Space Pizza & Dead Spacecraft - Deep Space Questions Episode 16

My Regularish slot whereby I answer questions from viewers and supporters over at my Patreon, this week we have a diverse selection of questions about dead spacecraft, making pizza in space and mistakes in movies.

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[keenanmcbreen]

Combine the pizza question and the mining question, have the first thing we make out of space rock be a pizza stone.

[wesc]

The reverse calzone is one of the greatest culinary theories ever conceived. I hope to live to a day when we see this come to fruition.

[Leo-gkue]

As an Italian I'm sure that our space agency was created to answer this fundamental questions about space pizzas

[grayson]

The moon dust question reminds me of the part in Andy Weir's Artemis where Jazz blows up aluminium harvesters and fragments come down in total silence all around her at the same speed they left the explosion.

[Jatheus]

Oh my gosh! I grew up on pizzas made on tortillas! I always thought they were great, because they are easy, and everyone can pick their own toppings, and they are quick too... then... I made them for my wife... and she said that they taste like poverty... hahaha! So... I am totally vindicated by this video. Thank you! :-D

[stefanklass]

We need a Pizza centrifuge. Artificial gravity just for pizza!

[detritus]

The SOHO solar observatory was rescued after a loss of orientation event. IIRC, using the timing of the directional antenna carrier, the engineers were able to determine its orientation, send commands to slow the spin, and return it to service,

[isaacplaysbass]

I propose a space-pizza oven system as a variation on a forced convection air fryer concept; the hot air cooks the pizza whilst the air flow itself push the pizza against a grating to keep it in place, the air is then cycled back around past the heating element and around again. Meanwhile a refillable induction "crucible" similar to that of some vapouriser products would be loaded with a suitable wood shavings cartridge, which would heat up (via induction) until the wood shavings yield aromatic wood smoke compounds for added flavouring.

[badAim]

In 50 years, somewhere in space:
Asteroid miner No1 to Asteroid miner No2: hey bro, wanna go with me for Manley's pizza this evening??

[sheldoninexile]

I loved the part about pizza, the reverse calzone sounds great. What do you think about a dyson pizza. A sphere of dough with toppings on the inside cooked by a heat source in the center.

[Trek]

There are a few "zombie" sats that have come back to life such as LES-1, LES-9 and AMSAT-OSCAR 7.

AMSAT-OSCAR 7 in fact, is in daily use by enthusiasts and was actually used by the Fighting Solidarity in Poland during the Polish uprising to communicate with other cells/groups in 1982

[rockets]

Thoroughly enjoyed the pizza question and discussion. Things like this get people excited about the possibilities of our future in space who may otherwise think about space as being reserved for a select few as in our past.

[kitnaylor]

With regards to GPS proposals in space, there's ESA's "Moonlight" initiative to put GPS and other communications around the Moon.
A completely different alternative, NASA has done quite a bit of research into using Pulsars as navigation beacons in its SEXTANT programme, and this is probably going to be demo'd on Artemis.

[skysurferuk]

"Don't mention the war!"... had me smiling. Do any non Brits get that? 🤠

[tkdr]

im interested in this o'neill pizza cylinder tech

[mytube]

A "SSPS" satellite wouldn't have to be that power intensive. On interplanetary journeys, you likely don't need second-to-second accuracy. A position update every few minutes (or even hours) or so would probably be more than good enough. Given that, you could have a constellation of satellites broadcasting their time signals in short bursts in different, small sectors of the "sky". The sectors would have to overlap often enough for enough satellites so that any desired position in the solar system would get signals from the required number of satellites simultaneously within the update time interval. This could either be a designed pattern, or a somewhat random pattern. By limiting the broadcast to a small sector at any given moment, you can up the gain and reduce the power required substantially, probably by several orders of magnitude if done right. You could further improve this if you limit the positioning to a relatively flat disc-shaped volume of the solar system, close to the rotational plane. Then most of the "verticality" of the transmissions could be eliminated.

[happyhome]

Pizza party on the ISS - was a new (and wonderful) one on me. THANK YOU !

[sparky]

I use tortillas for pizza all the time, when I'm on Earth. It works great & is much less expensive than those pre-made pizza crusts. It makes a great pseudo-New York style thin crust. Cook at 500F or above. Pizza in 3.5 to 6 minutes.

[zapfanzapfan]

"Imagine a spherical pizza"... that is the new archetypical physicist statement to start with 🙂

[lanceferraro]

Scott. I love your channel for two resaons. One, because I am 71 and can't remember a time I wasn't crazy about rockets. Two, I lived on the banks of the Clyden near Innellen, for quite a time and love your accent, takes me back to wonderful memories.