Which planets in Warhammer 40k could really exist? (Cadia to Mars)

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    In this video Dr Hannah Wakeford and I combine our atmospheric and planetary physics PhD skills to review planets from Games Workshop's Warhammer 40k to see which ones could really exist in our galaxy! We review Cadia, Istvaan III, Catachan, Barbarus, Tinek'la, Titan, and Mars. One of these is Hannah's absolute favourite world. One of them is perfectly balanced with no exploits.
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    (6 again...) www.geologypage.com/2014/04/ju...
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    (8) I was hoping GW messed up the geometry on the planet but it turns out it's a legit Archimedean solid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncat...
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  • @RimmyDownunder
    @RimmyDownunder Před 3 lety +1679

    A successful barbie, with only a 73% mortality rate!

    • @jonathankumar9126
      @jonathankumar9126 Před 3 lety +105

      DUDE! Your cameo caught me so off-guard! I've been watching the hell out of the full VODs on your second channel and the Catachan Flustercluck is one of my faves!

    • @jackmurray302
      @jackmurray302 Před 3 lety +52

      Look at my boy all grown up, making cameos all over CZcams.

    • @viorp5267
      @viorp5267 Před 3 lety +9

      Well hello there.

    • @exudeku
      @exudeku Před 3 lety +18

      LADS! THE TANITH SCRUB IS HERE!

    • @blackfire0x0
      @blackfire0x0 Před 3 lety +5

      Hi rimmy!!

  • @Minotaur-ey2lg
    @Minotaur-ey2lg Před 3 lety +432

    Teacher: Ok kids, where is Terra?
    Kids point to a map: Here!
    Teacher: Ok kids, where is Cadia?
    Kids solemnly place hands over heart: Here.....

  • @bigredwolf6
    @bigredwolf6 Před 3 lety +133

    “You can’t set an atmosphere on fire with a nuclear bomb.” Not with that attitude. All ya gotta do is get all the Orks to believe it can.

  • @nickkorkodylas5005
    @nickkorkodylas5005 Před 3 lety +176

    Simon: _"Could Cadia really exist?"_
    Abaddon: [armless laughter]

  • @user-ed8ce8bg4e
    @user-ed8ce8bg4e Před 3 lety +559

    Vulcan: "I wish to pet this creature."

    • @MortalCosta
      @MortalCosta Před 3 lety +59

      “It would be but a single boop on its noggin”

    • @tokukusujo7911
      @tokukusujo7911 Před 3 lety +55

      "I want to boop the snoot"

    • @fernhausluv44
      @fernhausluv44 Před 3 lety +30

      *prolonged bird noise* 🦅

    • @SargeXtrme
      @SargeXtrme Před 3 lety +31

      @@MortalCosta Do not boop that merry suicide bomber.

    • @NilMortifey
      @NilMortifey Před 3 lety +23

      @@SargeXtrme BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP

  • @levb258
    @levb258 Před 3 lety +365

    So about Mars: I think that by the time the Mechanicum took control, the artificial magnetosphere had long since failed, and the surface had been scoured and irradiated by nuclear warfare. In M41, Mars is a deathworld hostile to all life, and cannot be lived on without cybernetic augmentation or advanced habitat technology, which I think adequately explains why the Mechanicus like cybernetics so much.

    • @luizhenriquealves9755
      @luizhenriquealves9755 Před 3 lety +30

      That and the Void Dragon influence

    • @Minotaur-ey2lg
      @Minotaur-ey2lg Před 3 lety +21

      There are also mutants on the surface, so not completely hostile to life.

    • @legionofthedamned157
      @legionofthedamned157 Před 3 lety +31

      @@Minotaur-ey2lg They are *MUTANS*, They are, by definition, hostile to The God Emperor of man kind

    • @petsan97
      @petsan97 Před 3 lety +17

      We should also remember that the Imperium of man is not the first to terraform Mars.
      It would have been the first target of colonization and terraforming in the dark age of technology during the great exodus. And seeing what they left behind like STC's, restarting a planets magnetosphere would have been piss easy for humanity at that stage.

    • @theomnisiah4298
      @theomnisiah4298 Před 3 lety +4

      Also due to a civil war where the winners used a lot of cybernetics and formed a cult around them

  • @HDreaper17
    @HDreaper17 Před 3 lety +338

    "Had it entire atmosphere set a light killing some 8 billion people instantly."
    "GODS I LOVE 40K!"
    mood

    • @ignatz14
      @ignatz14 Před 3 lety +24

      GODS? There is only the God Emperor, filthy heretic *loads bolter pistol with malicious intent*

    • @cy-one
      @cy-one Před 3 lety +13

      @@ignatz14 In the first video he says they're actually Ork-players.
      So obviously, he's talking about Gork and Mork.

    • @erichurst7897
      @erichurst7897 Před 3 lety +5

      @@ignatz14 Your God Emperor is dead and rots in his golden casket. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!

    • @alextheumbreon1363
      @alextheumbreon1363 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ignatz14 I mean, in the pantheon of the Imperium, you of course have the God-Emperor of Mankind, but there is also the machine spirit. So, in a sense, the plural is correct.

    • @extraordinarilyordinarygam6935
      @extraordinarilyordinarygam6935 Před 2 lety

      The Blood Angel Player inside me screams ‘HERRRREEEEEEEESYYYYYY’
      The Tyranid Play screams ‘unintelligible alien noises’
      The Slaanesh demon player says ‘unimaginable pillow talk’
      That is all

  • @e1123581321345589144
    @e1123581321345589144 Před 3 lety +348

    Stargate: It's basically Canada everywhere.

    • @stuffums
      @stuffums Před 3 lety +56

      They could calculate how likely it is that planets in our universe are rural Vancouver gravel pits

    • @Knight-Bishop
      @Knight-Bishop Před 3 lety +9

      So it wasn't really humanity itself that so many of the baddies were after. They just REALLY liked pancakes and waffles. Even the Ancients went with a diner of all places when Daniel crossed over...

    • @e1123581321345589144
      @e1123581321345589144 Před 3 lety +6

      @@Knight-Bishop yeah, basicaly they all wanted pancakes and maple syrup

    • @aceambling7685
      @aceambling7685 Před 3 lety +9

      Its all Canada?
      *It was Canada the whole time*

    • @odstbag337
      @odstbag337 Před 2 lety +2

      Indeed.

  • @migueltan1080
    @migueltan1080 Před 3 lety +171

    Last time I was this early, Horus was still loyal to the Emperor

  • @shootinbruin3614
    @shootinbruin3614 Před 3 lety +325

    Before this video becomes listed, I just wanted to express how much I appreciate the passion you put into these videos. The combination of your scientific expertise and Alfabusa-level references is a real treat to this 40K fan. Thank you!

    • @SimonClark
      @SimonClark  Před 3 lety +52

    • @shootinbruin3614
      @shootinbruin3614 Před 3 lety +10

      @@SimonClark I just finished replaying Dawn of War II's campaign, and coincidentally was wondering if the single-biome planets in that game could actually exist. So grateful the CZcams algorithm blessed me with your channel. Congratulations on earning your PhD and good luck with your future endeavors!
      - A UCLA grad, proud home of Terence Tao :)

  • @Wulfryk
    @Wulfryk Před 3 lety +56

    the image of planets behaving like a fluid through collisions is absolutely terrifying

  • @plasmancer6104
    @plasmancer6104 Před 3 lety +100

    5:32 "... I would like to pet this creature"
    "Vulkan. No."
    "It would be but a boop on de noggin!"

    • @Zakvadr1995
      @Zakvadr1995 Před 3 lety +29

      “Do not boop that merry suicide bomber.”

    • @Minotaur-ey2lg
      @Minotaur-ey2lg Před 3 lety +14

      “I want to boop the snoot!”

    • @morganrobinson8042
      @morganrobinson8042 Před 3 lety +6

      I mean, If it was Vulkan he'd be fine. Eventually. Let him have fun.

    • @Minotaur-ey2lg
      @Minotaur-ey2lg Před 3 lety

      Morgan Robinson
      If you haven’t watched it, the reference comes from “Brotrip 40000”. One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

    • @Smeghead76
      @Smeghead76 Před 3 lety +8

      @@Minotaur-ey2lg "Stop wanting."

  • @sterasigma8734
    @sterasigma8734 Před 3 lety +104

    Just realized one of the most important ports for the Imperial Navy looks like an astronomical Pac-Man.

  • @MaximumTaco
    @MaximumTaco Před 3 lety +57

    "We can't kickstart the planet's core to give it this new magnetosphere." Pfft...the documentary film The Core showed exactly how to do it.

    • @Seomus
      @Seomus Před 3 lety +12

      Yeah, we just need to discover unobtanium and we're good to go.

    • @jeffumbach
      @jeffumbach Před 2 lety

      @@Seomus amazingly they did it with only one gigaton worth of nuclear bombs as well.

  • @BloomLota
    @BloomLota Před 3 lety +57

    Warhammer 40K is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits

  • @pikapuffin368
    @pikapuffin368 Před 3 lety +103

    The cameos from folks I recognize - Rythian, Spiff and Rimmy specifically - makes these all the more fun. 10/10 for both videos.
    Also, War of the Worlds: the Musical track for Mars - because every Brit recognizes at least one of the songs from that album.

    • @Ghostrebel017
      @Ghostrebel017 Před 3 lety

      wait, which one was Rythian?

    • @Gakulon
      @Gakulon Před 3 lety +6

      @@Ghostrebel017 The previous video, for the Space Wolves planet

    • @hafor2846
      @hafor2846 Před 3 lety +7

      And Digby last video. Crazy British tank driver and Rimmy's commissar,

    • @Ma_Zhongying
      @Ma_Zhongying Před 3 lety

      @@hafor2846 Wait, where was Digby?

  • @endlesswanderer1753
    @endlesswanderer1753 Před 3 lety +164

    Man, this was pretty cool. You both are pretty funny and the references were on point.
    It'd probably be really boring, but Mass Effect has dozens of planets complete with small information blurbs and detailed statistics. For example, Noveria has an orbital distance of 0.9 AU, an orbital period of 0.9 Earth years, a day length of 52 Earth hours, an average surface temperature of -1 °C, a surface gravity of 0.81 *g*, and weighs 0.63 Earth masses. I always wondered if they were just pulling all those stats out at random or if they could actually make sense. Now that I'm thinking about it, they probably just copied known exoplanets for their details.

    • @legostuffman512
      @legostuffman512 Před 3 lety +9

      On top of that, several of the background flavour planets are Hot Jupiters, such as Rescel, located in the Satent System of the Pylos Nebula. There's also one called Wallace, in the Skepsis System.

    • @matrix3509
      @matrix3509 Před 3 lety +2

      Mass Effect would be really cool if only for aliens such as the Volus. They are aliens with an Ammonia-based biochemistry and live on worlds with atmospheric pressures similar to Venus. I've always wondered whether such life was possible.

  • @Sam-bt8jn
    @Sam-bt8jn Před 3 lety +42

    That spiff cameo caught me completely off guard, really cool video I’d love to see more hypothetical science applied to fictional universes.

  • @dinodude6992
    @dinodude6992 Před 3 lety +322

    Halo universe
    Stellaris: shroud worlds are confusing
    That's all I can think of

    • @James-lr3xg
      @James-lr3xg Před 3 lety +22

      Shroud worlds are stellaris form of Demon worlds in 40k/WHFB.

    • @skepticalmagos_101
      @skepticalmagos_101 Před 3 lety +10

      Gaia worlds are confusing

    • @lonewolf1625
      @lonewolf1625 Před 3 lety +2

      @@skepticalmagos_101 Prophet's Retreat at the start of the game?

    • @iansahleen1173
      @iansahleen1173 Před 3 lety +5

      I think most of the ones in halo could probably exist

    • @lonewolf1625
      @lonewolf1625 Před 3 lety +12

      @@iansahleen1173 Not Reach, too tectonicly stable to be only 1 billion years old, not to mention having no extreme geological events

  • @KossolaxtheForesworn
    @KossolaxtheForesworn Před 3 lety +65

    tho I think Istvaan would have turned into a hellscape either way. they were pretty much using nukes like hand grenades.

    • @alexholker1309
      @alexholker1309 Před 3 lety +25

      Not to mention that once you've rendered all living things down into methane, setting that methane on fire is just adding insult to injury.

    • @lexecomplexe4083
      @lexecomplexe4083 Před 3 lety +8

      @@alexholker1309 More like adding insult to extinction lol

  • @blacktemplar2323
    @blacktemplar2323 Před 3 lety +125

    In the tenth Ciaphas Cain Novel is a planetary system, which has a massive gas giant with orbiting planets on its fringes, which essentially forms its own mini system in the larger star system.

    • @loadeddice4696
      @loadeddice4696 Před 3 lety +6

      That's rad

    • @Wustenfuchs109
      @Wustenfuchs109 Před 3 lety +21

      That is not really a strange thing, you have the same thing in our own system. That's Jupiter for you. Its moon, Ganymede, is 26% larger than Mercury, a planet. Or Titan, a moon of Saturn, larger than Mercury. And we know there are far larger gas giants than Jupiter out there (due to their size, they were the first planets discovered outside of our system) so those having a dozen or so planet-size moons is not really a stretch... as a matter of fact, it would be strange if it was otherwise.
      As I said, that exact thing you described we have in our own star system.

    • @blacktemplar2323
      @blacktemplar2323 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Wustenfuchs109 You are of course correct, the difference is mostly in scale, if i remember correctly the "gas giant" in the novel also provides light, so it is more like a mini star.

    • @rikospostmodernlife
      @rikospostmodernlife Před 3 lety

      @@blacktemplar2323 that wouldn't make sense, unless it is a white dwarf that gas somehow trapped in orbit around a newer star

    • @zombielizard218
      @zombielizard218 Před 3 lety

      I think that's still possible. A gas giant that is a mini star. It'd be some kind of dwarf star in a binary star system, wherein it's orbiting an even larger star. Something like WISE 0855−0714 which is a brown dwarf that's planet-sized.

  • @PUNCHEDPUNCHEDPUNCHED
    @PUNCHEDPUNCHEDPUNCHED Před 3 lety +10

    3:20 I love how a bunch of dudes literally had to calculate the odds of them accidentally burning everyone on the planet into a crisp. Imagine the pressure and quadruple checking they probably had to make with that fear of accidentally wiping everything from existence

  • @chaImers
    @chaImers Před 3 lety +49

    2:38 ah yes, the horus heresy of cp_well

  • @clockworkkirlia7475
    @clockworkkirlia7475 Před 3 lety +60

    Vaguely aware of 40k and super into planetary physics so this is super cool!

  • @loadeddice4696
    @loadeddice4696 Před 3 lety +128

    Friendly reminder that the Imperial Japanese Army encouraged quasi-suicidal charges into melee for the glory of the Emperor, making the IG twice the weebs the Tau will ever be

    • @luckiller019
      @luckiller019 Před 3 lety +11

      and Hittler SS units were the most ethnicaly diverse force. Having divison of muslims, central Asians and even some Inds making tau even worse, because GW will never develop the lesser xenos allies of tau and fully embrace them being the 40k Mass effect parody. So much about Frank Grimes faction of 40k.

    • @AlarmedSpore
      @AlarmedSpore Před 3 lety +10

      Luckiller 01 ...what

    • @dohnjoe4100
      @dohnjoe4100 Před 3 lety +5

      @@AlarmedSpore foreign SS divisions were a real thing, up to the siege of Berlin.

    • @fanta4897
      @fanta4897 Před 3 lety +5

      @@AlarmedSpore You don't knnow about it? It had units from all over the world. There were french, swedes, latvians, norwegians, hungarians, italians, lithuanians, russians, bosnians, inds, croatians, ukrainians, few englishmen (I think one american was also serving in that english unit), czechs (surprisingly they were set up to have a fighting force at the end of the war, but it was so late that it ended up only as few men without many rifles with few pieces of uniforms running off somewhere into forest), belgians, etc. fighting for Third Reich, some of them serving in Wehrmacht, some even got it's own SS legion (Handschar for example was made up of bosnian muslims).

    • @Beanie28
      @Beanie28 Před 2 lety +3

      Imperial Japan predates weeb Japan so suicidal charges are cool

  • @tshhmon8164
    @tshhmon8164 Před 3 lety +14

    @Simon Clark aksually you can make an orbital ring with modern materials! There are two types. Clarke Rings - the simplest one at that - a ring at geostationary orbit, requiring no active support. Orbital Rings - look it up. You use a bunch of magnetically driven metal beads to keep the ring from falling. you don't even need supports. You can make tethers and cables for elevators though.

    • @ryanbentley1965
      @ryanbentley1965 Před 3 lety +1

      Fuck that noise, you just need a few billion Cogs and a Dozen Mechanicus Brand Gravitronic Engines!

    • @seraphina985
      @seraphina985 Před 3 lety

      Not necessarily beads another variant of this idea is to basically build a gigantic planet-sized particle accelerator and use protons. The same basic idea through the centripetal force needed to keep the particles following the circular path should equal the weight of the rest of the structure. Atlas pillars also use a similar idea except the particle accelerator is elongated and when the particles are redirected at each end it keeps the structure supported in tension instead of compression.

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY Před 3 lety +28

    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan

  • @timlehmann9067
    @timlehmann9067 Před 3 lety +12

    God I love orbital rings. Shoutout to my fellow toaster enthusiasts.
    Great video, had a lot of fun watching. Keep up the good work.

  • @ianw5663
    @ianw5663 Před 3 lety +33

    All the delightful in-jokes! All the sciences! FOR THE EMPRAH

  • @WhichDoctor1
    @WhichDoctor1 Před 3 lety +14

    0:21 this killed me 🤣

  • @harrymorris2361
    @harrymorris2361 Před 3 lety +15

    You guys have to look at either Halo or Mass Effect for the future planets!, I’d love to know about your reaction to Trevylion/Onyx which is 2 AU IN DIAMETER

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 Před 3 lety +1

      definitely would be good to have a breakdown of the practicality of a ringworld

  • @dominikk3643
    @dominikk3643 Před 3 lety +9

    2:38 Perfection

  • @Red-Tower
    @Red-Tower Před 3 lety +10

    Universes to consider looking at:
    Halo
    Mass Effect
    Star Craft
    Star Trek
    Doctor Who

  • @stefanjovanovic3933
    @stefanjovanovic3933 Před 3 lety +1

    I really like the direction the channel is going. I've been a follower since the OG 'day in the life' videos. Just keep going mate. Really looks like you are enjoying what you do and it really shows in the videos.

  • @Jamjar152
    @Jamjar152 Před 3 lety +1

    Love Notion, been using it since your recommendation months ago, really helped me through uni projects.

  • @batcat4136
    @batcat4136 Před 3 lety +6

    Love the science. Very cool. Very big into 40k and love seeing the stuff I love analysed from a scientific perspective. And the memes are exceptional, as are the surprise cameos xD

  • @moimitou
    @moimitou Před 3 lety +1

    First time I am genuinely happy to see an advert, notion is great, omg!
    Also, dabbling in exoplanets for research so this video was a treat, nice one!

  • @018FLP
    @018FLP Před 2 lety +2

    I never played 40k and don't know almost anything about it, but love this series! To the tons of scientific informations, to the universe possibilities and the nerdy humor, thank you! subd!

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Před rokem

      40K in a nutshell is the Late Roman Empire in the West but in Space, a dying Ancient Empire surrounded by Galaxy ending threats.
      Factions
      The Imperium = Humanity ~ 38,000 years from now which is a Theocratic Totalitarian Empire Founded by a Superhuman called the God Emperor which came about after a Great collapse of the Previous Golden Age called the Dark age due to tons of lost knowledge. Most of the Human factions are Imperial from the Astartes/Space Marines who are supersoldiers that originate from the Sons of the Emperor (thus limiting recruits to males) to the Imperial Guard, the Imperium's regular Army composed of regular soldiers and the Sororitas, an All women Religious Military Order under the command of the State Church (under a loophole that "No Man should bare arms for the Echlisiarchy)
      Eldar: similar to the Imperium experienced a Golden age before their fall but fell when they created the Chaos God of Excess that nearly caused their extinction, the Eldar is traditionally separated into 2 groups the Craftworld Eldar (basically High Elves) that live in Gigantic Ships called Craftworlds and the Dark Eldar (basically Dark Cenobite Elves) degenarate Aliens that use torture to protect their souls to the Dark god they made named Slanessh.
      Chaos: An Extra Universal group of Gods that exist in a parallel universe called the Warp a universe where the laws of Physics don't exist and is used for space travel, the Chaos Gods have many Agents including Daemons but the most prominet are their worshipers the Chaos Marines, they consist of Traitors to the Imperium that separated following Horus one of the Sons of the Emperor that Rebelled, Chaos is feed by Negative Emotions hence their followers sacrefice many people to them as they can be rewarded to become a daemon prince and be immortal.
      Orks: Ancient Bioweapons created by Aliens called the Old Ones a long extinct group of highly intelligent Aliens, Orks are as the name suggest are much like their Orc fantasy counterparts, they are lead by the strongest Orks, violent and are crude but uniquely they can will their weapons to work thanks to being very psychic with it being called Whagg! energy.
      Necrons: A very Old Alien "species" that were the rival of the Old Ones and caused their extinction, once fragile Humanoid Aliens that lived short lives, the Necrons are Alien Cyborgs made of Living Metal a self repairing material, they are the most Advanced of the factions being able to imprison the C'tan their god like overlords after they rebelled realising the C'tan made most of them lose their free will, after the Rebellion most fell into sleep with some waking up to reclaim their planets and recreating their Empires.
      Tyranids: the Most extraterrestrial, they live to consume the galaxy, living Ecosystems they originate outside of the milky way and have been striping planets dry for food for sometime, they are like the Bugs and Zerg in Starship Troopers and Star Craft but far more numerous, their origin and exact numbers though are a mystery many even speculate that the current invasions are simply "scouts".
      Tau: Youngest and the most "progressive" of the Factions, the Tau are Frail Aliens that live in a strict Cast system that relys on other Aliens and even humans as auxiliaries, they have a very small empire compared to the Imperium but have advanced Mech, Rail and Plasma technology.

  • @sergio.aguirre
    @sergio.aguirre Před 3 lety +1

    Hands down, you are great! Thank you, Simon.

  • @Ekstrax
    @Ekstrax Před 3 lety

    Great stuff man loved both parts, great memes :D

  • @tigeriussvarne177
    @tigeriussvarne177 Před 3 lety +1

    Liked and subscribed. The War of the worlds intro snippet finaly got me! ;D

  • @yurachunt3179
    @yurachunt3179 Před 3 lety +15

    _definitely_ Mass Effect, including Andromeda

    • @luizhenriquealves9755
      @luizhenriquealves9755 Před 3 lety +1

      So that Andromeda can get more shit thrown at it? Just let every one forget it ever existed

    • @Tommy9834
      @Tommy9834 Před 3 lety +3

      What is this Andromeda? The only Andromeda I know is the galaxy. Defiantly don't know anything else called Andromeda.
      On a side note, would really like a new Mass Effect game. There hasn't been one since Mass Effect 3.

  • @jonathankumar9126
    @jonathankumar9126 Před 3 lety +4

    Simon, You are out doing yourself! First, the chicken run video and now, this! I loved the cameos from Spiffing and Rimmy and the humour was so on point. And that's not even getting into the great content of this video and the crisp way its communicated! You keep pumping out videos like this and I'll keep fanboying in the comments!

  • @atonomusxul9897
    @atonomusxul9897 Před 3 lety +1

    Love this series. Could you guys review the Starfinder planets?

  • @odstbag337
    @odstbag337 Před 3 lety +5

    4:57 I forgot that they quoted Sly Marbo in that movie!

  • @drgrantboardman2224
    @drgrantboardman2224 Před 3 lety

    These videos are awesome. Love it!

  • @JainZar1
    @JainZar1 Před 3 lety +1

    In the Book Mechanicum from the Horus Heresy they specifically mention, that the Iron Core of Mars has been "restarted" and the volcanic activity is used to power things, like the Magma City. That liquid core would also generate a magnetic field to shield from the radiation.

  • @Fullonnoob
    @Fullonnoob Před 3 lety +1

    That war of the worlds stinger got me good. suprisingly good taste as ever.

  • @SlapInTheFaceForMora
    @SlapInTheFaceForMora Před 3 lety

    Spiff's 'I love toasters' really got me... Bravo, sir! Great job on the videos! Loved the stuff on Mars as I've done some work with the geology of our little red brother planet.

  • @tudormuresan2055
    @tudormuresan2055 Před 3 lety +1

    The Catachan comedic bit made me suggest you have a talk with Bruva Alfabusa. I cannot help the thought of THAT guide interacting wth the TTS Catachans. For some reason I find it funny. Or if nothing else, to make sure you KNOW the glory that is TTS.

  • @johnrhoades6214
    @johnrhoades6214 Před 3 lety

    Well you got me hooked guys new subscriber glad to be part of the family

  • @Lorddavian0
    @Lorddavian0 Před 3 lety +3

    Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds certainly fits 40k :)

  • @authoritykindbeggardynamic

    As a fan of Firefly, it is known we have terribly little content to revel in. So when you suggested making a planetary analysis on the firefly worlds, it instantly became my most wanted thing. But really, the ‘Verse is weird with its many close stars, and have always wanted to know how plausible it is.

  • @Kondi2100
    @Kondi2100 Před 3 lety

    The planets of expeditionary force would make an awesome videos! And thx for these two on 40K - great stuff!

  • @ryanbentley1965
    @ryanbentley1965 Před 3 lety +1

    I really enjoyed this Video and the last one, love the effort you've put into it! There are however, a few notes I might add on the firestorm of Istvann and the Ignition of the Atmosphere.
    While you correctly describe that Methane is lighter than normal Air composition, The life eater virus isn't described as turning all biomass into a gas, it stays more as a highly reactive jelly like substance, perhaps comparing it to a Biodiesel with other compounds still yet to decompose! The time scale of the transition from life to jelly was described in minutes, so I would think that with some more math, the verdict is still out on the possibility of an atmospheric ignition.

  • @julianbeldham8684
    @julianbeldham8684 Před 3 lety

    I love these videos more than I can say. I use the science you describe here to design scientifically accurate worlds for my Stars without Number campaign. One of my players said a jungle planet was not possible, so I had to give him a lecture on the heat trapping properties of water vapor.
    Also, maybe you could talk about the few planets we see in Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy?

  • @aidanquiett668
    @aidanquiett668 Před 3 lety

    Just finished the first, cant wait to see more planets!

  • @EngHag
    @EngHag Před 2 lety

    I love these videos, have a sub

  • @Chuck-PK
    @Chuck-PK Před 2 lety +1

    0:21 now thats an awesome edit

  • @xenostyrant4118
    @xenostyrant4118 Před 3 lety

    The War of the World's theme is surprisingly fitting for the Adeptus Mechanicus. Also that Spiff cameo is great!

  • @brgz87
    @brgz87 Před 3 lety

    I love these videos!

  • @TheAustralianMapper5378
    @TheAustralianMapper5378 Před 2 lety +1

    18:18 Is that a fricken skull shaped cities? That’s metal as hell.

  • @triccele
    @triccele Před 3 lety

    Great video! I would love if you could tackle Stargate next. Also, have you considered adding a biologist to the mix? That way you could also talk about how realustic the species living on those planets would be.

  • @Dregoro
    @Dregoro Před 3 lety +3

    16:32
    Small mistake
    we live in Third millenium

  • @Engitainment
    @Engitainment Před 3 lety

    Homeworld or Destiny would be really cool! Thank you for all the work you two put into this, I loved getting to see proper science applied to these worlds

  • @matthewjeremy6887
    @matthewjeremy6887 Před 3 lety +1

    Loveing the spiffing brit cameo

  • @Gingerbreadley
    @Gingerbreadley Před 3 lety +2

    Halo had a hot Jupiter that Admiral Cole made turn into a sun temporarily by nukeing it. That would be cool to check the math on.

  • @petepleeb9675
    @petepleeb9675 Před 3 lety +49

    CADIA STILL STANDS

  • @redsalamander9999
    @redsalamander9999 Před 3 lety

    The first example of how planets act like fluids when struck was actually depicted semi realistically in the Horus Heresy. It happened to a World Eater's recruiting world when the Iron Hands punted its moon on a direct collision course with the planet, completely obliterating the planet, the moon, and everything on it. But it didn't do the usual description of the planet cracking apart into chunks, but rather it describes the moon being slowly subsumed into the planet, while a huge ripple spreads across the crust. Just a little thing for those interested.

  • @naruchan1010
    @naruchan1010 Před 3 lety +5

    I think I speak for everyone here: Hannah looks gorgeous in the new edition cinematic trailer!! :D

  • @theresalwayssomethingtobui944

    This is pure gold!

  • @odinlindeberg4624
    @odinlindeberg4624 Před 3 lety

    I'd have to imagine that the Mars ring is made of capsules for storing crews, machines, materials and pre-built components, clamps that act as dry-docks, and a bunch of other stuff that may be looted from alien civilizations, connected together with rails that slide along each other, making a hellish racket all the while.

  • @tom05011996
    @tom05011996 Před 3 lety +2

    It may not have broad appeal but i would love to see an analysis of planets in the Hyperion book series or space battleship Yamato (Star blazers) Child me would love that one.

  • @mikeybrokie1516
    @mikeybrokie1516 Před 3 lety

    hell yeah the "is it possible?" videos are awesome!

  • @eth_4
    @eth_4 Před 3 lety

    Would love to see some Star Trek planets! To name a few of the more interesting ones: Risa (a Resort World with weather control and tropical climate), Andoria (Frozen moon around a ringed gas giant, home to the Andorians), Drema IV (a pre-warp civilization planet that became geologically unstable due to a large crystal lattice), and Dakala (a rouge planet home to groupings of non-photosynthetic plants and an intelligent species around hot geothermal vents). Saying as it is a show about strange new worlds, I think you should be able to find quite a few interesting ones. You could also look at the classification system they use and whether it makes sense or not. I have been loving these planet videos so regardless of the universe, keep it up!

  • @animeator
    @animeator Před 3 lety +5

    This was really cool. I love seeing someone put the science into science fiction.

  • @brunorenno7493
    @brunorenno7493 Před 3 lety

    Never touched WH but loved the video. Great work.

  • @atish365
    @atish365 Před 3 lety

    Great video, funny memes

  • @cameronsmith1339
    @cameronsmith1339 Před 3 lety +2

    Anyone: *Mentions atmospherics in any way*
    Dr Simon Clark: "HELLO!!!!!!"

  • @brendansigmund8621
    @brendansigmund8621 Před 3 lety +1

    If anyone is curious the Binary at 16:18 says hello yes have you tried lighting incense

  • @HansLemurson
    @HansLemurson Před 3 lety +6

    17:44 You clearly haven't watched the Science Fiction masterpiece of "The Core".

  • @rhiannon9549
    @rhiannon9549 Před 3 lety

    You should look at the edge chronicles, it's not multiple different worlds but it's such a cool world with rocks that float and storms and lightning and stuff

  • @Vivaswaan.
    @Vivaswaan. Před 3 lety

    I have never had an encounter with warhammer but still I enjoyed the two videos. Strange. Interesting.

  • @moltrazahn2279
    @moltrazahn2279 Před 3 lety

    Try the Honourverse, has some interesting planets there. Also, they have a planet named titan, with 11 moons. The wiki even mentions details like diameters, gravity and satellites. Some even mentions how many light-minutes illumination takes to cross the surfaces.
    Should be good details to poke though for plausibility.

  • @duskden
    @duskden Před 3 lety +1

    In regards to Tinek'la potentially a white dwarf core can become comprised of a substantial about of carbon which under the immense gravitational pressure could make it largely diamond. It wouldn't be a pure crystal and I don't think any white dwarf stars have cooled enough to be usable but it could be a potential answer.

  • @lowbrowminis
    @lowbrowminis Před 3 lety +1

    It would be really cool if you guys did a video about uncommon types of exoplanets that are basically unseen in science fiction.

  • @themechaknight6360
    @themechaknight6360 Před 3 lety

    With regards to Mars,there is a story set in the Horus Heresy which describes how Mars has been maintaining its magnetosphere from its early terraforming days. Namely a gigantic axle run through Mar's core spun by motors located in two Forge Temples at the poles; Vertex Borealis and Vertex Australis (naturally the techpriests no longer have any idea how to repair or rebuild it)

  • @thesagepilgrim4441
    @thesagepilgrim4441 Před 3 lety

    I love this so much.

  • @Choppytehbear1337
    @Choppytehbear1337 Před 3 lety +1

    I love that Rimmy is in this video.

  • @christopherdevries87
    @christopherdevries87 Před 3 lety

    You could take a look at the planets and objects from the Mass Effect series. Lots of interesting stuff to talk about there.

  • @h.m.3533
    @h.m.3533 Před 3 lety +1

    Mass Effect!! The Pax system where Noveria is located has a Hot Jupiter and that's just off the top of my head!

  • @radiuscubed7985
    @radiuscubed7985 Před 3 lety

    Also I personally use Notion as well. It's really wonderful, and it's free!

  • @CptHer
    @CptHer Před 3 lety +10

    CZcams: "How much nerd do you want in your video?"
    Me: "Yes"

  • @kn0bhe4d
    @kn0bhe4d Před 3 lety +1

    I fucking love this series of whether a fictional universe's planets can exist. You get legit scientific information and memes in one awesome package. What's not to love?!

  • @Ironwizard42
    @Ironwizard42 Před 3 lety

    I absolutely love that you refer to Dr. Wakeford as Magos. And also lovely video in general. Edit: Praise the Emprah! Can't believe I forgot to do that.

  • @DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop

    One possible stabilizing mechanism for the equatorial ring around Mars could be a stationary tube running through the entire ring, filled with a fluid at a high velocity. the centrifugal force would counteract the pull of gravity. It would require an ludicrous amount of power to keep the fluid going around at sufficient speeds but we are talking about WH40K.
    I remember this from one video from Arthur Isaac I watched years ago. Don't remember which one.

  • @matthewbagley2590
    @matthewbagley2590 Před 3 lety

    The Twelve colonies of Kobol (Battlestar Galactica), the Verse (from Firefly as previously mentioned), Doctor Who, Star Trek, and Babylon 5 would all be great settings to examine.

  • @joeltrekwars2162
    @joeltrekwars2162 Před 3 lety

    8:40 where does that Dyson sphere/mega ringworld picture come from? I really like it.

  • @JaxsonGalaxy
    @JaxsonGalaxy Před 3 lety

    My vote is the MASS EFFECT universe. Nearly every planet has a dossier explaining it's stats. If you choose this canonical universe I'd appreciate a look at my personal favorite planet from any fictional universe, Klendagon. To myself, I find it funny how much I love this planet, considering it's not one you ever get to actually visit in the games, but I still love it.

  • @Donut-5
    @Donut-5 Před 3 lety +1

    Actually the first Death Star was 160km. The second was 200km. Meaning the first was roughly the same diameter as Port Maw, while the second was actually larger.

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 Před 3 lety +1

      and being unfinished was vaguely reminiscent of it as well