Let's Find Out - (Livestream) Interstellar Missions to Proxima Centauri (& New Let's Find Out Merchandise) | ASMR

Episode Date: December 3, 2021

These podcasts are just the audio from my Youtube videos. If you'd like to see visuals too, visit my channel, Let's Find Out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7FOVZ1xTzKav7TVTATIcxQ Now for the interstellar starships! Breakthrough Initiatives is a science-based program founded in 2015 and funded by Julia and Yuri Milner, also of Breakthrough Prize, to search for extraterrestrial intelligence over a span of at least 10 years. The program is divided into multiple projects: 1. Breakthrough Listen will search over 1,000,000 stars for artificial radio or laser signals. 2. Breakthrough Message is an effort to create a message "representative of humanity and planet Earth". 3. Breakthrough Starshot, co-founded with Mark Zuckerberg, aims to send a swarm of probes to the nearest star at about 20% the speed of light. 4. Breakthrough Watch aims to identify and characterize Earth-sized, rocky planets around Alpha Centauri and other stars within 20 light years of Earth. 5. Breakthrough Enceladus, plans to send a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, in search for life in its warm ocean, and in 2018 signed a partnership agreement with NASA for the project. Timestamps: 0:00 showing the new merchandise, talking about discord 1:08:56 Interstellar Projects coming in the 21st Century ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►Support for the channel... ▸Shop on Amazon here (kick-backs at no cost to you): https://amzn.to/2LnNXd6 ▸PayPal ......... https://www.paypal.me/LetsFindOutASMR ......... [e-mail] ▸Patreon ........ https://www.patreon.com/LetsFindOutASMR ▸📩 Wishlist (for the channel): http://a.co/9vUJ8eF ▸📪 If you'd like to mail me something: Let's Find Out ASMR (Rich) P.O. Box 1582 Palm City, FL 34991 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►socials... ▸📧 Email................... [e-mail] ▸📧 Instagram........... https://www.instagram.com/lets_find_out_asmr/. @lets_find_out_asmr

Am I live? Am I live? Am I live with audio? Do I have... Are we live? Sorry for anyone who was just joining in and, uh, I spent like an hour and a half setting this up because I haven't live streamed in a while and 10 seconds before I went live, I decided to bump my chair into the, uh, the power, going to my microphone, I guess. And hopefully... live again. I'm not too sure. Not too sure. But once we do have confirmation that there is life out there. There we go.

Zynep. Your mic works nice. All right. Zynap. Elijah. Hey guys. Breaking the seal on the chat and over here. Hi, high, hi. Happy ostrich. Aw whales. Okay. Fantastic. That was embarrassing. I spent two hours trying to figure that out. Had it dialed in, I thought, and then the swivel arm of my chair. I always push it down when I'm getting up, and I guess as I scoot in, it bumped the power to my microphone there. So that's never good.

This is a, we're going to be, it's a two-fold live stream, loud and clear, all right. guys fantastic thanks for joining and for everyone watching this after the fact I know I'm not going to get a lot of you know it's 315 right now on the East Coast in Florida my time so it's only lunchtime for the West Coasters and yeah I guess it's bedtime so maybe we'll get a lot of people off the West Coast of Europe and maybe Africa Morocco Spain oh la I'm eating some, what was two hours ago, frozen fruit, strawberries, bananas and blueberries, and cream. It's delicious. It's a delicious replacement.

My wife's been going deep down the rabbit hole of how sugar, at least, excuse me, high-fructose corn syrup, like the fructose as opposed to more natural glucose, is actually treated by your body like alcohol. and it screws with your liver and jacks your insulin and all this. So I've been trying not to eat ice cream with all that artificial sweetener in it. I've been eating what I call fruit bowls instead, which is funny because that has other connotations nowadays. But hello, hello everybody. We got Joseph Larder Unique Squid Sue. Cool. 915 in Europe.

Very cool. A Wales in Sweden. Yeah, this is awesome. I'm getting my European crowd in Norway, New Zealand, 915 in the morning. Camus. Camus. Interesting. So we've got a great global crowd today. And so I got stickers. I got merchandise now, guys. I got a big announcement today. I wanted to say I made. my the link is in should be live in the description of this video that you're watching and for people watching today Thursday December 2nd if you're watching after the fact the link is still good but the sale that I'm about to say that I'm deciding to talk about it before I've actually announced it is is only running today so it's apparently it was actually like

serendipitous because I was working on just making some shirts. I only have one design that I've gotten in real life and sample. I've been making them over the last, you know, it's just drawings of mine, and then I have some beautiful Hubble telescope images that I particularly like. And, you know, I did the heavy lifting of clicking and dragging them in different placements on shirts, on T-spring. So, anyways, I got a collection of clothes that I'm selling under the Let's Find Out web page that's part of T Spring. And in a couple days, I'm going to have the integration beneath the YouTube videos that you've probably seen a million times.

ASM Arctica has done it. And he was one of the people who kind of inspired me to do it. it's very very cool how they can integrate it with YouTube so I just wanted to announce that and again so today if I didn't say what the sale is it's it was serendipitous because I actually didn't figure out that it's 15% off all I'm sorry guys bumping the mic over here all clothes and this shirt here is a skid in frame it's everything I got it I think I put a backpack in there too, but it's mainly shirts and sweatshirts. And what I did, I bought a shirt before from people on there,

and some of their pure cotton shirts don't really fit well. They're really heavy, and they just feel like not quality. So I didn't, I made sure to only offer, that's why I wanted to get a sample of two different types of shirts and they're like a polyester blend. and got some somewhat in frame. This one I actually like the best. I'm too lazy to get up right now. I'm really comfortable.

I'm sitting cross-legged right now. But this one, you can see, like, it has that real light feel to it. And I just really like it. It's just a really, really light shirt. I think this one is called the TriBlend. And then the other one I have is available online. is the one back there. It's really comparable.

It's equally light and stretchy, you know, just the right amount of stretch that you want in a shirt. And, yeah, I'm just pretty proud. I like all the designs and everything we got going on. The, yeah, I guess the sail lined up. I just wanted to make sure I get all this out of the way before we get into the interstellar. the breakthrough star shot, which is an interesting program.

It's like the evolution of SETI. They're searching and listening and looking for or potentially communicating to alien life. And they're increasing the scale and funding of the SETI project by actually looking into creating spaceships. with all sorts of cool technology we'll be going into in just a little bit to go to the nearest stars and that's pretty amazing it would take like four years to send this signal back

and I'm not sure how long it would take if it ever got there that would take and we were talking about this on my Discord the other day too about the time distortion that happens and we're actually talking about that exact example of going to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star, too. So I want to get into that. I don't want you guys think I'm trying to click bait you or catfish you, whatever it might be called,

redirect you. I do just did want to thank all my patrons, everyone who's donated on PayPal, people who have given gifts to the PO box. You guys, you make my day every time. I get a new patron and donation and all the gifts I've gotten. It seriously just, it just makes my day. It's such a good feeling to know that I'm connecting with so many people out there.

And then the podcast, you know, they're just audio versions of this, which I would like to actually, I do have the intentions at some point when I get enough free time, which is not looking like it's going to be likely anytime soon. What with my way, juggling the new baby and all? But, and she's beautiful, healthy, 10 months old now, growing. She somehow sleeps like a champ. She's just like the best thing ever. I highly recommend what I see on Instagram the other day.

Someone said, might have been a Lewis CK clip where he's like yeah did you did you make your own people he's like I did I made two people and I'm their leader that was pretty funny it's so true so so true yeah so thank you guys we got merchandise up let's find out ASMR.com I'm pretty sure you could because it's through T-spring and so I'm pretty sure sure you could search Let's Find Out or let's find out ASMR on T-spring, but the link is in the description and we got T-shirts. Right now, the only t-shirts from my own drawings, and I eventually want to get the sun

and the Hokusai wave and Mercury, and then when I start drawing Venus, Earth, Earth, and Mars, I want to put them on a T-shirt as well. We only have this basics of astronomy that you guys all know from the, thumbnail and I've actually made stickers of them I got a little bag of samples here they will there's one available now and then later tonight or earlier tomorrow I'm probably gonna make some more available on there and then I got my wallpaper background two that I made into a sticker which I custom made that with images of mostly I guess Hubble images

of just cosmic objects. I've added them all together. Here, let's give you guys a close-up here. Let's do... There we go. All right. You got it looking nice and close. So yeah, this is... It's just a picture from my... Do I have my notebook?

I got it somewhere nearby. I'll grab it in a little bit, I'm sure. I just made a little sticker out of it I got it on my laptop too I really liked this drawing because it goes from the goes from the galaxy and it shows the red shifting and then the let's see the distances from

zooms into the solar system and then zooms into Earth from that and it shows you all parsec is equal to the 3.26 light years is, I always forget exactly what it is. Distance at which one astronomical unit equals one arc second. Okay, and that's what that is. So it's measuring distance from Earth. It's the distance away at which the distance between the Sun and Earth is one arc

away one arc second across the sky three point two six light years and then we have the sun's fingerprint and a little description of diagram of parallax and so you guys can all get this and out asmr.com and then I got a cool I made it into a kind of a negative version of photo negative of it I actually like this one even more. It's very chalkboardy, so I called it the chalkboard chalk style on there. And I've always wanted to make stickers because I always love doodling and I definitely want to start doodling more and more and more. I tried to incorporate the top of the steno notebook up there too.

But not least, I haven't even opened this one up yet. And I actually made, I bought a sweater with this logo on it. At the time, I purchased them. They only had that one logo made. But I must have left it in my wife's car, Molly's car. So I made the wallpaper background. I made this image. It's a composite.

We got Saturn over there, the horsehead nebula, the lagoon nebula, the crab nebula. some galaxies, sombrero galaxy right there, and then Jupiter, and you can't really make it out because it's, lighting's a little dark right now, but anyways, go check it out if you guys are interested in, you know, getting some astronomy themed clothing and t-shirts such as this or that, and, you know, it's a way to support the channel. And I actually put a little blurb about transparency because they were encouraging me. You can, after a certain, after they make their profit, they say, you know, for instance, for a T-shirt, it's like $18 or $19. And then you can choose how much more you want to charge to make, you know, more and more profit off that. And they were suggesting I charge like $29, $30 to make a, you know, a $10 or $11, $12 profit on each shirt. and I just I couldn't justify that in my head so I'm I was trying to be transparent about it being a method to support the channel and support me and I'm making about two to four dollars per shirt I felt like that was reasonable you know and at the same time it's affordable because I'll probably buy probably end up just buying a bunch and just wearing my own my own stuff is they're just designs. that I personally liked and would wear and um there I got mugs shirts sweatshirts and

all that so um so yeah sorry I've been ignoring the chat uh let's see what we got here I got them in black yeah got them in black yeah it's probably a little too early for the mods to be signing on so I might have to make someone a mod soon enough but This chat doesn't seem to be popping too popping off too much right now, so it's fine. Unique squid, thanks, thanks, I appreciate that. Dr. Mantis, thank you. Blackmun of the YouTube wallpaper is clean. Very cool, very cool, thanks.

Discord is also in the description, the link to it. I haven't really been too active on there, but I've been trying to start you know getting getting more active and just just popping in more often because I do enjoy talking to you guys especially about astronomy and history and you know deeper you know philosophical things and I'd like to make it a cool community of you know things things that I typically talk about on my channel yeah thanks I appreciate that that's Hi, high praise. Longtime viewer.

Yeah, thanks for reminding me, by the way. Hey, look at that. Huck's in the chat. Speaking of that, one of my Discord mods. Here, if you need a mod, Huck, 100%, man. I'll make you a mod right now. Let's see.

Sweet. So Huck's actually one of the mods to my Discord channel. I got a real delicate situation over here. I gotta get the webcam board out of the way so I can see the chat because I got my screen sort of how I want it and all the chords going in and out of it are very precariously hooked in I'll probably bump the audio out any minute um so okay let's see 20 minutes in I haven't gotten to the interstellar stuff yet do you have notebooks do you have notebooks with the print yeah I do I do it's up it's all so amazing what's up what's up what made you start your channel

I was actually looking for something like the stuff I make and the French Whisper and a couple other people dabbled in some of it and the shark hunter was it was one that I always point to she stopped making videos but she she only made like two or three astronomy videos and I really liked him and um i had hoped that you know i could ultimately make a career doing it if i practiced enough and so far somehow it's turned out to be like happening like that it's taken about five years longer than i originally had hoped but um honestly i'm i can not complain because i don't know how enough of you guys watch my stuff for me to for me to for me to be able to make a full-time living at it, but I do at the moment at least. And so I'm trying

to pursue it and help my game just make more and more quality content. And I'm still using that same guidestone, basically. Thanks, Huck. I appreciate it. Um, Eric, thank you. Vitor, what's up? Good morning, Eufloria. Cool name from Australia. How are you? So yeah, anyways, thank you. Like every time you guys even just leave a comment or like a video, obviously the comments let me know a little more in detail what you like or what you don't like. It really is cool. And that's why I try my best to interact with as many comments as possible when I have the time.

And all the gifts and donations on top of that. And now the purchases of the merchandise are just, a bonus on top of that and just just an added added I don't know what you'd say you know sign of love and support generous generous gifts that I very much appreciate guys

oh cool cool cool cool cool yeah it's you know over the years I've tried to do more less ASMR I've tried to really focus on the sounds and getting the binaroles experience nowadays I want to try to more just do which actually you know again before we get into the interstellar content that I wanted to talk about I did want to mention that the obvious thing to anybody who's been watching for any certain amount of time is that I recently dropped I mean maybe it's it's a it's not like my channel is very big so

it's probably not that big of a deal that I dropped the ASMR acronym off the end of it And that was mainly because, you know, 99% of ASMR channels with that acronym on it. I don't do content similar to that, you know. I mean, I don't do content like that. I do content maybe similar. But I was never actually started out without the acronym. And then I had like a thousand subscribers and someone suggested that I put that acronym there. And, you know, because it does overlap.

so much and I do honestly try to invoke the and that's why I put that poll up the other day to see how many of you guys actually I don't know how many of you right now in the live chat saw it but how many of you guys actually get ASMR the frision and the actual flush of um you know good satisfying like relaxing feelings from it I put on the um what's her name I was watching this the the Chinese woman who she's actually reading the same book that I did the Odyssey um the adventures of you know the children's book that was made out of the Odyssey and I actually got ASMR from it and I rarely get it from videos yang he yang hiying highly recommend her um her content guys maybe I don't know if I can add her but at Yang

I mean highly recommend her channel she I mean she's similar to what I'm going for um dango replaced Einstein when I hung up Einstein over there in the corner I don't know if you you guys apparently can't see it it's all dark over there right now but um I I dropped the ASM acronym really because if I do end up getting larger and larger, I don't want to pigeonhole myself into just making people believe that my content is just, you know, me trying to make triggers and sounds because it's more about the content than the delivery.

And the delivery is a part of it, you know, and I want to keep it relaxed and toned down and intimate and I want to emulate a you know a private tutor vibe as as much as I can because I've always enjoyed videos like that that are very just personal and you feel like there's it's emulating a connection where you're just having an actual yeah I guess intimate's the best word even though that has sexual overtones the actual definition of intimate it has nothing to do with sex it's it's very just um just a very you know personal and just a close encounter with another human being you know that's that's what i want to do so anyways thanks guys i just wanted to make sure i got that out of the way i'm going to briefly just show you guys a

glimpse we're gonna screen I got a cool little mask a little circular mask there so we're gonna briefly show you guys what the website looks like and show you some of the stuff on there and yeah so for anybody who's interested or if you're watching this after the fact the sale is and ends at midnight I think Pacific time we're about to find out actually it's 15% off all this stuff and It's just for Thursday December 2nd. It was just interesting. It was like fortuitous serendipitous that today was the day regardless. I didn't even know about the sale that I was going to Let's find out all this merchandise live anyways. So it was it was just cool. So I put it in the little

Description right here. Thanks for visiting the Let's find out store Let's make it a lot sitting cross-legged right now and pick these earbuds out actually because they're just monitoring the sound make sure that was right it sounds okay I guess the last thing I wanted to say about the merchandise also I'll scroll down and show you guys so I actually bought this shirt right here a sweatshirt and it's it's decent and they recommended like for instance this they recommended I sell it for forty five dollars I think so I tried to make it as cheap as possible while still getting you know two or three dollars

per item. And I just think that was right. And personally, that's what I'd want from a creator. If I was going to buy their merch, I'm like, you know, that way I can buy a couple items, you know, and that way each, it roughly adds up to a donation that I would have otherwise just given them without getting anything in return.

So, sorry, I'm missing the chat here, guys. the sale date works out and I'm pretty sure T Spring did this for this reason because use code holiday 15 at checkout so I'll put that in the description right now actually if I can I don't know if I can edit this real time yeah okay then off sale use code holiday probably not case sensitive but whatever at Check out. They probably did the sale because that's about their turnaround time. So give yourself three weeks. The second, you know, three weeks is 21 days. I would say, honestly, if you order today or tomorrow, it might be there by Christmas. I mean, it will definitely be there by Christmas. And then any more than maybe two days from now, it's probably going to be iffy, whether it arrives on the 24th, you know. So let's see, 15% off sale. I'll just plug it right at the top of the description for anyone who doesn't want to bother reading because I get it. You never know whether you're going to be wasting your time reading or not.

And we'll save and hopefully it updated. So it's right there at the top, Holiday 15, and today is just a good day because you get 15% off, and your stuff will be, if I don't know who you'd want to get, let's find out, merchandise for, but if you did, if you did, to not sell myself too short, you could order today or tomorrow. Today you get 50% off the sale ends tonight at midnight, Pacific time, so that's in about, probably in about 12 hours, something like that. And it will be there by the 24th, probably 21st, if you order today.

So I got, um, Let's see if we can just do... I'll show you all the shirts because that will go through all the designs. This is the shirt I'm wearing, I think. You could see. And yeah, I just always like that. Little design so I made it into a shirt. And then the black chalk style is also pretty cool.

Like I said, I'm probably going to just end up ordering and wearing a bunch of my own gear. I guess it makes sense marketing-wise to do it. that for my videos but literally I'll probably be just wearing it outside of my videos too I'll just scroll and try to catch up with the chat here thanks to you all of our GPAs of Ghana hey Phoenix good to see ya thanks team Zylos let's see you work's amazing maxi deep breather Jesse Roland Gus Elijah Thanks guys.

This is the new wallpaper art that I made for the YouTube channel wallpaper. I like that design. It doesn't have ASMR anywhere in it. Don't worry, guys. So yeah, all right. So sorry, if you guys had something to say, I just scroll down a little bit in the chat because I'm always terrible at keeping up with it in real time. I'm going to take a page out of Chichot's book and just skip over the chat.

And this is just an actual photo negative. It doesn't have that chalkboard effect, which I kind of like, too. It has more of a striking, you know, sharp, sharp lines. And then here, and I made sure that I wasn't doing any, you know, copyright or anything illegal. I wanted to make sure I can do this. It's on the NASA website, and now be fully transparent. If you guys just want to make your own shirts, I'm pretty sure. well, I know for a fact, you can go and just copy images right off the NASA website as long as they,

their only stipulation was that you don't have astronauts or the actual NASA logos in them. And I just personally like the images of the deep field, the galaxies, and the nebulae, and the planets I have one, you'll see in just a little bit. And so I made that on a shirt. And this one here is called the molten ring galaxy. And this is the Einstein, the gravitational lensing effect. And I put it in the description here because Einstein had predicted that if there was a galaxy or cluster sitting in front of further galaxies, the gravitation, the massive gravitation of those clusters would be distorting the light.

that's coming. So the galaxy is sitting between us, us, and the galaxy sitting between us and further away galaxies. And the light is being bent, you know, as it goes to that galaxy, it gets wrapped around, and it creates this image. This is actually a new gravitational lensing image that I really liked. So the molten ring is very, very cool. Good, I appreciate it.

that's the thanks phoenix yeah it's we'll see we'll see uh blue host no i'm using t well i mean just t spring i guess you can make

your own website through t spring so honestly i uh i was just kind of trying it out i wasn't really sure whether it had it's going to give me the ability to like customize my web page to make blogs and other aspects it doesn't look like it looks like it's just basically a glorified storefront

So, um, I'll keep the link and I'll keep all the links updated, but I might just link to T-Spring if it cost me money to have, let's find out. There's no real, real sense in that, especially from, because most of my traffic would be coming from, um, my YouTube channel anyway, which is just going to be links. So, uh, nausea, yeah, yeah, yeah, I am in the spirituality. I'm kind of, I'm looking for God like everybody else. I don't expect to get there anytime soon, but I feel like having a baby helped me get a little closer with God and my wife. Speaking of that, actually.

Man, Jippy, thank you. Thank you. So yeah, it's kind of a photo of my sketches. There are ads on the lives... There shouldn't be. There should be one ad in the beginning. and I whenever I can help it I always make sure there's no ads

at the end or in the middle because that always irritated me well I don't know how people I don't know how ESM artists get away with doing that people making videos for yeah Elijah feel free to drift off buddy

for people to go to sleep and then they stick a bunch of ads in there or even one ad really I remember I tried that in my three hour gas giants video and I just didn't I don't know, the moment I got some feedback, I just, I felt really bad that, you know, because it's not easy for some people to get to sleep.

This one right here, I really like this image of the planets. And these ones are all from NASA, and I looked into their, like I said, their fine print, and they say, as long as it's not astronauts or facilities or personnel, and it's just, you know, images, essentially all images of pure, celestial objects fair to put on merchandise and use commercially and all that so if you guys want to just grab them put them on your own shirt that's fine I just want to be transparent about the fact that if you do buy my merchandise that's not specifically made the design isn't specifically made by me that you are

fundamentally just supporting the channel and you know I don't ever want you guys to feel pressured to do that. So if you get something out of my stuff, here's, you know, another avenue you could support the channel through. This one I really liked. Galaxies Interacting. That small galaxies pulling the rings out of this one. It's very cool. A. R.P. This is ARP 86, a peculiar pair of interacting galaxies, which lies roughly 220 million light years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, that part of the night sky. It's composed of two galaxies interacting NGC, which stands for new general catalog, and then they just put numbers in the order that they find the galaxies.

So NGC 7752 and 7753, so they found the galaxies together, it would appear like. There's a large spiral galaxy, so 502. 53 is a large spiral galaxy dominating this image. And 52 is its smaller companion, gravitationally bound. And then, so these are two different ones. This is the molten ring because it has that more, well, molten ring look. It has more like a chunk of lava flowing almost.

And then this one is the older, more famous gravitational lensing image. The center of this 10 billion-year-old cluster is framed by the tail arcs that result from the strong gravitational lensing. A striking astronomical phenomenon which can warp, magnify, or even duplicate the appearance of distant galaxies lying behind it whose light is traveling towards us through it. And yeah, that's it other than the gas giants and... This star globular cluster, it's sitting right outside the Milky Way. Yep, again, I'll have stickers, and then we got shirts, and what else? I got a towel. I made out of the gas giants.

Actually, I guess I made towels out of all of them, but the gas giants worked out the best, because it fits. It's a long picture, so it actually fits on the entire towel. I thought that was pretty cool. I'm probably going to get one of those. and yeah this towel was a great example so they're charging me like you know $21 I think

or maybe it's like $22 or me I can actually show you guys I think well I can't get to it through here but I'm pretty sure I'm making like a dollar on this towel I'm pretty sure it's $23 it was just they were trying to charge something astronomical it was just so ridiculous like um like $39 for the towel and i'm i can't imagine that it's like it's not like it's a thousand

third count you know made out of Egyptian cotton over there so but it's a novelty thing it's the fact that you have an awesome astronomical image printed on the towel i think that's pretty cool and then my designs here and then phone cases yeah phone cases i just really like the design So I made these into phone cases and these ones wrap all the way around as you can see. Probably got to get one of those. And then mugs. Well, this one doesn't wrap around much because it's like a picture, but these ones do. And then the gas giants ones do.

Yeah, Mika, Mika, got merch. I sent a picture of my wife wearing the sweater actually. Let's see if the hoodie, the sweatshirt. This one, I think, or yeah, this one. So if you guys want to go to Discord, you can see a picture of my beautiful wife. Or if you just want to check out what the sweater actually looks like. She's wearing it on there. So, Delphor, no, it's not a new camera.

It's just the run-of-the-mill 1080p Logi cam. I just I realize that you have to download the Logi software and set the focus level manually so it doesn't fluctuate all the time. And then the lighting is just pretty good too, I guess. Kreeza from Greece. Man, that's awesome. Thank you for the love. Phoenix, we're doing great. We're doing great.

Molly's doing great. She's working, so I'm the one staying at home in June, but I have two mother-in-law, two grandparents, two grandmas around to help me out. I'm really fortunate, but, you know, some days I pull my hair out because I can't manage. It's really because I can't manage my own time. But I wake up at 6 a.m.,

and it's still not enough time to get things done. So I'm going to try to, I've always been a night owl, and this has really made me realize that I waste time when I stay up late. I'm just not as productive as if I go to bed at 9 and then wake up at 5. And it's crazy. Although, you know, I love getting lost in documentaries and lectures at night, I just get so much more and so much more. It's so much more I have a better time deep diving at like, you know, 6 a.m. in the morning.

If I'm already up with my coffee, let the dogs out, I'm sitting in a room, it's quiet, I get more out of doing that than staying up, you know, 11, 12 at night, watching some documentaries, having some beers, and it's just like, it's a nice outlet every now and then, but, you know, coffee is much more fundamentally fulfilling than beer, regularly at least. guys all right so I've been talking about this I always do this I didn't mean to make this into a into just something solely focused on the merch so let's but but I am I need to get that don't buy that guys because that's not a whole image I thought I

ironed a lot of these out these ones they just have they're called an all over print and they just by default put them on like the side for some reason but they're supposed to have a massive like the whole shirt it's not supposed to be just a logo in the middle like these are it's the whole shirt is supposed to have its sleeves and all so I got to tweak that but um all right let's get into the breakthrough star shot and once again for anybody who's just joining in thanks huck thank you I appreciate that um I just put it uh use holiday 15 all one word i guess holiday in the numbers one and five holiday 15 and you get a 15% off discount of all that merchandise so that's ending and that's only for Thursday December 2nd

so anybody who's not watching this you know after who's watching this after the fact won't get that discount but um that's why i tried to point out that I'm trying to make the prices set as reasonably as possible. So let's go to Wikipedia, look up, Breakthrough, Star Shot. We're going to be talking about this engineering project, which is encouraging us to donate. And I'm on Chrome. I usually browse on Safari and I've donated through there

so they don't usually bother me with that. So I don't get bothered by it. but I'd highly encourage you guys I use it for all my videos it's like my my literally my encyclopedia um that I

it's the number one resource that I use and I think it's great so I like to donate like 20 bucks to them every year um I just didn't expect that Breakthrough Star Shot is a

it's funded partially by Mark smoke these meats a sucker bird And Stephen Hawking, rest in peace, Yuri Milner, an Israeli, Russian-Israeli entrepreneur, and physicist, venture capitalist and physicist as well. It's a research and engineering project by the breakthrough initiatives. So we'll go down that link. so this is a that's the umbrella under which breakthrough star shot exists and it's just the

and that umbrella was when I was referencing earlier yeah meika yeah you know what I I didn't add face masks to the mask to the merch because I didn't know the quality of the face mask I hadn't tried them out but I did buy the shirts and the sweatshirts so I knew that they were roughly you know they were decent quality um But, you know, honestly, if I can put them at an affordable rate, yeah, I think that might be a cool idea because, yeah, if I have to wear one, I'm in Florida, so I really don't have to wear one, and I don't go out much either because I work. I do all my work for the channel at home. But I would totally rock, you know, some, like a Hubble gravitational lensing D field or something like that. I'm sure we got everything in the chat.

the base towel color too yeah yeah yeah I think I can if I didn't have that because yeah I guess that's more on my end so I do need to set that I guess to make sure you guys is it not loud enough guys I'm I'm trying to talk quietly because I didn't want it to be blowing because I did have the mic all the way Yep. But if you guys want me to make it louder. Yeah, you guys... Okay, let me try to do this. Check, check, check, check.

I'm turning the gain up now. All right, I'm turning... Maybe it's because I'm not talking directly into the microphone as much. So, yeah, for anyone watching this after the fact, it's already... We already 50 minutes into it, so I don't want to just randomly have the audio blow up. if they had already, you know, drifted off or they're distracted at the moment. So I think I might have just started talking softer naturally. It's awesome to see.

Just waking up, you're just making up. A-smartist, man. Thanks for joining. I think I might order a phone. T-Rae. I appreciate that. That's love. I've thought about that actually paid a guy on that website Fiverr to, I paid him like 40 or 50.

bucks and he was really good to work with he was really easy to work with but um I was trying to make the basics of astronomy sketch that I made into a the dot a i png vector file and it looked kind of cool it looked cool and I still might just download you know some from free version of Adobe or whatever to try to tweak it until I like it and then might put that out because I know the the uh thanks Juan okay good good glad the volume's better um yeah because I know you that vector the benefits of having the vector images that you can blow it up as large as you want because it's all mathematical equations and you know there's no pixelation that

happens by doing that so I I would like to do that because I could you know I could make those all over T's I can make massive posters and it wouldn't look grainy or anything. I appreciate the offer though. When I look into that, I'll reach out in the future if you're a graphic designer. Raina Lee, I love your content so much. I have a minor astronomy. Your videos have helped me through all of my AST classes.

Wow. That's amazing. I would be very, uh, Phoenix. If you ever, your designer man would love to help Phoenix. appreciate that really that's that's so awesome um yeah guys jump on discord and maybe we'll start a like a graphic designer uh whatever it's called serve like sub server in the discord how can meika sorry they're probably laughing right now is it is it a server when it's because it's the main server and you have like sub servers i forget the terminology but no i really really appreciate that offer

And that's, I'm always, I'm always so, I cringe when I think of anybody with physics or, like actual education in astronomy, because I'm sure they're just laughing. A channel. Okay, thank you, a channel on the Discord. So, yeah, maybe we can make a graphic design channel and just talk about ideas. Maybe we could crowdsource or, you know, collectively just have a brainstorm about, We can vote on Discord and what designs you guys like and I can add them or take them away on the merch. Yeah, I mean, it should be, you know what, I'm sorry guys.

Maybe it's not in the live stream description right now. Patreon. Yeah, maybe I, I might have taken it off because I wasn't at the time I made the, this is like a boilerplate template for the live streams they have a different template than the regular videos so i might have taken it off when i was doing the live stream last you know a couple months ago because i just wasn't very active in there but i'm starting to try to be um yeah let me grab that i'll grab this right now copy the link and post it in the description if anybody's on here must have go on the discord um how can Mika and the chat now are the two mods for the discord and they built the entire thing for me.

They asked my opinion on what I wanted wanted in it and they they've been a huge help in running it. They've been exclusively in charge and doing an awesome job at it. It looks amazing because I've been in a couple of their discords now that I have some experience and I'm like blown away that. that you guys did that for me. How can make a both? So I want to, everyone, I want to give you a big shout out publicly. I know I thank you in person, or in person, privately.

I just want you guys to know, I really appreciate it. I guess it's socials down there. So, yeah, we can, uh, I got a big old YouTube, YouTube redirect. That's unfortunate. That's probably not going to work. Okay. Alright, that link expires, okay.

All right, hook, sorry. I didn't catch that in time. All right. I'm glad you guys can't see this right now. Wait, that one didn't work either. Maybe I'm... Hmm. Let me...

Let me... Give me a YouTube redirect link. Invite invalid continue to just go ahead and expire to have permission. Oh, well. Not the biggest deal. I'm sure you guys can get to it through here. Um... Raina Lee?

Are you in South Florida? too hey julian julian julian good to see you man good to see you glad glad you joined have you for free too because I'm a massive fan man I mean I wouldn't expect you to help me for free but that's a really generous offer um study architecture and I'm big on design use PS and a wow very very cool that's that stuff is just way beyond me all the layers and all the there's so many tools in there I'm I I bootlegged it Adobe years ago. Maybe I shouldn't say that.

It was really, really, I saw, I was able to at least see, rather, an experience of like the interface briefly. And I literally just didn't even know what to do with it and where to start with it. So I will most likely look in the Discord sometime in the next six months or something like that. if I really want to start trying to work on getting some vector imaging done. So thanks again for the offer, AISMar guitarist.

Sweet, all right, we've got some people joining the Discord. Very cool. It's a great technology, and I'm, you know, I'm bummed. I haven't had the time to really interact a lot on there, you guys. I know that stuff's expensive. Pretty expensive. That's funny. It's so true, though, man.

Textbooks alone are, it's a crime, how much they charge for those. So, well, the best to you in your courses, that must be a really cool job to be able to create that much. Fair enough. Yeah, you know, I have some experience with Dawes and making music. And what was the one I used to use before? You know, I use garage band now to just mess around with music. But I understand how it was Cakewalk, but whatever sonar, I think, cakewalk turned into.

And, you know, it's nowhere near as intricate and complex as Adobe. But it is, you know, you can see how if you sat down and took a month to really, like, put in 40-hour weeks and learn everything, it opens up so many doors to be able to create, you know, utilize all the technology that we have is just stupid it's mind-boggling nowadays what you can do from a computer you know cool louisa glad you joined glad you joined um so we man time does go by fast that's i mean it's funny like it's almost been it's been almost two years now of covid that blows my mind that absolutely blows my mind I was actually in, I might have told this before, but I was on my friend's bachelor trip.

He lives in Florida, but his brother lives in Seattle. And we flew in January of 2020. I was in Seattle in January, at the end of January 2020 when supposedly, you know, case zero or whatever it's called, was the first person from Wuhan had flown into Seattle. and was starting to spread COVID to the U.S. And I was, I never got it. Interestingly enough, but we had drove up to go on a little ski trip for the Bachelor party.

And we weren't really in Seattle more than one day. But it was just weird. It was cool. And I don't ever really take a lot of trips recently, so it was cool that that worked out. Or else, because I wouldn't have been able to. Since then, we fixed the behalf. house and had a kid and got married and so it's uh it's just now starting to we're finding fun in

our groove now um oh louisa that's very very cool i i i've been getting people on instagram saying that i was on my the spotify rapped thing that just tells you how much you're what you've been listening to throughout the year the most i guess so that's really cool mero hey good good to meet you um i'm rich for any of you guys that don't know my real name, it's rich. And, man, it's so cool to be able to interact with you guys. We're just, I'm just sitting here at a computer,

talking to people all across the world. I've been to Disney right before COVID. It's amazing I didn't get it. Yeah. Yeah, cool, I'm glad you got to go. It seems like hopefully all these variants don't, don't, uh, kick the can down the road. road of too much more quarantining and all that.

That's just, it's unfortunate that, I don't know, we all can't, I don't know, I guess that's just the pitfalls of having local freedoms without, I don't want to get into politics or anything because I'm way too ignorant to make any definitive statements about it, but it makes you want to wish that we had, we could all come to a consensus and agree to it and just act upon it. But, you know, I don't know whether just going all maskless and no vaccines or all masks and all vaccines and all quarantining is the best option. But it definitely takes a toll not being able to socialize in person with people for prolonged periods of time. That's one statement I can definitely get behind. It's so unfortunate that that has to happen.

Yeah, the 2009 swine flu. Right, right, right. Steve, thanks, man. I just saw you radio stations and said you own radio stations in St. Louis. That's awesome. I wonder, I was trying to write about my, the background to how I found ASMR. And the other day, as I was writing, I realized that talk radio. It was, a big one was Loveline with Adam Carolla.

and I was probably middle school for me which is probably 2001 or two is when I had a little talk a little FM radio and I'd fall asleep listening to it and I put it on real low and then from there it went to audiobooks and then by the time high school it had ended I had got an iPod and then early in college is when I got like a a touchscreen phone and, you know, and then I could start putting on YouTube videos to fall asleep, too.

So, cool, we got some more, what time is it, four, it's almost 420, bro? We got some people rolling in here now, very cool. But yeah, I was just, I'm curious what your experience, owning radio station, and with the transitioning into the podcast, the rise of the podcast, how that's affected. you know, I'm not sure where the business of radio stations are, really. I guess it's running ads. That's how you make money. But thanks to you.

Thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks. That would be amazing. That would be amazing. I mean, so far, it's kind of what I'm trying to do with YouTube. So, yeah, I live on the East Coast. Yeah, I'm just trying to make astronomy basically talk radio, spoken word, ventures into astronomy, me, which is what I'm actually, I was meaning to get to, and I'd spent 50 minutes trying to promote my merchandise, so I apologize for that, guys.

But this was so fascinating. So, on the morning show, man, I, I would be way too nervous to go on live radio, I think, let alone television, morning television, but, I mean, I don't know, maybe once, maybe if it wasn't just such a, like a 15-minute, As long as it wasn't like a show that that promotes like real sensationalism and isn't really deep, I probably wouldn't be interested in that. But if it's a show that's, you know, some substance, yeah, I guess I would, I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't enjoy calling in or or visiting and talking about what I do, I guess. Louvisa, I appreciate it so much. That's, it blows my mind that so many of you guys watch my stuff. I see numbers and I see subscribers and views, but it doesn't put it, you know, make it tangible until like I'm in a chat, especially a live chat and I'm able to talk with you guys. Yeah, I might be interested in that. I have so little time, though, nowadays.

Huck was there really 69 people in the chat, net 420? That's hilarious. That's funny. the sort of try to awkwardly segue back into the breakthrough star shot the 21st century interstellar missions I only stumbled upon this when I was searching

when I'm doing a video on SETI which I'm doing a lot more research on that one I'm going to make it more like a documentary that I narrate and I want to try to make a script for that one because there's lots of details and lots of tangents it goes on just about who's you know from Carl Sagan to all the people who initiated SETI the Drake equation the Fermi paradox and there's so much to talk about there so I want to make a nice long astronomy video about

SETI in general but this is probably going to be a part of that but I thought it was very relevant, very contemporary, and it's just something fascinating that we are actually in the, um, these billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg being the most famous of them is actually trying to, um, they're at least putting money towards the attempt at creating actual interstellar, uh, light sales is one of the models, but interstellar probes to probe, uh, unvers, uh, missions to other star systems. And that sounds so futuristic. I think that's what we all need.

We need to... It's not about the fact that we're ignoring issues on Earth so much as it's about the unifying consequences of undertaking such an endeavor and how we... I think how facing... the vastness of space, the immensity, the enormity of power that we can harness on Earth, let alone our sun, and the difficulties involved in the engineering projects.

And actually, whether it's tracking the potential deadly, fatal asteroids that are lurking, trying to hit earth or just trying to, you know, achieve the monumental feat of actually sending successfully, sending another probe to another local, you know, the closest one star system is, is three, four light years away. And then, you know, imagine if 500 years from now, we are actually able to send the message back and collect data on what, exists around that that star proxima centauri it's i think it's really it would be a unifying thing um i think it's like a proactive unifying thing in the sense that we we don't need to wait it's not smart it's not prudent to wait for uh an external disaster or even an internal to earth

like a mega volcano, or if global warming is as serious as everybody, as a lot of scientists think it is, we don't need to wait for that to hit a tipping point where we can't return from it to unify over certain things. And mainly just the fact that we're all going to die. We're all human. We're all finite. We're all susceptible to mortality and suffering and disease and old age. and you know there's so many more efficient ways we can go about interacting with each other and living and helping each other and building uh making education more about how to live a healthy life rather than how to get you know a job you know like i feel like if you have people who are just healthy active vibrant beings and they're taught to be that and taught to

use their bodies and challenge their minds, then I feel like it's a no-brainer that we'll be able to pick ourselves up from our bootstraps. So anyway, that's really my perspective behind this breakthrough star shot and how amazing it is. It's people spending billions of dollars. And it's abstract, but it has real consequences. consequences the ripple effect of massive projects like the Apollo program of sending men to the moon in the 60s had massive cognitive ripple effects in inspiring generations of engineers I mean Elon Musk was one of them you know like who knows what he would have done if he hadn't been inspired by seeing and growing up shortly after men on the moon or he might have been born then but I don't know if he remembered it maybe he was like five years old they you know things have disastrous

negative you know cascades throughout generations ideas but on the flip side of that you can also have cascades of positive ideas and positive feedback loops and you know you see people who do something great. It reminds you, it, it, it, uh, it shows you in a much more tangent way beyond the abstract that what you can do and, you know, it's our nature, it's in our nature to, you know, look at something massive like this, like a billionaire who actually wants to spend money towards research and design at, towards the aim of spending, uh, sending probes and, uh, looking for alienates. in life. And that

just makes us wonder, okay, well, what next? What do we actually see? Start communicating with aliens. What's our story? You know, what's our goal? If we don't have one, we're going to... If they have a more compelling story, then we're... It's game over for us,

you know? It'd be very easy for them to divide and conquer us. If that is their approach, Maybe they might be angelic and be beings of enlightenment and come and teach us the ways of, you know, their version of Jesus or Buddha, whatever. But I wouldn't count on it, you know. So it's stuff like this is just, it's encouraging to see. And it makes you think beyond, if anything, I guess, even if they don't find aliens, but they do send things, you know, light years. into space, if anything, it makes us view our lives in a larger context and realize that we don't

only affect ourselves, we affect our families, what we do affects our community, good and bad, you know, and what our communities do affects our nation and our globe and, yeah, I feel like it's just really, really a much more meaningful way to exist to realize that you're, everything you do matters and you're part of a larger community whether you realize it or not and you could have an astoundingly positive effect on untold generations beyond you if if uh you got your stuff together you know that's it's cool it's cool venture to venture back into the chat I'm gonna take a risk I'm walking out some fire tracks

Once I hit 200k Great wave drawing reminds me of Dave Bulls Woodblock carving videos I was inspired by that FH actually Um very cool I'm glad I'm glad I'm I recorded that like three years ago I just never edited it

Because there were some sounds you know It was like eight different 45 minute videos I had to edit together and edit dogs barking And bathroom breaks and all that but uh yeah i was definitely inspired by that dave bulls i like his videos yeah they're finding planets more and more often and that's it's cool that's something i'm discovering

when i was researching setty and the actual projects um looking for extra solar planets they're they're finding them you know by the dozens almost you know finding thousands every year and we have a good majority of our very nearby local group of solar systems, you know, star, other star systems mapped to the point where we understand how many planets there are and what kind of planets and even like you just said there, Phoenix, that there is, what chemicals are in the atmospheres of those planets and it's Really, really. It's amazing to consider that, you know, we might find life quicker than we realize. Asteroids aren't as big of a threat to the Earth. I wonder if you mean our ability, or if there's actually not that our ability to deflect them or there's just not that many asteroids out there.

Okay, yeah, yeah. There might be, it's definitely sensationalized, but still. It only takes, I think, an asteroid the size of like a large school bus to wipe out a city. So it's, I don't know, it's nothing to sneeze at. Still a major problem if it were to actually be on a direct trajectory to hit Earth. Yeah, wind and solar, I hope we can charge electric cars with that. I'm not sure. I haven't looked that up yet, whether the coal burned, the power plants that are in turn used to charge the electric cars is actually less than the

exhaust coming out of internal combustion engines but kna cow greetings from germany man you're my spirit animal rich that's funny time travel uh i don't know anything about time travel oscar the lanakia uh yeah i mean i'll try to i guess address time travel in the sense of it being like the relativistic effects of it but uh the lanokea yeah i do that that cluster and the i guess it's the largest scale of galaxy clusters that i guess we're a part of that's fascinating thing yeah okay vitor that's what i'm gonna i think get to hopefully hopefully when if we can get to that the uh okay Jupiter and the moon really help beer those away from Earth.

But then again, it's all a matter of scale. If you zoom out on time, asteroids are going to hit, and they do hit the Earth all the time. That's right. From what I read, I mean, Huck knows generally based on some of our brief, brief conversations in the Discord chat. Huck is much more versed in general physics, astrophysics and astronomy than I am.

From what I've read, the asteroids, I mean, absolutely on the time scale of a thousand years, major floods, major hurricanes, volcanoes, like on a mega scale that we haven't seen in recorded history are inevitable, you know, and so are asteroids. So we definitely need to be prepared for that and those. What's up, Eric? Thanks for joining from Texas.

Yeah, Huck, how fast do we have to go before time travel is relativistic? We're going fast enough, close enough to the speed of light to make, to make our sense of time as we travel tick, I guess, much slower than people standing relatively stationary to us. Okay. Breakthrough Star Shot is a research and engineering project. Hour and a half into this. By the breakthrough initiatives to develop a proof of concept fleet of light sail interstellar probes

named Star Chip to be capable of making the journey to Alpha Centauri 4.37 light years away. It was founded in 2016 by Yuri Milner who is a a billionaire well if he's not a billionaire he's a very wealthy

Russian is rarely entrepreneur venture capitalist and physicist which is such an interesting combination when you can ride both sides of the fence between a physicist and the engineer and a businessman

or a woman the the skills that are involved in those two disciplines are very distinct and that says a lot about your broad capabilities to be able to navigate those two and the languages are pretty different too you know one's very technical and rational literal and the other is much more it's much more fleeting abstract and it's more linguistic it's more

social emotional it's much more of a game I guess a flyby mission has been proposed to proxma centauri B an earth-sized exo

planet in the habitable zone of proxma centauri B that's such a good line because I felt the tinge of guilt when I scrolled scroll down says we humbly ask you don't scroll it

The habitable zone of the Red Dwarf Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star of the Sun and part of a triple star system. Look at that, this actual frames. You can see it orbiting. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. That's amazing. It's 4.2 layers away. Wow. Proxima Centauri B orbits the star at a distance of roughly a fifth of the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

05AU or a fifth 5% I'm only 4.6 million miles we're at 90 million miles from our sun our star with an orbital period of only 11 days earth days as a mass 1.2 times 1.2 times that of earth that's amazing wow thanks for love Brian appreciate that Raina says, and white holes are theorized to potentially

maybe be wormholes that can travel to other parts of the universe, but that doesn't mean it skips in time. Alright, Raina. Thanks for joining the Discord, hopefully I'll be on there soon enough.

And thanks for stopping by. Good luck with the end of the semester. Best of luck. The breakthrough Star Shot Endeavor is a fly-by mission that is proposed to go

by Proxima Centauri B. So it does lie in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri in the Alpha Centauri system. And generally, I guess, they name the planets alphabetically with the star name and then a letter of the alphabet in order of distance. Either, you know, distance, the order in which they found them, probably more like the distance away from the star, descending or increasing distance away from the star. So B would be the second planet.

So there must be a proximate centauri A in the Alpha Centauri system. Let's see. Planetary System, so far as of 2021, two planets have been confirmed around Proxima Centauri 1, being close to. Earth size within the habitable zone B, and another which may be a gas dwarf that orbits much further out C, but there are signs of a third, even smaller planet that could be orbiting closer than both planets. That was wrong. At a speed of 15% and 20% the speed of light, this flyby mission from the light sails,

the interstellar probes would take between 20 and the speed of light. 30 years to complete the journey in approximately four years for a return message from the starship to Earth. Really, at 20% of the speed of light, I guess that makes

sense. That's so incredibly fast. That would be so fast. Enable this interstellar travel project were described in a road map to interstellar flight by Philip Lubin of UC

Santa Barbara. Sending the lightweight spacecraft involves a multiple a multi-kilometer phased array of beam steerable lasers with a combined coherent power output of up to a hundred gigawatts. So the shooting laser that has such a sharp beam to it that it's able to travel you know potentially light years I guess before it gets co-eastern. you know before it spreads out too far so it can hit the starship with such pinpoint accuracy and of course they're going to be light enough lightweight enough to uh to be able to be moved by light propelled by light so interesting as part of it aviloeb the project was announced yeah that's it is mind-blowing uh john when you think about how far every thing you

everything is in space outside of even the moon is every time you look at it you're looking at how it was two seconds ago in the sun eight minutes ago so you know i i doubt that unless it was just the most perfectly timed thing we would be able to see like a planet coming long in advance but if there were somehow a perfectly timed planet coming right at the sun and it was just hiding on the other side of the sun from our orbit, it would have to be like in perfect synchrony. Yeah, we wouldn't see the blast for eight minutes. That's so fascinating to think about.

And then, you know, everything else in space is further and further and further back in time. So this project was announced in 2016. in an event held in New York City by physicist Yuri Milner with cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who was serving as board member of the initiatives. On the board and other board members included Meta Platform's CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The project has an initial funding of $100 million to initialize research, just to initialize the research. There places the final mission cost at $5 to $10 billion.

Wow, so like a hundred times that. It estimates the first craft could launch by around 2036. 336. Breakthrough Star Shot aims to demonstrate a proof of concept for ultra-fast, light-driven nano spacecraft and lay the foundations for a first launch to Alpha Centauri within the next generation. Secondary goals are solar system exploration. detection of Earth crossing asteroids. The spacecraft would make a fly-by of and possibly photograph any Earth-like worlds that might exist in the system.

So the general concept behind it is that the Star Shot concept envisions, I've got to make this a little bit smaller, um, envisions launching a mothership, envisions in launching a mothership, carrying about a thousand tiny spacecraft on the scale of centimeters. Wow, okay, so I didn't realize they were that small, which is how they can potentially, I guess, go that fast. But it always makes me think, like, how much debris is out there? Like, wouldn't they all just eventually smash into debris?

Way before they get to, you know, traveling the distance of light years. carrying a thousand tiny spacecraft. So a mother ship carrying a thousand tiny spacecraft all about on the scale of centimeters to a high altitude Earth orbit for deployment and then a phased array of ground-based lasers would then focus a light beam on the craft's sails to accelerate them one by one to the target speed

within 10 minutes? 10 minutes. With an average acceleration on the order of a high, 100 kilometers per second squared. So 10,000 times Earth's gravity and an illumination energy on the order of 1 terahjule delivered to each sail. A preliminary sail model is suggested to a surface area

of only 4 by 4 meters. So like 12 by 12 feet, like roughly the size of a car, an SUV A 2017 presentation of the Star Shot System model examines circular sails and finds that the beam director capital cost is minimized

by having a sail diameter of five meters. Ideally the breakthrough Star Shot would aim its spacecraft within one astronomical unit of that world being Proxima Centauri B that planet

From this distance, Kraft's cameras could capture an image of high enough resolution to resolve surface features. God, how amazing would that be? So theoretically, they go there in 30 years

and come back with data, send data back at the speed of light. It takes four years. It's four light years away. In 30 to 40 years, we could have high resolution images of a planet

in another SARS. system. Wow. Mr. Pugh, you've, uh, is that how you say your name? You've been around since the beginning. Man, it's so, uh, that's wild to think that I have some people who've been around since the beginning. How are you? I hope you're doing well from France. I hope you, uh, I hope you have some, some great holidays. I hope you have a Merry Christmas. That's so awesome. I remember four or five what six years ago maybe remember you were one of the at least I think if if that was you one of the first people hanging out leaving comments on the channel that's that's wild to think about how long ago that was but yeah thanks I appreciate you noticing

the growth that's super cool yeah you too Emily happy holidays and best of luck on the project best of luck on the project I'm sure you're finding this is a nice little procrastination but I hope you're you can at least stimulate your imagination a little bit talking about the breakthrough star shot project here that's still active PRP really that's interesting I wonder who else you would follow thereiana thank you thank you I don't know if yeah I guess you can't really see it now with the thing but we have merch we have merch we have merch yeah there we go hook thanks man thanks for putting that in the chat anyone who didn't hear my

hour long uh i was gonna say rant i mean it kind of wasn't ran it was a rant it was a soft-spoken appeal to see if you guys want to um buy my merch so i just i made some stuff put it on t-shirts mugs stickers sweatshirts um and i finally i've been wanting to do this for a while so finally today I guess today only the website I use, T-Spring, is having a 15% off sale, and they do take about three weeks, so if you order within the next couple days, they'll definitely be here by Christmas.

So just something for you guys to think about. If you want to support the channel and buy something that you, I think, is cool, not guaranteed that you guys think it's cool, but I guess time will tell. We'll see how many of you like it. Yeah, I thought the towel was kind of cool Mika. Thanks. I'm glad you liked that too. I think I want to get the gas giants version of the town. Cool owned cool cool cool cool. I'm glad you guys I'm glad you're liking the

The video and Chris. Thanks man fantastic love your videos appreciate it. No, I haven't been Vitor I haven't I haven't started buying real estate yet don't quite have enough. It's just about to make a joke about how the price in this market have been astronomical but I'll just tell you that I was about to instead I want to just see briefly what other type of projects there are because I know there's a section at the bottom that says other interstellar space missions and maybe I'll and maybe we'll go back to the rectangle there we go this wait no this sorry I'm trying to try to put my Oh no, what happened?

What happened to the darn? Oh man, the screen capture has disappeared on me. That's unfortunate. Web game. Where to go? There he goes. Okay. I guess it's back now.

Okay. All right, guys. So let's... It's about the universe with the music in the back. That's cool. That's really cool. I'd like to do some real basic universe facts, I think. Again, just going back to...

something real simple. That's cool. I'm glad you like it. You will. Man. After a year and I see you go live. What a coincidence. Jeeve, have you...

Mike loves a top podcast. Awesome. And Mr. Puk. That's... That's... Ah, man. Time flies. I'm really glad you graduated.

I'm really glad. That... Yeah, I think I... I don't think I have that. video up anymore maybe I should put it out but that atlas video I remember that was one of my most I remember watching like five views a day I get like three or five you know three four five six views a day and just watching the little the numbers go up from like a hundred and there over a couple months it was a thousand that was my

most viewed video and it was pretty it was a pretty cool experience watching the channel grow like that spin launch eating set i did actually i did it was probably scott manly's video that i watched um jeeve so uh yes i mean it's such a an attention grabbing visual thumbnail i was like what what's going on with that they literally yeat i can't say they were without laughing they yeat a yeat an actual spacecraft into space by spinning it like a big sling yeah that's it's baffling it's baffling that they can do that but i guess yeah it's like virgin mobiles they just limit the amount of fuel they need by attaching it to to a spacecraft and bringing it to a high enough altitude so that you know it only has

to travel, you know, so that's, it makes sense. It's cool. I did Sonic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I talked about that earlier, and just because I don't, I'm getting tired, so I'm fumbling over my words a lot more than I was earlier, but, um, I never had intended, uh, to have the ASMR acronym on my name, and I just, because I don't make actual ASMR videos, I just, videos that like this you know or if anything trying to evoke as more in a in a more conversational tone than then then directly stimulated way from tapping and auditory and visual triggers even though I try to incorporate those elements in a really organic way it's never been the focus of my

channel and I just never I wanted to, I guess, primarily focus more on my content than the relaxing, intimate nature of it. I just wanted those to be maybe a secondary characteristic of my channel and my content. So, you know, in that sense, I guess I should have put like, let's find out space or let's find out astronomy instead of ASMR. but I didn't want to limit myself with the genre of content either you know I didn't want to do a bunch of space videos and then people would wonder why I'm talking about philosophy or religion or history I wanted to always just keep it a very broad let's find out so yeah yeah basically I want to do unintentional

Intentional, unintentional. I want to do, I'm trying to think of that one ASMR artist. That she makes, she does role plays, but she actually films them in like, to make them look as though they're very unintentional. She'll do the shoe fitting. I'm sure you guys will know as soon as you think about it. But, yeah.

PRP, I probably took it off because, I just didn't like the way my voice sounded. So maybe I'll try to go through another. I do, like all these books behind me are mostly all books I've gotten over the last couple of years with the intention of trying to just browse through them and make videos. So there'll be a ton more videos of me just browsing through, you know, really large books. Like this one. This one here.

space. A lot of them are just books that, uh, the libraries I go to, and there's a handful of them I go to around here. Some of them are even affiliate, like some of them are public. Some are actually university libraries or college, local state college libraries. And they just give away books for free when they're, uh, you know, done shoeing them out of their library collection for whatever reason. You used to man. I hope everything goes smooth for you. That's, you know, funny. Yeah, gold player. I mean, there's a lot of people that think that as appealing as it sounds, it just sounds like giving up to me. So, so let's, let's look at what other projects we got going on. So essentially they're using a one terawatts, one terawatts of energy to

beam, to just direct a laser beam across four light years of space, get it to 20% of the speed of light and that would get it to the small little mountain or centimeter you know maybe a couple centimeters across in a four by four meter mother ship thousands of these little centimeter wide vehicles weighing only a few grams a piece it'd be propelled it might only take them 30 years to get there at 20% of the speed of light they'd be propelled by a square kilometer array of 10 kilowatt ground-based lasers with a combined output of 100 gigawatts. A swarm of about 1,000 units would compensate for the losses caused by interstellar dust collisions on route to the target.

Okay, so they do, that's why they're doing so many, I guess. In a detailed study in 2016, Tim Hoang and Hwang and authors, Co-authors found that mitigating the collisions with dust hydrogen and with dust, hydrogen, and galactic cosmic rays may not be as severe an engineering problem as they first thought. The camera, computer, communications, laser, a nuclear power source, and the solar sail must be miniaturized to fit within a mass limit. All components must be engineered to endure extreme acceleration, extreme cold, extreme vacuum, and protons. cosmic ray particles, I guess. A spacecraft will have to survive collisions with space dust. They expect each square centimeter of frontal cross-section to collide at high speed,

20% of speed of light, with about 1,000 particles of size at least 0.1 micrometers. So like 10 nanometers? Focusing on a set of lasers totaling 100 gigawatts. onto the solar sail will be difficult due to atmospheric turbulence. So there's a suggestion to use a space-based laser infrastructure. Sorry, we got, we got, my neighbors have hunting dogs over there and they sound like actual seals. We always laugh, that's the seal show. It's time for the seal feeding.

They got a bucket of fish going out there. But that's what you're here. I don't live next to SeaWorld, if you're wondering. Okay, so our applications. Project Dragonfly. A feasibility study of small laser-based propelled interstellar probe. Datalus, the 70s proposal for a large fusion-powered unmanned interstellar probe. Project Icarus, 2009 project to update design of Project Datalus.

The Longshot, designed for 400-ton nuclear pulse propelled, unmanned spacecraft to reach the orbit of Alpha Centauri. Yeah, I think you would, geeve, have to aim at it for years. But no, actually, they were talking about the acceleration was so great because they're only the mass of a few grams. So actually, no, I think they were intending to accelerate it because the accuracy would get less and less the further away it got, you know, away from Earth.

And so they did intend to accelerate it over a very short period of time just very, very rapidly. And, you know, it's like slinging a stone. You've got to be real precise because once you let go, that thing, its path is predetermined. Other than deflections by interstellar particles. So a 2069 Alpha Centauri mission. And what, I forget who said that. in the chat earlier. You guys were mentioning that.

Sorry, I got the, I got an old chair here. A rickety chair. 269 Alpha Centauri Mission, NASA's concept for unmanned probe, possibly a light sail, starlight. So these are all very similar. So we got fusion or fusion powered probes or probes that are propelled by laser beams. hitting light sales.

That's fundamentally what it looks like. Except for this. Year Starship. The 100 Year Starship is a joint U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA program that offers grants to private entities. And the goal is to, the study is to create a business plan that fosters the research and technology needed for international.

interstellar travel within a 100-year time frame. 100-year starship was named 2012 by Senator Tom Coburn as one of the 100 most wasteful government spending projects. Coburn specifically cited a 100-year starship workshop that included one session titled, Did Jesus Die for Clingons 2? Did Jesus die for Clingons 2? That debated the implications for Christian philosophy should lie. be found on other planets. So the project datalus named after the Greek mythological designer who crafted wings for human flight was conducted between 73 and 1978 by the

British Interplanetary Society to design a plausible uncrewed interstellar probe intended mainly as a scientific probe. The design criteria specified that the space had to use existing or near future technology and had to reach its destination within a human lifetime. A fusion rocket to reach Barnard Star 5.9 light years away. The trip was estimated to take 50 light years, but the design was required to be flexible enough that it could be sent to any other target star to 7% of it. speed of light for 1,000 tons, including 50,000 tons of fuel and 500 tonne

scientific payload. The first stage would, it was a two stage of spacecraft, canisters of fuel, I think. 7% the speed of light is what the first stage would take it to, and then it would jettison those, few, that fuel, and the second stage would fire for 1.8 years taking the spacecraft up to 12%. The speed of light before it shut down for a 46-year cruise period.

Libdenium would be the material that the engine bells is what they call those balls would have to be made out of. The bell-shaped or contour nozzle is probably the most commonly used shaped rocket engine nozzle. He has a

high angle expansion section right behind the nozzle throat. This is followed by a gradual reversal of nozzle contour slope. Join this phoenix. So Project Icarus is the 2009 update for this. It's a theoretical engineering design study aimed at designing a credible, mainly nuclear fusion-based,

unmanned interstellar space probe. Project Icarus was an initiative of members of the British Interplanetary Society again. It was under the stewardship of Icarus interstellar. until 2019 it remains a BIS project I don't know what that means so it looks like it was only in the I never actually got beyond the planning phase project long shot was from the late 80s developed by the space the naval academy in NASA and it was the precursor oh designed to be built at space station freedom the precursor to the existing international space station and it was designed with the existing

technology in mind, but they needed some development, for instance, a three-order of magnitude leap over the current propulsion technology. It featured an open cycle fusion engine, initially generating 300 kilowatts. The 2069 Alpha Centauri mission in December 2017 NASA released a mission concept involved the launch of an interstellar probe to search for signs of life on planets orbiting stars in and around the Alpha Centauri system, the mission remains a concept as no name or allocated funding. I propose to be launched on the Apollo 11 anniversary mission. A hundred year anniversary.

Draw lasers. So this breakthrough initiatives is the mother, the umbrella project of the the breakthrough star shot. It was funded in 2015 by Uri and Julian Milner. Also a breakthrough prize. Are you an astronaut? No. James McAvoy. I guess I kind of do, don't they? Did Trump really want to use the laser? That's funny. I KTB. Coolishini. Glad you enjoy the video. I just want to look a little more into the breakthrough initiatives. up soon. Breakthrough listen. It's a series of project designed to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. A hundred million dollar funding for thousands of hours of dedicated

dedicated telescope time on steady-of-the-art facilities is the most comprehensive search for alien communications to date. And breakthrough star shot, oh, breakthrough watch, aims to identify and characterize Earth-sized rocky planets around Alpha Centauri and other stars within 20 light years of Earth and breakthrough plans on sending a mission

to Saturn's moon Enceladus and search for life in its warm ocean The Anceladus It's a high-resolution image It's got plenty of craters But these streams moderately far away from Saturn there. It's mostly covered by fresh, clean ice,

making it one of the most reflective bodies in the solar system. Baby's kidding. Yeah, she got going, guys. I got to help Mama and Grandmama take care of June. I've been at it for over two hours now. I'll let you guys go. I just want to see what the subservis ocean situation was like on Enceladus real quick.

Look at that. They think that's what it is. Hydrothermal vents. Water filled core, really? Waterfilled. An ocean crust and plumes. I wonder if they think it has any sort of a molten core. I don't know where the, it is the heat just from general stress between the rocks.

2005 evidence began to accumulate about liquid water when the observed plume. containing water vapor spewing from its south polar surface moving 250 kilograms of water every second at 2,000 kilometers per hour into space and a year later was determined that Enceladus's plumes are the source of Saturn's E-ring Saturn's rings are labeled alphabetically there's a lot of bands in them and each band has a different makeup and material that's made up of, not always like drastically different, but you know, you can tell Saturn has a distinct pans.

So it's E-ring and sell it is. Oh, it's E-ring. Out there. It's the largest one, I guess. Cool. Oh, there we go, possible heat sources. Sub-surface ice. So it ejects plumes of salted.

water laced with grains of silica-rich ice and organic molecules. Nitrogen, organic molecules. There's June. You know crazy. So this indicates that hydrothermal activity and energy source may be at work in Enceladus's subsurface ocean. Some models indicate that large rocky core is porous, allowing water to flow through it transferring heat and chemicals that would be so wild if it just had like a

whole biome of animals just swimming under that that ice crust contact with Enceladus's rocky core for this wide range of organic compound very very cool man that's so interesting that you know what else could be out there in life and in the universe what what other life could be out there Um, so these are the projects, breakthrough, listen, message, Star Shot, Watch, and Enceladus. Star Shot is the main one. Yeah, so there's a lot of money, a lot of funding going into looking around our nearby neighborhood. Hey, Bruno.

Appreciate it, appreciate it. I'm glad you like it. The, um, I'd like to do more physics videos soon when I get back to it. All right, guys, I'm going to sign off. it's been great catching up with you again for anybody who dropped in late we got merchandise now it's the first time I've ever done this

and it lined up just coincidentally with a sale on the T-Spring website for 15% off so if you're interested within the next day or two you can that sale only lasts until tonight midnight I think Pacific time but if you guys are interested in getting

anything before Christmas for any reason trying to get someone something it uh usually takes about three weeks to arrive at your door so maybe order it within the next couple days to try to make that happen good night guys uh bruno josh louisa how's he awesome josh Joshua good luck man good luck with that all right bye everyone be tour Mika, appreciate it. You guys take care, and I'll be seeing you soon with Bob Ross Part 2. I'll try to be doing live streams more often, too. And for some reason I can't get many more videos out.

I just want to wish you all. Happy holidays, a merry, very merry Christmas. Happy New Year. And, yeah, be safe and enjoy it. Enjoy the time with your families out there, guys. Have a great night.