To be fair, that toothbrush cost more than $2 due to the shipping costs.

@earthlingjohn

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@natesmartkid6493

3 жыл бұрын

soyuz cost per kilogram is $5357, so if you include the other materials used to make it EVA version toothbrush the cost to get it to the station would be about $446-$669

@planetastic8522

3 жыл бұрын

20,000$ to be exact in U.S terms. Because why would they be cheap? It’s unnecessary.

@planetastic8522

3 жыл бұрын

There are the humorous people, and then there are the people who insult you over a joke.

@markojovcevski5852

3 жыл бұрын

Not if you buy it with cash oin the local market

Moral: Never run out of duct tape.

@12201185234

3 жыл бұрын

Moral, not morale.

@slick4401

3 жыл бұрын

@@12201185234 Thanks. Corrected.

@LoremIpsum1970

3 жыл бұрын

Never run out of: duct tape, plastic sheeting and a shovel...

@PanduPoluan

3 жыл бұрын

"Duct tape, Well, it’s like the Force. It’s got a light side and a dark side and it binds the whole universe together." ~ Adam Savage

@scott2100

3 жыл бұрын

the first aid kit in my car is duct tape and a towel

I'll have to remember these next time I'm on the ISS

@cursedcliff7562

3 жыл бұрын

Sir i must comment on how good that pfp matches KZread dark mode

@RKroese

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't remember and I died on the ISS a few months ago.

@artisticyeti22

3 жыл бұрын

Oh that matches YT dark mode for sure

@karelkerstboom7637

3 жыл бұрын

Well its still more usefull then those weird coca cola life hacks

@KillaBustaHata

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, these space hackers are really helpful to this secret Chinese spy space station now

"Either damaging the panels or the astronaut would be a very bad outcome." Another of Scott Manely's famous understatements.

@LoneWolf-wp9dn

2 жыл бұрын

sub optimal outcome :)

@paulmichaelfreedman8334

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love his low-key cynicism.

Once I heard a story about random toothpaste boxes being empty and how the company fixed it (these stories change so much that I wonder if it's actually true, but...): It seems some random toothpaste box ended up empty at the consumer, no tube inside. So the company hired a 3rd party to fix the manufacturing problem. They couldn't figure out why, so they developed a very expensive system that would weigh each box and, if it was deemed empty, it would push it out of the belt. Truckload of money, but problem was fixed. One day, the supervisor was walking around the plant and noticed the device was plugged off. When asking the sector employees they said it was slowing down the line with the weighing process, so they just bought a cheap fan and kept it pointed at the belt, if a box was empty it was just blown off of it.

@LoanwordEggcorn

3 жыл бұрын

F=ma FTW! :)

@twig4661

3 жыл бұрын

thats awesome, such a simple and elegant solution.

@jasonlast7091

3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, I used to work at a production facility with this exact problem. Might go back and get a raise now.

@a..d5518

3 жыл бұрын

Had they consulted the line workers first they could have saved a lot time and money!

@TheGamingLegendsOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

@@a..d5518 As someone who has studied TPM and 5S and everything gonna be honest you _always_ go to the line workers first - they're the ones that know their machinery. If something's gonna get fixed ask the folks who work on it every day haha

"And they still operate today with the emergency fix still in place" I, a software dev, shudders at that sentence.

@spinner4148

3 жыл бұрын

Have you seen the actual source code for the Lunar lander? There are literally lines of code commented as "# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE". Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix.

@LoneWolf-wp9dn

2 жыл бұрын

"If it compiles it's good, if it boots up it's perfect " Linus Torvalds

@lofowens

2 жыл бұрын

I've definitely written some code like that, where I finally found something that works and I'm not entirely sure why. The thing to do is carefully add //HERE BE DRAGONS, DO NOT CHANGE and then move on.

@jesusramirezromo2037

Жыл бұрын

@@lofowens Like Mario Galaxy, where if you delete or replace a single unused Mushroom moddel, the whole game doesn't bootup

@anzaca1

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, the fix wasn't to the electrical aspect of the panels.

What was that saying? "There is no more permanent fix, than a temporary one"

@Kineth1

3 жыл бұрын

I think you're missing two key words at the end: "that works."

@johnrickard8512

3 жыл бұрын

The most permanent solution to a problem is a temporary one that works.

@Mr2winners

3 жыл бұрын

Ohh yes the "pemenent temporary fix "

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kineth1 Not required. Too many useless temporary fixes have become permanent with every cleanup attempt stopped by the memory of the original problem or assumption that it's there "for. a reason"

@brianrichards782

3 жыл бұрын

There's always time to do it right the second time

“KZread is full of dumb life hacks.” -Scott Manley for the 2020 Quote of the Year.

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, too many bad quotes already accumulated. It's 2020 after all, and our vision isn't.

@Tocsin-Bang

3 жыл бұрын

Generally speaking if I see "hack", "life", "amazing", or "mind-boggling"; I click "Not Interested", or "Don't recommend this channel".

@thePronto

3 жыл бұрын

The word 'hack' and its various misuses really irritates me. But after thinking about it for a second, I realized why it is an indelible part of the modern lexicon: because the word im-pro-vis-at-ion is such a mouthful...

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

@@thePronto This use of the word hack is much closer to the original meaning than the use for criminal activities.

@kwichzwellbreck3567

3 жыл бұрын

Well life hacks which are dumb are published by libtards or Russians and we know those dont get banned like the rest of us = that is why youtube is full of them ^^

"So I've been in space, on the end of an arm attached to a Space Shuttle. While I held on to a sattelite." Just imagine the stories he's got during BBQ's

@AgentTasmania

3 жыл бұрын

Gathered around the Poodle on low throttle

@roycejacobs9682

3 жыл бұрын

@@AgentTasmania Nice

@Boomchacle

3 жыл бұрын

@@AgentTasmania I get that reference XD

@imagineaworld

3 жыл бұрын

That one!

@richardduggan8595

3 жыл бұрын

@@AgentTasmania haha, good job

This is just one of many reasons why we need human spaceflight. It's the ingenuity & "out of the box" thinking of human brains attached to human hands out there on the spot that can save the mission.

i feel like a requirement for astronauts should be to go drive a crappy car on a road trip with no phone

@PatrickKQ4HBD

3 жыл бұрын

Mark Watney did exactly that.

@sentientmop317

3 жыл бұрын

@@PatrickKQ4HBD I was about to say how he had probably the most expensive car ever made but then thought about all the shit he did to it by the end of the book.

@PatrickKQ4HBD

3 жыл бұрын

@@sentientmop317 haha, yeah. I was actually referring to the epilogue (prologue?) in the book. Foreshadowing. Before they went to Mars, Mark took a road trip in his crappy car, which broke down on him in the middle of nowhere. His cellphone was also dead and he'd forgotten his charger, so of course he tore apart his stereo to make one and call a tow truck.

Scott: Jabbing metal objects into electrical panels isn't good. Me, an electrician: Ummmm, that's pretty much my job description?

@jv-lk7bc

3 жыл бұрын

thats why we call a professional. ;)

@beanslinger4616

3 жыл бұрын

They're astronauts, not electricians.

@beeble2003

3 жыл бұрын

@@beanslinger4616 They're astronauts _and_ electricians.

@saffroncoasts6950

3 жыл бұрын

Bad job

@randomm9683

2 жыл бұрын

Elechikens**

For those of you wondering how dropping a hammer to a hip-height fender in 1/12th a G could somehow manage to damage it (obviously impossible), the answer is that that's not what happened. He had the hammer in a pocket and it caught the edge of the fender and popped it off.

@TlalocTemporal

2 жыл бұрын

Small correction: 1/6th of a G, or 16.6%.

@jamesharding3459

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds a lot more plausible.

My favorite (from the movie "The Right Stuff") is when Chuck Yeager fell off his horse,and broke his ribs the evening prior to the first Mach 1 flight. He was unable to reach across and close the access hatch with his injuries and unwilling to admit the injuries to the higher ups and lose the flight to some other pilot. So, he smuggled a length of broom stick aboard. Wedged into the hatch frame, it gave him the grip/leverage needed to close the hatch. The only this that rings untrue in this story was that, while riding his horse hell-for-leather in pitch darkness into a closed fence, he was stone cold sober (not likely).

Rocket engineers: "We calculate that we need to lose some mass to make this mission successful. What can we get rid of? How about these rolls of duct tape." Astronauts bunching fists... Rocket engineers: "OK, OK. How about the desserts out of the ration packs?" Astronauts: "Fine. Whatever."

@princecharon

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, good choice, they *need* that tape... though it would take some heavy desserts, or a lot of lighter ones, to equal the mass of a few rolls of duct tape.

@ooooneeee

3 жыл бұрын

Engineers would never think of getting rid of duct tape.

@1224chrisng

2 жыл бұрын

I was originally going to say that they should eat the dessert, but that's not how conservation of mass works

Bodging has a long and hilarious history.

@thijsdeboer5560

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@oxybrightdark8765

3 жыл бұрын

Ever seen tom scotts video on the emoji keyboard? It’s a good video on the art of the bodge

@jonathans1759

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it's a good one.

@VroomTheSpaceApe

3 жыл бұрын

A bodge??? A bodge??? A bespoke optimised custom engineered solution was delivered!

@jonathans1759

3 жыл бұрын

@@VroomTheSpaceApe You have truly grasped the concept of the bodge. Now go and practice what you have learned.

"Greatest Tech Support call" - nah, that's devops jerry-rigging in production. Straight up heroic.

@RCAvhstape

3 жыл бұрын

That scene in From the Earth to the Moon was awesome. They woke the guy up in the middle of the night and fed him coffee until he came up with a fix.

@jv-lk7bc

3 жыл бұрын

@@RCAvhstape poor dude. I can hear him "try this. now will you leave me alone?"

@sentientmop317

3 жыл бұрын

I love early nasa because it’s pretty much the smartest people in the USA with the best technology doing shit that shouldn’t be possible for another 40 years. Plus half the shit they did was just fucking nuts, I mean seriously the fucking moon, there’s a reason we didn’t go back and it’s not some crazy conspiracy or anything. It’s because it is stupidly dangerous and we got stupidly lucky, seriously half of it is just sticking a guy in a can for a few days and then playing it by ear. Actually better analogy early nasa is kerbal space program but the player actually cared about the Astronauts they had.

"Houston... We have a problem...." "One minute ISS... We'll call our brazilian expert on gambiarras..."

@g.ferreira6745

3 жыл бұрын

Por isso q temos q colocar brasileiros na ISS!

@jv-lk7bc

3 жыл бұрын

you say that like they don't have one.

@mypenisisincrediblysmallbu2667

3 жыл бұрын

Campeão do mundo

The handyman's secret weapon - duct tape. -Red Green

@andrewmcphee8965

2 жыл бұрын

And cable ties...

@paullangford8179

2 жыл бұрын

Not secret. Why do you think hardware stores ALL sell it?

So they were reading tea leaves to scry the location of the leak?

@Kineth1

3 жыл бұрын

Make sure you pay attention in divination class!

@bobroberts2371

3 жыл бұрын

Ginger is used to plug leaks in automotive cooling systems, perhaps tea would do the same? ( Until the leaf moves and the leak starts up for the next crew. )

@torstenmautz195

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobroberts2371 they just needed something that wouldn't damage any astronaut or system onbord but is sticky and light enough. So tea leaves, maybe with a drop of water, was a good solution.

@-mike-8134

3 жыл бұрын

@@torstenmautz195 I would guess the tea leaves were used to find the leak, dry and floating in the cabin being drawn toward the hole by the escaping air. Then they used something more glue-y to seal it.

@goldendragon3147

3 жыл бұрын

@@-mike-8134 yea, they used the tea leaves being sucked towards the hole to find it, and then temporarily stuck some duct tape on it right?

This is why you should always make sure to bring your mass effect field toothbrush with you!.. btw: You don't need to leave the Earth to fave the need of crazy macgyvering. We constantly did the same in the middle of Siberian winter expeditions while building a neutrino telescope. No tool or resource went untouched.

@torstenmautz195

3 жыл бұрын

Neutrino telescope????????? Thats normally a HUGE water tank with billions of gallons(or liters) deep in an old mine with no light and lots of detectors to recognize the 2-3 reactions per day-week depending on size and mass above you!!?

@zoltanposfai3451

3 жыл бұрын

@@torstenmautz195 Yep. That's it. Lake Baikal = huge water tank. At ~1300m it's also dark. Practical benefit: During the winter when the ice is thick, you can build an ice camp and winch it up near the surface for repairs/upgrades/etc. (Unlike the South Pole one that's 2000m deep in ice. Once it goes down, it stays there.)

@torstenmautz195

3 жыл бұрын

@@zoltanposfai3451 wow that's a cool thing. But I think Iwouldn't like to stay in a cold environment like Siberia in the winter.... how cold was it there -50°C(223K)?

@zoltanposfai3451

3 жыл бұрын

@@torstenmautz195 I worked in -45C, and on one occasion I missed some -50C by a few days, as I was told. (In a section of Irkutsk, central heating went down and people died.) It's quite interesting. Your tears can freeze, sealing your eyes when you blink. Need to mind how you breathe. Loads of things that you may read about, but being there, living in it, experiencing it (and not being able to just quit when you like), is something you will remember for life. Working on bleeding edge science, do small excursions, survive animal attacks, experience storms, see the beauty of the environment, meet locals etc. All worth loads of stories.

@sycamorph

3 жыл бұрын

@@zoltanposfai3451 When was that? I live there and I've never heard of that. I'm guessing like a decade ago? Never heard of temperatures like that there either, but I know it used to be colder years ago.

And this could be counted as one of the reasons why we need manned spaceflight.

@HermanIdzerda

3 жыл бұрын

Improvisement is an ability I guess no machine will ever replicate.

STS-51-D is memorable for me because I still have the “Toys In Space” vhs tape I bought at KSC in 1994 shows it. I still have the tape. I should get that from my moms house and digitize it.

@genericasianperson6405

3 жыл бұрын

You should

@ImaSpacePotato

3 жыл бұрын

You definitely should. Most VHS tapes are nearing the end of their life. It would be a shame to lose a piece of history like that.

This reminds me that once away from home my bike chain broke, a link was broken and with two stones and broken pieces of the chain I managed to join it again.

Space is hard, until $2 toothbrushes are saving the ISS.

@torstenmautz195

3 жыл бұрын

That 2$ toothbrush costs 1-2000$ to be sent... ;-)

@jv-lk7bc

3 жыл бұрын

then its harder

@sentientmop317

3 жыл бұрын

Getting to space is hard. Making stuff in space is hard. Fixing stuff in space is also hard but only because you have to learn to act for a Macgyver episode

@7e21

Жыл бұрын

@@torstenmautz195 It'd be more like 50-100$ with launch prices now which isn't terrible.

@torstenmautz195

Жыл бұрын

@@7e21 F9 still costs 50.000.000 for 18t (max) to 200km orbit. That's 2.777,77$/kg. No dragon. No iss. No 400km orbit. No procedures for docking etc.

I was just thinking: wouldn't it be amazing if Scott did a video about space emergencies? And then this drop and i was like: yeah that will do.

@caparroz1923

3 жыл бұрын

I thought he did one years ago... or did he?

@MrHichammohsen1

3 жыл бұрын

@@caparroz1923 if yes, why not do another one.

@rsedivy2

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrHichammohsen1 I'd listen to Scott read out the weather report if it meant more content from him

The McGuyver mode is one of the modes of operation that make humans great. There is the loving mode, the artistic mode, and all sorts of other skills and qualities and capabilities we should be proud of and for which we owe our existence. But among these must always be valued, the McGuyver mode. :)

The timing of the "toothbrush that saved the ISS" story is interesting, because that was ~six months before Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC dropped, which also features a toothbrush saving a spacecraft.

That is an ode to standardization and reusing if there is any... Also, having a standard toolbox in any space situation.

@jerrymiller276

3 жыл бұрын

Non-standard problem sometimes require non-standard tools.

@ylandrinschweitzer

3 жыл бұрын

@@jerrymiller276 Yes, but if the components you have at your disposal to craft such tools are more likely to work together, the non-standard solutions are more achievable. If everything is a hex socket with the same bore, there is less work to solve the square peg in the triangle hole problem.

@PatrickKQ4HBD

3 жыл бұрын

But the sockets have to be SAE.

@ylandrinschweitzer

3 жыл бұрын

@@PatrickKQ4HBD That's how you lose an orbiter.

With all the problem solving going on in this video, I was expecting for it to be sponsored by brilliant

@hellelujahh

3 жыл бұрын

Especially when Scott got the conclusion near the end, I started bracing for a segue!

OMG. Fantastic stories....many of which I had never heard before!! Great video!!!

STS-49, Endeavour's maiden flight. When the original plan to capture the wayward Intelsat VI satellite failed, the crew and ground support worked out a plan using three astronauts in the only EVA in spaceflight history to date to do so to grab and then hold the satellite by hand so that the capture bar that had failed on previous EVAs due to a lack of sufficient resistance to trigger it off and clamp onto Intelsat IV. The working out of radio, airlock procedures, use of the ASEM struts and equipment for another unrelated EVA test to create positions for two of the three astronauts to position themselves in the payload bay on definitely qualifies as one of the greatest improvised rescues in spaceflight history.

It always amused me that they never thought about making the air scrubbers compatible between service and lunar modules to begin with. In this case, the redundancy of having two separate systems was a bit too redundant.

@torstenmautz195

3 жыл бұрын

A redundancy has to be compatible... that problem was just due to 2 different teams at 2 different companys developing things really fast and not coordinate with each other that had very specific use cases.

@joevignolor4u949

3 жыл бұрын

@@torstenmautz195 You also have to remember that the round cartridges used in the lunar module's life support system were the same type that fit into the PLSS backpacks. There may have been some technical reason why the backpacks needed to use the round cartridges and so to make things easier they used the same round cartridges in the LM's life support system.

@fred_derf

3 жыл бұрын

Worrying about things like making the scrubbers being designed by two independent teams inter-compatible makes the design process takes longer and raises prices.

@Invisifly2

3 жыл бұрын

Fred Derf and reduces the risk of putting your astronauts into a life threatening emergency situation.

@tangydiesel1886

3 жыл бұрын

The "hack" in a way, was the redundancy. The plan to "put a square peg, in a round hole" was planned out in advance, unlike how the movie shows it as a last minute fix.

"If you'd told me this morning that a toothbrush was going to save the Normandy, I'd have been very skeptical."

@HalNordmann

3 жыл бұрын

Right, Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC.

"Grey Tape" comes to the rescue so many times. Whoever first thought that it would be a good idea to put it onboard should get a reward.

@RKroese

3 жыл бұрын

The janitor put a box of the stuff onboard without anyone noticing.

Remember how an early Soyuz-Salyut docking got stuck halfway through the mechanical engagement, with no ability to continue and no provisions to back out of the procedure? They were looking at saving the crew at the price of losing the brand-new space station. Then hacking intensified and things worked out in the end.

wow! I didn't realize the ISS solar panels are just film with the photovoltaics on there! That shot of the one array moving as it was being worked on was fantastic! Is that Kapton? Always wondered why they are orange.... Edit: I did some research and the solar arrays are in fact cells bonded to a Kapton/fiberglass blanket. The more you know!

IMHO the greatest tech service call is "S.C.E. to AUX" John Aaron is a god.

@dantreadwell7421

3 жыл бұрын

"Steely-eyed missile man"

@intiorozco5063

3 жыл бұрын

What the hell is that?

That $2 Toothbrush must have been before shipping charges.

the 'analogue' space days, is the feeling that the early Alien films represent really well

@RKroese

3 жыл бұрын

Only Alien, not Aliens.

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

@@RKroese Especially the improvised Alien proximity detector.

I have been going about problems all wrong for too many years. Simply Bury the Red Tape in an ample amount of Grey Tape! 😜

toothbrush: damn

If you had told me before that a toothbrush would save the -Normandy- ISS I would have been very skeptical.

I like to snowmobile, and one of the interesting things about the pastime is you often end up out in the middle of the woods somewhere with an unexpected problem with one or more of the vehicles that got you there (and are your ride home). You learn to come prepared. It's actually part of the excitement for me to be challenged by and overcome these problems. This video reminds me of snowmobiling in that way and I feel like space travel is the ultimate version of my own adventures.

@snivesz32

3 жыл бұрын

Right! you’re in charge of packing the space shuttle next time.

Fantastic! I knew the more famous ones but this collection of hacks is incredible. Suggestion: you could talk about that time the Canadian robotic arm failed and astronauts had to do an EVA to take a satellite they were fetching back BY HAND. A good time to understand the difference between weight (force) and mass (inertial mass) as the satellite had several tons.

Dear Scott: the following is a list of other important hacks in space: 1- Using slings to close the doors of the Hubble Space Telescope after repairs. 2- Neil Armstrong thetered the Agena module to his Gemini space ship after having trouble with the docking maneuver. 3- Leting Sheppard "go" in his spacesuit🤣🤣🤣🤣. 4- Neil Armtrong using his slide rule to calculate the LM position after he noticed they were off the expected landing zone 5- The 1202 and 1201 alarm "Service call" in the Apollo 11 landing on the moon😅😅😅 6 - Mark Watney's Iron man maneuver🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. 7 - Alexey Leonov deflating his spacesuit after the first ever EVA to fit through the hatch of hi's Voskod space ship. And finnaly.... 8 - Leaving the retro rocket pack attached to John Glenn's Friendship 7 Space ship to ensure its heat shield did not saparated from the spaceship while returning to Earth, avoiding "Plasma Baking" John Glenn.👍 There are some other "space hacks" but I don't remember them all. Have a pleasant evening.

This is the great reason for having 3D printer on ISS. Is absolute tool for hacks/magavering things. Especially when specialist on earth can design part and transmit file to ISS.

Space, one of the many ways we know the earth is not flat. Great video.

And then there's the other end of the hacker spectrum where if there isn't a X for exactly their situation, then there is just absolutely no way that the task can be accomplished. One of my favorite hacked together tools is when a man made a megaphone out of nothing but some string, a squirrel and a megaphone. Crazy.

It's a shame there was no mention of the Inanimate Carbon Rod

@ashokiimc

3 жыл бұрын

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@MlTGLIED

3 жыл бұрын

So cmon tell the story 🙄

@DecidedlyNinja

3 жыл бұрын

@@MlTGLIED It's from a Simpsons episode. Homer goes to space and has to use the rod to hold the door shut.

@MlTGLIED

3 жыл бұрын

@@DecidedlyNinja I am a fool. Of course I saw that episode with Homer in space. Thx mate 😆

When I was in the army, they called it "hundred mile an hour tape".

That's why STEM education, coupled with practical hands on experience is so valuable.

NASA: duct tape, pen caps, maps, etc. Homer Simpson: inanimate carbon rod.

Or as Tom Scott would say, they bodged together a solution

@beeble2003

3 жыл бұрын

The word "bodge" is about 400 years older than Tom Scott...

this video felt like it was 30 seconds long. I NEED MORE

"We have a stuck solar panel" "I know, let's lean out the door and poke it with a stick"

Ah yes, duck tape the tool to rule them all!

@benterrell9139

3 жыл бұрын

Duct... Or how about ducked tape? A totally new variation

@Buddie21341255612351

3 жыл бұрын

@@benterrell9139 duck tape is ok to use too, its literally the original name used during Ww2

@alastairbrand5821

3 жыл бұрын

I remember being told of an engineer's joke about duct tape, that it was one of the two most crucial tools in your bag - the other one being WD40. If it was supposed to move but didn't, get out the WD.... if if moved but wasn't supposed to, reach for the duct tape.

@donjones4719

3 жыл бұрын

And it comes in the form of a ring!

@hellelujahh

3 жыл бұрын

@@donjones4719 Disappointingly, burns in any old fire 😕

I have been waiting for you to make a video about it. I think the way the leak could be found is ingenious. Thanks for your thoughts and the video!

This is why I love space exploration, ingenuity of humankind at its peak. Thank you Scott for bringing us all these stories and videos to us mere mortals.

A wise man once told me that "necessity is the mother of invention"

I grew up on a farm and we seldom had what we needed, but I learned to misuse tools and other stuff to get by.

@torstenmautz195

3 жыл бұрын

Misuse? If it works that's what you call creativity

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

Every tool is a hammer

@garret1930

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandybarnes887 some hammers are just single use.

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

@@garret1930 😆 true

I hope they have a tube of Shoe Goo on board. That stuff is awesome.

@johnkay6197

3 жыл бұрын

Permatex right stuff. You can glue the world together with that stuff.

"If you would have told me this morning the the Normandy would be saved by a toothbrush, I would have been skeptical..."

STS-125 was the final Shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. When they had problems getting a bolt to loosen, they had to make a breaker bar to get it loose. They also had to physically rip off a metal handle in order to get at a circuit card that needed to be replaced.

I can imagine Dave from the EEVBLOG visiting the IIS and him going: "Oh ! We've got bodge !!" 😂

Sounds like the history of space flight is the history of bodging together solutions to unexpected problems.

My favorite is when Story Musgrave used packing straps to close the Hubble doors.

Laser line generator and an ultrasonic mister are my favorite airflow vis tools.

I clicked on the video without even reading the title. I wasnt deceived

The Spanish for duct tape is “cinta americana”. Understandable why.

During (if I remeber well) the Aragatz mission on MIR with the french cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien, a 3m deployable mesh antenna made by Aerospatiale was to be tested in deployment in zero G. The antenna had been stowed earlier in the station for a long time, and when they put it out for the deployment test, it failed to deploy. Most probably, moisture from the interior of MIR had frozen when it was exposed to the cold of space. Alexander Volkov was in charge of activating the deployment outside and in communication with the ground in Russia. He was ordered to wait for analysis, but he pretended a bad radio link as they were going out of coverage and literaly and strongly kicked the antenna which then urfulled perfectly. A sort of kickass hack !

Don’t be afraid of telling us about these little details, I hadn’t heard of many of the situations and the ones I HAD heard of didn’t cover all the stuff you have known for years and years. Very informative and interesting 🤔!

I'm pretty sure NASA toothbrushes cost more than 2 bucks but the delivery cost is the real killer :)

Pete Conrad was the freaking man

Love it! most of my life seems to be doing this..mending repairing stuff with whats on hand..I call it the 'Desert Island thinking' ..you can only fix it with what is around you and your life depends on it..its amazing what you can achieve with seemingly useless objects and stuff.

The only life hack video worth watching.

Very interested to hear what you mean by "improvise a spacewalk". I would assume that (over simplifying of course) they would just suit up, get in the airlock and tether up then hop out. I feel like I'm missing something.

@Kineth1

3 жыл бұрын

I believe they usually plan these things weeks in advance to ridiculous detail on the order of "how many turns does it take to remove bolt X" "how many steps is it to get from point A to B". In the case of shuttle missions, i think they also did a lot of mission rehearsals on dummy hardware in their "0g environment" pool. Just saying "suit up, go out there, and wave the flyswatter at the satellite" is a lot more seat-of-the-pants than a meticulously studied and planned EVA.

@damonandrews9409

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kineth1 I think you're right maybe just the thrill of the unplanned journey. Cheers mate

Knowing the history and the 18-20 minute comms delay, these are the things I am constantly thinking about in regard to putting people on Mars. They'd better be some damn good problem solvers and we might want to back them up with some good AI that can help them solve weird problems with the tools on hand.

Scott, I have to say as a Dutch citizen. You are one of the greatest speakers on KZread, vocabulary Titan!🙏

12:19 gotta love the ACME Bolt. There is nothing more reliant than an ACME tool

Living on Mars will be MacGyvering x100 ...

Broke: Canadarm Woke: A bloke with a long pole

This is exactly why there will always need to be crewed missions. Even if they're in the habitat on mars driving a rover remotely, they can still go fix things in a pinch.

4:14 My favorite exchange from the Apollo 17 radio logs: Cernan: "Remind me to dust my camera too, will ya?" Schmitt: "Don't forget to dust your camera."

109 likes and 0 dislike, keep it that way

I highly recommend the video on making the Apollo 13 filter, Scott I love you, but your wife saved your bottom in the "crafts" department!

The air scrubber was a "life hack" in the most real sense of the word

"If you told me this morning a toothbrush was going to save the ISS, I would have been very skeptical." - Commander Shepard...probably

I'd like to know what bits of kit are carried on each mission designed to be improvised and bodged, or if its always just repurposing items with other functions

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

Grey tape is one.

Welcome to rural Alaska, minus the experts on the ground.

@earthlingjohn

3 жыл бұрын

👍

The ISS is just the perfect example of buying something cheap and then realising that it is coming from Australia and costs 10× as much in shipping

I've never heard most of these, amazing video Scott

Hey Scott, love your videos! Odd question but do you remember where you got that gantry for the Saturn V? I’ll be getting the lego set for xmas and was really hoping to find a nice model launch tower. Keep up the great work and thanks for all the educational videos!!

@scottb721

3 жыл бұрын

Not the Scott you wanted but Google Lego Saturn V LUT. You buy the parts from other Lego parts sellers.

@HeathenGrip

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottb721 Thanks man I'll definitely try that out.

Longer videos man! I miss the vids when youd get nerdy for 20 30 mins then grab a beer and stream kerbal!

@schwiftyasfuck8575

3 жыл бұрын

13:12 is such a nice number tho

@imagineaworld

3 жыл бұрын

@@schwiftyasfuck8575 it really is!

One of the funny things is that most of the Space Station don’t remember the McGiver TVShow! This is one of my favorite shows Scott!

If you had told me this morning that a toothbrush was going to save the Normandy I would've been very skeptical

Things will be easier soon when Bezos sends his first Amazon Warehouse into orbit

10 foot pole... looks like someones been playing a little dungeons and dragons 3.5

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

Concept is much older.

@stenchemitter2407

3 жыл бұрын

Oh someone just said *very common expression* they must ALSO be playing *exceedingly obscure game that nobody cares about * like me!

Hey, I do this for a living... but when they do it, it's pretty inspiring I've gotta say

This is already one of my favorite of your videos to date. Thank you for being a great person.