Comments by "Bill Kitchen" (@bill-2018) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

  1. I'm sure the Russians would have tracked the spacecraft and be the first to shout out if they didn't get there.
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  2.  @Globeisahoaxx  And the Russian radar didn't call it out as false! Jodrell Bank in on it too. I don't suppose we have aeroplanes or computers either and Germany didn't have the V2 and Russians and Ukrainians are not really firing rocket powered missiles at each other.
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  3.  @Globeisahoaxx  Radio amateurs also heard Sputnik with it's Beep, Beep, Beep identification and would lose it on the other side of Earth.
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  4.  @Globeisahoaxx  Radio astronomy is not like tracking aircraft.
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  5.  @Pang_Yau  Yeah, whatever. Who was first in space? Who sent up the first satellite? What year were these?
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  6.  @ValMartinIreland  Yeah, whatever. I suppose we can't fly in aeroplanes either, it's an illusion.
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  7. So really he goes off the subject of loud Harleys with his statistics on bikes involved in crashes. It tends to be sports bike riders, or at least in this country, Britain, which end up in stone walls, hedges or wrapped around a tree because they think they are on a racetrack and can't handle the bends. I have yet to see a crashed Harley. I have on many occasions seen cars almost pull out from a side street and then stop. Is it because they didn't look properly but heard my Sportster and looked again?
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  8. I remember watching him play his Theremin on our black and white t.v. in, I would guess the 1960's. I have a circuit diagram for a valved RCA model I would like to make.
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  9.  @NoName-zm1ks  Radio telescopes.
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  10.  @cnehndlela6536  Yeah, okay. Humans can't fly in planes either I suppose!
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  11.  @karry299  I know the Russians put up Sputnik and the first man in space. How is my comment silly?
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  12.  @euphoricbliss6699  Why would they need it over the U.S. when it's in space? They did in the 80's have over the horizon radar people called it The Woodpecker.
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  13.  @euphoricbliss6699  Why would they want ground radar if the spacecraft is in space where it can be tracked? Electronics came a long way since the crystal set and one huge improvement was the radio valve. It revolutionised electronics and communication in many ways. I suppose you'll tell me the Jodrell Bank Lovell radio telescope finished in 1957 didn't work either and couldn't track anything! Like Sputnik It was reported that it did. What had they to gain by lying? If nothing went into space they would say the Russians are lying. It was 1957 when Sputnik was launched and radio amateurs around the World could hear it's Beep, Beep, Beep signal appear and disappear as it circumnavigated the World.
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  14.  @euphoricbliss6699  Why have it over the U.S. when it's in space?
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  15.  @RightInFrontOfYou  Really? Have you never heard of radio telescopes? Jodrell Bank built after the War for one.
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  16.  @MrMarco855  I can't prove it but can you disprove it.
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  17.  @MrMarco855  Jodrell Bank radio telescope tracked it so I'm sure the Russians could have. Or do you think they didn't have the technology? They were the first into space and first to send a satellite.
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  18.  @izoyt  Have you any knowledge of radio telescopes? They could receive signals from a craft moving away from Earth. You do know they still track Voyager which left Earth in the 1970's? Of course you don't as you think it's impossible. There are amateur radio satellites orbiting Earth but I suppose you dispute that too. One probe went to Mars and located the Beagle 2 crash site but you say we couldn't see that either. I suppose Man can't fly and it's an illusion created for us so we believe we go on holiday.
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  19. Thank you for this, I'd never heard of it. Radio amateurs can now transmit by diode lasers using lenses to focus the light and modulating the light at Terahertz frequencies. G4GHB
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