KSP Diving Into Sun & Racing to The Mun 

My favorite comment I saw about Kubrick faking the moon landings "He's such a perfectionist, he would have insisted they film it on location."

NASA: takes 3 days to get to the moon Scott Manley: goes to Mun and back under 90 minutes NASA obviously needs MOAR BOOSTERS!

6:23 "The guy pulled out an inch too far and the thing went critical" It happens...

Those Kerbals that can withstand massive G-forces but turn into dust at the slightest impact...

"I'm a Scottish person, this is my colour. I'm a kind of pale blue. It takes a week of sunbathing to get white." ~Billy Connolly

Scott, if your computer is only 2 years old and "getting hot", you should probably look into dusting it out and cleaning your heatsinks.

re: Control rod harpooning - Suddenly, radiation poisoning seems a...secondary problem...

“I pulled my rod” -Scott Manly

"No they were faked on Mars, obviously," said with a full straight face. Brilliant sense of humor, brother!

Reaching the ground in one piece isn't so hard, the tricky bit is still being in one piece a minute later.

"Getting pretty hot." Scott please tell me you dusted your computer.

SL 1 is the name of the project you’re thinking about. Instructions said to pull rod out no more than 3 inches rod was pulled out 3 feet...

Had a great conversation with my mom's husband this Sunday. He was with NASA (Software Engineer) for the Apollo missions.... LOTS of good stuff from him...

It would have been more expensive to replicate exactly what we saw in the video for the moon landing than it would have to actually go to the moo .

The reactor accident you referenced, SL-1, had two other fatalities in addition to the harpooned guy. It was the central (most reactive) rod that was pulled out upwards of 10 or 15 inches beyond the three that was allowed chernobyl is another well know prompt critical event

The way you talk about these topics is so pleasurable to listen to, and the topics are actually something I'm interested in and kinda related to the game. Good Work Man! xD

That was a beautiful "bump" on Mun and soft landing on Kerben well done.

I subbed because he booped the moon. Thats all it took

Sun Diving. Brings back memories of the first time I did a sun refuel when I finally upgraded from the Electron version to the A3000 version of Classic Elite. And I managed a full refuel without blowing up :) I feel old again

I love your channel so much I just watched a 3 minute ad in support. I'd never do that for anyone else!

set the controls for the heart of the sun...

Scott's the type of guy who says "Daaaaaa" at the beginning of the video, but isn't German or Russian.

Nice Mitchell and Webb reference. Of course you'd have seen it!

Apollo aimed about ~90km altitude initial reentry, bouncing on over to ~120km and then come back and land.

Could you get a huge boost on an interstellar trajectory by going close to the sun and using the Oberth effect to slingshot your ship outward?

Great story about the criticality accident impaling that poor guy. When you started saying you had a story about it, I thought you were gonna go into the accident with the so-called tickling the dragon's tail experiment. I'm really glad you talked about something I hadn't heard of before.

I was Orbiting the Sun the other day @ 500,000 meters, Tried to go EVA, and the poor little Kerbal Vaporized instantly.

Now and again something happens which reminds me how much I miss Douglas Adams.

I could keep watching this channel

Poor Scott he cannot Händel the heat!

We need to send Scott onto the ISS ASAP. Have him play KSP up there as well

More than 1 frame per second! That is brill...

Heat is why I have an AC in my room year round. Even in the Minnesota winters. Although I do turn the compressor off and just run the fan. For some reason I get the hottest room in every house I have lived in, faces the sun all day, top floor, all the vents just dump into it.

eyeballs would glow an eerie blue.........that's sooooooooooooo metal dude

2:05 That Korolev cross is just majestic, no tumbling at all.

FYI on the SL-1 story that Scott talked about: SL-1 was a 3 megawatt US Army test reactor. Apparently during testing, one of the control rods had been sticking so a tech yanked on it to try to free it up a bit. It became unstuck and was subsequently pulled out too far, causing the instantaneous reaction. When it went prompt critical, it generated 20 Gigawatts of power in 4 thousandths of a second. This had the effect of vaporizing all the internal nuclear material and moderating water instantly and sent the entire reactor (20,000 lbs / ~10,000kg) upwards at 27' per second and blowing the top of the reactor off. The supervisor was pinned to the ceiling (as Scott mentioned) with a control rod and another was also found dead when the firemen arrived in response to a fire alarm. One man survived for a short time, but passed away shortly after being rescued. The combination of radiation exposure, blunt force trauma, and being heavily scalded by steam meant he had no chance for recovery. When the investigation started, they knew if was a prompt critical incident by looking at one of the guys gold watch: a significant amount of the metal had been turned to a radioactive gold isotope. More information on the SL-1 reactor incident can be found online (like here: digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1053436/m1/1/ ).

Scott - I've been studying nuclear engineering since Fukushima, and am very familiar with the various stories of criticality incidents, but I'd never heard the reason why a blue flash was seen. Thanks!

9:40 - Look how happy that Kerbal is!

6:58 and so on: I want those lyrics. :D

That story about the reactor and that song cracked me up.

Wow! That's a lot of G forces. You broke the Mun racing record and made Kerbal Jam at the same time.

Oh my god, Scott... that song. 7/7

Yeah, the SL-1 reactor incident was sketchy asf. Like the guy hanging from the ceiling for about a week and a 130 degree room, not rotting because he had been sterilized by the radiation.

that was awesome run

19:20 as he reads out the time, all i see is the look on the kerbin's face xD his whole life has been redefined after that flight

It really is fascinating watching Patrick Stewart wearing a Death Star shirt while playing Kerbal Space Program

Putting the separators near the top... In 2 years of playing KSP, why didn't I think of that? I once did surface to low Mun orbit in 10 minutes, but that was with KAL overclocking an ion engine with a minimalist craft. When I made a good, alien-looking ship out of silver fairings and Mk1 inline cockpits with only the bubbles showing (and lit), the overclocked ion engine would break free and tear through the rest of the 12-ton ship if I gave it more than about 1/3 throttle.

"that's awful. It's genius, I love it." =)

You could reduce parachute height to 600 (150 less), becuase you reached the safe speed aroiund 180m above the landing.

i like that the first thing that pops up if you type "KSP into" is "KSP into the sun" like yea i want to see it

Scott Manley the nuclear reactor you talked about is called SR1 and it was done out at the INL. I worked out there for a bit.

LOL and I thought Chernobyl was the worst nuclear accident but that guy who got pierced by the control rod is worse.

Scott you should recreate the ship and mission in the film "Sunshine"! Love that movie be great to see it in KSP🙏🏻

Wait a second. So your telling me, that there was a man who got shafted in the shaft by a shaft? Now I've heard everything.

I have only two things to say, 1. moar boasters. 2. in thrust we thrust.

Don't the black and white rectangles on the rocket's skin become redundant if the rocket isn't a cylinder? Rolling should be obvious with an X super structure.

Love u Scott!!!

5:05 "Sh*t, we forgot Galactic Hitman!"

MUN !! makes sense, it sounds right!

If I were to try this, I'd forget the parachute.

This guy just went full kerbal

When in doubt, strut it out!

That's an expensive way to make Kerbal pate, with all those G-forces pulled xD

Valentina Kermin seemed to enjoy that ride.

Love ya Scott but I die laughing every time somebody sitting at a computer says, "I need a calculator."

That story about the reactor control rod is terrifying, but also fascinating. It shot out of the slot immediately after he pulled it a mere inch too far?

Scott, I've also been playing with racing to the Mun for a while now. I can get to the Mun in under 35 minutes, but the return trip takes too long due to problems with heat. I'll try the ablative+radiator concept as that seems to be working really well. I wonder if any incremental gains can be made by doing a turn and burn instead of burning straight up? Although all my fastest runs have been going straight up.

you singing that song was actually almost epic

As soon as this fellow was singing Jon bon Jovi, I had to hit the like and subscribe button.

I paid for the whole gmeter, I am gonna use the whole gmeter.

Apollo lunar reentrys had a small entry angle of between 5.3 degrees and 7.7 degrees. So not a lot of room for error at those return velocities.

And different materials have different delay neutron amounts, which is why some of us have concerns with different fuel cycles...ala thorium/u233 has about half as many delay neutrons as U235. This can result in stability issues depending on the design. Particularly for MSR promoters, we will have to REALLY make sure we do the CFD right or risk Doppler expansion oscillations (POGO problems!)

I believe the answer to doing this faster is very clear, MORE BOOSTERS

I saw the blue on small research reactor on a school field trip,the army reactor you talked about has a youtube video,I served in the USN subs our nuke tpes look down om the army types and us army got out of the reactor biz after the 60's.

For those interested, info on the United States Army experimental nuclear Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One accident. "One of the shield plugs on top of the reactor vessel impaled the third man through his groin and exited his shoulder, pinning him to the ceiling" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

OK, SpaceX has gonna took far.

Scott any chance on a lesson on liquid fuelled reactors vs solid fuelled reactors please

Oh, man...You killed Jebediah!

Doh. Was wondering about the strange triangular ship you can see against the sun at about 5min. Aliens in Kerbal alert! Took me another 5 mins to realise it was the cursor.

You say it's too hot? OPEN THE WINDOWS!

Good luck beating your previous record.

The blue flash phenomenon is likely the same explanation as to why astronauts see light spots sometimes.

Massive Mun Rocket? Or Massive Mun Manned Missile?

Nuclear Reactor lesson from Scott. Sweet :-)

Hey Scott, what's your card and CPU to render these images? Nice video :)

My commute to my old job was longer than the time he got to the moon and back, lol

"3 kilometers" says the guy who hasn't clipped through the sun.

Your kerbal for sure blacked out..!

I tried something similar to this with the Thumper SRB’s, the thing was that I disintegrated at 50km.

You blew your rod, and impaled Jose. You give nukes...a bad name...

Hey Scott, open a window...maybe buy a fan? Science that heat problem. :-D

The Crayola Pack Rockets.

That's so tasteless it's almost tasteful...

@7:00 ish - that escalated quickly , the horror

they make this mod called better burn time that has a built in suicide burn timer built in that shows at the nav ball.

You have given me a new mission in life, recreate that bon jovi parody irl. It. Must. Be. Done

no joke, on my second day of playing I was trying to make a stable orbit for the contract (which I did do later that day) and had a strange parabola around the planet. I later found out the the ellipse ended because I LANDED ON THE MOON. By accident. If only I had decelerated, and brought equipment.

I so want to play this game, but can’t find the time to get started.

would it be possible for you to take out a giant rocket cluster, like the one you launched with, to the moon. then land your capsule on it, docking, and rocket back to earth?

he didnt say "fly safe"...my life has no sense anymore