Comments by "king james488" (@kingjames4886) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1. carbon carbon, eh? it's twice as carbonous as plain old every day carbon.
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  2. what about rocket brain surgery?
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  3. "stay away from the bottom of the capsule since it's radioactive... the latch to open the capsule also happens to be on the bottom."
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  4. I'm not buying that a hole with scratch marks all around it was there this whole time and no one noticed... space equipment is manufactured with the highest level of precision and quality control and you're saying someone accidentally drilled a messed up hole in it and was just like "no... that's fine."?
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  5. so... why don't they launch rockets off mountains? it seems silly that all these rockets seem to launch from basically ocean level...
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  6.  @bottlekruiser  I find it somewhat ironic that the pinnacle of our structural science seems to be carbon based while we're carbon based; and in many sci-fi movies advanced aliens seem to engineer their technology with the same materials they're composed of... almost like science know what was up a long time ago.
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  7. 2 weeks later...
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  8. yaaa, that's gonna be made into bombs not rockets... sounds like a nuke with no fallout. if they can ever make more than a few micrograms of the stuff... ya know... I remember hearing about this when it happened last year and never heard if it actually worked... wonder if the government classified it :P
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  9. lol, reminds me of some interview I was watching where they were asked why artifical gravity was so common in sci-fi movies and t.v. shows and they basically said "because it's cheaper.".
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  10. that's no moon!
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  11. I thought someone tried to draw a diagram of hawking radiation and hawking just decided to be a smartass :P
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  12. seems like not a great place for people to learn to fly :S
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  13. meanwhile at elon musks secret lair...
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  14. they didn't fix it... that's what happened.
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  15. just laying around in your back yard one day enjoying a cool beverage when suddenly you're hit by an arrow from space...
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  16. so if they're gonna use something like that what was stopping them from doin it until now?
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  17. way to make your rocket look like a penis india...
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  18. it's kinda funny how often metric/imperial conversions and integer overflows cause problems...
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  19. in russia, rocket launches you!
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  20. idk what the problem is... his plan seems spotless.
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  21. bet that was great for the environment...
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  22. because then they can send astronauts to space with a bunch of beans and regenerate the fuel as they go.
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  23. so it's a giant hot water tank rocket? lol... it sounds dangerous, but if you think about it conventional rockets aren't all that safe... those things are always exploding. and all those exhaust gases can't be good for the environment.
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  24. ​ @Jetfixerlady  because the point of CPR is to keep someone alive until the parametics arrive to actually revive them... they just give people warm fuzzy feelings about it.
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  25. well I mean... it does show that their built in redundancies work and it can land with only 2/3 chutes... so it kinda is an acceptable result.
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  26. I can honestly say this isn't a thing I've ever worried about... kinda like the heat death of the universe... I'm more worried about kinetic energy weapons... until recently it's been ridiculously infeasible to deploy such a weapon; but with increasingly reduced launch costs and an ever increasing mass of junk just sitting in orbit it's becoming an increasingly viable idea.... especially with this stuff about the chinese grappling space junk... it would probably be extremely cost effective to just use the crap already floating around in space as the mass.
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  27. ofc it was the russian part of the station... just shove some vodka in there, it'll be fine.
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  28. that's hilarious. I hope the main character is named yolo swaggins or smokeweed420 lol
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  29. introducing the new generation of spacesuit that you enter by crawling up the rear.
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  30. everyone and their hamster landin on the moon these days...
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  31. landing a rocket on a barge was logistically ridiculous until someone did it... it's just a matter of investment as I see it. it seems like if someone wanted to invest in horizontal rail type launch systems up the sides of a mountain it could potentially be much more efficient than those launching from lower areas with higher atmospheric density.
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  32. I'm not payed well enough to do the math... you do it.
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  33. soo... someone made a thing that messes with the measurement equipment?
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  34. gemini cricket?
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  35. heh, he touched the butte.
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  36. but can a nuclear explosion survive inside a metal bowling ball?
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  37. that mars blob looks more like a stalagmite or something formed by water... potentially very interesting.
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  38. is "explodes" the technical term?
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  39. gotta love musk... he's just like "fuck you guys! I'm building a starship!"
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  40. I guess rockets are really just high-tech hot air balloons with inverted engines...
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  41. didn't russia do this like 100 years ago?
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  42. that's a big butte.
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  43. the rich were secretly on them. they don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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  44. that's just hilarious that old spy satellites are good enough to be space telescopes... why even bother sending up the outdated crap NASA is using when the government has tech that's many times more advanced? just wait 10 years until the better ones are outdated... and then just keep waiting cuz it'll always be sub-par crap.
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  45. riiight. I mean... I can't exactly visualize a joule... I can't look at a hill and be like "oh ya, I'll need about 100 joules to climb that"... but it seems obvious several billion of them are a whole lotta energy.
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  46. I'd rather not get into a mode of transportation that could randomly explode at any moment... and what exactly is required to be an astronaut? I'd say if you build a rocket and fly to space you're an astronaut.
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  47. well you know this company is going to fail... too busy painting their rocket to actually make sure it works >.>
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  48. the air flags debated?
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  49. you mean it's not mined on pluto?
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  50. still space virgins...
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  51. nop, I knew airplanes still had exemptions allowing them to use leaded fuels... kinda like how ships can use heavy fuel oil... pretty much the only ones subjected to any of this greenwashing BS are consumers...
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  52. um... mutation breeding is generally done with a more mundane radiation source, not a bomb lol.
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  53. the troubled rocket child... given all the rocket related accidents over the years, it seems likely if the cold war had ever turned hot at least one those ICBMs would have just blown up upon launch...
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  54. oh god... a big bank of lithium cells in a mine... that's a great idea...
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  55. or the other obvious downside... that you can't travel to anywhere that doesn't have a landing site already built... kinda defeats the purpose of a starship.
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  56.  @jamesminett9717  I guess no one is coming back :P
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  57. going to the moon was a big thing... not everyone has forgotten it was a big thing, even those who weren't around when it happened. elons tricks are a magical thing, but he's still hardly left orbit.
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  58. heh... I was just wondering this the other day.
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  59. if there's nothing you can do there's nothing you can do... give yourself some time to process it.
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  60. figured it had to be the dish from goldeneye :P
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  61. well that was a waste of what I assume was liquid oxygen...
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  62. they aren't going to clean that up lmao... there's nothing harmful to the environment there, no reason to pay to clean it up.
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  63. lets just use trump to power a rocket... he puts out more hot gas than anything.
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  64. lol... it doesn't matter what korea, no one wants missiles anywhere around there. can you tell me you feel ok with the other korea having missiles? they're only a minefield away from the bad korea...
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  65. we can't have a bunch of independent companies all launching a grid of satellites... there's already enough junk in space. and we all know china and russia will want to have one too... then india will want one... then africa will want one...
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  66. anyone else read anime rocket?
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  67. they fall... and then poor 3rd world countries salvage them for scrap... it's like the food chain of technology.
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  68. didn't eve pretty much start this whole idea of waiting for timers to progress? I kinda liked the game, but having to wait like 3 days to do the next thing was annoying.
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  69. there was a story years ago that the government gave NASA a couple old spy satellites that was as good as the hubble but they didn't have a way to get them into space...
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  70. lmfao... you think asian countries care about their citizens? they just let them sell each other fake vaccines ffs... it's a communist country that will kill half of their population if it benifits them. they don't give half a shit scott.
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  71. heh... are they powered by whiskey?
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  72. well... I think everyone's rockets explode the first few times. looked like their combustion chamber blew out or something.
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  73. region unlocked DVD players... downloading copys of movies onto their devices... so the ISS is essentially doing everything pirates do to watch movies?
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  74. so you agree it's all fake excuses?
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  75. the hype would indicate they scrap the whole thing, if not multi-million dollar companies are being lied to. these space things are advertised as being perfect in every way. it's not an airplane that you can simply land and repair, so that industry is kinda a stupid comparison. the only reasonable explanation I've heard so far is just "Russia".
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  76. so...what's to stop them from adding ridges to the outside of the tanks while being smooth on the inside? you'd think it'd be better to have those important lines and ducts on the inside...
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  77. as it happens using hot exhaust gasses to power your turbines causes them to explode if the cooling fails...
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