Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "VERA Space Station: BUSTED!" video.

  1. I'm an aerospace engineer who's worked in automation for 30+ years and it F*CKING AGGRAVATES me that people are still misrepresenting robots and what they actually do. Anyone can just go and look up Fanuc, Kuka, Motoman, ABB, Staubli and other robotic companies and see what robots actually look like and what they actually do. First off robots (real industrial robots) are nothing like the BS crap that Hollywood makes out. One of the very things Hollywood got close was the original Terminator when it was described as having no feelings, no morals just a program. Second robots are damn heavy seriously heavy. They need mass or they're unstable and shake too much which can make them hard to do accurate work. The more spindly robots you see doing 3d printing get rigidity by the types of mechanisms they use. Third go watch the Canadarm its moves slowly so they can avoid inertia and accuracy issues. Those are less problematic in a factory on earth because we can bolt robots down to solid slabs of concrete. In space inertia and momentum are issues not so easily solved. Like many engineers I am truly over these snake oil salesmen. There are some really serious tasks right here on Earth that if we don't deal with SOON we are in deep shite. Forget climate for a moment almost every Western Developed Nation has serious infrastructure issues that if they aren't dealt with we risk major economic collapses. We don't need clowns wasting money and time on fantasy flights. I'd love it if we started a new major space station YESTERDAY, but I also realise that we have more important priorities.
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  2. I am an aerospace engineer and that's one of the better comments in this menagerie of social media shitfuckery. I'm mostly a fan of thunderf00t and what he exposes but I don't like his cheap shots at Gwynne Shotwell. He's always linking her to Elon's fantasies which isn't exactly fair. Yes she works for a clown, but thunderf00t needs to separate Falcon (& Crew Dragon) from Elon's fantasies of Starship & Mars. What he should be comparing Falcon & Crew Dragon to is Boeing's Starliner, which isn't easy because it hasn't flown a single successful mission and we don't know the costs. Thunderf00t mentions the Falcon & Crew Dragon at $60-70 million and that's a damn sight better than the space shuttle's $450million, which it was costing at the end. I've seen costs as high as $90 million for a single seat on Soyuz, but also closer to $20 million (for Denis Tito in 2001). So 4 Astronauts to the ISS for $70million is getting back to and under the 2001 Soyuz costs. THAT'S an IMPROVEMENT. Plus if you look at what she actually says there's nothing wrong technically with it. Reusable wont be that great until the usability is closer to a jet plane. I don't think it will ever get there with current materials and technology because your comparing something that goes into orbit, does 7km/s and then flies back down at Mach 20 reaching temperatures of several 1000 deg.C and the other just doesn't do that. IS tunderf00t 100% right on Gateway, John Blincow and Elon Musk? YEAH - ABSOLUTELY. IS he misrepresenting Gwynne Shotwell and what has been achieved with Falcon & Crew Dragon? Yeah, because he's linking that program to Elon & Starship instead of comparing it to Boeing Starliner or Soyuz.
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  3. I'm an aerospace engineer and did my degree during the Reagan "Star Wars" era. Its hard to describe the way money was being spent other than bonkers. In my final year when we did a couple of high level classes that also had post grad students in them a couple of those guys were SW funded. As they were postgrads they also had to do term papers and presentations. One class I did was space craft dynamics (damn seriously hard stuff) but the post grad guys did some amazing stuff. One guy was doing the dynamics of rail guns (this was 86/87) and another focusing mirror systems for laser batteries. It was fairly obvious that most of it was bonkers but the money was being delivered by dump truck. But then the Soviets crashed in 88/89 and the whole show vanished. At one point my academic advisor called it "damn peace" because all of his funding had vanished. What people had failed to realise was Reagan spent about 20 years of research funding in about 4 years. But it did scare Moscow enough that they also went on a spending spree and it was what ended up bankrupting them which effectively ended the cold war.
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  4.  @superchuck3259  Yeah you are partly right, but the Russians developed that stuff well after Reagans Star Wars had ended. But a couple of things did come out of Star Wars like the Patriot anti-missile system. The Russian response is the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal which we've seen in Ukraine. The Russians are sort of lucky. They already had the Mig-31 which can not only fly very high (up to 70,000ft) but also very fast when its up that high (M2.8). How high they are for launch is unknown. Higher means less air density which means less drag. Altitude also helps getting up to those speeds as you are going downhill. Irrespective of everything at those speeds its bound to have serious ground & bunker penetration. Its pretty simple what the Russians did. Make seriously fast air to surface missile that's damn hard to respond to. Just don't be surprised there's stuff in the sales pitch that's not true.
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  5.  @Jonathan.D  Yeah its just another case of seeing it in sci-fi and then claiming its real. Single drop of blood - Gattaca Water from the air - Star Wars (Uncle Owen) Hyperloop - Space 1999, Logans Run Donut shaped space station with artificial gravity - 2001: A Space Odyssey Star Force - Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Battle Star Galactica, Moonraker (the James Bond sci-fi) and a few others.
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  6.  @Jonathan.D  Yeah all around. Except can we call it a scam when people are so stupid they think sci-fi is real? The best one I heard recently is that David Icke the British conspiracy theorist got his lizard people schtick from the original version of "V" On Elon Musk here's financial analyst Patrick Boyle. He's pretty smart, his analysis is very good but he's about as exciting as watching paint dry. This is his take on Elon Musk (note the title): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXxeyOVpnCU
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  7.  @Jonathan.D  Moors - who do you mean. I know historically who the Moors are Muslims in Spain, but I'm not certain who you are talking about.
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  8. Yes on all accounts. I'm an aerospace engineer and I hate these people. They are the reason we took so long to get a space station, why its cost so much, why it took even longer to get a replacement for the space shuttle than it should have AND MOST OF ALL why we haven't been back to the moon for 50 years. We could have and probably should have had a moon base by now and maybe gone to Mars but these clowns keep interrupting with nonsense and garbage.
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  9.  @durshurrikun150  About WHAT? Come on if you think I am wrong then what am I wrong about or are you just like the other Muskrats and Bezos space cadets you just don't like having you fantasy exposed.
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  10.  @durshurrikun150  WTF stupidity are you ranting about now? Why don't you go back to school and learn some history from people who know what they're talking about instead of listening to people who probably weren't even alive back then. The USSR wasn't overthrown by traitors. The USSR collapsed under their own bureaucracy. They destroyed much of their own country like the Aral Sea through stupidity. The US didn't need to support any of them. All they needed was to stand back and watch. And its almost all Putin needs to do now to destroy America. Do nothing because America is tearing itself apart through stupidity of techno personality cults like they have with Gates, Suckerberg and Elon Musk. FYI - I was alive back when the Soviets collapsed and saw it happen.
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  11.  @mc1993  I see you went to the same school as Samuel L. Jackson and too lessons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Xkb4lyRKQ
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  12.  @alext7074  Thinking critically isn't what any these people are doing. He's not trying to solve a problem, none of them are. If they really wanted to go to the moon stroll about and take some happy snaps they could have done that. We've known how to go to the moon and get back for 50years. All the math is done, all the science works its just inefficient and costly. To change the costs and efficiency takes people to listen to those people who know what they are talking about and none of them want to do that. They don't want to be told what they don't want to hear. The sad fact is people prefer to listen to blowhards, suck-ups and con men.
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  13.  @Jonathan.D  Here's an update on Elon's twitter deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SfXoCj4TLk Summation. Elon might be in some trouble. he's just been successfully sued in Delaware over the SolarCity debacle but the amount is yet to be finalised. Now there's this where he might be trapped. Hmmmmmmmm!
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