in fact only 117 of the 255 alignments of planets has had enough time to repeat at least once in the 4.5 billion age of the solar system.

Jupiter aint got no land to land on.

What about the Foodskey channel? Have you definitely abandoned it? At least a statement would be nice...

@@omeshsingh8091 No but you can use jupiter for aerobraking to get yourself into a nice jovian orbit intercepting one of the moons that have a solid surface for instance.

love the animations in this one. Cheers!

So is this not the same word as your username and just a coincidence?

Even better, you'll get that word into the dictionary at some point :-)

@@alexdecicco5716 what coincidence? He basically said he had read and intended syzygy but spelled it wrong.

Oh hey, I love your videos Scott.

Do Kerbals names generate the same way?

Well, technically... leading up to the last season finale.... That's not true anymore XD

Taricus yeah when ross and rachel reached solar escape velocity, that was pretty surprising

I started looking for KSP references in the comments at the very start of the video. Was not disappointed. :)

I'm Scott Manley, Fly it like ya Stole it

I had the same feeling.

@@waify2678 SNACKs!!!!

just like Pluto walked out on us

I love it!

the most fun and the most deadly form of breaking

common for "impactor" probes

Just like how the rocket didn't explode, it had a rapid unplanned explosive disassembly...

@@taylorhancock5834 In same same light, I have "re-kitted" numerous radio-controlled aeroplanes.

haHAA i see wat u did there

It is obvious if you think about it. The minimum energy for a transfer orbit from Earth to Mars, Jupiter, or whatever, is the doubly tangential orbit. Tangent to Earth's orbit and tangent to Mars's orbit. Clearly no other orbit could use less energy.

This pun has me Oberth a moon

So KBS is NASA getting people to work for them for free?

Sindar Rin Only if the Universe is a simulation, which is actually not that improbable.

"You're troubling me today"!

@@heekimsang I think the term used was even "trolling". Brilliant :-)

Was a little bit too boring for me. And I like slow sci-fi. Just couldn't hack it.

@@CalvinHikes How many episodes have you seen? The beginning is very slow because of a lot of necessary world building, then it somewhat speeds up in the second half of season 1. Second season is much better with better pacing and third season speeds up again, with the last few episodes being almost too fast. So I can assure you that after the slow start, it's anything but boring.

I thought we don't have fixed plans for the planets. Definitely not so for the earth

Coffee with soymilk?

@@persereikanen6518 I drink black 🙂

@@YTBeyondBorders Strong black coffee? 😓

same here!

That sounds counter-intuitive, how does that work? Interesting.

chill out bro, ksp is a video game, simplified greatly in its own rite.

@@aakksshhaayy it only takes a few seconds to google how hohmann transfer orbit looks like. The fact that they got it wrong in the animation suggests level of ignorance animators apply to their work and undermines educational value of the whole video.

@@kasuha Who said those silly trajectories were supposed to represent Hohmann transfer orbits? Or any sane orbit? They are, however, physically possible trajectories. The question the video addressed was how to distinguish a reasonable orbit from a ridiculous one.

@@michaelsommers2356 maybe you should watch the video again if you don't remember what they were talking about in it.

@@michaelsommers2356 in particilar, the orbit presented in the video thumbnail is unphysical. Especially in context given to it in the video and in continuation drawn to it in the video. I don't blame you for not recognizing it but I don't think it's right to promote and defend ignorance. Flat earthers recruit from people who get physical principles this subtle level wrong.

I admit, I did decide to read the coments, you know, just in case. :D

and even Hohmann transfers

Yeah, I wondered if we're supposed to think we're playing Super Scrabble, which has 200 tiles.

got 'em

There are also two blanks.

And only seven-letter words are highly valued competitively, most times. Maybe syzygy would cut it against some weaker seven-letter words with the Ys and the Z but.

@@kaitlyn__L sevens are great, but z and y are fairly high point tiles. Depending on how it was placed, could be worth a lot. Better yet, syzygies, which at 8 could triple triple, and land the y on a double letter. This would score up to 302 points for a single play.

^^ *HOW QUICK?* If we're talking to Mars, as quick as any near Earth orbiting asteroid or comet can make the transit, and even quicker if humans can develop a constant boost method of propulsion. Much much less than 1 G of constant boost gets us to Mars in under a month. And Jupiter is not much further than that.

Call me L5 ... posting this in September. XD

And guess who doesn't know either!

there is no up and down

There's no left or right

@@jannor321 my left is my right

@@5pecular That's just a perspective

@@5pecular r/whooosh

I was scrolling just to find a comment like this (or make it myself). ;) I actually thought it was a made-up word in the show, but I see now that the meaning makes perfect sense in the context of the show. Amazing show, BTW!

Elgsdyr When I first saw on the show I mind-noted to search its meaning but eventually forgot. Was so happy to know it's appropriate!

I see there are two comments saying "three wise, man"

Well, now there's three...

fly safe

Scott Manley will always be one of my favorite youtubers because he taught us how to play Kerbal Space Program.

@@yaldabaoth2 Aah, Scott Manley, the one and only, the legend =) with that voice he could sell training videos '"How to watch paint dry" and still make a fortune.

@@1_2_die2 "I'm Scott Manley. Dry Safe"

Imagine the flyby from a vantage point over Jupiter's pole, stationary relative to the sun, with the probe orbiting the same direction as Jupiter and passing behind it (over Jupiter's night side). The path of the probe as it passes the planet is a parabola with Jupiter at the focus. Gravitational effects are stronger on the side of Jupiter that the probe whizzes by, so the net effect is Jupiter moves (slightly) in the direction of the parabola's vertex (the probe's closest approach). The equal and opposite effect is that the probe is accelerated in the direction OPPOSITE the vertex. For a probe coming from the inner solar system, the entry leg is inside of Jupiter's orbit, and the exit leg is outside of the orbit, so the vertex of the parabola is askew. Jupiter is pulled slightly out and back in its orbit, making the orbit more elliptical. The probe has been pulled much more dramatically forward and inward from its initial solar orbit, making the orbit more circular. Or more colloquially, Jupiter gave some of its speed to the probe.