V101 SPACE
Hey, I’m Rob, the voice and the face of V101 SPACE.
A channel that dives deep into the wonders of the universe. I believe that when a subject is made exciting and cinematic, people want to explore it more. That’s my mission: to reveal astronomy in a way that’s engaging, creative, and 100% human. Forget boring space documentaries. These are V101 documentaries, made with passion, narrative and style.
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Well, I've got to say, I really enjoyed making this video! Neptune is full of surprises, especially that supercritical fluid layer. It’s seriously strange stuff… and as you’ll see in the video, we actually replicated a version of it here on Earth!
Hope you enjoy this one. I loved putting it together. — Rob
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Here’s one of the final images Voyager 2 ever sent back from Neptune in 1989, a fading blue crescent disappearing into darkness. Still gives me chills. Working on my latest video about Npetune, what shocked me most was how little we actually understand about the planet’s interior… yet how terrifying the best theories already are. Check out the video here https://youtu.be/jxF2pC5oklk?si=P1dXD...
What shocked you most when you watched it? Have a great day! - Rob
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How far have we gone? It may surprise you. Check out my latest video below.
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Have you ever heard of the Arecibo Message? 👽
On November 16, 1974, humanity sent a message to the stars.
From the massive Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, a powerful radio signal was beamed toward the globular star cluster M13, 25,000 light-years away.
It contained just 1,679 bits of data, enough to form a pixelated image showing who we are: our DNA, our solar system, our bodies, and the radio telescope that sent it.
It will take about 25,000 years to reach its destination… and the same time again for any reply to return.
In cosmic terms, it’s like tossing a message in a bottle into an ocean that spans eternity, but it’s proof that even on a tiny planet, orbiting an ordinary star, we still dare to say: “We are here.”
#OnThisDay #SpaceHistory #SETI #V101Space
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Who wants to go on a journey unlike any other? Check out my latest video below. - Rob
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November 12, on this day, we landed on a comet!
In 2014, after a ten-year journey through the Solar System, the Rosetta spacecraft released its tiny companion, Philae, toward the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
For the first time in history, humanity touched a comet.
Philae’s harpoons failed to fire, and it bounced — twice — before coming to rest in the shadows of a cliff. Its batteries drained quickly, but not before sending home priceless data: the composition of ancient ice and dust older than the planets themselves.
It was a reminder of how fragile exploration can be… and how far we’ve come.
Even when the landing didn’t go perfectly, it still made history.
#OnThisDay #SpaceHistory #ESA #V101Space
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I re-watched Interstellar last night and discovered something awesome… yet terrifying.
After a long day of planning what my next V101 SPACE video might be about, I sat down to unwind and ended up catching Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, one of my all-time favourites. I’ve seen it several times since its release in 2014, but this time, I noticed something new.
During the water-world scene, there’s a subtle yet brilliant ticking sound that plays the entire time the crew are on the planet. I’d always assumed it was simply a clever reminder that time is slipping away, since every hour down there equals seven years back on Earth, but it’s more than that.
Each tick happens every 1.25 seconds, and with a little research, I found that every single tick equals one full day passing on Earth. That means, as the crew scramble through rising tides, each heartbeat-like sound marks another day lost to relativity, a perfect, terrifying detail in one of cinema’s most intense sequences.
If you haven’t seen it in a while, it’s worth revisiting. A breathtaking story about wormholes, black holes, and the limits of human love. Interstellar only gets better with time! - Rob
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Happy Halloween, Space Travellers…
Out there in the darkness, there are real cosmic horrors, not ghosts or ghouls, but black holes that devour light, neutron stars that crush atoms, and galaxies colliding in slow-motion destruction!
Yet somehow… our little blue planet orbits safely (currently) in a little region of space we call the solar system. So tonight, when you look up at the stars, remember, the universe doesn’t need monsters.
It already has plenty.
Mwahaha! - Rob
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If you loved our recent journey through Ceres and Vesta, you don’t want to miss this one!
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is now on its way to one of the strangest worlds in the asteroid belt, a metallic world so dense that it could be the exposed core of a failed planet.
We’re talking iron, nickel, and mysteries that could rewrite what we know about how planets form. - Rob
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Over the last year, I’ve watched something quietly change on YouTube. The wonders of the universe, once told through passion, curiosity, and the human voice, have become buried under an avalanche of AI-generated slop.
Don't get me wrong, I think AI is a brilliant tool when used correctly (The image below is AI-generated, for example). But it’s hard to compete with a machine that can churn out a new video every day of the week. Channels that use it across the entire creation process, script writing, voice over, video generation, editing, thumbnails, etc
And the truth is… V101 has seen the affects. From my income taking a big hit to me questioning my creative choices, at times, it’s made me wonder if I can keep doing what I love: telling the real stories of the Universe. But then I read your comments.
I see your names appear, your words under every video, and your support, from my amazing channel members who donate $2+ a month to help keep the channel financially ticking over, to those who comment, like, and share. It reminds me that this channel still matters, even in a sea of AI sludge.
So thank you, and please keep doing what you’re doing. Seek out human-made stories. Support the people who pour themselves into their work, who invest countless hours into creating something to inspire, entertain, or move you.
Don’t settle for the clickbait content made purely to trick you. There’s no fact-checking, no passion, just code designed to capture your attention and make money with minimum effort.
YouTube is under attack. Original, human-made content is under attack.
And I believe the cosmos deserves to be told through real eyes, real voices, and real wonder.
Thank you, truly, for keeping V101 alive.
— Rob
#ThankYou #V101SPACE #HumanMade
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