That Time NASA Put Astronauts in the World's Worst Carnival Ride

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In the early 1960s, NASA rolled up to a US Navy facility in Pennsylvania with one goal in mind: stick its newly-minted astronauts into one of the most extreme centrifuges that has ever been built, and whirl them around really fast to train for the extreme g-forces they'll experience during a space launch. But astronauts aren't the only people who have been subject to a ride in the Johnsville Centrifuge. One man even got to do it sitting in his own recliner...
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@samanthaw.6929 23 дня назад

Naughty astronauts get put in the astronaut spinner to atone for their crimes

@JoeJaJoeJoe 23 дня назад

squeezes out the bad juju

@user-um5wg6bw5x 23 дня назад

Space jocks version of a shake out for their victims' lunch money.

@tomarmadiyer2698 22 дня назад

Allegedly while wearing a diaper

@FunnyFany 21 день назад

**climbing into centrifuge** "This space agency is a f••kiNG NIGHTMARE"

@caspenbee 23 дня назад

Sleeping in 2G sounds like the ideal weighted blanket.

@colonagray2454 23 дня назад

Bit harder to breath though, might be hard to actually sleep haha

@TheLemonKidd 23 дня назад

@@colonagray2454with my allergies? Nah I can sleep without breathing no problem

@brandonmunsen6035 23 дня назад

@l3176l 23 дня назад

Finally, a weighted blanket for my everything.

@ajchapeliere 23 дня назад

There's surely a saucy joke here, but I'm legitimately curious where people's thresholds are. My weighted blanket is very roughly 10% of my body weight and it's pretty pleasant imo. I could probably tolerate a bit more weight while sleeping, but moving more than the 12 extant pounds of blanket when I need to make the bed or get up at all just sounds like /effort/. I'd never want to get out of bed. Granted, I also know that my 3.6 pound kitten might as well be a 25 pound kettlebell if he's sleeping on me 😂😅 Subjective perception is /wild/ sometimes

@PikaPetey 23 дня назад

UP TO 40 Gs IN 7 SECONDS?!!😮😮😮 holy moly these guys were not kidding around!!!

@matthewcox7985 23 дня назад

Then there's Colonel John Paul Stapp, who went for some seriously wild rides and is partly responsible for cars having seat belts.

@chrisjager5370 23 дня назад

At minimum a jerk of 5.7 m/s^3, but I'd bet there were much bigger jerks.

@colonagray2454 23 дня назад

My dumb ass liked to walked around on the walls in those rides. Adult me is amazed my head is still attached

@Wicked_Knight 23 дня назад

Can't say I walked the walls per se but I would sometimes Spiderman crawl across the wall when there was no one else on the ride.

@colonagray2454 22 дня назад

I did also only do it when it was empty of others. The guy in the middle never cared. Looking back he was probably a teenager not an adult but I was little

@Wicked_Knight 21 день назад

@@colonagray2454 I always got buddy buddy with the ride operators, carnies are my kinda people 😆

@Wicked_Knight 21 день назад

@@colonagray2454 I always got buddy buddy witb the ride operators for that ride.

@CompletelyNormal 23 дня назад

My grandfather almost died on a centrifuge ride. The horizontal Gs caused him to choke on his dentures.

@juangil384 23 дня назад

Sorry. Its funny, until its not. Good thing it was a fair outcome

@user-xj8wy4uu1q 23 дня назад

Wow

@ferretyluv 22 дня назад

You’re not supposed to go on centrifuges if you’re elderly.

@flaparoundfpv8632 19 дней назад

Well then I bet he won't try that again.

@cachecow 23 дня назад

I'm a scientist and there was a ride in Coney Island called the Hell Hole, it was a wooden barrel that spun and the bottom would drop out. We gave the operator $5 and told him to turn it up to 11. Where each vertebrae on my back is I had a bruise

@SB-hy9iq 23 дня назад

I wonder what $10 would have got y’all lol

@cachecow 23 дня назад

@@SB-hy9iq A wheelchair

@ferd1775 23 дня назад

😂😂😂😂😂@@cachecow

@SB-hy9iq 23 дня назад

@@cachecowhahahahahahahahaha

@Just_A_Dude 22 дня назад

The question, of course, isn't whether that was a dumb idea. The question is do you regret it?

@6cef 23 дня назад

savannah: "...can appear to have the force of gravity..." albert: "hold my beer."

@pseudotasuki 22 дня назад

Gravity isn't just similar to acceleration, it *is* an acceleration. That seems wrong when you're effectively motionless, but it isn't when you remember that gravity is a distortion in spacetime. Because of Earth's mass, a straight line curves towards the planet. So when we stand on the surface, we're constantly being accelerated away from that path.

@talkingbirb2808 16 дней назад

Force of gravity is just negated by normal force, which does not lessen the burden that gravity is inflicting on us

@Rubrickety 23 дня назад

…right round round round.

@scyban12 23 дня назад

Now I have that song in my head. Thanks a lot. 😝

@pg2826 23 дня назад

Someone sang this song when I was on one of those spinny rides at an amusement park. Now I just associate the two together.

@angusmatheson8906 23 дня назад

Meatspin

@Rubrickety 23 дня назад

@@scyban12My job here is done.

@scyban12 23 дня назад

@@Rubrickety 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@AceSpadeThePikachu 22 дня назад

So...Goku's "high gravity training" regiment was actually almost a thing?

@flaparoundfpv8632 19 дней назад

Shut up, nerd.

@DuchessOfAvon 23 дня назад

I like the way that you speak and present the topics you cover. Your tongue-in cheek way of describing macabre things is perfect.

@vecamiolo 21 день назад

I’ve lived near this centrifuge for 67 years. This is a wonderful report and Savannah you did an exceptional job.

@fernbedek6302 23 дня назад

Keeps *most* of your blood where it's supposed to be...

@julietraginsky9526 23 дня назад

I've actually gone to a B'nai Mitzvah at "the Fuge" before! Curtains were put on the remaining arm to divide the room for cocktail hour and the main party area. The place is still causing temporary injuries, as that DJ was a bit too loud for my sensitive ears, but other than that it was pretty cool

@ferretyluv 22 дня назад

And what did we learn? Always wear ear plugs at concerts!

@julietraginsky9526 22 дня назад

@@ferretyluv i did. the dj maxed out my dad's decibel measuring app in the hallway to get to the party room

@faenethlorhalien 23 дня назад

They should blast YOU SPIN ME ROUND ROUND BABY ROUND ROUND through the loudspeakers as they turn on the centrifuge lol

@avereth 23 дня назад

The unlucky one gets Leek Spin

@cmmartti 23 дня назад

The early astronauts were all test pilots, most from the navy or air force, so it actually wasn't a problem that the astronaut training facilities were spread across the country-they'd just jump in a fighter jet and get where they needed to go in a matter of hours. Crazy.

@terrencepayne1371 21 день назад

“Guinea piggery”. I said it before and I’ll say it again, I demand this host have more content. She is fantastic.

@LordPhobos6502 22 дня назад

0:15 - "OH NOOOOOOO!!! IT'S ANOTHER ENTERPRISE!!!" 😂

@lady_draguliana784 22 дня назад

As I recall, this machine's results were the ones being referred to in the now-infamous anti-vax post claiming 5G cell signals could kill you, linking to the effects of G-lock from this very facility 🤣

@LeoAngora 23 дня назад

Space program: inspiring Dragon Ball Z writers since immemorial times.

@mradhayuda1 23 дня назад

i am so happy that you all comeback

@aasimmons3 23 дня назад

Great job Savannah, this was a really cool segment!

@Mythilt 23 дня назад

Um, 9g's is a normal part of USAF fighter pilot training. Every fighter pilot in the USAF experiences I believe 15 seconds at 9g's as part of training. Can't remember exact time, has been several years since I worked as part of the acceptance team for the US militaries centrifuge at WPAFB.

@themanhimself3 23 дня назад

There are videos of pilots taking random people up to like 8g.

@Sugar3Glider 22 дня назад

♪I whip my 'naughts back and forth♪

@AthAthanasius 23 дня назад

01:00 - Plot Twist: Actually the feeling of being under gravity on the surface of Earth *is* due to acceleration. In the absence of the ground you would naturally follow what's called a geodesic, the natural path given the local curvature of space-time. In General Relativistic terms this is *not* accelerating (so no GR-caused time dilation/length contraction). But because the ground is there you are *accelerated* by it so as to remain on the surface. It is this acceleration that causes GR-related time dilation relative to, e.g. a satellite in a free falling orbit, because that *is* following a geodesic. Yes, General Relativity is weird.

@1One2Three5Eight13 23 дня назад

Help me out here: the comment about time at high G's is taunting me, because I can't remember who wrote the story (or even it's name) about a space pilot having to make a trip with an extended time at very high G force to get some medicine to a far-off planet, and the extreme damage it ended up doing to him.

@im.empimp 23 дня назад

You might want to ask this on the sci-fi stack exchange site. (I tried leaving a version of this comment with the actual url, but YT deleted the comment 🤦‍♂so you'll just need to do a search for it.)

@woodfur00 23 дня назад

Dunno, but Sci-Fi Stack Exchange could probably help you

@DebTheDevastator 23 дня назад

I don't know, but if you remember, please comment. I'm always looking for a good Sci-fi book.

@ferretyluv 22 дня назад

This seems like a question for Reddit.

@awaredeshmukh3202 21 день назад

@@woodfur00 seconding sci-fi stack exchange!!

@timbocf76 19 дней назад

Guinea piggery is my new favorite phrase

@fynnkessels2488 23 дня назад

They’re trying to hypnotize us with that animation of the pin…

@fabricdragon 16 дней назад

you can go get pictures sitting in THIS ONE! "The Fuge" is a "entertainment venue" with a lot of the testing equipment still in place. it is in warminster PA and hosts a few media /retro cons!

@Ladypuppy510 23 дня назад

Guinea piggery. My new favorite expression

@yt650 23 дня назад

I worked a few miles down the road from the Johnsville naval air station where that centrifuge originally existed. I worked in Warminster Pennsylvania, at a Chevrolet dealership. Between the Johnsville, Naval Air Station and the dealership where I worked was the home office and manufacturing plant for? Hurst corporation, you probably wouldn’t remember them from floor shifts that they sold for manual transmission cars. My father-in-law worked at Johnsville naval air station after the second world war.

@vecamiolo 21 день назад

Lafferty Chevrolet. Hurst is probably most famous for inventing Jaws of Life. As I sit right now in my recliner I’m a few thousand feet from the old centrifuge.

@yt650 21 день назад

@@vecamiolo Yep, Lafferty Chevrolet, at the time John Lafferty owned it and I worked in the parts department definitely in 1966 . We would loan new Chevrolets to Hurst so they could engineer floor shifts for the new models. It’s my understanding It’s still Lafferty Chevrolet.

@vecamiolo 21 день назад

@@yt650 Jack Lafferty senior died in 2013 at the age of 88. I don’t know how long his son Jack owned the dealership but he sold to Patriot Chevrolet maybe 5 years ago.

@vecamiolo 21 день назад

@@yt650 do you remember Oldsmobile being the Hurst Olds car? I had a 67 Olds 442.

@yt650 21 день назад

@@vecamiolo Yes, I do, my first new car was from Lafferty at 1966 SS 396 Chevelle . I didn’t realize it, but I was about 10 or 11 years old. I met George Hurst. I had no idea who he was at the time and by no means famous or owner of Hurst corporation, he was friends with the parents of some of my kid friends. This was 71 years ago. He had a mercury convertible and the doorhandles trunk lid and hood were shaved.. It was black with white convertible top.

@General12th 23 дня назад

Hi Savannah!

@nariu7times328 23 дня назад

Fantastic idea for pin!

@aalhard 17 дней назад

4:27 blood red eyes, you forgot the best one 😊

@stevenbrogdon3074 23 дня назад

I could listen to you read the dictionary. Very good presenter.

@burnte 23 дня назад

They're really an excellent communicator.

@AthAthanasius 23 дня назад

@@burnte *They (if I'm recalling correctly, Savannah identifies as non-binary).

@burnte 23 дня назад

@@AthAthanasius Edited!

@chloeleo 22 дня назад

On a roller coaster I Auckland I passed out very briefly due to g force and I highly doubt it was more than 3-4 gs it was a crazy experience

@Nevertook 22 дня назад

The water is how the deep ocean UAPs are able to travel at the observed g-forces.

@benwiles7335 21 день назад

When my dad was one of the test subjects in 1971, they were no longer (or more probably never were?) using actual test pilots and astronauts in centrifuge experiments. Instead, they took people whose height and weight matched that of the ideal pilot (5'9", 190 lbs give or take) and spun them up to see how much acceleration they could withstand. They then built aircraft according to the tolerances indicated. Unfortunately for him and his colleagues, the National Research Act banning this type of experimentation wasn't passed until 1974. Many of the test subjects of that era are now dealing with neurodegenerative diseases in the same family as Parkinson's, Alzheimers, and CTE, most likely caused by having their brains compressed against the inside of their skulls in a similar way to what football players experience when they collide at high speed.

@vecamiolo 21 день назад

Wow I never heard that before. That’s a shame. I’m glad they stopped that.

@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG 22 дня назад

@6:37 ....and became the superhero we know today as Superman, due to the increased gravity. (Did anyone ever think of asking him to gather and sling all the world's nukes into The Sun...?)

@thomasgoodwin2648 23 дня назад

Race drivers occasionally experience higher g-forces in high deceleration braking events (impact with wall).

@colonagray2454 23 дня назад

Oof. Yeah they felt it all right

@thomasgoodwin2648 23 дня назад

@@colonagray2454 Especially the next day😉

@ferretyluv 22 дня назад

John Stapp survived 46.2Gs. He did it voluntarily.

@altsak840 22 дня назад

Love the subtle hint Soyuz being garbage 😂

@TonyHammitt 23 дня назад

In 1975, a Soyuz (7K-T 39) aborted after almost 5 minutes, after the escape rocket detached, and the cosmonauts in it hit 21.3 g's re-entering the atmosphere since they didn't have enough horizontal speed and came down basically vertically. They survived but one of the cosmonauts was severely injured and had to retire from the program.

@user-wz1qo1cn3i 23 дня назад

We all want to know, did he ever have any kids?

@MontgomeryWenis 23 дня назад

Technically that centrifuge is the most powerful synthetic one in the entire universe.

@lady_draguliana784 22 дня назад

6:30 but did he master Kaioken?

@davidjohn3914 23 дня назад

Round and Round I Go

@SuV33358 13 дней назад

Ah yes, the Gravitron

@fabricdragon 16 дней назад

you dont have to rent the whole place to go and get photos! go to one of the conventions there, buy a vintage toy, and wander around!!!

@user-cl4lg8hs4s 23 дня назад

I never cared much for the "Gravitron" centrifuge ride. If I get to dizzy I will puke, which I did a few times after that ride, but the zero G ride, usually called "the drop" I absolutely loved. This one you would be in a roller coaster like car and kind of go off a cliff before the track curved at the bottom giving you a couple seconds of "freefall". Although there was a "DO NOT DO THIS" sign and they would ban you from the ride if you got caught, it was hard to resist pulling some change out of your pocket and placing it on the palm of your hand and lowering your hand during the drop and watching the change float in mid air. I never did this, honest, but my "friend" told me it was cool....never made me puke, so maybe I could handle the "vomit comet". Don't have the money for that, tho'.

@JustMeZeed 22 дня назад

True your body weighs 11 extra "yous", but experiencing 12g is probably more like 5.5 "yous" sitting on your chest, since half the mass is above your lungs, the other 5.5 "yous" are in contact with the floor.

@_Zaid 23 дня назад

Additional G isn't like having people sit on your chest. All of your tissues- you limbs, your neck- feel that much heavier and become much harder to move.

@Uruz2012 22 дня назад

That's how explanation by analogy works. You relate a thing that someone hasn't experienced to something that they have. No analogy is perfect, that's literally what makes it an analogy.

@diegoreckholder945 23 дня назад

the pin: it sPINs

@3800S1 22 дня назад

John Stapp, 46.2G

@BrandEver117 23 дня назад

We all know that zero/microgravity is pretty bad for people, but at what point is there enough gravity to be healthy for extended periods? What is the lowest gravity you could live with without side effects? Could there be any benefit to living in lower gravity for extended periods of time?

@avereth 23 дня назад

Low gravity causes osteoperosis like symptoms over time. Really worried for any poor saps they send to Mars without bothering to solve for that.

@matthewcox7985 23 дня назад

I'm not an astronaut. Just an Astro Nut. 😁

@aalhard 17 дней назад

7:15 San Antonio is closer to Cocoa Beach Than Pa?

@leeborocz-johnson1649 23 дня назад

I can't believe NASA once built a rocket capable of leaving Earth's atmosphere.

@angusmatheson8906 23 дня назад

Meatspin

@aalhard 17 дней назад

3:26 Motor

@felipebustamante2665 14 дней назад

For the problems of G force never the Nasa guys think in a ironlung cavine ?

@maolcogi 16 дней назад

Did you mean electric motor? How does one combust electricity? :O

@skybluskyblueify 23 дня назад

People experienced like several people were on the chest not by G force but by larger and larger stones placed on someone during the Salem witch trials debacle. Yikes! I guess that was a common torture technique in that time period.

@michaelmayhem350 23 дня назад

Titlt-a-wirl 😂

@LeafBoye 22 дня назад

@@michaelmayhem350 🫏🫏🫏 over here

@carthius 22 дня назад

Can having amputated limps make you less likely to pass out during High Gs??

@jimmybiggs9791 23 дня назад

when will you all come out with some new shirts?

@briannap6733 23 дня назад

How many gs are on your body while swimming? I’d guess like 0.7 or 0.8? Wasn’t able to find the answer online :/

@scriptorpaulina 23 дня назад

I WANNA GO TO 31 GS I WANNA GO TO 31GS Stupid GSFC not letting us do anything

@Arsh.i.i.i.n 21 день назад

I was stressed about what was gonna happen to Dr. Gray Spoiler alert: I'm glad this didn't turn into a gory anime episode

@EyesOfByes 23 дня назад

Any eggs tested?

@warzone6700 23 дня назад

Hate these stupid bots

@lohphat 23 дня назад

How many people suffered infarctions due to the high blood pressure?

@odiewan67 23 дня назад

for y'all Germans: "Spinnst du?"

@felipebustamante2665 22 дня назад

About the topic: Somebody can answer why? in the protect X-15 to break sonic barrier ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yhrv1EFbQIw.html Why does Charles Bronson's plane have a duckbill nose? Somebody can explain that nose on a plane thx

@user-nu7vq6ei5q 23 дня назад

94th to comment.

@jacko666 23 дня назад

Man some of those astronauts have giant foreheads

@awolpeace1781 23 дня назад

Slow the air at high speed

@ldpauls 23 дня назад

The “world’s most powerful centrifuge”. Hardly, unless you maybe only include ones big enough to hold a person. A laboratory ultracentrifuge spinning at 60 000 rpm has a g force of 200 000.

@WTH1812 23 дня назад

F1 drivers endure 6G, 7G, or more multiple times per lap, in Grand Prix between 50 to 70 laps per race, plus all the laps in practice and qualifying.

@sss-gj3oe 15 дней назад

You said we can rent the facility for "weddings" and "barmitzvah". Not "weddings" and "birthdays" or any other celebration. With that, you showed what you'r trying to promote. The only reason I visited this site was because of Hank. He is awesome. But because you injected promotion of certain group of people, I unsubscribed and removed the bookmark.

@biohazard724 23 дня назад

But why _a zoologist?_

@jackielinde7568 23 дня назад

I don't know. Maybe he liked animals. You'd have to ask him.

@santiagovega2485 23 дня назад

Why not

@lilyjohnson6587 23 дня назад

He's not ready to monolog his evil plan yet

@jonathancrowder3424 23 дня назад

Furries used to be illegal, that's why

@AidanRatnage 23 дня назад

An electric engine, not a motor?

@MOSMASTERING 19 дней назад

..."to drop a bit of jargon on you" *Proceeds to talk sbout G-force. I am atill watching Sci-Show? Video goes on to drop a LOT of scientific terminology. Weird flex.

@KevinMarion-xq4pj 23 дня назад

At 3:20 did you say 4000 electric engine? Whoops how about motor ? 😮

@vecamiolo 21 день назад

In general, an engine uses fuel to create motion, while a motor uses an external source of power, such as electricity, air, or hydraulic pressure:

@lindaseel9986 23 дня назад

But Goku trains in 300 times gravity.

@BobMotster 23 дня назад

"You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round. Like a record, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round..." Edit: Yeah... you overdid the side shots this time around. Those are starting to detract from the GRAVITY of the content you are presenting.

@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515 23 дня назад

Instructions unclear Wound up being a brat

@DavidMaurand 23 дня назад

please give us pounds, too, so i don't have stop the video to convert to a number that means something in our American frame of reference.

@theultimatereductionist7592 23 дня назад

To translate into Flat-Earther, 40Gs = 1000 mph. The temperature outside right now is 1000mph. The cost of a cup of coffee on Flattardia is 1000mph.

@RubbittTheBruise 23 дня назад

Try being an F1 driver in an accident. 50gs

@xcanadian1 23 дня назад

Stop with the cringe side-shot "comedy" or maybe hire a proper comedy writer instead of half-assing?

@theantichrist5191 23 дня назад

excuse me lady in America we use lbs not kilos when I'm listening I dont feel like doing math so just use lbs. I get a kilo is 2.2lbs but like I said I don't wanna do math. I know it was only said once for a stupid little thing but still.... where is Hank??