This was a brilliant episode. I really appreciate that the Event Horizon team can reach out to such a wide range of people and get them on the show. I could tell that John was enjoying this interview and the engineers bounced off each other so well.
Irony, these guys spend most of their waking lives trying to study and implement my own physics for hypersonics, plasma dynamics, etc. Drew, IO Aircraft formerly phantom works
Great episode! Whenever there's discussion on high-speed flight, the titanium skin of the SR-71 is always mentioned. There is another material that is seldom mentioned, but equally important-the nickel-chromium-iron alloy Inconel that was used on the X-15.
Correct. Inconel may not have as cool a name as titanium but it is also very important at high temperatures. Some others are Nimonic, Waspalloy and Hastelloy. Worth checking out
How could you possibly past on the opportunity to NOT as about the physics and flight characteristics of UAPs? If for no other reason then to see how they reach to the question. That would have been the icing on the cake. I would like to hear their speculation on how a craft can dissipate the heat generated when moving from 80,000ft to sea level in less than 2 sec.? As them to calculate how many joules are needed to move from sea level flight to 80,000 ft. In 2 seconds.
Cool stuff. If you get a round two can you ask about the HF electrical systems for the plane's surface to help with hypersonics? I know the one guy mentioned EE's as part of the equation but now that the tech is public knowledge it seems at least as interesting as the materials science aspect.
Yes!! Is it just me or are things getting more interesting every, single, day, almost by the hour! And I mean good stuff even if it's a failed research project or something like that, but not all the bad crap going on out there.... I've had it with bad crap happening! Let's work together and see what this whole universe thing is about and enjoy the ride! Smile and let's have fun and eat tacos or something! Anything that doesn't hurt anyone! 🍻🌎❤️🌮🔭🚀🎶
@@dexocube appreciate ya! Hope you have a fantastic day and be safe out there! 🍻 P.S. - I see we frequent similar channels, hope to see you around and interact again sometime! 👍🤯
@mattyice2099 Kind people who design aircraft for the sole purpose of killing. In the US,UK and EU we call the Russians war criminals for bombing Ukraine yet in Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan its just collateral damage.
@johnmackay3136 some engineers do, but Like you said yourself, you didn't finish the interview. If you did, you would realize these individuals aren't working on offensive weapon systems. Hypersonic Defense is paramount.
@mattyice2099 Didn't they mention working on the F35 for example? Also lets not pretend its defense, the defense department should really be called the offence department.
@@johnmackay3136 That's just raw ideology though. It doesn't reflect how the world actually is, especially in its nuances. I'm the most anti-war person you'll ever meet. I hate war, and for that matter any violence, and want a global peace order as a ground rule. I think WWII should have taught us that war is obsolete and no longer welcome. The problem is that half of the world's politicians disagree, and to some degree their populations. In my lifetime, I've seen people hacked to death with machetes over ethnic strife. In the Balkans, it was religious issues. In the Middle East it was the US interest in oil, and that wasn't even driven by a defense contractor, but rather an oil infrastructure company (Hallburton). With Ukraine, it's turf, and we're right back to the political drivers of freaking WWII. Does one blame the manufacturer of the machete? Does one blame Mitsubishi or Volkswagen? How about the US Norfolk Naval yard or Portsmouth. Not seriously, you blame the politicians and power players using the tools of war. It doesn't even matter what their politics are, left and right has no meaning in this issue. And they are the problem, not the defense contractors. There will be F-35's that never see combat. There are some that may. But fundamentally they exist solely for security. They'll just fly around and make sure whatever country is operating them has secure air space, rarely will they be used en masse in war. They are no different than the gun the policeman has holstered, it's there if needed, but mostly will stay in its holster. Take away the gun, and you have a bobby with a beating stick because you have to give them something. It's still a potentially lethal beating stick. Take that away, and the pepper spray and taser companies see an uptick in contracts. That's humanity because you will always have someone coming aggressively at the police officer. It's the operator of the gun that introduces the potential issue. The person that makes the decision to shoot it, in this case the armed cop. And in warfare, that's the politicians, and it's always when diplomacy fails. Well, put people in power that don't let diplomacy fail. That would be a good first step. People sometimes don't do that in practice. Take a look, the US president with the least history of warfare since the end of WWII is the most unpopular one. I don't support the guy, but the record is there. Works the same for the UK, the most anti-war politician they've had in any meaningful capacity was the most unpopular PM of the 20th century for being an appeaser of a certain German dictator. Well, that's reality. Do you really think if Taiwan chose not to buy any weapons, China wouldn't assert control over them? No, you can't seriously say that. Especially with how they treated the Hong Kong riots. Russia does the same, and so does the US when it wants to project power such as in Iraq. Well, that's the world. So unless you want to be world emperor and put a stop to all of it, it's moot. And even if you did, well, anyone that's ever tried that in history left a trail of corpses of those that disagreed. That's reality. So what, a company produces weapons. That's not solely what Lockheed does. I couldn't talk about it in this interview because it was the wrong set of scientists in the wrong division, but the fact is Lockheed is trying to develop compact fusion. If they do it successfully, yeah you can make that into a weapon, but you can also power the world without the need for fossil fuels. The entire world, including the developing one. So it goes both ways. And let's not forget, Boeing and Lockheed have at varying times developed the viability of the airline industry as much as defense. Don't believe me? Want a non-US example? Look at Airbus's military contracts. So I think the focus should be put on the politicians. That's where the global problems lie. And yeah, sometimes they are lobbied and affected by defense contractors, but the real issues are how diplomacy is handled. But even then, you're going to have populations of people that have no interest in peace. The hate and rivalry is too engrained down to the very core of those societies. But a defense contractor can just as easily be a peace contractor and better humanity. There's money to be made there. What you can't expect them to do is make bets on it solely by ideology, they are a business not a political theorist, they go where the money is. Where the money is remains to the domain of the politician's choice.
I hope the next high speed - hypersonic plane is painted black. they just look the coolest like that. Im gettin tired of that jaded _grey_ color they paint everything these days. 😩
The next 100 years won't have the same progress as the last 100 years. Physics and the materials that exist we are bumping up against. Going mach 10 is going to always be likely to surpass the materials nature allows. Of course we could have some ceramic carbon namo fibre material that is basically a bunch if small strong tubes that fuel is pushed thru at huge volumes to cool the material while heating the fuel to super high levels so that once it atomizes into the ramjet it instantly ignites completely in less than a micro second due to it’s temp and going from huge pressure to almost zero pressure almost instantly.
If you touch the alien on the left of my comment it's the first video I've got about Asteroid mining. I honestly can't afford to spend the time money and effort creating videos like this if people don't watch them . I've made about 28 space films
In good faith I will not be listening to nor “liking” this episode although I love Event Horizon and am a big fan of JMG. I will not show support for Lockheed Martin which is one of the major players in the American Military Industrial Complex which maintains an unholy stranglehold on Washington DC and by virtue, American foreign policy which seems hellbent on spreading war and terror across the globe to the sole benefit of these military contractors and no one else.
@@aaexo6468 please don’t make excuses for them. It’s not a good look at this point in time. The game is up, and people are sick of it. #WarPigs 🇺🇸💀🐷💀🇺🇸
As an absolute idiot, I speculate that hypersonic travel may be achieved at some point, but never commonly used by humanity. At least not unless we're talking about some kind of gravity wave field generation propulsion technology that removes the craft and it's inhabitants from actually directly interacting with the world of friction at those speeds. It just seems like there's too much volatility under these conditions to adequately ensure safe travel for public consumption. And that's my stupid take! Thanks for the excellent content!
Not even a mention or a sprinkle of UFO / uap , it's almost like that agrees beforehand that John won't ask them about the huge elephant in the room about the man made ufo/uaps..... I mean cmon xD
Imagine if we compensated raw science the way we compensate defense spending--These guys could just work on going fast without directly supporting economy-draining activities like wars, and the gross waste and corruption in the defense industry.
I doubt even these incredible engineers are read into those black budget programs. Probably no longer any military contractor industry knows but only a tiny percentage. 😊
Mach 12 is approx 9132 miles per hour ? 1975 ? HEAVY G ITS NOT CALLED A WIND SHIELD ? ITS A WIND SCREEN. ? THE X 15 HAS BEEN SITTING IN A MUSEUM FOR MANY YEARS. ? BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT THIS GUY DOES HAVE A B.S DEGREE ???? YABBA DABBA DOO 😮😮😮
yeaa... its weird with John really just staying right on track asking about Hypersonics, but no questions about uap? no "what do u think about David Grusch?" 🤨
Three special guests your spoiling us John Michael Godier. Event horizons is my go to show for current thinking and best guests on RU-vid your number 1 in my mind keeping it real in this universe in which we liiiiiiive 😊❤
Excellent interview! I’d still like hear in discrete words if some of our Lockheed professionals have gained the ability to replicate or reproduce alien vehicles, or otherwise build non-aerodynamic vehicles capable of buoyancy in a gravitational field. Thanks!
I understand so unfortunately little about the physics of flight! This interview's so interesting! As a meta side note, I now understand why the folks who are so excited when listening to your interviews about cosmology. I liked above all else the question about flying on Mars. It's very interesting whether non-rocket-assisted high-speed flight could be be possible there at all-not the Ingenuity scale, but lifting at the least one human and one backpack. :) The answer was… very scientific: it depends on factors we don't yet know. At the very least, we're reasonably sure there are no birds on Mars! I'm scientific to the bone when I'm sciencing, but on this point I'd give the humanity a handicap of a couple centuries and then some-we're not yet offering the vacationers a flyby of Mount Olympus. :)
Concorde used to fly over my house every day when I was younger. I was extremely annoying and loud. Any conversations would stop until it had passed over it was so loud. I remember during a French listening exam there had to stop the tape while Concorde flew over which was against the rules but we got away with it did to the shear noise of it.
Very interesting but there really is very limited use for anyone civilian for this sort of teck. We all know who wants this and why because they have been the driver of the need for year's
@@johnruddick686 Yeah, I think it would have to be a case of telerobotics controlled from human settlements on Callisto. I can't remember what the mRem/day is there, just that it's the only Jovian moon on which human outposts are feasible, barring breakthroughs in medicine/gene editing.
True. And what an incredible place it is. JHU "predicted" the anthrax attacks of 2001 with the 'Dark Winter' tabletop exercise six months before it happened and then "predicted" the coronavirus pandemic with 'Clade X' and 'Event 201' tabletop exercises months before it happened. Since they did only 4 of these exercises in total, the first one being 'Dark Winter', their batting average is absolutely outstanding. Very nice people. The crème de la crème.
what the hell im more then half way thru this and they haven't talked at all about uap? the hearings? John how could u sit there and not have that be your first question. oh right, they probably refused off air.. hoping it gets there in the last quarter
Some might have missed that question, because John was very subtile with it. The answere was in fact very interesting (meteor trajectories) with room for speculation (if they analyse natural phenomenas in the atmosphere for their research they might also look into, you know...).
John I appreciate the fact that you can discuss SR71 technology in our own atmosphere with the same curiosity and enthusiasm that you do with Von Newmann probes and Dyson Spheres. Thank you!!
@@tammysanders4812 by being high profile employees of the company involved in research and development programs they bear just as much of the brunt of responsibility for the unimpeded proliferation of conflicts and war across the world as the CEO and boardroom members do for arming the belligerents involved. Often, and cynically and unironically enough, weaponizing BOTH SIDES. That’s the problem with the entire MIC. No one is willing to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. Greed rules the day. #WarPigs 💀🐷💀
@@TheTang3rine It's an opportunity to point out that Lockheed Martin is a war profiteering corporate monopoly, manufacturing murder machines for the benefit of an imperialistic hegemon. That said, I'm not holding my breath for John to get remotely political. At least the science is cool. =/
I must be honest, this episode has left me very disappointed in the channel. With respect as others have mentioned I cannot in good faith give a like and cannot finish the episode.
making capable weapons deters your enemy therefore what they are making arguably one of the most beneficial things a country can make if only your brain didn't lack the scope to understand the depth of the scenario, then we'd be cooking
@@SHERMA.Yup, people think our enemies don't have weapons of their own. But when the enemy attacks, the same people who complain about defense spending will be demanding a response.
Our enemy's ( the commies like russia, china, iran and north korea,) would wipe us off the map if we didn't have our own way to insure mutual destruction with nukes or other means. Realize this isn't a soft, peaceful world. We made it that way by building weapons to use and fight and die for freedom.
Interesting thought.. just being able to fly safely and effectively on mars through that atmosphere would need even stronger materials. Those planes will be scoured and polished to mirror finish 😂
JMG: I've heard you talk about suffering from imposter syndrome. I see you've "liked" a lot of complements in this comment section that are basically purely stroking you superficially. Maybe you're just being nice; all good. Maybe you're being psychologically manipulated with positive comments that (coincidentally or not) support what can objectively be described as a 50-minute commercial for one of the largest and most powerful war proponents in the history of earth. I remember when you recently interviewed the Latvian guy. It was one of the most political shows you've done and I could tell you were doing it because you genuinely felt like you needed to do something to right an unjust war perpetrated on innocents. It was an obvious aberration from your usual content, but I think it showed your altruistic values, and sure you tried to keep it nominally focused on your channel's themes. In that interview you ultimately said you're a guy who wants peace. I found that statement to be completely in line with your character and I believe you. I think I'm more involved than you are politically so I could fairly criticize this episode based on geopolitics, but this would be completely missing your altruistic intentions which I think is actually the most important takeaway from that episode. Some territory is more your domain than others. I've listened to every interview you've done on this channel and every episode on the jmg channel, plus every interview I can find that you've done with others. At times, especially more recently as your channel has gotten bigger (congrats!), I've worried you'd let the success go to your head and you'd start really sucking up to only the credentialed academic types. But then you turn around and pull some awesome interviews that dispel this. Kind of in the same vein, seeing you "like" what you have here ("exclusive" ?!) and assessing this as a Lockheed commercial, it makes me worried that you're headed down the Top Gun fanboy path as a tool. If you take this as an insult to your objectivity and ability to keep third-party influences at arm's length, then please accept my apologies, and my excuse is that I don't know you personally. As a whole I think your channels and content are amazing. I look forward to every new piece of content that you publish. Keep up the good work, and stay true to yourself!
Appreciate the comment. It should be made clear that the likes are usually done by the producer or by ANNA. John comments from his main channel. And when you see us like something it’s to acknowledge the person commenting AND because the production team does think John does a great job at hosting. As for this being a commercial, you’re free to feel that way. We felt it was a unique opportunity to talk to people who are working on amazing technology.
@@EventHorizonShow Thanks for the reply, that's nice of you to engage. These guys are pros and are paid lucratively for it. They know how to sell the sizzle and not the steak, including in the era of social media. Exhibit A is that they didn't need to tell you what images to feature for this episode. I heard a lot of Mc-Engineering speak that they've rehearsed a thousand times in sales pitches. No doubt they're talking about amazing technology: they've focus-grouped it to perfection. One of the top comments for this episode starts like this: "Imagine if we compensated raw science the way we compensate defense spending..." Sorry to be knit-picky, but there's no, "acknowledge[ment to] the person commenting" for this comment. Huge credit to John: he even explicitly tried to steer the focus of this interview away from pure military applications to keep it concentrated on the general concept of hypersonic. Big up! I listened to this interview a second time and am concluding that what sparked my comment was this video's imagery, its "exclusive" description, and comments on this youtube page. Absent these I wonder if the mere fact that these guests were all Lockheed engineers would have provoked me to comment. It very well might have. But regardless, I still think those three topics (especially the latter) warrant highlighting. A separate topic is how this channel's regular audience views this episode. I'd be curious to throw some darts around. And in case you want to crumple up this comment and bounce it off the backboard into the trash: I hope the main takeaway you get from me is a big "thanks" for the great channel and keep up the good work
Nice one! ill be sure to listn to it at night But I doubt they said anything about how to reduce air resistance using electrostatics or something similar... IF that technology is real, I doubt it is open. Though there are books with math equations that support it (true or false is another topic)..
Interesting that these 3 scientists, who had a pretty hard time explaining the sound speed and the Mach number, are oblivious of competition past and present hypersonic vehicles, including X-37B, Starship, Dream Chaser, X-43 and only briefly mentioning the awesome X-15. Also, they needed the host intervention to mumble something on thin steel structures used ny SpaceX Starship and much ridiculed when used by Soviets on the trisonic MiG-25, back in the ‘60s.
