There is something incredibly calming yet a bit terrifying about those monuments of human ingenuity and craftsmanship wandering for billions of years without being affected by whatever happens on earth. Makes you wonder what their distant future looks like and would they stumble upon something eventually. I'm specifically talking about the 5 probes.
Imagine they amount of debris 100 or 200 years from now if we can't find a way to clean them up. I have heard various space agencies working on methods so we can avoid this very issue in the near future.
@@Peanutdenver There's the danger of one satellite (or a bit of debris therefrom) hitting another, causing an explosion into hundreds or thousands of smaller pieces, all travelling at thousands of metes per second. One of those pieces hits another satellite... and we have a chain reaction. ETA: It's called "Kessler Syndrome" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome Once that happens, we'll need armour plating or deflector shields on anything we want to reach orbit. >
@@dkevans I've heard and i'm wondering how big of a project it is going to be to get this "space junk" collected, or at least the pieces which are close to coming into contact with functional satellites. I just imagine tens of thousands of nickel sized to many meters in height debris flying around and how tough it'll be to grab just one.
when I think about it I cry a little. not kidding. it's pretty intense that they'll most likely still be in motion long after humanity makes it's exit.
Definitely agree ! Easily comprehended content, wonderful British accent and great taste in outrageous shirts ! It's funny how we in the USA adore the British accent after we kicked them out so long ago. I hope they have a successful run after shedding the socialist burden of Europe !
I've never really been deep into space and astronomy but this channel has a covered a load of highly interesting subjects besides space and I often share all the videos with my Dad who's been a space boffin his whole life. The production values and scripts of this channel are some of the best work around on TH-cam and material like this actually has the capacity to threaten most TV productions in many areas except for the sheer amount of money that big companies can invest and recoup. Regarding the subject of this video, I've always had an interest in the increasing blanket of space waste, where it's removal or recycling appears to have been an after thought, but thankfully there are slim measures to help deal with it by natural collision with entities to ensure it eventual breakdown yet is still far from a perfect solution. Keep up the great work.
NOTHING BUT UNPROVEN UNSUBSTANTIATED GARBAGE CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE .......... ONE ........... SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT PROVES ANY OF THE THEORIES THAT YOU BELIEVE IN TO BE TRUE???😒
THE EARTH IS FLAT AND STATIONARY THIS IS NOT A MASTERPIECE THIS IS A PIECE OF SHIT PROPAGANDA FILM WITH ABSOLUTELY ZERO EVIDENCE TO BACK ANYTHING SAID IN THE FILM. YOU HAVE ZERO EVIDENCE FOR ANYTHING YOU BELIEVE IN DOES NOT NOT BOTHER YOU???😒
@Bmw EM THAT COMMENT LETS ME KNOW YOU WATCH A LOT OF TV PROGRAMMING 🤔🤔 I DON'T BELIEVE I. YOU BAAL EARTH THEORY.......DO YOU HAVE ANY SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS THAT PROVE ANYTHING OF YOU THEORIES?????
The quality of these videos is astounding. Thank you so much! I was surprised you didn't mention the failed Venera 8's impending return to Earth, given that that one was designed to land on Venus and will probably survive atmospheric reentry due to its shielding.
FWIW: IF aerospace propulsion ever becomes cheap enough - or *someone* is willing to put up the *$$$* - I think it would be *very interesting* if someone could rendezvous with some of these very old inoperative satellites {or even the Apollo 10 lunar module Ascent stage} to examine them and see what the long-term exposure to space has done to them. Perhaps even bring one or more of the smaller ones back to Earth.
Luke Freeman It’s a idea that we could build a ship designed to eject nuclear weapons behind it and explode at a safe distance but still close enough to push the ship.
@@alpham777 yeah, I know what it is thanks, but what the hell has that got to do with literally anything? Data showed a nuclear pulse craft would be both hugely capable and physically huge... not really a solution to catching a small probe in deep space.
These old machines are amazing! hats off to the engineers who are probably still tracking them and decoding their data! regards the junk we have up there at the moment: I used to be into astroimaging, I had a 200mm Newtonian telescope with a HEQ5 goto mount which would track stars and planets, often while looking through the eye piece I would see sats go by and sometimes 2 at once in different orbits. So.....not only are we making a mess on land down here on earth but we're making a mess up there! As a race we can't pat ourselves on our backs for the mess we've made!
@@skotiskiller hah. You couldn't possibly be more wrong. Not only am I sure that you've been personally affected by something that had some research component influenced by what we've learned from satellites I'm also sure at the very least you've gotten benefit from the satellites we use for weather and traffic monitoring.
@ArcturanMegadonkey I was amazed by how close the stuff in geostationary is. We're the first thing on earth to actually place stuff there and it has only taken us a few decades to clutter it all up. That is a ridiculously short time in geological scale. It's rather worrisome for the future it seems.
@@SpydersByte seeing it with your own eyes is amazing when looking through a telescope! you don't see any shapes just round blobs going by...one evening I lost count how many sats I saw but when you see 2 passing together or in opposite directions it's mind boggling
@@ArcturanMegadonkey yea that sounds awesome, would love to see it! I saw the ISS fly by during the eclipse in that SmarterEveryDay video and that was cool as hell.
Another excellent video. Answers every question as it enters my mind. I love Voyager 1 & 2, I feel we all live with them and their journey hasn't even begun.
Paul, I have watched every video you make, some many times over. i am dumbfounded at the high level of research and degree of quality you are producing. It is actually one of the greatest things I love on the internet. You are a truly decent human being for sharing your love of knowledge with the world. Thanks and keep inspiring us.
@@paulmakinson1965 so ..not content in turning our planet into a shit hole down here.. we've now turned Space into one as well .. it's rather shameful really, when you come to think of it, but then, Satellites are now such an essential part of our technical age and communications it's difficult to know what to do about all that junk up there now I suppose.
Coldeb 89 What is your solution to this then? It’s part of growing, we’ve barely been into space for any amount of time and honestly it’s not as bad as it would appear on those images which definitely aren’t made to scale. I can’t speak for the Russians and Chinese but at least the Americans have been much more concerned about what they leave in space and that is progress. It’s the same thing on earth, we are much more conscious of how we treat our planet than we did 50 years ago. We aren’t perfect yet but it’s progress and we’re well on our way. There are already talks of plans on how to bring down some of the space junk, with lasers or nets. Once technological advances enough and space flight is cheaper and more readily available I suspect we will see some actual clean up efforts.
@@mcearl8073 Me?... oh I haven't got a solution. ..I'll leave all that to the NASA guys and gals .. but I have seen on the TV that they are looking at it seriously and are working on a clean up solution. ..so, no need for the likes of me at all .. 😂😂
Dear Paul Shillito, Can you please make a video about you and your crew? I would really like to know what got you into making these videos and who you are!
Depressing? Just think that the farthest and longest reaching effort by man is one dedicated entirely to science and trying to understand our universe.
We're discussing present times though, not 4000 years down the road, the problem is REAL, right now... so, do something to clean the space garbage now, or suffer a catastrophe (inevitably) later, the choice is ours.
@@honkhonk8009 Well, it is much of a deal now. Think we just throw stuff up in space? There's a reason we can't just launch anything we want everyday. It's a huge amount of space for tiny things in orbit but an orbital plan is required in permits to fly. It's like flying on a personal plane. Sure you can just up and go anytime as long as you don't mind getting occasionally yelled at by towers or being "escorted" by the Air Force.
When I think of Voyager 1 and 2 I always have a feeling of what could be called space nostalgia. Btw: as always again a video of top notch quality. Thanks for the upload...
Please never stop making these. The only channel I have set to alert on new content. Such excellent presentation, and well written. Usually I can find something annoying about a presenter, but literally no complaints. Will contribute ASAP!
""although they would be long dead they could quite reasonably be expected to outlive the human race and the even the earth itself" these words really shook me....
This type of content with it's awesome level to detail, research and production values makes me ever so glad to have "cut the cord" years ago so worth it.
@@dougankrum3328 YES, I agree. not all that junk burns up in the stratosphere, on re-entry. a little dangerous. Maybe funny ,and exciting to some.👩🚀🛰🚀☮🇺🇸
@@dougankrum3328 SPACE,, is so cool. I'm the big hero of Ed White, Gus Grissom, Robert Chaffee, I love the first video of the spacewalk 1965. of Ed White. pretty cool. I fight with the flat-earthers all the time. I give them so much proof. have a good day .thank you for your comment. pretty cool. Work on Saturday bummer👩🚀🔭📡📹🇺🇸☮👍
Dude, this video just like everyone else on this channel was a show !!!! Really enjoyed. What was said at the very end of the video about the Voyager spacecraft was really epic.
Transit 5b-5(US military SAT) is a cool story. Put up in the 60s worked for 19days but stopped responding to commands afterwards and is still sending telemetry data 50 years later on 136.650Mhz. If you have a capable radio and receiver and search for its position online and wait for it to pass over you, you can still pick up telemetry. There are several TH-cam videos, mostly Russian.
The amateur radio satellite OSCAR 7 was launched in 1974. When the batteries failed, it stopped working. However a few years ago the batteries deteriorated so much that they went open circuit, allowing the solar panels to power the satellite again...so when the satellite is oriented correctly with the sun, it's now usable again.
@@paulsengupta971 That's really cool, I've heard of that SAT but never knew the backstory. Transit 5b-5 had a nuclear reactor but if source is right it died a long time ago and some solar cells are still powering it today.
@@paulsengupta971 Apparently in th dark period it was still somewhat functional and Polish anticommuinst opposition was using it for communication which makes the story even greater for me since I am Polish.
@@nickjenkins536 I absolutely agree. The remainder of the cloth from which the shirt was made was not destroyed, never to be repeated. It cannot, therefore, be unique. I know language changes over time, but the devaluation of "unique" is truly sad. The word is unique and we have no replacement that means "one of a kind".
That last idea about the Voyager craft (and others) 'outliving' the human race has always intrigued me. An advanced intelligence intercepts and recovers it, retraces it's path back to us, visits us only to discover...eden. A post human world as it looked before we evolved. Wonderful sci-fi.
Am I the only one that thinks we need to come up with plan to clean up some of the space debris in orbit? Something like a space trash truck or something else. Any ideas or suggestions? This needs to be done before it's too late. If that debris gets too expansive, it may become impossible to launch new spacecrafts and satellites in the near future. Just an idea. Great video, keep up the good work. Have a nice day/night.
It would be cool if they left the voyagers floating forever and future generations can visit it like a field trip. They would make a museum around it as it floats to Sirius, kind of like the Smithsonian in DC. The voyagers belong to continue their journey forever but still deserve to be in a museum; this accomplishes both!
@@memesfromdeepspace1075 Voyagers use RTG isotope generators but they are in deep space. Anyway, there were some accidents involving scrap-yards, it happened that someone dumped Cobalt-60 radiotherapy device and that is not only once, it happened in India and Thailand. That thing is extremely dangerous because it directly emits gamma rays and there were few deaths as result.
@@i_smoke_ghosts Saturn V originally had 4 main stages with the final third stage having been the fourth stage at some point. The original designations stuck and iterations (Blocks) of those stages where numbered alphabetically A-Z so the Saturn stages are as flown S-IC, S-II and S-IVB, S-III having been dropped. The Saturn V blocks where designated as follows C1-C5, the number referring to the amount of F-1 engines. For instance C-2 was supposed to have a smaller diameter two engine first stage, a second stage with 4 J-2 engines and the S-IVB with 6 RL-10 engines instead of one J-2 (higher ISP but still lower thrust than single J-2 powered S-IV). The C-5 is the Saturn we know and love.
just think the earth orbits almost as fast 66600 mph,but then rockets at a half a trillion mph through fake space.I'm getting dizzy thinking of how much the fake pear is spinning, circling,and rocketing.I actually can'y feel any movement whatsoever,weird.
Dear Wisconsin Trout, do you believe that the microcosmic world exists? Do you have trouble contemplating the size of bacteria, blood cells, neutrons or electrons? Are you, like me, awed that microsurgery is performed by people who live among us? Science takes us all on a wild ride. Don't keep fighting it. The universe is totally awesome & fantastic. The more you learn the more you realize how much more there is to discover! Yeah its kinda scary but also exciting beyond belief!
@@mikesaler1038 Yes ,true science is great.Biology,chemistry,engineering.But when it comes to spinning water balls at a 1000 mph,orbiting 66600 mph while rocketing a half a trillion mph through fake space,LOL.What you people don't understand is science can be proved by demonstrating experiments and repeating them.You guys make unsubstantiated, unprovable,claims based on theory not facts.That's why it's called pseudoscience.So as soon as you can prove gravity,curved water,and spinning balls in fake space ,i rest my case.
Curious Droid - thank you for another excellent presentation! It is so refreshing to listen to such a learned person such as yourself on the topic of space exploration. Keep up the good work, and I look forward to your future presentations!
I have been following your channel for some time and I don't understand why you don't have over a million + followers. Your videos are so informative and the pictures, videos and animations make sure the videos are easy to understand, keep it up!
So glad I found this channel!! TH-cam needs to push this channel!! Well done Sir!! I learn something new each time I watch a different episode! Thank you for your contribution!!
@@anngo4140 - Well, there's delta vee, but it's Saturn Five. It's funny, but I can read Roman numerals without any trouble, but my older brother, who studied calculus, still peers at a movie copyright and can't read it. smh
Thing is if you put Roman numerals alongside Latin alphabet without a space they cease to be numerals. So Eye Vee is correct. if you wanted 4B they should have written it IV- B then any academic would have picked up on it, otherwise it's an assumption and you know what they say about 'to assume' 🤗
paul i just have to tell you something. i watch a shit ton of youtube on a daily basis and i feel like ive seen every single video on yt there is but your channel is by far the best ive subscribed to and thats not even taken into account that you do all the research and editing yourself. i am genuinely astonished by every single video you release and i always learn something new. your voice is so relaxing to listen to - THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for doing all the hard work. without your channel id be missing something in my life. let me check that patreon thingy mate...
I thought it falls down back to Earth and what doesn't get burnt up falls down as debris straight through the roof of your £300,000 mortgaged home with no-one claiming responsibility and the insurance companies not coughing up declaring it as "an act of god".
Actually under the Outer Space Treaty & Space Liability Convention , all owners of space hardware are responsible for damage caused by their space hardware/debris.... so if your home is damaged by space debris, you could take the company responsible to court.....
@@davedogge2280 100%. Houses get hit regularly by small fragments. If you're in Kazakhstan or China, houses have been hit by entire booster stages (in China it was fully fueled).
I just recently played one of your video's and since then I cant stop watching your Chanel. I didn't manage to have any degree but i was always curious about space. I like your video's because for people like me i dont just watch another video with facts, but there is explanation "why" and that is the reason why i love your video's so much. Thank you for your great work.
Wow, another amazing upload. Seriously one of the best ACTUAL content-uploading TH-cam channels on this meme hell of a platform. The story about the 5 deep-space probes was so calming and surreal, with perfect presentation and music. 10/10 good sir.
Imagine a piece of space debris in solar orbit or interstellar space, accreting dust and rock, eventually it could become the core of an asteroid, moon or even minor planet
I am an engineer. I know they are just metal parts in the core but man they have such a lonely times up there. One way ticket. There is no coming back. "Voyager"... it could not more right name for that hero. Long live mate.
Quite by accident I saw the ISS through my scope as it passed between my location and the Orion Nebula. Made my evening once I checked its orbit and realized what it was.
I don't have a telescope, but I recall seeing the ISS passing by a couple times. I thought "man, this is the coolest thing in the world" when I noticed what it was.
With all that junk flying around the earth how is it possible that they do not collide with each other. Also if they launched a giant spotlight to circle earth that was solar powered and this spot light was on all the time would we see it from earth when it passed over our homeland? Thank you for the videos very educational 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams So yeah, they generally don't collide because there is just so damn much space up there and also because engineers take collision risks into account when selecting orbits to put stuff in. There has only ever been one satellite to satellite collision en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision. You can see larger and brighter satellites with the naked eye just from the sunlight reflecting off of them, so a spotlight wouldn't really be necessary. But there have been some satellites with visible laser communications, this awesome photo for example is of a Chinese satellite, the red beam is communications up from the ground, the green is laser beam coming down from the satellite. www.seeker.com/tech/china-demonstrates-first-intercontinental-quantum-communication
When this channel reaches 1 million subscribers, I'll probably be thinking to myself that even 10 million wouldn't be enough. Yes, it's that good. One of the very few TH-cam channels on the planet that can deliver a message without any unnecessary noise and educate without getting one bit boring.
I am so glad you are doing this channel. Very well done. Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm, knowledge and appreciation of the achievements of our humble species.
You forgot to mention ISEE-3, the 1970s probe that was rediscovered a bit ago and a group tried to make it do a course correction, but they made too many burns and it ran out of fuel.
There is something incredibly calming yet a bit terrifying about those monuments of human ingenuity and craftsmanship wandering for billions of years without being affected by whatever happens on earth. Makes you wonder what their distant future looks like and would they stumble upon something eventually. I'm specifically talking about the 5 probes.
The original 1979 Star Trek the motion picture plays on this.
It can be something terrifying, or just ended up being a target practice.
Imagine they amount of debris 100 or 200 years from now if we can't find a way to clean them up. I have heard various space agencies working on methods so we can avoid this very issue in the near future.
@@Peanutdenver There's the danger of one satellite (or a bit of debris therefrom) hitting another, causing an explosion into hundreds or thousands of smaller pieces, all travelling at thousands of metes per second. One of those pieces hits another satellite... and we have a chain reaction.
ETA: It's called "Kessler Syndrome" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Once that happens, we'll need armour plating or deflector shields on anything we want to reach orbit. >
@@dkevans I've heard and i'm wondering how big of a project it is going to be to get this "space junk" collected, or at least the pieces which are close to coming into contact with functional satellites. I just imagine tens of thousands of nickel sized to many meters in height debris flying around and how tough it'll be to grab just one.
How amazing is the story about voyagers
Very.
These probes have seen more than we will ever see, traveled more than we will ever do...
The biggest thing for me is that they were designed and made by people using nothing more than slide rules and the most basic of computing technology.
when I think about it I cry a little. not kidding. it's pretty intense that they'll most likely still be in motion long after humanity makes it's exit.
*Picked up by a Cargo Ship of Fangor Beasts, the Gold Anodized Disc is used as a Cutting Board.*
I never said it but pretty much every single of your videos is awesome
Agree :)
Definitely agree ! Easily comprehended content, wonderful British accent and great taste in outrageous shirts ! It's funny how we in the USA adore the British accent after we kicked them out so long ago. I hope they have a successful run after shedding the socialist burden of Europe !
Agreed fabulous videos
YA, pretty much every video i have seen so far has been great. NO boring stuff yet, and don't think there ever will be.
@@wdwerker We are having a very hard time breaking free from the E.U., but break free we will!
We are envious of Saturn so we're building our own ring system :-)
*HüMmeringllY,* Agreed.
Lol
My wife knows all about rings!
CORRECT
ET may think this is our solution to the landfill problem .
I've never really been deep into space and astronomy but this channel has a covered a load of highly interesting subjects besides space and I often share all the videos with my Dad who's been a space boffin his whole life.
The production values and scripts of this channel are some of the best work around on TH-cam and material like this actually has the capacity to threaten most TV productions in many areas except for the sheer amount of money that big companies can invest and recoup.
Regarding the subject of this video, I've always had an interest in the increasing blanket of space waste, where it's removal or recycling appears to have been an after thought, but thankfully there are slim measures to help deal with it by natural collision with entities to ensure it eventual breakdown yet is still far from a perfect solution.
Keep up the great work.
reggiep75 You’re not alone, only a few people have ever been in deep space....
Another great video! Thank You for still providing us with such high quality content!
Also thank him for wearing such tasteful shirts. . . I really love his shirts.
@@TripleMoonPanda
Yes, they are awsome!
And all this Great Taste AND Content from here in the UK ! That's the shocker !
NOTHING BUT UNPROVEN UNSUBSTANTIATED GARBAGE
CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE
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SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT PROVES ANY OF THE THEORIES THAT YOU BELIEVE IN TO BE TRUE???😒
Same thoughts exactly.
This video is a *master piece*
The Exoplanets Channel Even that seems an understatement 😃
Your dad
Deserve a million subscribers already man!
THE EARTH IS FLAT AND STATIONARY THIS IS NOT A MASTERPIECE THIS IS A PIECE OF SHIT PROPAGANDA FILM WITH ABSOLUTELY ZERO EVIDENCE TO BACK ANYTHING SAID IN THE FILM.
YOU HAVE ZERO EVIDENCE FOR ANYTHING YOU BELIEVE IN DOES NOT NOT BOTHER YOU???😒
@Bmw EM THAT COMMENT LETS ME KNOW YOU WATCH A LOT OF TV PROGRAMMING 🤔🤔 I DON'T BELIEVE I. YOU BAAL EARTH THEORY.......DO YOU HAVE ANY SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS THAT PROVE ANYTHING OF YOU THEORIES?????
The quality of these videos is astounding. Thank you so much!
I was surprised you didn't mention the failed Venera 8's impending return to Earth, given that that one was designed to land on Venus and will probably survive atmospheric reentry due to its shielding.
FWIW: IF aerospace propulsion ever becomes cheap enough - or *someone* is willing to put up the *$$$* - I think it would be *very interesting* if someone could rendezvous with some of these very old inoperative satellites {or even the Apollo 10 lunar module Ascent stage} to examine them and see what the long-term exposure to space has done to them.
Perhaps even bring one or more of the smaller ones back to Earth.
I agree, but can you imagine a rendezvous with Voyager I? what-if.xkcd.com/38/
@@lukefreeman828 >>> Nuclear Pulse Propulsion {Project: Orion}.
RocKiteman _ 2001 what? 😂
Luke Freeman It’s a idea that we could build a ship designed to eject nuclear weapons behind it and explode at a safe distance but still close enough to push the ship.
@@alpham777 yeah, I know what it is thanks, but what the hell has that got to do with literally anything? Data showed a nuclear pulse craft would be both hugely capable and physically huge... not really a solution to catching a small probe in deep space.
I can´t imagine how proud the designers and engineers must be. Nice video!
True. Amazing how they have to account for every single little variable
NASA engineers have to calculate t the 15th digit of pi. You get to atom level at 40 apparently. They have to be that precice
I'm taking a certificate in astronomy because of these videos, keep up the great work.
These old machines are amazing! hats off to the engineers who are probably still tracking them and decoding their data!
regards the junk we have up there at the moment: I used to be into astroimaging, I had a 200mm Newtonian telescope with a HEQ5 goto mount which would track stars and planets, often while looking through the eye piece I would see sats go by and sometimes 2 at once in different orbits.
So.....not only are we making a mess on land down here on earth but we're making a mess up there!
As a race we can't pat ourselves on our backs for the mess we've made!
Unfortunately it is not "we" who are making a mess.I don't have any profit or interest for the satelites that are up there.
@@skotiskiller hah. You couldn't possibly be more wrong. Not only am I sure that you've been personally affected by something that had some research component influenced by what we've learned from satellites I'm also sure at the very least you've gotten benefit from the satellites we use for weather and traffic monitoring.
@ArcturanMegadonkey I was amazed by how close the stuff in geostationary is. We're the first thing on earth to actually place stuff there and it has only taken us a few decades to clutter it all up. That is a ridiculously short time in geological scale. It's rather worrisome for the future it seems.
@@SpydersByte seeing it with your own eyes is amazing when looking through a telescope! you don't see any shapes just round blobs going by...one evening I lost count how many sats I saw but when you see 2 passing together or in opposite directions it's mind boggling
@@ArcturanMegadonkey yea that sounds awesome, would love to see it! I saw the ISS fly by during the eclipse in that SmarterEveryDay video and that was cool as hell.
Another excellent video. Answers every question as it enters my mind.
I love Voyager 1 & 2, I feel we all live with them and their journey hasn't even begun.
Paul, I have watched every video you make, some many times over. i am dumbfounded at the high level of research and degree of quality you are producing. It is actually one of the greatest things I love on the internet. You are a truly decent human being for sharing your love of knowledge with the world. Thanks and keep inspiring us.
Your videos are so detailed and so we'll presented, I really enjoy watching your videos. Thanks and keep up the good work.
It's always mind blowing how many pieces of satellites and junk are constantly orbiting at any given time.
Not to mention tiny components, flecks of paint, nuts and bolts, all impossible to track but extremely dangerous at orbital speeds.
@@paulmakinson1965 so ..not content in turning our planet into a shit hole down here.. we've now turned Space into one as well .. it's rather shameful really, when you come to think of it, but then, Satellites are now such an essential part of our technical age and communications it's difficult to know what to do about all that junk up there now I suppose.
@Joe Average 😂😂
Coldeb 89 What is your solution to this then? It’s part of growing, we’ve barely been into space for any amount of time and honestly it’s not as bad as it would appear on those images which definitely aren’t made to scale.
I can’t speak for the Russians and Chinese but at least the Americans have been much more concerned about what they leave in space and that is progress. It’s the same thing on earth, we are much more conscious of how we treat our planet than we did 50 years ago. We aren’t perfect yet but it’s progress and we’re well on our way. There are already talks of plans on how to bring down some of the space junk, with lasers or nets. Once technological advances enough and space flight is cheaper and more readily available I suspect we will see some actual clean up efforts.
@@mcearl8073 Me?... oh I haven't got a solution. ..I'll leave all that to the NASA guys and gals .. but I have seen on the TV that they are looking at it seriously and are working on a clean up solution. ..so, no need for the likes of me at all .. 😂😂
Dear Paul Shillito,
Can you please make a video about you and your crew? I would really like to know what got you into making these videos and who you are!
13.38 man that's some depressing stuff. These crafts may still be out there when we're long gone.
Keep up the great effort on these videos.
Depressing? Just think that the farthest and longest reaching effort by man is one dedicated entirely to science and trying to understand our universe.
The stuff in close Earth orbit needs to be delt with sooner rather than later, i'm thinking.
I totally agree, if it's possible, don't want the Kessler syndrome occuring now do you?
I love your way of thinking but not as much as your avatar.
Nah. Even after 4000 years if humans are still alive, that shit wont be much of a deal
We're discussing present times though, not 4000 years down the road, the problem is REAL, right now... so, do something to clean the space garbage now, or suffer a catastrophe (inevitably) later, the choice is ours.
@@honkhonk8009 Well, it is much of a deal now. Think we just throw stuff up in space? There's a reason we can't just launch anything we want everyday. It's a huge amount of space for tiny things in orbit but an orbital plan is required in permits to fly. It's like flying on a personal plane. Sure you can just up and go anytime as long as you don't mind getting occasionally yelled at by towers or being "escorted" by the Air Force.
Some of the BEST stuff on YT are from your channel.
Love all you do and how you put it all together.
Keep up the great work.
When I think of Voyager 1 and 2 I always have a feeling of what could be called space nostalgia. Btw: as always again a video of top notch quality. Thanks for the upload...
Please never stop making these. The only channel I have set to alert on new content. Such excellent presentation, and well written. Usually I can find something annoying about a presenter, but literally no complaints. Will contribute ASAP!
""although they would be long dead they could quite reasonably be expected to outlive the human race and the even the earth itself" these words really shook me....
This type of content with it's awesome level to detail, research and production values makes me ever so glad to have "cut the cord" years ago so worth it.
I,, didn't know about, the graveyard orbit. thank you very good show. Absolutely.👩🚀📡🔭🛰🚀🌏☮
Yeah, news to me too, but maybe better than a semi-controlled crash to Earth...?
Yup, it would take too much delta-v (energy) to deorbit from geostationary orbit. So a graveyard orbit is a good compromise
Well I'm worried about the space junk and just pollution. good point.👩🚀🛰🔭🇺🇸☮
@@dougankrum3328 YES, I agree. not all that junk burns up in the stratosphere, on re-entry. a little dangerous. Maybe funny ,and exciting to some.👩🚀🛰🚀☮🇺🇸
@@dougankrum3328 SPACE,, is so cool. I'm the big hero of Ed White, Gus Grissom, Robert Chaffee, I love the first video of the spacewalk 1965. of Ed White. pretty cool. I fight with the flat-earthers all the time. I give them so much proof. have a good day .thank you for your comment. pretty cool. Work on Saturday bummer👩🚀🔭📡📹🇺🇸☮👍
I know it sounds crazy but the crafts going forward forever brings a tear to my eyes.
Metoo man
Thanks for making this video. I learned a lot.
Dude, this video just like everyone else on this channel was a show !!!! Really enjoyed. What was said at the very end of the video about the Voyager spacecraft was really epic.
Transit 5b-5(US military SAT) is a cool story. Put up in the 60s worked for 19days but stopped responding to commands afterwards and is still sending telemetry data 50 years later on 136.650Mhz. If you have a capable radio and receiver and search for its position online and wait for it to pass over you, you can still pick up telemetry. There are several TH-cam videos, mostly Russian.
The amateur radio satellite OSCAR 7 was launched in 1974. When the batteries failed, it stopped working. However a few years ago the batteries deteriorated so much that they went open circuit, allowing the solar panels to power the satellite again...so when the satellite is oriented correctly with the sun, it's now usable again.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7
@@paulsengupta971 That's really cool, I've heard of that SAT but never knew the backstory. Transit 5b-5 had a nuclear reactor but if source is right it died a long time ago and some solar cells are still powering it today.
@@paulsengupta971 Apparently in th dark period it was still somewhat functional and Polish anticommuinst opposition was using it for communication which makes the story even greater for me since I am Polish.
Chapeau! What an amazing video! Thank you so much for this wonderful content. Greetings from Costa Rica
I always like your shirt style.. Very unique!
Flubs Dubz very unique? It’s either unique or it isn’t, I’d suggest it isn’t
@@nickjenkins536 I absolutely agree. The remainder of the cloth from which the shirt was made was not destroyed, never to be repeated. It cannot, therefore, be unique. I know language changes over time, but the devaluation of "unique" is truly sad. The word is unique and we have no replacement that means "one of a kind".
Hmmmm needs a groovy tie to go with it 💅
Nicole K How about... "one of a kind"...?
That last idea about the Voyager craft (and others) 'outliving' the human race has always intrigued me. An advanced intelligence intercepts and recovers it, retraces it's path back to us, visits us only to discover...eden. A post human world as it looked before we evolved. Wonderful sci-fi.
Am I the only one that thinks we need to come up with plan to clean up some of the space debris in orbit? Something like a space trash truck or something else. Any ideas or suggestions? This needs to be done before it's too late. If that debris gets too expansive, it may become impossible to launch new spacecrafts and satellites in the near future. Just an idea.
Great video, keep up the good work.
Have a nice day/night.
I can't even get the garbage truck here to pick up my cans, half the time.
Call Roger Wilco
It would be cool if they left the voyagers floating forever and future generations can visit it like a field trip. They would make a museum around it as it floats to Sirius, kind of like the Smithsonian in DC. The voyagers belong to continue their journey forever but still deserve to be in a museum; this accomplishes both!
Fascinating. Excellent presentation as usual.
Much respect Curious Droid, amazing historical content every time! Every one of your 600k subs is well deserved.
I've wondered why I never see them at my local metal scrap-yard.
Theres a Reddit post where they found an old saturn engine in a junkyard, even visible on Google Street View
@@uss_04 I guess I'll just have to keep looking. I'd have more luck in the graveyard orbit but you never know.
And wact out some satelit use nuklear powered
@@memesfromdeepspace1075 Voyagers use RTG isotope generators but they are in deep space. Anyway, there were some accidents involving scrap-yards, it happened that someone dumped Cobalt-60 radiotherapy device and that is not only once, it happened in India and Thailand. That thing is extremely dangerous because it directly emits gamma rays and there were few deaths as result.
@@JosipMiller is more posible that going to an old rusian beacon or lighthouse you found an RTG than from a spacecraft
Some of these numbers your giving is hard to fathom. I can't wrap my head around them so I'm going to subscribe, hopefully I'll grasp it one day.
That's "S-four-B", not "S eye-vee-bee".
oh like S IV B ... ithink
V.b.$.
Roman Numerals
@@i_smoke_ghosts Saturn V originally had 4 main stages with the final third stage having been the fourth stage at some point. The original designations stuck and iterations (Blocks) of those stages where numbered alphabetically A-Z so the Saturn stages are as flown S-IC, S-II and S-IVB, S-III having been dropped. The Saturn V blocks where designated as follows C1-C5, the number referring to the amount of F-1 engines. For instance C-2 was supposed to have a smaller diameter two engine first stage, a second stage with 4 J-2 engines and the S-IVB with 6 RL-10 engines instead of one J-2 (higher ISP but still lower thrust than single J-2 powered S-IV). The C-5 is the Saturn we know and love.
V GER will sterilize the carbon units.
This channel slowly became my favourite. Every video is amazingly informative, interresting and objective! Keep 'em coming!
I enjoyed this video. Thanks and keep up the good work
Videos from Curious Droid always leaves me wondering about space and stuff the next hour after I watched the video.
So cool how huge the universe is, that even the Voyager 1 spacecraft travelling at 61,000km an hour has barely departed our solar system.
just think the earth orbits almost as fast 66600 mph,but then rockets at a half a trillion mph through fake space.I'm getting dizzy thinking of how much the fake pear is spinning, circling,and rocketing.I actually can'y feel any movement whatsoever,weird.
@@brookiebob I truly hope your not a flat earther lol
Dear Wisconsin Trout, do you believe that the microcosmic world exists? Do you have trouble contemplating the size of bacteria, blood cells, neutrons or electrons? Are you, like me, awed that microsurgery is performed by people who live among us? Science takes us all on a wild ride. Don't keep fighting it. The universe is totally awesome & fantastic. The more you learn the more you realize how much more there is to discover! Yeah its kinda scary but also exciting beyond belief!
@@mikesaler1038 Yes ,true science is great.Biology,chemistry,engineering.But when it comes to spinning water balls at a 1000 mph,orbiting 66600 mph while rocketing a half a trillion mph through fake space,LOL.What you people don't understand is science can be proved by demonstrating experiments and repeating them.You guys make unsubstantiated, unprovable,claims based on theory not facts.That's why it's called pseudoscience.So as soon as you can prove gravity,curved water,and spinning balls in fake space ,i rest my case.
@@brookiebob dude seriously
Curious Droid - thank you for another excellent presentation! It is so refreshing to listen to such a learned person such as yourself on the topic of space exploration. Keep up the good work, and I look forward to your future presentations!
My favorite spaceship is the curious droid
Your videos have become my favourite to watch while working! Thank you so much for insight on space topics!
I don't know if it was your goal to make me feel so tiny compared to space but job well done!
Superb content Paul, I really enjoyed that one.
Nice to see that you listen to you viewer base and didn't continue with those click bait titles! Hope you keep up the great content
I have been following your channel for some time and I don't understand why you don't have over a million + followers. Your videos are so informative and the pictures, videos and animations make sure the videos are easy to understand, keep it up!
Forgot about a car thats out there also,,
jocrp6 the Tesla isn’t orbiting the earth, it was interjected towards mars
So glad I found this channel!! TH-cam needs to push this channel!! Well done Sir!! I learn something new each time I watch a different episode! Thank you for your contribution!!
The "IV" in S-IVB is pronounced "Four" not "Eye Vee".
I keep saying Saturn Vee as well
@@anngo4140 - Well, there's delta vee, but it's Saturn Five. It's funny, but I can read Roman numerals without any trouble, but my older brother, who studied calculus, still peers at a movie copyright and can't read it. smh
iPhone X ruined everything
@@sicfxmusic lol
Thing is if you put Roman numerals alongside Latin alphabet without a space they cease to be numerals. So Eye Vee is correct. if you wanted 4B they should have written it IV- B then any academic would have picked up on it, otherwise it's an assumption and you know what they say about 'to assume' 🤗
Man, you are awesome. I dare say that you're one of the greatest youtubers.
Would have liked to see the photo of Earth taken by Voyager 1 before its camera was shut off. The "Pale Blue Dot" photo is epic.
paul i just have to tell you something. i watch a shit ton of youtube on a daily basis and i feel like ive seen every single video on yt there is but your channel is by far the best ive subscribed to and thats not even taken into account that you do all the research and editing yourself. i am genuinely astonished by every single video you release and i always learn something new. your voice is so relaxing to listen to - THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for doing all the hard work. without your channel id be missing something in my life. let me check that patreon thingy mate...
I thought it falls down back to Earth and what doesn't get burnt up falls down as debris straight through the roof of your £300,000 mortgaged home with no-one claiming responsibility and the insurance companies not coughing up declaring it as "an act of god".
Actually under the Outer Space Treaty & Space Liability Convention
, all owners of space hardware are responsible for damage caused by their space hardware/debris.... so if your home is damaged by space debris, you could take the company responsible to court.....
@@Makoto778 I think the US made a payout in Australia following Skylab for that very reason.
@@markhancock8320 They also got a fine for littering from the local council.
@@allangibson8494 has anyone calculated the chances of any damage to a populated area in the next 10 years ?
@@davedogge2280 100%. Houses get hit regularly by small fragments. If you're in Kazakhstan or China, houses have been hit by entire booster stages (in China it was fully fueled).
I just recently played one of your video's and since then I cant stop watching your Chanel. I didn't manage to have any degree but i was always curious about space. I like your video's because for people like me i dont just watch another video with facts, but there is explanation "why" and that is the reason why i love your video's so much. Thank you for your great work.
Ever played Elite dangerous and following the voyager signal in sol system ?
Yeah, it took me over an hour to catch up to it at sub jump speed.
This is one of the most interesting space documentaries I have seen. What a channel.
I really enjoy your videos.by the way the upper stage of the Saturn rocket is pronounced s 4 b. Not sivb the iv is just Roman numerals.
Wow, another amazing upload. Seriously one of the best ACTUAL content-uploading TH-cam channels on this meme hell of a platform. The story about the 5 deep-space probes was so calming and surreal, with perfect presentation and music. 10/10 good sir.
Great video as always, except S-IVb should be read “S 4b”
Gotta wonder what they were thinking when they made the choice of using roman numerals that would be used along with normal letters.
Yeah, I was surprised he got that wrong.
In just a few weeks you have become my favorite channel. Your video about Apollo and the Van Allen cleared up my doubts about the moon landing.
Your space knowledge is vast.
Yep he and Scott manley are tied for the top
@@nagantm441 which Scott
Curious Droid’s offerings are really excellent, presenting a boatload of hard work . Thank you !
Fascinating. One of the most, if not the most interesting space channel on TH-cam.
this channel is pure gold. every fucking one of those videos. so professionally researched and presentated! wow
Imagine a piece of space debris in solar orbit or interstellar space, accreting dust and rock, eventually it could become the core of an asteroid, moon or even minor planet
dgpx84, don't spoil a neat idea with reality😦
I am an engineer. I know they are just metal parts in the core but man they have such a lonely times up there. One way ticket. There is no coming back. "Voyager"... it could not more right name for that hero. Long live mate.
Came for the story...stayed for the Shirt!! Another classic epilepsy inducing one!!
*Only the Wife, firing up the Microwave Oven can bring me out of it, which could be hours later.*
Someone commented on a previous video that this channel is what the Discovery Channel should have been. I think that is so true. Insightful content!
I love it when a satellite passes suddenly & unexpectedly thru my telescopes field.of view.
Does that really happen?
@@bazgino Yes, it does...and it's uber cool :-)
@@wkg19591 that's very interesting, awesome
Quite by accident I saw the ISS through my scope as it passed between my location and the Orion Nebula. Made my evening once I checked its orbit and realized what it was.
I don't have a telescope, but I recall seeing the ISS passing by a couple times. I thought "man, this is the coolest thing in the world" when I noticed what it was.
Can I say that I love this man.
Edith: If I die it will be awesome to hear this man tell the story of my life.
Love yours shirts👍👌!
Never seen his skirt!
shirts ! he's not Scottish !
I've watched most of your videos, and this is one of the top three. Very well done. Thank you very much.
What do I think? I think that this was an amazingly prepared and delivered presentation that I've deeply enjoyed. Thank you, Sir.
You made some of the best and most enjoyable videos about space, hope you keep going strong!
With all that junk flying around the earth how is it possible that they do not collide with each other. Also if they launched a giant spotlight to circle earth that was solar powered and this spot light was on all the time would we see it from earth when it passed over our homeland? Thank you for the videos very educational
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“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams
So yeah, they generally don't collide because there is just so damn much space up there and also because engineers take collision risks into account when selecting orbits to put stuff in. There has only ever been one satellite to satellite collision en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision.
You can see larger and brighter satellites with the naked eye just from the sunlight reflecting off of them, so a spotlight wouldn't really be necessary. But there have been some satellites with visible laser communications, this awesome photo for example is of a Chinese satellite, the red beam is communications up from the ground, the green is laser beam coming down from the satellite. www.seeker.com/tech/china-demonstrates-first-intercontinental-quantum-communication
I love this channel, this is the only good aerospace channel I know of.
Astronaut Ed White's glove is still on orbit last I heard.
Paul, that was an amazing piece of really educative material! Thank you Sir! Can't wait for your next work!
My battery is low and it is getting dark.
Stop it already! You can't toy with my emotions like this!
Oppy NUUUUUUUUUU
The BEST space exploration videos, beautiful work!! You should have a mainstream TV show!!!
It usually dies of a h̶e̶a̶r̶t̶ CPU attack
BSOD
Bull$%it. It will die of fully discharged battery.
Or a CPU attack
@@astroshlibber9654 Now the question is: -2 B or not to B- sorry, Should a CPU attacked victim be taken to ICU or a DRC (Disposal & Recycling Center)?
@@samsen201 Sam, do you know what a joke is?
When this channel reaches 1 million subscribers, I'll probably be thinking to myself that even 10 million wouldn't be enough. Yes, it's that good. One of the very few TH-cam channels on the planet that can deliver a message without any unnecessary noise and educate without getting one bit boring.
I'm very here at 3:30am India. Will he give me a heart💟
Can’t give the heart but I’d give you the D ;)
❤ I'll give you one
I always love your videos curious droid! When I see the notification that you’ve uploaded a new video, it brightens up my day.
Another excellent video. Good luck for the 1M subs! This channel deserves more subs and 1M would be just a milestone. It deserves many more.
Best documentary I've seen so far and I have seen many. Thank you.
I find your work very interesting. Everything I've seen from your team is enjoyable. Thanks!
Wonderful teachings Mr Shillito. Thank you so much for being such a wonderful teacher
Yet another amazing video, thank you curious droid :)
I am so glad you are doing this channel. Very well done. Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm, knowledge and appreciation of the achievements of our humble species.
You forgot to mention ISEE-3, the 1970s probe that was rediscovered a bit ago and a group tried to make it do a course correction, but they made too many burns and it ran out of fuel.
Great video as always!
I love the fact that this old space hardware will be around for this long.
Every single one of these videos have been amazing and amazing quality.
Thank you
Amazing Mr. Paul! Thanks.............more please.
I find your videos to be very interesting and informative. Thanks you so much Elvin.
Great Stuff, loving it CD. Shout out from Australia.