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I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293

SmarterEveryDay · 5M views · 2023-12-03 · 1:05:20

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Overview

Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day gives a talk to an aerospace audience, comparing how Apollo was engineered and managed with NASA's Artemis program. He raises concerns about unresolved details, the number of launches and in-orbit fuel transfer needed to reach the Moon, and the loss of institutional knowledge.

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Commenters point to it whenever Artemis, SLS or Starship refueling comes up, as a candid and critical engineering assessment delivered directly to NASA.

Recommended by 9 HN people across 7 months · HN mentions 2023–2025

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faizshah · 2024-08 · Strong recommendation

Do yourself a favor and look up moon landing 4k on youtube. There’s some amazing immersive stuff now: [LINK] There’s also a few amazing first person videos from space walks on the ISS: [LINK] The footage from Artemis is gonna be incredible. Also highly recommend this “are we going?” Talk on engineering issues in Artemis: [VIDEO] Which is where I learned about this report from NASA called “What Made Apollo a Success”: [LINK]

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pomian · 2024-01 · Strong recommendation

This thinking, or questioning, is needed everywhere. There is so much security paranoia, that it affects any one, just trying to do something. From setting up a wifi router, to seeing up an email account. Passwords must be used. Walt for 2FA before proceeding. Change your password to include upper lower Roman numerals and at least 5 different fonts... Why? Instead of saying up a website in 15 minutes, there is an hour of preparing to set up a webpage. If I live in the country side, have no neighbors for 50 miles, I must secure my router going to my starlink. Why? Added complexity and regulations, seem to grow around us just as the beurocracies; schools, governments, companies - maybe our lives are just all dependent on the 3rd law of thermodynamics. Higher disorder? I recommend this amazing presentation, questioning the basics, and attitude in teamwork, of the Artemis project: [VIDEO]

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SushiHippie · 2023-12 · Strong recommendation

I recommend you to watch it, it's really good. But as I mentioned in another comment, here is a relatively good AI summary: [VIDEO] Click on see more, to see 5 minute wise summaries. (Not affiliated with this site, I just use it from time to time)

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