See-Through Space Shuttle (with Tom Scott) - Objectivity 197 

Tag along? You made it possible for us to even make both videos! Saved the day. - Brady

How jealous was Matt that he didn't get to go?

Tom, not a celebrity? Riiiiight

Tom Scott he did not complete the explanation about the change to the thermal protection system.

Now I want to see Matt's reaction to this. Amount of DING's would be enormous.

Destin actually lives in Huntsville, Alabama (where this is at) so I'm sure he's seen it all!

@@TheGgamer123 I mean I think they know that, the reason they were all at the Space and Rocket center was for Thinkercon.

Destin is probably the key grip for this video.

This was likely shot alongside Thinkercon, so we know that Destin was running around doing ALL THE THINGS.

Totally!

@Jimmy De'Souza Source?

​@Jimmy De'Souza He said that "not all Republicans are bigot, but all bigots are Republicans". Is like saying that not all Democrats are communists, but all communists are leftists

@Jimmy De'Souza So what's the point? And what's the name of "general area of broke logic you're falling in to" even mean?

@Jimmy De'Souza If he had said "Bigots vote Trump. Therefore Trump voters are bad" or something similar, then this would be the fallacy you describe. He didn't say that, though, you projected that into the video yourself. He never says Trump voters are bad. He says bigots feel validated by Trump's win. His conclusion is that we should all be friendlier to each other and lead by example to combat the push to extremes in politics. If you are against being friendlier, I can't help you.

You should see his video at LC39, titled "The Hard Part About Getting To Orbit Isn't The Height"

the german akinator needs more than 30 questions

You don't need Alexa to play Akinator. It exists also as a website and as a phone/tablet app.

you must have been very lucky, he was "played" just few hundred times and required more than 30 questions to guess for me (and didn't manage to guess it at all the first time round)

Is that a reasonable way to define "celebrity" ?

Rew Rose perhaps not... certainly one can be famous without being a celebrity (although I don’t think one can be a celebrity without being famous 🙂)

Tom's done a couple of Computerphile episodes but that was quite some time back!

But Tom's been to Asbestos...

That, and proper storage?

TheNasaDude I think the yellowing is a result of UV degradation . If it’s properly stored it won’t yellow

It wasn't owned by a smoker. I have lots of old tech I owned back in the day and it looks like new. A lot of old computers, game consoles, and other electronics go up for sale because their owners who were smokers didn't live to be that old. Nicotine is the primary reason older stuff like that turns a nasty yellow brown.

@@kg4boj You are wrong about that. I have several pieces of old tech that yellow over the ages. And, you guessed it, I'm a non-smoker. It's the flame retardant in the plastics that react to UV, which cause the plastics to yellow, or even get brown depending on the exposure length and type of materials used. With peroxide you can bleach the colored plastics back to white, whatever color they where before exposure.

It was quite an endeavour to build them, yeah.

And when it comes to conquering space, the shuttle was a worthy challenger.

what dust? i would think its a replacement thermo panel that was never used .As he said , still in the original plastic wraping.

He's talking about the super dusty transparent model.

Karl Kastor oh I was there. It is very interesting, however no Buran ever flew to space and it is an engineering model

@@Ivan-qf1lj I know, yeah. It's still cool to see the spaceship from the 'abandoned Russian space shuttle' photographs.

@Ukrainian Crematorium Actually the Buran "Orbiter K1" did fly to space and complete 2 orbits around the Earth, then came back and landed. All of this AUTONOMOUSLY ! The Buran had no cosmonauts on board but took off and landed on it's own, in 1988 Sadly it was it's first and only flight

@@Ivan-qf1lj This is not correct. There were a number of the orbiters built to various stages of completion, scattered throughout Russia and the world today; but the orbiter OK-1K1 did fly an autonomous mission and landed back to Earth. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in the collapse of a hanger where it was shelved since the mission. The one in Speyer is a testbed for aerodynamic flight (OK-GLI), and so it features jet engines to create takeoff. It looks like the Soviets were pretty well invested into the Buran family of shuttles, but shelved it due to the collapse of the USSR, as well as it primarily being created to compete with America.

It's a rare sight, isn't it?

It's a GI Joe Space Capsule with Authentic Space Suit from 1966, came with a record with a recording of the first American orbital space flight.

Thanks! @@Travelinmatt1976

Green you don’t know who Tom Scott is? He is one of the best educational youtubers (and he does some less educational things too)

Dunno, when I was there in '86 everything was being torn down and rebuilt. I do still have some of my space camp news but they only go to '89

@@duckrutt, same. I checked out the Space Camp site and saw the '89 and forward for 'Alumni'. I sent them a note from the Contact Us form about pre-89 so we'll see. I do seem to remember that my time there was in the way early days when it was more of an experiment than an actual 'Space Camp!!!' thing. Thanks for the '86 info.

@@zengargoyle Don't get me wrong, the shuttle sim was still there but it was in a temporary building (I think, it was a while ago) and the dorm was, for lack of a better description, a bomb shelter. They were still in the planning stages for the new 'habitat' and Pathfinder display. It looks like in '87 they built a dedicated training room for the shuttle sim (Possibly a new one? I don't remember if the old one was called Atlantis) and a giant tank for underwater training. If only I could have waited another couple years.

I was there in like 2008 or something, and they still had the cabin simulator, mission control, and "lab" area

Heard back from Space Camp people. Records pre '89 were all handwritten paper and such. Probably buried in a box in the basement if they even still exist. :(

They will need a park bench to discuss, then an octagon ring to settle it.

I think he'd go completely apeshit about not being there with them. I'd behave exactly like that.

I think special suits,gloves,machines,tools,respiratory masks and so on,maybe a person cannot handle it with out Persional Protection Equipment or special PPE.