Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "SmarterEveryDay" channel.

  1. Military logistics, it's strange how much this stuff fascinates me.
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  2.  @HermanVonPetri  Thanks!
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  3. farmers make the best engineers. If I want a problems solved, I'll never call a PhD. But I'd find a farmer to help every time.
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  4. Imagine if a pro baseball player swung that bat at full power.
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  5. simplest a carburetor can get? I'd argue otherwise. have a look at the AeroConversions AeroInjector, and other similar designs.
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  6. KISS, redundancy. It needs to be so simple and so reliable, taht you can fix it with duck tape, zip ties, and a multitool. I actually told people at NASA in about 2020 while at Johnson Space Center giving a presentation that, "NASA builds Ferraris. We need to be building Honda Civics.". They didn't like that. I must say the more I work with NASA, the less impressed I am.
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  7. 52:00 it's not that 1960s engineers were "better", it's that 2020s Leadership SUCKS! Leadership is the problem, not the engineers.
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  8. "focus on the mission, not on Technology Demonstration" 100% THIS!!!! Use as much simple existing as technology as possible. Use things we KNOW how to make work with absolute certainty. Only innovate where ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to complete the mission. Every innovation increases risk. Other missions are about technology. Artemis is NOT about technology, it needs to be about building a reliable system that will then facilitate FUTURE technology demonstration missions.
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  9. I served Army, but I had considered the Navy at times. But the only 3 jobs I'd of wanted would be an officer as a pilot, on a destroyer, or on a submarine :) Really surprised when he mentioned that so many recruits don't want to be on a submarine.
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  10.  @jakewhite5453  Pursue what?
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  11.  @FDMKuma  I already served 8yrs, would be coming up on 20yrs if I'd stayed in. The military would never let me do what I do best, I've tried. Instead, I study logistics of wars throughout history, and its effect on strategy and tactics, and on how to revolutionize the effect of logistics on modern warfare. But it will never be more than an academic exercise, because ideas like mine are always met with hostility and suffering. Nobody likes change, people feel threatened by it, but I crave the challenge of solving problems. In the end I care more about the war itself (winning), but the study of logistics is crucial to that. But I have no interest in a career specifically in logistics, I'd lose my mind from boredom in less than a month. I am a frontline soldier, a pilot, an inventor, a historian, an instructor, and an engineer. I seek only to revolutionize something, then to move onto the next challenge, and the next....
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