The 100 Year Journey to Proxima Centauri B (Sci-Fi Documentary)

This is a sci-fi documentary, looking at the 100 years it will take a nuclear fusion spacecraft to travel to Proxima Centauri b. The closest habitable planet to Earth, with a distance of 4.24 light years.

A journey venturing far beyond Earth’s solar system, showing the future science of space travel, exploration, and future space technology.

Personal inspiration in creating this video comes from: the movie Interstellar, The Expanse TV show, and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos TV show.

Other topics in the video include: the population growth over the 100 year timelapse journey to Proxima Centauri b, how bacteria evolves in a closed loop system, the design of the spaceship habitat ring, the rotations per minute needed to generate 1-g of artificial gravity, the conservation of angular momentum in space, the living conditions on Proxima Centauri b (the higher gravity, and the red light), and time dilation is explained (how many extra days will pass on Earth when the spaceship arrives at the destination planet – just like the movie Interstellar).

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Created by: Jacob B
Narration by: Alexander Masters

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Proxima Centauri B concept art: ESO/M. Kornmesser

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A future timelapse sci fi documentary of interstellar space travel to a new world, Proxima Centauri b, to create a new space colony.

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[VentureCity]

The grand crossing to Proxima Centauri B.

Some personal inspiration for this video came from: the movie Interstellar, the Nauvoo generational ship from The Expanse tv show, and Carl Sagan's Cosmos tv show.

Areas of the video where I would want to expand in more detail include: the ship design and how it was built, specific technology on board such as medical tech, and maybe more about the nuclear fusion engines. 🖖


New Project: This is something I've wanted to start for a number of years, creating an Encyclopedia of the Future. A collection of entries, defining future technology in the areas of space habitation, space engineering, biotechnology, cyber society, A.I. robotics, regenerative medicine, and much more.

The first volume contains 31 entries with illustrations and is also available on my Patreon. It is a large ongoing project, with additional volumes to be published that will complete the final Encyclopedia.

[jonathansenkerik]

One thing these space travel videos always forget... Meanwhile back on earth, they discover a way to travel twice faster and send a new ship, the Helianthus II. Helianthus II arrives to Proxima Centauri about 25 years before the first. When the passengers of Helianthus arrive at Proxima Centauri, I would love to see the look on their face when they realize humans are already there.

[Rottingboards]

In the 1980s our high school science teacher made the class figure out how far Alpha Centauri was using a large roll of paper. We had to make it to scale with our universe. Then he made each of us write a paper and give a speech on how our class would survive the trip. May you live long as star dust Mr. Miller. You made me become a scientist.

[doughnutdoney]

Like many would love to see a Part 2....the next 100 years on the new planet.

[jasonacaron]

How depressing is it to be born and to die on a spacecraft. To never have the experience on either planet your whole life.

[BritishRosie-eszr]

The levels of redundancy in such a craft would have to be enormous - building a 'vehicle' that won't have a fatal flaw over 100 years is a staggering ambition

[alihms]

In a more realistic scenario, there will be more than 1 spaceship. A whole armada in-fact. Some ships are habitable, some are not. The unhabitable ones carry supplies such as ship repair parts, construction equipment (for use on the new planet), land vehicles etc. Another un-habitable (or rather semi-habitable) ones may even be some sort of environment laboratory and training ship. They simulate the living condition on Proxima Centauri B. To prepare and to acclimatise these pioneers.

They would be also several follow-up armadas sent from earth. Sent several years later to keep the whole mission succesful and to keep the link to mother earth intact.

[hfontanez]

OUTSTANDING!!! The entire time I was watching this, I was putting myself on that ship.

[sbreaker]

After a 100 year journey they realized they forgot to bring Avocados from Mexico, Aàaaaahhhh

[Just_a_Reflection]

Great stuff. If you ever decide to let it be made into a dramatized series, please maintain creative control 🙏🏿.

[Delosian]

Great video, but Proxima Centauri B has an average temperature of -39C (-38F) and is tidally locked to a red star, much like the planet Krypton, so will only be habitable in a small ring around the planet, with desert on one side and tundra on the other side, and that is if it even has an oxygen - nitrogen atmosphere, which it most likely does not, with atmospheric models showing it most likely has a carbon dioxide - oxygen atmosphere. Also, being so close to the red star that it orbits, the UV radiation and X-rays will most likely kill anything unshielded, if the solar winds haven't already stripped off the atmosphere leaving it more like our Moon or Mars. What we need to find is a planet that orbits in the goldilocks zone around a young white star like our own.

[yasirsaleem]

Beautifully narrated. There shd be a TV show on this epic journey!

[kruzrken]

Would love to see a sequel: how they settle the new planet.

[smokejaguar]

That was fantastic and far too short. I loved every single second of it and felt sad when it ended. Well done

[anwarfirdaus]

There are several factors that make Proxima Centauri b a challenging place for life as we know it. Its parent star is prone to solar flares, which could strip away its atmosphere and pose a danger to potential life. Additionally, the planet is tidally locked, meaning one side always faces the star and the other is in constant darkness, which could create extreme temperature differences.

[Mrdreamer]

whoever makes these videos is either
1)a time traveller
2)a really smart physicist
3)a spiritual guru
I really cant believe how accurate these videos are
👏👏
cheers to the human race and all our efforts to know more

[MarcusBadi]

This is better than Hollywood sci-fi movies.

[cardanomm]

I love how you give us science through storytelling. The graphics are awesome as well. Congratulations.

[stuc]

I applaud the effort that went into making this. Thoroughly enjoyed ❤

[bijpsshtr]

The last thing the cult leader tells you before handing you Kool aid.