Things You Thought You Knew About X-Rays, Rocket Science and Airplanes

What is the rocket equation? How do airplanes fly? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice go through some things you thought you knew about how airplanes fly, x-rays, and how to fuel a rocket.
Can you fly a plane upside down? Learn about the wings of airplanes and how they are engineered to take off into the air. Discover how differences in air speed create lift, extra features that reduce drag, and what happens when a plane stalls in the air. Plus, what is the best direction for take off and landing?
What do airport x-ray machines have to do with black holes? We dive into astrophysics’ connection to the everyday x-ray machine and Riccardo Giacconi’s Nobel Prize-winning work. Learn about the electromagnetic spectrum and what it means to be transparent. Are all substances transparent to different bands of light?
What if you took a road trip and never stopped for gas? We learn about how to fuel a rocket for a trip to space and how you might need more fuel than you think you need. Learn about rocket boosters and how rockets are water-powered. Why does a rocket launch in stages?
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00:00 - Introduction
01:02 - How Airplanes Fly
07:43 - Sustaining Lift & Bernoulli
9:08 - Innovation in Wings
11:51 - What Direction to Take Off
17:20 - More Airport Stuff
19:00 - X-ray Machines & Astrophysicists
21:19 - Riccardo Giacconi Going Through Security
23:49 - Learn About Solgaard
24:16 - What It Means To Be Transparent
26:53 - The Invention of X-rays
27:50 - What X-rays Can Be Used For
31:37 - More Rocket Equation: How Much Fuel?
36:06 - Filling Stations in Space
36:29 - Burning Oxygen
40:45 - Liquid Hydrogen & Oxygen
42:33 - Closing Thoughts

[@StarTalk]

What did you learn on this Things You Thought You Knew? ✈

[@The-binge_710]

Great Content

[@The-binge_710]

Every plane if it has the option it'll take off into the wind

[@The-binge_710]

Because what matters is the speed over your wings

[@The-binge_710]

Also they land in the wind because they want the slowest possible speed relative to the ground

[@DinorwicSongwriter]

Is it possible, and what would it take, for a giant gas planet like Jupiter to gravitate in on itself and become a star?

[@gromitvt10]

Good stuff, but as a Naval Aviator I have to comment on the aircraft carrier part. The angled deck has nothing to do with wind considerations, you always turn the ship into the wind for launch and recovery, or just go fast and make your own wind over the deck. The angled deck is mainly so you can land and not run into the aircraft on the bow if you miss the arresting gear. You can also launch 4 aircraft at a time, 2 on the main catapults and 2 off the waist catapults. Can't do that with a straight deck.

[@dogmath]

Thanks! I came to the comments to look for this info.

[@user-pi7gc4wg8k]

Let's all write in Niel for president, he's been drafted for the good of the nation.

[@petersage5157]

I'm sure deGrasse would go full Tecumseh on that. "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

Is it wrong to think that maybe we deserve it? So much of our country is BS compared to other countries and there's CLEARLY not going to be any change, most likely ever in our lifetimes...so, may as well just give the country what it wants.

[@DavidLinn]

He’s the only one who would be using common sense and logic. But he would also be constantly interrupting interviewers

[@SlickTim9905]

Way way smarter than Trump

[@SubvertTheState]

​@@HopDavid yeah Niel is more prone to emotional outburst than many want to admit.

[@indiesongwriter5474]

Neil is great at explaining science to lay person without going over our heads, without talking down to us, and while still being entertaining and not dry. He's talented!

[@Jas.2105]

Just remember airplanes thrive on the worst headwinds, too bad you are not a aplane, I’m dying 🤣😂🤣. Chuck is the best.

[@elitecol69]

He's the best at being the most annoying and losing momentum to any great points made.

[@Jas.2105]

@@elitecol69 I guess if you don’t understand the concept of the show you shouldn’t watch it.

[@weijuwu6661]

I’m here for knowledge and he’s making jokes about salad so I turned it off

[@demonac]

If you know enough about the physics of flight, you realize that all Air Shows are Drag Shows

[@kikosplendito]

Man i love the Neil and Chuck compilation episodes you should do more of these!

[@2MANYWWWWWWWWWWWWS4U]

2:00 'back in MY day', EVERY seat in the plane got a good meal during the flight!!!

[@universeisundernoobligatio3283]

Back in my day the customer cared less about only the lowest cost.

[@SlickTim9905]

You should always sit near the black box. They always recover it first.

[@LukeSumIpsePatremTe]

People used to be willing to pay for service. Just like old washing machines were built like tanks when the cost month or two of average worker's salary

[@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk]

So

[@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk]

Back in my day the Earth was still Molten

[@yochhcoy]

Anyone else bummed that Neil deGrasse Tyson missed the opportunity to make a paper airplane?

[@Interloper12]

Taking it one step further, the net pressure upward you have acting over the surface area of the wing becomes a force. When that force exceeds that of gravity, you lift off.

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

Neil DeMeth Tyson aint no rocket surgeon!

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

Neil and Chuck for 2024!

[@sicfxmusic]

Hi hater, no thanks! They'll get busy with debates and StarTalk is gone forever. 🤣🤣

[@joeolejar]

I once drove a 59 Chevy Impala, the one with the wings on the back. The back end had a takeoff velocity of a little over 60MPH.

[@LupeCoded]

Best podcast on YT, Period. The knowledge, the insight, and the comedy are extremely well-balanced. Exceptional program, indeed.

[@HigginsHobbies]

Me and my cousin talk alot. He graduated top of class at MIT in 2018 and is working at JPL for the last couple years. I love this type of conversation/ content. Yall make it sound way simpler than it actually is .

[@CaptPhiI]

@@HopDavid One of the things I like about Neil is that he'd be the first to tell you when he doesn't know/remember every single detail about a topic (as he does at least a few times here). Sure, he may not go over every single detail of rocket equations or talk about the differences of different rocket designs, but that's also not the point. The point is to give a general understanding of many hard to understand topics in an easy to digest way that a lay-person can understand. In that, he very much succeeds.

[@muki46]

There are constant inaccuracies: 1. pS + pD = constant. Bernoulli effect on wing profile relates to the difference of pS's only. 2. Stall occurs at a specific angle of attack (AOA), and can happen at any indicated airspeed. 3. Headwind increases indicated airspeed, reducing distance to reach the V speeds (V1, VR, V2). 4. Aircraft carriers use only one runway for landing. The other runway is used for takeoff. WW2 carriers only had one runway.

[@petersage5157]

Don't know if this is still standard practice, but the last time I flew (about half a lifetime ago now) I was in the wing seat next to the emergency exit and I got an additional one-on-one emergency briefing from a flight attendant. Not exactly the most carefree flight of my life, but also not the primary reason why I haven't flown since.

[@revmsj]

You’re wrong about the solid rocket boosters tho. They also bring their own oxidizer mixed into the solid fuel. Those same solid rocket motors can work in space too. In fact there have been and still are several variants that do…

[@ra2186]

I know you're into KSP. 😂

[@ShonMardani]

In the vacuum of space, if you mix liquid gases of H and O to generate heat and water, which one of those pushes the spacecraft forward, water vapor/steam or heat? It can not be the heat since in the vacuum there is nothing to vibrate or expand and the volume of Oxygen + Hydrogen is smaller than H2O. It also can not be plasma since it is not.

[@xiro6]

They even put satélites in orbit just on solid rockets recently. Did It 3 times right now i think

[@AEFisch]

Solid fuel is mixed with an oxidizer in the booster. It's just not a gas or liquid.

[@elitecol69]

It's the force on the sealed end of the combustion changer from the explosion that pushes it forward.

[@dougdickson8128]

Neil, an abrupt change in the angle of attack can cause the wing to stall even at high airspeed Love your show!

[@johnandrews6872]

In My training in the Navy as Jet mechanic, Bernoulli's theorem of convergent and divergent ducts, was drilled into us as it pertains to many things in aircraft, Engines, etc..

[@TomTRay]

I love the way Neal and Chuck interact and seem to truly have fun while making science understandable no matter what your educational level.

[@TomTRay]

And exactly what is your PhD in to support your hypothesis?

[@user-ue9zu6is8n]

Neil, I have to correct you on the solid rocket boosters. They have their own oxidizer and do not use oxygen from the air. Just look up Ammonium Perchlorate which is the major component in solid rocket fuel.

[@josephhigbe8904]

Aircraft carriers have the ability to change course and direction, so wind direction is not the purpose of the carrier’s angle deck.

[@arcboy2011]

Thanks guys, this was an informative and entertaining podcast. NdGT, thinking about you today as I looked at the new Visconti Galileo Galilei fountain pen. They should have sent you one just to check the accuracy of the depictions of the constellations on the presentation box.

[@undeadarmy19]

Neil, your talk about airplanes, how they take off into the wind and ground speed vs air speed makes me think about how discs fly in disc golf. I've played disc golf off and on for about 12 years, and one of my favorite things about it is watching the discs fly over hundreds of feet. One thing you learn about fairly early is called disc "stability." The discs for disc golf are designed to where the edge of the disc acts like the wing of a plane. When you throw a disc, you're also putting spin on the disc. Because of this spin, discs want to naturally fade one way or another. This is also the reason as to why every good disc golfer utilizes 2 different main shots. The first shot is the backhand, which, for a right-handed person, induces a clockwise spin on the disc, which makes the disc want to naturally fade to the left. The second shot is the forehand or "sidearm". This shot induces a counter-clockwise spin on the disc, which makes it want to naturally fade to the right. Now, back to stability. I'm not entirely sure why this occurs, but, if you throw a disc hard/fast enough, it will actually fade the opposite way it naturally wants to. We call this "high-speed turn" (the natural fade we call "low-speed fade"). The stability of a disc determines how "strong" or "stable" it is at resisting this high-speed turn. When youre going to throw a disc and you have a headwind (let's say it's 10mph). If you were to throw the disc 55mph, even though the disc will be traveling at 55mph relative to the ground, the disc itself will feel like its traveling 65mph through the air. Likewise, if you have a tailwind of 10mph and you throw the disc 55mph, the disc will feel like it's traveling 45mph. Because of this, we will have discs of varying stability. If you're throwing I to a headwind, and you don't want your disc to turn a bunch, you'll throw a more overstable disc. If you have a tailwind, not only will your disc want to turn less, but it will ALSO not want to glide as well. Imagine throwing a disc 30mph into a 30mph tailwind. It wouldn't "fly" at all. It would just flop to the ground (which is something you have to take into consideration while putting too). We have many different discs that fly very differently from each other. If you took that overstable disc and threw it with no headwind, it would now begin fading al.ost immediately after throwing it, not getting you much distance. If you throw that understable disc with no wind or even a headwind, now your disc is going to turn really hard and turn into a "roller". For max distance we'll usually try and throw a "flex" shot. You throw a slightly understable disc on a hyzer angle. Thr

[@undeadarmy19]

The disc will go straight, slightly turn to the fight, flatten out and go straight again before gently fading to the left. Its beautiful.

[@anthonyhammond1921]

Chuck's counselling comment made my day. I've had an extremely tough day today but this genious comedy rips through the programming of "reality". Science can explain what the universe is after the event of its own creation but humour cuts through the inherent linguistic element of our dna script and cracks us open to something deeper in real and immediate time. Chuck is a sacred magic mushroom sharing the cosmic giggle. Thanks man. 🙏😂🍄

[@dee1238808]

Love NDT and the show, but the whole ‘the air wants to stay as one parcel’ thing he explains with the airplanes is called the Equal Transit Theory, and has been debunked many times. Look at wind tunnel videos and you are able to see the smoke from over the wing reach beyond the trailing edge well before the smoke from under the wing does. It’s still up to much debate on why the air on top of the wing moves faster than the air on the bottom.- coming from a commercial pilot.

[@egycg3569]

That Tedex video ja

[@revmsj]

I’m assuming it has something to do with the shape inducing laminar flow on the top preferentially to that of the bottom…?

[@cesarheuvelmans]

I was amazed too as to why prof NDT explained this with such confidence. There's no reason for the air on top to 'want' to stay together. Where does the 'want' come from, there is no force 'communicating' it's desire to return with the molecules it parted from. TedEd made a greate video properly explaining how planes fly. Just search 'TedEd how do planes fly'.

[@Sammasambuddha]

Paper airplanes have flat wings. They still lift. 😂

[@davidkantor7978]

The wing is pitched upward slightly, even when the plane is level. That provides most of the lift; the Bernoulli Effect is a minor part of the lift force. But the airfoil shape also reduces turbulence. The importance of the upward tilt is demonstrated by the fact that a plane can fly with wings that are flat; many toy planes work that way.

[@Sammasambuddha]

And paper / balsa wood.

[@skilledtechnician3554]

My phone started buffering at 26:18. Thanks Chuck

[@j72ashley]

Chuck had me rolling with this one

[@techgayi]

in movie Flight, Denzel inverts the plan to get some lift and be able to fly further as the controls were stuck and pushing plane downwards when flying straight.

[@xiro6]

I dont think thats the reason for aircraft carriers landing strips. Its for safety of not crashing on parked aircrafts and for having simultaneous landing and launchings. But just a note.

[@resonant_theories]

Farnborough is one of the best air shows in the world indeed...

[@user-js1bz7ev4g]

You are one of three persons i want to meet in my life before they die. I will meet you one day' Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson. Big respect big Love! ❤❤

[@SlickTim9905]

Who were the other two people?

[@user-js1bz7ev4g]

one died before i meet him. I met the other and Neil deGrasse Tyson is the last.​@@SlickTim9905

[@user-js1bz7ev4g]

One died before i meet him. I met the other and he is the last to meet before he die.​@@SlickTim9905

[@onemercilessming1342]

That's what I discovered in college (1968). There was much I didn't know about what I thought I knew.

[@vodostar9134]

Neil is wrong about aircraft carriers. The canted runway on an aircraft carrier allows recovery (landings) simultaneous with launches using the catapults on the foredeck. The angle is about 9 degrees. Not enough to matter for wind. A carrier turns into the wind to control wind on the runway. He is right about two runways at any airport big enough to have more than one, though.

[@musicbruv]

Yeah, he was. On a carrier it would be simple to just turn the ship into the wind.

[@OyaCaglayan]

I absolutely love the content on this channel 👍👏

[@gageguy]

Neil, you are dead wrong about lift. Particularly, the equal transit theory. But I'm happy you mentioned angle of attack. That's much more important than a pressure differential created by faster moving air over the top of the wing. Read up, and you'll learn more, as you often put it.

[@TheNotSure]

Wrong how? It'll help your claim of Neil being wrong by actually explaining what's wrong with specifics. Just saying. Otherwise, it reads like a dumb hater comment.

[@gageguy]

@@TheNotSure I love NTG so not a hater. It's just that the equal transit theory has long been debunked and Neil should know better. Look it up yourself if you must

[@cutiepiezcontarria13]

Planes are nuts! Such a cool explainer

[@srisai1985]

Aeronautical engineer here: Unfortunately the air parcel needing to stay together, aka equal transit theory is an incorrect explanation of lift. The actual theory of lift involves viscosity, boundary layer, trailing edge, starting vortex, and some fundamental aerodynamic theorems- combination of all gives rise to a vortex that is bound to the wing (circulation). This circulation adds velocity to the air on the topside of the wing, while decreases velocity of air on the bottom of the wing. This speed differential leads to pressure differential, aka lift.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

2:50 agreed, and it's debunked by the very simple idea of *moving* . If air were this "parcel" that needs to stay together, then that would mean by simply waving your hand forward, slicing the air in your room, the air would squeeze back together because it *wants* to stick back together, pushing your hand out of the way, accelerating it, and suddenly you can't stop your hand from moving. Extend that to your entire body walking outdoors. Or cars driving. I love Neil to death, but this, and the "ice skaters skate because their blades are floating on molecules of water above the ice" thing is sheer misinformation and REALLY disappointing. Parcel of air lmao.

[@AndyRevans]

Yes, agreed. The explanation of the parcel of air is incorrect. The air above and below the wing foil do not "meet up" at the trailing edge as used to be thought. There is an excellent video showing this elsewhere on You tube.

[@RevP369]

6:39 I lived in a city near SFO. Planes taking off from SFO would track over our city. As the rumble roared overhead, everyone would all stop talking and wait till the houses stopped shaking and the sound faded to just start talking again. We were all used to it. Luckily things changed with advancements, and different flight paths. 😂

[@Icharis]

The x36 one of my favorite concept planes doesn’t have a tail and it is now showing up likely in next gen fighters… just thought it was cool to think about

[@innocentloli5420]

25:17 the way he laughed 💀

[@syedtahadaimi445]

Question: Can the plane take off when going reverse?? By the love your videos man keep it going 😊

[@WarrenatCLS]

That airplane section was painful, Neil 😆😆😆. Might want to talk to one of us pilots on how to make that sound better, Dr Tyson. 😆 Love your work. Chuck, you the man! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 You too, Dr. T. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@stein1385]

Great Scott

[@yukeo9697]

Always a pleasure 😊

[@thefastidiousbuffoon4907]

Legends!

[@vascularcylinder]

The majority of the lift is produced by the downwash of the wings, not lower pressure on top of the wings.

[@hugosantos1476]

Chuck's sense of humour is better than any anti-depressant!

[@ZenualAbdinKhanPathan]

Thanks!

[@christianharriot1578]

Bernoulli effect is in play but only minimally. It, by itself, is not enough to lift a plane. The Coanda effect is the main cause of lift. It all comes down to Newton’s 3rd law. Enough air must be forced down.

[@AV8R_Surge]

... and the winglets reduce vortexes that can cause flip/ crash trailing aircraft. (Wake turbulence)

[@DB-rg2dk]

Aircraft Carrier Angle for landing is due to the island. They still generally take off straight ish into the wind. Not all airports have different angle runways, Atlanta, LA, Phoenix, ect….

[@LightDiodeNeal]

One question keeps running in my head and this is the only place I can think of to ask, but..... .Does the energy from any light that's crossed the horizon add to the mass of the black-hole? (Not at all but similar to explanations of flying-gluons being most of proton-mass)? ..If there's lots of light/x/gamma photons in the early universe could they be helping in making the "excessively massive" black ancient black holes? Always an honour to see theses, but I keep saying "LOOK AT THAT", Chuck is altering my linguistics.! 😀 Best show on the tube! 🙂 NEAL

[@dougalmcalpine6804]

I used to be able to fly my radio controlled planes backwards in relation to the ground with a full value headwind, you can glide in reverse.

[@tommyjinjin]

Chuck keeps failing the Matrix references... 😅

[@peterlegere380]

For a very short period of time in my childhood. ('50s) shoe stores had x-ray machines.

[@seanehle8323]

Neil: I don't understand why the air that goes over the top of the wing must rejoin with the same air it separated from on the bottom of the wing. What force pushes the air on top to speed up, but doesn't push the air on the bottom? Or maybe there's some force slowing down the air on the bottom of the wing..? What forces the different paths to be traveled in the same amount of time? Is it always the exact same amount of time, no matter the path or the wing's wind speed? Is this always true, regardless of the angle of the wing to the air?

[@sadib100]

It took me almost 18 minutes to realize this was a rerun.

[@infinitumneo840]

When Niel asked about airplanes, it reminded me of Airplane, the movie. When the pilot asked the little boy sketchy questions about men in gladiator suits. I thought that was very funny. 😂🤣

[@LTDunltd]

If you look at WW2 military air bases, they were mostly made with 3 runways in a triangle, to insure the the planes took off into the wind.

[@randyhawks7549]

Have you guys ever had Nate Hagens on Star Talk? I think that would be a very interesting show.

[@FacundoColombier]

and how do you fuel the refuel stations?

[@jmanj3917]

4:44 Lol...Nice, Doc! You made me think of that YT channel... The one with the planes and countries talking..? Habitual Linecrosser, I think? Either way, though, it's Definitely Not safe for kids...lol 🙂

[@cozmicarchitect]

At this point it feels like Mr Nice is Dr. Niel's personal comedian🤔

[@Roddy451]

11:22 "... which I believe is 88 MPH..." Awesome Chuck! That is the speed the DeLorean must hit to travel back in time in Back to the Future!

[@gregorypalamara6723]

I love when Chuck gets that "yeah, right" look. He's with you in spirit, but clearly lost haha. Then he cracks a joke. Great video as always ST, idk how this has 84k views and only 3.3k likes though....

[@timhyatt9185]

aircraft carriers have angled landing decks so operations can continue on both end of the vessel simultaneously. In WWII they quickly learned that if a plane had a problems, and tried to land and soemthing failed, it would careen into aircraft on the foredeck. By angling the landing desk, this allows the planes at the front to be safer and if a landing aircraft "bolters" (misses the hook" they can do a go-around and try again without any real issue (other than seriously puckering the pilot)

[@emc2951]

If the need for fuel increases weight exponentially, but then the fuel supply is being used up in the flight and it weight of the shuttle goes down so at some point it should break even, no?

[@KatoOnTheTrack1]

Oldie but goodie

[@alexbeu3086]

What marvels me is that they reposted a part in which Neil was actually wrong (and that s a rarity) Air on top doesn't want to meet air on the bottom. It doesn t want anything It's just air. It travells faster so...lower pressure. And I think there was a subsequent video in which Neil actually acknowledged this, but the team putting this together forgot. Anyway life without Startalk is like life without music. Play it on guys!

[@garygemmell3488]

Aircraft carriers have three factors concerning the speed of the air over the wings of it's aircraft. There is the speed generated by the airplane itself plus the assist from the catapult. Then there is the speed of the wind when it turns into the wind. Lastly, there is the speed of carrier itself as it cuts through the water. Small mistake though, Neil. WW2 aircraft carriers only had one runway, with two launch paths. It was not until 1952 that the USS Antietam (CV-36) was outfitted with a sponson attached to the main flight deck to test the angled deck theory. A modern U.S. carrier has 4 catapults and in a pinch they can launch 4 aircraft within seconds of each other. The British were the first to experiment with it. The USS Forrestal (CV-59) was the first U.S. carrier built from the keel up as an angled deck carrier. All of the WW2 carriers that remained in service into the '60's and early '90's were converted into angled deck carriers. Here in San Diego we have one berthed in the bay as a museum ship. It is the USS Midway (CV-41), which was commissioned in September, 1945 and was decommissioned in April, 1992. She served for 46 1/2 years and was the last WW2 era carrier to see service.

[@SReads-dh4rr]

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[@maroonburgundy5720]

I have always marveled at one thing: why are airways companies fixated on peanuts as snack or even sometimes the only food you get?

[@user-tn2ev4zz8q]

@startalk have you ever thought about using centrifugal force to make gravity by changing the centrifugal force on two sides? one side you add mass and the other side you take away mass making a gravitational pull in one direction as it spins the math works one wheel can make over 500 pounds of force.

[@Uneldo7]

I love how Neil busts out laughing at the dumbest jokes that wouldn’t even make me smile lmao. That’s a good vibe

[@jasonlastname129]

Neil you might want to read up in wings and aerodynamics. The equal travel time and air particles linking up at the trailing edge of the wing isn't correct.

[@scottpayne4756]

Neil is describing an area of “high nerd value” of real estate. Often, we can see an arliner cross the face of the Moon, offering a cosmic perspective here on Earth, when an Airplane flies in front of the Moon.

[@pallsmortion4750]

Rocket science, it's not brain surgery

[@trent797]

A question I've always had: How much of the physics of aerodynamics was understood in the Wright Brothers' time?

[@sheilahardin6868]

I love your videos

[@captvalstrax]

One of my favorite sayings is that "Rocket science is not hard, rocket ENGINEERING is hard." Told to me by an aerospace engineer.

[@liquidbraino]

Another technology that's used at airports is Ion Mobility Spectrometers. Aka "Explosive Trace Detectors" or ETD machines.

[@SlickTim9905]

Is there a relationship between the wings on a plan and the fins on a submarine? How do rockets stabilize without wings?

[@ra2186]

Rockets have fins for when they're in the atmosphere. In space, they don't need fins because there's no atmosphere. In space, you're going straight in the direction you set in until something changes that direction. It could be a gravitational force or some other propulsion on your vessel that changes.Then you're just going straight in a new direction. You just go straight forever in space, as stable as can be.

[@Sinnbad21]

Most rockets do have fins near the engine to stabilize. However, there are a coouple of other ways to stabilize without fins. Some use servos and some can gimbal their engines, etc…

[@ra2186]

As far as the sub, I suspect it's for stability as well since it's all fluid dynamics - air and water.

[@SlickTim9905]

@@Sinnbad21 so you're saying a torpedo would turn and stabilize the same way a rocket or a misile would?

[@SlickTim9905]

@@ra2186 ok. You're making think of retro rockets. So if you were in space and you had two spray cans. One in each hand. You could move around like Iron man using his hands to control and stabilize?

[@andypeiffer5]

I pay $15/mo for KZbin premium to not have ads. Then they somehow get forced on me through the video

[@FatherOshai]

Welcome to KZbin

[@Sammasambuddha]

I pay 19 /mo. Ad free here.

[@robertpr2002]

Same here. Do no appreciate it. Guess what suitcase I'm never buying.

[@Bosse_C]

they will spend the money on creating a better experience for you though. You are probably enjoying the current one as well.

[@logansmall5148]

First world problems...

[@lemongavine]

Chuck is savage 🤣

[@casperastronomy]

Neil the King 👑 Thank you for Years of entertaining science 🫡

[@Crrrr0wFire]

Haha, I went to a school named after W. C. Röntgen, at the town he was born, Lennep, which is now a suburb of Remscheid (40km away from Colgne, Germany). There is also a museum which is all about Röntgen.

[@oibender]

It's all true, if we're talking about a quality aircraft manufactured to the highest safety standards.

[@OO-un8ks]

If the universe had a sense of taste/smell then it wouldn't be a one note -Stein.

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

I am now an honorary rocket scientist. 😅

[@John-D.]

Model rockets 💥😂

[@RoyceScott-lj2cm]

With that wingless design we don't have to launch vertical we can take off and fly out like a regular plane

[@victorvillanueva7222]

How does antenna work How do we get channels on TV? And why do we lose channels\ signal when it rains or windy

[@tsmith906]

The end of this video struck perhaps the most consequential/important question in the history of mankind: what is the propulsion force of a single fart?

[@user-4in4nxDonaldRennie]

Solid rocket boosters don't get the oxygen they need to burn from the air. The oxygen is incorporated in the solid propellant.

[@andrewvillarreal6609]

3:25 this is how racecars get alot of their down force w/ the floor, but backwards

[@user-uu1sf9gb8w]

The “HUGE HUGE!” Part 😅

[@chidianuforo3670]

I didn't know airplanes fly into the wind after take off. This makes so many things make so much more sense. I love smoking and watching these videos high 🔥🌳😤😶‍🌫️🤯

[@StevePemberton2]

The traditional explanation of an airplane's lift that we all learned in high school is very outdated. It is now known to be much more complicated than the original concept of air moving faster over the top of the wing than the bottom, and the outdated concept that an air molecule has to go faster to meet up with its "entangled" identical twin that went underneath the wing. In reality there are a lot of other things going on with the movement of the air molecules, which in reality are being displaced up and down not front to back. Besides complex flow dynamics affecting pressure, there is also a reaction force caused by pushing air molecules away from the wing, the same equal/opposite reaction force that jet and rocket engines use. This is especially true at high angles of attack. With all that is now known, saying that it's because the air on top is going faster to meet its brothers, thus creating a vacuum force above the wing, is as outdated as saying that electrons "orbit'" the nucleus of an atom just like planets orbit stars. Even when a simple one-liner explanation is needed we now avoid that comparison because it is outdated and can create misunderstandings. The same is true for lift, we still need a one-liner explanation, but the old one doesn't work anymore. About the best you can say is that the shape of the wing, along with its position relative to its movement through the air, creates pressure differences and reaction forces, both of which push the wing upwards.

[@tuberworksjones]

At which level of membership do you get to have lunch with Niel , Chuck and maybe Brian Green? 😛