The Mysterious Return Of NASA's Centaur Rocket

They be geeks with paintball guns. 🤣😂😋

This could imply that NASA had non-scientists running it prior to the 'takeover' ! And for the record, there was no NASA "Worm" in 1966.

@@dougball328 yep, no worm for nearly another decade, but it was still a nice animation.

LOL ME TOO , Bow ties , pocket protectors and AK47s .

Lol

Thats not possible!
No its necessary.

Many a true word spoken in jest!

One day aliens are going to show up and give us big citation for littering the solar system 🤔

@@timh36 so uh what will be the fine our money is different all i can think is power

@@Gmer-ez9wx maybe they like movies we can give them a huge collection of movies.

you are a rocket that is still a operational masterpiece after 50+ years just like the b-52 bomber

Yep, I was born in August of 66 and my rocket works just fine.

@@oldman-zr2ru Give that about seven more years or so then write...

That’s what she said.
Just kidding. I’m more than three years older.

Man, you’re like 3, 4x older than I am. I guess I understand how older people typically have more wisdom than most since I was about to ask for some haha.

He's disappointed in us. :(

Just think, the computers that sent astronauts to the moon were the size of houses and literally millions of times less powerful than the smart phone in your pocket. But nasa claims we no longer possess the technology to goto the moon...

@Mango Man ah yes, project artemis. With the orion module that an astronaut famously stated in a nasa documentary, finally solved the problem of get people safely through the van allen radiation belt. But wait, didn't we already do that six times starting back in the sixties? Hmm, strange...

@@voteindependentforindepend7181 it's not the technology anymore it's the cost 20-30 billion dollars to actually get stuff up there? 288 billion

@@voteindependentforindepend7181 It's not about the processing capacity, it's about the investment in the process.

2020, Part 2: Infinity Virus

KILL BILL MUSIC INTENSIFIES

I read the comment as he said it lol. sorta creepy...

Instead we get coughing flashback noises

😂

Smh

Damn, imagine the people's reaction.

With a note that says, "You lost this."

@@WEM2016 more like "Wi Arr Koming Fur Yu"

@@noodles6901 maybe even a “pleeze cend nudes”

Damn that is accurate commentary. I bought a decent watch a year ago because I wanted to stop carrying my phone. I don't miss it on my person one bit. It's more freeing than one would think.

Meanwhile...
Martians: Repurpose forgotten human rocket booster to covertly spy on Earth. They'll never suspect.

@@LeongGunners Mars has no intelligent life it's inhospitable to living beings and plants, you really mean Extraterrestrials or Aliens

@@historyofvideogamesandmyop2913 tHaTs wHAt mARtIaNS wAnt yOu tO THiNk

@@whitedawn2122 again there's no atmosphere, no drinkable water and the temperature wouldn't support any living organisms not even microorganisms. Other planets surrounding other stars within the hospitable zones like Earth is could very well have intelligent alien life forms maybe even humonoid ones but not in our solar system we're already on Mars with robots mining resources and studying the planet for quite awhile. Martians is just an over hyped Hollywood concept. They'll be Martians in 2051 though living in ecodomes 1st children born on Mars from earthling scientists living there

I like how this video smartly never says "junk" ... but it is was it is.

IT IS WAT IT ISSSSS

@@xrayban2 its not junk, its history :/
Those stages were built and created by people who are either dead or have almost lived their entire life.

No

Oh My God! Shut Up!

BRILLANT !

...I’d say low miles. But it’s in transport.

Motor Miles very low.

Might need a new paint job as that colour does not do very well in sunlight

Elon Musk should be informed about this
comment. He would like it.

Or, imagine this: Starman becomes the central figure in a space-oriented religion.
"PRAISE STARMAN, FOR HE APPROACHES US ONCE MORE!"

@@vedritmathias9193 Some martians gon' praise starman

And you know he's coming back crazy and evil from that much isolation....

Imagine roadsters clashing on earth for next new human civilization and starman survives landing burn

he will burn up in the atmosphere

ITS ALL FAKE CGI MONEY LAUNDERING BILL GATES STYLE VACCINE INSERTIONS. HOW WOULD THEY LEAVE THE PLANET IF ITS FLAT EH. NO PROOF THEY LEFT. ONLY COLLECTING MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR THEMSELVES WHILE THRIVING ON LIES. I SAY PUT NASA INFRONT OF A FIRING SQUAD AND SEE WHOS IN CHARGE NOW

@@Zealox LOL i hope this is satire

@@Zealox no proof? what about the hundreds of videos from space

you sound like an alien

Imagine what could be achieved if we didn't fight and bicker over trivial bullshit, and actually pooled our resources to expand across the solar system...

Thank you

Lol me too

If you can't spot any artificialities after a minute or so of listening, it's human. But in a few years, you might not.

If you can't tell the difference, does it matter.

I'm pretty sure it's human, just cut together in parts.

Yep

we did it boissssssssssssss

That's P-e-r-s-e-v-e-r-a-n-c-e.

\o/

Bless you. It's gone.

You act like that short but it very long.

til what?

@@Ethan5I5 til the car thatwas launched into space in 2018 retourns

I will be thirty six

@@hey12yearsago21 i will be 37

this do be a factual statement tho :flushed:

@@adrianrodriguez9997 you too are speaking facts

there's a STARRRRMAAAAAN waiting in the sky

More like chillin' in space

Doh!

I saw some dickhead a couple weeks ago on a comment make a big deal about how its spelled segue and not segway. I personally prefer the way you spelled it.

@@aspiceronni4462
That person was a wretched asshole, it's segway. He himself doesn't know.

He must've been having a bad segday

@@jonrob4369 LOL for sure.

@@aspiceronni4462 He was probably British. Brits have a weird way of misspelling nearly everything in the English language and then claiming that theirs is the only correct way to spell it. Like adding a "u" to the word "color" or a whole extra syllable to the word "aluminum" :)

its not space itself, but rather solar radiation. The F9 boosters don't really get that affected by solar radiation but if you look up pictures of the Skylab station and its CSM you can see how much solar energy affects the materials. They appear rusty, corroded. The ISS has special protection against that since its more modern ofcourse.

@@arcosprey4811 I used the booster as an example because it would be easier to track in increments. Also, I'd wager that exposure to cosmic radiation outside of the heliopause would render similar results.

Got me thinking of the dashboard of Elon's Tesla...

I tried to tell them

Good thing other inhabitable planets to far away or we'd make a mess of them too.

not the galaxy - - yet. just nearby & a few around solar system, very little beyond. jus' crappn in back yard...

Astronaut: *chuckles*
I'm in danger

100 mph is very slow for space. If something approaches you at 100 mph it's because it's been deliberately moved and slowed to come near you.

@@do0nv I know, that's what I was saying. If something has been slowed to 100 mph relative speed, it's because it's coming toward you and intending to stop. If it's not, the relative speed will be orders of magnitude higher. 100 mph relative velocity is *tiny* for space.

​@@Ruiluth thanks man u answered the question nobody asked

I misread it to booty Lmfao

@@troy8349 Considering his channel name is "Twerk Nation" you're not the one to blame

Booster was Atlas, Centaur was Upper Stage.

🤮

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True hat! They should learn how to pick up after themselves!

They turn into UFOs 👽

I hear ya Tom. I have trouble finding stuff even if it's right in front of me.

I found my favorite lighter today

HA! Wait till you get to be 74!! It gets WORSE!

if you buy a infrared telescope and a normal telescope you can find it for a price of 5 billion dollars!
what a steal

@@Vaginaninja Long, very long. Enough to attract all the women in the area.

Long and slender.

Don’t you idiots get it? This is just like the events in the documentary “Event Horizon!” That thing has come back from the hell dimension, it has funky evil all over it! Let’s sell it to somebody. I wonder who would want a used rocket thingy...

@@ActuallyCPOS It also went t

@@Gundplanatics00 Jozef? JOZEF? It also went to WHERE? Speak to us! Key your mike twice if you’re in danger!

It would take a fully upgraded (Block 2) SLS to get that stage back to Earth orbit, and due to the size of the thing probably another SLS launch to bring it safely back to the ground in one piece.
Meanwhile you could send some humans to the Moon or Mars (including at least the start to a moon or mars base) with those two SLS launches. Point being, nobody's going to go spend the money to go out and get discarded rocket stages outside Earth orbit.
It's just economically unfeasible with current propulsion technology.
Our current record is that it takes SEVERAL entire Saturn V rockets to go get maybe 50-100 kilograms of Moon rocks.
Technology has improved some, but not by the orders of magnitude it would take to go get a spent rocket stage back from deep space. Even less likely to go get the Tesla roadster, as its orbit is more different from Earth's than this Centaur rocket stage.
Did I mention that this Centaur rocket stage has as much mass as TWO mid-size cars (2,462 kilograms or roughly 2.5 metric tons)? And that's with NO fuel in it. You gotta cart ALL that mass ALL the way back to Earth, and then once it's there the best option I can think of to get it on the ground would be the Space Shuttle, but that's not flying anymore so we'd have to come up with a different solution.

@@44R0Ndin he said when we are really advanced. Not with current technology. There will be a day when it’s efficient enough to be worth it.

@@jacobleeson4763 So long as you're throwing "something" out the back of your spacecraft to go faster forwards, it's not going to be worth it. Presently there are no workable theories for reactionless motion of a spacecraft.

@@44R0NdinBetter solution is to make it fall into the orbit.

@@Haegemon Even better than that is to give it a little nudge when it comes back around again so it stays in orbit around Earth. Still take a monstrously large rocket to do that, which is why it's not happening.

@Harshit Joshi I think the video was posted as private for some extra editing and reviewing, and he made this comment shortly after posting it.

@@justinmusic1296 why dont you look it up?

"Preserverance"

Earlier: Confirmation of touchdown!
Me: Holy F***

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tf would AI do that would improve it.

OH SHIT UR RIGHT OH FUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Why?

Objects in space can technically survive seemingly forever. I say seemingly because solar radiation will eventually degrade them, but it would take so long that the change would be insignificant for one human lifetime. On the other hand, chuck a dildo in space at high enough velocity to escape our system and it'll eventually reach another planet with sentient life, if there are any. Imagine them studying this ancient object of unknown origin and purpose.

He was probably working on editing it even back in 2020.

he was talking about the booster, nasa named it 2020

Don't believe everything you see in the internet.......Abraham Lincoln.

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp "Abraham Lincoln" lmao

Let me remind you...
Opportunity and Spirit.

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp Yup. As false as YOU!

@@rickkwitkoski1976 Great Comment...Charles Darwin

Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!

so bullshit, you mean.

Woah you're right. That's a really good catch.

Good call noticed same, my good man.

As it came pass earth nasa gave it a new paint job lol

@@andyc3088 needs the meatball too then

Are you suggesting it's untrue bc that? Because that is what the people who are reading your comment are seeming to think that this implies this isn't real and Centaur isn't reentering Earth's atmosphere?
www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/science/nasa-rocket-orbit.html

It’s a thumbnail to make people click on it so it obviously did it’s job

The two logos are called "Spaghetti" and "Meatball".

I just watched a video that states approximately 1900 objects >10cm; 700 000 objects > 1cm and over 200 million objects >1mm are all flying about above Earth currently. Apparently there are a few organizations that monitor these things.

@@jameslangridge1674 If not monitored you risk the loss of a spacecraft because there was a piece of debree in the way. Which creates a cloud of debree further increasing the chances of hitting something. Which causes more collisions. Worst case scenario is that the chain reaction creates a cloud of debris that prevents spaceflight for years, maybe even decades.
This is known as Kesslers syndrome.
Luckily only one major collision has occured. In 2009 Kosmos-2251 and Iridium-33 collided at a nearly 90 degree angle creating two debris clouds and by 2011 around 2000 fragments of 10cm or larger were catalogued.

Seems there are quite a few things you are not aware of also.

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp , Welcome Flatard! Nice of you to drop by!

@@MrMarco7259 So sweet of you to reply, Did I ever mention 'flat earth",,,NO. But thank you for your disrespect by jumping to conclusions, I love the sounds that a melting snowflake makes as it's dying from the inside out.

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp , when you write stupid comments guess what you get. Explain yourself or move on.

@@MrMarco7259 If I have to explain myself, then you wouldn't understand. Glad you got a trophy for participating though,

I love the idea that we would probably be able to tell if an object is artificial and not made by us. Sure we might not be able to do much about or with it, but at least we can say we were aware.

Why were the wheels removed

@@samrowe2889 The wheels were removed because they were trying to shave as much mass off of the car as possibleb (battery was removed as well) to be able to launch it into heliocentric orbit (solar orbit). The wheel that they kept on (so it could be seen in one of the cameras and give the illusion that all 4 were left on) had the suspension removed and was welded in place to the subframe to prevent strong vibrations and possible damage from the rough launch environmemt.

Unless we can breathe in space without space suits nah, the micro things flying at the speed of light that’s hitting these debris would rip through suits or ships so unless it has some shielding yes

Here after perseverance’s mars landing

Here to be here

Im honestly scared it might not make it through, but also assured.

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I dont know about 7 minutes, but my missus is about to get undressed, and thats pretty stressful !

what do you mean? video's take long to make

That’s correct, the videos from these sorts of channels are all pre launched months in advance, since they are not time sensitive. You just need a bunch of stock footage, Wikipedia and a semi decent narrator. And as someone mentioned in the comments it may as well be a computer narrating it.

@@DavidJJJ So, an ascent narrator won't do?

@@VideoDotGoogleDotCom Semi ascent or semi descent, either will do :)