An astrophysicist reacts to THE ORVILLE | S2E14 The Road Not Taken
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Seth McFarlane's sci-fi comedy drama series The Orville is the latest show I'm reacting to - let's sort the science from the fiction. Watch The Orville on Disney + (not sponsored): www.disneyplus.com/series/orv...
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00:00 - Introduction
01:46 - Icy moons in the solar system
03:17 - "Quantum drives", quantum gravity and faster than light travel
05:30 - Asteroid fields are never that dense
06:17 - "Hiding" beyond the event horizon of a black hole?!
08:16 - Visualisation of a black hole and accretion disk
09:23 - What's "inside" the event horizon of a black hole?
11:04 - Time dilation "inside" black holes
11:43 - Underwater spaceships?!
12:13 - You wouldn't see the stars inside spaceships
13:15 - Gigaelectron volts and gravitons
14:55 - Outro
16:16 - Brilliant
17:33 - Bloopers
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👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.
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My favourite Terry Pratchet quote - “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
Futurama has the perfect "spaceship under water" scene. Their ship is sinking in the ocean and Fry asks, "how many atmospheres can this ship handle?" And the super smart scientist character responds, "well, it's a spaceship. So anywhere from 0 to 1." As they're passing several tens of atmospheres.
Farnsworth. You can't not read that line in his voice either hahaa
And then somehow Fry saves the entire situation by flushing the toilet
One could conceivably pressurize a starship to withstand the forces produced by being under water, but the strength of the hull needs to be taken into consideration when doing this or doing so could either explode the hull or crush the occupants.
@@billhumiston9888 Perhaps the technobabble drive exerts enormous stresses requiring enough reinforcing as to render it pressure resistant as an unintended benefit. I say fan-wanking faster than the hadron collider's particles.
@@patrickmccurry1563 Well yeah, that drive moves the entire universe around the ship. It better exert enormous forces.
'Dear lord, thats over 150 atmospheres of pressure'
'How many atmospheres can the ship withstand??'
'Well, its a space ship, so Id say anywhere between zero and one.' - Futurama.
Samuel Clemens said: "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story"
That's odd. Mark Twain said something very similar...
@@williamswenson5315 yes, what a coincidence
He said truth, not facts. And more importantly, he said it ironically.
@@trevorlambert4226 Yes, about journalism, not fictional storytelling.
@@comozo924 Isn't it? You'd almost think the two knew each other.
The Orville really captures some of the feel of mid 1990's to early 2000's Star Trek and packs it into something you can easily call a family friendly tv-show. It is sci-fi comfort food at it's best.
By the way: Seth McFarlane is a real nerd. This is his entertainment sci-fi show but he is also partly to blame for the modern version of Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson.
"Blame" is apt ...
@@PBeringer I liked it.
I wouldn't call it family friendly with all the sexual themes in most episodes. The one where Bortus was cheating on his mate in the simulator, Kelly's thing with the blue guy, the one where they all go nuts and the green blob guy hooks up with the doctor....
Then again I don't consider Family Guy or American Dad to be family friendly either.
@@noenken Yeah, I didn't mind it at all, really. It just had some monumental shoes to fill as a continuation of the original Cosmos. And it was (possibly intentionally) pitched at a lower age, or perhaps just narrower range of ages - whichever it was, I think fell outside of it. Haha. I'm probably being a bit harsh; the first series is just so "once-in-a-lifetime" special, nothing is likely to be "worthy" ...
@@PBeringer Face it: NGT is no Carl Sagen, not by a mile.
Beelions and Beelions of miles, in fact...
Dr. Becky: DO GALAXY QUEST! Like how fans of Star Trek consider The Orville as part of Star Trek, Galaxy Quest gets the same treatment where Star Trek movies are concerned.
The Orville is like a love letter to Star Trek by someone raised in it and on sci-fi. :) It's honestly more Trek than Discovery ever was.
I found your book on audible. So glad you narrated it yourself! I'm looking forward to listening to it. As a sci-fi fantasy writer, I'm going to try to do the best I can to have at least some realism in my story, so I'll be paying attention. It might take me a while since I have bad ADHD, but I'll try! :)
IMO Orville is the best Star Trek since DS9.
Seth MacFarlane has more Star Trek in his pinky finger than everyone at Disney has in their whole bodies.
@@originalhgc Disney never had anything to do with Trek. Do you mean CBS?
@@JustOneAsbesto Binge watching "Enterprise" is now possible The way it should have been.
@@JustOneAsbesto It's Paramount nowadays.
You should do video on “For All Mankind”. They had an episode where there was a solar flare hitting the moon and another where they used duck tape to make a space suit to walk on moon. Supposedly the show is scientifically accurate but we need Dr Becky’s seal of approval.
@@RyanMercer Hi Bob
“For All Mankind” was Great!
@@RyanMercer Hi Bob
The duct tape space suits would have worked way better than they did in the show. The goal is to make a compression suit so that your lungs don't rupture if you hold your breath. Very doable way to substantially increase how many seconds of useful consciousness you have.
Scott Manley did a video on that one: "Could You Make A Space Suit From Duct Tape?"
What I really love about The Orville is that Seth has amazing creativity, he manages to squeeze in real world issues and topics into quite a lot of his episodes.
But he's a terrible actor. It'd be much better if he were not in the cast.
Reallly? I thought he was good. When he was in Ted, he was great as a voice actor.
AND he does it in a way that feels like it should naturally belong there, much like how a lot of the older Star Trek shows used to. Nowadays when shows try to bring up contemporary issues, it often feels ham-fisted, but McFarlane does it with grace and good storytelling.
@@braingasim Yeah. I think Seth does well. I mean, he no Peter Macon (Bortus, who is fucking amazing ) but he does well. Especially with Grimes during comic relief moments. Yet, his character is just more serious then other characters of his, as so many lives are in his hands so he has to be. He feels like an approachable captain who tries to be as understanding as he can while doing what he needs to do the right thing, not just what he is told. He isn't afraid to be goofy when the time calls nor is he afraid to be serious. If anything, Seth shows a prime example of what a leader should be. A different person wouldn't be Mercer. Seth plays him well.
That is literally the point for almost all TV shows, especially sci-fi and dystopian ones as it shows us an extreme environment and how humans would still be humans.
Speaking from the West side of the Atlantic, I have never until this moment even heard of Keith Harris or his "puppet" Orville the duck. The eponymous ship of the series "Orville" is indubitably named after the Orville, the brother of Wilbur Wright, the pioneers of heavier-than-air flight.
From IMDB: "A small model of the Wright Flyer is on Captain Mercer's desk. The ship is named after Orville Wright, one of the Wright brothers."
It's the secondary directive: "Never enter a black hole!" They do, but no one ever talks about it afterwards out of embarrassment and fear for reputation loss.
And here I was thinking it was named after the Popcorn guy.
I came here to say this. That was kind of an embae=rassing moment, IMHO. An astrophysicist who doesn't know who Orville ad Wilbur Wright were? Did she not notice the little model on the desk? Kermit's companion?
@@YourMamaCat To be fair, maybe the name triggered a childhood memory that she wanted to share, and she just forgot to mention the Wright Brothers. But, yes, I was thinking it was embarrassing for her, too.
If you want a series to fill in for Firefly, The Expanse is absolutely my recommendation.
Oye beltalowda!
In a previous video she explained that she had already watched some of the expanse and didn't like it.
@@rensin2 yeah
Season 1 sadly isn't on par with other seasons imo
Tonally, the Expanse is much less light. The character drama is also quite different, despite having a similar found-family structure. It mostly just shares an effort to keep space physics within reach of reality.
Idk how OP can suggest The Expanse to someone who likes Firefly. It feels like recommending True Detective to someone who likes Brooklyn 99. They both have cops, after all.🙃
I’m a fan of both Firefly and The Expanse, but my own experience is very different from the commenter above. I found Season 1 of The Expanse the best, setting up so much promise for the universe across the rest of the Series, which wasn’t lived up to by those later seasons. It felt like after Season 1 it started to rely on generic modern/sci-fi drama tropes. And you could feel the tightness of the production budget also, with them walking the line about getting cancelled again. I’ve also read the books since then and also didn’t particularly like the later books in the novel series either. A shame.
Dr. Becky, the astrophysicist who pronounces astrophysicist in 1 millisecond and blaaackkk hooooole in 10 sec. You're the best! Keep up the great work. I enjoyed your book very much and yourself reading it on audible was a blessing!
You might want to look at the first episode of Andromeda. A Gene Roddenberry show from 2000. Black hole and time dilation.
I absolutely love The Orville it perfectly blends comedy with the best of the Star Trek the Next Generation.
So does Lower decks!
I like it but my main objection is in the 2nd season where obviously stupid decisions the principle characters make just to get the story going.
@@jaredf6205 I hated every single one of the few minutes I watched lower decks for. It's trying too hard to be family friendly Rick & Morty.
@@noenken I don’t know a single trek fan who doesn’t think Lower Decks is the best Trek on air right now. Did you just watch the first episode? It’s got like a 6/10 rating and the characters are insane so it’s understandable you don’t like it. It seems like the first few episodes were almost written by someone else or they hadn’t decided on the characters personalities yet.
@@jaredf6205 Well, you know me now. :P
I really didn't like the feel of what I saw but even if it would get better over time, I'm also just not that interested in animated Star Trek to begin with. So in all fairness the show had to fight an uphill battle with me right from the start and it didn't win me over.
Becky, the quantum drive works by enlarging wormholes in the quantum spacetime foam. As one of my physics professors used to say (Was it Torsten Alvager, the guy who didn't want any of us to tell Leon Lederman about his tachyon experiment?), "It's intuitively obvious." (After putting a whole bunch of equations on the board but skipping all the steps and just writing down the solution.)
10:05 "Spaghettification-proof spacecraft" that's a banger of an idea! Someone pitch this to the writers for Season 4!
The Orville is fun. I’d recommend it. I didn’t think the first season was that bad. It’s a light fun take on Star Trek closer to galaxy quest.
Galaxy Quest is a great comparison. Season 1 is very good, even if a few of its episodes lean a bit more toward comedy than some viewers might have preferred.
@@cybisz2883 I also really like the mature relationship between the former spouses. Wish my parents could be so mature.
'Galaxy Quest is still a favorite for many people
@@cybisz2883 Seth Macfarlane had to keep the bods happy but he really wanted, tonally, season 2 and 3 I believe
I freaking loved season 1. This is why the only reviews I consider are reviews for products. With media I like to just jump right in with no outside opinions.
Star Trek did this too with taking a space craft deep into an ocean. All I can think is 'if we one day manage to invent shields then we pretty much never need to worry again'.
As much as I love all these shows, I have a very special place in my heart for The Expanse and it's realism.
Becky was so confused by the orientation of the spaceship and the drive being under their feet. It was quite funny.
The Quantum drive was named after its inventor, Bill Quantum. 😂
I thought it was Max Quantum, or maybe his son Werner Quantum.
Red Dwarf series 4, episode 4 "White Hole". I'm sure you'd just *love* how scientifically accurate it is 😂
So, what is it?
@@th3d3wd3r I've never seen one before no one has but I'm guessing it's a white hole
@@th3d3wd3r hehe made me chuckle
Is that hole spewing time?
OH Someone punch him out!!!
Actually the no to a second date thing really was more of a "road not taken" situation. The whole thing is about seeing what would have happened if, knowing the future, one of them decided that they didn't want to put the other one and themselves through the messiness their relationship became even if at the end of it they both came out in a better spot. It's more of the classic "you never know what might happen unless you try" mixed with a little "it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all".
It's reallly fascinating that they have a craft that can enter a black hole and yet have never done it before.
Entering a black hole is easy, the challenge is in getting back out.
@@Haesslich1962 I'm not a scientist but i think getting in is the hardest part becuase of the heavy gravity.matter stretches as you get close to the black hole.( spagetification i think that's called )We have to survive that.
@@hasindukumara5358 Thankfully that happens well inside the event horizon of super massive black holes.
RE: Quantum Drive - I'm not sure if this is what the Orvill is going for, but I've see a line of logic where if your drive system was based on a quantized phenomenon your speed would also be quantized. With some clever engineering you could skip over the exact value of c, and thus skip over the need for infinite energy to accelerate infinite mass.
The "Quantum Drive" is a speculative extrapolation of how a future, working, Alcubierre Drive might function. There's a Wiki page for the Orville's Quantum Drive but as I'm not a physicist I have no idea how realistic any of it would be. Also, I think the ship is named after Orville Wright, and not Orville the Duck. :)
This would have made a great Seinfeld episode.Jerry dates an Astrophysicist and goes to a sci-fi movie where she talks through the entire movie.🙂
Ha Ha Ha! 😅🤣
😂🤣😂🤣
If you do watch it, just understand that it starts off rough. The pitch was essentially "What if Family Guy, but in space?" And about halfway through the first season they sort of realized that they wanted to just do a spiritual continuation of ST:TNG. Seasons 2 and 3 are great, and worth getting through season one to see.
To resist the vacuum of space and the incredible pressure under water, the hull MUST be manufactured out of Unobtainium. A rare material mined from the surface of a black hole.
Presumed it was handwaved with magic force field shields and inertial dampeners.
Twinkies are a sort of small oblong yellow sponge cake filled with fake sugary whipped-cream-like stuff. They are commonly sold packaged singly or in pairs in vending machines and you can buy boxes of them at any grocery store. They are a favourite unit of measure for paranormal scientists. (See Ghostbusters. In fact, Egon holds one up while using it as an example.)
As a European, my first virtual encounter with a twinkie was by the first Die Hard movie, when Bruce Willis' character found an ancient twinkie. Through the context, it was obvious what it was, even if we didn't have any prior knowledge of this.
@@Guido_XL Zombieland is another Twinkie-centric movie. Woody Harrelson's character basically spends the whole movie fighting zombies just to see if any store they pass has any remaining Twinkies.
A Twinkie is an entirely synthetic cream-filled sponge cake that apparently has a shelf half-life slightly longer than plutonium-239.
I'm not sure if these are even classified as food under EU food regulations, but if there is an EU approved version, I'm sure some Scot will figure out a way to fry it.
A Twinkie is a yellow sponge cake with cream filling that is about 3-inches in length and is packaged in pairs. Usually, it's eaten in 2 - 3 bites.
They were a popular lunch box item in the 50s & 60s. Their sales dropped off after that due in part to the perceived amount of chemicals they contained. It became a comic trope that a pack of Twinkies had a shelf-life of several decades or more due to all the preservatives.
And just pure sugar. Visiting Canada from Germany a few years back I accidentally found them in a supermarket. Curious from having watched Zombieland, I gave it a try. I couldn't finish it. Way too sweet. 🙂
The Orville is extremely underrated and deserves another 47 seasons, I’m just sad it takes them 4 years to make a season.
A Twinkie is much the same as a vanilla swiss roll but without the jam and not rolled up. Sponge cake on the outside with a big blob of whipped white stuff in the middle.
Dr/ Becky, I think you are wonderful.
Thank you for making science accessible for all. You present the material in a fun, engaging way. Love your sense of humour :)
13:15 I have no idea what The Orville says about this, but an old, standard idea in science fiction is that the windows of a spaceship are actually video screens fed by cameras that are sensitive enough to show you what's outside, including stars. I remember encountering this at Disney World in 1972 -- it was part of the narration of their spaceship ride.
I was *SO* glad that Dr. Becky brought up the matter of the "asteroid field" and the cinematic density (which is **always** dense and perilous and moving at speeds that are unrealistic). Asteroid fields, as she explained "are actually quite sparse"--there is a LOT of distance between asteroids in a given field..
They escaped the gravitational pull of a black hole but Dr. Becky is worried about the ship surviving under the water. I love it. Lol
So you didn't listen to the fact she said there were problems with escaping the black hole. Because they way you wrote this, it implies she was fine with that and just critical of it going under water, when she analyzed both as not being right. Your whole post makes absolutely no sense.
@@cliveklg7739 OMG, ok, let me explain what a observational joke is. She didn't seem that bothered about the ship leaving the inside of the black hole because she obviously knows that that can't happen as she mentioned in the video, but when it came to the ship leaving the vacuum of space and diving into the depths of an ocean. It seemed she was more bothered by that than the ship passing the event horizon of a black hole and escaping the black hole.
And I would think if the ship can handle the pressures of a black hole, then diving into water would be no big deal seeing as how the gravity on this ocean world or whatever planet they landed on would be no where as close to a black hole.
And that's the joke, definitely not a great joke, but a joke nonetheless.
@@tonyramos6265 Except she was critical of it you liar. "She didn't seem that bothered about the ship leaving the inside of the black hole" This is pure lie to justify your botched 'joke'.
She did exactly what she did with the water for the water as she did for the black hole. She literally put more time into explaining what was wrong with the black hole segment than she did for the water.
YOU just don't know how to tell a joke. And now are just being a bigger fool.
18:14 The good news is that that's not the moral! Without giving too much away, it's more of a destiny thing (hence the episode title)
I almost wanted to rewind and hear it again because it was a weird take. Not really her fault as she didn't watch part one.
Great to see you back Dr Becky, I've missed your videos.
So glad you had your book in the background. I just purchased the audio version. Will start listening tomorrow!
Seth McFarlane (playing captain Ed Mercer in the Orville) was the executive producer of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
To fully appreciate the finale episode, I would suggest the preceding one as it shows you how the alternate timeline happens. I would wholeheartedly recommend the Orville. After a shaky start, it quickly jumps up in scope and character development and above all, is just good fun. Seth MacFarlane is a huge Star Trek fan and it shows (he cameos in an episode of Enterprise). Its a show with a heart to it and has its tongue firmly in its cheek. I'd recommend a binge!.
Yep. I find it funny that the "crude comedy knock-off of Star Trek" is the one Sci-fi show that is probably closest in feel to the actual original Star Trek. Complete with campy sections, serious morality tales, and addressing current-day social issues by proxy of aliens.
The third season is incredible.
I feel like Dr. Becky has much better things to do on a daily basis than sit down and binge watch THAT show...
The third season seems to be less camp and thereby to me IMHO more enjoyable.
@@Ricky_B4 I would agree with that. It's a shame the show isn't that good, because there's space in that world 😉and Seth has everything he needs to make it good. That's why I watch every season, and every season, I get disappointed. We'll see how season4 goes. We'll see what Disney does to it.
Just so you know, a Twinkie is a sweet cream filled roll made by Hostess here in the states.
Seth MacFarlane Was involved with COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey and COSMOS: Possible Worlds. I think a lot of the beautiful renderings in The Orville are inspired or from these presentations/series.
For me, the attraction of The Orville is that (once it has established it's characters and context over the earlier episodes) it seeks to explore the same aspects of social, cultural, and moral issues that the original Star Trek television series sought to explore back in it's day.
Even now, so many decades after the first "inter-racial kiss" was shown on television sets thanks to Star Trek, we still live in a world where we see prejudice and division over differing perspectives over issues such as race, gender, culture, sexuality, etc.
Oddly enough, I find that I can suspend my scientific "disbelief" for the most part, whilst enjoying The Orville. Admittedly there might be the odd guffaw, rolling of the eyes at times.
But The Orville manages the above whilst delivering comedy and entertainment at the same time.
In fact, after watching the first two seasons, I felt that The Orville had more in common with the original Gene Roddenberry Star Trek than The Orvilles' contemporary, Star Trek Discovery (2017-onwards).
(Speaking of which - I wish I could fly, right up to the stars but I can't)
Probably not the first interrscisl kiss on tv though.
@@smeeself I think it was, actually, well at least for network TV in a prime time spot. I'll have to check.
Edit: I looked it up and it seems to be contested whether it was truly the first interracial kiss on TV, but it's definitely regarded as *one* of the first. I saw some articles arguing that I love Lucy featured the first interracial kiss since Lucy was white and her husband in the show (who was also her husband in real life) was hispanic, but it really depends on how you define different races, which isn't universal. That being said, it does seem to be the first kiss between a black character and a white character on TV, so that is still a big deal!
If you haven't watched The Expanse yet, I HIGHLY recommend it. It is well known as being very accurate so it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on it:)
If you check Dr Becky’s videos you will find one on The Expanse.
@@Ricky_B4 Yeah I remember when the guy poured the water into a glass & the water made an S shape because he was in a rotating spacestation & then it fell neatly into the glass
@@Ricky_B4 oh thanks! Im gonna check it out:)
The books were excellent.
@@alwaysdisputin9930 It adds to the enjoyment of a series or movie when someone involved in the making of a sci fi has a good knowledge of physics.
Yay! One of my favorites. I just started the video and already know this will be gold.
Amazing show - The Orville only gets better each season! Really hope it lives a long life
Seth Mcfarlane has left the show, he’s moved on to other projects and Hulu only want to make it with him in it.
@@rhowell1978 Frightful Rumor's
@@rhowell1978 not heard this, would surprise me if he had and honestly... I don't think his character is *that integral*
@@Gerlaffy He signed a $200 million five year deal with NBC Universal to make content for them, along with Family Guy and American Dad, so time was an issue. Although hopefully Hulu carry on making it without him, I agree his character can be replaced and it’s improved greatly over the seasons, fingers crossed 🤞
@@rhowell1978 Incorrect. He and everyone in the show have stated they want to do whatever it takes to make more episodes, but they are at the mercy of Hulu/Disney+ to greenlight a 4th season. This "Seth has left" thing was debunked months ago by Seth himself.
The only way to get more episodes is to make sure people watch the show, so they see it as a worthwhile investment.
AWESOME, my girls and I love watching this show and they love you. They're going to be so excited to see this.
Hey! The people at LIGO wouldn't be happy with your comment on the only form of information transfer lol. Also in the event horizon scene, wouldn't you still see nothing? Light would still be forced to travel toward the singularity so there could be no light reaching you from any point deeper within the black hole. I love this series, always interesting to hear your insights.
What about the light going past you on its way towards the singularity in the center?
*edit* so you would still see the stuff 'outside' the horizon, but nothing behind you
One would think so, but we don't know. As Dr. Becky said, time becomes a direction and we just don't know what happens.
You could still see your feet, assuming you hadn’t been ripped apart by tidal forces yet.
You'd still have relativity at play - so, space is warping weirdly near a black hole. I think it's possible you might not even know you were near it -- because space would stretch or shrink to maintain the speed of light (really, of transfer of information). The light is also orbiting a black hole and even gravity orbits a spinning black hole -- which I wonder if that reduces it's mass footprint because gravity is really caused by a time gradient. So hey, I think I just solved the missing mass issue on galaxies. No dark matter required. You are welcome. Of course -- I could be wrong. But, it's actually a sound theory that a spinning black hole would cause a time gradient for the galaxy but not in just it's local space -- because it also would drag the galaxy with it and speed it up.
"What is a Twinkie?" okay Dr Becky - it is an American yellow colored sponge cake filled with cream sold by the company Hostess. used to be tasty, but nowadays is dry and tasteless unless used for dipping in milk or hot cocoa 😂
Given the nacelles on the Orville, I'd imagine they are using a various of the Alcubierre drive. And nothing to do with quantum lol
I believe "The Orville" comes from Wilbur and Orville Wright who flew their plane all those years ago.
Yup. When Seth MacFarlane was working on creating the Orville he was reading a book on the Wright brothers. He thought they were being really down on Orville so he decided he'd use his name for that name of the starship.
@@RedPixelMage Undoubtedly it was the "first" (actually younger) Wright brother as namesake. But why is Wilbur totally ignored?
Comes from Keith Harris
I couldn't help but laugh at "We'll be crushed by the gravity!" Not if we slip just inside the event horizon." You mean the point at which nothing can escape a black hole??
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18:00 The scene was not about some moral, but something that required background info. They dated -> they got married -> they divorced -> he was a wreck and wasn't given command of a ship -> she secretly put in a word for him to an admiral (family friend) -> he got command of the ship (Orville) -> they ended up working together and cause stuff that lead to a certain outcome. And when she turned down the date by traveling in the past, it radically changed the timeline. "Basic" time travel stuff. :P
Love your book. Finished it quickly, but only cos it's so dense on information... fitting! :D
Had she made it any denser it would have collapsed in on itself.
I would have suggested "Twice In a Lifetime" from season 3. Yes, it is a time travel story; but, it is well done with some surprisingly good science at the end of the episode.
Yep, the Orville travel's right up to the speed of light the light in front of the ship is blue shifted and the light behind is Red shifted
I loved that they used time dilation to return to the present. I hate it when a spaceship capable of travelling at near the speed of light gets "stranded" in the past.
I watch the Orville as sci-satire more then sci-fi.
They know the science is forked up, so they play with it instead.
The quantum drive is just like the warp drive from Star Trek, but they called it "quantum" instead to avoid IP issues with the Star Trek franchise.
Oh and at 18:24 the short story is that Mercer got to be the captain of the Orville because he was married to Kelly. While captaining that ship he played a crucial role in warning the Union about the Klon attack.
Obviously no second date means one of that happened. You really have to watch the whole show (first season included) to make sense of the dynamic between those two.
Bear in mind that Orville is something of an homage to Star Trek without being part of the franchise or having to deal with copyright infringement. It is so much of an homage that some people see it as more "Star Trek" than recent series which are actually part of the franchise. Star Trek features warp drive as their means of FTL, Orville has to have their own, so it would seem the writers just called it "quantum" drive, and we just go with it. Odd that this episode was a recommendation because, from a story perspective, it does rely on plot points from earlier episodes. As to the "science" and technology in Orville, while drawing inspiration from real world science, it does lean heavily into fantasy, rather like Star Trek.
Same as my thoughts. It is a Fantasy!
Screw dystopia. We want to be a happy race in Outer Space!
Screw the Doom and Gloom.
We don't need all the noise of everything getting blown apart every five minutes.
@@davidmacphee3549 Totally agree with both. I think it's the reason the new Star Trek is heading back more in that direction. I don't think we'd have got Lower Decks!
@@jimbass1664 'Lower Decks' might be on Disney+ or Netflix. I got both and it's on here somewhere. I only learned about Smart TV's recently. I pick up the remote, hold a button and say what I want and it finds it right away. Alexa. This thing is a flat 4K 34 inch and cost me less than my Window Air Conditioner delivered to my door. I had no idea what was coming. No Cable TV signal needed again, just Internet. Its all Blue tooth and Wi-Fi. No, I didn't hang it on a wall. I use the stand that came with it. It's less than 20 pounds can go anywhere on a table.
Last TV I had was 10x that price and obsolete as hell. "Bye old friend, Your remote don't work no more"
Oh I hope you come back to this series at some point!
I know this is not a reaction channel but it would be awesome to see some more of this series, especially that episode you put 2nd (Twice in a lifetime).
It's too bad Dr. Becky is so pressed for time.
The Orville is one of the very best shows ever, to Binge watch, just never enough episodes yet and no guarantee there will be anymore. YIKES!
People think that Disney will screw it up.
No. The show NEEDS more exposure to survive. That's where Disney comes in.
A good sound system and screen makes it absolutely delightful !
If you get that close to a black hole the spinning disk will look blue on one side and red on the other. But this is always left out because cinematically it always looks weird.
A Twinkie is a small creme-filled pastry that has absolutely no nutritional value, but tastes bleeping good. It's popular in the USA.
Maybe the quantum drive in the Orville only works exactly when the one in the Wilbur is broken. You can't tell what's going on, but if you get them in the same place and compare logs, they're always opposite despite being halfway across the galaxy at the time. Spooky!
And hence why it's called quantum. I get it. "Spooky action at a distance".
Yay! I’m glad I could help you pick an episode 😀
There is some good info on the quantum drive on fandom. It gives the explanation why it is called quantum drive. Fun fact. Parts of the walls on the Orville are genetically modified plants that recycle the air.
A spaceship design to hold in 1 atmosphere of air pressure is the opposite of a submarine design to hold out 2 atmospheres of water pressure (against 1 atmosphere inside), about 20 meters underwater (Against a vacuum, 1 atmosphere is the pressure of 10 meters underwater). Not a lot of strength required really. How the Orville survives a trip to the bottom of the Mariana Trench is crazy engineering!
Transparent aluminium as Scotty gave the world in Star Trek:The Voyage Home.
@@mikehipperson Lol. I guess if spaceships have to withstand collisions and weapons they need some resistance to large external forces, not just trying to hold in pressure.
The Orville is Seth McFarland's love-letter to classic Star Trek. Yes, there's some goofy comedy in the first season but there are really some hard-hitting social commentary plot lines that are amazing. Watch from the start and know the goofiness goes away.
The goofy comedy was forced on them by Fox and idiot lawyers afraid of being sued by Star Trek.
It could only be a parody to have the needed loopholes to avoid infringement like Galaxy Quest.
The Critic's were paid off. It was War. STD's anyone?
So I'm not the only one who thought 'Orville' was a puppet in the 1980s - I just forgot which one!
I've just been watching Star Trek IV for the umpteenth time while having dinner as there wasn't much worth watching live on TV. I don't know if you've commented on that, but maybe you only have time to watch episodes, not whole movies?!
Missed your video last week (or the week before?), but The Sky at Night was on with some interesting questions, including a child's question about the accretion disc.
I know you love the word 'spaghettification' it makes me think of a spaghetti factory keeping a miscroscopic black hole there to spaghettify the spaghetti much more efficiently(!) Or the crazy April Fools joke one TV programme had on many years ago about speghetti growing on trees and the people who believed it!
Humpback Whales and Transparent Aluminum? The Woman actress was a total delight and represented us.
Absolutely love this series (your sci fi reviews, also Orville.) and all your vids and explanations. I had no idea that our asteroid belts were so scarce. Super cool.
Only reason I knew they were is because of Elite Dangerous.
A series of books you should look at is The Lensman series written by E.E. Doc Smith. This series written in the 30' - early 50' it kind of a cool look at what the theorys were popular during that time and how it written in the story. They are short books only few hundred pages.
Well, popular among the writers and readers of Astounding in the 1930s - and the Silver Age Green Lantern Corps is a pretty clear spiritual successor to the Lensmen.
I hope you find the time to check it out. I think it's pretty good. Mostly for the characters and writing, not the science, obviously.
I think they jumped the gun somewhat on some major plot shifts, but for the most part it's pretty well written. It does get pretty serious about gender politics and stuff at times (and I think they do it well), but mostly it's a fun-time show. Relax and enjoy.
As others have said: it has a lot of heart.
At times, people watching Orville feel very emotional with tears
Watch you react to a science fiction book you say? I'd love to see how you cope with "Skippy magic" in the Expeditionary Force books by Craig Alanson. So it doesn't put you off it's not magic, it's the old: an entity is so far above us in technology that what it is capable of seems like... well you know how that goes. They do try to explain it to a degree so it would be interesting. Oh and get the audiobook version, that absolutely makes it worth sticking with. The first one, Columbus Day, is free on audible plus if you have a subscription. A word of warning, it only REALLY gets going around half way through the book when said entity appears, but from then on it is a hoot.
The reason why 'turning down a second date' messed up the universe is because in the original timeline, those two got married. And although they eventually got divorced, they now both serve as captain and first officer of the Orville because of those past events. So, by turning down the second date, and those two never getting married, the complete timeline of events that had happened up to this point in the show never happened.
Becky, check out the episode called: "Black Sun" from the first season of Space: 1999. It deals with the moonbase travelling through a black sun (black hole?). Would love to hear your take on it.
The premise of Space 1999 was a nuclear waste (or weapons?) dump on the moon blowing up and sending the moon out of the solar system...which is also worth a reaction video. I used to have a toy Eagle Lander... oh god I'm old.
@@cerealport2726 At least one episode where they contacted Earth showed just how royally f*cked the Earth was from that event. But in general, that show was delicious nonsensical trash. My family mocked me for loving it. lol
@@cerealport2726 One of my great regrets, I never did get a Eagle. The episode with the graveyard of ships was about the only episode of a TV show to ever give me nightmares. I miss the good old days of Sci-fi.
@@stever285 Space 1999, Buck Rogers, Dr Who, and Blakes 7, just a few shows that enthralled me as a young child!
@@cerealport2726 3 out of 4, your right the Brits had a definite knack for sci-fi.
Additional notes on Twinkies:
They’re something one either loves or hates - few who have tried them sit on the fence.
They are highly processed and (IMO) have the flavor and texture of an imitation of a food item, which I suppose puts them on par with the “Space Food Sticks” sold by Pillsbury as astronaut snacks in the 1970’s. 😉
I’m assuming that those who love Twinkies enjoy the sugar rush? I’m sure their defenders will let me know. 🙂
As others have mentioned, their supposed shelf-life (do to the amount of preservatives that they contain) is often cited, with photos often posted, amateur experiments run, etc.
So, I don’t know whether the show states that the Hostess company still exists and is presumably an intergalactic corporation shipping Twinkies (and presumably their round faux-chocolate covered counterpart Ho Hos) across the Galaxy, or whether the character in this episode found a stash from our timeframe and is eating one… which is still “edible” because they last forever, or some other scenario. Perhaps it tells and I missed it (I haven’t watched them all).
They used to be better, objectively due to changes in ingredients. The originals were banana flavored but had a shelf life of under 3 days.
@@patrickmccurry1563 Another reason why they changed to a vanilla filling was WW2. During the war bananas were impossible to get since the growing regions were in Japanese territory. So the change was made and they never went back
The company bankrupted about ten years ago , was brought back and the current ones are 10% smaller than those ago, and I suspect they're using some artificial sweetener with the regular sugars. You got a physical address? I'll ship you a box.
Google "twinkie defense" for an interesting side fact.
I'm on that chapter of your book now! You can't stop tomorrow from coming.
Great book so far!
The unrealistic part in The Road Not Taken for me is how Claire is able to keep her hair straight in this apocalyptic galaxy.
The Orville is really good, its an unashamed homage to Star Trek and they tend to alternate a "serious" episode with a humorous one. Definitely one of the better offerings out there.
Great show, The Orville, I like the TNG vibe
The ships have force fields around them allowing both travels in space and oceans, these shields can be both external and internal
On the quantum drive, I think it's just a marketing thing by the company that makes them.
Seth MacFarlane has a pretty respectable science fiction résumé. Star Trek Enterprise seasons 3 & 4 (one episode each) as Ensign Rivers in engineering. I don’t know why, but I’ve always liked him. And I have never seen a single episode of The Orville. Strange!
He was so hung over, He just missed the 911 flight and We wouldn't be here !
I heard that in the days and weeks following the terrorist attacks. He’s one of the few lucky ones that day!
@@jamesrutkay7232 His Guardian Angel spiked the Punch.
"Am I Late ???" Sorry Sir. I'm afraid so.
It is a relatively minor series, but The Sojourn Audio Drama has some interesting space phenomena featured in it. Some examples include a variation of Krasnikov Tubes is featured and described in Episode 2, and exploring a planet orbiting a pulsar that had been vitrified by said pulsar's supernova.
Love how smart and informative you are. How entertaining you are. Love that accent. It melts me heart. And love that beautiful face. I've gotta get your book. It's on my Christmas list.
The Core movie has a similar chat, "why can't we get to the earths core and fix it, we can go into space no problem"🤪. I was laughing in anticipation when they wanted to hide "just below the event horizon" and wondered if you could hold it together! Never heard of the show but a planet sized duck seemed interesting.
Also they got the black hole right because Seth McFarlane helped work on the graphics in Interstellar and the Neil deGrasse Tyson version of the show Cosmos
So they get the appearance right but proceed to completely ignore the physics of the event horizon. I don't think getting how it look right redeems them.
@@cliveklg7739 It's a fantasy not a Documentary
@@davidmacphee3549 she's a physicist commenting on the realism you absolute gob. OMG seriously you think you have gotcha thinking I don't know it is a sci-fi show, while you gloss over what youtube channel you are commenting on. #facepalm What a loon.
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Dr. Becky is awesome but you are a snowflake. Cool it, Hotshot!
@@cliveklg7739 hahaha yep!😅
I enjoy your explanations and reactions ...my 12yr daughter basically wants to be you 😁
Turning 12 years old is an amazing transformation . . . of self awareness and growth.
Baby no more! Metamorphosis!
That is the real beginning of Intelligence, prior to Wisdom.
Massive changes all over. Wonderful !
You wouldn't like her when she's angry ! Ha Ha !
The Orville is basically comedy star-trek without a trademark license agreement "Quantum" in this case means exactly "if we say 'warp', Paramount Pictures will sue." All the proper nouns have been changed. Although as the show progressed, it found a niche. Flatland was a turning point.
The answer to "why" is priceless, and has been the driving factor in my life.
A Twinkie is an American snack cake, described as "golden sponge cake with a creamy filling". It was "invented" in 1930 Main ingredients: Wheat flour, sugar, corn syrup, niacin, water, high fructose corn syrup, eggs, shortening, and others. If buried it will not decompose
A little girl accompanied her father to the barber shop. She was eating a Hostess Twinkie. As her father sat in the barber's chair, the little girl stood very close to her father. "Sweetie, you're going to get hair on your Twinkie" said the barber. "I know!" the little girl replied. "And I'm going to get BOOBS, TOO!"
I had the same reaction as you to "I said no to a second date." Also, you do need to watch the previous episode to get what's happening in this one, the time travel isn't that confusing thankfully.
You must remember, the "window's" on this spacecraft are not window's. They're made from the same alloy as the ship itself. You're basically seeing a digital screen of what you would be seeing if there were a window there. They can enhance and illuminate things like stars and plants so maybe it's a setting for the ships "window's".
Yup, the Quantum Drive is absolutely used all through The Orville as a plot device, and they're not afraid to lampshade it as such, don't worry. Hey - it's like Star Trek's transporter which works really well (because of its Heisenberg Compensators)... until it doesn't when the plot requires that it doesn't.
Orville the duck and Orville the spaceship are of course both named after Orville (and Wilbur) Wright who built the first airplane. "I wish I could fly" being the joke with the duck :-) If you look closely, the captain has a model of the Wright Flier on his desk!
Orville has been gradually going from being basically a sitcom in Season 1, then gradually toning down the comedy until Season 3 is basically Star Trek: Next Generation: Next Generation with just a few hints of comedy, and more of a plot/message. So which season is "the best" very much depends on which you prefer.
Orville makes so much sense it doesn't even feel sci fi
By all means, go watch the rest of The Orville episodes, they will certainly fill that Firefly hole. :)
That was fun. Would I be right in saying that, as they "enter" the black hole, its appearance would change dramatically such that they would be able to see all the universe around them due to light "bending" (I'm quoting Kip Thorne here, I think...). Keep em coming!
I was just watching this episode of yours just to see your reaction to the part where they're interacting wit the black hole 😀
It seems Firefly would be a good next episode. Since you watched all the episodes you can pick the episode you would most like to review.
A twinky is a hotdog bun sized spongy pastry with a filling of something close to whipped cream. It has an incredible amount of preservatives which gives it a multi-year shelf life.
If someone asked you to be a science consultant for a sci fi movie involving black hole's, would you accept?
As if I needed another reason to love Dr Becky, she's a Firefly fan!