"I'm Scott Manley, Fry safe".

@Quasar2007

6 күн бұрын

🤣 God, I’m pathetic!

@tygerbyrn

6 күн бұрын

Absolutely dying at this, mate! 😂

@jaimeduncan6167

6 күн бұрын

😁😁😁😁😁🤣

@friedlotto

5 күн бұрын

Perfection!

@fridaycaliforniaa236

4 күн бұрын

You nailed it LMAO

Scott, it was an honor climbing into a test chamber with you. Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this tour. It was amazing.

@ahgflyguy

6 күн бұрын

Did you guys get to go into the vacuum chamber across the street that’s the size of an ICBM? When I worked there, it was being used as a wind tunnel to simulate Martian atmospheric conditions to study erosion and dust devils and a little bit of rotorcraft stuff.

@WinstonMakes

6 күн бұрын

@@ahgflyguy Alas, our itinerary "only" included the Vertical Motion Simulator, Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, ArcJet, and ARMADAS. We could have easily spent double the time at each without getting bored, and I really wish we could have explored all the buildings labeled fluid dynamics and thermodynamics, but our guides worked hard to keep us on schedule. Rumor has it, they had to chase Scott down on more than one occasion because various bits of space history caught his eye and he wandered off... 😂

@charliem989

6 күн бұрын

@@ahgflyguy Are you referring to THE Martian rotorcraft?

@ahgflyguy

6 күн бұрын

@@charliem989 No, this was over 20 years ago. This was separate from the work done by JPL.

@revmsj

5 күн бұрын

Shhhh, Scott’s wife might see this…😳

Just imagine the chaos if Electroboom was invited

@timohearn4454

6 күн бұрын

How is this comment from 18 minuets ago when the video is less than a minute old

@Some_Thing_Nick

6 күн бұрын

@@timohearn4454magic

@thetroll1247

6 күн бұрын

Comment 26 min posted 8 minutes

@maximilianmorse9697

6 күн бұрын

"Child's play" - styropyro

@forcivilizaton5021

6 күн бұрын

Oooh man, you’re absolutely right! He’d give us THE FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!!!

It was so cool getting to see Ames with you! I was trying to find which cables carried which fluid, NASA had a stream a while back that claimed water flowed through the orange lines but I think you're right that they carry air as those beefy hoses would be the much higher pressure line than the water above.

@scottmanley

6 күн бұрын

It was a lot of guesswork based on what I saw and read, I could be wrong

@penguin44ca

6 күн бұрын

Check out periscope films, they have one video of all the lifting body shuttle designs in the chamber.

@4077Disc

6 күн бұрын

What a cool tour! If you guys came across any samples of something called 3MDCP while at Ames, I made that!

@chris-hayes

6 күн бұрын

Was gonna say this is the perfect Scott Manley video to follow up the BPS space heat shields tangent.

@AccAkut1987

6 күн бұрын

0:47 I spotted you man 😂

"they're waiting for you, Scott... in the test chamber."

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE

6 күн бұрын

HL3 confirmed...

the fact that nasa was like "hey scott, come on over were gonna show you around this testing facility." is a very good reason to like nasa. they are an educational institution along with being a pioneering and testing firm. they made a lot of today's aero and space possible.

@vbscript2

6 күн бұрын

The Air Force also gives tours of their similar facilities (provided they don't have any classified test articles around at the time.) I got to see several of them when I worked at AEDC. They have wind tunnels, jet engine testing facilities (several of these,) upper-stage rocket motor testing facilities, arc heaters that used multiple times as much power as the nearby town, guns for testing aircraft canopies (i.e. the "chicken gun,") and a light gas gun that can fire projectiles the size of a naval round at roughly orbital velocity.

Scott's ability to assimilate, process, comprehend, and convey information is impressive and enduring. Thanks for another fascinating video! "Slate green panels to help people feel calm about ending the world..." sounds right out of a dystopian sci-fi novel.

10:42 “This is a vortex of lava, trapped in the leeward side” is such a metal thing to say

This is really interesting. As an engineer in thermal protection, I have manufactured a few parts that went through the arc jet at Ames. We made some experimental parts for Dream Chaser and we got to see the photos of what they looked like after the test. I have never seen footage of the facility itself, so thanks for that.

@esecallum

5 күн бұрын

*No need for tiles at all. just drill lots of micro holes. then pump out dry ice out of those holes to form a cold co2 insulating boundary layer. you dont even really need a pump. the heat of re-entry will cause melting of the dry ice and high pressure dry ice co2 to come out of the micro holes to form the insulating boundary layer.*

@adamc1713

4 күн бұрын

@@esecallum How much dry ice would you need for a 14 ft diameter capsule traveling at 18,000 MPH?

I had a visceral reaction when you entered that LEAF room. It gives "the backscatter will blind you and that's just the start" vibes

@indeedgrasshopper

6 күн бұрын

Same here! When I was younger, I used to think lasers were cool so more powerful lasers must be more cool (to play with). Now, 20 years later, a big ol' NOPE! I work at a prototyping shop and we have a 4kW laser (TruLaser 2030) that will happily cut through 1/2" steel. These folks have 4, 50kW lasers? Yikes!

@JasminUwU

5 күн бұрын

Just the size of those mirrors has some terrifying implications

@christopherleubner6633

Күн бұрын

You aren't wrong. It's likely a ytterbium fiber laser. 200kw out of 4 fiber pipes is downright scary. I've seen a 4kw one and it slices and dices 1/4 inch steel plate like a hot knife through warm butter. 😮

Came home from a company event, tired with all the people, and lava vortex is just the thing I needed to look at and relax. Thank you!

@baomao7243

6 күн бұрын

When a lava lamp just isn’t calming enough !

@ariochiv

6 күн бұрын

Yes... the meteor lava vortex was absolutely the highlight of this video.

The molten material at the end, is one of the neatest things, I have seen in my life. Thanks for showing this fantastic tour. I felt like a kid in 4th or 5th grade, going to the natural history museum. What wonders!

@craigfdavis

6 күн бұрын

Looks like a forbidden orange creamcicle

So a William Osman ,Tibees, Everyday Astronaut crossover video incoming?

@ronblack7870

6 күн бұрын

looked like jeremy fielding there as well

@kuboteusz

6 күн бұрын

and Joe Barnard!

@N1RKW

6 күн бұрын

As well as Jay from The Plasma Channel.

Dude that is the PERFECT camera for showing off that chamber. It feels so immersive!

Her look of panic at 8:05 is like a combination of an _introvert realizing they're stuck in a small room with strangers_ and "oh, god, they might touch my experiments and I hate confrontation..." 😆

@snjert8406

6 күн бұрын

Exactly what I thought hahahaha

@CausticLemons7

5 күн бұрын

Did you mean 9:05 and she looks like Tibees.

Wow, I never really considered the idea of lava getting caught up in an eddy like that...

@MorzakEV

4 күн бұрын

I know right. If you watch the last starship flight, the eddys were so strong on the up wind side of the ship during reentry that sparks and bits of materials hovered around for seconds before dissipating. I was amazed then and now more so - at these speeds the currents must be super prominent.

Recruiter: "We're designing a machine to test tile materials. Would you like to be on the team?" Scientist: "Meh. Sounds boring." Recruiter: "Basically, we're building a giant plasma torch, and we're gonna burn stuff with it." Scientist: "I'm in." Recruiter: "It pays-" Scientist: "Don't care. I'm in."

@1320crusier

5 күн бұрын

Scientists...the ultimate pyromaniacs

I spent a summer working at the Mars Surface Wind Tunnel across the street that tapped into the vacuum pumps from the Arc Jet Facility. I got a tour of it as well-very cool place! That was back when Shuttle was still flying.

Was that Tibees in the background?

@AlexSchendel

6 күн бұрын

That's what I was thinking!

@gregkrekelberg4632

6 күн бұрын

It was! So nice to see her there. Joe Barnard was there as well. (Edit: typo)

@blackrack2008

6 күн бұрын

Yup, looks like they got all the cool youtubers

@gordonrichardson2972

6 күн бұрын

Foreground closeup at 09:00

@Rattiar

5 күн бұрын

Noice! Yeah, I saw her at 0:37 and was like “hey!” (I follow her channel and it’s very cool, but I just finished watching JetLag Australia, so she was top of mind)

It's cool to see you make such a good video of that facility. I spent 6 years in the machine shop making parts for that facility. I've reworked so many electrodes in my time there. It was fun

"Hypersonic gun range" My god, even 13 year old me would of been STOKED to see that.

@christopherleubner6633

Күн бұрын

It's crazy. It uses an actual artillery cannon charge to compress helium that launches a tiny projectile at truly hypersonic velocities. A small BB sized piece of aluminum can do damage comparable to a 50 cal. 😮

Lava Vortex is the name of my Rush cover band...

@chgr7025

6 күн бұрын

LMAO!!! That's freaking greatness!

@julianemery718

6 күн бұрын

Who knew your band name could look so awesome?

I used to Clean top-secret Cleanrooms. Have been in quite a few Laser (Photonics) facilities kinda like this. Brings back memories. Thanks Scott 😜

Well it's a plasma cannon. It's a plasma cannon, isn't it? I feel alright calling it a plasma cannon.

basically a BIG water cooled TIG torch

@samuraidriver4x4

6 күн бұрын

Plasma cutter comes closer.

@wayneg216

5 күн бұрын

@@samuraidriver4x4 Almost perfect example

@u1zha

3 күн бұрын

I in TIG stands for "inert" if I'm not mistaken? (Serves to _protect_ the metal from any gases it could react with) Well please note that atomic oxygen is very much opposite of inert! 5:05

@samuraidriver4x4

3 күн бұрын

@@u1zha Argon is the main shielding gas used for TIG, they do use argon in this system aswell. But yeah there are also plenty of reactive gasses present.

@christopherleubner6633

Күн бұрын

The copper alloy rings are made of copper tungsten alloy. Streight copper would vaporize far too quickly. 😮

Nice to see they are still using the Rockwell Retro-encabulator in the laser lab. To this day no device has been conceived which can surpass its performance in reducing sinusoidal deplaneration.

@Takyodor2

6 күн бұрын

Side-fumbling was practically eliminated as well, very impressive.

@snjert8406

6 күн бұрын

I didn't understand, what are they using?? Hahaha

@Takyodor2

6 күн бұрын

@@snjert8406 It's pretty much impossible to explain in a single comment, but this is a decent overview at least: watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w

@Takyodor2

6 күн бұрын

@snjert8406 I tried to post a link, but youtube doesn't like that. Look up "retro encabulator" and it should be the top result.

Scott, i just appreciate so much how i never have to scratch my head and go huh? when you're explaining a thing. So many other youtubes just leave me in a confused mess, thanks!

The tour was miraculous Scott, thanks for setting it up. But what’s more miraculous, is how fast you’ve gotten a video out about it haha. 4 days?? 😅

I remember getting to tour the NASA Houston test facility for Shuttle heat protection. That was pretty impressive stuff, where they were passing high pressure, high velocity steam over a huge bank of electrodes to electrolytically rip the steam into oxygen and hydrogen molecules.

Going up into space seems to be a much easier task compared to coming back down again safely. The sheer size of space flight test facilities alone is astonishing. Thank you for taking us onto another interesting tour.

"Vortex of lava" is one of those unambiguously terrifying phrases.

Great to see you with Tim & Tibees

I had a friend who was a little eccentric and had a big optics table like the one in your video with all of the mirrors, prisms, and such - I think he was creating laser holograms with it. When operating, it floated on a cushion of air to eliminate any ground vibration.

Saw a LOT of familiar faces there!

Now we know what Scott Manley has on his Christmas wish list!

Thanks for changing the thumbnail back to the original one with the nasalization font, that thumbnail was way cooler!

Thanks Scott for reminding us about how awesome NASA is

What timing! I’m a private jet pilot, and I flew into Moffett Field for the first time the day before you posted this video. Small world!

I've wanted to know how these have worked forever!! Thanks for finally making a video on these Scott :D

Tibees, I see you!

@AndrewinAus

6 күн бұрын

It was very cool to see familiar faces including Toby. 🙂

There is one facility at the University of Illinois which is using inductively coupled plasma to do similar experiments but it can't even come close to reaching the power levels this does. Imagine what thickness of steel the jet from this could blow through...

I used to talk about oriented meteorites at the Air and Space Museum. It's pretty cool that their shape drove early research into the shape of heat shields.

I do believe that footage of the metorite achieving change of state might be one of the most mind altering slo-mo shots i’ve seen , im glad that it was shared!

Tibees was there. Cool. Loong braid. Thanks for sharing Scott, quite cool. Wonder what that DC power supply looks like; Directly off the grid?

0:12 I used to work at a steelmaking meltshop which has a 60MW electric arc furnace. It could melt about 82t of scrap steel (and 3t of fluxes) at a rate of about 2-and-a-bit tonnes per minute, or 35kg/70lb per second. Just for a sense of scale.

They need to try golf ball dimples 😆

@chgr7025

6 күн бұрын

You're probably right. I would imagine that no one has thought about that kind of surface for re-entry velocities since most of the thinking has always been aerodynamic surfaces being smooth. Wouldn't that be something if a surface type like a golf ball could be more efficient!

@XJapa1n09

6 күн бұрын

Wouldn’t that make it more aerodynamic which is the opposite of what is needed when slowing down? They want to slow down, not keep going fast, right? 🤔

@snjert8406

6 күн бұрын

​@@XJapa1n09oh, right. True.

Huh... thats cool... got one of those sitting beside my welder Plasma cutter is basically that with the metal being cut used as the electrode

If you want to learn rocket science, listen to Scott, Tim, and Felix(?). I watched this video3 times, damn, very informative. Thanks Manley.

Love hearing about cool places like this and the engineering that goes into them; they just don't get enough love or coverage. Thanks for sharing!

Scott, always has some of the best videos on youtube.

Awesome video Scott. Thank you. I look forward to seeing everyone else’s content.

Wow what an amazing tour showing the awesome test facilities at Ames!

Dearv Scott, Thanks for this impressive video! I was impressed by the way "my world" has evolved in the years since I retired (I am a retired high temperature materials engineer)! I hope Spacex uses these facilities to test their potential solutions to the heatshield problems!

I knew there was something missing from my life & now I know what it was. It was seeing a vortex on the lee side of a synthetic meteorite succumbing to a hypersonic flow of plasma formed not out of the plasma itself but expressed in meteoritic lava writhing in the dead space behind the blunt body shape of the sample. This is a whole new meaning for the phrase "dead space" I haven't had to use before!

To be a bit more explanatory, the meteor lava is flowing back to the base due to the base drag vacuum (low pressure area). It's easily seen on the motor side of any of the liquid fueled rockets, and the reason why they have so many blankets/shields around the motors, as well as our amateur solid motor ones, with anything other than minimum diameter. That lava is just a wee bit more dense! Thanks Scot, Joe, and Tim for a nice view.

Scott, terrific report on an amazing lab. thank you.

Fantastic stuff indeed, Scott! Thanks!!! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Always excellent, always different, never disappointed!

Great video, really enjoyed the tour!

Wow! Thats all really phantastic! Thank you very much for this report and grandios footage!

Truly enjoy all your videos.

You are soo consistent, each video is wildly interesting

Nicely done, Scott!

I got to see this live one summer. I was working nearby in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory and someone asked if we wanted to go see a test. HELL YEAH I WANT TO SEE A TEST!

Wow. Never knew that facility existed. Makes sense though. Neat!

Thank you so much for this video....I've been a huge fan of this channel for years... you are one hell of a cool human, and I appreciate you! Fly safe!

fun one for you scott. worked around one of the air vortex stabilized arcjets and I was told they can judge the electrode erosion because as they erode, the rate at which the arc orbits around will change.

So cool! Thanks Scott

Spectacular, thanks for sharing. Great camera work too

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Dang if I had known you all were doing a tour Monday I would've lobbied harder to show off the robot I'm here working on

Just came from Joe Barnard's video haha, awesome work!

Very very interesting Mr. Scott!

Very interesting video, thanks Scott!

ThanX for this Scott truly amazing and mind bogged by this clip 😮

AWESOME & IMPRESSIVE! 👍 Thanks, Scott Manley! 👍

Thanks Scott, pretty cool story about how we test units going to space and coming back to earth.

"vortex of lava"... well that's a new addition to my vocab!, very cool video, thanks for going to the trouble of putting this all together.

Great article!

Always informative. Good job!

Great video thanks

Awesome content as usual!!! Thank you sir

That was worth watching, thank you

"You made lava?" "I was expecting it....."

@wayneg216

5 күн бұрын

Sadly few got that joke, next time use more Gorbachev in your accent :).

I don’t watch your videos often, or at least, not currently. However, when I do, I appreciate the videos and your work, Scott

I once got into a "discussion" with someone online about NASA's Apollo legacy infrastructure, they couldn't quite grasp that I was talking about more than just a couple of launch pads and the VAB. Wish I'd had Scott to explain it to them.

Sweet vid, my brother is designing the next generation of stings that hold the test articles and I’m waiting for a tour of my own!

If you are up for a run/cycle/E-scooter(with suspension!) ride the bay trail has a nice view AMES. It was quite easy to pick out the wind tunnel. The trail runs around Moffett field and has amazing views of the bay.

Neat stuff, thanks for sharing.

Totally rad!

Just awsome stuff

Wow Scott Super Interesting thank you Loved it

Exceptional Thank you:

Thanks for the walk down memory lane. I spent about three months at the Ames arcjet wind tunnel facility in early 1996. I was working on a NASA contract to develop and test a half dozen heatshield concepts for the X-33 SSTO test vehicle. I was sharing time on the arcjet with Lockheed engineers who were testing the heat shield for the NASA Stardust sample return capsule. The arcjet was scheduled to shut down in April 1996 for an overhaul that would take months. We were pushing the arcjet to its power limit (~45 megawatts) and continued to explode the titanium tube ballast resistors. I was slowly getting the test data I needed but we would lose two days every time a resistor exploded. I was using the semi-elliptical nozzle, and my test articles were 2 x 2 arrays of heat shield panels that measured about 60 x 60 cm. Each test run was about 4 minutes long. I finished my work in early March. IIRC, Lockheed was still pushing hard to get its test data before the facility shut down.

@user-li7ec3fg6h

3 күн бұрын

Thank you very much for sharing!

@rays2506

2 күн бұрын

@@user-li7ec3fg6h You're welcome.

Extremely cool

Great, many thanks !❤

That camera work was insanely good!

There needs to be an Arnold Schwarzeneggar action movie where the bad guy's head winds up inside this thing.

Plasma 'Wind" Tunnel. Got to have the Alibaba DIY Kit amazing knowledge & technology. Thanks Mate

Great video