I wrote a 19 page paper in college about a very similar topic! How govt. and private companies can and are working together to make space profitable. It felt like revisiting a lot of old research I had done, and it was cool to hear you come to the same conclusions. It’ll be interesting to see how the final frontier develops over the course of our lifetimes
Just like they said in Fight Club. "When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks."
Money is pretty much the reason for the vast majority of humanity's greatest achievements. Greed is good so long as the results better the majority of humanity.
G'day, Actually, it's more like, "Space, the Dutch Tulip-Bulb Investment Bubble...; in the Sky !". The Effects of Anthropogenic Global Warming is already deconstructing the Global Economy required to sustain any kind of Space "Industry"...; and effectively, the entire "Aerospace Industry" is currently functioning as a giant Diversional-Therapy Programme for otherwise Economically Unemployable Geeks, Nerds, and Engineers...., giving them something to do to keep them from revolting in the Streets. The Cloud of Satellites currently surrounding Earth is but one serious Coronal-Mass Ejection - or 3 Orbital EMP Nukeyoulater Bomb-Detonations, away from being a Halo of Space-Junk in decaying Orbits. Ho Chi-Minh ethnically-cleansed the Moon of all AmeriKans in 1973, when the cost of losing in Vietnam bankrupted Fort Knox and forced NASA to cancel the final 1/3rd of their Apollo Program..., and between them Sadman Whosinsane and Usama Bin-Laughin' shot Unkle Spam clear out of Manned Earth Orbit ; so right now NASA has no Human-Rated Crew-Vehicle in the Pipeline which will be ready for them to test-fly before their contract with Russcosmos for Soyuz Taxi-rides to the "ISS" (at $90 million per Seat) expires..., and China's shiny new Space Station is due to become a Fireball - falling back to Earth this Week, Meanwhile ALL forms of Surgery are known to be IMPOSSIBLE in Microgravity..., NASA tried it for 15 years on the Vomit-Comets, so therefore the First-Aid Kit on the ISS consists of a Packet of Painkillers, a Box of Band-Aids, a selection of Antibiotics ; and for anything requiring a more complex Treatment-Plan..., an Emergency Return to Earth - which takes 24 Hours to boot-up the Soyuz "Lifeboat", all assuming that the Patient can survive the 8 or 9 G's encountered during Re-Entry & Landing....(!). So said the US Government's Air & Space Smithsonian magazine's feature Article on the topic, a couple of years ago...; an it was the total impossibility of Surgically-Operating in Space which caused the cancellation of the planned US "Freedom" giant Space Station, which was to be a Halfway-Station between Earth & the Moon. Wake up to yourselves, and get real. Take it easy, Such is Life... ;-p Ciao !
Sam, you are awesome. You have only been on this planet for 19 years, and there are people who have spent over twice that amount of time studying *one* topic. You are better versed in multiple topics than many of those people are in one!
This was seriously an amazing and high quality video. I really love how you're engaging directly on location to get a better insight. Best channel I've subscribed to.
It takes years for most people to get past 50,000. I think he’s doing pretty well, his curve is nice and steady. I think he’s getting more subs more quickly purely *because* of the quality of the content. I can’t wait to see where he is in a few years. He really deserves to completely blow up; his content never disappoints!
Thank you for sharing the side of the space industry that doesn't seem to get much public attention. Usually the rocket launches get most of the public's attention but without companies/governments ordering launches, SpaceX and many other launch provider companies would not be possible.
Holy shit... 27min... time to strap in and enjoy! Btw Tyson interview is a good bit quieter then the rest of the video by a good margin. 27min later, and loved it! Great production value and loved the way you did your interviews.
InDieTasten Development well it wasn't just him, I listened on Bluetooth headphones and had to adjust my volume a few times from some swings. But that would be my only complaint about this video, well done for sure!
I love these sorts of videos for a vastly different reason than the majority of people, whereas the majority are simply consuming for entertainment I take notes and study. The specific businesses that are interviewed for most are cool concepts, for me it’s a unique insight into a business where I study their specific strengths and weaknesses and take notes on if/how I can improve their standard. It’s come to the point where I have numerous concepts and models of rocket engines, fuel delivery, aeronautical efficient designs, telecommunications concepts, observational improvements, energy efficiency, universe exploration, literally anything space/technology/physics/chemical/etc I probably have a theoretical concept or research model on it. The human brain is far to valuable to become complacent in the herd, science is not a political ideology for the collective morality of society, scientific philosophy of questioning everything and always remaining humble is what makes humans unique.. otherwise humanity is doomed to perpetually make the same mistakes history has taught us, the founding fathers of America understood this perpetual humility of humanity thus we were created for individual liberty and yet we appear to have forgotten this in modern society in favor of nihilism and defeatism.
TheGam3Tim3 ancient Greece: *calculates curvature of the earth from two sticks in the ground and was off by only a few meters* WWI soldier: "I need to take into account the curvature of the earth to calculate the mortar fire" People in 2018: "the Earth is flat" That's some real progress folks.
Minor correction, at 18:29 you list the pixel size in square inches, but it is actually linear inches. GSD (ground sample distance) is measured by the linear size of an edge of the pixel. Weird, I know.
@@kobyschuman7006 If an edge is 3 inches long, the area would be 9 inches squared. If it were 1/3 of an inch long, it would be 1/9 inches squared. They're measuring that edge length, not the area.
@@MineRoyale. The two systems are basically isomorphic to each other though. Since every positive integer has an associated square and every square number has an associated positive integer square root the set of all of which are the positive integers.
asteroid mining is unrealistic as of this moment with out a heavy infulstructure in space. lunar mining is a significantly more realistic and money making industry that NASA is even backing
Asteroid mining is about securing resources and averting a collision. Apophis is going to make a very close visit in 2029. If asteroid mining hasn't taken off by then this will be the catalyst. Asteroid Bennu is expected to come very close, perhaps collide, in ~700 years. There could easily be several more Tunguska/Chelyabinsk collisions to remind people of the importance of eliminating hazardous asteroids.
You're my all time favorite channel on RUclips. Thank you for putting this out there. Thank you for all your effort on creating high quality, exceptional and absolutely incredibly good content on the internet. You add up to the total amount of good service done to humanity, and human cultural, in general. I'm very proud and happy of what you made, and how far you have already gone; and hopeful and excited to see how far you'll still go. Thank you for inspiring me profoundly.
Amazing stuff man. I’ve been following for years now when you had just a few videos. Incredible to see how far you’ve come and how much this channel has grown, but also keeping the content interesting and very detailed. Congratulations. Keep it up and I wish you much success in the future.
I live 10 minutes from that glass satalite building. Grew up right down the street from it. Never gave a thought to what it was or who it was owned by. Blew my mind when I saw it in this video.
This might be one of the best videos on the internet. I think this goes above and beyond the other videos you normally put out, and I've loved those thus far. You were already one of my favorite channels, and this puts you way ahead of everyone else. Please keep up the phenomenal work!
And there's no reason for each to be mutually exclusive in regard to science and other related issues, either. I'm sure budding technologies could be applied to both efforts. In a sense they're both world-building endeavors.
Renewable energy, resource management and recycling, communications, robotics, 3d manufacturing...all fields that are useful in space that will also be useful back on earth.
I worked in areal photography in the early 2000's. When Digital Globe released their imagery to Google Earth, most of my busyness dried up over night and I was no longer able to make enough money to cover my operational costs.
Aerial photography can probably still be profitable, you'd just have to do it with drones instead. Granted those didn't really exist commercialy in the early 2000s...
Erik S Well, drone imagery can be profitable, but only in small areas where very high resolution is needed and images are needed very often. Satellite imagery is clearly the best solution for large landscapes.
At the Australian State government I work for, we still regularly order/purchase aerial imagery. This is because satellite imagery can not offer the same resolutions as aerial imagery (at least not for an equivalent price). With aerial imagery we get images with 3cm/6cm/10cm resolutions, which allows analysts to see a huge range of features that are obscured in 30cm, 60cm, 1m satellite imagery. Another benefit is that we can capture LIDAR data to record the landscape in 3D (even through tree canopies). Meanwhile drones are not able to capture the large area's we require (especially over urban area's due to restrictions). They have amazing spatial resolution ~1cm (it is even possible to map power lines) but for anything larger then a couple of football fields they quickly become effectively useless (due to battery life and regulations). So I believe we will still use a mixture of satellite, aerial and drone imagery into the foreseeable future. Mainly because they all serve different use cases for the different magnitudes at which we need to observe the earth.
fieldo85 Well, DigitalGlobe has entered the aerial imagery market too. I think that drones will be able to provide high-quality local imagery, but this will take a few years to become commercially feasible for larger areas.
vanmaren962 get at me I’m working on NVIDIA nano am AGX Xavier to make a spaceship dry dock. I want to make a facility that builds ships, equipment and mining operations. Basically a space factory
No matter how many videos I watch on this channel I am continuously blown away by the production quality a lot of major network broadcast TV is not this good. Nicely done.
I came here to say the same thing. At 7:37 it was said "... receive about a GigaBYTE of information every second" (GBps), then at 7:54 it's said it is a "gigaBIT connection" (Gbps). GBps does not equal Gbps. It is (at least) eight times faster.
Well typically when you hear gigabit/s the average person believes that information is being transferred at one gigabyte per second. In the case of the video it was simply the common misunderstanding between GB and Gb. All thanks to ISPs and other digital storage manufacturers that try to deceive the public this way by saying you get 8Gb/s per second when in reality in decimal system that is 1GB/s
As much as I enjoyed this video, I think we should be wary of vertical mergers. Competition is what keeps capitalism from becoming dystopian. Having one large company instead of many small ones would give the new company unprecedented power over the market, which if left unchecked can get very bad very fast. Just saying.
Vertical mergers don't cause monopolies like that though, buying one's competitors would be a horizontal merger. They can give a company a heavy advantage over their competitors, but it doesn't eliminate them (unless the "lower" or "higher" industry was a monopoly itself their competitors always have the option to perform vertical mergers themselves).
Vertical can be good though, Its how SpaceX can build a rocket cheaper than NASA. SpaceX builds almost every single part of an F9 in house at their Hawthorne facility. This means they do not have to shell money to hundreds of contractors across every state for things they should be doing in a single in house facility at the KSC.
@@DheerajBhaskar Norway has invested so much in their countries own future that the government could sustain the budget for 8 years on just their investments alone, no taxation needed. I'd say that's better than the USA, who keep spiralling into debt because they hand over billions to Lockheed martin in order to better detonate Pakistani weddings.
For those saying Gigabit != Gigabyte, they should know that Wendover was talking about the amount of data being collected in terms of gigabytes, while the other person was talking about the connection speed in terms of gigabits. Just a friendly reminder before you comment the same thing over and over
No, Wendover said about a Gigabyte every second, which is in fact a description of speed, and is 8x the Gigabit speed described by the dude from the company. Rookie mistake.
7:20 FYI... The LOS (Loss of Signal) column is a time shown in 24 hour format and the AOS (Acquisition of Signal) column to the left is in the same format. It's not a countdown time before signal is lost or acquired.
So going for aerospace or aeronautical engineering is a great option for me to take! Ever since I was liitle i've always loved planes and engines so :)
Imagine trying to get insurance for A rocket: "Hi, I would like insurance for a rocket... No, not a prank call... No, not to battle aliens... GIVE ME THE INSURANCE, OR ELSE I USE YOUR RIVAL"
Finally a video that explains Global satellite digital imagery. How come imagine resolution is poor in non-developed countries?! 🧐 as an architect working in one of these countries it’s difficult to use digital globe imagery due to extremely low resolution in detail. So I decided to produce own ultra high resolution images by using drone. Brilliant video many thanks
Could you do a video on how consolidation and mergers affect industry competition, growth, and innovation? I’m not certain all these things are directly related
This was one of the greatest RUclips videos I've ever seen. Your videos are always amazing, the quality is always there. Thank you so much for all of this. It is so appreciated!
I've noticed that his positions have been "fluid". I challenged him to predict the effect of windmills slowing the rotation of the earth and he declined.
Isn't the merger dangerous? In an industry thats becoming more profitable to have such a large company already might be dangerous to potential competition
I usually watch your videos while having lunch or dinner. It's a nice way of getting interesting information on topics I'm keen on. But this video… It felt more like watching a documentary, back when I would watch cable TV (up to 2013). It's really good to see channels like this moving on to making high production value content. Congratulations!
This video didn't age well. Maxar Technologies was chosen by NASA to build and fly the first elements of the Moon Gateway alongside Blue Origin and Draper.
This video was awesome! I appreciate the hard work and amount of time you guys spend on these videos, they're always really good, whenever I see a new Wendover or Half as Interesting video I will watch it in class cause it's more interesting than math or english. Keep up the great work guys!
Yup that's why I'm buying their stocks... lockheed 300$, mitsubishi electric 12$, airbus 120$, and they all pay dividends so I'll collect money even before they explode
It's not like that at all, the DEIC was financially inflated by the Brits, there wasn't tea to back up their worth. Virtually unlimited resources in space makes a stock collapse like the DEIC nearly impossible, you gotta fuck up real bad to lose money on space ventures.
@@rollog1248 Dutch in DEIC means from the netherlands (so little brits involved, it did start inflated by dutch tho), and yes there was "tea" to back up their worth. They had a world monopoly on trade, their own armys, could declare war on any country as a company, in sort of the name of the netherlands, they where by far the most powerul nation/company of that time. They literlaly destroyed tribes and countries for their profit, id call that having something to back up their net worth. Just like the first/best company to colonise space will have a monopoly and become one of the strongest.
It took me almost a year noticing my Away suitcase supports recursion, which is amazing! Now I have a total of three Away suitcases and use their compression systems to bring them down to the size of just one. Of course, the weight just adds up normally as expected, so I never tried more than three, but I doubt there's a limit.
If you really like this video topic, the European Space Agency has developed several free online courses in earth observation that I found really informative!
Gabriel francis Those industries will likely become important, but right now not one company is making profits of this as the technology is not yet developed,
@@Cat-ct9hn Virgin Galactic had their first successful space flight last week. I wonder how long it's going to take until they ferry their first tourists.
its been confirmed wendover is HOWTOBASIC. Just think about it how to basic hasnt revealed his identity yet and 3 days later wendover is doin a face reveal
One dude just made a 25 minute documentary better than most documentary teams. This is why I love this channel.
He does have a team, not that it changes anything.
Yea, it's definitely not one dude. But they're making hella money off this channel. Cudos to then
I wrote a 19 page paper in college about a very similar topic! How govt. and private companies can and are working together to make space profitable. It felt like revisiting a lot of old research I had done, and it was cool to hear you come to the same conclusions. It’ll be interesting to see how the final frontier develops over the course of our lifetimes
"So these three companies... are now one."
I did NOT see that plot twist coming.
"Here's the thing about Canada: The weather is terrible, and it's always dark."
and those are just the populated areas
this guy is dumb as fuck in the summer time its always light
I'm canadian and i lolled
Disagree, love Vancouver. Been in winter, spring & summer. There's no bad time of year there.
timesathousand it’s fucking hot in the summer and fucking cold in the winter.
"They are asking questions more difficult than ever." ---"How many trees are there?." *Starts counting*.
It's hard for a computer
How can I create partnership with this project
Feels like a 30 minute documentary. 👏
Austin Evans You watch Wendover!
Austin Evans noob
Hey Wendover, this is Productions.
Austin Evans it is
HeyGuysThisIsAustin yeah, he really should make a documentary company like vice or beme
Wendover: The Next Trillion Dollar Channel
Simon Clark: the next trillion dollar coder
rocketkids4: the next trillion dollar rocket booster
rocketkids4 : the next trillion dollar replier to replies
Me: the next trillion dollar annoyed guy by this silly joke XD
Simon Clark: The Next Trillion Dollar Science Communicator
HALF AN HOUR OF WENDOVER PRODUCTIONS AHHHHH
nnnnnggghhhhh wwwith Neil!!!
It's worth it
Huge respect, man! Thanks for this amazing quality, especially cause it is free for us.
If it wasn't free would anybody pay for it? I don't think so.
I keep on thinking he's about to introduce skillshare throughout the entire goddamn video.
I know and not till the end what a twist
2018 : I'll bet space will be the next great frontier
2050 : Wow this Robot sex doll is so realistic!
Don’t assume that the robot is a robot that’s rude and against my culture
Ethan Steel
2100: “Should it be legal to date a conscious planet? In other news: WarpCo is raising warp drive prices, & consumers are not happy!”
BillyBobbyJoe Sr.jr. Orange man bad
a welcome twist to an unforgettable classic!
those things should be banned
This video was so good! Thank you so much for the high quality content.
Its time to get paid - on netflix or by the BBC for example.
Cannot add anything to that, I'm just amazed and happy ^^
It's got to be one of his best, if not his _best_ video!
i could really see wendover doing well with a bbc series.
Space: The Financial Frontier
Just like they said in Fight Club. "When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks."
Howly sheet thats the best pun of the year
I like how you slipped that pun in there, Dave.
Money is pretty much the reason for the vast majority of humanity's greatest achievements. Greed is good so long as the results better the majority of humanity.
G'day,
Actually, it's more like,
"Space, the Dutch Tulip-Bulb Investment Bubble...; in the Sky !".
The Effects of Anthropogenic Global Warming is already deconstructing the Global Economy required to sustain any kind of Space "Industry"...; and effectively, the entire "Aerospace Industry" is currently functioning as a giant Diversional-Therapy Programme for otherwise Economically Unemployable Geeks, Nerds, and Engineers...., giving them something to do to keep them from revolting in the Streets.
The Cloud of Satellites currently surrounding Earth is but one serious Coronal-Mass Ejection - or 3 Orbital EMP Nukeyoulater Bomb-Detonations, away from being a Halo of Space-Junk in decaying Orbits.
Ho Chi-Minh ethnically-cleansed the Moon of all AmeriKans in 1973, when the cost of losing in Vietnam bankrupted Fort Knox and forced NASA to cancel the final 1/3rd of their Apollo Program..., and between them Sadman Whosinsane and Usama Bin-Laughin' shot Unkle Spam clear out of Manned Earth Orbit ; so right now NASA has no Human-Rated Crew-Vehicle in the Pipeline which will be ready for them to test-fly before their contract with Russcosmos for Soyuz Taxi-rides to the "ISS" (at $90 million per Seat) expires..., and China's shiny new Space Station is due to become a Fireball - falling back to Earth this Week,
Meanwhile ALL forms of Surgery are known to be IMPOSSIBLE in Microgravity..., NASA tried it for 15 years on the Vomit-Comets, so therefore the First-Aid Kit on the ISS consists of a Packet of Painkillers, a Box of Band-Aids, a selection of Antibiotics ; and for anything requiring a more complex Treatment-Plan..., an Emergency Return to Earth - which takes 24 Hours to boot-up the Soyuz "Lifeboat", all assuming that the Patient can survive the 8 or 9 G's encountered during Re-Entry & Landing....(!).
So said the US Government's Air & Space Smithsonian magazine's feature Article on the topic, a couple of years ago...; an it was the total impossibility of Surgically-Operating in Space which caused the cancellation of the planned US "Freedom" giant Space Station, which was to be a Halfway-Station between Earth & the Moon.
Wake up to yourselves, and get real.
Take it easy,
Such is Life...
;-p
Ciao !
Sam, you are awesome. You have only been on this planet for 19 years, and there are people who have spent over twice that amount of time studying *one* topic. You are better versed in multiple topics than many of those people are in one!
This was seriously an amazing and high quality video. I really love how you're engaging directly on location to get a better insight. Best channel I've subscribed to.
The quality of this content merits 10M subs, not 1M.
He is getting there
The audio levels were all over the place though.
You made me realize that I wasn't subbed this whole time lol
lol wise
It takes years for most people to get past 50,000. I think he’s doing pretty well, his curve is nice and steady. I think he’s getting more subs more quickly purely *because* of the quality of the content. I can’t wait to see where he is in a few years. He really deserves to completely blow up; his content never disappoints!
Thank you for sharing the side of the space industry that doesn't seem to get much public attention. Usually the rocket launches get most of the public's attention but without companies/governments ordering launches, SpaceX and many other launch provider companies would not be possible.
Holy shit... 27min... time to strap in and enjoy!
Btw Tyson interview is a good bit quieter then the rest of the video by a good margin.
27min later, and loved it! Great production value and loved the way you did your interviews.
LordDecapo please watch my videos. Please give me some views
InDieTasten Development well it wasn't just him, I listened on Bluetooth headphones and had to adjust my volume a few times from some swings.
But that would be my only complaint about this video, well done for sure!
I was saying the same thing as I scrolled down into the comments "Holy Shit, 27 minutes?!"
Play it at 1.5 speed.
flacjacket wasn't a complaint lol, I love his content
I love these sorts of videos for a vastly different reason than the majority of people, whereas the majority are simply consuming for entertainment I take notes and study. The specific businesses that are interviewed for most are cool concepts, for me it’s a unique insight into a business where I study their specific strengths and weaknesses and take notes on if/how I can improve their standard. It’s come to the point where I have numerous concepts and models of rocket engines, fuel delivery, aeronautical efficient designs, telecommunications concepts, observational improvements, energy efficiency, universe exploration, literally anything space/technology/physics/chemical/etc I probably have a theoretical concept or research model on it. The human brain is far to valuable to become complacent in the herd, science is not a political ideology for the collective morality of society, scientific philosophy of questioning everything and always remaining humble is what makes humans unique.. otherwise humanity is doomed to perpetually make the same mistakes history has taught us, the founding fathers of America understood this perpetual humility of humanity thus we were created for individual liberty and yet we appear to have forgotten this in modern society in favor of nihilism and defeatism.
"due to the curvature of earth"
Flat Earther: " *REEEEEeeeeeeee* "
TheGam3Tim3 ancient Greece: *calculates curvature of the earth from two sticks in the ground and was off by only a few meters*
WWI soldier: "I need to take into account the curvature of the earth to calculate the mortar fire"
People in 2018: "the Earth is flat"
That's some real progress folks.
wait people actually beleive that the earth isnt a donut i dont understand people nowadays
@@gabbiekavanov4692 guys, you got it all wrong! Its banana's! The world has the form of banana's 🤣
Why do America have so many idiots? Literaly nowhere else in the world is that people believe in flat earth
@@daniyalk713 That's not true at all; pseudoscience exists worldwide.
whatever happens in space, Wendover will make sure there are planes on Mars
C2Lception best comment
It'll be rough, 100x less atmospheric density, but it can be done
@@jeffbenton6183 little ingenuity drone just demonstrated powered flight on Mars. Exciting times indeed
Minor correction, at 18:29 you list the pixel size in square inches, but it is actually linear inches. GSD (ground sample distance) is measured by the linear size of an edge of the pixel. Weird, I know.
Wait, how's that different
@@kobyschuman7006 If an edge is 3 inches long, the area would be 9 inches squared. If it were 1/3 of an inch long, it would be 1/9 inches squared. They're measuring that edge length, not the area.
@@MineRoyale. The two systems are basically isomorphic to each other though. Since every positive integer has an associated square and every square number has an associated positive integer square root the set of all of which are the positive integers.
Nope your wrong!
Why don't we all use the metric system god damn it
15:13 holy cow, that's Green Bay! (And a rather recent image too) I never expect my hometown to ever come up online, but here it is! Lol
As cold and drab from above, as it is from my window. 😛
Trillion dollars and you didn’t even mention possibilities of asteroid mining.
asteroid mining is unrealistic as of this moment with out a heavy infulstructure in space. lunar mining is a significantly more realistic and money making industry that NASA is even backing
@@coreytaylor447 Asteroid mining is going to begin by 2025.
@@pygmalioninvenus6057 I meant that it wont produce nearly as much resources as fast and as soon.
Asteroid mining is about securing resources and averting a collision. Apophis is going to make a very close visit in 2029. If asteroid mining hasn't taken off by then this will be the catalyst. Asteroid Bennu is expected to come very close, perhaps collide, in ~700 years. There could easily be several more Tunguska/Chelyabinsk collisions to remind people of the importance of eliminating hazardous asteroids.
That’s quadrillions of dollars
You're my all time favorite channel on RUclips. Thank you for putting this out there. Thank you for all your effort on creating high quality, exceptional and absolutely incredibly good content on the internet. You add up to the total amount of good service done to humanity, and human cultural, in general. I'm very proud and happy of what you made, and how far you have already gone; and hopeful and excited to see how far you'll still go. Thank you for inspiring me profoundly.
Amazing stuff man. I’ve been following for years now when you had just a few videos. Incredible to see how far you’ve come and how much this channel has grown, but also keeping the content interesting and very detailed. Congratulations. Keep it up and I wish you much success in the future.
18:58 the animation for the logo merge is great LOL
This video and Real Life Lore’s World’s first Trillionaire video
Name a more iconic duo
kim jong un and denis rodman
i got the guy as an ad
“...to know enough about a subject to think you’re right”
Black Bill Nye!
I live 10 minutes from that glass satalite building. Grew up right down the street from it. Never gave a thought to what it was or who it was owned by. Blew my mind when I saw it in this video.
This might be one of the best videos on the internet. I think this goes above and beyond the other videos you normally put out, and I've loved those thus far. You were already one of my favorite channels, and this puts you way ahead of everyone else. Please keep up the phenomenal work!
There's no reason we can't go to space and solve our issues on Earth at the same time.
And there's no reason for each to be mutually exclusive in regard to science and other related issues, either. I'm sure budding technologies could be applied to both efforts. In a sense they're both world-building endeavors.
Renewable energy, resource management and recycling, communications, robotics, 3d manufacturing...all fields that are useful in space that will also be useful back on earth.
Fuck yeah, man. But that'll take some really charismatic individual, or a lot of like minded charismatic individuals.
I think those charismatic individuals are already here. I think they'll step up in time...
Maybe.
I worked in areal photography in the early 2000's. When Digital Globe released their imagery to Google Earth, most of my busyness dried up over night and I was no longer able to make enough money to cover my operational costs.
Aerial photography can probably still be profitable, you'd just have to do it with drones instead. Granted those didn't really exist commercialy in the early 2000s...
Erik S Well, drone imagery can be profitable, but only in small areas where very high resolution is needed and images are needed very often. Satellite imagery is clearly the best solution for large landscapes.
That sucks but that's how the world works. We can't stop innovating because it might hurt someone that's profiting off the old technology
At the Australian State government I work for, we still regularly order/purchase aerial imagery. This is because satellite imagery can not offer the same resolutions as aerial imagery (at least not for an equivalent price). With aerial imagery we get images with 3cm/6cm/10cm resolutions, which allows analysts to see a huge range of features that are obscured in 30cm, 60cm, 1m satellite imagery. Another benefit is that we can capture LIDAR data to record the landscape in 3D (even through tree canopies). Meanwhile drones are not able to capture the large area's we require (especially over urban area's due to restrictions). They have amazing spatial resolution ~1cm (it is even possible to map power lines) but for anything larger then a couple of football fields they quickly become effectively useless (due to battery life and regulations). So I believe we will still use a mixture of satellite, aerial and drone imagery into the foreseeable future. Mainly because they all serve different use cases for the different magnitudes at which we need to observe the earth.
fieldo85 Well, DigitalGlobe has entered the aerial imagery market too. I think that drones will be able to provide high-quality local imagery, but this will take a few years to become commercially feasible for larger areas.
Okay, I know space is cool and stuff, but can i just say: The jazz music in this video is incredible.
I will buy an Away suitcase for two reasons:
1) I need one & 2) they sponsored you...honest.
Yours is one of the best channels on the web.
Thank you.
I'm studying to be an aerospace engineer and this video just got me pumped up to do some homework!
Great vid!
vanmaren962 get at me I’m working on NVIDIA nano am AGX Xavier to make a spaceship dry dock. I want to make a facility that builds ships, equipment and mining operations. Basically a space factory
I'm studying for an entrance exam at a local aerospace engineering school. I can't say Wendover had nothing to do with it.
Mates what do you think of Venus atmosphere as a habitable place?
Where are you now op?
Oh my God 27 minutes : 0
IKR He is just on a roll recently.
We have been blessed.
Exactly
I’m on RUclips all the time so I don’t even need notifications.
Alan Stanley you need notifications but y have to subscribe to different favorite channels that u like their contents
same
Everybody is making videos on SpaceX but it's very interesting and unique to explore the hidden gems out there. Thank you!
No matter how many videos I watch on this channel I am continuously blown away by the production quality a lot of major network broadcast TV is not this good. Nicely done.
I watched star talk, I watched wendover pro, now the two has finally come together.
gigabit != gigabyte
I came here to say the same thing. At 7:37 it was said "... receive about a GigaBYTE of information every second" (GBps), then at 7:54 it's said it is a "gigaBIT connection" (Gbps).
GBps does not equal Gbps. It is (at least) eight times faster.
InDieTasten Development did you even watch the vid?
Well typically when you hear gigabit/s the average person believes that information is being transferred at one gigabyte per second. In the case of the video it was simply the common misunderstanding between GB and Gb. All thanks to ISPs and other digital storage manufacturers that try to deceive the public this way by saying you get 8Gb/s per second when in reality in decimal system that is 1GB/s
^This guy knows what's up. The only question, is it GB or Gb?
The factorial of a gigabit must be indescribably huge, seeing as 10!=3,628,800.
As much as I enjoyed this video, I think we should be wary of vertical mergers. Competition is what keeps capitalism from becoming dystopian. Having one large company instead of many small ones would give the new company unprecedented power over the market, which if left unchecked can get very bad very fast. Just saying.
that's why the governments stops certain mergers and acquisitions
Irish Jester they don't have a monopoly in that space so the examples don't work
Vertical mergers don't cause monopolies like that though, buying one's competitors would be a horizontal merger. They can give a company a heavy advantage over their competitors, but it doesn't eliminate them (unless the "lower" or "higher" industry was a monopoly itself their competitors always have the option to perform vertical mergers themselves).
Vertical can be good though, Its how SpaceX can build a rocket cheaper than NASA. SpaceX builds almost every single part of an F9 in house at their Hawthorne facility. This means they do not have to shell money to hundreds of contractors across every state for things they should be doing in a single in house facility at the KSC.
Verical merging it is not bad. There is nothing bad when Iron mine company would merge with Iron work company.
Wendover's videos are made with such high quality! He keeps it both entertaining and informative. One of my favorite channels!
"I will be on leave tomorrow."
*satellite crashes*
15:36 "it's all aboot information" hmm I wonder if MDA is Canadian.
15:46 oh yep.
"Governments can plan decades or centuries out"
Nope
Some democratic countries do a better job of it than others.
Which other ym democratic country does it better? Name them
@@DheerajBhaskar Norway has invested so much in their countries own future that the government could sustain the budget for 8 years on just their investments alone, no taxation needed. I'd say that's better than the USA, who keep spiralling into debt because they hand over billions to Lockheed martin in order to better detonate Pakistani weddings.
When you said they merged my jaw dropped lmao
me too xd What a punch wendover :)))) keep it cool ill swallow all :)))
@@kukulroukul4698 okay?!???!!?
Yes
5 minutes into this video and I gotta say, this has got to be one of the most underrated and unbelievable companies on Earth.
I literally live half a block away from the building at 9:25 and had no clue what it was.
By far the best content you ever produced.
We would probably fix our problems by exploring space.
How is that ironic?
@@benardo01 - fixed
Goddamn. You, sir, are a scholar. Amazing video! The links, the buildup, the transitions, the conclusion, the interjections. A++
Hands down... This is the best channel on RUclips if not the best... Take a bow RUclipsrs
That’s sam sitting in the Tesla wearing a suit at 12:10
For those saying Gigabit != Gigabyte, they should know that Wendover was talking about the amount of data being collected in terms of gigabytes, while the other person was talking about the connection speed in terms of gigabits. Just a friendly reminder before you comment the same thing over and over
Please explain the difference?
@@MrMJKRaw One Gigabyte = eight Gigabits
@@paczka2000
Mind blowing!
/rwooooooosh
No, Wendover said about a Gigabyte every second, which is in fact a description of speed, and is 8x the Gigabit speed described by the dude from the company.
Rookie mistake.
8 Bits = 1 Byte. Therefore, 1 Gigabyte = 8 Billion (Giga) Bits.
Governments transcend generations is something we often overlook in how it should act versus a companies bottom line.
Lovely video
Yea 27 minutes of Wendover!
8:54 Pittsburgh. You can almost see the pitchers mound at PNC Park.
7:20
FYI... The LOS (Loss of Signal) column is a time shown in 24 hour format and the AOS (Acquisition of Signal) column to the left is in the same format. It's not a countdown time before signal is lost or acquired.
So going for aerospace or aeronautical engineering is a great option for me to take! Ever since I was liitle i've always loved planes and engines so :)
If you are good a math, do it.
That's the direction we're headed, go for it!
It's a shame I'm only good at biology
Aeronautical engineering gang let's gooo
Imagine trying to get insurance for A rocket:
"Hi, I would like insurance for a rocket... No, not a prank call... No, not to battle aliens... GIVE ME THE INSURANCE, OR ELSE I USE YOUR RIVAL"
10:59 "Our largest customer is the U.S government."
Me: That's suspicious!
But have you ever seen any genuine chip paws?? We here so much of their fingers granting wishes yet i am yet to see one at the market 🌌
Finally a video that explains Global satellite digital imagery. How come imagine resolution is poor in non-developed countries?! 🧐 as an architect working in one of these countries it’s difficult to use digital globe imagery due to extremely low resolution in detail. So I decided to produce own ultra high resolution images by using drone. Brilliant video many thanks
7:33 the drone buzzing around the receiver was. . . surreal.
Longer videos! Thanks Sam! :)
Damnit wendover, stop advertising my world domination pla- I mean uh. yeah. save humanity. wooo!
Could you do a video on how consolidation and mergers affect industry competition, growth, and innovation? I’m not certain all these things are directly related
IAmTheAce5 Sometimes
This was one of the greatest RUclips videos I've ever seen. Your videos are always amazing, the quality is always there.
Thank you so much for all of this. It is so appreciated!
Hearing so much about SpaceX lately, and here I had no idea how much the commercialization of space was already underway! Nifty!
The production quality of this is incredible. Nice video!
1:00 Neil deGrasse Tyson uses the exact opposite position when he argues that we should explore the moon first before we go to Mars.
First. As in we never been there yet. I agree ;)
I've noticed that his positions have been "fluid". I challenged him to predict the effect of windmills slowing the rotation of the earth and he declined.
Tyson is a tool of the oligarchs ! He is a two faced liar.
Isn't the merger dangerous? In an industry thats becoming more profitable to have such a large company already might be dangerous to potential competition
Why do you think Standard Oil was divided up?
The Devious Duck yeah, and it still somewhat fail.
5:50 Noncens 10-30 am is not in the DARK at the other side of the earth !
This was great. Please do more space videos.
I usually watch your videos while having lunch or dinner. It's a nice way of getting interesting information on topics I'm keen on.
But this video… It felt more like watching a documentary, back when I would watch cable TV (up to 2013).
It's really good to see channels like this moving on to making high production value content.
Congratulations!
Because spending 300 energy credits is a lot easier than spending 300 minerals.
This video didn't age well. Maxar Technologies was chosen by NASA to build and fly the first elements of the Moon Gateway alongside Blue Origin and Draper.
I love space and wendover, never expected to get both
Man thank you for such high quality videos 😊 I absolutely enjoy all the information you put out.
Real Engineering, we aren't you scolding Sam.
This video was awesome! I appreciate the hard work and amount of time you guys spend on these videos, they're always really good, whenever I see a new Wendover or Half as Interesting video I will watch it in class cause it's more interesting than math or english. Keep up the great work guys!
Its like the Dutch East India Company. Who knows what will happen? only the future can tell
Yup that's why I'm buying their stocks... lockheed 300$, mitsubishi electric 12$, airbus 120$, and they all pay dividends so I'll collect money even before they explode
It's not like that at all, the DEIC was financially inflated by the Brits, there wasn't tea to back up their worth. Virtually unlimited resources in space makes a stock collapse like the DEIC nearly impossible, you gotta fuck up real bad to lose money on space ventures.
@@rollog1248 Dutch in DEIC means from the netherlands (so little brits involved, it did start inflated by dutch tho), and yes there was "tea" to back up their worth. They had a world monopoly on trade, their own armys, could declare war on any country as a company, in sort of the name of the netherlands, they where by far the most powerul nation/company of that time. They literlaly destroyed tribes and countries for their profit, id call that having something to back up their net worth. Just like the first/best company to colonise space will have a monopoly and become one of the strongest.
“Governments transcend generations “ tell that to the French
Why?
Or the Australian liberal party!
uh oh late 18th century to early 19th, a revolution, Robespierre, Napoleon Etc
@@Mohamed5ch The French had 2 Kingdoms, 2 Empires and 5 Republics in the space of 200 years
Great work! I am keen on building things in space with materials gathered, mined and refined in space.
It took me almost a year noticing my Away suitcase supports recursion, which is amazing! Now I have a total of three Away suitcases and use their compression systems to bring them down to the size of just one. Of course, the weight just adds up normally as expected, so I never tried more than three, but I doubt there's a limit.
Hell yea, my dream is to work for a space company, maybe even own one 0.o
I hope you make your dreams come true
So you need "A License" to take high resolution photos from space. . . . . I definitely got off on the wrong planet.
Do you have any idea what kind of dastardly deeds you can do with that ability? Makes more sense than licencing barbers, if you ask me.
"There is no demand for deep space exploration" ... What about precious metals asteroid mining?
We dont even have economic method to collect space debris let alone asteroid mining...............its just a wet dream. :)
Why would I spend money on getting metal from an asteroid when there’s tons on earth?
@@sunilnarine6313
You are so right;
Depends on your definition of "deep space"
@@benjaminmyles1490 asteroid mining is so profitable
The best company profile video I've ever seen.
Thank you for making this video, it’s super useful for people interested in making progress in this industry!❤️🙌
If you really like this video topic, the European Space Agency has developed several free online courses in earth observation that I found really informative!
But in order to be a trillionare you must first be a billionare.
Not if you get a 1 Trillion dollar deposit while you're poor or only a millionaire, instatrillionaire
lmao to be a trillionare ,first stop comment on youtube.
Why be a billionaire, when you can be a millionaire?
When can I be a hundrianaire lol
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19:00 *Monopoly alert!!! Monopoly alert!!! Monopoly alert!!! Monopoly alert!!! Monopoly alert!!! Monopoly alert!!!*
I can still pass go and collect 200$ though, right?
yair1010 sadly not
This project must have been so much fun to make! Another great video, I look forward to the next one.
Such a quality video, you clearly put lots of effort into making them. Thank you
Literally rocket science and more!
Glad I found this channel, subscribed!
What about asteroid mining and space tourism?!
Gabriel francis Those industries will likely become important, but right now not one company is making profits of this as the technology is not yet developed,
@@Cat-ct9hn Virgin Galactic had their first successful space flight last week. I wonder how long it's going to take until they ferry their first tourists.
I'm only 13 years old and in future I will create my own asteroid mining company and space earth-mars tourism :)
its been confirmed wendover is HOWTOBASIC. Just think about it how to basic hasnt revealed his identity yet and 3 days later wendover is doin a face reveal
HowToBasic did just reveal his face -_-
Yes, all 200 of them
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Akshat Shah don't be a sad person
Jay Tee hmm, you might be onto something here
This is pretty much a documentary. Only better quality! Good work.
what a quality production! i am mind blown!