ISS Debris Hit A Florida House // Crisis for Mars Sample Return // Closest Black Hole

So NASA took the debris without reimbursement? I'd be "you're paying for the damage and I'm putting this on ebay."

But the truth is that it should cost WAY less. It's kind of like road construction budgets. There are so many inefficiencies and so much profiteering in the whole chain that make it so expensive.

1:56 the flash frame of James and Kirk is perfect 😂

I never liked that the "return" part of Perseverance's sample collection was left as a to-do item for later. It would be too much to claim "I told you so" given the complexity and costs involved, but it's still frustrating to see those sample canisters slowly turning into tiny monuments to failure-by-procrastination. Even if it was going swimmingly, we're still forcing two missions to go to the same spot, whereas if they had been honest and delayed both collection and return till they were ready, that rover could go someplace completely new. What's the old saying, a sample in the lab is worth infinity samples sitting on the surface of Mars?

Would you consider adding "Space Bites" to the title of these to be able to notice them better?

In 1995 I worked for Space Systems Loral, and worked on that battery unit. I clearly recognized the device from the pictures. Well, it's good to see they got their use out of it. However they should have packaged this up in a Cignet capsule, and controlled re-entered it over the South Pacific.

To put NASA's "inflated budget" into context: If the full Federal Budget was represented by a Dollar bill NASA's portion would not even cut into the ink.

I sympathize with the rant but the HLS tender comes to mind as a counter example. 2 contenders fell short of the bar and one left the bar far behind. I'm sure spaceX has full intentions to demo launch from Mars as soon as they are that far along. It's possible to innovate a new path when you discover a dead end. The suggestion that it's easy, is laughable though.

My rant about the Martian sample return mission is how sad it is that we can spend hundreds of billions of dollars on war, with no questions asked, and consistently failing audits on that weapons spending - While asking for a single billion for good science that improves all of Humanity's collective knowledge is too much to ask. Our priorities as a species is very, very sad to me.

"according to researchers that's the temperature you want to bake cookies" 😆

@fraser Is NASA on the hook to pay for the damage caused by the ISS debris?

More importantly, are they going to pay for the repairs to that guy's house?

You can see the sun shining through mountain valleys on the edge of the moon during a total solar eclipse. The bright spots are called "Baily's Beads" after the astronomer who first explained them. You can even identify which mountain valleys you are looking at by carefully measuring their positions. The best time to see them is around the time the "Diamond Ring" appears at the edge of the eclipsed moon.

When you said you were going to rant, you really meant it 😂

If you want to see the full question show, click on the live show. They unlist the video, but you can find it whenever you want saved in your YouTube history.

I want some old NASA in my backyard :-) Very glad everyone was all right!!

i remember when china did an uncontrolled re-entry, good to see a consistent attitude on this kind of thing.

there is a reason there is a "plus" at the end of the term "cost-plus". i respectfully disagree that it "just costs what it costs". no, it does not just cost what it costs. it costs far more than it should because of people who think that way. in fact far more than it must for us to ever attain "star trek" status. the biggest part of innovation is not actual technology examples, its how to create them better, faster and most importantly, cheeper. this is organizational, motivational, first principles reasoning. i think there are many who would agree with me, and we see many examples right now of innovators acting on these principles. as a result, we also are seeing the contrast in achievement between those who think "it just cost what it cost", and those who know better..

The battery pack is something that shouldn't be reused anyway. It was meant to come down on a Japanese resupply shipment but there was an issue. One if them got left and no supply pod went up for it so it was dumped. Chance if this happening was very low but there is no plan to dump a pack in this way again.

I appreciate your use of "theorized". We were taught that Samaria was the first civilization. Gobleke Tepe disproves that. We don't know what happened 12,000 years ago. Let alone millions of years ago. It's all guesses until someone comes along with better guesses.