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| 4s | hey |
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| 7s | what one important thing can i get a fly |
| 8s | safe |
| 10s | fly say |
| 11s | yeah okay that'll be going on the |
| 13s | internet |
| 15s | oh i don't have the controller they |
| 17s | never gave me the controller someone |
| 19s | will run up in a second but yes uh |
| 22s | hi hello i'm scott manley i'm supposed |
| 24s | to be giving a presentation and i can't |
| 27s | advance the slides because uh |
| 29s | logistical problems and that's what we |
| 31s | are eve players we know |
| 33s | that logistics is what wins wars right |
| 37s | yes god bless g-cell |
| 40s | so yes uh for those of you |
| 42s | who don't know me uh well today we're |
| 45s | talking to talk about how eve online |
| 47s | made me an internet rocket scientist and |
| 50s | i'm a rocket scientist in the same way |
| 52s | that you are flying you know spaceships |
| 54s | as in internet spaceships right |
| 56s | so hello for those of you who don't know |
| 59s | me |
| 60s | well this is my youtube page right uh |
| 63s | scott manley |
| 65s | here's a bunch of videos here's me |
| 66s | talking about scientists demanding to |
| 68s | probe |
| 71s | uranus i cover a lot of space and a lot |
| 74s | of science uh |
| 76s | but i've had a long history in gaming |
| 78s | and if you look at the banner at the top |
| 80s | you can see some cues as to my |
| 81s | background you know right on on the very |
| 83s | left hand side you can see a turntable |
| 86s | like it was a dj some equations as you |
| 88s | go over there's some code |
| 91s | and on the right here |
| 93s | there's a rifter yes yeah a very |
| 95s | recognizable profile and |
| 98s | also if you're an eve player you might |
| 99s | recognize the backdrop is of course a |
| 101s | caldari nebula |
| 103s | so eve was kind of instrumental in |
| 106s | bringing my channel up to the world and |
| 109s | i want to take a look at my most popular |
| 111s | videos so these are |
| 113s | the videos on my channel |
| 114s | sorted based upon the number of views |
| 116s | and you can see up the top it's all like |
| 119s | disasters everybody loves explosions i |
| 122s | mean chernobyl exploding a lot of |
| 124s | physics there volcano exploding |
| 126s | telescope collapsing yeah uh |
| 130s | okay but yeah go further down there's |
| 132s | some kerbal and i'll i'll say that you |
| 134s | know i i found kerbal because of eve |
| 136s | down in the bottom though you see i have |
| 138s | some eve stuff right the ex the |
| 140s | beginner's guide the 10 things that you |
| 143s | need to know |
| 144s | to begin playing uh eve online and on |
| 147s | the bottom right the fountain war the |
| 149s | true story a story for uh |
| 152s | non-eve players to be honest |
| 155s | so yeah my channel um you know it's sort |
| 158s | of my |
| 159s | half of my business let's say i get a |
| 161s | day job but i still do a lot of this i |
| 163s | have thousands of videos on there |
| 166s | at last count 480 million video views |
| 169s | 1.4 million regular subscribers and yeah |
| 173s | i do everything from why rockets fall |
| 176s | apart or how yurga gardens flight or |
| 179s | ride became uh well a soviet space ball |
| 183s | but to understand |
| 186s | how i got to that gonna rewind back to |
| 189s | the old days back to 1977 when i was |
| 192s | four or five years old and i saw star |
| 194s | wars and it had |
| 195s | a |
| 196s | fundamental you know founding imper |
| 198s | impression on me right i want to fly |
| 201s | spaceships |
| 203s | and you know over four year old kid in |
| 205s | scotland you'll find spaceships yes |
| 207s | that's exactly what i do want to do yeah |
| 209s | uh i still want to fly spaceships but |
| 212s | i've sort of become more realistic |
| 214s | this is my halloween costume from a |
| 216s | couple of years ago |
| 217s | [Music] |
| 218s | that chess plate is like a food |
| 220s | container with some cardboard stuck on |
| 221s | it the helmet's really good and i hand |
| 223s | sewn that vest |
| 225s | turns out by the way i live in the same |
| 227s | town as george lucas which is really |
| 230s | bizarrely uh coincidental |
| 233s | but yeah i can't fly spaceships for real |
| 235s | i am however flying planes for real i'm |
| 238s | learning this right now and uh strange |
| 241s | evelink uh |
| 242s | when i am |
| 243s | i do a lot of listening to air traffic |
| 245s | control to learn how to listen to pilots |
| 247s | and i'll just put that on in the |
| 248s | background |
| 249s | but i'll also put on the eve online |
| 251s | soundtrack because it's nice and chill |
| 253s | and it doesn't get in the way and i'm |
| 255s | just continually now learning what pilot |
| 257s | speakers |
| 259s | but yeah for flying spaceships |
| 261s | video games was everything right i was |
| 265s | uh |
| 266s | elite |
| 266s | boy i spent so much time in that and |
| 269s | elite is obviously a very um |
| 272s | core influence on what eve online is |
| 275s | right |
| 276s | uh we are |
| 278s | you know it's uh it had the idea of the |
| 280s | universe where you could do different |
| 282s | things you could choose to go out and |
| 283s | shoot ships or you could in theory be an |
| 285s | asteroid miner but i don't know anybody |
| 287s | that really did that |
| 289s | and at the other end as time went on the |
| 291s | technology got better there's like an |
| 293s | x-wing game i spent a lot of time |
| 295s | playing those |
| 297s | but for the space side of things the |
| 299s | real space i didn't need to give that up |
| 301s | because i went to university i studied |
| 303s | astronomy i couldn't be an astronaut in |
| 305s | scotland but i could be an astronomer i |
| 308s | got a degree in astronomy and physics |
| 312s | uh i then decided that i was terrified |
| 314s | of real life and i got another degree in |
| 317s | computational physics |
| 319s | and then i went to ireland to study more |
| 322s | asteroid stuff like this is arma |
| 324s | observatory in northern ireland i spent |
| 326s | five years desperately trying to not get |
| 329s | a real job |
| 330s | and not getting a phd out of it |
| 333s | but you know i did publish the odd paper |
| 335s | uh i ended up turning out that i was |
| 338s | much better at writing software than i |
| 340s | was doing astronomical research |
| 343s | and |
| 344s | that sort of led me into the next step |
| 346s | where |
| 347s | silicon valley came |
| 348s | they paid me very well i moved to |
| 351s | california i partied a lot more |
| 354s | played a lot less games |
| 356s | i did meet my wife because i was a dj uh |
| 359s | that worked very well |
| 362s | once i got the family however you kind |
| 364s | of had to give up the dj career |
| 367s | this is this is me with my daughter she |
| 369s | was about three months old there |
| 372s | and she's yeah you'll see a bit more of |
| 374s | her later |
| 375s | so because i wasn't going to parties |
| 378s | i had time to start playing spaceship |
| 380s | games again 2008. |
| 382s | eve online imperium age i think i'd |
| 386s | heard about eve online many times i'd |
| 388s | met a guy actually who ended up working |
| 390s | for ccp games later he was a dj in san |
| 393s | francisco just coincidentally |
| 396s | but i joined with my current account |
| 399s | in 2008 that was uh |
| 402s | the empyrean age release and they had a |
| 405s | tv campaign that played some commercials |
| 407s | during battlestar galactica and that was |
| 409s | it was like right i'm going to do this |
| 411s | for real i'm going to learn how this |
| 412s | game works and |
| 414s | boy did i love this game right there was |
| 418s | so much to do right |
| 420s | the thing about eve is that it is full |
| 423s | of |
| 424s | many small and simple systems that |
| 425s | interact right and they interact in not |
| 428s | necessarily obvious ways |
| 431s | um but yeah you know you can just spend |
| 433s | your time running missions you can |
| 435s | become a pvp or if you that's your thing |
| 437s | if you want to just grief people |
| 439s | you know ccp will let you do this or you |
| 442s | can just be one of those people that |
| 443s | shift stuff around |
| 445s | does the logistics build the stuff |
| 448s | but on top of that |
| 450s | there is a dedicated community that |
| 453s | really kept me here right once i found |
| 455s | all these systems and found that there |
| 457s | were people working in all of these uh |
| 459s | you know |
| 460s | that definitely contributed to sticking |
| 463s | uh you're holding me there it had the |
| 464s | lore |
| 465s | and of course it had the emergent |
| 467s | stories |
| 469s | and that you wanted to be part of that i |
| 470s | wanted to be part of those emergent |
| 472s | stories |
| 474s | the things that were sort of created |
| 477s | by the players uh involving the players |
| 479s | no something that the games matt the |
| 481s | creators didn't really envisage |
| 483s | so yeah games |
| 485s | let you be whoever you want |
| 487s | except that i actually made a character |
| 489s | that's pretty much me |
| 492s | i don't know how many of you remember |
| 493s | the old game engine the old character |
| 495s | generator |
| 496s | um on the far right you can see my |
| 498s | current version and |
| 500s | yeah uh obviously you can tell i've been |
| 502s | i played the doctor who thing so i still |
| 503s | do log into eve right |
| 507s | also sometimes the game has its own |
| 510s | ideas of who i am uh this was me and the |
| 513s | uh various in the recent triglavian uh |
| 516s | what do you call it the |
| 518s | in the lore around that i made a whole |
| 520s | contribution as manuel scottie |
| 522s | astrophysicist |
| 523s | it was quite an entertaining time that |
| 525s | was when of course uh |
| 527s | hisec changed in a radical manner |
| 532s | so 2008 what did i do well i was in |
| 535s | asteroids you know research so i |
| 537s | actually spent a lot of time meaning |
| 538s | asteroids not |
| 541s | necessarily because i wanted to be an |
| 542s | asteroid miner but actually the way my |
| 545s | life worked was i had a lot of free |
| 548s | time where i was doing other things but |
| 549s | i could click on some buttons every few |
| 551s | minutes so i was like okay let's make |
| 553s | money make money now i can play let's go |
| 555s | and |
| 556s | burn all that money in lowsec or |
| 558s | something like that |
| 561s | so yeah my version of eve was |
| 565s | not like anyone else i was just sort of |
| 567s | mucking around and doing a lot of things |
| 570s | so i'm an eve player how do i get |
| 572s | started on youtube how does eve figure |
| 574s | into this my youtube's channel started |
| 578s | when i bought an iphone or rather my |
| 580s | wife bought me an iphone she insisted i |
| 582s | needed to come up you know to something |
| 583s | more modern and the first one i got was |
| 586s | an iphone 3gs and it was the first one |
| 588s | that let you do video recording and more |
| 590s | importantly you could hit a button in |
| 591s | there and upload whatever you had |
| 593s | recorded to youtube to be seen |
| 596s | by |
| 597s | half a dozen people if you were lucky |
| 599s | right |
| 600s | you know of course i did this right i |
| 602s | was a proud father |
| 603s | first videos i posted was sky climbing |
| 606s | the tree in the park |
| 608s | and then i followed that up with looking |
| 610s | at the park mural and sky being a fairy |
| 613s | sky in the box guys my daughter if you |
| 615s | haven't heard |
| 617s | orion in the box she has a brother yeah |
| 619s | sky playing basketball and right down |
| 621s | the bottom |
| 622s | four-year-old skye playing eve online |
| 626s | [Music] |
| 628s | yeah this got dark suddenly didn't it |
| 631s | right |
| 633s | and i i have yeah this is the |
| 635s | justification for it you i was in those |
| 637s | communities and everyone was always |
| 639s | complaining about how difficult eve was |
| 642s | for new players |
| 643s | and i'm gonna say you know sure there is |
| 646s | this chart but i can confirm that eve |
| 648s | isn't rocket science if it was i would |
| 651s | be better at it |
| 652s | right |
| 656s | yeah this i actually found the original |
| 658s | copy of this video and remastered it |
| 660s | into like 1080p awesomeness so for those |
| 663s | of you that didn't hear it this is what |
| 665s | it sounds like here |
| 668s | so she's flying to highsec |
| 670s | now we get four gates to go |
| 686s | no i didn't have to tell you i didn't |
| 688s | have to tell you |
| 691s | i'll have to tell you the only thing is |
| 693s | the next star system has four space |
| 695s | stations and you have to dock at the |
| 696s | right space station |
| 699s | [Music] |
| 701s | well what |
| 703s | venus is the brightest planet venus is |
| 706s | the brightest it is |
| 710s | yeah okay so you get the idea uh |
| 712s | you know and that suddenly actually got |
| 714s | like |
| 715s | a few thousand views people were like |
| 717s | sharing it it's like oh yeah you and |
| 719s | your titan can't fly but look for your |
| 721s | old girl playing eve how hard can it be |
| 724s | um |
| 725s | about a year later oh actually not even |
| 727s | a year later this is like literally a |
| 729s | few a few weeks later i was like let's |
| 731s | try and get some more views so the |
| 732s | dominion trailer came out it was |
| 734s | literally the day after i got laid off |
| 736s | from a job but uh you know i so i was |
| 738s | like oh okay let's post more videos |
| 740s | and i showed it to my kids |
| 743s | and they love spaceships |
| 748s | [Music] |
| 769s | bro |
| 772s | yeah |
| 773s | so look that sort of series continued |
| 775s | you know we had skye doing some pvp uh |
| 778s | you know defending the ice belts like |
| 780s | literally hulk again that's right |
| 783s | um i had her flying my jump freighter to |
| 786s | null sec |
| 788s | and you know what my kids have actually |
| 790s | grown up to be reasonably well adjusted |
| 792s | kids despite you know potential child |
| 794s | abuse abuse issues |
| 796s | although i mean you know it wasn't that |
| 798s | bad i didn't make them play world of |
| 799s | warcraft |
| 803s | so i i want to step through like most |
| 806s | popular videos so |
| 808s | most popular video is the beginner's |
| 810s | guide which i totally made as a way to |
| 812s | get people into the game through my |
| 814s | buddy link so i could get eve time |
| 817s | i i'm not afraid to admit it i will |
| 819s | admit that it was incredibly difficult |
| 821s | to do because i broke windows movie |
| 823s | maker the free movie maker and i had to |
| 825s | cut it into multiple parts and |
| 826s | reassemble it |
| 828s | but yeah i made |
| 829s | thousands of people joined and i was so |
| 831s | glad that i was actually able to give a |
| 834s | lot of those plex |
| 835s | to keylon dark light who in turn gave me |
| 838s | a spaceship but he went and gave it to a |
| 840s | plex for good forty thousand dollars |
| 842s | which yeah kilo on dark light actually |
| 844s | made the donation but i got all the news |
| 846s | for it that spacecraft is still sitting |
| 848s | in a hangar in lowsec |
| 850s | one day i may bring it out however i do |
| 852s | notice there's a model out there that's |
| 854s | in the silent auction and it does leave |
| 856s | the hangar if you you want it's not |
| 858s | going to get destroyed my favorite video |
| 860s | that i made was my history of the |
| 863s | fountain war and that was an association |
| 865s | with a kickstarter that uh you know |
| 867s | matani and friends were running to try |
| 869s | and get a you know fiction book a |
| 871s | military fiction book set in the eve |
| 874s | universe they prepared all this like |
| 876s | guide research material and asked me to |
| 877s | make this and |
| 879s | like this has been far more successful |
| 881s | than the kickstarter campaign was but i |
| 883s | i love it i love the fact that people |
| 884s | come in and say damn i wish i was part |
| 886s | of that story and you can still be part |
| 889s | of that story these stories still happen |
| 891s | the video that most matches my playstyle |
| 894s | is this visualization of two months of |
| 897s | eve online |
| 899s | what i did was i was just heading up the |
| 901s | api hitting all the kill boards |
| 903s | collecting all the data and trying to |
| 905s | like show where things were active |
| 907s | so you can see on the right all the big |
| 909s | kills that were happening you can see |
| 910s | this sort of pulse down the bottom |
| 913s | showing the activity levels |
| 915s | i love this |
| 916s | but it really what this shows is i was |
| 919s | very actively analyzing data in eve |
| 923s | and that's why i sort of knew about |
| 926s | technician before it really happened uh |
| 928s | and this is the video that i made which |
| 930s | will probably get me primary at fastest |
| 932s | right dangerous universe losing ships is |
| 935s | all too easy |
| 936s | we at otech understand this whenever you |
| 939s | suffer life's little mishaps we'll be |
| 941s | there to make sure that your next hulk |
| 943s | can be built from genuine otech brand |
| 945s | technician that's right genuine otech |
| 948s | brand technician |
| 951s | and the video i spent most time making |
| 953s | was this 360 video showing all the |
| 956s | spacecraft in eve online and this was a |
| 959s | technical problem i wanted to solve i |
| 961s | love doing these vr videos |
| 963s | so |
| 964s | the thing about vr videos if you don't |
| 966s | know they're on youtube |
| 967s | and you can actually adjust the camera |
| 969s | angle and if you have google cardboard |
| 971s | or whatever like you can look around and |
| 973s | get the idea of vr so you can be in the |
| 976s | middle of eve's spaceships watching them |
| 978s | blow each other up |
| 980s | you know i uh i love the idea of these |
| 983s | things there's not always content that's |
| 986s | very easy to express in this manner but |
| 987s | eve online has some great graphics so |
| 990s | how did i do that how did i make the eve |
| 992s | client render all this stuff and i |
| 994s | started with eve probe not this one the |
| 998s | eve online's graphics test program |
| 1001s | called eve probe which no longer works |
| 1003s | right now but you can |
| 1005s | set up scenes and have them play and |
| 1007s | it'll measure the graphics performance |
| 1009s | so you can like figure out bugs and the |
| 1011s | system whatever |
| 1012s | so i was able to set up the same scene |
| 1015s | multiple times |
| 1017s | from multiple camera angles |
| 1019s | so the same scene ran and they would all |
| 1022s | be assembled one after the other |
| 1024s | synchronized and then you could fold |
| 1026s | these into one giant spherical viewpoint |
| 1030s | which would be the video that would uh |
| 1032s | was what we ultimately saw |
| 1034s | so this is what the video looks like |
| 1036s | it's stretched it's called a cylindrical |
| 1038s | protect projection |
| 1040s | where uh you're basically vertical is |
| 1042s | your long is your latitude and |
| 1044s | horizontal is your longitude |
| 1047s | so this is a bunch of minors with |
| 1048s | stretched lasers and stuff |
| 1051s | so |
| 1053s | now |
| 1054s | i want to actually just tell a story |
| 1058s | i think that at fan fest we often get |
| 1060s | people telling stories of you know great |
| 1063s | things that happened in eve you know |
| 1064s | things that uh appeal to the audiences |
| 1068s | and pvp |
| 1070s | big wars those are where you know we |
| 1072s | really get the meat of these stories i |
| 1074s | want to tell a story |
| 1076s | of my sort of industrial |
| 1078s | general my greatest industrial moment |
| 1080s | right and that was surrounding the |
| 1082s | noctis right so my important most |
| 1085s | important skill was data analysis i |
| 1086s | wrote all this code analyzed all this |
| 1088s | stuff and when i saw the noctis salvage |
| 1090s | ship was going to be introduced |
| 1092s | with the incursion update i began |
| 1094s | looking at how i could make a killing on |
| 1096s | this right i knew that big changes in |
| 1098s | the market can make big money for people |
| 1100s | that are prepared and understand things |
| 1102s | this was a ship |
| 1104s | well you know it right it's a salvage |
| 1105s | ship and |
| 1107s | at that point mission runners were using |
| 1110s | uh you know destroyers this would be |
| 1112s | better in every single way and you know |
| 1113s | what all the blueprints were being |
| 1115s | seeded in null sec |
| 1117s | so every mission runner wanted one the |
| 1119s | blueprints were incredibly short supply |
| 1121s | there was going to be a lot of money to |
| 1123s | be made right |
| 1124s | so |
| 1125s | we anticipated this we stocked up on |
| 1128s | minerals beforehand we needed to get the |
| 1130s | blueprints to hi-sec and that was not |
| 1132s | going to be easy because you started out |
| 1133s | an outer ring and you had to travel |
| 1135s | through syndicate i actually set up like |
| 1137s | a tengu with interdiction nullifier and |
| 1140s | a cloak and i made insta work bookmarks |
| 1142s | and perches on all the gates i had a |
| 1144s | special route planned avoided the |
| 1146s | obvious choke points like if you just |
| 1148s | did you know fastest or safest route you |
| 1151s | would go through these systems i found |
| 1153s | another way which |
| 1154s | the data said was going to be clear and |
| 1157s | i logged off in the station next day |
| 1158s | ready for the update and sure enough the |
| 1161s | next day everybody's logging in in that |
| 1163s | station undocking getting hit on undock |
| 1166s | they're getting hit like all the way in |
| 1168s | the back like some of these kills like |
| 1170s | this person had what 11 blueprints on |
| 1173s | them your total value 5 billion isc |
| 1176s | somebody has this looks like an unfitted |
| 1178s | ship i don't know what's going on there |
| 1180s | anyway there was rich pickings for |
| 1182s | pirates but i made it to high sec and i |
| 1185s | had a lot of money there |
| 1187s | but of course |
| 1189s | i wanted to make money by making things |
| 1192s | so yeah started churning out these |
| 1194s | things my first noctis i sold for 360 |
| 1197s | million isk that was fantastic almost |
| 1199s | made back the money that i spent on that |
| 1201s | blueprint |
| 1203s | and i actually wonder you know what |
| 1205s | happened to that this person bought it |
| 1207s | and |
| 1207s | you know it probably just went on to |
| 1209s | mission running i wish there was some |
| 1211s | way to track like which was the first of |
| 1214s | a given ship that was built there's a |
| 1216s | there's a gameplay feature we'd like |
| 1217s | keep track of the assembly date |
| 1220s | but |
| 1222s | of course |
| 1223s | the market was in had such a great |
| 1225s | demand for this spaceship |
| 1228s | that the minerals began to run out and |
| 1230s | we had anticipated you can see in this |
| 1232s | curve here that |
| 1235s | when the spacecraft was announced in |
| 1237s | september everybody started buying up |
| 1239s | minerals and the price of noxiam in |
| 1241s | particular which is what the ore outer |
| 1243s | ring enterprises ship or excavations |
| 1246s | what they need so that price went up and |
| 1248s | then when soon as they started building |
| 1250s | them the price shot up even more |
| 1253s | so we needed sources of materials and |
| 1255s | one thing i'd done was set up all these |
| 1257s | buy orders for things like smart bombs |
| 1259s | which have lots of noxion i could refine |
| 1262s | it and by the way |
| 1264s | the medium and the large named smart |
| 1266s | bombs they have the same materials in |
| 1268s | them back in 2010 most people didn't |
| 1270s | realize them so you could pick up the |
| 1272s | medium size way way way cheaper and get |
| 1274s | tons of minerals out of them but even |
| 1277s | then that was limited |
| 1279s | so i was looking around doing my data |
| 1280s | analysis trying to find another source |
| 1283s | so i could feed this demand in this |
| 1285s | market and then an answer came from a |
| 1288s | divine source the pax amariah yes |
| 1293s | uh a great you know |
| 1295s | what what is a miraculous work a |
| 1297s | remarkable book published |
| 1299s | basically about the emperor writing |
| 1302s | about his hopes and dreams for peace |
| 1303s | throughout the galaxy |
| 1306s | so yeah it turns out that these were |
| 1307s | seeded in npc stations and you could buy |
| 1309s | them uh now the problem was they were |
| 1311s | only seeded in stacks of 3000 but if you |
| 1313s | set up a buy order for the right price |
| 1316s | for like a million of them you could get |
| 1317s | a million you just had to pay the the |
| 1319s | fees for lisp for buying them |
| 1322s | so yeah uh once the price gets above |
| 1324s | nine |
| 1325s | 536 or thereabouts you could start |
| 1327s | making a profit if you had the refining |
| 1330s | and everything sorted out so here here i |
| 1332s | am industrialist and i'm literally |
| 1335s | loading up freighters full of holy books |
| 1338s | taking them to my refining station |
| 1341s | and like yes i'm going to spread the |
| 1342s | word of the your |
| 1345s | emperor i'm going to spread it to the uh |
| 1348s | to the reprocessing plants in my chosen |
| 1350s | station and for |
| 1352s | months i was burning these these books |
| 1355s | and and |
| 1355s | [Music] |
| 1357s | thankfully everybody got their |
| 1358s | spaceships and now i really have to ask |
| 1360s | the space pool if i can get forgiveness |
| 1369s | mel thank you |
| 1373s | so anyway yes uh it was eventually |
| 1375s | removed from the game in 2012 but you |
| 1377s | know i |
| 1378s | it was just fantastic to go through this |
| 1380s | data analysis and uh you know find a way |
| 1383s | that worked so well for so long and you |
| 1385s | know not many people were doing it in |
| 1386s | the early days because you could track |
| 1388s | this but over time it got known |
| 1392s | and now it's a lot less shiny but still |
| 1394s | just as holy |
| 1396s | i want to skip over now and talk about |
| 1398s | some real science so yeah real life |
| 1400s | asteroid mining |
| 1401s | this is also an early video i created |
| 1404s | from my work in astronomy where i wanted |
| 1405s | to show asteroids being discovered over |
| 1408s | time you know this is all the asteroids |
| 1410s | orbiting the sun and the white ones are |
| 1412s | where they were when they were found in |
| 1414s | bottom right corner you can see the time |
| 1417s | um |
| 1418s | so over time more and more asteroids are |
| 1420s | found since eve has been founded we |
| 1422s | found like half a million asteroids in |
| 1425s | space it's wild |
| 1427s | but for asteroid mining the nearest |
| 1429s | thing we've got is asteroid bennu which |
| 1432s | has is an asteroid which has been |
| 1434s | visited by a spacecraft |
| 1436s | called osiris-rex this asteroid is about |
| 1439s | 500 meters across it's smaller than most |
| 1441s | battleships in eve |
| 1443s | and this little spacecraft went out to |
| 1447s | sample the surface now you might think |
| 1449s | oh you just go up and you sort of vacuum |
| 1450s | the surface off an asteroid with your |
| 1452s | lasers well no lasers and a vacuum is |
| 1454s | very hard in space instead they blow gas |
| 1457s | down and the gas circulates around and |
| 1460s | captures the material and it worked very |
| 1462s | well for them this is what it looks like |
| 1464s | the |
| 1465s | camera on board coming down onto the |
| 1468s | surface of this chondritic asteroid very |
| 1470s | primitive asteroid this is for how |
| 1472s | they're trying to analyze the early days |
| 1474s | of the solar system |
| 1476s | and |
| 1477s | when you looked at the |
| 1478s | sample head they had |
| 1480s | lots of material they had so much it was |
| 1482s | like leaking out |
| 1484s | yes they needed a larger ore hold |
| 1488s | that has since been packed up and is |
| 1490s | headed back to earth it's going to land |
| 1491s | in utah next year |
| 1494s | but now i want to talk about again |
| 1497s | internet spaceships versus real |
| 1499s | spaceships so back in 2003 |
| 1502s | may 2003 19 years ago today |
| 1506s | eve online launched and it had like |
| 1508s | about 100 spaceships in it |
| 1510s | uh i don't actually know what that one |
| 1512s | in the top right is but that's what the |
| 1514s | graphics engine looked like back then |
| 1517s | it's in the real world however there |
| 1520s | were only two spaceships at least |
| 1522s | spaceships which carried people |
| 1525s | and in fact one of those wasn't even |
| 1527s | flying because there had been the |
| 1529s | columbia disaster recently so there was |
| 1531s | technically only one spaceship flying |
| 1534s | when eve online launched |
| 1536s | i've got this picture here to show the |
| 1538s | comparison between the space shuttle and |
| 1539s | the soyuz spacecraft there |
| 1542s | yeah it's kind of wild |
| 1545s | this is a comparison between the space |
| 1547s | shuttle and what a rifter looks like you |
| 1549s | may not think of the rifter as a big |
| 1551s | ship but i assure you it's the size of a |
| 1553s | 747 |
| 1556s | so yeah let's talk about the soyuz it's |
| 1558s | a |
| 1559s | very very old spacecraft it was first |
| 1561s | flown in 1967 |
| 1564s | the first flight with a human on board |
| 1566s | killed the pile at vladimir komarov |
| 1568s | it flies with a crew of two or three |
| 1570s | typically it's had hundreds of flights |
| 1573s | has no leg room i mean you're like you |
| 1575s | know legs right up in your face to fit |
| 1577s | inside this tiny little space |
| 1580s | and |
| 1581s | i thought it would be interesting to |
| 1583s | like communicate these real world |
| 1585s | spaceships to an eve audience by saying |
| 1587s | what is their equivalent in the eve |
| 1589s | online universe and for the soyuz well |
| 1591s | it's obviously the rifter right it's a |
| 1593s | small low-cost ship it's a perennial |
| 1596s | favorite that's used for many things and |
| 1598s | actually it's had quite a few upgrades |
| 1600s | you've got the wolf the jaguar it's |
| 1602s | utilitarian in its design |
| 1605s | and there's no concessions for comfort |
| 1608s | now at the same time 2003 |
| 1611s | yeah we still have the space shuttle |
| 1612s | flying the space shuttle was a |
| 1614s | magnificent creation that was way too |
| 1616s | expensive they built |
| 1618s | five of them they originally only built |
| 1619s | four but one of them was destroyed and |
| 1621s | had to be replaced |
| 1622s | yet they lost two of them to accidents |
| 1625s | which killed their crew normally it |
| 1627s | would fly with a crew of uh two to seven |
| 1629s | flew over about 130 missions and more |
| 1631s | people have flown to space on the space |
| 1633s | shuttle than any other spacecraft they |
| 1636s | were magnificent but they stopped flying |
| 1639s | 10 years ago |
| 1641s | and i would say that in eve terms it is |
| 1644s | a carrier right and i think the the |
| 1645s | thanatos is probably the closest thing |
| 1647s | about carriers is they were very |
| 1650s | versatile spacecraft for a long time you |
| 1651s | could do a lot of different applications |
| 1653s | it did carry a lot of stuff could take |
| 1655s | it places but yeah it was very expensive |
| 1658s | for a lot of those jobs you could always |
| 1659s | do slightly better if you you just |
| 1661s | focused your capabilities |
| 1664s | so yes since 2003 |
| 1667s | the world has had more spaceships |
| 1670s | thankfully there's been a sort of |
| 1671s | explosion |
| 1672s | in spacecraft that are available to |
| 1674s | carry humans into space and the first |
| 1676s | one came later in in 2003 right shenzhou |
| 1680s | five i believe i pronounced that |
| 1681s | correctly this is the this is basically |
| 1683s | china made their own version of the |
| 1685s | soyuz with uh you know help from russia |
| 1688s | as shenzhou |
| 1689s | is a lot larger thankfully it has less |
| 1691s | of the legroom problems it has a bit |
| 1694s | more performance it's flown about eight |
| 1696s | times it's not nearly as prolific as the |
| 1698s | soyuz at this time so i think that |
| 1700s | logically that makes it a stabber it's a |
| 1702s | bit bigger than a rifter but again it's |
| 1703s | like a fast in your face autocannon |
| 1706s | platform it still doesn't look |
| 1708s | comfortable or pretty by any means |
| 1711s | 2004 |
| 1712s | we had spaceship one winning the x prize |
| 1715s | this was a bert rutan special it is a |
| 1717s | really cool concept so the ansari x |
| 1720s | prize was you had to fly to space land |
| 1722s | and then a week later or less than a |
| 1724s | week later fly to space again |
| 1726s | so this was small it was only designed |
| 1728s | to go up and straight back down not into |
| 1730s | orbit |
| 1731s | and they flew this out of mojave and |
| 1733s | southern california |
| 1735s | it was dropped from this plane uh do you |
| 1738s | see down here the |
| 1739s | uh where is it the laser yes there's |
| 1741s | your i can't see it |
| 1743s | that's that's the white knight carrier |
| 1745s | aircraft and that's the |
| 1747s | spaceship one and i think in eve terms |
| 1749s | this is a zephyr right which you may |
| 1750s | remember you might have one of these in |
| 1751s | your hanger it was a free ship that was |
| 1753s | given out like it uses solar cells to |
| 1755s | move around and you can probe stuff in |
| 1757s | wormholes and the sleepers won't aggress |
| 1759s | you it's cool but generally useless and |
| 1762s | will we leave it in the hangar after |
| 1764s | like a couple of flights |
| 1766s | 2020 was the next time we had a new |
| 1769s | spacecraft that carried humans to space |
| 1771s | there was a netflix documentary on this |
| 1774s | return to space so spacex had been |
| 1776s | flying to space for a while with a cargo |
| 1778s | spacecraft they made a crew version of |
| 1781s | the dragon |
| 1782s | uh the crew dragon and the first launch |
| 1784s | of it was i believe may and 2020 it had |
| 1787s | uh it was called demo two |
| 1790s | and since then it's flown seven times in |
| 1792s | fact one of the flights literally just |
| 1794s | landed a few hours ago |
| 1797s | two of them have been with space |
| 1798s | tourists five of them have been carrying |
| 1800s | uh nasa astronauts or or astronauts for |
| 1803s | other countries but this has become sort |
| 1805s | of the backbone of u.s flight capability |
| 1808s | right now |
| 1809s | and i think that makes it a drake |
| 1811s | it's cheap it's relatively effective it |
| 1814s | does everything it's not quite as |
| 1816s | capable as the space shuttle but it'll |
| 1817s | do the job |
| 1819s | and honestly like whenever you propose |
| 1821s | any application in space somebody's like |
| 1823s | we can use this dragon we can use spacex |
| 1825s | for that right and yeah you can't run an |
| 1827s | op and eve without someone saying oh |
| 1828s | just going to bring my drake right |
| 1831s | we know we've been there right no you |
| 1833s | know fleet doctrine doesn't know um yeah |
| 1837s | so just an aside by the way the dragon |
| 1840s | is launched on a rocket called the |
| 1841s | falcon 9. yes we have a |
| 1843s | falcon is of course a spaceship in eve |
| 1845s | online |
| 1846s | and i love this photo i love the thing |
| 1848s | about the dragon ball the thing about |
| 1850s | the falcon is that it doesn't just go up |
| 1853s | on rockets it comes back down on rockets |
| 1855s | if you've seen a rocket landing it is a |
| 1857s | falcon 9. |
| 1859s | and this picture on the right you can |
| 1861s | see somebody standing next to that |
| 1862s | rocket that is a your 20-story office |
| 1866s | building that lands after falling back |
| 1869s | from space |
| 1870s | we are living in the future |
| 1873s | by the way i don't know does anyone have |
| 1874s | an idea who would win a falcon 9 or 9 |
| 1876s | falcons |
| 1880s | 2021 we saw uh the sequel to spaceship |
| 1883s | one spaceship two |
| 1886s | this was uh |
| 1887s | uh richard branson and jeff bezos were |
| 1890s | racing to see who would get passengers |
| 1891s | into space first and richard branson |
| 1894s | sort of beat them on a technicality |
| 1896s | uh this is a basically another |
| 1898s | sub-orbital joyride for space tourists |
| 1901s | and i think this is sort of the |
| 1902s | equivalent to the apotheosis which is |
| 1903s | another rare ship |
| 1905s | again taken it by the owner wants to |
| 1907s | check it out and spends the rest of his |
| 1909s | time in hangers but it does have cool |
| 1910s | wings |
| 1913s | this is jeff bezos's spaceship right the |
| 1915s | new shepherd it's named of course after |
| 1917s | alan shepard first american in space who |
| 1919s | flew in a rocket that was fueled by well |
| 1921s | alcohol |
| 1924s | it's a sub-orbital joyride built by jeff |
| 1926s | bezos and uh yeah it's actually flown |
| 1928s | william shatner to space which is pretty |
| 1930s | cool and wally funk |
| 1932s | and can anyone guess what eve ship this |
| 1934s | is |
| 1935s | i i know a lot of you probably say the |
| 1937s | thorax right |
| 1938s | i mean the thorax is the obvious one |
| 1940s | right but i thought about it a bit more |
| 1942s | and i think it kind of has that look at |
| 1944s | the armageddon |
| 1946s | but we're not quite there i think the |
| 1947s | balgorn is it right i'll tell you why |
| 1949s | because it's not just the looks but if |
| 1951s | you're in a balgorn you're going to get |
| 1953s | primaries right away your flight is |
| 1955s | going to be very short but you're going |
| 1956s | to have a lot of fun you're everyone's |
| 1958s | going to hate you |
| 1960s | plus there's might be some metaphor |
| 1962s | about you know bloodsucking and |
| 1963s | capitalism |
| 1969s | okay we're not quite there because we're |
| 1971s | we're about to see some new spaceships |
| 1972s | flying soon and again these are |
| 1974s | spaceships carrying people if you have |
| 1975s | money you can fly in some of these i |
| 1977s | don't know if you will but |
| 1979s | uh |
| 1980s | literally |
| 1981s | launching in a few weeks we're going to |
| 1983s | have the second test flight of boeing's |
| 1985s | starliner |
| 1987s | if that works then it will carry crew |
| 1989s | later in the year so this will have a |
| 1991s | crew of two to five it's doing the same |
| 1992s | thing as spacex's dragon but at about 60 |
| 1996s | percent more cost uh it's |
| 1998s | yeah |
| 1999s | and literally they were rolling it along |
| 2001s | the road to the integration facility and |
| 2004s | a bit fell off |
| 2005s | like today the first time it launched it |
| 2008s | went crazy because its clocks got |
| 2009s | mismatched the second time they launched |
| 2011s | the valves rusted shut you know |
| 2015s | yeah |
| 2016s | boeing i don't know |
| 2019s | yeah |
| 2020s | i think that's a strategic cruiser |
| 2022s | mostly because it costs a lot and it's |
| 2025s | built in parts that don't always work |
| 2027s | together by the sound of things |
| 2031s | and then the sls uh well actually |
| 2033s | technically it's the round which flies |
| 2035s | in the sls and this was originally |
| 2037s | developed for a rocket called the aries |
| 2039s | back |
| 2040s | well actually when eve online started |
| 2042s | the the orion was being developed so sls |
| 2045s | rolled out to the pad to be checked you |
| 2047s | know they wanted to do a full-on dress |
| 2049s | rehearsal |
| 2051s | and things didn't work so they're now |
| 2053s | rolling it back to fix a bunch of things |
| 2055s | so it's going to fly soon |
| 2058s | and if that works we should see people |
| 2060s | on it by about 2024 |
| 2063s | uh but that will be like |
| 2065s | you know 20 years after it was first |
| 2067s | proposed so i think that this is like a |
| 2070s | pirate capital ship because they're it's |
| 2072s | rare like they're gonna fly this maybe |
| 2074s | once |
| 2075s | every two years |
| 2076s | it's incredibly expensive right it is |
| 2079s | billions of dollars mostly because |
| 2081s | politicians are getting stuff done in |
| 2083s | their state |
| 2084s | and yeah all that extra money doesn't |
| 2086s | buy you much better than what your |
| 2087s | spacex is doing |
| 2089s | and yeah if you've ever been in like a |
| 2091s | cap swarm you'll notice the guys with |
| 2093s | the fancy cap faction pirate caps |
| 2097s | they're never the first in they're |
| 2098s | always turning up late just in case |
| 2100s | things don't quite work |
| 2104s | but i i did catch this photo yesterday |
| 2106s | by the way of the leif erikson statue |
| 2108s | sort of looking at the moon sls and |
| 2110s | orion they are part of nasa's plan to |
| 2112s | return to the moon and hopefully it is |
| 2115s | to stay this time so i saw this image |
| 2117s | and i thought i should probably put this |
| 2119s | in the presentation and then i sort of |
| 2121s | realized that well you know |
| 2123s | leif erikson you all know he named |
| 2125s | greenland so he would probably call the |
| 2126s | moon airland |
| 2132s | india india have a space program they |
| 2134s | don't have astronauts they have well i |
| 2136s | think they're calling them vimenots but |
| 2138s | if anyone from india wants to disagree |
| 2140s | on that you can tell me yeah i don't |
| 2143s | have huge details on this but it's a |
| 2145s | small three crew thing we're probably |
| 2147s | going to see a test launch later this |
| 2148s | year |
| 2149s | and crew launch maybe a couple years |
| 2152s | from now i think that is like a punisher |
| 2154s | mostly because it's very similar to the |
| 2155s | rifter and design but it's shinier |
| 2159s | really that's about it |
| 2161s | and since we're in |
| 2163s | iceland we have to talk about viking |
| 2165s | adjacent stuff and we have copenhagen |
| 2167s | sub-orbitals who are a bunch of |
| 2168s | crowd-funded awesome people |
| 2171s | great videos teaching you rocket science |
| 2174s | they are going to fly this thing with a |
| 2176s | person inside a parachute back it's |
| 2178s | going to be fueled by |
| 2180s | alcohol because that is a great rocket |
| 2182s | fuel for all sorts of reasons |
| 2185s | uh yeah they've done they've got a bunch |
| 2187s | of videos uh teaching some basic stuff |
| 2189s | but i think |
| 2190s | i've looked at the thing that you're |
| 2192s | gonna fall back to earth in and i think |
| 2194s | that this is like a suicide gank |
| 2196s | catalyst right |
| 2199s | i mean it's going to be fun for a few |
| 2201s | seconds |
| 2202s | [Laughter] |
| 2205s | but yeah but the real cool future |
| 2209s | the shiny future we're all talking about |
| 2211s | is spacex's shiny sci-fi stainless steel |
| 2214s | starship yes this is made |
| 2217s | this is huge right it's 50 meters tall |
| 2220s | it's nine meters in diameter it's |
| 2222s | thousands of tons the test flights of |
| 2225s | just the upper stage have been |
| 2226s | spectacular look at the size of this |
| 2228s | thing it's going to put 100 tons into |
| 2230s | orbit it's going to be taller than the |
| 2231s | saturn five it's gonna be five and a |
| 2233s | half thousand tons and it's built in a |
| 2235s | tent in texas |
| 2237s | like this gives you an idea of the size |
| 2239s | of this rocket this is them mating it |
| 2241s | together for the first time and they put |
| 2243s | it in black and white to try and evoke |
| 2245s | those images of skyscrapers being |
| 2247s | constructed |
| 2248s | i want to show you like a portion of the |
| 2251s | test flight and we do have audio in this |
| 2253s | apparently |
| 2254s | it might be a little longer so maybe we |
| 2256s | should turn the sound down a little |
| 2258s | this is what it looks like rising so |
| 2260s | this is a test flight where they wanted |
| 2262s | to show that it could descend through |
| 2264s | the atmosphere |
| 2265s | so it's flying on three engines these |
| 2268s | are called raptor engines because spacex |
| 2270s | likes to name their engines after birds |
| 2273s | these engines produce about 200 tons of |
| 2275s | thrust each and as it goes higher |
| 2276s | they're cutting out the engines because |
| 2278s | what they want to do is bring it up to |
| 2280s | about 10 kilometers high |
| 2282s | and once it's there they're going to |
| 2283s | have it fall back down and use |
| 2285s | aerodynamics to glide and i don't mean |
| 2287s | glide like the space shuttle i mean sort |
| 2291s | of just drop |
| 2292s | like a belly flop like a skydiver |
| 2295s | again this is something the size of a |
| 2298s | building |
| 2299s | doing like a free-fall skydive under |
| 2302s | control this is one of the most majestic |
| 2304s | things that i have ever seen |
| 2307s | and the amazing thing is that this has |
| 2309s | been sort of largely done out in the |
| 2311s | open there's a bunch of fans down there |
| 2313s | documenting everything like whenever |
| 2315s | something happens down there someone has |
| 2317s | photographs of it and there's all sorts |
| 2319s | of secret messages to the fans yeah |
| 2321s | watch this thing it is falling down the |
| 2324s | idea being right this thing wants to be |
| 2326s | 100 reusable so it has to return from |
| 2329s | orbit and to do that they need to |
| 2331s | maximize the drag and they have to have |
| 2333s | a heat shield so this is the attitude |
| 2335s | that it takes |
| 2336s | this is them demonstrating for the first |
| 2338s | time this was possible and it was a |
| 2339s | perfect descent |
| 2342s | right up |
| 2343s | until they had low pressure in their |
| 2345s | fuel tanks and when they had low |
| 2347s | pressure in their fuel tanks it meant |
| 2348s | they weren't feeding enough fuel to the |
| 2350s | engines |
| 2351s | the engines started getting too much |
| 2353s | oxygen and they started basically |
| 2355s | burning all the copper off the engines |
| 2357s | and eating those engines from the inside |
| 2359s | that's why |
| 2360s | the engine flare here turns green it is |
| 2363s | yeah glorious |
| 2365s | but yeah it didn't quite work on the |
| 2367s | first attempt it didn't work on the |
| 2369s | second attempt or the third attempt it |
| 2371s | did eventually work and now they're |
| 2373s | trying to build the rest of the rocket |
| 2375s | it is an avatar as far as i'm concerned |
| 2378s | it is big it's shiny it's expensive and |
| 2380s | it's a big deal when one of these things |
| 2382s | drop the only thing is i think that they |
| 2384s | went the opposite of making the front |
| 2386s | pointy by the way i think this is |
| 2388s | starship in amarion gold i don't know |
| 2390s | maybe the color's not quite right |
| 2392s | but yeah what happened to the space |
| 2394s | planes we're almost done |
| 2396s | we have the space shuttle why aren't |
| 2397s | there any space planes we do have space |
| 2399s | planes we have the boeing x-37b it's |
| 2401s | operated by the us department of defense |
| 2403s | nobody flies on this it spends months or |
| 2406s | years in orbit and it returns to the |
| 2408s | runway unannounced |
| 2410s | and that makes it a cover ops living and |
| 2412s | local right what are they doing |
| 2415s | are they going to surprise us with a hot |
| 2416s | drop maybe they're a bomber right and |
| 2419s | yes foreign militaries do actually say |
| 2421s | that the us has set this up as a bomber |
| 2423s | that can fly back mostly because they |
| 2425s | want money from their governments |
| 2427s | there's also the dream chaser which i'm |
| 2429s | excited for because it's going to be a |
| 2431s | cargo ship to the space station that can |
| 2433s | return space station cargo to any runway |
| 2436s | in the world and that means it's not |
| 2437s | like getting a capsule from the sea |
| 2439s | bringing it back unpacking the |
| 2441s | experiments this literally lands and you |
| 2442s | have door-to-door service for your |
| 2444s | science experiments |
| 2446s | the only thing is it's not going to |
| 2447s | carry humans right now people wanted to |
| 2449s | carry humans they wanted to sell nasa on |
| 2452s | the idea of putting humans on this but |
| 2454s | nasa was like no we |
| 2456s | we're done with space planes for now |
| 2458s | you know you can carry cargo and that |
| 2459s | means that it's a fighter mostly because |
| 2462s | everybody well |
| 2463s | people keep on asking to fly the |
| 2465s | fighters as spacecraft you know |
| 2468s | doesn't happen |
| 2470s | so anyway that is most of my |
| 2472s | presentation i think i just want to come |
| 2473s | back and say |
| 2475s | i am |
| 2476s | i've been thinking about my sort of role |
| 2478s | in eve for a while i still do log in uh |
| 2482s | but eve was what you know basically |
| 2484s | brought me to my current status as a |
| 2486s | content producer and they call me a |
| 2488s | content producer |
| 2490s | i'm not really much of a content |
| 2491s | producer i'm more of a |
| 2493s | uh a storyteller right i tell the |
| 2495s | stories |
| 2497s | and in eve |
| 2498s | you know developers created eve they |
| 2501s | created the lore but most of the stories |
| 2503s | from eve come from the people you're the |
| 2505s | content creators and i find it i find it |
| 2508s | heartening that when i tell these |
| 2510s | stories |
| 2511s | people think it's cool and their first |
| 2513s | reaction is they want to be part of |
| 2515s | those stories going forward and there's |
| 2517s | very few games out there like that that |
| 2519s | have the capacity to allow players |
| 2522s | to be part of this creative process |
| 2526s | and that's my talk so i'm scott manley |
| 2529s | fly safe |
| 2531s | [Applause] |