Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1. This sucks, and I feel bad for them. ISRO put so many years and so much effort into the mission, only to have the last part of it fail. But like Scott says in the video, they still have the orbiter, which has most of the experiments and it's probably where most of the money went. So the mission hasn't failed, it's just partially successful.
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  2. This is like the perfect spy mission. Take a calculated risk, obtain important intelligence, and when it's all over there's no evidence you were ever there at all.
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  3. Maybe doing crossword puzzles? Probably counting his money.
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  4. @Ivan Ilyich, the difference is that Elon Musk actually can build rockets, and he's shown he has the wherewithal to continue his plans despite initial failures. Musk doesn't have the money to colonize Mars. No one does. But the hope is he'll get so close and his plans will be so realistic that other stakeholders like governments and shareholders will agree to fund the remainder.
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  5. Exactly! This may have been expensive, but it's a thousand times less expensive now than during a launch, and incalculably better now than when the Dragon is crewed.
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  6. Fortified with iron and trace elements!
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  7. I love this series! They're like detective stories...with rockets. This one is a lot easier to understand than that 1950's one from a few months back.
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  8. There's no borders in space. When one nation succeeds at something, we all succeed. We're definitely rooting for your spacecraft.
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  9. Exactly, Primarch359. The key concept here is rapid launches, which you'd need after somebody took out your spy satellites. Little cubesats wouldn't do the job as well as expensive purpose built hardware, but it would be better than nothing at a critical time.
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  10. Not going to lie, I had to back up and replay parts of this video a bunch of times - but it was really fascinating! Thanks for the introduction to Expander Cycle rocket engines!
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  11. Somebody had to say it.
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  12. That's a really good point.
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  13. I really like your explanation of how the scientists got the image. It makes the process more understandable. And from the sound of it, this is just the start of what they can do with the Event Horizon Telescope. Since it's a network they can add more telescopes to it or upgrade existing ones (or upgrade the data processing) and get even better images in the future. This seems like a pretty big deal for astronomy.
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  14. Congratulations to the Chinese. I wish them well with their space station, and I hope that everyone can figure out a way to cooperate in the future, with traffic going freely between stations and facilities regardless of its origin. Whatever is happening on the ground we should cooperate in space. It's a different realm where everyone is equally vulnerable. Radiation and micrometeorites don't care what country you were born in.
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  15. They must have been there, since SN10 did the flip correctly. Maybe it was just too warm to see the exhaust gas? EDIT: You can see puffs from the thrusters in the official SpaceX footage.
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  16. Today we propose Project Woodstock - a fifteen year mission that will employ new state-of-the-art capture techniques to retrieve a spacecraft from its long, lonely exile around the Sun and bring it back to Earth. Then we can finally close a chapter in the history books and conclusively determine who dealt it. We're looking at you, Tom Stafford. Soon science will provide the proof.
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  17. That's really interesting! Thank you for adding to the discussion.
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  18. In this case the researchers have attempted to calculate how much phosphine could be generated by known non-living processes, and have concluded the amount they've observed is too large to be accounted for in that way. With a planet outside our Solar System, looking for these biosignatures would be more complicated because nothing could be directly observed except the spectra. But like Scott Manley says in the video, oxygen and methane together is a good bet, since they normally combine to form carbon dioxide.
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  19. I know! I've been constantly thinking this as well. When Marvel eventually gets around to making an F4 movie they can frame the origin story as a private space launch.
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  20. That's how you know you're getting somewhere!
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  21. Ice cream delivered via controlled explosion. There's something very Dr. Stangelove about that.
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  22. One day they'll get good enough to precisely target Putin's bathroom.
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  23. If it lasted for 25 years, they did a pretty good job with the orbit.
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  24. Moar boosters!!! Thanks for this awesome video, Scott Manley. It's a lot of fun thinking about the great beasts that could have been.
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  25. Sounds like they're more interested in national pride than the truth about what happened.
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  26. This is a really great video! Thank you for making it. I had no idea SpaceX had such a large fleet. Phobos and Deimos are the big, attention getting new additions, but it's the drone barges, support ships and fairing recovery ships (along with the tugs) that make reusability more than just a word. It was really interesting to learn about them here. And what the heck is an Octagrabber? They grab onto the booster and secure it for transport? Very cool!
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  27. Exactly, CzlowiekImadlo. There's no safety for the sky crane, but at least we can wish it a glorious passage to Valhalla. Actually it just went off to rust somewhere.
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  28. Is the Kremlin 100 metres across? Wouldn't want to waste a nuclear warhead by hitting the next street over...
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  29. Senate Launch System. Just kidding. It's "Space Launch System." Why they had to give it an acronym instead of a name like Saturn 5 I'll never know.
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  30. I really enjoyed the first episode of "For All Mankind," especially the very last scene. Without giving away any spoilers, I'll just say that it merged a part of real history with fiction and ended up making something that felt like it came right out of Kerbal Space Program. Kind of gets you thinking about how things could have gone.
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  31. The crab lives there now. He thinks it's his home.
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  32. That's what I was thinking!
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  33. But it didn't fail. Their last launch was successful. The program got shut down from above.
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  34. The real savage burn was when he said the Soviet N1 rocket had more flight time than SLS.
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  35. Scott Manley is a treasure.
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  36. "But right now I want to look at a bunch of other things that you should be interested in." I'm interested in anything you tell me! Like literally anything.
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  37. Thank you for another great video! My quick, totally uniformed takes: - The Blue Origin entry looks the most like the Lunar landers of the past, even if it's made with totally new technology. Convergent evolution can be a good thing, but it does limit what can be done with the lander. - The Dynetics entry is a fascinating dark horse. It's fundamentally new and has unknown potential. - The SpaceX entry is absurdly huge, looks like it came straight off the cover of a 1950's sci-fi magazine, and I love it already. Landing an apartment building sized rocket on the Moon seems like ridiculous overkill - and maybe it is too much for some missions, but man oh man, you could really accomplish something with all that cargo space!
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  38. I wish them well, but there's a long history of space enthusiasts with big ideas going nowhere. Sometimes they're very smart people with really good ideas, but the lack of money is just too big a hurdle. The unfortunate truth is that progress in this field is made by organizations that already have a source of funding. It's a game for governments and very rich men. Hopefully development in space will progress to the point where there's enough infrastructure up there to give smaller groups a starting point, and they can build upon earlier successes without starting from zero. But we're sure not there yet.
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  39. Maycroft Holmsky, if these weapons are ever used we're all going on a one-way trip upstairs. Or downstairs.
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  40. Thanks for another great video! And you're right, Wally Funk is the one that everybody will try and talk to. She's the guest you invite to make your party cool.
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  41. Thanks for another fascinating video on a cool little spacecraft, Scott Manley! It's interesting how ahead of its time the X-37B was, doing autonomous landings more than a decade before Space X got their boosters to come back to base.
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  42. You're absolutely right.
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  43. Somehow, I don't think movies that emphasize claustrophobic terror would be very popular there.
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  44. Or maybe the pneumatic processor! Now there's a project for some hobbyists with lots of time on their hands and a 3D printer.
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  45. Okay, your point is well made. I should have said that in Europe astrology was the only game in town.
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  46. A little automated craft with a big solar sail could actually get to Alpha Centauri much faster than Project Orion. Slowing down will be a challenge though...
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  47. I've got popcorn!
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  48. Thank you, HighFlyer!
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  49. Maybe SLS will have fusion powered motors when it finally launches. That technology should be ready about the same time.
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  50. I love the idea that there will soon be different launch companies actively competing to put people into space!
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