Physicist Reacts to Kerbal Scuffed Program 1 by martincitopants 

what he says is true each kerbal have there own bravery/stupidity stat so they react differently danger jeb is one of the original kerbins and is near the top of the list so for most he will be one of your first pilots and hes a madlad the bravest of the bunch he smiles and acts excited when hes about to die

Fun fact about that asteroid you mentioned early on. If I am remembering correctly it was the same asteroid that hit Earth in the game Rage.

I believe Martin explains escape velocity later on. He explains basically every physics thing in the video

im not even joking by saying this game actually helped me in my orbital mechanics exam. Whenever we had anything to do with the ISS i could hear the KSP menu music.

I love it when people who know what they're talking about watch stuff like this.

"For every male action, there's a female overreaction" 😂😂😂☠️ That is hysterical bro!

games like this make me think that this is how education should be done, it should be entertaining. If it's entertaining you have a better chances at having fun at the thing, and thus better learning results. Instead of the "oh god oh no, another test, pls kill me" kind of education we have now.

Amazing content as always, can't wait for you to react to the rest of the parts!

Do more! His videos get exponentially more enjoyable the more he makes them!

Thank you Chill Zone! Your Escape Velocity Lecture cured my insomnia! You are a miracle worker!

I believe in a later video of the series he explains the heat generation around the craft isn't technically friction, but something else. Like the air particles are trying to move out of the way but can't do so fast enough. Heck if I remember the details, physics was hell for me. Can't wait to see your reaction to the rest, though!

As someone who's really into chemistry and physics, this was such a nice watch. Great video!

Absolutely do more of Martin’s stuff! His most recent Factorio and My Summer Car videos are incredibly funny.

That side-eye should have been returned with a doubled down "Case in point!"

1:20 Fun fact, the Apophis asteroid is named after the Space Emperor bad guy from Stargate SG-1. Him t(hr)owing a space rock at Earth was the plot of an episode. Also Egyptian mythology, the god of Entropy that tries to eat the sun every night.

KSP is a great game with very detailed science stuffed into it. The tutorials get you going just fine with great explanation step by step. I'd love to watch you play it.

The mission clock is in Kerbin time where a day is exactly 6 Earth hours but the distances are about 2-10x less with corresponding changes in speed so yeah 3 days to Muen is about right

Best explanation of Orbit I have ever heard was "Falling to the ground but keep missing"

You definitely should check out Martin's Just Cause speedrunning videos. You may not get to flex your physics degree in the title, but they're some of his best.

you are the first reaction channel to actually credit the video. Love the content. keep it up :)

There is a meme out there, it shows a graph. X for the person's life progression Y for their understanding of orbital mechanics. There are spots along this graph where he marks notable events. First mark is for Highschool physics, his understanding of orbital mechanics goes up. Then the next mark is placed when he starts college/university physics and the line goes down. They realize they do not understand orbital mechanics that well, but it does trend up again after a while. Then they get a job with NASA and the line drops back down, it tries to go back up but kind of plateaus. That is until they start playing kerbal space program and suddenly they can rapidly run simulations and attempt orbital maneuvers within minutes instead of YEARS. Orbital Mechanics understanding goes up. A lot.

crazy thing about the first launch is it was nowhere near 100km the atmosphere ends at 70km for kerbin

YES !!! i was waiting for you to do this series its Fing awesome cant wait

He's just getting a rocket to go up, and you're jumping straight ahead to escape velocity.

Talk about "Chill Zone" you are one of the most chillest sounding people I have seen on this site

The most internet scientific sentence I've ever heard: "You want to yeet yourself off the Earth."

I've just started playing with Real Solar system and it looks like they've actually added a path to Warp drive. IDK if its because I downloaded all of the US, Soviet and British rocket mod packs but I just checked my tech tree and I have Warp in the end game 😁. KSP is amazing.

Your texas hillbilly impression was golden, I laughed so hard

Legend novelist Douglas Adams had a character who was taught to fly SIMPLY by mastering the art of flinging himself at the ground and missing. His tutor was a person with exceptional personal attributes (that are not named) who would jump out from behind things as the hero is falling, thus distracting him at the crucial moment, causing the miss. This is obviously the most advanced way to get into orbit.

i love seeing you enjoy stuff like this.

"Aging is cringe" is the most based thing I've ever heard.

“Ok so you want to yeet yourself off earth” is not a sentence I would’ve though I would ever hear come from a person of science 😂

Man I was waiting for the day you were going to react to this one. His Kerbal videos just get more and more insane from here.

NASA used to have that type of budget... during the space race

Just to clarify, no Apophis won't hit us any time soon. There was a big hullabaloo in 2013 about Apophis passing through what's called a "keyhole." This had to do with refining the measurements of it's orbit, so it's future orbit (and thus close approaches) could be more accurately predicted. The worry was that if it passed through this "keyhole," then there was a much greater chance that it's next orbit would take it uncomfortably close to earth - close enough that it would have a chance of actually colliding. It didn't pass through the keyhole though, so there's nothing to worry about where Apophis is concerned.

This is the first time I've seen your channel and I just can't get over that pfp. 👌

I do hope you watch the rest of this series, he gets into guns, warheads, antimatter, and much more.

Imma show this to my science teacher and hopefully he will accept it and then we can watch it in class

YOOOOO THE KERBAL SERIES LET'S GOOOO

Kerbal space program : spending hours making a rocket ship for it to crash and start over again

4:36 no, it was the matter-antimatter annihilation

can't wait to see the rest

Martin NEEDS to see this

Funnily enough the high temperatures induced upon reentry are less about friction and more to do with the temperature increase caused by the compression wave of the spacecraft traveling at hypersonic velocity

I love the fact that he pauses and explain stuffs, it's so refreshing compared to other channels that just watch a video and laugh.

9:41 I just realized that the launching plains basicly is an anime face... Hundreds of hours in the game, never seen it before...

How I like to explain centrifugal "force": Every law of physics comes with assumptions. If you break those assumptions, you cannot use that law to accurately describe your situation. Newton's laws have an assumption about the reference frame you are using. A reference frame is what you measure things relative to. For Newton's laws to give correct results, you must use a reference frame which is not accelerating and which is not rotating. However, it is often much easier to express a situation from the perspective of a rotating (invalid) reference frame. You can make adjustments to Newton's laws to create correct results in the rotating reference frame. These adjustments all look like accelerations relative to the rotating (invalid) reference frame. In a valid reference frame, accelerations are always caused by forces, so these apparent accelerations can be described by apparent forces. They are: The centrifugal force, which has objects appearing to accelerate away from the center of rotation. This is required to explain the effect of a centrifuge when using the rotating (invalid) reference frame. No such force is required to explain the phenomenon from a valid reference frame. The Coriolis force, which has objects appearing to accelerate upspin or downspin when they move outward or inward. This is required to explain the Coriolis effect when using the rotating (invalid) reference frame. No such force is required to explain the phenomenon from a valid reference frame. The Euler force, which has objects appearing to accelerate upspin or downspin when the rate of rotation decreases or increases. This is required to explain why you feel a merry-go-round starting and stopping when you're on it when using the rotating (invalid) reference frame. No such force is required to explain the phenomenon from a valid reference frame. Of interest: while these are all often described as apparent forces, they are in fact apparent accelerations, and describing them as forces requires multiplying them by the mass of the affected object. Similarly, Newton's law of gravitation is a term multiplied by the mass of the affected object -- begging the question of whether gravity is just an apparent force caused by using the wrong perspective. Sure enough, general relativity describes gravity in such a way.

I tend to follow a lot of science channels, and I like that you actually pause the video to go into the science behind it, and it I believe it actually brings merit to the reaction content. I think you could be quite successful with these kinds of videos.

Fun fact: the facility that produced the rocket fuel suffered a catastrophic explosion.

8:11 MY EARS I AM A HEADPHONE USER WITH VERY POWERFUL HEADPHONES PLEASE MY EARS

That's awesome that you majored in astrophysics. I wanted to become an astrophysicist, but ended up changing majors and schools out of necessity.

14:48 what my teacher did teach me was that the simbos are bound to reference, meaning, it just matter whatbyou understand and preferibly you just explqin whatbthe simbols mean and the formulanitself will not get afected

17:22 end of physiks

I'd love a reaction tot he entire ksp series mart does!

"And what even is space anyway?" Really...really great question, actually.

Heh the re-entry heating isn't from friction, it's from compression - at hypersonic speeds, the air can't just move out of the way so it just gets squished in front of the capsule, raising the temperature just like a fire piston or diesel engine

You want me to name an AC/DC song NASA fine Back in black Thunderstruck Stormy May Day War machine Razors edge You shook me all night long What do you do for money honey Highway to hell Shot down in flames If you want blood Big gun Should I keep going NASA?

I always though the heat from re-entry was mostly compression, because the air can't move out of the way fast enough, it reaches extremely high pressure, and thus heats up. Or is it both?

In the next episode he explains why air friction doesn't exist. Or something like that.

5:23 why you gotta attack me like that bro

also, i believe martin studied astro physics in college, which is how he found this game.

The DART mission is for an asteroid that is not going to hit the Earth, Yet! ;)

15:10 ah yes, Japanese science. The best school of studies ever existed.

on kerbin escape velocity is roughly 3431 m/s

first reaction video i have seen where they dont pause the video every 0.3 seconds to talk about something for 5 min

plz do the entire series omg plz a also react to life beyond 1, 2, and 3 plz plz

I'm sorry, but it truly sounds like you say hate' or "hait" when you pronounce hit'. "Nasa is aiming to hate' a astroid" I love it!

Earth is so thicc, I couldn't agree more.

Yeah that's how you explain escape velocity😂

4:26 That's a basic human instinct. If you don't understand it, touch it, it could kill you, but it also couldn't.

For his first launch of obama prism, he did not reach 100 kilometers. He launched from kerbin, not earth, kerbin is much smaller

Ngl, I would love a small series of reacting to videos and fully explaining the science behind it. I want to learn the math bc it will improve my Kerbaling skills *cough* I mean my chances to land a good job!

NASA was working on a deal with the creators of Sesame Street to have Big Bird be present on the Challenger shuttle. There is a timeline where Big Bird f*cking exploded with the Challenger.

For every male action there is a female over reaction, heck yeah I love that Also Dart succeeded in manuvering an asteroid. Not by much though

The loss of trust in NASA post Challenger was, IMO, well founded, the problems with the Shuttle SRBs were well known and had been brought to NASA administration's attention. Problems with cracking and freezing O-rings between sections and the possible catastrophic failure of the booster, as well as a danger of ice strikes during or caused by decoupling the SRBs brought up by engineers were simply ignored by administrators.

11:29 Poly-buta-dine acrylo-nite-ril

Telling someone they're overreacting is an ultimate catch 22. If the accept it, you win. If the start getting angry and arguing with you about it, you win. 😁

99942 apophis will have a 2.7% chance, not a definite chance.

You look permanently baked my man.

i litteraly did a presentaion (forgot what it was called in school) of rockets and i had clips of KSP and i got an A.

pog! we need more.

28:19 the most american unit of mersurment i have ever heard

Excited for part 2!

ah yes, a man of culture

Internet historian has a new video

0:50 jokes on you Highway to hell, Hells Bells,TNT, Thunderstruck, Demonfire and the singer right now as far as i know is the singer of guns and roses

The orb was anti matter even 10 kilos of it is 18 gigatons of TNT

I’m honestly surprised you haven’t checked out Martin yet. The guy is hilarious, especially even more so in his most recent videos.

Don't forget to watch his videos from Factorio after you're done with the 4 from KSP.

Welp, that asteroid is now anxiety producing and now I will never live in peace again right after getting over my fear of super volcanos. Thanks.

Wait you’re telling me in 7 years an asteroid is gonna hit us? Why aren’t they trying to hit that one?

The other episodes is so fun you should react to those

sweet, friction

as a Texan this is offensive. oh wait, its not. I'm one of those guys that loves science but didn't major in it due to learning issues. Love your vids brother.

I’m actually going to college to become a physicist

Great quote 🤣 This video series is very good at explaining this and the game in itself teach u have space travel work and u may find its ALOT easier then what most ppl may think. We ofc dont need to go into the whole complex design aspect of real life design in the game but the manuevers are legit. Also as a bonus u can never watch any space movie ever again without seeing the downright ridiculous manuevers they do in them. My personal favorite is the moon burn in Armageddon where the crew supposedly experianced 14G in space. Yeah u very quickly call bullshit on alot of space movies after getting into space a few times.

you have to check out Kerbal 2 they have made or releasing a sequel

3:55 Not anymore, Mr. Zelensky made it alive again and gave it a whole new meaning.

New sub! Your stuff is great.

Mart went to college to be a physicist