Comments by "Brad Griffin" (@BradGryphonn) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1. I know what you did there...
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  2. It's a bit weird realising that launches of payload-carrying rockets are so common nowadays that they don't make regular news. Forty years ago a launch was worldwide news.
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  3.  @my3dviews  A mother and daughter team from the early 1900s who hand-coloured film for pioneering moviemakers. Elizabeth and Berthe Thuillier.
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  4.  @my3dviews  If the Thuilliers were still alive, the turnaround would be faster.
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  5. I watched the live feed from NASA (not the commentated one) but waited until I saw your video up before watching anything else. Your descriptions and explanations are clear and concise. Thank you, Scott.
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  6. This was an awesome video, Scott. Thanks for sharing what you learned with us.
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  7. I feel like I've been dragged back to 1969. I don't want to get excited about this launch and mission but that 6-year-old kid that got to see the Saturn V launch and was in a classroom watching Armstrong step on the Moon is busting out. I might have to watch 'The Dish' again before the lift-off.
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  8. 2:10 I seem to recall reading about the hunt for the Apollo 11 crash site, or module. It was a while back though when I used to read more, rather than stare at YouTube videos all day... Given that another year has passed, one wonders how many people are vainly trying to point their telescopes at the moon in an attempt to spot a Volkswagen-sized object.
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  9. Let's give the commentator some slack and assume he said: "Boosters 'n' ignition"...really fast.
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  10. 11:20 -> From here I drifted in and out while watching and listening (I'll go back and take it in properly). I went back into that space where I contemplate exactly how insignificant we humans are in the context of the universe, and could our universe be an insignificant part of something bigger, yet which is also insignificant in its own size context? Could our universe be part of a quark? In turn, could our bodies hide universes inside the quark-sized particles in our bodies? These are questions we all ask I guess. I mean, we don't have the technology to see smaller objects than quarks, and even then we're not quite sure we're seeing the smallest. Further, we now have JWST, but we still haven't seen the restaurant at the end of the universe. So, who knows? It's all just way cool to contemplate.
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  11. I subscribe to some 400+ channels and regularly purge the ones that have become stagnant. I also have some specific channels that I wait with excited trepidation when their creator releases another gem. Scott is one of those creators. May I make a prediction? The 'NASA is a Deep Fake Illuminati CIA scam' crowd will immediately say that this is proof that the ISS is actually in a giant Hollywood-esque artificial ocean, and those bubbles of leaking fluid are actually bubbles of air leaking from the submerged fake space station modules.
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  12. The summary is, some narcissistic millionaire engineer thought he was smarter than every certification entity on the planet and murdered four other people because he wasn't as smart as he assumed he was.
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  13. I've dropped into the JWST rabbit hole this morning and have been catching up on my favourite space channels. I watched Anton Petrov's take on the micro-meteorite damage just before and now I'll watch yours. Then I'll head off to someone else's channel. Much fun.
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  14. I know it's insulation but every time I see Artemis I think, geez, they could have used stainless steel on the main booster. That patina looks ugly.
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  15. I was working in InfoTech at a university when GPS was made available to the general public. I also remember when GLONASS was opened up as well. The accuracy went up in leaps and bounds.
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  16. 16:30 My first encounter with a telescope was when we first moved to Perth in WA. I was about 8 years old I think. My parent's friends had a son about my age and they had bought him a telescope. I have no idea what it was but he focussed on a small rock down the road some 500 metres away. He described where the stone was near a concrete pad where the new school was being constructed... "up against the cement..." he said. I could see the building...anyway, I looked into the viewfinder and saw a big red boulder with a grey background almost filling my view. I was hooked. However, I have never owned a telescope in the 50 years since that day. But I did go down the telephoto photography road and got seriously into nature photography. But the universe has always been a big part of my love for stargazing, and so, I bought a P1000. I can't afford a telescope with all the tracking and recording capabilities, so the P1000 with a very solid homemade tripod satisfies my astrophotography curiosity somewhat, and also is a great camera for my nature photography love. Anyway, I've rambled. My entire point was supposed to be that it is really hard to comprehend the size of the image at 16:30 . Twelve lightyears across! It's mind-bogglingly big (thanks Doug).
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  17. It's no wonder aliens won't visit. The parking spots here are a nightmare!
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  18. I have to compliment the broadcast managers for having an interpreter for the hearing-impaired on screen. I could hypothesise that the engineers and managers had some deadline assumption conflict, leading to some missed issues. That's just an uneducated thought-bubble in my head.
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  19. Thank you for trusting us, Scott. I hope your debrief with us helps.
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  20. Flat-earthers are currently scribbling notes and taking screenshots to call this launch as a hoax and all CGI. The lens distortion will be for them, proof of a flat Earth.
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  21. oooo (raises hand and wldly waves it) OOO! If you merely wrapped the turkey tightly in foil and sent it back to the atmosphere (ignoring the friction issue for cooking), would the foil, due to the increase in air pressure, crush the turkey to the point that it ended up like compressed Turkey Spam?
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  22. XKCD? Dammit, we are fellow geeks! You and me Scott!
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  23. Did I just fall into an XKCD 'What if?' parallel universe? EDIT: Never mind, 3-minutes in and my question was answered...
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  24. For the money the US has paid Musk and SpaceX so far, the US should already have a casino on Mars.
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