Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "" video.

  1. 0:37 The Russians also have something else: sponsorship placards.
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  2. 3:33 That window-frame colour keeps screaming “Windows XP” at me ...
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  3.  @RCAvhstape  Would you entrust mission-critical functions to an OS that can only handle 26 drive letters?
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  4.  @donjones4719  GMT is deprecated because it is unclear what it means. The wording of the official definition could make it equal to either UT1 or UTC. But given that those two could differ by up to 0.9 seconds, you can see why a space mission, in particular, would find it unwise to use such a reference.
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  5. 6:10 “Looking fine right now” ... shows messages with 4 lines saying “Failed”, 1 saying “Error”, and the remaining 3 showing “Loss”.
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  6. You probably need more like 100” to get the full benefit from UHD.
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  7.  James Sloan  There was a bit more to it than just “trigonometry”. They couldn’t have done it without computers. For reference, go have a look at Buzz “Dr Rendezvous” Aldrin’s PhD thesis, where he went into this in detail: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12652
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  8. Current would work, in the Earth’s magnetic field. I think one of the Shuttle missions did some testing with this.
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  9. 5:44 Some would argue that the most complex machine that humans have ever built is the Internet.
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  10. 1:22 Worth mentioning those green and powder-blue closed curves: are they polar orbits? But they don’t seem to precess?
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  11. 4:28 Ah.
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