibhazoboa7097]

Except the humans would branch off into tribes in the second season/generation. Thousands of people living there would make it hard to grow close to everyone, hence, people would form their own little communities within the ships. It would be chaos in the ships before even getting to the planet. Assuming it doesn't end in tragedy (which is a viable option), you still have an alien planet to deal with. From potential similarly intelligent species to bacteria that kills, the final season of the show would be wild. Personally, I would assume the few that survive would adapt and become only slightly human somehow.

[@rexibhazoboa7097]

@@svedese69 And "The 100"

[@andrewmurray1550]

@@svedese69 Exactly - the Robinsons were headed for Alpha Centauri. Humans being humans branch off into tribes is already done too - read "Lord of the Flies." About a bunch of school kids lost on a deserted island following a plane crash...(gosh that also sounds familiar.....).

[@FlyLeah]

This is one of the most beautiful and pure documentaries about space travel and our human future I've seen

[@cwwiss1]

This fantasy explains why we will never send people to explore the universe only robots.

[@rogerssombe7369]

This is beyond beautiful....lovely documentary. I fell into a light sleep half way and dreamt I was on the ship!!!

[@juliomanueltapiaacevedo2278]

Excelente!!!!!! una mirada futura en breves minutos.

[@BFDT-4]

This sounds reasonably well researched and thought out. Better than the adventure-centric dramas. Do more!

[@amitraut7544]

He copied everything from Indian KZbin channels

[@THE-X-Force]

Really? All of these concepts have appeared in Western literature, movies, radio shows, etc. for well over a century now. He himself said in the video description that his: _"personal inspiration for this video came from the movie Interstellar,_ _the Nauvoo generational ship from The Expanse tv show,_ _and Carl Sagan's Cosmos tv show."_ I don't know why people have to be so mean-spirited and jingoistic.

[@6desk]

yes.. but those are made for *entertainment* - much like you trying to sound smart in your comments *SesquipedaliaN*

[@prte100]

Fuck, I have tears in my eyes, like seeing the future, being unable to see it happen in real. So thankful for AI, that we can have this kind of images today, seeing with own eyes such a beauty. Thanks for this great work.

[@VentureCity]

Thank you for the kind words

[@kathleenschmitt3058]

How does 'fuck' improve your content?

[@sergiosaunier]

You made a great point. It was like seeing it happen in reality, knowing that I wouldn't be part if it. It gave a feeling of melancholia, together with one of wonder. Really great work from the video creator.

[@Censoredagain7881]

Only if the world could stop fighting over land, religion, money, and power. We could see it in one lifetime. But unfortunately it won't be in my lifetime. I'm to old now to dream of going to space. The sad thing is. The Military Industrial Complex has the ability to go to space and visit other planets right now. But they won't release the technology. When CEO Ben Rich retired, he said: " We now have the technology to take ET home." Make no mistake they have the technology to travel the stars. But because of money, power, and endless, greed and wars, they will never release it until the entire world demands it.

[@scottelly2]

LOL

[@MiserableLittleDoomGoblin]

Wish this documentary included the next generation of travelers voting to rename their ship "Spacey McSpaceface".

[@kypickle8252]

So, I think you should focus more on how uninhabitable proxima b is. Even assuming it's a perfect Earth clone with a breathable atmosphere and oceans, and an amazing magnetic field to stop the solar flares, *and* assuming its not tidally locked, it's still not going to be extremely harsh Because proxima cen is still nowhere near a good star to be around. It periodically changes its brightness by orders of magnitude due to solar flares. It can get up to 9 times brighter than it usually is, if I'm remembering correctly. Imagine standing on the surface of proxima b. You're outside, having a good day, when all of a sudden and completely without warning proxima cen gets 9 times brighter and you die from the heat. That would happen surprisingly often, often enough that the first settlements would have to be on the night side, or everyone risks dying just by going outside, even if the harmful raidation is blocked by a magentic field. Also, it's likely that the first people to arrive there won't even go on the planet at all. Imagine you just arrived at a new system. There are millions and millions of asteroids to start mining and you're ready to start becoming rich and building up all the infrastructure you need. Why go down to the planet at all? You already have a ship that's clearly capable of supporting you for centuries, why go down a gravity well where launching rockets suddenly becomes expensive, when you could remain in space, build more ships like the one you have, and live in paradises farming asteroids? Despite what popular sci fi says, colonizing a new planet around a new star would come *after* you colonized their asteroid belts and build orbital infrastructure. There's no reason to send all your resources down to a planet that'll be hard to launch out of when you're already in space with all the resources you need.

[@alexmuenster2102]

>>t's still not going to be extremely harsh

[@jelink22]

Stop making sense---you're ruining it for all the scientific illiterates here!!

[@JohelSouza]

Man, what a hell of life! I’m sorry for those inside the ship in the future and I’m very happy I’m not one of them. I will even walk on the grass and between trees in a matter of minutes just to get rid of this suffocating nightmare.

[@Leon-mn8eo]

I wanna say how much I appreciate this video. I'm 20 now but when I was a child I loved looking at the night sky and being in complete ignorance of what it was. And the more I learned about it, the more I dreamed that one day I may be able to go to space myself. and I learned about other aspects of it and how space travel is a real possibility. I grew to believe that humans aren't meant to stay here. I feel as thought earth is a test to see if we can surpass ourselves enough to actually have the reward of unlocking the ability to explore the universe and expand humanity and find all the answers to our questions. But it saddens me because now adays you cant walk outside without seeing how much greed is in this world. greed consumes us, money and war and death are all biproducts of greed. I'm an adult now and have come to terms with the fact that I will likely pass away on earth and never experience what its like to travel through space. this video makes me feel as if I'm actually part of this voyage. and it made me smile. Its not too late for humanity to shape itself. our main issue is thinking that we as individuals have no say and cant change the world. it has to start with one person, then a group, then a whole community and so on and so forth. we cant be divided like we are now. the only way this is possible is if we all set our differences aside and work as one on achieving this goal but its almost as if everyone has lost hope and given up. it may be too late for this generation but there will be another one and it starts with us. you will have children one day if you don't already have children. teach your kids to love one another and not look at their fellow humans as different. teach them to have bigger aspirations and to not think of themselves as too insignificant to have a voice or make a difference. if enough people do that, we can start to build ourselves back up and one day this could be very possible. just because were not on a spaceship getting ready to leave doesn't mean the mission hasn't already started. We have a mission, all of us do, and that is to simply do our part and do what's best for everyone as a whole. you're kids are going to be the future of this world and how you bring them up will determine if that generation is the one to finally stop all this none sense and finally start taking the steps needed to get out of this place. the new civilization is going to need experts in all fields which means that not everyone has to be a scientist to help this cause. just be a good person and make sure you're children are good people.

[@SLM-hf1cr]

As others have pointed out: 1) Red dwarfs are prone to be flare happy. Being that any planet in the habitable zone based on rad/temp will be much closer, it would be like being fired at with a sawed off shotgun vs a rifle (G class like our sun). You'd be hit often and by alot of material. Not good for atmospheres and not good for you. 2) spinning around at 1G isn't the same as experiencing 1G of gravity. It may keep you on the 'floor' but it does not have the same effect on your body systems. 3) the minute difference in gravity from Earth to Elysia is negligible and inconsequential and random variance and mutations alone could offset any effects. 4) Psychological effects from living on the ship and later, a planet with a red sun will have varied, unpredictable and multi generational consequences. One psychopath or one nutbag could place the entire mission in jeopardy before they even get a quarter way there. 5) you need FTL, you need real artificially generated gravity (takes care of inertia too), there are better power sources than fusion that the US Navy is already aware/in possession of, you need energetic shields/fields, you need a variation of quantum predictive computers for sensors and navigation due to velocity, you'll need to survey with these systems prior to barreling down the road, you'll need weapons and defenses for the possibilities not everyone is neighborly. Perhaps most importantly we have to realize that the galaxy is very old. There is a high likelihood that anywhere we go someone will have been. That someone may still have a claim to a place we find out there. Any place we find habitable will have things living on it already. Some of them may be sentient. Do we go Manifest Destiny or Prime Directive? We may not even have claim to our entire solar system or we may have to 'actively enforce' our 'borders' from interlopers, rogues and thieves. Evidence suggests this has occurred already and as is true of our national border, we catch only a minor portion of offenders. What did the rest of them get away with? If you could only find the facility that has all these pieces sitting or stored within...imagine the possibilities. Happy hunting!

[@scottelly2]

Yeah man, there are aliens here already! Seriously, if there are, then great, but it's pretty likely there aren't, and it's pretty likely we won't come across any in the next century or two if none have invaded Earth by now. (They've had thousands of years to attack us or infiltrate and take over, enslaving us or killing us off . . . or modifying us genetically, so we aren't human anymore.) It's highly unlikely that in a small cluster of stars in this arm of our galaxy there is a civilization more advanced than our own. Sure, there might be advanced aliens out there in the Milkyway Galaxy, but if they are out there then they either aren't interested in us, or they have no idea we're hear yet (and probably won't for a few hundred or even a few thousand years, since the Milkyway is almost a hundred thousand light years across, and they are likely at least ten thousand light years away, which means radio signals from here won't get to them for another few thousand years). Even if they somehow know about us, then maybe they just have no interest in us, so there's nothing to worry about. If they are interested in us, then we're likely screwed, because they're likely far more advanced than us, and we would have no defense against them, like the Aztecs had no effective weapons to fight the Spanish soldiers, and lost to one ship full of them, even though the Aztecs had the advantage of far greater numbers. Look what happened to the Chinese when the Japanese invaded at the beginning of WWII. They were decimated, because they lacked just a few technological advancements. Imagine what a few hundred dramatically more powerful technologies might allow aliens to do to humans? We might as well just beg them to enslave us, rather than wipe us out. Trying to fight them just might upset them enough to choose the path of total extermination, which they could easily accomplish in many different ways (i.e. sending a few billion self-replicating robots to kill every creature in the galaxy that has a genome similar to humans, which would include orangutans, gorillas, and chimps, to name a few).

[@JabberCT]

The example of time dilation at 8:03 using a boat on a river was nicely done.

[@janssenreinhard7629]

yeah that was great

[@erkkoanttila3770]

Thankfully this is 100% fantasy. Imagine being born on a tiny cramped spaceship and find out that when it finally reaches its destination you will be 95 years old...

[@TheMonk72]

I guess it'd be like being born in any other situation you can't escape from. Imagine being born into a tribe on a tiny cramped island, knowing that you'll die there and nothing will have changed. Imagine being born in a small town with no prospects and no expectation of change. The reality is that if we ever build generation ships they'll be a lot bigger and a lot busier than most small cities. They'd have to be to support a functional ecosystem.

[@scottelly2]

Watch "Voyagers" then.

[@southnc63]

Proxima Centauri B is tidally locked with its star which is known to have violent outbursts of intense radiation flares, which at the close distance would likely severely damage any atmosphere. The planet would be interesting to explore, but is likely uninhabitable.

[@ArgusWolf1]

Surely, this was one of the most well-crafted and beautiful videos I've ever watched regarding the potential human colonization of another planet. Fantastic!

[@vritomos]

The inspiration from The Expanse is made clear right in the first second, where we can see the spaceship identical to the Nauvoo. Amazing job. Please release a part 2 of this 😆!

[@KevinGonzales-zv9xb]

When I saw the ship I thought the same thing. I've seen that before.

[@TheForgottenVoter]

Yup, moon mining state ship with rotation gravity. That's a good tv series.

[@kontrarien5721]

Moon mining? The LDSS Nauvoo had exactly the same purpose as the Helianthus, but with a destination of Tau Ceti.@@TheForgottenVoter

[@smithbry2000]

@@kontrarien5721 Tau Ceti: The Lost Star Colony

[@GS-uy4xo]

Even the quote from Fred Johnson.

[@fanfractal]

a part 2 will be welcome.... was really interesting ! thanks for sharing !

[@user-nd1op2ux8e]

Finding people stupid enough to take such risks and tolerate precise controls over every aspect of daily living would be the greatest of all the challenges.

[@marcozebrocozebro9923]

Could I go please, got too many Kids back here! Yup

[@malcolmdale9607]

Don't worry, God loves stupid people. That's why he made so many of them.

[@larrytomaquin4411]

I inspire this videos. I always watch this ...thanks

[@GanciEnglishIdioms]

This is an amazing view of what will very likely be our first voyage to another star. It is intriguing, engaging, and very instructive. Along with others, I would love to see Part 2. I've now become a fan of Venture City!

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

You should read Arthur C Clarke's The Song of Distant Earth. This was influenced by a lot of his ideas.

[@GrabbaBeer]

We'd much likely be able to go much faster than that by the time we need to do this.

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

@@GrabbaBeer NO chemical rockets, we need something like an Alcubierre Drive that can " fold " space ( I think..... ).

[@ITzPake]

Awesome video 👏🏽 Great stuff! Would love to see another part of the first 10000 years on the new planet

[@haircafekevin]

The only way I could ever see a generation ship being built and launched is if we have no choice. Like if Earth is at a point where it is soon to be uninhabitable.

[@marcozebrocozebro9923]

Yeah, Like in a week or so,...hurry up Musk,....( oh Hell that will do, All aboard! Prox, here we come),...R U N !!!!

[@untouchable360x]

Plot twist. They will find the Statue of Liberty on Elysia

[@marcozebrocozebro9923]

Yeah & talking Apes ( with Humans in Zoos,...where they all belong) Yup

[@timlocke8588]

I guess that if you could accelerate from 0 to 4.2% of C in a couple of weeks you may as well accelerate a bit fast or a bit longer to drop the journey time to 40 years or so. Either way, by the time this ship arrives there will be a colony built by people who arrived on the mark 2 or mark 3 ship.

[@brianbell3836]

Thought they'd be overtaken by colonists in a better (ie. faster) craft. Fascinating stuff.

[@SteelRhinoXpress]

most definitely. we've seen this already with satellites. It took new horizons just 405 days to reach Jupiter. while it took voyager 1, 546 days to reach to reach Jupiter. By the time that space craft is in it's 70th year voyage, we may have figured out how to go 25% of the speed of light by then and could get there in 20 years time instead of 100 years time. which would have surpassed the original ship by 10 years to its destination.

[@davidtruesdell9353]

@@SteelRhinoXpress You neglected to notice that Voyager 2, which launched 16 days prior to Voyager 1, took 688 days to reach Jupiter. It's not so much a difference in technology, but a difference in the specific mission requirements. For their gravity assists to work, the probes needed to arrive at Jupiter at the right time, in the right place, at the right velocity and at the correct angle. For Voyager 2, that was compounded by the the necessity to do the same at Saturn and then Uranus, for it to be able to reach Neptune.

[@davidtruesdell9353]

One problem is that higher speeds would require exponentially greater fuel requirements: More fuel to decelerate the ship at the destination, more fuel to decelerate the fuel to decelerate the ship, more fuel to accelerate the fuel to decelerate the ship at the launch of the ship, and so on. Higher speeds would also increase the energy of impacts with interstellar dust. And, any problems with the engine during the deceleration phase could cause the ship to risk overshooting the target. Higher speeds would reduce the time available to react to any issues and increase the fuel requirements needed to recover.

[@anochron1]

Didn't the Lost in Space movie (1998) show something like that happening, where the pioneering vessel got beat out by the next gen vessel to arrive at the destination?

[@nickkanas3016]

I enjoyed your video: great graphics were shown and interesting issues were raised, such as alterations in bacteria and possible evolutionary changes in the colonists over time. But I think there were a few problems in the video. In 2014, I wrote a science fiction novel called "The Protos Mandate" for Springer's Science and Fiction Series, which requires the authors to add an addendum supporting the science in their novel. I chose a 107-year multigenerational mission to Epsilon Eridani, a young star with demonstrated exoplanets 10.5 light years from Earth. This might be a better candidate for colonization, since as Delosian points out below, Proxima Centauri is a red star that is unstable and subject to radiation bursts that would be dangerous for colonists. Also, I considered problems caused by the different generations which you didn't mention, such as the desire of some members of a later generation to return to Earth since they never agreed to be on the mission, or the fear of some of these people to land on a planet since they have never known a horizon or what it is like to be in a more natural environment. Finally, the people in hibernation in my novel were not secret rich people but people with colonization skills who weren't needed on the outbound part of the mission and would only use up resources. Along with issues related to crew psychology and preferred governance structure, perhaps these issues could be dealt with in a future documentary.

[@gregcluff1871]

I agree, but there will not be any evolutionary changes in the population on the ship, only after they are free to randomly breed on the planet. Remember that evolution only works by natural selection and there will not be any natural selection on the ship because the goal is for everyone to survive and reproduce. And, if reproduction and even survival is guaranteed on the planet, there will not be any evolutionary adaptation either.

[@zzzzz2903]

Hibernation is not possible without damaging the body /cells. So we should not count with it ever

[@jelink22]

100 years is not nearly enough tiem tocause detectible, inheritable geneitc changes. If Pharaoh Khufu were resurrected today, he would be genetically ialmost dentical to the rest of us today. It would take DNA analysis to spot the differences.

[@scottelly2]

What about the bacteria on the planet that would wipe out the colonists?

[@tomconnolly7420]

Fantastic, and the first time I have heard an explanation of time dilation that I understood.

[@masterchief5437]

To think of this would require a lot of research and creativity well done :) Thanks!

[@kingbee1971]

I would be interested in watching the episode where the wealthy types in the cryolabs are flushed from the ship mid-journey, thereby ensuring the success of the new home base.

[@marcozebrocozebro9923]

Yeah, flush those A holes!

[@KrisKol83]

One of the first things I would do, Upon discovering them.

[@Maffmatix]

This was brilliant, beautiful and exciting. The only thing that I think might be different by this time, is the lifespan of humans. As long as our species survives and doesn't destroy itself over the next 50 years, I do believe our lifespans will grow in length exponentially. It's possible that people might be able to survive the entire trip.

[@jaylewis9876]

Yes, especially if we can put people in a coma and slow metabolism to “fast forward” many stretches. Perhaps wake up for a week once a year so 100 years feels like 4 months

[@Fatbaddie24]

@@jaylewis9876Adding onto that. I think it would be even more efficient waking a few in different intervals throughout the year so they can properly maintain the ship every so often. I’m starting to think we should make our own space administration

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

Leaving deep freeze sleep aside, humans could become over 100 years already if they were concious about what they eat. This is perhaps the biggest crime of the establishment: feeding the masses with trash, food with nearly zero nutrients. Next is conciousness of the body one has. Its the only one you have. You can heal so much yourself. We are not supposed to know this because quess-who would loose very much money. If children were properly educated, a lifespan, a healthy lifespan of 120 years is possible, without thinking of further advancements. Sure thing: this would need a radical change of attitude of the entire world population.

[@orange_turtle3412]

Yeah seven generations over 100 years is kinda weird. Even if we did this today the most wed get would be 4 or 5.

[@SeattlePioneer]

Don't forget that three of the seven generations would be born on earth. I presume. @@orange_turtle3412

[@LordCorwin1]

Proxima Centaury is the closest star to Earth, but up to now, the planet Proxima Centaury B is not considered habitable. For one side, no atmosphere has yet been detected. Also, the star is not as 'quiet' as the sun, it is very variable prone to emit huge ammounts for electromagnetic radiation with enough power to strip any atmosphere around the planet.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Good points. It would also be a hard undertaking to build something, say, on the side of the planet which always looks away from the star. One currently still - or already - needs about a hundred million people for autarky on Earth. Until a generation ship can be built, you can expect an even stronger specialization of production methods. You can argue that robots may take over many tasks, but where do you take a hundred million or more of such helpers from, on Proxima Centauri b?

[@tomhiggins2562]

Superb!

[@mcds54]

Excellent!

[@2hyped72]

Wow What a great presentation. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Very informative and, like others have said, would love to see a part 2

[@denisemcdougal6445]

This production was excellent. Covered all bases, cross all t’s and dotted all the I’s . Such a wonderful piece of video. I wish it could come true and I wish I could be one of those wonderful people to experience it.

[@mirandela777]

Excellent ? Maybe for those who have no clue about the Science involved ! Ignorant always believes any crap. This upload is 99,9 fiction and BS, and only 0,1% science.

[@stunned1947]

is there a part 2 of this?? or are there any plans for a part 2 ?

[@PaulC-ss5uo]

Trying to explain time dilation to my mother while watching "interstellar" was.... interesting.

[@philipchiu9835]

Great video. I'm already thinking that a 2nd colony ship would be launched afterwards as a backup just to ensure someone makes it alive to proxima centauri B. Also, you need to emphasize diseases and other unforeseen disasters that might happen like micro metoerites hitting the ship or critical components malfunctioning and there's no replacement parts.

[@tfdtfdtfd]

Plot twist: In the years after Helianthos departed, transformative propulsion technology was discovered, making similar spaceships be able to travel at triple speeds.....the Helianthos 2, launched 50 years after the original, has already reached the planet and its passengers are preparing a Welcome Home party for Helianthos's arrival.

[@Blayzn18]

Yeah! Nothing went wrong. Disease, clean water/air, even changing the lighting and gravity everything ran like a clock!

[@postaboks]

And alien/Mysterious encounters! :)

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

@@tfdtfdtfd WHAT A TWIST ! But I like it.