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

  1. Umm, expand on the nature of these emissions? Perhaps shed more light than heat on the issue?
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  2. Hmm, makes sense that spark plugs wouldn’t work for RP-1, given that it is kerosene, which is thicker than diesel, which doesn’t light well with spark plugs either.
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  3. Imagine doing the maths -- and running the tests -- to ensure that those flames are never quite going to catch up and burn that rocket with three men on top ...
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  4. 6:55 Hey, I’m old enough to remember, back in the day, when Caltex would advertise that they had “Boron” in the petrol they sold. This was before I discovered it was an element. Never found out whether it was the actual element they put in, or it was just a brand name for some proprietary additive or other.
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  5. They do under high pressure (e.g. the interiors of stars).
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  6. 1:04 “buta-di-ene”
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  7. 1:03 “per-chlo-rate”
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  8. 4:12 Because the gas is at low pressure, so it shows its Fraunhofer lines (absorption/emission spectra). At higher pressure, these disappear.
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