Can't believe we've never covered antimatter and its uses in sci-fi (and real life!) on Spacedock before, but we've fixed that now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUbX...

Antimatter Drives and Antimatter Bombs

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First day of the year that it's felt autumnal, in large part due to the drought causing all the trees to shed their bone dry leaves early.

We're back on space weaponry this week on Spacedock with a focused look at KKVs, the real life vacuum optimised missile that's very different from the torpedoes typically seen in sci-fi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8um...

Kinetic Kill Vehicles - The Future of Space Warfare?

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This week on Spacedock we look at what you have to do aboard a spacecraft if its taken damage, or caught fire, and how this is similar to and different from the same situations on oceangoing ships. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkrb...

Damage Control in Sci-Fi Space Combat

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Solar sails are one of the most visually interesting types of craft in sci-fi, but they don't work like the real ones do, which is what we're looking at in this weeks Spacedock video. But its not just the ones you know, there's also electric and magnetic ones! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuUA...

Are Solar Sails Actually Practical?

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The other Spacedock related thing on yesterdays video is the release of some wallpapers of our space battleship to Patreon, though this one below is free! The amazing @jonka.bsky.social did the ship art based on my design.

We're focusing on Warhammer 40k today on Spacedock, looking at the Adeptus Mechanicus and all the delightful contrasts and tension that permeate everything about them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=buzT...

Why Are The Adeptus Mechanicus Just So Damn Cool?

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Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de Gloire est arrivé. Contre nous de la tyrannie, L'étendard sanglant est levé. #theLunarWar #BastilleDay 🇫🇷

We return to the topic of sci-fi tanks this week on Spacedock, looking at a series of interesting features from real life ones that can be built on to add some flavor to your own designs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzIF...

Nine Features for an Awesome Sci-Fi Tank Design

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The Sojourn but make it a cool hotel or casino or restaurant in the 60s. Thank you Dominic Keating for this laugh from Encino! #scifi #startrek #audiodrama #sciencefiction #startrekenterprise

This week on Spacedock we look at battleships because we've made our own battleship! I designed it and @jonka.bsky.social made the art for it, find out more about it (and space battleships in general) in the video below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n341...

Big Badass Sci-Fi Battleships

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I've had a long fascination with UFOs. In real life there's a whole modern mythology that's grown up around them, which in turn has led to a lot of fiction all about them. Today's Spacedock video looks at these two sides of the phenomenon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm7k...

UFO's In Sci-Fi and their "Real" Inspirations.

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Wow, you know when the PR person steps and and is like "Let's wait til after release to talk about AI", you know they're using it EVERYWHERE.

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We asked the Crystal Dynamics team about its use of generative AI in developing Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. Here’s what Jeff Adams, experience director on the game, had to say.

Getting back into the swing of things with more @thelunarwar.bsky.social #digitalart #space #hardsf

It's time to talk about one of Star Treks most unique spaceship features: the saucer separations! Yes they're cool but the concept is also deeply flawed in many ways, check it out below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsRX...

Star Trek's Iconic Saucer Separation

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I adore Half-life 2. But in that whole game my favourite place is a boring looking grey area. Check out this video below to find out why I love this mundane spot so much, and what it has to do with caves in France and megastructures: youtu.be/Z7zFjGMjCQw

My favourite place in Half-Life 2

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Here's some (mostly) finished scenes from my thesis film :]

I've been playing Mechanicus 2 and it's good, but it feels so much more like a Games Workshop™️Product than its predecessor. It's had the characterful edges smoothed off in a bad way and there was even a Marvelesque Space Marines cameo. First game had more of a soul but this one is still good.

Invading worlds shows up a good amount in sci-fi, both on the small scale and the large scale. But if we look to reality we see there's a lot more to it than many media depictions show, which we go over in this weeks Spacedock video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUtS...

Invading Planets is Really Hard

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This week on Spacedock, what counts as a megabuilding? And some Darktide footage that totally didn't get me addicted to that game for like two weeks. Check it oooooout! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPhU...

What Is A "Megabuilding"?

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We've got another crazy science episode on Spacedock this week, this time looking at what the frequency of a laser actually means. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Rn...

Lasers, Masers, Grasers and Other Beams of Doom

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I watched the Fallout TV show recently which led to this video looking at how post-apocalyptic stories don't always feel that way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UQd...

What Gets Built After The Apocalypse?

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Attention on deck! All personnel interested in auditioning for S2 Vol. 3 & 4 of #TheSojourn are requested to click on this link: tinyurl.com/sojs2v34audi... Fair Winds! #VoiceActing #VoiceActors #CastingCall #Audition #SciFi #SciFiBooks #AudioDrama #AudioBooks #ScienceFiction

I absolutely devoured the Murderbot books (and show) these last few weeks. Amazing series full of robot characters who are interesting partly because they don't want to just become human! I detest that trope, it's dull and insultingly conformative. Murderbot shows how good not doing it can be!

The slightly different thing on this weeks Spacedock is a bit of a collab with #StarTrekOnline, as we host a special extended version of their cool mini-documentary covering pre-Federation ships that they made for the games 16th Anniversary! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhGj...

The Fighting Ships of the Romulan War

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Yes yes it's April Fools but this video ranking TIE fighters is in fact real and so are my dogshit opinions that are in it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXfF...

Ranking EVERY Model of TIE Fighter

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You know things are going well on a Spacedock video when putting the Brian Butterfields Diet Plan in the notes for our video editor.

Spacestations are really cool and come in maaaaany different shapes and styles. This weeks Spacedock looks into all these styles and goes over some of the other things stations have to consider. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk0i...

Designing Awesome Space Stations

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This week on Spacedock I'm waffling on about various inventive, smart tactics seen in space battles (and hating on the Picard Manuever a bit): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETT1...

Writing Clever Space Maneuvers

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This weeks Spacedock video looks at some of the many downsides of cybernetic augmentation, because that's what makes them so interesting! Also yes I replayed Cyberpunk 2077 recently, can you tell? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIlD...

The Terrifying Costs of Sci-Fi Cybernetics

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