The Real Stars and Scale of Sci-fi

Great video! As best as I can tell it's pronounced 'eck-you-men-op-oh-lis' though I used to pronounce it 'you-kuh-men-op-oh-lis' a lot.

I love the constant use of the Mass Effect star map. This little melody will always and forever be ingrained in my soul.

Man, I'd love to see 40k in here

Did anyone else notice the "RIP Pluto" at the very beginning in the solar system zoom out? Love it.

30:42 Actually spice melange allows navigators to see the future and avoid obstacles in spacehip's path. Folding is done by Holtzman Engine

In Star Trek: The Motion Picture it was explained that the Voyager 6 probe was lost when it fell into an anomoly (referred to in the movie as a "black hole", but now canonically assumed to be an unstable wormhole), and emerged on the other side of the galaxy. There it encountered a race of intelligent machines which repaired and upgraded it, and sent it back towards Earth. This explains how it travelled so far in such a short amount of time.

You forgot the greatest sci-fi space saga of all time: SPACE BALLS

You forgot that Khan was marooned on Tau Ceti 5 after failing to take the Enterprise from Kirk.

You should do a followup video covering all the places within the solar system that show up in sci-fi (The Expanse, Orion's Arm, Children of a Dead Earth and a few others mention a LOT of real-world asteroids, moons, dwarf planets etc) Edit: Isaac Arthur's comment was pinned? Is he no longer a fascist or does T.O.E. just not know about that?

Two things: 1. It’s been a while since I’ve watched Stargate, but I think the idea is that the constellation codes were unique to each gate. The gate on the other planet had completely different markings that James Spader had to figure out because they weren’t Earth constellations 2. The thing about Starship Troopers is that I think it’s implied the asteroid was a false flag committed by the government in order to garner support for an invasion

It lacks Perry Rhodan a lot.

@11:14 Star Trek Voyager was not canceled. It ran for seven seasons, and the conclusion was when they got home and their voyage ended. I do think that the ending seemed rushed, but there's nothing I can find that indicates a quick ending was written because the series was ending before the writers were ready.

I wrote a hard SF series called COUNT TO A TRILLION where I quite deliberately put all my extraterrestrial star systems in real places, with the real distances noted, and used a modern computerized storm app to make sure I had the distances between the various stars correct. Putting in the extra effort to get the details correct would be rewarded if and only if a detail oriented reader like yourself ever came across the work. This is a long and indirect way of saying you give authors like Frank Herbert and Larry Niven the reward for their extra effort.

My star wars galaxy name: The Farfara Way.

The xenomorph homeworld is way too close for comfort

Can someone do a timestamp of the Fandoms?

Why is there something so incredible about Captain Picard saying the name of star systems? The way Patrick Stewart says them, like "I know where this is, and you know where this is because this is a log for my superiors" just gives them such a sense of solidity.

Regarding the Stargate bit about 2D representations of star clusters forming symbols; This is intentional to be a 2D representation because the seventh symbol (unless 8 for the galaxy jumps) is the point of origin. The gate builders were “ancients” that existed on earth. So they mapped the stars from the perspective of earth and then created a unique symbol for each gate to have its “origin” symbol for dialling out. Therefore the symbols would differ from gate to gate, which is often mentioned in SG1, and one of their pre-mission objects was to send the M.A.L.P through to determine if there was a DHD (dial home device) and ascertain what the origin symbol was, and what the return coordinates would be to gate from that planet to earth.

No mention of three body problem?

9:05 No ,it wasnt a satire on fascism. Ugh, another one. Read: "Verhoeven interpreted Heinlein's novel as fascistic, nationalistic, totalitarian, and in favor of military rule, " The director foolishly assumed, but it wasnt.