SpaceVidcast Episode 001
This is the first SpaceVidcast.com episode explaining what SpaceVidcast is, what you can expect and why we’re here. Tune in live right here on SpaceVidcast.com Thursday nights to participate, or we will be making a download/iTunes on-demand feed available soon.
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We’ll go ahead and get started with the first live SpaceVidcast.com vidcast. A little bit redundant but still a lot of fun
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This particular show, we’re not going to be doing a lot of fancy cool things.
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We’ll have the graphics at the bottom and you can actually participate live
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and you can leave your comments and I’ll interact with you and that’s how we’re going to do it week after week.
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We’re going to start doing these Thursday nights, most likely around 7pm Central Daylight Time.
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If you’d like to know when these SpaceVidcasts are going to be occuring sign up to our Twitter account
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at twitter.com/spacevidcast and we’ll send out announcements as to when these are going but I’m pretty much set
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on Thursday nights. And I wanted to use this particular show to answer all the questions that are going to happen in
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future shows, because every time I do a live podcast someone comes back and says what are you using
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who are you, why are you here, how do you make the graphics go, what is the meaning of this. And then
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some of them say silly things like boobies, boobies, boobies 5 times in a row and then we kick em.
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So I wanted to answer those questions up front, that way the regulars that are in the room, when the new guys come
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instead of just getting all pissed off at them you can point them to this video and they can get the information
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that the’re looking for very quickly and easily. So part of, I want to first start out with our mission
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and why I’m here. We just gone done streaming the STS-123 mission, space shuttle Endeavour.
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And that was a lot of fun, we started right from launch and we did a co-hosted launch event where I was
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kinda doing a commentary, had a lot of people in the room it was a smashing success. Way more people than I
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ever imagined showed up for a show with absolutly no advertising. We streamed all the way through and just recently
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right before the recording of this show Endeavour just landed safely back at the Kennedy Space Center. And it was
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a lot of fun throughout the whole thing and part of what made it fun is unlike the regular Ustream, I’m sorry
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regular NASA TV channel where it’s just them sitting there hours on end hardly saying anything and then
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showing replays, we actually have a chat room at the bottom and we have new users come in saying what is this,
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is this live, what does this mean, why do I care. And to answer those questions, yes we do live stuff
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so when we do an STS mission it’s all live, we’re just re-broadcasting NASA TV. And the reason we’re doing
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that is for those newbies, for those people who maybe are kinda interested in space travel but really don’t know
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where to star, or just kinda you know browsing the web, kinda… Maybe they’re techies but never really got in to
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space travel and just wanted to get more information. So they’re going to ask a lot of basic questions.
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What is two engine TAL mean, what do all those different NASA acronyms mean. And felt it was my job and
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those jobs of the NASA-ites and the people who really understand this stuff in the chat room to very courteously
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and correctly answer those questions for them so they could be educated without feeling stupid.
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And that’s kinda the atmosphere that I want to set up for this is that there are no dumb questions. It doesn’t matter
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if they ask the same question 5 times in a row, well as long as it’s different people asking the same question 5 times
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in a row. As long as they’re legitimatly interesting in finding out the information, I want to help them get that
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information and the reason I want to help them is I believe space flight and space travel is absolutely the most
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critical things that humans have done. It is the future of humanity, and I realize that sounds cheesy I’m waiting
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for some of the room to start actually… Starbucks Luer, Luva excuse me agrees… But I’m waiting for some of the room
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to start disagreeing and start saying yeah it’s a little bit cheesy… But it absolutly is and a lot of people all over the world
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right now kinda walk around like this saying we have these issues, we can’t feed the world population we can’t, we can’t
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we’ve got a war in Iraq in you’re in the US. We’ve got, we’ve got all these issues at home, why would I deal with space travel
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Well becasue you can’t just live your life with blinders on. The future of the human race must absolutely, absolutely
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must be in the stars for the single reason that we have no redundancy on our planet. A single catastrophic event
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Just a giant meteor hitting the planet, a super volcano going off on the planet… There are… I can keep going off listing
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disasters… If the planet actually stopped spinning, just like suddenly went like this and stopped but the atmosphere
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kept going, that basically would whip around with winds going something like 14,000 miles an hour around the earth
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and would basically rip mountains out and essentially devistate all life on earth. That would be, that’s kinda another
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really cool way to go. Yeah, I know, no kidding… geez! Exactly.
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So, these are reasons we need to populate other planets. And you can just start going out and saying ok lets go
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populate a planet now. We have to figure out the effects of the human body in space. That’s why we have
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the International Space Station. We have to figure out how we’re going to build bases on hostile enviornments such as
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the moon and then move on to Mars. And NASA is the world leader in doing this, but I’m not just talking about NASA
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in these videocasts. Absolutlely not. They are one avenue and they’re a very good avenue and they should get our
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money and our support. Now there are some things that I don’t agree with but they, they are critically… I don’t know
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what words I want to chose there, they are critical evolution of humans as we know it. And so while we have wars we
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absolutlely have problems, we have the US has problems with the dollar but you know what, cutting back on space travel
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cutting back on space flight and going around like this saying we have to look at the problems at home, that won’t help us.
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In the end, in the long run that only stands to hurt us and that’s why we’re here. We’re here to educate people and let them know
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that cost isn’t really that great VS the cost of doing nothing. And that’s what I want to convey to people who aren’t necessarily
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space geeks and this all started way back in the Technology Evangelist days when I was doing podcasts there and I had a bunch
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of people, we would get in to NASA conversations and would say well they’re stupid, they are a giant waste of money I don’t
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want to give them my tax dollars. So that’s one avenue. Then we’ve got other avenues the Google X-Prize. We’ve got
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Virgin Galactic, we’ve got privateized space travel that’s starting to flourish. In your lifetime, dare I say possibly before the year
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2010 you might have the ability to go in to space. You Joe average-ish consumer. We’ll call it average upper class consumer
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how about that, because it’s going to be very expensive. So you can actually go in to space, this won’t something for an
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elite few people. You’ll be able to experience that, you’ll be able to see our planet many miles up. You’ll be able to experience
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zero gravity. This will touch you directly. Now while it will be expensive at first, that price will drive down over time, it always
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does. And that’s going to be some exciting stuff and we’re going to cover that in next weeks podcast.
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And you know, Starbucks is just saying right now he husband is in the Army we can’t afford it but you know I have no doubt that
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soon it will be just as inexpensive as traditional air flight is today. We have the same problem… Look at the way the airlines work.
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They used to be for the elite few in the beginning. Now you can get 100 dollar tickets on a discount carrier. You’ll be able to
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do the same thing space travel and you’ll be able to do it in your lifetime. Mark my words that will happen in your lifetime.
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So this will start to become more and more interesting to people. And we want to be a leader in this space, we want to
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educate people as to the risks in doing this what the rewards will be and why we need to absolutly do this. This isn’t a want
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we need to do this. So that’s why we’re here, that’s what we’re going to do. Now let me answer some of the questions that
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are going to get asked in every single show. You guys ready for this. This is, these are the questions. Alright.
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What am I using to build the graphics at the bottom. You know you’re all asking it, can anyone in the chat room answer it for me.
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There’s only one answer, there’s only one program that does all this cool kick butt stuff. That’s right fox814 it’s CamTwist.
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No. They don’t make a version for PC. No. I don’t know what you should use for PC, if you want to do this you gotta buy a Mac
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I don’t care if you don’t have a Mac, that’s your problem. Alright, so, that’s what we use. CamTwist 1.7, there ya go.
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When do we do this. We’re going to be doing this Thursday nights. Why are we here. We have already answered that.
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What other questions that I might be missing that were asked throughout the week. Starbucks if you could help me out a little
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bit. That would be really great. Exactly. They’re saying that I’m brought to you by Apple / Dell and I’ve got a couple huge Dell
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monitors directly to my left. And I’ve got an HVX200 sitting in front of me. I do use studio lighting in front of me here. Right now
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I’m at the office for this particular show, however I’m in the process of building a home studio. I’ve got a couple thousand dollars
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in sound foam that’s going up on the walls. It’s not quite ready yet. I’m also going to be using Logitech QuickCam Ultra cameras
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they look something like this. So this will be the primary video source for those shows and I can switch between those cameras
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so that’s kinda what we’ll be using for all of that. The microphone I’ll be using is a KSM44 by Shure and the audio board
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I’ll be using is a Project Mix I/O which is automated and linked directly in to the Macintosh. So… Brought to you by the
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Hanso Foundation, and for all of you geeks out there, here is my Dharma bottle. Check that out. And if you’ve ever noticed
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any of the videos I’ve done for like any of the CamTwist documentation you’ll sometimes see these bottles sitting in the
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background. So there’s a little bit of an easter egg for ya. Watch for the Dharma bottles or sometimes I’ll have Brain TonIQ
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cans sitting in the background for no reason whatsoever. So there’s a Brain TonIQ can if you want to know what that is
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e-mail me. My e-mail address is benjamin@spacevidcast.com. Yeah, you’re trying to take notes. Excuse me. Asking if there’s
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life on Mars wr80jc. I have absolutely no idea if there’s life on Mars or if there was life on Mars. We’ll be starting another show
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a conspiracy show and that almost seems like something more for a conspiracy show. There may have been at one time
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non-intelligent life on Mars. But that’s still kind of undecided. I don’t think we’ve really seen conclusive evidence in either
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direction. The big question. The big one up in the air right now is Pluto. Now in 2015 we’re going to have one of our satellite
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finally make it to Pluto, wether it’s a planet or a dwarf planet or whatever you wanna call it, that is an interesting spacial body
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out there because it possibly has liquid water under the surface. So, there might be some pretty cool things happening at
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Pluto and then beyond Pluto. So Pluto may be the answer to how the Earth was formed. How we got water on Earth and how
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life actually began on Earth. So there are potentially a lot of answers on Pluto. We’re going to start seeing a lot more
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information starting to trickle back as we get closer and closer to 2015 when that satellite makes it there. Anyone
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remember the name of that satellite. Is that the New Horizons satellite. Can you guys help me out with that.
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Ustreamer-32215 said there’s non-intelligent life here on Earth as well and that is so true. Is it the Gallelio. I don’t think
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It’s the Gallelio. I’m pretty sure the Pluto one is two words like New Horizon. New Horizons, is that is Chris-J. I’m pretty
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sure it’s New Horizons is the one that’s making it there. I think Gallelio was swinging past it. But I think New Horizon is
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designed to… Will actually get like a full 24 hour period right there specifically for that particular one. So for future events
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for future NASA missions that we’ll be covering. STS-124 and my personal mission that I’m looking forward to STS-125
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We’ll continue to cover those live on SpaceVidcast and you can participate live in the chat room that you see at the bottom
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of your screen. You can help others out, or if you’re a space newbie and you want to figure this stuff out come on in and
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chat. Just stay around for a while. We’ve got a bunch of really smart people here. We’ve got a bunch of people that are
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coming from other sites like Space.com, NASASpaceFlight, hopefully even NASA.gov that will come in and help
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answer those questions for you. There is no such thing as a dumb question. All I ask is that you play nice, play within
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the rules, watch your CAPS LOCKS, stuff like that. Lets se here. Any other questions that we’ve got inside of the chat
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room. This is an interactive show so it’s a little bit awkward because I’ve only got one camera right now but I want to
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make sure to get all the questions answered in the chat room for this first videocast.
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And they’re off just kinda doing their own thing. You can see it scrolling at the bottom.
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Starbucks is asking what time on Thursday nights. The tentative time is 7 Central Daylight Time. So that would be
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negative 5 GMT is Central Daylight Time. And Stretch says to ignore you when you’re crazy, but you’re
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always crazy. That’s why I love you so much. So stick with us next week. This is a little bit of a slower show
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I realize that, I wanted to answer the questions, let you guys know that we’re doing this and get you guys excited
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about the show. Next week we’re going to be talking about Spaceship 2. Spaceship 2 is Virgin Galactic’s vehicle that
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will allow consumers out in to space. So for 200,000 dollars you can buy a ticket and you can even reserve your
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ticket today with a 20,000 dollar deposit. And you can experience 4 and a half minutes of weightless time in space.
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We’ve got a Spaceship 2 video that we’ll be showing you and we’ve got a bunch of information that goes around
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Spaceship 2, and got some competing products to Spaceship 2 as well that we’ll be talking about. So getting you in to
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space is our topic for next week. So I hope you’ll join us next week, I hope you’ll watch us live because we’ll have a pre
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show and a post show. Be able to interact with us, ask a few more questions. Be a little more more crazy, and we’ll have
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a lot of fun. We’ll answer questions and we’ll get a whole new generation of humans, I don’t want to limit it to just one
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country, but we’ll get a new generation of children and people excited about space travel and looking back up to the stars
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instead of looking down and leaving their blinders on. That’s our goal. That’s why we’re here. It’s an important mission
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I hope to make it go. One other thing I did want to talk about. And I promised to talk about this in the pre-show.
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And I’m going to just hint on it. We’re going to talk about it a lot more next week. And that is it is my goal to lifecast
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from space. To actually, from the ground all the way through ascent, in to space and back through descent. Lifecast or
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broadcast on the Internet with a live chat room and answer your questions in real time during a space flight.
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And I want to do that here on Ustream. I want to do that here on SpaceVidcast.com. And I think I may be able to do that
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using Virgin Galactic’s system. It may not not be them, it may be someone else. If NASA’s willing to give me a ride on
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One of their Space Shuttles, that’d be great. But, I want to actually Lifecast the whole thing, up and back down
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and broadcast it live and answer your questions. Help everyone experience the weightlessness all in real time.
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Because while tickets will come down in price they are 200,000 dollars today. That’s a little bit too expensive for
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for most people. We’re going to be starting a fund to get that going, to get tickets. Now it may not be me
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that goes up in space, it may be someone else. I don’t know yet. But we’re going to be starting a fund to get
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someone going up there to lifecast that in real time, or as real time as we can get. And I think that’s going to be
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A lot of fun. That’s going to be one of the missions of the site is to bring this out and do this all live on the Internet.
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So I hope we’ll see you. I hope you’ll be a regular viewer on SpaceVidcast.com and I hope you’re as excited about this
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as I am. I’m also looking for help. I’m looking AJAX programmers. I’m looking for 3D animators. I def… let me get
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get really close… I NEED 3D animators badly! Good, great 3D animators. And I’m looking for people to make music for me.
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So if you’re… If you’ve got a talent that you think would be useful for SpaceVidcast even if I did list it off. If you’ve
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got something and you’re willing to donate your time, please e-mail me. Benjamin@spacevidcast.com and we’ll
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start a conversation and we’ll see where this fits. So, I’m doing this for free, I’m donating my time. Hopefully
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you’ll donate a little bit of your time and we’ll have a lot of fun doing it. Thank you so much for watching.
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I hope to see you live next week or at the very least watch the on-demand later.
