Mr Sulu, make our orbit exactly one Kitchenaide from the sun. Aye Aye Captain, turning now Spock, you get that special bread from Bones and meet me in the shuttle bay. This might be our only chance to defeat the Maillards at their own game and free those hostages. Scotty, you be ready with that tractor beam… We’ve got some serious toast to make!
I got 34 million km (~21 million miles) using a very similar approach. My recalled values for solar insolation and Earth's orbit were closer to correct, but I overestimated on toaster wattage at 2000w since I didn't have a toaster on hand.
We cant wait 8 times longer because bread will lose moisture and dry out, better solution will be parabolic mirrors to concentrate energy on the bread!
Oh my, the added complexity of these mirrors! The additional cost for the mission! And did you consider the failure modes? What if the mirrors don't unfold properly, and point towards the fuel tanks!!! *horror_emoji.gif*
Wow, a lot of work just to make toast. A good illustration of how back of envelope calculations are actually done. I like to think those like George Low, Bob Gilruth probably did back of envelope calculations during lunch meetings in 1950s at the cafeteria at Langley field when hashing out what a rocket and spacecraft capable of going to the moon.
I just threw one of those SMEG toasters in the garbage after it broke for the third time. I'd bought it for my now ex, so it also had negative sentimental value, but that wasn't the reason I tossed it.
It toasts much more quickly in a vacuum because it takes less energy to vaporize the water in the surface of the bread. You may want to freeze the bread beforehand to keep the insides from drying out; we want toast, not croutons. Quickbreads like waffles and pancakes will also toast faster due to their higher pH
You remember some crazy figures but even I remember the Sun is 93 million miles from the Sun. However, I'm clueless about everything else in the video. I also struggle to remember how to multiply two 2 digit numbers. I was a whiz at that 15 years before you got your fancy calculator.
Tried that... The ion thrusters just sort of abraded the bread away. The main thrusters worked fine but the toast had a distinct monomethylhydrazine taste.
I almost didn't watch this but it's a lot of fun. Now, back to devoting your talents to more useful things like calculating Starship to the Moon missions. Your Commercial Moon video is your best & most useful one ever & an answer to my prayers. However, one concentrating just on Starship in various permutations would be very interesting - plus there are lots of Starship fans out there.
Thanks. I haven't done a ton of starship videos because there are so many people doing stuff on it and it's really hard to get firm information in an area that I'm interested in doing a video. What do you mean by "various permutations"?
A meaningless, trivial correction: Those pop up notifications you get from hovering over the icon are called tooltips. Toast notifications are the big rectangles that slide out from the side when something happens in the background.
I've been writing windows code since MFC was young in the early 1990s... It's certainly true that you can get a tooltip if you hover over the network icon, but I *think* that the popup is system generated rather than user initiated when there is no internet access to make it more obvious. If I'm right on that, it's a toast rather than a tooltip. If I'm wrong, then I obviously chose "Toast" because it fit better into the theme.
You can concentrate the solar radiation using mirrors and/or lenses, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power , so you can do solar toaster on the surface of the earth!
But this is about space toast... I did think of a fresnel lens approach; that was pretty common in solar cooker designs when you could find them in old overhead projectors.
Space Toast is actually a really bad idea because toast makes crumbs and you want to limit the number of floating things that you might inhale. IIRC, NASA uses tortillas instead. Popcorn sounds fun, especially if you could figure out a way to get it to pop while floating inside your craft.
@@EagerSpacePresumably you could use one of those small pressurized poppers, you heat the corn kernels in the sealed chamber, and upon opening the top flap seal lid the drop in pressure allows all the corn to pop simultaneously, typically into a catchment plastic or cloth bag, which would serve to contain the mess. In other words, you would be able to separate the heating and popping stages, one to occur outside the spacecraft and the other within. Or just mount the chamber into the wall of the craft like a wall oven, where the heating element is solar radiation. Then you could bake, toast, and pop; now we're cooking with nuclear fusion!
Just discovered your channel and I love your videos, but not this one. You mention in the start that you don't want rechearch, not even ask your highly educated wife. When I spent time at videos, I expect to learn something, not to look at some "best guesses", which I can do myself. When I hear you attitude: not wanting to investigate; I also hear you saying that looking at your video will be waste of my time. (just edited typos)
I'm sorry this video was not to your satisfaction. The point of the "no research" thing was to do what I could do with what was just in my brain. I do go back to check how close that answer was to a version where I used the resources I would normally use. Did you not watch that far?
Finally, someone is asking the important questions.
God, I love this channel. It's a perfect balance of completely cheeky AND completely serious.
Mr Sulu, make our orbit exactly one Kitchenaide from the sun. Aye Aye Captain, turning now
Spock, you get that special bread from Bones and meet me in the shuttle bay. This might be our only chance to defeat the Maillards at their own game and free those hostages.
Scotty, you be ready with that tractor beam…
We’ve got some serious toast to make!
‘One kitchenaide’ I spat my drink on the monitor when you said that!
I got 34 million km (~21 million miles) using a very similar approach.
My recalled values for solar insolation and Earth's orbit were closer to correct, but I overestimated on toaster wattage at 2000w since I didn't have a toaster on hand.
Love your videos- keep them up! They're a breath of fresh air in the otherwise hyper-stimulating sphere of space videos on RUclips.
thanks.
We cant wait 8 times longer because bread will lose moisture and dry out, better solution will be parabolic mirrors to concentrate energy on the bread!
So what you're saying is that I need special space bread for my space toast?
I did think of fresnel lenses but they didn't make the cut.
Oh my, the added complexity of these mirrors! The additional cost for the mission! And did you consider the failure modes? What if the mirrors don't unfold properly, and point towards the fuel tanks!!!
*horror_emoji.gif*
Wow, a lot of work just to make toast. A good illustration of how back of envelope calculations are actually done. I like to think those like George Low, Bob Gilruth probably did back of envelope calculations during lunch meetings in 1950s at the cafeteria at Langley field when hashing out what a rocket and spacecraft capable of going to the moon.
Feynman talks about that in one or both of his books.
I hoped this was about food in space :
It is, at a very oblique level.
Are you hungry for a video on space food? I know a little about it, at least what shuttle used.
great video to watch instead of going to sleep! thanks
Thanks. I'm okay if they put you to sleep...
@@EagerSpace oh no i should have been going to sleep but i think the optimal orbit for toast is much better use of my time
Another banger from Eager Space. Entertaining and very funny.
Thanks.
Sharp EL for the win! A truly fine engineering calculator
Great stuff. I need to stop skipping breakfast.
UNDERRATED !!!!
I just threw one of those SMEG toasters in the garbage after it broke for the third time. I'd bought it for my now ex, so it also had negative sentimental value, but that wasn't the reason I tossed it.
My guess 50 million km from sun.
It toasts much more quickly in a vacuum because it takes less energy to vaporize the water in the surface of the bread. You may want to freeze the bread beforehand to keep the insides from drying out; we want toast, not croutons. Quickbreads like waffles and pancakes will also toast faster due to their higher pH
Thanks.
You remember some crazy figures but even I remember the Sun is 93 million miles from the Sun. However, I'm clueless about everything else in the video.
I also struggle to remember how to multiply two 2 digit numbers. I was a whiz at that 15 years before you got your fancy calculator.
Are you saying we are not allowed to just use the engine exhaust? So that's where I went wrong.....
Tried that...
The ion thrusters just sort of abraded the bread away.
The main thrusters worked fine but the toast had a distinct monomethylhydrazine taste.
Based on 10x power density so 1/3 Earth orbit is 9x power density.
I almost didn't watch this but it's a lot of fun. Now, back to devoting your talents to more useful things like calculating Starship to the Moon missions. Your Commercial Moon video is your best & most useful one ever & an answer to my prayers. However, one concentrating just on Starship in various permutations would be very interesting - plus there are lots of Starship fans out there.
Thanks. I haven't done a ton of starship videos because there are so many people doing stuff on it and it's really hard to get firm information in an area that I'm interested in doing a video.
What do you mean by "various permutations"?
A meaningless, trivial correction:
Those pop up notifications you get from hovering over the icon are called tooltips. Toast notifications are the big rectangles that slide out from the side when something happens in the background.
I've been writing windows code since MFC was young in the early 1990s...
It's certainly true that you can get a tooltip if you hover over the network icon, but I *think* that the popup is system generated rather than user initiated when there is no internet access to make it more obvious. If I'm right on that, it's a toast rather than a tooltip.
If I'm wrong, then I obviously chose "Toast" because it fit better into the theme.
Hi Eager Space, can you make a vid on all the kick stages used to send shuttle payloads beyond LEO?
I'll add it to the list. The same topic is coming up with Starship as well and that would be a good synergy topic.
You can concentrate the solar radiation using mirrors and/or lenses, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power , so you can do solar toaster on the surface of the earth!
But this is about space toast...
I did think of a fresnel lens approach; that was pretty common in solar cooker designs when you could find them in old overhead projectors.
Heh... I still have my Canon F-73P calculator that I bought the same year for the same reason 😀
I'd hate to be a hater here, but I must say that the popcorn literature is more interesting than the toast literature
Space Toast is actually a really bad idea because toast makes crumbs and you want to limit the number of floating things that you might inhale. IIRC, NASA uses tortillas instead.
Popcorn sounds fun, especially if you could figure out a way to get it to pop while floating inside your craft.
@@EagerSpacePresumably you could use one of those small pressurized poppers, you heat the corn kernels in the sealed chamber, and upon opening the top flap seal lid the drop in pressure allows all the corn to pop simultaneously, typically into a catchment plastic or cloth bag, which would serve to contain the mess. In other words, you would be able to separate the heating and popping stages, one to occur outside the spacecraft and the other within.
Or just mount the chamber into the wall of the craft like a wall oven, where the heating element is solar radiation. Then you could bake, toast, and pop; now we're cooking with nuclear fusion!
What
So you're a waffle man, eh?!
Just discovered your channel and I love your videos, but not this one.
You mention in the start that you don't want rechearch, not even ask your highly educated wife.
When I spent time at videos, I expect to learn something, not to look at some "best guesses", which I can do myself.
When I hear you attitude: not wanting to investigate; I also hear you saying that looking at your video will be waste of my time.
(just edited typos)
I'm sorry this video was not to your satisfaction.
The point of the "no research" thing was to do what I could do with what was just in my brain.
I do go back to check how close that answer was to a version where I used the resources I would normally use. Did you not watch that far?
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