Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1. what a great second go, i have to say having spent the last 50 years wishing i could get into space i found the fact this went so smoothly a little emotional. i might actually see a base on the moon, and a human on mars. i remember as a kid getting a little plastic spaceman carrying a UN flag out of a box of cornflakes - it's taken us way too long to become interplanetary.
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  2. they are bringing the moon closer , so it should cost less.
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  3. i worked on simulations for the ESA soho project when it launched, i also did a ton of animations around the oort cloud comets, various earth bound telescopes and (this was the late 80's) even visuals of colonising asteroids, not to mention i did a number of animations for the 1999/2000 BBC series "the planets". i've actually lost count of the number of times i've built a model of the solar system - so i've had to do a lot of visualisation. this is how i would imagine a small "moon" starting it's very early life, little pieces of rock just pulled together, not enough gravity at this point to crush anything, just enough gravity to squash the rocks compacting.
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  4.  @yakirfrankoveig8094  cranes is the problem, you need to be able to pick it up, transport it - that's why they use chopsticks, there is no transportation issues to deal with it's already "back at base"
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  5. i find all this a bit weird. i tell the story of when i was a kid i got a plastic spaceman from a cornflakes box, he was carrying a united nations flag, and somehow, being born in 1954, and having my parents keep reminding me of the war, i grew up thinking that the planet was going to grow up with me, and that soon wars would end (cos we're all one planet) and i would be driving my hovercar around on the moon by now. it's totally disappointing that the schedule isn't keeping pace, but, what i do find astonishing is that we are almost a spacefaring planet, so many launches are going on at the moment it is really hard to keep track, and to miss one is, well, not as big a deal as it once was. my dad died in his early 70's, and i'm 67 atm, so, i really hope we can get to the point where an old duffer like me can drive his mobility scooter around on the moon... great channel btw.
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  6. i worked on simulations for the ESA soho project when it launched, i also did a ton of animations around the oort cloud comets, various earth bound telescopes and (this was the late 80's) even visuals of colonising asteroids, not to mention i did a number of animations for the 1999/2000 BBC series "the planets". i've actually lost count of the number of times i've built a model of the solar system - so i've had to do a lot of visualisation. this is how i would imagine a small "moon" starting it's very early life, little pieces of rock just pulled together, not enough gravity at this point to crush anything, just enough gravity to squash the rocks compacting. fantastic bit of imagery and thanks for rehashing the frames!
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  7. go norway! here;s to a more united europe and making friends.
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  8.  @scottmanley  and don't forget "flight of the navigator" i think omnibus did the graphics? i started in CGI in 1974 (!) see my comment.
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  9.  @oliverlane9716  why not just launch straight up until the tower is clear, or pitch it backwards? is it really that critical? seems like minimising OLM damage causes tower damage....
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  10. she'll be comin round the'cliptic when she comes.
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  11. my first official graphics job was pasting the new, modern (!) southern gas logo onto all their stationery, (around 1972) that led to seven years in porn, that led to a degree in graphic design, which led to a further career in computer graphics, first with digital pictures, then with CFX, and further on freelance for everyone, MPC, 4:2:2, smoke and mirrors, lost in space, framestore / cfc, digital arts, electronic arts - well too many to list - i did about 20 fx shots on the BBC planets (1999) series too....i have a channel. i have to say i did a lot of bbc basic animation for my degree show (kingston poly 1984) all inspired by the voyager animations. come to think of it i was tape/punch card librarian at a computer bureau (FENI data services, part of sunlight laundries) who used UNIVAC 9400 machines, and the guys there did some ascii nudes, so i was involved in computer graphics as far back as 1974. although i also cleaned the coffee machine and mowed the lawn. at CFX we used to shoot onto film from a 4000 line vector display (i forget the make) engineered by ian chisholm and software by craig zerouni, we would shoot a pass of one colour onto a mitchell camera, rewind the film, shoot a pass of a second colour and so on, and use matte passes to simulate hidden line removal. sitting in a darkened room for hours shooting one frame at a time, several times for multi colour- and if ONE FRAME was wrong.....i think the first ad i did using that technique was the vauxhall astra (the first one) launch. i have a ton of odd stills on my facebook photo albums pages "a short history of computer graphics" that are a variety of really ancient work i saved from the skip, film, video some storyboards. PS i have some 3d animations of the EVA pod and discovery ship from 2001 on my channel (a long way back) and a robbie the robot i did in 3D.
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  12. well you get better resolution in the upright format (on a phone) so it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. if you record horizontal you're ship is going to be three pixels high.
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  13. i was at cfx in soho london around 1985 and we used a hi-res vector display (i forget the make) and shot onto film using colour gels for each colour pass, but we did exclusively wire frame, any "rendering" was done by plotting onto cel and hand painting.
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  14. huh, brave, they are forced into slavery for all time. 😅
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  15. you get lunch at the restaurant at the end of the galaxy.
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  16. interesting comment, do yyou know of ian chislholm, craig zerouni, chris briscoe, paul brown? all people i have worked for around the late 1980's at digital pictures and cfx (london).
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  17. i'd be nailing blocks of lead to the outside of ISS.
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  18. i'm hearing names that ring bells, i was at digital pictures and cfx in london around 1984 ish and i swanned around soho for another twenty years after that....
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  19. given current politics, i do hope this gets going.
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  20. it's a shame that it can't be set of on a "voyager" style journey. why no just build any new space station using this as a base and get rid of it one bit at a time?
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  21. i remember as a kid going out into the garden to catch bits that fell off as it passed over our house. i still have a tiny microwave oven that fell out of the windows.
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  22. that would be sod's law.
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  23. i've yet to check but everyday astronaut had feed from the top of the tower showing the booster floating for at least five minutes after it had "landed", it eventually exploded, but was still intact and floating, with a ship and coast guard choppers watching.... i'm at 7:00 so maybe there is mention of this.
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  24. 11:50 other feeds suggested the roll was to stop sloshing, it was to send prop to the end of the tank? also the "chaff" was suggested to have been frozen oxygen?
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  25. yep.
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  26. when i watch video of spaceX building starship and the sheer amount of activity going on i do wonder what miracle it took to avoid all the crap other parts of industry suffer from. i blinked and section 3 of the second tower went up while a bzillion heat shield tiles were being replaced while ship umptyfive was doing a spin prime while booster eleventy leven was doing a cryo test and an office was being built while a car park is being painted and cranes are being built and taken apart willy nilly - how come musk can manage a zillion events at once and everyone else is "oh, the guy parked his truck in the wrong place so we cancelled the moon landing" ??
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  27. this was my thought about the helicopter on mars, we'll have to be putting up a mars gps system won't we?
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  28. seems like a silly thing to have done, the russians have as much to lose as anyone here.
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  29. it landed on VHS, what did anyone expect?
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  30. it's actually mildly amusing (to my tiny mind) how small it is compared to starship. but ignore me. at least it doesn't have a swastika on the side.
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  31. it's a sign of the times when you say carrying 22 satellites and i think, only 22?
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  32. if the banana is toast next time just send toast.
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  33. we humans can be so childish. it's not easy, some deserve the term more than others, but, that's life.
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  34. i think at 11:28 you can see that a tile on the other side of the fin has probably failed. from then on it just burns through the flap.
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  35. it's not so much height as movement, the earth will appear to be a disk whatever distance, but the bulge - the curve - only becomes apparent if you are moving. you really need paralex. the disk, the horizon is always a circle and the extreme of the circle is always at the "same height" so unless you move around that circle it will appear flat. ish.
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  36. not that i have any idea of what i'm talking about, or ownership claim, but wouldn't putting the ISS out into a stable orbit be a good thing, in the long run we need places for emergencies don't we? even if it was sent off in some weird voyager mission?.....
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  37. if you put a hydro - electric dam on a rocket you could produce enough electricity to, oh, hang on.... i have always thought that lighting a big fire under a tin can is a silly way to get into space, and when we finally meet aliens from another galaxy they'll laugh their little green bollocks off when we explain how our space ships work. steam powered space ships sounds really sensible, it's providing the electricity is the problem, batteries are not a good answer - i don't know what is though. dammit jim i'm an artist, not a rocket scientist.
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  38. i travel mainly using shoes, do i have a sole?
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  39. i was thinking that this flight would involve an explosion, i was thinking that it's becoming mundane and needed some spice, knowing musk i wouldn't be surprised if this was deliberate - apart from the comms mast on top of the launch tower.
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  40. it might be just a scratch to you, but it's life and death to some poor wretch.
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  41. i was watching veritaseum video about why commercial planes don't have locks on the doors, and in that he mentioned a flight that had suffered fatigue and the body of the plane had ripped open, but what astonished me was this plane had made 90,000 flights before this happened. 90,000!
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  42. 9:58 that looks like androka followed by bevoalavo, indeed madagascar.
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  43. what popped into my mind in the first few seconds of this was the wright brothers. in the early days of flight, not even space flight, how many planes just failed? how many pilots lost their lives? aren't there a ton of parallels between us trying to toddle into the air and us trying to toddle into space? i have to admit it might be that we will never overcome the faster than light thing, and that might condemn us to life in our galaxy, but really? have we never found a work around at least to our problems? surely just to ask the question "how will we warp space in order to travel faster than light" means a solution is at least theoretical?
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  44. someone was saying this is a flying skyscraper, it's that big, and no one really pays attention to skyscrapers, they've become commonplace. i wonder how long it will be before starship launches become like 747 takeoffs, too many too often to get worked up about.
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  45. i was just about to comment "contact"
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  46. "did you remember to leave the gate open?"
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  47. i guess space capsule design, especially for re-entry, is going to be dictated by aerodynamics, but is it just me or does that look very much the the capsule from "the andromeda strain"?
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  48. my house is built on the site of a meteorite crater
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  49. literally a stab in the dark.
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  50. i was slightly surprised that the ship didn't "flinch" at all when it hot staged, you would think that tons of booster pushing itself away from the ship would alter trajectory a little, but the ship seemed to continue without any correction at all.
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  51. apparently there is no reason theoretically that the speed of light can't be broken, usually it's cited as a barrier because it's impossible to accelarate to the speed of light, but things already travel faster than the speed of light, the blue glow in reactor cooling pools is photons travelling faster than light speed. eric weinstein my or may not be a crackpot, but he seems to think that einstein missed a trick or two, time will tell.
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  52. just looking at what appeared to be a comet hitting the sun, what's the biggest thing that hitting the sun could ause a catastrophe for earth? and how often is that a lielyhood?
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  53. i do hope these bits of film are still around a thousand years from now.
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  54. this planet is crazy, like in fact there are two planets, one is run by the scientists who have no choice but to cooperate to get heir space stuff done, and the other is run by politicians who just want to pocket public money and start wars. what we need is a kind of internet / gps for politicians, so they have stop screwing each other over, and progress.
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  55. i may be wrong cos this is rumour, but i was told that we throw up when we get dizzy because our brain / body assumes we have been poisoned?
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  56. "go on, let him have the pen-knife, it's not sharp, he can't do any harm with it" "what's the use of a pen-knife wot you can't do no 'arm with" thought william.
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  57. talking of dyson spheres, and i imagine i'm not the first to suggest this, but is there any way to detect satellites orbiting other exo-planets? i imagine if it were possible it would already being done, but i've not heard it mentioned, so...
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  58. i have it on good authority they are really made from balsa and painted. :)
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  59. i made a lo res model of spaceship one way way back, and although i'm not certain i think it was used in some early simulations, available from all good purveyors of 3d models (i had plans for a more detailed version to animate and put on my channel, but life gets in the way). i love anything bert rutans did. and anything that gets to space (apart from say ICBM's) is okay with me.
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  60. i did special effects work for thunderbirds the movie, anything with an after burner, bubbles or chaff floating in space, i did that, at 3:20 seeing bits of foil floating off reminded me of doing the camera matching pf the late Bill Paxton floating in the damaged thunderbird 5. (i was engines wrangler, hence the after burners, also a lot of scenes were "under the thames" shot dry in a studio and needed bubbles added to give it the underwater, thuderbird 4 look, and of course the sabotaged thunderbird 5 lost it's artificial gravity and debris, as well as crew, were floating about in free fall).
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  61. a pint? a pint? well that's very nearly an armful...
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  62. you must try to overcome superstition, we aren't cavemen here.
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