What Has NASA Done Ever for Us - The CMOS Image Sensor
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Some might think that NASA only makes things for space but there area great deal of things that it develops that end up being used here on earth far more often. 1 in every 1000 patents in the US is awarded someone working for NASA so it shouldn't come as a surprise to find out one of the most widely used devices in your smartphone, tablet and laptop, the digital camera was developed by NASA, this is the story of one of their mostly widely used inventions, the CMOS image sensor.
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"What Has NASA Done Ever for Us" should become a series
keeping the switched words of course
yes
Absolutely.
the image quality is quite good, but only if there is no ufo flying around, otherwise it magically turns to 1megapixel🤣
I was about to say the same thing!
We need a whole series on the topic of what space exploration has done for us
The list would be endless.
We need more than that, we need a total shift in the discourse around nasa funding. It would be such a massive economic benefit if we dumped enough money into building public space infrastructure like yesterday. The 10 year ROI would be insane if we started 3d printing shit in space for instance. We're getting there but too slow, much too slow.
@@chrstfer2452 Thank you. This was exactly the what I've started thinking this last few months.
@@Gnefitisis its definitely a growing realization amongst people with their heads not firmly inserted into their bums. Unfortunately that class doesnt include most lawmakers or mainstream media personalities, so the best we can do right now is discuss it widely and call our reps.
I think the question isn’t what space exploration has done for us but what has NASA done for human space exploration since the Apollo missions and the space shuttle. The space shuttle program was killed during the Obama administration, NASA had no replacement ready nor do they have one now. The momentum has passed from NASA to the private sector. NASA‘s success with Mars rovers from Spirit and Opportunity to Curiosity and Perseverance has been brilliant. But NASA can’t put a man on the ISS, let alone the moon or Mars. In that respect NASA went from being an expediter to a bureaucracy.
How many times have you heard someone complain, ' why do they waste so much money by shooting it all into space,' without understanding that it's only a few tons of chemicals, that all the money and expertise is still here on earth doing its job as it circulates through the economy and generating more products and ideas.
So, NASA gets some royalty money for every CCD sold?
@@ozzymandius666 Doesn't matter either way. Money spent on space and MILITARY pursuits pushes forward miniaturization and reliability technology for which there was, especially in the past, little commercial incentive for. For instance, what financial incentive was there to miniaturize the components of a CRT TV when the inside of the cabinet was mostly empty space?
You mean that all spacejunk isn’t dollar bills? 😀
@@winstonsmith478 I onces was tolded that the Chinese did not invented glass because they were satisfied with the use of porcelain.
@@winstonsmith478
That's not entirely true. Unfortunately most of the money is wasted or stolen. Just compare SpaceX to the big government contractors. SpaceX made much better rockets, much faster, and with a vastly smaller budget. If you compare Starship to the SLS, the difference is so gigantic, it's not even funny. The SLS is projected to cost 1 billion per launch and can fly twice a year, Starship projected to cost 1 million per launch and each of the thousands they plan to make should be able to fly multiple times a day. And SLS was meant to be cheap, as it is using existing Space Shuttle parts. The military isn't much better, they like to spend billions, or even trillions on weapon systems that never even go into service due to massive problems. Or if they do, they cost several times more than promised and don't perform as expected. It's a combination of incompetence and corruption.
When ever someone says "Why do we spend so much time and money to go to space when we have so many problems down here on Earth" I tell them for the same reasons you leave your house. To find solutions outside your house that you know you couldn't ever solve by staying in it.
I love that, I'll have to remember it...!
Space exploration is the excuse to government to siphon billions out of taxpayers pockets in name of science and technology. Just think about it. Corporations get your money to research new tech risk free. When they develop said new tech, for some space project at the request of NASA, do they pay you any royalties? Of course not. This has led to the destruction of markets and increased inequality.
@@MrFujinko I'll take the advancement of humankind then get back the cent NASA takes out of my check every year.
Great metaphor. Thanks for sharing!
@@MrFujinko It's incredible that you say this about NASA but not about the MIC, which has taken a significantly larger part of your tax money than NASA ever could. You are focussing on the wrong issue.
So glad the first thing i saw was that scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Would’ve been gutted if that wasn’t referenced in some way
Anything and everything in life can be referenced by quoting Monty Python
When I want to highlight a single contribution of the space program to humanity, I choose weather satellites. No, we can't control the weather, but we are no longer surprised by what occurs. Decent forecasting has saved us much more than the entire cost of the space program.
exactly. human spaceflight appeals to the imagination, but the bang for the buck is with instruments in orbit
Actually really liked this one. Could you turn this in a series?
Seconded, And not just for NASA either, tell the people what Roscosmos, JAXA, and every other space agency has given the world technologies that improve people's everyday lives.
Thirded
Some of the things that people commonly attribute to NASA were actually private sector inventions, but NASA gave them the demand and the market to develop the products, so sometimes things can bleed over into NASA the same way NASA projects can bleed over into civilian products. Velcro and Tang for example
Wow, I never realized that digital imaging technology goes back THIS far! As having photography as a hobby this video was very interesting to me. I started using a Fuji bridge camera in 2002 and switched to Canon DSLRs in 2004. After several Canon cameras I wanted a smaller & lighter package and switched to Sony ILCE cameras in 2015. It's amazing how far consumer electronics have come in the last 20 years... 😎👍
My first digital camera was a Kodak DC50 in 1997. It had a massive (for the time) 756×504 pixel 24bit color CCD sensor. It made my photography hobby so much cheaper - no more paying for film development and prints (unless I wanted a print). And having instant access to the pictures was a life changer for me. It's amazing to hear that this all came about because of NASA and JPL...
Fuji S1?
A much needed video. I’ve long had a theory that goes like this. . . In the 1950s, the Soviet Union’s lead in building huge rocket boosters was a known fact; indeed, Nikita Khrushchev’s reference to the first US satellite, launched January 31, 1958 as “grapefruitnik” due to its diminutive size compared to Sputniks 1 and 2 is a well remembered propaganda victory. What is NOT remembered is that because of the lack of launch capability, the USA was forced to learn how to miniaturize its rocket payloads. This led to the use of transistors in stead of vacuum tubes, and hence integrated circuits, without which the computing power of a smartphone would cover a few football fields. . .
Funny this is that the Russian rockets were only so big because they didn't know how to make a small nuclear bomb. Their bombs were bigger so needed much bigger rockets. And their guidance systems were not as good.
Titan was coming on line, with the first flight in 1958. That was a sizable ICBM. The follow on, Titan II in 1962, could put 3,600 kg (7,900 pounds) into Low Earth Orbit, and was used for the Gemini program.
Otherwise, work had started on the F-1 engine in the late 1950s, which would become the engine of choice of the first stage of the Saturn V.
@@rob66181 They did know how, they just didn't know for certain where it would land
@@Shaker626 Not what I've read, but sure. Who knows anyway.
@@rob66181 Actually, now that you do bring that up, the Soviets did have great difficulty in the 50s in getting miniature thermonuclear (not straight fission) warheads, so there may be some truth in that.
Micron Technology - now Crucial Technology - started off as a CMOS sensor company in the early 1980's. They mounted a lense in front of a decapped a DRAM chip and extended its pins via a ribbon cable socket that fed back to a true DRAM socket (DIP 16 pin) in your personal computer. A special driver and application was provided. To my knowledge this is the first time a personal computer could "see" and photograph anything. It was a big deal in the day.
Do I understand that correctly, they used a memory chip as a camera?
@@gustavgnoettgen - Yes - they did. And it worked well. Pure black and white - no grayscale if memory serves. (Pun intended)
@@dennisfahey2379 That's awesome!
For what it's worth, Micron still exists and is the parent company of Crucial Technology. Micron purchased Photobit in 2001 and later spun it off as Aptina.
@@terry5089 - I believe the rumor was it was funded originally by McDonald's Potato farmers looking to diversify. It's headquarters originally were in Boise Idaho - home of the Great American Potato (which came from Ireland originally)
The title should say, "ever done for us" 😉
Wow I misread that several times in a row.
Thank you for that. No one says "done ever"!!
Videos like this are a brilliant way to counter dismissing people who insist national space agencies are somehow worthless; something that's sadly all too common nowadays.
For us citizens they are worse than worthless. I'll be brief. They are an excuse to government rob you. Corporations don't like the risk of research. They lobby their way into some space project to get all the funds they need. At the end of the day they get what they want (intellectual property), the government get what it wants (robbing you), and the people are told to be happy that the space project developed so many new and wonderful technologies. The problem is the taxpayer will never receive the royalties of his "investment". This whole process led to the destruction of a lot of markets during the last century.
@@MrFujinko sike
CMOS sensors exist in two version. The one you have shown is the three transistors per pixel type; it converts the charge of the photodiode into a voltage in a staggered fashion, and creates an artifact on moving objects due to this "rolling shutter".
The five transistors per pixel type of CMOS sensor reads the charge of all lines of photodiodes at the same time - it has no "rolling shutter" and creates no artifacts. It has a lower resolution than the three transistors type, though.
The older CCD sensors are still used, because they have no rolling shutter and can keep higher resolutions at the same time, but they are power hungry and creates a blooming effect on strong light sources.
Thank you for the video,
Regards
That was even better than I expected! Well done! And well done to all those involved in this development.
Such a cool video! Really love this channel's thorough research presented in a way that doesn't talk down to the audience
I LOVE this video!! I hope you can make a SERIES of technologies that NASA brought to the world that we use everyday... things like VELCRO, the upside-down pen, Mylar, the computer on the Apollo missions, scratch resistant lenses, flame retardant/heat resistant materials, SOLAR CELLS, water filtration, air purifiers, AIRPLANE WINGLETS, freeze dried foods, CAT Scans, baby formula, THE JAWS OF LIFE, grooved pavement, (to help water runoff) MEMORYFOAM, resistance based workout equipment, (rubber-bands instead of weights, Boxflex rods, etc) INSULATION, Infrared Ear Thermometers, electronic airplane de-icing, LEDs, computer mouse, (allegedly) athletic shoes, Modern Food Safety guidelines, MUCH IMPROVED Tires, wireless headsets, shock absorbers for buildings, LASER EYE SURGERY, the Insulin Pumps, and OF COURSE everyone's FAVORITE NASA INVENTION: ***THE DUSTBUSTER!!!*** lmao
.... So I wanted to look through some lists of what inventions I would like to learn about, and because SO MANY just blew my mind that I had NO IDEA they were involved in, I may as well just list ALL the ones that I found lol... Maybe help you out with some of the work, Paul. :D I absolutely LOVE the videos you make, they are TOTALLY UP MY ALLY!!! So I figured since I'm in no position to help you financially, the least I could do is give you some ideas.... maybe do a few medium length video about 15 mins long with 3 'less impressive' inventions, along with ones with the entire video dedicated to the really good ones like you did here... ( I've heard once you hit the 10 minute mark.. or maybe it was 15, or even 8 minutes, then the ad/payment situation gets much better for the channel, but I'm not 100% on the details but this seems to be completely legit)
..I just wanted to poke a few ideas into your head bounce around in there so you can plan 2022 out :)
THANK YOU for EVERYTHING you have taught us, your videos are SO WELL DONE! Professional Quality FOR SURE!!! :D
Velcro was invented in 1941 by George de Mestral, a Swiss electrical engineer. He wondered why, when he went walking with his dog in the Alps, burdock seeds clung to his clothing and his to dog's fur. He found that the seeds were covered with small hooks, and he thought it could be turned into something useful. He patented it in 1955, so that was an invention that had absolutely nothing to do with NASA.
@@andrewwestgate2415 that's very interesting, I always thought velcro was a nasa invention too.
@@alexczech8468 Many of the inventions listed were not invented by NASA but were just assumed to be their creations. Mylar for instance was used by NASA to insutate their spacecraft, but it was invented by the DuPont company. The first practical LED was invented the Russian Oleg Losev in 1927. The first useful Solar Cell was invented in 1883 by the New York inventor Charles Kritts. Freeze drying was invented at the College De France in 1906.
Of the list of inventions given I managed to find 4 that NASA were definitely responsible for, they were, scratch resistant lenses, aeroplane winglets, memory foam, and infrared thermometers. They adopted and improved on others, such as the Insulin Pump, invented by Dr Arnold Kadish in 1963 (the origial was the size of a back pack), and they also developed a LED lighting array for growing plants. They have adopted many other products made by other commercial companies, but the simple fact is that not everything used by NASA was invented by them.
@@andrewwestgate2415 man that's fascinating! Always good to dispell some misconceptions, thanks so much for the in-depth info.
@@alexczech8468 You're welcome. I got most of the information trawling through Google. I mention that so that anyone who wants to check if I got my facts right will know where they came from. Hopefully I got everything right, if not I'm sure that someone will point out any errors I may have inadvertently made.
Thank you for this really nice video - it shows how important science and also space funding is.
Holy... It feels illegal to be this early
yeah
Just what I was thinking
The number of times I've heard people say this exact phrase. "Why are we spending so much money up there when we should be helping more people here on Earth". It drives me fucking insane. Especially because of how low the budget for space exploration really is.
Nasa 2020 Budget request: $22 Billion
US national defense budget 2020: $725 Billion
As quoted by my science teacher back in high school 8 years ago...
"For every dollar spent on research and development, the country and economy grows by 5 dollars."
Weird syntax in the title... should read "What has NASA ever done for us".
Thanks for another interesting video!
Don't forget the question mark. 🙂
Surely it's a mistake
@@papadave3084 This happens to questions that become a cliche, they often lose than question mark while retaining the question syntax.
@Deipatrous
Oh, okay. I guess I didn't realize "What has NASA done ever for us" was a clichéd question.
Been following your channel for awhile now. Great stuff!
Paul, a wonderful explanation of digital photography without getting bogged down in the politics or economics of the topic. Thank
NASA has been making contributions for the benefit of mankind for a long time but the usual ignorant people don't see or understand what is going on. These people would be well served to educate themselves and learn something instead of complaining that they don't have everything that they want. This channel is an excellent place for them and all of us to start. You have created a wonderful site with all of the very outstanding videos you have produced. You clearly have added to the education of the common man by doing what you do. Thanks for this great video. As far as the camera systems are concerned, NASA needed smaller video cameras and this led to the development of the 1 inch Vidicon tube. This was so successful that it was shortly later adopted for the medical profession and was used with image intensifiers to produce video images of fluoroscopic X-Ray exams for patient diagnosis. I was working for Siemens Corp of Germany in the medical systems in the 1970's when this became a standard item and this was all due to another technology pioneered by NASA. They have done quite a lot.
If you really want to “educate” yourself then go work for Nasa and you will see it’s not what you think…
@@frank8534 Mind explaining that in detail? What do you know about it? Do you have literally any evidence or proof or are you one of those ignorant people Mike was mentioning?
@@brody3166 do you work at any of the Nasa facilities? You would know what I’m talking about if you do. Nasa is just like every other government agency. Bloated and inefficient.
4:58 super happy to see bucket brigade chips mentioned! 😀
As always- thank you for your content sir ! I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy and certainly successful 2022 :)
I live in Brazil,
Agriculture would be hundreds if not thousands of times less efficient without satelites.
Climate, temperature, GPS, monitoring, and other satelites are essential for us to produce food for the entire world.
Great story of digital sensors and technology!Thanks!
This is my favorite video of yours thus far!
Hey Hey.
Thank's soo lot for this historical time capsule. I remember in '80 and '90 Period's when I worked in multimedia, how much we were looking for the latest in CCD technology in the field of professional printing. I remember 1983 having tested for NIKON Japan, a scanner with 2.5 million CCDs per linear centimeter. I had a ''WoW'' inside. The time it took to scan a single 35mm frame was 15 to 25 minutes depending on the color charts. Everything took place in 3 or 4 scanning passes depending on whether the image was used in shades of gray or in CMYK for printing in 4 process colors.
When I finished working in 2010, this identical operation lasted a fraction of a second. Thank you for this overview of a technology which, today, is commonplace in the eyes of people like the evolution of computing.
Thank you. Keep up the excellent work!
The reading of ccd reminds me of something from my youth, back in the 80s. I read lots of hack where you remove the top cover of a 4116 dynamic ram chip. You fill the memory with 1s. And when a photon falls on a cell, it would discharge that particular cell and you read out the memory and thus you get a rudimentary 'ccd'ish. Using 'refresh' rate (reading the memory) you get different level of light intensity.
Alas the 'pixel' cells wasn't perfectly aligned for being a digital sensor - it was four oblong blocks of dram. The picture had black line down the middle of it.
Still it gave hobbyist a cheap 'ccd' to look at the world, ok in black and white.. Lol
Tech we take for granted today imagine what we will take for granted in 100 years.
Great video, this is one of the most consistent channels of the ones I watch on CZcams.
Never change your opening montage or the music! I love you Paul Shillito 😎
Everyone knows the most important NASA invention was freeze dried ice cream.
Paul, love your videos. I've often wondered why NASA or the government never made any money licesning the considerable technology it has developed. All the grants and loans it has made should entitle it to some measure of intellectual property ownership, yet NASA/government never arrange to receive a dime. Does the U.K, Canada or Australia ever arrange to get licenses for the technology their countries develop? This would provide for a very insightful video. Keep up the good work!
I don't know about NASA, but about 20% of France's CEA (nuclear energy research state organization) comes from licencing patents, selling services and companies they own shares of. For a few years, they have had a plan to fund 10 to 15 start-ups a year.
That approach makes a lot of sense in France with our history of government owned industries and direct investment in new technologies. I'm not sure it would mesh well with US political ideas of avoiding as much as possible government intervention in the economy.
Since NASA is publicly funded (but not a law enforcement) agency, everything they produce, every photo, every bit of data, every patentable invention, is in the public domain.
I know that when I was working as a student at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited at Chalk River, AECL created three spin-off companies each year (around the 1990s). One of the technologies developed was the use of eddy currents on metal surfaces to look for hairline fractures - something that became important for aircraft manufacturing. AECL had a policy of allowing spin offs. The TASCC laboratory which had a Van DeGraaf tandem linear accelerator feeding into a Superconducting Cyclotron (the cyclotron had a 20 metric ton magnet in with niobium-titanium windings that went into superconducting state at 4 degrees Kelvin. The windings carried 2000 amps of current and generated a 5 Tesla magnetic field), did work for other institutions - one was for the University of Laval looking at hardened integrated circuit designs where wafers would be bomarded by radiation generated by the facility and the designs evaluated. The TASCC facility alone achieved getting 40% of its funding from outside of the government purse. Despite the concentrated effort in trying to secure work as much as possible from outside government sources, the TASCC laboratory was shut down, due to government cuts and much of the equipment was sold off to labs in the US. A shame really - it was the only facility in Canada that could produce beams of ions from Hydrogen to Uranium with rated MeV per nucleon. So much talent was concentrated at Chalk River, but AECL today is a shadow of its former self. All of the pure science activity is gone, and what's left is basically servicing and engineering support for the CANDU reactors. One of the most amazing places I every worked at.
@@quantummotion it's always such a tragedy when a government closes or defund something lile that. I. This case especially, the economic return through the private sector more than makes up the cost.
Also, I love the idea of using induction to detect fractures, it's so elegant. It makes me wonder if we could use microwaves or THz to test metal grain size and boundaries...
@@glasstuna Yes, and I don't think I have to tell you that this is quite the boon for independent launch companies (not that I am against them) with CEOs pretending to be Tony Starks!
Your videos never fail when it comes to the quality of what you do! Your research is done very well. You use a plethora of different images and video clips in your videos. Your narration and timing is impeccable! Some channels try to rush through reading everything and can make it difficult for someone who has an accent to others. I’ve never had a difficult time understanding what you say. This goes back to your narrating ability I mentioned earlier! Clean, crisp and steady! Keep up the great work!
Without the CMOS image sensor, we wouldn't have the lovely _Jello-cam rolling shutter effect._
Whenever I see a helicopter with "floppy" rotors dus to this effect my first instinct is to think OMG...
We need a whole series on this topic, from velcro to this.
I just thank them for freeze-dried ice-cream !
You stole what I was going to say!
What a lot of people do not know. The vast majority of inventions is not done by NASA, scientists or by government labs, but in middle and big size companies. No matter what how simple the things they produce may seem, they have allways an own lab were several people are working on making existing things better or inventing new stuff. I once worked in a company that produce shower heads. Even they have a lab, where they are working on optimizing the waterflow for maximum shower enjoyment. It's not rocket science, but it's something. :)
Awesome. Thank you.
About 15 years ago I worked for a semiconductor company making the equivalent of 35mm colour sensors. I think there were about 18 chips per 200mm wafted.
Lasers are another invention with roots in science and cosmology, which are essential to today's society-integrated technology. The internet would probably not exist yet without lasers, no CD players, no laser engravers...the list goes on.
Thanks for the Monty Python reference. Too often their contributions to civilization are overlooked. This would make for an informative video on its own merits. Great video my friend.
NASA doesn't just do space mission. It's the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. They perform most of their research work in aviation, making it safer.
Lol
@@dreamlover7681 Eric Taylor is 100% correct. I don't know whats funny about that.
@@hawkdsl we have the right to smile and laugh at least for now. 😆 🤣 and it is funny to think they care about people.
@@dreamlover7681 Oh.. I see. Your a nut. Enjoy that.
@@hawkdsl lol 😆 😂 🤣
Another one is Surface Mount Technology, which they pioneered for the navigation computers for Saturn 5 ... That was RIDICULOUSLY far ahead of its time.
1st class...thankyou for sharing
Wikipedia says: The first actual digital still camera was developed by Eastman Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975. He built a prototype (US patent 4,131,919) from a movie camera lens, a handful of Motorola parts, 16 batteries and some newly invented Fairchild CCD electronic sensors.___ and he is still around today. FB
Love your videos Paul. They’re always very interesting and well made.
ARPA/DARPA definitely has the lead in commercially applicable technology. And for far less money. DARPA only gets $3.5 Billion. NASA gets $23.3 Billion.
In my career in television and video tech, I have had the pleasure to work with all the components mentioned in this program. Thank you for the excellent thumb nail sketch on the subject. Good job!
I will say that NASA use to do a great deal of great work. But, recently, some of the contractors, lobbyists and politicians have been seriously gaming the system for their own personal benefit and stealing shamelessly from the tax payers.
Privatizing gains and socializing losses.
Those private sector abusers are also polluting space to the point that Kepler syndrome is less a possibility than an inevitability.
Paul were you involved in youtube in its infancy? If you had a 20" monitor the YT channel would come up in about a 6 inch little box! It was like TikTok loaded with silliness. Now you can learn to build your own jet ski from scratch on here if you want! LOL I have subscribed to Magellan and Curisosity stream. I am FASCINATED with science, and all technology!!🧡 Thank you once more.
Why watch tiktok that shit ruins your brsincells
@@CommentFrom I don't.
"like TikTok loaded with silliness" - A tautology if there ever was one.
MORE OF THIS!
Absolutely fascinating! NASA's fingers in our actual life today could be a regular feature. Thank you.
What's also interesting is that Canon, also took the CCD design to develop the very first fully digital scanner/copier based on a microchip sensor, I believe the first working prototype was functional in 1973. Before that digital scanning systems existed but were based on analogue sensor components, like vacuum tubes.
Thank you very much for that video. I really can't stand these accusations under science articles on social media anymore. In the past, I tried to show those people how scientific research directly benefits everyone, but I really god fed up with it. Those people are just too stubborn and don't even seem to try to learn anymore, which is rather sad. It's just about complaining. So I really appreciate your effort here.
I'm from 1961, in Italy all apollo missions were broadcast, more than in US, and i followed them all. First images were kind of shadows, but a few missions later the images came much clearer. The commentators said the new cameras used an Eye sensor, I wandered what could it be, surely was a definition created by the press release department. Still i would like to know what was the technology, I think a much improved analog tube.
You read my mind with that intro clip!
Splitters!
Excellent Content 👍
NASA gave us the computer mouse too. Douglas Engelbart and his team invented the mouse and presented in 1968 at the "Mother of all Demos" as part of a NASA grant championed by Bob Taylor. In addition to his post at NASA, Taylor was well known for his initiating ARPANET in 1966 based on many of his boss J.C.R. Licklider's ideas (ARPANET of course goes on to become internet itself).
If all that wasn't influential enough, Taylor later leaves his government post to go into the private sector at Xerox Parc hiring many of the folks from Engelbart's NASA funded team to build the Alto computer in 1973, which could easily be credited for the first real modern GUI operating system. The Alto famously so inspired Steve Jobs after seeing a demo of it at Xerox, that he went about poaching as many of the people from Xerox as he could to help him build the Lisa 10 years later (which goes on to become the Macintosh in 1984).
Doug and his team were first funded by the US military and NASA funding came along a few years later. It's fair to say that taxpayer funded agencies in general were vital for his work.
I had a government job right out of college and it allowed me to grow as an engineer. I found the C programming language there and it has been my bread and butter for my entire career, K&R and others really created a great elegant language. I love learning about anything to do with space (the voyagers etc.). That being said I saw people spend their entire careers working for the government doing basically nothing but they can't be satisfied with that, they have to interfere with people that want to get real work done. Many of course did outstanding work but honestly there are a lot of people working for the government that do worse than nothing.
Adjusted for inflation, NASA's whole 60 years of budgets have costed 1.2 trillion dollars. That's 1.2 trillion dollars for 60 years of massive innovations and important scientific discoveries.
Thank You 🙏✌️
We need a whole series of videos on what NASA / ESA have done for us. Nobody remembers these accomplishments. And so many who incorrectly claim NASA is just wasteful amounts of money while people die of thirst, totally not informed of how better water purifications systems and other life-saving tech literally came from the Space Race, really need better information.
Fuller disclosure my wife works for ESA - but I am also evangelising the stories of accomplishments for humanity both ESA and NASA have given us. I'd be glad to help you if there's anything I could contribute towards such a series.
This should be a whole series. Even if some of the videos are shorter, or you combine a couple of related topics.
Car airbags, as I understand it, are an application of the shuttle booster ignition system, engineered by Thiokol, into a device that we all drive around with today that has saved countless lives and injuries.
Airbags predate the existence of NASA and modern ones used sodium azide as the gas generating charge. Shuttle SRB igniters use boron potassium nitrate as the initial charge which then lights a much larger quantity of TP-1178 propellant (ammonium perchlorate oxidizer, spherical aluminum powder fuel, ferric oxide burn catalyst, poly butadiene acrylic acid acrylonitrile liquid terpolymer HB binder, and epoxy curing agent) which powers the main igniter that sets off the boosters themselves.
Excellent use of Life of Brian.
I have 12 CMOS sensors spread across the devices I use regularly... Neat
My favorite NASA originated thing is the battery operated drill. Black & Decker built the first for Apollo.
According to NASA's technology innovations website they didn't develop it for Apollo. Black & Decker created the first cordless drill in 1961 which was sold to industry and in the mid-60s they were contracted by Martin Marietta to improve the design and develop other tools that were suitable for use in space. A lot of NASA's work was about improving existing products and ideas rather than creating totally new ones.
It would be fun to have a series on inventions that people think came from NASA but didn't. It would be interesting looking at the real history and there's quire a few - just from comments here I'd include: GPS, microwave ovens, velcro, teflon/non-stick pans, integrated circuits, microchips, the internet, WD-40, cordless tools, CT/MRI scanners, solar cells, air and water purification, Mylar, the ballpoint pen, microfibre cloth, freeze dried food and no doubt quite a few other things.
How about a video about the importance and use of remote sensing satellites that NASA pioneered. They get used for everything from disaster recovery to crop planning and resource use. It's an amazing story.
As others are saying please turn this into a series people have seemed to forget that Funding Nasa helps everyone not just researchersaa
there is a popular myth that researchers are living it up like Kim Kardashian on public grant money, all the while parroting nonsense theories while the Galileo's of our time are kicked out of the system
I understand that crackpots who believe themselves to actually be these Galileo's would be fond of this myth, but not why it appeals to pretty much every Trump voter.
Its so annoying and frustrating when you hear someone complaing how we waste money on space exploration. People should really snap out of the ignorance. We need to keep sharing the information. Wonderful video as usual
Switch-mode power supplies. Used everywhere now.
Back in the mid '80s I was building LN2 cooled Dewar CCD cameras. Back then, 2k x 2k pixels was a BIG one. Fun times.
Would love to see a video on SpaceLabs Medical which developed and supplied the biomedical telemtry equipment for Gemini, offshoots of which are used to remotely monitor patients in a variety of settings from EMS, hospitals to home.
The last time I was this early, my wife said we could try again
We need this for everything
I was working in the CCTV industry in the early 80's when CCD first hit the market. At the time RCA dominated the analog video camera market with cameras whose imaging device was a vacuum tube called a Vidicon. These required regular replacement during the life of the camera. Makes me wonder if RCA passed on the idea of developing a solid state camera that never wears out the way HP would pass on a new printer technology that used no ink! ;)
3:28 Eugene Lally ?? Saw that and instantly thought "Lally Column"... used in buildings everywhere.
The modern tape measure owes it's ability to self support to NASA. That cupped strip of metal was developed to deploy flexible solar panels with it's ability to unroll itself.
I think the curled tape measure pre dates the panel deployment.
My sister got her masters in ME on an Air Force ROTC scholarship.
She has a video of a vomit comet 0G test using a chopped up store bought tape measure in panel deployment. This was in the mid 80s.
I wonder when NASA develops a reliable way to tell "its" from "it's" … Oh, wait, that already exists! It's called "proofread your damn text before you send it, you moron"!
It's sad how many folks are unaware of the technology that came from (and still comes from) space exploration. Plus NASA's budget only seems high until you compare it to the US military budget.
or how much is spent on bank bailouts.. my country, Austria, spent around €14 billion (!) on bailing out a bank. (Austria is a small country, so that's quite a sum..)
i think the James Webb telescope costs roughly the same. (i heard it cost $10 billion)
i'm sure bank bailouts contribute more to the economy and civilization tho (...avoids eye contract...)
Curious Droid has done lots to my knowledge.
Great video and perfect intro! What's most amusing for me in the 21st century is that many of the folks who deride NASA frequently do so whilst using a piece of tech that quite likely wouldn't exist WITHOUT NASA. 😄😄😄
Why isn't the title "What Has NASA Ever Done for Us?"
Unless I'm dense "Done ever for us" doesn't make too much sense.
Amazing that now a phone can produce a better image than most film cameras in the 90’s.
proper film cameras had way.. way.. way better optics than any phone have noe, and proper film has/had 8k+ relative resolution, so.. not really.
@@Agarwaen yeah but most of us did not have proper camera's
Keep it up!
Mr. Shillito's shirts are secretly visual jammers against being recorded by CMOS-powered digital cameras, like 'zebra' camo on prototype cars.
Somehow, I suspect the digital camera might have been able to been developed without NASA.
They did it was the CCD Digital Camera. But that had a lot of problem thus we upgraded to CMOS.
@@Neojhun CCDs are still in use and worked just fine even for things like DSLRs until not that long ago. CMOS has certain advantages in things like fabrication cost, readout speed, and reduced need for support electronics that make it attractive for consumer imaging applications, especially in mobile devices. I suspect that Eric Fossum would have invented the CMOS sensor anyway at some point, but it might have been a few years later.
@@trolleriffic I have a CCD camera from 2007, Panasonic Lumix FZ50. It was right after that the switch over happened. By the way that camera has realy nice image quality and looks even better than new smartphones. Just that it's massive big device.
Great video. I was in High School 1970 -74 and saw an open reel to reel digital video unit that amazed me. The school used it to video basketball games. Was black and white but I wanted to mess with this thing so bad to see what could be done. Imagine, no film to buy... is what I thought. : ) That left the door open for experimenting a lot without waste of film but alas, I could not use this thing.
Was not digital, but analog
@@GianniBarberi ah yes, my mistake. : )
I was wondering what practical use are the heat tiles on the space shuttle. It seems like they can do a lot but I never saw a use for them. Maybe putting hot pans on them in the kitchen?
Please do a video on underground nuclear testing
Anyone notice the stock footage guys eyes bulging near the beginning lol 0:49
Thank you for an informative & engaging episode re NASA Pixel Dev. Add’l NASA research benefits for biz & consumers: mylar, air & water purification, MRI /CAT Scan tech, and VR ideation /tech concept.
Mylar was in use before NASA even existed, as were air and water purifiers. MRI and CT scans weren't NASA spinoffs, and VR didn't originate at NASA although they did play a role in its development.
A great video as always. I imagine NASA had a big hand in improving Solar cells, but whether that led to our cheaper versions, I couldn't say.
Bell Labs invented the first practical silicone solar cell in 1954, while under contract with, and funded by, NASA to do research into solar cells.
@@lordgarion514 I hate Oops! 😄
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Me too, thanks. I edited it back to the correct millennium.🤓
Sad thing is, I proof read. 🤣
@@lordgarion514 That's quite an achievement given that NASA didn't exist until 1958! NACA existed back then of course, but I haven't seen anything to suggest they were behind the Bell Labs work - it was a purely internal venture to create a power source that could be deployed in remote locations to provide electricity for telephone systems. A few years later the military and NASA realised the usefulness of the technology for spacecraft.
NASA is like an unsung hero when it comes to freely sharing their patents and technology. We should be really grateful that they do all this for the benefit of all humankind.
do they share them freely tho? i thought they liscence them to private companies?! ...it's possible i'm misinformed
I knew NASA solved many problems with spaceflight that resulted eventually in consumer products. I did not know they were originators of digital photography which makes sense. Once they got it started others realized its potential in commercial and consumer products.