Colliding Things At Orbital Speeds in Kerbal Space Program 

"Being in the right place is more important than being really big" -Scott Manley 2015

He says "fly safe" right after giving us a tutorial on how to crash things together in orbit

Me and the boys committing insurance fraud in space

lmao...a typical docking for me ...

Today in orbit, the *Large Kerbal Hadron Collider* successfully detected the Higgs boson.

Want to destroy a space station? Get Sandra Bullock.

I had my volume turned all the way up. HULLO IT'S SCOTT MANLEY HERE.

“It’s not a small distance” Says while travelling at 2km/s

Scott Manly: maniacally laughing while blowing up the ISS. Also Scott Manly: "Fly safe" Oh Scott, never chance.

*spends 20 minutes crashing ships into other ships, and at the end* "... and fly safe!" NO, Scott, YOU fly safe :)

Finishes colliding things: "Fly save" .............................................................................. yeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhh

GOD DAM IT SCOTT DO A COLAB WITH NERD CUBED ALREADY

Isn't this the plot of Gravity

15:35 That was a pretty magnificent explosion.

15:30 One of the greatest examples of the Kessler Effect ever virtualized.

Scott , do a video on orbiting satilites inside the atmosphere.

I always love how Scott says "Fly Safe" right after he blows something up.

I'd love for you to do a bit of ISS exploding to fill the orbit area with debris and do a launch through it. Either as a demonstration of how unlikely it is to hit debris, or as a demonstration of catastrophic failure

here is a fun challenge for you, now that you've almost completely destroyed the ISS, rebuild it using as much as possible from the original debris orbiting kerbin using KAS or something

If you look at the behaviour of the remains of the rockets you might be able to proove the existence of short-lived intermediate spaceships. As your final state seems to have missing transverse energy I postulate the existence of mass-less, weak interacting rockets, that are created in the scattering event.

17:40 Jeb is confused. "What have I done ???"

15:55 Have you considered a career in poetry? lol

This could result in the most boneshattering high five ever.

"Everything just spinning around like some insane spinny roundy thingy." -Scott Manley 15:53 😅 You kill me Scott.

Scott this was genuinely terrifying. Just imagine something the size of a spaceship leaping out from the darkness of space at 10,000 m/s... *shudder*

I had JUST watched Gravity last night...

Made my day seeing this pop up in my subscriptions. I know I was probably only one of thousands to suggest showing Dan how to do it but still a buzz when you see it. Another excellent video Scott

You tell us to fly safe and just did THIS?! I like you^^

Will you actually team up with Nerd³ or will I keep being given nerd blueballs by you two?

yep, exactly my thought. nerdcubed insurance challenge

420 views 42 likes and 0 dislikes Dank

*crashes spaceship into space station* "Im Scott Manley, fly safe." -Scott Manley 2015.

Oh that slowmo mod is brillant! Time to do the rod of the gods again! :D

Awesome, I've been waiting for this video ever since Nerdcubed's attempt!

That was THE MOST fun that I've had totally nerding out since Street Countdown!

Scott, could you recreate the maneuvers from The Martian and discuss the feasibility of what they did in the movie, and if it is non-realistic what would need to be done to accomplish something similar?

I've been waiting for a video like this👍

"Explosions don't look like that in space" Sure, but the ISS is manned, wouldn't the fact that it's manned and filled with oxygen allow for a huge ball of fire?

+Scott Manley Y'know, this video was published on my birthday while I was working on my MEng aero thesis in Glasgow University (I'm working on passive satellite stabilisation). Made for a great video to watch, and still topical! (so I counted it as study, haha!) Great upload, thanks very much!

Love your content Scott keep it up!!

I love that the serious business thumbnail preview is just a rocket plane tumbling end over end.

I don't know if "Fly safe" is appropriate for this video

Scott, for New Year's you should make a slo-mo montage of high-speed collisions set to some awesome music.

such beautiful destruction. *wipes tear from eye*

Thanks Scott! Could you please use Kerbal Joint Reinforcement and deorbit this station? Your other station deorbit video is one of my favorites!

you should start a minmus or duna base series, maybe use some space planes in it too. I think it would be a really cool challenge for you to take on! great video BTW.

The Kerbal video I never knew I needed to see. :D

"Fly safe" he says.. After telling us how to smash two spaceships together at orbital speeds...

everything just flying around spinning around like some insane spiny roundy thingy

Thank you Scott, very cool!

Are you sure you didn't feel a "woosh" as it went by?

"Collisions in space. they are fun! i am scott manley fly safe" cant say that sounds very safe to me

Always wanted to collide two opposing orbits but never bothered. Thanks for doing it!

Impressive! Thanks for the ideas.

wow imagine thousands of little space debris going 10kms IRL going the opposite direction of the iss then encountering it then hitting it...

wow this is so cool, Scott, can you make a video with more slow-mo collisions (with post processing time acceleration)? Maybe with some music on the background like you did in that wingsuit video

>tells you to fly safe >flies unsafely

This is the definition of docking with an engine and not RCS

I love nerdcubed! Thanks for doing this! :)

Some of the deviation is the game calculating for the mechjeb units location versus the ship center of mass, as you rotate that changes the closest approach number as the MechJeb rotates around the COM. Long ships, one can see the relative speed to target really jump and drop as one rotates the craft to align a port etc. Kinda scary sometimes if one is being a little lazy watching the instruments and glances at the closing rate while the command unit rotates around the COM 'holy crap 8ms! oh, yeah... rotation'.

I was so sure that this was because of NerdCubed, and when you said it, I just laughed so hard at knowing xD

"Collisions in space are fun!" "Fly safe." Hmmm...

That debris cloud was magnificent. Kesslerific.

hi scott... if u remember the docking training. it says that we should turn off the RCS when changing orientation bcos it's sensitive for intersection as it would change ur orbit

When I saw your comment on his video, I began praying that you'd do your spin on it!!

Fly safe. LOL! Yeah, good advice after that. :)

Feels so weird watching a launch the other way.

Now, orbital High-five!! please scott. also mickeal bay level explosions!

Scott, you have just entered the domain of the Nerdcubed.

I have a challenge for you, I want you to do an equatorial atmospheric survey of Eve with a spaceplane with the goal of circumnavigating Eve at the lowest possible altitude with a manned vehicle and being able to return to orbit.

Christ this was tedious. God bless you man.

Let' s see if Sandra Bullock can survive that. 15:25 Love your videos btw!

Thanks Scott! I've been wanting to do this, but now I can do something else instead!

15:37 is the part you all clicked on this video for. You're welcome.

Just got inspiration how to get enough debris around kerbin to make the launches more realistic in matter getting into space without being hit by that stuff :D

"Collisions in space, They are fun. I'm Scot Manley, fly safe"

You should do an ISS post-collision rescue mission to rescue multiple kerbals.

"like a giant space bird. A bird that of course , has been hit by a spacecraft travelling at hundreds of meters per second" -only in KSP

Your a mad scientist, I love it.

This is the best way to dock with a station.

You made a video where you tried to simulate ring formation (or something similar?) by detaching a lot of decouplers and then time accelerate to see how they spread. Could be fun to make some collisions with some ISS's and then time accelerate a couple of years to see Kerbins new ring system.

Literally smashes two space things together at very high speeds. "I'm Scott Manley, fly safe". Made a very good example there, Scott!

mr. manley, you, sir, are entertaining, you blend physics which can be very complex with humor perfectly :)

You must had felt the Micro Gravity Wave as it passed by.

:-D! Love the Evil Scott laugh @ ~15.40. "Collisions in space: They are fun. Fly safe." ROFLing at this time! Almost LCOBing but I already went. :-D!

Well done Scott! You not only looked after insurance scams but also made a abridged and way better version of the Movie "Gravity" ;)

That explosion was insane

With mechjeb you could just use "Fine tune closest approach to target" set to 0m and set a ridiculously low tolerance.

Saying fly safe after causing mulitple collisions. well done!

In most insurance contracts there is a clause that would nullify the policy for intentional acts.

hey scott, apparently if you do this with a minmus satelite i discovered the relative velocity of flying toward minmus was under the speed of sound and my apoapsis with an orbit was 10.2 meters per second! thats basicly driving a bike off a ramp

Only Scott Manley gets excited about space collisions

as soon as I saw N3's video I thought to myself 'there's no way in hell youre pulling this off'

This is the future of particle accelerators!

Dan is probably going to have a fangasm once he watches this 0_0

No one can hear you commit insurance fraud in space

Hey Scott, Have you considered doing a "Gravity" scenario? I'm sure it would be a royal pain to put everything in line where it would work out, but this seems like a logical progression from what you're doing in this video.

I saw you on nerdcubed's channel and hoped that you would expand your comment into a video.

In Orbiter, the Encounter MFD lets you tweak the miss distance with great precision.

"Some insane spinny-roundy thing."