The Largest Rocket Never Launched

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When the Saturn V first launched in 1967 it was the largest and most powerful rocket ever made. But a rocket designed years before the Saturn V would have shattered the scale of rocket design. This video looks at the enormous 60’s rocket concept known as the Sea Dragon. It also looks at it’s interesting design and why it was ultimately never built.
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Written by: Ryan Saunders & Ewan Cunningham ( / ewan_cee )
Edited by: Ewan Cunningham
Animated by: Thomas Bracke ( / @flatlife )
Narrated by: Beau Stucki

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21 мар 2020

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@hannesgroesslinger 4 года назад

Thats the first time i have ever heard the F1 being referred to as "smaller engines"

@voidlight6006 4 года назад

f1 engines are small. They are generally very compact turbocharged or supercharged 6 cylinders.

@KnightRanger38 4 года назад

@@voidlight6006 In the context of this video, F1 is not referring to Formula One, but instead to a rocket engine.

@user-sw9ql1bf9h 4 года назад

@@KnightRanger38 r/woooosh

@aadithyanjr1382 4 года назад

@@voidlight6006 it's about the Rocketdyne F-1 engines. Not the Formula 1 racecar engines

@RayRay-mv9wn 4 года назад

I actually bursted out laughing hearing it in the video.

@roberthonan3492 Год назад

I'm old enough to remember watching several Saturn V launches as a kid. I was always impressed with how big they were. I wasn't aware who much I had under-estimated how massive they truly were until I decades later I was on a business trip to Huston and killed a weekend day at the Johnson Space Flight Center, and walked around the last remaining Saturn V. Even laying on its side in a shed it blew my mind away.

@brakefast3930 Год назад

Coulda swore the last one was at Huntsville? They have two I believe, maybe they’re both models

@joge2 Год назад

da biggest roket

@BridgetParkVR 6 месяцев назад

@@brakefast3930 there's also one at ksc in florida. IIRC they're all real rockets that were built before the cancellation of the apollo program

@spacekgb 4 года назад

2:13 I recognize those engine particles and that water... that’s not earth! It’s Kerbin!

@jiataosu7846 4 года назад

YESS!!! YOU GET IT!!

@xDarkMonkeyz 4 года назад

Nope I used RSS so it's Earth ;)

@spacekgb 4 года назад

xDarkMonkeyz / Ksp-Movie doesn’t RSS come with RSSVE anyway, so the ocean would look different? The plumes would definitely look different because of RealPlume, and either way the engines looked like they started off at full power, which doesn’t happen in RSS

@xDarkMonkeyz 4 года назад

@@spacekgb I'm the one who filmed it. The engines started under the ocean so the delay was way before this view. No RSSVE isn't bound to RSS. I used real plume, and other mods, I can't really remember exactly. Ps : And I think the Sea Dragon had his own plume .

@Peter_Schluss-Mit-Lustig 4 года назад

It's earth with unrealism overhaul

@ng1n369 4 года назад

Sea Dragon: One big engine Saturn V: 5 relatively small engines Starship: *37 Engines*

@_mikolaj_ 4 года назад

Remember, Less engines, better, N1, SLS's delay, Saturn V problems proove it

@ng1n369 4 года назад

@@_mikolaj_ we'll see what will happen with the Raptor engine. But it's SpaceX, they know what they're doing.

@CausticLemons7 4 года назад

@The Infidel Or 42 backup engines in case of failure.

@T3ki1a_ 4 года назад

@@_mikolaj_ on giant engine instead of 4 smaller engines (SLS for exemple) is not better, And Starship wants to land on multiple celestial bodies, multiple engines is the best way to do it.

@tifluvsu80 4 года назад

Ur mom: *♾ Engines*

@MassLox 4 года назад

It's quite hard to wrap my head around how large it was.

@danielwhyatt3278 4 года назад

You mean would’ve been!😔

@TheExoplanetsChannel 4 года назад

True

@jwenting 4 года назад

it hit home to me when I read they would have needed a nuclear powered aircraft carrier as a tugboat to get it to the launch site...

@GreySlasher63 4 года назад

This will help -go to closest skyscraper -get close to it -it’s bigger than that

@harbl2479 4 года назад

*wasn’t

@616CC 4 года назад

As an engineer, I could make an even larger one that will *never* launch

@interstellarsurfer 4 года назад

Nothing wrong with exploding things _for science!_

@Mycatisinapiano 4 года назад

As a not engineer I can also make a bigger one that will never launch

@maxim6088 4 года назад

As a not yet engineer, I could probably design a bigass dumb rocket that could lift a fucking city, but Goodluck trying to build it, and imagine if someone build it, and than the thing fucking explodes...

@t-14theleopard68 4 года назад

I could draw a rocket bigger than anyone ever has but it will never be built or launch

@maxim6088 3 года назад

@@t-14theleopard68 T14 > Abrams m1a2, Leopard 2a7v, t90ms, K2 bp

@rrb101567 4 года назад

If the sea dragon was real welp, rip fish

@anonb4632 4 года назад

I see you beat me to this comment. Fried sushi tonight...

@user-uy1rg8td1v 4 года назад

There are plenty of areas of the ocean devoid of sealife. Plus underwater volcanic eruptions happen often and fish still exist.

@samanli-tw3id 4 года назад

Anon B more like burned sushi

@Patchuchan 4 года назад

@@user-uy1rg8td1v It would be small compared to an underwater volcano or a nuclear test.

@kevintan5497 4 года назад

rip all the whales and dolphins that use echolocation that will go deaf or just die

@zulrr3388 4 года назад

"Imagine having no backup if one engine fail" This meme were made by multiple engine gang

@DaTrueBacon 4 года назад

"imagine needing so much money on just the engines" This meme was made by the single engine gang

@stevess7777 4 года назад

''Imagine using engines at all'' This meme was made by caveman gang

@Darek225Army 4 года назад

Problem is that if an engine fails the whole balance of the rocket would be off

@pickleism253 3 года назад

@@stevess7777 imagine even moving by yourself this meme was made by the dead people gang

@nukedgamer9666 3 года назад

Oogaa oogaaa uhhhaaaahhh uuuuhhh oogaaaa monki babanana 😍😍😍

@planetsec9 4 года назад

The concept is still viable, just at a smaller scale.

@ballom29 4 года назад

biggest problem of sea dragon nowaday is the engine bell...JUST LOOK AT IT ! this thing is absolutly massive, even the enormous F1 engine of the saturn V look tiny in comparison.

@battlesheep2552 4 года назад

I think it’s the large scale that made the Sea Dragon theoretically cheaper.

@piranha031091 4 года назад

Square-cube law says otherwise. You can't simply scale up or down a rocket, it takes some radical redesign.

@TheExoplanetsChannel 4 года назад

Interesting

@Joesolo13 4 года назад

@@piranha031091 that's the whole point of sea dragon Basically build it big and dumb in a way a small rocket couldn't.

@durandalgmx7633 3 года назад

Sea Dragon got resurrected and launched in the Sci-Fi series For all Mankind, season 2.

@profile. 4 года назад

Starship is now 120 meters tall!

@Fred_the_1996 4 года назад

Lőrinc Soroncz-Szabó yay

@noadolic9653 4 года назад

Lőrinc Soroncz-Szabó Where did you get this information from?

@eitsu3434 4 года назад

Starship (50 meters )+ Super heavy heavy( 70 meters) =Bfr (120 meters) :DD

@noadolic9653 4 года назад

Francesco Molteni Sounds insane! Can’t wait to see it fly.

@eitsu3434 4 года назад

@@noadolic9653 me too

@mentallyunstablegoat8254 4 года назад

There’s always a “but”

@zaidahmed5464 4 года назад

nothing someone says before word "but" really counts benjen stark

@TheExoplanetsChannel 4 года назад

Agree

@cuifayuan4945 3 года назад

@@zaidahmed5464 and then benjen use a "but"

@Piyushrahi 3 года назад

Or butt

@Flatlife 4 года назад

Was a pleasure to work with you for the animations! Very interesting video!

@FirstPassOfficial 4 года назад

Awesome work!

@Flatlife 4 года назад

@@FirstPassOfficial Thanks!

@chaosfire321 4 года назад

For a more modern depiction of the Sea Dragon, it appeared at the end of "For All Mankind", an alt-history show where the Soviets beat America to the moon and the space race kept going. The reveal is pretty damn epic (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SRMDcC0QvFQ.html)

@milicijaofficer6611 2 года назад

Loved that show. For anyone wondering it's only available on Apple TV+

@poja82 2 года назад

I'm so glad someone talked about FAM

@milicijaofficer6611 2 года назад

New episode is coming out so they are starting it up again if anyone is wondering

@vincenthernandez1646 Год назад

Happy to see this comment. FAM is fantastic.

@gabrielkovacs1276 Год назад

@@milicijaofficer6611 That makes me sad, I can't watch it without paying for Apple TV +/

@danielwhyatt3278 4 года назад

And now we can see this at the end of the first season, and hopefully in the whole of the second season of For All Mankind.

@azpatriot7937 4 года назад

I did enjoy for all mankind, but there were a few things that were totally irrelevant to the plot and other things that made you question why did they even bother putting that in the series, I do wish it was more historically accurate even tho it is an alternative history piece, but more historically based, like the movie midway was

@kevinsymonds2123 3 года назад

@@azpatriot7937 But in that case there would be no women, no moon base, no continued space exploration. The second season has a lot to offer to show what could have happened,

@joshuajoe1419 3 года назад

Anyone gonna be watching season 2 as it starts this Friday

@eddie10191 3 года назад

what a mess. Tons of steamed and fried fish and no one invited.

@henryfowler7771 4 года назад

I love youPrimal Space, you take huge concepts and simplify them. Keep up the great work!

@xDarkMonkeyz 4 года назад

It's been a real privilege to contribute (a bit) to this video . Thank you for the opportunity.

@HiyuMarten 4 года назад

Absolute unit of a rocket!

@parrttyy9699 4 года назад

he *c h o n k*

@h3xad3cimaldev61 3 года назад

Haha I'm the 69th like

@thecyanadon Год назад

I mean on wrong spark and you got a bomb. Goes for dps and can't tank.

@patrikniklasson4059 Год назад

This is amazing! I actually wondered how the engine would preform underwater, and this answered it!

@seadragon6110 4 года назад

I'm very grateful you made this video! It's always amazing learning more about my obessesion xD

@q300SBB 4 года назад

Apple TV production For all Mankind, includes Sea Dragon in series one, episode 10, closing scene after the credits.

@dragoninthewest1 4 года назад

And it's carrying plutonium *1980s music Intensifies*

@blackasp001 4 года назад

lf you look closely at the start of the senate hearing with Wernher von Braun in episode 2, he mentions the Sea Dragon while holding a model of the rocket.

@dragoninthewest1 4 года назад

@@blackasp001 I noticed that, too. Although it would have made more sense for him to be holding a model of the Nova rocket. The Nova was supposed to be the younger sibling and successor to the Saturn V. If rockets were athletes Saturn V would be a basketball player, the Nova would be a quarterback and the Sea Dragon would be a Scottish guy in the Caber Toss (Throwing big ass logs)

@scoutguard3015 Год назад

Shame it is on apple tv.

@whcolours9995 4 года назад

@davienrk5147 3 года назад

3:44 that air wave around the rocket, spectacular to watch.

@gamereditor59ner22 4 года назад

Thanks for the information and keep it up!!

@thebloxycreeper2309 4 года назад

your animation is amaizing!

@asdasgadgd3056 4 года назад

2:10 That's ksp footage if I've ever seen it

@chickenboi2305 4 года назад

HELL YAS!!!

@awhahoo 3 года назад

Yep

@NecroBones 4 года назад

I love seeing my KSP models still getting some use out there. :)

@anchovyknowledge6570 4 года назад

Incredible as always

@GuardsmanBass 4 года назад

I think there was an additional idea to build an artificial lagoon for it to launch from, so you wouldn't need to take it all the way out to sea. I love the design, but the combustion instability would have been something else.

@Zod_JB 4 года назад

Unfortunately the closest we’ll ever get to seeing the Sea Dragon fly, will be in the second season of For All Mankind.

@Zod_JB 3 года назад

@Shadow Hyperion Yeah your right Starship will be the closest, but I was meaning more from the ocean launch aspect.

@daviddavis 3 года назад

@@Zod_JB There was an ocean launch company, they never got off the ground. Joking, but I think they did launch a few times from a barge

@littlestone1541 3 года назад

Truax. .. dude even has a Vulcan sounding name! I like it.👍

@TheMemeDynamics 2 года назад

It would've been awesome to see the Sea Dragon doing a roll program slightly after liftoff.

@user-pi4fb9ht5i 3 года назад

We need this to be built, and with new technology.

@DivideByZeroGetCake 4 года назад

Some day we may see the Sea Dragon! (says my wishful thinking). It's doubtful, but who knows, maybe starship will be just good enough to serve its purpose but there will turn out to be a much larger demant for LEO cargo capacity. I will dream for that day to come.

@johnwicked1132 3 года назад

I pray I live to see the day when something like this actually launches!

@ltsaral1219 4 года назад

It is HUUUGE! love your content bro

@watkinscopicat 4 года назад

that 2nd stage is bonkers, well actually the whole thing is bonkers

@jerryhu9005 Год назад

A massive Mars-capable rocket with simplified propulsion systems and reusable stages? Looks like we found the OG Starship boys!

@BillKermanKSP 4 года назад

these ocean renders are pretty cool

@fnoffer 3 года назад

At this point the background music is so iconic for primal space

@blockbreaker8839 4 года назад

Sea Dragon: Has big engine Elon: *Ya’ll hear somethin?*

@CarpIXOYE 4 года назад

So basically a 1960s Starship + Super Heavy - Grandma I still love you

@Nottsboy24 4 года назад

Super cool upload 👌👓🎓🔭🔬

@TheHelghast1138 4 года назад

Holy crap that is an insanely huge rocket!!! 😲😲😲

@kephrekhtheunbroken7510 3 года назад

I would like to note that the Orion Project created several rockets larger than the Sea Dragon

@me4956 4 года назад

5:22 is the best part lol

@krungangkor9693 4 года назад

Great and interesting

@P-G-77 4 года назад

Very brillant idea...

@kevinfidler6287 4 года назад

Only in a Seadragon video could the Rockedine F1 engine be referred to as "smaller".

@cumguzzler8537 4 года назад

There is some great cgi footege of it launching in the final episode of the tv show For All Manking

@sushanthshanbhag4642 4 года назад

Combustion instability is one of the biggest problems with single engine addressed above and another important problem was the material selection at that time since susceptible to corrosion(as launched from water) leading to catastrophic failure. As the size increases the margin of error allowed for failure reduces significantly because of the unstable nature by virtue of its configuration.

@my-eu3tb 4 года назад

Your video is so good that I gave you 2 thumbs up

@Pete856 3 года назад

It would never have worked (as described in the video). A single engine that large would be a nightmare as instability issues wouldn't be easily fixed. But my main issue is the lack of fuel pumps. The higher the pressure you can generate in a rocket combustion chamber the better as this creates more thrust for a given amount of fuel. Pressures can be as high as 200 bar (3,000 psi), so the fuel pumps need to be able to deliver fuel at an even high pressure than this, otherwise it won't flow. So to force fuel out without using pumps, the fuel tanks on Sea Dragon would need to be built to withstand these incredibly high pressures, and given the size of those tanks, they would be so heavy that it wouldn't fly.

@happilyham6769 3 года назад

10 x the thrust of Saturn V = mind blown

@dazuk1969 4 года назад

I have never heard of that rocket...what a behemoth it would have been....simplicity, ease of use and reusability...now where i have heard that before ?...but that dude was thinking that way back in the 60s. A man ahead of his time i would say....peace.

@Skukkix23 4 года назад

Nice thumbnail :D

@michaelbuckers 4 года назад

Sea Dragon didn't flew because there was never a need to deliver so much payload into orbit, regular small rockets like Saturn V were capable of doing the required job.

@user-uy1rg8td1v 4 года назад

You could have had a much bigger space station/ISS and bigger pace probes, space telescopes, Mars rovers, etc. at the same or cheaper price as smaller rockets/space shuttles as Sea Dragon was suppose to be cheap per launch due to its size and simplicity.

@andrewgraham6006 4 года назад

Or you could make it a ballistic missile put some big ass warheads in there and boom succses

@matth23e2 4 года назад

@@andrewgraham6006 Yep imagine if they put a 500 ton nuke on it

@paulreeve3824 3 года назад

Small rockets 😎

@Power5 3 года назад

The only non lunar payload of Saturn V was Skylab which replaced the entire 3rd stage. Sea Dragon could have launched nearly all of the satellites ever launched by the Space Shuttle program in 1 launch. 3 total launches of the sea dragon would equal ALL the payload hauled to orbit in 30 years and 135 flights of the space shuttle program. I see Sea Dragon being brought back into development as we start to look more into building bases on the moon or mars.

@markkostecka1454 4 года назад

we could have been to mars in the 70s if this was a thing

@dragoninthewest1 4 года назад

Not likely probably closer to the mid 80s early 90s and that would be a flyby mission. Keep in mind the best way to get to Mars safely is by establishing a large amount of space infrastructure. We'd probably start with a moon base first along with Skylab. NASA would want to know the effects of living in low G and 0g plus effective countermeasures before sending an interplanetary mission. However I do see the use of the sea dragon being used to send larger orbiters and Rovers to the other planets. The Department of Defense would probably also use it for launching a very large groups of spy satellites. Also keep in mind the Soviet Union was still probably collapse so we likely see the same transition from space being extension the US vs. USSR to a more Cooperative International venture. You could see in the first International Mars mission in the early 2000s.

@tkthebudgie1619 3 года назад

@@dragoninthewest1 Wrong you know why Elon Musk 😎

@stefanmaster2099 Год назад

Just imagine this! Its so cool!

@emrobotics3635 3 года назад

very interesting 👍

@pr0xima528 3 года назад

Sea Dragon: Who are you? Starship: I'm you, but better

@samanli-tw3id 3 года назад

Starship: And I don’t kill fish like you.

@JenkinsStevenD 3 года назад

Not sure how exploding on the pad every time is a better design but ok.

@osotanuki3359 4 года назад

I think the N1 was heavier, taller and definitely more powerful when it launched. So much more powerful, in fact, that it exploded all 4 times in less than a minute after those launches.

@michaelbuckers 4 года назад

Soviets really rushed that rocket so the first few models had major flaws, and when it almost finally flew they cancelled the program. If they could take their time, they'd use fewer stronger engines which were in development, and would only have lost 1 or 2 vehicles during testing.

@michaelmerrell8540 4 года назад

I could be wrong, but I think the N1 was less powerful than the Saturn V. It would not have been able to get as much 50% of payload to the Moon, and about 80% of the Saturn V's payload to Earth orbit.

@wrengaming 2 года назад

this isn't just another regular payload, that thing's carrying plutonium

@alejandroluna983 3 года назад

Time for do it now at least 5 of this kind!!!!

@batner 4 года назад

2:30 What sea-launched rockets were used in WW2 ?

@LibShitted 3 года назад

Idk germans i guess those guys were fucking crazy!

@kindasimpson9704 4 года назад

They should as least make some scale down versions to verify the theory and engineering possibilities.

@interstellarsurfer 4 года назад

In scale tests, the F1 worked fine. And then it didn't. 😪

@MDP1702 4 года назад

Many of the possible problems are due to size, you might never see them emerge on a smaller scale replica.

@ufuker5754 3 года назад

Unfortunety sea dragons strength is its size square cube law less tank per unit fuel and convinence of lunching a space station at once no complex mission

@Kni0002 4 года назад

thats going to be one big boom if that rocket blows up

@lukasmorski-zmij8030 4 года назад

Always hope for a breakthrough with new kind of engine.Or imagine some kind of enormous slingShot to support start.Not mention some crazy sky platform /skytower elevator/or flying ^^ xD

@lovehumanity5964 4 года назад

Breakthrough !

@lukasmorski-zmij8030 4 года назад

@@lovehumanity5964 thx dont know why I wrote like that.

@eliyasne9695 4 года назад

0:20 Well... The story is a little more complicated then that. About "largest": If its by hight then *yes* , but there were several rockets that were wider like the N1, space shuttle and buran-energia. About "most powerful": If its payload to LEO you are talking about then *yes* , but if you mean thrust (at lift of) then both N1 and buran-energia had more.

@michaelbuckers 4 года назад

And both of these actually flew, one was even successful. I don't blame them for failure, it's really hard to precisely control 30 engines just using analog equipment.

@thedarkknight3107 2 года назад

Seadragon have 80 million pounds of thrust Did the N1 and Energia have more

@ronaldvlogs5527 4 года назад

When you’re new at a vid and don’t know what to say

@gabrielobrien 4 года назад

Hi!

@EinachserLS 4 года назад

...but you absolutely have to say something, anything, because you´re that kind of person.

@user-sw5iq9jl9x 4 года назад

No u

@drabberfrog 3 года назад

Hey! Hey you do you know what kind of train this is?

@jiataosu7846 4 года назад

Nice

@alt8791 3 года назад

Bob Truax was completely insane in all the best ways.

@shipwreck9146 4 года назад

If we went back and told them that in the year 2020, we still haven't built a rocket more powerful than the Saturn V, would they have continued to pursue these crazy rocket concepts?

@gabrielkovacs1276 Год назад

Maybe, or we could get them to build the C8 and Sea Dragon(give them the designs and other necessary tech) in the 50's by scaring them into thinking that the Soviets would put ICBMs on the Moon.

@andrewbrown1313 3 года назад

The German V-2 Rocket was the first useful rocket an was launched from land, used during WW2. It was also the only rocket used during WW2. The polaris missile was not developed and deployed by the US Navy until 1959. The Germans were developing a towable V-2 missile launcher but it was never used.

@CursedBystander 3 года назад

Wow. You used Kerbal Space program footage, cool.

@mileshsu2278 13 дней назад

The fact that it can lift the entire ISS in one launch makes it clear why it never made it past the drawing board.

@salpal30 4 года назад

Rocket launches* people: YEAHH!!!! fish:AHHHHHH!!!!

@thierry4188 4 года назад

Lol

@qwertytamnotmakinganyvideo9413 3 года назад

LMAO

@mirozen_ 3 года назад

I wonder how big a "sea life dead zone" launching one of these would have created? Since water doesn't appreciably "compress" I think the shock wave throughout the ocean from launching this would be pretty devastating. Anyone have a clue what their studies said regarding this? (I realize there are natural phenomena such as undersea volcano that may be comparable...I'm just curious as to what they figured this monster of a launch engine would do!)

@mirozen_ 2 года назад

@@mattcrosby2310 The "sea life dead zone" you refer to is pretty much due to the energy needs of the organisms. Sunlight becomes more diffuse the deeper you go, so you don't get as much new energy coming into the system (not counting deep undersea vents, which are a whole different thing!) in a vast majority of the ocean depths. But that's just a case of various zones of the oceans being more or less hospitable for life. What I was wondering was what a launch like this would do as far as killing the life in the given area of a launch. That massive blast would create one helluva pressure wave considering how little water compresses! Like someone using dynamite to kill fish! 😊

@johnparrish9215 4 года назад

Sea Dragon just might happen someday, it's hard to knock the concept.

@Katniss218 4 года назад

It's too impractical to be viable.

@MobsPlay Год назад

seeing this on for all mankind makes me sad that he don’t have those advancements irl… Great Video btw

@ballom29 4 года назад

One small detail not explained in the video, but that explain why starship is compable to the sea dragon. All our currents rocket and most rocket in history are made of a component : carbon fiber, a really lightweight and strong material, but quite brittler. Sea dragon and startship use the same material : stainless steel (even though it's a different type of steel between the 2)

@thecyanadon Год назад

Does that mean if I get a huge electro magnet I can yoink my self a rocket? cool..

@gerardanderson9665 5 месяцев назад

Sea Dragon uses Aluminum not Stainless steel

@ballom29 5 месяцев назад

@@gerardanderson9665 where did yo ugot this weird idea? the sea dragon is a rocket from the 60's, the idea was to make a dumb overkill "primitive" craft where economy of scales would offset the inneficiency. Steel was definitively a no-brainer at this era for this idea.

@thetrueairbornefca 4 года назад

At least it happened in for all mankind

@mwidick 4 года назад

At 3:11 the man in a sport coat was my father. Fritz Widick. Lunar module test director for Apollo program.

@mystjake 4 года назад

Your voice is more soothing than Roman Mars.

@ZeykronZ 4 года назад

Imagine how much sea life would have been killed or at the very least deafened from the rocket

@davidcraig7771 4 года назад

Not much

@dreamer2260 4 года назад

Yep. Completely disregards all sea life.

@spaceflightcrewmate1934 3 года назад

Why not lauch it in a sea/ocean that have not much aquatic life?

@jmstudios457 4 года назад

YO YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KSP

@Ultravore 3 года назад

I can't wait to see this thing fly in "For all Mankind" Season 2

@helenrennie1527 3 года назад

Ultravore i saw the trailer and they went for the stupid shuttle!

@qpwodkgh2010 2 года назад

"No matter how wierd it is" best tag line ever.

@siddharthchavan1224 4 года назад

No ,sea dragon was possible considering nasa’s budget and logistics. But no Vietnam war was more important to 🇺🇸, which was a huge loss and jaw breaking defeat. Rather it had allocated that resources there had been multiple ISS, moon missions and even colonies on mars. Sea dragon was immensely capable. Unfortunate 😣

@jouroz14 3 года назад

All rockets: [launches to space] Scientists: Good job. But, we need to see how Sea Dragon launches in drawing boards before we launch it. Sea Dragon: Why am I always here... Not to leave these drawing boards... I wanna... Be launched...

@blinstas 4 года назад

ok lets crowd fund this and let Ilon build it for fun

@ramboshammakh6555 4 года назад

Ooooooh I found a new entertaining channel, time for som bungy watching

@antonbogun 4 года назад

What about comparison of the Seadragon and the Starship? You said in the video it's the closest thing we got and you even mentioned the stats, but I doubt most of the viewers remembered the stats of Seadragon to be able to compare it. This will now make me go and do the research myself as to how they compare, and I'd say this decreases the quality of the video, especially if this happened near the end as it leaves the bitter feeling of not getting the answer easily.