Why SpaceX Built A Stainless Steel Starship
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- Published on Feb 8, 2019
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[3] www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-spacex-agree-on-plans-for-crew-launch-day-operations
[4] www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124016989000021
[5] spaceflight101.com/msl/msl-aeroshell-and-heat-shield/
[6]www.grantadesign.com/download/pdf/teaching_resource_books/2-Materials-Charts-2010.pdf
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STARLITE will really solve 99% of the heat problem
Can u please contact elon musk & inform him about the "STARLITE" ....revive that technology, he really REALLY needs it!!! Pretty please....
Don Vittorio DiMaggio Your thé crap 💩
I fuckn hate your fuckn channel. the content is just shit crap
"The stars are not for Man" - Arthur C. Clarke
I’ll watch it on tv
Why not?
that transition into the ad there at the end...👌
You mean a fancy thermos
Aluminium
Too much words to explain a motivation that i miss
Excellent analysis. Ship looks like something from a 1950s pulp science fiction magazine. Given enough time, sci-fi tends to become reality. Seems to me.
+Bill Anderson Good points. Many problems remain to be solved. All large engineering or scientific projects are a trade off. Especially if public funds are being used. This new starhopper ship looks pretty good. Science and technology will continue to move forward.
A gray irony in space travel is that often “high tech” is not better. For example, how do you make water, breathable oxygen, and rocket fuel on Mars? Centuries old technology. Seriously. NASA goes for such perceived high tech these days not because it is technically necessary (most often it isn’t) but because it is politically necessary. They have to “spread the jobs” among enough congressional districts to maintain some semblance of political support, hence budget. The sad irony there is that they wind up doing less for more.
Even though it may look like a "shit show" I'm sure that the rocket scientist/ rocket engineers are learning quite a bit for their "shit show mistakes". Like you said, and showed the site where you can "learn from your mistakes", I'm sure that they are doing the same. Space travel, right now, is still in the "trial and error" stages...yes, there have been a lot of successful launches, but when you really get down to it, they have all just been by sheer luck pretty much.
I still don't trust Elon Musk
"it's more 'penisy' than your other space x rockets"
7:30 WOW! the earth is really flat eh FLAT EARTHURDS!!!!
I really REALLY really want to put bullet passed right through ur forehead...each 1 of u flat earthurds!!
all u know is to promote HATE & annoying!
5:04 - 5:26 the rocket design was beautiful & sexy! =)
I kinda like that idea of sweating to cool. I hope the ship doesn't get any blackheads like I'd from sweating but I doubt that would happen with methane as long as you don't go to a planet with a high pressure atmosphere. Lol
Y not use graphene....
Great video, but where are you finding the extra "I" in aluminum?
We need a nuclear powered rocket engine
8:37 , looks like my rooster
Static
Only words I understood: steel,mars,freeze
It’s aluminum not aluminum😭😂
BRO DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SAY. ALUMINUM? NOT aluminium
Preston Sanchez lmao only Americans say it that way
Yeah, first starship!
Nice V2... or rather V3 rocket
Cool info
Isn't titanium better? 🤔
I mean better than steel and aluminum
If someone would've to make something durable for various space flights that's the best material
+Loxx Rexx that's better sir. Titanium is expensive but its stronger than steel and a little bit heavier than aluminum.
Excepting graphene, is the most "futuristic" and advanced material overall
Yet, according to wikipedia and stuff, it has a lower heat conductivity and higher melting point than stainless steel.
Im not sure, but i think titanium is way to expensive?
>Hopper joined the chat
>Wind joined the chat
>Hopper left the chat
They built out of stainless steel so it wouldn’t get easily stained
I think this shiny star ship is just a joke. The real thing will be unveiled within a couple of years.
It looks like a dildo
Btw Any is Any not Anne.
Gdyby nie niemieccy i rosyjscy inzynierowie to amerykanscy bandyci na orbite by dylizansami jezdzili !!!
Why does NASA have any say in any of this? SpaceX should take their advice, but not need their approval.
I think its amazing that something made out of steel can be so thin that storm winds could knock it over
To waste money and do nothing with it. Still can’t go to the moon and they say we did 60 years ago.
“Why did space x build a stainless steel starship?”
Answer: cause it’s cool
Haha yeh that's what whole the video was about
7:05 "stainless steel shines"😂😂
2019 : resuable rockets
2030: reusable condoms
2045 condom rockets
So they don’t get stains on it dumbass
‘Oh fuck it fell over, quick pick it up before anyone notices’
they need vibranium
This was a super interesting video
I am from germany and i didnt know where you did acually come from until i saw your electrical resistance... -> USA
Please dont use them they are a crime against mankind.
Thank u
I am from the US and I can say with 100% certainty that Brian is not from the US. He is speaking Irish English, so I presume he is Irish.
Walking back to the fifties with stainless steel Rockets, don't mind the other one over there. that one fell down last week 😂
Hell of a knowledge...
Liked the way you interdused the sponsor..🤘👍
Next video: SpaceX creates a vodka bottle shaped rocket made aout of stalinium
You say SpaceX I hear Spay Sex ...lol
Noo oil on Maars? Why da fueck are we bothering? lol
We can optimize the technology we have but practically speaking we are not ready.
Elon Musk: “In this spaceship we will reach mars”
Spaceship: *gets knocked down by wind*
"Tis' but a scratch!"
that's just hopper
That video makes you wonder, what if there was metal light as aluminum and strong as steel? Well, guess what - Titanium.
+Old Albird Haha so smart, of course they do. But video shows you these graphs with weight and strength, and do not acknowledge titanium, which is widely use in space and supersonic planes. The narration goes like there is no alternative, it should've said: "there is titanium which is light as aluminum, and strong as steel but it could not be used in this instance because blablabalbalba" get it?
Bubble i think those scientists know what they‘re doing and they know the periodic table
I wonder what they realy bringing back with them.
Alright let’s settle this is it Ah-loo-mi-num or Ah-lu-min-ium
Ah loo mi num
It's Aluminum.
The first liquid cooled rocket better have RGB
zygmunt szymanski hahaha, Cejrowski wszedł mocno
Especially because it makes it go faster.
*KGB
Ty jestes potomek tych co sie dali w Afryce w siatke zlapac ?? Podziekuj rosyjskim i niemieckim naukowcom..bo bys na orbite dylizansem jezdzil..
Jasonfireshield yea
Space X: "I can build reusable rockets that land themselves on land or on water at the same time!"
Wind: "Can i come?"
Background music not needed
Elon Musk is not a rocket scientist.... SpaceX are the brains, and he's the guy behind them. Elon is not planning to use these technologies, he's showing the technology that SpaceX have developed! 🤦🏻♂️
Mares
Sense you are so smart and opinionated why dont you go work for SpaceX and solve their problems. Your opinion means nothing.
Amazing! such a great explanation & the narration is easy to follow (even for dumb me)
PERHAPS
Helium would help?
Pulse frequency, to cool the craft and put out fires.
You keep on referring to stainless steel as steel.
Somebody play "Telstar" or the theme from "Fireball XL5" !!!!!
It's a spaceship, not a starship, unless they moved Mars to another star system.
was like, what the fuck is maris xD
Maybe they should make a titanium rocket because titanium is way stronger than steel and aluminum but it is lighter.
Let’s go to mars
*they got oil in it*
Hahahah “ to Merrs “
earth is a space ship. with systems critical to its cleanliness
What a great video, this really explained all of the design choices perfectly, good work.
He should make a ship out of unobtainium
Did you jizz on children?
Will it look black/burnt after landing ?
Why would someone want to go to Mars in something you could punch a hole through or by like hitting your head on the side of the ship
Watch him land 2 of these at once
Great video but that transition to signing up for "brilliant" was a stretch
Short answer: they felt like replicating Queen Amidala's ship.
Stainless steel wtf.. weak material.
Faaaaaakkkkeeeee!!!!
There is only one "i" in aluminum.
I keep seeing articles and videos where they discuss rocket technology for going to the Moon and Mars, and setting up bases. As if those are the only challenges. YET, every long term study of people spending time in space shows that the space environment is extremely harmful to our bodies. Between the lack of gravity, causing skeletal, muscular and eye degeneration, you have radiation screwing with people's chromosomes, DNA, and immune system. Why don't we ever hear about anyone addressing those, well known, issues? So far, space exploration seems like a very short term job, because it will eventually kill you. So, it's pretty much, a one way trip, unless you make that trip very short. Which is just the opposite of either a lunar base or Mars base. Your body wouldn't be able to handle coming home after a stay on Mars, because of skeletal and muscular degeneration, possible blindness, and have a compromised immune system and/or cancer. Read up on what they have learned about the effects of long term space flight on the ISS and you'll see what I mean. They don't like telling you what happens to the human body when it spends a year or more in space. It's not good.
To me, it's the human body's limitations and vulnerabilities that are the most pressing issue with space exploration. Unless those issues are addressed, it's exploration by robot. Or short life span, suicidal, disposable astronauts. I have plenty of confidence that we can build the rockets, structures, etc.....but shielding the human body from radiation and battling the effects of near zero gravity may prove our undoing. We are very much unsuited for the rigors of space exploration.
Spoiler: SpaceX hasn’t built a starship.
Until I saw this I thought a stainless ship was just some kind of joke or PR stunt.
Maybe they can find a new metal on Mars that can handle a flight threw the sun.
Mers
I know how they could lose some weight,starve the bullshitting astronaughts to death,no one as been to space or ever will
The only thing Space x make are vibrators to give all the retards an orgasm.
oh hey it has a geodesic frame, just like a wellington!
Don't chip your teeth sucking Elon's martian stainless dildo!!! Young starhopper... Fuckin loser!!
I think those spacecraft should be armed.
Why not developed new space ships and new engines.
This is just nothing comparing to an advanced civilization, if this was compared to a advanced civilization , this spacecraft would be nothing to comparing to. Time to step up their game NASA, because we don’t know if it’s an advanced superior civilization out there, and if it is, then this is just toy ships in comparing.
Snake Oil.
the key for this mars shit is if all of us stop and come together for something that at one point we will need drastically
What can people make in these videos just say aluminum like a normal person
I've always thought evaporative cooling was a great idea. You can also use ordinary water which you need up until the point of re-entry. My question is why not use Titanium which has the same properties as steel but better. A polished Titanium body seems viable if very expensive.
Hi guys come to check my video on Starship-like Ship send to Duna In KSP
usclip.net/video/r7nQyFZQUZg/video.html
Stainless?
heheh....
ok I’ll go sit in time out now
Looks like we are going to mars