Even though this takes place in the future, the fact that the craft is able to just "turn around" back to Earth is scientifically almost impossible without imput from something else... spooky stuff
Especially since it got back to Earth in like, less than half the time it took to get there in the first place. Someone turned it around and chucked it back really hard.
Half the time? More like a fourth. The program started in 2038, and we weren't getting photos till '74. Then Observer 4 went from Hathor back to Earth in just 11 years, '75-'86.
@@gideonjones5712 Which should serve as a warning that the neighboring system is several steps on the tech tree ahead of us, and to hope they're decent people because otherwise we're cooked.
“this here’s Tartarus. got a little heart. most romantic holidays are taken here, although the sound of people crying after they get broken up with kind of ruins it.”
This one seems the most legit, really, the aliens even sents it back when they were done. Like, "Oh, honey the humans have finally sent a probe to our system! Lets give them the tour."
I thought the probe was just hijacked by a random alien hacker who placed some creepy footage on it for shits and giggles, triggering an uproar on Earth
my take is that it took 43 years to arrive to this solar system yet came back 4 times less than it needed to return, suggesting something helped move it back. I know it's obviously aliens but it would probably freak the hell out of the scientist to see the probe came back so quickly and I wonder if it came back without being prompted to
It wouldn't be practical to send it with the energy to return. It was always intended to be a one way trip. That means someone _sent_ it back, and considerably faster than we sent it to them, meaning they have far more resources at their disposal than we do. Better hope they're reasonable because if they want to curbstomp us, they will. I see it as more of a warning, like "You think you're hot shit? Guess what, you're a thousand years late to the game. Tread carefully."
My theory is that Mankind has long gone extinct after the probe was launched due to some "event", and an alien species that survived the horrors of war and destruction are experimenting with the last living human to see how they would react to their existence and destruction of their species and world
I really like this, I just have 1 major issue tho. Nyx (or Nix) is already a thing, it's one of Pluto's moons. Besides that, I really like the concept, and it feels refreshing to see an analog horror start in the future instead of the past
I like this spin on analog horror, although it is obviously based on Gemini Entertainment's "CRUSADER PROBE MISSION" I'm glad to see astronomy and analog horror being mixed. It's something I really do appreciate being obsessed with planets myself. Anuket however really reminds me of actual water worlds out there, and of course, Subnautica's Planet 4546B
My theory is that the Hathorians have been narrating the entire time. How else would the narrator know about all the "unimaginable horrors" or "organic moons" dotting the system? And when Hathor switches from Home to Hathor and back I think that just cements the idea in place.
I guess that would explain why Earth is possibly dead? But then what about the whole "Neighboring solar system"? Not to mention, WHEN exactly Explorer 4 got hacked and was turned around. Maybe the Hathorians hacked it when it started going into detail about the planets and then turned it around?
It’s my theory that they found the probe, realized that we were curious about their solar system, and decided to give us a tour. Think about it, if we found a space probe from another civilization that was researching our planet, we’d probably try to communicate about our home as well. If we sent the voyager out with a golden disk that contained everything about us, the inverse would be reasonable as well.
Some constructive criticism. Shesmu was great. That thing that appeared for a split second really caught me off guard, and I think that was the scariest part of the video. I didn't feel scared for the rest of it. Tartarus was a little cheesy, I think that whole block of text could have been toned down and made less stereotypically "creepy horror text", since subversion is working for you elsewhere, no need to use an overdone trope like that. I also highly recommend studying planetary system construction videos from Artifexian, he explains well how to properly order planets so their ordering makes sense scientifically (there's a reason our solar system is ordered jn the way it is). Keep up the great work!
Just coming from a space science guy, our solar system is actually the weird one. Gas giants can be right next to the star, and rocky planets can be far out in the system. Our solar system is the outlier, as we are so perfect. Most solar systems when they're still forming are SUPER insane and chaotic. That's why "hot jupiters" exist.
I think what I love about P L A N E T S is the fact that it's astronomy-based. I love Analog Horror and all of the things associated with horror, but usually this kind of stuff hinges too much on sci-fi elements and bringing creepy aliens into it. I like that we never see any creatures, it's all implied, and I think that works to the benefit of the video. I agree with Cafune and Chill, and Trent Flamion, Extrasolar System or Star System would be more apt of a name; But I like that Cafune phrases his last sentence as "Unless that was intentional..." because I think that puts the video in a new angle whether you meant that to happen intentionally or not. I loved every picture of the planets, these feel like real photos of Exoplanets up close and I love how the quality keeps going in and out as the pictures are displayed, almost like we're watching a video and the snap noises is the probe taking pictures with another camera. The graininess of the film is just grainy enough where it obscures some details but not enough so that we can still get a great view of the planets; The models you made in PlanetMaker are stellar (no pun intended), and I would love to see them up close if you allowed sharing the full files for them. Also, was calling Baphomet's moon Nyx intentional? Of course that's the name of one of Pluto's moon, but I really liked how the the image you used almost looks like the one New Horizon's took of Pluto's Nyx, if it was intentional I think that just goes to show the level of detail you went for which reflects highly of your work. Overall an excellent Analog Horror video that really makes the most of this concept, I would love to watch an actual documentary series on this just talking about different characteristics with lots of new photos and small simulations showing other things like moons transiting planets and all that.
Hah, the minute I saw the name "Baphomet" I knew that planet would probably be spicy. I take it the Hathorians altered the footage...which means they know what's actually on those planets. What has to be on a planet for it to be simple "a nightmare", I wonder?
Honestly I know this is meant to be scary but the idea that there's life out there that's smart enough to understand us and talk to us no matter how alien or hostile is extremely comforting. It's nice to stare at the stars and know somewhere someone is starring back at back at you.
This, for me personally even the eerie music sounds misplaced because i can't help think of how cool it would be if something like that actually happened.
@@panzercrewman616 they didn’t seem hostile. They gave a personal tour of their solar system and then had the decency to return the probe. Horus being used for experimentation isn’t much different from how we are planning to experiment on Mars in terms of terraforming, interplanetary habitation, and the search for life. Tartarus being alive and weeping may just mean that the planet has life, and either it rains constantly on the planet, or that there is high winds on the planet that sound like crying, as has been observed on some of our gas giants. It being described as a wandering gateway may mean that they are making incredible discoveries on it, it wandering may mean it has a more loose and erratic orbit. Perhaps the moons being described as alive may mean that they either also alive, or are geologically active, as many astronomers refer to geologically active planets as being alive. Anuket having “unimaginable terrors” isn’t even that bad, as hell, our own planet’s surface is about 75 percent ocean, of which we have only explored 5%, and we all should be familiar with some of the horrifying creatures that live deep beneath the waves, there most likely being countless more horrors in our ocean we just haven’t discovered yet. Baphomet being described as black as coal and a terrifying nightmare leads me to believe that the surface is extremely deadly, so deadly that a manned exploration or possibly even unmanned exploration would be impossible, whether that be due to a dangerous atmosphere, perhaps being highly corrosive, the atmosphere being so dense that the air pressure crushes anything near the surface, the planet being either extremely cold that it freezes any electronics and space suits, or extremely hot that it melts anything on the surface, or even a combination of some of these traits.
@@apollyonnoctis1291 I like those ideas better than my own! My idea was that Baphomet was populated by a sapient society of primitives that led bloody, brutal, cannibalistic lives and engaged in profane sexual rituals, blood sacrifices, etc. That it was off-limits to explorers because the natives are either able to overwhelm and slaughter any exploration party to reach the surface by hiding in the darkness, and/or because they use natural stealth (camouflage, masking their IR signatures, slowing their heart rates, suppressing the emission of pheromones) to gain the advantage over intruders... OR perhaps they're so ready to adapt to new technology that landing a probe on the planet would break their societal stasis and springboard their societal development, allowing them to possibly make new technological leaps by reverse-engineering and repurposing the probe's technology to give them the ability to surveil the system's other planets, learn of the other races inhabiting those other planets, and ultimately bring a war of extermination or enslavement to them. Like the Rakata from the Star Wars Legends continuity did to their neighboring civilizations.
I am so happy someone took analog and brought it to space. Tarturous disturbed me in how th reporter explain it "weeping" it confused and scared me. Its organic but...weeping? As if it's a living being completely? Confusing in a amazing way. Makes ya wonder what's our there and if we can find a planet with organic or even life at all. Even just a microscopic level Last but nor least anuket reminds me deeply of subnutica with the "unimaginable horrors" I thought of the ghost levianthan and the gargantuan leviathan
The way i can see it being the most "organic" and also weeping can be that one or a colony of several organisms that proliferated and thrived for so long and that also has intelligence but can't do anything, it's just like thinking flesh just sitting there endlessly depressed. All tomorrows had something simillar with the colonials.
there's a very eerie feeling to pictures of our outer solar system. just how far out Saturn or Neptune are from Earth, it's just eerie thinking about these giant worlds out in the void, so far out our sun looks tiny. your video really captures that slightly eerie feeling of starnge, distant worlds.
I think that the other solar systems is a system dominated by Panspermia, most planets in it have some form of life and they are all connected in a very deep level. While traveling through it the probe becomes corrupted by the system's influence and is drawn towards Hathor, now believing it to be Earth. The intelligent aliens collect the probe and send it back.
Besides the obvious Gemini Home Entertainment callbacks, I quite enjoyed this. My only critique would be that you can't really call a planetary system that is not of the Sun (or, as it's also known, *Sol*) a "Solar System". I would've rather called it an "extrasolar system". Unless that was intentional...
Sol is Sun in hispanic languages isn't actually "known" like that by anyone else but hispanic people, is like how people still believe Moon's name is "Luna" when that's just Moon in hispanic languages too
You know how I even got here? I saw this video, and seeing the name and thumbnail of the video, at first, I thought this was about the Planet Mustafar from Star Wars, but when I looked through the vid, I saw no mention of Mustafar, and then I chose to give the video a shot, and I found myself watching the start of what *must* be one of the greatest things I ever saw.
Helios’s moons could feed off of the gases of helios, or simply put could just photosynthesize. Most of the other planets appear relatively normal, with only the final two having life on them. Hathor may harbor intelligent life who saw the observer 4 probe, and didnt like that so they looked at what was on it (hence signal lost) then sent it back to earth.
Lil' feedback if I may: "Show, don't tell" can be hard in this format, but if you just tell us that something is a "terrifying nightmare" or "home to unimaginable horrors" it doesn't really make it frightening. Good practice in horror is never to just tell the audience directly that something is scary. I know there's presumably a character who is conveying this information, but their dry tone for the rest of it doesn't really convey that they're personally frightened and expressing that. Some of the subtle moments of motion like that half-second of a moving shadow were well executed though!
Given the style of the video, the creator probably couldn't, and I'd assume the point wasn't the horrors on the planets, but how the narrator knew (it was aliens)
@@lucassism6726 still a bit unimpressive. Like, we already knew that there were aliens right from the get go, and the twist “it was aliens all along” is pretty predictable. They would have been better off communicating the horror through things like weird signal interference, baffling readings, stuff like that. Being told by aliens that a planet has monsters on it is pretty unimpressive. Just “okay, there’s gross stuff in your oceans? Cool, we have that too. That’s just how oceans work.”
i want to give Tartarus a hug ;-; also i know this is supposed to be creepy (and situationally, it is) but tbh i like Hathor and Anuket and just wanna be friends with whoever is living the next star system over. stuff i really liked as far as set up, atmosphere, and plot: - whatever crept over the front of Shesmu right before the probe got interrupted the first time - the ambient sound - Helios’s fuzzy moon? Hermera - WHO IS USING HORUS FOR EXPERIMENTS - the text is honestly very sympathetic towards a lot of these discoveries - “Anuket’s oceans are home to horrors :)” is such a vibe this does feel very heavily inspired by Gemini Home Entertainment’s solar system video, but that one’s my favourite so it’s great to have two vids like it and i enjoyed this one a lot; it had it’s own flair and charm. it would be nice if you linked back to GHE’s vid if it *directly* inspired this one
After the connection was severed the first time, I knew something was wrong, the probe had no way of knowing what is a experiment from an alien perspective, and from that distance no less. Oooh, this is good, dead space levels of brethren moons danger. I'm getting hooked in this analog horror thing.
@@trollge419 true but at least a timer and sensor to know when it arrives and if nothing in between is on collition course is necessary. And on the other solar system it still needs to have enough energy to work.
As someone fascinated with cosmology, it's definitely an interesting choice for horror since everything you read about the universe causes a bit of an elevated heart rate anyway. I personally didn't feel much more existential dread than usual and found the educational bit strange considering a lot of subjective information was given too. Education is saying "the ocean is deep", opinion is saying "and terrifying". Sure, black holes and neutron stars are arguably "terrifying" to some, but that isn't really an educational aspect of what information is conveyed. My only gripe though, otherwise I found the whole thing interesting and frankly, the only word that comes to mind is delightful, which is a weird word that comes to mind but there were so many moons photographed and moons are adorable.
My theory: In the future we finally decided to search for other planets, and so far we have, until it was hijacked by aliens. They would then use it to show us planets we might not want to see including their own planet. It’s called “the second earth” because the aliens are giving it a name the humans can relate to, it’s not a literal second earth. They then send the probe back to Earth, but they are mostly doing it so they can observe our world now. We basically exposed ourselves to them
Hathor is probably the unknown object , cause when you see hathor there is like a light in the middle . Kinda looks like brethren Moon from dead space 3 , they able to interupt the radar.
finally, analog horror that doesnt have a music that stops when it gets creepy. did i mention that they dont have music at all? i like that part. its also creative and its easy to come it with interesing theories, ive read the comments alright.
I get the naming that was used for the planets but to be honest as someone who is familiar with mythology from Egypt, Greek/Roman, and Mesopotamian, the naming didn’t really make that much sense. For example, Helios is a sun titan and Apophos is a leviathan. It would make more sense to title a black hole or void as Apophos, and a star as Helios.
It feels like they were giving us a tour of their home system, thus the quips the satélite had on the planets like it knew them already. And by the end its just the things that took over the observer observing us, discussing that they discovered new life, us, and what could they find next.
This feels like a new type of analog horror. It plays in the future instead of the past, I found the planet sound effects very interesting, they remind me of NASA's audio that they have recorded from planets and galaxies. They give off a eerie yet interesting vibe. I was also expecting creatures but I'm not disappointed to not get any, I like how this analog horror just works. It doesn't have any creatures or monsters as far as I know and still manages to be spooky.
i just came from a brazilian chanel that makes a video series about your arg, and its the best arg i´ve ever seen, the solar system theme is so original and amazing, never stop it ; )
I thought after Gemini Home Entertainment, I wouldn’t be scared by anything inspired by it, I thought ok I made it through that and Local58, but no this also freaks me out lol, good job
This is why I love analog horror. This gives off strong Local 58 vibes, and I love it. The fact that it's so cryptic and provides no answers makes it great for discussions in the comments, and it's fun to see the ideas people come up with. I would love to see some sort of continuation, or at least another Astronomy related thing like this! Very cool!
My theory is that while the mission took place, a parent universe collapsed into our own, the probe entered our solar system, it was just parallel to ours, for example mercury being blue and being the farthest away and having a moon of its own, Saturn being blue and Venus having it's colors looking like they were smeared and placed in different places. This means that the solar system the probe entered was ours just the one that came before our universe was "birthed" by the parent one which collapsed onto the smaller one (ours) passing it's own matter onto our universe, with some differences of course.
Hmm, could've done better on the graphics of "Helios", it was the only one that looked too uncanny to be real, but then again, all photos of planets that have been taken in real life, the planets have looked a bit strange. Other than that Earth should've looked very different by the year the probe returned, unless that was intentional, implying that the photo of Earth wasn't real, interesting if that's the case. *{-:*
"Can we have Gemini Home Entertainment?" "We have Gemini Home Entertainment at home" *Gemini Home Entertainment at home* : Lol nah jk, this is a tight series too! I wish it was still going
I like the use of sound. The simple, low-quality music and the little mechanical noises, and the eerie thousand-mph-wind-past-the-microphone sounds, like a call from the void
imagine what these planets might sound like if we were to record their electromagnetic waves doubt they could beat saturn on the spookiness scale but it still would be really cool :0 the line "you've found new life, isn't this what you wanted?" seems so haunting, like someone knows something about this other solar system that we don't, or like it's so horrific we can't comprehend what it is we're supposed to be looking at and then the probe photographs "earth" with hathor being briefly titled "home" as well,,,,, are there two earths? is one earth more intelligent than the other? are we bout to die? shit bro--- i really like this!! whenever there's something space related that isn't like an hour long documentary or informative in some way i get really uncomfortable, especially if it's about planets other than our own
I adore astronomy and analog horror so this was a fantastic video to watch :D the idea of humanity looking for extraterrestrial life and literally finding living planets is genius! Looking forward to seeing this concept / story expanded upon
Wow that was pretty nice, as someone with knowledge in the subject of astronomy I'm going to make some highlights on why I think this is so well done. - The probe takes 36 years to reach the neighbouring solar system. I'm assuming it's the Alpha Centaury system (4 light years away) given it is the closest. The speed required for that is 0.125 c, well within the reach of the plausibility. Then it takes 11 years to reach the Solar System back, which would place the speed of the probe at almost half the speed of light. It is roughly at that speed at which relativistic effects start kicking and making faster travel not worth it. Who/Whatever sent the probe back to Earth (no way it has fuel to turn back) knows about this and has accurate ways of predicting orbits from far away. - The asteroids: The second is either way too smooth or the camera did not catch it right. The third one is definetely NOT an asteroid. Something so dark has to be organic, and thise "fibers" remind me of graphite or silica, with silicates being the main components of PC's hardware. - For the planets I am asumign that the probe goes from the outermost parts of the system to those closest to the stars, which would make sense as we start with a Pluto-like body (recoloured Calysto?). Blue rocks are not common and until the last frames I thought that was an ice giant. Viridis probably has a lot of organic matter too. Also the probe moves between planets in less than a month, that's faster than any of own probes. - Isn't Caerulus eerily similar to Saturn except in colour? As in, having a similar amount of moons points to either a massive stroke of luck or... intentional design. Same with Shesmu and Venus. And speaking of Shesmu, not only is that shadow huge (~40% of the planet's radius, assuming Venus-size it is a sphere over 4,000 km, larger than the moon) but it also moves very fast. It covers roughly 5% of Shesmu's circumference in a second, which asuming Venus proportions again, it moves at 1,844 km/s or almost 7 MILLION km/h. That is well over 20 times faster than the faster man-made object (Parker probe). - Probes and satellites can regain connection by themselves, but that's extremely rare, pretty sure the massive unknown object hijacked it. They also did some nasty things to Horus and it's moon, Amon, looks as fragmented as Uranus' Miranda, a moon that was (almost?) destroyed and then recomposed itself through gravity. - Helios' dark side is a bit too bright, maybe there's something emiting light under the toxic cloud cover. Also those are NOT moons, stay away, they look like some sort of amalgamation of organic matter and technological elements, maybe they are even alive somehow, specially Tartarus, which seems to be some sort of cosmic slave, and a gateway to...? - Both of Baphomet's moons are existing objects already, Phobos is a moon of Mars (in a weird orbit, scheduled to crash into the planet in some 20 million years) and Nyx is one of the five moons of Pluto (seems Charon's not enough). - Hathor is very likely the homeworld of whatever hijacked the probe. I'm not sure at all they were the ones that built the unknown object. In any case they know we exist and are monitoring our moves, we are their prisoners, if they can send probes at half the speed of light who knows what they could send here. Also they cracked human language easily.
It's a really refreshing analog horror. The only other analog horror that I've seen delve more into extraterrestrial horror and planets is Gemini, which I see has some influence on this project, but it's still really good. Hopefully we'll get to see more of your work!
Not one for a lot of these of analog horror but you got some planets and some "fear of the unknown"esqe. You got my attention, feeling like learn about some of planets. Continue doinh your best with the format at hand
Love how when it first loses connection the narration turns into a more first person perspective and suggests that the aliens are narrating to us after hijacking the ship.
i think that space beasts and strange planets are such a unique and unexplerored theme i love space and part of that love comes from how terrifyingly awesome and sinister it is and people getting creative with it is so cool its like mixing the best from megalophobia, subnautica and space
As a child I was fascinated astronomy and horror among other things. It’s hard to explain but this awakened something in me. Intertwining two things that both hold memories of a simpler time. Keep up the good work
Loved the video, but one thing stood out to me. At one point, Nyx is a moon that is mentioned. One of Pluto's moons is called Nix, which is named after the Greek goddess of the name Nyx. While it is possible that future astronomers would use the alternate spelling to differentiate the two; it is doubtful that the name would be used/reused for another moon. Besides that, all of the names were good and realistic. The planets themselves seemed realistic, and the feeling of foreboding and being watched was present throughout the video. You did a wonderful job.
I like this video because it’s not a stereotypical analog horror with a creepy looking image with a loud noise in the background every couple of minutes, yet it still manages to be unsettling the entire way through. I also love the sci-if theme to it. Really cool!
2:42 A shadow on Shesmu? Dunno what else to say. I don't know if there's some sort of lore to this horror that would explain it, or if it was a bug, or if I'm seeing it wrong, or maybe if it was the object spotted, or if it was just a shadow from a moon or whatnot. Just thought it was interesting. Also, I enjoy how some lines almost make sense, but not quite. It makes you curious. Good example is "its moons are unique and alive" and "it's unique for its 'face'" And Tartarus as a whole made almost but not quite sense. It even looked weird. It had a heart on it.
I like this kind of horror. Not banking on jumpscares and instead building on suspense and existential dread. I hope you do more like this. Also interesting is this is taking a sort of futuristic angle instead of some shock factor from the past, etc.
I love this video! As an astronomy lover, I came across quite by accident and am ready to say that you feel this atmosphere of space and its cold empty planets
I think what terrifies me the most is the sounds used in the video. They may not be of the highest quality or even the most creative, but occasionally they'll cut out and I'll hear my own breathing and it just creeps me out.
hey not bad. you've got a good concept here. it's neat to see analog horror set in the future, and the idea of an entire solar system being spooky is an excellent idea. i think you could go a little further with that, actually--maybe step out of analog and into digital. i think you could do something really interesting with a highly polished, futuristic sort of presentation video that still manages to be creepy. kind of like a horror movie set in the daytime. and don't be afraid to go more subtle with the planet descriptions. creepy text is a staple of analog horror, but the best parts of this video were the more subtle parts--like the shadow on shesmu, the fact that the probe lost connection for so long, and the fact that it managed to return to our own solar system so quickly. if you end up making another video like this, i feel like you could really expand this concept and do something really new and fascinating with the analog horror genre.
This type of video is one that will probably do well on RUclips (also it has some very nice lore elements too, and the subtle creepiness and sudden shock of Interloper.
As someone who just really likes space I was just here for the cool planet design. Was too busy looking at planets to realize one had a fucking eye until I read the comments lmao
this reminds me to the Great Barrier hypothesis that explains that life is quite rare in the universe because of achievements in a civilization's progression that would otherwise destroy them; finding developing alien life would mean we aren't in a special place in the cosmos and our extinction is imminent
Love this video, the sounds alone are fantastically creepy and really sells the cold lonely emptiness of space and the visuals are like perfectly replicating how actual satellite photos look. My biggest problem would be the planet descriptions, imo if you had gone a little more scientific and for lack of a better term sterilized description it would have really sold everything even when the planets begin to become more threatening and bizarre in nature (flesh moon is scary love the idea). For instance Anuket could have benefitted from a more “grounded” explanation, I just feel like there would be a better way to convey that the planet is filled with all sorts of horrific lovecraftian monsters than just outright saying it. Maybe something to the effect of “we tried to get an image of the surface but it was forcefully redacted by the higher ups” or even “the staff agreed to not showcase the photo of the surface due to the graphic and unsettling nature of the contents within.” I hope you keep going with this idea, analog horror that’s space based is surprisingly uncommon and I think it’s a super cool idea, lots of untapped potential with how vast the universe is
This is such a cool idea now that the channel has been updated. Taking the idea from Gemini Home Entertainment with the whole living planet thing. Is fucking awesome and deserves more attention.
I like how the documentary gets more unhinged and poetic, and the planets are named after eerie deities and then ends with "we hope you liked it". Maybe the aliens were just pranking us, or do they?
oh i love how this takes place in space. usually, analog horror takes place on earth with short aliens appearance in between. i like how this explores things from a native perspective, and take place not in the distant or recent past, or even the present, but in the future. i'm not that knowledgeable in astronomy to know what you're doing with the names of different religions' gods and demons, but i'm intrigued, and i am very puzzled at how the observer managed to come back to earth. like, how??? looking forward to more!
technically speaking, sound shouldn’t be heard. This is because in space there’s no atmosphere and consequently sound can’t travel. Very good job though, keep going bro💯
This is fascinating, like the idea of visiting new worlds with a probe but then finding anomalies in the footage. Feel the hijack might've been noticable too early, think around the organic moons part. However one thing that really worked was playing with the sounds made me think of real sounds taken from Jupiter and Saturn of I think it was the EM fields, gave a more creepy vibe. Would be interesting to see more cosmic horror like this. Have some Local 58 vibes a bit to it I feel so keep moving forward.
I get the feeling the image distortion of that final moon was the probe flying by at extreme speeds, and the distortion of the final Earth images were basically the probe heading in for a rather destructive relativistic-speed return-to-sender.
First off, fantastic work. The first frame an ominous preview of what's to come, only to be subverted with calm music which is then taken away. One minor critisism I have though is that the bitrate is really shoddy in places (I'm guessing it's the youtube compression - an upload of the raw video file for download would be fantastic to help mitigate this), which obscures some necessary details especially when high-contrast pictures are shown. If it's not to blame on YT however, you wanna check your rendering settings and set the bitrate a good few hundred bits higher at least. As someone who loves astronomy and horror, this was a marvelous experience. Keep it up!
you could have simply titled the video 'P L A N E T S' without the genre indicator. remember, the more unexplained/mysterious the video at its base is, the more interesting/appealing it becomes
Ik this is horror, but I find it kind of romantic in a way that we name the planets and moons after the gods of old, honouring them by giving the things we look at in wonder with their names. (I know Tartarus is a gate and not a god but you get the idea lol)
It’s incredibly interesting how every planet prior to Baphomet was named after a Greek god, yet Baphomet itself was named after a demon. This proves especially unsettling when you consider that Tartarus, which is described as a “gateway” here, is the Greek equivalent of hell.
It reminds from that one video from The Gemini Home Entertainment Apart from that, great work my dude, space horrors is also my thing because it is interesting yet scary at the same time Plus Hathor of the way it opens it's "white eye" reminds me of the mutated neptune, controlled by The Iris
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Even though this takes place in the future, the fact that the craft is able to just "turn around" back to Earth is scientifically almost impossible without imput from something else... spooky stuff
It literally went "ight imma head out"
Especially since it got back to Earth in like, less than half the time it took to get there in the first place. Someone turned it around and chucked it back really hard.
Half the time? More like a fourth. The program started in 2038, and we weren't getting photos till '74. Then Observer 4 went from Hathor back to Earth in just 11 years, '75-'86.
@@gideonjones5712 Which should serve as a warning that the neighboring system is several steps on the tech tree ahead of us, and to hope they're decent people because otherwise we're cooked.
@@mal2ksc or the other system has a bad writer behind itself
I like to think these aliens are chill and just hijacked the probe to give us a more personal tour
“this here’s Tartarus. got a little heart. most romantic holidays are taken here, although the sound of people crying after they get broken up with kind of ruins it.”
Maker of vid pls confirm
This one seems the most legit, really, the aliens even sents it back when they were done. Like, "Oh, honey the humans have finally sent a probe to our system! Lets give them the tour."
Makes sense
I thought the probe was just hijacked by a random alien hacker who placed some creepy footage on it for shits and giggles, triggering an uproar on Earth
"Helios is a very special planet, it's moons are unique and alive"
Unique and *WHAT*
Ngl, They probably mean like, it's close to having organic stuff like Earth, but just possibly doesn't have enough of it to count as a planet.
Just Geologically I guess
@@Strider_Mane no, what it definitely means is that the moons of Helios are alive, you can see that by observing that they have a certain movement
eh.
the doctor told helios that he is a very special helios and that he hasn't seen a helios like that in his whole fucking life.
my take is that it took 43 years to arrive to this solar system yet came back 4 times less than it needed to return, suggesting something helped move it back. I know it's obviously aliens but it would probably freak the hell out of the scientist to see the probe came back so quickly and I wonder if it came back without being prompted to
I have had a thought that a story about the voyager probe just turning around and appearing back at earth would be a good writinf promt
Also I think it took 10k years longer to return than it did to get there
@@europaaugust9598
February 1 2086, not February 12086.
It wouldn't be practical to send it with the energy to return. It was always intended to be a one way trip. That means someone _sent_ it back, and considerably faster than we sent it to them, meaning they have far more resources at their disposal than we do. Better hope they're reasonable because if they want to curbstomp us, they will. I see it as more of a warning, like "You think you're hot shit? Guess what, you're a thousand years late to the game. Tread carefully."
@@mal2ksc Iris is looking at us. Laughing at us.
So aliens hijacked the probe and gave us a cool tour of their hellscape solar system that's uniquely similar to ours
so is Earth supposedly "dead"? Or was the probe corrupted or taken by something that messed with the coloring? Either way, i hope to see more of this
Heres my theory, The second solar system IS our solar system, when the probe reached it, it got corrupted into a wrong reality
My theory is that Mankind has long gone extinct after the probe was launched due to some "event", and an alien species that survived the horrors of war and destruction are experimenting with the last living human to see how they would react to their existence and destruction of their species and world
THE PLANETS ARE SENTIENT
Another theory is that the image is a threat
what if the probe was launched like, during the corona program and the film is well... a century old. (Thats just my game theory)
I really like this, I just have 1 major issue tho. Nyx (or Nix) is already a thing, it's one of Pluto's moons. Besides that, I really like the concept, and it feels refreshing to see an analog horror start in the future instead of the past
If you like the concept, you should check out Gemini Home Entertainment, it goes really in depth and has it's own video game you can play
Apophis is also a thing, it's the name of a NEO(near earth objects)
i thought that pluto's moon was charon
@@samthedetectiveeevee pluto has five moons: charon, nyx, styx, kerberos and hydra.
@@samthedetectiveeevee Pluto has other moons besides Charon
I like this spin on analog horror, although it is obviously based on Gemini Entertainment's "CRUSADER PROBE MISSION" I'm glad to see astronomy and analog horror being mixed. It's something I really do appreciate being obsessed with planets myself. Anuket however really reminds me of actual water worlds out there, and of course, Subnautica's Planet 4546B
Pls don't remind me of the Reapers
@@odstat1949 I'm still traumatized by them
@@itshxste *ghost time*
@@odstat1949 *insert reaper leviathan roar here*
@@karatheshapeshifter1784 Fine. If you want it that way. *puts on Abandon Ship and knife*
My theory is that the Hathorians have been narrating the entire time. How else would the narrator know about all the "unimaginable horrors" or "organic moons" dotting the system? And when Hathor switches from Home to Hathor and back I think that just cements the idea in place.
Plus Horus being used for experiments even though humans are only seeing these planets for the first time
I guess that would explain why Earth is possibly dead? But then what about the whole "Neighboring solar system"? Not to mention, WHEN exactly Explorer 4 got hacked and was turned around. Maybe the Hathorians hacked it when it started going into detail about the planets and then turned it around?
It’s my theory that they found the probe, realized that we were curious about their solar system, and decided to give us a tour. Think about it, if we found a space probe from another civilization that was researching our planet, we’d probably try to communicate about our home as well. If we sent the voyager out with a golden disk that contained everything about us, the inverse would be reasonable as well.
yes, the humans never visited any of these planets
Considering that it explored the entire system, maybe the probe wasn't from Earth.
Some constructive criticism. Shesmu was great. That thing that appeared for a split second really caught me off guard, and I think that was the scariest part of the video. I didn't feel scared for the rest of it. Tartarus was a little cheesy, I think that whole block of text could have been toned down and made less stereotypically "creepy horror text", since subversion is working for you elsewhere, no need to use an overdone trope like that. I also highly recommend studying planetary system construction videos from Artifexian, he explains well how to properly order planets so their ordering makes sense scientifically (there's a reason our solar system is ordered jn the way it is). Keep up the great work!
Just coming from a space science guy, our solar system is actually the weird one. Gas giants can be right next to the star, and rocky planets can be far out in the system. Our solar system is the outlier, as we are so perfect. Most solar systems when they're still forming are SUPER insane and chaotic. That's why "hot jupiters" exist.
oh god i didnt notice that
When did that thing appear in the video? Timestamp?
@@someguysomeone3543 around 2:42. It's a dark shape that emerges from Shesmu's shadow.
@@tanuki9691 Damn I thought there would have been something scarier and more noticeable and sporadic like a single frame.
I think what I love about P L A N E T S is the fact that it's astronomy-based. I love Analog Horror and all of the things associated with horror, but usually this kind of stuff hinges too much on sci-fi elements and bringing creepy aliens into it. I like that we never see any creatures, it's all implied, and I think that works to the benefit of the video.
I agree with Cafune and Chill, and Trent Flamion, Extrasolar System or Star System would be more apt of a name; But I like that Cafune phrases his last sentence as "Unless that was intentional..." because I think that puts the video in a new angle whether you meant that to happen intentionally or not.
I loved every picture of the planets, these feel like real photos of Exoplanets up close and I love how the quality keeps going in and out as the pictures are displayed, almost like we're watching a video and the snap noises is the probe taking pictures with another camera. The graininess of the film is just grainy enough where it obscures some details but not enough so that we can still get a great view of the planets; The models you made in PlanetMaker are stellar (no pun intended), and I would love to see them up close if you allowed sharing the full files for them.
Also, was calling Baphomet's moon Nyx intentional? Of course that's the name of one of Pluto's moon, but I really liked how the the image you used almost looks like the one New Horizon's took of Pluto's Nyx, if it was intentional I think that just goes to show the level of detail you went for which reflects highly of your work.
Overall an excellent Analog Horror video that really makes the most of this concept, I would love to watch an actual documentary series on this just talking about different characteristics with lots of new photos and small simulations showing other things like moons transiting planets and all that.
If you want something different you should watch Monument mythos season 1 by alexkansas
@@TFD.aep2 Oh fancy, I'll take your recommendation on it
Gemni Home Entretainment be like:
Watch Valox.
Maybe you should try universe sandbox if you like stuff like that so much!
Hah, the minute I saw the name "Baphomet" I knew that planet would probably be spicy. I take it the Hathorians altered the footage...which means they know what's actually on those planets. What has to be on a planet for it to be simple "a nightmare", I wonder?
Send in the Doomslayer, he'll deal with it.
@@professorbraindead2951 he'll shoot a hole into its surface
@@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial You can't shoot the hole in the surface of the Hathor!
*Current objective: Shoot a hole in the surface of the Hathor*
The devil himself has taken up residence there lol
@@robertsmall5168 too bad for that person
Honestly I know this is meant to be scary but the idea that there's life out there that's smart enough to understand us and talk to us no matter how alien or hostile is extremely comforting. It's nice to stare at the stars and know somewhere someone is starring back at back at you.
This, for me personally even the eerie music sounds misplaced because i can't help think of how cool it would be if something like that actually happened.
Still scares me though. What will they look like. Will they like us? Do they resemble us? Will they kill us? We may never know until it happens
@@panzercrewman616 well it's implied it's a second earth with similar humans, so I guess, slightly terrifying, but diplomats can come to a compromise
@@panzercrewman616 they didn’t seem hostile.
They gave a personal tour of their solar system and then had the decency to return the probe.
Horus being used for experimentation isn’t much different from how we are planning to experiment on Mars in terms of terraforming, interplanetary habitation, and the search for life.
Tartarus being alive and weeping may just mean that the planet has life, and either it rains constantly on the planet, or that there is high winds on the planet that sound like crying, as has been observed on some of our gas giants.
It being described as a wandering gateway may mean that they are making incredible discoveries on it, it wandering may mean it has a more loose and erratic orbit.
Perhaps the moons being described as alive may mean that they either also alive, or are geologically active, as many astronomers refer to geologically active planets as being alive.
Anuket having “unimaginable terrors” isn’t even that bad, as hell, our own planet’s surface is about 75 percent ocean, of which we have only explored 5%, and we all should be familiar with some of the horrifying creatures that live deep beneath the waves, there most likely being countless more horrors in our ocean we just haven’t discovered yet.
Baphomet being described as black as coal and a terrifying nightmare leads me to believe that the surface is extremely deadly, so deadly that a manned exploration or possibly even unmanned exploration would be impossible, whether that be due to a dangerous atmosphere, perhaps being highly corrosive, the atmosphere being so dense that the air pressure crushes anything near the surface, the planet being either extremely cold that it freezes any electronics and space suits, or extremely hot that it melts anything on the surface, or even a combination of some of these traits.
@@apollyonnoctis1291 I like those ideas better than my own! My idea was that Baphomet was populated by a sapient society of primitives that led bloody, brutal, cannibalistic lives and engaged in profane sexual rituals, blood sacrifices, etc.
That it was off-limits to explorers because the natives are either able to overwhelm and slaughter any exploration party to reach the surface by hiding in the darkness, and/or because they use natural stealth (camouflage, masking their IR signatures, slowing their heart rates, suppressing the emission of pheromones) to gain the advantage over intruders...
OR perhaps they're so ready to adapt to new technology that landing a probe on the planet would break their societal stasis and springboard their societal development, allowing them to possibly make new technological leaps by reverse-engineering and repurposing the probe's technology to give them the ability to surveil the system's other planets, learn of the other races inhabiting those other planets, and ultimately bring a war of extermination or enslavement to them. Like the Rakata from the Star Wars Legends continuity did to their neighboring civilizations.
Tartarus literally looks like one of these chocolate candies with hazelnut bits when looking at the thumbnail.
Looks like a meetball.
Holy crap you're right
Looks like my cat treats.
Omg I thought the same! A believe they are called a "ferrero roche" but I'm likely misspelling that lol
Especially with that cute heart pattern if you look closely
I am so happy someone took analog and brought it to space.
Tarturous disturbed me in how th reporter explain it "weeping" it confused and scared me. Its organic but...weeping? As if it's a living being completely? Confusing in a amazing way. Makes ya wonder what's our there and if we can find a planet with organic or even life at all. Even just a microscopic level
Last but nor least anuket reminds me deeply of subnutica with the "unimaginable horrors" I thought of the ghost levianthan and the gargantuan leviathan
the OP wouldn't be the first, this is blatantly based on CRUSADER PROBE MISSION
@@SeanSkyhawk yep, it is heavily based on Gemini Entertainment's probe mission
Its a got damn meatball in space
Funniest shit I’ve ever seen
The way i can see it being the most "organic" and also weeping can be that one or a colony of several organisms that proliferated and thrived for so long and that also has intelligence but can't do anything, it's just like thinking flesh just sitting there endlessly depressed. All tomorrows had something simillar with the colonials.
@@mauriciomeyer627 that's quite a interesting take on that wording in the video. I find it pretty interesting
there's a very eerie feeling to pictures of our outer solar system. just how far out Saturn or Neptune are from Earth, it's just eerie thinking about these giant worlds out in the void, so far out our sun looks tiny.
your video really captures that slightly eerie feeling of starnge, distant worlds.
Think about the other giant worlds out in the void, beyond the light of any sun!
@@DroxDD Rogue gas giants must be really spicy, I wonder if they could have comet like tails. Thought they would probably lose all their mass quickly.
I think that the other solar systems is a system dominated by Panspermia, most planets in it have some form of life and they are all connected in a very deep level. While traveling through it the probe becomes corrupted by the system's influence and is drawn towards Hathor, now believing it to be Earth. The intelligent aliens collect the probe and send it back.
Besides the obvious Gemini Home Entertainment callbacks, I quite enjoyed this. My only critique would be that you can't really call a planetary system that is not of the Sun (or, as it's also known, *Sol*) a "Solar System". I would've rather called it an "extrasolar system". Unless that was intentional...
so im not the only one who got Gemini Home Entertainment vibes!
Just call it a “star” system.
@@Storm_280 Or that, yea
Sol is Sun in hispanic languages isn't actually "known" like that by anyone else but hispanic people, is like how people still believe Moon's name is "Luna" when that's just Moon in hispanic languages too
@@etherealhatred I know that Sol is originally a Latin word that is occasionally used in sci-fi as to distinguish it from other stars
You know how I even got here? I saw this video, and seeing the name and thumbnail of the video, at first, I thought this was about the Planet Mustafar from Star Wars, but when I looked through the vid, I saw no mention of Mustafar, and then I chose to give the video a shot, and I found myself watching the start of what *must* be one of the greatest things I ever saw.
Helios’s moons could feed off of the gases of helios, or simply put could just photosynthesize. Most of the other planets appear relatively normal, with only the final two having life on them. Hathor may harbor intelligent life who saw the observer 4 probe, and didnt like that so they looked at what was on it (hence signal lost) then sent it back to earth.
Lil' feedback if I may: "Show, don't tell" can be hard in this format, but if you just tell us that something is a "terrifying nightmare" or "home to unimaginable horrors" it doesn't really make it frightening. Good practice in horror is never to just tell the audience directly that something is scary. I know there's presumably a character who is conveying this information, but their dry tone for the rest of it doesn't really convey that they're personally frightened and expressing that. Some of the subtle moments of motion like that half-second of a moving shadow were well executed though!
Given the style of the video, the creator probably couldn't, and I'd assume the point wasn't the horrors on the planets, but how the narrator knew (it was aliens)
Agreed, this video is a bit too try hard on the creep front. Let people make their own horrors using their imagination rather than spell it out
@@lucassism6726 still a bit unimpressive. Like, we already knew that there were aliens right from the get go, and the twist “it was aliens all along” is pretty predictable. They would have been better off communicating the horror through things like weird signal interference, baffling readings, stuff like that. Being told by aliens that a planet has monsters on it is pretty unimpressive. Just “okay, there’s gross stuff in your oceans? Cool, we have that too. That’s just how oceans work.”
I suppose H.P. Lovecraft was a bad horror writer in your opinion then since he frequently said things like that in his stories.
@@einzelfeuer_2855 if Lovecraft released his material today then yes, it absolutely would not fit contemporary trends in horror
i want to give Tartarus a hug ;-; also i know this is supposed to be creepy (and situationally, it is) but tbh i like Hathor and Anuket and just wanna be friends with whoever is living the next star system over.
stuff i really liked as far as set up, atmosphere, and plot:
- whatever crept over the front of Shesmu right before the probe got interrupted the first time
- the ambient sound
- Helios’s fuzzy moon? Hermera
- WHO IS USING HORUS FOR EXPERIMENTS
- the text is honestly very sympathetic towards a lot of these discoveries
- “Anuket’s oceans are home to horrors :)” is such a vibe
this does feel very heavily inspired by Gemini Home Entertainment’s solar system video, but that one’s my favourite so it’s great to have two vids like it and i enjoyed this one a lot; it had it’s own flair and charm. it would be nice if you linked back to GHE’s vid if it *directly* inspired this one
After the connection was severed the first time, I knew something was wrong, the probe had no way of knowing what is a experiment from an alien perspective, and from that distance no less. Oooh, this is good, dead space levels of brethren moons danger. I'm getting hooked in this analog horror thing.
Damn that probe has a lot of fuel in it, plus those planets and moons are must be loud since it can be heard in space
Well if it’s an interstellar probe, it must use some kind of super efficient engine, like an ion engine or a fusion engine.
Its probably how we get sounds of other planets. Translated from the wave frequencies
Or it could’ve just been moving Voyager style
Nuclear power or fusion and the sounds of the planets could be translated electromagnetic waves. GO look up saturn sound, it will freak you out!
@@trollge419 true but at least a timer and sensor to know when it arrives and if nothing in between is on collition course is necessary. And on the other solar system it still needs to have enough energy to work.
As someone fascinated with cosmology, it's definitely an interesting choice for horror since everything you read about the universe causes a bit of an elevated heart rate anyway. I personally didn't feel much more existential dread than usual and found the educational bit strange considering a lot of subjective information was given too. Education is saying "the ocean is deep", opinion is saying "and terrifying".
Sure, black holes and neutron stars are arguably "terrifying" to some, but that isn't really an educational aspect of what information is conveyed. My only gripe though, otherwise I found the whole thing interesting and frankly, the only word that comes to mind is delightful, which is a weird word that comes to mind but there were so many moons photographed and moons are adorable.
My theory: In the future we finally decided to search for other planets, and so far we have, until it was hijacked by aliens. They would then use it to show us planets we might not want to see including their own planet. It’s called “the second earth” because the aliens are giving it a name the humans can relate to, it’s not a literal second earth. They then send the probe back to Earth, but they are mostly doing it so they can observe our world now. We basically exposed ourselves to them
Hathor is probably the unknown object , cause when you see hathor there is like a light in the middle . Kinda looks like brethren Moon from dead space 3 , they able to interupt the radar.
I like the fact that this video isn’t necessarily scary, just unsettling/creepy
lmao its Tartarus from halo 2
Go watch alex kansas :p
Realy cool. I hope it will grow in to a large series.
Two habitable worlds and several anomalies? If Stellaris playthrough taught me anything, we have to colonize it immediately
Anuket- the water world
“Many unimaginable horrors live here”
I’m getting some subnautica vibes over here
finally, analog horror that doesnt have a music that stops when it gets creepy. did i mention that they dont have music at all? i like that part. its also creative and its easy to come it with interesing theories, ive read the comments alright.
Hathor: "You dare just come to our world and take some pictures?!"
Also Hathor: "btw here's my moon!"
I get the naming that was used for the planets but to be honest as someone who is familiar with mythology from Egypt, Greek/Roman, and Mesopotamian, the naming didn’t really make that much sense.
For example, Helios is a sun titan and Apophos is a leviathan. It would make more sense to title a black hole or void as Apophos, and a star as Helios.
It feels like they were giving us a tour of their home system, thus the quips the satélite had on the planets like it knew them already. And by the end its just the things that took over the observer observing us, discussing that they discovered new life, us, and what could they find next.
Can't believe this was only 2 months ago
This feels like a new type of analog horror. It plays in the future instead of the past, I found the planet sound effects very interesting, they remind me of NASA's audio that they have recorded from planets and galaxies.
They give off a eerie yet interesting vibe. I was also expecting creatures but I'm not disappointed to not get any, I like how this analog horror just works. It doesn't have any creatures or monsters as far as I know and still manages to be spooky.
i just came from a brazilian chanel that makes a video series about your arg, and its the best arg i´ve ever seen, the solar system theme is so original and amazing, never stop it ; )
Pombo atomico?
@@CondeMavro Sim!! Eu amoo
I liked the plot twist, I thought it was from our point of view but turns out it's actually Hathur's
I thought after Gemini Home Entertainment, I wouldn’t be scared by anything inspired by it, I thought ok I made it through that and Local58, but no this also freaks me out lol, good job
This is why I love analog horror. This gives off strong Local 58 vibes, and I love it. The fact that it's so cryptic and provides no answers makes it great for discussions in the comments, and it's fun to see the ideas people come up with. I would love to see some sort of continuation, or at least another Astronomy related thing like this! Very cool!
If you'd like another thing similar to this, check out Gemini Home Entertainment's Crusader Probe Mission. This video is heavily inspired by them
Anuket is home to many unimaginable horrors...
One of Anuket's unimaginable horrors: UwU what's this?
My theory is that while the mission took place, a parent universe collapsed into our own, the probe entered our solar system, it was just parallel to ours, for example mercury being blue and being the farthest away and having a moon of its own, Saturn being blue and Venus having it's colors looking like they were smeared and placed in different places.
This means that the solar system the probe entered was ours just the one that came before our universe was "birthed" by the parent one which collapsed onto the smaller one (ours) passing it's own matter onto our universe, with some differences of course.
Hmm, could've done better on the graphics of "Helios", it was the only one that looked too uncanny to be real, but then again, all photos of planets that have been taken in real life, the planets have looked a bit strange. Other than that Earth should've looked very different by the year the probe returned, unless that was intentional, implying that the photo of Earth wasn't real, interesting if that's the case. *{-:*
Earth did become very different. Apparently, it got dry
"Can we have Gemini Home Entertainment?"
"We have Gemini Home Entertainment at home"
*Gemini Home Entertainment at home* :
Lol nah jk, this is a tight series too! I wish it was still going
4:19 where's the clubstep monster
I wanna know more about the water planet. Very cool video. How did you render all those planets?
I used a website called PlanetMaker to create the planets, i then took a screen shot of them
@@blackdrag0nfish you should put a link and give credit to them in the video description.
Subnautica
That's the closest thing of a water world with horrors living in it's ocean
@@masterzoroark6664 Welcome to 4546B, enjoy your stay.
@@masterzoroark6664 ummm, there's actual water worlds out there y'know. We just don't know if they support life.
I'm not here to start an argument
I like the use of sound. The simple, low-quality music and the little mechanical noises, and the eerie thousand-mph-wind-past-the-microphone sounds, like a call from the void
I love this. Please expand and make more if possible
imagine what these planets might sound like if we were to record their electromagnetic waves
doubt they could beat saturn on the spookiness scale but it still would be really cool :0
the line "you've found new life, isn't this what you wanted?" seems so haunting, like someone knows something about this other solar system that we don't, or like it's so horrific we can't comprehend what it is we're supposed to be looking at
and then the probe photographs "earth"
with hathor being briefly titled "home" as well,,,,, are there two earths? is one earth more intelligent than the other? are we bout to die? shit bro---
i really like this!! whenever there's something space related that isn't like an hour long documentary or informative in some way i get really uncomfortable, especially if it's about planets other than our own
@boobie maniac J1407b.
I adore astronomy and analog horror so this was a fantastic video to watch :D the idea of humanity looking for extraterrestrial life and literally finding living planets is genius! Looking forward to seeing this concept / story expanded upon
I love the perspective shift halfway though, feels like we're being guided down a tower of someone's passion.
Wow that was pretty nice, as someone with knowledge in the subject of astronomy I'm going to make some highlights on why I think this is so well done.
- The probe takes 36 years to reach the neighbouring solar system. I'm assuming it's the Alpha Centaury system (4 light years away) given it is the closest. The speed required for that is 0.125 c, well within the reach of the plausibility. Then it takes 11 years to reach the Solar System back, which would place the speed of the probe at almost half the speed of light. It is roughly at that speed at which relativistic effects start kicking and making faster travel not worth it. Who/Whatever sent the probe back to Earth (no way it has fuel to turn back) knows about this and has accurate ways of predicting orbits from far away.
- The asteroids: The second is either way too smooth or the camera did not catch it right. The third one is definetely NOT an asteroid. Something so dark has to be organic, and thise "fibers" remind me of graphite or silica, with silicates being the main components of PC's hardware.
- For the planets I am asumign that the probe goes from the outermost parts of the system to those closest to the stars, which would make sense as we start with a Pluto-like body (recoloured Calysto?). Blue rocks are not common and until the last frames I thought that was an ice giant. Viridis probably has a lot of organic matter too. Also the probe moves between planets in less than a month, that's faster than any of own probes.
- Isn't Caerulus eerily similar to Saturn except in colour? As in, having a similar amount of moons points to either a massive stroke of luck or... intentional design. Same with Shesmu and Venus. And speaking of Shesmu, not only is that shadow huge (~40% of the planet's radius, assuming Venus-size it is a sphere over 4,000 km, larger than the moon) but it also moves very fast. It covers roughly 5% of Shesmu's circumference in a second, which asuming Venus proportions again, it moves at 1,844 km/s or almost 7 MILLION km/h. That is well over 20 times faster than the faster man-made object (Parker probe).
- Probes and satellites can regain connection by themselves, but that's extremely rare, pretty sure the massive unknown object hijacked it. They also did some nasty things to Horus and it's moon, Amon, looks as fragmented as Uranus' Miranda, a moon that was (almost?) destroyed and then recomposed itself through gravity.
- Helios' dark side is a bit too bright, maybe there's something emiting light under the toxic cloud cover. Also those are NOT moons, stay away, they look like some sort of amalgamation of organic matter and technological elements, maybe they are even alive somehow, specially Tartarus, which seems to be some sort of cosmic slave, and a gateway to...?
- Both of Baphomet's moons are existing objects already, Phobos is a moon of Mars (in a weird orbit, scheduled to crash into the planet in some 20 million years) and Nyx is one of the five moons of Pluto (seems Charon's not enough).
- Hathor is very likely the homeworld of whatever hijacked the probe. I'm not sure at all they were the ones that built the unknown object. In any case they know we exist and are monitoring our moves, we are their prisoners, if they can send probes at half the speed of light who knows what they could send here. Also they cracked human language easily.
the way the ambient sound just resets and the planet comes closer to you gives me chills
It's a really refreshing analog horror. The only other analog horror that I've seen delve more into extraterrestrial horror and planets is Gemini, which I see has some influence on this project, but it's still really good. Hopefully we'll get to see more of your work!
Not one for a lot of these of analog horror but you got some planets and some "fear of the unknown"esqe. You got my attention, feeling like learn about some of planets. Continue doinh your best with the format at hand
this proves that bank camera quality will remain for more than 50 years in the future
I was so on-edge that the Powerade ad literally jump scared me back into the real world
Love how when it first loses connection the narration turns into a more first person perspective and suggests that the aliens are narrating to us after hijacking the ship.
The horror aspect went right over my head. i was sitting here going "planence :-)" the whole time
i think that space beasts and strange planets are such a unique and unexplerored theme
i love space and part of that love comes from how terrifyingly awesome and sinister it is and people getting creative with it is so cool
its like mixing the best from megalophobia, subnautica and space
This is underrated, I hope more people see this
As a child I was fascinated astronomy and horror among other things. It’s hard to explain but this awakened something in me. Intertwining two things that both hold memories of a simpler time. Keep up the good work
this was cool, i hope it gets popular and develop itself as time goes on like gemini home entertainment system
Loved the video, but one thing stood out to me. At one point, Nyx is a moon that is mentioned. One of Pluto's moons is called Nix, which is named after the Greek goddess of the name Nyx. While it is possible that future astronomers would use the alternate spelling to differentiate the two; it is doubtful that the name would be used/reused for another moon.
Besides that, all of the names were good and realistic. The planets themselves seemed realistic, and the feeling of foreboding and being watched was present throughout the video. You did a wonderful job.
"horus is an uninhabitable ice planet, it's unique for it's face"
Excuse me it's unique for *WHAT*
I like this video because it’s not a stereotypical analog horror with a creepy looking image with a loud noise in the background every couple of minutes, yet it still manages to be unsettling the entire way through. I also love the sci-if theme to it. Really cool!
2:42 A shadow on Shesmu? Dunno what else to say. I don't know if there's some sort of lore to this horror that would explain it, or if it was a bug, or if I'm seeing it wrong, or maybe if it was the object spotted, or if it was just a shadow from a moon or whatnot. Just thought it was interesting.
Also, I enjoy how some lines almost make sense, but not quite. It makes you curious. Good example is "its moons are unique and alive" and "it's unique for its 'face'"
And Tartarus as a whole made almost but not quite sense. It even looked weird. It had a heart on it.
The galactic civilization equivalent of "fuck around and find out cause I know where your parents live"
"Isn't it beautiful?"
No
*"Interloper"*
I got scared.
I like this kind of horror. Not banking on jumpscares and instead building on suspense and existential dread. I hope you do more like this. Also interesting is this is taking a sort of futuristic angle instead of some shock factor from the past, etc.
I love this video! As an astronomy lover, I came across quite by accident and am ready to say that you feel this atmosphere of space and its cold empty planets
I think what terrifies me the most is the sounds used in the video. They may not be of the highest quality or even the most creative, but occasionally they'll cut out and I'll hear my own breathing and it just creeps me out.
hey not bad. you've got a good concept here. it's neat to see analog horror set in the future, and the idea of an entire solar system being spooky is an excellent idea. i think you could go a little further with that, actually--maybe step out of analog and into digital. i think you could do something really interesting with a highly polished, futuristic sort of presentation video that still manages to be creepy. kind of like a horror movie set in the daytime. and don't be afraid to go more subtle with the planet descriptions. creepy text is a staple of analog horror, but the best parts of this video were the more subtle parts--like the shadow on shesmu, the fact that the probe lost connection for so long, and the fact that it managed to return to our own solar system so quickly. if you end up making another video like this, i feel like you could really expand this concept and do something really new and fascinating with the analog horror genre.
This type of video is one that will probably do well on RUclips (also it has some very nice lore elements too, and the subtle creepiness and sudden shock of Interloper.
As someone who just really likes space I was just here for the cool planet design. Was too busy looking at planets to realize one had a fucking eye until I read the comments lmao
I quite like it, although something being 'analogue' 50/60 years into the future seems unusual. Parallel universe?
Planets on a nature documentary: I sleep
Planets from an analog horror short: REAL SHIT?!
this reminds me to the Great Barrier hypothesis that explains that life is quite rare in the universe because of achievements in a civilization's progression that would otherwise destroy them; finding developing alien life would mean we aren't in a special place in the cosmos and our extinction is imminent
Love this video, the sounds alone are fantastically creepy and really sells the cold lonely emptiness of space and the visuals are like perfectly replicating how actual satellite photos look. My biggest problem would be the planet descriptions, imo if you had gone a little more scientific and for lack of a better term sterilized description it would have really sold everything even when the planets begin to become more threatening and bizarre in nature (flesh moon is scary love the idea). For instance Anuket could have benefitted from a more “grounded” explanation, I just feel like there would be a better way to convey that the planet is filled with all sorts of horrific lovecraftian monsters than just outright saying it. Maybe something to the effect of “we tried to get an image of the surface but it was forcefully redacted by the higher ups” or even “the staff agreed to not showcase the photo of the surface due to the graphic and unsettling nature of the contents within.” I hope you keep going with this idea, analog horror that’s space based is surprisingly uncommon and I think it’s a super cool idea, lots of untapped potential with how vast the universe is
This is such a cool idea now that the channel has been updated. Taking the idea from Gemini Home Entertainment with the whole living planet thing. Is fucking awesome and deserves more attention.
I like how the documentary gets more unhinged and poetic, and the planets are named after eerie deities and then ends with "we hope you liked it". Maybe the aliens were just pranking us, or do they?
This is absolutely phenomenal work. The idea is very unique and creative. It is extremely uneasy but fun to watch
Interesting. I'll be subbing to see what comes of this as horror but in space horrifies me.
@@mizzmic6871 universe is very big
oh i love how this takes place in space. usually, analog horror takes place on earth with short aliens appearance in between. i like how this explores things from a native perspective, and take place not in the distant or recent past, or even the present, but in the future.
i'm not that knowledgeable in astronomy to know what you're doing with the names of different religions' gods and demons, but i'm intrigued, and i am very puzzled at how the observer managed to come back to earth. like, how???
looking forward to more!
technically speaking, sound shouldn’t be heard. This is because in space there’s no atmosphere and consequently sound can’t travel. Very good job though, keep going bro💯
Look up sounds of the planets. They make sounds through radio waves I believe??
@@michsmichs607 ye u right, but you need to convert them on Earth through computers, if so you wouldn’t hear them
This is fascinating, like the idea of visiting new worlds with a probe but then finding anomalies in the footage. Feel the hijack might've been noticable too early, think around the organic moons part. However one thing that really worked was playing with the sounds made me think of real sounds taken from Jupiter and Saturn of I think it was the EM fields, gave a more creepy vibe. Would be interesting to see more cosmic horror like this. Have some Local 58 vibes a bit to it I feel so keep moving forward.
I get the feeling the image distortion of that final moon was the probe flying by at extreme speeds, and the distortion of the final Earth images were basically the probe heading in for a rather destructive relativistic-speed return-to-sender.
Oh. Oh dear. That sounds like an extinction event waiting to happen.
First off, fantastic work. The first frame an ominous preview of what's to come, only to be subverted with calm music which is then taken away.
One minor critisism I have though is that the bitrate is really shoddy in places (I'm guessing it's the youtube compression - an upload of the raw video file for download would be fantastic to help mitigate this), which obscures some necessary details especially when high-contrast pictures are shown. If it's not to blame on YT however, you wanna check your rendering settings and set the bitrate a good few hundred bits higher at least.
As someone who loves astronomy and horror, this was a marvelous experience. Keep it up!
you could have simply titled the video 'P L A N E T S' without the genre indicator. remember, the more unexplained/mysterious the video at its base is, the more interesting/appealing it becomes
I love seeing new spins to analog horror and having new creative ideas be applied to this genre is really cool, Bravo!
Ik this is horror, but I find it kind of romantic in a way that we name the planets and moons after the gods of old, honouring them by giving the things we look at in wonder with their names.
(I know Tartarus is a gate and not a god but you get the idea lol)
Did you make custom textures or did you just play with the program's settings a lot?
It’s incredibly interesting how every planet prior to Baphomet was named after a Greek god, yet Baphomet itself was named after a demon. This proves especially unsettling when you consider that Tartarus, which is described as a “gateway” here, is the Greek equivalent of hell.
It reminds from that one video from The Gemini Home Entertainment
Apart from that, great work my dude, space horrors is also my thing because it is interesting yet scary at the same time
Plus Hathor of the way it opens it's "white eye" reminds me of the mutated neptune, controlled by The Iris
this is a really rad new take on cosmic horror! I hope to see more of this content
I'm just really happy to see some of the more obscure names from mythology. Makes me feel less weird for knowing them :)
I like to think that a creature of biblical proportions died near Helios causing the parts of its body to collide and fuse with the Helios' moons
very good! I like how you made your own twist on the Gemini home entertainment style of content horror