It might look like a a prototype for the Death Star but Telstar 1 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. All ad free...
2022-08-24 13:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post
A look at the similarities and differences between Covid-19 and Spanish Flu and why we wont have the same disastrous outcome that occurs in 1918.
2020-03-19 00:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Considering the UK was at the forefront of aviation, the fall and rise of the British aircraft and defence industry is one of the lesser-known subjects even to us Britain's who often see the fall of manufacturing as just one way, though the British government has sometimes made things much worse ...
2019-11-20 13:02:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The story of how one engine changed the course of WW2 and world events and enabled a range of iconic aircraft in the process.
2019-09-28 21:49:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a thought experiment as much as anything looking backwards in time at the possibility of an advanced species evolving long before us and if there would be any evidence of there existence now. Then forwards if we were to be wiped out like the dinosaurs, and to what we might leave behind fo...
2019-09-04 22:32:11 +0000 UTC View Post
After doing a couple of videos that touched on radiation and particles i though it would be interesting to look at the OMG particle, the fastest physical thing other than light in the known universe.
Its also an an experiment in making shorter videos but with still a lot of information in t...
2019-08-31 13:26:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Although many think its 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 com...
2019-08-06 21:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Considering the number of nuclear weapons that have been created since 1945, 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?
This started out as a simple video but ended up one of the longest I've done and even then i've just scratched the surface but the research has thrown up several ideas for future videos, so we'll see how it goes and which way any spin offs may go :-)
2019-06-14 22:48:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This has been a bit of a while in getting done but finally, it's here and my first one working with the European Space Agency (ESA) on an official level. Hopefully, it will be the first of many.
2019-05-29 21:35:34 +0000 UTC View Post
What happens to old spacecraft?. We know when new ones are launched and sometimes when they don't make it to where they are going but after that, they just seem to go quiet.
From the very first man-made object to orbit the earth to the ISS we look at where do they end up.
2019-03-08 21:57:51 +0000 UTC View Post
When the first Spy satellites were put into orbit they were a long way from the type of reconnaissance satellites and even Google Earth that we are used to now and you won't believe what they did to get the images back to Earth. This is the story of project Corona and how it changed the way we lo...
2019-02-23 14:53:01 +0000 UTC View Post
At a time when the game of nuclear chicken very nearly got out of hand the superpowers continued to test nuclear weapons in space with both surprising and frightening consequences. In this video we look at why we needed to test nukes in space.
2019-02-04 22:17:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy new year to everyone, this was a suggestion from our facebook group who wanted know more about the launchpads themselves. So here is a look at the most famous launchpads in the world at Cape Canaveral Launch complex 39, NASA's gateway to space.
2018-12-30 19:31:32 +0000 UTC View Post
New video time, this one looks at the real reasons why we stopped going to the moon.If you thought we sent Apollo to the purely to explore the moon and do the science then think again.
Apollo was primarily a political tool for Kennedy to use against the Soviets. In this episode, we find out ...
2018-11-14 23:33:13 +0000 UTC View Post
New video time, this one is about the british rocket jet fighter, yes rocket and jet powered and its fall from being the best to being forgotten.
The Hubble Space Telescope has given us some of the most amazing views of the universe for 25 years and although it could go on for many years more, things are starting to go wrong but without the shuttle, we have no real way the fix it.
But its successor the James Webb Space Telescope was due to ...
2018-10-25 22:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In this time we are looking at America's cold war doomsday weapon SLAM AKA Project Pluto, the virtually unstoppable nuclear powered cruise missile that proved so controversial it was cancelled before it could be deployed.
Although it sounds like a crazy idea it has been tried on several occasions and is seriously considered to be a way to put the less fragile raw materials like fuel, food and water into orbit, so in this video we look at what the problems might be and some of the attempts to try in the past.
2018-09-18 22:44:44 +0000 UTC View Post
With the advent of a new wave of lunar explorers not so far off and probably not form NASA, how will we save the Apollo and other lunar landing sites from damage or treasure hunters in the future?
2018-07-28 15:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever wondered why NASA dont just bring back the F-1 engine when they want a big dumb but yet reliable, tried and tested booster engine, in this video we look at what happened when they tried exactly that for the SLS.
2018-07-24 15:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2018-06-29 00:06:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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, so why did it get cancelled at the last moment when it had so much to offer?
2018-06-16 00:31:32 +0000 UTC View Post
How is it that we could get to the moon in just 7 years but now it takes 20 years the build the SLS, here we look at why NASA is so slow these days.
2018-05-15 21:43:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I've just setup the next live stream for tomorrow May 3rd at 2pm EST / 7pm UK time.
The subject is "The end of the Universe" with theoretical astrophysicist and science writer Ethan Siegal.
If you have any questions please let me know before the show.
2018-05-02 20:32:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I have just finished bringing the curious-droid.com website up to date, something that has needed doing for the past two years and as part of this of is to open it up to guest bloggers to write articles on the subjects we cover.
This will not be for video scripts but as stand-alone articles ...
2018-05-01 22:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post
New video time and this one is about the reusable rockets not only by Spacex and Blue Origin but some of the others both past and present.
2018-04-23 22:53:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Prototype cybermen ??
2018-04-13 21:50:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This episodes video is looking at the Ekranoplan, more commonly known as the Caspian Sea Monster.
2018-04-12 19:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Firstly I'd like to thank all thoses who were moderators for the show and those who posted questions, I hope we answered them to your satisfaction.
I would also like to hear your views and opinions on the show, what was good and what was not so good, length, content, look stream performance etc. 2018-04-06 10:55:19 +0000 UTC View Post