Well hello there Matt, how's the whiskey?

Hahahahaha so true

@@destroyishere4655 heeh lol

Matt please atleast make episode 69 of Velocity Lake 😟

What do you say about using whiskey to fill up proton instead of vodka ?

@Had Tobe Stop spamming

@@andricode Report and block him

@Had Tobe Pseudoscience is not accepted here, just like your pseudo-rationale.

Mostly peaceful flight...

​@Had Tobe Shut up and go finish highschool

If it's stupid but works then it's not stupid.

"Single stage to orbit!" "It's 36 stages, you just put them sideways."

All of my ssto’s are basically rockets but on their sides with a crew cabin attached to the faring or something

You ever seen someone put together a manned rover lab, drills, and ISRU, with XL wheels and a rocket on the back all as a single payload not covered with an airfoil? That was my first successful lunar rover/base system and it looked hideous.

LMAO🤣🤣🤣

That's just me and a friend of mine playing KSP.

true

*Wernher von Kerman

Yes, made some rockets in KSP who make the ones in this list look very sleek.

Why isn't New Shepard on that list? It can't be for just orbital class rockets as Dr Goddard's rocket was on that list...even though I don't think it should have been number one.

@@longshot7601 New Shepard always looks vaguely familiar.

*liquid fuel

But it would get to space, with enough auto struts.

Which Jupiter took the Robinson’s and the rest on a 3 hour tour to Alpha Centauri

The sort of thing you'd get when you spend 3 hours designing the perfect landing craft and then realize you don't have nuclear engines unlocked for that Moho mission.

If it gets 170 tons towards the Moon, looks are less important :-)

After 4 beers making a Jupiter III in KSP sounds like a fantastic idea.

and so the s4 sized boosters I use dont crash into the main ship

@@aguywhodoesstuff1116 thats what sepratrons are for!

You mean "Sir Pterry." GNU Terry Pratchett

Pterry pfunny.

New Shepard is the latest entrant in the ‘ugliest rocket ever’ pageant.

Warning. I have zero engineering qualifications. I'm trained as a physicist.

@@scottmanley it was for a physics thing so I guess we’re good

@@scottmanley I read that in your voice heh

@@scottmanley Assuming a spherical rocket...

@@nitehawk86 spheres are actually among the most aerodynamically inefficient shapes there are

this part killed me.... no I meant it. there I was, chomping down on some grass peacefully near a Mexican airfield... 💥

Tbf to the rocket designer, he may have picked up some of that unfortunate attitude to safety from his previous employer.

A.M. Annex Mexico! Or else!

Is it square too?

DO NOT DESTROY ZE ROCKET, IT IS SUPPOSED TO HIT FOREIGN COUTRIES AND IT SHALL DO THIZ! Or the German was like "No, not ze DATA, i need them!, destroying it now is not efficient!"

You can say that about many girls...

you came in that thing? you are braver than I thought.

@@DrWhom hold the f*ck up

Seriously ... My old man used to work for NASA (Marshal Space Flight Center) and he joked that the American rockets and space hardware look like the White House and the Russian rockets and Hardware look like the Kremlin. And Bezos I guess needs something to keep the GF happy.

I think they look pretty nice?

The New Sheppard has a pronounced pornographic character. Scott May have avoided that rocket to avoid the possibility of losing his channel.

In your mom's drawer I presume...

@@jrobin1836 absolutely disgusting oversized short and stubby fuel tank with rocket engines.

Source?

@@MatthewGaming- Have you watched this video?

It's New Mexico trying to prove its the superior Mexico XD (seeing as it launched out of white sands I feel this qualifies!) Also I'm a New Mexican so I can say that.

@@sawyerawr5783 no, no he’s got a point

@@adamkerman475 did you watch the video?

A lot of rockets have them

Right, but at least all of them have the "pointy end (s) up and the flamey end (s) down"!! ;D

@@ronschlorff7089 well, maybe not goddard's

@@kerbalengineeringsystems7415 yup, he was "ahead" of his time,.... get it!! :D

Jupiter 3 also looks coll Scott Manley can't change my mind about it

It looks like one of my old space station launch vehicles (I used to make single launch space station cause I was too lazy to dock)

A big part of why Ariane was so bizarre looking was that it was French. While I don't normally engage in stereotypes, anything in France that costs a lot of money or involves the government *absolutely must* be so uniquely Gallic as to remove any possibility that it might be mistaken for (or accused of benefiting from) any other country's handiwork or insight. During the Gaullist period, the French went out of their way to ensure that basically every aspect of their manufacturing process (military and civilian) was incompatible with British, German and American systems. They neither wished nor intended for any of it to be useful outside of France or her colonies. The consequences to this policy were obvious and manifold (and remain obvious to anybody who's ever driven a Peugeot prior to around 2003), but it has been an article of pride in French manufacturing for over a century that "the French copy no-one, and no-one copies the French."

No it looks great

Proton ‘look’ pretty rocketish. I like that, but it is not elegant uwu

Yeah, I don't side with Scott on this one. It is beautiful.

@@Gnevnyj When he said “Proton” i said “Wha??”

Starship.

If it wobbles more struts right?

@@samuraidriver4x4 not with Kerbal Joint Reinforcement

@Had Tobe what does that even mean? How can something be semi-flat? Are you just being facetious about it being an oblate spheroid? Would semi-flat be like a cylinder?

@Had Tobe oh hey had Tobe how's it going

@@hydrochloricacid2146 it'ss just spamming the comments, pay the drone no mind

It's funny...because it's true.

I rate this comment highly

Alternatively, engineers who were told to design the rockets and make them look good, and they took umbridge at having to waste time on "pointless aesthetics" so they made their design look as ugly as possible as a "fuck you" to management.

"Honey, have you seen my plaid pants?" "The beige ones?" "No, green."

Of all the rocket tasks, that's probably the easiest part.

I thought all engineers were Aesthetically challenged. (As an EE I can assure you i can't art)

Yeah I was thinking that is a pretty easy task

It's on it's way to backwards-Earth.

Prostate massager.

This is correct, and that’s why we love it.

@@ScottyAlmondjoy Which one are you replying to? Actually, no. I don't want to know.

@Had Tobe you are semi-flat

You know you can pause it, right? And even watch it a second, third, and twentieth time? ;-)

@@Tjalve70 At first I thought you mean pausing a rocket that is in flight.

0:24 Thats where you should be taking notes

Tjalve As an aerospace engineering student, what is rewatching? I only know how to watch at 1.25x

Also me a KSP player: frantically takes notes...

Gee Bee, anyone?

Neither have I, and honestly most are actually rather elegant in my eyes

"possibly because the stage separation failed....or because it lost the will to live" got me pretty hard as well.

I've heard this one but it was about bumblebees 😂😂

I always heard, "Twenty-thousand moving parts that fly in formation, by beating the air into submission."

@@Jayberisk3793 what about 90 percent of sikorskys?

My view of the Proton first stage - a slightly uglier version of the Saturn I/ Saturn IB first stage...

@@KnightRanger38 I mean, that pretty much is the Proton. The little brother of a moon rocket.

@Had Tobe What can space rocketry possibly mean to brain-dead flat-earthers?

Why did Proton has ugly fairings looking like they were made from insulation or recycled clothes?

Size queen identified

Yes

Goodness me, I just searched the Sea Dragon on Google, and man! That thing is ugly.

And It's a frinkin monstrosity ugly

Saw it fly today. It might look awkward going up, but it looked damn smooth coming down.

Should have been added as an honorable mention at the very least

He'd probably get demonitized for showing it

@@nitehawk86 yes because it doesn't get to orbit

Was going to say it. I thought I was the only one that thought that New Shepard is kinda ugly, and with a "funny" shape if you know what I mean...

Same literally exactly the same

CHRIS AND RYLAN THE LONG LOST TWINS Coming to Netflix on March 16, 2022

that rocket is a crime against my optical receptors...

No words but fantastic for this comment

There is definitely the beginnings of a limerick there.

@Had Tobe Ok how does the earth orbiting the sun working in a way that half the world can be in darkness while the other side has light and for that matter how can the moon be seen from basically anywhere and also how do you explain hundreds of thousands of hundred thousands of pictures of the earth having a obvious curvature also how would people be able to circumnavigate the world. Or how gravity works. OR HOW IT CAN MAKE SENSE TO A HUMAN BEING THAT EARTH IS FLAT WHILE ALL OTHER PLANETS AREN’T. OR HOW NO NASA EMPLOYEE WOULD HAVE COME OUT AND SPOKEN ABOUT HOW EVERYONE HAS BEEN LIED TO FOR CENTURIES. Jesus Christ we humans are doomed if people like you really exist

@Had Tobe I never said I was right about the earth being round, I just asked for evidence about how anything that we know would work. Also so you are going to wait like a year or two and spend the millions of dollars that it’s probably gonna take to buy a starship ticket, just to find out that you ARE WRONG?

Or "A helicopter is a collection paf parts desperately trying to get away from each other"

@@milantrcka121 Just keep the "Jesus Nut" tight, you'll be ok. The Bell 47 is beautiful and the most helicoptery helicopter. Just sitting on a bench out in mid air, no doors. You can feel yourself hanging from that rotor.

I'm pretty certain of this but its been years since I read this book, so don't hold me to it. In the introduction (by Neil Armstrong) to the book "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon" there's a story about each author (Shepard & Slayton). The one about Slayton was from his test pilot days. I pretty sure it was the Republic F-105 Thunderchief and Deke nearly lost one in a spin test. He was told to bail out but didn't because he still had a lot of altitude. He worked the problem and eventually recovered the plane. After it landed and after he got out the ground crew opened up the bomb bad doors and they said 1000's of rivets and other small bits of metal just fell on the ground. You know that scene in the Blues Brothers when they get out of the car and it just falls apart - yup like that. So the Chinook's not the only case of bits of metal flying in close formation.

Yeah my pa used to call it the "shit-hook" because the maintenance cost was ridiculous

@@blackace7782 One of the other jokes fixed wing guys have about choppers. _There's 2 kinds of chopper - ridiculously expensive and idiotically expensive._

it's designed to take out the enemy's airfields - it lands, taxies to the nearest hanger, and then explodes inside to catch the enemy off guard.

@@robbiejames1540 At the Officer's Club?

Some say it is modeled after Jeff Bezos himself.

@@konyp1 hmm

Liberty Bell-End 7

*S P A C E SCHLONG*

@@bonbin6053 is not in space for schlong!

*IRON SKY* has entered the chat

OUR ROCKETS

20 years, straight to gulag!

What? No Gulag?

No, sentenced to a Gulag labor camp to make Proton rockets.

"In Soviet Russia, Rocket Fires YOU!" [please tell me I'm not so old that no one gets a Yakov Smirnoff reference]

Scott said it looked like someone abused Shuttle leftovers to lift Apollo leftovers into space, or something like that. I think it looks like a mishmash of American space history trying to yeet half a Hindenburg straight into the sun. 09:33

I would not want to meet the ear that would require one that size...

Thor-Able is oftentimes referred to as the "cue tip rocket".

It looks like a g-spot vibrator with D-cell batteries for extra endurance...

The particular pose is not provocative.....except in front of an Atlas Able.

due to its launch success (aka failure) record it was aptly nick-named the "Atlas-Unable"!! ;D

At least Orion on a F9 would kind of make sense...

CURSED

9:10 - 9:42 It's like the SLS on heavy duty steroids.

NO GOD, NO GOD PLEASE NO, NO! NO! NOOOOO!

How about mounting a Shuttle onto of a Starship super heavy booster? Lol

But he didn't mention the New Shepard Rocket by Blue Origin.

So Pinochet.. free low earth transits for commies?

Jupiter III is Untitled Space Craft lite

You just won ksp

@@michaelfoye1135 Yes! But Pinochet’s Commie Control co. is on hiatus due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we are scheduled for a reopening in March 2021

@@pinochet3317 We cannot allow the Chinese Communist Party Virus to stop us.

I think the Ariane looks interesting the same way the pompidou centre looks interesting.. There is such a thing as 'ínterestingly ugly'

Ariane: the one that shits the bed every time

@Had Tobe WTF have you been smoking?

@@fl00fydragon just report him for spam. Poor misguided soul (or troll, don't really care) replies to every comment on this video with the same copy-paste bs

@@fl00fydragon what ever it is,... apparently not enough of it!! :D

Huh it looks Nice to me

@@sumreensultana1860 Same

Me too, but not because of the aesthetics...

Orange rocket bad.

dude

hah! xD

Dr Evil called, he wants his rocket back

A member of the "Mile High Club"

It need two spherical external tanks at the bottom.

Girthy!

What would it mean? My brain is way too smooth to comprehend

I was ROTFLMAO when I heard him say that. Now I sincerely hope you're still around to read this reply, josh.

Same.

Shlong with long balls

I believe the V-2 flew using ethanol derived from potatoes.

It was to test the tanks. Couldn't use real fuel or oxidiser as hypergolics are really nasty. Too cold to use water because of risk of it freezing. Solution, use industrial quantities of vodka!

@@owensmith7530 Brilliant Russians they were

V-2 engineers frequently got drunk on the V-2's 75% ethanol. Not very often people get drunk from drinking rocket fuel. But hey, when you need a drink, you need a drink.

"I always wondered where they got the name for SKYY vodka..." No guessing as to how they drained the tanks, nor how long it took. 😉

With no visible rocket exhaust, it looks like a self levitating giant lipstick. So cool.

The Best looking rocket ever :)

A national embarrassment spared...

Black Arrow wasn't so bad though. Mostly just the paint scheme was awful.

I've never been in a saxaphone shop.

@@hoghogwild took my line,........ thanks a bunch!! :D LOL

I was a bit surprised at that too. I think it looks pretty cool.

Yes the Proton Looks Cool.But yes,Everyone has their own Reasons.

I mean, at least they worked really well

For the first shuttle flight they painted the external tank white. They stopped doing that to save weight.

They killed more crew than any other space vehicle... I mean, it's a kind of high score?

@@LolTollhurst It's only because it holds the highest number of people in a crew, capsules only hold 3 people while the space shuttle can have a crew of 7 people

@@theseductivepotato7459 if you mean, almost evey launch had or made problems such as dropping foam into the wing, engines not working, thermal protection tiles falling, SRB's heating a Hydrogen tank, no escape tower (that would have saved the challenger). And so on and on.....

No, the rotorsport cavalon is the most beautiful aircraft since the fairy rotordyne.

You shoudl see my SSTO, even by ksp standars players wonder how the f it even lift off the ground.

Why doesn't Goddard have a character in KSP?

Right? I think it's gorgeous! It's that rough industrial look

Yeah I can't really get behind that one. It looks absolutely beautiful especially at liftoff with those mach-diamonds

agreed!

i think the earlier version of the proton head look weird as if it's missing plating....tho i guess the tip should be more thermally insulated so i guess it could warranted to look different.

Yup, I've always found proton launches some of the prettiest out there! I actually find the original R-7 design much uglier due to how squat it was. The Soyuz at least makes up for that though nowadays by having tall slender upper stages

Resistance is futile... But it's still a cob ;)

Is that how it is In England?

@@Shadow_The_Pad I live in Ireland, for us it's like saying Physic instead of Physics. Or mathematic. Just wrong. To be fair though, Scott's lived in the US for quite a while, he's put up a good fight.

I heard he walks on sidewalks too and eats biscuits for breakfast. Love you anyway Mr Manley :)

Oh no. My English self is wanting to cry. Not really but yes.

I agree; now go to your local museum of "modern art" for confirmation, folks!! LOL :D

@@ronschlorff7089 I see your point. 😂

when Sergey Korolyov makes them

@@kommandantgalileo I wonder what he and Werner would think of Starship? Art Deco? ;D

@@ronschlorff7089 He will be Proud because of the capability and the use for it.

"a snake". Scottish accent.

RIGHT

Proton has redefined aesthetics

Equivalent to the Saturn-1b: take the tankage you already have and make something bigger.

Agree...

Especially when it's not upside down.