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The race to the moon was always more about dueling superpowers than the spirit of exploration. And because of that, enormous risks and creative leaps were made to reach their goal. For that and many other reasons, the Apollo program was one of the most insane ventures ever undertaken, and here are 10 reasons why.
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@StarkRG 2 года назад

"Hey, Buzz?" "Yeah, Neil?" "You 'wake?" "Yeah, Neil." "I'm too amped to sleep." "I know what you mean, Neil." "It's just, so cool." "It really is." "I mean, I was on the NEWS!" "Yeah, me-- Wait, what?"

@shrimppasta5544 2 года назад

O O F

@joescott 2 года назад

I mean... Being on the news is really cool.

@kostarak3160 2 года назад

@@joescott Not if you committed a crime.

@yaboi7914 2 года назад

@@kostarak3160 Not with *that* attitude.

@mmmk6322 2 года назад

hijacking first comment. I can hear niel say for "a" man. It is sutble for sure but he says foraman not foreman. the r is followed with an a not an r that ends the word followed by man as in the word foreman.

@godlessqueertheywarnedyouabout 2 года назад

Joe: It's a solid joke. Me: No, it's a gaseous joke and you know it.

@BrianSantero 2 года назад

I thought it was lit.

@tjsbbi 2 года назад

@@BrianSantero If it was it would make a characteristic "pop".

@TheAllMightyGodofCod 2 года назад

I beg to differ, it was a liquid joke

@gunnarkaestle 2 года назад

What happens to farts in a space suit?

@mellie4174 2 года назад

Maybe it was a plazma joke?? ;)

@GoCoyote 2 года назад

As a young man in the 1980's, I worked with an engineer who worked on the Apollo program. He told us that when they would send a technician into one of the modules with a piece of equipment to be installed, they weighed all of the equipment, hardware, instructions, and tools needed for the installation, AND THE TECHNICIAN. After the technician returned, they were weighed again, along with all of the tools and instructions. This was to ensure that nothing was left or removed from the module without being accounted for, as every gram counted when it came to the fuel burn calculations. They also conducted a vibration test at the end of assembly, and he said that there was always a handful of loose hardware found at the bottom of the modules afterwards.

@mattkl4292 Год назад

Fun non fact, it's actually because George had sticky fingers and kept taking the nice 1/2" snap-on wrench. We couldn't accuse him (he had been there the longest) so we started weighing him on the way out. But as you know, once you weigh George you gotta weigh everyone, and here we are.

@burntpieceoftoast4148 Год назад

@@mattkl4292 ^lmao, thanks for that. And OP, that's pretty cool!

@andrewdillon7837 Год назад

How funny , they found a spanner inside the wall of the next module,(they stripped it because of the fire) , amongst other things,,

@zyeborm Год назад

@@mattkl4292 That's why they started finding perfectly calibrated poops in strange places?

@carloscable 2 года назад

I always understood its meaning as "one small step for "A" man, one giant leap for mankind", even though I didn't hear the "A" I got what he was saying. Great line

@luke-alex 2 года назад

Same. I really don't hear an "A" and don't think it was there, but I've always pretty much got the meaning. It's the contrast with "mankind", and context, that implies "man" wasn't being used in the larger sense but to mean a literal man.

@beaker_guy 2 года назад

I've always liked the idea that Armstrong (great man though he was) DID flub his line (who could blame him?); thus combining in one moment both mankind's crowning achievement and a subtle reminder that we humans aren't made to be perfect. (I mean, exhibitions of HUBRIS while touching the Heavens seldom end well from what I hear, so better to stay a LITTLE humble. ;) )

@Kevin-jb2pv 2 года назад

I always heard it as "One small step 'furrah' man" like in that kinda southern/ cowboyish accent.

@adamlytle2615 2 года назад

Yah... I kind of thought the 'man' meant the "men" of here and now and the "mankind" was humanity through all the rest of time.

@mike04574 2 года назад

@@luke-alex I thought man meant mankind, no mistake?

@666Blaine 2 года назад

Modern Computer - "I can do anything the AGC can do at a million times the speed." AGC - "I can crash, reboot and pick up where I left off in half a second." Modern Computer - "..... F*ck you."

@SuperVstech 2 года назад

Amen!

@tma2001 2 года назад

aye and Joe forgot to mention that NASA had one of the largest mainframe installations outside the IRS at the time.

@TheReaverOfDarkness 2 года назад

Modern computers can do that too, it's just Windows operating system that can't. Ubuntu does it just fine.

@musaran2 2 года назад

@@TheReaverOfDarkness Still, fast & lean OS is the exception. The sad norm is to quickly become bloated, slow and unreliable.

@Theineluctable_SOME_CANT 2 года назад

Programmers ain't what they used to was...

@PrinceAlhorian 2 года назад

Fun fact: Buzz's first words "Beautiful View" His second was "Magnificent Desolation"

@groofay 2 года назад

That is one incredibly smart baby.

@morganrobinson8042 2 года назад

Jesus Buzz, Save some Aesthetic for the rest of us.

@tatendam4956 2 года назад

@@groofay wow I came here just to say those exact words

@adamnixon2886 2 года назад

I'm guessing you meant, his first works on the moon? There is no way those were the first words of a baby Magnificent desolation

@drewlop 2 года назад

@@adamnixon2886 Please stop underestimating Buzz, it hurts my feelings

@ImVeryOriginal Год назад

From what I read, Armstrong really did bungle the line, you can even hear him making a weird pause after that, as if in embarassment. NASA later tried covering it by saying the signal cut out for a split second. And you know what? I actually like that and think it's a beautiful representation of humanity: an ape achieving such a momentous goal, something seemingly impossible, a legendary feat of ingenuity and determination and yet still so fragile and prone to error. It just adds another layer of meaning to the whole thing and makes the legend that much more relatable.

@icebuildsrobots Год назад

This is the ultimate example of someone coming up with a great sentence over hours and right when they're about to use it, their brain falls out of their head and fails to function.

@ImVeryOriginal Год назад

@@icebuildsrobots The ultimate stage fright moment, performing for the entire human race and fucking up lol

@aliensasquatch7485 Год назад

This makes me like Armstrong even more.

@patricklynch4926 11 месяцев назад

Idk. When I say the line with the a you can’t really hear it

@adamlytle2615 2 года назад

One little bit of trivia I love: the landing legs of the lunar lander were built in Montreal. So the first "feet" on the moon were Canadian.

@micheldesmarais7967 Год назад

I essentially just posted this before reading the comments first. I’m late to the show!

@danielphillips3229 Год назад

Wow amazing

@davemcbeardface8976 2 года назад

Fun fact that absolutely nobody asked for or cares about my wife’s step grandad help develop the steps that Neil walked down

@joshbreaksk8IN 2 года назад

I'm just here to say I care

@susanfanning9480 2 года назад

That's extremely cool. I remember that time in the world very well. Everything about that event was ultra fascinating!

@White.Elemant 2 года назад

Nice! The brother of my dad's friend was a chauffeur for Elvis. Almost related to a celebrity 🤣

@davemcbeardface8976 2 года назад

@@White.Elemant thats so cool

@yomommaahotoo264 2 года назад

Too bad it wasn't on the moon.

@LMacNeill 2 года назад

My grandfather was one of those thousands of unknown people who helped made the Apollo missions happen. He was a mechanical engineer who worked for NASA for a good while in the '60s. I want to say 6 or 7 years? I don't remember precisely.

@MrJdcirbo 2 года назад

When you say that modern technology has vastly more power than the instrumentation used by NASA in the Apollo program, I agree completely... COMPUTER power. But the mechanical tech was really advanced. They had inertial guidance systems and rocket vectoring and all kinds of various chemical/hydraulic/non-computer-electronic technology at their disposal. Honestly, you can do anything you want with just about no computer assistance, but having a powerful CPU makes almost every task fast more efficient. So, from a mechanical engineering point of view, we had highly advanced, sophisticated technology. It was just all manual.

@ryankroeger3264 2 года назад

to be fair the Apollo program was not a safe venture today we need a 99.5% chance for survive while they were okay with like a 50% (arbitrary number but you get my point) chance which sounds ridiculous to me as a scientist but as an adventurer well board at your own risk?

@shigekax 2 года назад

@@ryankroeger3264 yes it's crazy how many things could and did go wrong

@johndododoe1411 Год назад

The Apollo Computer was about as powerful as a modern Arduino Uno that beginners use to learn programming control systems. Except it had way more signal pins and ran at 6V instead of 5V. The MIT design team invented many ways to get the most from a control computer, including running a word code interpreted language like an Android phone, and restarting and continuing after every crash (they had a few during the Moon landings, crash messages 1201 and 1202 reported to tech support in Houston).

@jja1483 Год назад

Like an automatic watch ⌚😏🌚🚀

@dwightmagnuson4298 Год назад

Including a ship's sextant which was needed on the Apollo 13 mission....

@michac.8283 2 года назад

Decades after the landing, it still blows my mind that humans have done something like this. To walk on a celestial body that for thousands of years was just a distant light in the sky... just incredible. I wish I will live to see humans land on Mars, or perhaps some other moons.

@djbeezy 2 года назад

Mankind do do whatever we put our minds to.

@The_ZeroLine 2 года назад

The COVID vaccine temporarily teleports you to the moon. That’s why I take them in a spacesuit and do them frequently.

@chookin1 2 года назад

Mate.....mate.........we didnt go.

@chookin1 2 года назад

@@djbeezy That sounds like something out of Nimrods mouth.

@michac.8283 2 года назад

@@chookin1 oh I know, I'm just shilling out to NASA. Please don't tell them I said this, they will take my allowance!😳😳

@franksavaglioaus 2 года назад

I love the Customs Declaration form. But also seek out Buzz Aldrin's Travel Expenses report. Travel was from Houston to Cape Kennedy, Moon, Pacific Ocean (USS Hornet), Hawaii and return to Houston... the claim was for $33.31. As someone who has filled out his fair share of travel expense reports, I love that moon walkers had to share that pain. Great video. Hit the mark pretty well.

@ronhudson3730 2 года назад

Thanks Joe. I met David Clark when I was a teen. He married my aunt. His company made the Gemini suits and the metal fittings for the Apollo suits. They were also involved with the transparent helmet the astronauts wore on the moon. I’ll never forget watching them step out onto the moon on our grainy black and white tv, on a hot humid afternoon in Montreal.

@thomasbrown8468 2 года назад

Cool

@ESL-O.G. 2 года назад

Who knows... who knows random internet person 🤣

@dafien530 2 года назад

my grandfather worked worked for one of the contractors that helped build the Saturn 5 rockets.

@fluxcapacitorQT 2 года назад

There are missing key components of proof of that this event even happen. Also those fancy space suits had no directional climate control nor deep space shielded against ionizing radiation hazards.

@dmeemd7787 2 года назад

that's awesome! 👌

@josephcope7637 2 года назад

Pioneers are never "ready" to meet the unexpected challenges they end up facing ... but their grit and courage enable them to overcome these obstacles and pave an easier path for those of us who follow.

@bradwooldidge6979 Год назад

I was 10 in 1969. I was a science nerd. I remember Gemini and Apollo like it was yesterday.

@theonetruerobb4852 Год назад

I was 14, a nascent suburban wannabe hippie. I set my alarm for 3AM, and watched it all live. Despite my comments above, I was thrilled then and remain so today.

@richardpark3054 Год назад

Yeah, me too (born Jan, '59). And I remember like yesterday: my dad bought us a telescope, which we set up in the back yard. Yes, we could see the moon and Sea of Tranquility clearly, but couldn't see the Apollo 11 lander. Not surprising now, knowing a little bit more about telescopes and such. Nevertheless, a moving experience. Thanks, Dad.

@greasee.monkey7224 Год назад

I am a bit jealous, I wasn't born until the end of Apollo in 1972. Yet 50 years later as we are preparing new moon missions I find myself captivated by the early moon missions and the feats we overcame to get there.

@bradwooldidge6979 Год назад

@@greasee.monkey7224 Look at the bright side. Maybe you’re young enough to see a Mars landing!

@greasee.monkey7224 Год назад

@@bradwooldidge6979 I'm hoping so.

@queenannsrevenge100 2 года назад

I got a chance to see a mock-up of John Glenn’s Mercury capsule up close once - the fact that they actually trusted their lives to those dinky shells, with technology that looked like it belonged more in a transistor radio than a spacecraft, made me respect those dudes all the more. I really agree we had no business being in space at that time, which makes their feats all the more awe inspiring.

@westzed23 Год назад

The first astronauts were military test pilots. You have to have nerve and faith to do these jobs.

@zyeborm Год назад

Do keep in mind that a transistor radio was super high tech compared to the literally wooden aircraft that many of them had been flying not that long ago.

@jimgriffiths9071 2 года назад

The " All Joe" control room was RU-vid gold! Loved it!

@LocaLGh0sT 2 года назад

My favourite is one that fainted.

@tbouchard2789 2 года назад

Mad respect for the extra effort here Joe, you make it easy for me to hook my friends to your channel🥼🧲🥼

@Original_Syn Год назад

Wait so the Apollo 13 command module was named Odyssey? It’s a bit ironic that the mission that had something go wrong during it was partially named after the Greek story about a journey going completely wrong.

@davidhoward4715 Год назад

Nice catch.

@hopsiepike 7 месяцев назад

Be like baking the Parker Solar Probe Icharus.

@zyxw2000 15 дней назад

Odysseus got home eventually.

@fanman421 2 года назад

I watched the landing, with my father. His QC inspection stamp marks on various parts of the LEM landed with them.

@fanman421 2 года назад

@Ex Imperio Libertas Actually no.... he didn’t start at North American Rockwell, sub contractor for the shrouds surrounding the LEM and some of the electronics in the LEM till 1968, about a year after the Apollo 1 disaster with the capsule.

@john_michael_white 2 года назад

I'm from Nottinghamshire in the UK, and we also would absolutely contract to near nothing the "a" in "for a man". And most other things if we can. "I am going for a pint at the pub" becomes "Am guwin furra pint't pub". Given many of the Pilgrim Fathers are from this way I so love the idea, however remote, that perhaps the Ohio way of speaking originated in part from here, and that the most famous sentence uttered by any human ever had a little bit of Robin Hood in it.

@joescott 2 года назад

Love it!

@shanonshoffstall247 2 года назад

I'm from Wapakoneta - or Wapak as we say. I agree that we do talk that way. I would say that ancestry wise it would be 60% German, 30% English, and 10% other.

@ikitclaw7146 2 года назад

from up north here and, we goin fot pint at pub, i think fot fits the sound we make to replace "for a" so we totally for go using an a

@simian_essence 2 года назад

@@joescott Confirmation bias. Obviously.

@dongately2817 2 года назад

There's more than one distinctive Ohio accent - north of Akron Ohio accents sound almost like a New Jersey accent - south of Akron you might as well be speaking to someone from Alabama.

@notmyname327 2 года назад

I just can't believe your videos are still getting better, I thought you had already reached max entertainment and educational value. PS: 18:59 It wasn't a solid joke, it was a gaseous one.

@russellcarter6451 2 года назад

Dad joke champion right here fellas 😂😂

@TheDoomWizard 2 года назад

I think you might like my channel as well then 😉

@Hoopfan83 2 года назад

@@russellcarter6451 🏆

@RamiK101 2 года назад

Imagine if Buzz had tore his pants on the moon as he bent over.. Headlines: Moon, mooned from the Moon.

@stevelowe2647 2 года назад

Wouldn't he have died?

@RamiK101 2 года назад

@@stevelowe2647 Of course! Just a silly joke... I knew someone would get technical lol

@eddieanarchy 2 года назад

haha, i like Moon Moons Moon !

@sarge420 2 года назад

Wasn’t the temp on the moon 250degF daytime and -250deg at night?

@trulyinfamous 2 года назад

The customs from is definitely one of my favorite little bits of memorbilia from the Apollo era.

@donaldparlettjr3295 2 года назад

Another thing that wasn't brought up. During Gemini Buzz was the genius that brought in scuba diving to replicate weightlessness so NASA built that huge pool that they use to this day to practice EVAs. Also Buzz was a mathematician whiz on rendezvous. We've met several times over the years and he is a cool guy.

@QDWhite 2 года назад

AKA Dr. Rendez-vous

@davidanderson_surrey_bc 2 года назад

As I recall, the astronauts got around the lack of computing capability by bringing slide rules along (also known as slip-sticks). I learned to use one in my teens (late 60s, early 70s).

@burntpieceoftoast4148 Год назад

Cool!

@icebuildsrobots Год назад

"Whoops forgot my calipers. Guess I'll measure this hole to 0.001mm accuracy with a ruler." Chads.

@johndododoe1411 Год назад

Regular pilots also used slide rules to calculate their travels. There's a special slide rule that provides the most common pilot calculations with a few finger moves. Scott Manley used one where he took the written pilots test this year, just for fun. Of cause as an Apple employee he has access to way better.

@BrandanTheBroker 2 года назад

Can't wait until we start reusing some of those names, we're overdue a Snoopy and Casper capsule

@saimonmanalo Год назад

I am still upset that we always forget about the third crew that had to orbit the moon alone... He was technically became the loneliest man on the world when the vehicle was on the farside of the moon cuz signals can't be reach there... Gotta give him more credits cuz without him the other two wouldn't be able to go to home

@ChrisBrengel 2 года назад

I have been saying for decades: "we had no business going to the moon in the 1960s" so I was surprised to hear you use those exact words! It was truly amazing that NASA and the US were able to pull it off. This is one of my life lessons: When human beings get their act together they can do incredible things.

@MarylandFarmer. 2 года назад

It always amazes me that we successfully got to the moon with 1960s technology when I think of the other things we we're building at the same time and how far we come from then. What I find even more amazing is that no one got left stranded on any of the missions. They really did have a great understanding but even more so a determination to make it happen.

@fpost4629 2 года назад

They did not go

@tma2001 2 года назад

@@fpost4629 that's good to know - have you told all the world's geochemists who have been wasting the past 50 years working on the 1/3 tonne of lunar samples yet! (btw the Soviets only returned 300g - hmm I wonder why ...).

@fpost4629 2 года назад

@@tma2001 you just keep on telling yourself what you have bin told.

@tma2001 2 года назад

@@fpost4629 whatever flat earther - have you come out to your family and work colleagues yet (I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that :)

@charlesmurray3255 2 года назад

Joe is a natural comedian, has me crying laughing at his antics.

@Dinkylicious 2 года назад

That part!! So true! He never fails to make me laugh or put a smile on my face ☺

@coweatsman 2 года назад

Too bad Joe said "7 times" to the moon instead of the correct "6 times". Joe needs to check his facts.

@charlesmurray3255 2 года назад

@@coweatsman sometimes he gets things wrong to make sure people are paying attention. You passed.

@danielphillips3229 Год назад

Really? The jokes are terrible

@charlesmurray3255 Год назад

@@danielphillips3229 If you Google a site called RU-vid, you can create your own channel, 'Questions with Dan' go knock yourself out, show Joe how it's done. Good luck.

@texasbuzzard4970 2 года назад

Maybe we weren’t ready to go to the moon from a computer processing standpoint but damn the preparation nasa put those astronauts through was insane. I really doubt any other humans in history had so much training for one mission.... and the amount of money spent on the training 🤯

@GigaBrand 2 года назад

And here we are 20B deep in SLS lol

@jb76489 2 года назад

@@GigaBrand so less than half the Saturn v?

@GigaBrand 2 года назад

@@jb76489 And If we got even half the value of the Saturn program I'd call that a win.

@nate788561806 2 года назад

You guys fell for that? We never went to the moon. Lol.

@JamesF0790 2 года назад

@@nate788561806 Come on man, get some new material. That joke is old.

@sapienspace8814 Год назад

@ 16:15 That almost happened, the circuit breaker for the ascent stage engine popped off, but Buzz Aldrin had a felt tip pen to push in the ascent stage breaker to allow them to get off (Reference "Magnificent Desolation" by Buzz Aldrin). @ 1:27 Both Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins both stated, in their biographies, that they did not want to go back. It is likely, they stated this in the context of the incredible risk they took, in a long chain of incredible successes, any one of which, if failed, could of resulted in death. In that, it indeed makes sense that "we were not really ready", on the other hand, Neil Armstrong was, and he was able to trust his team (of hundreds of thousands of scientists, engineers, and technicians), that even tested the 1201/1202 alarms in simulation BEFORE they actually occurred in real life because Buzz Aldrin left on both radars (instead of turning one off). I'd give credit for the first two words spoken on the Moon as "contact light" by Buzz Aldrin, as that was the first indication that the Lunar Module did not crash.

@mucia55 Год назад

☝️🙄 But if any of the successes of the said long chain failed, it would indeed fail successfully.. _🤭_

@amehak1922 Год назад

Once read in a book that one of the astronauts (idr which one) said that had he known how close to disaster they were, he wouldn't have went. Basically, the rockets were barely holding together.

@yassassin6425 Год назад

@@amehak1922 I have never heard of any such quote from any of the 21 astronauts that journeyed to the moon as part of the landings. The structure and integrity of the Saturn V, CSM and LM was not in doubt by the launch of Apollo 11.

@jussitikkuri6991 Год назад

Buzz Aldrin in with a smoke💨 Quiz light did have more contact 💨

@odin5255 2 года назад

I'm always just sitting here, waiting for a new Joe Scott video on Mondays. Thanks, your content is awesome! :)

@garrettwilson7653 2 года назад

Im right there with you, if i get on youtube and there isnt a new video i get sad and start watching some of his older videos lol

@4077Disc 2 года назад

Have you tried Nebula?

@patrickquinn8079 2 года назад

Makes my Monday morning procrastination even better

@fookyu1621 2 года назад

What a sad and pathetic life you lead... get a job.

@odin5255 2 года назад

@@fookyu1621 What a pathetic thing to say. I work my ass off every day :) Thank you.

@tara5742 2 года назад

Finally, the Mild Flex! Congrats!!

@Stellar-Cowboy 2 года назад

Yeah we get it, you’re a member. Just kidding, I’m just jealous

@SinisterAction 2 года назад

HOW IS YOUR COMMENT 2 DAYS OLD??

@julian.castro18 2 года назад

@@SinisterAction wow wtf

@Stellar-Cowboy 2 года назад

@@SinisterAction are you new to youtube?

@dabberd6203 2 года назад

Great video Joe. The part about the size of the LM was really interesting. It makes you wonder about the crew of Apollo 13 who had to live in the LM for days while returning to Earth .

@johndododoe1411 Год назад

They all did, Apollo 13 just had to return early.

@mmickle6191 2 года назад

No matter how you think about it, one of the best features of the Apollo program is just how bonkers it was! 😄

@shannonparkhill5557 2 года назад

"three weeks? Amateurs!!" you got me with that one!!

@JJs_playground 2 года назад

Lol.. I, actually, didn't understand that reference in Joe's video until i read your comment for some reason. Funny how the brain works.

@pamelabrewer2955 2 года назад

I love your show. I love your sense of humor. This one was special to me. I grew up with a father who was big on the space program. He would wake us up at 3 or 4 in the morning so We watched everything when it happened. Watching this one today brought back so many childhood memory's. Thank you so much.

@StoicThrower Год назад

Mine too! I even remember them taking us out of class at school to watch in the auditorium.

@dewiz9596 2 года назад

Luv that intro! It was the “computer issues” that originally piqued my interest in computers. It took a long roundabout way, but by 1992 I was running my own computer programming and data processing business. Retired in 2010. . . The “a man” issue was written about in Analog Magazine shortly after the landing. . .

@bboops23 2 года назад

That speech, despite being fake had me tearing up. It's scary to think that was a possibility. They had to be prepared and I can't imagine having to sit there waiting with both speeches hoping to read one but afraid you'd have to read the other.

@johngreener9784 2 года назад

Actually, I totally agree with your assessment! I am 59 so I was ALL into the space program as a kid! Now that I have 50 years under my belt (and under my grey hair, what's left of it) I have looked back and actually think " HOW THE F**K DID WE DO THAT BACK THEN????"

@timcarter1164 2 года назад

Joe, the intro was hilarious. And probably not that far off from reality. And the Mild Flex, beautifully done. I love your channel, quality information, delivered in an entertaining fashion. Nice job as always.

@caidyc 2 года назад

This is my favourite out of many great Ask Joes! The beginning was fantastic! Learning stuff with Joe…

@BrianaCunningham Год назад

I've just discovered your channel and I am binging. Such great content!!!

@justsomenobody889 2 года назад

Regarding that whole “mankind” quote discussion... it kinda blows me away that THAT many people were willing to put in THAT much effort over something so UNBELIEVABLY trivial

@aaronbono4688 2 года назад

@@FluxApex why would you want to get it "right"? We understand what he meant and that's what's important.

@ThrottleKitty 2 года назад

It's one of the most famous quotes in human history, if the quote is actually different that's actually pretty significant. It's like figuring out Shakespeare's first name was actually Wilfred and not William.

@aaronbono4688 2 года назад

@@ThrottleKitty I disagree. I think it's more important that we understand the meaning of it than every little word. Anyway when I listen to it there is no way there is an "a" in there. Even accounting for accents all you have to do is listen to the rhythm of his speech and you can tell he did not insert another word in there. But again this is semantics and it's really unimportant. You're getting fixated on it because it's some pivotal point in history but the meaning is what's important.

@odysseus5872 2 года назад

I've heard it a hundred times in every way possible and there is no "a". And it doesn't matter.

@ThrottleKitty 2 года назад

@@aaronbono4688 wtf are you talking about remembering the meaning of something but forgetting what actually happened? That's revisionism, an objectively terrible thing.

@Aramis7 2 года назад

The Apollo program is my absolute favourite era in human history and I say that as a non-american. The ingenuity, the risk-taking and the solutions they came up with given available technology is probably the highlight of human achievement. I strongly suggest to listen to the BBC's wonderful podcast series "13 minutes to the moon", which has interviews and incredible detail on the Apollo 11 mission, including a detail recount of the -you guessed it- last 13 minutes from separation to power descent to landing.

@zacharyash4321 2 года назад

I have been watching these for about 4 hours now. Never gets old.

@petersurdo4984 2 года назад

You're right. We weren't ready but did it anyway. The astronauts had huge clankers. Solid brass.

@cpuuk 2 года назад

I never had a problem with Armstrong's quote because I always assumed he said the "a", so it made perfect sense to me, could never understand why it confused others.

@sgtearache5303 2 года назад

yeah even without the "a" I never had an issue grokking the meaning of the statement...

@joey551 2 года назад

We knew what he meant, it wasn't an issue.

@tonyhawk123 2 года назад

Those saying he meant to say it, well, i can hear him attempt to say it. At times it feels like people are listening to different audio versions. It's right there!

@larryscott3982 2 года назад

Absent the a is marvelously poetic.

@rcknbob1 2 года назад

Then there's Arthur C. Clarke's quote of an "exasperated" Neil Armstrong: "That was what I meant to say, and that's what I thought I did say."

@sam1812seal 2 года назад

“Hydrogenated” the second way you pronounced it is correct. It’s also the name of the process by which food companies manufacture trans-fats, by hydrogenating liquid unsaturated fats.

@TheReaverOfDarkness 2 года назад

I refuse to accept that. Just because it's popular doesn't make it right. The first way he pronounced it is consistent with the word "hydrogen".

@QDWhite 2 года назад

Hyd-RAH-genated is specifically the chemical reaction of saturating C=C bonds with hydrogen to convert them to C-C bonds. The name for simply dissolving hydrogen in water is up for grabs and could be HYD-row-genated if we want.

@Strongbadathlon Год назад

One of the more common products using hydrogenated oil is peanut butter.

@rederager 2 года назад

I love your stuff. You have the intelligent comedy. It’s not easy. The rhythm is great. I don’t know if you edit your own stuff but if not, kudos to your editor.

@fm9572 2 года назад

Joe, I was born and grew up with the space race. I got my first desktop computer in 1978, one year after the launch of the Voyager probes. It was a TRS-80 'Model-I' with 4 KILOBYTES of RAM, and no internal hard storage. It had a modified connector to an old school tape recorder, it used for program storage. I learned BASIC on it, and "c" on the Apple II-e (a whopping 128 kilobytes of RAM, and a 5 1/4" *Dual* Floppy Drive) at middle school. Those who trash talk Windows have never used early DOS, where everything was done by command prompt. "Good old days" my pimpled right buttcheeck. The early Apollo missions may as well have been using sextants and analog paper calculators for guidance. *CoffApolloElevenCoff*

@johndododoe1411 Год назад

Apollo spacecraft did use sextants to fine tune the navigation. The sextant was connected to the computer and the Astronaut had to push a button when the two lenses pointed to the two landmarks highlighted on their paper map. Some of those landmarks were stars, some were big things on Earth.

@joesterling4299 2 года назад

I always heard "small step for *a* man." I'm from the same region of the country as Neil; so I guess that's why I was never confused.

@SlurpingSoup 2 года назад

You forgot a couple of my favs. Like the fact that the “quarantine bus” the astronauts rode in after they came back to Earth had holes in it. A fact that Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin & Neil Armstrong new about but didn’t mention it to anyone lol Or the fact that they ignited the lunar ascent module with a pen because something was wrong with the button.

@jdc1957 2 года назад

Facts.

@icebuildsrobots Год назад

That last thing is like when someone shoots a door in Star Wars and it opens.

@peteosmussen9423 10 месяцев назад

I always took the quote as Neil saying “that’s one small step for me, but one giant leap for the species.”

@4thfrom7 4 месяца назад

"Mom, look! I'm on the news!" - Lance Armstrong Excellent video, as usual!

@kerrybaldino8826 2 года назад

That was my favorite Joe intro yet! Great video too

@frankf1095 2 года назад

The opening sequence was spooky but really well done and really funny. Well done Joe!

@TruHipHop21 2 года назад

I love the "Mild Flex" thrown in there f*@king awesome 🤣🤣🤣

@lemonds4267 2 года назад

When i was in elementary, a kid there was charlie dukes grandson. for "Show and tell" He brought his grandfathers mission control badge... And his grandfather. It was really cool meeting him and him explaining the mission. Still remember it clear as day, 9 years later.

@burntpieceoftoast4148 Год назад

Awesome!

@Zach-ku6eu 2 года назад

By far, this is your best intro ever!

@Dinkylicious 2 года назад

I can't put in words how happy your videos make me! You are so great!!! Much love! 💓

@None0fYourBusiness Год назад

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I was enthralled from start to finish. Good job, dude.

@davedavenport8176 2 года назад

Yet another fun fact: When joe refers to the device in your “pocket” has way more computing power then the systems on the Apollo. Likely it was in your hand or a holder as you were currently watching this informational video. Another is it’s not fair that Joe’s sponsor “Brilliant” is as intriguing as Joe himself is. Likely if you watch many of his videos it’s because you are simply interested in learning. And last is the sparkling ✨ of the gold plaque on the filing cabinet 😁 Love your Chanel Joe can’t wait for the Next

@flexabigg1 2 года назад

You rock as always! Thanks for the laughs and informative video. Love your work.

@derivious2012 2 года назад

Fun fact, the lunar software was hardware, actually knitted too

@angiev8836 2 года назад

THE BEGINNING SKIT IS MY NEW FAVORITE THEY KEEP GETTING BETTER

@ahleena Год назад

My dad was in the space program from Apollo 8 to the Challenger disaster (and longer if you count ISS) and computer wise, we definitely were not ready. He said the capsule computer was basically a bunch of magnets on a string. A fun fact, if an astronaut fell on the moon he pretty much couldn't get up on his own in that suit. It wasn't impossible, but it was a concern. Compound that with another weird fact: the astronauts couldn't read the terrain. The lack of atmosphere made everything crystal clear, so an astronaut couldn't tell if he was looking at gravel at his feet or boulders at the bottom of a very steep decline.

@EmyrDerfel Год назад

The computer wasn't magnets on a string, but the memory used wires threaded through ferrite cores (doughnut shapes).

@TheReaverOfDarkness 2 года назад

3:50 "One of these things is not like the others" My immediate response: sippy cups!

@LordFalconsword 2 года назад

No matter how much simpler the control systems are on Lunar Starship, when it goes to the moon, they better have an SCE to AUX switch!

@mrock828 2 года назад

I never knew about the customs forms, that was really cool, thank you!

@swerdna77 2 года назад

Fantastic video as always.

@illusivec 2 года назад

"They got to the moon with 10000000th of the computational power of an iPhone" thing is, while true, kinda misleading. There were no all-purpose computers in those days. All of the computers they used had the exact amount of computing and memory they required. Not to mention they didn't have OSes bogging them down or HALs to abstract the hardware from the software. It's kinda like saying my car is 100 times faster than a container ship. Yes, it's true. But a container ship isn't designed for speed in the first place so this isn't really a fair comparison.

@clairekholin6935 2 года назад

the computers were essentially all hardware acceleration, many of the necessary functions could be hardwired in, but there an Iphone plugged into the same I/O as it could probably run it while watching this video

@danielpassigmailcom 2 года назад

@flanker The very first "all-purpose" computer was working in 1945 I think it was called ENIAC or UNIVAC, one of those two. But they already existed. And the Apollo hardware had the absolute maximum computer specs for a computer that could fit in a spacecraft, and even with those unheard of (for the time) specs they had to resort to layer upon layer of clever engineering and programming, creating programming languages etc. to make the hardware processing speed, memory, etc etc. capable enough to control the craft for a moon mission.

@darkonc2 2 года назад

Actually, there was an OS -- but it was 'realtime', and had *absolutely zero* fluff.

@1happypiranha Год назад

I’m newly subscribed so haven’t seen all your videos but I have a suggestion; the computer on the Apollo spacecrafts was primitive yet brilliantly programmed. If you haven’t done a video on that, and if that’s up your alley, could you do one on that?

@hisoverlorduponhigh90 Год назад

We had the courage to throw our hats over the proverbial fence. This is the type of courage that produces the next level of technology.

@jeremydecker4547 2 года назад

No, I don't think that we were "ready" but mostly as prepared as we could be for something so monumental as the moon shot. The fact that we were technologically in our infancy when it came to space, and still put men on our only satellite planet, it is a testament to human resolve to touch the unknown, ready or not. Love your content and your humor! Keep up the great work!

@benjaminprietop 2 года назад

I still remember going to the Smithsonian when I was 12 and seeing the Apollo 11 command module for the first time. I couldn't believe it was so small and I actually thought it was fake before an employee told me otherwise.

@MrT------5743 Год назад

I saw the Apollo 13 CM was in Hutchinson KS for a long time (Not sure if it is still there).

@Mad_Elf_0 2 года назад

Imagine for a moment... You're Michael Collins. You're orbiting the Moon in Columbia. You've just received official confirmation that Eagle's ascent engine failed to light. Your friends are stranded on the Moon. And you have to light your own engine, and leave them there to die. Despite the tragedies associated with the Apollo programme, it could have been much worse.

@GigaBrand 2 года назад

I believe he said later he would have refused any order to leave them behind and strand himself instead.

@TabbyLavalamp 2 года назад

@@GigaBrand I know that's supposed to sound heroic but I don't see the point in it. He wouldn't be able to do anything to help them and I don't think they'd want him to throw away his life when he doesn't have to. He had a wife and at least one child at the time (he had two more but it's really difficult finding out when they were born). Why leave them without him when it's not necessary?

@MrT------5743 Год назад

When you say 'official confirmation" you mean he was following along with the radio transmissions between the LM and mission control? Cause he was on the channel the whole time. They also had other ways to manually arm the assent engine and ignite it. The fuel in the LM was hypergolic and they don't need an ignition source, they ignite on contact.

@clarencehopkins7832 2 года назад

Excellent stuff bro

@GWG-ib9cv 4 месяца назад

This documentary is tops

@mikeluque6527 2 года назад

Oh man. I literally laughed when you brought up the customs form.

@DeputyNordburg Год назад

Fantastic video. But... Please keep in mind the computer in the Apollo spacecraft was not the computer calculating their path to the moon. Apollo calculations were done on the ground in the "real time Flight Center" a building full of massive IBM computers, and next door to Mission Control.

@DumpsterDivingDragon 2 года назад

LOVE the MULTI-VERSE of Joes !

@finecutpost 2 года назад

What a fun and very informative script thank you.

@Rechtauch Год назад

Automatic subtitles read "diabetes for mankind" 😀

@JGott0001 2 года назад

I really enjoy seeing RU-vidrs cite, shoutout, and collaborate with others. I know it probably helps the channel's own marketing or to appease the algorithm, but it's still cool to see a sense of community and commonality.

@epifunny1 Год назад

He says remembering that it was really the ‘competition’ of the USA-USSR space race that even brought up the idea of going to the moon in the first place.

@stanettiels7367 2 года назад

“Buzz Lightyear to the rescue” is Buzz’s best quote.

@wesc7983 2 года назад

i enjoy your recent experimentation with your intros. they are fun.

@jcortese3300 2 года назад

I think the reason they could use so little processing power was just due to how rigidly choreographed it all was. Once they lifted off, there were no further what-ifs, really. You can make do with very little processing power once you've gotten rid of all the diamonds in the flow chart.

@danielpassigmailcom 2 года назад

actually that's not true, the Apollo computers aboard the spacecraft were used for guidance and course correction all the way to the moon and back. (with help from the astronauts continuing to input data and measurements throughout the flight). Also it could and did communicate and control over 100 integrated devices in the spacecraft throughout the trip. Plus it could (and did) restart in the event of a computer crash in half a second WHILE STILL RUNNING.

@thomascraig3533 2 года назад

Joe the quarantine joke was the best so far. Love your videos keep up the good work

@bidlisiwtv 2 года назад

I almost choked on my drink with that one.

@jamesbond_007 2 года назад

I'm happy to hear you say that we were not ready! I also think we were not quite ready -- at least not ready to do it really safely. [And I lived thru this time] We're so fortunate that they were able to make it so many times successfully -- just astonishing. Apollo 13 -- another story. I seem to recall that it was hit by lightning on the way up, though you don't hear much about that these days, it was mentioned several times when they were looking for what caused or contributed to the problems they experienced.

@Noone-of-your-Business Год назад

Dude, I just _love_ your style of presentation.

@zaphodsbluecar9518 2 года назад

I always took it as being 'fruh' - "One small step fruh man..." I'm originally from the north of England, and would say 'ferra' or 'fra' and in Oz, it's common to hear a short 'frah' - I never understood why it was an issue - especially when the intent was obvious.

@colors6692 2 года назад

Yours is just poor diction!

@vartikamandan4215 2 года назад

Really like this channel. It's very informative and live the way he explains all topics in very interesting way.👍👍👍

@emlix1 2 года назад

I loved the intro with all the Joes.

@WAVEGURU Год назад

The opening scenes with the multiple yous is hilarious!

@sassafrassiest 2 года назад

Hey Joe! I’ve been a fan since 2018. I actually commented on one of your videos saying it was great distraction because I was so nervous about a job interview for my dream job. And you said good luck! I was so surprised that you took the time to reply, and it made my day. Well, I got the job. And I kicked butt at it for two years. And then, back in May, I interviewed for my NEXT dream job. I got that, too! And even though I’m working 70 hours a week right now, I’m so happy. And I still love your videos. Thanks for being an awesome way to nerd out in my spare time.

@Raygo. 2 года назад

Kennedy: ....we choose to go to the moon, and do the other things. History: Well... he did do quite a lot of "the other thing." 😏

@tonyhawk123 2 года назад

We chose to go to the Moon… because the Russians are ahead in the space race and we need to reassert our world dominance. But i guess not quite so catchy.

@andie_pants 2 года назад

US history summed up: _... and then the citizens publicly elected a President who grabbed 'em by the pussy._

@thomashiggins9320 2 года назад

@@andie_pants I'm pretty sure Kennedy never had to behave so crudely to get women, although I'm certain the money helped.

@andie_pants 2 года назад

@@thomashiggins9320 The means differ, but the ends invariably remain the same.

@BaronVonQuiply 2 года назад

As famous as that bit is, if you hear a few lines before that, he says what the other things are (climbing Mt Everest, Crossing the Atlantic by plane, and playing competitive sports).

@darrenskjoelsvold 2 года назад

With regards to your statement that we were not ready to go to the moon, I agree with you. The technology was not ready but that makes the accomplishment even more incredible.