Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Real Engineering" channel.

  1.  Boris-Smiff  the actual problem is the free market and religious worship of the economy and denial of any outside costs such as the environmental damage done by fossil fuels
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  2. the one thing SLS brings over SpaceX is that theoretically it can launch substantially wider payloads which is more of a constraint than people realize, and Gateway almost requires it
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  3. wireless solar battery, the most inefficient means to charge one's phone
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  4.  @Milan-zr6ie  Beep "I am the law! Beep
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  5. both surviving jet-propeller prototypes left are in the dayton airforce museum, they're really crazy to look at
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  6. turns out cobbling a rocket together from sts technology is actually harder than just building a rocket from scratch
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  7. Sun to solar panel "Look at what they need to do to mimic a fraction of my power!"
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  8. the project's primary goal was to spread NASA money across dozens of states, a mission capability achieved quite early on, getting to space is a bonus
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  9. huh, I always thought WD-40 stood for Weight Distribution-40, indicating an average carbon chain length of 40 in the oil
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  10. if only we could solve the problem of beaming power down to earth
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  11. this was one of those planes where you had to build it to understand how bad it could get. they had no way to predict just how bad this thing would he at the time without just building it and trying it out
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  12. slight nitpick, the STS was cancelled in 2007, obama just finished the plan and cancelled Constellation
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  13. on point 23, much of the export f35s were to be built outside the US, with relatively cheap labor in turkey and eastern europe undercutting US manufacturers who are shut out of the program thanks to military security and lack of aid in certifying to AS9100 manufacturing spec. Other countries like turkey provided direct aid to build companies up to produce parts and assemblies. For some reason...turkey has decided to throw that all away but this is really a NATO fighter program, every nato ally is building some component for it
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  14. currently, any touted self driving car as they are literally less capable of driving than jimbob in his rusty lifted f350 on the 4th of july
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  15. Maybe its part of the problem but the designs of nuclear reactors still all are offshoots of weapons production, with not a whole lot of money by comparison thrown into the development of actual power generating reactors, like we probably spent 1 trillion world wide on weapons production, and only a fraction of that on power generation designs
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  16. Ares 1 is always funny because nasa basically forgot to check if aborting from it was even survivable, then a college student pointed out that the g-load to abort from it would kill the crew, and the parachutes would be falling down through a burning column of aluminum perchlorates which would melt them
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  17. thing is, the p-38 lightning was even more crazy
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  18. it was 50 years from the wright brothers to the apollo program, ~75 years from the standardization of threading to the apollo program. Think about that. in less than 100 years we went from not being able to manufacture identical parts to building a vehicle with literally a hundred million parts that all fit together
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  19. berylium is also dangerous to manufacture, the metal shavings and dust are poisonous and destroy lung tissue more effectively than asbestos
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  20. super charged double wasp ya that's a little overkill
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  21. the assyrians really just were awful people that hated everyone so much they invented iron weapons to kill them faster
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  22. yes, but it'll be dangerous, more so than any spacecraft we've created before. the better performance we obtain, the more power the reactor is required to make, thus increasing the chance for any critical failure
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  23. they could have boosted the tank to orbit, they chose to ditch the tank in a decaying orbit
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  24. gee who'da thought one of the more geopolitically unstable regions in the world would have a development problem
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  25. forward swept wings have a lot of advantages and one really bad disadvantage in that the wings reeeeeaaaaally want to snap off
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  26. if we stopped burning oil for energy and for fuel on most transport, excluding aircraft, we would be fine. even that falcon 9 isn't noticeably affecting global emissions as they only launch once every month at best.
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  27. you could then store the carbon fuels in underground formations for temporary or permanent storage
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  28. I think in general methalox engines haven't been developed because they don't have any military application and isn't as good as the more mature hydrogen engines, it really took someone without the constraints of legacy aerospace to get it off the ground
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  29. its really interesting how trains have been essentially kicked out of a lot of supply chains. My plant is a hundred years old, when it opened it was horse n buggy or train, the rails and depot are still technically serviceable but we only do shipping by truck even though a single train could pull the cargo of a dozen trucks
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  30. small modular reactors are so promising
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  31. I'd flip this on its head and say the most unsafe cars are those lifted trucks where they've stuck huge steel raming bar on the front of. If he slams into me, I'm literally decapitated by his deliberate dismantling of his vehicle's safety systems
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  32. its really striking that boeing was shut out of the f35's construction, this only lead them to start buying up part suppliers underneath lockheed, basically selling them the parts they need for their plane they shut boeing out of
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  33. I wonder why crash test legislation hasn't been written into law in the last 50 years, can't be the vehicle manufacturers lobbying, they say they want to make cars safer after all and you can't get away with saying something and doing the opposite, that'd be evil
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  34. Mars will be worse as the dust would be similar to this but also filled with perchlorides
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  35.  @Fireslingerpirate  they weren't rusting or rotting. NASA has had them stored near ready since the space shuttles stopped flying. They should go to museums because they each have flown to space and back dozens of times, something unique over any other engine intil the merlins.
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  36. we don't factor in the cost of carbon into energy generation, if we did, nuclear and green would win every time
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  37.  @virginiahansen320  actually the problem with nuclear is government needs to get in the way and put in place the laws needed to make it economically viable as a power source. right now, the only bills to subsidize nuclear are usually deeply flawed and try to pursue boosting all fossil fuel generation and the regulations were hastily written for one kind of reactor not the field of reactors
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  38. this thing up close just looks like a compressor stage from a jet engine stuck on the outside of the engine
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  39. wireless charging doesn't seem that much worth it for the efficiency loss. putting cables at every parking spot works much better than putting charging pads everywhere putting satellites in space to beam down that power is probably worth it though
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  40. its actually quite easy, just make the nfc have a handshake to check if there's an apple approved pad under it
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  41. overture is just a render, nasa's xplane is being constructed to inform boom and others on how to build their planes
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  42. the f117 crash in serbia was actually a pretty expensive kill for the serbs, they had to put lots of batteries on standby and point a lot of radars looking at the same place to get a lock
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  43. the big difference between the 1960s NERVA and today is that they didn't have the option of nuclear electric engines, they had to use nuclear thermal, and the issues with fuel storage and radiation are both maybe unsolvable
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  44. we on't even have the fabrication technology to build a cable that big anyways
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  45. THUNDA......SCREEEEEEEECH
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  46. irs funny that proponents of fossil fuels tend to criticize nuclear (indirectly since they aren't openly anti nuclear for political purposes) for its fuel costs while ignoring that nuclear fuel is insanely power dense compared to any fossil fuel
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  47. yes but also no, but also yes. there's just too much shit in the US to change units and by that i mean too many old engineers and companies who won't change units. I worked in a lab that had some equipment in metric, some in imperial, and most just not labeled at all. I spent more than a few frustrating hours correcting shit because it got all messed up or one of the production engineers couldn't read metric for some damn reason. Had a fun time once when I noticed one of two identical machines was set to imperial while its counterpart was set to metric, and I was about to run a program that would have put 10,000 lbs on something when I wanted 10kN
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