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Kevin Nolan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
344 total appearances

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Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

Absolutely.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

Indeed.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

There's three gigantic, there are 116 feet.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

See, America's still empirical.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

They're not metric.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

So everything's in feet and miles.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

So there's three parachutes, 116 feet wide each.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

So in fact, actually, yeah, as I say, the first parachutes are just road parachutes just to slow it down.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

And in fact, actually to really pull the main parachutes out.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

So the large parachutes is what will drop them in comfort.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

So basically, yeah, so we're assuming three 116 feet wide parachutes will drop them gently down.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

In fact, I think they say it's

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

gentle seven miles an hour onto the Pacific Ocean surface.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

Not far from San Diego.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

In fact, what's interesting in this one is they are landing quite close to the coast, about 50 miles, 70, 80 kilometres from the coast, which is quite nice, actually.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

I mean, so basically, I mean, look, you know, in fact, when they talk about the translunar injections, whenever you're sending space probes anywhere, what you're actually doing is putting them into another orbit.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

Even if we're sending a probe to Mars, we send it out on an orbit around the Sun that happens to meet Mars somewhere.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

So we're always designing orbits.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

The translunar injection would be an orbit around the Earth that happens to meet the Moon.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party

So when the Apollo astronauts went there, we just put them into a big orbit around the Earth and they met the Moon, but they went so close