In my last video, I looked at how miniaturisation had dramatically and exponentially improved the computing power over the last 60 years and this reminded me of a video I did back in 2016 comparing a typical $1000 home computer and iPad Pro to the top 10 supercomputers of the …
Miniaturization – The Biggest Little Thing to Happen in the Last 60 Years
You’ve heard the saying big is beautiful, well in the modern world of digital electronics and communications, small is far more important. It is amazing how we take for granted the modern world we live in today, we expect our internet to work at full speed, our smartphones to give …
America’s First Guided Missile and How it Changed Warfare
On the 6th of June 1944 Operation Overlord, more commonly known as D-Day took place, the largest amphibious invasion in military history. A week later on the 13th of June, the first vengeance weapon, the German V-1 flying bomb, also known as a buzz bomb or doodlebug landed on the …
If it Looks Right, It Will Fly Right – Right ?
There is an old saying in the aeronautical world which goes a bit like this “if it looks right, it will fly right”. Now this dates back to the time when aircraft were designed with slide rules, drawing boards and a bit more “intuition” for want of a better word …
The Most Powerful Rocket Motor Ever Tested & Why it Never Made it to the Moon?
What’s difference between this ….. and this …. Well apart from the size and several million dollars, surprisingly there is not a lot. When we think of iconic space programmes like Apollo and the latest generation of SpaceX reusable vehicles, we’re seeing liquid fueled rockets using cryogenic propellants and oxidizers, …
How Big is the Solar System, Really?
When we look up at the night sky with the unaided eye, we see stars that are up to about 1000 light years away, depending on their brightness. We also see objects which are much closer, in our celestial backyard so to speak, which only reflect light from the sun …
How Do You Fly a Plane Through a Hurricane?
While the president of the United States and the governor of Florida were urging millions of people to evacuate from their homes when hurricane Milton was looking like it could be one of the worst ever to hit the Florida coast, a small band of professionals were heading in the …
What Will Happen to Voyager and Others in the Far Future?
Right now there are at least 5 man made objects that are on course to leave our solar system, two of them Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have already crossed the heliopause, the boundary where the solar wind and the interstellar wind are in equilibrium which some say is a …
Why Did the Apollo Landers Look So Odd?
To many apollo lunar lander was the epitome of the moon missions and one of the oddest looking spacecraft that have ever been built, with some saying that it looked like some weird robotized insect or fake and just too flimsy to be used as a space craft. But the …
DARPA’s Little Secrets That Changed The World
When many people hear the name DARPA which stands for the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, most think of secret military development work, the sort of place it would come up with a Terminator-style robot and the Skynet control system that would allow it to try and take over the …