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  • Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024

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  • @StarTalk
    @StarTalk  2 года назад +12

    What's your favorite satellite-induced technology?

    • @TheRealSkeletor
      @TheRealSkeletor 2 года назад +3

      GPS, probably.

    • @marcosmedina1113
      @marcosmedina1113 2 года назад

      GPS, then communication.

    • @frogz
      @frogz 2 года назад +1

      gotta say gps is pretty damn nice, if i had to reinvent it myself without satellites, i would have to geolocate based on the sun and time or some crap, can you imagine a world where you had to set your phone down in a known orientation relative to the sun and wait for it to measure position to give you a reading on gps, it would have large portions of the day there would be no visible sun/moon and you would only be able to have rough triangulation based on how well you can spin your phone to a very specific angle

    • @bored9260
      @bored9260 Год назад +1

      Gps hands down great for caculation of field rotation and precision in location by lat, and long along with seconds and millisecond

    • @xxACIDVIRUSxx
      @xxACIDVIRUSxx Год назад

      Duh! The Black Night Satellite🤦🏻‍♂️😂

  • @sonkamehameha1572
    @sonkamehameha1572 2 года назад +25

    I am here to attest that Chuck is there to catch the parts that the lay person like me needs to understand. Thanks for the hydrozene catch Chuck. I love learning new words everyday. A passion I gained from Neil.

    • @amosbackstrom5366
      @amosbackstrom5366 Год назад +1

      I saw the word "hydrozene" and thought "wait is there an unsaturated form of hydrozine used in rocket propellent?"
      Turns out diimide does exist but isn't used in rocketry.
      I guess you just meant hydrazine..

  • @KotDT
    @KotDT 2 года назад +53

    Never stop doing these please. I love Star Talk!

  • @Thinkingaroundthebox
    @Thinkingaroundthebox 2 года назад +34

    Neil has a point about the NASA budget. It is dismal considering all that NASA has given us. They invented velcro and that is just an example of the small things that they have created that have improved our lives over the few decades that they have existed
    My point is just that we really should fund NASA better

    • @marshallmeinema3138
      @marshallmeinema3138 2 года назад +13

      then there wouldn't be enough money for wars (btw, i agree with you, just being sarcastic)

    • @finesse49
      @finesse49 2 года назад

      George de Mestral, a Swiss engineer, invented Velcro. NASA's involvement is yet another easily checked urban myth.

    • @reasonerenlightened2456
      @reasonerenlightened2456 2 года назад

      Raytheon is the Wealthy

    • @kevchard5214
      @kevchard5214 2 года назад

      Yes but then they couldn't pump billions of dollars into Raytheon and other corrupt military contractor corporations.

    • @StarTalk
      @StarTalk  2 года назад +1

      We definitely should!

  • @jillstruthers
    @jillstruthers Год назад +2

    My 6 kids and I are all stuck home for the holidays thanks to bring sick with Covid. We have been watching Space Talk non-stop. It's so addicting! Neil is a fantastic teacher and Chuck is hilarious and asks the questions we're all thinking. Love you guys!💜

  • @ridwanalam3833
    @ridwanalam3833 2 года назад +13

    Startalk is the best podcast ever, It feels like home

  • @LEDewey_MD
    @LEDewey_MD 2 года назад +23

    What an amazing and informative episode! Great to see all these women in space technology! Kudos to Spacetalk! As usual, over-the-top comedy with Chuck!! :D

  • @Emptyheaded.
    @Emptyheaded. 2 года назад +18

    I want more of Kerri please! She is a delight and just resonated so well with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lord Nice. I love this podcast.

  • @TheGiggleMasterP
    @TheGiggleMasterP 2 года назад +31

    I get so excited whenever I see a new video posted! Please always keep enlightening us, Neil and Chuck!

  • @SilentRacer911
    @SilentRacer911 2 года назад +11

    Another great episode everyone, thanks Neil, Lord Chuck, and the two wonderful guests, Sandy and Kerri

  • @mallori6610
    @mallori6610 2 года назад +2

    Only you guys can keep me interested in an hour long discussion of satellites! I really love this channel!! I love Star talk

  • @FirebirdPrince
    @FirebirdPrince 2 года назад +2

    Glad Chuck is here to sort of pause the convo and make them explain a couple things cause it helps us less space,y folks follow the convo more closely 😂

  • @jellyfiredragon
    @jellyfiredragon 2 года назад +4

    The first half felt like such a boring corporate self-congratulating marketing spiel.

    • @MissMikah420
      @MissMikah420 4 месяца назад

      This comment felt like it came from someone mentally challenged

  • @mosab643
    @mosab643 2 года назад +2

    When you hear of Raytheon you actually think of arms industry, government lobbying and war.

  • @mkevilempire
    @mkevilempire 2 года назад +4

    So... when it's a big player in defense industry you don't have to indicate a sponsored video? 😏

  • @GlenHunt
    @GlenHunt 2 года назад +19

    I'm just about to start watching, but I'll bet everything I own that Chuck is going to have too much fun with this one. I have to wonder what the "Nice space laser" would look like and be capable of.

    • @Unkl_Bob
      @Unkl_Bob 2 года назад

      I'll take that bet.

    • @StarTalk
      @StarTalk  2 года назад

      Don't let Chuck get a hold of the space lasers...

  • @ndowroccus4168
    @ndowroccus4168 2 года назад +4

    This was awesome!
    The guests were brilliant!
    Another home run for startalk!

  • @brandonjamar
    @brandonjamar 2 года назад +3

    I hate that I am only just now getting into Star Talk, but I am so happy it exists.

  • @michaelccopelandsr7120
    @michaelccopelandsr7120 2 года назад +4

    Neil and Chuck for 2024

  • @rotaxsryx7038
    @rotaxsryx7038 2 года назад +4

    Lord Nice…a true comedian😂

  • @Derfboy
    @Derfboy 2 года назад +3

    Why are we watching a corporate VP? They're the "Mile Wide; Inch Deep" people. ...and then at 19:00 I saw the Raytheon ad. I'm going to be sick... Did this show just sellout to a corporation? ...I don't know what to say. I'm actually brokenhearted.

    • @usern4metak3ns
      @usern4metak3ns 2 года назад

      Sellout or choosing to live? The answer is yes.

  • @rogerdudra178
    @rogerdudra178 2 года назад +1

    Greetings from the BIG SKY. As a programmer I really support Raytheon being able to use code they'd already written. I was always taught to never re-invent the wheel.

  • @Bysisa
    @Bysisa 2 года назад +2

    I'm always excited to watch star talk new episode. Thanks Neil.

  • @jeanine219
    @jeanine219 Год назад +1

    I love you guys...your brilliance, knowledge, humor, and willingness to share this with all of us.

  • @legendzero6755
    @legendzero6755 2 года назад +2

    Having a defense industry ad feels a bit bad...but I get there are bills to pay and some of these companies have a lot of influence in space. Wish their attitude on satellites wasn't "N + 1"

  • @scy1038
    @scy1038 2 года назад +1

    This was such an interesting episode! Both of these guests were great at describing their work in a language that those of us who don't do this for a living (sending things into orbit around earth, I mean). Also, great representation of women in stem! Love to see it!

  • @RussShirley1
    @RussShirley1 2 года назад +2

    Gotta say, you guys make this stuff look good, one of my fave RUclips shows!

  • @rjones-23
    @rjones-23 Год назад +1

    @Startalk can you explain Why your thumbnail shows the laser being over East Africa?

  • @Mehwhatevr
    @Mehwhatevr 2 года назад +4

    Haha. That’s every episode we do. Sassy Chuck

  • @aquachunk4207
    @aquachunk4207 2 года назад +3

    I'm early, by far one of the best episodes of startalk

  • @joebushnell143
    @joebushnell143 2 года назад +1

    Great interview! Please bring Dr. Carie back...

  • @rotaxsryx7038
    @rotaxsryx7038 2 года назад +2

    Nice video Neil, very informative. Keep it up!

  • @ashoksafaya5397
    @ashoksafaya5397 2 года назад +1

    Would like to know more about laser communication in any future talk.

  • @Zeuskabob1
    @Zeuskabob1 2 года назад +1

    One very exciting development currently in progress that's relevant to this video, particularly with LEO to MEO satellites and space junk is electrodynamic tethers. The capability to attach satellites to each other (without pre-existing docking adapters) and potentially to accelerate or decelerate these satellites through space just using Earth's magnetic field could be a game changer.
    From what I understand the problem is far from well understood. Similar to ion engines, electrodynamic tethers have a few major challenges to solve theoretically and practically before they make it to space, but I'm hopeful for the technology. From my napkin math, a year's operation of one of these tethers could produce delta-v several orders of magnitude higher than a chemical rocket, and even an order of magnitude greater than an electric propulsion like a hall-effect thruster. If lifetimes can be longer than a year, they could become a workhorse for pulling satellites from LEO up to MEO, effectively saving tons of delta-v for an average payload.

  • @420acid5
    @420acid5 2 года назад +5

    Love this!!

  • @PunkWyrks
    @PunkWyrks 2 года назад

    I appreciate how much Neil and Chuck appreciate their guests.

  • @koreyhelms6857
    @koreyhelms6857 2 года назад +2

    As usual excellent show

  • @AkshayKumarX
    @AkshayKumarX Год назад +1

    42:00 Love you Chuck

  • @dancooper8551
    @dancooper8551 2 года назад +1

    Excellent discussions!

  • @abhishekpandey3244
    @abhishekpandey3244 2 года назад +1

    Chuck became Bill Burr towards the end, hilarious 🤣🤣

  • @ericjohnson6665
    @ericjohnson6665 2 года назад +3

    Yeah, Ratheon is also a major defense contractor, so what they're doing with satellites is no doubt more than she'll admit here.

    • @enadegheeghaghe6369
      @enadegheeghaghe6369 2 года назад

      You expected her to disclose classified information? LOL

  • @morlin101
    @morlin101 2 года назад +2

    Nice to meet u

  • @TheFlowshizle
    @TheFlowshizle 2 года назад

    Sir I have travelled from Calgary Alberta here to New York. Today I went the American Museum of natural history. Amazing yes, but would have been more Amazing to Shake hands with the man has inspired so many people. I’m here for 3 more days. 🍻

  • @trippplefive
    @trippplefive 2 года назад +6

    hey as long as Raytheon is making google maps more accurate with better traffic information, and one of the heads of the company is a woman, we can ignore the laser guided missiles they're selling to the Saudis.

    • @prophet2nations
      @prophet2nations 2 года назад +2

      Yeah while this episode and work is great, it’s a shame that this kind of exposure also whitewashes what Raytheon has done

    • @usern4metak3ns
      @usern4metak3ns 2 года назад

      Nah I don't trust a chick to not find a way to push space laser button, probably on an ex bf she still is obsessed with...

  • @Sammasambuddha
    @Sammasambuddha Год назад

    Once a year, I comment here with this:
    As there is required reading in schools, Startalk should be required viewing.
    Bliss

  • @shirleenrodriguez3355
    @shirleenrodriguez3355 2 года назад +4

    I've heard the term the universe is like fabric it when it folds in on itself but isn't it more like water when it does the rippling effect?

    • @michaelccopelandsr7120
      @michaelccopelandsr7120 2 года назад +2

      Yes! Space Time is fluid! Don't get me started.

    • @Denosophem
      @Denosophem 2 года назад +1

      Give me a phone call and a job I’m worth we are dieing and it’s like we’re not consious at all about the literal global threat

  • @pikeyMcBarkin
    @pikeyMcBarkin 2 года назад

    Sandy (sp?) was great this interview.

  • @morlin101
    @morlin101 Год назад

    How is it that I can tune in to an episode that I started the day it came out and it and then come back to it when I need a relevant piece of information anyway that's not important I hear you miss lady and thank you at first I thought you were kind of being a bully but I see that you are actually answering a lot of questions that I desperately needed answered thank you ✌️✌️✌️✌️ I would love to have a conversation with you I love the way you speak and carry yourself in this podcast

  • @fullonsharp
    @fullonsharp 2 года назад +1

    Neil, question for you.
    Never understood this.
    Big bang, then huge expansion, along the way universe cooled down. Everybody says this.
    But nobody tells, where did the heat go? Conduction, convection.... Who or what took the heat in empty space ?
    Thanks you.

  • @victorrutledge257
    @victorrutledge257 2 года назад +1

    Impulse Engines? Ion Rockets? Using accelerated ions for propulsion is something I've always wondered about. Maybe copper ions since they react so well to magnetic fields.

  • @aero.spades
    @aero.spades 2 года назад +1

    Great episode!

  • @NebulousMind
    @NebulousMind 2 года назад

    I like this series, and I like listening to Neil talk about space science, but.... I do wish he'd dial back the condescension and interrupting the guests. It gets a little hard to watch sometimes.

  • @ubserrano8180
    @ubserrano8180 2 года назад

    This show never disappoints. Very interesting guests and topics.

  • @0MissElizabeth0
    @0MissElizabeth0 2 года назад

    I adore the penguin picture in Chucks background

  • @_TheDeanMachine
    @_TheDeanMachine Год назад

    I'd love to learn more about systems engineering.

  • @stevenshumate3430
    @stevenshumate3430 2 года назад +6

    *Raytheon*,one of the world leading arms dealers supplying America in k:!!:ng brown people on their own lands. And k:!!:ng has been *REAL* profitable!

  • @poupous5454
    @poupous5454 2 года назад +5

    OH! are we talkin about Marjory Green Taylor' conspiracy about Jew space sattelite lazerz!?!? Yiikes!... do tell us how they start fires in the california wild greeneries! Lol 😆

    • @usern4metak3ns
      @usern4metak3ns 2 года назад

      Ty for mentioning this possible conspiracy. While most might consider it simple bigotry, the banks and funding involved around this technology is accurate.

  • @parthadebbarma9143
    @parthadebbarma9143 2 года назад

    Always waiting for next episode 🙏🏼

  • @JohnPaul-yf9xd
    @JohnPaul-yf9xd 2 года назад

    Neil, are You and Chuck Life partners? You guys make a beautiful couple.From the heart.

  • @lukeh321
    @lukeh321 Год назад

    Very impressive guest, thanks!

  • @aclasscali
    @aclasscali 9 месяцев назад

    Iron dome missile system from Raytheon is amazing.

  • @SpaceFrogFromOuterSpace
    @SpaceFrogFromOuterSpace 2 года назад +1

    Chuck is fire, "I don't see a crab!" LOL

  • @kenadams5504
    @kenadams5504 2 года назад +2

    I remember commodore 64 and Atari (space invaders ). And Spielberg's "close encounters of the third kind" .

    • @IIISentorIII
      @IIISentorIII Год назад +1

      Indiana Jones and that game where you can to fly a taxi trough a 2D mace, every time you did press a button it would fly up and slowly decent if you didn't. And the first Sim City or The settlers, and Star Wars game. I think i did play those games with like 5fps but loves every second of it :D

  • @harshavardhannaik2499
    @harshavardhannaik2499 2 года назад

    Hello Dr. Tyson, Hey hey hey Chuck, nice to see you Gary. This is Harshavardhan from India, i will make it easier for you Chuck you can call me Harsh. Dr. Tyson, I couldn't get an answer with my thinking hat on, please help me understand what is the minimum amount of gases that is required to become a stable sphere of gases in space like our gases giant. If we could measure the distance of that sphere from one end to the other end how much would it be?

  • @spidersj12
    @spidersj12 2 года назад +1

    I still have my commodore 64, data cassette and 1541 disk drives in a box somewhere. Programming sprite graphics was fun back then.

  • @jobieisaac5058
    @jobieisaac5058 Год назад

    My dad was hired for Raytheon to work in alert Nunavut the most north base/settlement 3 degrees farther north than Svalbard

  • @Jamalmakesapps
    @Jamalmakesapps 2 года назад

    Best show ever …. All episodes

  • @Zabe-k2w
    @Zabe-k2w 2 года назад

    Where can I get a print if the black heart behind Chuck? Love it

  • @fuckthisbs
    @fuckthisbs 2 года назад +1

    How many lives lost to the "war on terror" does it cost to make Raytheon a billion dollars? Just wondering 🤔

  • @serenityx-manhikes5644
    @serenityx-manhikes5644 3 месяца назад

    Thinking to myself:
    Guests would have a whole lot more time to contribute and be the actual guest, and a ton more questions would get answered during cosmic queries;
    if Chuck didn't spend so much time trying to be funny, and if NDT didn't always have to go out of his way to prove how smart he is.
    I said what I said.

  • @jollyvoqar195
    @jollyvoqar195 2 года назад

    excellent episode, thanks!

  • @tylervogt4554
    @tylervogt4554 2 года назад

    I can't believe that no one mentioned the fact that STAR Lab is part of the DC Universe! Kerri works with Superman, Batman and The Flash!

  • @bluntforcetanya
    @bluntforcetanya 2 года назад

    "I like satellites of any size" got me secondhand geeking for her

  • @doug29661
    @doug29661 2 года назад +1

    Thanks!

  • @john_blues
    @john_blues Месяц назад

    She had me at Commodore 64. ❤

  • @ApoenaBeckerBR
    @ApoenaBeckerBR Год назад +1

    I wonder what is the Patreon level you have to buy to get half of the show as an advertisement disguised as a real interview...

  • @kirandeepchakraborty7921
    @kirandeepchakraborty7921 2 года назад

    Lovely Conversation

  • @ivanhorvat4635
    @ivanhorvat4635 2 года назад

    WOW 🤗 I used to work in TORONTO for an Aerospace Subcontractor ( MAGNA ELECTRONICS ) manufacturing F16 , wait , F15 and CF15 fighter radar jamming (device) chassis ! WOULD I EVER LOVE TO A PART OF THIS DISCUSSION !!!🖐😳😃😊

  • @jobieisaac5058
    @jobieisaac5058 Год назад

    No one’s gonna talk about the fact that they both said oh my gosh at the exact same time

  • @fxthe1st
    @fxthe1st Год назад

    Does startalk talk about things not on mainstream

  • @gwolf7716
    @gwolf7716 2 года назад +1

    Dr. NDT;) I think I’ve got a conundrum or a paradox on my hands here or more likely a lack of understanding of time dilation at full speed….
    Consider two scientists standing on Earth, one with a good telescope capable of viewing Neptune some five light-hours away and the other climbing into a spaceship capable of very very near light speed travel. Both synchronize their watches and aim the ship where Neptune will be upon intercept. The spaceship is programmed to stop ‘relatively quickly’ in five hours and transmit pics of Neptune then return immediately. Would the round trip for each explorer still take ten hours? I would assume time dilation would slow time for the space traveler but the paradox I see is that the observer of the ship traveling to Neptune and back is fixed at exactly ten hours but the space traveler if truly traveling very near the speed of light would also experience that same ten hours to make the ten light-hour trip. Their watches should still be synchronized it would seem or does the distance have to be on the light year scale to be significant? If so, I’m lost because the distance considered is the same for both people and the speed of light is the same for both people. Please help me understand. Thanks and great show by the way.

    • @gwolf7716
      @gwolf7716 2 года назад

      A part of my confusion is the old saying that if a traveler headed out at light speed for a year then returned would return to a new much older world. The observer would have to assume the spaceship isn’t operating at the speed of light.

    • @jokerdiamondz8981
      @jokerdiamondz8981 2 года назад

      Join their Patreon or watch the light-year movie lol

    • @gwolf7716
      @gwolf7716 2 года назад

      @@jokerdiamondz8981 so you don’t understand either.

    • @jokerdiamondz8981
      @jokerdiamondz8981 2 года назад

      @@gwolf7716 I get it as much as is relevant to my life but I'm not a rocket surgeon.. on the way there the person on earth would probably see the trip taking the 10 hours.. the astronaut would probably be close to not aging most of those 10 hours due to the time dilation where it's a matter of aging a couple seconds per hour (depending on how close to light speed they were traveling) of the near light speed part of the trip also in this case the pictures data could arrive before the astronaut if they were sent at light speed
      If the astronaut traveled at light speed they would only age for the duration of the trip that the speed was less than the speed of light. The observer would age the 10 hours that the trip took
      I'm not saying this is the absolute answer it's also likely I didn't read the question carefully or calculate any of my math

    • @gwolf7716
      @gwolf7716 2 года назад

      @@jokerdiamondz8981 thanks for the response but what about a light year option? Both can visualize a destination one light year out. A year at light speed takes a year then back another year. The guy observing from Earth witnessed this voyage and welcomes the voyager back in two years.

  • @celesteschacht8996
    @celesteschacht8996 2 года назад

    Thanks both you guys, this is amazing💞

  • @davidnemirow5476
    @davidnemirow5476 2 года назад

    With MIT being an FFRDC, what is the competition vs collaboration percentage mix with industry?

  • @harleylady361
    @harleylady361 2 года назад

    👈🏻👈🏻Can you tell me what kinds are theses please Ty😊

  • @georgeleos8219
    @georgeleos8219 2 года назад

    7:05. “Broadband!!” Sonar baby!!!

  • @jeremyswalley8625
    @jeremyswalley8625 2 года назад

    One thing in Sci fi movies they forget to show when they have a space view of Earth is the orbiting space junk !!

  • @deenulazarus5454
    @deenulazarus5454 Год назад

    If there is a sci-fi script... This video is the intro scene...

  • @ndowroccus4168
    @ndowroccus4168 2 года назад

    Even a Comodore64 shoutout!
    Yes!!

  • @leeds85
    @leeds85 2 года назад

    Eva Mendes to play Sandy Brown.

  • @williamhardes8081
    @williamhardes8081 9 месяцев назад

    something needs to be done about expired ones that are already out there. could you use an unmanned craft like a space tug to give them a little nudge in the right part of their orbit to throw them at the sun or at the moon as a collection of recyclable material? make all the owners contribute toward the costs.

  • @rolando2395
    @rolando2395 2 года назад +1

    28:00
    Neil: it's crusty in the outside and soft and warm on the inside
    Her: are we still talking about satellites here?
    Neil: 🥴

  • @jofrazier-hansen4097
    @jofrazier-hansen4097 5 месяцев назад

    Can you imagine aliens flying by and saying ,"Don't stop there. It's a bad neighborhood they're the trailer trash of this system."

  • @s0steezy
    @s0steezy 2 года назад +1

    Sandy Brown is the sheet

  • @dirkl9652
    @dirkl9652 2 года назад +1

    Seems Neil upgraded to HD

  • @nathan4599
    @nathan4599 2 года назад

    Chucks great

  • @davidt3956
    @davidt3956 2 года назад

    That first segment was a pure ad, but it was still ok.

  • @darwinlaluna3677
    @darwinlaluna3677 Год назад

    Ok have a great nyt my friends

  • @bobbyddupuy
    @bobbyddupuy Год назад

    "...but can you protect yourself against an asteroid? I bet you can't!"
    That's right, Neil! Justified pettiness!!

  • @tudorpodea5027
    @tudorpodea5027 2 года назад

    If it's 20,000$ per pound for LEO, it's more than 40,000$ per kg, not 10k.

  • @mananoreboton
    @mananoreboton 2 года назад

    Oh yeeees!!! Chuck is here✨