Scott Manley

Can My First Computer Control A Spaceship?

We all know that computer hardware has been miniaturized while performance has increased to frankly ridiculous levels. My Phone beats supercomputers from the 1990's. But I wanted to see if I could fly...

Download Audio

Is It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space?

Let's actually explain how thermal balance of spacecraft works, and how we'd need to configure a spacecraft to eliminated the heat that's produced by computer equipment crunching numbers in a space da...

Download Audio

Decoding NASA's New Moon Strategy - Deep Space Updates - March 13th 2026

Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code MANLEY at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/manley Here's another massive roundup of news before I run off for the...

Download Audio

Could Life On Earth And Life On Mars Be The Same Thing?

Want to restore the planet’s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with my code MANLEY23 will get the first month for free on me: https://planetwi...

Download Audio

Scramjets - The Fastest Jet Engines

There are limits on conventional jet engines as the supersonic air entering the engine slows down and heats up to the point it can damage the engine, even ramjets have problems above about mach 5 as m...

Download Audio

Whatever Happened To The Asteroid Redirect Mission?

The asteroid redirect mission was something that was dreamed up to give astronauts something to do in deep space that didn't require landing on a planet. Visit an asteroid, but not in deep space, an a...

Download Audio

NASA Redesigns Lunar Landing Mission Plans - Deep Space Updates

I usually like to cover all the launches, but it was only Starlink, so the real stories are in the rest of the video, but this morning NASA delivered a bombshell of a press conference radically changi...

Download Audio

Explaining Why NASA's Starliner Report Is So Bad

I took a couple of days to read NASA's Starliner Reportand figure out as much of the technical detail as possible, there are a lot of redactions that required me to put together the pieces to explain ...

Download Audio