Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1. Did they publish video of the upper stage Merlin's RUD?
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  2.  @Stay-Awake  It has been tried. This isn't new. Its a stupid dead end.
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  3.  @natosaichek  The space shuttle sucked, but it actually worked. This will not.
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  4. I guess when your government turns your home into a downrange impact area, one of your hobbies is filming the rocket parts raining down around you...
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  5. I wonder how much extra mass a Falcon 9 booster can land if you threw it in a suborbital trajectory somewhere....
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  6. Pareidolia.
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  7. Insert mom joke here.
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  8. @anatollegros3454 Except for isotopic and genetic signatures will make distinguishing them easy. Your sterilization protocols go out the airlock as soon as the first astronaut poops on Mars.
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  9. Sounds like a job for AI.
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  10. I didn't know there was that much of a plan and design for it. I thought it had only had the idea of sending a houseplant to Mars, which is why the Sov....err. Russians didn't take him seriously.
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  11. It an't called the Big BANG fer' nothin'.
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  12. @0:50 So how was the Centaur disposed of? Did it go to the GEO grave yard? Solar orbit?
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  13.  @ronschlorff7089  Everyone has a boss of some sort, even a billionaire. Elon is probably going to re-discover this after the election.
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  14.  @keytothewall  Or he was just to high to GAS.
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  15. It was a very Kerbal flight test.
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  16. Because Bezos is a dork and will always be a dork. You are absolutely positively never ever going to get an invite to Blu facilities or interviews.
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  17. TLDR; No.
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  18.  @kiereluurs1243  Did you not watch the video? Kinda required if you want more than the TLDR.
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  19. Earth is as geologically active as it is because it has a big moon that keeps tugging on it. Without it, Earth would probably be as ossified and lifeless as Mars and Venus.
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  20.  @livingexcuse3767  lol. I suggest starting over with some basic astronomy books and avoiding sketchy conspiracy web sites.
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  21.  @gregfarnsley3851  None of them will lose enough energy to fall back to Earth. Some might be in highly eccentric oribits and will, but not many. Boeing shit the GEO.
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  22. "You still have a few seconds..." To realize you are about to die...
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  23. Assuming there is suddenly going to be a market for commercial supersonic flight just because you built it, is the bizness case equivalent of "steal underpants". But if it works for Musk...
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  24. I can totally see Musk doing this...
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  25. Venus's atmosphere has been in a steady state for a very long time. Very much likely its primordial composition. Its a titanic heat trap, but without new solar input it would have cooled from radiation and the solar wind stripping gas away over the broad scope of time. Just because it hasn't been "proven" doesn't mean its not the most likely theory.
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  26. Data centers in a high radiation and latency environment... How did they get any VCs to even return their calls?
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  27. We know that Venus does not have much of a magnetic field at all. Probably only localized. The high atmosphere generates a stronger one than the planet does. Also Venus has a sluggish, retrograde spin. Vulcanism does not mean tectonics. AFAWK Venus does not have any plate dynamics. Geological activity does not have to be correlated with magnetism. It could be driven purely by residual convection like "hotspots" on Earth.
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  28.  @robinfiler8707  The surface temperature of the day time Moon is 260 F. Go set an oven to that temp and see how long you can stick your head in there. While you are holding your breath.
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  29. Vlad skipped his meds, forgot it wasn't 1922, and his name only rhymes with Stalin.
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  30. Its uncouth to dig at those you are imitating (or at least following their foot prints). That rocket looks retro-cute, but as an engineering solution its a bloody nightmare of compound curves and almost infinitely variable stresses and loads. I suspect this is more designed to impress investors than to lift payload.
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  31. "Hydrazine cleanup on Isle 5. Hydrazine cleanup on Isle 5, and 6, and now 4, and...."
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  32. Bummer.
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  33. At the point where there is a geopolitical or economic motive to do so, it will go out the window. Its only there because governments don't care and/or it impedes other players. Just like the Antarctic Treaty will be ignored if some unobtanium were discovered there.
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  34.  @atomf9143  lol. Please list your handful of places plants could grow in the native environment.
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  35. And Butch and Suni are the happiest strandees in history.
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  36. Its amazing it was able to settle down and stop right side up. For a while at least it can act as stationary sensor.
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  37.  @EnraEnerato  The problem with the shuttle was the flaw in its basic configuration where it's heatshield was in the path of launch debris that could strike it. Just as very few materials that were/are practical for this application could tolerate that kind of abuse, the STS probably wouldn't have suffered its damage in the first place.
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  38. Even an old 747 is worth a bunch of cash.
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  39.  @-danR  I was back-handedly agreeing with you. Because this has been done before. Many, many projects from paper studies to full up experimental guns. The math does not add up for launching anything but slugs to orbit or bombs to another continent in the most expensive way possible. Which of course is what the military wants.
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  40. ​ @natosaichek  Gerald Bull, and I've seen "space gun" proposals that used various schemes since the '80s.
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  41. The Japanese seem to have a problem with their nozzles falling off... It will be a interesting imagery analysis exercise to find the errant nozzle.
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  42. Its still a hellhole.
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  43. Ultimate first world problem.
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  44. Butch and Sunni are not at all upset by getting extra days, err... months on orbit.
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  45. I had thought that SLS and the Chimera that has last emerged as Artemis and DSG would have been cancelled when Trump took over last time because it was an Obama signature project. But it survived because it was and is a political poker chip used in getting laws and budgets passed. Almost surely it will continue under Trump 2.0 regardless of how much money it wastes for not much to show for it.
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  46. Yes for all but the largest. Its probably more protective than Earth's.
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  47.  @bryanb3352  Predictable cope.
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  48. ​ @bryanb3352  May you live long enough to regret how you.. uh, think.
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  49. @16:30 Badum bump Crash! He'll be here all week folks.
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  50. Its actually mind boggling that Queen Elizabeth's reign saw the greatest growth in human.... everything. Culture, social, technology etc. Space flight is only one of many technologies that was created within her lifetime. Of course, this is really just a testament to her generation, not to her or the institution of the Royal Family (tm).
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