Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1. So they did not fly a rocket out of a volcanic crater in Japan and capture it in space. Instead they just borrowed a truck for a few hours. Loses a bit the drama I'd say.
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  2.  @markhorton3994  So what's the criteria for a complete failure. No survivors?
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  3. They sent in a clean up team after.😜
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  4. Better manners in them days😊
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  5. True. Didn't the US do the same? It's been awhile but seem to remember reading that when some of the older US ICBMs were replaced they were used to launch satellites. Which makes good sense. Why waste a perfectly good rocket.
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  6. 2-0 to him I think
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  7.  @tehbonehead  my thoughts as well. Many of the Bond stories are based on true events. Goldfinger was based on a plan by Imperial Germany to blow up the Bank of England before WW1 this destroying the gold inside.
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  8. I don't know about you but I'd settle for less awesome and more getting it right when they are supposed to.
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  9.  @johncrowerdoe5527  You get the feeling they knew what they were doing back then.
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  10.  @wumpusthehunted2628  And now they literally are driving into the ground. This is why companies should not be run by bean counters.
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  11. @Charles Yuditsky who would say anything. America wouldn't want to admit they had it and Russia wouldn't want to admit they lost it. Did anyone see a small ad in the lost and found. Lost. One Salut spacecraft. Answers to the name ZB113. If found please return to the Kremlin.😄
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  12. Famous but didn't know it.
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  13. @Charles Yuditsky Yes. I saw something about that. They wanted the cosmonauts to do a test firing of the cannons but fearing the damage it may cause to the spacecraft the cosmonauts refused. So they ran a remote test once the cosmonauts had left. The spacecraft survived but you can imagine the effect it had. Set up quite a shock wave in the ship. Anyway, the seem to have desided not to try it again.
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  14. So is Boeing. Unfortunately it happens on reentry.
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  15.  @jwenting  To get into a position to to take over from Boeing would take Lockheed decades. Even Airbus, which is now bigger then Boeing, would have difficulty doing that. Any airline wanting to change to Airbus would have to invest millions retraining aircrews, engineers et cetera. And unless they are forced to change they are not willing to spend that kind of money.
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  16. The average smartphone has way more computing power then they had on the Apollo. Maybe they should have the smartphone fly the next one for Boeing
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  17.  @silkyz68  I had wonderec
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  18.  David Parry  I think all sides have done that.
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  19.  @dks13827  I seem to remember that Smersh actually existed which is why Ian Fleming used the name.
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  20.  @duradim1  Nesting, probably
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  21. I was thinking $20 million for the rubber band and $10 million for the giant forked stick. The problem is trying to find someone with very big hands to hold it.
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  22. You could test the idea that in space they cannot hear you scream.
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  23. Great video. Rocket science for none rocket scientists. The claim with the Shuttle was that it would be making frequent flights into space, at least one every six days. But then you read that after each flight the three engines had to be remove to be checked which took months to do. So assuming they were flying once every 90 days there would have been a need for at least 15 Shuttles plus probably at least another 5 in reserve. They built six. Is this an example of over promising and under performing. Or was the original idea so compromised they just took what they could to keep flying.
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  24. Someone building an engine in his garage. Sound British. The first shed in space.
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  25.  @Maus5000  Not widely know but it was a B-24 which was first to get 25 missions in WW2. Unfortunately it was lost while trying to land in Iceland on its way back to the USA.
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  26. The first flight an Apollo space capsule was 1961. Yet here we are nearly 60 years later and its look-a-like replacement and they cannot even get the basics right. What next from Boeing. The steam train followed by the stagecoach, neither of which works.
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  27.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  61 was the first flight but the early ones were unmanned.
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  28.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  According to Wikipedia Saturn 1 first flew on October 27, 1961 (yes I know Wikipedia is not the worlds best when it comes to accuracy on facts). I think I must have mixed up that date with the one for the first Apollo flight. But, still, you would have expected something more up to date by now. Even the Soviets had a shuttle.
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  29. I thought that all these high speed aircraft were part of a single project. I had not realised there that different branches of the US military had their own projects. But then you remember all the other competing projects why would this be different. Anyway. thanks for filling in the gaps of my knowledge.
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  30. Surely entry and not reentry. It never left Mars so it cannot reenter.
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  31.  @EricIrl  I have seen that as well. And as we are talking things that fly I have also seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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  32. @Charles Yuditsky You can see why the crew did not want to be onboard when they tried that.
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  33. i did a degree in archaeology and I know about the sudden return to a much colder period at this time. It was thought at one point that the people who had settled in Britain had left and moved south with others returning once it had warmed up again. Though there is now evidence that not everyone left which would suggest it was not as severe as once thought.
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  34. During the Cold War Russian pilots would claim that they were having problems with ice so would use the deicer. Once they landed they would bleed off the deicer, alcohol, they had supposedly used to during the flight and that night they would have a party. Soviet troops would drink antifreeze. The lucky one did not lose their eyesight.
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  35. Well we've seen where the money for the intro has gone. Got himself a dressing gown. The Beau Brummell of space. So NASA gave up on the Shuttle and is now using a rocket first used on the Mercury programme and the astronauts will sit in something looking suspiciously like the Apollo command module. Not exactly Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone before are we. Interestingly YouTube are recommending a video on Apollo 8 and the is one of Scott's videos on Vostok 1. You get the feeling someone is trying to tell me something.
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  36. Maybe they should have a word with the Russians. I seem to remember them being able to move rockets around on a transporter and launch from anywhere. Like the SS-21 for instance. And the way things are over there you could probably get them cheap.
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  37. So done came up with the theory that whales could hear each other over hundreds of miles. Unfortunately he could not prove it. Later it transpired thae this was known by submariners listening to the whal9 but they could not say anything because it would reveal top secret information about what they were doing
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  38. You may think he was unlucky but as he survived both flights I would say he was very lucky.
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  39. Do you want an umbrella in your drink.
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