Instead of steerable fins (that impart a rotation) how about 4 trim tabs perhaps 1cm wide and 2 cm high mounted, top hinged (maybe cut into) the fuselage and mounted between the now fixed fins? Individually controlled. Pushing the lower edge of one tab into the airflow would push the engine end sideways without imparting rotation.
I especially like the part where you finally realize you're trying to make a precision guided missile, and the acknowledgment that those who know.... Literally cannot help you.
This moment made me put down my phone and get help from laughing too hard, followed by a long moment wondering about "forbidden knowledge" in the US and how Mark almost accidentally discovered some.
I myself am in the space industry and I know personally what it’s like to fail, and I loved how you kept going even if you failed and persevered throughout the whole journey. Thanks for being an inspiration to all future engineers and current ones.
This is really crazy. Mark, your friends are the coolest and you are the coolest guy in TRvid. It's an admirable feat y'all have done even if it's something you didn't expect to go along your way but the egg survived!
There's no way to appreciate the time and effort required that goes into this. But nevertheless, when I see vids like this, especially from Mark, I'm completely glued to the screen and very grateful for all the work done and money well-spent. Thanks so much dude, to you and your team for your absolute TENACITY after crushing failures. You're such a blessing to the rest of us screen goons. LOVE THIS!
My specialty is firearms but I feel for the expert here. How many times has someone come to me with some “great idea” and then I go “that’s at least ten years in prison”
@TheAdvertisement then why doesn't it specifically say what an "arm" is? By that logic the 1st doesn't apply to written or digital works and should only apply to people speaking orally.
They were only going about supersonic (~340 m/s) and objects start to burn up around mach 5 (~1700 m/s). The egg probably heated up more from the heating implement than friction heat.
@Gus Sharples Sphere of influence and atmospheres are very different. What you're saying applies to the sun, which has an atmosphere that covers the solar system (memory could be hazy) and a SOI that effects neighboring systems. As far as I know Earth's magnetic field doesn't reach the moon, the Sun's does for at the inner planets (again memory hazy).
@riot Leaving the atmosphere requires reaching escape velocity, the only things on Earth with enough propulsion to do so are space rockets and some major volcanic eruptions. Orbit is essentially moving so fast you miss the ground, gas can't move that fast naturally. They "float" in the atmosphere by their weight then are pulled down by gravity.
@Howder03 It's not that it can't "break through" the atmosphere. The reason that the balloon is rising is that it is less dense than the atmosphere around it. That means that it rises, despite the fact that there is a downward force (due to gravity). When it gets to a high enough altitude, the concentration of atmospheric molecules around it will mean that the atmosphere has the same density as the balloon itself. At that point, it will stop rising, but there is no barrier. To keep moving at that point, you would need another force to overcome gravity. As there is precious little atmosphere to create a reaction force against, rockets would be the only way to go - but even then, you are not breaking through anything - there's no surface tension or anything like that.
Joe and Mark, two of my favorite guys on the entire internet working together on a crazy project. It was spectacularly entertaining to watch. Keep making more of these please! Thanks a lot! Greetings from Argentina! 🙂
Your video's always tell a great story while also being super informative and really show that one bit of failure is just another learning step in the proces of building something epic.
That's awesome you accomplished it Mark & team :) And pretty cool you could talk with one of the leads at NASA on the project you worked on. I'm sure he could remind you of some things you may have been exposed to and now got a chance to dive deeper into those concepts & apply them :) Very cool~
Absolutely, wonderfully inspirational. I've been trying to teach my kids (12, 6, 6) to embrace failure as a blessing and opportunity. I can't wait to show my daughter this video. We watch all of Mark's videos together.
What I love is the way you do hilarious videos and spend so much time without giving up. The builds are adorable, and your videos on making them brighten 23 million people's days. I also love the way you can pivot when a problem comes up, and your creative ways of solving them. Go Mark!
This is awesome. I watched the entire video smiling. It has been a long while since I have seen something this amazing. The whole journey from an idea to a final touchdown with 2 unbroken eggs is inspiring. I think I want to be an engineer to build cool stuff. 😅.
Being a prototyper myself i must tell you how much I've enjoyed watching all your completely insane nuts brilliance!!! Gave me goosebumps + big motivation for my own next inventions. Thanks a lot ... keep being crazy.
The egg drop tube looks and functions hysterically like the one I made for my high school egg drop - overkill as it was just being dropped off the gym roof XD
Altitude reached was 100,100 feet (18.95 miles/ 30.51 kilometers). Congrats Mark : ) Since technically Outer Space actually begins at the Kármán line at 328,084 feet (62 miles / 100 kilometers), will you ever do a part 2 or another Space Drop Video? I just love these videos (BTW it doesn't have to be an egg).
What an awesome video!! So many ups and downs! But we got there in the end Mark your a blessing to humanity and for you to take your knowledge and spread it to the world 🌍🌎 is a genuine godsent gift for us all! Thanks a million!
That section with Adam was hilarious, the way he pointed out that you were making a guided missile made me laugh!! So cool to be able to call someone like that too
@Gun Catto They were trying to make something that can accurately deliver a payload to a specific area. If you replace the egg with a warhead, you have a “DIY” precision-guided missile.
before watching this i wonder if they calculated air resistance being smaller higher up in the air (because air is thinner upwards) when they calculated terminal velocity
I think the best part of this whole video is how many times the project failed. That really shows just how much perseverance and dedication Mark has to these things.
Also, just curious about when you said, " this is a hot egg." Did you check to see if it was still fully uncooked? Does the experiment count if the egg gets "hard boiled"?
This channel is so awesome! Kids need this type of education so they can learn to 1) think, 2) accept defeats without giving up, 3) and learn how to invent and have fun. Great job! You have me thinking about STEM projects I can do with my grandchildren now. They love science and your build boxes!
He said that the egg was hot and since it never went up as high as they had hoped (and so it never got as cold as they had estimated), it could be that the oven had cooked the eggs. So no omelette, but a cooked egg nonetheless. I could be way off here tho, just a guesstimate 😂
The helium voice and the giant flock of birds actually made me laugh uncontrollably. Those were the funniest things I've seen today, and I'm so glad I clicked on this video, or else I wouldn't get to see those.
"Which was surprising because Joe had definitely run through a lot of analysis and testing before coming here. So after conducting a thorough review of the footage and firmware he was able to locate and fix a single rogue negative sign in the code that seemed to be causing all the control issues" - The perfect description of my entire engineering degree
*What's poppin guys, so recently I've explained why you All Better Hate my Recent upload.. because my World Record is to become the most hated youtuber to ever exist.*
"after conducting a thorough review of the footage and firmware, he was able to locate and fix a single rogue negative sign in the code, that seemed to be causing all the control issues." that is the most coding thing ever.
I have recently seen a video of two guys dropping eggs onto grass with drones. The eggs were dropped with nothing attached and when dropped on grass, they didn’t break. I think they went as high as 300 feet? I was curious on your thoughts on this and wondered what the height would have to be to break the egg. I don’t remember if they hit terminal velocity, but I thought the correlation between these two videos were interesting. Love the videos.
Except by everyone who advanced our knowledge of the universe and took us to the next level. I’d say he’s on par with them. There are thousands every day with this level of dedication making society function, without them, we wouldn’t be on TRvid watching this or having the level of comfort we know. It’s kind of the flaw of our society with how we are quick to celebrate just one person while there are many others putting in the same time and work that get no celebration. I mean this one build is a great example of how this could not have been pulled off with just Mark, and that’s fine because to advance and do great things, we need each other. I do get your point as Mark is in the upper percentile of people doing great things and dedicated to it. I sure wish this type of thing was around in my formative years as a child.
Nice that you are starting your own business to advertise on your own channel! It’s great to get kids learning more STEM topics with some hands on activities. Surprised other TRvidrs aren’t taking a similar approach!
