Yes he was. Geoff was my physics teacher and Derek my chemistry teacher (they were called ’masters’ then). Plus I was a member of the satellite tracking group as well of course :-)
Or, "a story of how to trick your students to do your work for you so you don't have to pay them because you are a teacher of the very thing they are doing your work for."
I don't know accurate the movie is but in October Sky the principal of the school told the teacher who was helping the students with their rocket science: Why bother teaching them this stuff when they're just going to end up in a coal mine? They ended up working for NASA.
What nonsense. There isn’t and wasn’t a coal mine anywhere near the school and by 1978 most had shut anyway. WTF has ‘October Sky’ got to do with a UK school that had been tracking Soviet satellites since Sputnik?
You should do a video about Homer Hickam and the Rocket Boys, a group of school boys from Coalwood, West Virginia who built their own chemical rockets and launched them during the space race.
Amateur radio has played, and still is playing, a huge role in various technologies. But few people are aware of it today. Thanks for a very interesting report that proves average kids can sometimes outdo sophisticated government agencies!
American here, as soon as I heard Kettering, I thought of James Acaster. I couldn’t point to it on a map of England, but James brought it to my attention.
Scene: Family dinner. Father tries to engage son in conversation. Dad: So son, how did your little science fair project work out? What kind of grade did you get? Son: I didn't exactly get a grade.... Dad: Didn't you turn it in? Son: Well,... it's not exactly finished. Dad: What do you mean, 'Not finished'!? Remind me what it's about. Son: (big sigh) Well,.... we're kinda spying on the Soviet satellite missions. Dad: Oh,... right,... well,... and your teacher is aware? Son: Oh yes, it was his hobby. A group of us work on it with him. Dad: Well then, in that case, carry on. Now, what's for dessert?
I'm still trying to process getting an hour and a half for lunch … and that a garment factory had a computer, I wonder if it was running the jacquard loom to make paisleys
They used them for accounting, I think, but I also think that half the time companies who bought computers in the 60s were basically scammed. In my old area, Crespa (yes, they grew watercress,) was one of the first companies to get a computer. Before the computer, they had this massive filing cabinet everyone hated. They bought into the idea of the paperless office, in the 60s, when computer input and output involved teletypewriters and punched cards. (Teletypewriters are just typewriters with electronics attached to both sense keystrokes and operate the hammers.) Crespa ended up buying 2 more of these massive filing cabinets to keep up with the computer.
@@eekee6034 oh yes, the "paperless office" … are we there yet?! accounting is least imaginative use for computers, but what can you do? however, this is what I was referring to … th-cam.com/video/itd-4lMoXgI/w-d-xo.html
@@eekee6034 the entire "Connections" series [from the bbc 1980's hosted by James Burke] are great viewing for anyone with interests in engineering, technology, and history. I think the full episodes are all over yt and other video sites - but be prepared to binge watch for hours and laugh at the fashions and giant cars.
Love when Simon doesn't know the pronounciation of cities. Seems Native American names are just as hard as Swedish 🤣 Manitowoc - Simon "man ih tee oh wok" Wisconsinites "man ih toe wok"
How about a video about space trash, & everything it's hot through the years. I know it's landed on houses. Has it ever taken out a ship, or boat? It could be an interesting story.
I.G.Y is a great song by Donald Fagan of Steely Dan fame, taking the piss out of 50s scientific optimism. "Trust machines to make big decisions, Program them fellas with compassion and vision; We'll be clean when their work is done, Yes, we'll be totally free and eternally young... What a beautiful world it WILL BE..."
it's works for me right now, typing this and i can watch Netflix tv shows/movies from different contrary with it so, i don't know what you are doing wrong?
@@cpt-cheese3489 last year as well. No matter what country I went thru on the VPN, streaming services like Netflix and Disney+ would deny me service for certain shows because they knew I was in Oregon. Add to that that if Nord was active, there were a variety of common websites that simply wouldn't load.
The quote It goes on to urge the listener to therefore drink deeply of the Stygian well of knowledge... Its not a bag of pick and mix as certain Politicians would have us believe..
Ahhh Kettering. It holds very different memories for me, I was thirteen an she was twice an a bit more. The downside was I had to walk to school the next morning, it took 6hrs.
The most wild thing I did for any science fairs I had was a salt crystal garden. Then again I only remember doing two. And that was 5th and 6th grade (I think).
Geoff was a Physics Master (English variant of Teacher). Nobody studied ‘science’ as a single subject, at the Grammar School it was Physics, Chemistry or Biology as separate subjects.
In 🇬🇧 we called them Boffins and they helped us survive and beat Mr Hitlers attentions ..Mr Churchill was a big fan and those nice Chaps and Chappeses at Bletchly Park with a young fella from the Post office called Herbie Flowers went on to build Colossus the worlds first programmable electronic computer. 😁😎 Used to decode crack the advanced German Naval Enigma machine coded messages. .. Then there was Hobart and his D day funnies. Integrated Radar tracking and defence...and those engineering chaps Barns Wallace and Frank Whittle.😁🧙♂️🇬🇧
Manitowoc, WI ma·ni·tuh·waak (Man-i-too-wok [i like it / too like cool]) Yes lived in Wisconsin most of my life. We all slur these local names a bit. You butchered it but we forgive you.😁
I know what the Doppler effect is, I watched the entire explanation only to avoid missing the part where Simon does the inevitable NEEEEEEOWWWW. Well it was not as inevitable as I thought apparently. I AM DISSAPOINT
How funny would it be if that town in Wisconsin fined the USSR with littering over that piece of sputnik. Of all the places for it to land, it was the US.
I canceled my NordVPN subscription awhile back because their "bonus gift" at the time was already reflected in the advertised price a.k.a. it was false advertising. I've since learned that, outside of spoofing your location (which is nice, TBH), the correct browser settings seem to do more for privacy than a VPN does.
Have you seen the story about the boy scout who built his own nuclear pile ....and managed to generate a sustained reaction ....he went around scraping the radium of old clock faces and instrument dials.. 😬
Sadly and as always here, more discussion of ads and ads and ads and ads and discussion of ads and ads and ads and ads than USA network TV and that is saying something. Greedy
Go to nordvpn.com/tifo to get a 2-year plan plus an extra gift with a huge discount!
This could have been titled "A Story About A Teacher Who Gets It" because that guy was amazing.
Yes he was. Geoff was my physics teacher and Derek my chemistry teacher (they were called ’masters’ then). Plus I was a member of the satellite tracking group as well of course :-)
Or, "a story of how to trick your students to do your work for you so you don't have to pay them because you are a teacher of the very thing they are doing your work for."
@@ginnyjollykidd I’m sure they enjoyed it and put in on their university applications
@@ginnyjollykidd I like the first option a lot better.
I don't know accurate the movie is but in October Sky the principal of the school told the teacher who was helping the students with their rocket science: Why bother teaching them this stuff when they're just going to end up in a coal mine?
They ended up working for NASA.
What nonsense. There isn’t and wasn’t a coal mine anywhere near the school and by 1978 most had shut anyway. WTF has ‘October Sky’ got to do with a UK school that had been tracking Soviet satellites since Sputnik?
You should do a video about Homer Hickam and the Rocket Boys, a group of school boys from Coalwood, West Virginia who built their own chemical rockets and launched them during the space race.
I was thinking of the movie, "October Sky" when I saw the title too.
@@texan-american200 Yup. That was a once a year watch throughout my school years in history class. Coalwood is fairly close to where I was educated.
Being from Wisconsin and hearing people pronounce Wisconsin towns will always make me chuckle
Love ya Fact-Boy
Amateur radio has played, and still is playing, a huge role in various technologies. But few people are aware of it today. Thanks for a very interesting report that proves average kids can sometimes outdo sophisticated government agencies!
The most shocking thing about this story is that students used to get an hour and a half for their lunch break.
American here, as soon as I heard Kettering, I thought of James Acaster. I couldn’t point to it on a map of England, but James brought it to my attention.
And Rev. Richard Coles, H.E. Bates, Jim Dale and Hugh Dennis etc etc :-)
The one and a half hour long lunch break is the least believable thing in this entire video.
Wonderful story of heroic days.
Scene: Family dinner.
Father tries to engage son in conversation.
Dad: So son, how did your little science fair project work out? What kind of grade did you get?
Son: I didn't exactly get a grade....
Dad: Didn't you turn it in?
Son: Well,... it's not exactly finished.
Dad: What do you mean, 'Not finished'!? Remind me what it's about.
Son: (big sigh) Well,.... we're kinda spying on the Soviet satellite missions.
Dad: Oh,... right,... well,... and your teacher is aware?
Son: Oh yes, it was his hobby. A group of us work on it with him.
Dad: Well then, in that case, carry on. Now, what's for dessert?
That’s me that is! from about 1972 to 1978. Great times.
I'm still trying to process getting an hour and a half for lunch … and that a garment factory had a computer, I wonder if it was running the jacquard loom to make paisleys
They used them for accounting, I think, but I also think that half the time companies who bought computers in the 60s were basically scammed. In my old area, Crespa (yes, they grew watercress,) was one of the first companies to get a computer. Before the computer, they had this massive filing cabinet everyone hated. They bought into the idea of the paperless office, in the 60s, when computer input and output involved teletypewriters and punched cards. (Teletypewriters are just typewriters with electronics attached to both sense keystrokes and operate the hammers.) Crespa ended up buying 2 more of these massive filing cabinets to keep up with the computer.
@@eekee6034 oh yes, the "paperless office" … are we there yet?! accounting is least imaginative use for computers, but what can you do? however, this is what I was referring to … th-cam.com/video/itd-4lMoXgI/w-d-xo.html
@@jaewok5G Oh thanks, I didn't know about that. It looks fascinating!
@@eekee6034 the entire "Connections" series [from the bbc 1980's hosted by James Burke] are great viewing for anyone with interests in engineering, technology, and history. I think the full episodes are all over yt and other video sites - but be prepared to binge watch for hours and laugh at the fashions and giant cars.
90 minutes for lunch?!?!!
Fabulous work, the story told and the story lived. Thank you
From 15:00 onwards, this is how we should teach kids in general.
I don't know if there's enough equipment and top 1% teachers to go around.
@@eadweard. There indeed isn’t, but that’s not the kids fault. :)
@@VincentGroenewold that means we should invest. That would make more.
Love when Simon doesn't know the pronounciation of cities. Seems Native American names are just as hard as Swedish 🤣 Manitowoc - Simon "man ih tee oh wok" Wisconsinites "man ih toe wok"
Lol i think Simon says so many names of places that if he masters pronunciation of them all he’d only have time for half the channels he makes
it took me 3 listens to realize what city he was saying lol i had no clue that sputnik crashed not to far from where I live.
Wauwatosa Wi Resident checking in 🤣🤣🤣
Isn’t Manitowoc also the name of the company that makes all the ice machines that are located on every floor of practically every hotel in America?
@@marck717 yessir 👌
Great content as always
How about a video about space trash, & everything it's hot through the years. I know it's landed on houses. Has it ever taken out a ship, or boat? It could be an interesting story.
Brilliant video! Keep up the excellent work.
I.G.Y is a great song by Donald Fagan of Steely Dan fame, taking the piss out of 50s scientific optimism.
"Trust machines to make big decisions,
Program them fellas with compassion and vision;
We'll be clean when their work is done,
Yes, we'll be totally free and eternally young...
What a beautiful world it WILL BE..."
@4:50, I think you mean Yuri Gagarin...
I’m pretty sure telemetry was not supposed to be encrypted. Good video.
"I aim for the starts but I keep hitting london"- Wernher von Braun
Nord VPN sucks balls. Had it for 4 months. It didn't allow me to stream from other countries and made half the sites I visit unattainable.
When was this? it worked for me last year for six months
it's works for me right now, typing this and i can watch Netflix tv shows/movies from different contrary with it so, i don't know what you are doing wrong?
@@cpt-cheese3489 last year as well. No matter what country I went thru on the VPN, streaming services like Netflix and Disney+ would deny me service for certain shows because they knew I was in Oregon.
Add to that that if Nord was active, there were a variety of common websites that simply wouldn't load.
@@Cupcub71 strange, I have no idea why that is then
Knowledge is power, but little knowledge is dangerous.
The application of knowledge is power.
The more you know, the worse things seem. :)
@@Worzel92 of course it has to be applied.
@@frankowalker4662 the more you know, the more you know how little you know.
The quote It goes on to urge the listener to therefore drink deeply of the Stygian well of knowledge...
Its not a bag of pick and mix as certain Politicians would have us believe..
I cant wait to watch the next video. thanks!
Tankies everywhere vilify these absolute mad lads to this very day. 😆
Please do an International Geophysical Year on Mega Projects!
Man - eh - toe - walk, wisconsin. Manitowoc. Please see me for any and all future Midwestern names :P
things done on free time are always more fun!!
Homer Simpson: NNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDD lol
i think theres an editing error in your advertisement at the beginning of the video around 1:09
Good video 👍
There's a BBC docudrama about this - it's really good!
This needs to be a movie
Simon can you do, Why game pad use buttons marked A, B, X, Y and why the PlayStation game pad does not use the scheme.
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada
Mr. Perry kicked me out of his Physics class, circa 1984.
Wonder Stuff fans will recognise a particular photo as the cover for the 'Full of Life (Happy Now)' single.
Imagine school actually being interesting for proper geeks, I grew up in the wrong era, that's a given... :P
Swing and a miss on the pronunciation of Manitowoc
Ahhh Kettering.
It holds very different memories for me, I was thirteen an she was twice an a bit more. The downside was I had to walk to school the next morning, it took 6hrs.
I believe a movie was made about him with Jake Gllynyhall(sp) called October Sky.
The most wild thing I did for any science fairs I had was a salt crystal garden. Then again I only remember doing two. And that was 5th and 6th grade (I think).
A fantastic Today I found out. This would be a great Limited series.
Not often you hear Kettering painted in a good light 😂 I’m shook
The only people who paint Kettering in a bad light are those who know very little and/or moved there. Those of us born here think differently.
This is SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING than the stupid "moon-landing denier" and "flat-Earth" crap! "History has it's eyes on you!!"
The Librarian of Congress has always played a big role in policy development. But they never get any attention.
Awesome stuff.
I’ve been so distracted by Simon’s pronunciation of “Manitowoc” that I forgot to pay attention to the rest of the video.
Haha! I'm a Brit, but I can't help but cackle at it!
Excellent!
At 0:08, insults Boomers' ability to use technology then goes on to make a mega projects about the internet, invented by "Boomers".
And the lesson is, never underestimate the power of the exploitation of child labour... Oh, shit! No, that's not the lesson, erm..
You have yet to explain what that barely audible audio track is that underlies your presentations.
Oh to have the badass title of Science Master (or is it Sciencemaster?🤔)
Geoff was a Physics Master (English variant of Teacher). Nobody studied ‘science’ as a single subject, at the Grammar School it was Physics, Chemistry or Biology as separate subjects.
Just item just proves "geeks & nerds" have been around for a while.
In 🇬🇧 we called them Boffins and they helped us survive and beat Mr Hitlers attentions ..Mr Churchill was a big fan and those nice Chaps and Chappeses at Bletchly Park with a young fella from the Post office called Herbie Flowers went on to build Colossus the worlds first programmable electronic computer. 😁😎 Used to decode crack the advanced German Naval Enigma machine coded messages. ..
Then there was Hobart and his D day funnies. Integrated Radar tracking and defence...and those engineering chaps Barns Wallace and Frank Whittle.😁🧙♂️🇬🇧
Manitowoc, WI ma·ni·tuh·waak (Man-i-too-wok [i like it / too like cool]) Yes lived in Wisconsin most of my life. We all slur these local names a bit. You butchered it but we forgive you.😁
May the 4th baby daddy stay with you 🙌🏻
Amazing story.
I know what the Doppler effect is, I watched the entire explanation only to avoid missing the part where Simon does the inevitable NEEEEEEOWWWW. Well it was not as inevitable as I thought apparently. I AM DISSAPOINT
are you a zebra? 😂
How funny would it be if that town in Wisconsin fined the USSR with littering over that piece of sputnik. Of all the places for it to land, it was the US.
Wasn't there an Australian local council who fined NASA over some debris from space? It was a littering fine, but NASA didn't pay.
There was a movie on this
I canceled my NordVPN subscription awhile back because their "bonus gift" at the time was already reflected in the advertised price a.k.a. it was false advertising. I've since learned that, outside of spoofing your location (which is nice, TBH), the correct browser settings seem to do more for privacy than a VPN does.
use IVPN
don't you know then there was uranium and plutonium in chemistry lab games sold in america?
What? Fake news
I invented a thorium power reactor and got a visit from Uncle Sam and was told not to do it again.
Have you seen the story about the boy scout who built his own nuclear pile ....and managed to generate a sustained reaction ....he went around scraping the radium of old clock faces and instrument dials..
😬
Kettering the town name he's saying if you're trying to look it up lol
And also a target for Soviet nuclear warheads apparently. But that may be due to the 1960’s THOR missiles based locally :-)
Would like to add it is pronounced Kettrin hehe.
We need more schools like this in the West. Teach the kids how to hack 7 bells out of the axis of evil.
so what does G3F0Z mean?
Episode about the rods of god super weapon?
aka Thor's Hammer.
Some of the most extortionary things were done by some of them most common amongst us.
Ah, relevant content
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it is pronounced (man eh toe walk)Manitowoc
Sadly and as always here, more discussion of ads and ads and ads and ads and discussion of ads and ads and ads and ads than USA network TV and that is saying something. Greedy
Man-Uh-Tow-Woc Wisconsin
Wow, makes my kids look a bit shit tbh.
And eat your meat. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
You, yes you, laddie!
Man-i-towoch
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...dont dis us boomers
😂👍
Scientific Method. Unless of course, you are taking about climate "science"
Jesus did you just butcher manitowoc....
first
praise our LORD 📱 thank you Jesus Christ for being our savior