It never really occured to me that astronauts get paid to go on space flights. For something like that, I'd do for free. Then again, the amount they get paid is probably miniscule compared to the entire launch.
@dpayO2 Haha I know. Sputnik, first artificial satellite. Yuri Gagarin, first man in space. Alexy Leonov, first spacewalk. NASA, first man on the moon. I love the NASA program, but going by the numbers the USSR won space in the 60s.
@dpayO2 I guess history should've called it the "Man on the Moon Race", afterall, JFK's challenege was to see who would be first to do just that. Which we still did.
@dpayO2 If you want to go by the definition of first into space, it was pulled off long before Sputnik. By Federation Aeronautique International strandards, space begins at 100km above sea level (62 miles), and the V2 rockets that Germany developed in the 40s surpassed that altitude several times, so the first manmade object to ever reach space was done at least 15 years before either US or USSR did. Plus, the major goal of the Space Race was to get a human on the Moon.
@dpayO2 Seriously?! What did you think JFK was saying besides: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieve the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth" during his state of the union address? That we were gonna do something else instead?
We set the goal getting a human on the moon, the USSR tried to do so first but wouldn't acknowledge it until they won, but never said it competed with the US until the fall of the USSR.
@dpayO2 Even though the Soviets didn't say they were competing to get there first, but their progress and showing their successes to the world said otherwise. Besides, for someone claiming that they won the race just because they got the first man and satellite into orbit, isn't that setting a criteria too?
@helljumpr5150 JFK was American... I meant where does the USSR acknowledge that the challenge of the space race was to get a man on the moon, that's the source I was after. Why wasn't the major goal to get a man in space first? I'm not defending the Soviet Union by the way, I'm purely pointing out the somewhat jingoistic nature of saying that the US won the space race when we could say that the USSR did or even Germany (thanks for that by the way).
@dpayO2 As i said, the USSR never acknowledged they were competing against the US in going to the moon, but they WERE trying to go to the moon, just look up the N1 project, it was the Soviet equivalent of Apollo but they couldn't get it to work, they almost did, but after Apollo 11 they saw no point in going as seeing as too little and too late.
There was no goal written on paper to get to space first like for the moon race. Besides, Germany already did it, US and USSR followed up.
Freeman Dyson on astrochicken: "I think it's a sensible idea, but one shouldn't take it literally. We don’t have the science yet; we don't have the technology. It would be a disaster if NASA tried to do this in the bureaucratic NASA style."
Wow what a creepy coincidence, I saw some thing on tv earlier today about Sputnik! With this exact footage! It was part of an old documentary, complete with loud, over-enthusiastic presenter voices.
P&T should do a British version so we can finally find out what really is inside TV detector vans, is it complex equipment for detecting televisions? Or is it just a clipboard with a list of addresses?
P&T used to do a great magic show in the UK a while back.
I don't think they would have to do a British version to do an episode on that....they got those vans everywhere in the world where you can find news cameras.
Warning: Pointless internet argument below.
codyownz2 3 weeks ago
i wonder if watching a satellite going up to the sky drove lou reed out of his mind?
emailtheoldies 2 months ago
It never really occured to me that astronauts get paid to go on space flights. For something like that, I'd do for free. Then again, the amount they get paid is probably miniscule compared to the entire launch.
SamonMarquis 2 months ago
...Fuck! I can't remember Poison's bassists!
hydrall9 3 months ago
"The US had beaten the Russians." They're certainly choosing their own criteria there, it was Yuri Gagarin that made it into space first.
dpayO2 3 months ago
@dpayO2 Haha I know. Sputnik, first artificial satellite. Yuri Gagarin, first man in space. Alexy Leonov, first spacewalk. NASA, first man on the moon. I love the NASA program, but going by the numbers the USSR won space in the 60s.
BatmanOneOhOne 1 month ago
@dpayO2 I guess history should've called it the "Man on the Moon Race", afterall, JFK's challenege was to see who would be first to do just that. Which we still did.
helljumpr5150 4 weeks ago
@helljumpr5150 You've basically just proved my point about setting your own criteria.
dpayO2 4 weeks ago
@dpayO2 If you want to go by the definition of first into space, it was pulled off long before Sputnik. By Federation Aeronautique International strandards, space begins at 100km above sea level (62 miles), and the V2 rockets that Germany developed in the 40s surpassed that altitude several times, so the first manmade object to ever reach space was done at least 15 years before either US or USSR did. Plus, the major goal of the Space Race was to get a human on the Moon.
helljumpr5150 4 weeks ago
@helljumpr5150 "the major goal of the Space Race was to get a human on the Moon." Source?
dpayO2 4 weeks ago
@dpayO2 Seriously?! What did you think JFK was saying besides: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieve the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth" during his state of the union address? That we were gonna do something else instead?
We set the goal getting a human on the moon, the USSR tried to do so first but wouldn't acknowledge it until they won, but never said it competed with the US until the fall of the USSR.
helljumpr5150 3 weeks ago
@dpayO2 Even though the Soviets didn't say they were competing to get there first, but their progress and showing their successes to the world said otherwise. Besides, for someone claiming that they won the race just because they got the first man and satellite into orbit, isn't that setting a criteria too?
helljumpr5150 3 weeks ago
@helljumpr5150 JFK was American... I meant where does the USSR acknowledge that the challenge of the space race was to get a man on the moon, that's the source I was after. Why wasn't the major goal to get a man in space first? I'm not defending the Soviet Union by the way, I'm purely pointing out the somewhat jingoistic nature of saying that the US won the space race when we could say that the USSR did or even Germany (thanks for that by the way).
dpayO2 3 weeks ago
@dpayO2 As i said, the USSR never acknowledged they were competing against the US in going to the moon, but they WERE trying to go to the moon, just look up the N1 project, it was the Soviet equivalent of Apollo but they couldn't get it to work, they almost did, but after Apollo 11 they saw no point in going as seeing as too little and too late.
There was no goal written on paper to get to space first like for the moon race. Besides, Germany already did it, US and USSR followed up.
helljumpr5150 3 weeks ago
@helljumpr5150 I'm not quite sure what point you're making now but okay.
dpayO2 3 weeks ago
@ 9:00
*cough* Sun goes super nova. *cough cough*
NecroticRampage 6 months ago
BOBBY DALL bass player from Poison
LoadedDice666 9 months ago
@3:04 wow! Imagine hanging out with Lou Reed and DEBBIE HARRY! lol
atomus 11 months ago
Ahahahaha I watched this again just to see 4:55 - 5:28.
Great show!
Napoliana 1 year ago
Freeman Dyson on astrochicken: "I think it's a sensible idea, but one shouldn't take it literally. We don’t have the science yet; we don't have the technology. It would be a disaster if NASA tried to do this in the bureaucratic NASA style."
trollolololololo 1 year ago
"No single event could wipe out the human race." Not true. Something could happen to the Sun! I get what he means though.
enilenif 1 year ago
If im still around in 2050 when the tickets are cheaper, Im gonna go fly virgin galactic. Go Private sector space flight!!!
TheCaptainLulz 1 year ago
we know him personally, he writes us emails and shit...lol
jparish62 1 year ago
Wow what a creepy coincidence, I saw some thing on tv earlier today about Sputnik! With this exact footage! It was part of an old documentary, complete with loud, over-enthusiastic presenter voices.
WasMilkABadChoice 1 year ago
And then there's this ASS...tronaut!
AnimalNitrates 2 years ago 11
P&T should do a British version so we can finally find out what really is inside TV detector vans, is it complex equipment for detecting televisions? Or is it just a clipboard with a list of addresses?
TashkentFox 2 years ago
P&T used to do a great magic show in the UK a while back.
I don't think they would have to do a British version to do an episode on that....they got those vans everywhere in the world where you can find news cameras.
andyrooney11 2 years ago
The vans are bullshit. There is no way to detect a device that is only a receiver... (assuming the manufacture doens't install a broadcaster, etc)
JuryDutySummons 2 years ago
just what we need. colonized space.
lucybean975 2 years ago
Need Another Seven Astronauts.
AnOddPerson 3 years ago
Be an Astronaut? Pffhhh... No, being Astronaut BATMAN with a really cool cowboy hat! THATS MY DREAM JOB!
ElZomboFantasma 3 years ago 25