#  @curiousdroid Curious Droid Curious Droid posts on YouTube about paul, space, code, future the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/youtube::UC726J5A0LLFRxQ0SZqr2mYQ/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] +7.90% - [--] Month [-------] +16% - [--] Months [---------] -28% - [--] Year [---------] -23% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/youtube::UC726J5A0LLFRxQ0SZqr2mYQ/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] -21% - [--] Months [--] +3.50% - [--] Year [---] +203% ### Followers: [---------] [#](/creator/youtube::UC726J5A0LLFRxQ0SZqr2mYQ/followers)  - [--] Month [---------] no change - [--] Months [---------] +0.88% - [--] Year [---------] +1.80% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/youtube::UC726J5A0LLFRxQ0SZqr2mYQ/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [countries](/list/countries) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [finance](/list/finance) [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) [products](/list/products) [ufc](/list/ufc) [exchanges](/list/exchanges) **Social topic influence** [paul](/topic/paul) #1995, [space](/topic/space), [code](/topic/code), [future](/topic/future), [in the](/topic/in-the), [history](/topic/history), [spacex](/topic/spacex), [the world](/topic/the-world), [link](/topic/link), [the most](/topic/the-most) **Top assets mentioned** [IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT)](/topic/lockheed-martin) [Boeing Co (BA)](/topic/$ba) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Why can't we see the Apollo lunar landers on the Moon from Earth When you look up at a full moon just remember that somewhere on the lunar face the remains of Apollo [--] [--] [--] [--] [--] and [--] along with [--] unmanned Russian Luna missions and [--] pre-Apollo unmanned American Surveyor missions are all still there. silently looking back. unless of course youre a NASA non-believer. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg so" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QkaNqud_VxU) 2016-12-29T14:19Z 1.1M followers, 3.2M engagements "How did the Apollo flight computers get men to the moon and back There is much speculation by some as to how the flight computer aboard the Apollo missions managed to get men to the moon when it had just a tiny fraction of the computing power of something like a modern smartphone. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg But this is quite misleading as there was not one solitary computer controlling the Apollo" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ULGi3UkgW30) 2017-03-11T20:20Z 1.1M followers, 2.1M engagements "The Amazing Engineering of Top Fuel Dragsters Ever wondered how top fuel dragsters can be the fastest accelerating vehicles in the world with up to [-----] hp and make it from 0-330mph in [----] seconds well wonder no more as we look a the rather amazing engineering of top fuel dragsters. To give one off tips and donations please use the following : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/curiousdroid or paypal.me/curiousdroid This video is sponsored by Brilliant : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : Loud Mike Media NHRA Viktor Mohos Mr" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g0KTGHGXqsQ) 2021-04-30T21:45Z 1.1M followers, 3.5M engagements "How Does a Nuclear Missile Find its Target Get 84% off CyberGhostVPN + plus four months for free using this link https://cyberghostvpn.com/CuriousDroid Ballistic rockets have come along way from the German V2 of WW2 to the Trident II D5 and RS-28 Sarmat ICMB's of today to become the most feared weapons in the world. But if we put aside what their ultimate purpose is how do they get half way around the world with terminal accuracies of less than [---] metres without any help form GPS. In this video we will look and the history and how they came from a primitive guidance to be some of the highest" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iacUimAOH1A) 2025-12-03T22:07Z 1.1M followers, 441.5K engagements "How did Apollo deal with the Van Allen radiation belts One of the most hotly contested procedures during the Apollo missions was the how NASA dealt with the issue of the Van Allen belts the naturally occurring belts of radiation that surround the earth both on the journey to the moon and returning from it. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg To some this just proves the point that NASA never went to the moon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lNiscigIgBc) 2017-01-08T23:52Z 1.1M followers, 2.3M engagements "If We launched Voyager [--] Would We Still Send the Golden Records 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When Voyagers [--] & [--] were launched in [----] we sent them with a golden record with sounds language music and images encoded on the analogue waveform just like a regular record. But if we were to launch a new follow-up maybe called Voyager [--] would we still send a golden record or use a new type of storage to tell the story of humanity Written" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iK8abB0efW4) 2025-05-31T21:56Z 1.1M followers, 123K engagements "Apollo's Forgotten Computer - The LVDC Although the Apollo missions had much less computing power than a modern smart-phone the computers used where essential to getting it done Although many think it was the Apollo Guidance Computer or AGC that did everything there was another the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer or LVDC. This controlled and flew the Saturn and was used right up until the vehicle reached the moon in this video we look at the forgotten Apollo computer. In case you want a few more details on the LVDC and the launch guidance system the NASA document I used in the video is here" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=p12CinjFh1I) 2019-08-06T21:41Z 1.1M followers, 487.6K engagements "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - Eyes on the Moon https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid We're going back to the moon hopefully in [----] but compared to the 1960's we need to know a lot more about the moon than we did then if we are to make permanent bases there. So to this end the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was created to map the moon in greater detail than ever before and in the process it did what no other orbiter has managed to do and that find and image the Apollo sites after [--] decades of being out of sight to us. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-EUgrIefKGk) 2021-02-26T23:47Z 1.1M followers, 390.5K engagements "B-58 Hustler - Was it Really That Bad Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access or try it for less than $1 this month. The B-58 Hustler was the first American supersonic strategic bomber designed to slip through the Soviet air defenses before the ICBM had become the dominant weapon on both sides. It set [--] world records for speed and was thought more likely to get through soviet defenses than its rival the B-52. Designed just after the B-52 it was a very different aircraft these were SAC's" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Yw97Qi8jms) 2024-03-31T22:40Z 1.1M followers, 276.3K engagements "The Legendary Napier Deltic - [--] Litre Opposed 2-Stroke Triangle Engine Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3000+ documentaries Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTVs exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/science-tech In the mid-1940s the British admiralty was looking for a new high speed high power diesel to use in their motor torpedo boats they turned to Napier to come up" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-vV-YaKsIGk) 2021-07-14T19:05Z 1.1M followers, 1.9M engagements "F-4 Phantom The Ultimate Cold War Warrior This video is sponsored by Blinkist the first [---] people to go to https://www.blinkist.com/curiousdroid will get FREE unlimited access for [--] week to try it out. You will also get 25% off the full membership price. The Macdonell Douglas F-4 was the more widely produced and internationally used fighter in US military history. Adopted by all three service arms The US Navy Airforce and Marines. It was used from the Vietnam war to gulf war in [----]. This is the story of the The Ultimate Cold War Warrior. Written Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=02MMMoeH6vo) 2020-11-10T16:51Z 1.1M followers, 319.3K engagements "What Will Happen to Voyager and Others in the Far Future Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee Currently there are at least five manmade objects that are on a one-way journey out of the solar system but where will these go will they just go on forever will they crash into a star or planet in the far distant future long after we our earth and sun has long ceased to exist. In this video we will see just what is going where and what the future holds for them. Written" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2Er8qPlrbWI) 2024-09-30T22:39Z 1.1M followers, 692.1K engagements "Can Iran Stop U.S. Bunker Buster Bombs https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Get 20% off with this link. Bunker Buster bombs like the GBU-57 or Massive Ordnance Penetrator are "the" way that the US can reach the hardened bunkers of its adversaries be that underground or in cave networks. However concrete technology has come on a long in recent decades and now poses the possibility that even the biggest bunker buster might not work without going nuclear. So in this video we look at how you can punch through [--] meters of hardened concrete and can they ever be stopped. To give one off tips and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=33IfCt-fAOk) 2023-01-03T23:11Z 1.1M followers, 5M engagements "Can We Control the Weather with Technology https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid With the weather reaching new extremes but is there a way we could use our existing technology to affect control the weather in this video we look at what we have already done and what we might do in the near future. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Presented by Paul Shillito Written & Researched By Paul Shillito Images and footage : NOAA NASA USAF Ian Kiehle Denver Water Bob McCallan Bary Nusz Willie Vogt edwardsaquifer.net KC Kiefuik Christiaan Conover Metro Systems" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4_sC7_yCVF4) 2019-08-26T23:33Z 1.1M followers, 399.3K engagements "The Most Powerful Continuous Magnets Yet Made Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch The Fast Track about fastest trains and how they are developed and the rest of MagellanTVs science collection: https://www.magellantv.com/video/the-fast-track Although many people don't give magnets a second thought other than their use to hold photos to the fridge door they are an integral and indispensable part of our modern life and without them we wouldn't have electricity and many other things. So inspired by a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ypxVQUWNMg) 2022-02-15T22:55Z 1.1M followers, 503.3K engagements "Sputnik - [--] years on from the Start of the Space Race That simple little beep beep beep was the sound that started the Space Race. It's been [--] years since they have first heard on October [--] [----] the Soviet Union launched Sputnik [--] into a low Earth orbit. It was only a metal ball [--] inches or about [--] centimetres in diameter with four antennae sticking out of it but it had an impact far greater than its size. In fact it changed the course of human history. EDIT: a couple of mistakes on my part. Firstly the date Khrushchev said "we will bury you" was [----] on [----] for some reason i said 65" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5M-QinwmdKc) 2017-10-03T23:24Z 1.1M followers, 463.9K engagements "SkyLab - Maybe the Most Important Space Programs So Far. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid It was plagued with problems from the start but it turned out to be one of the most important influential space programs we have ever done. Skylab unintentionally showed us that we could fix major unexpected problems working in space and that we could survive in space for a long periods of time and paved the way for the ISS. This is the story of Skylab the first and so far only US space station. This video is sponsored by Brilliant : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Written Researched and Presented" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=680S6UbCT_w) 2021-08-31T22:59Z 1.1M followers, 331.5K engagements "The Biggest Rocket ever Designed - The Sea Dragon In the history of space one rocket stands out as an icon of not only the space race but of the mighty power it symbolised. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg At 1:00 there is a spelling mistake showing the payload as 11000000lb this of course should be [-------] lbs. That one rocket which is still the Tallest heaviest and most powerful ever built was the Saturn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6e5B7EKVg48) 2017-04-02T22:16Z 1.1M followers, 4.3M engagements "How Big is the Solar System Really 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When most people think of the solar system they think of the sun and the planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune and thats it. But over the last [--] years there has been a number of discoveries that have shown that our solar system is much bigger than you may have thought and in this video we will see just how big it is really is. Written researched" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9GBRSOunpYs) 2024-10-30T22:31Z 1.1M followers, 119.6K engagements "F-111 Aardvark The Aircraft that Defined an Era Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra included here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee The F-111 started out as a cost-saving aircraft to work for both the USAF and the US Navy but ended up being rejected by the Navy however it went on to be on of the most trusted assets for the USAF for the next [--] years and its advanced design inspired a generation of high-performance swing-wing fighters and bombers in the US Soviet Union and Europe over the next [--] decades. This is the story of the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ISMYfHEOvc) 2024-04-25T22:14Z 1.1M followers, 248.1K engagements "The Device that Won WW2 - The Cavity Magnetron Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee It's said that the atomic bomb ended WW2 but the Cavity Magnetron won the war. The invention of this palm-sized device gave first the British and then the Americans a microwave radar generator that was [----] times more powerful than anything they had before and enabled small high power radar to be fitted to planes ships and vehicles. This transformed the war and swung it for the allies in Europe and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CbTWzC86R4Y) 2023-08-27T22:39Z 1.1M followers, 2.2M engagements "Black Arrow : The Lipstick Rocket - A Very British Space Program This is the story of the Black Arrow a uniquely British satellite launch system that could have helped Britain become a space fairing nation. But Whilst the Americans & Soviets threw billions of dollars & Rubels and the power of the state at the problem of space the British after WW2 struggled with little money and resources. In [----] Britain became the 6th country to develop an independent satellite launch system and before the launch was completed the only country to give up on it's own system. Patreon :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FHBGAyIU8Hw) 2017-10-07T23:00Z 1.1M followers, 647.1K engagements "What Happened to the Giant Hovercraft SR-N4 - The Concorde of the Seas They were once known as the 'Concorde of the Seas': mighty flying boats that ferried their passengers with speed and style. Hovercraft was a symbol of national innovation and represented the future of transport in the 20th Century. And yet like the Concorde the huge iconic 'Mountbatten-class' hovercraft that once traversed the 22-mile English Channel from England to France carrying hundreds or passengers and cars are no longer with us. So what happened to the giant hovercraft SN-R4 Patreon :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Inog40YZcYs) 2017-09-08T15:21Z 1.1M followers, 5.1M engagements "The End of the ISS is Coming but Why and What Will Replace it Download Opera here https://opr.as/Opera-browser-curiousdroid The ISS will be ending its days in the watery grave known as Point Nemo in [----] when it is deorbited by SpaceX but why are we throwing away $150B of hardware and what will replace it it if anything This video is sonsored by Opera https://opr.as/Opera-browser-curiousdroid Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA Roscosmos Northrop Grumman SpaceX Spacelab Axiom To give one off tips and donations please use the following :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JO7HX3Irq14) 2024-07-22T23:11Z 1.1M followers, 308.6K engagements "Was the Space Shuttle Doomed From the Beginning When the space shuttle was announced in [----] it was seen as the space vehicle to make low earth orbit space travel and living in space an everyday reality. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg But in hindsight many now believe that it was a failed project that was hamstrung by lack of funding and interest by government and sky high expectations from NASA that led" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ja4ZlswGvpE) 2016-08-01T13:13Z 1.1M followers, 1.3M engagements "NASA's Mega Hubble - The Roman Space Telescope https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid What do you do when the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) makes you an offer you can't refuse. Well in the case of NASA you update an existing design to create a Hubble on steroids that can cover the same amount of sky as one hundred Hubble's drastically cutting down the time survey the sky and also more accurately look for Neptune sized planets around nearby stars and gather evidence to hopefully find out what dark energy really is this is NASA upcoming Roman space telescope. This video is sponsored by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PNO_ofQijbY) 2020-11-30T21:38Z 1.1M followers, 859.1K engagements "How safe are nuclear weapons Considering the number of nuclear weapons that have been created since [----] it is something of a miracle that up to now there hasn't been a major nuclear explosion involving them so how safe are nuclear weapons Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Craig Louis Fleming Florian Hesse Peter Barber Also : Alan Johns Allan Versaevel Andrew SMITH Chad Mellor Cody Belichesky Collin Copfer Daniel Suarez Daniele Noacco David Stevens Doogymoogy Franc Giacomo Catenazzi Janne Kurikka Jared Swanson Johan" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6ucuK9EKM) 2019-06-29T14:33Z 1.1M followers, 1.3M engagements "V Bombers - Vulcan Victor & Valiant - The Last British Bombers It took just [--] years to go from the first flight of the Lancaster Bomber in [----] to the first flight of the VX770 the prototype Vulcan bomber in [----]. Yet the difference between them could hardly be greater the Vulcan along with the Victor and Valiant were a new generation of the new planes known as the V bombers planes for a new era and a newly nuclear-armed Britain. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsers: Drew Hendrix Symon Hamer Florian Hesse Lucius Kwok Hunter" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q109yF10DUM) 2017-11-28T23:06Z 1.1M followers, 814.7K engagements "Will SpaceX Starlink Have Too Many Satellites in Orbit Use this link https://www.hostinger.com/curiousdroid and the Code: CURIOUSDROID to get 10% OFF your first month of Hostinger Horizons. We currently have about [-----] satellites in orbit but within the next decade we could have [------] if all the new mega-constellations like SpaceX's Starlink and others go ahead. Not only might that ruin the night skies for radio and visual astronomy but it might also be just too much to manage safely without creating a calamitous orbital debris field that might lock us on the Earth for hundreds of years. In" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S4MblZpDums) 2025-03-28T22:40Z 1.1M followers, 82.6K engagements "The Scale of Everything - The Big the Small and the Planck https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Living on our little planet and looking up at the night sky it's easy to forget just how big the scale of the universe really is not only on the grand scale but also on the microscopic one too so for this video we look at the scale of everything from the size of the universe to the smallest distance we can conceive that doesn't collapse our mathematical models put in place by Einstein and Planck. This is Scale of Everything - The Big the Small and the Planck This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ST7EP7xnriM) 2020-12-23T22:07Z 1.1M followers, 338.6K engagements "Project Suntan - The Lockheed CL-400 Get 81% off with the NordVPN 3-year deal and [--] months free and the NordPass password manager app with the coupon code "curiousdroid" deal here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid After the U-2 but before the SR-71 was created another reconnaissance aircraft was planed by the USAF and designed by Lockheed's Kelly Jonhson to take the place of the CIA's U-2. This that would be powered by liquid hydrogen and fly 30000ft higher than the U-2 at [------] ft but the difficulties of working with hydrogen at that time put paid the to project." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UzIS5KSG7Uk) 2019-12-27T11:43Z 1.1M followers, 652.2K engagements "MOSFET The Most significant invention of the 20th Century To get 73% off with the NordVPN 2-year deal plus [--] month free click on the link here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid What makes a truly world-changing invention. Of all the inventions of the 20th century just one could be said to have changed the world in such a way that it touches virtually everybody on the planet's lives on a daily basis. It has enabled the most rapid development in technology in history and yet you cant see the vast majority of them directly and their individual job is just to switch on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bHwl8TdEI6k) 2021-09-30T15:40Z 1.1M followers, 2M engagements "Merlin - The Engine that Won the War Sounds like a bit of a bold claim that one engine helped change the course of WW [--] but when you see the evidence it has a lot validity but how did one little engine change the course of world events and become the engine that won the war. I would like to thank David Irwin of Historic Aero Engines not only for the generous use of his footage but as in checking over the script and finished video for technical accuracy. Historic Aero Engines display team : https://www.facebook.com/historicaeroengines/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtE_0FQ9fsL3M8slseOYb2Q" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=baDZSADYbNM) 2019-09-28T21:45Z 1.1M followers, 2.3M engagements "X-15 The Ultimate Flying Machine "It was the ultimate flying machine No airplane can live up to what the X-15 did." Thats what retired test pilot and astronaut Joe Engle said of the first real space plane and [--] years after its record-breaking flight of 3rd October [----] when USAF test pilot William J. Knight achieved a top speed of MACH [----] [----] mph or [----] km/h Its still the fastest manned powered aircraft. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=c_4UIfHNAZE) 2017-04-22T15:50Z 1.1M followers, 2.7M engagements "Rolls Royce Crecy - The Most Advanced Piston Aero Engine Never Made. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid The Rolls Royce Crecy was a revolutionary piston aero engine that promised to take over from where the Merlin/Griffin engines left off with power level up to a possible [----] hp from its two-stroke sleeve valve double blower design all from a [--] litre V-12. This is the story of the Rolls Royce Crecy and why you've probably never heard of it. This video is sponsored by Brilliant : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid This video was suggested by one of our viewers Chris. If you have any" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cxK_zWgw6gY) 2021-06-01T09:51Z 1.1M followers, 793.1K engagements "How Pratt & Whitney Changed Aviation Click here https://bit.ly/3EyARXG for the Eight Sleep Black Friday Sale: $550 off the Pod Mattress $300 off the Pod Cover Promo code DROID at checkout. Pratt & Whitney built arpound 50% of all the allied aero engines used in WW2 and nearly all of the them were based on one ground braking engine that changed military aviation and produced some of the toughest engines of the war that proved pivitol during the war in the Pacific against the Japanese and greatly helped in Europe too. This is the story of the Prat and Whitney Wasp and its desendants. This video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dMPcgaVboUQ) 2022-11-18T22:51Z 1.1M followers, 1M engagements "Are Analogue Computer Hybrids The Future 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com The oldest computer is about [----] years old and yet it used just [--] gears to calculate the positions of the Sun Moon & Eclipses into the future something that we would use a digital computer to do today. These analogue computers can do much more and can be faster than digital ones for modelling very complex systems but they were replaced by the much more versatile" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e2Mtt2rb654) 2025-02-27T23:43Z 1.1M followers, 213.2K engagements "The Search for Planet X / Planet [--] / Nibiru More dire predictions that Nibiru aka Planet X or Planet [--] will trigger earthquakes floods and generally the end of the world have been and gone as was expected but Planet X and Planet [--] were and are real. Here we look at the basis of how these have ended up being hijacked by the Nibiru believers. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Drew Hendrix Symon Hamer Florian Hesse Kevin Hinnen Mitchel J. Mullin II Lucius Kwok Hunter Schwisow Pyloric Seb Stoodley Peter Cote Cody Belichesky" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eQH7hjoSX-E) 2017-12-16T11:17Z 1.1M followers, 462.3K engagements "How Different Are Space Computers From Earth-Based Ones Visit https://spaceship.com/promos/id=droid and use promo code DROID to unlock exclusive deals on domain names email services and web hostingtailored just for you We here on Earth are used using computers for almost everything everyday and we accept that they will crash or lose data at some point. But if you're in space and the computer controls your spacecraft the last thing you want it to do is to glitch or crash because it might just well be the last thing it ever does and it will be the last thing you witness. So how different are" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g1npYSuNy4U) 2025-05-16T22:32Z 1.1M followers, 443.6K engagements "America's lost stealth helicopter - RAH [--] Comanche https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid It was going to be the next generation helicopter of the 21st century bringing stealth and the digital battlefield into rotary aircraft but it ended in cost overruns delays and cancellation after just two prototypes this is the story of Americas lost stealth helicopter the Boeing Sikorski RAH-66 Comanche. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Written Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and Footage : Boeing Sikorsky Lockheed Martin US Army US DoD USAF Bell" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=inlflEHGWo0) 2021-03-23T23:47Z 1.1M followers, 707.2K engagements "Nuclear powered Planes Trains and Automobiles To quote L.P Hartleys [----] book The GoBetween The past is a different country they do things differently there. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Thats definitely something that could be applied our attitude to the newly discovered atomic power in the late 1940s and 50s. Within just a few years after the first atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan it seemed as" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kR5gefU87TY) 2017-04-10T00:16Z 1.1M followers, 1.3M engagements "How can you stop a Nuclear Missile When I was growing up in England in the 1970s and though the 1980s in particular there was an almost palpable fear that a nuclear exchange could break out between the superpowers at almost any time. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg It caused me and many others around at the time to wonder was there a way to stop a missile attack but to be honest there was very little you" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=m6MOaECL6FM) 2017-05-30T23:49Z 1.1M followers, 6.2M engagements "Did Reagan's Real Star Wars Bankrupt the Soviet Union Did the Real 'Star Wars' Bankrupt the USSR In the 1980s science fact and science fiction looked as if they might become one when the American President Ronald Reagan announced the 'Strategic Defence Initiative' or 'Star Wars' missile defence system. The program was designed to break the nuclear deadlock between the US and Soviets and move beyond the threat of M.A.D. or Mutual Assured Destruction. You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg The Curious Droid" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nL0pNvo-BKw) 2017-06-16T23:55Z 1.1M followers, 721.7K engagements "Why Does SpaceX Use [--] Engines While NASA Used Just [--] Get 50% off your first crate of a monthly subscription when you go to https://www.kiwico.com/curiousdroid and use code curiousdroid. The race to the moon is back on but why does SpeceX's Starship & super heavy booster need [--] engines when NASA's Saturn V rocket which went to the moon six times [--] years ago only needed five. We look at what has changed since then and why many smaller engines and all the extra complexity that comes with them seem to be the way forward for the modern space industry. To give one off tips and donations please" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=okK7oSTe2EQ) 2024-06-18T22:32Z 1.1M followers, 1.4M engagements "Hypersonic Missiles vs ICBM's - Which is better https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid The major nuclear powers have used ICBM's as the mainstay of their defence strategy for [--] year or so and even built some form of anti-ballistic shield to protect against. But in the last decade or so a new type of hypersonic missiles have been developed that promises to make ICBM's redundant but will they just fuel a new arms race as everyone one struggles to make them work in a reliable manner. So how do they compare to the decades-old tech of ICBM's and are they any better This video is sponsored by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=p0t06EkZJcM) 2020-04-30T15:54Z 1.1M followers, 1M engagements "Shinkansen vs TGV - Is One Better Than the Other https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid The Japanese shinkansen or bullet train and the TGV from France are the original high-speed rail trains and although they provide a similar service they are quite distinct in their own right and yet they have a common starting point but is possible to say if one better than the other. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Presented by Paul Shillito Written & Researched By Paul Shillito Images and footage : NHK Alstom SNCF EZ30tRutH6 Greg Peterson JR Tokai ula Music from" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=p3zrqotjw7A) 2019-09-22T01:36Z 1.1M followers, 1.6M engagements "Why Did the Apollo Landers Look So Odd Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. The Apollo lunar lander or LEM was one of the strangest looking spacecraft ever built but it was designed to get a job done that had never been done before. Some say that it was a fake and too flimsy to withstand the rigours of space flight and get men to the moon and back again and yet it did that very job six times with without fail. This is the story of why the Apollo landers looked" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qUIhHEF-vEw) 2024-09-17T22:37Z 1.1M followers, 397.8K engagements "How do Spacecraft Photograph the Planets & get the Images Back to Earth https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Ever wondered how we can take those amazing images of the planets from spacecraft and get them back to earth for scientific study and just to see what they really look like. Well in this video we do just that and see how they developed and some of the challenges they have to solve in order to do so. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org: https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Presented by Paul Shillito Written & Researched By Paul Shillito Images and Footage NASA ESA RosCosMos" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rrD1oe5_zvw) 2019-03-22T17:36Z 1.1M followers, 778.2K engagements "What happened to the Ekranoplan - The Caspian Sea Monster What happened to the Ekranoplan the huge ground effect vehicle the Soviets developed in the cold from the 1960's to the 1980's. This was a part plane part boat that could fly just above the above the sea surface and carry huge loads of personnel or weapons at high speed. We look at its development its inventor and its ultimate demise. Pateron : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Sponsors : Luke Muhammad Tauha Ali Pascal Hausammann Florian Hesse. Space Ventures Investors Katy Joal Rehmann Pyloric Blair Leduc Laszia Antal Chad Mellor" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=x22nVFTd8nI) 2018-04-12T19:18Z 1.1M followers, 2.8M engagements "How the Stuka and Douglas SBD Altered the Course of WW2 Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link for as little as $1/month or get 40% off unlimited access this month only. Two average warplanes one on each side of the war both overlooked by their more glamorous brethren but both were outstanding dive bombers capable of doing what artillery or heavy bombing could not and both had a major impact on the course of WW2 one in starting it and the other at ending it. This is the story of how the Junkers Ju.87 Stuka and the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xEZgaSib4FA) 2023-11-15T21:58Z 1.1M followers, 93.8K engagements "RB.211- The Engine That Sank and Then Saved Rolls Royce To get 73% off with the NordVPN 3-year deal plus [--] month free click on the link here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid In the early 1970s Rolls Royce one of the most famous names in aero engineering went bust all because of just one project. Yet that same project went on to transform Rolls into the 2nd biggest engine maker in the world today. The project was the RB211 [--] spool high bypass turbojet engine and this is the story of how and why it failed and how it was spectacularly resurrected by engineers that were" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKII7q6bWf8) 2021-07-28T21:43Z 1.1M followers, 435.1K engagements "NASA's Million Dollar Space Pen vs The Soviet Pencils The story of the NASAs million $ space pen and the soviet pencils has become one of the enduring tales from the space race which still floats around the internet today and goes a bit like this. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg During the 1960s as NASA was sending the first men in the space they realise that pens dont work in zero gravity so they spent" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yJrzxrN9dF4) 2017-03-18T00:30Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements "What does it take to land on a comet In days of old comets were seen as bringers of doom and bad luck but now we know better. However landing on one is probably the most difficult operation undertaken by any space agency and almost a guarantee of some sort of bad luck as ESA's Rosetta / Philae mission found out. So just what does it take to land on a comet as it travels around the solar system at up to [------] km/h and what sort of challenges did the teams at ESA the European Space Agency face as they sent the Rosetta spacecraft and its lander Philae to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko . This" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4GXh30HpGXc) 2019-05-29T21:31Z 1.1M followers, 398.5K engagements "Lasers Plamsa UFOs and Lightning. The Hidden Tech of Laser-Induced Plasma. 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID to get 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com We've probably all heard of a seen and holograms created by lasers but there is another much less well known Laser derived phenomena which is capable of creating objects in air that can have a very real influence on the real world and not just for our visual entertainment. In this video we look at Laser Induced Plasma and some of the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ncUhfOwo30) 2025-07-31T21:23Z 1.1M followers, 56.5K engagements "If it Looks Right It Will Fly Right - Right Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee There is and old saying in avaition "if it looks right it will fly right" but how true is that. In this video I look at aircraft that from the outset dont look right at all but do fly sometimes rather well. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA Northrop philamanian USAF ABposters.com To give one off tips and donations please use the following :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PG4gr0Q4904) 2024-11-25T22:28Z 1.1M followers, 409.8K engagements "TSR.2 - The Plane Shot Down by its Own Government The Plane that saw the end of the leadership of British aviation the BAC TSR.2 was a world beater at the time but couldn't survive a government that no longer wanted it. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsors : Symon Hamer Florian Hesse Tayar Jundi Johan Rombaut Tobias Pettersson Kevin Hinnen Mitchel J. Mullin II Lucius Kwok Hunter Schwisow Pyloric Seb Stoodley Peter Cote Cody Belichesky Mogoreanu Daniel Douglas Gustafson Marcus Chiado Jorn Magnus Karlsen. This episodes shirt was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PhXcd-881xA) 2018-01-12T22:10Z 1.1M followers, 1.5M engagements "DeadHand - Russia's Doomsday Weapon From Beyond the Grave. https://cyberghostvpn.com/CuriousDroid - Get 84% off CyberGhostVPN + four months for free using this link . During the 1980s the Soviet Union initiated a program to create a system that would act as a retaliation should it fall subject to a 1st strike from the US. Even if it successfully knocked out the Kremlin leadership and command structure this system could launch a full-scale nuclear attack thus ensuring the doctrine of MAD Mutual Assured Destruction. In this video we look at how this system came about and how even though it was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WsZpKlNmpmI) 2026-01-26T19:55Z 1.1M followers, 75.3K engagements "Focke-Wulf FW-190 vs P-51 Mustang - Which was better To get 70% off with the NordVPN 3-year deal plus [--] month free with the coupon code "curiousdroid" deal here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid The FW-190 and P-51 Mustang are regarded by many as in the very top tier of fighter aircraft used in WW2 both had started off with more lowly expectations but through good design and upgrades by the end of the war they were at the top of their respective airforces but was there a clear winner in this video we try to find out. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=egY4o8cWWMM) 2020-05-11T15:57Z 1.1M followers, 1.5M engagements "What happened to the Trans Europe Express - The TEE Get MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid & get an exclusive offer extended to our viewers: an extra month FREE. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3000+ documentaries Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTVs exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/science-and-tech The Trans Europe Express or TEE was the first international network to link up western European cites from [----] to 1990's. It was designed to be a first-class only solution for business people and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mszQwdUMMyY) 2020-05-20T22:49Z 1.1M followers, 379.9K engagements "XB-70 Valkyrie - The Worlds Fastest Bomber Thats not a plane its a [--] plane formation thats what General Curtis LeMay said of the plans for the WS-110 supersonic replacement for the B-52 back in [----]. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Back in the early 1950s the B-52 was USAFs main nuclear delivery platform but with the increasing sophistication of the Soviet defences a new supersonic nuclear bomber was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oHqNNOiooLQ) 2017-04-29T21:47Z 1.1M followers, 2.2M engagements "How to Put Data Centres & A.I In to Space Click this link https://boot.dev/promo=CURIOUSDROID and use my code CURIOUSDROID to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. Data centres have become so important to our modern way of life that they are now seen as strategic assets. The race to install the even more powerful AI data centres is now seen in the US at least as a matter of national security. However they are now becoming so large that powering them and keeping cool it's becoming difficult to find locations for them. But what if you were to put them where it's extremely cold and there" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tSZjjUO7Jn0) 2025-08-17T22:37Z 1.1M followers, 38.9K engagements "SLAM - America's Big Stick & Doomsday Weapon Just before ICBM's became the de facto delivery system of choice the US created what could be called the doomsday weapon of the cold war. It was deemed so dangerous that the same government that commissioned it cancelled it before it went into production. This is the story of Project Pluto and SLAM the unstoppable nuclear-powered cruise missile it created. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Kosmonaut Muhammad Tauha Ali Pascal Hausammann Florian Hesse. Also Alan Johns Allan" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DZHONQAMV48) 2018-10-20T22:00Z 1.1M followers, 1.8M engagements "Apollo the Lunar Dust and NASA's Dirty Problem Sometimes the smallest things can be one of the biggest headaches. During the Apollo missions of [----] to [--] the tiny particles of lunar dust turned out to be a major issue. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Described as being as fine as talc but as rough as sandpaper it also has properties that make it dangerous for both men and machines and has been cited as a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EFqpgmZAZgo) 2017-01-19T00:08Z 1.1M followers, 725.7K engagements "Proximity Fuze The 3rd Most Crucial Development of WW2 Become smarter in [--] minutes by signing up for free today: http://cen.yt/mbcuriousdroid - Thanks to Morning Brew for sponsoring todays video. It was considered so secret that in the beginning it was only allowed to be used over the open sea just in case any failed they would be lost and not fall into enemy hands. The proximity fuze has since the end of the war been considered the 3rd most influential technological development of WW2 with its effect in battle both in the Pacific and Europe as greater than atomic bomb which was only used" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=N0SgC78YFPc) 2021-05-21T14:27Z 1.1M followers, 1.5M engagements "Hubble Trouble - How did the Space Telescope Mirror End Up Flawed The Hubble space telescope was at the time meant to be the finest telescope ever made with the smoothest most perfect mirror on earth. So how did the $1.5 Billion project end up with a flawed mirror that had a grinding error 10x greater than the required tolerance and so bad that it could not be focused once in space. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid This episodes shirt was the Penny Dot Lane Retro Mod Polka Dot by Madcap England and is available at AtomRetro.com with" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OqZ68VYMRgE) 2017-08-03T22:07Z 1.1M followers, 406.3K engagements "The Forgotten American Concordes - Boeing [----] - Lockheed L-2000 SST Americas forgotten Concordes the planes that never flew. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg When we think of supersonic passenger air travel most people will think of Concorde the joint British & French design which operated from [----] until [----] and up until this day has been the only long term supersonic passenger jet service to operate." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cG2cxdTfASw) 2016-05-10T10:48Z 1.1M followers, 4.1M engagements "What They Really Had Planned for Apollo Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch The Saturn V Story about the most powerful rocket ever made and the rest of MagellanTVs science collection: https://www.magellantv.com/video/saturn-v-story When we look back at Apollo we see the landing of the first humans on the moon with Apollo [--] and the following [--] missions up to Apollo [--] but the planners wanted a larger and longer program with a moon base and space stations but the Apollo [--] fire triggered the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=f4CTI5GDz98) 2021-10-18T19:23Z 1.1M followers, 449.4K engagements "Will Directed Energy Weapons be the Future https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid What is faster than the fastest hypersonic missile well a beam of light microwaves or subatomic particles but they are impossibly small and have almost no mass compared to a projectile. However if you have enough energy you can make a weapon that works at the speed of light and in theory can shoot down anything projectile weapon we have now. So why don't we have phasers like in Star Trek in this video we look at Directed Energy Weapons and what they can do now and in the future. This video is sponsored by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=w6tkL1w27Js) 2020-06-12T16:08Z 1.1M followers, 528.9K engagements "Why is Project HAARP so controversial HAARP is a magnet for the conspiracy theorists who claim it can control the weather create earthquakes disrupt worldwide communications and control peoples minds. So how did a research project into the ionosphere turn to this super machine. In this video we'll look at what HAARP really is and why it has become so controversial. Bernard Eastlund Patent : http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-ParserSect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4686605.PN.&OS=PN/4686605&RS=PN/4686605 Patreon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5WdLV3YRMvw) 2019-06-14T22:33Z 1.1M followers, 2.1M engagements "How Small Can You Make a Nuclear Weapon Nuclear weapons are thought of as being large and heavy but even going back to 1950s weapons designers had created weapons that could be carried in a backpack. But just how small can one of these devices be made and still work There are stories of lost briefcase nukes after the fall of the Soviet Union so in this video we look at how they are and with the widespread use of cheap drones in warfare how likely it is that a stolen miniature nuke could be used in an unstable world today. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito. To give one-off tips" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=88c-0ZI-vXU) 2025-09-12T19:53Z 1.1M followers, 678.2K engagements "Apollos Most Critical Rocket Engine Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. Of all the rocket engines used during the Apollo program just one was considered to be critical to the whole operation this was the lunar module ascent engine if that didn't start or had a problem whilst on the moon then there was no way to rescue the crew so it had to work with 100% reliability. This video looks at why this was so critical and the issues surrounding the use of its super" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KnvpIcRXFkY) 2024-08-16T20:56Z 1.1M followers, 197K engagements "Rubin vs Webb Telescopes - What's the Difference Between Them 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com With the release if the first Vera Rubin images this week we now have another amazing way to view the space not only in our solar system but almost everything in the southern sky. But if we have the best telescope in the James Webb then why do we need another. So in this video Ill tell you the difference between them and let you know why Vera Rubin" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QZZqtgUAxX0) 2025-06-30T22:10Z 1.1M followers, 145.9K engagements "What Happened to the Nuclear Test Sites https://brilliant.org/curiousdroid Nuclear testing ended over [--] years ago but the legacy of the test areas still remains and will do for hundreds or thousands of years. [--] countries have actively tested nuclear weapons some in their own backyard if it was big enough like the Soviet Union and the US but they also used others peoples backyards in the Pacific the British and French did this. But what happened to the test sites in this video we look at the US and Soviet test programs and what became of them and the people nearby. This video is sponsored by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RMo7jUs0GMs) 2018-03-14T21:35Z 1.1M followers, 5.5M engagements "Why Russia Did Not Put a Man on the Moon - The Secret Soviet Moon Rocket Its probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Although the USA won the race to the moon if youd been a betting person from the mid 1950s to 1960s the chances are that you would have thought the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vi6fjs_8Yx8) 2016-08-18T14:45Z 1.1M followers, 9.3M engagements "Are Molten Salt Reactors the Future of Nuclear Power 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com From a cancelled experiment in the 1960s to the 2000s Thorium Molten Salt Reactors were almost a forgotten technology overlooked by political forces that wanted to keep the uranium cycle reactors with the ability to produce large quantities of plutonium. But with the release of the research data to the public in the 2010s China and other countries are now on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wfz6ZKU0JF4) 2025-04-28T21:30Z 1.1M followers, 109.2K engagements "How do spacecraft navigate in space https://brilliant.org/curiousdroid/ How do spacecraft navigate in space over billions of kilometers and with split second timing during missions that last for years or decades. Here we look at how its done and the underlying principles that make it all possible. Sponsored by Brilliant.org Presented by Paul Shillito Written and Researched by Paul Shillito Images and Footage NASA ESA MIT SolarSystemVideos Music by Response Data by P C III is licensed under a Attribution License. Based on a work at www.pipechoir.com source :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YAnxt1YPWbk) 2017-12-07T13:29Z 1.1M followers, 3.4M engagements "Telstar [--] - The Satellite That Changed the World Get 50% off your first MEL science box using the Promo code: Droid50 here : https://melscience.com/sBJ7/ or use the QR code in the video. It might look like a a prototype for the Death Star but Telstar [--] started the satellite TV age that we now have with the 24/7 rolling news and sports from anywhere in the world so in this video we look at the 1st privately funded communications satellite and how it changed the world. This video is sponsored by MEL Science Find out where Telstar [--] is now here : https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/s=340 Written" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_iJ6AhXscYI) 2022-08-24T20:44Z 1.1M followers, 169.6K engagements "How Do We Know What the Milky Way Really Looks Like Go to https://squarespace.com/curiousdroid to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. We have all seen images of the Milky way that look like there are taken at great distances from the outside but how do we know that is correct. The Voyager spacecraft have been travelling for [--] years but have only gone [-----] light years from Earth and will take another [-----] years to reach our nearest neighbouring star. So in this video we look at how we know that the Milky way looks like on the outside from the inside." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bjM3jOYQYz4) 2022-06-10T21:01Z 1.1M followers, 177.5K engagements "Bell Labs - The Company that Invented the Future Get the exclusive NordVPN deal with [--] extra months for free using my link https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid - It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee To some it was the ideas factory to others it was the most influential institution of its kind in the world and in many ways has created much of the technology that is the bedrock of our modern world in this video I look at Bell Labs and how it made our future. This video is sponsored by NordVPN https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eksTJOmlxbU) 2022-08-19T20:53Z 1.1M followers, 366.4K engagements "Space Station Collision - Mir Crash with Progress Supply Vessel Of all the 100s of thousands of pieces of space junk and nearly [----] satellites in orbit around the earth it may come as a surprise that so far there has been only one major collision involving a manned craft and it affected both Russians and Americans. This is the almost forgotten story of the only major collision to involve a manned space vehicle in this case the Russian space station Mir and a Progress resupply cargo vessel in [----]. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=feplKyucGkU) 2017-09-27T23:01Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements "What Happened to NASA's Gateway to Space - Launch Complex [--] NASA's launch complex [--] was the gateway to the moon and the starting point for every Space Shuttle mission. With the demise of the shuttle and the Constellation program what will happen to the space complex. Here we look at LC-39 and just what it does and how important it was in the past and will be in the future. This video was a suggestion from a member of the curious droid facebook group Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Craig Louis Fleming Florian Hesse" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kv1ydBgkthY) 2018-12-30T19:15Z 1.1M followers, 1.2M engagements "Could the Crew of Columbia Have Been Rescued https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Although it has been accepted that there was nothing that could have been done to save the crew of Columbia but in the report in the disaster it recommended NASA create a rescue/repair plan to see what could have been done if information about foam strike could have been investigated by the crew as soon as possible. This video looks at what was recommended in Appendix D.13 the STS-107 flight Options Assessment and the options that might of existed. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lfgJATkRjgs) 2020-10-30T17:12Z 1.1M followers, 1.2M engagements "Tomahawk Missile How is it Nearly [--] Years Old and Still Going Strong Click this link https://boot.dev/promo=CURIOUSDROID and use my code CURIOUSDROID to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. The Tomahawk missile has been a mainstay for the US and its allies for over [--] years but how in a fast moving world of AI and drone technologies how has it kept up and why has it still at the top of its game and been feared by so many. In this video we look at just what keeps so relivent. #Tomahawk #BGM109 #CruiseMissile #TLAM #TERCOM #DSMAC #BlockV #MilitaryHistory #USNavy #DesertStorm Written" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qO4wWrX1-Qk) 2025-10-24T21:11Z 1.1M followers, 484.3K engagements "Who Built the Smallest Nuclear Bomb & Could Anyone Do It Get 10% off "The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding A Civilization" here https://bit.ly/4lGk4EY with the code CURIOUSDROID10 . In my last video I looked at how small a nuclear weapon be made well in this follow up I look at the brilliant yet little-known physicist called Ted Taylor who pushed the boundaries of nuclear weapons design to extremes. From creating the smallest nuclear bomb ever fielded the Davy Crockett to designing the largest pure-fission device Ivy King Taylors work shaped the Cold War arms race in ways few realize." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tDbFrZoLLO4) 2025-09-27T19:48Z 1.1M followers, 184.3K engagements "Ultra High Speed Cameras How do you film a tank shell in flight or a Nuclear bomb test Ever wondered how they film a tank shell in flight for over 100m meters like it was travelling at walking speed or the instant of a nuclear explosion. In this video I look at the super high-speed cameras that can run at millions of frames per second that were made well before the modern electronic ones of today as well have the amazing flight follower systems and the fastest real-time tracker in the world. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid To give" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vluzeaVvpU0) 2017-11-10T23:58Z 1.1M followers, 8.4M engagements "NASA's Big Mistake - The X-33 VentureStar Replacement Shuttle The X-33 was the prototype replacement for the Space Shuttle and would feature a range of cutting-edge technologies that would make much cheaper to operate and quicker to turn around with much less personal. Although 95% of the components had been made and delivered and a new flight centre had been built it was cancelled in a shock decision that would put back the reusable space program years. Was this NASA's biggest mistake of recent years or was it just too advanced for the time in this video we look at the X-33 and the reason" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zeNytM7JdYY) 2018-06-16T00:25Z 1.1M followers, 2M engagements "Is Your Private Internet Data Being Harvested From Undersea Cables Enjoy 10% discount and free shipping (to most countries) on all Hoverpens with code CURIOUSDROID: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-noviumEU Your internet data travels around the world in a fraction of a second and in the process it will travel through some of the [---] million Km of undersea fibre optic cables but how secure is it from not only being cut but also from wiretapping and data harvesting on a vast scale by not only you government but that of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-3JxCBSVZ9U) 2024-02-16T23:28Z 1.1M followers, 108.1K engagements "How Could Nuclear Batteries Last a Lifetime Download Heroes of History now for FREE here https://tinyurl.com/CuriousDroidHoH Nuclear batteries ones that use radioactive elements like Uranium or Plutonium could power our electronic devices for not days or weeks but decades. They have already been used in spacecraft and pacemakers but are they likely to become an alternative to lithium batteries we use today. In this video we look at if mass-market Nuclear batteries are a reality or a fantasy that will be the reserve of space and highly specialised operations. Written researched and presented" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=15ywStuSavY) 2025-04-13T20:57Z 1.1M followers, 100.6K engagements "Will The Army Get Electric Tanks Get the exclusive deal here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Its risk free with NordVPNs [--] day money back guarantee. With the sale of electric vehicles booming wilt the biggest single user of fossil fuels switch to electric power any time soon in this video we look at electric tanks and whether we will be seeing any of them anytime soon. This video is sponsored by https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Written Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage: Images and footage : Textron Hyundai Kia oneonly xram Amazon US DoD US Army Eleek Ukrainain" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2KpcfZIwkHk) 2022-07-04T21:28Z 1.1M followers, 132.9K engagements "How One Camera Changed NASA and How We Saw the World https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Get 20% off with this link. The photographs that came from the Apollo missions have become some of the most famous and influential ever taken but these were done with mostly just one make of camera that only came about due to one of the early Mercury astronauts taking a low price commercial camera on board a mission to photo what they saw. So this is the story of how Hasselblad a small Swedish manufacturer became the pivotal player in showing the world what it was really like in space and on the moon and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2kovAmQ0jz4) 2023-10-11T22:35Z 1.1M followers, 176.8K engagements "How is NASA Hearing Stars Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee Do you look up at the stars and wonder what they sound like probably not but by using new techniques to sonify stars planets the sun and even the aurora we can now perceive the universe in a new way. In this video we look at how we can hear whole galaxies our sun and even gravity waves. To give one off tips and donations please use the following : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/curiousdroid or paypal.me/curiousdroid This" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ySX3WzZuxk) 2023-09-26T22:03Z 1.1M followers, 50.3K engagements "How Do You Fly a Plane Through a Hurricane Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee If you have even been on a rather turbulent plane journey then image what it's like flying into the biggest most violent storm systems on earth a hurricane. Thats exactly what the hurricane hunters of NOAA and the USAF do every time a hurricane looks like it will make landfall. In this video we find out how they do this also discover the planes and crews that set off but never returned." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3HLbxchj1gw) 2024-10-27T23:16Z 1.1M followers, 75K engagements "Mars or the Moon - Where do NASA manned missions go next The last humans to visit the moon left the lunar surface in Apollo [--] at 5:55pm EST on Dec 14th [----] since then no humans have been further than low earth orbit missions and to the variety of space stations that have existed since then. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Apologies for the Indian flag appearing upside down in a scene no offence meant or" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3URPKL4bp8E) 2023-10-23T13:45Z 1.1M followers, 1.2M engagements "Project Orion The Atomic Bomb Powered Space Rocket If I told that there was a plan to launch a spacecraft the size of an ocean liner that would weigh [---] times more than the Space Shuttle could travel with unrivalled speed across our Solar System and was powered by riding on a series pulses created by exploding thousands of miniature atomic bombs one after another another behind the ship you would probably say that Id been reading too many sci-fi books or websites. However in the 1950s and 60s just such an idea was taken very seriously. 'Project Orion' was a classified American project to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7dUYfDg3G2A) 2023-10-25T04:58Z 1.1M followers, 664.7K engagements "Could Anti-gravity Really be Possible https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Anti-gravity is one of those controversial subjects that some say is more in the realm of science fiction than science fact with many physicists saying it's just not theoretically possible while others are busy trying to find theories that would allow it to be possible. In this video we look at some of the things that we thought were anti-gravity but turned out not to be and what could be our nearest discovery with the vailidation of Einstein's predictions of space and gravity warping. This video is sponsored by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7ugQArIkM8A) 2019-11-04T23:25Z 1.1M followers, 3.9M engagements "Salyut [--] - The forgotten rescue of a dead space station In [----] one of the most audacious space rescue missions was launched by the Soviets to recover a space station that had been dead for months due to an unknown fault. A feat that was unparalleled in space exploration and rewrote the books on what was thought possible: and yet its story has fallen into obscurity and conspiracy theories. This is the story Salyut [--] and how the Soviet crew of two Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Victor Savinikh against the odds rescued it in a daring mission that was the first of its kind in space exploration." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8EPbJRsN1Zk) 2017-06-29T22:47Z 1.1M followers, 1.9M engagements "How do you Protect Spacecraft from the Radiation of Space Get MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid & get an exclusive offer extended to our viewers: an extra month FREE. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3000+ documentaries Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTVs exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/space Far from calm and peaceful space is a dangerous place with high levels of radiation not only from our sun but from distant supernovas. This is not only dangerous to us but also to the spacecraft themselves" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Uc1VXL3Q7g) 2020-03-28T21:01Z 1.1M followers, 269.6K engagements "StarShip Booster Explosion SpaceX IFT-2 - SkyshowTV #spacex #starship #booster #explosion Newly released footage from SkyshowTV the guys that film space launch tracking for NASA SpaceX and others. The last few seconds of the SpaceX IFT-2 booster before it blows up on its way back to earth after the successful launch from the SpaceX Starbase at Boca Chica on 18th November [----]. The second half is slowed down to 25% speed so you can see where the main explosion starts on the upper part of the booster. The original footage can be seen on the SkyshowTV channel https://www.youtube.com/@skyshowtv" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AcK8SoLphwA) 2024-04-08T19:40Z 1.1M followers, 20.1K engagements "What does the James Webb Use to See the Universe Get the exclusive deal here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Its risk free with NordVPNs [--] day money back guarantee. Now the JWST is in its final setting up phase I thought that I would look at how and what the JWST uses to see the universe in the IR spectrum and what this means not only for for the search for exoplanets that might harbour life and even some form of advanced civilisation. Written Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage: NASA JPL Teledyne Raytheon AXSYS/Ball Aerospace Northrop Gumman And as always a big" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BVByTTYJF3M) 2022-04-25T15:58Z 1.1M followers, 273.1K engagements "How did NASA get those great film shots of Apollo and the Shuttle Ever wondered how NASA got those amazing film shots of Apollo and the shuttle launching and the boosters falling away from rockets as they fly into space then here we find out what cameras and techniques they used. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Florian Hessem Symon Hamer Larry Ackerman Ara Kirakosyan Felix Friese Bernt-Olov Hellstram Tayar Jundi Johan Rombaut Tobias Pettersson Kevin Hinnen Mitchel J. Mullin II Lucius Kwok Hunter Schwisow Pyloric Seb" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BlPfHV36G-g) 2018-03-03T19:41Z 1.1M followers, 2.6M engagements "Is This The Next Big Thing - Near Zero Energy Chips Get your 14-day free trial of MyHeritage by using the following link https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid_MH If you think your PC with the latest and greatest video card is more like a space heater then youre not alone. But when you have [------] servers in a data centre or AI farm then heat becomes a major issue and a waste of money. But what if we could have computers and data centres that used maybe [----] times less power that's the promise of reversible computing and if you've never heard of that then you need to watch this video. To give one off" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CN3RHIQi558) 2025-02-15T23:27Z 1.1M followers, 293.3K engagements "How Powerful is the Sun Why is the sun hot now before you jump on the comments and say because its the sun stupid think about it our sun is basically a giant nuclear reactor at the centre of our solar system but not like the ones on earth. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid They create energy by nuclear fission that is they split large atoms like uranium in to smaller lighter ones and in the process it releases large amount of energy. Atomic bombs also work in the same way which is why they are so destructive. The sun creates its" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DbZaJDNXPS4) 2017-02-05T00:37Z 1.1M followers, 186.4K engagements "F-14 The Last Analogue Fighter - The Deadly Tomcat 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com The F-14 was the last analogue fighter designed just before the advent of modern digital electronics and yet it went on to be one of the US Navy's most respected and feared fighters when paired with the AIM-54 Pheonix missile it was a deadly combination. This is the story of how it dominated the air and why all the spare aircraft ended up being shredded into" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GTHY68S4Wxo) 2024-07-30T22:18Z 1.1M followers, 250.5K engagements "Why is it Still So Hard to Land on the Moon Get started with InVideo AI for free here https://invideo.io/i/CuriousDroid A new race for the moon has started but 55% of the landers have failed even though we have known how to land on the moon for nearly [--] years and the technological advances since then should have made things better shouldn't it For example it took a few years to get the landing techniques right the first time around but then there were no manned failures of the Apollo program on the moon apart Apollo [--] failed well before it got there so why are we back to crashing on the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HQ2B8uJ4kpA) 2024-03-25T21:59Z 1.1M followers, 227.5K engagements "5 Deaths Caught Live on Camera In this video we look at [--] fatalities caught live on camera. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg This has got to be one of the saddest moments of a persons departure ever recorded. The event was the [----] Dutch grand prix at the Zandvoort circuit in the Netherlands and the driver was Roger Williamson. Music used in this video : Androids Always Escape by Chris Zabriskie is licensed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HocWUHOuABM) 2016-02-10T15:41Z 1.1M followers, 19.2M engagements "How Dangerous is Deep Space Travel to Mars and Beyond NASA has a mission protocol which says that if a Low Earth Orbit mission increases the lifetime risk of the crew getting cancer by more than 3% they wont go ahead with it but the upcoming mars missions may expose the crews to levels that would be beyond that limit and other hazards so how dangerous is deep space travel to Mars and beyond. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IyUwSJ5pXS0) 2017-01-13T23:35Z 1.1M followers, 1.6M engagements "Miniaturization - The Biggest Little Thing to Happen in the Last [--] Years 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com If you were to state what you think was the biggest thing to happen in the last [--] years was what would you think it might be. In this video we look at a technique which has transformed the world into what we have now. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito To give one off tips and donations please use the following :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JFNhc7AhwWw) 2024-12-13T23:45Z 1.1M followers, 86K engagements "The Most Powerful Rocket Motor Ever Tested & Why it Never Made it to the Moon Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 50% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. In [----] the most powerful Solid Rocket Motor ever built was created by Aerojet and tested by NASA as a backup to the F-1 engine for the Saturn V. It had a thrust [---] times that of the F-1 and yet it was never used but it's successor nearly [--] years later provided 85% of the thrust for the space shuttle. This is the story of the Solid Rocket Motors" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JRsbVNELSKY) 2024-11-17T22:21Z 1.1M followers, 209.9K engagements "Aerospike Engines - Why Aren't We Using them Now https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Over [--] years ago an engine was designed that overcame the inherent design inefficiencies of bell-shaped rocket nozzles but despite much research in the 60's 70's and 90's and was to power the replacement for the Space Shuttle. But [--] years on and it still yet to be flight tested. So why aren't we using Aerospike rocket engines This video is sponsored by https://brilliant.org/curiousdroid The first [---] people to apply will get a 20% discount on their yearly Brilliant subscription. Presented by Paul Shillito" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K4zFefh5T-8) 2018-05-27T21:43Z 1.1M followers, 4.3M engagements "JWST finds Oldest Galaxy So Far #shorts With its first deep field image the James Webb Space Telescope is already proving just how capable its is by discovering what's thought to be the oldest galaxy so far GLASS-z13. This is thought to be [---] million years older than the previous record holder GN-z11 which was discovered by the Hubble space telescope in [----]. GLASS-z13 is a Lyman-break galaxy discovered by the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) observing program on the JWST and dates back to just [------] million years after the Big Bang and is at distance of [--] billion light years" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K_U1Cah-X3Y) 2022-07-27T22:39Z 1.1M followers, 92.9K engagements "F-1 The Engine That Nearly Stopped the Apollo Moon Missions https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid It [--] years since the first man stepped foot on the moon but to get there a massive new engine was needed the power the Saturn V rocket. The Rocketdyne F-1 would be that new engine but was so unstable it would almost be the downfall of the whole Apollo program. So how did the F-1 go from zero to hero. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Presented by Paul Shillito Written & Researched By Paul Shillito Images and Footage NASA Rocketdyne SpaceX Music from the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KnhYEnqzfZg) 2019-07-19T23:22Z 1.1M followers, 761.2K engagements "Are Space Elevators Still a Thing for the Future 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com It's been an idea that has been around since [----] but only since the 1960s that it was taken seriously. But the biggest issue is how to make a cable over 36000km that is light enough and strong enough. We now have the ability to make the materials but can we make them long enough to make it a reality find out in today's video. Written researched and presented by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KqtyZ-3dNto) 2025-03-31T21:23Z 1.1M followers, 182K engagements "Could NASA 3D Print a New F-1 Rocket Engine Enjoy 10% discount and free shipping on all Hoverpens with code CURIOUSDROID: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-noviumEU When NASA was looking to go back to the moon they did consider bringing back the Saturn V rocket and the Rocketdyne F-1 engines. However that would have meant going back to decades old technology and working practices something that just isn't possible today. But in the last decade 3D printing of metal parts has advanced greatly and now it is possible to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NI8HEbBhmWk) 2023-10-15T22:26Z 1.1M followers, 147.5K engagements "Electromagnetic Railguns - The U.S Military's future Superguns - [---] mile range Mach [--] projectiles Railguns Sci-fi come true or at least it seems thats way. An electric gun that can fire a guided projectile over 150km at Mach [--]. Although still in development these could be the future replacing the heavy guns of the past whilst being much cheaper to operate that cruise missiles or advanced aircraft. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsors: Symon Hamer Florian Hesse Hunter Schwisow Pyloric Seb Stoodley Oscar Anderson Peter Cote Cody" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OJV18qzA7Fo) 2017-11-05T00:10Z 1.1M followers, 2.1M engagements "A Brief History of Moon Hoaxes - Why do people still believe in them Go to google and type in site: Moon hoax and you get back over [------] websites that reference in some way or another that the moon landing were faked or we have never been to the moon at all. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg How did we get from one of the greatest technological achievements of the 20th century to believing that it was a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PT3ferYrmgU) 2016-09-19T15:09Z 1.1M followers, 1.2M engagements "How We Planned to go to Mars by [----] - The early Manned Missions https://brilliant.org/curiousdroid Part [--] is here on Isaac Arthurs channel: https://youtu.be/S0dqd72ALkQ Mars isn't the recent obsession that you might think if you listen to Elon Musk and NASA in fact NASA had solid plans to go by [----] using plans drawn up by Werner Von Braun. In this collaboration with Isaac Arthurs SFIA channel we look at the Mars missions that were planned for the past and those which are proposed for the future. To see Part [--] go to https://youtu.be/S0dqd72ALkQ This video is sponsored by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pv7aigOzQKo) 2018-02-01T16:00Z 1.1M followers, 810.6K engagements "How will the internet work in Space - The Interplanetary Internet https://www.hover.com/CuriousDroid Whilst the internet has become integral to most people's lives it was only in [----] that the International Space Station could use apps like Twitter because the connection speed was so slow. In fact communication with spacecraft out past mars becomes very slow and problematic. However in the future high-speed internet connections will be available out into the solar system that will not only give coverage of what's available here out there but also dramatically speed up the currently very slow" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=R7kGw-4vafU) 2019-04-09T11:03Z 1.1M followers, 320.5K engagements "How Inertial Navigation Changed Air Sea & Space Travel for Ever Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee Before Inertial navigation space travel long range missles and covert military air mission were very difficult if not impossible. Charles "Doc" Draper created the first Inertial navigation that could guide an aircraft ship submarine or space craft without any external signal or references and as such he revolutionised Air Sea & Space Travel for Ever. To give one off tips and donations" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SqjGK1VYfwM) 2023-11-30T23:10Z 1.1M followers, 397K engagements "Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes the story so far. To get 73% off with the NordVPN 2-year deal plus [--] month free click on the link here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid Hubble and Webb one is an era defining space telescope coming to the end of its life and the other is looking to be its successor. After [--] years of delays cost over runs and setbacks the James Webb Space telescope is almost ready to launch on it's [---] million km journey. This is the story the Hubble Webb space telescopes. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TjW4qKn0aNo) 2021-11-30T22:21Z 1.1M followers, 199K engagements "Are supercomputers still relevant today 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com A decade ago supercomputers were the ultimate information processors but since then the power of server farms has increased to equal that of the that of supercomputers so what is their future in this video we try to find out. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito To give one off tips and donations please use the following :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9AKzB9dL4) 2024-12-20T23:20Z 1.1M followers, 260.1K engagements "Buran-Energia : The Soviet Space Shuttle [---] on a Moon Rocket If you thought the Buran the Soviet space shuttle was just a copy of the US one then think again. Although it looked very similar under the hood it was very different and in many ways better than the US original. Here we will see some of the reasons why Buran was Space shuttle [---] Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by : Symon Hamer Florian Hesse Bernt-Olov Hellstrm Tayar Jundi Johan Rombaut Tobias Pettersson Kevin Hinnen Mitchel J. Mullin II Lucius Kwok Hunter" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XLOCQw5s9Uw) 2018-01-20T22:48Z 1.1M followers, 3.1M engagements "Why Aren't Swing Wing Aircraft Made Any More Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. From the mid-60s up to [----] swing-wing aircraft led the way for new multirole aircraft that combined the low-speed stability and efficiency of a straight wing with the high-speed performance of a swept wing and led to some of the most famous fighters and bombers of the 70s 80s and 90s. But from [----] onwards not a single new aircraft was built with a swing-wing design. In this video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xf3zsIAnqqU) 2024-04-30T22:58Z 1.1M followers, 595.6K engagements "Zoom Climbs - The Highest Life and Death Jet Flights to the Edge of Space. 🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com Zoom climbs to the edge of space set the highest altitude records for jet aircraft taking off under their own power. Initially used as a method for the newly developed jet interceptors to gain extra height to reach incoming enemy bombers they were also used to test new aircraft. They were also used as a precursor to the space race to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZPdn_ftiqwA) 2024-04-16T22:56Z 1.1M followers, 335.9K engagements "America's Failed High Speed Tilting Train - The UAC Turbotrain Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch Trains [---] Centuries of Innovation about France's world leading railways and the technology they developed to create them and the rest of MagellanTVs science collection: https://www.magellantv.com/video/trains-two-centuries-of-innovation It was supposed to lead the US and Canada into a new high speed railway future but the UAC Turbotrain ended up being scrapped after just years in the US and in both" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cvWoalQNMrU) 2021-09-14T22:26Z 1.1M followers, 262.2K engagements "Why is NASA Throwing Away Reusable Engines https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Get 20% off with this link. The Artemis SLS is the latest and greatest rocket from NASA and more powerful than anything yet flown into space. And yet for all of its modernity for the upcoming moon missions and its competitors like SpaceX and Blue Origin concentrating on reusability NASA will be throwing away four of possibly the best reusable engines yet made the RS-25 with each launch just like they did in the 1960s & 70s with the Apollo mission and the one time use F-1 engines. So in this video we look at how the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e1Q05kJocSc) 2022-11-30T22:06Z 1.1M followers, 306.4K engagements "Was the B29-Superfortress a Failure Get a 50% discount on your MyHeritage subscription by using the following link https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid Although the B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced propeller-driven bomber of WW2 it also was a rush job to get into production as the war in the Pacific intensified. This opened it up to mistakes in lots of areas but in particular the Curtis-Wright R-3350 engines which caused the death of one of the world's top test pilots and his crew during prototype testing and many other crews during operations an issue that wasn't fully resolved until after" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eG3Hzm_q39c) 2023-09-30T20:11Z 1.1M followers, 521.4K engagements "5 Super Sized Drones You Can Ride - [----] - Piloted drone Over the past few years some people have taken drones from small almost toy devices for carrying cameras to mini aircraft that are capable carrying a single person. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg EHang [---] The Ehang [---] created a huge buzz when it was debuted at CES [----]. They claim it is the world's first fully autonomous helicopter drone. The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eYsDcoS5Gt8) 2016-03-16T13:42Z 1.1M followers, 2M engagements "Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne possibly the best attack helicopter never made The roots of the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne go back the 1950s and experiments with a rigid rotor hub helicopter but the results were so good that the US Army commissioned a project to study its potential uses which eventually lead to the AH-56. To many this was the best attack helicopter of the 20th century but to the USAF and its competitors it was a threat that was just too much to bear so in the end and under combined pressure the project was cancelled. This is the story of the best helicopter that never was. Patreon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fR-r6RR1nJM) 2020-08-05T16:23Z 1.1M followers, 2.2M engagements "DARPA's Little Secrets That Changed The World 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When APRA were asked to look for ways to find a war-winning strategy for the US in Vietnam their JASON think tank came up with an electronic fence. That may not sound like much but it would go on to define the electronic battle field of today and bring about the technologies that we all rely on with the internet. It would also create the ability for mass" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=feDk6oaeVAY) 2024-08-30T22:51Z 1.1M followers, 230K engagements "How the First Spacewalk Nearly Ended in Disaster - Alexei Leonov Voskhod [--] When Alexei Leonov made the worlds first spacewalk in [----] in Voskhod [--] it was hailed as yet another great success for the USSR in the space race against America. It was only after the fall of the Soviet Union that the west found out that while it may well have been made to look like a success by the Soviet Press it was in fact it was teetering on the edge of disaster from the moment Leonov stepped out of the airlock till the crew were rescued from the vast frozen forests of northern Russia. Patreon :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hzXRlCKD4Ok) 2017-09-20T21:24Z 1.1M followers, 1.9M engagements "How AI is Taking over your Phone Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. Buy one annual membership and get another FREE Start TODAY so you can watch AI vs Human Brain the final showdown about how AI and Machine learning is changing the world and how it will affect us all in the future and the rest of MagellanTVs science collection: https://www.magellantv.com/video/ai-vs-human-brain-the-final-showdown Ever wonder how the smart phone in your pocket does what it does well its no secret that in the last few years phone makers have turned to machine" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kHQtvvzlUDQ) 2023-10-14T18:36Z 1.1M followers, 123.6K engagements "Secret Soviet Lunar Rovers and Extra Terrestrial Cars - Lunokhod Mars Rovers For the last [--] years or so we have been using wheeled robots and vehicles to explore other worlds from secret Soviet lunar rovers to the first lunar car to the latest Mars Rovers we owe a lot to our extra-terrestrial wheeled helpers. In this video we look at some of the ideas for Extra-Terrestrial vehicles that didn't make it as well the most famous and successful but until recently unknown Soviet-designed models to compete with Apollo. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kNGS1LFzw-I) 2023-10-16T07:01Z 1.1M followers, 447.8K engagements "How Did NASA Lose a Mars Space Probe Because of Maths https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid/ The loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter was an embarrassing moment for both NASA and Lockheed-Martin but how did some of the best scientists and engineers in the world lose their Mars space probe because of a maths issue. Sponsored by Brilliant.org - Have a look at Brilliant.org and get 20% off here https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid/ NASA report in the loss of the probe can be downloaded here : ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/reports/1999/MCO_report.pdf Presented by Paul Shillito Written & Researched by Andy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lcYkOh4nweE) 2017-10-13T11:14Z 1.1M followers, 323K engagements "Why can't we fly a plane into space Why cant we fly a plane into space what stops it from just flying higher and higher until we are in space sounds like a daft question but it has interesting implications that mean we might not be that far from a plane that can fly into space. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Well there several issues but assuming we are in something like a normal jet airliner then one of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ne82ld4LaZE) 2017-01-28T00:10Z 1.1M followers, 5.5M engagements "Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine When NASA was looking for a very large engine for the SLS boosters some of its engineers looked at resurrecting the Rocketdyne F-1 engines but what they found out might well surprise some people and just goes to show how things have moved on since the 1960's. Patroen : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Patroens : Kosmonaut Muhammad Tauha Ali Pascal Hausammann Florian Hesse. Also : Mark Orser Jonathan Merage Daniele Noacco Dale Kirkwood Alan Johns Rodney Aries Johan Roman Morten Granvold Tim Allen David Thomas Robert Goldwein Oscar Anderson" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ovD0aLdRUs0) 2018-07-24T15:48Z 1.1M followers, 4.3M engagements "How could anyone believe the moon is hollow Go to http://www.squarespace.com/curiousdroid to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Its one of the wilder theories about the moon but like all the best ones it has its roots in some true details even if they have been rather twisted to suit an agender. So in this episode I thought we would look at how you can get to such a conclusion. To give one off tips and donations please use the following : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/curiousdroid or paypal.me/curiousdroid This video is sponsored by Squarespace" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q_9I2i5JypI) 2023-02-23T23:07Z 1.1M followers, 384.3K engagements "America's First Guided Missile and How it Changed Warfare 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When the Germans made the V-1 flying bomb little did they know that within just a couple of months of their first use the U.S would have a copy ready to go and if it weren't for the issue of shipping thousands of them taking up valuable space on the convoys they could have been used in Europe against Germany. But what they did do was to kick start the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=u0vw_COe6ys) 2024-11-30T23:48Z 1.1M followers, 115.9K engagements "How The Real Soviet Rocketmen Changed the World In the days of the space race three men in the Soviet Union led the way creating cutting-edge rockets that would be the match of the US in many ways but for all their genius they were also flawed and bring about almost as many problems for themselves as they fixed. This is the intriguing story of the three most influential rocket men in the Soviet Union if not the world. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Sponsored by : Kosmonuat Luke Tumas Vindziulis Muhammad Tauha Ali Pascal Hausammann Florian Hesse And our other Patreon supporters" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vJWQaSJDzEo) 2018-06-28T23:57Z 1.1M followers, 176.1K engagements "How to make Roads with Nukes - Nuclear explosions For Peace Go to https://squarespace.com/curiousdroid to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. When you think of nuclear explosions the last thing you think of is building roads canals habours etc. but thats excatly what they tried doing and not for just a few years but for nearly two decades so in this video we look at the peacful uses for nuclear weapons. This video is sponsored by Squarespace https://squarespace.com/curiousdroid Written Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : US DoD" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vhITTxeAWDk) 2022-07-14T20:59Z 1.1M followers, 178K engagements "The NanoBots Are Coming How Will They Affect Us In The Future Go to https://historicmail.com/DROID and check out with code DROID to get 10% off on their Christmas Sale on your gifts and help support the channel. Thanks to Historic Mail for sponsoring this video Machines so tiny they would be far smaller than a human blood cell this is the promise of nanotechnology and they already exist but how are they even made and will they be scarier than A.I. Experts say that we are just at the beginning of the nanobot revolution and what they promise could little short of miraculous. In this video we" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=x1StXVDRXyg) 2023-12-15T23:15Z 1.1M followers, 126K engagements "Why SpaceX Needs New Launch Pads for Starship and Soon https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Get 20% off the annual subcription with this link. For all the success of the first Starship launch the launch pad left a great deal to be desired and could have been the reason why the biggest rocket in history's initial test flight ended in a termination just minutes into the flight. Elon Musk must bear some of the responsibility and he predicted back int [----] that having no flame trench might not be a good idea. So in this video we look at the issues the launch caused and how NASA has been doing this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xfFhKqGrNYg) 2023-04-30T21:44Z 1.1M followers, 334.6K engagements "Can the U.S. Stop Russian and Chinese Hypersonic Missiles Go to http://www.squarespace.com/curiousdroid to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Russia and China have taken a lead over the U.S. with hypersonic missiles and now threaten not on the U.S. mainland but also significant assets like its aircraft carriers. The U.S. is now in a race to catch up not only with its own hypersonic missiles but also a method to try and stop the so-called unstoppable missiles. So in this video we look at how they could do this and some of the problems that the use of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xtbD0mspjBE) 2023-01-19T23:46Z 1.1M followers, 574.9K engagements "Why You Cant See NASA Images For Real Get $10 off the Plaud NotePin with the code CD10 here https://bit.ly/3UNzQm3 If all you saw were the NASA images of space like the pillars of creation the horsehead nebula and many others you might be forgiven for thinking its a very bright colourful place but why then when you look up at the night sky do you just see only blackness and pinpoints of light. What does space really look like are the NASA images the real thing or are we humans the ones that arent equipped to see what's really out there In this video we'll find out. Written researched and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zlsqr7RLFt4) 2025-09-01T22:04Z 1.1M followers, 86.3K engagements "DeadHand - Russia's Doomsday Weapon From Beyond the Grave. https://cyberghostvpn.com/CuriousDroid - Get 84% off CyberGhostVPN + four months for free using this link . During the 1980s the Soviet Union initiated a program to create a system that would act as a retaliation should it fall subject to a 1st strike from the US. Even if it successfully knocked out the Kremlin leadership and command structure this system could launch a full-scale nuclear attack thus ensuring the doctrine of MAD Mutual Assured Destruction. In this video we look at how this system came about and how even though it was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WsZpKlNmpmI) 2026-01-26T19:55Z 1.1M followers, 75.3K engagements "How Does a Nuclear Missile Find its Target Get 84% off CyberGhostVPN + plus four months for free using this link https://cyberghostvpn.com/CuriousDroid Ballistic rockets have come along way from the German V2 of WW2 to the Trident II D5 and RS-28 Sarmat ICMB's of today to become the most feared weapons in the world. But if we put aside what their ultimate purpose is how do they get half way around the world with terminal accuracies of less than [---] metres without any help form GPS. In this video we will look and the history and how they came from a primitive guidance to be some of the highest" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iacUimAOH1A) 2025-12-03T22:07Z 1.1M followers, 441.5K engagements "Tomahawk Missile How is it Nearly [--] Years Old and Still Going Strong Click this link https://boot.dev/promo=CURIOUSDROID and use my code CURIOUSDROID to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. The Tomahawk missile has been a mainstay for the US and its allies for over [--] years but how in a fast moving world of AI and drone technologies how has it kept up and why has it still at the top of its game and been feared by so many. In this video we look at just what keeps so relivent. #Tomahawk #BGM109 #CruiseMissile #TLAM #TERCOM #DSMAC #BlockV #MilitaryHistory #USNavy #DesertStorm Written" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qO4wWrX1-Qk) 2025-10-24T21:11Z 1.1M followers, 484.3K engagements "Who Built the Smallest Nuclear Bomb & Could Anyone Do It Get 10% off "The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding A Civilization" here https://bit.ly/4lGk4EY with the code CURIOUSDROID10 . In my last video I looked at how small a nuclear weapon be made well in this follow up I look at the brilliant yet little-known physicist called Ted Taylor who pushed the boundaries of nuclear weapons design to extremes. From creating the smallest nuclear bomb ever fielded the Davy Crockett to designing the largest pure-fission device Ivy King Taylors work shaped the Cold War arms race in ways few realize." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tDbFrZoLLO4) 2025-09-27T19:48Z 1.1M followers, 184.3K engagements "How Small Can You Make a Nuclear Weapon Nuclear weapons are thought of as being large and heavy but even going back to 1950s weapons designers had created weapons that could be carried in a backpack. But just how small can one of these devices be made and still work There are stories of lost briefcase nukes after the fall of the Soviet Union so in this video we look at how they are and with the widespread use of cheap drones in warfare how likely it is that a stolen miniature nuke could be used in an unstable world today. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito. To give one-off tips" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=88c-0ZI-vXU) 2025-09-12T19:53Z 1.1M followers, 678.2K engagements "Why You Cant See NASA Images For Real Get $10 off the Plaud NotePin with the code CD10 here https://bit.ly/3UNzQm3 If all you saw were the NASA images of space like the pillars of creation the horsehead nebula and many others you might be forgiven for thinking its a very bright colourful place but why then when you look up at the night sky do you just see only blackness and pinpoints of light. What does space really look like are the NASA images the real thing or are we humans the ones that arent equipped to see what's really out there In this video we'll find out. Written researched and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zlsqr7RLFt4) 2025-09-01T22:04Z 1.1M followers, 86.3K engagements "How to Put Data Centres & A.I In to Space Click this link https://boot.dev/promo=CURIOUSDROID and use my code CURIOUSDROID to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. Data centres have become so important to our modern way of life that they are now seen as strategic assets. The race to install the even more powerful AI data centres is now seen in the US at least as a matter of national security. However they are now becoming so large that powering them and keeping cool it's becoming difficult to find locations for them. But what if you were to put them where it's extremely cold and there" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tSZjjUO7Jn0) 2025-08-17T22:37Z 1.1M followers, 38.9K engagements "Lasers Plamsa UFOs and Lightning. The Hidden Tech of Laser-Induced Plasma. 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID to get 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com We've probably all heard of a seen and holograms created by lasers but there is another much less well known Laser derived phenomena which is capable of creating objects in air that can have a very real influence on the real world and not just for our visual entertainment. In this video we look at Laser Induced Plasma and some of the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ncUhfOwo30) 2025-07-31T21:23Z 1.1M followers, 56.5K engagements "Rubin vs Webb Telescopes - What's the Difference Between Them 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com With the release if the first Vera Rubin images this week we now have another amazing way to view the space not only in our solar system but almost everything in the southern sky. But if we have the best telescope in the James Webb then why do we need another. So in this video Ill tell you the difference between them and let you know why Vera Rubin" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QZZqtgUAxX0) 2025-06-30T22:10Z 1.1M followers, 145.9K engagements "If We launched Voyager [--] Would We Still Send the Golden Records 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When Voyagers [--] & [--] were launched in [----] we sent them with a golden record with sounds language music and images encoded on the analogue waveform just like a regular record. But if we were to launch a new follow-up maybe called Voyager [--] would we still send a golden record or use a new type of storage to tell the story of humanity Written" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iK8abB0efW4) 2025-05-31T21:56Z 1.1M followers, 123K engagements "How Different Are Space Computers From Earth-Based Ones Visit https://spaceship.com/promos/id=droid and use promo code DROID to unlock exclusive deals on domain names email services and web hostingtailored just for you We here on Earth are used using computers for almost everything everyday and we accept that they will crash or lose data at some point. But if you're in space and the computer controls your spacecraft the last thing you want it to do is to glitch or crash because it might just well be the last thing it ever does and it will be the last thing you witness. So how different are" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g1npYSuNy4U) 2025-05-16T22:32Z 1.1M followers, 443.6K engagements "Are Molten Salt Reactors the Future of Nuclear Power 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com From a cancelled experiment in the 1960s to the 2000s Thorium Molten Salt Reactors were almost a forgotten technology overlooked by political forces that wanted to keep the uranium cycle reactors with the ability to produce large quantities of plutonium. But with the release of the research data to the public in the 2010s China and other countries are now on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wfz6ZKU0JF4) 2025-04-28T21:30Z 1.1M followers, 109.2K engagements "How Could Nuclear Batteries Last a Lifetime Download Heroes of History now for FREE here https://tinyurl.com/CuriousDroidHoH Nuclear batteries ones that use radioactive elements like Uranium or Plutonium could power our electronic devices for not days or weeks but decades. They have already been used in spacecraft and pacemakers but are they likely to become an alternative to lithium batteries we use today. In this video we look at if mass-market Nuclear batteries are a reality or a fantasy that will be the reserve of space and highly specialised operations. Written researched and presented" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=15ywStuSavY) 2025-04-13T20:57Z 1.1M followers, 100.6K engagements "Are Space Elevators Still a Thing for the Future 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com It's been an idea that has been around since [----] but only since the 1960s that it was taken seriously. But the biggest issue is how to make a cable over 36000km that is light enough and strong enough. We now have the ability to make the materials but can we make them long enough to make it a reality find out in today's video. Written researched and presented by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KqtyZ-3dNto) 2025-03-31T21:23Z 1.1M followers, 182K engagements "Will SpaceX Starlink Have Too Many Satellites in Orbit Use this link https://www.hostinger.com/curiousdroid and the Code: CURIOUSDROID to get 10% OFF your first month of Hostinger Horizons. We currently have about [-----] satellites in orbit but within the next decade we could have [------] if all the new mega-constellations like SpaceX's Starlink and others go ahead. Not only might that ruin the night skies for radio and visual astronomy but it might also be just too much to manage safely without creating a calamitous orbital debris field that might lock us on the Earth for hundreds of years. In" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S4MblZpDums) 2025-03-28T22:40Z 1.1M followers, 82.6K engagements "Are Analogue Computer Hybrids The Future 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com The oldest computer is about [----] years old and yet it used just [--] gears to calculate the positions of the Sun Moon & Eclipses into the future something that we would use a digital computer to do today. These analogue computers can do much more and can be faster than digital ones for modelling very complex systems but they were replaced by the much more versatile" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e2Mtt2rb654) 2025-02-27T23:43Z 1.1M followers, 213.2K engagements "Is This The Next Big Thing - Near Zero Energy Chips Get your 14-day free trial of MyHeritage by using the following link https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid_MH If you think your PC with the latest and greatest video card is more like a space heater then youre not alone. But when you have [------] servers in a data centre or AI farm then heat becomes a major issue and a waste of money. But what if we could have computers and data centres that used maybe [----] times less power that's the promise of reversible computing and if you've never heard of that then you need to watch this video. To give one off" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CN3RHIQi558) 2025-02-15T23:27Z 1.1M followers, 293.3K engagements "Are supercomputers still relevant today 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com A decade ago supercomputers were the ultimate information processors but since then the power of server farms has increased to equal that of the that of supercomputers so what is their future in this video we try to find out. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito To give one off tips and donations please use the following :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9AKzB9dL4) 2024-12-20T23:20Z 1.1M followers, 260.1K engagements "Miniaturization - The Biggest Little Thing to Happen in the Last [--] Years 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com If you were to state what you think was the biggest thing to happen in the last [--] years was what would you think it might be. In this video we look at a technique which has transformed the world into what we have now. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito To give one off tips and donations please use the following :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JFNhc7AhwWw) 2024-12-13T23:45Z 1.1M followers, 86K engagements "America's First Guided Missile and How it Changed Warfare 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When the Germans made the V-1 flying bomb little did they know that within just a couple of months of their first use the U.S would have a copy ready to go and if it weren't for the issue of shipping thousands of them taking up valuable space on the convoys they could have been used in Europe against Germany. But what they did do was to kick start the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=u0vw_COe6ys) 2024-11-30T23:48Z 1.1M followers, 115.9K engagements "If it Looks Right It Will Fly Right - Right Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee There is and old saying in avaition "if it looks right it will fly right" but how true is that. In this video I look at aircraft that from the outset dont look right at all but do fly sometimes rather well. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA Northrop philamanian USAF ABposters.com To give one off tips and donations please use the following :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PG4gr0Q4904) 2024-11-25T22:28Z 1.1M followers, 409.8K engagements "The Most Powerful Rocket Motor Ever Tested & Why it Never Made it to the Moon Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 50% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. In [----] the most powerful Solid Rocket Motor ever built was created by Aerojet and tested by NASA as a backup to the F-1 engine for the Saturn V. It had a thrust [---] times that of the F-1 and yet it was never used but it's successor nearly [--] years later provided 85% of the thrust for the space shuttle. This is the story of the Solid Rocket Motors" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JRsbVNELSKY) 2024-11-17T22:21Z 1.1M followers, 209.9K engagements "How Big is the Solar System Really 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When most people think of the solar system they think of the sun and the planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune and thats it. But over the last [--] years there has been a number of discoveries that have shown that our solar system is much bigger than you may have thought and in this video we will see just how big it is really is. Written researched" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9GBRSOunpYs) 2024-10-30T22:31Z 1.1M followers, 119.6K engagements "How Do You Fly a Plane Through a Hurricane Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee If you have even been on a rather turbulent plane journey then image what it's like flying into the biggest most violent storm systems on earth a hurricane. Thats exactly what the hurricane hunters of NOAA and the USAF do every time a hurricane looks like it will make landfall. In this video we find out how they do this also discover the planes and crews that set off but never returned." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3HLbxchj1gw) 2024-10-27T23:16Z 1.1M followers, 75K engagements "What Will Happen to Voyager and Others in the Far Future Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee Currently there are at least five manmade objects that are on a one-way journey out of the solar system but where will these go will they just go on forever will they crash into a star or planet in the far distant future long after we our earth and sun has long ceased to exist. In this video we will see just what is going where and what the future holds for them. Written" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2Er8qPlrbWI) 2024-09-30T22:39Z 1.1M followers, 692.1K engagements "Why Did the Apollo Landers Look So Odd Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. The Apollo lunar lander or LEM was one of the strangest looking spacecraft ever built but it was designed to get a job done that had never been done before. Some say that it was a fake and too flimsy to withstand the rigours of space flight and get men to the moon and back again and yet it did that very job six times with without fail. This is the story of why the Apollo landers looked" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qUIhHEF-vEw) 2024-09-17T22:37Z 1.1M followers, 397.8K engagements "DARPA's Little Secrets That Changed The World 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When APRA were asked to look for ways to find a war-winning strategy for the US in Vietnam their JASON think tank came up with an electronic fence. That may not sound like much but it would go on to define the electronic battle field of today and bring about the technologies that we all rely on with the internet. It would also create the ability for mass" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=feDk6oaeVAY) 2024-08-30T22:51Z 1.1M followers, 230K engagements "Apollos Most Critical Rocket Engine Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. Of all the rocket engines used during the Apollo program just one was considered to be critical to the whole operation this was the lunar module ascent engine if that didn't start or had a problem whilst on the moon then there was no way to rescue the crew so it had to work with 100% reliability. This video looks at why this was so critical and the issues surrounding the use of its super" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KnvpIcRXFkY) 2024-08-16T20:56Z 1.1M followers, 197K engagements "F-14 The Last Analogue Fighter - The Deadly Tomcat 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com The F-14 was the last analogue fighter designed just before the advent of modern digital electronics and yet it went on to be one of the US Navy's most respected and feared fighters when paired with the AIM-54 Pheonix missile it was a deadly combination. This is the story of how it dominated the air and why all the spare aircraft ended up being shredded into" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GTHY68S4Wxo) 2024-07-30T22:18Z 1.1M followers, 250.5K engagements "The End of the ISS is Coming but Why and What Will Replace it Download Opera here https://opr.as/Opera-browser-curiousdroid The ISS will be ending its days in the watery grave known as Point Nemo in [----] when it is deorbited by SpaceX but why are we throwing away $150B of hardware and what will replace it it if anything This video is sonsored by Opera https://opr.as/Opera-browser-curiousdroid Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA Roscosmos Northrop Grumman SpaceX Spacelab Axiom To give one off tips and donations please use the following :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JO7HX3Irq14) 2024-07-22T23:11Z 1.1M followers, 308.6K engagements "The Rise & Fall of the Harrier Jump Jet 🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com The Harrier jump jet was a unique and to many iconic aircraft one that could take off hover and land like a helicopter but fly like a fast jet. Although many tried to build their own version none other than the Soviet version the YAK-38 lasted more that [--] years the Harrier which is still in use [--] years after it first flew but just not in England the country that created" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K7LP1JAVtM4) 2024-06-27T22:14Z 1.1M followers, 216.7K engagements "Why Does SpaceX Use [--] Engines While NASA Used Just [--] Get 50% off your first crate of a monthly subscription when you go to https://www.kiwico.com/curiousdroid and use code curiousdroid. The race to the moon is back on but why does SpeceX's Starship & super heavy booster need [--] engines when NASA's Saturn V rocket which went to the moon six times [--] years ago only needed five. We look at what has changed since then and why many smaller engines and all the extra complexity that comes with them seem to be the way forward for the modern space industry. To give one off tips and donations please" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=okK7oSTe2EQ) 2024-06-18T22:32Z 1.1M followers, 1.4M engagements "Why Aren't Swing Wing Aircraft Made Any More Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. From the mid-60s up to [----] swing-wing aircraft led the way for new multirole aircraft that combined the low-speed stability and efficiency of a straight wing with the high-speed performance of a swept wing and led to some of the most famous fighters and bombers of the 70s 80s and 90s. But from [----] onwards not a single new aircraft was built with a swing-wing design. In this video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xf3zsIAnqqU) 2024-04-30T22:58Z 1.1M followers, 595.6K engagements "F-111 Aardvark The Aircraft that Defined an Era Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra included here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee The F-111 started out as a cost-saving aircraft to work for both the USAF and the US Navy but ended up being rejected by the Navy however it went on to be on of the most trusted assets for the USAF for the next [--] years and its advanced design inspired a generation of high-performance swing-wing fighters and bombers in the US Soviet Union and Europe over the next [--] decades. This is the story of the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ISMYfHEOvc) 2024-04-25T22:14Z 1.1M followers, 248.1K engagements "Zoom Climbs - The Highest Life and Death Jet Flights to the Edge of Space. 🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com Zoom climbs to the edge of space set the highest altitude records for jet aircraft taking off under their own power. Initially used as a method for the newly developed jet interceptors to gain extra height to reach incoming enemy bombers they were also used to test new aircraft. They were also used as a precursor to the space race to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZPdn_ftiqwA) 2024-04-16T22:56Z 1.1M followers, 335.9K engagements "StarShip Booster Explosion SpaceX IFT-2 - SkyshowTV #spacex #starship #booster #explosion Newly released footage from SkyshowTV the guys that film space launch tracking for NASA SpaceX and others. The last few seconds of the SpaceX IFT-2 booster before it blows up on its way back to earth after the successful launch from the SpaceX Starbase at Boca Chica on 18th November [----]. The second half is slowed down to 25% speed so you can see where the main explosion starts on the upper part of the booster. The original footage can be seen on the SkyshowTV channel https://www.youtube.com/@skyshowtv" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AcK8SoLphwA) 2024-04-08T19:40Z 1.1M followers, 20.1K engagements "SkyshowTV Unseen Launch Footage from NASA SpaceX Virgin Galatic and more In May [----] I shared a video of NASA engineering film footage from the Artemis [--] launch. Now the guys who filmed part of that launch footage got in contact to let me know that through that video they were excited to see that a lot of people wanted to see this type of footage. So to that end they have set up their own website and YouTube channel where they will be sharing new and unseen space launches and other related high-quality footage going forward from NASA SpaceX and others with the general public and this is my" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FtfVgkgC3lk) 2024-04-06T22:59Z 1.1M followers, 70K engagements "B-58 Hustler - Was it Really That Bad Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access or try it for less than $1 this month. The B-58 Hustler was the first American supersonic strategic bomber designed to slip through the Soviet air defenses before the ICBM had become the dominant weapon on both sides. It set [--] world records for speed and was thought more likely to get through soviet defenses than its rival the B-52. Designed just after the B-52 it was a very different aircraft these were SAC's" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Yw97Qi8jms) 2024-03-31T22:40Z 1.1M followers, 276.3K engagements "Why is it Still So Hard to Land on the Moon Get started with InVideo AI for free here https://invideo.io/i/CuriousDroid A new race for the moon has started but 55% of the landers have failed even though we have known how to land on the moon for nearly [--] years and the technological advances since then should have made things better shouldn't it For example it took a few years to get the landing techniques right the first time around but then there were no manned failures of the Apollo program on the moon apart Apollo [--] failed well before it got there so why are we back to crashing on the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HQ2B8uJ4kpA) 2024-03-25T21:59Z 1.1M followers, 227.5K engagements "How Big Tech is Controlling Your Life Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access or try it for less than $1 this month. Over the last 20-odd years your private data and big tech companies have quietly changed the world and now control your life by knowing more about you than you probably do. In this video we see how our irresistible urge to own the latest phones gadgets and tech has given the mega-corporations not only the power but the money too. To give one off tips and donations please use" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KUalfc9Hfak) 2024-02-27T23:53Z 1.1M followers, 57.1K engagements "Is Your Private Internet Data Being Harvested From Undersea Cables Enjoy 10% discount and free shipping (to most countries) on all Hoverpens with code CURIOUSDROID: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-noviumEU Your internet data travels around the world in a fraction of a second and in the process it will travel through some of the [---] million Km of undersea fibre optic cables but how secure is it from not only being cut but also from wiretapping and data harvesting on a vast scale by not only you government but that of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-3JxCBSVZ9U) 2024-02-16T23:28Z 1.1M followers, 108.1K engagements "What Would Happen if you fell into a Black Hole Imagine that your on a science mission to study black holes when through no fault of their own one of the crew ends up outside the ship and being pulled towards the blackhole. With no prospect of rescue how long would our astronaut survive once over the event horizon and what would happen to hem once they disappear from our universe. In this video we look at what might happen would they even make it to the horizon and if they did how long they might survive once inside. To give one off tips and donations please use the following :" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q22fi69hVAs) 2024-01-20T22:17Z 1.1M followers, 62.6K engagements "How The MIT Ideas Factory Revolutionised the Future Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra included here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee MIT has turned out some of the finest scientific minds over the [---] years many of whom have gone on to create revolutionary technologies and companies and much like Bell labs which I did a video on a few years back is still in the fray and working on the cutting edge of things like AI Robotics Biotech etc. So this video is a look at how MIT created the future. To give one off tips and donations" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gBpRP-n2PPQ) 2023-12-31T22:27Z 1.1M followers, 113.8K engagements "The NanoBots Are Coming How Will They Affect Us In The Future Go to https://historicmail.com/DROID and check out with code DROID to get 10% off on their Christmas Sale on your gifts and help support the channel. Thanks to Historic Mail for sponsoring this video Machines so tiny they would be far smaller than a human blood cell this is the promise of nanotechnology and they already exist but how are they even made and will they be scarier than A.I. Experts say that we are just at the beginning of the nanobot revolution and what they promise could little short of miraculous. In this video we" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=x1StXVDRXyg) 2023-12-15T23:15Z 1.1M followers, 126K engagements "How Inertial Navigation Changed Air Sea & Space Travel for Ever Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee Before Inertial navigation space travel long range missles and covert military air mission were very difficult if not impossible. Charles "Doc" Draper created the first Inertial navigation that could guide an aircraft ship submarine or space craft without any external signal or references and as such he revolutionised Air Sea & Space Travel for Ever. To give one off tips and donations" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SqjGK1VYfwM) 2023-11-30T23:10Z 1.1M followers, 397K engagements "How the Stuka and Douglas SBD Altered the Course of WW2 Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link for as little as $1/month or get 40% off unlimited access this month only. Two average warplanes one on each side of the war both overlooked by their more glamorous brethren but both were outstanding dive bombers capable of doing what artillery or heavy bombing could not and both had a major impact on the course of WW2 one in starting it and the other at ending it. This is the story of how the Junkers Ju.87 Stuka and the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xEZgaSib4FA) 2023-11-15T21:58Z 1.1M followers, 93.8K engagements "How Sonar is revealing the secrets of the sea lakes and rivers. Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee We live on a planet that 70% of is covered in water but if anything falls in to deep water it becomes increasingly difficult to find. However Sonar technology originally developed to find submarines in wartime is being used to map the seabed and find things that have been lost for years if not decades. This is the story of sonar and how it is now being used to find not only submarines" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yXm4P9GvUA0) 2023-10-31T22:52Z 1.1M followers, 121.2K engagements "Could NASA 3D Print a New F-1 Rocket Engine Enjoy 10% discount and free shipping on all Hoverpens with code CURIOUSDROID: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-noviumEU When NASA was looking to go back to the moon they did consider bringing back the Saturn V rocket and the Rocketdyne F-1 engines. However that would have meant going back to decades old technology and working practices something that just isn't possible today. But in the last decade 3D printing of metal parts has advanced greatly and now it is possible to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NI8HEbBhmWk) 2023-10-15T22:26Z 1.1M followers, 147.5K engagements "Was the B29-Superfortress a Failure Get a 50% discount on your MyHeritage subscription by using the following link https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid Although the B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced propeller-driven bomber of WW2 it also was a rush job to get into production as the war in the Pacific intensified. This opened it up to mistakes in lots of areas but in particular the Curtis-Wright R-3350 engines which caused the death of one of the world's top test pilots and his crew during prototype testing and many other crews during operations an issue that wasn't fully resolved until after" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eG3Hzm_q39c) 2023-09-30T20:11Z 1.1M followers, 521.4K engagements "How is NASA Hearing Stars Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee Do you look up at the stars and wonder what they sound like probably not but by using new techniques to sonify stars planets the sun and even the aurora we can now perceive the universe in a new way. In this video we look at how we can hear whole galaxies our sun and even gravity waves. To give one off tips and donations please use the following : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/curiousdroid or paypal.me/curiousdroid This" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ySX3WzZuxk) 2023-09-26T22:03Z 1.1M followers, 50.3K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Why can't we see the Apollo lunar landers on the Moon from Earth When you look up at a full moon just remember that somewhere on the lunar face the remains of Apollo [--] [--] [--] [--] [--] and [--] along with [--] unmanned Russian Luna missions and [--] pre-Apollo unmanned American Surveyor missions are all still there. silently looking back. unless of course youre a NASA non-believer. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg so"
YouTube Link 2016-12-29T14:19Z 1.1M followers, 3.2M engagements
"How did the Apollo flight computers get men to the moon and back There is much speculation by some as to how the flight computer aboard the Apollo missions managed to get men to the moon when it had just a tiny fraction of the computing power of something like a modern smartphone. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg But this is quite misleading as there was not one solitary computer controlling the Apollo"
YouTube Link 2017-03-11T20:20Z 1.1M followers, 2.1M engagements
"The Amazing Engineering of Top Fuel Dragsters Ever wondered how top fuel dragsters can be the fastest accelerating vehicles in the world with up to [-----] hp and make it from 0-330mph in [----] seconds well wonder no more as we look a the rather amazing engineering of top fuel dragsters. To give one off tips and donations please use the following : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/curiousdroid or paypal.me/curiousdroid This video is sponsored by Brilliant : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : Loud Mike Media NHRA Viktor Mohos Mr"
YouTube Link 2021-04-30T21:45Z 1.1M followers, 3.5M engagements
"How Does a Nuclear Missile Find its Target Get 84% off CyberGhostVPN + plus four months for free using this link https://cyberghostvpn.com/CuriousDroid Ballistic rockets have come along way from the German V2 of WW2 to the Trident II D5 and RS-28 Sarmat ICMB's of today to become the most feared weapons in the world. But if we put aside what their ultimate purpose is how do they get half way around the world with terminal accuracies of less than [---] metres without any help form GPS. In this video we will look and the history and how they came from a primitive guidance to be some of the highest"
YouTube Link 2025-12-03T22:07Z 1.1M followers, 441.5K engagements
"How did Apollo deal with the Van Allen radiation belts One of the most hotly contested procedures during the Apollo missions was the how NASA dealt with the issue of the Van Allen belts the naturally occurring belts of radiation that surround the earth both on the journey to the moon and returning from it. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg To some this just proves the point that NASA never went to the moon"
YouTube Link 2017-01-08T23:52Z 1.1M followers, 2.3M engagements
"If We launched Voyager [--] Would We Still Send the Golden Records 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When Voyagers [--] & [--] were launched in [----] we sent them with a golden record with sounds language music and images encoded on the analogue waveform just like a regular record. But if we were to launch a new follow-up maybe called Voyager [--] would we still send a golden record or use a new type of storage to tell the story of humanity Written"
YouTube Link 2025-05-31T21:56Z 1.1M followers, 123K engagements
"Apollo's Forgotten Computer - The LVDC Although the Apollo missions had much less computing power than a modern smart-phone the computers used where essential to getting it done Although many think it was the Apollo Guidance Computer or AGC that did everything there was another the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer or LVDC. This controlled and flew the Saturn and was used right up until the vehicle reached the moon in this video we look at the forgotten Apollo computer. In case you want a few more details on the LVDC and the launch guidance system the NASA document I used in the video is here"
YouTube Link 2019-08-06T21:41Z 1.1M followers, 487.6K engagements
"Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - Eyes on the Moon https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid We're going back to the moon hopefully in [----] but compared to the 1960's we need to know a lot more about the moon than we did then if we are to make permanent bases there. So to this end the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was created to map the moon in greater detail than ever before and in the process it did what no other orbiter has managed to do and that find and image the Apollo sites after [--] decades of being out of sight to us. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid"
YouTube Link 2021-02-26T23:47Z 1.1M followers, 390.5K engagements
"B-58 Hustler - Was it Really That Bad Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access or try it for less than $1 this month. The B-58 Hustler was the first American supersonic strategic bomber designed to slip through the Soviet air defenses before the ICBM had become the dominant weapon on both sides. It set [--] world records for speed and was thought more likely to get through soviet defenses than its rival the B-52. Designed just after the B-52 it was a very different aircraft these were SAC's"
YouTube Link 2024-03-31T22:40Z 1.1M followers, 276.3K engagements
"The Legendary Napier Deltic - [--] Litre Opposed 2-Stroke Triangle Engine Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3000+ documentaries Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTVs exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/science-tech In the mid-1940s the British admiralty was looking for a new high speed high power diesel to use in their motor torpedo boats they turned to Napier to come up"
YouTube Link 2021-07-14T19:05Z 1.1M followers, 1.9M engagements
"F-4 Phantom The Ultimate Cold War Warrior This video is sponsored by Blinkist the first [---] people to go to https://www.blinkist.com/curiousdroid will get FREE unlimited access for [--] week to try it out. You will also get 25% off the full membership price. The Macdonell Douglas F-4 was the more widely produced and internationally used fighter in US military history. Adopted by all three service arms The US Navy Airforce and Marines. It was used from the Vietnam war to gulf war in [----]. This is the story of the The Ultimate Cold War Warrior. Written Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito"
YouTube Link 2020-11-10T16:51Z 1.1M followers, 319.3K engagements
"What Will Happen to Voyager and Others in the Far Future Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee Currently there are at least five manmade objects that are on a one-way journey out of the solar system but where will these go will they just go on forever will they crash into a star or planet in the far distant future long after we our earth and sun has long ceased to exist. In this video we will see just what is going where and what the future holds for them. Written"
YouTube Link 2024-09-30T22:39Z 1.1M followers, 692.1K engagements
"Can Iran Stop U.S. Bunker Buster Bombs https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Get 20% off with this link. Bunker Buster bombs like the GBU-57 or Massive Ordnance Penetrator are "the" way that the US can reach the hardened bunkers of its adversaries be that underground or in cave networks. However concrete technology has come on a long in recent decades and now poses the possibility that even the biggest bunker buster might not work without going nuclear. So in this video we look at how you can punch through [--] meters of hardened concrete and can they ever be stopped. To give one off tips and"
YouTube Link 2023-01-03T23:11Z 1.1M followers, 5M engagements
"Can We Control the Weather with Technology https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid With the weather reaching new extremes but is there a way we could use our existing technology to affect control the weather in this video we look at what we have already done and what we might do in the near future. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Presented by Paul Shillito Written & Researched By Paul Shillito Images and footage : NOAA NASA USAF Ian Kiehle Denver Water Bob McCallan Bary Nusz Willie Vogt edwardsaquifer.net KC Kiefuik Christiaan Conover Metro Systems"
YouTube Link 2019-08-26T23:33Z 1.1M followers, 399.3K engagements
"The Most Powerful Continuous Magnets Yet Made Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch The Fast Track about fastest trains and how they are developed and the rest of MagellanTVs science collection: https://www.magellantv.com/video/the-fast-track Although many people don't give magnets a second thought other than their use to hold photos to the fridge door they are an integral and indispensable part of our modern life and without them we wouldn't have electricity and many other things. So inspired by a"
YouTube Link 2022-02-15T22:55Z 1.1M followers, 503.3K engagements
"Sputnik - [--] years on from the Start of the Space Race That simple little beep beep beep was the sound that started the Space Race. It's been [--] years since they have first heard on October [--] [----] the Soviet Union launched Sputnik [--] into a low Earth orbit. It was only a metal ball [--] inches or about [--] centimetres in diameter with four antennae sticking out of it but it had an impact far greater than its size. In fact it changed the course of human history. EDIT: a couple of mistakes on my part. Firstly the date Khrushchev said "we will bury you" was [----] on [----] for some reason i said 65"
YouTube Link 2017-10-03T23:24Z 1.1M followers, 463.9K engagements
"SkyLab - Maybe the Most Important Space Programs So Far. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid It was plagued with problems from the start but it turned out to be one of the most important influential space programs we have ever done. Skylab unintentionally showed us that we could fix major unexpected problems working in space and that we could survive in space for a long periods of time and paved the way for the ISS. This is the story of Skylab the first and so far only US space station. This video is sponsored by Brilliant : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Written Researched and Presented"
YouTube Link 2021-08-31T22:59Z 1.1M followers, 331.5K engagements
"The Biggest Rocket ever Designed - The Sea Dragon In the history of space one rocket stands out as an icon of not only the space race but of the mighty power it symbolised. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg At 1:00 there is a spelling mistake showing the payload as 11000000lb this of course should be [-------] lbs. That one rocket which is still the Tallest heaviest and most powerful ever built was the Saturn"
YouTube Link 2017-04-02T22:16Z 1.1M followers, 4.3M engagements
"How Big is the Solar System Really 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When most people think of the solar system they think of the sun and the planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune and thats it. But over the last [--] years there has been a number of discoveries that have shown that our solar system is much bigger than you may have thought and in this video we will see just how big it is really is. Written researched"
YouTube Link 2024-10-30T22:31Z 1.1M followers, 119.6K engagements
"F-111 Aardvark The Aircraft that Defined an Era Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra included here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee The F-111 started out as a cost-saving aircraft to work for both the USAF and the US Navy but ended up being rejected by the Navy however it went on to be on of the most trusted assets for the USAF for the next [--] years and its advanced design inspired a generation of high-performance swing-wing fighters and bombers in the US Soviet Union and Europe over the next [--] decades. This is the story of the"
YouTube Link 2024-04-25T22:14Z 1.1M followers, 248.1K engagements
"The Device that Won WW2 - The Cavity Magnetron Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee It's said that the atomic bomb ended WW2 but the Cavity Magnetron won the war. The invention of this palm-sized device gave first the British and then the Americans a microwave radar generator that was [----] times more powerful than anything they had before and enabled small high power radar to be fitted to planes ships and vehicles. This transformed the war and swung it for the allies in Europe and"
YouTube Link 2023-08-27T22:39Z 1.1M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Black Arrow : The Lipstick Rocket - A Very British Space Program This is the story of the Black Arrow a uniquely British satellite launch system that could have helped Britain become a space fairing nation. But Whilst the Americans & Soviets threw billions of dollars & Rubels and the power of the state at the problem of space the British after WW2 struggled with little money and resources. In [----] Britain became the 6th country to develop an independent satellite launch system and before the launch was completed the only country to give up on it's own system. Patreon :"
YouTube Link 2017-10-07T23:00Z 1.1M followers, 647.1K engagements
"What Happened to the Giant Hovercraft SR-N4 - The Concorde of the Seas They were once known as the 'Concorde of the Seas': mighty flying boats that ferried their passengers with speed and style. Hovercraft was a symbol of national innovation and represented the future of transport in the 20th Century. And yet like the Concorde the huge iconic 'Mountbatten-class' hovercraft that once traversed the 22-mile English Channel from England to France carrying hundreds or passengers and cars are no longer with us. So what happened to the giant hovercraft SN-R4 Patreon :"
YouTube Link 2017-09-08T15:21Z 1.1M followers, 5.1M engagements
"The End of the ISS is Coming but Why and What Will Replace it Download Opera here https://opr.as/Opera-browser-curiousdroid The ISS will be ending its days in the watery grave known as Point Nemo in [----] when it is deorbited by SpaceX but why are we throwing away $150B of hardware and what will replace it it if anything This video is sonsored by Opera https://opr.as/Opera-browser-curiousdroid Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA Roscosmos Northrop Grumman SpaceX Spacelab Axiom To give one off tips and donations please use the following :"
YouTube Link 2024-07-22T23:11Z 1.1M followers, 308.6K engagements
"Was the Space Shuttle Doomed From the Beginning When the space shuttle was announced in [----] it was seen as the space vehicle to make low earth orbit space travel and living in space an everyday reality. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg But in hindsight many now believe that it was a failed project that was hamstrung by lack of funding and interest by government and sky high expectations from NASA that led"
YouTube Link 2016-08-01T13:13Z 1.1M followers, 1.3M engagements
"NASA's Mega Hubble - The Roman Space Telescope https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid What do you do when the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) makes you an offer you can't refuse. Well in the case of NASA you update an existing design to create a Hubble on steroids that can cover the same amount of sky as one hundred Hubble's drastically cutting down the time survey the sky and also more accurately look for Neptune sized planets around nearby stars and gather evidence to hopefully find out what dark energy really is this is NASA upcoming Roman space telescope. This video is sponsored by"
YouTube Link 2020-11-30T21:38Z 1.1M followers, 859.1K engagements
"How safe are nuclear weapons Considering the number of nuclear weapons that have been created since [----] it is something of a miracle that up to now there hasn't been a major nuclear explosion involving them so how safe are nuclear weapons Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Craig Louis Fleming Florian Hesse Peter Barber Also : Alan Johns Allan Versaevel Andrew SMITH Chad Mellor Cody Belichesky Collin Copfer Daniel Suarez Daniele Noacco David Stevens Doogymoogy Franc Giacomo Catenazzi Janne Kurikka Jared Swanson Johan"
YouTube Link 2019-06-29T14:33Z 1.1M followers, 1.3M engagements
"V Bombers - Vulcan Victor & Valiant - The Last British Bombers It took just [--] years to go from the first flight of the Lancaster Bomber in [----] to the first flight of the VX770 the prototype Vulcan bomber in [----]. Yet the difference between them could hardly be greater the Vulcan along with the Victor and Valiant were a new generation of the new planes known as the V bombers planes for a new era and a newly nuclear-armed Britain. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsers: Drew Hendrix Symon Hamer Florian Hesse Lucius Kwok Hunter"
YouTube Link 2017-11-28T23:06Z 1.1M followers, 814.7K engagements
"Will SpaceX Starlink Have Too Many Satellites in Orbit Use this link https://www.hostinger.com/curiousdroid and the Code: CURIOUSDROID to get 10% OFF your first month of Hostinger Horizons. We currently have about [-----] satellites in orbit but within the next decade we could have [------] if all the new mega-constellations like SpaceX's Starlink and others go ahead. Not only might that ruin the night skies for radio and visual astronomy but it might also be just too much to manage safely without creating a calamitous orbital debris field that might lock us on the Earth for hundreds of years. In"
YouTube Link 2025-03-28T22:40Z 1.1M followers, 82.6K engagements
"The Scale of Everything - The Big the Small and the Planck https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Living on our little planet and looking up at the night sky it's easy to forget just how big the scale of the universe really is not only on the grand scale but also on the microscopic one too so for this video we look at the scale of everything from the size of the universe to the smallest distance we can conceive that doesn't collapse our mathematical models put in place by Einstein and Planck. This is Scale of Everything - The Big the Small and the Planck This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org :"
YouTube Link 2020-12-23T22:07Z 1.1M followers, 338.6K engagements
"Project Suntan - The Lockheed CL-400 Get 81% off with the NordVPN 3-year deal and [--] months free and the NordPass password manager app with the coupon code "curiousdroid" deal here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid After the U-2 but before the SR-71 was created another reconnaissance aircraft was planed by the USAF and designed by Lockheed's Kelly Jonhson to take the place of the CIA's U-2. This that would be powered by liquid hydrogen and fly 30000ft higher than the U-2 at [------] ft but the difficulties of working with hydrogen at that time put paid the to project."
YouTube Link 2019-12-27T11:43Z 1.1M followers, 652.2K engagements
"MOSFET The Most significant invention of the 20th Century To get 73% off with the NordVPN 2-year deal plus [--] month free click on the link here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid What makes a truly world-changing invention. Of all the inventions of the 20th century just one could be said to have changed the world in such a way that it touches virtually everybody on the planet's lives on a daily basis. It has enabled the most rapid development in technology in history and yet you cant see the vast majority of them directly and their individual job is just to switch on"
YouTube Link 2021-09-30T15:40Z 1.1M followers, 2M engagements
"Merlin - The Engine that Won the War Sounds like a bit of a bold claim that one engine helped change the course of WW [--] but when you see the evidence it has a lot validity but how did one little engine change the course of world events and become the engine that won the war. I would like to thank David Irwin of Historic Aero Engines not only for the generous use of his footage but as in checking over the script and finished video for technical accuracy. Historic Aero Engines display team : https://www.facebook.com/historicaeroengines/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtE_0FQ9fsL3M8slseOYb2Q"
YouTube Link 2019-09-28T21:45Z 1.1M followers, 2.3M engagements
"X-15 The Ultimate Flying Machine "It was the ultimate flying machine No airplane can live up to what the X-15 did." Thats what retired test pilot and astronaut Joe Engle said of the first real space plane and [--] years after its record-breaking flight of 3rd October [----] when USAF test pilot William J. Knight achieved a top speed of MACH [----] [----] mph or [----] km/h Its still the fastest manned powered aircraft. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here"
YouTube Link 2017-04-22T15:50Z 1.1M followers, 2.7M engagements
"Rolls Royce Crecy - The Most Advanced Piston Aero Engine Never Made. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid The Rolls Royce Crecy was a revolutionary piston aero engine that promised to take over from where the Merlin/Griffin engines left off with power level up to a possible [----] hp from its two-stroke sleeve valve double blower design all from a [--] litre V-12. This is the story of the Rolls Royce Crecy and why you've probably never heard of it. This video is sponsored by Brilliant : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid This video was suggested by one of our viewers Chris. If you have any"
YouTube Link 2021-06-01T09:51Z 1.1M followers, 793.1K engagements
"How Pratt & Whitney Changed Aviation Click here https://bit.ly/3EyARXG for the Eight Sleep Black Friday Sale: $550 off the Pod Mattress $300 off the Pod Cover Promo code DROID at checkout. Pratt & Whitney built arpound 50% of all the allied aero engines used in WW2 and nearly all of the them were based on one ground braking engine that changed military aviation and produced some of the toughest engines of the war that proved pivitol during the war in the Pacific against the Japanese and greatly helped in Europe too. This is the story of the Prat and Whitney Wasp and its desendants. This video"
YouTube Link 2022-11-18T22:51Z 1.1M followers, 1M engagements
"Are Analogue Computer Hybrids The Future 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com The oldest computer is about [----] years old and yet it used just [--] gears to calculate the positions of the Sun Moon & Eclipses into the future something that we would use a digital computer to do today. These analogue computers can do much more and can be faster than digital ones for modelling very complex systems but they were replaced by the much more versatile"
YouTube Link 2025-02-27T23:43Z 1.1M followers, 213.2K engagements
"The Search for Planet X / Planet [--] / Nibiru More dire predictions that Nibiru aka Planet X or Planet [--] will trigger earthquakes floods and generally the end of the world have been and gone as was expected but Planet X and Planet [--] were and are real. Here we look at the basis of how these have ended up being hijacked by the Nibiru believers. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Drew Hendrix Symon Hamer Florian Hesse Kevin Hinnen Mitchel J. Mullin II Lucius Kwok Hunter Schwisow Pyloric Seb Stoodley Peter Cote Cody Belichesky"
YouTube Link 2017-12-16T11:17Z 1.1M followers, 462.3K engagements
"How Different Are Space Computers From Earth-Based Ones Visit https://spaceship.com/promos/id=droid and use promo code DROID to unlock exclusive deals on domain names email services and web hostingtailored just for you We here on Earth are used using computers for almost everything everyday and we accept that they will crash or lose data at some point. But if you're in space and the computer controls your spacecraft the last thing you want it to do is to glitch or crash because it might just well be the last thing it ever does and it will be the last thing you witness. So how different are"
YouTube Link 2025-05-16T22:32Z 1.1M followers, 443.6K engagements
"America's lost stealth helicopter - RAH [--] Comanche https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid It was going to be the next generation helicopter of the 21st century bringing stealth and the digital battlefield into rotary aircraft but it ended in cost overruns delays and cancellation after just two prototypes this is the story of Americas lost stealth helicopter the Boeing Sikorski RAH-66 Comanche. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Written Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and Footage : Boeing Sikorsky Lockheed Martin US Army US DoD USAF Bell"
YouTube Link 2021-03-23T23:47Z 1.1M followers, 707.2K engagements
"Nuclear powered Planes Trains and Automobiles To quote L.P Hartleys [----] book The GoBetween The past is a different country they do things differently there. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Thats definitely something that could be applied our attitude to the newly discovered atomic power in the late 1940s and 50s. Within just a few years after the first atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan it seemed as"
YouTube Link 2017-04-10T00:16Z 1.1M followers, 1.3M engagements
"How can you stop a Nuclear Missile When I was growing up in England in the 1970s and though the 1980s in particular there was an almost palpable fear that a nuclear exchange could break out between the superpowers at almost any time. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg It caused me and many others around at the time to wonder was there a way to stop a missile attack but to be honest there was very little you"
YouTube Link 2017-05-30T23:49Z 1.1M followers, 6.2M engagements
"Did Reagan's Real Star Wars Bankrupt the Soviet Union Did the Real 'Star Wars' Bankrupt the USSR In the 1980s science fact and science fiction looked as if they might become one when the American President Ronald Reagan announced the 'Strategic Defence Initiative' or 'Star Wars' missile defence system. The program was designed to break the nuclear deadlock between the US and Soviets and move beyond the threat of M.A.D. or Mutual Assured Destruction. You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg The Curious Droid"
YouTube Link 2017-06-16T23:55Z 1.1M followers, 721.7K engagements
"Why Does SpaceX Use [--] Engines While NASA Used Just [--] Get 50% off your first crate of a monthly subscription when you go to https://www.kiwico.com/curiousdroid and use code curiousdroid. The race to the moon is back on but why does SpeceX's Starship & super heavy booster need [--] engines when NASA's Saturn V rocket which went to the moon six times [--] years ago only needed five. We look at what has changed since then and why many smaller engines and all the extra complexity that comes with them seem to be the way forward for the modern space industry. To give one off tips and donations please"
YouTube Link 2024-06-18T22:32Z 1.1M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Hypersonic Missiles vs ICBM's - Which is better https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid The major nuclear powers have used ICBM's as the mainstay of their defence strategy for [--] year or so and even built some form of anti-ballistic shield to protect against. But in the last decade or so a new type of hypersonic missiles have been developed that promises to make ICBM's redundant but will they just fuel a new arms race as everyone one struggles to make them work in a reliable manner. So how do they compare to the decades-old tech of ICBM's and are they any better This video is sponsored by"
YouTube Link 2020-04-30T15:54Z 1.1M followers, 1M engagements
"Shinkansen vs TGV - Is One Better Than the Other https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid The Japanese shinkansen or bullet train and the TGV from France are the original high-speed rail trains and although they provide a similar service they are quite distinct in their own right and yet they have a common starting point but is possible to say if one better than the other. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Presented by Paul Shillito Written & Researched By Paul Shillito Images and footage : NHK Alstom SNCF EZ30tRutH6 Greg Peterson JR Tokai ula Music from"
YouTube Link 2019-09-22T01:36Z 1.1M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Why Did the Apollo Landers Look So Odd Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. The Apollo lunar lander or LEM was one of the strangest looking spacecraft ever built but it was designed to get a job done that had never been done before. Some say that it was a fake and too flimsy to withstand the rigours of space flight and get men to the moon and back again and yet it did that very job six times with without fail. This is the story of why the Apollo landers looked"
YouTube Link 2024-09-17T22:37Z 1.1M followers, 397.8K engagements
"How do Spacecraft Photograph the Planets & get the Images Back to Earth https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Ever wondered how we can take those amazing images of the planets from spacecraft and get them back to earth for scientific study and just to see what they really look like. Well in this video we do just that and see how they developed and some of the challenges they have to solve in order to do so. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org: https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Presented by Paul Shillito Written & Researched By Paul Shillito Images and Footage NASA ESA RosCosMos"
YouTube Link 2019-03-22T17:36Z 1.1M followers, 778.2K engagements
"What happened to the Ekranoplan - The Caspian Sea Monster What happened to the Ekranoplan the huge ground effect vehicle the Soviets developed in the cold from the 1960's to the 1980's. This was a part plane part boat that could fly just above the above the sea surface and carry huge loads of personnel or weapons at high speed. We look at its development its inventor and its ultimate demise. Pateron : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Sponsors : Luke Muhammad Tauha Ali Pascal Hausammann Florian Hesse. Space Ventures Investors Katy Joal Rehmann Pyloric Blair Leduc Laszia Antal Chad Mellor"
YouTube Link 2018-04-12T19:18Z 1.1M followers, 2.8M engagements
"How the Stuka and Douglas SBD Altered the Course of WW2 Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link for as little as $1/month or get 40% off unlimited access this month only. Two average warplanes one on each side of the war both overlooked by their more glamorous brethren but both were outstanding dive bombers capable of doing what artillery or heavy bombing could not and both had a major impact on the course of WW2 one in starting it and the other at ending it. This is the story of how the Junkers Ju.87 Stuka and the"
YouTube Link 2023-11-15T21:58Z 1.1M followers, 93.8K engagements
"RB.211- The Engine That Sank and Then Saved Rolls Royce To get 73% off with the NordVPN 3-year deal plus [--] month free click on the link here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid In the early 1970s Rolls Royce one of the most famous names in aero engineering went bust all because of just one project. Yet that same project went on to transform Rolls into the 2nd biggest engine maker in the world today. The project was the RB211 [--] spool high bypass turbojet engine and this is the story of how and why it failed and how it was spectacularly resurrected by engineers that were"
YouTube Link 2021-07-28T21:43Z 1.1M followers, 435.1K engagements
"NASA's Million Dollar Space Pen vs The Soviet Pencils The story of the NASAs million $ space pen and the soviet pencils has become one of the enduring tales from the space race which still floats around the internet today and goes a bit like this. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg During the 1960s as NASA was sending the first men in the space they realise that pens dont work in zero gravity so they spent"
YouTube Link 2017-03-18T00:30Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements
"What does it take to land on a comet In days of old comets were seen as bringers of doom and bad luck but now we know better. However landing on one is probably the most difficult operation undertaken by any space agency and almost a guarantee of some sort of bad luck as ESA's Rosetta / Philae mission found out. So just what does it take to land on a comet as it travels around the solar system at up to [------] km/h and what sort of challenges did the teams at ESA the European Space Agency face as they sent the Rosetta spacecraft and its lander Philae to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko . This"
YouTube Link 2019-05-29T21:31Z 1.1M followers, 398.5K engagements
"Lasers Plamsa UFOs and Lightning. The Hidden Tech of Laser-Induced Plasma. 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID to get 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com We've probably all heard of a seen and holograms created by lasers but there is another much less well known Laser derived phenomena which is capable of creating objects in air that can have a very real influence on the real world and not just for our visual entertainment. In this video we look at Laser Induced Plasma and some of the"
YouTube Link 2025-07-31T21:23Z 1.1M followers, 56.5K engagements
"If it Looks Right It Will Fly Right - Right Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee There is and old saying in avaition "if it looks right it will fly right" but how true is that. In this video I look at aircraft that from the outset dont look right at all but do fly sometimes rather well. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA Northrop philamanian USAF ABposters.com To give one off tips and donations please use the following :"
YouTube Link 2024-11-25T22:28Z 1.1M followers, 409.8K engagements
"TSR.2 - The Plane Shot Down by its Own Government The Plane that saw the end of the leadership of British aviation the BAC TSR.2 was a world beater at the time but couldn't survive a government that no longer wanted it. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsors : Symon Hamer Florian Hesse Tayar Jundi Johan Rombaut Tobias Pettersson Kevin Hinnen Mitchel J. Mullin II Lucius Kwok Hunter Schwisow Pyloric Seb Stoodley Peter Cote Cody Belichesky Mogoreanu Daniel Douglas Gustafson Marcus Chiado Jorn Magnus Karlsen. This episodes shirt was"
YouTube Link 2018-01-12T22:10Z 1.1M followers, 1.5M engagements
"DeadHand - Russia's Doomsday Weapon From Beyond the Grave. https://cyberghostvpn.com/CuriousDroid - Get 84% off CyberGhostVPN + four months for free using this link . During the 1980s the Soviet Union initiated a program to create a system that would act as a retaliation should it fall subject to a 1st strike from the US. Even if it successfully knocked out the Kremlin leadership and command structure this system could launch a full-scale nuclear attack thus ensuring the doctrine of MAD Mutual Assured Destruction. In this video we look at how this system came about and how even though it was"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T19:55Z 1.1M followers, 75.3K engagements
"Focke-Wulf FW-190 vs P-51 Mustang - Which was better To get 70% off with the NordVPN 3-year deal plus [--] month free with the coupon code "curiousdroid" deal here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid The FW-190 and P-51 Mustang are regarded by many as in the very top tier of fighter aircraft used in WW2 both had started off with more lowly expectations but through good design and upgrades by the end of the war they were at the top of their respective airforces but was there a clear winner in this video we try to find out. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito"
YouTube Link 2020-05-11T15:57Z 1.1M followers, 1.5M engagements
"What happened to the Trans Europe Express - The TEE Get MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid & get an exclusive offer extended to our viewers: an extra month FREE. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3000+ documentaries Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTVs exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/science-and-tech The Trans Europe Express or TEE was the first international network to link up western European cites from [----] to 1990's. It was designed to be a first-class only solution for business people and"
YouTube Link 2020-05-20T22:49Z 1.1M followers, 379.9K engagements
"XB-70 Valkyrie - The Worlds Fastest Bomber Thats not a plane its a [--] plane formation thats what General Curtis LeMay said of the plans for the WS-110 supersonic replacement for the B-52 back in [----]. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Back in the early 1950s the B-52 was USAFs main nuclear delivery platform but with the increasing sophistication of the Soviet defences a new supersonic nuclear bomber was"
YouTube Link 2017-04-29T21:47Z 1.1M followers, 2.2M engagements
"How to Put Data Centres & A.I In to Space Click this link https://boot.dev/promo=CURIOUSDROID and use my code CURIOUSDROID to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. Data centres have become so important to our modern way of life that they are now seen as strategic assets. The race to install the even more powerful AI data centres is now seen in the US at least as a matter of national security. However they are now becoming so large that powering them and keeping cool it's becoming difficult to find locations for them. But what if you were to put them where it's extremely cold and there"
YouTube Link 2025-08-17T22:37Z 1.1M followers, 38.9K engagements
"SLAM - America's Big Stick & Doomsday Weapon Just before ICBM's became the de facto delivery system of choice the US created what could be called the doomsday weapon of the cold war. It was deemed so dangerous that the same government that commissioned it cancelled it before it went into production. This is the story of Project Pluto and SLAM the unstoppable nuclear-powered cruise missile it created. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Kosmonaut Muhammad Tauha Ali Pascal Hausammann Florian Hesse. Also Alan Johns Allan"
YouTube Link 2018-10-20T22:00Z 1.1M followers, 1.8M engagements
"Apollo the Lunar Dust and NASA's Dirty Problem Sometimes the smallest things can be one of the biggest headaches. During the Apollo missions of [----] to [--] the tiny particles of lunar dust turned out to be a major issue. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Described as being as fine as talc but as rough as sandpaper it also has properties that make it dangerous for both men and machines and has been cited as a"
YouTube Link 2017-01-19T00:08Z 1.1M followers, 725.7K engagements
"Proximity Fuze The 3rd Most Crucial Development of WW2 Become smarter in [--] minutes by signing up for free today: http://cen.yt/mbcuriousdroid - Thanks to Morning Brew for sponsoring todays video. It was considered so secret that in the beginning it was only allowed to be used over the open sea just in case any failed they would be lost and not fall into enemy hands. The proximity fuze has since the end of the war been considered the 3rd most influential technological development of WW2 with its effect in battle both in the Pacific and Europe as greater than atomic bomb which was only used"
YouTube Link 2021-05-21T14:27Z 1.1M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Hubble Trouble - How did the Space Telescope Mirror End Up Flawed The Hubble space telescope was at the time meant to be the finest telescope ever made with the smoothest most perfect mirror on earth. So how did the $1.5 Billion project end up with a flawed mirror that had a grinding error 10x greater than the required tolerance and so bad that it could not be focused once in space. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid This episodes shirt was the Penny Dot Lane Retro Mod Polka Dot by Madcap England and is available at AtomRetro.com with"
YouTube Link 2017-08-03T22:07Z 1.1M followers, 406.3K engagements
"The Forgotten American Concordes - Boeing [----] - Lockheed L-2000 SST Americas forgotten Concordes the planes that never flew. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg When we think of supersonic passenger air travel most people will think of Concorde the joint British & French design which operated from [----] until [----] and up until this day has been the only long term supersonic passenger jet service to operate."
YouTube Link 2016-05-10T10:48Z 1.1M followers, 4.1M engagements
"What They Really Had Planned for Apollo Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch The Saturn V Story about the most powerful rocket ever made and the rest of MagellanTVs science collection: https://www.magellantv.com/video/saturn-v-story When we look back at Apollo we see the landing of the first humans on the moon with Apollo [--] and the following [--] missions up to Apollo [--] but the planners wanted a larger and longer program with a moon base and space stations but the Apollo [--] fire triggered the"
YouTube Link 2021-10-18T19:23Z 1.1M followers, 449.4K engagements
"Will Directed Energy Weapons be the Future https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid What is faster than the fastest hypersonic missile well a beam of light microwaves or subatomic particles but they are impossibly small and have almost no mass compared to a projectile. However if you have enough energy you can make a weapon that works at the speed of light and in theory can shoot down anything projectile weapon we have now. So why don't we have phasers like in Star Trek in this video we look at Directed Energy Weapons and what they can do now and in the future. This video is sponsored by"
YouTube Link 2020-06-12T16:08Z 1.1M followers, 528.9K engagements
"Why is Project HAARP so controversial HAARP is a magnet for the conspiracy theorists who claim it can control the weather create earthquakes disrupt worldwide communications and control peoples minds. So how did a research project into the ionosphere turn to this super machine. In this video we'll look at what HAARP really is and why it has become so controversial. Bernard Eastlund Patent : http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-ParserSect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4686605.PN.&OS=PN/4686605&RS=PN/4686605 Patreon"
YouTube Link 2019-06-14T22:33Z 1.1M followers, 2.1M engagements
"How Small Can You Make a Nuclear Weapon Nuclear weapons are thought of as being large and heavy but even going back to 1950s weapons designers had created weapons that could be carried in a backpack. But just how small can one of these devices be made and still work There are stories of lost briefcase nukes after the fall of the Soviet Union so in this video we look at how they are and with the widespread use of cheap drones in warfare how likely it is that a stolen miniature nuke could be used in an unstable world today. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito. To give one-off tips"
YouTube Link 2025-09-12T19:53Z 1.1M followers, 678.2K engagements
"Apollos Most Critical Rocket Engine Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. Of all the rocket engines used during the Apollo program just one was considered to be critical to the whole operation this was the lunar module ascent engine if that didn't start or had a problem whilst on the moon then there was no way to rescue the crew so it had to work with 100% reliability. This video looks at why this was so critical and the issues surrounding the use of its super"
YouTube Link 2024-08-16T20:56Z 1.1M followers, 197K engagements
"Rubin vs Webb Telescopes - What's the Difference Between Them 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com With the release if the first Vera Rubin images this week we now have another amazing way to view the space not only in our solar system but almost everything in the southern sky. But if we have the best telescope in the James Webb then why do we need another. So in this video Ill tell you the difference between them and let you know why Vera Rubin"
YouTube Link 2025-06-30T22:10Z 1.1M followers, 145.9K engagements
"What Happened to the Nuclear Test Sites https://brilliant.org/curiousdroid Nuclear testing ended over [--] years ago but the legacy of the test areas still remains and will do for hundreds or thousands of years. [--] countries have actively tested nuclear weapons some in their own backyard if it was big enough like the Soviet Union and the US but they also used others peoples backyards in the Pacific the British and French did this. But what happened to the test sites in this video we look at the US and Soviet test programs and what became of them and the people nearby. This video is sponsored by"
YouTube Link 2018-03-14T21:35Z 1.1M followers, 5.5M engagements
"Why Russia Did Not Put a Man on the Moon - The Secret Soviet Moon Rocket Its probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Although the USA won the race to the moon if youd been a betting person from the mid 1950s to 1960s the chances are that you would have thought the"
YouTube Link 2016-08-18T14:45Z 1.1M followers, 9.3M engagements
"Are Molten Salt Reactors the Future of Nuclear Power 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com From a cancelled experiment in the 1960s to the 2000s Thorium Molten Salt Reactors were almost a forgotten technology overlooked by political forces that wanted to keep the uranium cycle reactors with the ability to produce large quantities of plutonium. But with the release of the research data to the public in the 2010s China and other countries are now on"
YouTube Link 2025-04-28T21:30Z 1.1M followers, 109.2K engagements
"How do spacecraft navigate in space https://brilliant.org/curiousdroid/ How do spacecraft navigate in space over billions of kilometers and with split second timing during missions that last for years or decades. Here we look at how its done and the underlying principles that make it all possible. Sponsored by Brilliant.org Presented by Paul Shillito Written and Researched by Paul Shillito Images and Footage NASA ESA MIT SolarSystemVideos Music by Response Data by P C III is licensed under a Attribution License. Based on a work at www.pipechoir.com source :"
YouTube Link 2017-12-07T13:29Z 1.1M followers, 3.4M engagements
"Telstar [--] - The Satellite That Changed the World Get 50% off your first MEL science box using the Promo code: Droid50 here : https://melscience.com/sBJ7/ or use the QR code in the video. It might look like a a prototype for the Death Star but Telstar [--] started the satellite TV age that we now have with the 24/7 rolling news and sports from anywhere in the world so in this video we look at the 1st privately funded communications satellite and how it changed the world. This video is sponsored by MEL Science Find out where Telstar [--] is now here : https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/s=340 Written"
YouTube Link 2022-08-24T20:44Z 1.1M followers, 169.6K engagements
"How Do We Know What the Milky Way Really Looks Like Go to https://squarespace.com/curiousdroid to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. We have all seen images of the Milky way that look like there are taken at great distances from the outside but how do we know that is correct. The Voyager spacecraft have been travelling for [--] years but have only gone [-----] light years from Earth and will take another [-----] years to reach our nearest neighbouring star. So in this video we look at how we know that the Milky way looks like on the outside from the inside."
YouTube Link 2022-06-10T21:01Z 1.1M followers, 177.5K engagements
"Bell Labs - The Company that Invented the Future Get the exclusive NordVPN deal with [--] extra months for free using my link https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid - It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee To some it was the ideas factory to others it was the most influential institution of its kind in the world and in many ways has created much of the technology that is the bedrock of our modern world in this video I look at Bell Labs and how it made our future. This video is sponsored by NordVPN https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images"
YouTube Link 2022-08-19T20:53Z 1.1M followers, 366.4K engagements
"Space Station Collision - Mir Crash with Progress Supply Vessel Of all the 100s of thousands of pieces of space junk and nearly [----] satellites in orbit around the earth it may come as a surprise that so far there has been only one major collision involving a manned craft and it affected both Russians and Americans. This is the almost forgotten story of the only major collision to involve a manned space vehicle in this case the Russian space station Mir and a Progress resupply cargo vessel in [----]. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid"
YouTube Link 2017-09-27T23:01Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements
"What Happened to NASA's Gateway to Space - Launch Complex [--] NASA's launch complex [--] was the gateway to the moon and the starting point for every Space Shuttle mission. With the demise of the shuttle and the Constellation program what will happen to the space complex. Here we look at LC-39 and just what it does and how important it was in the past and will be in the future. This video was a suggestion from a member of the curious droid facebook group Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Craig Louis Fleming Florian Hesse"
YouTube Link 2018-12-30T19:15Z 1.1M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Could the Crew of Columbia Have Been Rescued https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Although it has been accepted that there was nothing that could have been done to save the crew of Columbia but in the report in the disaster it recommended NASA create a rescue/repair plan to see what could have been done if information about foam strike could have been investigated by the crew as soon as possible. This video looks at what was recommended in Appendix D.13 the STS-107 flight Options Assessment and the options that might of existed. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org :"
YouTube Link 2020-10-30T17:12Z 1.1M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Tomahawk Missile How is it Nearly [--] Years Old and Still Going Strong Click this link https://boot.dev/promo=CURIOUSDROID and use my code CURIOUSDROID to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. The Tomahawk missile has been a mainstay for the US and its allies for over [--] years but how in a fast moving world of AI and drone technologies how has it kept up and why has it still at the top of its game and been feared by so many. In this video we look at just what keeps so relivent. #Tomahawk #BGM109 #CruiseMissile #TLAM #TERCOM #DSMAC #BlockV #MilitaryHistory #USNavy #DesertStorm Written"
YouTube Link 2025-10-24T21:11Z 1.1M followers, 484.3K engagements
"Who Built the Smallest Nuclear Bomb & Could Anyone Do It Get 10% off "The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding A Civilization" here https://bit.ly/4lGk4EY with the code CURIOUSDROID10 . In my last video I looked at how small a nuclear weapon be made well in this follow up I look at the brilliant yet little-known physicist called Ted Taylor who pushed the boundaries of nuclear weapons design to extremes. From creating the smallest nuclear bomb ever fielded the Davy Crockett to designing the largest pure-fission device Ivy King Taylors work shaped the Cold War arms race in ways few realize."
YouTube Link 2025-09-27T19:48Z 1.1M followers, 184.3K engagements
"Ultra High Speed Cameras How do you film a tank shell in flight or a Nuclear bomb test Ever wondered how they film a tank shell in flight for over 100m meters like it was travelling at walking speed or the instant of a nuclear explosion. In this video I look at the super high-speed cameras that can run at millions of frames per second that were made well before the modern electronic ones of today as well have the amazing flight follower systems and the fastest real-time tracker in the world. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid To give"
YouTube Link 2017-11-10T23:58Z 1.1M followers, 8.4M engagements
"NASA's Big Mistake - The X-33 VentureStar Replacement Shuttle The X-33 was the prototype replacement for the Space Shuttle and would feature a range of cutting-edge technologies that would make much cheaper to operate and quicker to turn around with much less personal. Although 95% of the components had been made and delivered and a new flight centre had been built it was cancelled in a shock decision that would put back the reusable space program years. Was this NASA's biggest mistake of recent years or was it just too advanced for the time in this video we look at the X-33 and the reason"
YouTube Link 2018-06-16T00:25Z 1.1M followers, 2M engagements
"Is Your Private Internet Data Being Harvested From Undersea Cables Enjoy 10% discount and free shipping (to most countries) on all Hoverpens with code CURIOUSDROID: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-noviumEU Your internet data travels around the world in a fraction of a second and in the process it will travel through some of the [---] million Km of undersea fibre optic cables but how secure is it from not only being cut but also from wiretapping and data harvesting on a vast scale by not only you government but that of"
YouTube Link 2024-02-16T23:28Z 1.1M followers, 108.1K engagements
"How Could Nuclear Batteries Last a Lifetime Download Heroes of History now for FREE here https://tinyurl.com/CuriousDroidHoH Nuclear batteries ones that use radioactive elements like Uranium or Plutonium could power our electronic devices for not days or weeks but decades. They have already been used in spacecraft and pacemakers but are they likely to become an alternative to lithium batteries we use today. In this video we look at if mass-market Nuclear batteries are a reality or a fantasy that will be the reserve of space and highly specialised operations. Written researched and presented"
YouTube Link 2025-04-13T20:57Z 1.1M followers, 100.6K engagements
"Will The Army Get Electric Tanks Get the exclusive deal here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Its risk free with NordVPNs [--] day money back guarantee. With the sale of electric vehicles booming wilt the biggest single user of fossil fuels switch to electric power any time soon in this video we look at electric tanks and whether we will be seeing any of them anytime soon. This video is sponsored by https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Written Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage: Images and footage : Textron Hyundai Kia oneonly xram Amazon US DoD US Army Eleek Ukrainain"
YouTube Link 2022-07-04T21:28Z 1.1M followers, 132.9K engagements
"How One Camera Changed NASA and How We Saw the World https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Get 20% off with this link. The photographs that came from the Apollo missions have become some of the most famous and influential ever taken but these were done with mostly just one make of camera that only came about due to one of the early Mercury astronauts taking a low price commercial camera on board a mission to photo what they saw. So this is the story of how Hasselblad a small Swedish manufacturer became the pivotal player in showing the world what it was really like in space and on the moon and"
YouTube Link 2023-10-11T22:35Z 1.1M followers, 176.8K engagements
"How is NASA Hearing Stars Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee Do you look up at the stars and wonder what they sound like probably not but by using new techniques to sonify stars planets the sun and even the aurora we can now perceive the universe in a new way. In this video we look at how we can hear whole galaxies our sun and even gravity waves. To give one off tips and donations please use the following : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/curiousdroid or paypal.me/curiousdroid This"
YouTube Link 2023-09-26T22:03Z 1.1M followers, 50.3K engagements
"How Do You Fly a Plane Through a Hurricane Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee If you have even been on a rather turbulent plane journey then image what it's like flying into the biggest most violent storm systems on earth a hurricane. Thats exactly what the hurricane hunters of NOAA and the USAF do every time a hurricane looks like it will make landfall. In this video we find out how they do this also discover the planes and crews that set off but never returned."
YouTube Link 2024-10-27T23:16Z 1.1M followers, 75K engagements
"Mars or the Moon - Where do NASA manned missions go next The last humans to visit the moon left the lunar surface in Apollo [--] at 5:55pm EST on Dec 14th [----] since then no humans have been further than low earth orbit missions and to the variety of space stations that have existed since then. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Apologies for the Indian flag appearing upside down in a scene no offence meant or"
YouTube Link 2023-10-23T13:45Z 1.1M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Project Orion The Atomic Bomb Powered Space Rocket If I told that there was a plan to launch a spacecraft the size of an ocean liner that would weigh [---] times more than the Space Shuttle could travel with unrivalled speed across our Solar System and was powered by riding on a series pulses created by exploding thousands of miniature atomic bombs one after another another behind the ship you would probably say that Id been reading too many sci-fi books or websites. However in the 1950s and 60s just such an idea was taken very seriously. 'Project Orion' was a classified American project to"
YouTube Link 2023-10-25T04:58Z 1.1M followers, 664.7K engagements
"Could Anti-gravity Really be Possible https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Anti-gravity is one of those controversial subjects that some say is more in the realm of science fiction than science fact with many physicists saying it's just not theoretically possible while others are busy trying to find theories that would allow it to be possible. In this video we look at some of the things that we thought were anti-gravity but turned out not to be and what could be our nearest discovery with the vailidation of Einstein's predictions of space and gravity warping. This video is sponsored by"
YouTube Link 2019-11-04T23:25Z 1.1M followers, 3.9M engagements
"Salyut [--] - The forgotten rescue of a dead space station In [----] one of the most audacious space rescue missions was launched by the Soviets to recover a space station that had been dead for months due to an unknown fault. A feat that was unparalleled in space exploration and rewrote the books on what was thought possible: and yet its story has fallen into obscurity and conspiracy theories. This is the story Salyut [--] and how the Soviet crew of two Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Victor Savinikh against the odds rescued it in a daring mission that was the first of its kind in space exploration."
YouTube Link 2017-06-29T22:47Z 1.1M followers, 1.9M engagements
"How do you Protect Spacecraft from the Radiation of Space Get MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid & get an exclusive offer extended to our viewers: an extra month FREE. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3000+ documentaries Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTVs exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/space Far from calm and peaceful space is a dangerous place with high levels of radiation not only from our sun but from distant supernovas. This is not only dangerous to us but also to the spacecraft themselves"
YouTube Link 2020-03-28T21:01Z 1.1M followers, 269.6K engagements
"StarShip Booster Explosion SpaceX IFT-2 - SkyshowTV #spacex #starship #booster #explosion Newly released footage from SkyshowTV the guys that film space launch tracking for NASA SpaceX and others. The last few seconds of the SpaceX IFT-2 booster before it blows up on its way back to earth after the successful launch from the SpaceX Starbase at Boca Chica on 18th November [----]. The second half is slowed down to 25% speed so you can see where the main explosion starts on the upper part of the booster. The original footage can be seen on the SkyshowTV channel https://www.youtube.com/@skyshowtv"
YouTube Link 2024-04-08T19:40Z 1.1M followers, 20.1K engagements
"What does the James Webb Use to See the Universe Get the exclusive deal here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Its risk free with NordVPNs [--] day money back guarantee. Now the JWST is in its final setting up phase I thought that I would look at how and what the JWST uses to see the universe in the IR spectrum and what this means not only for for the search for exoplanets that might harbour life and even some form of advanced civilisation. Written Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage: NASA JPL Teledyne Raytheon AXSYS/Ball Aerospace Northrop Gumman And as always a big"
YouTube Link 2022-04-25T15:58Z 1.1M followers, 273.1K engagements
"How did NASA get those great film shots of Apollo and the Shuttle Ever wondered how NASA got those amazing film shots of Apollo and the shuttle launching and the boosters falling away from rockets as they fly into space then here we find out what cameras and techniques they used. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Florian Hessem Symon Hamer Larry Ackerman Ara Kirakosyan Felix Friese Bernt-Olov Hellstram Tayar Jundi Johan Rombaut Tobias Pettersson Kevin Hinnen Mitchel J. Mullin II Lucius Kwok Hunter Schwisow Pyloric Seb"
YouTube Link 2018-03-03T19:41Z 1.1M followers, 2.6M engagements
"Is This The Next Big Thing - Near Zero Energy Chips Get your 14-day free trial of MyHeritage by using the following link https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid_MH If you think your PC with the latest and greatest video card is more like a space heater then youre not alone. But when you have [------] servers in a data centre or AI farm then heat becomes a major issue and a waste of money. But what if we could have computers and data centres that used maybe [----] times less power that's the promise of reversible computing and if you've never heard of that then you need to watch this video. To give one off"
YouTube Link 2025-02-15T23:27Z 1.1M followers, 293.3K engagements
"How Powerful is the Sun Why is the sun hot now before you jump on the comments and say because its the sun stupid think about it our sun is basically a giant nuclear reactor at the centre of our solar system but not like the ones on earth. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid They create energy by nuclear fission that is they split large atoms like uranium in to smaller lighter ones and in the process it releases large amount of energy. Atomic bombs also work in the same way which is why they are so destructive. The sun creates its"
YouTube Link 2017-02-05T00:37Z 1.1M followers, 186.4K engagements
"F-14 The Last Analogue Fighter - The Deadly Tomcat 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com The F-14 was the last analogue fighter designed just before the advent of modern digital electronics and yet it went on to be one of the US Navy's most respected and feared fighters when paired with the AIM-54 Pheonix missile it was a deadly combination. This is the story of how it dominated the air and why all the spare aircraft ended up being shredded into"
YouTube Link 2024-07-30T22:18Z 1.1M followers, 250.5K engagements
"Why is it Still So Hard to Land on the Moon Get started with InVideo AI for free here https://invideo.io/i/CuriousDroid A new race for the moon has started but 55% of the landers have failed even though we have known how to land on the moon for nearly [--] years and the technological advances since then should have made things better shouldn't it For example it took a few years to get the landing techniques right the first time around but then there were no manned failures of the Apollo program on the moon apart Apollo [--] failed well before it got there so why are we back to crashing on the"
YouTube Link 2024-03-25T21:59Z 1.1M followers, 227.5K engagements
"5 Deaths Caught Live on Camera In this video we look at [--] fatalities caught live on camera. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg This has got to be one of the saddest moments of a persons departure ever recorded. The event was the [----] Dutch grand prix at the Zandvoort circuit in the Netherlands and the driver was Roger Williamson. Music used in this video : Androids Always Escape by Chris Zabriskie is licensed"
YouTube Link 2016-02-10T15:41Z 1.1M followers, 19.2M engagements
"How Dangerous is Deep Space Travel to Mars and Beyond NASA has a mission protocol which says that if a Low Earth Orbit mission increases the lifetime risk of the crew getting cancer by more than 3% they wont go ahead with it but the upcoming mars missions may expose the crews to levels that would be beyond that limit and other hazards so how dangerous is deep space travel to Mars and beyond. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here"
YouTube Link 2017-01-13T23:35Z 1.1M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Miniaturization - The Biggest Little Thing to Happen in the Last [--] Years 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com If you were to state what you think was the biggest thing to happen in the last [--] years was what would you think it might be. In this video we look at a technique which has transformed the world into what we have now. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito To give one off tips and donations please use the following :"
YouTube Link 2024-12-13T23:45Z 1.1M followers, 86K engagements
"The Most Powerful Rocket Motor Ever Tested & Why it Never Made it to the Moon Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 50% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. In [----] the most powerful Solid Rocket Motor ever built was created by Aerojet and tested by NASA as a backup to the F-1 engine for the Saturn V. It had a thrust [---] times that of the F-1 and yet it was never used but it's successor nearly [--] years later provided 85% of the thrust for the space shuttle. This is the story of the Solid Rocket Motors"
YouTube Link 2024-11-17T22:21Z 1.1M followers, 209.9K engagements
"Aerospike Engines - Why Aren't We Using them Now https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Over [--] years ago an engine was designed that overcame the inherent design inefficiencies of bell-shaped rocket nozzles but despite much research in the 60's 70's and 90's and was to power the replacement for the Space Shuttle. But [--] years on and it still yet to be flight tested. So why aren't we using Aerospike rocket engines This video is sponsored by https://brilliant.org/curiousdroid The first [---] people to apply will get a 20% discount on their yearly Brilliant subscription. Presented by Paul Shillito"
YouTube Link 2018-05-27T21:43Z 1.1M followers, 4.3M engagements
"JWST finds Oldest Galaxy So Far #shorts With its first deep field image the James Webb Space Telescope is already proving just how capable its is by discovering what's thought to be the oldest galaxy so far GLASS-z13. This is thought to be [---] million years older than the previous record holder GN-z11 which was discovered by the Hubble space telescope in [----]. GLASS-z13 is a Lyman-break galaxy discovered by the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) observing program on the JWST and dates back to just [------] million years after the Big Bang and is at distance of [--] billion light years"
YouTube Link 2022-07-27T22:39Z 1.1M followers, 92.9K engagements
"F-1 The Engine That Nearly Stopped the Apollo Moon Missions https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid It [--] years since the first man stepped foot on the moon but to get there a massive new engine was needed the power the Saturn V rocket. The Rocketdyne F-1 would be that new engine but was so unstable it would almost be the downfall of the whole Apollo program. So how did the F-1 go from zero to hero. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Presented by Paul Shillito Written & Researched By Paul Shillito Images and Footage NASA Rocketdyne SpaceX Music from the"
YouTube Link 2019-07-19T23:22Z 1.1M followers, 761.2K engagements
"Are Space Elevators Still a Thing for the Future 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com It's been an idea that has been around since [----] but only since the 1960s that it was taken seriously. But the biggest issue is how to make a cable over 36000km that is light enough and strong enough. We now have the ability to make the materials but can we make them long enough to make it a reality find out in today's video. Written researched and presented by"
YouTube Link 2025-03-31T21:23Z 1.1M followers, 182K engagements
"Could NASA 3D Print a New F-1 Rocket Engine Enjoy 10% discount and free shipping on all Hoverpens with code CURIOUSDROID: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-noviumEU When NASA was looking to go back to the moon they did consider bringing back the Saturn V rocket and the Rocketdyne F-1 engines. However that would have meant going back to decades old technology and working practices something that just isn't possible today. But in the last decade 3D printing of metal parts has advanced greatly and now it is possible to"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T22:26Z 1.1M followers, 147.5K engagements
"Electromagnetic Railguns - The U.S Military's future Superguns - [---] mile range Mach [--] projectiles Railguns Sci-fi come true or at least it seems thats way. An electric gun that can fire a guided projectile over 150km at Mach [--]. Although still in development these could be the future replacing the heavy guns of the past whilst being much cheaper to operate that cruise missiles or advanced aircraft. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsors: Symon Hamer Florian Hesse Hunter Schwisow Pyloric Seb Stoodley Oscar Anderson Peter Cote Cody"
YouTube Link 2017-11-05T00:10Z 1.1M followers, 2.1M engagements
"A Brief History of Moon Hoaxes - Why do people still believe in them Go to google and type in site: Moon hoax and you get back over [------] websites that reference in some way or another that the moon landing were faked or we have never been to the moon at all. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg How did we get from one of the greatest technological achievements of the 20th century to believing that it was a"
YouTube Link 2016-09-19T15:09Z 1.1M followers, 1.2M engagements
"How We Planned to go to Mars by [----] - The early Manned Missions https://brilliant.org/curiousdroid Part [--] is here on Isaac Arthurs channel: https://youtu.be/S0dqd72ALkQ Mars isn't the recent obsession that you might think if you listen to Elon Musk and NASA in fact NASA had solid plans to go by [----] using plans drawn up by Werner Von Braun. In this collaboration with Isaac Arthurs SFIA channel we look at the Mars missions that were planned for the past and those which are proposed for the future. To see Part [--] go to https://youtu.be/S0dqd72ALkQ This video is sponsored by"
YouTube Link 2018-02-01T16:00Z 1.1M followers, 810.6K engagements
"How will the internet work in Space - The Interplanetary Internet https://www.hover.com/CuriousDroid Whilst the internet has become integral to most people's lives it was only in [----] that the International Space Station could use apps like Twitter because the connection speed was so slow. In fact communication with spacecraft out past mars becomes very slow and problematic. However in the future high-speed internet connections will be available out into the solar system that will not only give coverage of what's available here out there but also dramatically speed up the currently very slow"
YouTube Link 2019-04-09T11:03Z 1.1M followers, 320.5K engagements
"How Inertial Navigation Changed Air Sea & Space Travel for Ever Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee Before Inertial navigation space travel long range missles and covert military air mission were very difficult if not impossible. Charles "Doc" Draper created the first Inertial navigation that could guide an aircraft ship submarine or space craft without any external signal or references and as such he revolutionised Air Sea & Space Travel for Ever. To give one off tips and donations"
YouTube Link 2023-11-30T23:10Z 1.1M followers, 397K engagements
"Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes the story so far. To get 73% off with the NordVPN 2-year deal plus [--] month free click on the link here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid Hubble and Webb one is an era defining space telescope coming to the end of its life and the other is looking to be its successor. After [--] years of delays cost over runs and setbacks the James Webb Space telescope is almost ready to launch on it's [---] million km journey. This is the story the Hubble Webb space telescopes. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA"
YouTube Link 2021-11-30T22:21Z 1.1M followers, 199K engagements
"Are supercomputers still relevant today 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com A decade ago supercomputers were the ultimate information processors but since then the power of server farms has increased to equal that of the that of supercomputers so what is their future in this video we try to find out. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito To give one off tips and donations please use the following :"
YouTube Link 2024-12-20T23:20Z 1.1M followers, 260.1K engagements
"Buran-Energia : The Soviet Space Shuttle [---] on a Moon Rocket If you thought the Buran the Soviet space shuttle was just a copy of the US one then think again. Although it looked very similar under the hood it was very different and in many ways better than the US original. Here we will see some of the reasons why Buran was Space shuttle [---] Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by : Symon Hamer Florian Hesse Bernt-Olov Hellstrm Tayar Jundi Johan Rombaut Tobias Pettersson Kevin Hinnen Mitchel J. Mullin II Lucius Kwok Hunter"
YouTube Link 2018-01-20T22:48Z 1.1M followers, 3.1M engagements
"Why Aren't Swing Wing Aircraft Made Any More Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. From the mid-60s up to [----] swing-wing aircraft led the way for new multirole aircraft that combined the low-speed stability and efficiency of a straight wing with the high-speed performance of a swept wing and led to some of the most famous fighters and bombers of the 70s 80s and 90s. But from [----] onwards not a single new aircraft was built with a swing-wing design. In this video"
YouTube Link 2024-04-30T22:58Z 1.1M followers, 595.6K engagements
"Zoom Climbs - The Highest Life and Death Jet Flights to the Edge of Space. 🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com Zoom climbs to the edge of space set the highest altitude records for jet aircraft taking off under their own power. Initially used as a method for the newly developed jet interceptors to gain extra height to reach incoming enemy bombers they were also used to test new aircraft. They were also used as a precursor to the space race to"
YouTube Link 2024-04-16T22:56Z 1.1M followers, 335.9K engagements
"America's Failed High Speed Tilting Train - The UAC Turbotrain Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch Trains [---] Centuries of Innovation about France's world leading railways and the technology they developed to create them and the rest of MagellanTVs science collection: https://www.magellantv.com/video/trains-two-centuries-of-innovation It was supposed to lead the US and Canada into a new high speed railway future but the UAC Turbotrain ended up being scrapped after just years in the US and in both"
YouTube Link 2021-09-14T22:26Z 1.1M followers, 262.2K engagements
"Why is NASA Throwing Away Reusable Engines https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Get 20% off with this link. The Artemis SLS is the latest and greatest rocket from NASA and more powerful than anything yet flown into space. And yet for all of its modernity for the upcoming moon missions and its competitors like SpaceX and Blue Origin concentrating on reusability NASA will be throwing away four of possibly the best reusable engines yet made the RS-25 with each launch just like they did in the 1960s & 70s with the Apollo mission and the one time use F-1 engines. So in this video we look at how the"
YouTube Link 2022-11-30T22:06Z 1.1M followers, 306.4K engagements
"Was the B29-Superfortress a Failure Get a 50% discount on your MyHeritage subscription by using the following link https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid Although the B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced propeller-driven bomber of WW2 it also was a rush job to get into production as the war in the Pacific intensified. This opened it up to mistakes in lots of areas but in particular the Curtis-Wright R-3350 engines which caused the death of one of the world's top test pilots and his crew during prototype testing and many other crews during operations an issue that wasn't fully resolved until after"
YouTube Link 2023-09-30T20:11Z 1.1M followers, 521.4K engagements
"5 Super Sized Drones You Can Ride - [----] - Piloted drone Over the past few years some people have taken drones from small almost toy devices for carrying cameras to mini aircraft that are capable carrying a single person. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg EHang [---] The Ehang [---] created a huge buzz when it was debuted at CES [----]. They claim it is the world's first fully autonomous helicopter drone. The"
YouTube Link 2016-03-16T13:42Z 1.1M followers, 2M engagements
"Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne possibly the best attack helicopter never made The roots of the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne go back the 1950s and experiments with a rigid rotor hub helicopter but the results were so good that the US Army commissioned a project to study its potential uses which eventually lead to the AH-56. To many this was the best attack helicopter of the 20th century but to the USAF and its competitors it was a threat that was just too much to bear so in the end and under combined pressure the project was cancelled. This is the story of the best helicopter that never was. Patreon"
YouTube Link 2020-08-05T16:23Z 1.1M followers, 2.2M engagements
"DARPA's Little Secrets That Changed The World 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When APRA were asked to look for ways to find a war-winning strategy for the US in Vietnam their JASON think tank came up with an electronic fence. That may not sound like much but it would go on to define the electronic battle field of today and bring about the technologies that we all rely on with the internet. It would also create the ability for mass"
YouTube Link 2024-08-30T22:51Z 1.1M followers, 230K engagements
"How the First Spacewalk Nearly Ended in Disaster - Alexei Leonov Voskhod [--] When Alexei Leonov made the worlds first spacewalk in [----] in Voskhod [--] it was hailed as yet another great success for the USSR in the space race against America. It was only after the fall of the Soviet Union that the west found out that while it may well have been made to look like a success by the Soviet Press it was in fact it was teetering on the edge of disaster from the moment Leonov stepped out of the airlock till the crew were rescued from the vast frozen forests of northern Russia. Patreon :"
YouTube Link 2017-09-20T21:24Z 1.1M followers, 1.9M engagements
"How AI is Taking over your Phone Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. Buy one annual membership and get another FREE Start TODAY so you can watch AI vs Human Brain the final showdown about how AI and Machine learning is changing the world and how it will affect us all in the future and the rest of MagellanTVs science collection: https://www.magellantv.com/video/ai-vs-human-brain-the-final-showdown Ever wonder how the smart phone in your pocket does what it does well its no secret that in the last few years phone makers have turned to machine"
YouTube Link 2023-10-14T18:36Z 1.1M followers, 123.6K engagements
"Secret Soviet Lunar Rovers and Extra Terrestrial Cars - Lunokhod Mars Rovers For the last [--] years or so we have been using wheeled robots and vehicles to explore other worlds from secret Soviet lunar rovers to the first lunar car to the latest Mars Rovers we owe a lot to our extra-terrestrial wheeled helpers. In this video we look at some of the ideas for Extra-Terrestrial vehicles that didn't make it as well the most famous and successful but until recently unknown Soviet-designed models to compete with Apollo. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me :"
YouTube Link 2023-10-16T07:01Z 1.1M followers, 447.8K engagements
"How Did NASA Lose a Mars Space Probe Because of Maths https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid/ The loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter was an embarrassing moment for both NASA and Lockheed-Martin but how did some of the best scientists and engineers in the world lose their Mars space probe because of a maths issue. Sponsored by Brilliant.org - Have a look at Brilliant.org and get 20% off here https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid/ NASA report in the loss of the probe can be downloaded here : ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/reports/1999/MCO_report.pdf Presented by Paul Shillito Written & Researched by Andy"
YouTube Link 2017-10-13T11:14Z 1.1M followers, 323K engagements
"Why can't we fly a plane into space Why cant we fly a plane into space what stops it from just flying higher and higher until we are in space sounds like a daft question but it has interesting implications that mean we might not be that far from a plane that can fly into space. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid You can now translate this and other curious droid videos see my video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xLPVgIytKyg Well there several issues but assuming we are in something like a normal jet airliner then one of"
YouTube Link 2017-01-28T00:10Z 1.1M followers, 5.5M engagements
"Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine When NASA was looking for a very large engine for the SLS boosters some of its engineers looked at resurrecting the Rocketdyne F-1 engines but what they found out might well surprise some people and just goes to show how things have moved on since the 1960's. Patroen : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Patroens : Kosmonaut Muhammad Tauha Ali Pascal Hausammann Florian Hesse. Also : Mark Orser Jonathan Merage Daniele Noacco Dale Kirkwood Alan Johns Rodney Aries Johan Roman Morten Granvold Tim Allen David Thomas Robert Goldwein Oscar Anderson"
YouTube Link 2018-07-24T15:48Z 1.1M followers, 4.3M engagements
"How could anyone believe the moon is hollow Go to http://www.squarespace.com/curiousdroid to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Its one of the wilder theories about the moon but like all the best ones it has its roots in some true details even if they have been rather twisted to suit an agender. So in this episode I thought we would look at how you can get to such a conclusion. To give one off tips and donations please use the following : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/curiousdroid or paypal.me/curiousdroid This video is sponsored by Squarespace"
YouTube Link 2023-02-23T23:07Z 1.1M followers, 384.3K engagements
"America's First Guided Missile and How it Changed Warfare 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When the Germans made the V-1 flying bomb little did they know that within just a couple of months of their first use the U.S would have a copy ready to go and if it weren't for the issue of shipping thousands of them taking up valuable space on the convoys they could have been used in Europe against Germany. But what they did do was to kick start the"
YouTube Link 2024-11-30T23:48Z 1.1M followers, 115.9K engagements
"How The Real Soviet Rocketmen Changed the World In the days of the space race three men in the Soviet Union led the way creating cutting-edge rockets that would be the match of the US in many ways but for all their genius they were also flawed and bring about almost as many problems for themselves as they fixed. This is the intriguing story of the three most influential rocket men in the Soviet Union if not the world. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Sponsored by : Kosmonuat Luke Tumas Vindziulis Muhammad Tauha Ali Pascal Hausammann Florian Hesse And our other Patreon supporters"
YouTube Link 2018-06-28T23:57Z 1.1M followers, 176.1K engagements
"How to make Roads with Nukes - Nuclear explosions For Peace Go to https://squarespace.com/curiousdroid to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. When you think of nuclear explosions the last thing you think of is building roads canals habours etc. but thats excatly what they tried doing and not for just a few years but for nearly two decades so in this video we look at the peacful uses for nuclear weapons. This video is sponsored by Squarespace https://squarespace.com/curiousdroid Written Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : US DoD"
YouTube Link 2022-07-14T20:59Z 1.1M followers, 178K engagements
"The NanoBots Are Coming How Will They Affect Us In The Future Go to https://historicmail.com/DROID and check out with code DROID to get 10% off on their Christmas Sale on your gifts and help support the channel. Thanks to Historic Mail for sponsoring this video Machines so tiny they would be far smaller than a human blood cell this is the promise of nanotechnology and they already exist but how are they even made and will they be scarier than A.I. Experts say that we are just at the beginning of the nanobot revolution and what they promise could little short of miraculous. In this video we"
YouTube Link 2023-12-15T23:15Z 1.1M followers, 126K engagements
"Why SpaceX Needs New Launch Pads for Starship and Soon https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Get 20% off the annual subcription with this link. For all the success of the first Starship launch the launch pad left a great deal to be desired and could have been the reason why the biggest rocket in history's initial test flight ended in a termination just minutes into the flight. Elon Musk must bear some of the responsibility and he predicted back int [----] that having no flame trench might not be a good idea. So in this video we look at the issues the launch caused and how NASA has been doing this"
YouTube Link 2023-04-30T21:44Z 1.1M followers, 334.6K engagements
"Can the U.S. Stop Russian and Chinese Hypersonic Missiles Go to http://www.squarespace.com/curiousdroid to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Russia and China have taken a lead over the U.S. with hypersonic missiles and now threaten not on the U.S. mainland but also significant assets like its aircraft carriers. The U.S. is now in a race to catch up not only with its own hypersonic missiles but also a method to try and stop the so-called unstoppable missiles. So in this video we look at how they could do this and some of the problems that the use of"
YouTube Link 2023-01-19T23:46Z 1.1M followers, 574.9K engagements
"Why You Cant See NASA Images For Real Get $10 off the Plaud NotePin with the code CD10 here https://bit.ly/3UNzQm3 If all you saw were the NASA images of space like the pillars of creation the horsehead nebula and many others you might be forgiven for thinking its a very bright colourful place but why then when you look up at the night sky do you just see only blackness and pinpoints of light. What does space really look like are the NASA images the real thing or are we humans the ones that arent equipped to see what's really out there In this video we'll find out. Written researched and"
YouTube Link 2025-09-01T22:04Z 1.1M followers, 86.3K engagements
"DeadHand - Russia's Doomsday Weapon From Beyond the Grave. https://cyberghostvpn.com/CuriousDroid - Get 84% off CyberGhostVPN + four months for free using this link . During the 1980s the Soviet Union initiated a program to create a system that would act as a retaliation should it fall subject to a 1st strike from the US. Even if it successfully knocked out the Kremlin leadership and command structure this system could launch a full-scale nuclear attack thus ensuring the doctrine of MAD Mutual Assured Destruction. In this video we look at how this system came about and how even though it was"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T19:55Z 1.1M followers, 75.3K engagements
"How Does a Nuclear Missile Find its Target Get 84% off CyberGhostVPN + plus four months for free using this link https://cyberghostvpn.com/CuriousDroid Ballistic rockets have come along way from the German V2 of WW2 to the Trident II D5 and RS-28 Sarmat ICMB's of today to become the most feared weapons in the world. But if we put aside what their ultimate purpose is how do they get half way around the world with terminal accuracies of less than [---] metres without any help form GPS. In this video we will look and the history and how they came from a primitive guidance to be some of the highest"
YouTube Link 2025-12-03T22:07Z 1.1M followers, 441.5K engagements
"Tomahawk Missile How is it Nearly [--] Years Old and Still Going Strong Click this link https://boot.dev/promo=CURIOUSDROID and use my code CURIOUSDROID to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. The Tomahawk missile has been a mainstay for the US and its allies for over [--] years but how in a fast moving world of AI and drone technologies how has it kept up and why has it still at the top of its game and been feared by so many. In this video we look at just what keeps so relivent. #Tomahawk #BGM109 #CruiseMissile #TLAM #TERCOM #DSMAC #BlockV #MilitaryHistory #USNavy #DesertStorm Written"
YouTube Link 2025-10-24T21:11Z 1.1M followers, 484.3K engagements
"Who Built the Smallest Nuclear Bomb & Could Anyone Do It Get 10% off "The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding A Civilization" here https://bit.ly/4lGk4EY with the code CURIOUSDROID10 . In my last video I looked at how small a nuclear weapon be made well in this follow up I look at the brilliant yet little-known physicist called Ted Taylor who pushed the boundaries of nuclear weapons design to extremes. From creating the smallest nuclear bomb ever fielded the Davy Crockett to designing the largest pure-fission device Ivy King Taylors work shaped the Cold War arms race in ways few realize."
YouTube Link 2025-09-27T19:48Z 1.1M followers, 184.3K engagements
"How Small Can You Make a Nuclear Weapon Nuclear weapons are thought of as being large and heavy but even going back to 1950s weapons designers had created weapons that could be carried in a backpack. But just how small can one of these devices be made and still work There are stories of lost briefcase nukes after the fall of the Soviet Union so in this video we look at how they are and with the widespread use of cheap drones in warfare how likely it is that a stolen miniature nuke could be used in an unstable world today. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito. To give one-off tips"
YouTube Link 2025-09-12T19:53Z 1.1M followers, 678.2K engagements
"Why You Cant See NASA Images For Real Get $10 off the Plaud NotePin with the code CD10 here https://bit.ly/3UNzQm3 If all you saw were the NASA images of space like the pillars of creation the horsehead nebula and many others you might be forgiven for thinking its a very bright colourful place but why then when you look up at the night sky do you just see only blackness and pinpoints of light. What does space really look like are the NASA images the real thing or are we humans the ones that arent equipped to see what's really out there In this video we'll find out. Written researched and"
YouTube Link 2025-09-01T22:04Z 1.1M followers, 86.3K engagements
"How to Put Data Centres & A.I In to Space Click this link https://boot.dev/promo=CURIOUSDROID and use my code CURIOUSDROID to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. Data centres have become so important to our modern way of life that they are now seen as strategic assets. The race to install the even more powerful AI data centres is now seen in the US at least as a matter of national security. However they are now becoming so large that powering them and keeping cool it's becoming difficult to find locations for them. But what if you were to put them where it's extremely cold and there"
YouTube Link 2025-08-17T22:37Z 1.1M followers, 38.9K engagements
"Lasers Plamsa UFOs and Lightning. The Hidden Tech of Laser-Induced Plasma. 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID to get 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com We've probably all heard of a seen and holograms created by lasers but there is another much less well known Laser derived phenomena which is capable of creating objects in air that can have a very real influence on the real world and not just for our visual entertainment. In this video we look at Laser Induced Plasma and some of the"
YouTube Link 2025-07-31T21:23Z 1.1M followers, 56.5K engagements
"Rubin vs Webb Telescopes - What's the Difference Between Them 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com With the release if the first Vera Rubin images this week we now have another amazing way to view the space not only in our solar system but almost everything in the southern sky. But if we have the best telescope in the James Webb then why do we need another. So in this video Ill tell you the difference between them and let you know why Vera Rubin"
YouTube Link 2025-06-30T22:10Z 1.1M followers, 145.9K engagements
"If We launched Voyager [--] Would We Still Send the Golden Records 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When Voyagers [--] & [--] were launched in [----] we sent them with a golden record with sounds language music and images encoded on the analogue waveform just like a regular record. But if we were to launch a new follow-up maybe called Voyager [--] would we still send a golden record or use a new type of storage to tell the story of humanity Written"
YouTube Link 2025-05-31T21:56Z 1.1M followers, 123K engagements
"How Different Are Space Computers From Earth-Based Ones Visit https://spaceship.com/promos/id=droid and use promo code DROID to unlock exclusive deals on domain names email services and web hostingtailored just for you We here on Earth are used using computers for almost everything everyday and we accept that they will crash or lose data at some point. But if you're in space and the computer controls your spacecraft the last thing you want it to do is to glitch or crash because it might just well be the last thing it ever does and it will be the last thing you witness. So how different are"
YouTube Link 2025-05-16T22:32Z 1.1M followers, 443.6K engagements
"Are Molten Salt Reactors the Future of Nuclear Power 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com From a cancelled experiment in the 1960s to the 2000s Thorium Molten Salt Reactors were almost a forgotten technology overlooked by political forces that wanted to keep the uranium cycle reactors with the ability to produce large quantities of plutonium. But with the release of the research data to the public in the 2010s China and other countries are now on"
YouTube Link 2025-04-28T21:30Z 1.1M followers, 109.2K engagements
"How Could Nuclear Batteries Last a Lifetime Download Heroes of History now for FREE here https://tinyurl.com/CuriousDroidHoH Nuclear batteries ones that use radioactive elements like Uranium or Plutonium could power our electronic devices for not days or weeks but decades. They have already been used in spacecraft and pacemakers but are they likely to become an alternative to lithium batteries we use today. In this video we look at if mass-market Nuclear batteries are a reality or a fantasy that will be the reserve of space and highly specialised operations. Written researched and presented"
YouTube Link 2025-04-13T20:57Z 1.1M followers, 100.6K engagements
"Are Space Elevators Still a Thing for the Future 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com It's been an idea that has been around since [----] but only since the 1960s that it was taken seriously. But the biggest issue is how to make a cable over 36000km that is light enough and strong enough. We now have the ability to make the materials but can we make them long enough to make it a reality find out in today's video. Written researched and presented by"
YouTube Link 2025-03-31T21:23Z 1.1M followers, 182K engagements
"Will SpaceX Starlink Have Too Many Satellites in Orbit Use this link https://www.hostinger.com/curiousdroid and the Code: CURIOUSDROID to get 10% OFF your first month of Hostinger Horizons. We currently have about [-----] satellites in orbit but within the next decade we could have [------] if all the new mega-constellations like SpaceX's Starlink and others go ahead. Not only might that ruin the night skies for radio and visual astronomy but it might also be just too much to manage safely without creating a calamitous orbital debris field that might lock us on the Earth for hundreds of years. In"
YouTube Link 2025-03-28T22:40Z 1.1M followers, 82.6K engagements
"Are Analogue Computer Hybrids The Future 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com The oldest computer is about [----] years old and yet it used just [--] gears to calculate the positions of the Sun Moon & Eclipses into the future something that we would use a digital computer to do today. These analogue computers can do much more and can be faster than digital ones for modelling very complex systems but they were replaced by the much more versatile"
YouTube Link 2025-02-27T23:43Z 1.1M followers, 213.2K engagements
"Is This The Next Big Thing - Near Zero Energy Chips Get your 14-day free trial of MyHeritage by using the following link https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid_MH If you think your PC with the latest and greatest video card is more like a space heater then youre not alone. But when you have [------] servers in a data centre or AI farm then heat becomes a major issue and a waste of money. But what if we could have computers and data centres that used maybe [----] times less power that's the promise of reversible computing and if you've never heard of that then you need to watch this video. To give one off"
YouTube Link 2025-02-15T23:27Z 1.1M followers, 293.3K engagements
"Are supercomputers still relevant today 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com A decade ago supercomputers were the ultimate information processors but since then the power of server farms has increased to equal that of the that of supercomputers so what is their future in this video we try to find out. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito To give one off tips and donations please use the following :"
YouTube Link 2024-12-20T23:20Z 1.1M followers, 260.1K engagements
"Miniaturization - The Biggest Little Thing to Happen in the Last [--] Years 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com If you were to state what you think was the biggest thing to happen in the last [--] years was what would you think it might be. In this video we look at a technique which has transformed the world into what we have now. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito To give one off tips and donations please use the following :"
YouTube Link 2024-12-13T23:45Z 1.1M followers, 86K engagements
"America's First Guided Missile and How it Changed Warfare 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When the Germans made the V-1 flying bomb little did they know that within just a couple of months of their first use the U.S would have a copy ready to go and if it weren't for the issue of shipping thousands of them taking up valuable space on the convoys they could have been used in Europe against Germany. But what they did do was to kick start the"
YouTube Link 2024-11-30T23:48Z 1.1M followers, 115.9K engagements
"If it Looks Right It Will Fly Right - Right Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee There is and old saying in avaition "if it looks right it will fly right" but how true is that. In this video I look at aircraft that from the outset dont look right at all but do fly sometimes rather well. Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA Northrop philamanian USAF ABposters.com To give one off tips and donations please use the following :"
YouTube Link 2024-11-25T22:28Z 1.1M followers, 409.8K engagements
"The Most Powerful Rocket Motor Ever Tested & Why it Never Made it to the Moon Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 50% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. In [----] the most powerful Solid Rocket Motor ever built was created by Aerojet and tested by NASA as a backup to the F-1 engine for the Saturn V. It had a thrust [---] times that of the F-1 and yet it was never used but it's successor nearly [--] years later provided 85% of the thrust for the space shuttle. This is the story of the Solid Rocket Motors"
YouTube Link 2024-11-17T22:21Z 1.1M followers, 209.9K engagements
"How Big is the Solar System Really 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When most people think of the solar system they think of the sun and the planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune and thats it. But over the last [--] years there has been a number of discoveries that have shown that our solar system is much bigger than you may have thought and in this video we will see just how big it is really is. Written researched"
YouTube Link 2024-10-30T22:31Z 1.1M followers, 119.6K engagements
"How Do You Fly a Plane Through a Hurricane Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee If you have even been on a rather turbulent plane journey then image what it's like flying into the biggest most violent storm systems on earth a hurricane. Thats exactly what the hurricane hunters of NOAA and the USAF do every time a hurricane looks like it will make landfall. In this video we find out how they do this also discover the planes and crews that set off but never returned."
YouTube Link 2024-10-27T23:16Z 1.1M followers, 75K engagements
"What Will Happen to Voyager and Others in the Far Future Go to https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid to get a 2-year plan plus [--] additional months with a huge discount. Its risk-free with Nords 30-day money-back guarantee Currently there are at least five manmade objects that are on a one-way journey out of the solar system but where will these go will they just go on forever will they crash into a star or planet in the far distant future long after we our earth and sun has long ceased to exist. In this video we will see just what is going where and what the future holds for them. Written"
YouTube Link 2024-09-30T22:39Z 1.1M followers, 692.1K engagements
"Why Did the Apollo Landers Look So Odd Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. The Apollo lunar lander or LEM was one of the strangest looking spacecraft ever built but it was designed to get a job done that had never been done before. Some say that it was a fake and too flimsy to withstand the rigours of space flight and get men to the moon and back again and yet it did that very job six times with without fail. This is the story of why the Apollo landers looked"
YouTube Link 2024-09-17T22:37Z 1.1M followers, 397.8K engagements
"DARPA's Little Secrets That Changed The World 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com When APRA were asked to look for ways to find a war-winning strategy for the US in Vietnam their JASON think tank came up with an electronic fence. That may not sound like much but it would go on to define the electronic battle field of today and bring about the technologies that we all rely on with the internet. It would also create the ability for mass"
YouTube Link 2024-08-30T22:51Z 1.1M followers, 230K engagements
"Apollos Most Critical Rocket Engine Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. Of all the rocket engines used during the Apollo program just one was considered to be critical to the whole operation this was the lunar module ascent engine if that didn't start or had a problem whilst on the moon then there was no way to rescue the crew so it had to work with 100% reliability. This video looks at why this was so critical and the issues surrounding the use of its super"
YouTube Link 2024-08-16T20:56Z 1.1M followers, 197K engagements
"F-14 The Last Analogue Fighter - The Deadly Tomcat 🔒 Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com The F-14 was the last analogue fighter designed just before the advent of modern digital electronics and yet it went on to be one of the US Navy's most respected and feared fighters when paired with the AIM-54 Pheonix missile it was a deadly combination. This is the story of how it dominated the air and why all the spare aircraft ended up being shredded into"
YouTube Link 2024-07-30T22:18Z 1.1M followers, 250.5K engagements
"The End of the ISS is Coming but Why and What Will Replace it Download Opera here https://opr.as/Opera-browser-curiousdroid The ISS will be ending its days in the watery grave known as Point Nemo in [----] when it is deorbited by SpaceX but why are we throwing away $150B of hardware and what will replace it it if anything This video is sonsored by Opera https://opr.as/Opera-browser-curiousdroid Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA Roscosmos Northrop Grumman SpaceX Spacelab Axiom To give one off tips and donations please use the following :"
YouTube Link 2024-07-22T23:11Z 1.1M followers, 308.6K engagements
"The Rise & Fall of the Harrier Jump Jet 🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com The Harrier jump jet was a unique and to many iconic aircraft one that could take off hover and land like a helicopter but fly like a fast jet. Although many tried to build their own version none other than the Soviet version the YAK-38 lasted more that [--] years the Harrier which is still in use [--] years after it first flew but just not in England the country that created"
YouTube Link 2024-06-27T22:14Z 1.1M followers, 216.7K engagements
"Why Does SpaceX Use [--] Engines While NASA Used Just [--] Get 50% off your first crate of a monthly subscription when you go to https://www.kiwico.com/curiousdroid and use code curiousdroid. The race to the moon is back on but why does SpeceX's Starship & super heavy booster need [--] engines when NASA's Saturn V rocket which went to the moon six times [--] years ago only needed five. We look at what has changed since then and why many smaller engines and all the extra complexity that comes with them seem to be the way forward for the modern space industry. To give one off tips and donations please"
YouTube Link 2024-06-18T22:32Z 1.1M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Why Aren't Swing Wing Aircraft Made Any More Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. From the mid-60s up to [----] swing-wing aircraft led the way for new multirole aircraft that combined the low-speed stability and efficiency of a straight wing with the high-speed performance of a swept wing and led to some of the most famous fighters and bombers of the 70s 80s and 90s. But from [----] onwards not a single new aircraft was built with a swing-wing design. In this video"
YouTube Link 2024-04-30T22:58Z 1.1M followers, 595.6K engagements
"F-111 Aardvark The Aircraft that Defined an Era Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra included here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee The F-111 started out as a cost-saving aircraft to work for both the USAF and the US Navy but ended up being rejected by the Navy however it went on to be on of the most trusted assets for the USAF for the next [--] years and its advanced design inspired a generation of high-performance swing-wing fighters and bombers in the US Soviet Union and Europe over the next [--] decades. This is the story of the"
YouTube Link 2024-04-25T22:14Z 1.1M followers, 248.1K engagements
"Zoom Climbs - The Highest Life and Death Jet Flights to the Edge of Space. 🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com Zoom climbs to the edge of space set the highest altitude records for jet aircraft taking off under their own power. Initially used as a method for the newly developed jet interceptors to gain extra height to reach incoming enemy bombers they were also used to test new aircraft. They were also used as a precursor to the space race to"
YouTube Link 2024-04-16T22:56Z 1.1M followers, 335.9K engagements
"StarShip Booster Explosion SpaceX IFT-2 - SkyshowTV #spacex #starship #booster #explosion Newly released footage from SkyshowTV the guys that film space launch tracking for NASA SpaceX and others. The last few seconds of the SpaceX IFT-2 booster before it blows up on its way back to earth after the successful launch from the SpaceX Starbase at Boca Chica on 18th November [----]. The second half is slowed down to 25% speed so you can see where the main explosion starts on the upper part of the booster. The original footage can be seen on the SkyshowTV channel https://www.youtube.com/@skyshowtv"
YouTube Link 2024-04-08T19:40Z 1.1M followers, 20.1K engagements
"SkyshowTV Unseen Launch Footage from NASA SpaceX Virgin Galatic and more In May [----] I shared a video of NASA engineering film footage from the Artemis [--] launch. Now the guys who filmed part of that launch footage got in contact to let me know that through that video they were excited to see that a lot of people wanted to see this type of footage. So to that end they have set up their own website and YouTube channel where they will be sharing new and unseen space launches and other related high-quality footage going forward from NASA SpaceX and others with the general public and this is my"
YouTube Link 2024-04-06T22:59Z 1.1M followers, 70K engagements
"B-58 Hustler - Was it Really That Bad Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access or try it for less than $1 this month. The B-58 Hustler was the first American supersonic strategic bomber designed to slip through the Soviet air defenses before the ICBM had become the dominant weapon on both sides. It set [--] world records for speed and was thought more likely to get through soviet defenses than its rival the B-52. Designed just after the B-52 it was a very different aircraft these were SAC's"
YouTube Link 2024-03-31T22:40Z 1.1M followers, 276.3K engagements
"Why is it Still So Hard to Land on the Moon Get started with InVideo AI for free here https://invideo.io/i/CuriousDroid A new race for the moon has started but 55% of the landers have failed even though we have known how to land on the moon for nearly [--] years and the technological advances since then should have made things better shouldn't it For example it took a few years to get the landing techniques right the first time around but then there were no manned failures of the Apollo program on the moon apart Apollo [--] failed well before it got there so why are we back to crashing on the"
YouTube Link 2024-03-25T21:59Z 1.1M followers, 227.5K engagements
"How Big Tech is Controlling Your Life Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access or try it for less than $1 this month. Over the last 20-odd years your private data and big tech companies have quietly changed the world and now control your life by knowing more about you than you probably do. In this video we see how our irresistible urge to own the latest phones gadgets and tech has given the mega-corporations not only the power but the money too. To give one off tips and donations please use"
YouTube Link 2024-02-27T23:53Z 1.1M followers, 57.1K engagements
"Is Your Private Internet Data Being Harvested From Undersea Cables Enjoy 10% discount and free shipping (to most countries) on all Hoverpens with code CURIOUSDROID: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-noviumEU Your internet data travels around the world in a fraction of a second and in the process it will travel through some of the [---] million Km of undersea fibre optic cables but how secure is it from not only being cut but also from wiretapping and data harvesting on a vast scale by not only you government but that of"
YouTube Link 2024-02-16T23:28Z 1.1M followers, 108.1K engagements
"What Would Happen if you fell into a Black Hole Imagine that your on a science mission to study black holes when through no fault of their own one of the crew ends up outside the ship and being pulled towards the blackhole. With no prospect of rescue how long would our astronaut survive once over the event horizon and what would happen to hem once they disappear from our universe. In this video we look at what might happen would they even make it to the horizon and if they did how long they might survive once inside. To give one off tips and donations please use the following :"
YouTube Link 2024-01-20T22:17Z 1.1M followers, 62.6K engagements
"How The MIT Ideas Factory Revolutionised the Future Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra included here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee MIT has turned out some of the finest scientific minds over the [---] years many of whom have gone on to create revolutionary technologies and companies and much like Bell labs which I did a video on a few years back is still in the fray and working on the cutting edge of things like AI Robotics Biotech etc. So this video is a look at how MIT created the future. To give one off tips and donations"
YouTube Link 2023-12-31T22:27Z 1.1M followers, 113.8K engagements
"The NanoBots Are Coming How Will They Affect Us In The Future Go to https://historicmail.com/DROID and check out with code DROID to get 10% off on their Christmas Sale on your gifts and help support the channel. Thanks to Historic Mail for sponsoring this video Machines so tiny they would be far smaller than a human blood cell this is the promise of nanotechnology and they already exist but how are they even made and will they be scarier than A.I. Experts say that we are just at the beginning of the nanobot revolution and what they promise could little short of miraculous. In this video we"
YouTube Link 2023-12-15T23:15Z 1.1M followers, 126K engagements
"How Inertial Navigation Changed Air Sea & Space Travel for Ever Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee Before Inertial navigation space travel long range missles and covert military air mission were very difficult if not impossible. Charles "Doc" Draper created the first Inertial navigation that could guide an aircraft ship submarine or space craft without any external signal or references and as such he revolutionised Air Sea & Space Travel for Ever. To give one off tips and donations"
YouTube Link 2023-11-30T23:10Z 1.1M followers, 397K engagements
"How the Stuka and Douglas SBD Altered the Course of WW2 Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link for as little as $1/month or get 40% off unlimited access this month only. Two average warplanes one on each side of the war both overlooked by their more glamorous brethren but both were outstanding dive bombers capable of doing what artillery or heavy bombing could not and both had a major impact on the course of WW2 one in starting it and the other at ending it. This is the story of how the Junkers Ju.87 Stuka and the"
YouTube Link 2023-11-15T21:58Z 1.1M followers, 93.8K engagements
"How Sonar is revealing the secrets of the sea lakes and rivers. Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee We live on a planet that 70% of is covered in water but if anything falls in to deep water it becomes increasingly difficult to find. However Sonar technology originally developed to find submarines in wartime is being used to map the seabed and find things that have been lost for years if not decades. This is the story of sonar and how it is now being used to find not only submarines"
YouTube Link 2023-10-31T22:52Z 1.1M followers, 121.2K engagements
"Could NASA 3D Print a New F-1 Rocket Engine Enjoy 10% discount and free shipping on all Hoverpens with code CURIOUSDROID: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid-noviumEU When NASA was looking to go back to the moon they did consider bringing back the Saturn V rocket and the Rocketdyne F-1 engines. However that would have meant going back to decades old technology and working practices something that just isn't possible today. But in the last decade 3D printing of metal parts has advanced greatly and now it is possible to"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T22:26Z 1.1M followers, 147.5K engagements
"Was the B29-Superfortress a Failure Get a 50% discount on your MyHeritage subscription by using the following link https://bit.ly/CuriousDroid Although the B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced propeller-driven bomber of WW2 it also was a rush job to get into production as the war in the Pacific intensified. This opened it up to mistakes in lots of areas but in particular the Curtis-Wright R-3350 engines which caused the death of one of the world's top test pilots and his crew during prototype testing and many other crews during operations an issue that wasn't fully resolved until after"
YouTube Link 2023-09-30T20:11Z 1.1M followers, 521.4K engagements
"How is NASA Hearing Stars Get NordVPNs [--] year plan + four months extra for free here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee Do you look up at the stars and wonder what they sound like probably not but by using new techniques to sonify stars planets the sun and even the aurora we can now perceive the universe in a new way. In this video we look at how we can hear whole galaxies our sun and even gravity waves. To give one off tips and donations please use the following : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/curiousdroid or paypal.me/curiousdroid This"
YouTube Link 2023-09-26T22:03Z 1.1M followers, 50.3K engagements
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