I knew Telstar died because the early electronics was not radiation hard, however I never realised the source of the radiation was from man made nuclear bombs ! excellent video as usual !

@garrysekelli6776

Жыл бұрын

Probably just fake NASA propaganda.

@machdaddy6451

Жыл бұрын

There were some real atomic "coyboys" back in those days.

@dziban303

Жыл бұрын

@@machdaddy6451 Admiral Blandy, notable "atomic playboy" kzread.info/dash/bejne/poaWx7yBmbGcfKQ.html

@davidtaflan941

Жыл бұрын

…and l thought Tomorrow is Yesterday was just science fiction.

@Frostbait

Жыл бұрын

@@machdaddy6451 coyboys .. cowboys but with Kois

I remember when TV by satellite was a big thing and they always had "Live via Satellite" or something similar on the screen.

@philgiglio7922

Жыл бұрын

I can remember getting up in the middle of the night to watch Echo pass over. They printed the time and where to look in the local paper!

I'm so glad for your little girl that she's able to still enjoy her dad, thanks to today's and future science. I did not know you were a father and i can hardly imagine how hard it was for you during those hard times. Long life for you and all your familly!

I just adore your daughter Abigail. My kid and I love watching your episodes and always look forward to a new upload. Great Job on this one piece of amazing history.

@patrickscalia5088

Жыл бұрын

Something tells me that Abigail is probably the smartest, best educated kid in the UK. Imagine having Mr. Droid as your pop. She was probably studying engineering when she was still in diapers.

Not enough fact based channels and vids out there . Curious Droid is always well made, informative and interesting. Up the droid!

@Games_and_Music

Жыл бұрын

He _is_ the droid you're looking for.

@billweirdo9657

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree. Most of the " fact based channels " are " you won't believe" click baits that aren't actual facts but instead a bunch of false hoods

@v8matey

Жыл бұрын

Well America science these days is like this. If you multiple genders studies with climate change. How much of a spectrum of rainbows an pronouns do you get? You will get any answer right depending on your skin colour and victimisation mindset.

@TheLexiconDevils

Жыл бұрын

fact boy has all the channels but he needs better shirts … and a shave

@goofyfoot2001

Жыл бұрын

He needs to try and take over the world in the a video.

A new Curious Droid video is always a pleasant treat!

@hawaiianpineapple7303

Жыл бұрын

Just to see what kind of shirts he wears 🤓

@mikedrop4421

Жыл бұрын

I can definitely see where they got the inspiration for R2-D2's head after seeing that satellite

@t.g.2777

Жыл бұрын

Definetly underrated channel, always interesting

@mjproebstle

Жыл бұрын

been a while

@Mike88Actual

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Paul!!!! Very nice to see you!

The only sponsor spot I didn’t skip today! What a lovely moment.

Being born a few months before Sputnik One, I grew up with the space age. Telstar One (and its awesome hit theme song by The Tornadoes) is the first non-manned spacecraft I remember. The satellite was discussed in my second grade class and the American news networks often aired brief segments from the UK. It was a BIG deal and an inspiration for elementary school students. Despite my familiarity with Telstar, I learned several new things in this video regarding Telstar's highly elliptical orbit and its unfortunate demise. Thanks for a great video, CD!

@captainjohnh9405

Жыл бұрын

For those who want to hear the song.... kzread.info/dash/bejne/i5yA2qZrXcbgmc4.html

@tdolan500

Жыл бұрын

My slightly interesting fact was that Telestar was the first US number 1 by a British group and one of the members of the Tornadoes is Matt Bellamy’s (Muse) father.

@RevMikeBlack

Жыл бұрын

@@captainjohnh9405 What a strange video, especially the musicians and the astronaut.

@RevMikeBlack

Жыл бұрын

@@tdolan500 It was on the radio all the time. I liked it so much that my father bought me the 45 rpm record, which is still in playable condition.

@vincentl.9469

12 күн бұрын

@@RevMikeBlack that satellite is still out there in space !. I think before we think about driverless cars and whatever else, we need to pull the junk orbiting the planet

Clarke didnt just propose satellite communication, he proposed the geosynchronous orbit that would make more advanced communication satellites work. Really groundbreaking stuff!

@Ugly_German_Truths

Жыл бұрын

Not really. Pretty far from the ground actually. Maybe "skybreaking" though.

@nickpike7976

Жыл бұрын

@@Ugly_German_Truths What on earth are you talking about?

@patrickscalia5088

Жыл бұрын

It's amazing how some prescient science fiction authors can predict the future. Like the atom bomb. The term _atomic bomb_ was coined not by any scientist but by none other than H.G. Wells. The term, and the concept, first made their appearance in his novel _The World Set Free_ which was about an atomic war. Written in 1915 (!) In fact it was the true father of the atomic bomb, physicist Leo Szilard, having just read the novel, who suddenly realized that his own science field made an immensely powerful atomic bomb possible. It came upon him so suddenly and so vividly that he almost walked out into busy traffic without realizing it. And what followed afterwards was the well-known story: Szilard realized that if he had thought of it then without doubt the very smart scientists in Hitler's Germany had also thought of it and were working on it. That caused him to contact Albert Einstein and convince him to add his signature to the very famous letter Szilard wrote and they sent it to the US president and, well, you know the rest of the story. If Clarke is the father of the communications satellite, then H.G. Wells is the father of the atomic bomb. He even coined the term.

@aarondavis8943

Жыл бұрын

@@nickpike7976 It's not rocket science. Keep *up.*

Your daughter is adorable, it was a delight to have met her. She’s very lucky to have such a science/technological minded father. I’m sure she’ll grow up to be a very smart woman. Make your papa proud lol! I love stuff like this where you get a glimpse into your favorite KZread creators family and personal lives. It’s silly, but it makes me feel like we’re friends. Shut up everyone, don’t make fun of me lol.

@neithere

Жыл бұрын

Well said, no need to make fun of you. I'd only remark that the kids shouldn't have to prove anything to their parents and make them conditionally proud.

@philgiglio7922

Жыл бұрын

Good to see you plugging a learning tool

@GingerCat01

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! If you don’t know me I am paul shillito Daughter

Honestly you're an adorable dad. Keep up the great content!

I visited Goonhilly a few years back. The steerable dish antenna used for Telstar is still there - a real monster which moved horizon to horizon in 45 minutes. Most of the dishes there now have minimal ability to move since they are focused on geostationary satellites. Goonhilly is well worth a visit.

Only sponsored segment I didn't skip, wish I had kits like that as a kid

It's one thing to throw a satellite in orbit, and it's another building a reliable radio transfer device out of transistors that works from orbit. Quite remarkable on all achievements.

Great to have your content back in the Sub feed again Paul, Hope your health is improving and you're doing well sir. Thank you for the great videos as always.

Many thanks, Paul. Brought back a lot of memories to those of us of a certain age. Would have been nice to have had a bit of Telstar by the Tornados at the end!

@ZER0ZER0SE7EN

Жыл бұрын

I thought of the Ventures version of Telstar. Just found out the Ventures was a cover of the Tornadoes.

@wpbshow

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nWGZx5ipZN2YabQ.html

@aturegano87

Жыл бұрын

Indeed! great song from Tornados. 👍

@lindongreen8922

Жыл бұрын

@@aturegano87 just listened to it. Yep, you're right. Great track

Good to have you back Sir Droid! Also, I usually swipe past the ads but putting the kiddo in it made it a lot of fun. Nice one!

Paul, it was very sweet to involve your daughter in the sponsor plug. I'm sure you're a wonderful father, and she a wonderful daughter. Very precious! Best wishes to you and your family.

This is still, by far, one of the top channels on youtube..period! Glad your health is doing well and keep up the amazing content man, I know there are a WHOOOLE bunch of us out there that really really appreciate it!!

@aarondavis8943

Жыл бұрын

Presentation, editing, research, writing all top notch. He owns this space.

In the 60s/70s my dad worked on the other end of satellites, the ground stations. Northern Canada and around the equator in Mexico/Carribean. He was the company man on the ground making sure the work got done. Mostly government contracts.

@igorsmihailovs52

Жыл бұрын

It would be great to have a video on those ground stations!

I came for the shirt. I left with knowledge.

Loved the video as usual - so cool of you to include your daughter in the video! If I was blessed with a child, I’d subscribe to that service in a heartbeat. Warm wishes from Houston, Paul!

OMG - What an awesome promo segment! I think that a Curious Droid science spin-off channel is much needed!

Paul's videos never failed to make me stuck to the monitor. Even the sponsor video. Way to go Abigail! You have the most awesome dad.

Your daughter is beyond adorable. She reminds me of one of my little sister’s best friends lol. And it’s always great when your younger siblings or kids take an interest in what you enjoy.

I still can't believe we were just shooting nukes into space just to see what would happen. That definitely seems like one of those things where the risk outweighs the reward. What was the reward?

@TucsonDude

Жыл бұрын

Knowledge.

@MozTS

Жыл бұрын

Scaring the soviets so they don’t make the world a better place

As a 30 yr professional coder this history is amazing and forgotten. Most coders nowadays don't need to know that every bit counts. What a fantastic episode. the SpaceX Starlink crowd should re-watch this and consider how great these scientists were. great stuff

@-_James_-

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure most coders these days don't even know what a bit is.

@andrasbiro3007

Жыл бұрын

What SpaceX is doing is no less amazing.

@DrWhom

Жыл бұрын

@@-_James_- Your comment is satire sadly teetering on the the edge of truth.

That was fascinating. It is amazing what these men achieved. Today we benefit from the fruits of their labor.

This is EASILY one of my favorite channels!

Oh, and one more thing. The iconic soccer ball, the Adidas Telstar ⚽️ Now you know why 😉

I remember back in the day having to select from the Telstar and Galaxy satellites for our big ol powered dish... Punch in T#'s or G#'s and the dish would swing around and find that sat... This brings back memories lol

Again, one of the finest videos of all times! I clicked 'Like' before video had started! Thank you, mister'

Awww I love how your daughter is involved. I watched all of the promo

I love your videos, no matter the subject, your delivery is perfection! Thank you for your work! Big Thumbs up!!!

Great content. Love the way you explain everything

Who else immediately had Joe Meek/the Tornados "Telstar" running thru their head?

@MadBiker-vj5qj

Жыл бұрын

Yup, great tune. kzread.info/dash/bejne/g2mIpJWkhcfdXZM.html

@dougcastleman9518

Жыл бұрын

Or The Ventures version of the same song.

I went to goonehilly once. That satelite dish was so big it used to create piles of dead birds from how much it had to amplify the signal

I love this channel so much! Thank you Paul for interesting videos!

I remember as a child visiting the Telstar Land Earth Station at Andover Maine US. The newspapers of the day would publish the local time of Satellite transits and the family and neighbors would go out into the yard to watch.

Good to see you back and that you're well!

Thanks for the content ❤️ Hope you feeling good

love your stuff, out of all science channels u r my fav

Great video as always Paul! It's good to see you back to doing what you love! Thanks for making such detailed but concise content.

Another excellent video Paul keep them coming.

Congratulations to your beyond cool scientific assistant!

Glad to see more of your videos man! Even better to see the family get involved! What a blast

Telstar really started my space education, along with reading sci-fi which predicted hopefully a new era in worldwide communications.

OK, that was a good intro!

Amazing content as always!

That was the most adorable in-video ad there ever was.

Subbing to this channel has been one of my greatest life improvements

Heck yessssss new video! Hope you're well Paul, we all love ya brother.

Thank you for another well made and super informative video! Had to comment for the ag.

Your video's do not disappoint always well done this one is no exception

More superb content Paul; thank you. Tracking link is excellent - gone straight in the bookmarks!

Awwwwww; I can't wait until she has her own science youtube channel!

oh how freakin awesome!! That was a really amazing introduction to the video, just like usual curious Droid comes out with quality content 💜

Always love seeing the shirts during each video.

i havent heard ur voice in a long time for some reason, nice to see the algorithm showing you some love (but also thumbnail and title on point 🔥)

It is good to see a man interested what he does

Always very informative and entertaining.

Correction, Andover is in Massachusetts, abbreviation for Maine is ME not MA. The plant in Andover Massachusetts is called the Merrimack Valley Plant which was also the location for Mission Control for the satellite, a friend of mine was an engineer on that project and manned mission control.

Thanks Paul!

Bruh you spoiling us with 2 uploads in one week, you better be careful or else we might just get used to it! Fantastic shirt, I knew this before you even appeared but even after it still applies!

By far the coolest channel sponsor products ever!

Great video! Hope you are staying well Paul!

In the mid-80's, I worked in AT&T's Bell Labs (in the Murray Hill section of New Providence, N.J.). In the front of the inside of the reception and main office building, they had (or still have?) a small museum area, where they had one of the Telstar satellites on display! I remember being very impressed with it's small size...it was a very sophisticated-looking sphere about 3 feet in diameter. I always imagined satellites being much larger, like the size of a car or even 1bigger. The satellite was almost completely covered in small solar panels, and it had many pieces of small 90-degree metal tubes, or 'jets' sticking out of it to help orient it's position. It was a really cool thing to see, and I would urge anyone in that area to go see it! (Although, I'm not positive that it's still on display...I think Bell Labs was sold to (the French firm) Alcatel some time ago, and I don't know if they retained that display.)

@daffidavit

9 ай бұрын

In 1980 I worked for one year at Bell Labs in Whippany N.J. as a legal assistent helping ATT in the U.S. v. ATT and the Litten Industries v. ATT cases just before the baby Bell breakup. My office was shared by three other legal assistants in a room adjacent to the hallway where Telstar was rolled down after it was built years earlier. I'm not sure if there was testing going on at the time. Bell labs in Whippany, NJ is no longer there but it was a beautiful campus for its day.

Thanks for including Goonhilly. We celebrated this event for our 60th birthday with a festival. Today, we're the world's first and only provider of commercial deep space communications.

"Telstar" is my favourite (and in my opinion, one of the best) instrumentals ever written and recorded... written and produced by the genius 60's producer Joe Meek and recorded by that sensational 60's band 'The Tornadoes' in 1962.... first heard it as a kid a long, long time ago and still love it ... fun fact - it was reportedly Margaret Thatcher's favourite track too (not that I was ever a fan of Thatcher) :-)

Another brilliant video... Keep up the good work ...

Love to learn new & in depth knowledge about things I apparently just thought I knew about ! Always good info presented so clearly +++

These are always good. Never miss one.

CD. You are the most accurate as well as interesting of all the Science KZreadrs. Thank you!

Fine work on the sponsor segment. People, stick through the first 3 minutes!

Well done and very fascinating...thanks!!

That is super cute. I love doing things like that with my kids. I can say one thing, kids remember memories like that.

Wow this is so crazy, just yesterday I watched the Bell Labs video and wondered if there was a Curious Droid video about TelStar!!

Remember Vanguard, Echo 1 and of course Telstar among others. Space nerd? Guilty as charged. :)

i dont know if there are any Kenyan viewers on your channel but i just gotta say i love the style of your content. Keep up the good work from a random kenyan

Fascinating stuff !...cheers.

Reminds me of my Johnny Ball chemistry set as a kid :)

I am learning so much! Thank you!

Excellent video as always. Thank you. It's amazing to me, having been born right around the very beginning of the space age; the technology that once seemed like science fiction becoming reality now seems quaint and antiquated. It was however, a pretty cool time to live and to be able to witness all the advances in science and technology (some good, some not so much) that have occurred over the last 60 years or so. Truly amazing.

Super video! Nice experiment to boot!!

Now I’ve got that Telstar song stuck in my head.

Super cool video!!

I had no idea it was still up there! Awesome stuff.

Operations starfish prime is such a great project name 👏

Hadn't seen any of your videos in a long time, ever since the one you spoke about being unwell. Went looking for you today and found your channel, I noticed the bell wasn't turned on. I hope you are doing better and my condolecense for losing the Queen.

Great video. Thanks for sharing so many interesting facts for this artificial satellite. I knew it was important milestone in space history but I was not aware of such relevant and broad applications this satellite had

I thought Telstar 1 went down ages ago. It's allways good to watch a video to it's end.

Great! Thanks Droid.

Was hoping there would be mention of the 1962 instrumental rock hit Telstar by The Tornados

that was great, thanks!

Nice shout out to N2YO! His website was my favorite satellite tracker when I was big into ham radio satellites.

This is just amazing!

Great video!

Brilliant as usual ,thank you.

Awwww! What an awesome little girl you have there! She's a lucky little girl.

Was 12 years old and then living in France. I still remember this original live broadcast transmitted by RTF, the French national tv channel. A few years later, it was the Beatles singing 'All You Need is Love' for all the world to see in July 67...👍. And by the way The Tornadoes Telstar EP remains one of the favourites in my collection 🙂