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Why Did 38 Satellites Fall Out of the Sky?

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In 2022, SpaceX thought they'd have a routine launch of their latest batch of Starlink satellites. But of the 49 they sent to orbit, 38 ended up falling out of the sky! What went wrong? Predicting space weather and exactly how it affects the Earth turns out to be a bit complicated.
Correction:
0:20 This is actually not a photo of Starlink! This photo is most likely a long exposure of an airplane crossing the night sky.
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@SciShow
@SciShow Жыл бұрын
Thanks to everyone who watched this video closely enough to notice that the photo at 0:20 is not of Starlink! The two lines of lights and the little red dots make that photo most likely a long exposure photo of an airplane crossing the night sky!
@GrumpyOldFart2
@GrumpyOldFart2 Жыл бұрын
Just a note. LOVE Savannah! They’ve got awesome energy.
@ScumfuckMcDoucheface
@ScumfuckMcDoucheface Жыл бұрын
@@GrumpyOldFart2 🤨...🤢...🤮...😐
@SamuQu
@SamuQu Жыл бұрын
I love the "Not to scale" note on the animation that shows electrons as big spheres attaching themselves to the satellite
@nicoleparsons2884
@nicoleparsons2884 Жыл бұрын
Haha I just saw that too.
@Martial-Mat
@Martial-Mat Жыл бұрын
😅
@crazyhorse2730
@crazyhorse2730 Жыл бұрын
You know if they were actually that size, there wouldn't be any life whatsoever?
@tomorrowhowever7488
@tomorrowhowever7488 Жыл бұрын
@@crazyhorse2730 Don't get technical, Dahlin'.😄
@jtgd
@jtgd Жыл бұрын
@@crazyhorse2730 sounds like something Cunk would say. “Did you know that if the universe was an electron, we would be electron stuff?”
@CritterKeeper01
@CritterKeeper01 Жыл бұрын
@SciShow I had to share this with you…."When scientists discovered a genus of really small frogs in Madagascar in 2019, they named it Mini. Not content with that, they went on to give the three species in this genus the scientific names Mini mum, Mini ature, and Mini scule." From the TV Tropes page on punny names. :-)
@garethdean6382
@garethdean6382 Жыл бұрын
They could snack on the Australian wasp, Aha ha.
@NinaDmytraczenko
@NinaDmytraczenko Жыл бұрын
This is the type of science we need in the world!! lol
@CritterKeeper01
@CritterKeeper01 Жыл бұрын
So what should they name the next one? M. mart? M. aturize?
@4mpersan
@4mpersan Жыл бұрын
Savannah’s presentation style is really good! They kept my interest the whole time despite trying to clean my desk in the background.
@deisisase
@deisisase Жыл бұрын
This is the same phenomenon that caused Skylab to re-enter prematurely in the late 70s. The space shuttle was supposed to go there initially.
@mahbriggs
@mahbriggs Жыл бұрын
True, but it didn't help that the shuttle was years late.
@mr.boomguy
@mr.boomguy Жыл бұрын
It always irritates me when companies think that being honest about mistakes is the same as being disgraceful. Be honest and transparent, so we can fix the issues instead of sweeping them under the rug.
@Buzy_Lizard
@Buzy_Lizard Жыл бұрын
That’s the problem with private companies undertaking these “scientific expeditions”. Nothing scientific about it.
@Medytacjusz
@Medytacjusz Жыл бұрын
It's always annoying to hear that it's "not in company's interests" (profit) to share data about the universe that they have, hindering our collective knowledge and understanding.
@ssatva
@ssatva Жыл бұрын
An 'information economy' requires scarcity to create value, thereby is definitionally built around the sequestering and underutilization of information. He says, trying to control the twitch in his eye. (Edit to add: this just adds to your point; separate but related issues.)
@SevenDayGaming
@SevenDayGaming Жыл бұрын
It's worse than that. Elon's satellites may destroy all other satellites in orbit. All it takes it one collision, the debris will spread out where it can hit other satellites, which will create more debris and destroy more satellites, all while pieces of broken satellites break eachother into more and more tiny pieces until there's just a low-density cloud of orbital velocity shrapnel surrounding the planet.
@play005517
@play005517 Жыл бұрын
That's why a higher public skepticism may actually help Like the aviation industry, many safety knowledge can be withheld to one company to make their competitors less safe and riskier for the customers But because people don't treat safety on a per-company basis but industry-wide So airlines with good understanding will not compete in safety There are some concerns about the new tech-style start-ups about EVTOLs that do not understand this safety culture in aviation And we are observing that many critical safety discoveries are kept trade secrets to other competitors We need more public skepticism towards the whole industry to educate these companies that withholding critical information about safety will ultimately be worse for them
@Sal-T
@Sal-T Жыл бұрын
At 0:17, your "Long exposure of a Starlink Satellite crossing the night sky" is obviously a long exposure of a plane... The flashing red light with accompanying flashing light just to it's left (obscured by the left steady on light) is a dead giveaway. Plus the distance changing between the two lines indicates that it's either coming closer or moving away from the photographer.
@simpleanswer8954
@simpleanswer8954 Жыл бұрын
You must have magic eyes to see blinking lights in a still photo. Also, you seem to have some logic failure. So you believe that a satellite would not be moving across the sky relative to the photographer? How exactly to you think an orbit works? Maybe you're right and that is a plane. But the evidence you give isn't sensible. The lights aren't blinking, and a satellite can still move toward or away from your perspective. It just depends where you stand relative to the direction of its orbit.
@bazpearce9993
@bazpearce9993 Жыл бұрын
@@simpleanswer8954 He is right. It's a plane, and his reasoning is perfect. You can clearly see the red light flashes and it even starts to make a turn (or came out of one), orbits don't do that. I'm an astrophotographer, and planes and satellites are easily differentiated.
@simpleanswer8954
@simpleanswer8954 Жыл бұрын
@@bazpearce9993 I still think it's amazing how you see flashing lights in a still photo. I mean, there's clearly a mistake in the video caption calling it a long exposure when it's clearly multiple exposures... but that's different. You're so worried about that red light, I have to ask: then where's the green light? And since my original point was more about the quality of evidence: you have ignored and failed to address the whole concept of "Moving away from or toward". An orbit can and will make a satellite move away or toward your perspective. So the reasoning is absolutely not perfect. What, do you both think that satellites move straight up instead of around the Earth? If it's moving around the Earth, than it will ALWAYS be moving toward and away from something else on the ground. Both of you have failed to grasp the basic logic here. Maybe you're just ignoring that because you want to agree, but you're just flat wrong about the quality of the reasoning. Also, don't forget: Where's that green light that an airplane would absolutely have?
@bazpearce9993
@bazpearce9993 Жыл бұрын
@@simpleanswer8954 The green light is out of view. Planes are NOT transparent. You're so sure you know what you're talking about aren't you? A solid line of main lights with one side showing the red flash, indicates a single long exposure. I DO know what i'm talking about. I am an astrophotgrapher, and i see this all the time in my images. I also spend time out in the countryside watching for sats and meteors on a weekly basis, and i've been doing it for nigh on 25 years.
@Sal-T
@Sal-T Жыл бұрын
@@simpleanswer8954 "Flashing lights on a still photo"... It's a long exposure. If you flash a light at a steady rate while moving in a long exposure, you'll get dots in a line, exactly like you see in this photo. I've done many long exposures of the night sky, and that's definitely a plane with flashing navigation lights.
@bruce-le-smith
@bruce-le-smith Жыл бұрын
wow great episode thank you! very interesting to learn that satellites can build up electrons in a storm, makes me think of galvanic corrosion on boats, where it looks like nothing is happening but damage can still occur. who woulda thought!?
@robinhahnsopran
@robinhahnsopran Жыл бұрын
Savannah: "...A chance of satte-LIGHT rain." Me, alone in my empty apartment: **spits out tea**
@CamiloSperberg
@CamiloSperberg Жыл бұрын
"Not to scale" lol 😂
@kurtoogle4576
@kurtoogle4576 Жыл бұрын
Great job, Savannah! Really interesting stuff!
@BrandEver117
@BrandEver117 Жыл бұрын
I could be wrong, but isn't the photo at about 1:10 of a rack of satellites on the delivery vehicle, not just one satellite?
@AaronShenghao
@AaronShenghao Жыл бұрын
Yeah but that is also where things went wrong
@Intabih
@Intabih Жыл бұрын
4:17 I'm glad electrons are not that large.
@JAGFG42
@JAGFG42 Жыл бұрын
I would love to see a spectrometer put on to the space weather satellite constellation, so we can see how much helium and other isotopes that are being generated by gamma rays from the sun.
@nrsrymj
@nrsrymj Жыл бұрын
This problem will only get worse
@parmesanzero7678
@parmesanzero7678 Жыл бұрын
And there’s why trusting private industry on this stuff is a bad idea. Whereas a more public entity will over-engineer for safety and a wide margin of error, a for-profit company will cut everything to the bone for the sake of profit.
@TheScratcherStudios
@TheScratcherStudios Жыл бұрын
ye ye ye, that is all neat and all but where can I get that shirt?
@gcnewd
@gcnewd Жыл бұрын
Awesome information...you are good. Thank you
@michaelteret4763
@michaelteret4763 Жыл бұрын
Nice shirt!
@wombat.6652
@wombat.6652 Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU. I thought our atmosphere could change shape / density. And that effected satellites. But had no proof, and could not work out how to ask the search engines the right questions.
@General12th
@General12th Жыл бұрын
Hi Savannah!
@justinwheeler5614
@justinwheeler5614 Жыл бұрын
When I think of Starlink, I see Daniel Jackson after receiving ancient knowledge sitting in Antarctica "protecting" Earth with hundreds of satellites.
@TheHackysack
@TheHackysack Жыл бұрын
Growing up, the only person I ever wanted to be like was him.
@blackshard641
@blackshard641 Жыл бұрын
Savannah: "Now if that sounds like a mighty fine deal..." Me: "A mighty fine deal?" Savannah: "A mighty fine deal."
@alleny2971
@alleny2971 Жыл бұрын
I always hear "Space Sex." Space Sex Engineers"
@pg2826
@pg2826 Жыл бұрын
That was probably intentional naming by the company founder.
@jasoncummings7052
@jasoncummings7052 Жыл бұрын
Starlink approach has created a trend that will prove beneficial for scientific knowledge.
@TheTexas1994
@TheTexas1994 Жыл бұрын
Cloudy with a chance of space debris
@mariebarker4499
@mariebarker4499 Жыл бұрын
Hello, God bless you! Please make sure you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour! He is coming soon! Please don't be left behind! Accept and believe in Jesus Christ! John 3:16, Revelation 20:15
@amberhawksong
@amberhawksong Жыл бұрын
Lol
@Brianna-eo8nu
@Brianna-eo8nu Жыл бұрын
We forgot to cherish them…. :(
@alien9279
@alien9279 Жыл бұрын
Missed the outro pun of cloudy with a chance of satellites 😂
@kskdtr
@kskdtr Жыл бұрын
thanks for the "not to scale" caption... I was wondering
@mikebarushok5361
@mikebarushok5361 Жыл бұрын
Building up electrons doesn't cause a short. It can discharge through an insulator, especially if relative vacuum is part of the insulation.
@DanielSMatthews
@DanielSMatthews Жыл бұрын
If the sun's activity makes the Earth's atmosphere expand then it is also increasing the surface area of the atmosphere for any given pressure level layer and that means a greater ability to radiate heat into space. This would suggest that space weather can significantly impact on Earth weather in a 12 year cycle too.
@emmettturner9452
@emmettturner9452 Жыл бұрын
Surface area only counts when there is a physical medium of exchange. Increased surface area of an aluminum heatsink with air lets you exchange more heat with the air. Increased surface area of the air with… empty space… doesn’t do much. You have to find a way to increase the heat that radiates as infrared light as opposed to simply exciting neighboring molecules.
@DanielSMatthews
@DanielSMatthews Жыл бұрын
@@emmettturner9452 Bahahaha, go back to school. All matter is physical. Read what I actually wrote, my words are very specific.
@emmettturner9452
@emmettturner9452 Жыл бұрын
@@DanielSMatthews SPACE is the absence of matter.
@nagualdesign
@nagualdesign Жыл бұрын
@@emmettturner9452 Obviously the only way that the Earth can lose heat is through radiation. More surface area allows more radiation. It may or may not be a linear relationship but those are the facts, are they not?
@MrBonners
@MrBonners Жыл бұрын
sun cycle is 11 years.
@laurac6895
@laurac6895 Жыл бұрын
Excellent
@infernas
@infernas Жыл бұрын
It's because Eramis tried to use the warsats to destroy the Traveller, luckily Rasputin was able to stop her from doing so by triggering the warsat network's self-destruct protocol. 😬
@Jobobn1998
@Jobobn1998 Жыл бұрын
Not on topic, but I love her shirt!
@cyberhard
@cyberhard Жыл бұрын
George Lass missed the satellite rain forecast.
@stakiman
@stakiman Жыл бұрын
Great new host! Pleasant voice and nails the pacing of the format. Also kudos for giving people who aren't 10/10 looks in general for a while now :)
@simpleanswer8954
@simpleanswer8954 Жыл бұрын
Gotta love when someone says something they think is a compliment, but then it turns out to be an unintentional insult. Way to go. By complimenting someone for not choosing hosts based on their looks, you're forced to insult the host's appearance. Should have just left that part out.
@user-mm1qu7yb5h
@user-mm1qu7yb5h 8 ай бұрын
GOOD BYE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE !
@extropian314
@extropian314 Жыл бұрын
"Avoid the satellite rain" Yeah for reals! Also nice pun delivery) That's actually a rly freaky, and probably growing, issue.
@lloydfromfar
@lloydfromfar Жыл бұрын
Wow, surprising effects hey! :)
@Amocles
@Amocles Жыл бұрын
I don't understand why more people don't use umbrellas
@ConstantChaos1
@ConstantChaos1 Жыл бұрын
I burped right when she said burping lol
@kaitlynoddie9649
@kaitlynoddie9649 Жыл бұрын
twitter dying, tesla outages, now elon’s satellites are failing, you love to see it
@firstduckofwellington6889
@firstduckofwellington6889 Жыл бұрын
It’s 38 satellites. That’s less than one launch…
@blackwidowrsa
@blackwidowrsa Жыл бұрын
@@firstduckofwellington6889 they are on major copium since twitter buy out
@remliqa
@remliqa Жыл бұрын
@@blackwidowrsa That guy is right: there are currently thousand of functioning Starlink satellites in orbit. 38 of of thousand isn't really a big number.
@blackwidowrsa
@blackwidowrsa Жыл бұрын
@@remliqa i know he's right, the elon hate train started just when he got twitter
@remliqa
@remliqa Жыл бұрын
@@blackwidowrsaAs a former Elon Musk fanboy, I started to hate him years before he even hinted of buying Twitter.
@DfiantCrab
@DfiantCrab Жыл бұрын
OOOooh I love that T-Shirt! Pretty flowery dinosaur fossils. Where can I get it? Its so pretty
@travisk5589
@travisk5589 Жыл бұрын
Is more important to be honest about how space weather affects the earth's weather
@Broockle
@Broockle Жыл бұрын
first time i'm hearing about this complete disaster, wow
@tdawes33
@tdawes33 Жыл бұрын
Freakin fascinating
@VixxyFoxxy
@VixxyFoxxy Жыл бұрын
The war between Elon and space is quickly escalating
@ComsiCaterpillar
@ComsiCaterpillar Жыл бұрын
Elon vs Reality We all know he's a moron, but Wall Street and Washington are also morons and gave him an insane finical foothold
@ashtiboy
@ashtiboy Жыл бұрын
i knida fiured. this is also same CME also kocked out our whole interenet for a whole a day two days before space x did the launch during the night.
@kellydalstok8900
@kellydalstok8900 Жыл бұрын
So the space weather forecast is like every other weather forecast; there is always more drag/wind than they predicted when you’re going out.
@MediaLieDetector
@MediaLieDetector 2 ай бұрын
Perhaps gravity?
@bbbenj
@bbbenj Жыл бұрын
👍 Thanks
@ivanborsuk1110
@ivanborsuk1110 Жыл бұрын
4:30 sattelite in microgravity, but sparks are falling down i'd not ask you shoot next star wars
@bobbystrong6849
@bobbystrong6849 Жыл бұрын
Because Kerbal Space Program 2 is coming out in ten days and everyone is busy getting their new satellite builds ready.
@chrisfleming701
@chrisfleming701 Жыл бұрын
What about the Earths weakening magnetic field? Don’t you think it has something to do with this as well?
@petermccarter4820
@petermccarter4820 Жыл бұрын
The main motivation for their low altitude is to minimize latency
@zacrintoul
@zacrintoul Жыл бұрын
Low final altitude. These hadn't been boosted to final altitude yet.
@jasoncummings7052
@jasoncummings7052 Жыл бұрын
Nothing we have on earth is a match for the power of our sun. Just imagine the others out there that are bigger far more powerful.
@shakesfirst2443
@shakesfirst2443 Жыл бұрын
I want to know why the balloon market has taken such dangerous turn in 2023.
@Jimmy-Chin
@Jimmy-Chin Жыл бұрын
Can you guys cover the train derailment in Ohio?
@CL-go2ji
@CL-go2ji Жыл бұрын
++
@Auroral_Anomaly
@Auroral_Anomaly Жыл бұрын
Blud we gonna have another another Carrington event.💀
@xchopp
@xchopp Жыл бұрын
So: engineers need Science. Who knew?
@danielvalle8875
@danielvalle8875 8 ай бұрын
It's Pam
@usdeac
@usdeac Жыл бұрын
They also want to keep them as low as possible to reduce latency.
@mihael64
@mihael64 Жыл бұрын
no, since the signal would be traveling at the speed of light, thus making it practically instant. it's instead to make it easier to communicate with the satteliter and actually transfer data with them because the further they are, the more energy you need to send a signal of the same strength.
@Radicus
@Radicus Жыл бұрын
@@mihael64 "traveling at the speed of light" Are you saying that they use optical signals?
@awaredeshmukh3202
@awaredeshmukh3202 Жыл бұрын
@@Radicus radio is also light waves but very low frequency, so they are actually communicating using light waves, just not visible ones
@mihael64
@mihael64 Жыл бұрын
@@Radicus No, they're literally using light in the form of radio waves (which are light btw) and radio waves travel at the speed of light.
@jn651
@jn651 Жыл бұрын
"NOT TO SCALE" 🤣
@mewoosh
@mewoosh Жыл бұрын
I like the new girl! Great voice, pacing, dynamic pitch, authoritative... win.
@shanemitchell5807
@shanemitchell5807 Жыл бұрын
Why didn't the SpaceX scientists account for the solar storm? Shouldn't they have been watching this? Seems like a blunder.
@sleep7.5R
@sleep7.5R Жыл бұрын
Immediate reaction to seeing video title: “USAF F-22s”
@hollykelley2369
@hollykelley2369 Жыл бұрын
ANYONE WHO WATCHES ANYONE ELSE WITH SPYWARE INSIDE OF MY HOME WITH THE DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON AKA SYNTHETIC TELEPATHY WEAPON WILL BE SHUT DOWN !
@jhubeJELLO
@jhubeJELLO Жыл бұрын
how much do solar cycles effect us on Earth?
@EayuProuxm
@EayuProuxm Жыл бұрын
So earth weather and space weather is getting worse? Look at that
@alexchong1757
@alexchong1757 Жыл бұрын
Love that this video about losing satellites came out the same day as Destiny 2's Abhorrent Imperative mission.
@MySerpentine
@MySerpentine Жыл бұрын
Careful with that Kessler syndrome.
@elongatedcarp6309
@elongatedcarp6309 Жыл бұрын
I love seeing ads for rumble Shitting on KZfaq While watching KZfaq
@warmonger2500
@warmonger2500 Жыл бұрын
Science/engineering question. Why are in-wheel motors considered bad. It’s called unsprung weight, what is that? Just wondering.
@garethdean6382
@garethdean6382 Жыл бұрын
An unsprung weight is a weight not buffered by a spring -a shock absorber. These weights are prone to being knocked about -damaged or causing sudden movements that can make a vehicle lurch. They reduce durability and driving comfort.
@rooxynala841
@rooxynala841 Жыл бұрын
Because is not for internet something much different
@tlou34
@tlou34 Жыл бұрын
Where can I find the shirt that narrator wears?
@Zebraphobs
@Zebraphobs Жыл бұрын
Where are the other hosts with the more easy listening voices? I’m sorry savannah it’s not your fault I watch these before bed 😅
@MrStarkiller17
@MrStarkiller17 Жыл бұрын
I dont know. I didnt lose any...
@adpirtle
@adpirtle Жыл бұрын
These comments are crazy 🤣
@QuantumRipple
@QuantumRipple Жыл бұрын
I think people just keyword search “satellite” so that they can be whacky no matter the occasion
@o80y1
@o80y1 Жыл бұрын
Oops, my bad
@chrisdymek5029
@chrisdymek5029 Жыл бұрын
Nice long exposure of an airplane.
@andrewmynhier7733
@andrewmynhier7733 Жыл бұрын
*astronaut carrying spacecraft*?
@jonatanromanowski9519
@jonatanromanowski9519 Жыл бұрын
Go Go Sci Show!
@heres1-two-cents
@heres1-two-cents Жыл бұрын
So what now gonna rain satellites in a few months? ¿
@DoggosAndJiuJitsu
@DoggosAndJiuJitsu 8 ай бұрын
Let me guess the top 3: 1) global warming 2) Trump 3) not enough covid vaccine participants
@eliscanfield3913
@eliscanfield3913 Жыл бұрын
Insert kitten "awiens" meme here, ;)
@_andrewvia
@_andrewvia Жыл бұрын
Yay Savannah! Plus, it's good to show how visible the starlink sattelites are. Any bad publicity for those things is a good thing.
@Turdfergusen382
@Turdfergusen382 Жыл бұрын
Kessler was right
@Chris_Goulet
@Chris_Goulet Жыл бұрын
Please add a PAUSE between sentences. It's annoying without them.
@floffycatto6475
@floffycatto6475 Жыл бұрын
Starlink was a mistake
@firstduckofwellington6889
@firstduckofwellington6889 Жыл бұрын
Idk but it’s doing well
@alexandremotsny5341
@alexandremotsny5341 Жыл бұрын
We also just lost a meteorological balloon
@mariebarker4499
@mariebarker4499 Жыл бұрын
Hello, God bless you! Please make sure you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour! He is coming soon! Please don't be left behind! Accept and believe in Jesus Christ! John 3:16, Revelation 20:15
@pranavghantasala6808
@pranavghantasala6808 Жыл бұрын
@@mariebarker4499 Union Pacific 844, also known as the "Living Legend", is a class "FEF-3" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad for its heritage fleet. Built in December 1944 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York, No. 844 is one of four surviving FEF Series locomotives and the only one in operation. The locomotive operated in revenue service until 1959. It was stored while awaiting scrapping, along with the rest of the UP steam locomotive fleet. In 1960, railroad leaders recognized the benefits of having a steam program and retained No. 844 for special activities, the kernel of what has become the Union Pacific's heritage fleet. Today, it is one of UP's oldest serving locomotives and the only steam locomotive owned by a North American Class I railroad that has never been retired. In 1944, Union Pacific and the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) collaborated on the FEF-3, a class of 10 locomotives designed to pull passenger trains at 90 mph. The FEF-3 could reach and regularly run at 120 mph; one locomotive reportedly pulled a 1,000-ton passenger train at 100 mph. All FEF classes were considered by the Union Pacific to be capable of producing between 4,000 and 5,000 drawbar horsepower. The FEF-3 class represented the apex of dual-service steam locomotive development; funds and research were being concentrated into the development of diesel-electric locomotives. Originally designed to burn coal, they were converted to run on fuel oil in 1946. Like the earlier FEF-1 and FEF-2 classes, the FEF-3 locomotives were ultimately reassigned to freight service. UP 844 was the last steam locomotive delivered to the Union Pacific Railroad, constructed as a member of the FEF-3 class of 4-8-4 "Northern" type locomotives. Upon its entry into service, the locomotive spent most of its career pulling a variety of passenger trains, such as the Overland Limited, Los Angeles Limited, Portland Rose and Challenger. From 1957 to 1959, UP 844 was reassigned to fast freight service in Nebraska when diesel-electric locomotives took over passenger service. After commercial steam operations ended in 1959, the 844 and the rest of the FEF-3 class was placed into storage. Saved from scrapping in 1960, No. 844 was chosen for rebuilding and is now used on company and public excursion trains, along with hauling revenue freight trains during ferry moves. Since 1960, No. 844 has run hundreds of thousands of miles as Union Pacific's publicity locomotive. The locomotive often pulled the annual Denver Post-sponsored Cheyenne Frontier Days train that ran round-trip from Cheyenne to Denver every July before it was discontinued in early 2019.
@brainwater176
@brainwater176 Жыл бұрын
We?
@michaelmayhem350
@michaelmayhem350 Жыл бұрын
@@mariebarker4499 1 Timothy 2:12: But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.[
@michaelmayhem350
@michaelmayhem350 Жыл бұрын
But Alex man you're comment is so far behind, the count is up to like 4 or 5 balloons already lol
@newshodgepodge6329
@newshodgepodge6329 Жыл бұрын
Survival of the fittest
@anthonygifford9494
@anthonygifford9494 Жыл бұрын
Are we having any trouble from when Russia shot that satellite with its rockets?
@doginhat13
@doginhat13 Жыл бұрын
I love how she always talk so fast you can tow that have everyone else on the team she's most excited talk about science stuff
@golach420
@golach420 Жыл бұрын
Is Musk going to blame the left for his crappy satellites falling out of orbit? Is he hiring ex-Twitter engineers as rocket scientists? Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Lol
@SteveFrench_420
@SteveFrench_420 Жыл бұрын
Nah. It's Trump's fault. No, wait. It's Putin!
@jesserutt7413
@jesserutt7413 Жыл бұрын
Man, i remember a few years ago when Elon Musk was being paraded around by the left for being the savior of the world when he started tesla, but as soon as he expresses some of his opinions, that all goes out the window 😂😂😂, get your priorities in order!
@JasonBoyce
@JasonBoyce Жыл бұрын
fascist trash is fascist trash when their opinions are made clear, priorities continue to remain in order
@General12th
@General12th Жыл бұрын
@@jesserutt7413 I don't know what leftists you've been talking to, but Mr. Musk has never been very popular with the left. First and foremost, he's a sleazy billionaire with a dubious history. But electric vehicles don't solve a lot of the bigger issues with urbanization that better city planning, resource distribution, and rail systems could solve. EVs are a crutch -- we'd get better results by limiting how much people need cars in the first place.
@michaelmayhem350
@michaelmayhem350 Жыл бұрын
@@jesserutt7413 started SpaceX. He didn't start tesla. He bought tesla & paid the founder extra to not object to him naming himself the founder.
@Porezlol
@Porezlol Жыл бұрын
0:20 you know that is a plane, right?
@anyawillowfan
@anyawillowfan Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if you have paid someone for the captions, or using the automated ones, but I urge you to watch a video with just captions on mute and see how difficult it is to read the way you are currently doing it.
@AssistantCoreAQI
@AssistantCoreAQI Жыл бұрын
"Subtitles: English (Automatically Generated)."
@anyawillowfan
@anyawillowfan Жыл бұрын
@@AssistantCoreAQI That's a shame as I feel a business like yours should consider proper accessibility by investing in proper closed captions (auto generated is better than nothing but it's hard to follow as it's just a list of words, rather than with grammar that makes it make sense). I know you have a transcript, but not everyone who uses subtitles/CC are completely deaf (and having a transcript means most of the work is done, you just have to put it to the times on the video). As well as hearing impaired, there are people with sensory issues who need low volume, people with ADHD who find subtitles helping them follow the video, and people for whom English isn't their first language (especially considering how fast you talk in this video especially).
@AssistantCoreAQI
@AssistantCoreAQI Жыл бұрын
@@anyawillowfan I'm Not A Member Of SciShow, I Was Just Pointing It Out.
@anyawillowfan
@anyawillowfan Жыл бұрын
@@AssistantCoreAQI Apologies, that was unclear. No need to shout at me though.
@AssistantCoreAQI
@AssistantCoreAQI Жыл бұрын
@@anyawillowfan Sorry.
@zlpatriot11
@zlpatriot11 Жыл бұрын
Corny joke: A Corona Mass Ejection is a a fart from the Sun.
@Draedoon
@Draedoon Жыл бұрын
IT'S THOSE DAMN RUSSIANS I TELL YA, FIRST THE BALLOON NOW THIS!?!??! haha sarcasm go brrr
@JacquesMare
@JacquesMare Жыл бұрын
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