Comments by "Nicolae Crefelean" (@kneekoo) on "Tech Chasm" channel.

  1. I'm undecided if Blue Origin's latest thing is a mock-up or a mockery. It might be both.
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  2. 13:37 Astronauts returning to Earth from LEO after 6 months only need a few days to get back on track. Landing on Mars, which has about a third of Earth's gravity, would be significantly easier for those on board. So even without artificial gravity, taking the lessons learned from the ISS - doing physical workout - would allow people to start doing things quite soon after landing. However, the mission profiles can easily include on-board light work that can be done even immediately after landing. And if we push those rockets fast enough to Mars to reach it in 4 months or less, it will be even better.
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  3. Oof, a third channel? That's like Toyota's 70 new hybrid models. :P Ok, I'm kidding, just make sure you're not diversifying to death. I enjoy the content here, so of course I want more. :)
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  4. People who are 50+ can surely call them "kids", but they're all adults and their expertise in computing is far above the average. So yes, they're highly trained professionals.
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  5. Hard to claim they're copying, but rather rendering at this point in time. We'll have to wait and see if they actually pull anything off. Everyone is embarrassingly behind SpaceX.
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  6. Space management, that's how it's solved. The sleeping quarters don't have to be big - 6m³ would be plenty for one person, even when being awake and alone, including a personal toilet+shower. The rest of the space should be used in common, as people need to socialize anyway. Let's keep in mind we're not talking about your average people who feel an urge to just go out and do stuff. The first missions will have people who qualify for such trips. By the time "normal" people will be sent to Mars, the 18m-wide Starship will probably be operational.
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  7. What people think about someone is inconsequential. What one achieves is the only thing that matters. Denying Elon's effort in making multiple successful companies and products is ridiculous because the implication would be that successful companies and products simply come into existence without their leaders. The need of some people to belittle others is pathetic.
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  8. 1:20 It looks like NASA has to pick more economical commercial partners for the mission, which will force the industry to finally get off their asses and step up their game. Go, SpaceX! 😄 4:06 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  9. On their latest Starlink launch, they said over 145000 customers. :)
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  10. 0:59 That reminded me of Craig Irwin saying "There's nothing that Tesla has that Toyota doesn't." 🤣 Some people are so butt-hurt about Elon's companies and Elon himself, that they're willing to make fools of themselves.
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  11. Hello back to Jixuan! :) Hopefully she's doing well and will get some nice rest. It's nice that you can stand in for each other, so we can still get videos. :D
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  12. 0:26 "Will the US Space Force be able to counter the Russians?" -- Sure, all they need is a strong net. 🤣
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  13. Well that was a long intro. :P And then the video ended as it was getting more and more interesting, so I hope the next episodes will come really fast. :)
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  14. Welcome back, Sam! :) The format is good, but I hope you'll get a better camera + lighting. Also, I don't really understand why the mic issue wasn't solved before publishing the episode, considering this was all old news. But sure, for testing the episode format this was still good enough. :)
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  15. Yeah, they're getting better and the channel will definitely grow. :) I first watched their content almost 1 year ago, when they had a few hundreds of subscribers, but I didn't pay much attention because they were new and I had my eyes on other channels already, but with them being new of course the whole production needed improvements. Well, they're pretty good now. :D Or I might've gotten used to them... Naaah... they're better now. :)
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  16. By coincidence, at some point after Elon started talking about the woke mind virus and a lot of leftists started to vilify him, Neil also started preaching about the gender ideology. He basically fell into the woke trap, and he's still singing that tune.
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  17.  @thinkingthing4851  Yes, they launched 105 satellites on the Transporter 3 mission.
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  18. ?!?! Sebastian's haircut and gray hair look great, and Jixuan's bow was a very nice touch. What are you talking about? We obviously missed you and it was great seeing you again, but that didn't alter our perception (not too much, anyway :P).
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  19. There's no Space Chasm link in the description yet. :) About Tesla Roof, I think you're pretty much spot on. If the price isn't close to that of solar panels, it can't compete. It's just there as an option, but it needs to be made cheaper and produced to a much larger scale so the price can go down even further. It's extremely hard to compete with the well established solar panel market.
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  20. 9:22 "Uncrewed" is better and it's been used for a long time. :)
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  21. Politics just hit the fan again.
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  22. That's a stunning comment. 😆
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  23. Very nice episode! 😄 👍
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  24. Earth a tourist attraction? Not easy if we won't have gene therapy to help against the large differences in gravity. Besides, without extremely fast ships to carry people between Mars and Earth, I don't see how someone can take a vacation and not only enjoy Earth for at least a week or two, but also have time to do the round trip between the two planets within the same window of opportunity. :)
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  25. Promising news about the Berlin Giga Factory! :) Hopefully they'll finish it on time. Oh, and Audi Artemis... 🤣🤣🤣 At least they're doing something new.
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  26. Boeing = Buggy Overpriced Engineering Inexplicably Not Grounded
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  27. Too much sarcasm and trolling for me today. Not that there's not even more room for it, but I was hoping for a more to the point episode. :P Anyway, thanks and Happy New Year!
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  28. Welcome back, both of you! :) And nice bow, Jixuan. My wife approved it too. 😄 10:12 The guy wears a duck mask and the lady next to him wears TWO masks (duck + a black one on top). 🤣🤣🤣 > Imaginary plan following: Senator 1: - We're kind of screwed, SpaceX will beat everyone, what do we do? Senator 2: - LOL, I know how to mess them up. 🙃 Let's only give NASA a smaller budget than SpaceX actually needs. SpaceX are so eager to prove themselves that they might just take it. Then the others file protests and we'll give NASA the rest of the money to fully fund "another" winner. 😉 Senators 3, 4, 5, 6...: - LMFAO! 🤣 Genius move, crappy budget approved. ✔️ In your face, SpaceX! 🥸
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  29. Of course it's propaganda. But this doesn't mean they're not serious about sending people to Mars. And if they delay for any reason, no wonder - it's definitely not an easy thing and everyone has delays, the bigger the stakes. But aspiring for a faster development timeline is not wrong. As for their budget, let's not forget that NASA wastes money on SLS and silly contracts to keep their bipartisan politicians happy. China doesn't have that issue, so there you go. P.S. The 5 flights from Boca Chica were proposed by SpaceX and they're only meant for the development phase of the Starship program. :)
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  30. 3:37 A small clarification here: the (Veloci)raptor engines have already increased their power (thrust-to-weight ratio), which is why SpaceX reduced their number on Super Heavy. You know Elon's philosophy: "no need? delete it." And they're still working on increasing the engine's performance, which will of course help lifting heavier payloads and be more fuel efficient on our way to the Moon, Mars and whatever the Starship will be pointed at. 😄
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  31. Mispronouncing stuff is normal, as people don't have their tongues and mouths trained for all languages. What makes no sense, though, is intentionally mispronouncing words when the goal is not comedy or insult. The easiest way to get a proper feel of why intentionally mispronouncing words is not really a great idea is hearing others constantly mispronouncing your own name. Many people actually care. But then it also makes sense to try to pronounce it as correct as possible because it's easier for people to understand it, instead of trying to figure out what that was, while losing track on the words following some mispronunciation, which leads to rewinding a bit, just so you catch the whole idea/sentence. This is why you can't do this with a live audience, because you will definitely lose a few on the way. So it's not about people giving anyone a hard time, but rather making sure you pass the message in a way that makes it easy for everyone to follow. And it's also hard work to make sure you pronounce everything correctly and clearly, so this shouldn't be taken lightly. But the effort is worth it and it pays in time.
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  32. Word. 😄
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  33. Historians are supposed to be experts about the past, not the future. I initially thought "NASA historian" was ironic and funny, but then the joke kept dragging to weird levels. 😂 No problem, though, it's ok when people have opinions and are willing to stand by them. It's just that not everyone can be right. And considering how much progress SpaceX has done with Starship, I expect it to see it tested in orbit and then around the Moon in 2022. A test mission to Mars will probably follow in late 2024. No one else has anything better than Starship, even in its current form, so I don't see how any other rocket would reach Mars before SpaceX. Rocket engineering is not the kind of field that you can easily leapfrog development stages. It takes a lot of money, talent and time - all highly important. And considering SpaceX will soon make a lot of money with Starlink, that will enable the acceleration of their development, because they have a silly amount of talent just waiting for bigger budgets to get results faster. More money will enable them to easily test more advanced materials and manufacturing techniques, which is something governments can't afford and something that other private companies don't do simply because they sit on their hands and wait for governmental contracts or they lack the vision/talent to execute.
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  34. 1:24 "Only 12-13% S/X"? Well, S/X made 57k units delivered in 2020, so the percentages are not really relevant, the more they make in total every year. And if they make a decent profit on those, it's definitely worth keeping them alive and refreshing them. 2:58 Refreshed S/X? Or maybe even a "model 2" prototype? 😄
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  35. RIP Don S. Davis 😔 (Gen. Hammond "of Texas" - hmm... Texas has another Stargate)
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  36. "👋 I'll buy a Tesla" 🤣
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  37. Bezos now plays the loser's strategy. He knows he can't win but he does everything he can to stall his competition. And with this said, ULA is actually a competitor, so it's quite hard to tell what's the true nature of the BE-4 delay. Pretty much everyone is willing to believe Blue Origin is either incompetent or "having some issues", instead of thinking about them as saboteurs of the industry giving themselves enough time to catch up.
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  38. So what was wrong with "Eskimo Nebula" and "Siamese Twins"? I looked into it. Here's what NASA [1] says: «“Eskimo” is widely viewed as a colonial term with a racist history, imposed on the indigenous people of Arctic regions.» Here's what Canada [2] says: «"Eskimo" is the term once given to Inuit by European explorers and is now rarely used in Canada. It is derived from an Algonquin term meaning "raw meat eaters," and many people find the term offensive.» Ok, that makes sense. It's not a racist word, though. But being non-sense and tied to nasty wrongdoings, I see why they stopped using it. As for the "Siamese Twins", NASA didn't say anything but Wikipedia [3] says this: «Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), Thai brothers born in Siam, now Thailand, traveled widely for many years and were labeled as The Siamese Twins. Chang and Eng were joined at the torso by a band of flesh, cartilage, and their fused livers. In modern times, they could have been easily separated. Due to the brothers' fame and the rarity of the condition, the term "Siamese twins" came to be used as a synonym for conjoined twins.» There you go, I learned something new. I never knew where that word came from. Now I see why it makes no sense to use it for conjoined twins. But for a pair of galaxies, why not? That would be an honor for the actual Siamese twins. What am I missing? [1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-reexamine-nicknames-for-cosmic-objects [2] http://www.publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/R2-236-2002E.pdf [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined_twins
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  39. 9:36 To be fair, it's easy to see the benefits in retrospective and pretty hard (and not guarantees) to see them in the future. Did we have the guarantee that SN4 would successfully perform the 150m hop? Nope, and it blew up. The future only gives you the guarantee that things can't improve unless we try and try again. 20:15 SpaceX does not serve political interests directly, nor do they depend on politics for decision making, but their NASA contracts have been critical to their development. So indirectly the politics helped because NASA introduced the Commercial Resupply Services and then the Commercial Crew Program, along with a collaboration with NASA engineers for various aspects in developing some of their technologies. So politics... does creep into a lot of things, and it's not all bad, even if it's not good enough.
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  40.  @TechChasm  Here's a tip: don't spend too much time criticizing yourselves. We got that covered. 🤣 You just focus on doing a good job, and everything will be alright. But the video production quality is less important than the correctness of information presented, and how you deliver it, so that's really why we're here. ❤️
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  41.  @pappag24  Dozens of assistants, but that's going from microgravity to 1G after 6 months. After a 4-5-months trip, going from microgravity to 0.38G should be quite gentler. Not necessarily easy, but likely easy enough to manage on their own if they take it slow for a few days.
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  42. The Lunar Gateway bipartisan political game reminded me of this Swiss bureaucratic bug-fix. 🤣 https://twitter.com/HackingThings/status/1138095228336738304
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  43. Oh, well... it looks like Elon started it 6 years ago. Bad boy! 🤣 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-russia-ukraine-ula-2014-3
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  44. 12:27 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Russia The real problem is that by not banning non-Russian-approved satellite internet providers they would lose the control they're so desperate about. Russia is a democracy not really sort of nope maybe. 😄
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  45. Here's a more accurate (and recent) count of the Starlink satellites: https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1253896432127442944 So there are 411 at best. I'm not sure where Teslarati got their 415 from. :)
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  46. In other news... "In November, engineers at Lockheed Martin and NASA discovered that a power unit in Orion’s adapter had failed in such a way that it lost redundancy. Now they’re trying to figure out the best way to fix it, with some options taking between 4 and 12 months." [1] [1] https://twitter.com/lorengrush/status/1333545520560746496
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  47. I can't believe you didn't include Elon's tweet. Short and sweet. 🤣 "SpaceX rockets are 80% reusable, theirs are 0%. This is the actual problem." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1248864681894305797
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  48. Well, it's not like he gave birth, and that's his 7th child, so he's not a newbie in that department. :D
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  49. Yes! An interview with Lilium would be great! :D
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  50. Hopefully that will happen very soon. 😄
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