The way it enters the atmosphere like a beam of light, the way the clouds get vaporized immediately, the way the asteroid doesn't make a "boom' sound when it impacts like in some movies, the way the person's skin gets burned even before the shockwave hits because the atmosphere around him heats up. The most realistic asteroid impact you'll ever see.
@@Tux0xFF I think he would hear the boom since the asteroid would slow down enough as the atmosphere gets denser, allowing for a boom or roar to outpace it. But the sound from the impact would of course be the shockwave so that he wouldn't hear because he'd be dead at the same time. Also I imagine he'd see a bright light quite some time before the impact.
@@quattordicimontenapoleone3113 There is footage of small meteorites falling in Russia, you can see how the windows shatter in buildings nearby and then they hear the loud boom seconds later, and thats a small fry meteorite which its speed is slower than an asteroid, same with military fighter jets like the F-22, they pass by and then you hear the sound, and they travel slower than asteroids, way slower. The blackbrid travels at 2,193 mph, an average asteroid: 50,000 mph. the atmosphere would not do any appreciable braking.
@@stinkypoops56 did I hurt your feelings? Meteors collide with speeds up to 50 miles per second. What we see in this video is pretty realistic, regardless of whatever belters did with it.
Actually depends on the size. Larger objects appear to move slower by comparison to smaller objects, especially from a distance. So those other movies aren’t necessarily that inaccurate. they’re called meteorites & meteors after they enter the atmosphere. Asteroids are space borne chunks of rock & metal
The "slow lazy tumble" is not too far off. An asteroid hits earth usually not with much more speed that about escape velocity (about 11.2 km/s), maybe about two times that depending on impact direction/previous orbit. But these asteroids were purposefully sped up with a rocket engine by Inaros and his Free Navy, iirc correctly in the books they mention them to be at speeds of hundreds of km/s, to tremendously increase the damage and reduce detection and deflection chances.
@@patrickm5217 there is no friction in space, large and small could be ejected at the same speeds, movies are always innacurate because there is no fun in not even seen what hit you, but that is what you will see if it happens for real, just a flash and then heat, no time to take pics to instagram.
@@istheyear-ry1el having been divided into a state of mere particles and wandering consciousness doesn't excuse you from flipping burgers dude or selling product.
I love how the thermal radiation vaporizes the clouds and burns the man's skin before the shockwave hits, this oughta be the most realistic meteor strike scene i've ever seen.
Its is definetely one of the most realistic depictions you will find in movies, but it has some glaring flaws. The most obvious being the thermal radiation. Which would scorche you off, pretty much instantly. Especially at distanced where the shockwave could reach you within seconds (as depicted in the clip). Also, most likely you would go blind even before impact itself, as the atmospheric heating will be brighter than the sun by multiple orders.
I always figured the air blast preceding the heat would turn you into a fine red mist long before you ever had a chance to burn, but I guess the thermal energy would travel through the atmosphere faster than the atmosphere could recede before it. I hope I'll never know! In the meantime, you should read "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" by Edgar Allen Poe. I think you'll like it quite a lot.
The Expanse gets so much of the science and the tech right. Far and away better than most other space/ sci-fi shows. I have never raved before about how good I thought a show was and for whatever reason but I will do it in this case. The writing is amazing and the acting is so good that the entire cast deserves an Emmy!!!!
Yep. Rocinante's maximum practical speed is 2,750 km/sec, if it wants to come to a stop at the target. At 1 G, which seems to be the standard acceleration in Expanse universe, a ship takes 78 hours to reach 2,750 km/sec. During these 78 hours it will travel 386 million km. This is all we will be able to do. We will colonize moon, Mars and 100 other moons and the belt. Going to alpha centari would still take thousands of years even at expanse speed.
Movies always portray a sudden bang and generic explosion to be scary, but the way in which real asteroid impacts look is a lot more frightening. First the reentry burning everything in sight, then the sudden disappearance as the asteroid hits the ground and ominous ground tremors come first. Then at last the enormous fireball slowly coming up and a shockwave front incomparable to any nuke rushing at you at several times the speed of sound. A true horror
@@AverageAlien No, much, much, much bigger than that. Something like 500-1000 megatons. Even Tsar Bomba at 58 megatons did nothing like that mega-tsunami.
@@AverageAlien So the ~10km asteroid that wiped out the dinos was the equivalent of a billion Hiroshimas. That's about 2 million 1 megaton nukes all going off at the same time in the same place.
IF this ever did happen I could only wish for such a view. What would be more of a downer than to be in your room or at your job only to see a quick flash of light then nothing.
If a large asteroid or comet hits us and you were close enough to the impact point to see anything, you are going to be incinerated on impact. There won't be much of a show to view.
@@CrusaderSports250 It would be one hell of a video though. I don't think most people understand the impact these things would have when they hit the Earth. It is unreal. Total devastation and just a matter of time before one comes.
In North Dakota, a 66 million year old fossil bed was found with freshwater and saltwater fish together. Their gills were filled with bits of glass. The Chicxulub impact caused a tsunami that pushed fish from the Tethys Sea deep into the continent.
Indeed thanks to the central seaway that existed then. Fresh from the lakes in the area and salty from the sea that connected both what would be the Artic today and the Caribbean.
It’s heartbreaking knowing that Avasarala got the message too late. If she had just a days notice she could have convinced the Secretary General to use their sensors to find the asteroids and strike them down. Maybe even a few hours could have done.
Sadly think even then would still be to late. It takes a lot of energy to move an asteroid that size, and if they blew it up it would be like a shotgun round hitting earth. With days or a week warning at best they would be able to nudge it deeper into the ocean. But the tsunami would still kill many
@@duckgoesquack4514 Since they said the asteroid was about twenty megatons, it would have done less damage if they exploded it into hundreds of fragments which spread over a large area. And then there’s always the option of evacuation. But yeah, probably a week would be needed to avert it completely, and then there’s all the other asteroids.
@@dionemoolman I honestly thing 21 megatons was a mistake on the part of the producers. Tsar Bomba was more than twice that big. A couple of 21 megaton impacts would fall far short of a global extinction event.
@@FreemanicParacusia Maybe the first one was just a beginner. Maybe the impacts get bigger as they go on (and there are nine asteroids in the show so there’s more impact force). In the books the asteroid that struck the Atlantic Ocean was so big that it caused massive flooding all the was from Greenland to Brazil, so I suspect that it’ll be at least a gigaton.
@@vikkycb7948 They couldn't. The rock impact is about 20 megatons worth of TNT. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only a couple kilotons. A nuclear blast would also cause different effects.
@Ricard Karstark yep! The Expanse novel series, starting with the first book, Leviathan Wakes - the books are outstanding, and VERY similar to the show.
The realistic accuracy of an asteroid impact in the most realistic scifi show ever. The Expanse has proven that every season is a joy to watch. This show has got to be not only the greatest scifi series of all time but one of the greatest shows period of all time of any genre. I really hope that they don't stop after season 6. Even though the last 3 books take place 30 years after the first 6.
The impact is among the most realistic ever depicted but it's not entirely accurate. The asteroid shouldn't already be burning high above the atmosphere.
Its is definetely one of the most realistic depictions you will find in movies, but it has some glaring flaws. The most obvious being the thermal radiation. Which would scorche you off, pretty much instantly. Especially at distanced where the shockwave could reach you within seconds (as depicted in the clip). Also, most likely you would go blind even before impact itself, as the atmospheric heating will be brighter than the sun by multiple orders.
@@dondragmer2412 Why? Based on modern tech, colonizing some local bodies is going to happen substantially sooner than leaving the solar system in any meaningful way.
The fact that Marco doesn't realize he's setting back ALL of humanity (or even scarier) he does is terrifying. Because whether he wants to believe it or not (along with Mars) humanity cannot survive without Earth....
Humanity already had access to hundreds of habitable worlds by then. Courtesy of the Ring Network. Earth lost its uniqueness and importance as the only world capable of sustaining life. Humanity will do fine with or without Earth. Especially with the planets like Laconia, which will become a seat of a new superpower within few decades in this universe.
@@mtsen771 yes, except...most of the other inhabited worlds could not support Human plants, and therefore food. I like to think that most of the planets, like Ilus, had been protoformed before, meaning extreme Silicon levels in the soil, making it untenable for farming there. Laconia seems to be an exception, with lots of greenary and animal life too (probably because of teh Repair Droids) but firstly, no clue if any of the plant and animal life is edible, and two no way Laconia would provide food to support the Belt anyway. Marco was killing his own Belters with every rock he threw
I concur with most of the comments about this show's realism and sobriety. In the books Inaros sends dozens of asteroids and even after the first impacts they keep coming. The situation on Earth becomes horrifying, with more than half of the population dying from the winter that ensues. You understand that not only does Inaros want to break UN's leg but to truly sent Earthlings back to the stone age and become irrelevant solar system-wise. It's an annihilation enterprise. It was a grim reading and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I feel like I can't even do this show a justice with simple words of praise. They are not great enough. There is so much that this show has/had that other shows would never and could never dare to touch. The incredibly insane attention to detail in every aspect: from space battles with high G maneuvers, and the particles of superheated material from bullet boreholes bouncing around the inside of the cabin or get slammed to one wall or another by the same G forces the crew is experiencing, to asteroids accurately burning away the clouds as they impact, all the way over to the incredible plot with complex characters, backstories, wants and needs. Political drama. Desperate people. Loyalties and relationship strain. A deep look into the radicalization of a motivated man who hates the cards he's been dealt in life. Its the show we truly never deserved. But I am all the more grateful for every single minute of screen time we got. I truly hope we get to see the next books picked up a few years down the line. One can only hope for the same justice to be done for those books as well- an incredibly professional big screen adaptation.
@@jaromor8808 eh that wasn’t realistic though because a planet that large that close would’ve ripped us out of orbit and caused serious global earthquakes Cinematically speaking it was a fantastic movie
Realism isn't just for nerd cred. It makes this scene WAY MORE terrifying. Because you're seeing things you've probably only read about before, and the reality of it is surprising and startling. It all adds up to a shocking moment. Not even Avasarala expected it. That's saying something.
@@CooManTunes This video only has audio on the right channel, if you're hearing it on the left either you, or the manufacturer, set something up incorrectly.
I love how they show the impact well before you hear anything. That's what makes this so realistic and scary. A Hollywood budget film would have put some dumb sound effect on top of the immediate impact.
My grandpa was involved with nuclear testing in Nevada and he said you’d feel the heat on your face as intense as being two feet from a raging fire…at seven or more miles.
Still actually less than half the size of the largest nuclear explosion ever created which was the bomb known as 'Tsar Bomba' detonated in 1961 which produced a 50 megaton explosion. I do wonder whether this asteroid will turn out to have been significantly larger than the one referenced earlier in the episode
@@robertwinslade3104 Yeah, the Tsar bomba was straight up scary. No wonder they tested it once. Also, they did throw 9 rocks tho. Even if one got the Icarus treatment.
@@robertwinslade3104 Maybe the first one they dropped was more of an appetiser. If they land in similar locations than in the book, I suspect the one that hits the Atlantic will be several hundred megatons.
@@robertwinslade3104 I think in the book the asteroid killed something like a quarter of earth's population and forced half of the remaining survivors to flee to the Moon
@@spartanx9293 exterminatus usually are a last ditch effort on near lost worlds. Imo if worse comes to worst i.e Big E dying then yea, an exterminatus would be in order.
First, in my opinion the actresses steal the show, they are all brilliant! Shohreh Aghdashloo is a revelation to me and I'm now a devoted fan. Her voice is just wonderful and gives her an amazing stage presence. Sheila Burrell has a similar voice, perfect for a character actress. The script writers have been inspired in giving her really good dialogue which she delivers with aplomb. So much so when she says **ck she makes it seem respectable! My wife discovered this series, I so glad she came across it. We look forward to the next season.
I respect your opinion, but for me her voice is the consequence of years of smoking habits, and I despise her character. But totally agree with you she's an amazing actress and I think this is the best and mos realistic scifi show so far right now in tv.
I'm fascinated with the imagination of what it would be like to actually see this in person. Most movies and shows do an awful job, but this is perfect. You actually get the correct perspective, like you're on the beach. How quick it goes from normal to "I'm dead", and then the fire peeks over the horizon and instantly you're vaporized.
A ~20MT asteroid impact is the same yield as the Tunguska asteroid impact in Russia and about 40% the yield of Tzar Bomba. Such explosions will level everything in a 10km radius and badly damage everything in a 100km one.
A mysterious aspect of the Tunguska event was that no crater was ever found. But, even without a crater, scientists still categorized it as an impact event. They now believe the incoming object never struck Earth, but instead exploded in the atmosphere, causing what's known as an air burst.
@@FATillery I've seen an air burst in real time. It was as if god took a flash photo of the entire valley. I'll never forget it. Watched it streak in and pop, god know how far away. It was silent.
I think they just didn't give it enough screen time because in the books three rocks hit and it's the same in the show but they don't really show the impact it has on society. They show glimpses with Amos and Peaches but I was really hoping that they would bring in Anna Volovodov again so that we can see what happens to her and her family as well as how immensely crippled Earth will be because of this attack.
Yeah, a lot of people have that gripe about it last season. Luckily in the first episode of 6, they really went out of their way to try and show you the devastation.
The sign says "Don't feed the Fishes" and I'd say now that he sleeps with the fishes, but that's not true. His ashes are somewhere on the other side of the continent.
You would never see it hit the ocean if you were that close. You would be burnt to an ember as soon as it hit the atmosphere if you were really that close to where it entered.
@@lastword8783 That's the genious of it all. They don't destroy earth, they cripple it. They bring Earth to such a state that for the next decade or two, it can't afford to spend resources on anything but the rebuilding of earth.
@@lastword8783 Earth can't retaliate against the belt, as doing so would require resources. That fleet you speak of is operated by men that need to be fed, and every single ship within the fleet is a mobile nuclear powerplant. That fleet is going back to earth. 90% of the ships will stay there to provide electricity to the UN. 5% will stay there as a security force so that the UN can maintain order on earth. 5% will be used as transport ships to beg for food from any station that can spare some. Every second that the fleet does anything except what I just said a dozen humans die on earth that could have been saved. It's not that Earth couldn't glass the entire Belt. (Which would be a war crime), it's that they can't afford to do so. Besides the OPA terrorist that did this have prepared themselves. They aren't equal in power in comparison to the earth fleet. But they can fight a war. A war that earth would lose because it's already struggling to survive. You're clinging to MAD. Which makes sense MAD got us through the cold war without nuclear exchange. But MAD presumes neither side strikes first. When you're already struck, what point is there in wasting manpower and resources to piss of an enemy?
The amount of thermal and electromagnetic radiation from an object that size entering the atmosphere... Would probably vaporize anyone unlucky enough to be directly exposed to the event. If you're in a position where you could look up and see it... You'd probably be dead before you knew what happened.
i did a course on nuclear weapons, (the closest thing we have to these big conventional rock weapons...dang, we have weaponized space) as well as having some courses in geology. I remember the similarity to the heat, as well as in this case the speed of the shockwave, hypersonic: and the damage associated with the vaporization in hundreds of miles. there is a real question of the water shockwave that hits the man, but i'm guessing it would just be under the 12 to 25 miles per minute while the hypersonic wave of the atmosphere would be more like the upper range of 25 miles per minute, or as they say, hauling! in my opinion, this was very well done and what one should expect to see in a real strike. Keep in mind we had a small event where the thing did not hit the ground in russia a few years back and it shattered everything.
For episode after episode, I was tense. All I could think about was the rocks. I kept waiting for someone to get the message through. Someone to let earth know. I even hoped the guns would shift last minute when the view changed to the defense platforms in orbit. But they never moved. The sky fell and they didn't even move. Masterpiece!
He took it like you should, resigned to your fate. Others would have tried to futilely run away, missing the opportunity to witness these last few glorious seconds.
This video is painful to watch. Does the uploader not know that this video is stereo but they set it up to only play in mono out of the right channel and the left channel is nothing?
Firefly was a space western, not sci-fi. Both are great, but I do prefer The Expanse to Firefly. The characterisation and stories are on a similar level, but it also has the background "what if" that defines great sci-fi, ranging from the practicalities of space flight with these type of drives, through to an exploration of what suddenly available interstellar travel would do to a society such as Mars (Social science is fair game for sci-fi). In Firefly the setting was entirely slave to the story, which I have no problem with, but makes it not sci-fi.
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@@Terry-ov6wd uncle terry needs his medication
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@Roger Waters Why did you spit on fans?
Than you for this movie 🎥 clip dude lol 😂
The way it enters the atmosphere like a beam of light, the way the clouds get vaporized immediately, the way the asteroid doesn't make a "boom' sound when it impacts like in some movies, the way the person's skin gets burned even before the shockwave hits because the atmosphere around him heats up. The most realistic asteroid impact you'll ever see.
good points, since it travels so fast, the sonic boom would be heard way later, cant imagine how loud
Well hope I never see.
@@Tux0xFF I think he would hear the boom since the asteroid would slow down enough as the atmosphere gets denser, allowing for a boom or roar to outpace it. But the sound from the impact would of course be the shockwave so that he wouldn't hear because he'd be dead at the same time. Also I imagine he'd see a bright light quite some time before the impact.
@@quattordicimontenapoleone3113
There is footage of small meteorites falling in Russia, you can see how the windows shatter in buildings nearby and then they hear the loud boom seconds later, and thats a small fry meteorite which its speed is slower than an asteroid, same with military fighter jets like the F-22, they pass by and then you hear the sound, and they travel slower than asteroids, way slower. The blackbrid travels at 2,193 mph, an average asteroid: 50,000 mph. the atmosphere would not do any appreciable braking.
@@Tux0xFF Had to read up a bit of asteroid terminal velocity. It's fast, so yeah, you're totally right.
There was a sign that said don't feed the fishes.
He fed the fishes.
So ,instant Karma hit
@@pierreweee7425 Karma with steroids sorry asteroids
Fish.Plural of fish is fish
@@ynamaxa im trying to channel my 1930's mafia goon "sleepin with the fishes" please dont take jokes seriously :)
@@dinah9463 Kudos to you then.
I actually like how the asteroid passes the railguns in the blink of an eye. That's how fast these things move.
I didn't even saw it the first time lol
It was sped up intentionally. Was a weaponized asteroid
@@katieo5534 not really, they all strike Earth at comparable speeds.
Yeah no. This is sped up because it was weaponized. Watch the show.
@@stinkypoops56 did I hurt your feelings? Meteors collide with speeds up to 50 miles per second. What we see in this video is pretty realistic, regardless of whatever belters did with it.
I like the fact that they showed just how fast these things zip through space, rather than the slow lazy tumble you always see in movies.
Ikr When it passes by the satellites it's just a blur. Really gives a more accurate idea of how stupidly fast these things enter the atmosphere.
Actually depends on the size. Larger objects appear to move slower by comparison to smaller objects, especially from a distance. So those other movies aren’t necessarily that inaccurate. they’re called meteorites & meteors after they enter the atmosphere. Asteroids are space borne chunks of rock & metal
The "slow lazy tumble" is not too far off. An asteroid hits earth usually not with much more speed that about escape velocity (about 11.2 km/s), maybe about two times that depending on impact direction/previous orbit. But these asteroids were purposefully sped up with a rocket engine by Inaros and his Free Navy, iirc correctly in the books they mention them to be at speeds of hundreds of km/s, to tremendously increase the damage and reduce detection and deflection chances.
@@patrickm5217 there is no friction in space, large and small could be ejected at the same speeds, movies are always innacurate because there is no fun in not even seen what hit you, but that is what you will see if it happens for real, just a flash and then heat, no time to take pics to instagram.
Depends on the size and distance I guess. Andromeda is moving towards at a very fast rate yet it looks slow I think.
And my boss is like, "So, are you still coming in tomorrow?"
*my roaming soul "sigh" looks like i have to get to work tomorrow eventhough my body is completely gone to atoms*
@@istheyear-ry1el having been divided into a state of mere particles and wandering consciousness doesn't excuse you from flipping burgers dude or selling product.
Shortest role in TV history.
LMAOOO
He went out with a bang though.
I mean, there's the guy who just chilled on a park bench reading a newspaper in Deep Impact, that was shorter.
He's going to come back and brush the burns of his cloths. "Do not go in there!"
@@westrim Deep Impact wasn't a TV show
This just might be one of the most realistic asteroid impacts I've ever seen in fiction.
That scared the sh*t out of me watching to this. The best 10 seconds on a series.
Yeah, like the way it's shown burning up while still 1000 km outside the atmosphere? Truly realistic.
@@zolikoff atmosphere is very sparse but not pure vacuum that far up. The rock was moving fast and was larger then expected. It is understandable
@@zolikoff
What? Where did you see burning Asteroid that is 1000km from atmosphere?
@@rravitejamavr6650 What does the scene at 0:50 look like?
He had safety goggles on.. I'm sure he'll be fine....🤣
Aye
Whew! I was so worried. ;)
But he didn't wear a helmet. He is screwed.
No helmet, high visibility jacket on or lifejacket. No wonder he died.
@@martinkase5842 don't forget his steel toe boots. He could have been safe if he wore the right shoes
I love how the thermal radiation vaporizes the clouds and burns the man's skin before the shockwave hits, this oughta be the most realistic meteor strike scene i've ever seen.
Ma let's scoot a little back from the fire
Still not realistic enough for the reasons I already mentioned, but better than most.
Its is definetely one of the most realistic depictions you will find in movies, but it has some glaring flaws.
The most obvious being the thermal radiation. Which would scorche you off, pretty much instantly. Especially at distanced where the shockwave could reach you within seconds (as depicted in the clip).
Also, most likely you would go blind even before impact itself, as the atmospheric heating will be brighter than the sun by multiple orders.
I always figured the air blast preceding the heat would turn you into a fine red mist long before you ever had a chance to burn, but I guess the thermal energy would travel through the atmosphere faster than the atmosphere could recede before it. I hope I'll never know!
In the meantime, you should read "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" by Edgar Allen Poe. I think you'll like it quite a lot.
@@KatyaAbc575 He does have some special looking glases, maybe that saved him.
They even showed the guy's face being burned by the intense heat of the asteroid entering the atmosphere.
I didn't notice that the first time had to watch it again after seeing your comment.
*scorching noises*
And he never felt the earthquake just because it were no arthquake anywhere
I completely missed that. 😱
yeah even the Clouds evaporate
The Expanse gets so much of the science and the tech right. Far and away better than most other space/ sci-fi shows. I have never raved before about how good I thought a show was and for whatever reason but I will do it in this case. The writing is amazing and the acting is so good that the entire cast deserves an Emmy!!!!
Yep. Rocinante's maximum practical speed is 2,750 km/sec, if it wants to come to a stop at the target. At 1 G, which seems to be the standard acceleration in Expanse universe, a ship takes 78 hours to reach 2,750 km/sec. During these 78 hours it will travel 386 million km. This is all we will be able to do. We will colonize moon, Mars and 100 other moons and the belt. Going to alpha centari would still take thousands of years even at expanse speed.
Yeah the world building and science clearly had so much thought put into it. It’s incredible
especially with the rings being powered by energy from another dimension
Sucks that the people who run the emmys hate the sci-fi genre
It even got the apple vision pro 13X right
Can I just say that I love that his device is called a 'Fishfinder 5000'
It was definitely the cheap version of its kind.
Movies always portray a sudden bang and generic explosion to be scary, but the way in which real asteroid impacts look is a lot more frightening. First the reentry burning everything in sight, then the sudden disappearance as the asteroid hits the ground and ominous ground tremors come first. Then at last the enormous fireball slowly coming up and a shockwave front incomparable to any nuke rushing at you at several times the speed of sound. A true horror
this one was comparable to a 1 megaton nuke I believe
@@AverageAlien No, much, much, much bigger than that. Something like 500-1000 megatons. Even Tsar Bomba at 58 megatons did nothing like that mega-tsunami.
@@mhobson2009 because it wasn't detonated on water?
@@mhobson2009 I think this is actually probably more comparable to something in the multiple gigaton range..
@@AverageAlien So the ~10km asteroid that wiped out the dinos was the equivalent of a billion Hiroshimas. That's about 2 million 1 megaton nukes all going off at the same time in the same place.
IF this ever did happen I could only wish for such a view. What would be more of a downer than to be in your room or at your job only to see a quick flash of light then nothing.
Well I would actually like to see an asteroid downing at my 10-20 job from safe distance.
ngl i'd wish to be underground in a bunker somewhere or in space, not where that dude was
If a large asteroid or comet hits us and you were close enough to the impact point to see anything, you are going to be incinerated on impact. There won't be much of a show to view.
@@joshleenall and you wouldn't even have time to upload it to RUclips, bummer!!☺.
@@CrusaderSports250 It would be one hell of a video though. I don't think most people understand the impact these things would have when they hit the Earth. It is unreal. Total devastation and just a matter of time before one comes.
In North Dakota, a 66 million year old fossil bed was found with freshwater and saltwater fish together. Their gills were filled with bits of glass. The Chicxulub impact caused a tsunami that pushed fish from the Tethys Sea deep into the continent.
Indeed thanks to the central seaway that existed then. Fresh from the lakes in the area and salty from the sea that connected both what would be the Artic today and the Caribbean.
It’s heartbreaking knowing that Avasarala got the message too late. If she had just a days notice she could have convinced the Secretary General to use their sensors to find the asteroids and strike them down. Maybe even a few hours could have done.
Sadly think even then would still be to late. It takes a lot of energy to move an asteroid that size, and if they blew it up it would be like a shotgun round hitting earth. With days or a week warning at best they would be able to nudge it deeper into the ocean. But the tsunami would still kill many
@@duckgoesquack4514 Since they said the asteroid was about twenty megatons, it would have done less damage if they exploded it into hundreds of fragments which spread over a large area. And then there’s always the option of evacuation. But yeah, probably a week would be needed to avert it completely, and then there’s all the other asteroids.
@@dionemoolman I honestly thing 21 megatons was a mistake on the part of the producers. Tsar Bomba was more than twice that big. A couple of 21 megaton impacts would fall far short of a global extinction event.
@@FreemanicParacusia Maybe they aren't going for a global extinction event on earth.
@@FreemanicParacusia Maybe the first one was just a beginner. Maybe the impacts get bigger as they go on (and there are nine asteroids in the show so there’s more impact force). In the books the asteroid that struck the Atlantic Ocean was so big that it caused massive flooding all the was from Greenland to Brazil, so I suspect that it’ll be at least a gigaton.
Fun fact: they actually had to drop an asteroid to film this.
I remember that. Ruined my vacation
I remember that. I died
And it still wasn't that expensive for Bezos.
Why they could have achieved very similar results by exploding a small nuclear bomb or large quantities of TNT
@@vikkycb7948 They couldn't. The rock impact is about 20 megatons worth of TNT. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only a couple kilotons. A nuclear blast would also cause different effects.
Was waiting for this scene ever since I read the books. Incredible
can you tell me in which book this scene appear?
@@FM-fi4uy Nemesis Games ^_^
@@FM-fi4uy Early on in Nemesis Games, the 5th book of the series. Imo the best book of the series so far
@Ricard Karstark yep! The Expanse novel series, starting with the first book, Leviathan Wakes - the books are outstanding, and VERY similar to the show.
Here we have the "I read the book, so I'm better than everyone else" guy.
One of the most underrated Sci fi TV shows to date. Wonderfully made. And class as the most accurately made too.
The realistic accuracy of an asteroid impact in the most realistic scifi show ever. The Expanse has proven that every season is a joy to watch. This show has got to be not only the greatest scifi series of all time but one of the greatest shows period of all time of any genre. I really hope that they don't stop after season 6. Even though the last 3 books take place 30 years after the first 6.
The impact is among the most realistic ever depicted but it's not entirely accurate. The asteroid shouldn't already be burning high above the atmosphere.
The most unrealistic thing about the show is the premise that we'll ever colonize the planets.
Its is definetely one of the most realistic depictions you will find in movies, but it has some glaring flaws.
The most obvious being the thermal radiation. Which would scorche you off, pretty much instantly. Especially at distanced where the shockwave could reach you within seconds (as depicted in the clip).
Also, most likely you would go blind even before impact itself, as the atmospheric heating will be brighter than the sun by multiple orders.
The Expanse is the ONLY sci-fi show, that emphasizes science over fiction, while most others do it the other way around.
@@dondragmer2412 Why? Based on modern tech, colonizing some local bodies is going to happen substantially sooner than leaving the solar system in any meaningful way.
where's a refrigerator when you need it
Indiana Jones reference
Dont be silly Rocha...a refrigerator could never repel firepower of that magnitude
Where’s the much needed hug to confort you before the flash...
You'd need a Refrigerator made out to Titanium to withstand a meteor with a power of tens of thousands of Hiroshima Bombs.
@@dhruviscool450 he used a quite from star wars to make his own joke
Stop throwing rocks into the ocean. That's my job. -GOD
Not even close.
God doesn't exist.
@@aniketvishwakarma1235 he does, u just can’t see him.
@@justsmallyt985 No, he's just a construct made by people to control other people, nothing divine in this, sorry :/
@@aniketvishwakarma1235@PDC Design The comment was supposed to be funny, not say whether god exists or not.
Good thing he had sunglasses on. His eyes would have burnt and probably would have gone blind otherwise.
The fact that Marco doesn't realize he's setting back ALL of humanity (or even scarier) he does is terrifying. Because whether he wants to believe it or not (along with Mars) humanity cannot survive without Earth....
Marco believe that he could get the gardens on Ceres to rival Erath food production and complex biological in 10yrs. If they won the war.
As Naomi said in the books: the leaders are always the last to suffer Famine after the damage is done.
He is someone who lives in his own fantasy bubble of world domination.
Humanity already had access to hundreds of habitable worlds by then. Courtesy of the Ring Network. Earth lost its uniqueness and importance as the only world capable of sustaining life. Humanity will do fine with or without Earth. Especially with the planets like Laconia, which will become a seat of a new superpower within few decades in this universe.
@@mtsen771 yes, except...most of the other inhabited worlds could not support Human plants, and therefore food. I like to think that most of the planets, like Ilus, had been protoformed before, meaning extreme Silicon levels in the soil, making it untenable for farming there.
Laconia seems to be an exception, with lots of greenary and animal life too (probably because of teh Repair Droids) but firstly, no clue if any of the plant and animal life is edible, and two no way Laconia would provide food to support the Belt anyway.
Marco was killing his own Belters with every rock he threw
Everyone is raving about the realism of the asteroid impact. I am over here drooling over those Fishfinder 5000's.
I concur with most of the comments about this show's realism and sobriety.
In the books Inaros sends dozens of asteroids and even after the first impacts they keep coming. The situation on Earth becomes horrifying, with more than half of the population dying from the winter that ensues. You understand that not only does Inaros want to break UN's leg but to truly sent Earthlings back to the stone age and become irrelevant solar system-wise. It's an annihilation enterprise. It was a grim reading and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
You dont have to specify the book. Its the same in the TV show
@@TSGPhilipp I disagree, I find it milder in the show.
Appreciate the comment. Makes me wanna read it, now Thanks
@@Maria-up4tl Go for it ! It's a really nice and accessible read :)
Marco didn’t want them to go back to the Stone Age, he wanted to kill them all.
I feel like I can't even do this show a justice with simple words of praise. They are not great enough.
There is so much that this show has/had that other shows would never and could never dare to touch. The incredibly insane attention to detail in every aspect: from space battles with high G maneuvers, and the particles of superheated material from bullet boreholes bouncing around the inside of the cabin or get slammed to one wall or another by the same G forces the crew is experiencing, to asteroids accurately burning away the clouds as they impact, all the way over to the incredible plot with complex characters, backstories, wants and needs. Political drama. Desperate people. Loyalties and relationship strain. A deep look into the radicalization of a motivated man who hates the cards he's been dealt in life.
Its the show we truly never deserved. But I am all the more grateful for every single minute of screen time we got. I truly hope we get to see the next books picked up a few years down the line. One can only hope for the same justice to be done for those books as well- an incredibly professional big screen adaptation.
Just saw this episode. So damn eerie and awesome at the same time. The tremendous amount of energy an asteroid can do by sheer velocity is amazing
I believe this was also just a fragment of the asteroid since they said around 200-300 kilotons estimated yield
this is not eerie, Melancholia is eerie
@@jaromor8808 eh that wasn’t realistic though because a planet that large that close would’ve ripped us out of orbit and caused serious global earthquakes
Cinematically speaking it was a fantastic movie
There's so many fucking good moments in this show. The visuals are stunningly accurate and
@@captainjirk9564 Agreed. That show is top tier
Farmer's Insurance: "We've seen a thing or two, But we're not paying out for this shit..
😂
We aren’t farmers Bum da bum bum bum bum
Pretty sure there is no one to pay out too anymore.
Omni man says so!!!
Yep. Time to switch to Geico.
Tonight's fish fry is cancelled.
On the contrary, we've already cooked all the fish!
I'm sure he's fine
Just some few burn and scratches nothing major.
"We'll buff out the scratches"
His shoes where still on
If he takes a Motrin, he’ll be back up on his feet in no time
He got up, brushed himself off and said to himself. "My wife will be so pissed. This is not coming out in the wash."
“Anybody not wearing 2 million SPF sunblock is gonna have a really bad day!” S.C
Was actually 6,000000 million sunblock .SC.
Realism isn't just for nerd cred. It makes this scene WAY MORE terrifying. Because you're seeing things you've probably only read about before, and the reality of it is surprising and startling. It all adds up to a shocking moment. Not even Avasarala expected it. That's saying something.
My right ear truly enjoyed this
I only heard it through the left speaker...
@@CooManTunes This video only has audio on the right channel, if you're hearing it on the left either you, or the manufacturer, set something up incorrectly.
@@TheAkashicTraveller How would you know it only has audio on the right channel? :'D You're just an idiot, making assumptions.
@@CooManTunes Probably because his headset is set up correctly.... unlike your's.
@@netbenefits4595 I don't wear a headset. I'm not like you simps.
I love how they show the impact well before you hear anything. That's what makes this so realistic and scary. A Hollywood budget film would have put some dumb sound effect on top of the immediate impact.
Jaw dropping scene, the realism is above and beyond what I've seen in any other show/movie, period!.
My grandpa was involved with nuclear testing in Nevada and he said you’d feel the heat on your face as intense as being two feet from a raging fire…at seven or more miles.
That man is the ultimate badass.. he faced down the most overwhelming inescapable death with steely dignity that most would not be able to muster.
My right ear REALLY enjoyed the hard work that went into editing this.
21 megatons = 1400 hiroshima bombs
To put it into perspective
*opens umbrella*
Still actually less than half the size of the largest nuclear explosion ever created which was the bomb known as 'Tsar Bomba' detonated in 1961 which produced a 50 megaton explosion. I do wonder whether this asteroid will turn out to have been significantly larger than the one referenced earlier in the episode
@@robertwinslade3104 Yeah, the Tsar bomba was straight up scary. No wonder they tested it once.
Also, they did throw 9 rocks tho. Even if one got the Icarus treatment.
@@robertwinslade3104 Maybe the first one they dropped was more of an appetiser. If they land in similar locations than in the book, I suspect the one that hits the Atlantic will be several hundred megatons.
@@robertwinslade3104 I think in the book the asteroid killed something like a quarter of earth's population and forced half of the remaining survivors to flee to the Moon
@Adasia Either much bigger, or they are gonna come in massive number
You are right for the death toll I actually underestimated it.. 15 billions, damn
"This place is infected by Chaos' taint. And where such infection lies, I have all the authority I need."
- Inquisitor Silas Hand
Come to think of it do you actually think they exterminatus the Earth
@@spartanx9293 A Cyclonic Torpedo is authorized for worlds deemed to present extinction-level threats to other inhabited regions of the galaxy.
@@elxaime the issue is if they did so on Earth mankind's f***** because the empower bites it bites of by proxy
ALRIGHT FIRE!!! head smash exterminatus button
@@spartanx9293 exterminatus usually are a last ditch effort on near lost worlds. Imo if worse comes to worst i.e Big E dying then yea, an exterminatus would be in order.
I wonder how this will affect economy
Don't worry. They went with Aragon's tax policy.
They became dependent on the ring network for over 3 decades till they fully recovered in the books
NOT STONKS
Oh yeah like three astroid attacks on a whole planet is the same as an elected president policies
@Joe freeman guys i think i spotted the republican
First, in my opinion the actresses steal the show, they are all brilliant! Shohreh Aghdashloo is a revelation to me and I'm now a devoted fan. Her voice is just wonderful and gives her an amazing stage presence. Sheila Burrell has a similar voice, perfect for a character actress. The script writers have been inspired in giving her really good dialogue which she delivers with aplomb. So much so when she says **ck she makes it seem respectable! My wife discovered this series, I so glad she came across it. We look forward to the next season.
I respect your opinion, but for me her voice is the consequence of years of smoking habits, and I despise her character. But totally agree with you she's an amazing actress and I think this is the best and mos realistic scifi show so far right now in tv.
I'm fascinated with the imagination of what it would be like to actually see this in person. Most movies and shows do an awful job, but this is perfect. You actually get the correct perspective, like you're on the beach. How quick it goes from normal to "I'm dead", and then the fire peeks over the horizon and instantly you're vaporized.
A ~20MT asteroid impact is the same yield as the Tunguska asteroid impact in Russia and about 40% the yield of Tzar Bomba. Such explosions will level everything in a 10km radius and badly damage everything in a 100km one.
A mysterious aspect of the Tunguska event was that no crater was ever found. But, even without a crater, scientists still categorized it as an impact event. They now believe the incoming object never struck Earth, but instead exploded in the atmosphere, causing what's known as an air burst.
@@FATillery I've seen an air burst in real time. It was as if god took a flash photo of the entire valley. I'll never forget it. Watched it streak in and pop, god know how far away. It was silent.
was it not 1 megaton?
The fact that this can happen with no way of stopping it gives me intense anxiety
Why? We all die. Why does it matter how?
@@Bendigo1 its more of the anxiety of knmowing its coming with nothing to change it. Like a plane crash
@@jeremymiller3172 If you can't change it then why worry? It is going to happen. Just let it happen. Enjoy the time you have before it happens.
NASA are testing a deflection probe this year. And they track all of the dangerous ones in real time. Sleep better, my friend.
@@ThisokeTheOtherOne Its called Darter right? theyre going to test it on 2022 cuz theres going to be an asteroid passing eart.
Watching his hometown anihilated by a asteroid, even in a show, it's always heartbreaking...😥
his hometown, the ocean?
Oh man! The clouds evaporate before the explosion is even seen! That is the attention to detail that I love about this show!
The most realistically portrayed everything involving space combat in one show. I fkn love this show.
The Expanse was awesome!
How the clouds disappeared due to pressure and temperature fluctuation, and how the radiation got him first before the shockwave did.. sweet!
What radiation?
@@jonahmoran3751 Magic Nuke Comet TM.
@@jonahmoran3751 intense (infrared) light = radiation.
@@jonahmoran3751 Heat radiation the same we get from the Sun or from a fire or lighter. A meteorite would superheat the air molecules before impact.
And he doesn’t flinch. Just silly
im glad they didn't cut this on the way to the screen but thus far it seems to be far less of a disaster than what was depicted in the books
I think they just didn't give it enough screen time because in the books three rocks hit and it's the same in the show but they don't really show the impact it has on society. They show glimpses with Amos and Peaches but I was really hoping that they would bring in Anna Volovodov again so that we can see what happens to her and her family as well as how immensely crippled Earth will be because of this attack.
@@Damodred_Heiress no bs i was thinking the same thing..and crazy shit u look like Bobbie...that's a compliment
Yeah, a lot of people have that gripe about it last season. Luckily in the first episode of 6, they really went out of their way to try and show you the devastation.
The sign says "Don't feed the Fishes" and I'd say now that he sleeps with the fishes, but that's not true. His ashes are somewhere on the other side of the continent.
The attention to details , his skin was burning before he was hit with the shockwave 👌🏽✨
You would never see it hit the ocean if you were that close. You would be burnt to an ember as soon as it hit the atmosphere if you were really that close to where it entered.
Lmao earth is gonna frag every station in the outer planets for this
@Silicon Nomad even if they destroy earth theyve got enough ships in space to do it. Mutually assured destruction.
@@lastword8783 you dont even need to frag the stations, just nuke ganymede back to the stone age and watch the belt starve
@@lastword8783 That's the genious of it all. They don't destroy earth, they cripple it. They bring Earth to such a state that for the next decade or two, it can't afford to spend resources on anything but the rebuilding of earth.
@@rutger5000 yes earth would be crippled but the belt would be in far worse shape as the earth fleet would destroy it. Nobody wins.
@@lastword8783 Earth can't retaliate against the belt, as doing so would require resources. That fleet you speak of is operated by men that need to be fed, and every single ship within the fleet is a mobile nuclear powerplant.
That fleet is going back to earth. 90% of the ships will stay there to provide electricity to the UN. 5% will stay there as a security force so that the UN can maintain order on earth. 5% will be used as transport ships to beg for food from any station that can spare some.
Every second that the fleet does anything except what I just said a dozen humans die on earth that could have been saved.
It's not that Earth couldn't glass the entire Belt. (Which would be a war crime), it's that they can't afford to do so.
Besides the OPA terrorist that did this have prepared themselves. They aren't equal in power in comparison to the earth fleet. But they can fight a war. A war that earth would lose because it's already struggling to survive.
You're clinging to MAD. Which makes sense MAD got us through the cold war without nuclear exchange. But MAD presumes neither side strikes first. When you're already struck, what point is there in wasting manpower and resources to piss of an enemy?
The way the tension builds over the first three episodes of season 5, we know the rocks are coming, and seeing it strike Earth is utterly horrifying
''Even our dreams are small...'' - Marco Inaros
Guy doesn't even run. He knows he's going to die. So he kicks back and watches the best show of his life.
The amount of thermal and electromagnetic radiation from an object that size entering the atmosphere... Would probably vaporize anyone unlucky enough to be directly exposed to the event. If you're in a position where you could look up and see it... You'd probably be dead before you knew what happened.
Yes. Not very accurate scene at all. I don't get the hype... It is wrong on so many levels
Exactly! If you could see it because you were that close, you would be an ember as soon as it hit the atmosphere.
I think that he was a paid actor.
That's taking dynamite-in-the-pond fishing to a whole new level!
how to ruin a guys day
Gotta promote the Fishfinder 5000 ®
I like how the heat dissipates the clouds, that's a nice detail
School nurses: just have some ice
i did a course on nuclear weapons, (the closest thing we have to these big conventional rock weapons...dang, we have weaponized space) as well as having some courses in geology. I remember the similarity to the heat, as well as in this case the speed of the shockwave, hypersonic: and the damage associated with the vaporization in hundreds of miles.
there is a real question of the water shockwave that hits the man, but i'm guessing it would just be under the 12 to 25 miles per minute while the hypersonic wave of the atmosphere would be more like the upper range of 25 miles per minute, or as they say, hauling!
in my opinion, this was very well done and what one should expect to see in a real strike. Keep in mind we had a small event where the thing did not hit the ground in russia a few years back and it shattered everything.
For episode after episode, I was tense. All I could think about was the rocks. I kept waiting for someone to get the message through. Someone to let earth know. I even hoped the guns would shift last minute when the view changed to the defense platforms in orbit.
But they never moved. The sky fell and they didn't even move.
Masterpiece!
I had almost forgotten about the rocks at this point. I knew it was coming. I never thought he'd actually do it.
The best Sci fi series Ive watched in YEARS
going to binge watch it again over Xmas
He took it like you should, resigned to your fate. Others would have tried to futilely run away, missing the opportunity to witness these last few glorious seconds.
Yes, be bold and embrace your fate!
I think he was simply dumbfounded by what he was seeing.
If Earth from the Expanse thinks that was bad, wait till they hear about Operation British.
I just saw an extract . Don't bother watch it's rubbish !
Marco is taking a page out of Char’s playbook
Damn this show is so good
When you lose your temper fishing and use too much Dynamite
My right ear is enjoying this
my left ear feels lonely
The sign said do not enter. He still did and now he paid his price.
One of the most terrifying moments on the show
I remember the last time this happened. Took ages to tidy up.
I'm sure he'll be alright. A few days in the bacta tank would fix him right up. :)
Man, my right ear really enjoyed this. Thanks!
Excellent series! Watched the entire series twice. Time to start again.
This will drastically affect the economy I think
This video is painful to watch. Does the uploader not know that this video is stereo but they set it up to only play in mono out of the right channel and the left channel is nothing?
My man here just wanted to feed them fishes :(
Damn, this man was chilling, and gets discentigrated by an asteroid.
So powerful it blew my left ear off
He wouldn't have died, if he had a camera.
Love the detail of the Stealth panels burning up
Love how everyone is a scientist on the commentary.
Comments like these are obnoxious
he T-Posed prior to death. True chad.
Your apocalypse arrives off the southern coast of Italy in early 2023.
Hit the Vatican with a bullseye...
Best scifi series since firefly
this and bsg are both better than firefly
Firefly was a space western, not sci-fi. Both are great, but I do prefer The Expanse to Firefly. The characterisation and stories are on a similar level, but it also has the background "what if" that defines great sci-fi, ranging from the practicalities of space flight with these type of drives, through to an exploration of what suddenly available interstellar travel would do to a society such as Mars (Social science is fair game for sci-fi). In Firefly the setting was entirely slave to the story, which I have no problem with, but makes it not sci-fi.
Thank God, Amos was underground when this went down.
Very convenient
Is it just me who can hear it only from the right earplug
No asteroids were harmed in the making of this video.
The depiction of the speed is what scares me
My only issue with this was, did it say it took about 183 days to eventually hit earth? That's 6 months, the show didn't address that at all.
183 days would have been enough time for our current tech to detect the rock, so why couldnt future earth here?
@@user-td4gh6kj2z Apparently the rock was coated in Martian stealth tech, so it couldn't be detected in time.
@@shashankr5180 ah kk, thanks, i haventstarted watching this show yet, saving it for a time when i can binge the hell outa a few seasons.
@@user-td4gh6kj2z This show is crazy good
@@shashankr5180 no,it was coated with Northrop Grumman stealth technology.
This is the best show on TV right now!
My right ear listened everything 👍
God i love having the audio only go through the right speaker.