Friday, January 15, 2021

My space youtubers right now

Great

Scott Manley - First choice for space information of a technical nature. The definitive source for some topics such as Rotating Detonation Engines

Anton Petrov - fantastic space science news content

Angry Astronaut - refreshing opinions on latest developments, but also brings his own ideas and concepts. However it's unclear how well equipped he is to critically assess some topics

Everyday Astronaut - resting on laurels, content release has slowed dramatically. A lot of lazy live restreams. Stays in this section because he still does the best job on things like the year in review

Seeker - a more polished, less timely Anton Petrov. Easier to watch when low in energy thanks to soundtrack, graphics and lower common denominator presentation style

Nasaspaceflight - because we gotta have the up to the minute developments with Starship

2 The Future - similar to Angry Astronaut, but with more of a focus on the Musk empire


Not so great

What about it!? - some great interviews but mostly Starship recaps and lazy live restreams

TMRO - occasional great interviews, Peter Beck of Rocket Lab was epic. Other than that, not much to get excited about

Marcus House - perfectly fine content but frankly I'm not getting anything from this channel that isn't provided more effectively by someone else

Smallstars - some thoughtful work on artificial gravity undone by ridiculous concepts like a space station made out of a hundred rotating Starships

Isaac Arthur - needs to find some other medium instead of video. Challenging content that's difficult to follow due to glacial pace and distractingly irrelevant filler video on high rotate

Joe Scott - eclecticism is stupid, pick a lane! Seriously there are a few ok space vids in there but I tend to feel the content is overly padded with jokes and asides. Kinda like a mars bar inside a candyfloss

Fraser Cain - sorry but I mostly prefer scripted content. Interviews and group discussion have their place but not as cheap channel filler. Low information rate - why does every vid need to be an hour long?

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