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I work in the space industry and i look forward to the inevitable inaccuracies in this video. Edit: actually going pretty well so far. Edit2: pretty good, theres some lacking connective context like that starlink sats are the majority of satellites at this point so statistically they would have the most reporting of any kind of incident by extension. Also the idea of starlink is to fund projects to the rest of the solar system but yeah. Well done Mr. Things
I don't really know when it happened, but at some point there was a serious shift. It used to be that CZcams was a starting point and essay/info/documentary creators on here aspired to land a role on a TV show or even their own TV show - TV had the higher budgets and seemed better quality - but over the last few years that has completely flipped and the output of a lot of creators far outpaces the quality of TV/streaming shows, and their talent would be wasted by network restrictions even if they could have slightly bigger budgets. Videos like this really cement that.
I would personally not recommend Ordinary things as a source about spaceflight. I like his other vids fine enough, but Scott Manley, Everyday Astronaut, and other channels are a much better source. Ordinary just gets a lot of things wrong here.
@@WasatchWindabsolutely right. Much of the information here is surface level at best and disingenuous at worst. It draws parallels between events with nothing to do with each other. I'd say it almost intentionally paints a bleaker picture of space than what's actually going on. His mentioning if NASAs budget as having a "lot of zeroes" the implication being that it's huge, and the comment about governments outsourcing communications to the private sector to avoid bad PR of launch failures are completely wrong abd show a complete lack of understanding of the sector.
@@subnet001 My biggest problem when someone in the general public brings up Kessler syndrome, beyond presenting the issue in a fear mongering way, is that they often do not present the fact that things are improving. The majority of companies and governments are adopting policies to deorbit unused satellites, other companies like nanoracks are seeking to repurpose spent rocket stages to make space stations, yet others want to service satellites or capture debris to deorbit it, etc. I am simply greatly concerned that the general public has this bias that NASA should be the only people allowed to do anything in space, which only result in greatly high costs, and far fewer spaceflights. The road to the future will have some bumps, but we should not turn around on that road when we can find mitigations instead.
expected to see a video arguing against the usage of satellites, got a video about the dangers of lacking international standards and satellite megaconstellations from an actually pro-space viewpoint. I must say I'm very pleasantly surprised. Great work on the video👍 Edit: I can't believe I'm doing this but I return to this comment 3 months later and find out I've recieved the coveted "youtube microcelebrity comment heart". That's two pleasant surprised from one video haha
Thanks for the heads up. I almost didn't watch it. I like this guy and want to respect him, a ranting parody against evil capitalists in space would be too excruciating. Note: SpaceX does reach out and share data with China . Spacex has rigid deorbit guidelines and every satellite has deorbit propulsion. Ironically, the most likely way we will clean up space debris is Spacex.. and their starship program is built on the back of Starlinks profitability
Since OT is an absolute villan for playing that absolute banger and not citing it, the name of the song is "Космические войска" which translates to "Space Forces" for those looking to find it. one of the best things ive heard all year
Watching this video led to my least boring flight ever and one of the craziest coincidences ever. Got on the plane and started to watch this video with subtitles on, I can clearly see with the corner of my eye that the guy next to me is watching and nodding in approvement from time to time. I really wasn't in the mood for talking cus I was so exhausted, when my chicken masala arrives I take off my headphones. Well it turns out this guy worked at the European space agency for more than 30 years and for a while was in a department related to space debris. He basically confirmed everything you said and was impressed by the level of details you provided, and most of all, by your sources. Keep it up 👏
Wait you are saying he read the subtitles? He basically invaded your personal space to get close enough to your I assume phone screen to read subtitles? Nah it must have beeb a laptop. I guess I answered my own question. But still that guy does not reflect privacy or boundaries.
@effe3615 Many people, including myself, hate strangers blatantly looking at our devices and would consider it an invasion of privacy. He didn't articulate it too well, but it's an understandable concern. Sounds like it didn't put you in an uncomfortable spot though, so that's good.
Craziest story I have about space junk from someone who works in satellite mission operations: one insturment which is on a boom died and we couldn't figure out why. It turns out that most likely a piece of space dust sliced through a singular wire on the boom and killed the insturment. Also starlink is a big issue they have nearly ran into a couple of our satellites a few times.
Ever heard about rods from god. I think the only way Starlink can be profitable is by army contracts. Don't want to be a conspiracy theorist but idk how it could ever make any money in any other way.
@@papierbak Same goes for SpaceX. Both are running behind their schedules and lose money like crazy. And their window to get profitable gets smaller every day
Makes me think of that photograph of what a piece of space junk the size of a grain of sand can do to a thick aluminum block. There's no 'shielding' against this unless we develop new materials, a space elevator, or a cheaper way to get large, heavy things into orbit.
@@gulagamelee4804 no but actually have you googled rods from god. Its a project of the us government to put giant thungsten rods in space on 1000's of satalites wich they can throw at places on earth and then impact with the force of a nuke. Except instead of needing 12 minutes to get anywhere they can be there in 4.
IIRC Camarov knew the capsule he was going up in was a death trap, but he also knew that if he didn't go, the next man in line would have to go, that man was his friend, Yuri Gegarin.
I’ll add to this: since he knew he was going to die, he specifically asked for his body to be shown to his superiors. That’s the pic being shown at 4:14
Regarding the Buran at 19:30, while the original that flew into space was indeed sadly destroyed, one of its Prototypes from 1984 that was used for multiple Testglides, can be seen at the german Technickmuseum in Speyer. They even have a Walkway set up that allows you to go into the Cargoarea of the Shuttle. It's pretty cool to see something like that in real life instead of only in pictures.
Y2K didn't happen due to a massively successful mitigation program. It is much like people saying the ozone hole or acid rain weren't real problems because we don't see them now: they aren't big problems because we actually solved the problems.
As someone who was there and cashed the overtime, I have been arguing this for over 20 years. No, it was never going to be the apocalypse that the media made out - but it would have been a lousy year or two for millions, and we'd have lost much of the global wealth. . (that the banks lost 8 years later anyway because they simply couldn't help themselves)
Then you get people saying they weren’t real problems or were blown out of proportion because we aren’t dealing with them nowadays. Which is about as believable as saying smallpox wasn’t an issue because it’s not a thing anymore….
There's no guarantee anything of significance would have happened. Unix clocks would just roll back over to the first timestamp at the time. It was more "future-proofing" than it was "solving a problem." And the Ozone hole isn't solved, it's just receding. It wouldn't take much human effort to completely undo that.
the y2k bug was absolutely a thing, it was just solved by 1993 because computer scientists aren't politicians. if fixing that bug had been up to the government, this would be the 8,314th day of 1999.
A bunch of IT consultants saw a chance for a pay day by charging companies loads of money unnecessarily and so are still adamant it would’ve been a problem
These videos are always so well thought-out and researched, and always entertaining. Truly the quality of the videos you make is incredible, this has to be one of my favourite channels on CZcams, absolutely amazing work
Are you mad? He couldn't even be bothered to pronounce Laika properly. This is a clickbait channel masquerading as educational. You're bound to learn more from a 10 minute Google search and likely deal with less subjectivity. Not to mention you won't have to deal with him clearly not knowing how to spell words like nuclear. This man isn't fit to teach anyone anything.
This was an amazing and terrifying video to add to your catalog. Small note I would’ve added but at 10:00 I would’ve mentioned how starfish prime sent out a giant EMP blast neutralizing multiple satellites and wrecking the UK’s first satellite.
When I first got the Skyview Light app, I was amazed at how I could not only see constellations, but also planets and moons. I was also surprised by how much space debris I could artificially see with the app. At the moment it was a nifty little detail the app designers put in, I thought. Now in hindsight, I am filled with a frightening clarity about how big some of that debris is…
I had the same experience. When I got the app years ago it was cool to see the star constellations, galaxies, and planets in the night sky. Now it’s cluttered with man made satellites, and it’s kinda sad in a way.
Any visualization of orbital debris and satellites you've probably seen is vastly, tremendously exaggerating their size (out of necessity). In a view of the Earth, even if each sat is represented by a tiny pixel on your screen, it's orders of magnitude larger than reality (consider that a pixel on the image of the Earth is probably the size of a city, and satellites are more like the size of cars-and orbital shells are so, so much more spacious than the Earth's surface).
Honestly it's not the big debris that are scary it's the tiny ones that are smaller than a pencil eraser. There are potential ways to deal with the and if nothing else we can track them. So far any proposed ideas of what to do about the tiny debris is so far outside our abilities it's basically science fiction and they're very difficult if not often impossible to track.
I've gotta confess this video was a rollercoaster of emotions for me as I was working out whether your right arm was paralysed or you just weren't using it like you were working in TV before widescreen. not to worry, it's all good it's moving again. Love your work
Thank you for referencing Planetes, the space debris event intro for that anime honestly sold me on the whole thing even though it was pretty slow paced. Worth for anybody to check out the first scene in the first two min of the show
There is an anime called Planetes that centers around crew of space junkmen tasked of taking care of space debris, one of the best pieces of hard sci-fi ever produced, very underrated but high quality.
i agree, it hit right in the feel and the spacing is very good. you feel the emotion and the anguish of the character for their future. is it that anime where the guy fly away in a new rocket called (name of scientist) at the end?
@@dagemeliorszczebrzeszynski9307 That clip isn't from Planetes. I don't know why they miss-attributed that, or where they got it not knowing It's actually from Magnetic Rose one of the three short films that made up Memories(1995)
Just to add a bit of clarification. Starlink does have around 2 million active subscribers. Also, the FCC just recently issued the first ever fine for space junk, totaling $150,000 to Dish who per regulation was meant to move their satellite into 186 mile higher orbit than it currently was in, as it was nearing the end of it's life. Dish was only able to make it 76 miles before it ran out fuel, and thus the company was fined.
Fines are useless. Ceo should get prison. Second offence, they get taken the back of the chem shed. Actual consequences, not the performance of paying a small fine, just big enough that the poors can't afford it and think it's anything at all. Go full china. End em
Very cool! Always nice to see Telstar mentioned which not only provided the UK with the first US television signals BUT also provided the UK with it's first number one chart hit in the US with a track called 'Telstar' performed by Tornadoes and recorded by the late Great Joe Meek.
How horrifyingly perfect would it be for that damn manhole cover to be the object that collides with Envisat or the ISS or some other large object and really kicks Kessler's party into high gear?
27:00 (or so) I remember watching a mathematician explain how we process numbers on an intuitive level. Our brains are good at guessing addition and multiplication, but not exponential figures. To calculate it, he emphasised you must write it down and see it. This holds particular importance for the average person when it comes to compound interest in finance.
That makes a lot of sense to me, especially since many uses for exponentials involve low bases, which just throw us off. (e.g. COVID's original R-naught was 3.3. Seems low, but 3.3^20 is over 23 billion.) At least anecdotally, I find it hard to even _estimate_ exponential figures mentally. I just gave myself 30 seconds to estimate 1.8^9 mentally (just 2 random numbers). I thought it was roughly 400, but it's 198. And I'd say I'm definitely above average at mental math - I can usually estimate addition or multiplication to within 5% error in under 30 seconds. But my ability to estimate goes haywire with exponentials, _especially_ with high exponents.
I like how you say "anime about the soviet space race" like there wasn't actually an anime about the Soviet side of the space race a year or two ago... just with a vampire girl under the premise the soviets wanted to test with a closer but not fully human test subject before their human tests
A few minced facts here: -Explorer 1 was the first US orbital satellite, not Vanguard. -The vanguard program was actually very underfunded. At the time, there was a lot of bureaucracy going on between different US space programs, with most of the budget going to the Air Force's ballistic missile program. The Air Force already had much bigger rockets like the Juno, but the exploratory space program didn't have the funding or clearance to use them. Thus they had to build their own tiny launch vehicle (vanguard). There were two initial TV-3 launches, both of which failed spectacularly. After the second TV-3 failure, the government started another launch program called Explorer that had access to Juno missiles and a ton of funding to launch a satellite as fast as possible. Explorer made it to orbit sucessfully before the Vanguard program.
"The first satellite they sent up wasn't that impressive" If I was the first person to shoot something into the sky that didn't come back down again for 3 months I'd think that was a pretty solid result personally.
Just commenting for the algorithm - love your content and making topics that wouldn't normally be of interest to me be thoroughly entertaining. Thanks for what you do!!
That first Ariane 5 launch is a famous software disaster, caused by code being reused inappropriately from the Ariane 4 rocket -- some code that shouldn't even have been running after liftoff couldn't handle the different launch profile of the Ariane 5 and overflowed, crashing and sending an error message instead of valid data, causing another system to think the rocket was going wildly off-course when it wasn't, and its attempt to compensate caused it to break up from aerodynamic forces way beyond its design could handle.
Fun fact: there is actually a soviet space anime, but instead of sending humans to the moon they're trying to send vampires to the moon. It's called Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu
"No incentive to clean it up"... that is until a multi-billion dollar disaster happens. When are corporations going to learn that mitigating risk IS a financial incentive to act 🤦🏼♀️
Great video, I hope companies and countries can start taking responsibility in keeping space safe. I am glad to see companies like Astroscale starting this process.
It’s very funny to see the field you work in be in one of your favourite CZcamsrs vids.(European spacecraft engineering). This is a great video and impressive for an outsider to the industry, just a few notes. 1)The primary issue with satellites is they’re full of bespoke parts and require high grade materials, so come at a hefty price, with 90% of satellites that are washing machine sized or bigger costing 100s of millions or reaching the billions of euros. This means every loss of a satellite is a major cost. The cost of construction of satellites is often far more than cost of launch(70-150million€). 2)due to the cost of large satellites the ‘CubeSat’ was developed. These are standardised micro satellites that are fairly cheap and depending on instrumentation only cost ~€10million+. They also can be launched with other satellites making them quite affordable for universities and small scale missions. These however typically don’t include propulsion modules due to the difficulty of miniaturisation, so have very little way of avoiding collisions, and just rely on their relatively low cost to risk ratio. With this miniaturisation there is often far less redundancy in cubesats than large satellites, so these satellites often fail, so even with control systems there’s still quite a high risk of them becoming debris. These along with constellation satellites are currently part of the big increase in satellites in orbit, and this is only predicted to increase. 3) I see lots of companies that would typically rely on a few very large and expensive (€billion) geostationary satellites now are moving towards models where they will operate constellations of smaller satellites in LEO. This gives the companies more redundancy over all regions, whilst still typically costing less than the big geo sats. The risk of a small constellation of very large satellites in GEO compared to the large small sat LEO constellations is just so much lower that the debris problem is just being encouraged more and more. Many large players like airbus that used to cater towards the big satellites have started to cater and encourage standardised small sats now more and more. TLDR: All this just means I don’t see the problem getting better, it’s just going to get worse. There’s a small start-up industry about removing debris, however there’s no real financial incentive to build removal missions, and they are incredibly expensive, so a lot of these companies are looking close to bankruptcy, or they’re repositioning themselves to satellite production, ironically making the problem worse.. The ESA has funded and/or launched a few debris removal technology demonstrations already, with one of my favourites coming out of my former university (Surrey) called RemoveDEBRIS. It only costed about €50 million and was partially successful however as typical for small sats, it’s deployables failed to activate, so it was slow to deorbit
Your videos like this are always interesting, and I even watch them often (I usually just listen to stuff). But this one, this one is super interesting and captivating to me, this threat to satellites
Amazing video. If I’m not mistaken though at 2:25, Explorer 1 was the first American satellite launched into orbit with vanguard 1 following months later.
Yeah, you're correct. He does at first say "subsequent Vanguard launches" but then follows that up by calling it the first orbital. Hope he sees this and pins a correction.
He calls it the "first orbital" yes, but Explorer 1 stayed in orbit until 31 March 1970. I wonder what the definition of "Orbital" is being used. He calls it "Earth's first lasting piece of space debris", so I might assume he means "Still orbiting today", as a metric.
I'm also a pro-space nerd and I wrote a research paper about this back in college before SpaceX was a thing, so happy to see you're talking about this! Great video as always!!
Come here trough your comment on a Frasier video... glad I did. Frasier is the best, I hope it is still ongoing in the UK television, because it has been gone from other countries since the 90's or early 00. Miss it.
A bunch of IT consultants saw a chance for a pay day by charging companies loads of money unnecessarily and so are still adamant it would’ve been a problem
@@Elenrai well the closest we have is the 2038 bug potentially a lot of digital clocks in all manner of software only go up to the year 2038, because they store their time information using unix time which is a 32 bit interger which starts at 1970 and ends at 2038 so potentially a lot of older software that isnt properly patched will overflow and begin thinking it's the 70's
Should've we called it "Red Star Of Great Lenin" or what? Methinks it was a great name, enshrining the achievement as opposed to just being one of the many.
Right but even if it happened all you would have to do is replace pre2k machines with ones that operate in the 2000-2100 range. It’s not that difficult. The fact that all we had to do was update machinery proves that it wasn’t as big of an issue as it was described.
@@salamantics it was updating software, not machines. Any computer can handle dates. The problem is that software which relies on dates is often extremely complex. It was only finally fixed in 1997. What you've described is "windowing", which is just a bodge fix.
As almost always- great stuff. I smashed that there Like Button as soon as that anime OP came on, and I'm wondering if there wouldn't happen to be a full version. Meanwhile- sarcasm and criticism alike, that speech at the end was actually a bit inspiring. Didn't start crying, but I relate to that message and would hope that as time goes on, we can get our crap together and for more of us to relate to it as well.
You should do a video on all the alternative soda companies (Alani, Popi, bubblr) theres tons of them and it would be interesting to learn about the rise of these companies and the strange drinks they produce.
This topic is an extremely underrated (sleeper) threat to the future of humanity. Well done on the video and thank you for bringing attention to this topic. I just hope it doesn't go the heads of too many people (pun intentional).
Kessler syndrome in LEO isn't really a threat to humanity. Anything in LEO deorbits in a few years due to atmospheric drag if it's orbit isn't being actively maintained.
I remember my trip to Kiev over 10 years ago and also getting called "flopnik". Great video about the relevance of care for our close orbit. I just got a little teary eyed
it’s so cheesy to say this but i love it when ordinary things uploads. i’m always pleasantly surprised by the new things i learn! keep up the good work ordinary and don’t let the bastards grind you down!
There’s actually an anime about this problem called Planetes (by the creator of Vinland Saga). it follows the exploits of a group of people in the future who clean up space junk.
@@renata-tsekhanovetskaya yeah. Normally I don t watch things like history or anything about the real world . But few people like him can make it so interesting . Internet historian Big boss Are the only other English ones I found who match my liking I also would a Internet historian Replika in Germany named Jules But I need more
The Russian space anime music video killed me 😂😂😂 just perfect on every level. We have to convince him to make a full length version..... I'm thinking we start a Kickstarter, whose with me??!!
Great video but I was surprised you didn't also mention how space junk is causing problems for earth based telescopes because there is now so much stuff in the way its blocking the pictures. Hence why we are making more satellite space telescopes
You are my absolute favorite content creator. I can’t give you any money because I don’t have any, but I want you to know that you’re #1 in my book. Thank you for the excellent production, research, facts and humor. Goddamn
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Perhaps I shall.
I work in the space industry and i look forward to the inevitable inaccuracies in this video. Edit: actually going pretty well so far. Edit2: pretty good, theres some lacking connective context like that starlink sats are the majority of satellites at this point so statistically they would have the most reporting of any kind of incident by extension. Also the idea of starlink is to fund projects to the rest of the solar system but yeah. Well done Mr. Things
You went out of your way to find vintage soviet and chinese stuff. I respect that.
Also what music did you use?
Mom, can we buy "Adam Curtis"
No Honey, we have Adam Curtis at home
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I don't really know when it happened, but at some point there was a serious shift. It used to be that CZcams was a starting point and essay/info/documentary creators on here aspired to land a role on a TV show or even their own TV show - TV had the higher budgets and seemed better quality - but over the last few years that has completely flipped and the output of a lot of creators far outpaces the quality of TV/streaming shows, and their talent would be wasted by network restrictions even if they could have slightly bigger budgets.
Videos like this really cement that.
i’ve noticed that as well, video essays are mainstream now so we get S tier content like this. but now there are HOARDES of shitty wannabes
I would personally not recommend Ordinary things as a source about spaceflight. I like his other vids fine enough, but Scott Manley, Everyday Astronaut, and other channels are a much better source. Ordinary just gets a lot of things wrong here.
@@WasatchWindabsolutely right. Much of the information here is surface level at best and disingenuous at worst. It draws parallels between events with nothing to do with each other. I'd say it almost intentionally paints a bleaker picture of space than what's actually going on.
His mentioning if NASAs budget as having a "lot of zeroes" the implication being that it's huge, and the comment about governments outsourcing communications to the private sector to avoid bad PR of launch failures are completely wrong abd show a complete lack of understanding of the sector.
@@WasatchWind Scott Manley is a glorified KSP streamer. Everyday Astronaut is fine though.
@@subnet001 My biggest problem when someone in the general public brings up Kessler syndrome, beyond presenting the issue in a fear mongering way, is that they often do not present the fact that things are improving.
The majority of companies and governments are adopting policies to deorbit unused satellites, other companies like nanoracks are seeking to repurpose spent rocket stages to make space stations, yet others want to service satellites or capture debris to deorbit it, etc.
I am simply greatly concerned that the general public has this bias that NASA should be the only people allowed to do anything in space, which only result in greatly high costs, and far fewer spaceflights.
The road to the future will have some bumps, but we should not turn around on that road when we can find mitigations instead.
expected to see a video arguing against the usage of satellites, got a video about the dangers of lacking international standards and satellite megaconstellations from an actually pro-space viewpoint. I must say I'm very pleasantly surprised.
Great work on the video👍
Edit: I can't believe I'm doing this but I return to this comment 3 months later and find out I've recieved the coveted "youtube microcelebrity comment heart". That's two pleasant surprised from one video haha
Thanks for the heads up. I almost didn't watch it. I like this guy and want to respect him, a ranting parody against evil capitalists in space would be too excruciating. Note: SpaceX does reach out and share data with China . Spacex has rigid deorbit guidelines and every satellite has deorbit propulsion. Ironically, the most likely way we will clean up space debris is Spacex.. and their starship program is built on the back of Starlinks profitability
Space good
yay :) @@OrdinaryThings
@@OrdinaryThings missed ya while you were gone
Literally the same here.
Since OT is an absolute villan for playing that absolute banger and not citing it, the name of the song is "Космические войска" which translates to "Space Forces" for those looking to find it. one of the best things ive heard all year
thank you man, youre a real one
i tried searching all the text he put on screen, i used song recognition api. No results
TYSM!!
And its a modern song, not soviet era.
Watching this video led to my least boring flight ever and one of the craziest coincidences ever. Got on the plane and started to watch this video with subtitles on, I can clearly see with the corner of my eye that the guy next to me is watching and nodding in approvement from time to time. I really wasn't in the mood for talking cus I was so exhausted, when my chicken masala arrives I take off my headphones. Well it turns out this guy worked at the European space agency for more than 30 years and for a while was in a department related to space debris. He basically confirmed everything you said and was impressed by the level of details you provided, and most of all, by your sources. Keep it up 👏
You had headphones on and yet he followed the video? How?
Wait you are saying he read the subtitles? He basically invaded your personal space to get close enough to your I assume phone screen to read subtitles? Nah it must have beeb a laptop. I guess I answered my own question. But still that guy does not reflect privacy or boundaries.
@@Jartran72 i don't understand what kind of problem(s) do you have. Get help
@effe3615 Many people, including myself, hate strangers blatantly looking at our devices and would consider it an invasion of privacy. He didn't articulate it too well, but it's an understandable concern. Sounds like it didn't put you in an uncomfortable spot though, so that's good.
And then everyone clapped 👏👏👏
Craziest story I have about space junk from someone who works in satellite mission operations: one insturment which is on a boom died and we couldn't figure out why. It turns out that most likely a piece of space dust sliced through a singular wire on the boom and killed the insturment.
Also starlink is a big issue they have nearly ran into a couple of our satellites a few times.
Ever heard about rods from god. I think the only way Starlink can be profitable is by army contracts. Don't want to be a conspiracy theorist but idk how it could ever make any money in any other way.
I wonder if space junk will become an issue, or if terrestrial communication like longer range, higher bandwidth mobile data will take over
@@papierbak Same goes for SpaceX. Both are running behind their schedules and lose money like crazy. And their window to get profitable gets smaller every day
Makes me think of that photograph of what a piece of space junk the size of a grain of sand can do to a thick aluminum block. There's no 'shielding' against this unless we develop new materials, a space elevator, or a cheaper way to get large, heavy things into orbit.
@@gulagamelee4804 no but actually have you googled rods from god. Its a project of the us government to put giant thungsten rods in space on 1000's of satalites wich they can throw at places on earth and then impact with the force of a nuke. Except instead of needing 12 minutes to get anywhere they can be there in 4.
IIRC Camarov knew the capsule he was going up in was a death trap, but he also knew that if he didn't go, the next man in line would have to go, that man was his friend, Yuri Gegarin.
alll of the space race, on both sides was full of those kind of heroic people. Eternal glory to both the fallen and the accomlished
I’ll add to this: since he knew he was going to die, he specifically asked for his body to be shown to his superiors. That’s the pic being shown at 4:14
@@g1sbi I thought it was more of a demand than a request.
@@g1sbioh my god, that's his body? I thought that was debris from the crash.
@@lankyGigantic nope, it’s the carbonized remains of his body. Horrific.
The amount of costume changes and set changes was epic! Super high effort and fun to watch
Regarding the Buran at 19:30, while the original that flew into space was indeed sadly destroyed, one of its Prototypes from 1984 that was used for multiple Testglides, can be seen at the german Technickmuseum in Speyer. They even have a Walkway set up that allows you to go into the Cargoarea of the Shuttle. It's pretty cool to see something like that in real life instead of only in pictures.
There's 2 in a disused military facility in Kazakhstan, I don't know if they were part builds or what, but they're there
yup, was there, it‘s great
Y2K didn't happen due to a massively successful mitigation program. It is much like people saying the ozone hole or acid rain weren't real problems because we don't see them now: they aren't big problems because we actually solved the problems.
As someone who was there and cashed the overtime, I have been arguing this for over 20 years.
No, it was never going to be the apocalypse that the media made out - but it would have been a lousy year or two for millions, and we'd have lost much of the global wealth. . (that the banks lost 8 years later anyway because they simply couldn't help themselves)
Then you get people saying they weren’t real problems or were blown out of proportion because we aren’t dealing with them nowadays.
Which is about as believable as saying smallpox wasn’t an issue because it’s not a thing anymore….
There's no guarantee anything of significance would have happened. Unix clocks would just roll back over to the first timestamp at the time. It was more "future-proofing" than it was "solving a problem." And the Ozone hole isn't solved, it's just receding. It wouldn't take much human effort to completely undo that.
now we have y2k38, thankfully i believe already mitigated
I mean the world wasn't going to end from Y2K even if it wasn't mitigated, and comparing it to the ozone hole or acid rain is quite insulting really.
the y2k bug was absolutely a thing, it was just solved by 1993 because computer scientists aren't politicians. if fixing that bug had been up to the government, this would be the 8,314th day of 1999.
What are you saying? 2000 is commie talk. In this country we love our 1999 no matter how many days it is.
The world was supposed to end in 2000, that was honestly a great idea.
Who fucked that up ?
WRONG AGAIN
@@melgibsonafter5beers329yeah if only. Nothing has happened
A bunch of IT consultants saw a chance for a pay day by charging companies loads of money unnecessarily and so are still adamant it would’ve been a problem
These videos are always so well thought-out and researched, and always entertaining. Truly the quality of the videos you make is incredible, this has to be one of my favourite channels on CZcams, absolutely amazing work
Are you mad? He couldn't even be bothered to pronounce Laika properly. This is a clickbait channel masquerading as educational. You're bound to learn more from a 10 minute Google search and likely deal with less subjectivity. Not to mention you won't have to deal with him clearly not knowing how to spell words like nuclear. This man isn't fit to teach anyone anything.
This content is so slept on. Ordinary Things deserves millions of views per vid
This was an amazing and terrifying video to add to your catalog. Small note I would’ve added but at 10:00 I would’ve mentioned how starfish prime sent out a giant EMP blast neutralizing multiple satellites and wrecking the UK’s first satellite.
When I first got the Skyview Light app, I was amazed at how I could not only see constellations, but also planets and moons. I was also surprised by how much space debris I could artificially see with the app. At the moment it was a nifty little detail the app designers put in, I thought. Now in hindsight, I am filled with a frightening clarity about how big some of that debris is…
I had the same experience. When I got the app years ago it was cool to see the star constellations, galaxies, and planets in the night sky. Now it’s cluttered with man made satellites, and it’s kinda sad in a way.
Any visualization of orbital debris and satellites you've probably seen is vastly, tremendously exaggerating their size (out of necessity). In a view of the Earth, even if each sat is represented by a tiny pixel on your screen, it's orders of magnitude larger than reality (consider that a pixel on the image of the Earth is probably the size of a city, and satellites are more like the size of cars-and orbital shells are so, so much more spacious than the Earth's surface).
Honestly it's not the big debris that are scary it's the tiny ones that are smaller than a pencil eraser. There are potential ways to deal with the and if nothing else we can track them. So far any proposed ideas of what to do about the tiny debris is so far outside our abilities it's basically science fiction and they're very difficult if not often impossible to track.
That's a scam app
I've gotta confess this video was a rollercoaster of emotions for me as I was working out whether your right arm was paralysed or you just weren't using it like you were working in TV before widescreen. not to worry, it's all good it's moving again. Love your work
Thank you for referencing Planetes, the space debris event intro for that anime honestly sold me on the whole thing even though it was pretty slow paced. Worth for anybody to check out the first scene in the first two min of the show
There is an anime called Planetes that centers around crew of space junkmen tasked of taking care of space debris, one of the best pieces of hard sci-fi ever produced, very underrated but high quality.
i agree, it hit right in the feel and the spacing is very good. you feel the emotion and the anguish of the character for their future. is it that anime where the guy fly away in a new rocket called (name of scientist) at the end?
There's a clip of it in the video, where he's talking about how people struggle to grasp with the concept of exponential growth
@@dagemeliorszczebrzeszynski9307 That clip isn't from Planetes. I don't know why they miss-attributed that, or where they got it not knowing It's actually from Magnetic Rose one of the three short films that made up Memories(1995)
Just to add a bit of clarification. Starlink does have around 2 million active subscribers.
Also, the FCC just recently issued the first ever fine for space junk, totaling $150,000 to Dish who per regulation was meant to move their satellite into 186 mile higher orbit than it currently was in, as it was nearing the end of it's life. Dish was only able to make it 76 miles before it ran out fuel, and thus the company was fined.
Damn, chump change. That's a damn shame
@@SirGarthuryeah the fuel to get it moved 76 miles would have cost the company more than the fine did
If ya don´t ramp these fines up to a point where a handful of violations will sink the company no matter the size this will do exactly nothing.
Fines are useless. Ceo should get prison. Second offence, they get taken the back of the chem shed. Actual consequences, not the performance of paying a small fine, just big enough that the poors can't afford it and think it's anything at all. Go full china. End em
The world's first space parking ticket.
Very cool! Always nice to see Telstar mentioned which not only provided the UK with the first US television signals BUT also provided the UK with it's first number one chart hit in the US with a track called 'Telstar' performed by Tornadoes and recorded by the late Great Joe Meek.
Didnt the French unilateraly use it to beem back french TV?
I think this is one of your best videos yet. It's well researched, very funny and provided a nuanced view of the subjct at the same time.
Planetes was actually what introduced me to the concept of Kessler Syndrome, And I appreciate it's inclusion.
A classic anime
Actually came here to see if Planetes was brought up in the video. Love to see it.
@@thedilutedspineI saw this in my notifs and literally thought, "isnt this just the setting planetes was centered around"
I'd do that job. Honestly.
@@bencolbert6732The original manga version is better.
4:50 oh god it does sound like an anime op
The pronunciation of "Laika" left me dead on the floor lmao 3:20
Your videos are legendary! This is a sort of peak commentary/informational style that won’t be topped for years.
Allegedly the oldest man made thing in space is a manhole cover that is thought to have escaped in 1957
I thought of that too, sent up with a nuclear test
Nope, that one was almost certainly vaporized
@@GLUBSCHI hence why I said allegedly
How horrifyingly perfect would it be for that damn manhole cover to be the object that collides with Envisat or the ISS or some other large object and really kicks Kessler's party into high gear?
Not the first thing in space, that was done in the 40's. But it was just a suborbital hop.
27:00 (or so)
I remember watching a mathematician explain how we process numbers on an intuitive level. Our brains are good at guessing addition and multiplication, but not exponential figures. To calculate it, he emphasised you must write it down and see it. This holds particular importance for the average person when it comes to compound interest in finance.
That makes a lot of sense to me, especially since many uses for exponentials involve low bases, which just throw us off. (e.g. COVID's original R-naught was 3.3. Seems low, but 3.3^20 is over 23 billion.)
At least anecdotally, I find it hard to even _estimate_ exponential figures mentally. I just gave myself 30 seconds to estimate 1.8^9 mentally (just 2 random numbers). I thought it was roughly 400, but it's 198.
And I'd say I'm definitely above average at mental math - I can usually estimate addition or multiplication to within 5% error in under 30 seconds. But my ability to estimate goes haywire with exponentials, _especially_ with high exponents.
DUDE! It's amazing the amount of info you need to get before each episode. Congrats for the epic videos!
The amount of work put into your videos is plain ridiculous, they just keep getting better and better.
I like how you say "anime about the soviet space race" like there wasn't actually an anime about the Soviet side of the space race a year or two ago... just with a vampire girl under the premise the soviets wanted to test with a closer but not fully human test subject before their human tests
What was the name of this animal? I somewhat remember the premise... just not the show
Name?
Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu
@@forevertygr1843 Vampire Cosmonaut, it is infact, exactly what it says on the tin, a vampire who becomes a cosmonaut
A few minced facts here:
-Explorer 1 was the first US orbital satellite, not Vanguard.
-The vanguard program was actually very underfunded. At the time, there was a lot of bureaucracy going on between different US space programs, with most of the budget going to the Air Force's ballistic missile program. The Air Force already had much bigger rockets like the Juno, but the exploratory space program didn't have the funding or clearance to use them. Thus they had to build their own tiny launch vehicle (vanguard). There were two initial TV-3 launches, both of which failed spectacularly. After the second TV-3 failure, the government started another launch program called Explorer that had access to Juno missiles and a ton of funding to launch a satellite as fast as possible. Explorer made it to orbit sucessfully before the Vanguard program.
Shhh, don't get in the way of a good anti-american rant!
Also most of the Rockets and plans were already set and waiting for clearance
Your videos bring me so much joy, thank you for creating!
Perfectly in depth! I appreciate your dedication!
Feels damn good to see another Ordinary Things video! Great work
Legitimately made my day thank you OT!!
"The first satellite they sent up wasn't that impressive"
If I was the first person to shoot something into the sky that didn't come back down again for 3 months I'd think that was a pretty solid result personally.
Great video. Interesting use of the song "Where Are You, Dear General?"
holy shit thank you, this song is actually so good, i wouldve never found it without you saying what it was
Just commenting for the algorithm - love your content and making topics that wouldn't normally be of interest to me be thoroughly entertaining. Thanks for what you do!!
That first Ariane 5 launch is a famous software disaster, caused by code being reused inappropriately from the Ariane 4 rocket -- some code that shouldn't even have been running after liftoff couldn't handle the different launch profile of the Ariane 5 and overflowed, crashing and sending an error message instead of valid data, causing another system to think the rocket was going wildly off-course when it wasn't, and its attempt to compensate caused it to break up from aerodynamic forces way beyond its design could handle.
5:07
"Get in the Rocket comrade Shinji"
Congrats on 1M subs, best channel on youtube, best research, best humour, best topics, best editing! Keep it up :)
11:32 that transition is glorious
Fun fact: there is actually a soviet space anime, but instead of sending humans to the moon they're trying to send vampires to the moon. It's called Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu
I'm pretty sure there are older mecha anime that do that as well
Well now I have to watch the Soviet space vampire anime
@@arabellacarter1482pritty good series very recomendable
@@Ricardowieringawhere can someone who doesn't usually watch anime find it ?
@@renata-tsekhanovetskayawebsite
"No incentive to clean it up"... that is until a multi-billion dollar disaster happens. When are corporations going to learn that mitigating risk IS a financial incentive to act 🤦🏼♀️
Great video, I hope companies and countries can start taking responsibility in keeping space safe. I am glad to see companies like Astroscale starting this process.
Companies should have a very tight leash on them when it comes to launching stuff into space.
There is something reassuring about seeing a decent channel do well here these days. Next stop 1 Million!
It’s very funny to see the field you work in be in one of your favourite CZcamsrs vids.(European spacecraft engineering).
This is a great video and impressive for an outsider to the industry, just a few notes.
1)The primary issue with satellites is they’re full of bespoke parts and require high grade materials, so come at a hefty price, with 90% of satellites that are washing machine sized or bigger costing 100s of millions or reaching the billions of euros. This means every loss of a satellite is a major cost. The cost of construction of satellites is often far more than cost of launch(70-150million€).
2)due to the cost of large satellites the ‘CubeSat’ was developed. These are standardised micro satellites that are fairly cheap and depending on instrumentation only cost ~€10million+. They also can be launched with other satellites making them quite affordable for universities and small scale missions. These however typically don’t include propulsion modules due to the difficulty of miniaturisation, so have very little way of avoiding collisions, and just rely on their relatively low cost to risk ratio. With this miniaturisation there is often far less redundancy in cubesats than large satellites, so these satellites often fail, so even with control systems there’s still quite a high risk of them becoming debris. These along with constellation satellites are currently part of the big increase in satellites in orbit, and this is only predicted to increase.
3) I see lots of companies that would typically rely on a few very large and expensive (€billion) geostationary satellites now are moving towards models where they will operate constellations of smaller satellites in LEO. This gives the companies more redundancy over all regions, whilst still typically costing less than the big geo sats. The risk of a small constellation of very large satellites in GEO compared to the large small sat LEO constellations is just so much lower that the debris problem is just being encouraged more and more. Many large players like airbus that used to cater towards the big satellites have started to cater and encourage standardised small sats now more and more.
TLDR: All this just means I don’t see the problem getting better, it’s just going to get worse.
There’s a small start-up industry about removing debris, however there’s no real financial incentive to build removal missions, and they are incredibly expensive, so a lot of these companies are looking close to bankruptcy, or they’re repositioning themselves to satellite production, ironically making the problem worse..
The ESA has funded and/or launched a few debris removal technology demonstrations already, with one of my favourites coming out of my former university (Surrey) called RemoveDEBRIS. It only costed about €50 million and was partially successful however as typical for small sats, it’s deployables failed to activate, so it was slow to deorbit
so you're basically telling us that capitalism is ruining space too?
@@StefanoFierroscommies not making everything about cApItAlIsm
Difficulty: Impossible
@@StefanoFierrossomeone better tell Colonel Anatoly Cherdenko
@@SpoopySquid wth does stephen curry have to do with this
@@NoTbAdDuDE134 if youre unable to see that our economic system is fucking up big time and how this writing relates to it youre sorta slow mate
Wow bravo best one yet!!! 👏👏👏 loved it, even brought a tear to my eye at the end … even in our darkest moments there’s still dancin’ 🙂
Your videos like this are always interesting, and I even watch them often (I usually just listen to stuff).
But this one, this one is super interesting and captivating to me, this threat to satellites
THANK YOU! CZcams has been so DRY lately. Coming in clutch with quality content
Amazing video. If I’m not mistaken though at 2:25, Explorer 1 was the first American satellite launched into orbit with vanguard 1 following months later.
Yeah, you're correct. He does at first say "subsequent Vanguard launches" but then follows that up by calling it the first orbital. Hope he sees this and pins a correction.
He calls it the "first orbital" yes, but Explorer 1 stayed in orbit until 31 March 1970. I wonder what the definition of "Orbital" is being used.
He calls it "Earth's first lasting piece of space debris", so I might assume he means "Still orbiting today", as a metric.
I'm also a pro-space nerd and I wrote a research paper about this back in college before SpaceX was a thing, so happy to see you're talking about this!
Great video as always!!
The footage used at 27:27 labelled Planetes (2003) is actually from Magnetic Rose (1995) which is a short film included the Memories (1995) anthology.
Just want to say you make what I would normally find boring to learn about just a little less boring.
I jest. Great video.
Great video as always.
If you could list the music you used, that'd be really nice.
I was wondering the same thing!
need the song at 5:10
@@soggeedoggee1351 if you ever find it, please tell me
@@soggeedoggee1351 Found it.
its: Alexei Goman - Space Forces
Would appreciate if someone could name that song. Hard to search
Come here trough your comment on a Frasier video... glad I did. Frasier is the best, I hope it is still ongoing in the UK television, because it has been gone from other countries since the 90's or early 00. Miss it.
Fraiser pilled gigachad
Love this channel, always leaning something. Knew it was a problem, but didn't understand the severity of it.
to be fair y2k was really mitigated because engineers and tech people in general took it seriously and made sure almost every system would work
A bunch of IT consultants saw a chance for a pay day by charging companies loads of money unnecessarily and so are still adamant it would’ve been a problem
@@NashvilleUK they already made their money theres no reason to be adamant about anything at this point
Already hyped for the y10k bug, I really hope there is some kinda afterlife because damn I wanna see this shit repeat in 8000 years@@FantasmaNaranja
@@Elenrai well the closest we have is the 2038 bug potentially
a lot of digital clocks in all manner of software only go up to the year 2038, because they store their time information using unix time which is a 32 bit interger which starts at 1970 and ends at 2038 so potentially a lot of older software that isnt properly patched will overflow and begin thinking it's the 70's
Most people don't know, but "Sputnik" literally translates to "satellite". Yes, very creative naming.
Should've we called it "Red Star Of Great Lenin" or what? Methinks it was a great name, enshrining the achievement as opposed to just being one of the many.
Soviets are famous for creative naming of space probes, like Луна, Венера, Марс guess where them probes were sent to
Excellent work. I never worry about how long to take to upload, this boi is always cooking.
Man ur videos are behemoths. The dialogue is amazing
Great video as ever, but the Y2K issue was real and took millions of man hours to avoid and is probably worth a video itself.
It was even identified as early as 1956, if memory serves.
YES! A video on Y2K and how it was avoided would be brilliant from this channel.
Right but even if it happened all you would have to do is replace pre2k machines with ones that operate in the 2000-2100 range. It’s not that difficult. The fact that all we had to do was update machinery proves that it wasn’t as big of an issue as it was described.
@@salamantics it was updating software, not machines. Any computer can handle dates. The problem is that software which relies on dates is often extremely complex. It was only finally fixed in 1997. What you've described is "windowing", which is just a bodge fix.
I appreciate your range. No topic is off limits. Keep up the great work!
Great video as always. Intellectualy comforting yet emotionaly deeply disturbing.
As almost always- great stuff. I smashed that there Like Button as soon as that anime OP came on, and I'm wondering if there wouldn't happen to be a full version.
Meanwhile- sarcasm and criticism alike, that speech at the end was actually a bit inspiring. Didn't start crying, but I relate to that message and would hope that as time goes on, we can get our crap together and for more of us to relate to it as well.
5:15 love the "neon genesis evangelion" reference
Without satellites how could I watch the annual Ordinary Things upload?
You should do a video on all the alternative soda companies (Alani, Popi, bubblr) theres tons of them and it would be interesting to learn about the rise of these companies and the strange drinks they produce.
Thank you for this video, Salvador Gannaci !
This topic is an extremely underrated (sleeper) threat to the future of humanity. Well done on the video and thank you for bringing attention to this topic. I just hope it doesn't go the heads of too many people (pun intentional).
He can present even the most niche, seemingly boring topic as if it was a blockbuster movie. Level 99 presenter!
Kessler syndrome in LEO isn't really a threat to humanity. Anything in LEO deorbits in a few years due to atmospheric drag if it's orbit isn't being actively maintained.
@@thedemographicschannel611Look it up, thanks to star link alone you now have a probability to die of falling satellite.
I remember my trip to Kiev over 10 years ago and also getting called "flopnik". Great video about the relevance of care for our close orbit. I just got a little teary eyed
That was a very wholesome and uplifting call to action at the end.
Damn, thanks for uploading. I was running low on things to worry about.
For anyone wanting that slappin' Soviet anime theme, it is (Alexei Goman - Space Forces (English subs) / Алексей Гоман - Космические Войска (текст)).
it’s so cheesy to say this but i love it when ordinary things uploads. i’m always pleasantly surprised by the new things i learn! keep up the good work ordinary and don’t let the bastards grind you down!
Damn good video, crazy interesting. May be your best work yet? Keep up the amazing work mr. Ordinary
17:47 - Is that a puppet to the right of the reporter, jostling around? lol
I was wondering what that was
There’s actually an anime about this problem called Planetes (by the creator of Vinland Saga). it follows the exploits of a group of people in the future who clean up space junk.
Another excellent and humorous explanation of a very serious subject. Thanks!
I think this is one of your best videos!
Hi from France. I love your content man. You're awesome :)
Those videos are always so interesting. I wish I could inject content like this into myself by the hour
i wish i could find more deep dives filled with this kind of dry humour :((
@@renata-tsekhanovetskaya yeah. Normally I don t watch things like history or anything about the real world . But few people like him can make it so interesting .
Internet historian
Big boss
Are the only other English ones I found who match my liking
I also would a Internet historian Replika in Germany named
Jules
But I need more
@@Suicdarhistory buffs is great
Love this channel, content is so good it’s ridiculous
Love that you use references it is very professional.
The Russian space anime music video killed me 😂😂😂 just perfect on every level. We have to convince him to make a full length version..... I'm thinking we start a Kickstarter, whose with me??!!
Don't ever stop, love your videos!
I thought you were joking about the "anime" opening, but no that is 100% accurate LOL. We need a full version of you creating an opening
This was a very good idea for a video. Thouroughly interesting and of limitless entertainment. Nice one Ordinary Things.
Amazing vid man!
Wow, he's back
Good to be back
Ordinary things is my favorite informative CZcams channel
Thank you for the research project idea
When this guy posts a video, it's like getting the first sip of coffee in the morning, just glorious.
Great video but I was surprised you didn't also mention how space junk is causing problems for earth based telescopes because there is now so much stuff in the way its blocking the pictures. Hence why we are making more satellite space telescopes
I love that guys sense of humor.i wish i knew about this channel sooner.
Not sure I'd describe satellites as ordinary things, but I'm not complaining, just happy you blessed us with another banger
You are my absolute favorite content creator. I can’t give you any money because I don’t have any, but I want you to know that you’re #1 in my book.
Thank you for the excellent production, research, facts and humor. Goddamn
4:55 You can't just not release a full version of this.
whats the name of the song
@@koronaavirost did anyone find it im dying to know
Found it! Песня - Космические Войска
Well worth the wait to see you return.