the nerv-a engine is not an atomic engine as it uses oxidizer. closed bell and open cycle engines heat liquid gas or just plain but volatile liquids like alcohol and kerosene to accelerate thus there are very efficient. Also you can build SSTO with ramjets and open cycle engines as they both only use liquid fuel, so you do not have to balance the craft out midflight. ideally, you can also use thermonuclear jetengines, as shown here to take your SSTO on a suboribtal trajectory without using any d/V and then fire up a thermal nozzle which uses the wasteheat of your thermonuclear jet engines as a propellant to go into orbit with practically no fuel at all. Once in space, if you have a reactor on board that produces alot of waste heat you can go anywhere you like without using any fuel although the burn times might take a couple of years. So yeah nuclear propulsion is awesome. In the interstellar extended the nerv-a engine gets replaced with a real open cycle engine and you even get fuel tanks which only hold one kind of propellant thus saving alot of weight, since you don't need to have to have two tanks built into one cylinder. with only one long tank and the new nerv-a engine you can get up to 45000 d/V in a vacuum.
Jules Woodbury in fact the Nerv engine does not actually use oxidizer in practice! It is modeled after the real-world theoretical nuclear thermal rocket, which uses a fission reactor to heat its propellant and force it out of the rocket nozzle to generate thrust (as opposed to a normal rocket, which ignites the propellant and uses the energy released by the resulting chemical reaction for that purpose).
The US did also experiment with molten salt cooled Thorium reactors for aircraft. The cool thing with those reactors is that they will shut themselves down before melting down.
@@yellostarrnormal reactors have automatic shutdown to thats why there has only been 3 major nuclear meltdowns and only 1 of them has created a major environmental catastrophe so ya thorium’s good and all but not that much better than uranium
My god, can you imagine if we really had nuclear cars? Every time a drunk driver accidentally scratched someones car the neighbouring city block would be vaporised.
nuclear reactors are physically incapable of exploding, they do not contain the right ingredients nor the right environment. Yes if the reactor was breached it could melt down and leak molten uranium fuel and radioactive vapors but it could not explode.
Yup. It's a very complicated thing to produce a nuclear explosion, it's a secret art only mastered by the real peoples who truly embraced Cold War with the joy of overwhelming destructive power. It's all about compressing the fissile material as quickly as possible, because the nuclear reaction tends to expend its own fuel at a tremendously high speed, thus stopping the reaction. A damaged nuclear reactor tends to overrun, makes it coolant boil, its containment vessel explode due to over-pressure, then everything melts, then cool down. Once cooled down, the reaction may resume, only to stop again once the material expended again enough, but it never happened because the fissile core is so mixed with foreign material from the rest of the reactor it loose its criticality in the process of destroying itself. A nuclear meltdown is, in fact, a mostly fail-safe process if the core is kept contained in a strong enough building (TMI is a good example of a "safe" severe nuclear incident). So, no megaton boom with reactors.
Thats interesting that we got closer to a nuclear plane than we did a nuclear train. I feel like a train would be much more suitable especially considering steam trains had been used previously.
A train is potentially more vulnerable to regular old theft or otherwise damage though. A plane flies from A to B during flight only malfunctions or hijackings can force it to deviate normally, any airports they're likely to visit are likely under 24/7 surveillance, so are probably likely train stations where the train will stop. The thing is, a train runs through random forests where there's no way surveillance can be financed. A potential terror group only needs to shortcircuit the tracks behind a signal to make it show red, and the train comes to a neat halt, where they can steal the nuclear material at gun point. And what if the signals malfunction and the nuclear train runs full speed right into another train, a nuclear disaster waiting to happen. The train can also malfunction in the middle of nowhere, then you're stuck and reaching the train with support vehicles may be time critical regardless of if these vehicles can run on rail or you must hurriedly build a road into the middle of nowhere.
Hey Matt I just learned how to use the move and turn options in the editors and I made a small 3 seater plane, 1 crew module and a main cockpit based around using the editor options and it's pretty stable as long as you don't do sharp turn and I have air brakes and a main parachute if all else fails
Due to how nuclear reactors work they require a much safer enrichment level of uranium 235, unlike a nuclear bomb that requires a high enrichment level. A nuclear bomb also needs to become super critical, something that is extremely hard or impossible to do in a standard reactor, but because of the fact that most reactors generate steam they can explode but it would be like a dirty bomb instead of a nuclear explosion
Before tackling Real Solar System, you might want to try Umbra Space Industries - the main difficulty it provides is life support. And it's not even necessarily the feeding aspect which is the most difficult aspect, I actually struggle a lot more with habitability. My first mission to Minmus was a partial failure because the kerbals got homesick in the lander on the way over and refused to work.
Takes about 9.8km/s delta V to reach 7.8km/s LEO. Takes about 4.6km/s to go from the surface of Kerbin to Mun landing and return. So less than half of what is needed for LEO. Get something like FASA to provide you with real rocket parts i.e. bigger tanks and higher thrust engines.
@@psun256 That isn't so hard in default KSP. We are talking RSS. Now that would be a challenge though, an RSS ssto that could do a lunar fly-by. I don't think there is a spaceplane fuselage that could survive re-entry without turning off heat or modifying the part files.
JKerman511 the US also developed a spacecraft that was not just nuclear powered, it was powered by actual Nuclear Bombs. Project Orion is the name of it and Roverdude made a great stockalike version of it in KSP (Video by Curious Droid on the history of the Orion Project: ruclips.net/video/7dUYfDg3G2A/видео.html, And a Orbiter 2010 mars mission simulation: ruclips.net/video/DSK_mymJvkM/видео.html )
They also proposed an unshielded nuclear missile designed to fly at supersonic speeds for weeks. The idea was to fly very low in enemy (Russian) territory doing heavy damage to buildings just with the Sonic blasts and spread heavy radiation all over the place. Horrible times.
Here is the link on the missile I mentioned. It was project slam. I forgot that it also carried a payload of bombs as well. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile
Yeah, and the NERV in KSP is based on the NERVA engine that was developed under the Project Rover program. It got close to being flight rated too. There were a bunch of tests. And then Project Pluto I believe tested air-breathing nuclear engines. As for Orion, it got close to being built too I think. People in the higher ups stopped it, but a lot of people across the board liked the idea (Air force, NASA, etc).
+Anthony Pelchat O yeah! SLAM: The Flying Crowbar. And you think modern day Military-Industrial Complex is bad. Nowadays they are mostly wasting tax dollars and being horribly inefficient, in the 50s, 60s they where trying to murder the entire world in a test flight!
This is one of your funniest I've seen. Pretty standard for most and then the bloopers just come thick and fast. Dry self-deprecation capped with unexpected kraken and "Laurel and Hardy". For some reason this just tickled me immensely. W00t!
"Tu-95" I think you got it wrong lol, that's a propeller-driven bomber (which is still interesting because the propellers spin so fast they cause quite a bit of ear rape; it gets even more hilarious when you find out it's also used for anti-submarine operations). EDIT: Wait, oops, there was the Tu-95LAL experiment and the Tu-119 concept. I should probably do the research and watch the whole video before commenting like a smartass.
Create a stock or modded orbital megafortress with artificial gravity, solar panels, a cargo bay for short-term exploration ships, supply ships, ect. Docking ports to be able to continually add stuff forever, and able to build stuff onboard. Plus you can use it to construct and deploy the parts for other fortresses from the first one. It is not to hard because you can launch up each individual section like a space station. If you do this... you can use it in the super colonization.
Fun fact. Back in 1950 a nuclear powered jet engine would barley work. But nowdays when modern jet engine have a bypass ratio of 1:10 having a close cycle turbine driving a fan is actually not only possible, but makes a lot of sense. The reactor would also be tiny
My favorite is the Nuclear powered Cruise Missile of Project Pluto. Envisioned to fly over the Soviet Union while supersonic and at very low level launching nuclear bombs out of the top on pre-determined targets. During the course of the flight it's nuclear engine would be showering the countryside in radiation and because of the nature of Nuclear engines, it would fly for weeks before finally crashing and serving as even better dispenser of radiation around it's crash site. It truly was the gift that would keep on giving.
There was an aircraft based off the Tu-95 that was nuclear powered. I can't remember what it's called, though. If anybody can find the name, I'll give you a cookie.
TheDJ, calling the Tu-95 "just a turboprop" is borderline insulting to... well... all of humanity. :-) It is a rather amazing piece of kit. It's not the best or perfect, but still... "just a turboprop"... ;-)
Lmao I just laughed when after he said his date was Friday and then said he likes a "quiet Saturday morning" not likely if everything went well with the date
chris kerwin Well, my fastest rocket to get to orbit took 6 min and the worst is not that , is that if you have over 200 mods it tooks loads of time to load and most of my rocket get to orbit before passing apogee
What kind of TWR are you using on the first and second stage? If the first stage is like 1.3 and the second is sub 1 or even sub .5 you have to burn for a long time. A solid state drive helps a lot with the load times.
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Just FYI Matt, the Tupolev Tu-95 still exists! Just not in the way you think it does. It is currently in service with the Russian Military for long range reconnaissance and Anti-Submarine warfare.
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Rolls-Royce developed a design for a nuclear-powered turbojet. The reactor coolant and working fluid for the turbojets was helium, and the reactor-turbojet package was expected to be used in aircraft like the Sud-Aviation Super-Caravelle.
the thing with thermo nuclear jet engines, is that they are so heavy you need a wide aspect ratio on the wings to get more lift for takeoff, but also if you want to enter the atmosphere of slightly larger planet with a thicker atmosphere to get use out of those engines you need a small aspect ratio to not burn up. The thing I do with nuclear jet engines in KSP is I bring my craft slightly under the Karman line and time war around the orbit until I get into a stable suborbital trajectory with apoapsis and periapsis both under the Karman line at roughly the same altitude. That usually slows the craft down enough to no suffer from the rigors of entry, it's aerobreaking but boring, and it can take up to 15 min realtime, doing nothing, to see it through, but it works. Also my wing design is usually ahedral (which on level decreases my aspect ratio but makes the craft highly maneuvrable at high speeds), high wing (as nuclear engines are heavy you need some sort of keel effect), tapered (delta or complex delta have to much drag imo) and pitched upwards (
I live 30 mins down the road from where they tried to make nuke planes, not surprisingly it went wrong and now you can’t go to that part of the dessert
@Matt Lowne, there is a mod called Stock Size Real Solar System, I use it since i installed the KSP. Simply 5 times easier real solar system. Improves the gameplay a lot. note that the only issue i had was it doesn't work beyond 1.4.5 as i tried. I haven't tried to install further than 1.6 but mod credits say it's for 1.3
Just FYI, the TU-95 was already in service as a turboprop powered bomber before the Soviets attempted to convert it to nuclear power. The American attempt was also already in service as the piston powered B-36.
I watched a documentary where the leads scientists/engineers admitted the whole nuclear powered bomber was a bamboozle. Basically they believed the molten salt reactor was a better and safer design but the Navy had already pushed through with a closed loop design we know today because it was easier. So these guys convinced the Air Force they could make a lightweight reactor using molten salt as a medium to power and aircraft essentially indefinitely. All they wanted was to get funding to make and then prove their much safer design for nuclear power and it worked. It never got accepted for commercial power because it was more complex to build and the nuclear energy commission had already moved forward with the reactor designs. So don't feel too bad about the bamboozleness!
In short a small nuclear reactor wouldn't explode with a mushroom cloud, mushroom clouds aren't necessarily a by product of a nuclear explosion. Mushroom clouds are created when an explosion is large enough to create enough low density gas to create the shape. However producing the amount of energy necessary to do this is normally associated with nuclear bombs, but it is possible to create a mushroom cloud with anything explosive.
Ok I've got my reactor about 100 feet away, shooting it as I comment. Loaded incendiary rounds in my .50 cal. Shooting, it started smoking, it's getting kind of hot, OH SHII
TrainNutter, to go along with that, Neither of those aircraft were powered by the reactor onboard. They were just flying test beds to prove the feasibility of airborne reactors. Both aircraft were powered by their original engines; the Tupolev with its turboprops and the Convair with its radials and jets. None of the engines were powered by the reactor.
"We don't have nuclear engines in the game"
Nerv atomic engine: _Am I a joke to you?_
He said JET engines
Still funny though
the nerv-a engine is not an atomic engine as it uses oxidizer. closed bell and open cycle engines heat liquid gas or just plain but volatile liquids like alcohol and kerosene to accelerate thus there are very efficient. Also you can build SSTO with ramjets and open cycle engines as they both only use liquid fuel, so you do not have to balance the craft out midflight. ideally, you can also use thermonuclear jetengines, as shown here to take your SSTO on a suboribtal trajectory without using any d/V and then fire up a thermal nozzle which uses the wasteheat of your thermonuclear jet engines as a propellant to go into orbit with practically no fuel at all. Once in space, if you have a reactor on board that produces alot of waste heat you can go anywhere you like without using any fuel although the burn times might take a couple of years. So yeah nuclear propulsion is awesome. In the interstellar extended the nerv-a engine gets replaced with a real open cycle engine and you even get fuel tanks which only hold one kind of propellant thus saving alot of weight, since you don't need to have to have two tanks built into one cylinder. with only one long tank and the new nerv-a engine you can get up to 45000 d/V in a vacuum.
@@juleswoodbury58 I mean yeah but the description of it literally calls it the "LV-N 'Nerv' Atomic Rocket Motor"
Jules Woodbury in fact the Nerv engine does not actually use oxidizer in practice! It is modeled after the real-world theoretical nuclear thermal rocket, which uses a fission reactor to heat its propellant and force it out of the rocket nozzle to generate thrust (as opposed to a normal rocket, which ignites the propellant and uses the energy released by the resulting chemical reaction for that purpose).
Hahahahahaahahah he said "we don't have nuclear JET engines in the game"
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It's weird that nuclear trains didn't get as far, since trains can have very big/heavy engines in a way a plane can't.
Well, everyone would like it, but no one wants it first
@@sitfish1113
tell that to the Americans
@@Graknorke Americans live rent free in your head
@@sitfish1113 American trains are not powered through tracks
@@KingOfTresune hold up what
Every time I make a nuclear engine, someone over reacts
FYI: I don't have a nuclear engine
please exit this room
You have permission to Alt+F4 outta here
Well, don't have a melt down over it.
Hahaha over reacts! Get it?
This pun was so bad I want to fallout of a moving car
The US did also experiment with molten salt cooled Thorium reactors for aircraft. The cool thing with those reactors is that they will shut themselves down before melting down.
this is why thorium is the best
@@yellostarrnormal reactors have automatic shutdown to thats why there has only been 3 major nuclear meltdowns and only 1 of them has created a major environmental catastrophe so ya thorium’s good and all but not that much better than uranium
Half life?
Me: creates nuclear reactor
Me: shoots it
Me: "meh, nothings happening"
2 seconds later
Guy from 2 miles: "you mean nothings left"
So could he now read your mind or get super hearing or did you?
the question may not be asked.
He got it because of nuclear radiation
My god, can you imagine if we really had nuclear cars? Every time a drunk driver accidentally scratched someones car the neighbouring city block would be vaporised.
Imagine nuclear cars in the Middle East. The region becomes a wasteland.
nuclear reactors are physically incapable of exploding, they do not contain the right ingredients nor the right environment. Yes if the reactor was breached it could melt down and leak molten uranium fuel and radioactive vapors but it could not explode.
Yup.
It's a very complicated thing to produce a nuclear explosion, it's a secret art only mastered by the real peoples who truly embraced Cold War with the joy of overwhelming destructive power.
It's all about compressing the fissile material as quickly as possible, because the nuclear reaction tends to expend its own fuel at a tremendously high speed, thus stopping the reaction.
A damaged nuclear reactor tends to overrun, makes it coolant boil, its containment vessel explode due to over-pressure, then everything melts, then cool down. Once cooled down, the reaction may resume, only to stop again once the material expended again enough, but it never happened because the fissile core is so mixed with foreign material from the rest of the reactor it loose its criticality in the process of destroying itself. A nuclear meltdown is, in fact, a mostly fail-safe process if the core is kept contained in a strong enough building (TMI is a good example of a "safe" severe nuclear incident).
So, no megaton boom with reactors.
It would just contaminate everything and give everyone cancer, rather than become an actual nuclear warhead capable of kiloton blasts.
@@Jupiter__001_ A fate worse than death
8:49 *iT Is EleVeN ThIRty aT niGHt my DUdeS*
Saw this, checked time, then he said it
Your original blunder birds idea seems like something I’d really like to watch!
Luckily this isn't a DC 10 based airliner.Will make a great explosion if it crashes.
Say,great effort making one of the greatest fan designs.
Great vid! I always like the recreations of concepts, it just shows what could have been!
do you use youtube from space? how is internet speed there?
Thats interesting that we got closer to a nuclear plane than we did a nuclear train. I feel like a train would be much more suitable especially considering steam trains had been used previously.
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A train is potentially more vulnerable to regular old theft or otherwise damage though. A plane flies from A to B during flight only malfunctions or hijackings can force it to deviate normally, any airports they're likely to visit are likely under 24/7 surveillance, so are probably likely train stations where the train will stop.
The thing is, a train runs through random forests where there's no way surveillance can be financed. A potential terror group only needs to shortcircuit the tracks behind a signal to make it show red, and the train comes to a neat halt, where they can steal the nuclear material at gun point. And what if the signals malfunction and the nuclear train runs full speed right into another train, a nuclear disaster waiting to happen. The train can also malfunction in the middle of nowhere, then you're stuck and reaching the train with support vehicles may be time critical regardless of if these vehicles can run on rail or you must hurriedly build a road into the middle of nowhere.
Hey Matt I just learned how to use the move and turn options in the editors and I made a small 3 seater plane, 1 crew module and a main cockpit based around using the editor options and it's pretty stable as long as you don't do sharp turn and I have air brakes and a main parachute if all else fails
Due to how nuclear reactors work they require a much safer enrichment level of uranium 235, unlike a nuclear bomb that requires a high enrichment level. A nuclear bomb also needs to become super critical, something that is extremely hard or impossible to do in a standard reactor, but because of the fact that most reactors generate steam they can explode but it would be like a dirty bomb instead of a nuclear explosion
You are correct good sir the chance of a nuclear reactor exploding like the bomb would be so small......
Cool
Before tackling Real Solar System, you might want to try Umbra Space Industries - the main difficulty it provides is life support. And it's not even necessarily the feeding aspect which is the most difficult aspect, I actually struggle a lot more with habitability. My first mission to Minmus was a partial failure because the kerbals got homesick in the lander on the way over and refused to work.
Lol homesick??? Wimps
So they got homesick and therefore refused to operate the lander that is supposed to take them home? Seems legit
Try to place down more kerbals
@@Coli2603 The mod needs explosive collars, they sure ain't coming home without a head
@@geemcspankinson like the chinese military? 🤔
It’s quite shocking that this was the first ever KSP video I watched. Very happy to come back here :)
Tried to install RSS
Used my largest rocket to go to Mun
...
Cant even reach half of ideal orbit
:(
Also known as you really got to rethink your distance measurements. You need a really powerful rocket.
Takes about 9.8km/s delta V to reach 7.8km/s LEO. Takes about 4.6km/s to go from the surface of Kerbin to Mun landing and return. So less than half of what is needed for LEO.
Get something like FASA to provide you with real rocket parts i.e. bigger tanks and higher thrust engines.
My first orbital craft was a ssto that went to the mun and back.
@@psun256 That isn't so hard in default KSP. We are talking RSS. Now that would be a challenge though, an RSS ssto that could do a lunar fly-by. I don't think there is a spaceplane fuselage that could survive re-entry without turning off heat or modifying the part files.
Brietr it’s more you fucking Neanderthal
Well I hope your date went well :D
I bet she's toxic :O
LOL
@@sharkfood OOF
Me it went really well & his reactor got to meltdown!
Patrolling Eve almost makes you wish for a blue sky
I see what you did there ;)
Living on earth almost makes you with for a billion dollars
When Bob was chasing after the airplane ladder, Yakety Sax was playing in my mind.
*Reads Title* Damn I was gonna make a video like that!
*Watches Video* WAIT WHAT THEY TRIED TO ACTUALLY FKN DO THAT??
JKerman511 the US also developed a spacecraft that was not just nuclear powered, it was powered by actual Nuclear Bombs.
Project Orion is the name of it and Roverdude made a great stockalike version of it in KSP
(Video by Curious Droid on the history of the Orion Project: ruclips.net/video/7dUYfDg3G2A/видео.html,
And a Orbiter 2010 mars mission simulation: ruclips.net/video/DSK_mymJvkM/видео.html )
They also proposed an unshielded nuclear missile designed to fly at supersonic speeds for weeks. The idea was to fly very low in enemy (Russian) territory doing heavy damage to buildings just with the Sonic blasts and spread heavy radiation all over the place. Horrible times.
Here is the link on the missile I mentioned. It was project slam. I forgot that it also carried a payload of bombs as well.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile
Yeah, and the NERV in KSP is based on the NERVA engine that was developed under the Project Rover program. It got close to being flight rated too. There were a bunch of tests. And then Project Pluto I believe tested air-breathing nuclear engines.
As for Orion, it got close to being built too I think. People in the higher ups stopped it, but a lot of people across the board liked the idea (Air force, NASA, etc).
+Anthony Pelchat
O yeah! SLAM: The Flying Crowbar. And you think modern day Military-Industrial Complex is bad. Nowadays they are mostly wasting tax dollars and being horribly inefficient, in the 50s, 60s they where trying to murder the entire world in a test flight!
This is one of your funniest I've seen. Pretty standard for most and then the bloopers just come thick and fast. Dry self-deprecation capped with unexpected kraken and "Laurel and Hardy". For some reason this just tickled me immensely. W00t!
Really appreciate the effort you put in these videos man
Holy sh*t why are you here Klaus?
1:28 I own a nuclear reactor and I once shot it with a Glock-17.
It damaged the vessel and now steam is coming out and OH MY GOD ITS GONNA EXPLODE-
Jet: (Hit Eve's atmosphere at just the right angle)
The nuclear Engines: YEET
Jeb: Um
you somehow get all of your 60 fps videos to somehow look even smoother and i love it!
keep it up!!
"Tu-95"
I think you got it wrong lol, that's a propeller-driven bomber (which is still interesting because the propellers spin so fast they cause quite a bit of ear rape; it gets even more hilarious when you find out it's also used for anti-submarine operations).
EDIT: Wait, oops, there was the Tu-95LAL experiment and the Tu-119 concept. I should probably do the research and watch the whole video before commenting like a smartass.
Ya.. Pretty sure we all have
Dude...you made me waste my last few kg of plutonium... That nuclear car was a bunk idea. Now how will I make my bom...I mean generator
Verified?
Ew! This plane contains rAdIaTiOn. I don't want to go on it.
I hope you realized i am joking
Vladimir Lenin coming from you I thought so. Communism works
Was that supposed to be a joke? Also thanks for clarifying that you're an idiot
Cos-ism is a death cult
CHERNOBYL AIRPLANE
CHERNOBYL AIRPLANE
Ok Lenin...
Mission failed
Reason: no mushroom clouds
I have been bamboozled, thank you very much for that.
Little Professor bamboozled again, it was actually a doggo not a plane
Create a stock or modded orbital megafortress with artificial gravity, solar panels, a cargo bay for short-term exploration ships, supply ships, ect. Docking ports to be able to continually add stuff forever, and able to build stuff onboard. Plus you can use it to construct and deploy the parts for other fortresses from the first one.
It is not to hard because you can launch up each individual section like a space station.
If you do this... you can use it in the super colonization.
[ Fallout fans loved that ]
[ Todd Howard loved that ]
[ 1950's loved that ]
Fun fact. Back in 1950 a nuclear powered jet engine would barley work. But nowdays when modern jet engine have a bypass ratio of 1:10 having a close cycle turbine driving a fan is actually not only possible, but makes a lot of sense. The reactor would also be tiny
imagine if everything ran on nuclear power and world peace would be a thing
Doubt
Thank you, Mr. Lennon
Neyo CT-8826 Nuclear reactors do not explode.
Analytic31 Nor do RBMK reactors.
My favorite is the Nuclear powered Cruise Missile of Project Pluto. Envisioned to fly over the Soviet Union while supersonic and at very low level launching nuclear bombs out of the top on pre-determined targets. During the course of the flight it's nuclear engine would be showering the countryside in radiation and because of the nature of Nuclear engines, it would fly for weeks before finally crashing and serving as even better dispenser of radiation around it's crash site. It truly was the gift that would keep on giving.
I still won’t forget the time he said “I never make mistakes” and in every video he makes a mistake
Ok, guess imma go to Fukushima with my Glock then, wish me luck Matt!
My grandad worked on the Convair back in the 60s. thanks for this vid!
the best part of the video was the plane rolling lol. i needed a good laugh before heading to my classes tonight
CHALLENGE:
Land 2 project, 1 on mars and 1 on its moon with simultaneous departures and rejoin in space AND land on Earth
Duna Ike kerbin
Content is great, keep up the good work!
Hi your channel is awesome!!
Would love to see you try Real Solar System with Realism Overhaul. Should lead to a blooper reel like your first days playing the game.
Nice video!! I probably should try to build a spacecraft in KSP mod when I get the chance to buy it.
information to learn if you have a pc don’t get it on ps4 because ps4 is missing so many things pc has, like personal parachutes for kerbals :(
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@@personperson6022 I think personal parachutes are unlocked with tech, because I have PC version and I don't have personal parachutes.
Io oh
Io I have seen something that said like some sort of level kerbal has them but I’m not sure how to use or get them.
*plane explodes in the background*
Matt: *talks about first space plane to eve*
“Tupolev Tu-95”
It’s a turboprop.
There was an aircraft based off the Tu-95 that was nuclear powered. I can't remember what it's called, though.
If anybody can find the name, I'll give you a cookie.
TU-95LAL
where’s my cookie
Air Plane
Yeah, that’s correct, you can have a cookie.
Air Plane 🍪
4:49 in the rss space is really easy to approach just a medium sized booster can get you to space
Very nice work Matt I love your channel ( oh make sure to get me a first class ticket )
Six words that are forbidden in NASA, "It worked in Kerbal Space Program."
The tu-95 was powered by nk-12's, not nuclear engines
Ikr
ArizonaRanger.45 and neither the NB-36H/X-6 or the Soviet Tu-95 were actually powered by the reactors installed in them.
@@AirJimInCT nah, Tu-95 had rotor engines
@@faritik7 the Tupolev Tu-95 was powered by turboprops. The variant that carried a small nuclear reactor was not powered by said reactor.
11:19 WTH Matt? Your engines don't have atmospheric intakes! You did two versions of this? And how did you manage atmosphere breather without intakes?
Do you mean the Tupolev Tu-95 LAL, because that was the nuclear powered variant of the original (not nuclear powered) Tu-95
Kai Bowman Was going to say the same thing; the Tu-95 is just a turboprop bomber that’s still in service.
TheDJ, calling the Tu-95 "just a turboprop" is borderline insulting to... well... all of humanity. :-)
It is a rather amazing piece of kit. It's not the best or perfect, but still... "just a turboprop"... ;-)
Bo Dan Hah, you’re right. Quite a beast of a plane in itself!
@@TheCyberCrewLD It's a tad noisy, to say the least.
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The moment he said "date" I was like "Fedora tip for you good sir" 😂😂
Lmao I just laughed when after he said his date was Friday and then said he likes a "quiet Saturday morning" not likely if everything went well with the date
You know, I play ksp with RSS and RO and after a month of only plaing that it becomes easier
You just have to get used to it taking 5 minutes to get into orbit and burning past apogee on the second stage.
chris kerwin Well, my fastest rocket to get to orbit took 6 min and the worst is not that , is that if you have over 200 mods it tooks loads of time to load and most of my rocket get to orbit before passing apogee
What kind of TWR are you using on the first and second stage? If the first stage is like 1.3 and the second is sub 1 or even sub .5 you have to burn for a long time. A solid state drive helps a lot with the load times.
Try the Saturn V. Massive hydrogen stages with very low starting TWR. It is a slow ride to orbit.
I play RSSA with stock parts and my 22 ton rocket can make it to orbit, its not that hard
I like how you can make up to anything and let it go in space like that in KSP
Are those MODS. REEEEEEEEEE
I’m kidding cool vid
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The cars in fallout are actually powered by nuclear fusion reactors, a technology we have yet to perfect.
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I swear to god, if I hear one more person pronounce "k" in the word "ancient", I'll turn into modern day Hitler and start World War 3
Mike234 how the hell do you hear a “k”
With my ears. He keeps saying enkshent.
He is British so his accent is like that now come on chill
Just because you put the Intro music in the Description I liked the vid!
Good vid as well
You should try to recreate the curiousity rover
Wow I actually haven't thought of that!
I discovered this youtube channel today. And I love it. THIS IS MY FAVORITE CHANNEL LIKE HOW IS YOUR CHANNEL SO SMALL?! Also, can you make like uhhhhhhh flying saucer or try to?
Matt! Can you recreate the Sea Dragon rocket?
Just FYI Matt, the Tupolev Tu-95 still exists! Just not in the way you think it does. It is currently in service with the Russian Military for long range reconnaissance and Anti-Submarine warfare.
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*Instruction unclear, ended up sending nuclear rocket(s) onto the surface of Eve.*
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I'm surprised that you didn't try to go full ssto with those engines. That was my first thought while you were building it.
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+Eugene Krabs woops i Responded to the wrong comment. Sorry
7:17 - and they're still grinning 😂😂😂
Mat do a warp ship plz (like if you agree)
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@@goodgenes0 oh using mobile phrases it displays i do that sometimes lol
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Rolls-Royce developed a design for a nuclear-powered turbojet. The reactor coolant and working fluid for the turbojets was helium, and the reactor-turbojet package was expected to be used in aircraft like the Sud-Aviation Super-Caravelle.
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I suggest selecting "Ignore Max Temperature" in the debug menu and then trying to fly this thing in _Kerbol's_ atmosphere.
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You copied me...
the thing with thermo nuclear jet engines, is that they are so heavy you need a wide aspect ratio on the wings to get more lift for takeoff, but also if you want to enter the atmosphere of slightly larger planet with a thicker atmosphere to get use out of those engines you need a small aspect ratio to not burn up. The thing I do with nuclear jet engines in KSP is I bring my craft slightly under the Karman line and time war around the orbit until I get into a stable suborbital trajectory with apoapsis and periapsis both under the Karman line at roughly the same altitude. That usually slows the craft down enough to no suffer from the rigors of entry, it's aerobreaking but boring, and it can take up to 15 min realtime, doing nothing, to see it through, but it works. Also my wing design is usually ahedral (which on level decreases my aspect ratio but makes the craft highly maneuvrable at high speeds), high wing (as nuclear engines are heavy you need some sort of keel effect), tapered (delta or complex delta have to much drag imo) and pitched upwards (
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Meanwhile, in the background:
Jeb: * exhilarated kerbal noises *
Matt using parts mods ! I always knew the world was geting moar and more crazy...
Ah, yes, "Nuclear" and "Passenger Plane," two words that are definitely meant to be in the same sentence
Of course not
I live 30 mins down the road from where they tried to make nuke planes, not surprisingly it went wrong and now you can’t go to that part of the dessert
@Matt Lowne, there is a mod called Stock Size Real Solar System,
I use it since i installed the KSP. Simply 5 times easier real solar system. Improves the gameplay a lot.
note that the only issue i had was it doesn't work beyond 1.4.5 as i tried. I haven't tried to install further than 1.6 but mod credits say it's for 1.3
Dear Jesus.... I have an air breathing spaceplane ready for Eve descent....
Enough tangents to form a circle! Well done.
How to make a shuttle fly?
Matt: put 3+ primary wings and nuclear engines
And some vertical and horizontal stabilizer
Just FYI, the TU-95 was already in service as a turboprop powered bomber before the Soviets attempted to convert it to nuclear power. The American attempt was also already in service as the piston powered B-36.
Stickman and none of the test aircraft were ever actually powered by the reactor on board.
The greatest part was when you had to run after your plane that was rolling away. Laughed my ass off.
great vid once again! good luck with the date ;)
1:17 aren't those big engines you put on the side part of the "Mission History" mod?
I like how he's just talking and the craft exploded.
I watched a documentary where the leads scientists/engineers admitted the whole nuclear powered bomber was a bamboozle. Basically they believed the molten salt reactor was a better and safer design but the Navy had already pushed through with a closed loop design we know today because it was easier. So these guys convinced the Air Force they could make a lightweight reactor using molten salt as a medium to power and aircraft essentially indefinitely. All they wanted was to get funding to make and then prove their much safer design for nuclear power and it worked. It never got accepted for commercial power because it was more complex to build and the nuclear energy commission had already moved forward with the reactor designs. So don't feel too bad about the bamboozleness!
"If you don't reply I'll assume the worst." 😂🤣😆
Are those realistic graphics on Kerbin and other planets an in-game feature or a mod?
Actually, the nuclear powered jet is a plot weapon on the Green Harvest episode 8
In short a small nuclear reactor wouldn't explode with a mushroom cloud, mushroom clouds aren't necessarily a by product of a nuclear explosion. Mushroom clouds are created when an explosion is large enough to create enough low density gas to create the shape. However producing the amount of energy necessary to do this is normally associated with nuclear bombs, but it is possible to create a mushroom cloud with anything explosive.
Loving the videos Matt!!
Ok I've got my reactor about 100 feet away, shooting it as I comment. Loaded incendiary rounds in my .50 cal. Shooting, it started smoking, it's getting kind of hot, OH SHII
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You can overlap wings in KSP and have them work??? Sry if this is a noob question I just started playing the game today
To be precise, the nuclear aircraft were:
Tupolev TU-95LAL
Convair NB-36H
The Conviar X6 never flew
TrainNutter, to go along with that,
Neither of those aircraft were powered by the reactor onboard. They were just flying test beds to prove the feasibility of airborne reactors. Both aircraft were powered by their original engines; the Tupolev with its turboprops and the Convair with its radials and jets. None of the engines were powered by the reactor.
Hey! I see while your making the plane, the other side copied, how do you do that? (Xbox controls) because I struggling to make boosters, thanks
Why don't we just bring a few packets of fresh, never frozen O2 to Eve and then we can all SSTO easily and efficiently.
awesome comment from an awesome person that brought an awesome ssto to the awesome planet EVE.