Comments by "Gabor Rajnai" (@gaborrajnai6213) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

No Simon in modern pits you dont actually need a symmetrical shockwave to reach supercritical conditions. They are not shaped as spheres but as precisely crafted ellipsoids so assymetrical shockwaves can ignite them. That was a major breakthrough in weapons miniaturization. Altough with a normal thermonuclar weapon of the 80s it would be quite impossible to set it off without arming it first for multiple reasons there would most likely be an additional neutron source needed to increase the yield to a sufficient level to start the fusion process, a levitated pit requries the removal of the filler material etc.
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Lol Americans didnt know by themselves that pure oxygen makes things highly combustible?
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Most likely they asked Korolev, and he pointed to Gagarin. Noone questioned his authority by that time. Although I would say, that maybe Nikolayev was objectively a better candidate than Titov, and maybe even better than Gagarin, but he wasnt Russian.
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Not that Armstorng or Glenn was ever let near an airplane after they became heroes. Thats kindof a logical move.
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Soviets sent at least 100 dogs on suborbital spaceflights even before they sent up that doggie, and they sent 7 capsule tests up before the Gagarin one, where 5 of them was with a living passenger. Before you start to cry, most of them made it back alive, even the Kennedies got their puppies from Khruschev from a spacedog breed. Those which didnt perished due to technical failures, not because they didnt want them back, the sole animal, where the soviets knew it wont return was Laika. Although technically she werent the first animal dying in space, those would be those mices which Goddard launched in 1929, if they made it up to that far. It became quite a thing during the 30s amongst rocket enthusiasts to launch animals on the top of their rockets, do not misunderstand me, Goddard wasnt a satanic human, but a rocket pioneer who needed funding from the public, those were different times, when these things looked cool.
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Lol because he regularly ordered mass shootings of the miners, constantly cracked down on the Irish, ordered the Benghal famine to crush Indian spirit sided with Franco in the Spanish civil war, openly supported Mussolini up to 1940, ordered his troops to use chemical attacks for the British expeditionary forces in the Russian civil war, used his troops to fight against the Greek resistance during wartime, made the Gallipoli disaster, the Narvik disaster, the Dunkirk disaster, the Benghazi disaster, the Tobruk disaster, constantly telling his generals what to do and changing their battleplans overnight and his best advice for the tories in his deathbed is to make Britain entirely white in the 1960s? Even the tories considered him as a dangerous far right extremist in the war cabinet. Now imagine if Churchill would be in power during Gandhi's independence movement, he would have totally ruined the UK's reputation for a century or so.
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A pair of them was given to JFK by Kruschev as a gift.
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Not that a multitude of american astronauts didnt die in airplane accidents... Guess if they would be from any other nation there would be conteos about how they secretly orbiting the Sun since then in a giant coverup. Neill Armstrong almost died 5 times during his career that safe was working for NASA.
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No, actually Americans got the better German rocket scientist, but Korolev and Glushko were better than both. Korolev spent a decade in the Gulag, because during the 30s he outright stole material to work on missile concepts instead of the weapons he ordered to work on, that determined he was, von Braun never went that far to realize his visions. They constantly juggled the politburo and the military to get these rockets out into production, with the capabilities enough to launch a human into orbit, of course they never outright said that thats their aim, but finally there were always enough plus in their rockets to do these missions.
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Yeah, lithium ion batterries werent developed for half a century, because not a single country let anyone to have research on lithium except with a security clearance on atomic weapon development.
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Its cute that you think they are interested in the Russian side of things. They rarely do, they have their western experts who tell them what to think about certain things. There are some fellas, who are genuinely interested like James Oberg, but they fly themselves to Moscow and search the archives, most of them simply use whatever a british or american dude wrote before them, who most likely got his informations from a CIA pamphlet circulating around during the Cold War. Dont mistake me Oberg is an incredibly unreliable source, who takes things absolutely personal, which harms his objectivity, and spread a lot of BS when it fits his purpose, so he is not a saint either, but on the positive side he at least took the effort to check the original sources.
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Which dog? Soviets shot an awful lot of dogs into space, most of them came back alive. And the chimp didnt even had a name before it come back in case it wouldnt.
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Both of them. He was the first man in space and the first man in orbit. @jaimeduncan6167
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They didnt really need it, Korolev and Glushko were simply better rocket engineers, and lets say better business tycoons, than von Braun and his friends, since it mainly was about aquire enough power to do whatever they wanted to do. They got some technicians, but the high ranking nazies were all strafing for America.
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Yeah, Chuck Yeager, who broke the sound barrier was introduced to the American public five years later in a short spot as the "guy who held the previous record congratulating the new record holder" in altitude and speed testing. Military is secretive. I guess pilots were thankful for that in the Korean war, when they had supersonic jets, while the soviets didnt. There were some gossips about some Gemini launches from the Vandenberg airforce base too, so the American space activities werent as open as advertised. Although from the standpoint of testpilots, who these guys really were, where a 20% mortality was an acceptable outcome all over the world talking about safety above else is a little bit ironic, as if we would say they would be more daring if they flew their Migs/Starfighters instead of spaceships, thats not entirely true either NASA gave Neill Armstrong a 30% cahnce that he will never return from the Moon. These guys had balls of steel, they didnt care thatmuch if the ground became too hot under their feet. Especially ironic in the case of Von Braun, who was singlehandedly focused on astronaut's wellbeing, while he had no problems to operate an entire concentration camp before to get ahead in missile technology. Yeah I know, its rather a demonstration of capabilities than real concern.
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I dont know what was a lamer move, Kennedy officially denying entry for Gagarin forever, because he was considered too likeable, or naming people astronauts instead of cosmonauts, because Soviets were the first in space.
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Well, its the general wisdom amongst pilots, that Mig21 is the most reliable jetfighter ever made. You tighten the screws fill it up with gas, and it goes. Thats a general thing with the Russians, they build some horrible stuff, but what they build well, they build it incredibly well. Like the AN-2 the most produced airplane ever, there are more AN2-s in the world than all Cessna models combined. @madkoala2130
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Lol Neil Armstrong was specifically selected for Apollo 11, because he singlehandedly survived more catastrophic system failures and near fatal incidents than anyone else combined at NASA, they knew if something goes south Armstrong has the best chance to fix it. That was a very clever move from NASA. @markheller8646
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Oh comeon, Raabi was an Oppenheimer shill, nothing more, they dropped their weapon on civilians, yet they claimed that Teller wanted to do it, who was actually against the Hiroshima and Nagasaki uses, while Oppenheimer and Raabi supported it. Raabi hated Teller, because Teller didnt defend Oppenheimer in his security hearing, not because of any weapon design differences.
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