I couldn’t agree more - great casting - perfect acting, exceptional art direction and spectacular directing, with amazing attention to detail in post production and special effects, makes this series the best ‘alternate reality’ show since The Man In The High Castle, in my humble opinion 👌
Considering that two years ellapsed and Bill had no idea about the sail, that means they created that solar sail in 2 years, implemented it into Sojourner that was an already completed design, did the tests... All that in secret without anybody leaking. I know their space programs are eons ahead of ours, but the logistic seems Impossible. Great scene though.
See they don't muck around with decades of testing in this universe. They think of a solar sail and they stick on a mission to mars. Solar sail is a relatively simple technology.
@@ScienceMan314 Whilst Margo was giving information to the Soviets she wanted the United States to win the race to Mars, to that end she had given the design for the NASA Fission engine to the Soviets but with incorrect performance specifications. The information given was enough for the Soviets to safely operate Mars-94 but be at a performance disadvantage to Sojourner 1 with its perfected engine and Solar sail. The information she had given was enough to keep her lover alive so there was no need to reveal the secret Solar Sail. She was effectively playing both sides with the aim of getting her lover out of the Soviet Union some how whilst also ensuring the United States won the Mars race. It was a dangerous game that she almost got away with if not for the suspicions of her prodigy. The failure of the Mars-94 engine gave her the leverage to get her lover out but the cruel irony is she was found out just as he was got out of the Soviet Union forcing her to be smuggled out to Russia during the chaos of the bomb attack. My gut feeling is they are going to play out the collapse of the Soviet Union albeit delayed a decade or so with Margo in the strange position of being a traitor, she still has a part to play albeit I am not sure how.
It possible that Bill knew about the solar sails but they were still in early testing when he left. He did get suspicious when they started playing sailing songs.
Yep, this whole awesome sequence showing the competitors setting off to a beautiful piece of music... And the real winner is already most of the way there by now.
Something I found funny is how they call their crashed Soyuz capsule a “base” which is the equivalent of me labeling my stranded KSP rocket a Space station to feel better about myself
For everyone commenting on how they can't believe the designs for the solar sail were not leaked, remember that this timeline doesn't have much of an internet.
The japanese managed to keep the bloody yamato secret, so I'd assume hiding a project of that size would be relatively simple. Of course, the fact that NASA is developing something big can't be hidden based on the activity of the R&D site, but it probably is possible to hide exactly what they are doing.
@@ShroomKeppie Yeah that stood out to me, the sail would need to be much bigger for a noticeable effect NASA in the story could have made this plan even better by using pushing lasers from the moon seeing as they are able to move large amounts of mass including the materials for a nuclear reactor, but if it works it works
Man I have been trying to find that jolly roger scene for forever. Glad you posted this clip always so funny seeing Baldwin's face when he realized something was wrong when he heard that song.
That was the funniest part. Seeing him laugh at first with everyone else, and then actually listening to the song and realizing what the song implied. And then immediately getting the 'oh f*ck' face.
@@touko_nanami how so? Not to say you're wrong, just personally I heard the song and immediately went out of my way to figure out who wrote it - I thought it was perfect.
An acquaintance worked on the ealy German project to send a solar sail experiment into space, so it was fascinating to see this in action. Only thing the show got wrong is how you'd unfurl the carbon masts, on the CG model the pipe just extends.
Actually this is because in 1979 NASA first discovered Extendo-Carbon, a hyperdense material that could fold it on itself which would later be used by the CIA to create the ultimate Inspector (joke) (not even a funny one)
I'm no physicist but how would a solar sail actually help in a race to mars? They would need to be off course to start and then continually correct the course with the thrust from the sail. If they were on course from the start using a sail would change their trajectory away from mars, and seeing how the burn will always be away from the sun, wouldn't the only thing they could achieve be making the trajectory to mars longer?
@@Iskelderon But how would it be an advantage? I'm talking about the orbital mechanics side of it. As I understand it they were already on course for mars, and any changes to that should mean they will go off course, so by opening the sail they should be thrown off course.
@@charles_dingus It was simplified for the sake of TV convenience, but you could use it to your advantages if the path is right, since Mars is further out in the solar system and therefore the solar wind would be "blowing" in that direction. You'd ideally pick a timing where when you leave Earth, Mars is mowing in your direction (meaning, the Earth is ahead of Mars on the rotation around the sun). Not sure if that's a year on the show where that would be going on. In this situation, you'd more fly out from the sun and let Mars come to you.
Well I’m not sure about all real world science…….. it seems for all mankind take the ideas that nasa had but scrapped because of impracticalities and goes ahead with them. Using unrealistic time tables. I mean would you call the “sea dragon” real world science?
Great casting - perfect acting, exceptional art direction and spectacular directing, with a nod to the realities of the time and amazing attention to detail in post production and special effects, makes this series the best ‘alternate reality’ show since The Man In The High Castle, in my humble opinion 👌 Yes, I realize I didn’t use enough full stops - my admiration of this show got ahead of my punctuation 😆
Best alternative reality show since MITHC? I’d say it’s infinitely better than the man in the high castle. In ranking order or parallel earths online on it goes 3.the man in the high castle 2.our reality 1.for all mankind High castle is about a history worse than ours but FAM Is about a history better than ours.
Solar Sails Carbon Nanotube Supports would make that possible.. Its other drawback is the sail can get Holed causing a reduction in the Thrust or effect Change in Direction.. Like DS9 the sails will have to be shedable if they get damaged.
I adore for all mankind, every year I get nervous they won’t recapture the magic of what came before. With season 4 I felt that my worst fears had came true, I had no idea what the point of the season was. Ed on mars, Kelly looking for alien life, Margot looking for a decent cheeseburger. Aleda dealing with ptsd. Dev dealing with retirement New character running his black market. Etc etc etc Until dev showed up to Ed after ending the strike and revealed his grand plan. Then I was back fully onboard and felt guilty for having such lack of trust. “Ed, do you wanna help me (spoilers) this (spoiler)” And Ed smiles Genius.
Some people have already called out the questionable logic in hiding such a feature, but I'm more curious about it's trade offs. If you can afford the complexities and weight to attach a giant fold out solar sail, you can also just simply add more fuel in it's place. I don't know how much propulsion a solar sail like that can actually provide over a trip to mars, obviously I'm a not a rocket scientist, but I think it's fair to guess that it couldn't actually be enough to justify the extra mass. It's a fun concept to play with in a story like this though!
This girl.. she won my heart, mind and.. nuts... the moment she said " you can lead follow or f**k right off.." i wish she was my wife. Another universe maby.. oh I am probably happy there because.. Not so much here.
Not really It's 100% a thing that would've likely happen, had this actually been our reality. As much as I hate to say it, there are absolutely countries out there that would sacrifice some of their best, if it meant being the first. You *could* say that this somewhat happened with the prior (failed) Bell X-1 flights (before Yeager's), though that was also because we didn't fully understand the sound barrier yet.
Ok, so a photon loses energy when it is reflected. What happens if we trapped a photon in between two mirrors. What happens to the photon after it loses all energy?
The ship has already accelerated to maximum speed using its thrusters. The sails aren't the main means of propulsion, they're just an addition that will give the ship a constant source of acceleration without consuming fuel.
One thing that’s unclear and is never shown, does sojourner return to earth or land back at Jamestown ? It seems it wouldn’t have the fuel to capture and land in complete vacuum after launching from mars ?
Accelerating with a solar sail in 1 direction is cool, but once it reaches maximum acceleration how do you counter the speed in the opposite direction to slow it down?
To slow down a spacecraft propelled by a solar sail after reaching maximum acceleration in one direction, you need to reverse the orientation of the sail.
I still don't get it how phoenix was first if sojouner 1 had a 384,400 km advantage because it took of from the moon... (I haven't watched the series so I don't know if they say why in there) If it was taking of from the moon, how was phoenix, which was from the earth, somehow first?
Simple, they furl the sails back. In fact, I think that actually happens in the show too, Mars-94 suffers from some sort of breakdown and Sojourner 1 stays back to pick up the cosmonauts, giving up their new lead on Helios.
Solar sails are a real concept and are being demonstrated in orbit with probes right now, in 10-20 years with the right funding we could make something like this
Ok sollar sails dont provide that much acceleration for an object with the mass of a space shuttle. There provide an extremly small build up of force over and extremely long period of time. It wouldn't give them the immediate speed boost they needed to overtake a larger craft, with more mass, travelling faster, with a head start.
The benefit of radiation-pressure isn't how many N/m^2 it provides but that it does that continously. At Mars you get roughly 3.93 pico-Newtons per square meter ... but you get that for however long you like (though varying with angle and distance from sun, as well as if you're absorbing or reflecting)
How about fusing photons with mass atoms through a fusion reactor and boost in electrostatic state around the craft like a Donut? Coffee on Mars in 2 hours and back for dinner on Earth...
@@robertbradbury7921 Who cares? What even is 'Woke' in this context? Why be so sensitive about being more technically correct? IMO, technically correct is the best kind of correct. Unbunch your tighty whites and go touch some grass rather than trying to be some kind of arbiter of words or thought police on the internet, because down that road, lies madness.
A race is a bad idea. Look at the race to the south pool. The Norwegians won.but sir hilliary scote stayed behind dieing in that ant artic weather station. He had to be first at something even if it killed him. Raceing to the stars might be to ego motated. Let be realistic the fat slow turtle wins the endurance race. And survival.
Pioneers die. It kinda goes with the territory. Dev even mentions that in the original Jamestown colony (first in the now-United States), 80% died in the first 3 years. We take these things for granted now, since everywhere has been explored, pretty much, and we live cushy lives now that have been paid for in actual blood by millions who came before us. Death isn't the worst thing that can happen to a person.
Sojourner make no sense. Unless it is launch from Earth, it is needlessly "aerodynamic". In vacuum there is no need to retract landing gears or landing thruster, just added more weight and failure points. Could have use the extra weight saved to make the sail bigger. An orbital high power laser from earth/Luna orbfired into the sail while it is still on "line of sight" would be much more efficient then passive solar sail.
This is NASA we're talking about, Sojourner was a reused concept for Mars, same thing they are doing with the Artemis program in our timeline, just NASA being NASA.
I am not sure how the Soviet Union is still functioning or even exists. Also painting the private company as a risky careless cowboy is so stupid. Governments are less functional than private businesses.
It's the dynamics of the alternate timeline. Helios wasn't being risky, they were ready to go 2 years ahead of the USA and Soviet Union. Both nations rushed their plans to launch around the same time.
This scene is bullshit. A Solar Sail of this size produces like 0.0001 Newton of thrust. Not nearly enough to accelerate the 20 Ton + Spacecraft in any significant way over the 150 day transit.
Not .0001 Newtons of thrust. .0001 m/s^2 of acceleration. Thrust would likely be about 2 Newtons. But the delta v over 40 days of constant acceleration would still only be about 340 m/s, and I don’t see any reason why, even if those numbers do give Sojourner the edge over them in their current trajectories that Phoenix couldn’t just use a little extra nuclear fuel from its massive stores to just boost a little ahead of whatever measly amount of acceleration that solar sail could ever hope to make
I find the science and technology of this show to be highly unbelievable. Space hotel, moon bases, and usable solar sail, all in 94? Right.🙄 In 1994 reality, USA was the most advanced in space faring, and USA wasn’t even close to having any of those mentioned. This is more Star Trek or Man in the High Castle(in space) than anything.
Space Exploration dropped DRAMATICALLY in the late 70s and 80s. As per a quick check: "From 1962 to 1975, NASA’s annual budget exceeded 1% of the United States total GDP. The highest yearly budget for NASA was 1966, when total funding was about 4.4% of total GDP." In the FAM universe, there was no drop-off in space exploration.
lmao what a shitty show. Did they put Kinnaman on ice? He was a mature man in the late sixties. All about the drama of lack of diversity in the space program, they don't give a shit about the problems associated with space flight. Biggest disappointment in a long time. I'll just watch the Expanse again.
@@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze Lay off the antifreeze it's melting your brain. STEM people love the expanse and in this comment section they are ripping this dumb show apart.
@@user-ki2ld8tu8o No they aren’t, thats a cute little fantasy you have in your head. People focus more on the scientific elements of For All Mankind because the show is intentionally more realistic than the expanse to begin with, as advertised. There are far fewer inaccuracies to rip For All Mankind for compared to the expanse, and the expanse has way more inaccuracies than even hard sci fi nerds realize. You trying to get up on your gay little soap box about how “STEM students know the expanse is true realism☝️🤓 “ just comes off so dorky and unjustifiably pretentious. Just accept the shows for what they BOTH are, semi-realistic hard sci fis that play to scientific realism whenever possible, and occasionally bend that realism for story elements. And it works really well. You trying to sit here and call For All Mankind unrealistic bullshit, then immediately recommending a less realistic show as your “gottem” is just the lamest and dorkiest thing I have seen this week. Maybe don’t be such a crybaby and you’ll enjoy things more.
If your in space and you get a broadcast from another ship of pirate music.You're about to have a very bad day
I love how they transmitted "a pirates life for me" just to fuck with everyone else
Ikr?! Lol it was awesome and so funny yet amazing flex on them
One of the best tv show of the last ten years. Countdown to november 10 for the fourth season
I started my 3rd rewatch last night and its still an emotional rollercoaster like no other show ive ever seen.
Indeed
Can't wait for the new season!
Oh shit
S4 is coming November 10th?
I couldn’t agree more - great casting - perfect acting, exceptional art direction and spectacular directing, with amazing attention to detail in post production and special effects, makes this series the best ‘alternate reality’ show since The Man In The High Castle, in my humble opinion 👌
The look on Ed's face when he figures out why pirate music is playing is priceless.
"They didn't...Oh shit.. They did."
Considering that two years ellapsed and Bill had no idea about the sail, that means they created that solar sail in 2 years, implemented it into Sojourner that was an already completed design, did the tests... All that in secret without anybody leaking. I know their space programs are eons ahead of ours, but the logistic seems Impossible.
Great scene though.
I'm surprised Margo didn't say anything.
@@ScienceMan314too soon
See they don't muck around with decades of testing in this universe. They think of a solar sail and they stick on a mission to mars. Solar sail is a relatively simple technology.
@@ScienceMan314 Whilst Margo was giving information to the Soviets she wanted the United States to win the race to Mars, to that end she had given the design for the NASA Fission engine to the Soviets but with incorrect performance specifications. The information given was enough for the Soviets to safely operate Mars-94 but be at a performance disadvantage to Sojourner 1 with its perfected engine and Solar sail. The information she had given was enough to keep her lover alive so there was no need to reveal the secret Solar Sail. She was effectively playing both sides with the aim of getting her lover out of the Soviet Union some how whilst also ensuring the United States won the Mars race. It was a dangerous game that she almost got away with if not for the suspicions of her prodigy. The failure of the Mars-94 engine gave her the leverage to get her lover out but the cruel irony is she was found out just as he was got out of the Soviet Union forcing her to be smuggled out to Russia during the chaos of the bomb attack.
My gut feeling is they are going to play out the collapse of the Soviet Union albeit delayed a decade or so with Margo in the strange position of being a traitor, she still has a part to play albeit I am not sure how.
It possible that Bill knew about the solar sails but they were still in early testing when he left. He did get suspicious when they started playing sailing songs.
The funniest thing is, the race was nearly already over, the North Koreans having beaten them all!
Yep, this whole awesome sequence showing the competitors setting off to a beautiful piece of music... And the real winner is already most of the way there by now.
@@JamesTobiasStewartAnd worst of all, the winners ship is a glorified Soyuz capsule.
USA 😅:We don’t talk about that here
Soviet Union- Technically they use our technology so we are chalking up this victory to us! @@sandeeps4909
Something I found funny is how they call their crashed Soyuz capsule a “base” which is the equivalent of me labeling my stranded KSP rocket a Space station to feel better about myself
"A comet fly by" Yeah... because there are always comets to do a fly by whenever you need them.
I think it's an orbital technique, not saying literally use a comet.
It’s possible to slow down just enough to get a second encounter with a body, and use gravity to slow the ship instead of just braking..
@@MrPineeeapppless but as he says, there is not a comet spawning if you need it, and I don't think you will slow down to get to it
Danni is having so much fun letting Ed think he’s won.
Then Kelly said “it’s not all about being first”
They were trolling them so hard
Having a mass driver on the moon is an incredible oversight opportunity for this show!
Ronald Moore is at his best when he's making science fiction come to life for the rest of us.
Is not a science fiction anymore it's about ourself what happened near armstrong never landing on the moon, It was a soviet.
He’s at his worst at the halfway point of the 3rd season of whatever show he’s working on.
For everyone commenting on how they can't believe the designs for the solar sail were not leaked, remember that this timeline doesn't have much of an internet.
I think it does that’s how people communicate between mars and earth.
yes they do have a internet in this timeline but it's only restricted for the government.
@@Asian19981and probably between universities like Arpanet
The solar sails are really cool, and I hate myself for being a pedant, but I can't believe they could be developed and integrated without it leaking.
It's way too small an area, too. Square miles of sail would be required, and the mother ship has way too much mass.
The japanese managed to keep the bloody yamato secret, so I'd assume hiding a project of that size would be relatively simple. Of course, the fact that NASA is developing something big can't be hidden based on the activity of the R&D site, but it probably is possible to hide exactly what they are doing.
@@ShroomKeppie Yeah that stood out to me, the sail would need to be much bigger for a noticeable effect
NASA in the story could have made this plan even better by using pushing lasers from the moon seeing as they are able to move large amounts of mass including the materials for a nuclear reactor, but if it works it works
@@animo9050 Pushing laser AND pellets of mass thrown out to be disintegrated by the laser would make it even faster
Unless both the KGB and the USA's alphabet agencies were working together to prevent a leak. Because to hell with Helios winning the race.
Love the shoutout at the end for the Planetary Society snd Lightsail, a crowdfunded spacecraft proving the feasibility of solar sails.
Such a great scene. Love how Ed's facial expression changes
Man I have been trying to find that jolly roger scene for forever. Glad you posted this clip always so funny seeing Baldwin's face when he realized something was wrong when he heard that song.
That was the funniest part. Seeing him laugh at first with everyone else, and then actually listening to the song and realizing what the song implied. And then immediately getting the 'oh f*ck' face.
Black Hole Sun is a banger
as someone who has never heard of them it sounded really out of place
@@touko_nanami how so? Not to say you're wrong, just personally I heard the song and immediately went out of my way to figure out who wrote it - I thought it was perfect.
@@hikingworm1028 too long I didn’t bother to read your opinion
@@touko_nanami would you rather it had been mumble rap? Fucking zoomers.
An acquaintance worked on the ealy German project to send a solar sail experiment into space, so it was fascinating to see this in action.
Only thing the show got wrong is how you'd unfurl the carbon masts, on the CG model the pipe just extends.
Actually this is because in 1979 NASA first discovered Extendo-Carbon, a hyperdense material that could fold it on itself which would later be used by the CIA to create the ultimate Inspector (joke) (not even a funny one)
I'm no physicist but how would a solar sail actually help in a race to mars? They would need to be off course to start and then continually correct the course with the thrust from the sail. If they were on course from the start using a sail would change their trajectory away from mars, and seeing how the burn will always be away from the sun, wouldn't the only thing they could achieve be making the trajectory to mars longer?
@@charles_dingusOn such a long trip, it can add up as an added advantage, bus so far we've mostly used it for light-weight research payloads.
@@Iskelderon But how would it be an advantage? I'm talking about the orbital mechanics side of it. As I understand it they were already on course for mars, and any changes to that should mean they will go off course, so by opening the sail they should be thrown off course.
@@charles_dingus It was simplified for the sake of TV convenience, but you could use it to your advantages if the path is right, since Mars is further out in the solar system and therefore the solar wind would be "blowing" in that direction. You'd ideally pick a timing where when you leave Earth, Mars is mowing in your direction (meaning, the Earth is ahead of Mars on the rotation around the sun). Not sure if that's a year on the show where that would be going on. In this situation, you'd more fly out from the sun and let Mars come to you.
One of the very best Sci Fi shows out there today. And all done with real world science.
Well I’m not sure about all real world science…….. it seems for all mankind take the ideas that nasa had but scrapped because of impracticalities and goes ahead with them.
Using unrealistic time tables.
I mean would you call the “sea dragon” real world science?
when i saw sojourner deploy the solar sail in the show, i genuinely giggled. i love those things so much
Great casting - perfect acting, exceptional art direction and spectacular directing, with a nod to the realities of the time and amazing attention to detail in post production and special effects, makes this series the best ‘alternate reality’ show since The Man In The High Castle, in my humble opinion 👌 Yes, I realize I didn’t use enough full stops - my admiration of this show got ahead of my punctuation 😆
Let’s hope it doesn’t contain an ending like MITHC!
Best alternative reality show since MITHC?
I’d say it’s infinitely better than the man in the high castle.
In ranking order or parallel earths online on it goes
3.the man in the high castle
2.our reality
1.for all mankind
High castle is about a history worse than ours but FAM
Is about a history better than ours.
This is the space race we deserved
No, the one we have is the one we deserve.
This one in for all mankind is better than we deserve
@@jimmy2k4o I have to agree...
eventually, we'll have a mars race with the US against china..but who knows if it will ever happen
6:52 "They totally lost it"
Nah son, you haven't seen "lost it" yet.
this scene just dosen't get old
The VFX shots in every one of the science talks in this show are amazing.
My jaw hit the floor during this sequence. Suck it Ed. Hahaha!!!
Same lol
favourite scene of the whole series
LOVED THIS SEQUENCE!!!
Hearing the music I immediately thought solar sails like from alien covenant movie! I was like HOLY SHIT
Solar Sails Carbon Nanotube Supports would make that possible.. Its other drawback is the sail can get Holed causing a reduction in the Thrust or effect Change in Direction.. Like DS9 the sails will have to be shedable if they get damaged.
Never seen this. But the videos I've seen suggest to me, i need to watch. Looks like a watchable war movie
Such a great show with an awesome soundtrack. I'm about to binge season 4. I hope they can keep it up.
After space hotel and such. I had mixed feelings for season 4 but they did not disappoint.
I adore for all mankind, every year I get nervous they won’t recapture the magic of what came before.
With season 4 I felt that my worst fears had came true, I had no idea what the point of the season was. Ed on mars,
Kelly looking for alien life,
Margot looking for a decent cheeseburger.
Aleda dealing with ptsd.
Dev dealing with retirement
New character running his black market. Etc etc etc
Until dev showed up to Ed after ending the strike and revealed his grand plan.
Then I was back fully onboard and felt guilty for having such lack of trust.
“Ed, do you wanna help me (spoilers) this (spoiler)”
And Ed smiles
Genius.
Some people have already called out the questionable logic in hiding such a feature, but I'm more curious about it's trade offs. If you can afford the complexities and weight to attach a giant fold out solar sail, you can also just simply add more fuel in it's place. I don't know how much propulsion a solar sail like that can actually provide over a trip to mars, obviously I'm a not a rocket scientist, but I think it's fair to guess that it couldn't actually be enough to justify the extra mass.
It's a fun concept to play with in a story like this though!
It's not that helpful for the trip to mars. but its very helpful for anything further way
Love this show, wish it was my reality..
That solar sail would have to be a whole lot bigger than that.
They could only fit it so much its still a pretty large sail
Watching now the sixth episode. So far, the best of best.
This girl.. she won my heart, mind and.. nuts... the moment she said " you can lead follow or f**k right off.." i wish she was my wife. Another universe maby.. oh I am probably happy there because.. Not so much here.
Awesome scene
After rewatching this, it only makes the North Korean "twist" even more insulting to our intelligence.
Not really
It's 100% a thing that would've likely happen, had this actually been our reality.
As much as I hate to say it, there are absolutely countries out there that would sacrifice some of their best, if it meant being the first.
You *could* say that this somewhat happened with the prior (failed) Bell X-1 flights (before Yeager's), though that was also because we didn't fully understand the sound barrier yet.
This solar sail mechanism looks so weird. Like the support cables just appear out of thin air. Other than this pretty good episode.
Captain Sisko would be proud
I love how everyone in the comments are suddenly becoming a rocket scientist after seeing this shit 😂
Yo ho ho mateys
The soviet union doesnt fall. Humanity is heavily involved in space.
Im going to cry
the soviet union also became a social democracy by the mid 1990s lol. You still lose even when escaping reality, tankie
11:00 Oh my goodness MASS Cannon! (Yeah yeah they’re ping pongs)
Anyone knows the title of the music playing from 2:24 onwards?
Sometimes this series is like how the late 20th century would have been in Star Trek...
Yes, all "3" series.
Ok, so a photon loses energy when it is reflected. What happens if we trapped a photon in between two mirrors. What happens to the photon after it loses all energy?
Heat
Hi-bob ❤
The solar sail needed to be at least ten times bigger to push a ship of that size.
It's not pushing them, just giving them enough acceleration to buy them few days of time over months of journey. It can totally do that.
The ship has already accelerated to maximum speed using its thrusters. The sails aren't the main means of propulsion, they're just an addition that will give the ship a constant source of acceleration without consuming fuel.
@@spacemiaou67 An to do anything noticable they would have to have been many times larger. ,
Sojourner seems rather small to cater for the fuels, engines for VTOL, supplies, living space ect. Far too small.
Oh wow look at this Treasure Planet stuff
At say around 6 million km, wouldn't there be some radio delay????
Yes, 20 seconds each way at that point.
He wouldnt believe that random north korean were the first of all 3
One thing that’s unclear and is never shown, does sojourner return to earth or land back at Jamestown ? It seems it wouldn’t have the fuel to capture and land in complete vacuum after launching from mars ?
It landed on mars and during the landing destroyed it’s engine so they cannabalized it
There were a dozen later missions, Sojourner 2 picked up the crew.
Accelerating with a solar sail in 1 direction is cool, but once it reaches maximum acceleration how do you counter the speed in the opposite direction to slow it down?
To slow down a spacecraft propelled by a solar sail after reaching maximum acceleration in one direction, you need to reverse the orientation of the sail.
Hey that's Darwin from X Men First class
Series name
I still don't get it how phoenix was first if sojouner 1 had a 384,400 km advantage because it took of from the moon... (I haven't watched the series so I don't know if they say why in there) If it was taking of from the moon, how was phoenix, which was from the earth, somehow first?
Pheonix was ready to launch first, but Sojourner and Mars-94 had to rush and play catch up to even launch in 1994 instead of 1996.
Does anybody know if the light powered spinner at 10:16 can be replicated?
We had those in elementary school its called a Crookes radiometer
Where's that ending clip from?
It’s from the Behind The Science featurettes on TV+. There’s one for every episode in season three.
What happens when a emergency occurs that makes it necessary to be close by each other. For safty.
Simple, they furl the sails back.
In fact, I think that actually happens in the show too, Mars-94 suffers from some sort of breakdown and Sojourner 1 stays back to pick up the cosmonauts, giving up their new lead on Helios.
would there be triangular sails in the future to travel from Mars back to Earth???
Solar sails are a real concept and are being demonstrated in orbit with probes right now, in 10-20 years with the right funding we could make something like this
Ok sollar sails dont provide that much acceleration for an object with the mass of a space shuttle. There provide an extremly small build up of force over and extremely long period of time. It wouldn't give them the immediate speed boost they needed to overtake a larger craft, with more mass, travelling faster, with a head start.
The benefit of radiation-pressure isn't how many N/m^2 it provides but that it does that continously. At Mars you get roughly 3.93 pico-Newtons per square meter ... but you get that for however long you like (though varying with angle and distance from sun, as well as if you're absorbing or reflecting)
How about fusing photons with mass atoms through a fusion reactor and boost in electrostatic state
around the craft like a Donut?
Coffee on Mars in 2 hours and back for dinner on Earth...
Since this show is about human kind I'm think this series is going to end with style 🎉 like we become techno gods in future or something like that 😂
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Since this show is about human kind " It's about mankind
@@robertbradbury7921 isn't that the same thing? 😅
@@adriankoh4859 human kind just like hapy holidays is new WOKE speak
@@robertbradbury7921 Who cares? What even is 'Woke' in this context? Why be so sensitive about being more technically correct? IMO, technically correct is the best kind of correct. Unbunch your tighty whites and go touch some grass rather than trying to be some kind of arbiter of words or thought police on the internet, because down that road, lies madness.
@@robertbradbury7921 whats even wrong with happy holidays?
Phoenix should have just countered with an electric/magnetic/plasma sail deployment, they're more powerful than solar sails.
My issue what’s the Mars Soviet 95 logistics to land on Mars
I think either same as Sojourner's as in land the whole craft or they could have brought landers with them.
@@ranaghasttwo landers
Why did they wait so late to use the solar sail?
dramatic effect
Margo is pulling……for the Russians!
Soviet nuclear ship launched from Earth as a whole looks quite unrealistic.
A race is a bad idea. Look at the race to the south pool. The Norwegians won.but sir hilliary scote stayed behind dieing in that ant artic weather station. He had to be first at something even if it killed him. Raceing to the stars might be to ego motated. Let be realistic the fat slow turtle wins the endurance race. And survival.
Pioneers die. It kinda goes with the territory.
Dev even mentions that in the original Jamestown colony (first in the now-United States), 80% died in the first 3 years.
We take these things for granted now, since everywhere has been explored, pretty much, and we live cushy lives now that have been paid for in actual blood by millions who came before us. Death isn't the worst thing that can happen to a person.
They should've used some proper shanties.
The best part is, this show is amazing if you watch it on mute and take out 100% of the actors. Lol. Factually great, but what a bish drama😂😂😂
The Russia we would like to happened and not the stupid country we know in our days.
I'm not familiar with that Ashanti song.
СССР звезду смерти решил в космос запустить?😂
Баки для водорода круглые иначе они просто взорвутся, не вижу ничего странного в советском дизайне
Sojourner make no sense. Unless it is launch from Earth, it is needlessly "aerodynamic". In vacuum there is no need to retract landing gears or landing thruster, just added more weight and failure points. Could have use the extra weight saved to make the sail bigger. An orbital high power laser from earth/Luna orbfired into the sail while it is still on "line of sight" would be much more efficient then passive solar sail.
This is NASA we're talking about, Sojourner was a reused concept for Mars, same thing they are doing with the Artemis program in our timeline, just NASA being NASA.
Also, you sort of need the landing gear and thrusters to land on mars, it has an atmosphere so that’s why it needs to be aerodynamic.
Better work on a solar anchor first.
"First is what matters."
Hydrox were invented before Oreos. Are they more successful?
Dev is a manchild.
The best part of this whole race was that North Korea made it to Mars first.
A wizard did it
I am not sure how the Soviet Union is still functioning or even exists. Also painting the private company as a risky careless cowboy is so stupid. Governments are less functional than private businesses.
It's the dynamics of the alternate timeline.
Helios wasn't being risky, they were ready to go 2 years ahead of the USA and Soviet Union. Both nations rushed their plans to launch around the same time.
So now 9:54 we have to put up with remedial science lessons?! 🙄
This show screams lowest common denominator. Bums me out.
NORTH KOREA WIN
I knew her southern accent was too damn thick to be real. Nobody around here talks like that unless they are being dramatic.
This scene is bullshit. A Solar Sail of this size produces like 0.0001 Newton of thrust. Not nearly enough to accelerate the 20 Ton + Spacecraft in any significant way over the 150 day transit.
It’s a minuscule amount of thrust. But it’s constant. Day after day, week after week. It would add up.
@@kirishima638 like i said 150 days is not enough time to accelerate the ship even 1m/s
@@kirishima638 the ship is just far too heavy
Not .0001 Newtons of thrust. .0001 m/s^2 of acceleration. Thrust would likely be about 2 Newtons. But the delta v over 40 days of constant acceleration would still only be about 340 m/s, and I don’t see any reason why, even if those numbers do give Sojourner the edge over them in their current trajectories that Phoenix couldn’t just use a little extra nuclear fuel from its massive stores to just boost a little ahead of whatever measly amount of acceleration that solar sail could ever hope to make
@@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze *0.0001 Newton in total
I find the science and technology of this show to be highly unbelievable. Space hotel, moon bases, and usable solar sail, all in 94? Right.🙄 In 1994 reality, USA was the most advanced in space faring, and USA wasn’t even close to having any of those mentioned. This is more Star Trek or Man in the High Castle(in space) than anything.
Space Exploration dropped DRAMATICALLY in the late 70s and 80s. As per a quick check: "From 1962 to 1975, NASA’s annual budget exceeded 1% of the United States total GDP. The highest yearly budget for NASA was 1966, when total funding was about 4.4% of total GDP."
In the FAM universe, there was no drop-off in space exploration.
Stupidest scene in the series, this scene made no sense. If they kept accelerateing they would over shoot Mars but it just doesnt???
because the physics wasn’t updated back then
No, they would just burn harder with the nuclear engines when they got to mars goober
they can slow down with the engine?
lmao what a shitty show. Did they put Kinnaman on ice? He was a mature man in the late sixties.
All about the drama of lack of diversity in the space program, they don't give a shit about the problems associated with space flight. Biggest disappointment in a long time. I'll just watch the Expanse again.
I love how you say all this halfwit shit about lack of realism to real space travel, then say you’re gonna go watch the expanse to mitigate that.
@@GrapeFlavoredAntifreezeat least for all mankind has the balls to keep space silent while also making space scenes engaging and cool to watch
the expanse is cool but it has nothing on FAM in my opinion
@@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze Lay off the antifreeze it's melting your brain. STEM people love the expanse and in this comment section they are ripping this dumb show apart.
@@user-ki2ld8tu8o No they aren’t, thats a cute little fantasy you have in your head. People focus more on the scientific elements of For All Mankind because the show is intentionally more realistic than the expanse to begin with, as advertised. There are far fewer inaccuracies to rip For All Mankind for compared to the expanse, and the expanse has way more inaccuracies than even hard sci fi nerds realize. You trying to get up on your gay little soap box about how “STEM students know the expanse is true realism☝️🤓 “ just comes off so dorky and unjustifiably pretentious. Just accept the shows for what they BOTH are, semi-realistic hard sci fis that play to scientific realism whenever possible, and occasionally bend that realism for story elements. And it works really well. You trying to sit here and call For All Mankind unrealistic bullshit, then immediately recommending a less realistic show as your “gottem” is just the lamest and dorkiest thing I have seen this week. Maybe don’t be such a crybaby and you’ll enjoy things more.
Lol I was a VFX editor on this sequence xD
Fun times.
Too bad you switched to B-team writers later in this season.