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the starship was delayed it's gonna try and launch in about 46 minutes
yeah we were watching it a while ago
what are you watching on youtube i'm watching the uh actually felix's
feed for what about it remember he's a fella we over in germany that has that
channel that's popular i'm watching this i have padre live from boston yeah you know what it
is that's one feed but the the feed that he's showing is the actual spacex feed
so if you just look for spacex basics that'll show you the actual feed
from them but padres got their own cameras out there
also um
i'm checking mine right yeah i can't we can only see the top of
your head
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is it just called starship i'm so yeah it's just a start
called starship yeah
um
i'm doing an interview tonight with tim robertson about the exoplanet section the new exoplanet section on the
uh aopa is it a video or a podcast no it's just a podcast it's a recording so he's going
to record it and then he'll brush he'll uh post it later on i'm not sure how long
it'll take him to post it but okay so yeah they said it's not alive and it's not a live broadcast
i see
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you know what they stopped the launch sequence earlier for i think they had an aircraft intrude into the airspace which is kind
of stupid like a private aircraft
i'm sure when he comes back down he's going to get a stupid pilot truck
is yeah that thing going through uh my
private plan might be upstairs all involved
tim myers says no tfr question about question mark yes of course there's a tfr
of course was that like a no-fly zone temporary flight temporary flight
restriction is what tfr stands for yeah and you're supposed to check the no
tams for everything before you take your flight otherwise
can do this type of stuff and not know what's going on
people get their license suspended because of this stuff because by law you're required to learn
everything about the flight that you're about to take you have to know all the information involved with the flight
you're about to take but then it requires you know effort
of course effort it always takes effort for doing anything that's worthwhile right
right yes right now flying an airplane should just be like
driving driving a wagon around the playground so how worthwhile is using your phone if it takes no effort to use it
very worthwhile
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my favorite way to observe the moon
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well hello everybody this is scott roberts with explore scientific and uh i just lost my little headphone
set here uh ken how crazy is it here
well it's a little crazy a little crazy we've shipped about 12 or
13 boxes in the past 24 hours a thousand it seems like um it was a
tyler just looked over the cubicle while it was not in his head yes 12 or 13 000 boxes i know that's
probably an exaggeration by a factor of two three three maybe two or three anyways we have
shipped thousands uh orders are pouring in like crazy um it's a nice problem to have uh but it
you know when when you are used to handling um no hundreds of orders a day
and then they and then it goes like that now it's thousands okay so it's um it's something you can't
prepare for uh uh you know there is no market prediction for it
um and um so it's uh it's nuts compounded on top of that
ups and fedex were not able to prepare for this either and so uh you know this is not just a
little old explore scientific this is shipping products uh from anybody to anywhere
um and um so there was an article i was reading uh recently um about how
it was either fedex or ups basically notified a fairly sizable company i'm not going
to mention the names because i can't remember exactly who it was but uh they just basically said they
they wouldn't be picking up for them for them anymore because they couldn't handle the volume
you know we've had that trouble and we've had trouble getting trucks i mean you know we we asked for a semi and we
get a box truck you know we asked for a you know a trailer and a box truck shows up and they're
like sorry that's all we're getting today so it just sits there on the dock i think that we got
most of the backlog off the dock today but there's still hundreds of pallets
left to go between now and next few days ondel pro was looking for something stephan tell us what it is that you were looking for
here in chat now we've got you know i've got kent here we can see so scott why why don't talk about what
we have in stock since we you know this issue so the last time i was on we had a pretty good stock
of everything in the past uh 24 hours we have
uh sold out on the first lap first light mack kaz 127
on an eq 3 mount so that's a you know planetary camera or planetary telescope which is i'm sure
people are buying you know telescopes like that for the great conjunction it's a it's and we've had i've had conversations
with people and heard the csrs talking about it we also sold out of that tame the same
uh mc-127 on the twilight nano on the left right up down and so so
do we have uh in telescopes in stock now we have the first light ar 127
1200 mazzo 1 so it's a long focal length 127 millimeter telescope
uh on a left right up down with slow motion controls a really good mount solid mount handles
that telescope will uh i suspect will run out
early next week is my prediction on that okay
what do you think the date is for people to get there what's the date
what's the last shipping date for people to get their telescopes for the great conjunctions we don't know
we really don't know because it's really possible to
yeah i'm afraid that you know everybody says oh you know the 22nd you can still get it before
christmas i don't believe that even if you pay for overnight i'm not convinced that that'll happen
honestly i think that that it's going to be the 20th you haven't ordered it by the
by the you know 15th or 20th say that we say that kent but i just received a gift
from a friend who uh on monday ordered something for me and i received it today
yeah so so it's still possible but um you know it's uh it's going to be
increasingly the the process probability is going of the probability of you getting something
is going to decrease over time here in the next week okay so moving on down the road uh we
have the first light mac 1900 uh it's a tube only we've got a few of them so you have to
have your own tripod to put it on the first light mac has 127 on an eq3
on an equatorial mount they're sold out as of yesterday afternoon uh
the first light newtonian 130 millimeter in diameter 600 millimeter focal length
ota you have to have your own tripod we've got those in stock um then we have uh
two kits that are in stock in the first light series the first light newtonian on an eq3 we've
been selling a lot of those in the past week uh we've lost more than a quarter
of the inventory in the last four days um i think that is part of that's driven by
it's available but um it's a it's not a huge telescope
it's a it's a hand manageable telescope at 600 millimeters focal length it's not
it's not you know huge long or anything um and so it's it'll handle well on the eq3
mount and the other first light telescope we have in stock is the same telescope on the mass01 which is
mount asthma so it's got slow motion controls left right up down really easy to make it move in a natural
way um you know for beginners the azimuth mount are pretty easy to master
the equatorial mounts like the eq3 that require polar alignment those can be harder to master
um and like anything else if you're wanting to get this telescope to look at the great conjunction
you need to buy it this afternoon so you can get it you know early next week and spend time
practicing because that's like saying i want to drive to the grocery store and get a car and try and drive for the
first time probably not going to go well and if the first time you try and use one of these
telescopes is to go out and look at the great conjunction on december 24th it's 24th right first 21st december 21st
you're going to probably not find success so now one of the things to keep in mind
with this great conjunction even though the closest approach is on the 21st there is still
several days or weeks been to to see the two the two uh planets next near each other
close together so even tonight even starting now you can start looking at stuff but
again it's going to go into the next year and they'll still be fairly close to each other um
in an eyepiece i think you know right what i think is fun is watching them move because over the course of a night you
can see them moving closer and closer and closer together so this is not really an event i don't think to go out and go on on the 21st
and go okay i've seen it let's go inside it's it's the watch go out night after night
and watch these things get closer and closer and see how it changes and then and then watch it over the the days
afterwards to watch them cross and get farther and farther for the planet the dance of the planets correct and so
that's what this is about it's not a once and you've seen it it's about being able and it's cool to
be able to see something actually move over a period of nights to be able to chart those those girls
and that's why you know sketching used to be important because you'd sketch what you saw and then you could see how
it moved over time um it's why events like mercury transits and venus transits are
so uh memorable and important to amateur astronomers because they actually
i mean it's just in your face uh that you know that you're in a solar system you know
and um you know that's uh that's something that uh you can't be
you know burned into your memory too many times it's right and that's all about that's what this hobby really is about is looking
for change in the universe not just looking at the static universe you know you know the same
thing that's why people people misunderstand observing the moon of course the moon surface does not
change perceptibly from the earth's surface being able to observe it but it's the play of shadows and the
little details that pop up as time goes as the sun moves across the
sky on the earth from the moon's surface right and the shadows change
you know that's where the excitement is and observing the moon that's where the excitement is in observing the minor planets and anything
else in the solar system that's that moves you can see the movement you can see it's a dynamic universe it's not
just a static sky yeah that all started with galileo you know looking at the moons
move across the across jupiter so you know that's wow okay this is this is
amazing and it's you know this kind of movement uh watching retrogrades and
and um you know or even the change in seasons of the the stars you know uh talk about
retrograde some people may not know what retro they hear it they hear it in maybe uh
uh astrology you know they say uh jupiter is in retrograde well what does that mean it just means that
it's moving it appears to be moving opposite of its normal path across the
sky and this has to do with you know we're we're in a closer orbit our speeds are different okay and um you know there'll be a point
where okay everything looks like it's moving in the right direction and all of a sudden mysteriously it looks like it's going in
retrograde okay backwards going backwards and then it seems to catch back up again
and go go again yeah so it's just like uh it's just like two cars passing each other that's what we're doing we're passing on the planet
and it's going and it's going well driving in a big circle yeah right
there's some real good animations out there that show what it looks like so that you'll see the orbits of the planets and it'll show you what it looks
like from earth's perspective and it's really cool to see it goes
and then starts going forward again over a period of weeks and it's really cool to see that you
know there's there's lots of things out there like that that you know that are easy to see from light
polluted from your whatever backyard you are the planets of the moon provide wonderful
you know viewing because it's so bright they're not really affected by my light pollution didn't jason didn't jason uh kenzel show
us an animation last night on the star party with uh was it pluto
astronomer collaboration to do that so and it's really cool to see how the the
ancients tried to come up with what they called epicycles and there were circles and circles and they built these really complicated
machines to try and explain what we now know is very simple motion but you look at some of those epicycle
machines where they have circles and circles and circles trying to figure out yeah like they had them
going like this trying to figure out how to make this work and and to explain what they were seeing
and it was it was it's fascinating to read on those and what their efforts were to try and explain what they saw and it turned out to be
something much more simple once you realize the whole driver for that was they wanted to maintain an
earth-centered universe correct that's absolutely correct and so couldn't let go of that
yeah well if they did that head would get chopped off so there was that you know so anyway uh the other
you know as far as other packages with telescopes go uh we've got some high-end toys and some
entry-level telescopes with tripods that would be good for the conjunction
and on the moon uh you know but as far as first light level up that's it
so um we don't have any mounts they're all on back order um
it's it's not pretty you know from a forward-going inventory standpoint scott
and i were just sitting here trying to talk about you know what our forecasts are for next year right and how do how do you forecast
next year based on covent sales that doubled or tripled or quadrupled that in
some categories yeah dealers get 400 increases in business you know if this was any other business
uh and you came in and said okay well you know you you know if you're a ceo or president of
company you'd say okay mr salesman you you had a 400 increase this year we need you to do a 450
percent increase next year or at least or maybe match what you did you know it's an
it's kind of an impossibility yeah but that industry is a very volatile industry yeah we have
special celestial events that drive things uh this this pandemic has driven
business in ways that nobody expected i mean there's just no prediction for that at least you can have some
prediction on um i mean for instance this december 21st uh conjunction that's going to happen
this great conjunction uh if the media uh catches on to this and i think they will i've already seen
some media attention to it uh everyone's going to want to rush out and
get a telescope and take a look at it and they're going to think about this about about now okay about right now and we're
already so close to the event all right in those days that we've known for a year
you know well we've known it for 30 years or however i mean forever it's not like this is snuck up
on us because no you know you can buy you can download a free program
without eclipses partial eclipses you know um you can get a surprise
comment okay comments are about the only thing yeah comments are surprised all the time yeah little asteroids a little aster well if
you do have periodic comments like hallie's comment that for you you know how good it's gonna be it could be a great comet or it could be
a dud you don't know but it's halley's comments so no matter what no matter how how good or how dud it is people are
still gonna try to go out and get a telescope for it so we've got a ways to go before hallie's comment gets back here again
so it's today's the 9th and the conjunctions the 21st oh and scott by the way are you
recording this uh all of our shows excellent so when
you try and make me do a 450 percent increase next year i'm going to pull up this video and play it for you it's got to be another 400 percent
increase yeah i know that's what i'm saying i'm going to pull this video up and say now wait a minute scott that's that that's not what you
said you told me you're a great salesman you know so i believe i tried but man i can't make i mean
honestly who would have thought making the world sick would drive telescope scales through the roof
who would have thought it and and it's just it it's sad i mean i
i don't like it you know i mean but it it the rat that what caused it because you know i've people very close
to me have died from it and um it's just
it just is what it is so well but we can take comfort in the fact that we have a hobby that can comfort people
in this time and make make them feel better and give them something to do you know
and i really i really encourage i keep i said this before look if you're in astronomy
the best thing you can do is be trying to identify people around you who have got telescopes and do
everything you can to make things make them successful
because the more people in this hobby the stronger the hobby becomes and we need to make the help those
people who got into it on a whim or just out of desperation make
them successful and by making them successful they'll buy more telescopes they will uh
that helps them right and that helps that drives innovation in our industry
you know if it's just the same thing over and over and it's the same 50 people buying telescopes there's no
no real push for innovation and you know that that flow and that growth is what we really need
and it also gives us more people potentially talking about controlling light pollution
which is a you know yes you can narrow band filter and you know but when you can't see the
milky way it's hard to understand what the milky way is when you look up in the sky and see 30
stars you don't understand what's up there and it doesn't have to be it's a very simple
thing to fix it's just going to take a little time sorry that's my rant scott do you have any questions any
other things you want to talk about i don't think so uh there were some questions about inventory okay uh somebody wanted to
know if any of those 127s that you were talking about are available as ota
only uh yes we do have some otas
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the mac 127. it would be my guess let me look up the number real quick
mike wiesner said some people will step outside the evening of december 21st and discover they can't see the planets
because a building is in the way well that's a that's a great point mike because this is happening in the
southwest sky it's not high overhead it's happening at sunset and and so you need to be going out and
scouting and finding the planets tonight tomorrow night and figuring out where they are so you don't run into
exactly what mike talked about that's a brilliant observation mike thank you yeah we've got uh matt kaz
127s in stock yeah yep and so uh i if
if they're not on the website uh you can email us give us a call and we'll get you set up
but do not wait don't call your dealer if you've got your favorite dealer
call them place yourself through them tell them you saw that the first light mc127 1900 ota
optical tube assembly is available get it ordered but do not wait because
you'll be disappointed potentially you need to figure out how to make it
work before then what else you got scott that's it that's it i know you need to
get back and uh get back to processing orders so hey thanks everybody for watching i love
doing these thank you love doing this have a great day everybody bye take care bye-bye
hey scott i just uh so just to let everybody know if you're not aware of it already whoever's watching
the program right now the starship is going to launch in about 20 minutes
guys as much as you love us i'm sure whoever is interested in that
will probably shut down from us and go to that i i i recommended i put out the link i'll
put out the link again okay um and uh you can just open up
another webpage and yep jump back and forth or have two web pages up together and right and uh
keep your eyeball on on the launch so you don't we don't want you to miss it so right
it's an important historical event right
yep and so now um uh jerry is uh jerry's gonna continue on with the
mentoring uh program uh there's a lot to go through and so he'll just give his install
uh for each program or each each show that we do so yep so i'm gonna continue on today
um let me
share let's see
i've got my big fat cursor there for everybody to see where i'm at so i'm going to continue on
the uh we started with celestial charts yesterday or
monday i guess it was and i talked about the manual uh or the paper charts
that we have available to us today um for example
i think this is the one i showed this is one of the uranometria sharks
which is a very nice chart set of charts and then there's also the uh
these charts which is kind telescopes pocket sky atlas charts and i'm going to move on
i started to introduce the the planetarium program cart to seal and i'm going to move on to
that in a minute
so and this is going to dovetail into my
discussion about celestial navigation okay so one thing that we need to do
to navigate it's just like navigating on the earth with a map you need to know where you are and where you're going
right to be able to connect those two dots if you don't know where you are how do you know how to get where you
want to go that's true that's a common you know that's a very fundamental piece of
knowledge there if you don't if uh but remember jerry not all who wander are lost
well that's true they know where they've been they know where they've been well they
do know where they've been that's true um so two of the two of the star charts
that i are the planetarium programs which is actually a star chart program there's two types of
actually i should differentiate those there's two types of programs there's an electronic star chart program
and there's also a planetarium program now pl if anybody's out there i'm sure a lot of a lot of our
audience have been to planetariums and that's basically a realistic depiction of the sky that's what a
planetarium does a star chart is basically an electronic version of a paper chart
so there's different levels of detail and different levels of reality brought to the
computer level program the one i'm gonna show um is here
is carte de seal uh which is um basically bills itself as a star
chart program okay because it's not doesn't really give a realistic view of the sky
like stellarium does and uh and for everybody's information i posted
this this document that i'm using here this training document that i've developed
over the over the last year uh on the pmc8 forum so
it's in the file section of the main main group under under explore scientific official
files you'll find it there so the thing about paper charts like i
talked about yesterday is that they're for a very specific uh epoch or specific date all right
and uh it's also called the equinox date and some some people may call it
the equinox date but the any any church you find today that are paper charts are using
january 1st 2000 as the date for the depiction of the star coordinates that's because the earth's
procession causes the ra right ascension and declination coordinates to change over time
for each object in the sky so the nice thing about computer charts
which i'm going to show in a minute cart to seal is that you can you can set them to display the j2000 coordinates
grid or you can make it display the current epoch date today's date
coordinate grid which tells you what the apparent coordinates are today so that's the those are the coordinates
that you typically use when you go to a a position in the sky you tell it based
on today's date what's the right ascension and declination coordinates of the object that's what the planetarium will do so
um those are those are things to keep in mind when you're using electronic charts um
so celestial navigation is basically it's it can mean different things uh
you know celestial navigation on the earth's surface is using a section to measure your position on the earth's
surface as a reference okay so you can look with a sextant and point and measure the angles
and the current time and you can determine the longitude and latitude on the earth's surface where you're at
in in the celestial sphere we use term navigation as understanding where in the
sky we want to point our telescope and that's why you see telescopes called
go-to systems or go-to telescopes because it will go to the object that
you want to go to in terms of pointing the telescope at it to look at
but i i like to use the general term navigation celestial navigation not just go to because celestial
navigation is actually more more involved with it than just go to him you know go to the
right guys sure it's like it's like taking a a simple camera and say it's a point-and-shoot okay you can point and
shoot it of course which is like go-to but there's there's some things you can do to improve your images and there's some
more to it to understand more about what's going on with your images instead of just pointing and shooting
you can set the exposure you can set the iso you can do a lot of different things and that's kind of the way it is with
using a planetarium or a scar star chart program to navigate the sky
there's other things involved that's that's more than just go to
the object in the sky uh so let me bring up the and i brought
it up the last time i think uh cart to seal um
and here it is can you see that it's uh
right now it's uh celestial section six celestial navigation
yeah can you see my chart or oh i guess i'm not sharing that i'm not sharing that piece
okay let me let me go back to that see i'm going to stop the share i'm not
going to reshare the chart
happened to the chart i gotta bring it back up again and then
go back to the zoom and hit share
and hit cart to seal and then share there it is all right so this is the chart
right now it's uh there's a cup there's a lot of different features and menu items and things i'm not going to
get into all the details about about this but suffice it to say
you can display any area of the sky on the chart you can you can so first of all you can
see right now what what coordinate system it's in that's on the left hand side this is in the out as coordinates and right now it's
pointing straight up to zenith the center of the and this is kind of like a planetarium
view except or a planosphere view except it's not centered on the north celestial pole it's centered on
zenith okay planospheres are centered on the north celestial pole
which is what the equatorial coordinate system is all about so this
is this is what you would see looking up on the earth's surface straight up so if
you look straight up you'd see the center of the chart and if you go over left or right you'll see the horizon line
right and you can see over to the left there's southwest um i'm not sure if
that's let me see if i can get my big fat finger here i don't know why it's not showing up
um i do have a big there's a cursor right here see where it
says southwest right there yeah that's the that's the horizon line
and then south is up here all right and then you go to the other side you can see northeast and north
so this line right here is the meridian it's a line that passes
from the north celestial pole which see right here is polaris see there
that's polaris and it passes from the north to the north star through zenith to the
south and um to 180 degrees
zero degrees north to 180 degrees south that's that's the uh meridian
all right that's that's the part of thing uh let's go to the i'm going to zoom up
now and you can that's the nice thing about these electronic charts is you can zoom in and out and show more and more stars
as you zoom in and get more details so this is looking at the zenith so you can see the zenith
right here let's see if i can get my finger to come up again
all right right here is the zenith marker it's like a little plus symbol okay
and as as you can see i'm clicking i'm doing a click on the on the object and i can go about and
show information about the object that i've clicked on so this is 13 la careta this star right
here and you can get information that's another that's another feature that these
star chart and planetarium programs do for you is it gives you all these information about different objects
uh one other piece of information that you can get let me zoom back out and i'm gonna go
to an object you can find objects uh up here you can see where i'm gonna
search for jupiter okay and it should center the chart right on
jupiter and you can see it changes the perspective so the center of the chart
is on jupiter so let me zoom up and we can see right
now how close jupiter and saturn are to each other we talked about that earlier
um okay and there they are so you can
i can right click on jupiter and see about jupiter and it shows me a picture
and shows me an uh some information about it what its location is and right ascension declination
where it currently is uh in altitude and azimuth so right now the current
coordinates are and if you're looking up at the sky if you were to go outside in my location
and look up at this guy if you looked up 19 degrees in altitude and at 220 degrees azimuth you would see
jupiter and saturn next this uh let's see how close uh jupiter and
saturn is so i can i think i can right click on this this tool gives me a thing
to uh to click on saturn after i clicked on jupiter i think and it'll show me the
distance between the two objects okay there it is right there the separation
right now tonight the separation between jupiter and saturn is a little over one degree
it's actually one degree and 18 uh arc minutes so that's that's the distance between
the two now they're going to get very close on the 21st so this is an example of what you can
see uh in a in a planetarium or in a star chart program
and uh it also gives you a picture on this this particular program card to
seal uh one of the things uh so
one of the things that you have to tell the chart like i said earlier you have to know where you are to be able to know where to go to okay
or where to where your destination is the way you do that in a planetarium or in a star chart
program is you set your location all right so any
program you get will have a will ask for information like this in
terms of your location and typically if you want to be fairly exact you want to get your
latitude and longitude in in this configuration and uh you can see here where
it shows my location right here in the united states um right there's where i'm located based
on this chord the latitude and longitude that i've put into the uh
into the box it's my local it's my personal observatory lake of the
woods observatory at my house that's where i'm located right now so
it's very important that you put this information in otherwise it will not tell you the correct placement of the stars
that's a big part of making sure that you can find an object in the sky is to understand your
location on the earth are there any questions so far
um i'm looking over at the starship to see it's about three and a half minutes to launch
you know a little distracting isn't it i know it is a little distracting uh let's see
i checked my chart find the first target recheck find secondary et cetera i've learned a lot that way
it's from book babies um
andrew says saturn jupiter he's just talking about the
great conjunction yes i hope we don't have clouds on the
weekend of the 18th well again like we talked about before it's it's not just a one day thing or
one hour thing i mean you might miss the closest approach of course if if uh the very closest but again these these
objects move slowly from night to night so you know you still can get the same
thrill by looking at the conjunction over time right like ken said it's
really exciting to see these planets move in relation to each other
so there's a lot to see two minutes and 30 seconds now oh yeah we're going to stay on the air
as this goes down so yeah right um we may build we may just be silent for a couple minutes while we
watch this thing but it's going to be like i think it's like a five-minute flight
for it to go up to altitude and then come back down i think i would share my screen but it's not
going to be anything like uh you know the you get freeze frames when you're
watching a broadcast of a broadcast you know yeah right right
so 50 yeah yep a minute let me talk for another minute and then we'll go to that so
the other coordinate system so right now i'm on the altitude azimuth coordinate system you can see how close it is to
the horizon it's 19 degrees above the horizon and it's in the southwest sky
that's where saturn and jupiter are if i go to equatorial coordinates now you can see that
it's these are lines of declination and of right ascension so you can see it's jupiter's right on
the 20-hour line of right ascension at 20 hours and in fact i can bring up the actual
coordinates for jupiter and um it's almost exactly the apparent
coordinates are almost exactly 20 hours you can see it's kind of cool right there 20 hours 0 minutes and 34 seconds that's
kind of neat that it's that close and the declination is minus 21 degrees so you can see here
that this is the minus 15 degree line right here and then down here is
the minus 30 degree line um over on the left hand side over in
the lower left you can see where i'm pointing that out and so looks like we got 40 seconds yet
so i guess i'll be quiet for a minute and then everybody can watch this okay including myself
i can actually mute myself so i can turn the sound up a little bit
20 seconds now
richard grace is saying let's light the candle ten nine eight seven
six five four three two one one
zero they lit it up
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yeah you huge that thing is that's awesome it's like a it's like a um skyscraper going in it's
like a skyscraper that thing is just so steady look how nice that is i know
these guys are beautiful oh hell yes they know what they're doing
that thing i'm just the exciting part of it i love this shot
that they have from inside the rocket yeah that's right at the engine you know that thing is just awesome
yeah how nice and majestic that is that's just so
it's incredible are they going just straight up 12 and a
half they're gonna go up yeah they're gonna go up twelve and a half miles and then flip around and do their maneuver and then come down
and do the belly flop you know they're gonna they're gonna go like a skydiver what they're gonna fly like a skydiver
to sideways like this and then they'll flip it around to land
wow that's their that's their uh that's how they bleed off that's how
they bleed off their speed just by coming in flat
that is just awesome look how smooth that engine is yeah if you're watching us and aren't
watching youtube this is the link for spacex's feed
all right oh one of the engines just quit
looks like and then there's a fire inside a little bit
so one of the engines shut down but there but the system is counteracting it
it's amazing i don't know what they're out there did that on purpose or is this an
accident no i don't imagine that engine just shut down because of a problem
but again they're they're learning stuff yeah look how the look how the nozzles
move around and stuff to keep it to maneuver it the way they want right
they may not make the altitude they want unless they burn it longer i guess they could burn it longer because
they're not burning all the fuel as fast now right
but that thing is look at the gambling i know it's incredible
i mean this is i'm i'm sure they didn't like the engine going out but again it's a nice
test i mean it's really helps them get more data right maybe they want to stick one more
engine in there [Laughter] when they're maneuvering with two two
engines right now
maneuverability for them i don't think it does i mean it's just you can see it's cocked at a little bit of an angle now because they're off
center so that's really all their engine oh they're running big gimbal they had a
big gimbal there oh now it's one engine it's one
so it's apparently burnt off enough fuel to where it can still lift with one
engine that's amazing
it's gonna it's gonna get up to high enough altitude so i can do the well it's got a land it's either going to
fall out of the sky and not land or it's going to land so we'll see the problem is it's got a land with only
one engine now yeah it may just slam into the ground or out in the ocean
so we'll see what happens when it comes to flip around
i wonder if they're just going to burn the fuel out and then let it fall to the earth
it's like we're getting there but they could maneuver the skydive they could they should demonstrate the maneuver for
the skydive now what is happening now you see that smoke uh oh
that did not look good that did not look good it's on it's almost on fire or something
i don't know what is that that's falling out of the sky right now oh it's trying to maneuver now so it's
trying to flip now so look see it's trying to flip now okay that was hopefully on purpose
well they can't maneuver like they wanted to because they don't have the engine to gimble it to the position but they're actually
maneuvering it flat see how they're coming down oh there it goes they're actually getting the maneuver
there's the skydive maneuver amazing they're learning a lot of they're
getting a lot of good data right now so that's how it's going to enter the
atmosphere and slow down
we'll see so now there's i don't know if they're going to be able to re-light the engine at all
so it's a very stable just you know very
stable
this is just they've already got another starship ready to go sn9 ready to go yep so even if this one gets
destroyed it's not going to be you know not a setback at all
so we'll see i'll have the clouds right now they'll have to restart the engine if
they expect to land this thing otherwise it's going to slam into the ocean i imagine
well look they're controlling the descent oh they're doing it they're controlling the decent are they
you're you're five minutes you're ten ten or five minutes five seconds faster than i am let's see what happens uh that did not
look good oh they restarted the engine oh yeah they exploded oh dead yep
okay they were able to flip it around oh it just slammed into the ground oh
they didn't yeah because they only had two engines instead of three they couldn't slow it down fast they have one engine
[Laughter] it hit i mean it was
close that's what you call a hard landing yeah that's right but they hit the target too yeah he did
hit the target it looks like they did so that's awesome that was a great job
i wonder if it's still standing up or if it's just no it's like destroying i can't see i
can't see it's it's slammed to the ground yeah it's destroyed
that was great that was pretty awesome
all right well i really don't have much more to cover
with celestial navigation we'll we'll get more into it next time on friday clearlife58 said that's why
they call it a test yep that's right yeah
no they i think they did great yeah apparently i mean clearly they had still
had a lot of fuel on board because that explosion was huge yeah did you watch that
it was awesome came in a little bit too fast well they lost they had coming in
well over 100 you know i don't know how fast too fast
looks like no i expect i expect maybe they'll crash one or two more and then they'll get it
awesome test congratulations starship team yeah yeah i would say it's a success
oh absolutely on many points here
well you can't learn anything by not making mistakes basically or or having failures that's really what
what elon musk is all about right that's why we tell people when they use
their systems if they have questions about well whether i can do this or do that just try it
and you'll either be successful or fail at it and you learn something
yeah clearly 58 says don't you wish you could blow up a multi-million dollar product and call it a good dust
[Laughter] yeah yeah i
would i would declare it as success too so they got most of their maneuvering
done they got a lot of data they don't have everything they didn't complete all their checklist items but again it's they
probably didn't expect well elon musk said i gave it a one in three chance of of not having a failure so
oh sure right well you know i mean how many
you know redstone you know missile slash rockets that's right they
had nasa had tons of failures before i mean spacex really
knows what they're doing they're not going to have the number of failures that nasa had early on that's right because they've got a lot
of experience landing landing the falcon i mean they've got
and it looked like except for the if the engines hadn't failed they probably would have landed right you know the way they were
maneuvering and the way they had control over the ship um it looked you know
looked good yeah
so yeah so yeah if you're also interested to
learn more about uh space exploration and nasa i would recommend that
you might look in our uh yesterday's broadcast with uh alan stern
uh that we we did it was uh uh it gave some insight as to
the you know the struggle of of trying to get uh something launched and um uh
you know some of the politics that are involved he is a huge fan of privatized space
flight and i think part of that is is that uh there's well there's politics of course
uh it's not like um uh some of the politics struggles that uh you know
of strictly government-funded things so um but um i want to thank everyone for
watching uh you know sticking with us yeah and sticking with us you know
you didn't have to you could have just turned us off and gone to the starship yeah yeah and for sticking with us through this really super busy time and
everything um uh stefan i have an email i've put you on the
global star party mailing list um so you should get a like a little notification of that and anyone else
here that wants to be on this december 21st global star party it's the next one we're doing
we did one last night we're not doing any more until december 21st uh part of it just because it is too too
busy and um but uh we we can't we can't let december 21st slide this is
going to be you know it's the solstice it is this amazing great conjunction this
great conjunction that everybody's saying that uh it's been 390 years since it's happened
before but uh was pointed out at the global star party that the time it happened before
jupiter and saturn were lost in the glare of the sun they didn't see it anyways so we have to go back to the year 1200
something okay so this is a very very long time since anyone has seen
these two planets that close together so you know 800 years
yeah imagine my bet by hosting a global star party so we've got uh our earliest uh
confirmed people on global star party right now um would be uh
you know as far as being early here is as uh actually it's just one right now which is uh christopher go in the philippines uh
he's going to be set up so i imagine the way it's going to go is that we're going to have an early
morning broadcast we'll broadcast for maybe two or three hours and then we'll take a pause
and then we'll come back in the midday and pin down the day depending on who in europe or africa or
wherever they are okay decides that they're going to be broadcasting with us and then we'll
take a couple hour break or whatever and then we'll do the evening one uh early enough you know not at seven
o'clock but something earlier than that maybe 5 p.m something like that or even 4 p.m yeah that's because it's set
it's really low in the southern sky and it's really low in the sun i think some guys
i'm suggesting to everyone that they start shooting while they're still daylight okay because you will be able to get
jupiter and then you're in twilight you'll see saturn in jupiter you'll get them both
and then that way it'll give you longer imaging possibilities but for a lot of people they're looking
at uh they're all saying yeah we got about a 30 minute window okay um but i i think that can be
stretched out to an hour or longer so uh we'll see how that goes um but we'd love to have you on you know
forgive us for uh you know uh not being able to get our arms around everything but
um we do want you and we're very happy you guys follow us and support us and um so anyhow
jerry thanks very much um thank you hopefully uh uh in in the middle of all that
excitement of the rocket you you remember what jerry said about uh the celestial navigation navigation yeah
we'll we'll get more into it next time we'll continue on the training yeah that'll be fun
take care everyone
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and now folks it's time to say good night we sincerely appreciate it i like this part i hope we've succeeded in bringing you
an enjoyable evening of entertainment please drive home carefully and come back yeah that's pretty pretty
i like to call him and thank him but that might be hard to do
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