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If you watched 'the right stuff" the first astronauts had to be incredible people and all military but later on they wanted scientists - less amazing at flying fighter planes and more useful at experiments. As space gets cheaper people will go up there who are not qualified in any special way and the specialness of being qualified to go to space will be meaningless - it will be the skill you have that matters e.g. pilot or navigator or "mission specialist" or whatever.
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@zenithperigee7442 astronaut /ˈastrənɔːt/ noun noun: astronaut; plural noun: astronauts a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft. [NOTE: doesn't even say they've been to space! And nothing about what training]
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That seems to be a convenient redefinition to exclude some people you don't like.
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@MrShaun1011 keeping space engineers employed and learning is quite a good way to spend civic money compared to lots of other things which have more money spent on them. Now there's a big pool of skilled people to get headhunted by all the space startups for example ...
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It's all an investment in the production base.
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@ffffuchs ........really? The whole industry that sells us crap - $200 sunglasses which cost $5 to make, clothes, $2000 phones - it's ALL about people "rubbing it" in our faces.
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As space access gets open to more people who need no skills to get there what are you going to call them?
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Why not go and complain outside a Ferrari dealership then? Pointless, wasteful expenses are all around us.
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@HALLish-jl5mo Shatner is a man of course. I wonder if it's because some other famous singer didn't get there first and the fans don't like it for that reason? It definitely seems emotional.
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@oba73_ Do astronauts all really "pilot"? What about mission specialists - are they not allowed to be called astronauts?
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You still need "things" to improvise - if you don't include tape or bags or cardboard or just generally useful stuff. It also suggests that you should be using common components everywhere even it it's not optimal. What is the most useful thing to have in your own backpack when you get stuck far away from help? I personally have decided that it's either string or a paperclip and I'm not sure which. What do you think?
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If they had gone on SpaceX that would have prevented a lot of negative comments about "how astronauts are serious". It's the way they're on Blue Origin that makes it all bad. The heroes of the story aren't allowed to be on anything else.
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If you have to put up with it for less time then the discomfort matters less.
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It forces one to think of one's own mortality, and that of everyone one loves. We do tend to spend a lot of time ignoring that looming problem :-). After a while you'll be able to forget about it again which I think is important for happiness.
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Technology doesn't go backwards unless we have some kind of fall of civilisation. So I don't think this is the end overall. It will get picked up.
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So e.g. ARCASpace's ecorocket? Superheated water, electrically heated to generate steam?
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@JacksonStarMining You will pay to enrich a company whose job is to give you as little as possible for as much as possible. So you pay them to go to the moon and they will go. Yay! They will own the tech rather than the nation that paid for it. You won't be achieving any science goals that aren't stated in triplicate. Eventually you'll have rebuilt an abusive monopoly and all the expertise needed to manage your space program will be in people who are desperate to get jobs in that monopoly.
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@kylecrane4376 the companies do the publicity for us.
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@SanxBile Every time I see a Formula 1 race for example - that's a big commercial.
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@Liberty4Ever And yet it was redundant enough and safe enough in the event of both failures to keep astronauts alive. Apparently this mission would have succeeded in docking if astronauts had been onboard and I think that's the important point. I think they will be looking at their software again and it's their review of that and the test procedures they're using which will determine their level of confidence.
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@Liberty4Ever i.e. you're a spacex fan which is irrelevant to the starliner issue. Merry Xmas.
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@Liberty4Ever didn't the dragon crew capsule explode? Seems a much worse failing to me.
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@Liberty4Ever You're just making all the same excuses that can be made about Starliner except that in Starliner's case the astronauts would have survived the mishap if they had been in it.
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@Liberty4Ever No, I just detect favoritism.
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Check out Red Dwarf: Better than Life.
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@RobertLutece909 Red dwarf? Better than life?
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@nickopedia5669 Isn't the idea of lots of smaller engines (N1) and building engines on an assembly-line also Russian?
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@nickopedia5669 Thank you - an interesting reply. I only point out that whether or not Henry Ford invented assembly line production, it took (if I am not wrong) some Russians to conceive of a strategy in which it could work for rocket engines. If you don't know about it then it seems as if one company invented the whole thing. To be more fair it's not just Russians whose successful approaches are silently adopted and taken for granted but I think various other companies including US ones.
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They already had a contract with OneWeb which OneWeb tried to get out of. OneWeb was the ridiculous suggestion for a UK positioning system so presumably that means that it IS a viable launch system but perhaps not automatically the cheapest in the long run.
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@cardrivingdude What critical role does anyone perform in a rocket flight? It can all be totally automated up to the point of docking at the space station - at least the ATV did that even if the current spacecraft are more primitive.
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I know this is ridiculous because the whole thing is not man-rated but.....500kg - could it fit one person in a tiny capsule? Google says a space suit is about 130kg so I'd assume that either a capsule would need to be that heavy to support life for some useful time or the astronaut would be in a space suit in a capsule that wasn't pressurised. A not fit person like me is a bit under 100kg, so you'd have 500-130-100=270kg left for structure, for oxygen needed until the capsule could be grabbed by the space station arm and propellant to maneuver. It would be kind of cool in a way if it were possible.
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Sounds like something that would be useful for "responsive launch" like where someone had attacked your infrastructure and you couldn't get RP-1 easily. Jet-A would let you launch from many many more locations where aircraft were being supplied with it.
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What value do you add to a 747?
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@ ....or people are on holiday or whatever. The value is just that they paid for their ticket. ...snap with this lot.
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Could the reason for including SRBs in civil launchers be partially about providing money to keep alive the knowledge that is needed to make missiles? I have seen this being suggested for the Ariane V boosters because apparently they are similar to the French ICBMs but I'm not sure how much to believe that.
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@hans-peterwurst1070 Just a dictionary. You and I aren't the definers of words.
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To me it sounds like the mission was planned without an acceptable margin for problems.
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