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[AKM]

Can confirm! (But make darn sure it's KSP1, not KSP2! KSP2 is garbage): Steam Review - Kerbal Space Program
 

 

Space shuttle 3 Engine Out abort using KSP:
 

 

Suit at a festival.  Out of place. - Until the beat drops.
 

 

"Wrap Around spiders".  Where? Australia.  Where else?
 

 

Tyson on Apollo 8
 

 

K-219's Missile Accident
 

 

Edited October 3, 2025 by AKM

[AKM]

Bedtime story: The Loot Rat

 

 

Dating in 2025 (Or, perhaps, how dating should be)

 

 

HonestToBetsy "reacting" to a 1964 song:

 

 

Edited October 5, 2025 by AKM

[AKM]

A really well done video on Apollo 13.  It includes a more in depth analysis of what, exactly, went wrong and why as well, which I have not seen in other representations of the event.

 

The best part?  The investigative conclusion.  Whoever made that statement did so in a way that you would not see done today.  I did not see finger pointing.  I did not see "the blame game".  I did not see scapegoating.  Only [paraphrase] 'This is a problem that was simply missed.  We are currently doing the most ambitious thing mankind has ever attempted, therefore near perfection is a requirement.'

 

Yes, it's two hours.  No, you won't regret your two hours.
 

 

Edited October 14, 2025 by AKM

[AKM]

Saturn V clearing the tower.  Amy talks about why that was the critical part of the mission:
 

 

[steelpanther24]

30 minutes ago, AKM said:

Saturn V clearing the tower.  Amy talks about why that was the critical part of the mission:
 

 

Too bad she didn't play Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space (early 90s era game) as there are many things that are critical.   However, as our culture values "the ONE thing", she is accurate and provides information that isn't common, except for those who have looked at rockets for a while.   

[AKM]

On 10/22/2025 at 10:07 PM, steelpanther24 said:

Too bad she didn't play Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space (early 90s era game) as there are many things that are critical.   However, as our culture values "the ONE thing", she is accurate and provides information that isn't common, except for those who have looked at rockets for a while.   

Lots to go wrong.  That's one of the things I like about the Apollo 13 video above that was sorely lacking in movies.  (Yeah, I know.  Movies.  Ugh.).  The fact that as soon as that happened, it wasn't about the moon anymore.  It was about working the problem and trying to get home.  Sure, there was some of that in the movie, but I got the impression that it was rather glossed over.

 

 

Amy talking about launch windows.  Have a bunch of extra parameters on top of 'We have to aim at where the moon will be when we get there.'
 

 

 

Amy on Mercury and Gemini programs:

 

 

 

Amy discussing the 'Fat Man' plutonium bomb and the screw up that got fixed against regulations.
 

 

Edited October 24, 2025 by AKM

[AKM]

Amy on why Apollo missions did a parking orbit prior to TLI burn.

 

 

 

Amy on 'Max Q'
 

 

Edited October 28, 2025 by AKM

[Darkpig]

The true meaning of fear Christmas.

[AKM]

Amy on what a moon launch feels like
 

 

Spaghetti noodles snap into three or more pieces usually.  Why?
 

 

An explanation of just how enormous the universe is, based on theoretical travel at the speed of light (which isn't possible, therefore the use of 'theoretical'):
 

 

Edited November 9, 2025 by AKM

[Darkpig]

Was Thomas also a Nigerian Prince?

[AKM]

Amy on the ridiculously slow lunar video camera:
 

 

 

[Darkpig]

Bet they don't teach that in sex ed.

[AKM]

Why does a ball point pen stop working sometimes when it gets dropped?
 

"This - is Pete Conrad." - Amy
"Meow." - Pete Conrad
 

 

Edited December 2, 2025 by AKM

[AKM]

Why do you like/respect Amy so much?

Who else do you know who will quickly and gladly correct themselves when they make a mistake?

Statement: All Apollo astronauts were military.

Correction: There was ONE who was a geologist.
 

Amy with some footage of RCS thrusters.  They are A LOT bigger than people often think.
 

Amy discusses Apollo 9, the first mission to test flying the two spacecraft separately.  The cat?  That's Pete (Conrad?)
 

 

Edited December 8, 2025 by AKM

[AKM]

 

Be careful how you treat people.
 

 

Spoiler

There's a saying:  It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

 

Edited December 12, 2025 by AKM

[steelpanther24]

22 hours ago, AKM said:

 

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There's a saying:  It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

 

Hmm, I guess it is a different military now a days.   I asked one of the Spec Ops guys that I worked with regularly  why every single one of them were so chill and laid back, never feeling the need to flex.  He told me because they already knew they were better than everyone they would outside of the military, the only real people that they needed to flex on was other Spec Ops dude.   

 

To be fair to the person in the video, I went to JSOU back when it was just standing up at Hurlburt, and have never been to the campus after it moved to Tampa, so it may be a difference in generations of SOF.   

[AKM]

2 hours ago, steelpanther24 said:

Hmm, I guess it is a different military now a days.   I asked one of the Spec Ops guys that I worked with regularly  why every single one of them were so chill and laid back, never feeling the need to flex.  He told me because they already knew they were better than everyone they would outside of the military, the only real people that they needed to flex on was other Spec Ops dude.   

 

To be fair to the person in the video, I went to JSOU back when it was just standing up at Hurlburt, and have never been to the campus after it moved to Tampa, so it may be a difference in generations of SOF.   

My understanding is that this particular individual (as with many who are youtube famous) might not be precisely what / who he puts himself forth to be.  I've seen somewhere or other that while he started in SEAL training, he either "rang the bell" (quit voluntarily) or was forced out.  I think it was the latter, but not certain on that. Of course, I could well have the individual mixed up with another.  A great many of them seem to like the spotlight these days.

Regardless, I believe that he is making a totally valid point: Don't look down on people, especially given what you happen to see of them.  You have absolutely no idea what their history is.

Same goes for fighting some random on the street.  I've seen a few apparently former Unit guys who, according to looks, you wouldn't have a clue that they are former Tier 1 operators.  Even while active in the Unit, that's the whole point: blend in anywhere, look like you belong there / inconspicuous.  Never have understood those who love to fight, given that you have absolutely NO CLUE what the capabilities of your random opponent on the street are.  

Have a video of cats trying and failing to drift:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-z3ZPY5Vjug?feature=share

[AKM]

This is, quite literally, where the term 'Government Cheese' came from.  The story is that the government didn't want the dairy farms to go out of business, so they started buying the farmers' cheese.  The problem?  Not enough people wanted to buy the farmers' cheese.  Solution?  Renovate and climate control abandoned caves, then store the cheese - at taxpayers' expense.  Cheese that you don't need, and are only buying to artificially hold up a sector of the economy that would go under if you didn't.  Apparently, keeping the farms going was more important than producing something people actually needed/wanted.  Nothing like a command economy in a supposedly free market society.  But, hey, when it's someone else's money you're buying stuff with, it's no problem!
 

 

[AKM]

Homo sapiens and homo ...um... what do they call themselves?
 

 

Have a Jack Nicholson story:
 

 

Edited December 18, 2025 by AKM

[AKM]

THIS.  So much this.  It makes NO fucking sense.  He is 100% correct.  

People losing their minds over a 1940's song, while idolizing absolutely disgusting modern lyrics.  Unbelievable.
 

 

[AKM]

This comedian is a real hoot. Wish I'd found him earlier.  Slightly (slightly?) "off color", often.
 

Same guy, on the best way to have a gin and tonic:
 

 

On aging:
 

Do be careful about QR codes:
 

Why thank you, children.  I desperately needed you to break all the crayons and put them in the mailbox.
 

 

Free federal feelup
 

 

Edited December 20, 2025 by AKM

[AKM]

Ryan McBeth being... funny?  Wow.  Yep. [Insert eye roll here]  Good one, sir.
 

Best way to wake up your wife:
 

 

Edited December 24, 2025 by AKM

[AKM]

Have a feel-good short.  Girls at a high school sports meet think they look alike.  They do.  There's a REALLY good reason for it, too.
 

RDR2 Bear trap random encounter movement capture means what?
 

 

Edited December 30, 2025 by AKM

[Darkpig]

Celeste speed runs be like:

[AKM]

Apparently they found Marge, Dick Bong's P-38 Lightening.

 

 

Japanese language.  Inflection means quite a bit.
 

Rival pit crew fixes wheel on race car.  Apparently, they were both driving for one car company?  Not sure.

True sportsmanship.  I'm no sports fan, but this is interesting to see.  One comment says what likely happened: "I want to beat you at your best, not your lowest."  Another said: "We are opponents, not enemies."
 

 

Edited January 4 by AKM