Tim Dodd - Everyday Astronaut | Munro Live Podcast

[@cerrillosstore3913]

I love to see Sandy and Tim get together. I feel privileged to have been on board with both when they were unknown and new to KZbin. It's great that both have gotten the prestige they deserve. Thanks for sharing!

[@EwanM11]

Tim is incredibly eloquent. What a pleasure to listen to.

[@munrolivepodcast]

Thanks

[@alanrogers7090]

Wonderful interview by two of my favorite people.

[@MarkS-23]

Great discussion. Tim's enthusiasm is made of rocket fuel. Thanks for having him on.

[@alanrogers7090]

My grandfather was born in1900 and passed away in 1994. He saw the first cars and saw men walk on the moon. What a life.

[@donjones4719]

He was around for the first real airplane flight in 1903 and theoretically could have flown the Atlantic in 3 hours on the supersonic Concorde. The 20th century was incredible.

[@StormyDog]

Amazing podcast. The best hour spent lately. Thank you Sandy and Tim!

[@munrolivepodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ShieldWolf-yp3cr]

Love the conversation. Thank you.

[@corycombs9802]

This was a very unexpected interview!

[@bobrick8176]

Don’t forget to like!! :D

[@travelwithtesla]

Sandy and Tim? What the heck??? You know, this is actually the best of both worlds! 😝💯

[@MrWingman2009]

Two of my very most favorite youtubers! Pop corn time 🤩

[@1944chevytruck]

WOW! AWSOME!

[@dominikheinz2659]

Please one more podcast with Tim before his moonlight and one right after🎉🎉🎉 thanks it was a pleasure to listen!❤

[@danneil8778]

two of my favorites, together at last.

[@budgetaudiophilelife-long5461]

🙋‍♂️GREAT TO SEE THIS INTERVIEW WITH SANDY AND TIM 🤗 THANK THE MUNRO TEAM FOR ALL THE HARD WORK 😅💚💚💚

[@billybobbob3003]

AMERICA IS A DEMCRACY WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO BUY AND DRIVE WHATEVER TYPE OF FUCKING VEHICLE YOU WANT AMERICA TRYING LIMIT PEOPLES OPTIONS WHEN IT COMES TO MOBILITY IS THE DUMBEST NAIVE FUCKING THING YOU CAN POSSIBLY EVER DO, ALSO THESE PEOPLE TRYING TO PUSH EV FOR AS A SINGLE SOLUTION FOR EVERYTHING IS A NAIVE FUCKING FOOL ASWELL THERE IS NO SINGLE TOOL FOR ALL FUCKING JOBS ASSUMING EVERYONE LIVES IN A HOUSE WITH A 240V OUTLET LEVEL 2 CHARGER IS A FUCKING NAIVE FUCKING FOOL ALSO..

[@br4550w]

Yes! This is what we want!❤. Not sure how you two got hooked up, but I like it

[@Ed-ui2qe]

Great interview! Thanks!!

[@munrolivepodcast]

Thanks for listening

[@bobrick8176]

Amazing!! Two of my favorite people in one podcast

[@creedsixteen891]

Awesome conversation. Thanks for sharing.

[@munrolivepodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mikadavies660]

Different interview.... I was going to listen for a short while but was intrigued to listen to all of it...Brilliant guys! Thanks!!

[@munrolivepodcast]

Thanks for listening!

[@DavidCNavas]

Awesome match, have always enjoyed listening to both of you.

[@munrolivepodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@DavidCNavas]

@@munrolivepodcast More than I can express. Dad always loved listening to you -- huge car geek, and I've always been a huge space geek, and we had talked about electric cars since the late 90s. He passed away a year ago and I'm having trouble with his estate, so this was a really pleasant diversion.

[@thomascharlton8545]

Great discussion. Thanks Sandy and Tim.

[@ricardoabh3242]

Very nice interview

[@munrolivepodcast]

Thanks

[@stevenbell8842]

I have been watching for years. Keep up the good work!

[@COSMEREAUDIO]

1:02:00 congrats to India ❤

[@ChrisBigBad]

Thank you Gentlemen! That was very nice.

[@munrolivepodcast]

Our pleasure!

[@johnpaula1400]

Great!!

[@seldoon_nemar]

Dam, Sandy's hitting all my favorites this month, first Chace over at Edison and now this?! 💯

[@munrolivepodcast]

Stay tuned on the main channel! We have something you'll be interested in coming VERY soon 👀

[@creedsixteen891]

I was just thinking that when I read your message 😁

[@DouglasJMark]

What’s better than one of my favourite KZbinrs on the Internet? Two of them! Thank you so much and I hope to see you both back together again soon. Lots of love to all.❤❤❤

[@jimdetry9420]

That was fun. I'd like to see Sandy do a podcast with Tony Seba.

[@mervynleach1362]

The trouble for the motor manufacturers is that to change from ICE to EV requires a huge amount of investment. Add to that the new EV cars will be loss leaders until you can get a large number manufactured and sold to recover the costs of the changeover. At the same time, you'll be selling less ICE vehicles on which you make a lot of profit. Most businesses will try and delay the process as much as possible. Kudos to Ford who have split their company to clearly show how much they are losing on each EV. Even new EV companys like Rivian and Lucid are struggling wihtout huge cash support.

[@davidbarnes4150]

This is a great interview. The real future in real time discussion.

[@caseydbani1419]

Different generation, same cool. Enjoyed it!

[@Burtonis]

Unexpected and Outstanding!

[@lesbendo6363]

Great interview/discussion. We met in Vancouver and I did test drive the lightening. I was impressed. 🇨🇦 P.S. You could open a Canadian office to house you over seas engineers. All the tech companies have office in Vancouver.

[@jakubruzicka1686]

Interesting and unexpected video, Thank you for that!

[@munrolivepodcast]

My pleasure!

[@Arturo-lapaz]

22:40 Erich von Däniken lives in Beattenberg, not far from were I used to live, a prominent citizen has many exhibitions along the von Däniken walk with a huge park way below in Interlaken . Theme: Ancient Astronauts, endorsed by Dr Wernherr von Braun.

[@scottiverson7829]

Fun talk!!! Look forward to the next (post orbital) visit!

[@nononsenseBennett]

Great interview. Tim's an interesting man.

[@munrolivepodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ericplatzke]

Great episode!

[@munrolivepodcast]

Thanks dude

[@janhofmann3499]

Didn’t expect to see Tim here and hope that he will be in the studio next time!

[@Clearphish]

2 of my favourite people!

[@jaimefernandez3444]

Please release the full video before clips! I could not wait to watch the full thing

[@COSMEREAUDIO]

15:30 I agree Sandy, wormhole travel is the real future, rest all are near future

[@lobotomite3248]

Awesome interview/episode

[@munrolivepodcast]

Thanks for watching!

[@ken-mb5cp]

Good show

[@munrolivepodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@PedroRafael]

Very interesting conversation. Didn't know about Munro being connected with nasa stuff. Really cool.

[@COSMEREAUDIO]

❤Awesome interview, I have seen Sandy has indicated that he is working on an anti-gravity device before in a live stream, hope it comes out soon but that will be the end of SpaceX starship rocket and all other rockets as well.

[@snookmeister55]

Sure. Anti gravity by Munro & Associates. Keep the humor going.

[@andrewsaint6581]

​​@@snookmeister55with USA dod, he said. Lets wait and see. If you've learned anything from this chat it's that saying "no chance" before trying, is a less than optimal mindset. Electric starter motor. Self landing rocket boosters. Welding rocket fuselages and the rest. Can't be done. Until it is. It's a matter of time. That's how the future works.

[@johnchristopher20]

Antigravity has been around for along time; technology transfer is a step by step process to make it look organic. Using Sandy is brilliant. It can’t all come through Elon. NASA has been cover for the German pre war technology to stay top secret or every possible nation would be developing it, like nuclear weapons proliferation occurred.

[@snookmeister55]

@@andrewsaint6581 Yes, exactly as I wrote. Theory.

[@hardcoreherbivore4730]

Recent results from the LHC seem to suggest anti-gravity as unlikely to be feasible.

[@russellharbin8020]

Great interview. Tim is an interesting guy.

[@colesonafrank5329]

Thanks for an interesting and thoroughly enjoyable chat.

[@yas4435]

Enjoyed this interview very much and so good to see you guys talking together I was wondering when this meat up might’ve happened so I’m so glad thank you so much❤

[@munrolivepodcast]

Our pleasure!

[@Arturo-lapaz]

15:34 Munro is refering to the Einstein- Rosen bridge, due to sufficient space curvature , vastly different locations might be closer directly due to the folding of space , allowing much shorter travel times at subluminar velocities, cross wise.

[@vimmentors6747]

To paraphrase others: 1) We already have flying cars. They are called helicopters. 2) It makes no sense to go up. Collisions mean death. Mechanical failure means death. 3) If you run out of room at grade, you need to build underground.

[@x_ph1l]

Great discussion. As an engineer, I enjoyed this a lot!

[@Arturo-lapaz]

The conversation about flying cars is important, because it puts two aspects in view: a) it needs to be able to take off and land in a small area, b)noise considerations indicate that the propusion be electrical powered with a storage battery. The solution, limits the "aircar's" range by practical weight limitations. Here are some of the considerations: The rotor(s) diameter is determined by the parking size, the power is determined primarily by the total weight and by the rotor diameter: Power = √( W³)/D ×√(2÷π÷dens) + 3/4×W×tipspeed×Cd/CL Here is W..... Weight D..... rotor diameter π .... 3.1416 dens.....air density : 1.225 kg/m³ at sea level ½ at 21800 ft altitude tipspeed of the rotor CD/CL rotor blade drag to lift ratio. ~ 1/80 consistent units are essential : meters, Newtons, Watts, m/sec kg etc for example weight is mass in kg times 9.80665 m/s² earth gravity. = Newtons POwer is shaft power required just to hover. What is remarkable is the enourmous influence of weight. For an electric vehicle the battery weight is around 4 kg per kWh stored energy, hopefully reduced to 3. There is a stark contrast to ICE' fuel weight, which uses 3/4 of the other fuel component as free oxygen from the atmosphere. Batteries must store the equivalent 3/4 internally. Together with the high power sensitivity of VTOLs on weight, to realize a longer range electric flying car is an unsolved challenge, so far. Metall-air batteries might be worth pursuing for this application.

[@TG-rf2iu]

So glad I didn’t miss this

[@MarcoNierop]

Awesome! I love Tim Dod's videos about rocketery stuff and especially his live streams, where he always finds a way to fuck up at the moment of truth LOL! Anyway, very nice interview and learned a few things.. as always with Munro Live 🙂 Keep up the good work!

[@9-and-3]

I see Tim ... I hit play! :)

[@robertpastor4061]

Awesome..

[@markdudar6632]

Good job guys real good

[@mcdonnellpadraic]

Sandy is good at interviews.

[@legostud]

Flying cars will never take off until we figure out how to make them quiet. People already complain about plane noise flying over their houses, imagine a highway of planes flying over your house.

[@EnerGeezerSquirrel]

Maybe no Lightning ads are shown where Sandy lives but I've seen a few here in Quebec, (Montreal area) some even in French! Good idea to deviate from mostly-auto podcasts. It's *always* interesting to overhear intelligent conversation. More please! (more variety of guests, of course, since the talk's always smart if Sandy's involved no matter the subject) Sandy's often describing his resumé as having worked on "...everything from Barbie to the I.S.S.!" A short video aimed at STEM ready minds might attract young females to science if he did a piece on what was involved, if he's not under an NDA. Other specific projects might serve the same purpose? Just a thought...

[@markcannaday6928]

Wow! I open KZbin and two of my favorite podcasters are on chewing the fat. I guess I should have expected this because both of them challenge the "rules". This is time well spent.

[@history-stamp]

I was shocked when I flow into Zurich. The metro, subway, directly below the air terminal.

[@binauralauto3621]

Thanks Tim and Sandy for getting together and speaking through these issues. It's amazing how stuck the automotive industries is and I truly hope they adapt. I'm in the EV charging industry and it's almost as bad as working with the big 3. They just don't get it.

[@russr1411]

You say you work in the EV charging industry, how do you plan on this industry or EV industry at large to make EV's the transportation of the future? I have worked with electric utilities for a number of years and the electrical grid, especially in summer during air conditioning season, can barely stand on its own, the utilities give discounts so they can turn off your air conditioner in summer to help manage the demand. So here we go, we all purchase the 10KW chargers and the residential demand could easily skyrocket. We can count on the sun to shine and winds to blow to make this work, sounds like we will have to add a large number of natural gas peaking units, rip out and replace or very seriously upgrade electrical grid. Including most of the residential networks. I have been told we will need to rotate the demand of the charging, sounds good, I am sure we will come up with that electrical storge bank, we are counting on. I have never ever talked with an electrical engineer that says we are even close to an EV revolution. It was always the joke discussion in the break room. I do not want transportation to put at risk comforts of living, it does not have to.

[@jacobuserasmus]

13:03 I still think there is a good chance that tunnels will take over roads. VTOL also becomes less useful with autonomous vehicles. If you can create a tunnel at the same cost as a road per km (even double as the maintenance will be less). Things become very interesting, imagine a world without the ugly black roads everywhere, no parking lots. You simple take an autonomous vehicle in a tunnel.

[@filthE-]

We already have VTL aircrafts called helicopters. Sure you can electrify them, but the air disturbance is going to be super load and disruptive. The majority of the noise from helicopters is from air not engine.

[@Madchuck42]

The OG's of explanation

[@surrealengineering7884]

4:30 BMW did it exactly like that, they sold it as "active hybrid" which was just he top engine 3 series with an electric boost motor. But by then the word "hybrid" was already associated with "lame". But they are really cool (but expensive to fix)

[@timboatfield]

*Nearly 10K!*

[@jrockerstein]

I want both of these guys on starship going around the moon!!

[@alanrogers7090]

As Elon has said, "At Tesla we don't make slow cars."

[@budgetaudiophilelife-long5461]

🤗👍🤩🤩😎 JUST FINISHED WHILE EATING 🥣 MY LUNCH 🧐LEARNED ALOT 💚💚💚

[@marknevar8234]

Don't you need an additional piece of hardware to power the house? It's fairly expensive if I remember. Sandy makes it seem like it works as delivered.

[@KevinT3141]

Great collaboration, thanks! On the flying cars: The average driver can't navigate safely in two dimensions, I do _not_ want them to be given three.

[@Arturo-lapaz]

Oh go jump into the lake or learn to fly, safety in the air is far better than driving among DUI, like Pelosi's husband. As a accident free flight instructor I am biased, proud that none of my former students has had serious incidents . Besides auto pilots and autonomous flying vehicles rely on tried and proven technology and the vehicle density in the air, is not concentrated in about one dimension and is vastly lower

[@KevinT3141]

@@Arturo-lapaz Swimming's not safe either. Thanks for what you do, not just anyone can be a teacher.

[@myredeyelife7010]

Listening from Dewitt, Iowa

[@lobotomite3248]

Please interview Ben from Unchartedx. He has made a series covering precision manufactured ancient pre-dynastic vases. He has been on an episode of Rogan not too long ago.

[@nathanprice4568]

when I was a kid back in 1960s 18 cents a gallon would be like 2 pennies per mile now 2kwh (30cents) for one mile is much better than 7 dollars a gallon ( 20 miles ) and less smoke and noise too

[@PlushGrenade]

is there plans to do a live showing of the next Startship launch at The Sphere in Vegas?

[@donjones4719]

People criticize the idea of relying on billionaires to fund advanced space flights like Polaris and Dear Moon but historically society relied on rich people funding or endowing large science projects. Until the 60s (maybe the 50s) the US government wasn't funding science and medicine at anywhere near the level it is now. Major telescopes and hospitals and medical schools were founded by millionaires. Universities with big endowments had the research labs that did the big breakthroughs in discovering penicillin and the physics principle that led to radio astronomy. I'm always happy to see people like Elon & Jared & MZ not competing to see who has the biggest yacht or the most elaborate mansions.

[@howardholt3530]

I was in the 7th grade when Sputnik went up. By high school the science teachers were getting all kinds of support from the federal government.

[@craighermle7727]

Part of the adoption issue, is that there are still states like New Hampshire, that are trying to slow down EV adoption in whatever way they can. There were more gas stations put online in the city I live in the last 12 months than there are useable or worth-using charging stations in the entire state. There was also legislation recently introduced in New Hampshire against the adoption of renewable energy, because "it will change our way of life". I'm not making that up. Oddly New Hampshire has one of the highest rates for electricity in the Continental US, with virtually 100% reliance on fossil fuel to turn the turbines. New Hampshire is also the only state in New England that still uses a fired peaker power plant.

[@tobias..6688]

My comment feeds the algorithm 🚀

[@RCdiy]

VTOL is a pipe dream until air traffic control is completely automated. Not VTOL the technology but the concept of having takeoff and landing all over the place. The entire RC Model Aircraft hobby was almost wiped out by the FAA with the new regulations regarding where and how they can fly.

[@23428jp]

Driving a car now is too dangerous as it is what with pot smoking, drinking, texting, cell phone addiction and all the other ways drivers are distracted and unable to be safe on the road. Imagine what it would be like with flying cars crashing through your ceiling, crushing you in your yard or anywhere outside 24/7.... We'd all have to live underground to be halfway safe...

[@williammann7247]

​which is why most of them are self controlled with no passenger control inpurlt.

[@williammann7247]

input. I hate autocorrect.

[@mikecoleman2003]

The math on whether we are not alone never seems to take into account "time". Assume a "civilization" can last several thousand years (before destroying itself), the likelihood that aliens exist at the same time as we do drastically decreases. Even if they do the distances are too vast to reach each other even with so-called warp drives. Time and distance are the true barriers to "ever" see an alien despite the extremely vast number of stars.

[@theOrionsarms]

DCX wasn't made by Lockheed Martin, but by Martin Marietta corporation in 1991, if I remember correctly , Lockheed get into a merger with Martin Marietta after few years , and become Lockheed Martin(before that was only Lockheed) , also propulsive landing was developed for the lunar lander used in the Apollo program many years before , wasn't Neill Armstrong almost killed by a malfunction of training equipment used to simulate propulsive lunar landing in 1967?

[@Arturo-lapaz]

Talk about Tiahuanaco, The famous explorer of those ruins was also the man who in 1904 introduced the first car , a Mercedes , into Bolivia. Check Wikipedia.

[@skataskatata9236]

5:20 Sandy is wrong: " NASA never had a rocket ship that lands" they had one in 1969. it landed on the moon...

[@spelare2]

Good interview but VTOL wont happen where the sound will be disturbing. We have had enough with the waterjets already. I am riding Norton bikes by the way…an commando and es2.

[@snookmeister55]

You assume VTOL must be noisy.

[@Jens.Krabbe]

@@snookmeister55I wasn’t aware of a technology to push air without making noise 🤔

[@snookmeister55]

@@Jens.Krabbe not silent, not necessarily disturbing noise either

[@didiersavard6809]

Great interview. The UFO and aliens stuff was a little much. Alien in mexico was debunk a couple of years ago and without finding new physics, even gravity wave don't move at the speed of light and the universe is very big. The distance to Alpha Centauri is gigantic. And it's one close one. Remember, light year is the distance at the speed of light for one year and going 10% of it is a big maybe right now. Warp drive is one possibility to go faster, but it's still need to be possible, and right now it's not there. Earth is the only place we have, the ONLY one. Let's fix that.

[@TyDyck]

❤️

[@paul_gradenwitz]

I wonder why Tim never considered that for a warp drive to be controlled we have to send the controlling information, that requests space to warp, through space that is not warped. What ever that information is, any kind of force, that acts to space curvature, is a gravitational force and moves with light speed. Thus you can't instruct space to warp for you without your information to curve space move as fast or faster than you. That stops all ideas of warp speed.

[@bicycledave]

Detroit is responsible for removing rail systems all over the country. You’re right Sandy. There’s no way you’re going to put in a rail system. Not in the motor city.

[@robertimrie3710]

And the solution is flying cars? To me that is like saying nuclear is a better solution than renewables, despite being more expensive and problematic. Maybe it's because I am not American and I don't believe private enterprise is the only solution to every problem Cars are great but Americans have turned a love affair into stalker territory. I am sure rail or a subway to the airport could be done, it just requires the will and belief to make it happen. Having what amounts to a private helicopter service from the airport to the city is an extravagance for people who are already flying first class. Brisbane Australia introduced our airtrain service to our airport in 2001despite relatively reliable and efficient access to the airport by private car. The train provides a practical alternative that is particularly suited to people travelling alone. It compliments the other modes while minimising vehicle movements to the airport.

[@echoeversky]

Fun fact: we gonna need nuclear power.

[@nathansuss]

​@@echoeverskywhat why

[@solararch2001]

Running buses on an asphalt right of way, instead of a train on tracks, is better because, if there’s a problem with the vehicle, you can easily move it off the road or go around it, whereas, if you have a problem with a train car on the track… the entire system comes to a screeching halt. Everyone is stuck for excruciating periods of time. A train track is inflexible obsolete infrastructure for transporting people in cities. People love trains because they offer an elegant way to get on and off the vehicle, unlike entering a bus in the front. We need to make buses like trains cars, and use a paved asphalt roadway instead of tracks, with regular rubber tires. Combine the best of a train with the best of a bus. That would be the best solution.

[@vimmentors6747]

​So Detroit helped to accidentally accelerate progress? Because rail is on the way out. Very few people will choose mass transit over robotaxis unless government uses policy to make robotaxis artificially hard and expensive.

[@Mrbfgray]

Flying car will be just as restricted as any other helicopter, NO ONE will put up with the mini hurricanes coming from nextdoor in the hood. Airport to city center should be a thing tho.

[@andrasbiro3007]

They are not as loud, and far cheaper to operate. But the other issues remain, so likely the sky will never be filled with flying cars. Tunnels make much more sense.

[@jrockerstein]

How did this interview happen!?!?🎉❤❤❤

[@munrolivepodcast]

We have some good producers!

[@danapeck5382]

Slide rule users designed all the coolest aerospace hardware. I often wonder if CFD somehow limits intuition

[@andrasbiro3007]

It's more like the cultural change. During the world wars and the next few decades innovation was a national security issue. Then in the 70's and 80's it started to be about making money, managers took over, and everyone started to focus on quarterly reports, instead of the long term mission. With short term thinking you can't take risks, and without that you can't innovate, so you have to cut costs by making everything cheap, outsourcing jobs to poor countries, and underpaying your workers. That strategy seems to work well for a while, just long enough to make the changes irreversible. Then you are left with a skeleton of a company which may keep going on pure inertia, then collapses. Smart managers jump ship before that, so their resume will show the company was doing well under their management and collapsed after they left, so they get hired by the next company, and the cycle starts over. Until they run out of good companies.

[@echoeversky]

After Tim's starship flight he should hit the ancient buildings circuit.

[@cucubogdy]

Think about how long it took humanity to be able to communicate by radio. We just became a modern civilization in the past 100 years. Maybe there are many more civilizations out there that are still working on evolving and one day sooner or later they might be able to receive or transmit something that we can understand. Could be 100 years from now or thousands but more likely than not it will happen.

[@wardsellars8805]

Flying cars will be constrained by the FAA and by noise codes. Propellers supporting a flying car make a lot of noise. Imagine a helicopter flying low over your house 30 times a day. There will be a lot of pushback on that

[@JackMott]

Anyone notice Tim Dodd work in an "At the end of the day" right from the gun? lol

[@Purplebass]

Tesla should make a slow car. 16 yr olds dont need an 8 second car unless they are on the track.

[@frankch28]

Wow!!! The ET discussion was really weird😂. As a technical person, Munro has some 'nutty' ideas. Tim Dodd was more 'scientific' about the whole thing.

[@danielhull9079]

Rockets re landing does this benefit from Blackberry QNX Real Time Operating System I wonder.