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houston we have a countdown welcome to
watchmojo.com it’s installment we’re
counting down the five most interesting
and surprising things that we learn
about NASA the USA’s National
Aeronautics and Space Administration I’d
like to present the new generation of
NASA astronaut the average American
number five they don’t pay their petty
fines what do you own space no NASA des
NASA Rocca people perhaps you’ve heard
of them NASA may be out of this world
but it isn’t above the law and it has a
way weirder than average history of rule
breaking in 1979 when the aborted Skylab
mission re-entered the Earth’s
atmosphere scattering debris in Western
Australia NASA was issued a ticket for
littering by the Shire of esperance fine
was only paid up in 2009 after a u.s.
radio DJ source donations from his
listeners the agency has a parking
ticket to its name too after Gregory W
Nimitz and his company orbital
development laid claim to asteroid 433
eros the precise location onto which
NASA landed it’s near shoemaker
spacecraft in 2001 I have unpaid parking
tickets the $20 fine was again unpaid
perhaps the most incredible of NASA’s
brushes with the law came in 1997
however when it was sued by three men
from Yemen for trespassing on Mars the
men claimed the whole planet has been
passed down to them by their ancestors
they later started selling plots of it
for around $2 per square meter when NASA
landed its Pathfinder Rover to explore
the Red Planet it had effectively
invaded it according to the Yemenis case
the claim was never taken especially
seriously number four NASA has less
funding than most think for now
according to polls the majority of
Americans believe that huge amounts of
the u.s. budget are given to NASA with
some reports claiming that the average
person thinks 20% of the country
spending goes its way well our object
collision budgets a million dollars that
allows us to track about 3% of the sky
and that in your part sir but it’s a
big-ass sky according to official
figures however the US government spent
most on space travel in the mid-60s with
a four point four one percent of budget
high point in 1966
that number has been below 1% since the
70s and recently has been around half a
percent
regardless evidence suggests that NASA
could prove a very sound investment in
the long term asteroid and Moon mining
is set to be a sensationally lucrative
venture as business pioneers look to the
skies for valuable minerals which are
abundant in space but rare on earth
there are plans to build platinum mines
on the moon in particular some experts
say that space mining could be a reality
by 2025
remember the asteroid 433 eros its
quote-unquote owners estimate the
Platinum found on it to be worth about
half a quintillion dollars what was once
one small step for man could soon become
one giant paycheck for mankind Oh
number three they are prolific inventors
space Bach love it NASA’s super
scientific team is responsible for more
than just rocket ships countless
everyday inventions our result of its
work home insulation improved as NASA
needed to keep astronauts safe during
dramatic temperature changes on the
Apollo missions water filter systems
were developed to prevent sickness and
bacteria spread in space freeze-dried
food was developed in partnership with
Nestle to bolster food stocks for
long-haul missions and through various
experiments aiming to keep unmanned
flights airborne for long as possible
NASA made huge advances in solar power
technology and if all that doesn’t
impress we’ve saved the best for last
Lonnie G Johnson aka the inventor of the
Super Soaker
was once a NASA engineer one thing NASA
didn’t invent the space pen writes
upside down they use this in space an
urban legend has it that they spent
millions on creating them while the
Soviets simply used a pencil NASA
actually used pencils too until the
pressurized space ready pen was invented
by Paul Fisher of Fisher Space Pen Co
that’s some good pen writes upside down
number two astronaut training involves
brains brawn and maybe Michael Bay there
is no doubt that astronaut training is
an incredibly difficult experience an
astronaut training sucks complete ass
literally the NASA candidate program is
divided into three main sections basic
advanced and in
tensive training and takes up to two
years to complete in that time would be
astronauts receive various levels of
medical mechanical and flight training
language courses shuttle simulation
tasks fitness tests gravity training and
mission specific briefings from
application to launch pad there are
massive amounts of work required
training at NASA is a lot of heavy
textbooks and even heavier exercise
routines but there are some lighter
moments
this is a hard claim to verify but
reportedly new managers and recruits are
asked to watch the 1998 Bruce Willis
blockbuster Armageddon and list as many
scientific inaccuracies as they can
which is a Herculean task for most
Michael Bay movies he said we did a bad
job of putting it together no I said you
did a piss-poor job of putting it
together the record reportedly stands at
168 this was first reported back in 2007
however I imagine that now they’re
watching interstellar or gravity number
one the warp drive could become reality
traveling through hyperspace in like
Dustin crops boy interstellar travel is
arguably mankind’s most sought-after
scientific breakthrough and while we
have yet to achieve warp drive and NASA
is often quick to downplay any progress
made it’s not for the want of trying
news TV parking brake on news of initial
tests on a revolutionary warp drive
engine broke in April 2015 after a team
at Johnson Space Center generated a
small amount of thrust using the M drive
a British invention which bounces
microwaves around a chamber to produce
energy there are theories that the
method could inspire fuel free travel
faster than the speed of light thereby
defying Einstein’s theory of relativity
but the technology is still in very
early development
NASA is part of the 100 year starship
venture with the US Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency which was set
up in 2010 with faster than light travel
as its end goal while Mars remains a
primary mission NASA is already looking
well beyond the red planet whether
current generations will live to see
successful intergalactic gallivanting
remains to be seen but our fingers are
well and truly crossed so what do you
think will we see interstellar travel or
space mining in our lifetimes
for more Space Pen toptenz and Soviet
pencil top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
maybe we should finally tell them a big
secret that all the chimps we send into
space came back super intelligent no I
don’t think we’ll be telling them that
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houston we have a countdown welcome to
watchmojo.com it’s installment we’re
counting down the five most interesting
and surprising things that we learn
about NASA the USA’s National
Aeronautics and Space Administration I’d
like to present the new generation of
NASA astronaut the average American
number five they don’t pay their petty
fines what do you own space no NASA des
NASA Rocca people perhaps you’ve heard
of them NASA may be out of this world
but it isn’t above the law and it has a
way weirder than average history of rule
breaking in 1979 when the aborted Skylab
mission re-entered the Earth’s
atmosphere scattering debris in Western
Australia NASA was issued a ticket for
littering by the Shire of esperance fine
was only paid up in 2009 after a u.s.
radio DJ source donations from his
listeners the agency has a parking
ticket to its name too after Gregory W
Nimitz and his company orbital
development laid claim to asteroid 433
eros the precise location onto which
NASA landed it’s near shoemaker
spacecraft in 2001 I have unpaid parking
tickets the $20 fine was again unpaid
perhaps the most incredible of NASA’s
brushes with the law came in 1997
however when it was sued by three men
from Yemen for trespassing on Mars the
men claimed the whole planet has been
passed down to them by their ancestors
they later started selling plots of it
for around $2 per square meter when NASA
landed its Pathfinder Rover to explore
the Red Planet it had effectively
invaded it according to the Yemenis case
the claim was never taken especially
seriously number four NASA has less
funding than most think for now
according to polls the majority of
Americans believe that huge amounts of
the u.s. budget are given to NASA with
some reports claiming that the average
person thinks 20% of the country
spending goes its way well our object
collision budgets a million dollars that
allows us to track about 3% of the sky
and that in your part sir but it’s a
big-ass sky according to official
figures however the US government spent
most on space travel in the mid-60s with
a four point four one percent of budget
high point in 1966
that number has been below 1% since the
70s and recently has been around half a
percent
regardless evidence suggests that NASA
could prove a very sound investment in
the long term asteroid and Moon mining
is set to be a sensationally lucrative
venture as business pioneers look to the
skies for valuable minerals which are
abundant in space but rare on earth
there are plans to build platinum mines
on the moon in particular some experts
say that space mining could be a reality
by 2025
remember the asteroid 433 eros its
quote-unquote owners estimate the
Platinum found on it to be worth about
half a quintillion dollars what was once
one small step for man could soon become
one giant paycheck for mankind Oh
number three they are prolific inventors
space Bach love it NASA’s super
scientific team is responsible for more
than just rocket ships countless
everyday inventions our result of its
work home insulation improved as NASA
needed to keep astronauts safe during
dramatic temperature changes on the
Apollo missions water filter systems
were developed to prevent sickness and
bacteria spread in space freeze-dried
food was developed in partnership with
Nestle to bolster food stocks for
long-haul missions and through various
experiments aiming to keep unmanned
flights airborne for long as possible
NASA made huge advances in solar power
technology and if all that doesn’t
impress we’ve saved the best for last
Lonnie G Johnson aka the inventor of the
Super Soaker
was once a NASA engineer one thing NASA
didn’t invent the space pen writes
upside down they use this in space an
urban legend has it that they spent
millions on creating them while the
Soviets simply used a pencil NASA
actually used pencils too until the
pressurized space ready pen was invented
by Paul Fisher of Fisher Space Pen Co
that’s some good pen writes upside down
number two astronaut training involves
brains brawn and maybe Michael Bay there
is no doubt that astronaut training is
an incredibly difficult experience an
astronaut training sucks complete ass
literally the NASA candidate program is
divided into three main sections basic
advanced and in
tensive training and takes up to two
years to complete in that time would be
astronauts receive various levels of
medical mechanical and flight training
language courses shuttle simulation
tasks fitness tests gravity training and
mission specific briefings from
application to launch pad there are
massive amounts of work required
training at NASA is a lot of heavy
textbooks and even heavier exercise
routines but there are some lighter
moments
this is a hard claim to verify but
reportedly new managers and recruits are
asked to watch the 1998 Bruce Willis
blockbuster Armageddon and list as many
scientific inaccuracies as they can
which is a Herculean task for most
Michael Bay movies he said we did a bad
job of putting it together no I said you
did a piss-poor job of putting it
together the record reportedly stands at
168 this was first reported back in 2007
however I imagine that now they’re
watching interstellar or gravity number
one the warp drive could become reality
traveling through hyperspace in like
Dustin crops boy interstellar travel is
arguably mankind’s most sought-after
scientific breakthrough and while we
have yet to achieve warp drive and NASA
is often quick to downplay any progress
made it’s not for the want of trying
news TV parking brake on news of initial
tests on a revolutionary warp drive
engine broke in April 2015 after a team
at Johnson Space Center generated a
small amount of thrust using the M drive
a British invention which bounces
microwaves around a chamber to produce
energy there are theories that the
method could inspire fuel free travel
faster than the speed of light thereby
defying Einstein’s theory of relativity
but the technology is still in very
early development
NASA is part of the 100 year starship
venture with the US Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency which was set
up in 2010 with faster than light travel
as its end goal while Mars remains a
primary mission NASA is already looking
well beyond the red planet whether
current generations will live to see
successful intergalactic gallivanting
remains to be seen but our fingers are
well and truly crossed so what do you
think will we see interstellar travel or
space mining in our lifetimes
for more Space Pen toptenz and Soviet
pencil top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
maybe we should finally tell them a big
secret that all the chimps we send into
space came back super intelligent no I
don’t think we’ll be telling them that
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