Comments by "Orbital_Inclination" (@Orbital_Inclination) on "Curious Droid" channel.

  1. We do, it just isn't worth doing anymore
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  2. Not really, it was an excellent example of multilateral co-operation, and has enabled a lot of research to be conducted in microgravity that would otherwise not have happened
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  3. If you ask Google that question, loads of answers come up. Some key ones include muscle atrophy and microgravity research, disease research, cosmic particle collection and analysis, pulsar and black hole research, and hundreds of smaller experiments sent up over the years which have provided data and insight not possible on Earth.
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  4. ​ @dirremoire why does everything have to be a massive breakthrough? The overwhelming majority of scientific development and discovery is made in small incremental steps. The ISS was perfect for this because it allowed for long-term persistent experiments across multiple crews, and as for the muscle atrophy stuff, a hell of a lot more research has been done on the subject, and other micro-gravity related physiology, since Skylab thanks to the ISS, building a far more detailed picture.
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  5. ​ @darrenhenderson6921 it would be entirely uneconomical, and broadly pointless
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  6.  @darrenhenderson6921  we do not have the technology available to de-orbit it, even in sections. It was never designed for re-entry, and there is no mechanism to do so. And again, there is zero reason to do so besides nostalgia.
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  7. The F-35 is more capable than the Harrier in nearly every measurable way.
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  8. It doesn't prove anything of the sort. The Apollo landings were manually flown with very primitive guidance computers and very skilled pilots
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  9. We have one of the largest defence budgets in the world. The issue is that people still act as though we have an empire to fund it, like we did in the 50s/60s.
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  10. The F-35 is more capable than the Harrier (even Harrier II) in nearly every measurable way. Simply updating an old design would have resulted in a worse aircraft than a clean-sheet one
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  11.  @anticat900  Harriers VTOL system was simple but limited. It was not capable of supersonic flight and relied on water injection to actually carry any useful payload. The F-35 can carry fa greater payload a longer range, at higher speed. It is all round a far more capable aircraft, not to mention its low observable characteristics and the sheer volume of EW and ISTAR capabilities
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  12. Nothing? Really? The whole Harrier project only survived past the concept stage because the US threw funding at it, and they developed Harrier II
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  13. You still clicked 😂
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  14. The landing of the Eagle lander was incredibly hard. Armstrong had to take manual control and find an alternate landing site because the original one was unsuitable, and they landed with seconds of fuel remaining. Just because things are hard doesn't mean they're impossible or faked
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  15. You mean pay tens of thousands of tax payers wages on the space programme? That doesn't sound like robbing to me
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  16. It's not hairspray, its just because she hasn't been able to properly wash her hair the whole times she's been in space.
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  17. The tax rate in the US is incredibly low, on average, compared with a lot of the rest of the developed world
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  18. Nothing to do with that, just expensive and complex to maintain
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  19. Government decide, but it's senior officers who present options to them to choose from, based on available budget
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  20. If it weren't for the Russians and Germans invading Poland together, WWII may not have started. Anyway, it was a collective effort, not the victory of any single ally
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  21. This is complete fiction. The US bomb wasn't untested, they literally did tests in the desert first
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  22.  @dirremoire  a trillion across multiple nations and decades of use, to advance human understanding in a way never previously possible at that scale or persistence? Probably, yes.
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  23. The wings of the osprey don't tilt, the engines do. The point is, there are no new swing wing designs, just a few older ones still clinging on
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  24. ​ @Agent77X how exactly has woke culture affected the space programme?
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  25. Most missiles don't use air-breathing engines
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  26. The West has not fallen 😂
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  27.  @MrSaywutnow  you need to travel to more countries around the world if you think the West has fallen. Many western countries still rank highest in terms of overall quality of life, safety, freedom, etc.
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  28. Yawn.
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  29. Stop with the weird racial stuff
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  30. The ISP sees your IP address connecting to a VPN, but beyond that it has no way of knowing what you're actually looking at, unless you're using something full of cookies, like Google.
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  31. Wrong. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it didn't happen
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