"Fire in the Sky" - American Space Age Anthem [+Lyrics]

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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2024

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  • @saxtonhalegaming
    @saxtonhalegaming 2 года назад +3390

    The Virgin Depressing Nihilist Anti-Humanity fan vs the Chad Indomitable Human Spirit Appreciator.

    • @randomyankee8923
      @randomyankee8923 Год назад +164

      Based

    • @reapereye2122
      @reapereye2122 Год назад +141

      Very Based

    • @kingdomofvinland8827
      @kingdomofvinland8827 Год назад +100

      Based

    • @VentiVonOsterreich
      @VentiVonOsterreich Год назад +261

      Nihilism is overrated anyways
      Long live optimism of humanity's future
      We survived being close to World War 3 once, we'll survive it all again

    • @saxtonhalegaming
      @saxtonhalegaming Год назад

      @@VentiVonOsterreich Nihilism fans when I point a gun at their heads (They are suddenly very afraid)

  • @aramhalamech4204
    @aramhalamech4204 2 года назад +5009

    This song is weird when you were born after the space age/cold war. It seems like a part of the past, and a possible future at the same time.

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +314

      The real space age is just beginning, with commercial space travel and Artemis making the next steps after what will be remembered as a sort of peculiar "sitzkrieg" in our outbreak into the Universe.

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад

      @@mylordandsaviour4786 The USSR was the second-worst abomination in human history after the Third Reich, but its collapse was a great loss to humanity.
      The Russian Federation is a festering swamp. A reformed USSR that embraced democracy, that had actually become a union of republics could have been a great benefit to humanity.

    • @aramhalamech4204
      @aramhalamech4204 2 года назад +173

      @@mylordandsaviour4786 Yeah, I've heard some already. But Sovietwave is more melancholic, while this one here is rather forward-looking and hope inspiring.

    • @mandoguy2014
      @mandoguy2014 2 года назад +91

      You are describing hauntology. A nostalgia for a lost future

    • @williaminnes6635
      @williaminnes6635 2 года назад +19

      ​@@arcadiaberger9204 TL; DR we might have space gold all ready

  • @rimfire8217
    @rimfire8217 2 года назад +2808

    "For no cradle lasts forever, every bird must learn to fly"
    wow that was the most Metal line in this.
    The Idea that everything on Earth has just been Humanities Infancy. Mind Blown.

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +177

      That is absolutely true.
      Earth is the cradle of Humanity.
      The Motherworld.
      But we have to spread our wings and move outward.

    • @catlovernice
      @catlovernice 2 года назад +27

      Proud noises

    • @ladywaffle2210
      @ladywaffle2210 2 года назад +100

      "Earth is the cradle of Mankind,
      But Mankind cannot stay in it's cradle forever..."
      -some Russian name I can't pronounce, but it's a pretty name with the initials KT

    • @vonbluhm7201
      @vonbluhm7201 2 года назад +73

      @@ladywaffle2210 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian rocket scientist.

    • @ladywaffle2210
      @ladywaffle2210 2 года назад +42

      @@vonbluhm7201 Also the dude who invented the concept of multistage rockets!

  • @therealgeneralMacArthur
    @therealgeneralMacArthur Год назад +1288

    On December 8, 1903 the new york times claimed that "man won't fly for a million years".
    If you were a kid at that time, you would've lived long enough to see man fly to the fucking moon

    • @Ketoku_fr
      @Ketoku_fr 11 месяцев назад +191

      Goes to show how much ground the word 'impossible' really stands on

    • @thetau4866
      @thetau4866 10 месяцев назад +151

      ​@@Ketoku_frhumanity spits in the face of impossibility

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 10 месяцев назад +33

      We are called by the Divine Ultimate Creator to humble and discipline ourselves to achieve greatness!

    • @RigepFroggit
      @RigepFroggit 9 месяцев назад +111

      My grandfather was 5 years old when the Wright brothers flew. His father beat him because he didn't believe it and he told my grandfather "don't be a fool boy men don't fly." My grandfather saw men walk on the moon. He died when I was 11 in 1989. I remember him telling us all as kids not to be like his father, "don't be a fool like my father. Things change, the only impossible thing is the one you don't try. You kids go and build cities on the moon or I'm gonna be disappointed in you from heaven."

    • @theprussianboi2573
      @theprussianboi2573 8 месяцев назад +17

      then a few days later the wright brothers took flight.

  • @takakocaesar579
    @takakocaesar579 Год назад +1116

    I love how this song covers three eras of space exploration.
    The past: Yuri Gagarin and Apollo Program
    The present: The Space Shuttle Program
    The future: nothing much but the desire to advance space exploration even more

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 Год назад +31

      That's a negative, the future is the Artemis Program. We're going back.

    • @takakocaesar579
      @takakocaesar579 Год назад +59

      @@stevenschnepp576 this song is written long before the Artemis program started. Also, that still doesn’t change the fact that we desire to do more space exploration

    • @Cybernaut551
      @Cybernaut551 Год назад +1

      @@takakocaesar579 Including Voyager 1 & 2

    • @thesquad-airsoftgamingnerf9643
      @thesquad-airsoftgamingnerf9643 Год назад +10

      We are humans, exploration is within the blood that courses through our veins.

    • @mrschrubelhupfyay6397
      @mrschrubelhupfyay6397 Год назад +6

      @@stevenschnepp576 Artemis goal is a base on the moon to get a human on mars, its a step forward

  • @Wifgargfhaurh
    @Wifgargfhaurh Год назад +425

    This feels like a bard in the future telling the story of American space exploration like it's a Greek epic

    • @BehelitZero
      @BehelitZero 2 месяца назад +4

      An Oracle of the Future

    • @LegendOhil
      @LegendOhil Месяц назад +1

      yes

    • @Albemarle7
      @Albemarle7 День назад

      Musk is writing the next chapter.

  • @DivusMagus
    @DivusMagus 2 года назад +577

    this will soon need an extra verse when Artemis makes its first new step towards a colony.

    • @KoishiVibin
      @KoishiVibin 2 года назад +144

      Decades after Apollo, when the well seemed to have burnt dry,
      It seemed to all as if the old dreams curled up and died.
      Constellation fell through, NASA in disgrace, all amid a president who decried to put an end to waste.
      We spent blood and money, rolling thunder across the floor, burned men and women in fire, without a thought of space.
      Yet in the end, we once again, looked up into the sky, through which the earliest man, has wished dearly to fly.
      Now comes Apollo's sister, bringing Gateway, and fire in the sky!
      I dunno, I'm typing this out on the toilet.

    • @ndrgaming7344
      @ndrgaming7344 2 года назад +15

      @@KoishiVibin That is a good verse ngl

    • @frenchempire9471
      @frenchempire9471 2 года назад +6

      @@KoishiVibin bro that's pretty good

    • @luodaniel8576
      @luodaniel8576 2 года назад +6

      @@KoishiVibin fits perfectly into the song

    • @nintendofan1749
      @nintendofan1749 Год назад +9

      @@KoishiVibin
      No worries
      Most of of us are reading this on the toilet 😅

  • @lordlakko6902
    @lordlakko6902 2 года назад +2157

    I'm not even American but now I want to enroll in the American space empire

    • @keyabrade1861
      @keyabrade1861 2 года назад +241

      See, that's the thing about the US: you can.

    • @lordlakko6902
      @lordlakko6902 2 года назад +108

      @@keyabrade1861 Oh yeah, gonna be a space mercenary like the ones in the congo in the 1960s yay

    • @dylangtech
      @dylangtech 2 года назад +62

      I’ll give the same suggestion I gave to Mexicans, Canadians, and Puerto Ricans who say this: Make your state/province/country apply for statehood. It ain’t as bad as the media says it is. Hopefully my country will be more open to peaceful expansion in the future :)
      edición: ¿Donde esta? Ellos nos enseñan Español y me recuerda, pero no mucho…

    • @zekehollier1086
      @zekehollier1086 2 года назад +9

      Some day my friend

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +23

      @@dylangtech Now this, I'm in favor of, strongly. I have my eye on any or all of Canada, Costa Rica, Panama, the Bahamas (homeland of Alexander Hamilton, let's not forget) and Jamaica as "low-hanging fruit", and on Cuba and Haiti as "urgent projects" for us to reform the way we should have done in the South after the Civil War.
      Those last two are countries which would have done much better if they had joined the Union a hundred years ago, and they are threats to our security on our doorstep right now, so let's make a project out of upgrading them now.

  • @shadowcat69420
    @shadowcat69420 2 года назад +992

    it's weird knowing that the first person ever in space didn't even see the moonlanding

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +218

      He didn't even die in a spaceflight accident - just a seemingly routine jet flight.

    • @dylangtech
      @dylangtech 2 года назад +121

      @@arcadiaberger9204 Watch “First Man” and it’s one death after another to such mundane things, and Neil Armstrong more or less had to fill in for them. What an incredibly difficult cross to bear!

    • @corinthianimperialstudios704
      @corinthianimperialstudios704 2 года назад +28

      @@arcadiaberger9204 Of a jet which was outdated by the standards of the time he flew it in, iirc it was a MiG-15

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +55

      @@corinthianimperialstudios704 But he died like a jet jockey - calmly trying to keep it under control until the last moment.

    • @SRR-5657
      @SRR-5657 Год назад +14

      Yeah, on the flip side, the first American in space would end up being the last on the moon. For now at least.

  • @YourCorvus
    @YourCorvus Год назад +1468

    The story of Yuri Gagarin riding a metal rod of fire into the heavens is something straight out of mythology, everything about the Space Race is straight up *mythological* and divine. Every action the work of the gods and every failure a sad and failed test of hubris. Space is humanity's by birth right.

    • @gasmaskalan1771
      @gasmaskalan1771 Год назад +118

      man thats some "humans are space orcs" shit 💀💀💀

    • @smokingsnake8276
      @smokingsnake8276 Год назад +52

      Poetic words, I love them

    • @sethleoric2598
      @sethleoric2598 Год назад +53

      The Emperor protects

    • @whil1599
      @whil1599 Год назад +8

      @@gasmaskalan1771 lmao

    • @whil1599
      @whil1599 Год назад +27

      @@sethleoric2598 The Emperor protects

  • @Omegathyst
    @Omegathyst 2 года назад +1563

    If they wanted to update the Space Force anthem, make it this. It would perfectly embody everything the United States has done, and is doing, to understand the mysteries of the vast array of space beyond our homeworld.
    Per Aspera Ad Astra.

    • @RainedOnParade
      @RainedOnParade 2 года назад +1

      Ya sure, but Doug Olsen did it better.

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +14

      @@RainedOnParade I disagree. I also think *_Hope Aeyrie_* would make a better anthem for the Space Force.
      ruclips.net/video/gXC5Uox70ro/видео.html
      It's easier to sing, for one thing.

    • @joelsirola5440
      @joelsirola5440 2 года назад +12

      I think space man would be better option. And the motto should be Plus Ultra- Further Beyond.

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +1

      @@joelsirola5440 Is *_Space Man_* a song?

    • @SCBA-if4wl
      @SCBA-if4wl 2 года назад +6

      Per ardua ad astra?

  • @TheGreenViewer456
    @TheGreenViewer456 2 года назад +273

    “and with challenger and seven, once again the price is paid. though a nation watched her falling, yet a world could only cry, as they passed from us to glory, riding fire in the sky!” *quite possibly the bravest thing anyone could ever say*

    • @chrisb9143
      @chrisb9143 2 года назад +6

      My reason for never wanting to be in a rocket: I don't like the idea of sitting on a pile of explosives

    • @vastcarter
      @vastcarter Год назад +23

      @@chrisb9143 what you don’t wanna be sacrificed on the anvil of progress?

    • @ReverendLeRoux
      @ReverendLeRoux Год назад +26

      It's hardly brave. There's a saying in safety, 'Every rule is written in blood.' There is nothing for us to do but to honor their sacrifice, unwitting as it may have been, to better refine our practices, and to never forget those who died along the way to get us where we are now.

    • @TheSlamburger
      @TheSlamburger Год назад +19

      There’s worse ways to die, I suppose. May Challenger and her crew forever ride to glory on a fire in the sky.

    • @epiceevee325
      @epiceevee325 Год назад

      I have reason to believe that “The Pheonix”, another song that popped up onto my playlist is entirely a reference to the Challenger disaster.

  • @jorgegandara984
    @jorgegandara984 Год назад +596

    Begins with "God's fire" brought to man by Prometheus. Finishes with "our fire" carried to the sky. Chills.

    • @thisisabandonedgosomewhereelse
      @thisisabandonedgosomewhereelse Год назад +9

      true

    • @seankane8628
      @seankane8628 11 месяцев назад +14

      Until we return to the Gods what Prometheus took.

    • @thetau4866
      @thetau4866 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@seankane8628 as is only right!

    • @evilsclone2499
      @evilsclone2499 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@thetau4866we'll give those bastards our fire alright

    • @kaiserslavaniaashur1623
      @kaiserslavaniaashur1623 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@seankane8628 Prometheus is part of greek mythology 😂 get your religious goonery out of here

  • @mushroomy9899
    @mushroomy9899 Год назад +514

    “A nation watched her falling, yet a world could only cry, as they passed from us to glory, riding a fire in the sky” THAT IS *SO* METAL

  • @sonicgoku4
    @sonicgoku4 2 года назад +775

    That last picture of the Astronaut holding an American Flag goes so hard

    • @deltumn5899
      @deltumn5899 2 года назад +48

      Bro it does

    • @doubel9245
      @doubel9245 2 года назад +64

      goes astronomically hard

    • @threestrikesmarxman9095
      @threestrikesmarxman9095 2 года назад +52

      That's John Young. He flew in every NASA manned spaceflight program except Mercury.

    • @cosmosyn2514
      @cosmosyn2514 Год назад +2

      not my taste, imo it looks a bit too soviet in its artstyle. would prefer have a bit of age to the style, more like the paintings of crossing the delaware or the declaration of independence

    • @granthuffmanreal
      @granthuffmanreal Год назад +12

      Its a mural at the Johnson space center and it is the coolest peace of art I have ever seen

  • @MichalisG1821
    @MichalisG1821 Год назад +40

    "I'll remember until I die..."
    I'm old enough to remember the Shuttle program from the 90's until its conclusion. I was fortunate enough to attend three shuttle launches as a child. I watched 21 people go into space on an American-flagged Starship. The sound of the Shuttle launching was a sound you felt far more than one you heard. I remember all of it, over 20 years later. It's impossible to forget.

  • @AlexC-ou4ju
    @AlexC-ou4ju 2 года назад +379

    this song is actually fire

    • @SethSeht
      @SethSeht 2 года назад +81

      in the sky

    • @Noorthia
      @Noorthia 2 года назад +23

      @@SethSeht and a thunder 'cross the land

    • @EmperorProtects1
      @EmperorProtects1 Год назад +16

      @@Noorthia I'll remember until I die!

  • @JoetheDilo1917
    @JoetheDilo1917 Год назад +261

    There's an old Latin phrase I like, "Per Aspera, Ad Astra." It means "Through hardship, to the stars." We've been goin' through quite a bit of the former in recent years, and I think it's about damn time we did a bit of the latter.
    Godspeed, Artemis. Bring our fire to the sky again, for all mankind.

    • @cpob2013
      @cpob2013 Год назад +2

      If Livia hadn't murdered all of Augustus heirs like agrippa, rome would be on Mars by now

    • @santigamerprogamer6493
      @santigamerprogamer6493 Год назад +1

      @@cpob2013 I mean, I would think that the crisis of the 3rd century would have been a bigger turning point in the delay of an industrial revolution

    • @cringeexpert1851
      @cringeexpert1851 8 месяцев назад

      Сквозь терни к звездам

    • @kensummers7757
      @kensummers7757 7 месяцев назад +1

      "Through Strife to the Stars" Motto of the Royal Air Force (established 1918)

  • @Maxim_Kuzin
    @Maxim_Kuzin 2 года назад +1497

    How cute it is to mention that Soviet Union was the first in space. I like the song as well as Soviet Cosmonauts' songs, they are all about one beautiful dream of humanity, just in different languages

    • @malevolence89
      @malevolence89 2 года назад +57

      Cute is a funny word.

    • @Maxim_Kuzin
      @Maxim_Kuzin 2 года назад +105

      I'm not very fluent in English so I may sometimes make some funny mistakes haha

    • @nathan51782
      @nathan51782 2 года назад +13

      do you have any titles of soviet cosmonauts' songs? :D

    • @Maxim_Kuzin
      @Maxim_Kuzin 2 года назад +66

      @@nathan51782 "14 минут" (aka "Я верю, друзья")
      "И на Марсе будут яблони цвести"
      "Созвездие Гагарина"
      "Слава вперёдсмотрящему"
      These are my favorite ones, maybe there are more, I'm not into it

    • @nathan51782
      @nathan51782 2 года назад +14

      @@Maxim_Kuzin спасибо! ))

  • @sovietball2161
    @sovietball2161 2 года назад +621

    Nice that this song recognises both American and Soviet efforts

    • @acutechicken5798
      @acutechicken5798 2 года назад +112

      It is great because when we go to space, it is easier to see we are one race: the human race. The choice was a good one for that reason.

    • @kevinbrewis9109
      @kevinbrewis9109 Год назад +47

      Because space should be for all of us together

    • @gamingtheory6035
      @gamingtheory6035 Год назад

      Why should it? When was the last time the Russians ever recognized US accomplishments? Soviet/Russian fanboys are pathetic.

    • @OnlyGrafting
      @OnlyGrafting Год назад +28

      No one wants to take our conflicts out of this world. Because we all know it's disrespectful to the vast and beautiful universe above to taint the stars with petty squabbles from home. Earth is our home to ruin, above is not.

    • @davidfoldberg8004
      @davidfoldberg8004 Год назад +5

      @@acutechicken5798 We aren't the human race but the human species. And not all races should go to space.

  • @henrygaylordswanson
    @henrygaylordswanson Год назад +197

    I know you probably don't care, but I have fallen in love with this song. I cannot find it anywhere else, it seems to be somewhat niche. If you had not introduced it to me nobody would have. When I was a young boy, I dreamed of being an astronaut. You have awakened something within me I had forgotten was there. Thank you so much.

  • @nickmalachai2227
    @nickmalachai2227 Год назад +106

    "Gagarin was the first, back in 1961"
    Not just the US, not even just the Americas. A tower to the stars must have foundations stronger than a single nation. We're all in this together, and it's only together that we'll achieve what we need to be.

    • @mrpineapple3942
      @mrpineapple3942 6 месяцев назад +2

      Gagarin was Soviet, but yes that holds true.

    • @nickmalachai2227
      @nickmalachai2227 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@mrpineapple3942 I'm aware of the nationality of the first man in space. My comment from nearly a year ago was more to point out how "American space age anthem" is a misnomer: This isn't about the US, this is about the world at large.

  • @Un_soldat
    @Un_soldat 2 года назад +213

    Never heard this but now I’m hooked

    • @Actovania
      @Actovania  2 года назад +20

      If you have Spotify I recommend you listen to this collection it's featured on open.spotify.com/album/6O6x80DAj6xN6VAsqSn563
      Some of the songs are sci-fi but many of them are renditions of older songs that tell historical tales like this one. Star Fire by Julia Ecklar is a great example.
      And if you were ever wondering, here's the original acoustic version
      ruclips.net/video/Tnj8RJEMwY0/видео.html

    • @Un_soldat
      @Un_soldat 2 года назад +5

      @@Actovania I will most definitely look into it this one was great :D

    • @KeraAssolAssolRewoVinum
      @KeraAssolAssolRewoVinum 2 года назад +7

      There’s a lot more songs like this one, it’s an entire genre called filk

  • @sg4644
    @sg4644 2 года назад +218

    The song has a special type of energy. It sounds exactly like the verses from the Rig Veda that describe the chariots instead of space shuttles, as mighty, descended-from-the-Gods like fashion, with daring men riding them to conquer new lands, some being martyred in war, and some victorious but all attaining glory.
    I guess people in the Bronze Age might have seen chariots with the same fascination that we see space shuttles!

    • @mushroomcloud5305
      @mushroomcloud5305 2 года назад +12

      Beautifully put

    • @ZemanTheMighty
      @ZemanTheMighty Год назад +22

      That’s very interesting. It’s fascinating how reality becomes mythology over the course of history

    • @moritamikamikara3879
      @moritamikamikara3879 Год назад +2

      I gotta read the Rig Veda at some point... already got through the Norse Eddas, gonna try some Indian mythology next.

    • @anirudh177
      @anirudh177 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@moritamikamikara3879If you're gonna, use the Jamison-Brereton translation.

    • @dolphingoreeaccount7395
      @dolphingoreeaccount7395 Месяц назад

      Or pull an Oppenheimer and learn Sanskrit

  • @Coloradorivr
    @Coloradorivr 2 года назад +731

    Came back to this right after Artemis 1 was launched. Soon, there will be brave astronauts riding the fire in the sky once more and continuing our venture back to the moon.

    • @Intelwinsbigly
      @Intelwinsbigly 2 года назад +16

      "Soon, there will be brave diversity hires riding the fire in the sky once more and continuing our venture back to the moon"
      There, I fixed it for you.

    • @Coloradorivr
      @Coloradorivr 2 года назад +3

      You just had to ruin it with a shitty political take. Amazing.

    • @Intelwinsbigly
      @Intelwinsbigly 2 года назад +11

      @@Coloradorivr kek, look at the press, one of the first things they always mention is genitalia or skin color.
      It is dead obvious and I half expect to see twerking on the moon.

    • @randompheidoleminor3011
      @randompheidoleminor3011 2 года назад +75

      Take solace, Greg, in the fact that whomever they send will still be more qualified than you will ever be as an astronaut.
      IIRC literally one of the Artemis astronauts was a Navy SEAL _and_ a Doctor before his current space gig.

    • @Intelwinsbigly
      @Intelwinsbigly 2 года назад

      ​@@randompheidoleminor3011 Yeah, at least they don't have to dilate everyday like you do.

  • @disembodiednarrator
    @disembodiednarrator 2 года назад +156

    This unironically rocks

  • @Archduke_Astatos
    @Archduke_Astatos Год назад +136

    As all good cosmonaut songs do, just like 14 minutes to launch it doesn't mention ideological warfare or supremacy over others, but simply encourages *humanity* as a whole, this song even going as far as to praise the USSR. Definitely one of my favorites.

  • @samsungsmartfridge3173
    @samsungsmartfridge3173 2 года назад +74

    Coming back to this after Artemis 1 launched, per aspera ad astra.

    • @chazzwozzio
      @chazzwozzio 2 года назад +8

      Through adversity to the stars!

    • @gooberone
      @gooberone Год назад +1

      @@chazzwozzio wrong translation, the correct translation if i remember correctly is "through hardship to the stars"

  • @alphaundpinsel2431
    @alphaundpinsel2431 Год назад +202

    The space race is what war should be like, no actual fighting, just two powers competing to reach the next greatest achievements

    • @Cybernaut551
      @Cybernaut551 Год назад +7

      I agree.

    • @minute0420
      @minute0420 Год назад +1

      so an arms race?

    • @MrMcFish219
      @MrMcFish219 Год назад +3

      @@minute0420 Sort of, but no arms, and no threatening each other.

    • @minute0420
      @minute0420 Год назад +7

      @@MrMcFish219 unarmed race

    • @smokeyplane3285
      @smokeyplane3285 11 месяцев назад +1

      they were competing for who could make the best ballistic missiles to nuke the enemy, but the scientific & technological advances that came from this arms race were awesome

  • @utubrGaming
    @utubrGaming 2 года назад +46

    Artemis One has lifted off less than a week ago.
    And I watched that candle lit live, and saw her climb and blaze a fire in the sky.

  • @ysbrand1114
    @ysbrand1114 Год назад +46

    Love the tribute of Gagarin

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 Год назад +11

      @Doctor Secks We wouldn't have gone to the Moon without their rivalry.
      America needs worthy rivals, not third-world holes.

  • @broodbassoon105
    @broodbassoon105 Год назад +105

    Born too late to explore the world.
    Born too early to explore the stars.
    Born at exactly the right time to ensure our children do.

    • @miletopic4775
      @miletopic4775 10 месяцев назад +4

      born just in time to explore the solar system tho!

    • @capitancuba1
      @capitancuba1 9 месяцев назад

      Haha,nah,global collapse is near. Birthrates are declining everywhere,there's gonna be too few young people soon enough. So not our children,our children's children's children maybe. Collapse and cultural revolution is gonna happen first tho.

    • @bobatesomemayo
      @bobatesomemayo 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@capitancuba1 Its always "the end of the world"
      yet it still hasnt ended yet

  • @Charles37400
    @Charles37400 2 года назад +76

    Dude this song is so much better than the one they picked for the space force

  • @Kira-sb3cx
    @Kira-sb3cx 2 года назад +97

    The moon is our door into eternity. Once we colonize the moon, there is nothing stopping us.

    • @danitron4096
      @danitron4096 2 года назад +20

      We will carry the stars and stripes to the moon and beyond

    • @ChristianNationalist654
      @ChristianNationalist654 11 месяцев назад

      Humans will become dominant. Earth is our mother and like life we must leave our mother eventually or else our species will not survive

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@danitron4096 YES! God willing!

    • @jakobofcincy
      @jakobofcincy 8 месяцев назад

      @@danitron4096 you mean to the entire observable universe and beyond!

    • @KerbalProductions777
      @KerbalProductions777 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@robertortiz-wilson1588by the grace of Our Lord and God, our Holy Cross shall conquer the entire universe, as far as the East is from the West!
      Per Aspera Ad Astra!

  • @ndrgaming7344
    @ndrgaming7344 2 года назад +152

    And we won’t stop till the Stars and Stripes are flying in another galaxy!

    • @utubrGaming
      @utubrGaming 2 года назад +2

      The only acceptable red flag first on the red planet.. is a red, white and blue flag!

    • @ndrgaming7344
      @ndrgaming7344 2 года назад +2

      @@utubrGaming Agreed!

    • @fintherebel5000
      @fintherebel5000 2 года назад +4

      Despite the dream of traveling through space to other galaxies and planets we are still quite far from achieving said dream

    • @philosophicalpatriot1883
      @philosophicalpatriot1883 Год назад +9

      ​@@fintherebel5000 Not with that attitude!

    • @fintherebel5000
      @fintherebel5000 Год назад +1

      @@philosophicalpatriot1883 Well if you look at our current political situation and our modern space technology we are at least a generations worth behind in that field and more then likely we won't see any advancements in our lifetime other then what Elon is working on but that's still far from what we should be today we could've been 10x more advanced by now if we'd just focus on what's important but we are more focused on less important matters

  • @IndigenousRealGuy
    @IndigenousRealGuy 2 года назад +71

    Sad thing is a few months after this version of the song was released in 2003 Columbia disintegrated in the atmosphere. God speed.

    • @rosefeather_
      @rosefeather_ 2 года назад +13

      You sure? It was released in 2004, and it mentions the tragedy of Columbia. "And with Challenger and seven, once again the price is paid.
      Though a nation watched her falling, yet a world could only cry, as they passed from us to glory, riding fire in the sky". "Her" here probably refers to Columbia.

    • @IndigenousRealGuy
      @IndigenousRealGuy 2 года назад +8

      @@rosefeather_ yeah i thought that too but from what i believe (i could be wrong) that this version was released in 2003 for a NASA event and was officially released in 2004. Could be wrong but that’s what I think.

    • @threestrikesmarxman9095
      @threestrikesmarxman9095 2 года назад +4

      @@rosefeather_ The Challenger referred to here is the space shuttle _Challenger_ that exploded during launch in 1986.

    • @ikillstupidcomments
      @ikillstupidcomments 2 года назад +11

      @@rosefeather_ It's a reference to the 1987 Challenger disaster where the Space Shuttle Challenger broke up shortly after takeoff, killing her crew of seven. The picture shown in memorial is of her crew, astronauts Onizuka, McAuliffe, Jarvis, and Resnik in the back row, with Smith, Scobee, and McNair in the front row. The original release in 1983 did not have that verse.

  • @Eoin999
    @Eoin999 2 года назад +291

    “And there was one small step, and a fire in the sky!” Iconic, Just Iconic
    Edit: Thanks so much for all the likes. I’ve never had this many before. Ad Astra Per Áspera.

    • @Eoin999
      @Eoin999 Год назад

      It is so weird finding myself on a video a year ago

    • @Eoin999
      @Eoin999 Месяц назад

      it happened again

  • @alexdreFalke
    @alexdreFalke Год назад +29

    I like that the song also talks about Gagarin's achievements. Room for some cooperation in the cold war

  • @-_-1336
    @-_-1336 Год назад +93

    Нам стоит сказать спасибо всем этим сотням тысячам людям, которые были задействованы в работе над космическими программами. Также стоит сказать спасибо всем людям на Земле, жертвы и деньги которых позволили добиться запуска огня в небо

    • @-_-1336
      @-_-1336 Год назад +3

      Лол, я второй раз написал комментарий

    • @ChristianNationalist654
      @ChristianNationalist654 11 месяцев назад

      You may not know English but i agree. Earth is our mother and like children growing up we must move on and colonize space. Because Earth will not last forever and to ensure our survival space is our only option. Every planet is destined to die and the species that do not move will die with them.

  • @eddieromanov
    @eddieromanov 2 года назад +148

    This is for Artemis I, Heinlein, and old Rhysling, wherever he is…
    The arching sky is calling
    Spacemen back to their trade
    All hands stand by free falling
    And the light below us fade
    Out ride the sons of Terra
    Far drives the thundering jet
    Up leaps the race of Earthmen
    Out far and onward yet
    We pray for one last landing
    On the globe that gave us birth
    Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
    And the cool green hills of Earth

    • @threestrikesmarxman9095
      @threestrikesmarxman9095 2 года назад +1

      Where does the last part go? The first two fit nicely but the third one doesn't feel like it fits without a fourth.

    • @eddieromanov
      @eddieromanov 2 года назад +5

      @@threestrikesmarxman9095 In the story the first two verses are the first two verses of the song and the last is the last. In between is an some large quantity of verses that’s never really specified.

    • @dolphingoreeaccount7395
      @dolphingoreeaccount7395 Год назад

      I'd like but as of March 12 2023 there's 69, I cannot ruin this

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 Год назад

      @@eddieromanov It probably didn't hurt that Rhysling was dying of radiation poisoning when he recorded it.

    • @benjackson1454
      @benjackson1454 Год назад

      ​@@threestrikesmarxman9095
      Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me
      As they rove around the girth
      Of our lovely mother planet
      Of the cool, green hills of Earth.
      We've tried each spinning space mote
      And reckoned its true worth:
      Take us back again to the homes of men
      On the cool, green hills of Earth.
      The arching sky is calling
      Spacemen back to their trade.
      ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
      And the lights below us fade.
      Out ride the sons of Terra,
      Far drives the thundering jet,
      Up leaps a race of Earthmen,
      Out, far, and onward yet ---
      We pray for one last landing
      On the globe that gave us birth;
      Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
      And the cool, green hills of Earth.
      ~Robert A. Heinlein
      That's the full poem I think

  • @TheOneWh0Knocks
    @TheOneWh0Knocks 2 года назад +69

    At the porch of the new age,
    we did add to space an X,
    To take our vision up high,
    To make even greater steps.
    We are thundering through space,
    for our mission to supply,
    The falcon came down lightly with a fire in the sky.
    We are coming back
    to resume what we've begun,
    With Artemis we'll show again,
    How the unthinkable is done.
    Looking at the galaxy with a single-minded eye,
    We will strut to Planet Mars to keep the fire in the sky.

    • @outtatouch6592
      @outtatouch6592 Год назад +4

      love it. nearly teared up when i read it

    • @ronrogers1729
      @ronrogers1729 10 дней назад

      This is awesome and you should become a songwriter

  • @yamao4938
    @yamao4938 10 месяцев назад +8

    Never has a song given me this much hope. Thank you.

  • @bersig
    @bersig Год назад +52

    I'm old enough to remember watching them make the first footprints on the moon. I remember the Salyuts, Mir, Skylab, all the Shuttles. And ISS. I was watching when both Voyagers touched the Earth for the last time. I played hooky from middle school to watch the first pictures from the surface of Mars come down from Viking, strip by strip. One of my first jobs after graduating school was changing mag tapes for the Voyager Neptune encounter. Ulysses, Galileo, Cassini, all the Mars landers from Sojourner (aka pathfinder) to Spirit and Opportunity to Curiosity to Perseverance and Ingenuity... Yep, I got to see a helicopter fly on Mars! I watch them all go up. Even worked on a few myself. Pictures of the surface of Pluto from New Horizons. Thanks to Kepler, TESS, and now James Web, thousands of extraterrestrial planets are now known to exist, including a couple around the next-closest star to Earth. I cheered with everyone else as SpaceX's Falcon boosters came back to land, upright and ready to go again, as god and Heinlein intended, some of them after delivering people to the ISS. A few months ago the first (uncrewed) Artemis test flight flew around the Moon and came back to an Apollo-style splashdown at sea. Just a couple weeks ago I watched Starship and Super Heavy make their first orbital launch attempt. It failed, but there's already 3 more Starships under construction nearby.
    What an amazing time to have lived. And I may yet live to see even more amazing things. It was only 30 years from the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk to the Boeing 247 airliner after all.

  • @Texan8505
    @Texan8505 2 года назад +248

    Space Force should've had this for their anthem

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +6

      Good idea.

    • @dylangtech
      @dylangtech 2 года назад +40

      Should be NASA’s imo. Sounds too exploratory. Not inspirational enough for those who seek to protect Americans in space. Think of it like a song for Christopher Columbus versus a song for the Spanish Armada

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +9

      @@dylangtech Ugh, not much to choose from, there: a song for a deluded rapist and mass murderer, or a song for a tool of imperialist conquest...?

    • @dylangtech
      @dylangtech 2 года назад +30

      @@arcadiaberger9204 I mean..... if you're talking about explorers and militares in general, Columbus and the Armada is the pristine example of both, respectfully. Might want to tone down your baseless accusations.

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +1

      @@dylangtech Baseless? What is "baseless" about quoting the words of Columbus himself?
      "They would make fine slaves…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
      "She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. But...I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly...Eventually...you would have thought that she had been brought up in a school for whores."
      And don't give me any of that relativist shit about "judging him by the standards of his time", because even during his lifetime, many people considered him a monster. That's why he made his last trip home from the New World in chains, to be tried for his brutal incompetence as a Governor.

  • @chad2293
    @chad2293 2 года назад +135

    I like how this song recognizes the Russian and American achievements and keep’s politics out of it.

  • @GovernmentalMoments
    @GovernmentalMoments 2 года назад +46

    the Chinese may have Red Sun In The Sky, but we American's got Fire In The Sky.

  • @xHugoxN7
    @xHugoxN7 Год назад +15

    Growing up in FL and seeing 'Fire in the Sky' regularly this song is even better.

  • @daltonjohnson3134
    @daltonjohnson3134 2 года назад +158

    Even if it was originally American, it can be one that inspires the whole of humanity!

    • @xenn4985
      @xenn4985 2 года назад

      We are, after all, the most racially inclusive nation on the planet

    • @randomyankee8923
      @randomyankee8923 2 года назад

      @@xenn4985 uh

    • @xenn4985
      @xenn4985 2 года назад

      @@randomyankee8923 Problem?

    • @randomyankee8923
      @randomyankee8923 2 года назад

      @@xenn4985 that "most racially inclusive" part

    • @xenn4985
      @xenn4985 2 года назад +2

      @@randomyankee8923 Yeah, it is. I'm pretty sure america has higher percentages of various races participating in society than any other country on the planet. Shit, the racial majority isn't even the most successful race, asians take that trophy.

  • @DatSamThen
    @DatSamThen Год назад +31

    I strongly reccomend people to listen to the album this song originally came out on - "Minus Ten and Counting" it's an amazing album, up there with some of the other Filk classics. Especially to songs like "Toast for Unknown Heroes", "Pioneer's Song", "One Way to Go", "The Moon Miners", and *especially* "Mass Driver Engineer"

    • @samlinton1294
      @samlinton1294 Год назад

      I still wonder why we got banned from argo

  • @Zamtrios245
    @Zamtrios245 9 месяцев назад +8

    Those 50 stars will be literal soon enough

  • @jamesharding3459
    @jamesharding3459 Год назад +21

    2:10 The Shuttle program had so much potential. If NASA can convince Congress to green-light and fund a Shuttle 2.0 to take full advantage of the advances made in the last 40 years, the possibilities are endless.

    • @joshuapage853
      @joshuapage853 День назад

      Talked to my dad who worked on the shuttle and Artemis programs. He said if we didn’t have the shuttle we would probably be on mars rn. Took up a lot of funding and whatnot

    • @jamesharding3459
      @jamesharding3459 День назад

      @ And if it weren’t the shuttle, we wouldn’t have had a human single manned space flight after Skylab. The ISS gave us orbit, and no other system that was even remotely capable of doing the same job existed until the 2020’s.

  • @aerodynamism5438
    @aerodynamism5438 Год назад +47

    Fuck, let's start this Second Space Age already!

  • @IshijimaKairo
    @IshijimaKairo Год назад +116

    I like how this song doesn't split humanity into the Good and Bad, but as a collective burning the heavens to spite the Gods.

    • @soffren
      @soffren Год назад +23

      Storming the gates of heaven to spite the gods. I like that. I like that a lot.

    • @henrypaleveda7760
      @henrypaleveda7760 Год назад +8

      @@soffren going to look them in they I like that more than "storming the gates of heaven" but I guess it's because the implication is curiosity or settling a grievance more than conquest.

    • @papaduck5251
      @papaduck5251 Год назад +4

      ​@@henrypaleveda7760 as soon as they forget to close it all the way, at least *one* of us is gonna get in there just to see what's there

    • @moritamikamikara3879
      @moritamikamikara3879 Год назад +4

      Unbased take.
      We're going back to heaven to make god proud.

    • @starcatcherksp1517
      @starcatcherksp1517 Год назад

      @@moritamikamikara3879Depends on which God. Zeus actually punished Prometheus for giving humans fire

  • @adamas4563
    @adamas4563 2 года назад +21

    The algorithm is smiling down upon us, like a fire in the sky.

  • @TheTidesKnife
    @TheTidesKnife 2 года назад +100

    I love this! The song is amazing and the editing on the video is great as well

  • @martinvarga5091
    @martinvarga5091 11 месяцев назад +8

    This song makes all of our earthly bickering and troubles look so small and insignificant... Love it

  • @timesnewlogan2032
    @timesnewlogan2032 2 года назад +94

    I love the respect for Gagarin, our worthy rival.

    • @radicalgremlin6440
      @radicalgremlin6440 2 года назад +27

      To be honest the space race, was much a rivalry, and one of respect. It pushed each nation go strive to do better.

    • @timesnewlogan2032
      @timesnewlogan2032 2 года назад +14

      @@radicalgremlin6440 I seem to recall there being discussions of merging the American and Soviet space programs, but I could be wrong.

    • @radicalgremlin6440
      @radicalgremlin6440 2 года назад +12

      @@timesnewlogan2032 would have been a very radical plan, as there was huge anti soviet sentiment at the time. For the government at least. Not as sure how each space program felt.

    • @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim
      @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim Год назад +13

      ​@@radicalgremlin6440From what I've heard, when NASA landed on the Moon, the Soviet space program gave them a call to congratulate them.
      The Space Programs had a lot of respect for each other.

    • @Anthony_Cika
      @Anthony_Cika Год назад +4

      Loathe the Ideals, but love the people.

  • @SuperODST1
    @SuperODST1 2 года назад +25

    Filk deserves far more recognition than it gets. Yes filk is a term, not a typo, look it up

  • @arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890
    @arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890 2 года назад +381

    Time to form the American space Empire.

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад +52

      Better idea: as soon as there is a decent-sized population (let's say five thousand people) living between LEO (low-Earth orbit) and the outer Hill sphere (the furthest distance a body can orbit Earth), including settlements on the Moon, let's admit a new state to the Union.
      I've heard the name Mapiya (Lakota for "sky") suggested for such a state. It's a good name, and we can retire it when we want to subdivide the state as its population grows, separating out the people living on the Lunar surface to become the state of Armstrong (or maybe Kennedy), the people living in LEO to become the state of Glenn (or Mercury), &c.

    • @conservativedemocracyenjoyer
      @conservativedemocracyenjoyer 2 года назад +18

      @@arcadiaberger9204 Incredibly based

    • @klixx_yt2396
      @klixx_yt2396 2 года назад +1

      I'm not sure they're willing to have a monarchy

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 2 года назад

      @@klixx_yt2396 Empires are for weenies. Federal republics that have constituent members orbiting Neptune are for chads.

    • @the_kimchi_kommandant2603
      @the_kimchi_kommandant2603 2 года назад +3

      @@klixx_yt2396 They won't have a choice

  • @ThatDamnedAmericanUSA
    @ThatDamnedAmericanUSA 2 года назад +58

    Gonna be playing this until Friday. Hopefully Artemis’ number three engine is fixed for then

    • @bonelessvegetal818
      @bonelessvegetal818 2 года назад +1

      yes there would be a fire in the sky

    • @gerogegerog5926
      @gerogegerog5926 2 года назад +1

      Fire in the sky

    • @Intelwinsbigly
      @Intelwinsbigly 2 года назад +1

      Yes, it would be terrible if something happened to the diversity hire expedition to the moon.

    • @gerogegerog5926
      @gerogegerog5926 2 года назад +3

      @@Intelwinsbigly there is nothing wrong with diversity

    • @schnegva7801
      @schnegva7801 2 года назад +2

      @@gerogegerog5926 I mean there is like one situation in which there's something wrong, never send a disabled person to a war zone

  • @kingsman4628
    @kingsman4628 2 года назад +36

    For all Mankind!!✊✊♥thanks U.S.A. for the mother of all adventures

  • @loptercopter1386
    @loptercopter1386 2 года назад +47

    Unimaginablely based I hope this reaches 331 million views

    • @couldbeanybody2508
      @couldbeanybody2508 2 года назад +1

      Why so specific lmao

    • @Mr_Blah
      @Mr_Blah 2 года назад +6

      @@couldbeanybody2508It’s the population of the US

  • @kingliberty7613
    @kingliberty7613 Год назад +14

    This is the fire that Prometheus brought to man

  • @bloodfiredrake7259
    @bloodfiredrake7259 10 месяцев назад +11

    Vostok faced heavenward so Gagarin could open the doors to the final frontier. The Eagle took roost on the moon to avenge challenger. Now Artemis aims for Mars so our children can ride her arrows.

  • @dylonjewell4515
    @dylonjewell4515 2 года назад +30

    This gave me goosebumps.

    • @Cpt_Boony_Hat
      @Cpt_Boony_Hat 2 года назад +1

      Aye literally and that doesn’t happen to me

  • @peanutmoose9591
    @peanutmoose9591 2 года назад +18

    WE ARE GOING BACK!!! ARTIMUS BABY

  • @GenZRemnant9748
    @GenZRemnant9748 2 года назад +10

    i didn't know what to expect but this is a great clap back to "I believe my friends"

  • @christopherjustice6411
    @christopherjustice6411 Год назад +38

    We’re orbiting the moon in 2024 and returning in 2025. Artemis 2 and 3 are gonna need their own verse in this amazing song.

  • @sharkentist1232
    @sharkentist1232 Год назад +13

    Love how it doesn’t even take sides, space exploration is a human triumph, neither Soviet nor American.

    • @ChristianNationalist654
      @ChristianNationalist654 11 месяцев назад

      Exactly nations need to cooperate to ensure survival. Earth is our mother and in life we must leave our mothers or else humans will go extinct

    • @justjoe5373
      @justjoe5373 6 месяцев назад

      >American Space Age anthem

  • @kevinmontufar2431
    @kevinmontufar2431 2 года назад +32

    We need to conquer space

  • @thefallenrift1705
    @thefallenrift1705 Год назад +8

    This is unbelievably awesome

  • @jamesThebulbmin
    @jamesThebulbmin 6 месяцев назад +14

    FREEDOM MUST REGIN OVER EVERY LAST STAR

    • @unsuisseegare1291
      @unsuisseegare1291 4 месяца назад +1

      THROUGH CITIZEN'S BLOOD SPILLED IN OUR RIGHTEOUS WARS

    • @Pecktackular-9000
      @Pecktackular-9000 4 месяца назад +2

      WE WERE BORN TO INHERIT THE STARS

  • @LostAmidTheEchos
    @LostAmidTheEchos 2 года назад +35

    As I listen here, tears fill my eyes.
    We had such hope once, and now look how we view space... just an extension of our earthy dystopia....
    Where is our dreaming of something better? Where is the dreams that we once held so high?

    • @paul7432
      @paul7432 2 года назад +23

      They’re still here brother, just not spoken about every day. Just wait until we reach Mars and the Fire burns again!
      There is a dream, a dream that we can colonize the stars and advance forth the flags of Mankind unto the untamed frontier. Such a dream has been with us for many centuries, and it still is present today, just in different form.

    • @randomyankee8923
      @randomyankee8923 Год назад +1

      The flame of our rockets will be reignited when we go on a great galactic conquest

    • @kaine6076
      @kaine6076 Год назад +1

      the fires of hope burn bright still brother, and one day we will claim the stars.

  • @Bobs113
    @Bobs113 10 месяцев назад +4

    This song is actually one of the alarms on my cell phone. It wakes me up every morning. 😸❤️

  • @aidankeys8534
    @aidankeys8534 Год назад +5

    The song is so good, even the auto-captions can make out the majority of it.

  • @dskero
    @dskero 11 месяцев назад +4

    It's incredible and I sorta just stumbled on it. Thank you YT algorithm.

  • @chloe-id6ep
    @chloe-id6ep 2 месяца назад +6

    we soo need a modern version of this song at some point

    • @Astrolavey
      @Astrolavey 2 месяца назад +5

      Alderon Tyran made a modern version. It's here on RUclips.

    • @Halcyon_games
      @Halcyon_games 2 месяца назад

      @@Astrolavey Oh dude hello fellow Tyran enjoyer

  • @ljr6490
    @ljr6490 Год назад +10

    Can't wait for the Artemis manned lunar missions

  • @ZarjkPC
    @ZarjkPC Год назад +7

    I feel like RUclips didn't want me to find this tonight. My drunk ass needed some Space Age invigoratiation however.

  • @a_bruh
    @a_bruh Год назад +19

    WE MAKIN IT OUTTA APOLLO 1 WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯

  • @unnot5706
    @unnot5706 Год назад +21

    1903: Warner Bros First Flight
    1969: Humans Fly All The Way To The Damn Moon.

    • @a_bruh
      @a_bruh Год назад +3

      Wright Brothers, not Warner Bros

    • @unnot5706
      @unnot5706 Год назад

      @@a_bruh Damn

    • @jakobofcincy
      @jakobofcincy 8 месяцев назад

      yeah and if NASA didn't get their funding slashed after Apollo it would look more like
      1903: the wright brothers invent heavier than air flight
      late 1957: the soviet union launches a satellite into orbit
      early 1958: the US launches the second sattelite and the first to be of any use
      1961: the ussr launches humans into orbit
      1969: the US lands humans on the moon
      1974: the US builds a permanent space station in low earth orbit
      1975: the US builds a space station around the moon and a permanent base
      1978: the US builds cities on the moon and starts terraforming it
      1979: the US sends probes to proxima centauri but they aren't expected to get data back until 2003
      1980: the first manned mission to mars touches down and the US starts work on a settlement
      1983: the US has a permanent base on mars fully operational
      1986: the US builds an outpost on mercury and starts work on a Dyson swarm around the sun
      1990: the US sends manned expeditions to the outer planets
      1992: the Dyson swarm is now partially operational and has solved the energy demands of the entire human race for the next billion years
      1994: the Dyson swarm is fully complete and is used to start terraforming venus and speed up terraforming mars
      1996: the moon is habitable and has plant and animal life on most of its surface
      1998: the first probes to proxima centauri are built and launched from the surface of the moon
      2000: the US has made spaceflight so accessible and drove costs down so much that asteroid mining for gold, platinum and rare earth elements is rapidly becoming profitable
      2002: a group of students at MIT become the first student group to put a satellite in orbit
      2003: the US gets the results back from the probes we sent to proxima centauri
      2004: the US builds a massive orbital shipyard for the titanic spacecrafts required to send humans to proxima centauri
      2005: the US starts work on the largest spacecrafts even even designed (so massive they make aircraft carriers look like rowboats in comparison)
      2008: the costs of spaceflight have dropped even more and asteroid mining for more common elements like copper and zinc are rapidly becoming profitable
      2010: the colony ships are well underway and the massive number of workers required for their construction have expanded the shipyard to a large city of 50+ million
      2016: mars is now habitable and can support complex animal life
      2024 the colony ships are nearly complete and set to leave for the stars in the next few years

    • @heldercaze6333
      @heldercaze6333 2 месяца назад

      Santos Do mont was First 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

  • @isaacshultz8128
    @isaacshultz8128 2 года назад +17

    What a badass song

  • @Azegzaw1
    @Azegzaw1 2 года назад +7

    This slapped harder than I expected

  • @seanhartnett79
    @seanhartnett79 2 года назад +91

    MOON 2024, MARS 2034

  • @djdvelo2295
    @djdvelo2295 Год назад +5

    one of the few songs that for some reason gives me chills to listen to

  • @yeah30
    @yeah30 2 года назад +11

    BACK TO THE MOON BABY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • @guyman6647
    @guyman6647 4 месяца назад +4

    Anyone have a source for the artwork at the end after 3:04? The one of the astronauts holding the american flag with the shuttle in the background. It would make a dope ass desktop background...

    • @AmericanCryptid1
      @AmericanCryptid1 3 месяца назад +2

      Opening the Space Frontier - The Next Giant Step.

    • @guyman6647
      @guyman6647 3 месяца назад +1

      @@AmericanCryptid1 thank you!!

  • @GreenGj-
    @GreenGj- 10 месяцев назад +3

    Doctor Kare may no longer be with us, but now his legacy will live on

  • @sporpolaka5552
    @sporpolaka5552 2 года назад +22

    This song hits differently after artemis 1 launch

  • @TheMeepster72
    @TheMeepster72 11 месяцев назад +8

    This song feels unintentionally metal as fuck.

  • @Koda4507
    @Koda4507 10 месяцев назад +4

    i need this as an instrumental. i love this.

  • @firedogman2280
    @firedogman2280 Год назад +13

    Per Aspera, Ad Astra

  • @Myname-cb9ru
    @Myname-cb9ru 2 года назад +21

    Space and the stars is the patrimony of mankind as a whole. it belongs to every single human: past or future. like the ancient polynesians, exploring the pacific, so will we explore the vast ocean out there.

  • @nyxian4832
    @nyxian4832 Год назад +3

    Remember when you think you're useless, you're the only thing on this planet that has a concept of their own importance. Be proud. You're human after all

  • @sealking3838
    @sealking3838 2 года назад +23

    "I was here" is what I typed into the chat when Artemis 1 was 2 minutes from launching.I waited 1 hour for the rocket to launch but It was worth it.

    • @Intelwinsbigly
      @Intelwinsbigly 2 года назад +1

      Can't wait until the diversity hires step on the moon, it will be such a great leap for minorities everywhere.

    • @bobatesomemayo
      @bobatesomemayo 2 года назад

      @@Intelwinsbigly Yes. It will be a great leap
      And?

    • @ethanleffler4292
      @ethanleffler4292 2 года назад

      i commented that on the splashdown of artemis

  • @rogersparker5875
    @rogersparker5875 2 года назад +23

    New song to blast while playing kerbal aquired

  • @massivecnut5910
    @massivecnut5910 Год назад +8

    Filk music will never not make me smile, such an amazing time capsule to nerd culture before it became mainstream

  • @cornishpasty7853
    @cornishpasty7853 Год назад +24

    I think this song is more for the space age as a whole rather than just for America

  • @tsardudebroii
    @tsardudebroii Год назад +10

    This hits different after SLS and Artemis 1.

  • @Gallalad1
    @Gallalad1 2 года назад +16

    This song goes too hard god damn. I wanna colonise mars just thinking about it