@@mrfister2916 Its true.. but.. the listed speed is the min. that it was going. There was a ground camera watching the area and got 1 frame of the manhole cover going up, the next frame, the manhole cover was out of frame, the listed speed in this video was the min the cover had to be moving to clear the shot in 1 frame.. basically it was fired from with a nuclear bomb behind it as recorded by a high speed camera
@@mrfister2916 The estimated speed from the video of the test was 240,000 km/h; 150,000 mph, but it's assumed that it likely vaporized in the atmosphere because of the speed.
They had the nuke then above that concrete, and then sealed the hole with the manhole cover. The concrete vaporized and expanded shooting out the man hole cover out at insane speed. Essentially turning the whole thing into the worlds largest gun!!!!!
I was in the USN in 1969 station on a navy destroyer in the South Pacific and saw the return of Apollo 10. I remember seeing it reenter the atmosfear at close to 25k mph. It was a fireball. It circled the earth 1 more time then the chutes opened and down it came. I will never forget that sight.
That's pretty cool, the only thing that I have close to that is the time that I stayed up until 4 something AM and watched the space shuttle reentering like a magical shooting star or whatever. It was just so amazing and I'm glad that I was lucky enough to have seen it...
I've been fortunate to watch the SR-71 fly at least 200 times, It never got old for me. As far as it's top speed, having talked off the record with 1980's pilots and the head of operations for Lockheed in Palmdale(Mom worked with his wife as a visiting nurse), they really have no clue how fast it could actually go. They never had it close to full throttle. During it's time of operation, their really wasn't any need...And they would never openly tell us if they did know...
One movie you guys might know of and be proud of is "The World's Fasted Indian." Its about a Kiwi named Burt Munro and his quest to see how fast his old Indian motorcycle will go which takes him on an epic journey from Invercargill New Zealand all the way to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA. Its a great movie dealing with land speed racing and one mans journey with it and all the nice people he met along the way. One of my favorites.
The story about the Australian Jet boat is very interesting, the man bought a US military jet engine surplus for less than $1000 US. His friend a Jet engine mechanic helped him fix the engine and he built this machine in his backyard in his spare time. His record stands still as the world's fastest boat
Doing these less nation-centric, military-centric reaction videos is such a nice change. Science and scale relations like this has always been extremely fascinating to me and it's fun watching you guys react to it as well. And it looked like Atlanta and Denzel were much more engaged with it too. Keep it up guys.
I went to an air show last weekend, and the USAF Thunderbirds were there. The Thunderbirds are incredible! They go so fast that you can see the sound barrier breaking as they perform some of their stunts. The sound is very loud, and the "surprise" is ear splitting when a solo pilot blasts over the unsuspecting crowd going hundreds of miles per hour. It's a lot of fun! You should react to the Thunderbirds (Air Force) and/or the Blue Angels (Navy). Their stunts are insane to watch!
Been to Wright Patterson Air Force base in Ohio a few times. Live about 200 miles from it. Very cool place. SR71 there, the real Apollo 8 capsule and a ton more. And it is free.
For several years many US theme parks were in The Coaster Wars, basically a couple parks kept trying to outdo each other in terms of height and speed. I rode Superman at 6 Flags Magic Mountain (100 mph) when it was the fastest ride in America. Within a few years it was in 3rd place.
operation plumbob is actually not a joke. It is the fastest man made object that didn't use the sun's gravitational pull, or jupiters gravitational pull, to go faster. And yes, it went to space. pretty much Immediately.
Interesting fact about the Wright Flyer. The controls were actually setup where the pilot had to lay down. The levers up front just controlled the up/down pitch and the left/right yaw for the rudder. The wings were controlled by a slider that the pilot had to roll with his hips to move. You can see it in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. if you go there during your trip here to America later this year.
3:38 - Apollo 10 - That's the Command Module of one of the Apollo moon missions. It and the Lunar Module went to the moon, then the Command Module stayed in orbit around the moon with one astronaut on board, while the other two took the Lunar Module down to land on the surface. Then the top half of the Lunar Module launched back up into orbit, docked with the Command Module so that the two other astronauts could re-enter it, jettisoned the Lunar Module and then the Command Module returned to Earth. Once they reached Earth, the back portion was jettisoned and just the conical front end, the capsule, came back down to Earth, deploying parachutes and splashing down in the ocean. If you look at a picture of the Saturn 5 rocket, the Command Module is at the very top.
Fun fact. NASA jet propulsion lab has an ongoing site that tracks the Voyager missions. It track estimated speed, distance from earth and other fun things. They have been traveling for over 45 years now and neither of them are at 1 light day away from earth yet.
Funnier Fact: Dr. William H. Pickering was JPL Director from 1954 to 1976 "William H. Pickering was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and moved to the United States to attend Caltech. By 1936, he had earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Physics. He then joined the Caltech faculty and by 1946 was a professor of Electrical Engineering. During World War II, he conducted research on the absorption properties of cosmic rays with Dr. Robert A. Millikan and investigated Japanese balloon warfare techniques for the Army Air Corps. Pickering was invited to JPL in 1944 on the basis of his experience designing telemetering devices and later headed the Corporal and Sergeant missile programs. In 1954, he succeeded Louis Dunn as Director. During his 22 years as director, JPL also developed the first U.S. satellite (Explorer I); the first successful U.S. circumlunar space probe (Pioneer IV); sent Mariner spacecraft to Venus, Mars, and Mercury and Ranger photographic missions to the moon; landed Surveyor on the Moon and Viking on Mars; and began designing and building the Voyager spacecraft for a Grand Tour of the solar system." Here in Auckland we have a technology park where the streets are named after Pickering and American Astronauts. If you enter these coordinates into Google maps -36.751243243661676, 174.7031709059337 You can see how many names you can find
the operation plumbbob thing is real it's not a troll. Basically the military wanted to see what happened if a nuclear weapon was detonated underground, so they did exactly that. in operation plumbbob, they dug a deep hole underground and added a manhole cover on top, when they detonated the bomb, the manhole cover was shot into space by the explosion, that's basically it.
WhoooooDeeeeyyyyy!!!! I live in Cincinnati and I'm loving that Joe Burrow shirt!!! Don't ever change teams! I wanna send you all a Cincinnati themed box!
Watching the Wright Bros plane fly is, perhaps, one of the most awe inspiring events in human history. One of the 'check list items' that they had to perform (in order to qualify as 'true flight' was to TURN. The actual Wright Bros plane is on display in the Smithsonian in Washington DC. It is restored but original. They have a demonstration that shows how they achieved a turn.... by bending the wings! I'd never thought of that (I'm not a aeronautical engineer or anything close) but watching the wings flex was amazing!! The Wright Brothers were so far ahead of their time!
NZ family, I really enjoyed your video about the biggest amusement parks in North America. Six Flags also owns a large amusement park in the Bay Area called Six Flags Great America. It's largest amusement park in Nothern California. It's right across the street from Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, where the San Francisco Forty Niners play. The most underrated amusement park to me is the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. It has the Big Dipper, which is the second oldest wooden roller coaster in the US. It's really classic looking and has been featured in movies! From the top of the roller coaster you can see all of Monterey Bay!
Thunder over Louisville is tonight and it is the biggest firework show in North America. It is the kickoff for Derby in KY. They also have an air show before the fireworks. This year they are having 300 drones and numerous airplanes, some during the day and some lit up at night. It really is amazing. Maybe you could show biggest firework shows in America. That would be so fun
The manhole cover was a real thing. It was accidental. They performed an underground nuclear test by drilling a borehole in the Earth and capped it with the manhole cover. The detonation was 50,000 times what was expected. A fire jet shot up the tunnel and blew off the cover with incredible force. They said it did travel at the listed speed for a few seconds before compression heating caused it to vaporize in the atmosphere.
Operation Plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests that were conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site. In 1956, Dr Robert Brownlee, from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, was asked to examine whether nuclear detonations could be conducted underground. The first subterranean test was the nuclear device known as Pascal A. During the Pascal-B nuclear test, of August 1957, a 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) steel plate cap (a piece of armor plate) was welded over the borehole to contain the nuclear blast even though Brownlee predicted it would not work. When Pascal-B was detonated, the blast went straight up the test shaft, launching the cap into the atmosphere at a speed of more than 66 km/s (41 mi/s; 240,000 km/h; 150,000 mph). The plate was never found. Scientists believe compression heating caused the cap to vaporize as it sped through the atmosphere.
The second helicopter Sikorsky there about 45 minutes from where I live. When ever I have to go down to the coast for work I always go over the Sikorsky bridge.
When I was a kid all the rage was the Blue Flame which was a rocket car they blasted across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. It had set a land speed record of 630mph. They had toys and everything out of it.
If you like the Black Bird, check out Brian Shul. He has a story from the perspective as an SR 71 pilot. It's called the LA speed check. Love to see you react to it.
You need to plan on visiting the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center when you come to America. This museum displays thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including the Space Shuttle Discovery, a Blackbird SR-71, and a Concorde, in two large hangars.
That was quite interesting! We’ve sure come a long way throughout history, huh? The SR71 is still my favorite plane, though I had no idea so many things are even faster than it is. Sure hope none of those plumbbob manhole covers ever come back down to Earth! Makes me think of some Wylie Coyote cartoons!
Yes, SR71 is my fav also. Last couple months of my Air Force enlistment, 1972, as a 3 striper, stationed at Hill AFB,Utah. I was lucky enough to accidentally see it face to face in a hanger, until security saw me! Oops! Won’t forget that either 😊🇺🇸
@@alanw9677 In 1972 it was still highly top secret. I lived in Palmdale California at the time and every time it flew they blocked the roads around USAF Plant 42(where they did mods and maintenance) for a mile to the East and West ends of the runway, the east/west roadways to either side of the plant where you couldn't see the runway anyway, and all the side roads running into the east/west roads. Later, as an adult, a good portion of my work(construction) was on that plant. Including the Lockheed hanger where they worked on the SR-71 and the U-2. Over 30 years living in the area and working at Plant 42, I've spent many hours next to and above the aircraft, at times when the had the skin off to service the fuel areas, with the mechanics hollering at me I'd better not F.O.D their aircraft, though not really that politely ROFL. I've also had the great privilege of watching it fly no less than 200 times. It was especially spectacular in the desert twilight, just before dark, and early in the morning as the sun was rising. Between working at Plant 42, Edward's AFB/NASA/DRYDEN/JPL and China Lake NWS, I saw so much more, but it would take about 14 paragraphs for it all. Probably 30-40 maiden flights of B1 Bombers, 5 space shuttle landings including the first 3(took my 90 year old grandmother to the first), and the roll out and maiden flight of the B2 Bomber. I honestly feel blessed to have seen what I have, especially the SR-71 more times I should think than any man has a right.
@@andyfletcher3561 Early 80's I used to watch them taxi by our hangar on Okinawa. If anybody was out with a camera, the AF police would run up and take it from them and dump the film. But you could go out in town and buy very clear and detailed posters of it at almost any shop.
I would suggest that you watch Jeanne Robertson. She is a humorist and her stories usually include her husband she calls Left Brain. The kids will enjoy her stories as much as the adults. Clean comedy and pretty much all true stories.
Been watching yall for a while. love the channel, been trying to come up with a cool package that everyone will like. keep up the good work and have fun when yall visit. America is a great place, but use ya head. lookin forward to yalls visit and the vids that come from it
1:33 Top end speeds by pro cyclists on sprint are 60-mid 70 kmh. 2:03 It's a jet-powered wooden speedboat. 2:17 Bullet trains only realistically go up to 320kmh, a Bullet MAGLEV only operates to 500kph. 4:15 It's to be expected just to get into space, then generate enough speed to generate a gravitational pull to keep up with the planets and natural satellites.
Project Apollo, back when I was a kid we all wanted to be like Neil Armstrong. The Saturn V Rocket is the greatest machine ever built, the shock wave could be felt over three miles away.
In the 80's we refurbished a test site at China Lake NWS to try and prevent the concrete from spalling under the heat. It was a $3 million dollar failure, all our work vaporized after about 30 seconds, and even though we were over a mile away for safety, it was fantastic to watch. And YES, to feel as well. Even at that distance it was SOOOOO loud.
Checkout Shockwave jet powered semi truck once. Unfortunately it crashed from blown tire at Kalamazoo Michigan Air Show this past 4th of July. Got to see one at a drag strip once.
Operation plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests conducted by the US military where a manhole cover went missing. Some people think it was launched into space and it is at that time one of the fastest items.
operation Plumbob was a underground nuke test. the nuke was placed n a hole, the hole was partially plugged with concrete and a 2,000 lb. (907 kg) metal cover was welded on top (technically it was a piece of armored plate steel not a traditional manhole). The heat of the nuke vaporized the concrete and the cover was basically sitting at the muzzle of a giant nuclear powered gun. A highspeed camera caught one frame of the cover. The minimum speed of the manhole cover was then calculated at 150,000mph+. Due to the speed it was traveling at it could have been launched into space but computer simulations indicate that the compression heating of the air above the cap most likely vaporized it in the atmosphere.
You guys should do a reaction to all of the recent UFO footage and the 60 Minutes story about Captain David Fravor and the flying tic-tac that he tried to chase and it apparently went hypersonic on him and traveled 60 miles in a matter of seconds. Not only would it make for a really entertaining video, but I think it would generate a massive amount of views and adsense for you guys too!
Yes! They did the man hole cover, and it wasn’t just a ‘manhole’ cover, it was during the nuclear test age, so they got this old mine, put a juke at the bottom of it, and filled it with a mile of water on top of the nuke. There was a big concrete foundation/ring covering the opening, and that 10 foot diameter or so steel plate was bolt down, 🦭 g the shaft, well, they set off the nuke, the water turned to steam instantly, and expanded as super heated steam does, especially when powered buy a nuclear explosion…the force blew off the cover, and sent into space, they very quickly lost tracking data on it. That is to this day, the most powerful kinetic projectile we have ever made, and it was on accident. Haha
😂 Have you ever done a reaction to any Australian stuff? You might get a whole lot more subs. Nothing wrong with a bit of fun banter between the Aussies and Kiwis 🤣
Since Atlanta likes to cook she should look up episodes of Julia Child and Justin Wilson. Justin was from Louisiana so his accent might be hard to understand at times but he also tells stories while he cooks.
I know people have said it already but I can also attest, plumbob manhole cover is real. I love that sometimes humanity can achieve such absolutely ridiculous things. There is a real world possibility, however astronomical the chance it's there in the world we live in, that a manhole cover could start an interplanetary war is hilarious
Apollo 10 had humans on it and it did go to the moon (one you thought it wasn’t manned it sounded like) but did not land on the moon. It and Apollo 13 hold the record for fastest humans have ever traveled although the upcoming new American moon return missions Artemis will most likely break the record since the those missions will travel deeper into space past the moon further than Apollo 10 and 13 did. That’s why the Artemis 1 unmanned mission was so focused on the spacecrafts heat shield as no machine ever designed for humans had ever experienced that kind of speed and heat. It was the unmanned mission top priority in fact. No worries tho the heat shield worked great so it’s ready to carry humans on Artemis 2 in a year or so to go back to the moon. Fyi Apollo 10 did not land on the moon it was the final test mission in preparation for landing on the moon that was later achieved by Apollo 11. The Apollo 10 LEM (the moon lander) went down a bit did some test runs but then returned to the command module without landing on the moon. Several thousand feet short. The rumor is NASA purposely under fueled the Lunar lander (lem/lm) so the astronauts who were military pilots and test pilots before being astronauts didn't get a crazy idea and decide to break the mission rules and land on the moon to be the first haha
I continue to follow both Voyager spacecraft on their journeys through interstellar space. Launched in 1977 they are still going strong. As of 2023, the Voyagers are still in operation past the outer boundary of the heliosphere in interstellar space. They collect and transmit useful data to Earth.
I seen the StarDust Satellite and it made me remember ..When they were designing it they had a pole and 1.000.000 names were inscribed on the satellite . My name was on it . I think it was last year they crashed it into a asteroid near earth and ... Now my name is forever in space ..
In answer to your question about the helicopter with the name Sikorsky, Igor Sikorsky was a Russian American (1889-1972) who invented the helicopter. Also, although I don't remember, nor know, the details about the rocket sled, but I believe it was on the Bonneville Salt Flats that it set the land speed record decades ago. This was a really cool, interesting video, and I agree that the graphics were amazing. In closing, piggybacking on the comment below from geoffreysmommy, in addition to the Air Force Museum, if you get anywhere near Orlando, go over to Cape Canaveral, and take the tour of their museum.
That wouldn't be correct, the rocket sled location that is. The Bonneville Salt Flats are used for a lot of speed record setting in the USA, but there isn't a rail for it. That'd be something that New Mexico has. I'm pretty sure it's that one or similar to the one they had on Mythbusters, but just to clarify, the rocket sled definitely was not out at the Salt Flats. The fastest motorcycle, possibly, but not the rocket sled. Those, again, take an absurdly long rail system because they're trying to get all the power of the rockets to go towards one vector rather than have it fly around where ever. I only know this because I'm a local near the Bonneville Salt Flats, and it would not be practical by any means to have a rocket sled track out on the flats. Having one out on the open, flat desert or badlands would work, but the amount of corrosion the salt would cause and how big of an obstacle a rocket sled rail would be for other land speed trials would be disastrous.
The manhole cover was put on top of an underground nuclear bomb in the 1950s. It got propelled into space. And it's still going because space has no atmosphere to slow it down. (supposedly)
Plumbbob manhole cover is real. They put a manhole cover above a nuke underground, and the explosion shot the iron cap into space.
But it's not that fast bid. If it's true.
@@mrfister2916 Its true.. but.. the listed speed is the min. that it was going. There was a ground camera watching the area and got 1 frame of the manhole cover going up, the next frame, the manhole cover was out of frame, the listed speed in this video was the min the cover had to be moving to clear the shot in 1 frame.. basically it was fired from with a nuclear bomb behind it as recorded by a high speed camera
@@mrfister2916 The estimated speed from the video of the test was 240,000 km/h; 150,000 mph, but it's assumed that it likely vaporized in the atmosphere because of the speed.
They had the nuke then above that concrete, and then sealed the hole with the manhole cover. The concrete vaporized and expanded shooting out the man hole cover out at insane speed. Essentially turning the whole thing into the worlds largest gun!!!!!
Space doesn't even exist so this story is BS
I was in the USN in 1969 station on a navy destroyer in the South Pacific and saw the return of Apollo 10. I remember seeing it reenter the atmosfear at close to 25k mph. It was a fireball. It circled the earth 1 more time then the chutes opened and down it came. I will never forget that sight.
That's pretty cool, the only thing that I have close to that is the time that I stayed up until 4 something AM and watched the space shuttle reentering like a magical shooting star or whatever. It was just so amazing and I'm glad that I was lucky enough to have seen it...
Cool. I think my brother was on that destroyer too. What was the name of it? My brother died last year and l don't remember.
@@bryanspindle4455 I was on the USS Duncan DDR874 back in 69.
@@michaelmeier7097Thanks. I do remember him saying he was on the ship that recovered the Apollo capsule. I will have to see if l can verify it.
That's really cool.
I've been fortunate to watch the SR-71 fly at least 200 times, It never got old for me. As far as it's top speed, having talked off the record with 1980's pilots and the head of operations for Lockheed in Palmdale(Mom worked with his wife as a visiting nurse), they really have no clue how fast it could actually go. They never had it close to full throttle. During it's time of operation, their really wasn't any need...And they would never openly tell us if they did know...
I got to see it fly in to the EAA in Osh-Kosh. 1988 or 1989 I think.
One movie you guys might know of and be proud of is "The World's Fasted Indian." Its about a Kiwi named Burt Munro and his quest to see how fast his old Indian motorcycle will go which takes him on an epic journey from Invercargill New Zealand all the way to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA. Its a great movie dealing with land speed racing and one mans journey with it and all the nice people he met along the way. One of my favorites.
One of mine as well...Anthony Hopkins is wonderful in the lead, full of great scenes and characters !!!
And remember, Burt Munro achieved a world record with his Indian, which still stands TODAY !!!
Love the movie, one of my favorites.
That was pretty cool! I love how the comparisons kept everything in perspective.
The story about the Australian Jet boat is very interesting, the man bought a US military jet engine surplus for less than $1000 US. His friend a Jet engine mechanic helped him fix the engine and he built this machine in his backyard in his spare time. His record stands still as the world's fastest boat
Doing these less nation-centric, military-centric reaction videos is such a nice change. Science and scale relations like this has always been extremely fascinating to me and it's fun watching you guys react to it as well. And it looked like Atlanta and Denzel were much more engaged with it too. Keep it up guys.
That was really cool to see, thanks for sharing y'all!👍
I went to an air show last weekend, and the USAF Thunderbirds were there. The Thunderbirds are incredible! They go so fast that you can see the sound barrier breaking as they perform some of their stunts. The sound is very loud, and the "surprise" is ear splitting when a solo pilot blasts over the unsuspecting crowd going hundreds of miles per hour. It's a lot of fun! You should react to the Thunderbirds (Air Force) and/or the Blue Angels (Navy). Their stunts are insane to watch!
Maybe you could find an air show while you are in the states.
Ohio has several neat museums. One is the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. It has about 350 items on display.
Been to Wright Patterson Air Force base in Ohio a few times. Live about 200 miles from it. Very cool place. SR71 there, the real Apollo 8 capsule and a ton more. And it is free.
Been there as well, with one of my brothers who is in the Air Force. It’s probably my favorite AF museum.
There is also the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati and Vent Haven museum in northern Kentucky- both unique and interesting!
there is also the EAA museum in Oshkosh, WI that is also a sight to see
For several years many US theme parks were in The Coaster Wars, basically a couple parks kept trying to outdo each other in terms of height and speed. I rode Superman at 6 Flags Magic Mountain (100 mph) when it was the fastest ride in America. Within a few years it was in 3rd place.
I just watched this the other day, myself. Amazing some of the things we have achieved in a little over 100 years. Mind-blowing! 🤯😲😳
operation plumbob is actually not a joke. It is the fastest man made object that didn't use the sun's gravitational pull, or jupiters gravitational pull, to go faster. And yes, it went to space. pretty much Immediately.
Love your boys shirt! I'm from Cincinnati! Who dey buddy! Great choice of team to follow!
Interesting fact about the Wright Flyer. The controls were actually setup where the pilot had to lay down. The levers up front just controlled the up/down pitch and the left/right yaw for the rudder. The wings were controlled by a slider that the pilot had to roll with his hips to move. You can see it in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. if you go there during your trip here to America later this year.
A family that reacts together, stays together.
Fun Fact. The ISS (International Space Station) goes around the entire planet every 90 minutes.
3:38 - Apollo 10 - That's the Command Module of one of the Apollo moon missions. It and the Lunar Module went to the moon, then the Command Module stayed in orbit around the moon with one astronaut on board, while the other two took the Lunar Module down to land on the surface. Then the top half of the Lunar Module launched back up into orbit, docked with the Command Module so that the two other astronauts could re-enter it, jettisoned the Lunar Module and then the Command Module returned to Earth. Once they reached Earth, the back portion was jettisoned and just the conical front end, the capsule, came back down to Earth, deploying parachutes and splashing down in the ocean. If you look at a picture of the Saturn 5 rocket, the Command Module is at the very top.
Yes, By- Golly!!! I sure did enjoy that video!!! It was fun and educational. And I love all your reactions!!!🤣🤣 Lots of love from Gene in Tennessee.
I loved it! Great react video. Love from Texas.
Fun fact. NASA jet propulsion lab has an ongoing site that tracks the Voyager missions.
It track estimated speed, distance from earth and other fun things. They have been traveling for over 45 years now and neither of them are at 1 light day away from earth yet.
Funnier Fact: Dr. William H. Pickering was JPL Director from 1954 to 1976
"William H. Pickering was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and moved to the United States to attend Caltech. By 1936, he had earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Physics. He then joined the Caltech faculty and by 1946 was a professor of Electrical Engineering.
During World War II, he conducted research on the absorption properties of cosmic rays with Dr. Robert A. Millikan and investigated Japanese balloon warfare techniques for the Army Air Corps.
Pickering was invited to JPL in 1944 on the basis of his experience designing telemetering devices and later headed the Corporal and Sergeant missile programs. In 1954, he succeeded Louis Dunn as Director.
During his 22 years as director, JPL also developed the first U.S. satellite (Explorer I); the first successful U.S. circumlunar space probe (Pioneer IV); sent Mariner spacecraft to Venus, Mars, and Mercury and Ranger photographic missions to the moon; landed Surveyor on the Moon and Viking on Mars; and began designing and building the Voyager spacecraft for a Grand Tour of the solar system."
Here in Auckland we have a technology park where the streets are named after Pickering and American Astronauts.
If you enter these coordinates into Google maps -36.751243243661676, 174.7031709059337
You can see how many names you can find
the operation plumbbob thing is real it's not a troll.
Basically the military wanted to see what happened if a nuclear weapon was detonated underground, so they did exactly that.
in operation plumbbob, they dug a deep hole underground and added a manhole cover on top, when they detonated the bomb, the manhole cover was shot into space by the explosion, that's basically it.
WhoooooDeeeeyyyyy!!!! I live in Cincinnati and I'm loving that Joe Burrow shirt!!! Don't ever change teams! I wanna send you all a Cincinnati themed box!
Operation plumbob was an underground nuclear test that allegedly accidently sent a manhole cover into space.
Craig Breedlove, one of the pioneers of setting speed records at Bonneville Salt Flats, just past away a few weeks ago
that "manhole cover" broke me... i mean jesus xD
Watching the Wright Bros plane fly is, perhaps, one of the most awe inspiring events in human history. One of the 'check list items' that they had to perform (in order to qualify as 'true flight' was to TURN. The actual Wright Bros plane is on display in the Smithsonian in Washington DC. It is restored but original. They have a demonstration that shows how they achieved a turn.... by bending the wings! I'd never thought of that (I'm not a aeronautical engineer or anything close) but watching the wings flex was amazing!! The Wright Brothers were so far ahead of their time!
NZ family, I really enjoyed your video about the biggest amusement parks in North America. Six Flags also owns a large amusement park in the Bay Area called Six Flags Great America. It's largest amusement park in Nothern California. It's right across the street from Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, where the San Francisco Forty Niners play. The most underrated amusement park to me is the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. It has the Big Dipper, which is the second oldest wooden roller coaster in the US. It's really classic looking and has been featured in movies! From the top of the roller coaster you can see all of Monterey Bay!
Thunder over Louisville is tonight and it is the biggest firework show in North America. It is the kickoff for Derby in KY. They also have an air show before the fireworks. This year they are having 300 drones and numerous airplanes, some during the day and some lit up at night. It really is amazing. Maybe you could show biggest firework shows in America. That would be so fun
Hello from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The manhole cover was a real thing. It was accidental. They performed an underground nuclear test by drilling a borehole in the Earth and capped it with the manhole cover. The detonation was 50,000 times what was expected. A fire jet shot up the tunnel and blew off the cover with incredible force. They said it did travel at the listed speed for a few seconds before compression heating caused it to vaporize in the atmosphere.
Operation Plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests that were conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site.
In 1956, Dr Robert Brownlee, from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, was asked to examine whether nuclear detonations could be conducted underground. The first subterranean test was the nuclear device known as Pascal A. During the Pascal-B nuclear test, of August 1957, a 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) steel plate cap (a piece of armor plate) was welded over the borehole to contain the nuclear blast even though Brownlee predicted it would not work. When Pascal-B was detonated, the blast went straight up the test shaft, launching the cap into the atmosphere at a speed of more than 66 km/s (41 mi/s; 240,000 km/h; 150,000 mph). The plate was never found. Scientists believe compression heating caused the cap to vaporize as it sped through the atmosphere.
Hello from Michigan
The second helicopter Sikorsky there about 45 minutes from where I live. When ever I have to go down to the coast for work I always go over the Sikorsky bridge.
Definitely watch some of the land speed record attempts on the salt flats … dudes have crashed over 200mph … nearly as insane as the Isle of Man TT
Most interesting. Thanks for sharing with us! 😊
This was a fun video! The creator did a great job! So cool!
When I was a kid all the rage was the Blue Flame which was a rocket car they blasted across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. It had set a land speed record of 630mph. They had toys and everything out of it.
If you like the Black Bird, check out Brian Shul. He has a story from the perspective as an SR 71 pilot. It's called the LA speed check. Love to see you react to it.
You need to plan on visiting the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center when you come to America. This museum displays thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including the Space Shuttle Discovery, a Blackbird SR-71, and a Concorde, in two large hangars.
That was quite interesting! We’ve sure come a long way throughout history, huh? The SR71 is still my favorite plane, though I had no idea so many things are even faster than it is. Sure hope none of those plumbbob manhole covers ever come back down to Earth! Makes me think of some Wylie Coyote cartoons!
Yes, SR71 is my fav also. Last couple months of my Air Force enlistment, 1972, as a 3 striper, stationed at Hill AFB,Utah. I was lucky enough to accidentally see it face to face in a hanger, until security saw me! Oops!
Won’t forget that either 😊🇺🇸
@@alanw9677 thank you for serving! 😊
@@alanw9677 In 1972 it was still highly top secret. I lived in Palmdale California at the time and every time it flew they blocked the roads around USAF Plant 42(where they did mods and maintenance) for a mile to the East and West ends of the runway, the east/west roadways to either side of the plant where you couldn't see the runway anyway, and all the side roads running into the east/west roads. Later, as an adult, a good portion of my work(construction) was on that plant. Including the Lockheed hanger where they worked on the SR-71 and the U-2. Over 30 years living in the area and working at Plant 42, I've spent many hours next to and above the aircraft, at times when the had the skin off to service the fuel areas, with the mechanics hollering at me I'd better not F.O.D their aircraft, though not really that politely ROFL. I've also had the great privilege of watching it fly no less than 200 times. It was especially spectacular in the desert twilight, just before dark, and early in the morning as the sun was rising. Between working at Plant 42, Edward's AFB/NASA/DRYDEN/JPL and China Lake NWS, I saw so much more, but it would take about 14 paragraphs for it all. Probably 30-40 maiden flights of B1 Bombers, 5 space shuttle landings including the first 3(took my 90 year old grandmother to the first), and the roll out and maiden flight of the B2 Bomber. I honestly feel blessed to have seen what I have, especially the SR-71 more times I should think than any man has a right.
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Early 80's I used to watch them taxi by our hangar on Okinawa. If anybody was out with a camera, the AF police would run up and take it from them and dump the film. But you could go out in town and buy very clear and detailed posters of it at almost any shop.
I would suggest that you watch Jeanne Robertson. She is a humorist and her stories usually include her husband she calls Left Brain. The kids will enjoy her stories as much as the adults. Clean comedy and pretty much all true stories.
An object orbiting a planet is constantly falling, but its forward speed prevents it from falling into the atmosphere.
The manhole cover was actually true. It was blown into the atmosphere during an nuclear explosion
I like watching you all open packages!
It is amazing how fast the space probes go.
And then you realize just how massive space is, and once again realize that comparatively, the probes are crawling along at a snail's pace.
Very fun and interesting. And informative of course.
Been watching yall for a while. love the channel, been trying to come up with a cool package that everyone will like. keep up the good work and have fun when yall visit. America is a great place, but use ya head. lookin forward to yalls visit and the vids that come from it
You guys should come here, Lake Havasu city Arizona. We will put you up for two days! Love the family content!
Everytime I see another video from you folks i get excited. Yes I have no life lol. Love you guys.
1:33 Top end speeds by pro cyclists on sprint are 60-mid 70 kmh.
2:03 It's a jet-powered wooden speedboat.
2:17 Bullet trains only realistically go up to 320kmh, a Bullet MAGLEV only operates to 500kph.
4:15 It's to be expected just to get into space, then generate enough speed to generate a gravitational pull to keep up with the planets and natural satellites.
Austrailian and New Zealand men seem to have huge arms. It's like "Git oooff me kangaroo mate oooh Iay'l hit ya with me foreaaaam's
Cool stuff! Thanks from Montana!
It’s been fun seeing you all react to the USA
Very cool. I went and looked up several of these objects.
Project Apollo, back when I was a kid we all wanted to be like Neil Armstrong. The Saturn V Rocket is the greatest machine ever built, the shock wave could be felt over three miles away.
In the 80's we refurbished a test site at China Lake NWS to try and prevent the concrete from spalling under the heat. It was a $3 million dollar failure, all our work vaporized after about 30 seconds, and even though we were over a mile away for safety, it was fantastic to watch. And YES, to feel as well. Even at that distance it was SOOOOO loud.
The first thing I thought of after reading the title was the nuclear manhole cover. I'm so glad it's here!
Great video, Go Bengals😊
Checkout Shockwave jet powered semi truck once. Unfortunately it crashed from blown tire at Kalamazoo Michigan Air Show this past 4th of July. Got to see one at a drag strip once.
Also, the driver was killed in the crash at the air show.
Operation plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests conducted by the US military where a manhole cover went missing. Some people think it was launched into space and it is at that time one of the fastest items.
operation Plumbob was a underground nuke test. the nuke was placed n a hole, the hole was partially plugged with concrete and a 2,000 lb. (907 kg) metal cover was welded on top (technically it was a piece of armored plate steel not a traditional manhole). The heat of the nuke vaporized the concrete and the cover was basically sitting at the muzzle of a giant nuclear powered gun. A highspeed camera caught one frame of the cover. The minimum speed of the manhole cover was then calculated at 150,000mph+. Due to the speed it was traveling at it could have been launched into space but computer simulations indicate that the compression heating of the air above the cap most likely vaporized it in the atmosphere.
The Lockheed SR-71, The Blackbird A.K.A. the aircraft vehicle used by none other then MARVEL COMICS THE X-MEN, bub!
Love to see you guys watch video of evolution of food
Hello, everyone from Virginia ..
You guys should do a reaction to all of the recent UFO footage and the 60 Minutes story about Captain David Fravor and the flying tic-tac that he tried to chase and it apparently went hypersonic on him and traveled 60 miles in a matter of seconds. Not only would it make for a really entertaining video, but I think it would generate a massive amount of views and adsense for you guys too!
You should look up the manhole cover. Its a real thing and pretty interesting.
Yes! They did the man hole cover, and it wasn’t just a ‘manhole’ cover, it was during the nuclear test age, so they got this old mine, put a juke at the bottom of it, and filled it with a mile of water on top of the nuke. There was a big concrete foundation/ring covering the opening, and that 10 foot diameter or so steel plate was bolt down, 🦭 g the shaft, well, they set off the nuke, the water turned to steam instantly, and expanded as super heated steam does, especially when powered buy a nuclear explosion…the force blew off the cover, and sent into space, they very quickly lost tracking data on it. That is to this day, the most powerful kinetic projectile we have ever made, and it was on accident. Haha
Love the joe burrow shirt
Same here!! I wanna get them to a game this season.
Enjoyed!
Y’all should look up the Ford Raptor versus parachutist .
Very Fantastic video. I'm from Lexington kentucky but living in Pikeville kentucky
Manhood cover is real 😂 it’s one of the funniest stories ever😂
Sikorsky is a helicopter manufacturer in Connecticut. It’s two states away from me.
😂 Have you ever done a reaction to any Australian stuff? You might get a whole lot more subs. Nothing wrong with a bit of fun banter between the Aussies and Kiwis 🤣
You should look into the operation plumbob manhole cover. Its a supper interesting piece of history
I'm not sure but i think my puppies energy puts most of those to shame, lol. Thanks NZ Family
If you have a technically inquiring mind, then this video was interesting, not boring.
Since Atlanta likes to cook she should look up episodes of Julia Child and Justin Wilson. Justin was from Louisiana so his accent might be hard to understand at times but he also tells stories while he cooks.
I know people have said it already but I can also attest, plumbob manhole cover is real. I love that sometimes humanity can achieve such absolutely ridiculous things. There is a real world possibility, however astronomical the chance it's there in the world we live in, that a manhole cover could start an interplanetary war is hilarious
Check out some of the size comparison videos from Metal Ball Studios
I guess we like making things “fast.” No pun intended 😂❤
What a great video u guys done
Apollo 10 had humans on it and it did go to the moon (one you thought it wasn’t manned it sounded like) but did not land on the moon. It and Apollo 13 hold the record for fastest humans have ever traveled although the upcoming new American moon return missions Artemis will most likely break the record since the those missions will travel deeper into space past the moon further than Apollo 10 and 13 did. That’s why the Artemis 1 unmanned mission was so focused on the spacecrafts heat shield as no machine ever designed for humans had ever experienced that kind of speed and heat. It was the unmanned mission top priority in fact. No worries tho the heat shield worked great so it’s ready to carry humans on Artemis 2 in a year or so to go back to the moon. Fyi Apollo 10 did not land on the moon it was the final test mission in preparation for landing on the moon that was later achieved by Apollo 11. The Apollo 10 LEM (the moon lander) went down a bit did some test runs but then returned to the command module without landing on the moon. Several thousand feet short. The rumor is NASA purposely under fueled the Lunar lander (lem/lm) so the astronauts who were military pilots and test pilots before being astronauts didn't get a crazy idea and decide to break the mission rules and land on the moon to be the first haha
I continue to follow both Voyager spacecraft on their journeys through interstellar space. Launched in 1977 they are still going strong.
As of 2023, the Voyagers are still in operation past the outer boundary of the heliosphere in interstellar space. They collect and transmit useful data to Earth.
Saw that v1 is about 300 years from the ort cloud. Then 30,000 years to cross it at current speed.
That was awesome ♥️🙂
I was surprised that lasers and even CERN wasn't on their list.
I seen the StarDust Satellite and it made me remember ..When they were designing it they had a pole and 1.000.000 names were inscribed on the satellite . My name was on it . I think it was last year they crashed it into a asteroid near earth and ... Now my name is forever in space ..
If you haven’t seen the videos on the voyager 1 and 2 you should give it a watch.
Love the Joe Burrow shirt!
In answer to your question about the helicopter with the name Sikorsky, Igor Sikorsky was a Russian American (1889-1972) who invented the helicopter. Also, although I don't remember, nor know, the details about the rocket sled, but I believe it was on the Bonneville Salt Flats that it set the land speed record decades ago.
This was a really cool, interesting video, and I agree that the graphics were amazing.
In closing, piggybacking on the comment below from geoffreysmommy, in addition to the Air Force Museum, if you get anywhere near Orlando, go over to Cape Canaveral, and take the tour of their museum.
That wouldn't be correct, the rocket sled location that is. The Bonneville Salt Flats are used for a lot of speed record setting in the USA, but there isn't a rail for it. That'd be something that New Mexico has. I'm pretty sure it's that one or similar to the one they had on Mythbusters, but just to clarify, the rocket sled definitely was not out at the Salt Flats. The fastest motorcycle, possibly, but not the rocket sled. Those, again, take an absurdly long rail system because they're trying to get all the power of the rockets to go towards one vector rather than have it fly around where ever. I only know this because I'm a local near the Bonneville Salt Flats, and it would not be practical by any means to have a rocket sled track out on the flats. Having one out on the open, flat desert or badlands would work, but the amount of corrosion the salt would cause and how big of an obstacle a rocket sled rail would be for other land speed trials would be disastrous.
@@steeljawX , oops! I guess I dropped the ball. Thanks for setting us straight.
You kiwi's have a local boy who held a speed record for many years. Burt Munro ran a motorcycle over 200 mph on Bonneville.
Aussies love you too Sam even after the Australia joke
Interesting, thank you😁
The plumbob manhole cover is a real thing
Fastest Man-Made object, Sr-71 Blackbird. 3.4 Mach airplane
Usain bolt is also man made
The family needs to watch the movie The Fastest Indian!
The manhole cover was put on top of an underground nuclear bomb in the 1950s. It got propelled into space. And it's still going because space has no atmosphere to slow it down. (supposedly)
That's a great channel. Check out out some of their other videos
Great video you guys should really react to the rocket sled video
You guys should do a reaction video on “How to land a space shuttle.” By Bret. You guys would enjoy it.