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- The Residencia at Paranal (or 'ESO Hotel') is used by astronomers and workers at the Very Large Telescope. Unfortunately you can't book a room unless you are working there.
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The European Southern Observatory VLT is at Paranal in Chile.
This video features Brady Haran, with additional commentary by Professor Mike Merrifield and Professor Paul Crowther,
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The beautiful impression is not on account of expense. Look carefully and you will notice the entire construction is done with nearly the lowest cost and spartan materials possible. The only real difference between this and an average motel, city hall, library, or hospital is what the talent of the architect has done with them. The one exception, you might think, is the resort-looking, tropical reproduction, which although beautiful, contains nothing exotic or expensive in plants in a South American country. But, if I heard right, the video says there is no heating or cooling. ( 6:20 ) Rather than doing the heating/cooling in eco-unfriendly ways, and expensively transporting large amounts of fuel to a very remote area to operate the stuff, the inventive architect did the job with an eco-dome area, and nesting the hotel into the earth. All the tropical plants will humidify the inside area through plant transpiration. Plants regulate their temperature, and therefore the air around them. Smart design often costs more initially, but over time costs less.
Non of those plants are native to Chile, Chile is not a tropical country, far from one to be honest. So yeah, they are quite expensive indeed
I love that the scientists feel like they have to justify being treated like human beings. What a world we live in.
I don't love it, I hate it. The spirit of masochistic austerity is sickening.
And sure they should justify it..!
Or is that their "sacrifice" at work is much more relevant or important than mine? I also work 12-14 hrs a day for 28 days shifts commissioning mining facilities and not always being treated as nice as i should... We the field workers work a lot and dont go whining and complaining...
I also think that these scientists get paid better than most of us...
@@henryrollins9177 yes exactly say it how it is. Im always looking out for people like you bro 👊.
@@henryrollins9177 Then instead of complaining that other people don't have it as shitty as you maybe you should try to improve your situation.
@@henryrollins9177 , so your masters make millions (or billions), and you target your frustration on academics on a meagre professional salary. how well trained you are.
I cannot help but say it again. You see some of the most amazing places in the world and thank you for sharing them with us!
It looks like a Mars colony!
Not the first or second wave habitats, which will be much more like the 'unpleasant container dorms', but what the colonists will build in year 12-15 or so; a long-term structure that will be pleasant to live in.
Very nice video, Brady.
+Etaukan I was thinking the same thing -- assuming humans can live long-term on Mars. We know we do quite OK in one earth gravity, and very badly in microgravity; we need to find out first whether we can live at 30% earth gravity. Probably the best way to find out is to first build a moon base, where the gravity is about 16% of earth, and where we can bring an astronaut home quickly in case of medical emergency.
Geologists get tents. Astronomers get fancy desert hotels. I think I picked the wrong field. ;)
Ah, but geologists and paleontologists are far more hardass as a result ;P
Ah! Yes! I'll take it!
I'm actually thinking about a degree in Planetary Science (kind of a mix of astronomy and geology). I have been looking for people to talk to about this career and am wondering if maybe you could help me out and answer some of my questions about a career in geology if you can.
I've worked with geo's. Letting them indoors is like letting a pig in sit at a dinner table.
If you use google earth you can paste in the coordinates "24.6272° S, 70.4042° W" to check out the VLT. Go a little south-east and you'll find the Residencia.
That movie rock would be a perfect place to put a geocache
Michal Canecky ha ha - yes
And then anyone you can just move it somewhere else as a joke.
I don't think this is too decadent or over-the-top. It makes a lot of sense to have decent accommodations for people that are doing very important (and probably stressful) work. A good environment can make a huge difference to someone's work.
Wow! I've watched all the VLT videos, but this one really shows off the beauty of the desert landscape. Really makes me want to visit Chile.
Thank you B, for making the journey and sharing it. bloody marvelous.
A whole joint full of geeks geeking out with no normies to interrupt them. Sounds like heaven.
This place looks amazing!
that was super interesting, thanks for the visit !
Really wasn't expecting this kind of video from this channel! Awesome.
Invective we like to do all sorts of things!
I totally expected a video about Hilbert Hotel
I still thought it was going to be about Hilbert's Hotel.
I would have loved to see the rooms. Great video!
Very good video!
Excellent behind the scenes
Ashley Kitto thank you
Spotted a case of RAS Syndrome at 7:15!
What an awesome facility! Great James Bond tie-in. I thought that was the place!
I got to visit the huge telescopes and "la residencia" hotel at Paranal also Cerro Tololo observatory with Sky and Telescope tour a few years back. It was great.
Yeah, I could deal with staying there for a bit hahaha. So cool to know where that was filmed in QOS, love that movie
I love the "stars" in the shade over the inner courtyard! Are they on purpose or are they just random holes in the shade?
Wouldn't be surprised if a few people decide to become astronomers after watching this video. :-) But seriously, thank you for sharing this. It's neat to see these behind-the-scenes bits.
That looks like an awesome place. I would like to visit there at least once.
I remember I once stayed at Kitt Peak and had a little room in one of the cabins there for a little while. It was kind of different as we slept all day and observed at night. Also you had to take short showers as all the water there was either trucked in or from rainwater, so they were low on water when I was there.
Gotta love that weather data ... dry, dry, dry, dry, dry, ... :-)
At some point in the video Brady made a comment on how the landscape looked like Mars. Now I'm thinking that this is what a larger settlement on Mars would look like.
This looks like I would imagine a Mars station. The outside view certainly fits (except for the blue sky).
the focus is great hehe
Suddenly I feel the urge to get into astronomy!
4:45 --- that's where you should have started murmuring. Whispering hightens the sibilant sounds, travelling far and the human ear can pick it up through walls. Murmuring is a deep sound that gets lost within a few meters from the issuer.
Nice!
hey brady, love your videos! i was thinking.. would you guys be willing to consider making a video on the whirlpool galaxy (m51)? :)
Perfect bunker for the zombie apocalypse!
Some rock stars in the end!
Nice!! Reason #2117 why I'd like to visit ESO for a few days, hopefully when I need it to observe a thing :P
I know astronomers are bad at naming things, but goddam very large telescope!? These guys have outdone themselves.
The universe is complex enough without requiring it's own lexicon :P
BlackEpyon but very big large telescope haha? giving it literally half a second of though: ET. enormous telescope. it isnt that hard to think of a name better than vlt XD
michael benzur nah, they were already thinking about bigger ones...
Google e-elt , there's more ;)
GreenLeaf wooow astronomy. i take it's bigger than vlt?
You so should have lifted the stone in the beginning of the video, saying that it was due to the lower gravity since it's very high up. And then mention that "by the way, the rocks were left by the Bond crew".
4:52 Room not found.
Wow, that is a really cool place :-)
2:48 Are there stars in that shade? Like a planetarium :-)
That outside scenery is really look like Mars... just use some filters and you wont be able to tell the difference, haha!
Precisely they test Lunar/Martian stuff in there (e.g., the Mars Curiosity and similars).
Philip Johansson keep telling yourself that...
***** i wonder if its the same kind of people who say that americans didnt land on the Moon or like today who says that there is no russian army in Ukraine... its like they all are cloned somewhere in the secret lab somewhere underground!
There's actually a place in that desert where the terrain and the horizon looks exactly like the moon, that place is called "the moon valley" (in spanish "el valle de la luna"). I live in that region of Chile :)
***** I lived for 11 years there and you simply don't realise it's "a cool place", it's just your natural environment. All the comments from the professor about how harsh the life is there, for instance, seem completely exaggerated from a perspective of a local.
Yup, that outdoor environment really looks like the pictures we get from Curiosity.
I'm still wondering if all these VLC videos are from your last year visit, or you went there on multiple occasions. The latter would be impressive (if you live in the UK as I'm assuming).
Yeah, movie rocks. You know... rocks you can move.
7:12 Very Large Telescope Telescopes?
since 2008 i wish be in this hotel!
I KNEW IT! I knew this place looked extremely familiar, and I thought "Damn, that desert area looks exactly like the one in the Bond movie... But that was in a different country I think, so it can´t be that, right?"
I have been had. Thwarted. Rekt. It was Paranal after all.
I feel like the consistent climate is very reminiscent of what you'll find in Coober Pedy, South Australia, although to be fair the underground accom here is MUCH nicer!!
Jordan Gough I know Coober Pedy well - and the underground accommodation is always lovely and cool!
Thanks for sharing this. Only a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of astronomers will ever experience this place in real life.
I would live in that hotel for the rest of my life just to see the clear night sky
You've been sitting on this footage for a while...12.08.2013
6:40 check out the RH - 1.3%! Dangerous for static-sensitive instruments I'd have thought.
Movie Rocks!!! :D
What's with the big gap where a room should be at 4:53 on the left?
My jaw dropped when I saw the pool! That's how it's done! Yeah!
Could you please make a short video of the mechanism that makes a telescope move to compensate for the rotation of the Earth.
Most sincerely
JF ( UK )
Lol Brady is one of those people who doesn't know how to whisper x)
In some moments you move or pan the camera too quickly. Is not advisable to do it this way. It gives motions sickness and makes hard to actually see the details of what you're recording.
Weather info - Radiation: 20.9 W/m^2
Yeah, I was wondering about that. UV-radiation perhaps? To know what level of sun-block to put on.
The desert looks so alien compared to anything I've ever seen on Earth; its quite fitting for an astronomic science laboratory.
Is there a way to get an internship at ESO and actually work and live at a big observatory? In the time between school and University?
I know that ESO offers undergraduates to work at a telescope for a university project and that it's a great way for young people to get a spot there.
They do, I am a summer intern and it’s awesome staying there!!
Perfect place to fake a Mars landing. Looks like mars, has a place for the crew to stay and already populated with movie-rocks. :)
Now,
are they move-y rocks or movie rocks?
This is closest I think I can get to the ESO hotel. Sigh.
I wonder where they get water from and where they put their sewage. That place literally had no rain in centuries. Flushing a toilet is a luxury there
Is it too late for me to become an astronomer? Damn! I want to live there.
I thought the hotel was destroyed by an MI6 agent and a Quantum terrorist
N 6degrees with tilt up from the base going east 15degrees you will see
How many channels does this dude have?
I'm trying to figure out who I can contact about finding a job in this hotel. I don't care if I'm a dishwasher, I just want to be around all the scientists and telescopes.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
"movie rocks"
as in rocks you can actually move
I liked that one
Add Spanish captions!! :)
Awesome facility. I would love to spend a week there and use my new Unistellar eVscope (the ultimate astronomical experience for an amateur astronomer). If I had Bill Gates' money I'd build an observatory complex like this for amateurs.
Had to read the comments to really understand the joke about the rocks. I thought he said movey rocks, as in, they can move:)
Is Pr Merrifield okay? I'm a huge fan of his contributions to sixty symbols. I hope he's fine !
Great video, as always ! Thank you !
It was a trip he missed some years ago.
Oh, okay, thank you. I'm a french-speaker, I might have missed that. Well, I still hope he's okay now :p
mh, the most intereseting thing for me was how the rooms look like. too bad you didnt show one :(
im like it
Like a kid in a candy shop!
As someone who grew up in the Mojave, I think I would do well in astronomy.
what would you and your six colleagues takes with you for an astronomical embark?
A saguaro rib stepladder, one unit of raw green glass, 500 units of plump helmet wine, and a breeding pair of cats.
by that logic, because i grew up surrounded by field i should do well in farming?
Armok: God of Blood no wood nor mining equipment? In the middle of the desert? Sounds like a lot of fun.
Kram1032 I'll build a trading depot out of my wagon and take everything I need from the elves.
what an oasis
I wonder how's the food there.
PhantasyStarOST pretty good
They serve Mexican dessert rat, they are very sweet.
Is this the hotel at the edge of the Universe ?
Antofagasta, Chile
Modernist structure, reminds on Brasilia
Studies confirm Professor Merrifields intuition that design greatly enhances productivity. Especially plants in work environments have lots of non obvious benefits, like ionizing the air and thereby decreasing dust, regulating humidity, filtering toxins and increasing blood-oxygen levels. Seeing 10% increases in productivity is not that rare.
Solar powered?
The biggest regret in my life is not trying for the IT job I saw at the ESO. ... This video doesn't help. ;)
Thank you for sharing this.
Found the James Bond thing interesting - I had wondered where they had filmed this scene and figured it was completely fabricated. But it is a real live place !!!
Anyways, I can remember doing desert/forest work for BLM - if it was not for being able to drive to a relatively close homey place we would have gone crazy.
Even though the Residencia looks nice, it still is pretty spartan compared to home. No children or pets !!! But those with passion will sacrifice all kinds of things for exploration into the unknown.
Thank you again, DSV, for sharing this. :)
I was wondering why the hell there is a hotel in the middle of a desert in Quantum of Solace :)
Hilbert's hotel.
I'm just waiting for a telescope named the BLT
Haha, very clever, works with the naming conventions, lol
noicee
Best hotel? No doesn't come close to Hilbert's hotel!
How many Hilberts stay here infinitely.
They should put in a gondola/tram up to the top to transport sleepy scientists and workers too and fro :-)
2:48 At first look I thought they made small holes in the dome cover so it looks as night sky.
But when I couldn't recognize the constellations I realized they were just a holes in a seam.
0:02:56 - Lumberjacks?
No high heels in the Atacama. Sorry.
Found the watercourse yet?