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- Jeremy Clarkson heads to Mississippi where NASA test their Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters. Consuming half a million gallons of fuel, they generate the thrust needed to propel astronauts into space. They're a tad noisy too! Subscribe to Top Gear: bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear
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I do genuinely love how Clarkson, Hammond and May are enthralled by engineering and how it makes them so happy to be around it
2:43 "NASAs playing God, it's making its own weather"
If they can do it on tv there's no way that the military can't just make it rain when they want
@@sgtXsasquatchX no revisionism allowed
NASA didn't make their own weather 😁 ...for that to happen it would have to be something that doesn't exist e.g there's rain, snow and sunshine, so for NASA to create their own "weather" the by-product in its self should have it's own form. Meaning it should be raining chocolate milk, light drizzles should be gummy bears and a storm should be pepperoni pizzas all falling from that cloud 😂 and in addition the cloud should be able to travel around the world to different part and clash with other clouds similar and create thunder buffets and lightning fries, it should have it's own period in the calendar between summer and fall.
now they modify weather without the sound
@Camera Tv exactly
Anyone noticed Clarkson using two earmuffs on top of each other? Lol
+Ry Zeus lol, he wouldn't be Clarkson if he didn't do something silly, would he?
It's that loud.
That would be well over 180+ dB
He also wore two hardhats on top of each other when he did his safety video on train level crossings
It's like when they rode bikes around London and wore bike shorts over the top of their jeans
Glad to see this video still exists.took a while to find this video again.Seems like it mysteriously vanishes and you gotta dig for it.
Internet fact checkers claim it's false
"Who needs specializes chemicals and/or machines to control the weather, when you have rockets?" - Jeb, 2015.
Satan does
@@fukcoffdood2515 Shut up
So.. where the rocket goes? Mars? 😂😂😂
@@mackshinoda9969 No, orbit around earth.
When rockets are just a cover up for you decades old weather modification technologies.
"The noise they were planning on making would wake the dead~"
Gosh~
I never really got that expression, wouldn't it be a good thing to wake the dead.
@@jeremytheimer7443It just means that the sound will be like, extremely loud. Like you would wake up if you hear a loud noise. This one would be so loud, even the dead will wake up.
I knew about this place and that the exhaust plumes were water vapor, but I didn't know that they actually caused rain showers after an engine firing! That's truly impressive! (as if the engine wasn't impressive enough)
It genuinely has nothing to do with rockets, that’s the cover up aspect. It is weather modification technology, and can solely be operated without any rockets.
@@mustangjusty3772 Let me guess, the earth is flat, 5G causes cancer, and vaccines are giving children autism? Does that sound about right with your mental retardation?
@@mustangjusty3772 "tell me your a conspiracy theorist without telling me."
@@rocketman4314 there is a difference between conspiracy and conspiracy theorist. Theories are things that have no proof and are merely speculation, actually conspiracies have evidence to support them.
Weather modification has been occurring in the western hemisphere for well over a hundred years, documented, and patented.
@@mustangjusty3772tell me you're an idiot without telling me you're an idiot.
It sure seems to be raining a lot this year. Perfect storm for food shortage.
Or leaving the planet 😅
"NASA's playing God" i was thinking the exact same thing ;)
Producing water vapor isn't playing God....
@@EatPezzzz producing weather conditions to uhh let's see, start weather warfare!!! Is playing god you goofy imbecile smh
@@learnaseyelearn166 Making it rain in less than a square mile area isnt weather warfare lol... Is it playing god when firefighters spray water in the air to make it "rain" for kids to play in? I guess so
@Zombie Eric Harris do you know any interesting reads about that?
Making it rain isn’t playing God?
I live on the east coast of Florida, so seeing these rockets launch (And being within a few tens of miles away from them every time. I've gone to the actual launch site to watch a few times, but usually I just sit infront of my house) is a normal thing for me. I'm at a distance where the sound isn't even there, so it's easy sleep through them if I need to get up the next day, but they are alot of fun to watch, especially night launches.
Same. I grew up and still live about 30 miles from KSC. Going out the back door to watch a shuttle launch was commonplace when I was a kid, and now that I'm middle aged, I can see how unique an experience it was.
What was always a surprise were the sonic booms when a shuttle would re-enter the atmosphere upon final descent. Would always rattle the dishes in the cupboard, lol.
“They even had to move 5 cemetery’s , because The noise they were planning on making would even wake the dead” 💀
I used to live in Sacramento, and after a rocketdyne test, this same sort of thing would sometimes happen and it would rain over interstate 80 on an otherwise completely dry day.
Um, those are actually liquid rocket engines, the SRB's are tested out west.
+MysteriousSteve Yeah, and it isn't water vapor that comes out of the SRB's either! :)
caught that right off myself. thiakol made the srb propellent in utah. why would they ship em to mississippi to test? oh, because it sounds good on tv saying theyre testing the srb's there.
+sscheinfe It actually shoots out massive chunks of aluminum oxide as it burns. Even if you could survive the heat and the sound and the gas, the flying chunks of molten metal oxides would still get you.
Yup. The SRBs don't use liquid fuel. The shuttle's main engines did use LOX and LHY.. which would create water vapor as the combustion products. That said, the SRB's exhaust could cause precipitation by providing the plentiful water vapor (it's Mississippi, after all) small particles upon which to condense.
MysteriousSteve nerd lol
The noise they are planning on making, will wake the dead! LOL.
LOL! His comments and reactions on the rain was priceless!
"NASA is playing god" haha best line
Yes and seems like they will be thrown to the everlasting pit of fire
That and the fact that this area of Mississippi is real close to the Gulf, so it's humid as all hell already. I know this because when I have to wake up at 340 in the morning for PT, windows are wet and people are "sweating" before they're even remotely physically tired.
-Starts raining- DAMN YOU NASA!
This was built in the 60's to test the Saturn V 1st stage! Now THAT was something!
I grew up near Stennis Space Center. Once I rented a single-wide trailer just off the north edge of the "Buffer Zone." Nothing between me and the center except pine-covered flat land. The temperature dropped and I needed to light the pilot light of the gas heat in my trailer. I'd never done that before, and was nervous.
So, I was elbow deep in the furnace, with lit match. I pushed the red pilot button just as the sound front from an engine test hit the trailer broadside. I thought I was dead.
Jeremy Clarkson, watching these videos, you are my hero.
nice burnout, need one of those speakrs in my car :D
great stuff :D and sounds works too, woo!
This is so awesome!
wow, is that for real??? Does it make a rain-cloud? Awesome, awesome! : )
I love Jezza's sheer enthusiasm, thats one of the reasons why he so popular
lol stuff the rain dance when u got that XD
I didnt know about the rain part. Cool vid
NASA goes to a strip club. *Make it rain*
the description seams wrong... this test was a test of the RS-25 enginge wich was mounted at the shuttle itself
a solid rocket booster does not use H2+LOX
Tank2333 Dude, they're british. The bbc never does proper research.
wash beezy British never do proper reasearch... 95 % of the things you use in fact most of what you can see right now is of British origin
bigbadbalesy I was referring to the bbc not the british in all. And the 95% comment about everything I see and use being of british origin... dead wrong.
bigbadbalesy vccjmvvoxhcci
bigbadbalesy nhuu71
Well they have the large haldron collider as well
It has a water sound suppression system and the heat from the rocket is making it hot and vaporizing it, that super hot water vapor meets the colder ambient temperature causing to condense and fall back to earth. Thats why they set up in the wet lands or places with lots of water. Helps protect the equipment from the extreme heat and reduce the amount of vibration. so that the test station and rocket engine don't vibrate to pieces.
NASA is the greatest thing our country has made. Too bad it gets under funded.
Luke Triplett Good
Justin Proctor Obviously an institution like this deserves a lot more funding, as opposed to wasting resources to develop advanced weaponry to fight cave men. Still any improvement is good.
+GhettoMist NASA is not helpful at all to the people of the US (neither is the army, don't get me wrong). Their funds would be of more use in the taxpayers pocket.
TheNeomatix Its more than the people though. I mean it is a symbol of humanities hopes and dreams. When we stop funding them, the media stops envisioning the future. I want NASA to find life on another body in space before I die. That is my dream. They get absolutely jack shit in terms of funding. Sure it went up a bit, but it is still negligable.
+TheNeomatix Yes, the half-a-cent on the tax dollar would be much better spent in the taxpayer's pocket.
You were aware that, for every tax dollar, NASA only receives around 0.5 cents, yes?
Pretty amazing what we can do. I think the title is wrong though; this wasn't a solid rocket booster test, this was a main engine test. The SRB's are tested horizontally and most definitely do produce some pretty toxic exhaust.
that is absolutely amazing
epic weather make is epic
i wanna put one of those speakers in my hyundai lol
People in California need these clouds.
Here’s a useless reply on how to make a cloud:
Get a water bottle (u need le cap we’ll take it off now)
Put a little water in it like almost a quarter but not really
Shake the bottle so the water goes everywhere
Get a air pump
Put it in the bottle and hold it down
Keep pumping to the bottle does the crack sound
Take the pump off as fast as hecc (well take it off when u want but when u are take it off fast)
And TADA a cloud
U could also use alcohol and smoke but water is easier to get
@@yazminsoto2937 I remember Bill Nye giving a lecture on this experiment LMAO.
I do want to ask though, how many clouds, in terms of volume, could the Shuttle Boosters create? Not counting the water sprayed from the sound suppression system
Yeah because artificially manipulating the weather couldn’t possibly have any adverse effects🙄
I want 2 see more videos like this one.
Topgear deserves more subricers !
weather machine :3
i think u can make an atmosphere with that thing
wow thats actually reall cool
I lived near Stennis most of my life, right outside the "buffer zone", in Pearl River County, Every so often we would have to put our pictures back on the wall. And my dad worked at Michoud Assy. Facility, where the external tank was made, that place is MASSIVE!!!
Some say Chuck Norris was inside the rocket collecting 3rd degree burn data.
Dawie Van Emmenes must have been someone else in there with him that he was watching. Chuck Norris doesn't burn
The 3rd degree burn was made onto the rocket engine. Chuck Norris actually felt a bit cold...
It's crazy how we've had massive forest fires in the U.S. this year. But there's nothing out there like this helping to put out the fires. We needs to start using these methods, instead of showing them on tv.
that wouldnt be practical, the cost for the hydrogen and oxygen then building multiple facilities for these would be too expensive, combined with the fact that california usually has the worst wildfires and they dont do very many controlled burns
You seriously thing we should use rocket engines to put out wildfires? That is some next level stupidity.
Wow power full
They ve cOntrolled the weather :O
Found a bunch of people that cut the video up into some conspiracy thing about rain makers. Help us
It's worse. they think it's used to create hurricanes. Guess the education system here in America is so bad, people would rather come up with their own theories than pay attention in school.
Hey could either of you point me to the real video? Maybe a link or anything. I cant find it on bbc's youtube. If you could help id appreciate it
Quantum Ashes Hey could either of you point me to the real video? Maybe a link or anything. I cant find it on bbc's youtube. If you could help id appreciate it
Ike Hill. Try clicking like and maybe it'll show up in related videos after you switch on autoplay
i saw something like that on facebook earlier i just tagged @topgear, i dont know if they will respond
pretty sure that is a shuttle main engine not a SRB.
Your right
@@jackwhitlock1 11 years later they still haven't fixed the description.
@Zombie Eric Harris what? I was commenting on the fact their description is wrong on the video. And the title for the matter.
about 14 of these in TX and another 8 in AZ would be great.. Tempted by the ideal of what would happen if grass started to even appear in Death Valley,NV
lol at the double headphones
2:37 probably some water vapor on the ground
Also, it's inaccurate to say that the engines will use half a million gallons of fuel to cover the 130 miles to space. It takes MUCH MUCH LESS fuel to get a rocket up to 130 miles, but it will fall right back down. What takes half a million gallons of fuel is accelerating the shuttle to 17,000 MPH so that it'll constantly miss the ground as it falls back down... in other words, to put it in orbit.
The solid rockets are tested in Utah at Morton Thiokol. This is a test of the shuttle's main engine.
which series is this?
@mertucar1
They must have one in England...It's always raining here!
hahahaha XD
0:14 god damn, that's an impressive stat.
Except that high is nothing, they need to get to 27 kp/h (8km/s), so yea, and that thing is big, and heavy (the shuttle).
What season is this ?
Man, that voice is so good!
USE THIS THING IN DESERT REGIONS!!! THE OIL GUYS WOULD LOVE THIS TECH!! POINT IT OUT NOT DOWN IT WOULD RAIN BETTER AND FASTER!!!
ITS A ROCKET ENGINE YOU MORON, WATER IS MORE EFFECTIVE AT WATERING PLACES THAN ROCKET ENGINES ARE.
Don't you mean Space Shuttle main engine test?
My high school science teacher: All of the water on earth has been around for billions of years. There will never be any more.
HydroLox rocket engine: Hold my beer.
The two outer "tanks" are solid rocket boosters that consist of ammonium perchlorate composite propellant as the solid fuel.
hahaha . Nasa playing god.
Can they fix in that fuel tank into my ki-200 somehow? Thanks nasa.. Appreciate it! m.czcams.com/video/Krw7EsLwPMc/video.html soon i can go full throttle for more than 5 minutes then wooohh🍺🏆💥👑💥😄
@sageyash Simple chemical reaction from elementary school
2H2 + O2 -> 2H2O
awesome
when did this episode air?
Please send those engines to Africa or Thailand during drought
why would they need rocket engines?
***** Watch the entire video you sod.
+Girom Christian Calica think about it, Africa is a continent and who knows how many test sites are needed to make an impact, also, NASA is barley funded enough to do the little things they do now so its literally impossible in our generation and many after ours to do that
wow you're a geniuos, nice way to put water on africa!! i agree with you!
***** Are you serious or sarcastic, I can't tell
Now... IF I were a conspiracy theorist and then all these people yelling so much about climate change whilst not apparently thinking further than their nose...
2:05 cloud maker xD
thats so cool
Do you even vape bro? LMAO I need to sleep xD
looks like even nasa is part of the naysh
That's pretty cool!
I wonder if it could be used to help countries who suffer from dries.
It is more effective and cheaper to use truckloads of water than it is to use truckloads of cryogenic hydrogen and oxygen and multi billion dollar test facility and rocket engine.
@@starmanxvi
Damn! You replied to a comment from 13 years ago!
Nothing wrong with that, i just found it amusing. I had zero recollection of this video, or that comment!
Cheers, mate!
now that was cool
amazing
nice a rocket engine system that gives back to the environment
That's awesome
Brian Hill no kidding
I'm happy for that
Brian Hill me too
Trying to be eco friendly not a bad thing at all
@penitent2401 Clouds form when rising air, through expansion, cools to the point where some of the water vapor molecules "clump together" faster than they are torn apart by their thermal energy. Some of that(invisible)water vapor condenses to form(visible)cloud droplets or ice crystals.
Asia now is like it used to be here in America before we virtually eliminated particulate pollution starting more than 35 years ago.
Your third point is nonsense.
When new season will start?
POWER
Oh man I miss Top Gear
Yeah :')
why isnt california funding this? we could use the rain!
Because of the fuel consumption cost
+Skandranon Banefire Yep it is that strong and also the thrust is deflected in a special angle which scatters the force over a bigger surface to minimize the force. as far as I've understood that :S
+Getsome472 "fuel consumption cost"...Well to drill for crude oil, then filter out the junk, then filter it even more to a finer liquid such as diesel or petrol. Then shiping cost';s all the way to the pump comes to about $2.50 on the consumer end for a gallon....How much time and effort does it take to produce liq Hydrogen or Oxygen which isn't drilled out of the ground the last time i checked...Nor Shipped by enormous ships (tankers) across a ocean to the US, as it could be produced on the same site as that structure....So maybe $0.01 cents for a gallon of liquid Oxygen which we have plenty of btw.
526k gallons which is what 2 boosters and the fuel tank hold total on the shuttle, should come to about 5 grand is US dollars per launch.
Some how the price to make 2 of the most abundant and easiest attainable liquids on earth seem to cost a lot more then gas.
Before anyone mocks the $0.01 price..Just remember as you type it out what it is your breathing... Plus also makes up 2/3's of the earths surface. Which ironically is the 2 most abundant sources of fuel we have.
Hypothetically if you go down to the level of atoms. There is enough of the right atoms (more then every known star in the universe to date) in a person to produce the equivalent of energy that is needed to power every city on earth for thousands of years...
"The total cost of propellant or "rocket fuel" is $1,380,000" (from quora.com) I'm not really sure where you pulled the 5,000 dollars from. NASA even says per launch it costs over 400,000 dollars per launch on just fuel alone
+Getsome472 .....
that was very interesting :D
Nobody
Indian Villagers when they see rain every year : 2:38
Too bad he didn't heard the Saturn V....
+MK3424 At that distance the sound alone would have killed him almost immediately. Nobody would ever be able to get that close to something like an F1 engine or a Space Shuttle SRB.
+PiccoloNamek i don't understand the F1 refference. spectators are sitted just a few feet away from F1 cars every weekend. they are very loud (or they used to be before the new v6-turbo nonsense) but nothing a set of earplugs can't handle
+dimos k Thrust me... the V6 are as loud as the old ones....
MK3424
if you have personal experience, i can't argue with that. i haven't heard them from up close, it's just what i read and told by people who have been in F1 races last year.
what they told me is that, with the old V8 and even older V10-V12, it was impossible to sit on the starting grid and not cover your ears during the start of the race, while now its much more quiet.
MK3424
maybe it has to do with the frequency. i found an interesting article right now (my curiosity won't let me rest lol)
acousticengineering.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/are-formula-1-cars-too-quiet/
Thank god for NASA
Jules Dash Thank NASA for god.
+Jules Dash For thank NASA God.
dyslexic am little I a.
No.Thank science for NASA. "god" had nothing to do with it.
NASA spent million of dollars . Hundreds of men. Loud noise. And created a small cloud.. god creates clouds a million times bigger without any effort.. god is the greatest
which ep is it?
I'd listen to Jeremy Clarkson narrate paint drying. Also, cool video. :)
And people thing that shuttle launches are a leading cause of pollution
Or take the NASA “shilling” 🙄
@leedoyeon yes true in the boosters, how ever the video was the Fuel tank for the main shuttle which only has Liquid H and Liquid O
i want that speaker!
NASA = GOD
So there is it the evidence all the conspiracies are right they do geoengineering :)
tinfoil hat just 1 € crafted with love
I've never really been on the side on conspiracies, but now that I've seen this video czcams.com/video/zZmFcoBOAjU/video.html , I got a little anxious.. Or perhaps I've been brainwashed, but it's really scary
@@Juuzo video is removed. Surprise
what show is this?
THAT'S A GREAT POLLUTANT!
Glad to c everyone becoming woke. #2020
"JuSt a MixTuRe Of H and H2O"...
H and O*
what episode is this
cool rockets!