As a young man in the 1980's, I worked with an engineer who worked on the Apollo program. He told us that when they would send a technician into one of the modules with a piece of equipment to be installed, they weighed all of the equipment, hardware, instructions, and tools needed for the installation, AND THE TECHNICIAN. After the technician returned, they were weighed again, along with all of the tools and instructions. This was to ensure that nothing was left or removed from the module without being accounted for, as every gram counted when it came to the fuel burn calculations. They also conducted a vibration test at the end of assembly, and he said that there was always a handful of loose hardware found at the bottom of the modules afterwards.
@mattkl42922 жыл бұрын
Fun non fact, it's actually because George had sticky fingers and kept taking the nice 1/2" snap-on wrench. We couldn't accuse him (he had been there the longest) so we started weighing him on the way out. But as you know, once you weigh George you gotta weigh everyone, and here we are.
@burntpieceoftoast41482 жыл бұрын
@@mattkl4292 ^lmao, thanks for that. And OP, that's pretty cool!
@andrewdillon7837 Жыл бұрын
How funny , they found a spanner inside the wall of the next module,(they stripped it because of the fire) , amongst other things,,
@zyeborm Жыл бұрын
@@mattkl4292 That's why they started finding perfectly calibrated poops in strange places?
@madmaxfzz3 ай бұрын
Tool Control at maximum! "Where'd my lighter go?"
@StarkRG3 жыл бұрын
"Hey, Buzz?" "Yeah, Neil?" "You 'wake?" "Yeah, Neil." "I'm too amped to sleep." "I know what you mean, Neil." "It's just, so cool." "It really is." "I mean, I was on the NEWS!" "Yeah, me-- Wait, what?"
@shrimppasta55443 жыл бұрын
O O F
@joescott3 жыл бұрын
I mean... Being on the news is really cool.
@kostarak31603 жыл бұрын
@@joescott Not if you committed a crime.
@yaboi79143 жыл бұрын
@@kostarak3160 Not with *that* attitude.
@mmmk63223 жыл бұрын
hijacking first comment. I can hear niel say for "a" man. It is sutble for sure but he says foraman not foreman. the r is followed with an a not an r that ends the word followed by man as in the word foreman.
@ImVeryOriginal2 жыл бұрын
From what I read, Armstrong really did bungle the line, you can even hear him making a weird pause after that, as if in embarassment. NASA later tried covering it by saying the signal cut out for a split second. And you know what? I actually like that and think it's a beautiful representation of humanity: an ape achieving such a momentous goal, something seemingly impossible, a legendary feat of ingenuity and determination and yet still so fragile and prone to error. It just adds another layer of meaning to the whole thing and makes the legend that much more relatable.
@icebuildsrobots2 жыл бұрын
This is the ultimate example of someone coming up with a great sentence over hours and right when they're about to use it, their brain falls out of their head and fails to function.
@ImVeryOriginal2 жыл бұрын
@@icebuildsrobots The ultimate stage fright moment, performing for the entire human race and fucking up lol
@aliensasquatch7485 Жыл бұрын
This makes me like Armstrong even more.
@patricklynch4926 Жыл бұрын
Idk. When I say the line with the a you can’t really hear it
@franksavaglioaus3 жыл бұрын
I love the Customs Declaration form. But also seek out Buzz Aldrin's Travel Expenses report. Travel was from Houston to Cape Kennedy, Moon, Pacific Ocean (USS Hornet), Hawaii and return to Houston... the claim was for $33.31. As someone who has filled out his fair share of travel expense reports, I love that moon walkers had to share that pain. Great video. Hit the mark pretty well.
@LMacNeill3 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was one of those thousands of unknown people who helped made the Apollo missions happen. He was a mechanical engineer who worked for NASA for a good while in the '60s. I want to say 6 or 7 years? I don't remember precisely.
@carloscable3 жыл бұрын
I always understood its meaning as "one small step for "A" man, one giant leap for mankind", even though I didn't hear the "A" I got what he was saying. Great line
@luke-alex3 жыл бұрын
Same. I really don't hear an "A" and don't think it was there, but I've always pretty much got the meaning. It's the contrast with "mankind", and context, that implies "man" wasn't being used in the larger sense but to mean a literal man.
@beaker_guy3 жыл бұрын
I've always liked the idea that Armstrong (great man though he was) DID flub his line (who could blame him?); thus combining in one moment both mankind's crowning achievement and a subtle reminder that we humans aren't made to be perfect. (I mean, exhibitions of HUBRIS while touching the Heavens seldom end well from what I hear, so better to stay a LITTLE humble. ;) )
@Kevin-jb2pv3 жыл бұрын
I always heard it as "One small step 'furrah' man" like in that kinda southern/ cowboyish accent.
@adamlytle26153 жыл бұрын
Yah... I kind of thought the 'man' meant the "men" of here and now and the "mankind" was humanity through all the rest of time.
@mike045743 жыл бұрын
@@luke-alex I thought man meant mankind, no mistake?
@josephcope76372 жыл бұрын
Pioneers are never "ready" to meet the unexpected challenges they end up facing ... but their grit and courage enable them to overcome these obstacles and pave an easier path for those of us who follow.
@MrJdcirbo3 жыл бұрын
When you say that modern technology has vastly more power than the instrumentation used by NASA in the Apollo program, I agree completely... COMPUTER power. But the mechanical tech was really advanced. They had inertial guidance systems and rocket vectoring and all kinds of various chemical/hydraulic/non-computer-electronic technology at their disposal. Honestly, you can do anything you want with just about no computer assistance, but having a powerful CPU makes almost every task fast more efficient. So, from a mechanical engineering point of view, we had highly advanced, sophisticated technology. It was just all manual.
@ryankroeger32642 жыл бұрын
to be fair the Apollo program was not a safe venture today we need a 99.5% chance for survive while they were okay with like a 50% (arbitrary number but you get my point) chance which sounds ridiculous to me as a scientist but as an adventurer well board at your own risk?
@shigekax2 жыл бұрын
@@ryankroeger3264 yes it's crazy how many things could and did go wrong
@johndododoe1411 Жыл бұрын
The Apollo Computer was about as powerful as a modern Arduino Uno that beginners use to learn programming control systems. Except it had way more signal pins and ran at 6V instead of 5V. The MIT design team invented many ways to get the most from a control computer, including running a word code interpreted language like an Android phone, and restarting and continuing after every crash (they had a few during the Moon landings, crash messages 1201 and 1202 reported to tech support in Houston).
@jja1483 Жыл бұрын
Like an automatic watch ⌚😏🌚🚀
@dwightmagnuson4298 Жыл бұрын
Including a ship's sextant which was needed on the Apollo 13 mission....
@michac.82833 жыл бұрын
Decades after the landing, it still blows my mind that humans have done something like this. To walk on a celestial body that for thousands of years was just a distant light in the sky... just incredible. I wish I will live to see humans land on Mars, or perhaps some other moons.
@djbeezy3 жыл бұрын
Mankind do do whatever we put our minds to.
@The_ZeroLine2 жыл бұрын
The COVID vaccine temporarily teleports you to the moon. That’s why I take them in a spacesuit and do them frequently.
@chookin12 жыл бұрын
Mate.....mate.........we didnt go.
@chookin12 жыл бұрын
@@djbeezy That sounds like something out of Nimrods mouth.
@michac.82832 жыл бұрын
@@chookin1 oh I know, I'm just shilling out to NASA. Please don't tell them I said this, they will take my allowance!😳😳
@notmyname3273 жыл бұрын
I just can't believe your videos are still getting better, I thought you had already reached max entertainment and educational value. PS: 18:59 It wasn't a solid joke, it was a gaseous one.
@russellcarter64513 жыл бұрын
Dad joke champion right here fellas 😂😂
@TheDoomWizard3 жыл бұрын
I think you might like my channel as well then 😉
@Hoopfan833 жыл бұрын
@@russellcarter6451 🏆
@PrinceAlhorian3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Buzz's first words "Beautiful View" His second was "Magnificent Desolation"
@groofay3 жыл бұрын
That is one incredibly smart baby.
@morganrobinson80423 жыл бұрын
Jesus Buzz, Save some Aesthetic for the rest of us.
@tatendam49563 жыл бұрын
@@groofay wow I came here just to say those exact words
@adamnixon28863 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing you meant, his first works on the moon? There is no way those were the first words of a baby Magnificent desolation
@drewlop3 жыл бұрын
@@adamnixon2886 Please stop underestimating Buzz, it hurts my feelings
@adamlytle26153 жыл бұрын
One little bit of trivia I love: the landing legs of the lunar lander were built in Montreal. So the first "feet" on the moon were Canadian.
@micheldesmarais79672 жыл бұрын
I essentially just posted this before reading the comments first. I’m late to the show!
@danielphillips32292 жыл бұрын
Wow amazing
@permiek2 ай бұрын
Very cool
@TJ-W25 күн бұрын
Apollo 11 wasn’t the first thing to land on the moon.
@adamlytle261525 күн бұрын
@@TJ-W fair enough!
@ronhudson37303 жыл бұрын
Thanks Joe. I met David Clark when I was a teen. He married my aunt. His company made the Gemini suits and the metal fittings for the Apollo suits. They were also involved with the transparent helmet the astronauts wore on the moon. I’ll never forget watching them step out onto the moon on our grainy black and white tv, on a hot humid afternoon in Montreal.
@thomasbrown84683 жыл бұрын
Cool
@ESL-O.G.3 жыл бұрын
Who knows... who knows random internet person 🤣
@dafien5303 жыл бұрын
my grandfather worked worked for one of the contractors that helped build the Saturn 5 rockets.
@fluxcapacitorQT3 жыл бұрын
There are missing key components of proof of that this event even happen. Also those fancy space suits had no directional climate control nor deep space shielded against ionizing radiation hazards.
@dmeemd77873 жыл бұрын
that's awesome! 👌
@queenannsrevenge1003 жыл бұрын
I got a chance to see a mock-up of John Glenn’s Mercury capsule up close once - the fact that they actually trusted their lives to those dinky shells, with technology that looked like it belonged more in a transistor radio than a spacecraft, made me respect those dudes all the more. I really agree we had no business being in space at that time, which makes their feats all the more awe inspiring.
@westzed23 Жыл бұрын
The first astronauts were military test pilots. You have to have nerve and faith to do these jobs.
@zyeborm Жыл бұрын
Do keep in mind that a transistor radio was super high tech compared to the literally wooden aircraft that many of them had been flying not that long ago.
@bradwooldidge6979 Жыл бұрын
I was 10 in 1969. I was a science nerd. I remember Gemini and Apollo like it was yesterday.
@theonetruerobb4852 Жыл бұрын
I was 14, a nascent suburban wannabe hippie. I set my alarm for 3AM, and watched it all live. Despite my comments above, I was thrilled then and remain so today.
@richardpark3054 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, me too (born Jan, '59). And I remember like yesterday: my dad bought us a telescope, which we set up in the back yard. Yes, we could see the moon and Sea of Tranquility clearly, but couldn't see the Apollo 11 lander. Not surprising now, knowing a little bit more about telescopes and such. Nevertheless, a moving experience. Thanks, Dad.
@greasee.monkey7224 Жыл бұрын
I am a bit jealous, I wasn't born until the end of Apollo in 1972. Yet 50 years later as we are preparing new moon missions I find myself captivated by the early moon missions and the feats we overcame to get there.
@bradwooldidge6979 Жыл бұрын
@@greasee.monkey7224 Look at the bright side. Maybe you’re young enough to see a Mars landing!
@greasee.monkey7224 Жыл бұрын
@@bradwooldidge6979 I'm hoping so.
@jimgriffiths90713 жыл бұрын
The " All Joe" control room was KZbin gold! Loved it!
@LocaLGh0sT3 жыл бұрын
My favourite is one that fainted.
@tbouchard27893 жыл бұрын
Mad respect for the extra effort here Joe, you make it easy for me to hook my friends to your channel🥼🧲🥼
@davemcbeardface89763 жыл бұрын
Fun fact that absolutely nobody asked for or cares about my wife’s step grandad help develop the steps that Neil walked down
@joshbreaksk8IN3 жыл бұрын
I'm just here to say I care
@susanfanning94803 жыл бұрын
That's extremely cool. I remember that time in the world very well. Everything about that event was ultra fascinating!
@White.Elemant3 жыл бұрын
Nice! The brother of my dad's friend was a chauffeur for Elvis. Almost related to a celebrity 🤣
@davemcbeardface89763 жыл бұрын
@@White.Elemant thats so cool
@yomommaahotoo2643 жыл бұрын
Too bad it wasn't on the moon.
@zacharyash43212 жыл бұрын
I have been watching these for about 4 hours now. Never gets old.
@pamelabrewer29553 жыл бұрын
I love your show. I love your sense of humor. This one was special to me. I grew up with a father who was big on the space program. He would wake us up at 3 or 4 in the morning so We watched everything when it happened. Watching this one today brought back so many childhood memory's. Thank you so much.
@StoicThrower Жыл бұрын
Mine too! I even remember them taking us out of class at school to watch in the auditorium.
@666Blaine3 жыл бұрын
Modern Computer - "I can do anything the AGC can do at a million times the speed." AGC - "I can crash, reboot and pick up where I left off in half a second." Modern Computer - "..... F*ck you."
@SuperVstech3 жыл бұрын
Amen!
@tma20013 жыл бұрын
aye and Joe forgot to mention that NASA had one of the largest mainframe installations outside the IRS at the time.
@TheReaverOfDarkness3 жыл бұрын
Modern computers can do that too, it's just Windows operating system that can't. Ubuntu does it just fine.
@musaran23 жыл бұрын
@@TheReaverOfDarkness Still, fast & lean OS is the exception. The sad norm is to quickly become bloated, slow and unreliable.
@Theineluctable_SOME_CANT3 жыл бұрын
Programmers ain't what they used to was...
@caidyc3 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite out of many great Ask Joes! The beginning was fantastic! Learning stuff with Joe…
@john_michael_white3 жыл бұрын
I'm from Nottinghamshire in the UK, and we also would absolutely contract to near nothing the "a" in "for a man". And most other things if we can. "I am going for a pint at the pub" becomes "Am guwin furra pint't pub". Given many of the Pilgrim Fathers are from this way I so love the idea, however remote, that perhaps the Ohio way of speaking originated in part from here, and that the most famous sentence uttered by any human ever had a little bit of Robin Hood in it.
@joescott3 жыл бұрын
Love it!
@shanonshoffstall2473 жыл бұрын
I'm from Wapakoneta - or Wapak as we say. I agree that we do talk that way. I would say that ancestry wise it would be 60% German, 30% English, and 10% other.
@ikitclaw71463 жыл бұрын
from up north here and, we goin fot pint at pub, i think fot fits the sound we make to replace "for a" so we totally for go using an a
@simian_essence3 жыл бұрын
@@joescott Confirmation bias. Obviously.
@dongately28173 жыл бұрын
There's more than one distinctive Ohio accent - north of Akron Ohio accents sound almost like a New Jersey accent - south of Akron you might as well be speaking to someone from Alabama.
@ChrisBrengel3 жыл бұрын
I have been saying for decades: "we had no business going to the moon in the 1960s" so I was surprised to hear you use those exact words! It was truly amazing that NASA and the US were able to pull it off. This is one of my life lessons: When human beings get their act together they can do incredible things.
@MarylandFarmer.3 жыл бұрын
It always amazes me that we successfully got to the moon with 1960s technology when I think of the other things we we're building at the same time and how far we come from then. What I find even more amazing is that no one got left stranded on any of the missions. They really did have a great understanding but even more so a determination to make it happen.
@fpost46293 жыл бұрын
They did not go
@tma20013 жыл бұрын
@@fpost4629 that's good to know - have you told all the world's geochemists who have been wasting the past 50 years working on the 1/3 tonne of lunar samples yet! (btw the Soviets only returned 300g - hmm I wonder why ...).
@fpost46293 жыл бұрын
@@tma2001 you just keep on telling yourself what you have bin told.
@tma20013 жыл бұрын
@@fpost4629 whatever flat earther - have you come out to your family and work colleagues yet (I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that :)
@BrandanTheBroker3 жыл бұрын
Can't wait until we start reusing some of those names, we're overdue a Snoopy and Casper capsule
@odin52553 жыл бұрын
I'm always just sitting here, waiting for a new Joe Scott video on Mondays. Thanks, your content is awesome! :)
@garrettwilson76533 жыл бұрын
Im right there with you, if i get on youtube and there isnt a new video i get sad and start watching some of his older videos lol
@4077Disc3 жыл бұрын
Have you tried Nebula?
@fookyu16213 жыл бұрын
What a sad and pathetic life you lead... get a job.
@odin52553 жыл бұрын
@@fookyu1621 What a pathetic thing to say. I work my ass off every day :) Thank you.
@TheDoomWizard3 жыл бұрын
You might like my weekly news update on Mondays too :)
@timcarter11643 жыл бұрын
Joe, the intro was hilarious. And probably not that far off from reality. And the Mild Flex, beautifully done. I love your channel, quality information, delivered in an entertaining fashion. Nice job as always.
@hisoverlorduponhigh902 жыл бұрын
We had the courage to throw our hats over the proverbial fence. This is the type of courage that produces the next level of technology.
@Aramis73 жыл бұрын
The Apollo program is my absolute favourite era in human history and I say that as a non-american. The ingenuity, the risk-taking and the solutions they came up with given available technology is probably the highlight of human achievement. I strongly suggest to listen to the BBC's wonderful podcast series "13 minutes to the moon", which has interviews and incredible detail on the Apollo 11 mission, including a detail recount of the -you guessed it- last 13 minutes from separation to power descent to landing.
@tara57423 жыл бұрын
Finally, the Mild Flex! Congrats!!
@Stellar-Cowboy3 жыл бұрын
Yeah we get it, you’re a member. Just kidding, I’m just jealous
@SinisterAction3 жыл бұрын
HOW IS YOUR COMMENT 2 DAYS OLD??
@julian.castro183 жыл бұрын
@@SinisterAction wow wtf
@Stellar-Cowboy3 жыл бұрын
@@SinisterAction are you new to youtube?
@trulyinfamous3 жыл бұрын
The customs from is definitely one of my favorite little bits of memorbilia from the Apollo era.
@davidanderson_surrey_bc3 жыл бұрын
As I recall, the astronauts got around the lack of computing capability by bringing slide rules along (also known as slip-sticks). I learned to use one in my teens (late 60s, early 70s).
@burntpieceoftoast41482 жыл бұрын
Cool!
@icebuildsrobots2 жыл бұрын
"Whoops forgot my calipers. Guess I'll measure this hole to 0.001mm accuracy with a ruler." Chads.
@johndododoe1411 Жыл бұрын
Regular pilots also used slide rules to calculate their travels. There's a special slide rule that provides the most common pilot calculations with a few finger moves. Scott Manley used one where he took the written pilots test this year, just for fun. Of cause as an Apple employee he has access to way better.
@OpenCarryUSMC2 ай бұрын
I used a circular slide rule (Jepsen CR-3) and A SEXTANT for aircraft navigation training at Mather AFB Sacramento ca. IN THE 80’s!!!!!!
@charlesmurray32553 жыл бұрын
Joe is a natural comedian, has me crying laughing at his antics.
@Dinkylicious3 жыл бұрын
That part!! So true! He never fails to make me laugh or put a smile on my face ☺
@coweatsman3 жыл бұрын
Too bad Joe said "7 times" to the moon instead of the correct "6 times". Joe needs to check his facts.
@charlesmurray32553 жыл бұрын
@@coweatsman sometimes he gets things wrong to make sure people are paying attention. You passed.
@danielphillips32292 жыл бұрын
Really? The jokes are terrible
@charlesmurray32552 жыл бұрын
@@danielphillips3229 If you Google a site called KZbin, you can create your own channel, 'Questions with Dan' go knock yourself out, show Joe how it's done. Good luck.
@rederager3 жыл бұрын
I love your stuff. You have the intelligent comedy. It’s not easy. The rhythm is great. I don’t know if you edit your own stuff but if not, kudos to your editor.
@shannonparkhill55573 жыл бұрын
"three weeks? Amateurs!!" you got me with that one!!
@JJs_playground3 жыл бұрын
Lol.. I, actually, didn't understand that reference in Joe's video until i read your comment for some reason. Funny how the brain works.
@jamesshepherd26493 жыл бұрын
The excitement of being on the news i am do glad you guys left that in :)
@Original_Syn2 жыл бұрын
Wait so the Apollo 13 command module was named Odyssey? It’s a bit ironic that the mission that had something go wrong during it was partially named after the Greek story about a journey going completely wrong.
@davidhoward47152 жыл бұрын
Nice catch.
@hopsiepike Жыл бұрын
Be like baking the Parker Solar Probe Icharus.
@zyxw20006 ай бұрын
Odysseus got home eventually.
@hakonberg80033 ай бұрын
Gone wrong?? He sure had his adventures en route and he took his time, but he made it home to Ithaka!
@Original_Syn3 ай бұрын
@@hakonberg8003 Yes gone wrong. The entire story of the Odyssey was about Odysseus’ journey home and how Poseidon actively made sure that didn’t happen for 10 years by causing things to constantly go wrong in retaliation for blinding the cyclops Polyphemus (which was his son). Also are you getting Apollo 13 mixed up with a different mission because the 13’s crew made it home safely as well.
@donaldparlettjr32953 жыл бұрын
Another thing that wasn't brought up. During Gemini Buzz was the genius that brought in scuba diving to replicate weightlessness so NASA built that huge pool that they use to this day to practice EVAs. Also Buzz was a mathematician whiz on rendezvous. We've met several times over the years and he is a cool guy.
@QDWhite3 жыл бұрын
AKA Dr. Rendez-vous
@johngreener97843 жыл бұрын
Actually, I totally agree with your assessment! I am 59 so I was ALL into the space program as a kid! Now that I have 50 years under my belt (and under my grey hair, what's left of it) I have looked back and actually think " HOW THE F**K DID WE DO THAT BACK THEN????"
@dewiz95963 жыл бұрын
Luv that intro! It was the “computer issues” that originally piqued my interest in computers. It took a long roundabout way, but by 1992 I was running my own computer programming and data processing business. Retired in 2010. . . The “a man” issue was written about in Analog Magazine shortly after the landing. . .
@cpuuk3 жыл бұрын
I never had a problem with Armstrong's quote because I always assumed he said the "a", so it made perfect sense to me, could never understand why it confused others.
@sgtearache53033 жыл бұрын
yeah even without the "a" I never had an issue grokking the meaning of the statement...
@joey5513 жыл бұрын
We knew what he meant, it wasn't an issue.
@tonyhawk1233 жыл бұрын
Those saying he meant to say it, well, i can hear him attempt to say it. At times it feels like people are listening to different audio versions. It's right there!
@larryscott39823 жыл бұрын
Absent the a is marvelously poetic.
@rcknbob13 жыл бұрын
Then there's Arthur C. Clarke's quote of an "exasperated" Neil Armstrong: "That was what I meant to say, and that's what I thought I did say."
@kerrybaldino88263 жыл бұрын
That was my favorite Joe intro yet! Great video too
@davedavenport81762 жыл бұрын
Yet another fun fact: When joe refers to the device in your “pocket” has way more computing power then the systems on the Apollo. Likely it was in your hand or a holder as you were currently watching this informational video. Another is it’s not fair that Joe’s sponsor “Brilliant” is as intriguing as Joe himself is. Likely if you watch many of his videos it’s because you are simply interested in learning. And last is the sparkling ✨ of the gold plaque on the filing cabinet 😁 Love your Chanel Joe can’t wait for the Next
@dabberd62033 жыл бұрын
Great video Joe. The part about the size of the LM was really interesting. It makes you wonder about the crew of Apollo 13 who had to live in the LM for days while returning to Earth .
@johndododoe1411 Жыл бұрын
They all did, Apollo 13 just had to return early.
@justsomenobody8893 жыл бұрын
Regarding that whole “mankind” quote discussion... it kinda blows me away that THAT many people were willing to put in THAT much effort over something so UNBELIEVABLY trivial
@aaronbono46883 жыл бұрын
@@FluxApex why would you want to get it "right"? We understand what he meant and that's what's important.
@ThrottleKitty3 жыл бұрын
It's one of the most famous quotes in human history, if the quote is actually different that's actually pretty significant. It's like figuring out Shakespeare's first name was actually Wilfred and not William.
@aaronbono46883 жыл бұрын
@@ThrottleKitty I disagree. I think it's more important that we understand the meaning of it than every little word. Anyway when I listen to it there is no way there is an "a" in there. Even accounting for accents all you have to do is listen to the rhythm of his speech and you can tell he did not insert another word in there. But again this is semantics and it's really unimportant. You're getting fixated on it because it's some pivotal point in history but the meaning is what's important.
@odysseus58723 жыл бұрын
I've heard it a hundred times in every way possible and there is no "a". And it doesn't matter.
@ThrottleKitty3 жыл бұрын
@@aaronbono4688 wtf are you talking about remembering the meaning of something but forgetting what actually happened? That's revisionism, an objectively terrible thing.
@jeremydecker45473 жыл бұрын
No, I don't think that we were "ready" but mostly as prepared as we could be for something so monumental as the moon shot. The fact that we were technologically in our infancy when it came to space, and still put men on our only satellite planet, it is a testament to human resolve to touch the unknown, ready or not. Love your content and your humor! Keep up the great work!
@Dinkylicious3 жыл бұрын
I can't put in words how happy your videos make me! You are so great!!! Much love! 💓
@sam1812seal3 жыл бұрын
“Hydrogenated” the second way you pronounced it is correct. It’s also the name of the process by which food companies manufacture trans-fats, by hydrogenating liquid unsaturated fats.
@TheReaverOfDarkness3 жыл бұрын
I refuse to accept that. Just because it's popular doesn't make it right. The first way he pronounced it is consistent with the word "hydrogen".
@QDWhite3 жыл бұрын
Hyd-RAH-genated is specifically the chemical reaction of saturating C=C bonds with hydrogen to convert them to C-C bonds. The name for simply dissolving hydrogen in water is up for grabs and could be HYD-row-genated if we want.
@Strongbadathlon Жыл бұрын
One of the more common products using hydrogenated oil is peanut butter.
@ethanjames0993Ай бұрын
the misinterpreted armstrong quote has always made sense to me. as in it’s only a small step he himself has taken, but the ramifications of the event is a giant step for mankind
@texasbuzzard49703 жыл бұрын
Maybe we weren’t ready to go to the moon from a computer processing standpoint but damn the preparation nasa put those astronauts through was insane. I really doubt any other humans in history had so much training for one mission.... and the amount of money spent on the training 🤯
@GigaBrand3 жыл бұрын
And here we are 20B deep in SLS lol
@jb764893 жыл бұрын
@@GigaBrand so less than half the Saturn v?
@GigaBrand3 жыл бұрын
@@jb76489 And If we got even half the value of the Saturn program I'd call that a win.
@nate7885618062 жыл бұрын
You guys fell for that? We never went to the moon. Lol.
@JamesF07902 жыл бұрын
@@nate788561806 Come on man, get some new material. That joke is old.
@derivious20123 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, the lunar software was hardware, actually knitted too
@Incandescentiron2 жыл бұрын
This is the first time I had seen the 1/6 gravity training at Langley. That was very cool and super clever.
@RamiK1013 жыл бұрын
Imagine if Buzz had tore his pants on the moon as he bent over.. Headlines: Moon, mooned from the Moon.
@stevelowe26473 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't he have died?
@RamiK1013 жыл бұрын
@@stevelowe2647 Of course! Just a silly joke... I knew someone would get technical lol
@eddieanarchy3 жыл бұрын
haha, i like Moon Moons Moon !
@sarge4203 жыл бұрын
Wasn’t the temp on the moon 250degF daytime and -250deg at night?
@vishaljoshi77963 жыл бұрын
This might be one of the best episodes. Great work Joe! I am glad I got to see it.
@davesvoboda27852 жыл бұрын
To anyone who doubts we could go to the moon with such limited computers, first of all, the mainframes that were used to calculate everything that took big processing ahead of time, those weren't so limited. Second, asking that is like asking how you could possibly cook dinner without your computerized Instant Pot? That is to say, we existed and flew with NO computer processing power before Apollo, including the X15 and B52, and even the Concorde. We fought and won WW2 with no processing power in the hands of most warfighters, though of course Turing's Bombs were sort of exceptions. The original atom bomb had no processing power.
@Zach-ku6eu3 жыл бұрын
By far, this is your best intro ever!
@cannibalbananas3 жыл бұрын
I dunno, I've always understood the difference of man vs mankind as "1 man vs all of the species". Also, love your videos, Joe, and all the knowledge you pass along. 👍
@pjduker052 жыл бұрын
I'm a man who grew up, like Armstrong, in the Midwest. I can confirm that we commonly slide the word "a" into other words very quickly. "Can I get a-Coke?" Pronounced "can I get-uh-coke". The 3 words "get", "a", and "Coke" are blended together in one quick phrase. As someone who values language and accents, my natural Midwest accent drives me insane. Don't even get me started on my father saying "melk" instead of "milk". 😅
@rickkwitkoski19762 жыл бұрын
But it is NOT just where you grew up. It is also the language training that you had as a kid. How diligent are some parents in teaching their kids to actually speak properly? I have 10 siblings. I am second from the top. I got a GOOD education and learned good diction from my mother and from other people. My youngest sister (a twin) is second from the bottom along with her twin. THESE two did not get the attention from our mother that we-who-at-the-top did. My sister says "melk". When she was 9 or 10 or so, she was helping mom make supper for us. Beef patties were on the menu that day. She said, "Ham Buggers". I got after her for that but she was so used to saying hambuggers that she just could not say hamburgers. And Mom... yeah, she acknowledged that she had not spent as much time with her younger ones. When I speak with my sister today, I wonder which hillbilly commune she was brought up in.
@pjduker052 жыл бұрын
@@rickkwitkoski1976 you make excellent points my friend. Well said.
@thomascraig35333 жыл бұрын
Joe the quarantine joke was the best so far. Love your videos keep up the good work
@bidlisiwtv3 жыл бұрын
I almost choked on my drink with that one.
@TheReaverOfDarkness3 жыл бұрын
3:50 "One of these things is not like the others" My immediate response: sippy cups!
@simfromzim3 ай бұрын
Dude, you have the best range. I get so much value from you
@Raygo.3 жыл бұрын
Kennedy: ....we choose to go to the moon, and do the other things. History: Well... he did do quite a lot of "the other thing." 😏
@tonyhawk1233 жыл бұрын
We chose to go to the Moon… because the Russians are ahead in the space race and we need to reassert our world dominance. But i guess not quite so catchy.
@andie_pants3 жыл бұрын
US history summed up: _... and then the citizens publicly elected a President who grabbed 'em by the pussy._
@thomashiggins93203 жыл бұрын
@@andie_pants I'm pretty sure Kennedy never had to behave so crudely to get women, although I'm certain the money helped.
@andie_pants3 жыл бұрын
@@thomashiggins9320 The means differ, but the ends invariably remain the same.
@BaronVonQuiply3 жыл бұрын
As famous as that bit is, if you hear a few lines before that, he says what the other things are (climbing Mt Everest, Crossing the Atlantic by plane, and playing competitive sports).
@VaderBrasil3 жыл бұрын
Hi Joe, I'm from Brazil and would love to see more of your videos about the Apollo Program, especially about the missions after Apollo XIII, which many of us know very little about. Brazilian greetings.
@dannydetonator3 жыл бұрын
You'd better be patreoning Joe, to get your idea pushed into production. There is heaps of content on YT and other places internet, if you're bom enough en ingles to search.
@burntpieceoftoast41482 жыл бұрын
@@dannydetonator sure, but not everyone can afford that, darlin.
@scottokeefe Жыл бұрын
My father worked on all the Apollo missions. He was given a piece of the lunar lander that never made it to the moon of Apollo 13. It’s just a piece of liner. I now own it after my father’s passing.
@frankf10953 жыл бұрын
The opening sequence was spooky but really well done and really funny. Well done Joe!
@flexabigg13 жыл бұрын
You rock as always! Thanks for the laughs and informative video. Love your work.
@1happypiranha2 жыл бұрын
I’m newly subscribed so haven’t seen all your videos but I have a suggestion; the computer on the Apollo spacecrafts was primitive yet brilliantly programmed. If you haven’t done a video on that, and if that’s up your alley, could you do one on that?
@bfox64333 жыл бұрын
Deke Slayton, the guy that picked the crews, said that had Gus Grissom lived, he would have been chosen for the first Moon landing
@justinberdell75173 жыл бұрын
You're right. We weren't ready then... for permanent habitation. Think about this. Explorers went to the south pole in the early 20th century, but we didnt create a permanent installation until 50 years later. Its pretty normal to begin with just getting there no matter what just to do it, and then later, when technology is ready, going for good
@sassafrassiest3 жыл бұрын
Hey Joe! I’ve been a fan since 2018. I actually commented on one of your videos saying it was great distraction because I was so nervous about a job interview for my dream job. And you said good luck! I was so surprised that you took the time to reply, and it made my day. Well, I got the job. And I kicked butt at it for two years. And then, back in May, I interviewed for my NEXT dream job. I got that, too! And even though I’m working 70 hours a week right now, I’m so happy. And I still love your videos. Thanks for being an awesome way to nerd out in my spare time.
@erik3653653653 жыл бұрын
“One of these things is not like the others” love it!
@wrightmf3 жыл бұрын
I read Chris Kraft mentioned just after Kennedy's moon challenge, he thought "we don't even know how to communicate a distance of 250,000 miles." I was thinking RF guys had to come up with the technology of compact UHF and 2.1 GHz radios and the antennas from scratch. Think of all the all-nighters these guys endured. Years ago an engineer gave a presentation to local college IEEE club, when he graduated in 1961, instantly got a job with North American, they put him in with a "bunch of antenna/microwave guys" in a mobile home alongside the main buildings. Sleeping on the moon... Gene Cernan wrote it was difficult for him to sleep because "we're on the freakin' moon!" while Schmitt easily dozed off. The Apollo computer vs phone technology is a bad analogy. It completely missed the point. Apollo computer ran on vehicle that had a lot more horsepower than anything else. And most importantly Apollo program had an infrastructure of immense size (and organized by George Low, Bob Gilruth, and others with James Webb able to get the money). Unlike Korolev couldn't get funding from the Politburo so their moon program was weak. It's 2021 and we are still faced with "if we can put a man on the moon, how come we cannot put a man on the moon." Because the infrastructure is not as strong, political goals are out of sync. SpaceX may do it as it seems Musk understands the most difficult is the factory and launch pad, not the spacecraft itself.
@angiev88363 жыл бұрын
THE BEGINNING SKIT IS MY NEW FAVORITE THEY KEEP GETTING BETTER
@Attila_Beregi3 жыл бұрын
all of these are super interesting but the customs declaration one was hilarious :D
@vartikamandan42153 жыл бұрын
Really like this channel. It's very informative and live the way he explains all topics in very interesting way.👍👍👍
@BrianaCunningham Жыл бұрын
I've just discovered your channel and I am binging. Such great content!!!
@oscarwatkins46963 жыл бұрын
That beautiful opening sketch gave me a good chuckle!
@joesterling42993 жыл бұрын
I always heard "small step for *a* man." I'm from the same region of the country as Neil; so I guess that's why I was never confused.
@bboops233 жыл бұрын
That speech, despite being fake had me tearing up. It's scary to think that was a possibility. They had to be prepared and I can't imagine having to sit there waiting with both speeches hoping to read one but afraid you'd have to read the other.
@jcortese33003 жыл бұрын
I think the reason they could use so little processing power was just due to how rigidly choreographed it all was. Once they lifted off, there were no further what-ifs, really. You can make do with very little processing power once you've gotten rid of all the diamonds in the flow chart.
@danielpassigmailcom3 жыл бұрын
actually that's not true, the Apollo computers aboard the spacecraft were used for guidance and course correction all the way to the moon and back. (with help from the astronauts continuing to input data and measurements throughout the flight). Also it could and did communicate and control over 100 integrated devices in the spacecraft throughout the trip. Plus it could (and did) restart in the event of a computer crash in half a second WHILE STILL RUNNING.
@randyallison37573 жыл бұрын
When my wife and I were in DC in May of 2001, we went to the National Archives. That speech that the President was supposed to make if the astronauts cold not leave the Moon was one of the documents on display that day. It was very chilling to read.
@mmickle61913 жыл бұрын
No matter how you think about it, one of the best features of the Apollo program is just how bonkers it was! 😄
@mirador6983 жыл бұрын
The German translation of Neils sentence always had the „a“ (translated) in it.
@Horst_der_II3 жыл бұрын
As a German: I don´t know if it is because of this or just because of my hearing but I allways heard the "a" it´s subtle but it is there.
@marcopohl48753 жыл бұрын
and I could have sworn it's "one small step for me" because of the translation
@burntpieceoftoast41482 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love the stories in these comments!
@Scott_C3 жыл бұрын
After hearing about the tight interior of the LEM, the Starship should feel like a palace.
@JGott00013 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy seeing KZbinrs cite, shoutout, and collaborate with others. I know it probably helps the channel's own marketing or to appease the algorithm, but it's still cool to see a sense of community and commonality.
@epifunny1 Жыл бұрын
He says remembering that it was really the ‘competition’ of the USA-USSR space race that even brought up the idea of going to the moon in the first place.
@4thfrom79 ай бұрын
"Mom, look! I'm on the news!" - Lance Armstrong Excellent video, as usual!
@paulknight50183 жыл бұрын
This should have been sponsored by an underwear company!
@PrinceAlhorian3 жыл бұрын
I laughed too hard at this.
@mr.boomguy3 жыл бұрын
That would've been perfect!
@hsavietto3 жыл бұрын
I've became aware of this "for a man" versus "for man" thing much later in my life. I grew up in Brazil and first learned Neil's moon speech translated to Portuguese, which carries the meaning of "for a man", without ambiguity.
@ontheruntonowhere3 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to translate "for man" literally in Portuguese? According to Google, "for man" is "para o homen," vs "for a man", which is "para um homen." A small but definite difference in meaning. Which translation did you grow up with?
@hsavietto3 жыл бұрын
@@ontheruntonowhere The translations you got are correct and yes, they have the same meaning as in English. The translation I grew up with was "para um homem" ("for a man"), maybe because it was the option that made most sense, so it was the one chosen by the first translators and the version stuck. Maybe I wasn't very clear, this ambiguity is possible in Portuguese, but the translation I grew up with has no ambiguity at all, and that's what I meant.
@finecutpost3 жыл бұрын
What a fun and very informative script thank you.
@DeputyNordburg Жыл бұрын
Fantastic video. But... Please keep in mind the computer in the Apollo spacecraft was not the computer calculating their path to the moon. Apollo calculations were done on the ground in the "real time Flight Center" a building full of massive IBM computers, and next door to Mission Control.
@jjfarnsdad3 жыл бұрын
Great video and very informative. If you are interested in the history of the space program in any way then you will definitely like this video.
@icebuildsrobots2 жыл бұрын
Maker here. TO BE FAIR all the Apollo computer had to do was simple PID based thruster control and also some basic math so it only would have needed to have the processing power of an Atmel microcontroller. It didn't have to be powerful. It just had to work.
@Otis-Spunks3 жыл бұрын
Saying "we weren't ready" is on the same level of saying any explorer ever was not "ready" for their voyages either. You should instead say that they were not ready according to your own 21st century standards.
@donrobertson49403 жыл бұрын
Exactly. Columbus wasn't ready to sail to Asia. But if he hadn't gone, he wouldn't have not found America.
@lizc63933 жыл бұрын
I love Joe so fucking much. We're so extremely similar in regards to interests, yet so divergent in outlooks and ethos. For how long he's been with us, and how consistent his content is, I'll never be sure how he doesn't have 5 million + subs.
@artdonovandesign3 жыл бұрын
I, too, could never understand it. From Joe's content, editing, creativity, narration and great humor, he should be #1 on YT.
@lizc63933 жыл бұрын
@@artdonovandesign I would certainly think he'd at least be up there with SciShow or Asap Science, etc...
@fm95723 жыл бұрын
Joe, I was born and grew up with the space race. I got my first desktop computer in 1978, one year after the launch of the Voyager probes. It was a TRS-80 'Model-I' with 4 KILOBYTES of RAM, and no internal hard storage. It had a modified connector to an old school tape recorder, it used for program storage. I learned BASIC on it, and "c" on the Apple II-e (a whopping 128 kilobytes of RAM, and a 5 1/4" *Dual* Floppy Drive) at middle school. Those who trash talk Windows have never used early DOS, where everything was done by command prompt. "Good old days" my pimpled right buttcheeck. The early Apollo missions may as well have been using sextants and analog paper calculators for guidance. *CoffApolloElevenCoff*
@johndododoe1411 Жыл бұрын
Apollo spacecraft did use sextants to fine tune the navigation. The sextant was connected to the computer and the Astronaut had to push a button when the two lenses pointed to the two landmarks highlighted on their paper map. Some of those landmarks were stars, some were big things on Earth.
@superfluous97263 жыл бұрын
*Neil Armstrong walking on the moon* : "Just like the simulations."
@TheReaverOfDarkness3 жыл бұрын
It was nothing like the simulations; he couldn't stop gushing about all the things they didn't expect!
@MrT------57432 жыл бұрын
@@TheReaverOfDarkness I would never use the term 'gushing' about anything Neil did or said. Even after he crashed of the LLRV he went back to work.
@TheReaverOfDarkness2 жыл бұрын
@@MrT------5743 Yeah, because he loved his job! He gushed about it all the time when not at work!
@MrT------57432 жыл бұрын
@@TheReaverOfDarkness tell me you know nothing about Neil without saying it. Nothing about Neil's personality would ever be described as gushing.
@TheReaverOfDarkness2 жыл бұрын
@@MrT------5743 Then you don't know me. I don't go by such coarse external signals, but what the person is clearly feeling inside. I didn't say he was a valley girl, I said he was proud of his work.
@MortyMortyMorty3 жыл бұрын
Guys check out the series called "For All Mankind". I've just seen it and damn it was so good!
@luke-alex3 жыл бұрын
I agree. I've just seen it and am sad I'll have to wait a year for the next season! It was created by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica).
@emlix12 жыл бұрын
I loved the intro with all the Joes.
@mikeluque65273 жыл бұрын
Oh man. I literally laughed when you brought up the customs form.