My favorite comment I saw about Kubrick faking the moon landings "He's such a perfectionist, he would have insisted they film it on location."

6:23 "The guy pulled out an inch too far and the thing went critical" It happens...

NASA: takes 3 days to get to the moon Scott Manley: goes to Mun and back under 90 minutes NASA obviously needs MOAR BOOSTERS!

"I'm a Scottish person, this is my colour. I'm a kind of pale blue. It takes a week of sunbathing to get white." ~Billy Connolly

Those Kerbals that can withstand massive G-forces but turn into dust at the slightest impact...

Scott, if your computer is only 2 years old and "getting hot", you should probably look into dusting it out and cleaning your heatsinks.

re: Control rod harpooning - Suddenly, radiation poisoning seems a...secondary problem...

"Getting pretty hot." Scott please tell me you dusted your computer.

"No they were faked on Mars, obviously," said with a full straight face. Brilliant sense of humor, brother!

“I pulled my rod” -Scott Manly

SL 1 is the name of the project you’re thinking about. Instructions said to pull rod out no more than 3 inches rod was pulled out 3 feet...

Reaching the ground in one piece isn't so hard, the tricky bit is still being in one piece a minute later.

Had a great conversation with my mom's husband this Sunday. He was with NASA (Software Engineer) for the Apollo missions.... LOTS of good stuff from him...

I subbed because he booped the moon. Thats all it took

set the controls for the heart of the sun...

Scott's the type of guy who says "Daaaaaa" at the beginning of the video, but isn't German or Russian.

That was a beautiful "bump" on Mun and soft landing on Kerben well done.

It would have been more expensive to replicate exactly what we saw in the video for the moon landing than it would have to actually go to the moo .

The reactor accident you referenced, SL-1, had two other fatalities in addition to the harpooned guy. It was the central (most reactive) rod that was pulled out upwards of 10 or 15 inches beyond the three that was allowed chernobyl is another well know prompt critical event

Apollo aimed about ~90km altitude initial reentry, bouncing on over to ~120km and then come back and land.

Sun Diving. Brings back memories of the first time I did a sun refuel when I finally upgraded from the Electron version to the A3000 version of Classic Elite. And I managed a full refuel without blowing up :) I feel old again

Poor Scott he cannot Händel the heat!

Could you get a huge boost on an interstellar trajectory by going close to the sun and using the Oberth effect to slingshot your ship outward?

I was Orbiting the Sun the other day @ 500,000 meters, Tried to go EVA, and the poor little Kerbal Vaporized instantly.

Now and again something happens which reminds me how much I miss Douglas Adams.

Nice Mitchell and Webb reference. Of course you'd have seen it!

Great story about the criticality accident impaling that poor guy. When you started saying you had a story about it, I thought you were gonna go into the accident with the so-called tickling the dragon's tail experiment. I'm really glad you talked about something I hadn't heard of before.

The way you talk about these topics is so pleasurable to listen to, and the topics are actually something I'm interested in and kinda related to the game. Good Work Man! xD

6:58 and so on: I want those lyrics. :D

We need to send Scott onto the ISS ASAP. Have him play KSP up there as well

FYI on the SL-1 story that Scott talked about: SL-1 was a 3 megawatt US Army test reactor. Apparently during testing, one of the control rods had been sticking so a tech yanked on it to try to free it up a bit. It became unstuck and was subsequently pulled out too far, causing the instantaneous reaction. When it went prompt critical, it generated 20 Gigawatts of power in 4 thousandths of a second. This had the effect of vaporizing all the internal nuclear material and moderating water instantly and sent the entire reactor (20,000 lbs / ~10,000kg) upwards at 27' per second and blowing the top of the reactor off. The supervisor was pinned to the ceiling (as Scott mentioned) with a control rod and another was also found dead when the firemen arrived in response to a fire alarm. One man survived for a short time, but passed away shortly after being rescued. The combination of radiation exposure, blunt force trauma, and being heavily scalded by steam meant he had no chance for recovery. When the investigation started, they knew if was a prompt critical incident by looking at one of the guys gold watch: a significant amount of the metal had been turned to a radioactive gold isotope. More information on the SL-1 reactor incident can be found online (like here: digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1053436/m1/1/ ).

I love your channel so much I just watched a 3 minute ad in support. I'd never do that for anyone else!

Scott you should recreate the ship and mission in the film "Sunshine"! Love that movie be great to see it in KSP🙏🏻

9:40 - Look how happy that Kerbal is!

Wow! That's a lot of G forces. You broke the Mun racing record and made Kerbal Jam at the same time.

Scott - I've been studying nuclear engineering since Fukushima, and am very familiar with the various stories of criticality incidents, but I'd never heard the reason why a blue flash was seen. Thanks!

I have only two things to say, 1. moar boasters. 2. in thrust we thrust.

Yeah, the SL-1 reactor incident was sketchy asf. Like the guy hanging from the ceiling for about a week and a 130 degree room, not rotting because he had been sterilized by the radiation.

Don't the black and white rectangles on the rocket's skin become redundant if the rocket isn't a cylinder? Rolling should be obvious with an X super structure.

Heat is why I have an AC in my room year round. Even in the Minnesota winters. Although I do turn the compressor off and just run the fan. For some reason I get the hottest room in every house I have lived in, faces the sun all day, top floor, all the vents just dump into it.

5:05 "Sh*t, we forgot Galactic Hitman!"

LOL and I thought Chernobyl was the worst nuclear accident but that guy who got pierced by the control rod is worse.

Wait a second. So your telling me, that there was a man who got shafted in the shaft by a shaft? Now I've heard everything.

i like that the first thing that pops up if you type "KSP into" is "KSP into the sun" like yea i want to see it

Putting the separators near the top... In 2 years of playing KSP, why didn't I think of that? I once did surface to low Mun orbit in 10 minutes, but that was with KAL overclocking an ion engine with a minimalist craft. When I made a good, alien-looking ship out of silver fairings and Mk1 inline cockpits with only the bubbles showing (and lit), the overclocked ion engine would break free and tear through the rest of the 12-ton ship if I gave it more than about 1/3 throttle.

It really is fascinating watching Patrick Stewart wearing a Death Star shirt while playing Kerbal Space Program

I paid for the whole gmeter, I am gonna use the whole gmeter.

"that's awful. It's genius, I love it." =)

2:05 That Korolev cross is just majestic, no tumbling at all.

This guy just went full kerbal

You could reduce parachute height to 600 (150 less), becuase you reached the safe speed aroiund 180m above the landing.

19:20 as he reads out the time, all i see is the look on the kerbin's face xD his whole life has been redefined after that flight

That's so tasteless it's almost tasteful...

For those interested, info on the United States Army experimental nuclear Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One accident. "One of the shield plugs on top of the reactor vessel impaled the third man through his groin and exited his shoulder, pinning him to the ceiling" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

I believe the answer to doing this faster is very clear, MORE BOOSTERS

If I were to try this, I'd forget the parachute.

You say it's too hot? OPEN THE WINDOWS!

Scott Manley the nuclear reactor you talked about is called SR1 and it was done out at the INL. I worked out there for a bit.

That story about the reactor and that song cracked me up.

Oh my god, Scott... that song. 7/7

Massive Mun Rocket? Or Massive Mun Manned Missile?

I could keep watching this channel

You blew your rod, and impaled Jose. You give nukes...a bad name...

Haha I love how he's doing the math as the spacecraft is plummeting toward the mun. "Let's launch this and go to the mun!" Many minutes later... - "Am I going to be able to stop, in time? Let's grab my phone and calculate!"

Valentina Kermin seemed to enjoy that ride.

eyeballs would glow an eerie blue.........that's sooooooooooooo metal dude

Hey Scott, open a window...maybe buy a fan? Science that heat problem. :-D

Nuclear reactors, can also be known as Nuclear Steam Propelled Harpoon Gun.

The blue flash phenomenon is likely the same explanation as to why astronauts see light spots sometimes.

Please release a full version of that song 😂😂😂😂😂😂

More than 1 frame per second! That is brill...

would it be possible for you to take out a giant rocket cluster, like the one you launched with, to the moon. then land your capsule on it, docking, and rocket back to earth?

Oh, man...You killed Jebediah!

the world's most ridiculously huge impossible rocket 7:34.........................love this guy!!! Would probably cost 200 billion and blow itself to bits on the lauch pad....

That's an expensive way to make Kerbal pate, with all those G-forces pulled xD

06:56 oh my god I'm fucking dying of laughter

And different materials have different delay neutron amounts, which is why some of us have concerns with different fuel cycles...ala thorium/u233 has about half as many delay neutrons as U235. This can result in stability issues depending on the design. Particularly for MSR promoters, we will have to REALLY make sure we do the CFD right or risk Doppler expansion oscillations (POGO problems!)

they make this mod called better burn time that has a built in suicide burn timer built in that shows at the nav ball.

he didnt say "fly safe"...my life has no sense anymore

I saw the blue on small research reactor on a school field trip,the army reactor you talked about has a youtube video,I served in the USN subs our nuke tpes look down om the army types and us army got out of the reactor biz after the 60's.

Hotblack desiato approved

Love ya Scott but I die laughing every time somebody sitting at a computer says, "I need a calculator."

21st century Bon Jovi- "Shot through the crotch, And you're to blame, You give nukes a bad name (bad name)"

OK, SpaceX has gonna took far.

russians: *sometimes using two days to the iss* scott manley going to the mun and back in under 90 minutes: Hold ma beer

"3 kilometers" says the guy who hasn't clipped through the sun.

I tried something similar to this with the Thumper SRB’s, the thing was that I disintegrated at 50km.

Apollo lunar reentrys had a small entry angle of between 5.3 degrees and 7.7 degrees. So not a lot of room for error at those return velocities.

Remember when Scott used to stream....

My computer is so bad if I tried to launch that it would make an explosion that rivals the tsar bomba

The Crayola Pack Rockets.

no joke, on my second day of playing I was trying to make a stable orbit for the contract (which I did do later that day) and had a strange parabola around the planet. I later found out the the ellipse ended because I LANDED ON THE MOON. By accident. If only I had decelerated, and brought equipment.

The military nuclear reactor accident was actually a suspected suicide. If I remember correctly, his wife or girlfriend had just left him and he was already considered unstable and an irrational jokester by his colleages.

Doh. Was wondering about the strange triangular ship you can see against the sun at about 5min. Aliens in Kerbal alert! Took me another 5 mins to realise it was the cursor.

As soon as this fellow was singing Jon bon Jovi, I had to hit the like and subscribe button.

Are you talking about the SL-1 disaster?

The story Scott is telling about, is called "Supercritical" and is a NASA system failure case study.

My commute to my old job was longer than the time he got to the moon and back, lol

6:35: The person impaled was not the person who caused the accident. The person impaled was the supervisor of the person who caused the accident. The person who caused the accident was also killed.

Being skewered thru the gentleman's region to the reactor ceiling by a fuel rod. Only in Idaho. That's OK. From all the NTS tower shots, most of us in Payette, Gem, and Shoshone Counties already glow in the dark.