SmarterEveryDay - 2024-03-31
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Hey Destin, thank you again for visiting our facility. Sorry I couldn’t be in the water with you, but it was a pleasure meeting you the day before. As always it’s awesome to have someone share the work we do when trying to get us back to the moon! Hope you visit again soon!
What bcds do the support divers use? I’m looking to get my first one and if it’s good enough for NASA….
@@berttorpson2592 We used modified OMS gear. I use the backplate and wing config for both recreation and occupationally. There are plenty of other brands out there that have the same.
@@berttorpson2592 We use a modified backplate and wing from OMS gear. I use this configuration for both recreational and occupational diving. There are many other brands that have this config so you just gotta shop around.
Truly insane stuff you’re doing, the science, the engineering, the human spirit is all so inspiring!
Best of luck for all of it!
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Really phenomenal video Destin, now I find myself looking up what they're using for the regolith simulant in the pool because I suspect they want something denser than good old fashioned sand.
Thanks Scott! Fly safe!
You are correct. It is engineered to move under foot not compact like regular wet sand.
When two of YouTube’s coolest nerds cross paths… ❤️
Dad?
I was wondering the same thing, plain sand would fly with every movement of the water, I was thinking metal grains, they might even be coated with teflon or something to make them slippery and limit cohesion.
Destin! I’m the guy looking in your ears! Such a pleasure to meet you and have you come to our amazing facility again!
This without context 😅
@@That_One_Kobold 😂 creepy, right?
well? how were his ears? 1-10?
Imagine a guy in Destin's ear staring at you.
Are you Destin's hearing doctor? 😆 🤣 😂
Iowa State University also has a neutral buoyancy tank lab. I just graduated with an aerospace engineering degree from there and our senior project was to construct a submersible.
Thanks for having the courage to buck the short-video trend and publish what felt like a documentary. So exciting you got to do all that cool stuff!
Just think of all the ads missed by this not being 300x 15s shorts in a playlist.
I personally love long format.
Honestly, what short video trend are you talking about? Remember 3 years ago, when everything was 10 minutes? Right now I'm watching longer videos, than ever.
I absolutely agree. This was basically a documentary filled with so much information. So much more enjoyable than < 15 min short videos, either cutting away tons of information or not really including any at all.
Agreed. It's easy to pause the video and watch segments if you can't sit for an hour.
Thank you Destin for making this video and bringing back loving memories. I'm now 81 years old but back in the 60's I was working at MSFC in Huntsville doing Zero G simulations in the MSFC simulators. Besides under water, we had a 5 degree of freedom simulator (no up and down) and a 6 degree of simulator. This was a genius of design but a mechanical nightmare. It was located in Bldg 4755 on the top floor. An air bearing surface was prepared on the floor with self leveling epoxy in which two sets of air bearings were on each side of a large square hole cut in the floor. A spreader beam stretched across the opening and was supported by the air bearings. A single metal pole hung in the middle down to near the floor below and was supported by adjustable negator springs that provided constant force with extension (think metal measuring tape that has spring recoil). This allowed for up and down movement. At the bottom of this pole was a seat similar to a large bicycle seat supported inside a gimble mechanism similar to a kids gyro which allowed roll, pitch, and yaw. From the seat support was located an exo-skeleton for arms, legs, and back support. Everything was zeroed out just like you described in the video for underwater using weights and adjustments. Believe me, it was a sight to behold.. One day we had to put on a demonstration for several dignitaries and a couple of reporters. I was the test subject that day wearing an Apollo Moon suit with a simulated moon surface (spray urethane foam) to walk on. The techs had spent most of the morning getting everything perfect. All went well till this lady in the crowd asked me to see how high I could jump. No problem, I put all I had into it and made a fantastic jump, except I got over my center of mass and came down just like the astronauts did on the moon except more on my head. I was not able to get up without help.. The only good thing was that I couldn't hear them laughing.
We had the Lunar module assembly, Skylab assembly, and many test programs underwater for testing. One of the most interesting was a study preformed by GE at the MSFC facility called HEMAR (Human Engineering, Maintenance and Repair) underwater. That was a study to determine the limits of working in a spacesuit such as forces one could exert in a tethered and un-tethered state. This program ran for several weeks and involved a range of percentiles. I was a 50 percentile. I believe data from this study is still being used today. During the early work we were forced to use Air Force pressure suits, which when pressurized presented a sitting position with arms positioned to the controls of an aircraft (slightly bent at the elbow. We got the Apollo suits when we started doing Lunar work. They called this suit a constant volume suit and it was pretty much that, unless one of the interior restraint cables broke, in which it would try to rip you arm out at the sholder.
I noticed that those subjects in the newer NBS had a platform to lower and raise them into the water. We only had a platform in the early days that allowed your head to remain above the surface. We had to climb out of that using a ladder, with something like 200 lbs of lead weight. Glad to see that improvement.
Fascinating, thanks for this insight! It's great to see how many people share their awesome stories here!
thanks for sharing! i enjoyed reading this. I hope to have the same experiences as well
Would have loved to witness that jump 😂
You're a legend
So many good stories
Hi Destin - My father worked at JSC from 1962 - 1996. He eventually being head of a spacesuit reliability division. Your videos have inspired me to go to NASA to learn more about what my father did and make a YouTube channel about it. Thanks.
Pat wearing the cap backwards underwater is one of the coolest diving outfits I've ever seen.
Haha, I thought the same thing.
I agree 100%. Pat is legit.
Right? Would have been funny to see Destin in his!
Seems practical, too, to avoid ruining your hair.
As if he wasn’t already cool enough. I need his Bio doc
The safety diver doing the shocked face with her hands when the astronaut fell over felt very sweet and I cant really explain why
It has the energy of a teacher going "oh no sweetheart you fell" to a little kid.
My PADI dive instructor in NZ (many moons ago) was like that. Superb expressive communication underwater. She could convey more meaning under water than a lot of people can on the surface.
Normalise adding time stamps
@@FlatEarthDenier normalize watching the video before replying to the comments and you'll know exactly what moment they are referring to... especially since it's a pivotal moment in the narrative of the video. but it starts at 1:01:30
@@mmgg2233 glad u normalize answering troll+ a real answer
Hey Destin! Absolutely fantastic video. Thanks for the feature during Bresnik’s fall and recovery. I didn’t expect my audible reaction to be picked up — that’s pretty cool! This is one of my favorite YouTube videos ever. Go team!
You were so awesome! I haven't been scuba diving before but I love how you waited for Bresnik to figure out how to get up himself while putting yourself in the best position to help should he ask for it! I imagine that's incredibly helpful no matter what kind of skill set you're developing.
I absolutely loved this video, but you were my favorite part. Watching you communicate with the astronaut (non-verbally) but still allowing him to work the problem while keeping him clear of his umbilical really brought it home for me how essential the job of the NBL divers really is. Thank you for doing such an important thing to help humans go back to the moon!
What a great section of the video. I could see that you and the other diver were restraining yourselves from being "The Hand of God" letting the astronaut work out the situation. It also shows the fidelity of the simulation in how closely the movements were to the Apollo films. There were several situations shown of the astronauts where they looked just like the real 1/6 G Apollo guys.
Seeing your interaction with the "astronaut" showed that it's definitely a team down there. Really cool to see & hear that part of it as it happened. And it is a fantastic video!
Oh hi! I found your ability to control your buoyancy and location underwater to be awe inspiring. I turned up the gain on the audio so we could hear you like I heard you underwater. Thank you so much to the whole team for letting me observe that day. I hope I earned your trust and maybe we can do something again some day!
The fact that we get this kind of quality content on YouTube is amazing. Just a pleasure to watch, thanks Destin and all the smart dedicated people involved here!
Pat was my Primary Instructor for my PADI Open and Advanced Open Water certifications. It's absolutely wild seeing him here and getting a better picture of his role in the program at the NBL. Thank you for this! I feel smarter today.
He was my instructor for my PADI Open Water Cert as well! Such a great guy!
As my diving instructor in Europe once said: you can always tell who's PADI, because when they surface, they put their goggles on their forehead, where a wave might knock them off 😆
Where was this at?
Been following this channel since I was 13 years old, and now I’m about to graduate from college with my BS in biology. Thank you for everything Destin.
Congrats on the degree
Congratulations!
congratulations
Eyyy same here, congratulations!
Why didn't you study mechanical engineering haha?
Watching the Apollo guys struggling to walk around will never fail to bring a smile to my face. They're like toddlers all over again trying to figure out walking. The little giggles as they fall is absolutely adorable
"Oh, here we go again"
Absolutely fantastic
“Rats!”
I'd guess it's better to keep a good humor up rather than get frustrated 😃 Still, they probably take it very serious I hope 😊
My daughter probably gave you your badge at NASA
Uh wait weren’t they exploring a zero g environment where any accident with their suit could be certain death 💀 I would be cringing in concern for my suit integrity NOT giggling like I’m on a Hollywood set 😂
I've had this video open for 5 months waiting for time to be able to watch it. Such an amazing video and I feel so lucky to get a glimpse of this through your ability to tell a story.
The way you treat the camera like an actual person in the room and get others (who probably aren’t used to being in front of a camera like this) to be comfortable on tape and be able to be the best version of themselves is just awesome. Notice it all the time but really feel it’s on wonderful display here like it was during the Kodak series.
You’re so kind and genuine. Really enjoy your content and what you do. Thank you.
Is this your first vlog? 😂
Thats funny cause I was literally thinking that exact same thing at one specific point in this video (not exactly sure where it was though lol). Destin was talking to someone while holding the camera and he looks back and forth between the camera and the guy as he's talking. It literally feels as if we're there with him.
@@CoercedJab well vlogs aren’t normally the style used for interviews though and it’s a really neat approach I think! :)
Destin also often puts himself between the interviewee and the camera, which creates a ”safety barrier” for the camera shy interviewee.
@@ruohonleikkaaja great observation!
As an engineering tech for the Navy, I like these longer, behind the scenes videos. It gives some insite not to what we do but why. Thanks Destin.
Firefighter here. That stable position 1:10:03 is one of our standard positions. I was wondering if at any point a conversation was has about interdisciplinary evaluation. We train for SCBA maneuvering which is very different but has some helpful overlap.
From 3631?
Amazing to hear. There certainly should be because you’d think there would a lot of valuable information to glean
Yeah it maximizes her lever moment. I liked it too
amazing video Destin, truly fascinating how complex it is to simulate moon surface or orbit... when artemis eventually lands on Moon and we see astronauts taking those steps, ill try to think back to this video of yours! you are doing a great service for NASA and artemis visibility here, people need this kind of stuff to appreciate the huge mountain of work being done behind every flamey rocket show!
ps: "long videos" are my favourites, like your tour of ULA with ToryBruno
I am old enough to have watched the Mercury launches on black and white TV. I’m an engineer who has studied aviation and space technology for 50 years. But the simple explanation in this video of the mass, weight, and CG problem was an eye opener for me. I always wondered about the awkward motions on the moon. It’s obvious when it’s explained so well. Thanks.
Waiting on moon landing deniers to seize on ‘CG’. 😂
@@Aimless_Redyet you seem to be more brainwashed by that narrative than them since you’re the first to invoke it 💀
Whoever smelt it dealt it basically.
@@CoercedJab Nah, you just have the IQ of a fly believing in something despite a plethora of evidence lmao
@@CoercedJab the name says it all..
Very well said! Thank you!
I'll preface this comment by saying it's POSITVE. I've been waiting for the rest of the Coast Guard deep dive series for YEARS now. It's pretty clear why that isn't out yet. Destin just keeps getting to do cool stuff. So much that he can't even get videos out fast enough. So jealous! Can't wait to see what you do next.
The coast gaurd series never finished? Those were some awesome videos!
@@SomeGuysGarage yup! He went into the AMT side of the helicopter and repairs but is ~maybe?~ still going to put out a video showing what AST’s do and the actual rescue side of things.
I love the coast guard series. I would love to see more of that series, but I’d imagine it takes a long time, a lot of collaboration, and a lot of work to organize a coast guard video. I do hope we get to see some more of that. The navy/submarine stuff he’s done is super cool too. It’s all cool honestly lol.
@@FerociousPancake888 super excited too. I believe he probably has all of the raw video over with. It seems like the Airstation had him record for a few days and he already has everything. There’s probably lots of other videos we don’t even know about just sitting around waiting for editing. His editing seems super intensive and involved so the long turn around time for videos is pretty understandable.
Very kind of you to assume the best of me. You are correct about the “problem.”
I'm very happy with the long format. There are some channels i would not watch for that long, but your content and delivery of that content make the time go by too fast. I vote for detailed long format videos.
As a long time diver (53 years diving), former instructor and former cave diving instructor it was interesting to see the detailed discussion of center of buoyancy and center of gravity. I'm in the middle of setting up a new camera housing with lights and it is incredibly difficult to get those centers lined up on a small scale without the cameras "arms and leg" position also being variable.
i completely enjoyed the video!
Watching 1+ hours of Destin is the easiest decision to make.
Absolutely agree on long format
I've been interested in space travel since Mercury in the early '60s. This has been the best video on training that I've come across. Great work, Destin.
"I know the video is long but it's worth it" Destin, we love long videos
Especially when there's a purpose for it and this one definitely has purpose.
This video actually got me teary eyed for some reason. Maybe it's the love and dedication of everyone involved, the feeling of humanity pacing towards the futures, the feeling of exploration. Superb video and operation!
19:57 this I appreciate this so much. I constantly feel as though others lives are more put together than mine when I see something as simple as a clean room like that. Nobody is perfect and I have to remind myself that.
I like to call this kind of cleanliness the "Instagram clean". They are often hiding the mess in the closet, the garage, or just a few feet off camera!
Fascinating video. The center of buoyancy I totally get. When I was diving I'd use a dry suit. With correct weighting ensuring the least amount of air in your suit you could hold any orientation under water without effort. Once you get it right it made diving so comfortable.
46:55 - "This is a lot bigger than what Neil and Buzz went to the moon in." Heck, the airlock alone in HLS is probably bigger than the whole Apollo LM pressurized volume.
I already get anxious just thinking about the confined space of tiny LM.
Your revelation to us that you were potentially going to be an astronaut. Was literally jaw dropping. Anyone that consistently watches your work knows how smart you are and everything you show off but that’s like next level
Gods got his ways
I remember on an old talk show, they were talking about the movie Gravity and how Sandra Bullock would never make it with emotional problems lol. They said even Sully who landed on the Hudson wouldn’t be accepted, if he was younger obviously 😂
@@thesquirrel082190have you ever tried talking to him, ask him, he’ll show you. Also nice bike, I got Stumpjumper
It blows my mind that people enjoy this content so much but yet still have such bad grammer. Trying to use punctuation, but failing miserably.
@@christopher4101 Would you say differently if they revealed that English is the third language they have learned and that they have been studying for one year? If they had a brain lesion specifically and only in one of the language centers of the brain? You don't know the whole context, and you're not relying on their skill for a job or anything, so it's irrelevant to you regardless. Kindly extend the courtesy of shutting up if you have nothing to say.
Seeing the starship mock up in the pool just got me so excited and just helped reaffirm how real this is
it is so huge, the entire airlock is as big as the Apollo LEM's interior!
It also shows how much work is going on behind the scenes on HLS that we can’t see. The very public testing of Starship is only part of the work being done.
@@clevergirl4457 Unnecessary exces of volume that has to be re-pressurized every time u want to do an EVA.
@@bensemusx A ring shaped object to scale at the bottom of a pool is hardly a mock up. They are a long way off from proper testing and integration and even creating a realistic mock up.
@@salland12 they also have an ECLSS simulator at Starbase
This is a very informative and fascinating video. This triggered long ago memories of going on site at JCC with my dad who was a structural engineer who worked there starting in 1964. He was part of the team that designed the original pool on the JSC site that was in a round building that once held a centrifuge for training. He was part of the team designing the crane that lifted items in and out of the pool. So, mentioning the crane triggered a memory. My dad took my siblings and I on site to see this part of his work. I remember the crane was moved around the pool on a track that circled the building. My dad was also part of the designing of a later pool, I am not sure if it was this NBL lab or another on site. I remember he got a call at home during that time that made him very upset because there was a wall section that collapsed during the building of the pool. It turns out the builder of the pool didn't use his team's ground water pressure for that area and changed the design to put more spacing between the supports for the walls causing the collapse. I don't know much more, except dad had to prove how the contractor changing the support spacing is what caused the collapse. He made a scale wooden model that slid to show the differences in what the support was supposed to be and what the contractor made as a visual aid to show this. I just found your videos and I am binge watching the ones related to space.
Diving wearing a baseball cap is probably the most American thing I have seen in a while 😂
You must have missed lighting matches with gun fire.
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1:03:40 I love that moment of victory that diver shares with the astronaut, that joy, cheer, and flex! Wonderfully encouraging and sweet!
I love the interactions of the the astronauts and the divers. When the astronaut falls at 1:02:13, the diver does the 😱 face which shows such a fun dynamic between them all as a team
Behind the scenes as NASA, love it. Years ago in the 90’s my 4th grade teacher’s husband was a Shuttle engineer and he was able to arrange for us a very cool field trip to Kennedy space center inside the large building, and we also got to see the shuttle simulator. He also brought cool stuff from NASA to the school to show for show and tell. It solidified my love for rocketry and space flight.
Awesome video. Came here after listing to you and Matt talk about it on the ndq podcast. Really neat stuff! Cheers!
Oh my god, You're the first and only one I've seen talking about, or let alone using a flannelograph for anything in modern days. I tend to joke about bringing the flannelograph back and using it at work for office stuff. And You actually did, applause for that! Ten points out of ten, and I haven't even seen all of this video yet. Keep up the good work, Destin!
This ticks all my boxes. I'm a diver. I also applied to become an astronaut and was rejected. I'm super excited for the Artemis program. Destin, thanks for letting us come along for the ride and experience these moments with you! We're witnessing the making of history here, the first steps to establishing a permanent presence on the Moon. Just fantastic!
I'll be very impressed if they overcome the regolith problem. The only solution I can come up with is that the razor sharp dust is blasted away from the landing site by the rocket engines, and/or they use Elon's Boring company to make underground facilities and mostly stay off of the surface. That, or there are many amazing technological solutions coming to prevent equipment from degrading and to prevent dust from entering the habitats and laboratories.
@@inthefade There are solutions (and it's not Elon's Boring fail) - they involve weaving electric fibers into the suit to repel charged dust particles.
I love how an hour and twenty minute SED video feels like a 20 minute video from any other creator. This was excellent and fascinating and I am excited for the future.
Thank You Destin. It's so good to see the important work going on at NASA. Sometimes you lose track of what they are doing. They are very busy and productive.
“This gets complicated, so obviously we should use a flannel graph” 😂 What a classic statement! And what a winner video - yes please, long format 👍
beyond all the fascinating science and engineering, the people that Destin gets to meet and the excitement they get to share with him, and us by extension, is probably my favorite hallmark of this channel.
It’s always great to see that momentum change between “hey, welcome, how are you” and “oh, you want to know why I have the coolest job in the world? Boy let me tell you…”
Well said! Thank you!
As a retired engineer, I really appreciate the technical theory. Also, the video sent chills down my spine as I remembered my experiances with other engineers to apply the theories to real world problems.
This video is AMAZING !!
Well said! I was also particularly impressed by this video. The whole time I was watching it. Very instructive and super interesting!
16:55 the it’s a boy had me spit out my drink!
I absolutely love hearing really smart people talk about their jobs. Thank you Destin and everyone involved.
Having watched the first moon landing live on TV as a kid this was one of the best things I have watched ever since. Great job.
Wow, that's a big statement. We enjoyed making it, and thank you for watching.
@smartereveryday it brought out the "feels", that dream that every kid had after living through the whole Apollo era. Cheers from Canberra Australia home to the Tidbinbilla tracking station 😁
This is why I love the internet. Last minute I was watching cat memes, now I’m watching astronauts trying on new suit at NASA. Amazing times to be alive.
Cats are the ultimate Internet phenomenon.
Starship launched and I have space content everywhere. I’m applying for cool jobs like this!
Dude youre insane, one of the few YouTubers that can keep me captivated for an hour straight. Much respect to you man!
This video was so interesting, it was awesome just watching what was going on, seeing the different system at work to balance the centre of buoyancy and centre of mass to get that 1/6g sweet spot. Watch the astronauts fall over, and figure out how to up themselves, finding comfortable stable areas. The ways all the technology works together, how the whole team down there works so well together!
Its so cool man, i loved this video so much
Hey Destin, it was fun to dive with you! It’s always fun being able to see a run, especially the lunar runs we’ve been doing. If you haven’t seen an ISS EVA run in the pool, they’re also really cool! Always a pleasure to have someone show off what we do, hope we see you again!
Usually when I spent 1 hour on youtube, I'm demoralized by my lack of productivity, but watching you it felt time well invested, I would watch 3-4 hours version of this happily, great video.
A human being needs rest, no worries for an hour of YouTube a day. And these long documentaries without ads, tv drama, yelling and hyping seem quite healthy to me. Especially like these, restoring a bit of trust in mankind.
@smartereveryday - 2024-03-31
This was an incredible opportunity. I decided to go all in and discuss everything in detail. How do you feel about a Long Form Smarter Every Day video? Thank you again to everyone who support on Patreon at patreon.com/smartereveryday ! You let me make what I want instead of what I think the algorithm wants me to make!
@aaronsimpson8907 - 2024-03-31
Its not always easy to sit down for an hour straight to watch. I prefer multi-part deep dives youve done in the past!
@AffectiveApe - 2024-03-31
Growth curve on viewership will be different than a shorter video, but impact on those who watch the entire thing may be much greater. Only one metric is easily quantified, but that doesn't make it more valuable / the one that should be optimized for.
@fstrelniece - 2024-03-31
I prefer the long format, and pause if I need to do something else.
I'm the "you can never get to deep into a subject" kind of nerd 😅
@Adventures_EC - 2024-03-31
51:00 isn't she the one that presented a suit in a public event?
@sanfinity_ - 2024-03-31
Initially, I thought I would watch for around 30 minutes, but the content was so engaging that I ended up watching everything in a single go. It was an awesome video, and I learned a ton. Thanks, Destin!