The Economics of a 10 Mile Long Star Destroyer

In Star Wars you can easily build ships that are as large as cities, today we take a look at economics behind such constructions.
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[@LiveFreeOrDieDH]

"The ship is too big. If I walk, the movie will be over."

[@isaackim7675]

“Prepare ship, for ludicrous speed!”

[@thijsjong]

Imperiaal star destroyers can: Transport troops, dropships and heavy ground vehicles. Do planetairy bombardments. Carry fighters and bombers. Can service smaller ships like frigates and corvettes. Can combat other capitol ships. These huge 10 mile ships all have "thermal exhaust ports" that make it possible that one fighter can knock them out. While imperial star destroyers can do everything the empire needs. These uber huge ships is like putting all your eggs in one basket. These are just put in the film to make Poe look heroic. Morronic ship design.

[@RNemy509]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5? That's the combination I have on my luggage!

[@electricheisenberg5723]

⁠@@thijsjongthe exhaust port was the Death Star, no? I thought rebel tactics were to hit the shields generators and hangers with bombers and then just thrash the thing

[@matthewjay660]

Is that "Space Balls?"

[@dogloversrule8476]

3:28 KDY is kind of like Samsung in South Korea

[@Aaron-fb6mb]

Duuude so true

[@mubashirshaikh]

Facts

[@giin97]

Exactly what I thought of and searched the comments to find 😁

[@willadeefriesland5107]

This was the best Re-Birthday present ever!! Thank you!

[@GlidingZephyr]

I'll take twelve Executor-class Super Star Destroyers and 16,313,457,321,002.98 (GC) in debt, please.

[@hydrakn]

dolphin galaxy scalability analysis when?

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

Toward the end, I forgot I was watching a Star Wars video. This is really why I like Generation Tech.

[@reaperraps3628]

Dead ass I almost forgot to

[@lpg12338]

😎👍

[@darkwinter7395]

He's surprisingly insightful, isn't he?

[@foxglow6798]

He’s able to bring life lessons up in a way that really hits home with me. I’m not sure why.

[@SolarpunkMonk]

I’m enjoying these types of videos, starting with a Star Wars concept but then using real life examples and how we could eventually develop in that direction.

[@dangerbeans9639]

Revan and Malak didn't need to conquer the Galaxy. With the Star Forge, they could have conquered the Galaxy economically.

[@sulljoh1]

True

[@ADHSV113]

What is interesting is that I have found we could make a seed station based on a similar concept with nuclear fusion, magnetic harvester beams, and plasma printing instead of the force and we could do something similar eventually. The subsequent question becomes: what do we with all that power?

[@kaykaykay5572]

@@ADHSV113 Mass produce everything from canned food to 5 km space warships

[@alicorn3924]

​@@ADHSV113 obviously, we conquer the galaxy

[@jamesricker3997]

Palpatine had a Star Forge at Exagol along with a cloning facility.

[@Aokitadamitsu]

Kuat-KDY is the answer. The Ring was able to service thousands of ISD-2 sized ships, while at the same time manufacture thousands of ISD-2 and a few dreadnaughts all at the same time. The vertical integration of supply and logistics is a great point.. Also the cost to produce technology in the starwars galaxy has been revolutionized with AI controlled nano assembly

[@Aokitadamitsu]

The method your talking about is called "superblocks" its how they built the USS Ford.. enabled with the use of 3d virtual design software to keep the wiring and piping running correctly.

[@hermes7587]

If there is a company that holds a virtual monopoly on a strategic asset, it has no incentive to SELL it´s products at a bargain price, even if it can make them very efficiently. They would take the highest price they could extract from the state without endangering the orders. The price given for an ISD compared to other goods appears completely unrealistic, considering the raw amount of ressources that would be necessary to make such huge object.

[@Yautah]

So AI is allowed for construction, just not for warfare?

[@phantomwraith1984]

KDY is the Lockheed Martin of Star Wars

[@jackfenwick6182]

I'm seeing "rings" and "able to service" and I'm trying really hard not to be immature here 😂😂 great comment though I'm just a 30 year old child

[@nathanieljackson5554]

It's no wonder that there are multiple planets in the Star Wars Universe who's industry is starship salvage. There must be hundreds of thousands of pkanets that were just stripped to the core for resources like Illum. It could actually explain some of the inhabited desert worlds that are in universe.

[@mrsweetpotato4354]

I think asteroid fields would be a better source of resources, I would imagine a fleet of drones feeding thousands of drones, some collecting resources, others refining those materials and some actually building the ship,

[@andrewhcit]

All this makes sense for the Empire, but it doesn't make sense at all for the sequel trilogy. The First Order, despite lacking the Empire's population and industrial base, makes the bizarre decision to build even larger capital ships. And then the Sith build an entire fleet of scaled-up Star Destroyers on a planetary surface rather than in orbit. Of course, nothing else about the First Order makes sense either, so...

[@SpottedHares]

Palpatine not the first order made the decision to build all those star destroyers and store them underwater. And i case you didn't notice the man was completely crazy and let the rating and ravings of mad men from 1000+ years ago direct his current actions.

[@chaost4544]

@@SpottedHares in my head canon this justifies the bad stuff we see in the sequel trilogy. Palpatine being crazy and snorting lines of coke when deciding to build that many ships make sense.

[@hermes7587]

Even if it would be possible to build that many ships and hide them on a planet - where do you "store" the necessary crews to operate these ships?

[@silentpoet75]

Because awful writing is why.

[@giin97]

​@@hermes7587carbonite :p

[@ricks5756]

8:41 in real life, a lot of auto shops will fix uni-body vehicles by cutting out the bad section, and replacing it with a good section from a junked car. The process is relatively simple for an experienced autobody tech - just takes a lot of time to do properly.

[@LiveFreeOrDieDH]

They do it with ships too. In 1956 the USS Wisconsin collided with another ship and the bow was severely damaged. The Navy took the hull of her sister ship Kentucky, which was never completed, and cut off her bow to weld onto the Wisconsin. To this day, the Wisconsin with the bow of Kentucky grafted on is affectionately nicknamed the WisKy.

[@michaelstreeter3125]

@@LiveFreeOrDieDH Scary! A 887 feet long cut-and-shut! 😱

[@anthonymonge7815]

@@LiveFreeOrDieDHthey just did that with a submarine years ago. Also they do it with cruisers.

[@LexingtonRoseG]

I've always thought the Siege Dreadnought looked like a slice of pizza, please tell me I'm not the only one

[@OrionInSpace]

Every single star destroyer variant that’s ever been built looks like a piece of pizza if we are being honest😂

[@ijn4438]

It's supposed to be a Mandator-class SSD, but when you compare it to the rest of the line it looks really weird.

[@Sgt_Chevron]

You are not alone. It's bridge makes it look like a stuffed crust slice of pizza.

[@scottchadwick1247]

All star destroyers look like pizza slices.

[@JoyZofSoRRoW]

Same...

[@jackmcgowan3764]

What about the enconomics INSIDE one of these city sized ships there has to be some kind of lore on what the troops did inside these ships over long periods of time

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

Just eat, train, sleep, train, and train, like all militaries do.

[@ghowell13]

What a great question. Hope Allan sees this, and does a dive on it!

[@narvalin5905]

I was thinking the same thing. You see the economies in B5 and DS9, which are static; but you never see the economies on mobile, city-sized ships like dreadnaughts.

[@Vistico93]

Some guy with a food cart in a main corridor selling hotdogs to Stormtroopers putting his kids through college

[@Reepicheep-1]

That hot tub in the Death Star wasn't free. Troopers paid admission fees.

[@nonyabisness6306]

star wars economies are crazy large. ssd's i buy, same for death stars. what i don't buy is the remnant making them, or some cultists making super ultra fleets in secret. that's crazy talk.

[@wanderhillen2435]

You underestimate the power of the dark side of the force. But yea it is pretty wild.

[@bennettbush3906]

I think those star destroyers were from imperial remnants or something, still way too many.

[@nonyabisness6306]

@@bennettbush3906 it would've made some sense if they had been actual imperial 1 class SD's. But they specifically said no, those are actually new ships that looks like ISD1's but are way bigger AND built on site at exogul. made no sense.

[@mjk9388]

To add to Alan's comment @ 14:00 - The same technology we need to alleviate poverty here on Earth is the same technology we'll need for space colonization. Picture this - 3D Printed Homes revolutionize shelter, driving down costs and labor, not just for those on other planets, but for those here on earth. Water reclamation systems designed for distant planets find purpose in alleviating water scarcity here on Earth. Virtual Education, a necessity in the cosmos, becomes a powerful equalizer, providing learning opportunities across our own globe. From 3D printed tools to the very essence of our self-sufficiency, the same technology propelling us to new frontiers also doubles as the key to a brighter, more sustainable future for all here on Earth.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

And a lot of unemployment. Check out The Expanse’s version of Earth.

[@MrZnarffy]

And driving down the cost of energy, by using nuclear instead of expensive renewables.. We got thorium enough for a thousand years for everyone on the world living like an upper middle class US citizen. It is actually better mathematically to use nuclear to produce synthetic fuel for cars from atmospheric CO2 and water, than use the same electrical energy in Li-Ion batteries in those same cars... And the benefits of LFTRs is, they can use current nuclear waste for fuel, and only produce shortlived waste. With low energy cost, it becomes cheaper to handle waste, and to eliminate powerty. Poverty is tightly linked to low EROEI, which comes with renewables. And while I don't believe in 3D printed homes, I believe in robots replacing humans working.. driving down costs....

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

@@MrZnarffy Exactly. If both sides were smart they would be pushing for more research money into advance nuclear systems (like fusion and LFTR. AOC really should have made proposing both a key part of the Green New Deal, along with a more robust, intelligent, energy distribution grid).

[@BugRib]

A ring around a roughly Earth-sized planet that looked as big as the images in this video would have to be, like, _billions_ of times more massive than the Death Star! Millions of times at the very least! (Somebody do the math, please!)

[@Hello-bi1pm]

The planet is exactly 10,000km in diameter, which seems improbable unless it was engineered by Celestials and Rakata

[@entilzha1283]

Careful... Boeing might send dolphins over.

[@LuketheDuke424]

As a Boeing mechanic, I can neither confirm nor deny

[@laserbeam1620]

They're already there.

[@casbot71]

Building with a combination of robots and slaves. _"Write that down!"_ - various CEOs that are household names.

[@matthewgibbs6886]

you dont need slaves if you have robots

[@hermes7587]

@@matthewgibbs6886 Even slave labour isn´t "free" - slaves still need food, housing, equipment and health care. And the problem is that you don´t want critical components made by people who hate you...

[@giin97]

​​@@matthewgibbs6886in the example clip where he said slaves, pretty sure those were prisoners. While the distinction there may be a matter of justification, using prisoners for free labor has long been a normal activity, one not considered to be slavery in our modern world, unless the imprisonment is for the purpose of creating prisoner laborers, something certain nations are known for even today. Good times.

[@AstridPansy-c8c]

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

[@johannesbowers7467]

Here are some anecdotes about scale: Everybody by now is familliar with the notion that the Executor class could park on top of Manhattan Island, And you would still have to walk a few blocks in any direction to get to a waterfront.... But that also means it could land completely within the perimeter fence of O'Hare airport in Chicago. The death star could sit on top of Long Island and there would be land sticking out on both sides. The DS2 could sit In the waters of the lower end of Lake Michigan like a testicle in a scrotum, if the water was deep enough (it is not) Without touching either shore.

[@Daneki]

but....... where else would my testicles be

[@jiffypoo5029]

Nuclear propulsion becomes very efficient and cost effective if we can build ships in space. Chemical rockets would only be for the taxi that gets you to the shipyard / spacedock in orbit.

[@GoatGuitars6]

Average KSP player

[@jiffypoo5029]

@@GoatGuitars6 wtf is ksp?

[@anonymousanonymous2649]

Perhaps Kerbal Space Program? Idk. (It’s a video game about building spaceships. I think.)

[@Leonidas1210vc]

It is Kerbal Space program​@@anonymousanonymous2649

[@hermes7587]

There are currently no nuclear reactors that would work on a space ship and that would supply significant amounts of thrust. First you still need a huge mass as shielding against the radiation from the reactor. Secound it is difficult to get rid of the waste heat of a nucklear reactor in the vacuum of space. Third you still need some kind of reacation mass to get ship in space moving.

[@DramoolVecone]

One should not cling onto what's old, but do not blindly accept the new either. We are nostalgic for old things but old things are not automatically better. But on the other hand, not every new idea is a good one.

[@narvalin5905]

The challenge to embracing new technology is knowing which new technology to embrace. Those who bet on HD Laser disks, lost to those who bet on Blue Ray. Those who bet on 8-track, lost to those who bet on cassettes. In both cases, the technology of the loser was actually better than that of the winner. Embracing technology means doing the socio-economic research as well as the technological research.

[@Vistico93]

I just want to be able to enjoy what we have for a while/max it out before it gets replaced but then again, he who stands still in an ever-changing world will soon be overtaken by it

[@kerbalairforce8802]

"Once we start the first orbital shipyard..." The ISS was originally the Freedom Station, the design was twice as big, and its primarily goal was to build interplanetary craft. The inclined orbit to include the Russians neutered the whole project.

[@El_Negro2003]

I’ve been thinking, what would happen to everything involving space if JFK didn’t get assassinated? I would like to think there would be an alliance between the US and Russia and both countries would’ve started building a big station much earlier, which might mean tech would be more advanced and things like a space elevator would be possible as early as the 2030’s. Just speculation

[@AlvaDobbin-p5k]

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

[@jenniferstewarts4851]

I can very easily see parts of these ships being, effectively... 3d printed. you could easily lay down a keel or spine of a ship in space just by "extruding it" on the spot. and this would allow you to go anywhere from 100m to 50,000m just by alterting the thickness of the extruder and push/pulling out any length you want. cutting it off at the end, cooling it, then 3d printing the base skeliton of the ship.

[@wynterca]

An in-depth analysis of star ship manufacturing, followed by a thoughtful introspect into how that applies to the real world. Truly, the greatest channel the galaxy has ever seen.

[@chaost4544]

This is video was amazing. I did not expect a levelheaded viewpoint on modern technology when the topic was Galactic Empire shipbuilding. This channel is one of the best Star Wars centric channels out there in the youtube universe.

[@Digital_Dan_Analog_Man]

7:31 in the background: secret cat attack.

[@schadowsshade7870]

Holy shit you have good eyes

[@bytehead904]

It caught the corner of my eye, and I had to rewatch that part three times to know what the hell was going on.

[@TheJediCaptain]

Rothana Heavy Engineering is basically Kuay Drive Yards' Skunkworks.

[@camdenacree4722]

And this is how I found out Boeing and Airbus bought out Bombardier and Embraer

[@vmpgsc]

Boeing bailed on buying Embraer and is now paying them $150 million for the walk-away.

[@otminealnamer1385]

The thing about AI and art is more down to the fact of redefining what art's purpose even is. To say AI will replace art is to reduce art to little more than a utility or service, as opposed to a very uniquely human means of expression of ideas, emotions, beliefs, etc... In visual art, there's a lot subjective and unique-to-the-individual experience that goes behind every stroke of the brush and 'why' they chose to make something the way they did. Machines are completely devoid of this as they do not 'experience.' I do think it's kind of a good thing as it serves to set art back on its course as a uniquely human form of creative labors of love, as opposed to the direction it's taken over the past 30 years as just churning out concepts and commissions someone pays you to as opposed to something you actually want to make. The problem is that it will make art itself no longer dependable for income, meaning artists will have less time to dedicate to the craft as they're forced to work somewhere else: just one more step in dehumanizing the world into slave/consumer cattle. I think the AI thing is just poorly timed economically, and probably would've been more graciously welcomed in a world where the common person does not have to worry about financial needs: that way people like artists would still create out of love, rather being worried about not being able to do art at all since their new job takes time away from it. In today's economic state, something that threatens to push more people away from being able to do what they love as a career, when it's so difficult to land such a career in the first place, is not going to be well received no matter what it promises; it's putting the cart before the horse, giving a right answer, but asking the wrong question. That's why people get so fervently upset over it.

[@LibraMiku271]

Agreed

[@HirmanDulles]

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

[@jimtalbott9535]

14:45 - Looking at the current state of AI art, content creation is a very safe bet for providing a good living. Unless you want surrealist/brutalist art where everyone has extra fingers.

[@RMSTitanicWSL]

Oil tankers have held the top ten spots for largest ships ever made for 40 years now. In fact, they probably hold the top 100 spots for the largest ships ever made at this point.

[@Comicsluvr]

Regarding your point on Modularity: In WWII the US made hundreds of transports called Victory Ships. The fastest build time on record was five days from laying the keel to launching. Five days to build a ship in the 1940s. They were using gas welders and rivet guns back then. The secret was modularity. They built the ship in sections in different parts of the port and then staged them near the drydock. Imagine doing this for a whole planet-wide shipyard.

[@davidcolmer5448]

that's obviously not 5 days to build the ship... just to assemble all the pieces that have already been prebuilt.

[@giin97]

​@@davidcolmer5448that's just being pedantic. Yes, final assembly in drydock is what they're referring to, using far more completed components than a typical build. It's still building a ship from start to finish using the provided components in 5 days.

[@mrsweetpotato4354]

Those ships were pretty low tech compared to ships of the line, most of those victory ships were used for escort services and were considered expendable

[@willadeefriesland5107]

I'm sitting here stunned. Alan, you're AWESOME! You took my little old question and made a video I'm going to watch again and again. I want to catch every nuance I missed...

[@bugmoonshine9879]

ah yes… more epic Doritos lore 🔺

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Our daughter calls them pizza.

[@TitusSmith-i6r]

Long live the Republic!!!!!

[@Simon-oq6ds]

I thought I was a fan of Star Wars till I watched this and read the comments. Talk about getting your geek ON! Maybe one of these days I’ll go down the rabbit hole fully and watch this full video all the way to the end…

[@cabby17]

5:57 The pronunciation for Bombardier is bom-bar-dee-ay and Embraer is em-bre-ehr

[@wyntrv4020]

Im waiting for you to mention "Cold Welding" the real reason manufacuring in space will be so easy. you are so right that they would be modular, and essentially squeezed together

[@KevinJohnny-n2k]

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

[@BeethovenIsGrumpyCat]

It's so fun seeing Generation Tech go into such a deep exegesis of Star Wars lore and then make parallels to our world, even with something as obscure as how star destroyers get built.

[@caspiansfriend]

Our planet has about 10 million dolphins? Oh, thank God! That must mean that they haven't given us their "thanks for all the fish" sign off yet. phew!

[@chaost4544]

The last half of this video turned into a TED Talk that everyone needs to listen to. I went into this video wanting to know more about The Empire's economics of ship building and it turned into a damn good analysis of our current time.

[@MisterRorschach90]

I really want to do a meet and greet with this dude while wearing a dolphin costume.

[@kaioken654]

The new clean look of anime like dragon ball super sucksass compared to the gritty look of the 90s... I'm not a fan of most digital animation

[@kamotrof]

“…Dark Side aligned Gungans…” Well done sir.

[@OllamhDrab]

Though on the AI thing, it's just not turning out to be a good thing already, ....wastes huge amounts of energy making it easier to generate BS and nonsense and just advantages liars over actual creators on all manner of levels. I think it'll be at best difficult to see that it doesn't just put another nail in the coffin of people believing in or being able to discern facts or even find them worthwhile to know. Certain forces are at war with information itself.

[@ashleyadrienmichaud757]

Poop

[@russellharrell2747]

Were the ship yards at Fondor run by KDY or were they run by a subsidiary or did they produce ISDs and SSDs under a licensing agreement?

[@ditzydoo4378]

hmmm, 10-mile-long Star Destroyer. we're going to need more bus stops and expanded routes across its frame.

[@SabrinaCarl-g2y]

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

[@AccidentalFriendlyFire]

About twenty years I've been seeing we need an orbital manufacturing presence, because of all the benefits you mentioned. You have a bigger platform. :-D Shout it from the rooftops.

[@nerdwatch1017]

Man I truly hope to see in the upcoming shows/movies the planet Kuat and it’s amazing shipyards. Maybe we can get a New Republic/Mandalorians vs Thrawns empire in the Thrawn movie

[@DerDrecksack87]

Every time i hear "Tesla is pioneering whatever", i instalty get sceptical & laugh😂

[@smartass0124]

Are any civilizations at earth level in the Star wars galaxy

[@MarinaCarey-j7c]

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a months study of books.

[@psow4062]

Regarding 15:55, as a 37 year old engineer for some years now I worry for the future. Technology on it's own is not good or evil - in the end people decide how they will use it. Technology really increases our power, both on an individual and societal levels. Now what worries me is that development of technology speeds up in a rapid pace, while our cultural, moral and political development lags behind (and this difference in all likelihood will continue to grow). Because of that we will likely see more abuses of more powerful technologies in the future. We are still largely controlled by the same basic impulses as our hunter gatherer homo sapiens ancestors from thousands of years ago, but instead of sticks and stones we have nuclear weapons. And soon we may have nanomachines and AGI.

[@SciGuy_1972]

Great video! Anyone tell you that you sound remarkably like Christian Slater? LOL! Seriously, the video started playing while I was looking at another screen and I was like, "Christian?" Regardless, great thinking and research. Loved the video and now a subscriber :)

[@MaxConst]

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

[@willadeefriesland5107]

SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE! I'm so glad I did. I have to go back and watch the other 7/8 ths of the videos posted by Alan...

[@THNKKY]

Surely there is a point of diminishing return. Like if the ships get so big they really dont function as much more than large targets. Unless they have stronger weapons or insane shielding what is the point in making them so huge?

[@Merc_0158E7]

wow... If you could get trump people to watch this video, 80% of their minds would explode, but you might be able to save some of them.

[@nerdwatch1017]

I feel yes getting asteroids bring them to the moon to mine is great but we could definitely first start with all the left over ore in orbit. I say in the next 10 years we definitely should be able to build a decent sized station up there that will deploy drones out to scoop up parts bring them back for melting down and either sent to the moon for use there or made into new parts there on the station

[@makarin1]

Would like to meet you. You can get free acomodation in my house in Croatia, 20m from sea. You l have to buy your own plane ticket😁

[@BernardMorley-j8b]

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

[@ashtonmiller-z1n]

well but the battltech universe ecomonity even for the much smaler clans could make qute a bit of stuff for the most part as well. this also includes very big warships that can acatly go toe to toe with a star distroyer if not even out last them due to far stroger armor and far supreaor aeropsace fighters that dispite not being ftl cabable would bascly massvly out gun and out armor and out speed bascly any space fighter in starwars like afew times over with armor that would make durasteel and plassteel look like wet tissue paper bacly and thast just the aeropsace fighrer armor not cuting the far far far far more epxsive and even ten time srtoger warship armor that battltech warships even in post secsion wars and even in the so called battletech dark age and iclain age would bascly would srug off bacly anything other then a gosh darn death star super laser paircal beam orbtal seige bombrmant cannon. also even still the dath star would have to use like 50% power or more to one shot a battltech clan warship thats 2.3 million tons and is bacly 1.7KM in leangth bascly. also all teh nucear weapons on said battltehc warship would sigle handly bacly glass entire planets on its own so inmagine what it would do to a death star thats like far smaler then most moons. also thsoe warships that battltehc have gan allways go faster then 1 or 2 G of pure trust acclraton bacly. but them droip ships and aeropsace fighters can go even faster then most gundams in anime at a far far faster 5+Gs of aclraton sueing the clasic realsci space trusting. also any batttech drop ship can carry 75+ memtric ton assult battlemechs that would bascly make the galtic empires AT-AT walkers look very slow and crappy and would blast thsoe same at at walkers shealsd and armor plating right off with huge atuocannons and partcal cannons and gauss rifles that would do very massive damage. heck a battltech er ppc would bacly would be more powerful then like ten of a glalctic empires stardistoryers largest turbo laster batterys like put together. also battmech armor would also for asult mechs would also sruge like 3 or 4 hits from thsoe kinds of er PPC hits before the amror gets blown off.

[@AdventureUntamed23]

The sequel Stardestroyers added to my dislike of those films. I thought the SSD was ridiculous until the new ludicrous sequel-sized designs came out.

[@TonyWesley-m3s]

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

[@StaceyPulitzer]

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

[@jayrussell3796]

The main reason why these were so easy to build in Star Wars was maybe because it was a fictional movie...😬

[@theoneyoudontsee8315]

the truth is star wars hulk ship building is too far unrealistic. but the same can be said for star treks abilities to make super weapons that any ship of the line can use but that is a little more realistic sinse a fighter jet can carry nukes that give it the power of a 1000 b52 bombers with regular he bombs.

[@SpottedHares]

Their also something really weird that happens in space called cold welding. Do to the vacuum you can have pure metals in space and when two pure metals touch they fuse together as if they were one peace to being with. For us this is a issue as if not properly design parts on a space craft that should move or be separate fuse into a single peace. It is not impossible to think that some of this ships are effectively press fit together making a structure that is at the atomic scale on single peace.

[@BeckCharlotte-x2m]

If you like tuna and tomato sauce- try combining the two. It’s really not as bad as it sounds.

[@philipdouglas842]

Allen, you must have read all of Wookiepedia, twice.

[@MaxineBird-f1e]

When I cook spaghetti, I like to boil it a few minutes past al dente so the noodles are super slippery.

[@SilkBuckets]

I saw the title and immediately thought of the beginning of Spaceballs lol

[@theghettogourmet6762]

I may be mistaken, but only one modern heavy-lift rocket fuel uses hydrocarbon based fuels, and that's a kerosene/liquid oxygen engine. They're just not efficient enough compared to ammonium nitrate or hydrogen peroxide, among many others. Times have changed since the Saturn V, my friend. Which was still kerosene/liquid oxygen. Our efficiency is MUCH higher now, and doesn't really make use of hydrocarbons overall. Some NASA guy can correct me if I'm wrong.

[@CarolYale-x1n]

When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.

[@nobodyimportant72]

When looking at Earth and getting things into orbit many say the holy grail will be when we can build the space elevator to haul stuff up and down without needing rockets.

[@MukiBlalock]

Right on Bro! OUTSTANDING JOB!🎉😂❤👍

[@bananaboy8416]

This is not a video about the economics of a 10 mile starship, it’s a video about life

[@satchell78]

Your closing is on point. Enjoy the moment, friends.

[@ZebulonDoris]

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

[@yournumberonepal]

Star Destroyer's are built like F-150s. 👍

[@CHMichael]

The first 2 death stars barely make sense but what came afterwards was the same nonsense as everything else in the new parts.

[@NeilGallup]

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

[@smartass0124]

Wonder if humans evolved more adaptable for different atmospheres and gravities

[@fuqupal]

Wow, this dude makes it legit. I'm 20 seconds in and I'm out!

[@DanielBeard-m2j]

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

[@SherryGracie]

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

[@MarianAlbert-f3f]

Peanut butter and jelly caused the elderly lady to think about her past.

[@ZombifiedWatermelon]

Makes sense. KDY is like a Pan Galatic Toyota pumping out Imperial Class Star Corollas by the thousand, whereas Newport News is making one off bespoke ships.

[@kenwheeler3637]

I've never understood all of the Luddites that constantly bemoan evolving technology and would love to turn back progress to the "good old days" Might as well become Amish. I love technology and, personally, think it's not moving forward fast enough.

[@siergeplo1161]

I wouldn't protest against AI, if OpenAI weren't fucking thiefs, which was proved dozens times and even admitted my themselves. And yeah, "art-genereting" "AI" is bullshit technology simply because no one of these "visioneers" and "pioneers" can answer why it's needed now.

[@krzosu]

Why the ships were so cheap ? simple- using droids.

[@HarryCarmen]

Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.

[@Legos4fun_gaming]

Dark side aligned gungans😂😂

[@smartass0124]

Past 4 years have been a literal train wreck and bridge collapse and crushed submarine and open door plan disaster

[@WendyMansfield-v9y]

See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.

[@charleshulsey3103]

I like the overlap of current earth technology 😊

[@zogar8526]

No one going to bring up the first mention of the dolphins in a while?