Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1. funfact about the Aj260, it required a minuteman first stage srb fired downwards into the motor to evenly ignite it. One can imagine the concern at nasa had this ever gone forward with pointing one big srb up into the bottom of their 3000 ton rocket sitting ontop of their even bigger SRB.
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  2. "We gotta put a fairing on top of the shuttle!" ".....why don't we just build a rocket and leave the shuttle on the ground..." "Quiet! we're building shuttles, SHUTTLES not rockets now!"
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  3. when you remember the guys designing this were doing so with paper, pens, and the field of nuclear physics being about 20 years old, its amazing they managed to accomplish so much
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  4. the dumber dumb part of hubble... the spare mirror was ground to perfection by a different company who said those other guys don't know what they're doing but their critiques were ignored due to political reasons the spare (perfect) mirror now sits in the smithsonian with a lovely plaque commemorating this billion dollar blunder
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  5. "And canada would provide a robotic arm." and what a fine robotic arm its been
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  6. you know its also possible they realized this about 10 years ago said "yikes!" and quietly switched to ceramics
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  7. "Ivan, what is das?!" "it is soyuz i swear!" "it has no boosters, it has too few combustion chambers, it looks too...american!" "it is... diet...soyuz, for people who think soyuz is too big for them..."
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  8. Everyone whos vacuumed popcorn up and clogged their vacuum understands what has happened here
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  9. "Presumably by the time it came home it was the longer term exposure facility" ya nasa has that kind of dry sense of humor
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  10. the difference is one is talking from a theoretical mega engineering perspective, the other is a politcian seriously asking if we can just move the move the moon based on spurious ideas that global warming has to do with solar cycles and tide patterns instead of his state's massive carbon output
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  11. I'm sure the NSA has a love/hate relationship with these companies since they provide lots of intel, but also prove that you don't have to be the NSA to afford a spy sat program
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  12. the anicdote about the orange wasn't as much of an over-reaction as you'd think. British military liasons were able to accurately discern that the Soviet Union's new T-72s tanks were using a 125mm gun based on one of them putting an apple in the bore then later measuring it when on a patrol in the berlin area. BRIXMIS was a weird fascinating program that wouldn't happen today
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  13. never thought H2 would have an ortho or para allignment state, i only ever thought things with larger structure could have different alignments
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  14. "Now you have a reason to crash things!" incoming danny video...
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  15. every kerbal veteran can appreciate RCS going nuts
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  16. this thing was being designed by mechanical engineering students out of college
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  17. Low background steel isn't needed because they switched from atmospheric oxygen to liquified oxygen for most steel production, so no radioactive contaminates
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  18. using rs-25s as disposable engines is such an absolute waste
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  19. Americans: You can't just point your rocket to the correct orbit! Soviets: Launch pad go wibble wobble!
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  20. I could not work in that office, I'm already distracted by my company's little cabinet of history every time I walk by it
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  21. funny thing, upon first contact with the kerbals, the tzan empire thought they were fierce warriors, riding their flaming ships to slam into and destroy them however after jeb finally successfully docked with them they realized that death by guidance error is quite common to kerbal spaceflight
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  22. SLS: Destroying dreams since 2010!
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  23. ya I can't see any issue with Lockheed owning Boeing's engine manufacturer for SLS
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  24. when the question of How many People can we actually fit in the capsule, is asked in all seriousness
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  25. the good thing is I think, NASA has much much better knowledge testing and understanding what they want in a space suit to write the contract
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  26. science cannot move forward without burned heaps of tortoises!
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  27. OsirisRex: "Ok I'm going! boop Guys I- why are you all wearing masks?"
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  28. unless they get a crewed orion up to ISS in the next 6 months they're gonna blow right past that
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  29.  @travcollier  the soviet space program basically didn't give them the time or budget to construct the rigs and do the testing needed to catch these problems
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  30. John Dee was a really strange man, like your small bit doesn't even scratch the surface.
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  31. An interesting concept would be to put a mechanical arm on the trunk, since in normal operation, its hollow anyways, and space-x has a lot of robot arm guys now. You could build a mission specific trunk that has an arm, and hardware bays to store mission modules
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  32. Aerrin Longheart i think the last patch was sometime after the dinosaurs, something to do with furless apes but theyre totally OP and are getting nerfed
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  33. "Look dad, I'm the Hindenberg!" SN10
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  34. that's such a bad story though, every flight path has a range of values instead of exact calculations, a 100 lb girl isn't going to actually impact a vessel on re-entry nearly as much as high altitude wind sheer will
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  35. beoing is a joke but dragon got a lot of experience and hardware out of the cargo missions too
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  36. 100% fratricide chance for the aries 1 lol You didn't demonstrate this classic problem in KSP i noticed. its a really common beginner mistake of too little thrust for the payload.
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  37. Jett Quasar soviet design tended to be so increadibly centralized that one single person was making the design decision, quality control, inspection procedures, launch conditions ect, it let them jump ahead with the r-7 and vostok but as rockets got more complicated this style became horrendously deficient as korolev's replacement was a raving alcoholic and had basically a competing space program within the soviet union. ironically this was the same thing that we did early on with vanguard and jupiter rocket programs but then we rightly recognized the need for one managable program and created NASA out of both and while it did have a director, design decisions were carried out by committee and time was taken for testing
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  38. from an engineer i worked with that visited them "They're a bunch of cowboys"
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  39. their business model was basically the 90s cellphone model.
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  40. The AGS was like the can of spam in the back of the pantry, you think you're never going to need it until the world ends THEN botulism.
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  41. the only rocket capable of launching an entire chamber of congress on an earth escape trajectory
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  42. not really sure how they get to mars and back on a pile of cryogenic propellants when they boil off relatively rapidly compared to the journey time Not really sure how they intend to land something that top heavy on mars (or the moon) without some sort of developed landing pad either Not really sure if the fuel bleed heat shield even works either. Additionally nobody's got a good idea of what a stainless steel space vehicle of its size does in space with regards to expansion and the million other little daunting metallurgical problems
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  43. "We launched first!" "We got there first!" "America!" "USSR!"
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  44. "The price should come down [on the RS-25]" ya sure, that's not exactly what it was made for but sure lets keep thinking that since SLS isn't just a way to slush cash into the hands of certain political donors
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  45. mars was certainly an inspiration but stuff like Laurence of Arabia, or the USGS Dune survey project he was working on were also inspirations
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  46. that long march 1 looks suspiciously like a redstone from a distance
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  47. but wait scott, when they used it in apollo 13, they were essentially taping up an airduct for the co2 scrubbing canisters, in that application it was duct tape
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  48. I always remember the dimethylmercury bit, its a potent reminder that what someone is asking for and what they want are two different potentially life saving things
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  49. AJ's problem was they demanded the government fund development of any new engine back 10 years ago and everybody ignored them because times were changing
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  50. eh you forgot to inject dimethylmercury for that extra thrust.
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