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

  1. NSWR: You thought Orion was crazy look at me!
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  2. big question, why would they have a class A fire extinguisher on the ISS when electrical and chemical fires use a class D?
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  3. saturn IB and the CSM was a much cheaper and better vehicle for both low earth and possible cheaper trans lunar missions, Nixon really just wanted the space program to go away and ditched all the apollo hardware on purpose
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  4. well the point of the rs-25 was you reused them, but no follow on development ever followed to actually continually develop them to be more and more reusable, now we're tossing them away on each SLS launch
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  5. SPLITTERS!
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  6. I wonder if the tape is just oxidizing. it would have probably been made to be enclosed in some pressurized environment
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  7. so like 4 iphones from now?
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  8. methane flames + the metal the engines are made of + various starting chemicals like TEB that burn green
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  9.  @cryptolicious3738  nooooo think of the children! that's always justification for draconian intrusive policies because its for the children, and totally not for some future chinese requirement to erase people
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  10. 5:43 always understated how amazing the photos from voyager were
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  11. they tried MRI but the machine exploded
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  12. It occures to me that in your like 10 years of making content for space, seems that space is really getting active. Like when I started following your channel there were really only a handful of science missions going at a time, the usual players in space launches, and not really any commercial launches outside of gps, communications, and global observatory
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  13.  @tonywells6990  it doesn't even boost the economy, SLS's core technologies are ancient. yes the new composite manufacturing techniques have uses but then the industry for giant composite tanks isn't entirely that large either. its not like sls is pushing new technologies that will lead to any radical breakthroughs, its all tried and tested (and expensive) legacy hardware, exactly like the senator from alabama intended these engines for example will be horrendously expensive to remanufacture when they toss away the entire lot of shuttle engines nasa had left
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  14. its more of a tech development project. I think it will fly and nasa will use it to loft another space station, but the current plan on it is terrible
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  15. MegaRazorback you put it in a small box in a cool place and it still explodes
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  16. I think its better to just adjust its orbit so you're nearly 100% certain its going to hit the South Pacific Ocean(ic) Uninhabited Area
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  17. Yanick Zeder mars has an atmosphere though. the rover had radiators to radiate heat in a vacuum while mars does have enough atmosphere for it to freeze things pretty easily. our space probes have a hard time staying warm instead of overheating
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  18. "How do we make camera survive in space?" "Put it into atmosphere?"
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  19. ya I used to microscope composite bearings, when we saw any voids it was trashed, regardless of how expensive the part was
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  20. "Here be dragons" indeed, the edges of the map would be absolute certain death
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  21. always ceases to amaze me we can launch a thing to the other side of the inner solar system and return to earth on target, and still can't get parachutes right
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  22.  @weldonwin  also they used the space shuttle's cargo bay as a passenger compartment, and somehow we launched like a hundred shuttles at once. Moonraker is crazy
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  23. both SpaceX and Boeing are using the same docking mechanism so not really.
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  24. L4 and L5 are essentially the bow wave and the wake of the earth/moon's gravity balancing out, they form a equilateral triangle with the earth, moon, and position
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  25. it'll be interesting to see what they come up with. I've worked with polyimide composites which are supposed to be about the limit of what you can do with polymers, it was pretty resilient stuff but I wouldn't put it next to a burning methox torch like you get from the engine, it will burn up eventually
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  26. Tom Chan or you know... they could just bring nukes with them
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  27.  @WolfePaws  ya but having read those apollo-x proposals with hindsight its pretty certain the crews couldn't have survived in space for something like a year given the limited experience we had with exercise and other life lessons
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  28. just don't get 20kg of scrap
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  29. seen weirder guys as DJs
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  30. early soviet spacecraft are fascinating with the way everything was analogue and yet they managed to accomplish quite a lot in orbit
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  31.  @t65bx25  they had that waterworld episode
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  32. it is kind of ironic that given the initial need to avoid a weaponized rocket they went with increasingly larger solid rockets, then by the time you get to the Mu series, most weaponized ballistic missiles were large solid rockets, and the M-V outwardly looking identical to many large ballistic missiles today, but all this was kind of by accident as IRBMs and ICBMs in the 50s, 60s and 70s were liquid fueled beasts until you got large amounts of things like minuteman, peacekeeper and topols
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  33. Man I hope congress gets around to allowing NASA to repurpose that keyhole spy satellite the NSA gave to them a few years back
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  34.  @underthelidar  the idea is 1) obtaining elements is not a problem, if we wanted to build a gold shielded ship, we really could, cobalt is stupidly expensive and we make airplanes out of it. I've held a bag of rivets that was worth more than my car, and seen people casually toss out palladium because its listed as an expired reagent. (both times it hurt inside) 2) you can use less mass for the same shielding since its almost twice as dense, so you're saving fuel which is the biggest cost constraint on any long duration mission.
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  35. As every kerbal player knows its always the last few kilometers that gets you
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  36. well, she is liable to go off spontaneously if not properly cared for.
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  37. aerospikes and other compensating engines do this by using the airflow to compress the gas as if it were the outer wall of the bell as for why nozzles don't expand/contract like fighter jets it's because they have to run fuel through them to cool the bell to keep it from melting. rocket exhaust is much hotter than jet exhaust so pretty much no metal exists that can survive it well enough, so they need to actively cool it
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  38. kerbals haven't invented daka yet, or they gave up daka after the kerbin unification war as the fannon would have it
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  39. huh, there were a bunch of scientists that have said we probably learned more about building a bomb in the 20 years after we stopped testing bombs because of the switch to computers. its one of those very tricky problems
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  40. Timothy McLean the antaries worked fine, they only switched away from the nk33 to get a boost in launch capacity and safety track record
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  41.  @stevenf1678  ula was formed because boeing caught lockheed stealing their secrets and lockheed caught boeing stealing their secrets so they formed a joint venture to save both the embarrassment of admitting they were both undertaking campaigns of corporate espionage
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  42. it'd be cool if they took the lessons learned from this and service hubble before it crashes sometime in the next decade
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  43. I wonder what we could do with 2-3 hubbles orbiting around at the same time in a cluster, cmon DoD where's another keyhole satellite so we can put up a hubble cluster
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  44. HI PHIL SWIFT HERE, TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF FLEX TAPE, I CUT THIS ROCKET ENGINE IN HALF!
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  45. ​ @reddragonflyxx657 the first successful cables were single piece, laid from england to the US without breaking, and they broke down after a while. successful transatlantic cables took a bit longer as the splicing, material technology, and transmission equipment improved quite a bit after the 1880s
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  46. 15:50 if I remember correctly in the book they were using the roci's rail gun which itself needed the ships main thrusters to normally counteract its recoil and firing it normally to their orbit to shift it and buy time not to keep them in orbit indefinitely never seen how the show did that scene though
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  47. reentry heating was a serious plot point of one episode of the original show
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  48.  @noeoep  Going out on a limb but I'm guessing the life on the star is made of neutronium, or w/e ultra dense matter they called it, and arose under an evolutionary process just using intensely dense matter and massive heat
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  49. Alessio Andreoli koralev was replaced by an incompetent alcoholic, at least he got his stuff together later on when they were doing space stations but he was not ready for the hot seat so quickly after koralev
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  50.  @TheShowdown16  gps was planned production. these are global sized networks with trash that could be around for tens of thousands of years, it'd be irresponsible to not put some people in the process who aren't being paid to launch these things
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