These two are great. A video like this could really launch their careers. I'll see myself out.

@khalilahd.

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 I love you for this

@joshgseyi

Жыл бұрын

Here to give you best comment award at this early stage.

@supdawg_27

Жыл бұрын

This joke was out of this world.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Ha Love it!!!

@mrsrr

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean? Anyone could do it, it's not like it's rocket scie... wait.

Man, I love watching experts explain their fields. And these guys are very good.

@tylergodefroy8713

Жыл бұрын

its fun to watch people that love their job and want to share their knowledge

@ckmodele

Жыл бұрын

#encore

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate the love!

@ericthompson3982

Жыл бұрын

@@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497 Oh, please, keep doing not just what is clearly great science, but educating as well. You're entirely too engaging to watch, and I love it.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

@@ericthompson3982 thank you!

That’s my cousin!!! Mr. Myron Fletcher. So proud of you and Mrs. Fletcher, continue to be great❤️!!!

Imagine saying you’re literally a rocket scientist!! This was really cool they explained things in a way I still understood ❤

@iWitness0

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/m5Zlktd-g8_fd7g.html

@thewordshifter

Жыл бұрын

they don't usually tell you they're rocket scientists. They'll usually say something like "I'm a level 6 systems engineer on the Atlas project" or whatever, and when the dumb look comes across your face, they'll say "I'm a rocket scientist." Source: I know some rocket scientists and have a lot of dumb looks on my face, lol.

@ckmodele

Жыл бұрын

That wired energy hits different

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@kmhegde97

Жыл бұрын

@@thewordshifter yeah. I'm a Systems Engineer and I never say I'm a rocket scientist ; I say I'm a systems engineer and some people go "what?" and only then I describe what I do. I wouldn't say that's being dumb - it's just not a common job..

The best episodes of this series are when the people answering the question are so clearly excited to talk about what they do and share it with people and this is another great example of that. Love it.

Being a mathematician now I see that it's the physics that make it cool.

@pleasestopsubscribingtomyc3360

Жыл бұрын

watch stand up maths

@sven_86

Жыл бұрын

welcome to engineering :)

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

These two are fantastic. More of them please!

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@Fortunes.Fool.

Жыл бұрын

@@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497 I subscribed in case y'all start doing your own content. That was really neat, thank you.

@amandaboozer6454

Жыл бұрын

YES!!!

They both seem so sweet, kind, and BRILLIANT but still humble and down to earth. Please bring these two back. I’ve never been interested in rocket science but I absolutely need to see more of these two. With teachers like that, it’s hard to not be engaged Also unrelated but they’re a gorgeous couple 😍 like truly one of the most beautiful couples I’ve seen, inside and out.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

Lmao love how 40% of commenters are now chemists, mathematicians, physicists, and neuroscientists

@BrainyCrafter

Жыл бұрын

For real

@OrangeCat1992

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Ha!

@314shorts

Жыл бұрын

Lol no I’ve just taken basic college physics classes so I know how thrust and propulsion works, which this “rocket scientist” apparently doesn’t

@beepboop9848

Жыл бұрын

@@314shorts refering to all the "as an astrophysicist" comments that were present at the time of my comment being posted.

"It's like causing a pencil to land on its eraser" coolest analogy here

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Ha!

@hoppytoad79

Жыл бұрын

It's a fabulous analogy. Very descriptive.

Interesting, plus, these two worked well together on the answers. I'd like to see more of them.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

These two were wonderful to listen to! I'd love it for them to return, if they want to and if it's possible. This was sooo interesting and they did a great job explaining really complex ideas in a way that any layman could understand. Thank you for this episode, I truly loved every second of it!

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This was a great video! They made rocket science accessible, not a lot of academics/scientists have the hability to explain things in simple terms and these two were excellent.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Mikado8

Жыл бұрын

But concernedly often wrong

@lukedeehan2011

Жыл бұрын

Check out Everyday Astronaut

@thorwaldjohanson2526

4 ай бұрын

​@@Mikado8they very strongly simplified things. I'm a aerospace engineer myself, and explaining these questions in 5-10 seconds is basically impossible. I think they did a decent job, but I'd rather have seen another 10s per question and using more visualizations.

I vibe with this guy. He's got a lot of things to say, is very excited to say it, and isn't always quite sure how to slow himself down because of how excited he is about this thing he loves.

I just can't say how long I have been waiting for a video talking about rocket science. Thanks wired.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Awesome sauce!

There are so many errors it's sad. - Rockets don't push off the ground, they dont need a ground to couteract. The action/reaction is between the rocket and it's own propellant expelled backwards. - fins don't provide downforce, they provide passive pitch and yaw stability because the center of pressure is behind the center of mass. - the limitations of the human bodies in fast rockets isn't pressure nor energy but acceleration. - It's not the increase of ''gravity'' that harms humans in rockets, but acceleration again. - The body can wisthand any speed, it's the acceleration that kills, again. - rocket's first stage don't always throw payloads into deeps space, mostly just into space - Most space ships don't fire reverse thrusters to slow down, they just spin around 180° and fire their main thrusters. I know they can do better.

@ytsamurai1962

Жыл бұрын

They must be diversity hires

@jackspecs5389

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don’t know another engineer who would confuse pressure with acceleration dimensionally

@jackspecs5389

Жыл бұрын

Also, it definitely doesn’t take a masters in aero to know they’ve got some big errors in here 😂. Might just be camera fright or something tho

@chr0ne692

Жыл бұрын

They maybe have stage fright or maybe this show is pushing a more diverse or progressive demographic that isn't as competent? I hate to be that guy but in our society it's not impossible

@ChipMunky

Жыл бұрын

I'll trust the rocket scientists, thanks tho!

The first answer confuses me. As far as I know, rockets don't push against the ground. Exhaust gases are pushed out of the engines nozzle by the pressure inside the combustion chamber and, in turn, push back on the rocket in the opposite direction. Am I missing something?

@gomul13

Жыл бұрын

Nope, what you said is right

@adamdejesus4017

Жыл бұрын

💯 I expected WIRED to put out a correction or something...

@tyler_russell

Жыл бұрын

I literally stopped the video and talked about this with my wife. I'm an aeronautical engineer and last I checked the rocket doesn't need something to push off, just the mass being ejected to produce the thrust.

@gomul13

Жыл бұрын

@@tyler_russell what did you think of the other answers? Such as him saying we can go the speed of light thanks to fusion technology

@julioguardado

Жыл бұрын

That first answer was so wrong I stopped watching the video. This guy cannot be a rocket scientist. Of course, that depends on what qualifies as a rocket scientist. But equal and opposite reaction is so basic to physics and rockets... If he had the same knowledge of neurosurgery, I wouldn't want him anywhere near my skull. 🤣

They should have their own channel, they're great!

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

We do!

@zknight4481

Жыл бұрын

@@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497 Omg YESSS! I’m so hype about this. Y’all were amazing.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

@@zknight4481 thank you!

Anyone happy to see 2 black rocket scientist

@00xyres

Ай бұрын

‼️‼️ I love seeing us succeed

Another fun one that lifted my spirits, thanks Tiera and Myron!🚀❤

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I had no idea the rocket was test fired before flight, I assumed only its parts got somehow tested separately. Thank you very much for this awesome video!

@gomul13

Жыл бұрын

The rocket engine was test fired, as you said the rest of the parts do actually get tested separately, then when it is put together, some rockets actually do get tested again on the launchpad, with the engines throttled all the way down, and the launch tower not letting go of the rocket, which is called a static fire.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

@Gomul we actually test the entire rocket before we launch it. Full throttle and full mission duration. Check the link above.

@gomul13

Жыл бұрын

@@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497 that's interesting, but how's so? I forgot to mention the WDR but when you do a static fire, how does the launch tower manage to hold the rocket down while the engines are at full throttle? The SRBs were tested separately as well as the tanks and other parts

This was so interesting! These two did such a great job explaining everything.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Very professional and informative. Thanks to the two people able to answer our questions.

great vid, love how clear and understanding their answers were

loved learning new info with this video, both of them seem to be such cool people too!

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Myron and Tiera are awesome!! Great video!

I loved this video!!! great way to explain things and just well rounded answers love it!

One of the best ever in this series!

Did he say “push against the ground”?

@adamdejesus4017

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately.

@nurphurecarnium

Жыл бұрын

yeah, i think a better answer (fit more with the question) should be that the rockets needs to get out of the atmosphere, the most efficient way to do that is to point straight up at first so the rocket experience less friction with the air.

@ggez8117

Жыл бұрын

Laymans terms people, laymans terms

@nurphurecarnium

Жыл бұрын

@@ggez8117 see my answer. rockets points straight up at launch pad because it needs to get out of the atmosphere. not to "push against the ground"

I have NO IDEA what they’re talking about but I LOVE how passionate they are about their subject!

They make this look easy, good job.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

they broke all of this down really well, one of the easiest to understand tech support vids ive watched!

i love these two

Awesome video. Love the amount of information.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Fantastic video! Such a shame they don't get longer to fully explain things

@OrangeCat1992

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! This needed to be much longer!

@IrresistibleWitch

Жыл бұрын

Maybe a 30mins show n tell not just questions

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Maybe we should have a follow on huh?

I love this series

Amazing explanations!!!

Wow, these people have a very cool job and they explain it really well!

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

god i just love every form of science and these are such smart people

One of the best videos of the series. Love the two of them. Very nice and good answers. Congrats!

i love this duo

Like these two seem so down to earth no pun intended ❤

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Ha!

Wow. I loved this, very interesting!

Amazingly explained, very interesting

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Yooo this video is amazing! Thank you for sharing this with us. This is the best media representation of how we should be taught concepts. Great job. Can picture it all 🙌🏽👏🏽

@High-frequencyRadio

Жыл бұрын

Yes!!! They literally made rocket science comprehensive to the layman

I’m confused, did they forget the part of physics which states anything with mass cannot go the speed of light? Or is there something new we’ve discovered which negates this…

@trainerred5366

Жыл бұрын

what are you talking about ? when did they say this ?

@redbritish

Жыл бұрын

@@trainerred5366 he said nuclear fusion could get a rocket to light speed

@chrisdoe2659

Жыл бұрын

@@trainerred5366 6:50 to 7:40 when he's talking about "warp drive"

@firecubes4984

Жыл бұрын

Technically he's not wrong about this, although for now, 'warp drive' is just hypothetical, obviously. The theory behind 'warp drive' also known as an Alcubierre drive is that you are moving space around an object as opposed to moving an object through space. In that regard it would technically be possible to travel at or beyond the speed of light without violating the laws of physics.

Very interesting! I love it!

fun to watch! 👍

this is so cool 💕

While this is a nice video to get people interested in rockets, there are a few inaccuracies that just ticks the aerospace engineer in me For instance, rockets don't really "push off" of the ground.. it's an action reaction pair between the rocket and the exhaust coming out that causes it to lift.. real reason they go vertical is to minimize overall drag experienced so as to use up their limited fuel efficiently About the ballistic missiles.. the difference isn't payload, it's trajectory... Ballistic missiles don't need to travel as fast as rockets cause they don't need to go into orbit, (instead they take a parabolic path), and so they require less fuel and are a lil smaller in size

@sharanrai5411

Жыл бұрын

And the fins on a rocket dont provide down force, they provide roll stability.. If the rocket starts spinning, these fins try to provide force in the opposite direction of the spin and so keeps it stable (a lot more engineering goes into sizing and shaping of these fins, cause if the opposing force doesnt match quite right, your rocket would spin out of control)

@Dios7518

Жыл бұрын

@@sharanrai5411 🤓🤓🤓

@nurphurecarnium

Жыл бұрын

@@Dios7518 huh, correcting something should be frowned upon?

@ggez8117

Жыл бұрын

Ballistic missiles do reach orbital velocities tho, its all about the delta V, and as ballistic missiles are concerned, they do reach orbital velocities, they just don't stay in orbit for long periods of time, as well, they're a bomb, and their trajectory wasn't accounted for that, but a ballistic missiles could be very easily turned into a payload capable rocket, and it HAS been done before, with the minotaur missile and the titan family of rockets.

@alisioardiona727

Жыл бұрын

@@sharanrai5411 Well actually finns provide mostly passive pitch and yaw stability and very little roll stability.

WIRED. Thank-you. I wouldn't be learning about stuff like this if it weren't for these videos.

My engineering teachers say when a doctor makes a mistake, one person dies... When an engineer makes one, ...

@steelkamote1888

Жыл бұрын

Dr. Robert Liston: "Hold my scalpel"

@kunstkt

Жыл бұрын

Dr. Walter Jackson Freeman II: "Hold my ice pick"

@pleasestopsubscribingtomyc3360

Жыл бұрын

dr robotnik has killed millions

@vizx8574

Жыл бұрын

disaster happens

You can tell the guy really loves his job

As a Chemist, I'm here for the representation! The kids need to see this! I love it 😊😊

@gbtv3740

Жыл бұрын

They definitely need to see there are more ways to make it other than sports or music.

Loved learning about this! Please bring them back!

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

Let's make that happen! Ha!

@Richuser122

5 ай бұрын

@@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497 how did you mess up the first question so badly

Very proud of you guys

Great presentation!

So when someone sarcastically asked if you’re some kind of rocket scientist….

We saw a Falcon 9 launch at Kennedy Space Center. The car alarms of some the cars parked in the parking lot started going off just after the rocket launched. Thankfully, mine didn't. The launch was an amazing sight.

As a neurosurgeon I gotta say it’s brain surgery! In certain areas of the brain you have to operate in the sub-millimeter space and you only have one try. You can never do experimental setups, and you cannot pause during surgery, sometimes even longer than a day. Then you have to counsel patients who are deadly afraid and explain the surgery to them realistically without being too technical. Then there is sooo much we don’t know about the brain. And brains are different every time. You never do the same surgery twice. But rocket science seems fun! I like to play Kerbal space program to relax!

@MisterIncog

Жыл бұрын

yeah, by a long shot. These guys seemed... idk, non-erudite? They obviously aren't stupid, but it's like they lack some bits of basic understandings of the world outside their field.

@raxusquin

Жыл бұрын

@@MisterIncog they literally said they fuckin do rocket science so theres an obvious bias. how does this demonstrate lack of basic world understanding???

@thewiseowl8804

Жыл бұрын

@@raxusquin Mister Incognito is being a brick.

@BOMBON187

Жыл бұрын

Well in brain surgery you can hurt or kill 1 patient due to an error and in rockets you can have up to 8 people die at once (Challenger and Columbia). Either way both fields are beyond my knowledge.

@pleasestopsubscribingtomyc3360

Жыл бұрын

you think rocket scientists can pause and retry? also kerbal space program -> surgeon simulator

Looks like they enjoy their job. Congratulations to both.

as a KSP player I understand every word perfectly and could have even answered most of these questions myself. Such a powerful game.

Fascinating.

amazing

I am a Principle Design Assurance Engineer with a M.S in Design Quality Technology. I wouldn't mind doing this for how we create Medical Devices used in Medical Procedures. That process is tedious as we deal with the FDA.

1:40 i think bigger diffrence is that sls throws aways 99% percent of itself after orbit and starship is fully reusable

Fantastic answers! It makes me wish I stuck with science and math more back in school!

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

It's not to late!

"rocket support"... f..ing awesome!

Fellow “rocket scientist” wishing you would talk more about how many different kinds of jobs are considered “rocket scientist” and the difference between scientist and engineers. Just because so many people don’t know what engineers do day to day. I absolutely love that you listed off some of the classes that we had to take.

@lindareed8265

Ай бұрын

Hopefully Wired will have them back for more Q&A.

@PRANKZOMBIE

Ай бұрын

@@lindareed8265 omg that would be great! What a lovely video

Awesome guests as always! Now I gotta go see what the brain surgeon said 😆

i love this channel, i gained sm knowledge off this channel

All I know for sure is have the brain surgeon and the rocket scientist swap places and things are going very bad that day.

You launch straight up to get out of the densest part of the atmosphere ASAP, to reduce the overall drag force experienced during launch.

please do a pilot answering questions about flying

um.... its impossible to go light speed, aka speed of light, or even close to it, its physics not rocket science

@builditwithbricks8582

Жыл бұрын

Well, it is possible to get close to it (although really hard, but we have done it on a subatomic scale in particle colliders), but yes, impossible to ever reach it due to the laws of physics (as it would require infinite energy to get anything to the speed of light).

You guys awesome

These two are amazing! Are they siblings, a married couple, or just two people with the same last name? Love them, please give us more!

@kurteisner67

Жыл бұрын

They are in fact a married couple. Medium has an article on them.

@JonahNelson7

Жыл бұрын

@@kurteisner67 that article was proven false

@kurteisner67

Жыл бұрын

@@JonahNelson7 Interesting, how so? At any rate, they also said so themselves repeatedly independent of that.

@rocketwiththefletchersoffi8497

Жыл бұрын

We are indeed a married couple. Ha.

@DOC_951

Жыл бұрын

@@JonahNelson7 lol how embarrassing, spreading misinformation and proven wrong by them personally 😂

Am I missing something!? That guy is an expert and I'm not but I'm pretty sure a rocket standing straight on the launch pad has nothing to do with needing to push off the ground. The only thing I can figure is he was trying to dumb it down for us and accidentally said something inaccurate.

@countryman032

Жыл бұрын

First, a rocket starts vertical for stability and simplicity. Second, the rocket needs to fight Earth's gravity (by getting higher) as quickly as possible (to a point). Fairly soon in the launch a rocket needs to start picking up horizontal velocity in order to reach enough velocity to orbit Earth. How do we decide how much and when concerning horizontal and vertical velocity? Math. Then after the math is done it's pretty important you leave the navigation to the computers. Humans aren't precise enough and the rockets would just run out of fuel before reaching orbit.

@glkglkglkglk9193

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought

Very impressive young scientists.

I like how the "how do you build a rocket?" question was answered

What… what… his first answer is completely wrong wtf. I am a rocket scientist too. Rockets launch straight up because we want to take the steepest path we can out of earths thickest part of the atmosphere. Then once we are higher, we tilt in the direction we want the orbit to go. This tilt can happen pretty early in a flight you see it almost right away with the space shuttles

@conanotoole

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing...

This is literally.... Quite literally.... Rocket science!

I love these videos

Wired always does a good Job of finding enthusiastic professionals!

13:41 How about Pioneer 10 and 11? Where are they now?

Thumbnail starts at 8:35 :D

I am German and I had to turn on captions to catch the German scientists name, haha!

power couple. i love them

amazing video, now I need Brain support one...

We will definitely not travel at light speed. We can only ever hope to travel very close to the speed of light, but not actually at the speed of light since the craft has mass and would therefore require infinite energy to get there, which is of course impossible due to the good old E=MC2

@builditwithbricks8582

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was wondering. I think he meant near light speed because, as you said, travelling at light speed requires infinite energy which is impossible. No rocket engine could ever do that.

@timelapse497

Жыл бұрын

Maybe not travel through space at the speed of light, but space could be manipulated so that an object travels x distance (in relative space) in t time where x/t is greater than 3*10^8. Also, science isn’t unchanging, we could discover a new area of science which completely blows up our current understanding, like general relativity did 100 years ago.

The representation is everything. Love learning something new 😊

@Zaycancode

Жыл бұрын

@@BoatPatrol you’re somewhere working customer service mad because you can’t be a rocket scientist, stop hating yourself 😂

Imagine being born on a shuttle and basically your task is to be the first person to leave the solar system and come back

I thought drag is also a big factor in the first scenario. Why did they leave that out?

Big brains😭😭 i need that

Its like landing a pencil on its eraser lol

Their being named "Fletcher" is a clinic in serendipity.

@cleverusername9369

Жыл бұрын

Or maybe they're married

@jamesbungert3155

Жыл бұрын

Check out what "Fletcher" means.

Calc 1, 2, 3 and physics and this and that woah 🤯🤯🤯these guys must be really really good because I can’t imagine how intelligent you have to be. Like they said, one little mistake on that math it’s probably over 🤯🤯that’s crazy

As a fellow black engineer, it’s always nice to see other people who look like me doing these technical videos

@mibeutbig8909

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!! What type of engineer are you?

@kaemincha

Жыл бұрын

i think it's great for any youngins out there too! representation matters truly!

I'd like to know how damaging to the ozone layer and to earth's atmospheric gaseous ecosistems are the rocket launchings in general. I. E: in average, how many commercial 30k feet plane flights have the same impact of a massive rocket launch? Thanks !

@thorwaldjohanson2526

4 ай бұрын

Would heavily depend on the fuel. Nasas rockets use hydrogen and water. The exhaust product is water. But even when using kerosene or methane, the exhaust is still mostly water and Co2. Not really harmful for the ozone layer. CFCs are a much bigger issue.

So I was looking into getting a degree in Aerospace but now that I know the requirements I don’t know if I want to anymore