Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1. I just love how brutally honest these guys are about the problems faced and odds of success.....
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  2. Let's put it this way: Either it will make for iconic historic footage... Or make a really awesome explosion to watch for fun!
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  3. The insane speeds of the SR-71 is why is was so expensive. Titanium was used in order to survive higher air friction while staying lightweight, and this was difficult to mine, refine, and machine. Also they were consuming half the world's supply, so they had to set up a shell company to buy some from the Soviets.
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  4. There is nothing more permanent than temporary situations.
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  5. One super safe reactor was used to power a radar station in Greenland. The only problem was the immaturity of soldiers, as apparently the sergeant in charge yanked out the control rod just to scare/haze a recruit.
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  6. Please tell me that is a joke
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  7. @ljfinger  lose the whataboutism. The industry is mature enough that everything has a reason for being that way
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  8. You know the real answer is "We have no idea" when existing theories involve aliens.
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  9. The owners are actual engineers funded by VC firms and airline companies. Not the type of guys to gamble with their lives
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  10. It's the same reason the passenger seats and meals got smaller. It's just a matter of bringing air travel to the masses
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  11. Turkey doesn't have a space agency. They even need foreign help to train their pilots. Although of course they send one of their pilots to the Swedish space agency even as they threaten them over unrelated matters
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  12. Try orbits 302.
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  13. We kind of maxed out the science of aerodynamics at the end of the Cold War. It's why you see new tech going into old airframes
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  14. The suit's cost is nothing compared to the cost of labor with the thousands of engineers involved in creating high tech suits we don't need.
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  15. The Pentagon has crazy ideas like this all the time. It never leaves the drawing board.
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  16. Solid, liquid, and gas are all the same if the volume or mass is super high or super low
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  17. @robertadsett5273  watch the video
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  18. They've been saying that since the 1950s
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  19. You learn more science from a failure than a success.
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  20. ​ @bergonius  Best guess is he only meant to pull it out a few inches which would have been safe, but we don't know for sure because they're dead and reactor had to be disassembled.
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  21.  @josephhacker6508  ok. Then go do it instead of bragging. 20 bucks says you'll be spewing partisan flaimbait within months.
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  22. @ljfinger  watch the video
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  23. How can you talk so much but say so little?
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  24.  @acefighterpilot  could you make it more obvious you're about 20 years old?
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  25.  @doktormcnasty  it's never aliens. Or ghosts. Or the Olympians. Or Thor. Or Baba Yaga. The only monsters we've found are other people.
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  26.  @GreenBlueWalkthrough  Over 90% of the Blackbird's airframe was titanium, not just key components.
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  27. He got hit by a SAM, though
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  28. @robertadsett5273  watch the video
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  29. Even with modern technology, you don't get much bandwidth in deep space
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  30. Depends how you define failure. A lot of these were meant to explode
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  31. Nah. The Pentagon is full of crazy ideas like this because its staffed by officers and not engineers. It'll be dropped once they see the price tag.
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  32. Or when a probe accidentally crashes into Uranus.
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  33. Not exactly. Engineers aren't cheap and there's a lot of mismanagement involved.
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  34. What? This stuff was livestreamed.
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  35. Physically impossible
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  36. @trailingupwards  That would be thrown out immediately as a SLAPP suit
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  37. Lose the sycophancy.
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  38. Dude, it was as big as a building. One guy in Colorado took a picture of one of them from the ground.
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  39. He knew the risks, he just ignored them
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  40. Jet packs. For some reason, everyone wants to wear a rucksack full of volatile explosives.
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  41. "Do you know how to use that thing" "Yeah. Pointy end goes into the other man."
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  42. "NASA sends probe to Uranus. Fits of giggling erupt." -Whose Line
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  43. It wouldn't. You wouldn't see the probe even if it hit you in the face.
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  44. Thank you. Most engineering sources on this deliberately excise the actual science and instead tear jerk with anecdotes on the toxicity and lie about who knew what when.
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  45. As if you'd do better
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  46. "It's a flying brick." -Clint Eastwood
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  47.  @clintatk  especially if it ruptures and then ignites. That would produce an actually explosion instead of a fireball.
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  48. It isn't that boring around here
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  49. I know, it's annoying. At least part of the reason China sent this up there was to dick measure the US. The caveat being that by now the tech to go to Mars is off the self from commercial satellites. Same goes for that giant radio telescope they built. Anyway, I'm sure we'll all get something useful out of it.
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  50. Depends what corner of the internet you're in. Most of the hate is just people jealous of their money.
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