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NASA astronaut Nicole Stott returns to examine more scenes depicting space from movies and television. Do space stations really have onboard AI like in “2001: A Space Odyssey?” Do blackout periods like the one shown in “Apollo 13” really happen on spaceflights? Would a robot like WALL-E survive in space? Also, check out the free…

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NASA astronaut Nicole Stott returns to examine more scenes depicting space from movies and television. Do space stations really have onboard AI like in “2001: A Space Odyssey?” Do blackout periods like the one shown in “Apollo 13” really happen on spaceflights? Would a robot like WALL-E survive in space?

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  1. Random Tveit

    April 23, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    I agree with the comments about Wallace and Gromit A grand day out, but you can clearly see that they made the outer shell of the craft out of metal.
    Yes, they used wood on the inside, but even the clip of Gromit working on it shows the metal plates.
    ( 13:22 / 13:23 )

  2. IggyGaming

    April 24, 2020 at 6:00 am

    Wall-E 17:18

  3. Eidlones

    April 24, 2020 at 10:38 am

    I wish they wouldn’t show her the exact same scenes they showed her last time.

  4. Mark Tees

    April 24, 2020 at 11:37 am

    I just came here because I saw wall-E😗😗

  5. menotu 000

    April 24, 2020 at 11:37 am

    I don’t think she actually watched these movies. I think she was just given specific scenes entirely out of context to review. It makes no sense whatsoever to review scenes in that manner. Of course without context all the scenes are entirely outside the realm of reality. Duh.

  6. dustboxednorth

    April 24, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    This is just “Ackshually: The Internet Series”

  7. Elementus

    April 24, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    wasn’t a lot of this already in the part 1 video?

  8. J Cortese

    April 25, 2020 at 12:18 am

    7:34 *chuckles in cold blood* “I love that scene.” I love her. 🙂

  9. Simeon Evans

    April 25, 2020 at 2:57 am

    imagine being as much as a boss as her…. unreal

  10. उत्पल गौतम

    April 25, 2020 at 8:59 am

    Real psychologist breaks down Joker movie please.

  11. Susan Sharp

    April 25, 2020 at 10:02 am

    “Kickin a homerun” I adore you, Nicole Stott!!!!!!!!!

  12. D K

    April 25, 2020 at 11:19 am

    movie: “God doesn’t build in straight lines”
    lady astronaut: “There’s a lot of curves in the nature if you notice…”
    flat-earther: *stroke*

  13. Aty S. Behsam

    April 25, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    Her face when she sees Wall-E is me every time I see Wall-E

  14. Devin Williams

    April 26, 2020 at 12:21 am

    Katya would be happy to see contact

  15. Hailey Rankel

    April 26, 2020 at 5:54 am

    when are yall gonna review space camp, yes its an actual movie

  16. GregInHouston2

    April 26, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    Wall-E. The problem isn’t that the satellites wouldn’t be bunched up like that; they would not still be in orbit. Artificial satellites will not be able to maintain orbit for hundreds of years. They will run out of the onboard reactant necessary to maintain their orbit and then their orbit will start to decay as solar winds negatively affect them. Eventually, they will hit the atmosphere and then it is game over.

  17. Smalls709

    April 26, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    Can we get Exorcist reviews exorcism scenes?

  18. O R G 8

    April 27, 2020 at 3:30 am

    literally here to see WALL-E… it only lasted like 20 seconds

  19. Larotian

    April 27, 2020 at 5:11 am

    LMAO “NASA “

  20. Billy Bob John

    April 27, 2020 at 6:15 am

    H comes before I, A comes before B and L comes before M…thus HAL before IBM.

  21. Cdeeg1998

    April 27, 2020 at 7:15 am

    You asked her about the A.I. in 2001: A Space Odyssey twice in two different videos……………………………….Wow.

  22. Charlie C 123

    April 27, 2020 at 2:07 pm

    Do like a proper special op or something and have them react to rainbow six siege gameplay
    !!!

  23. DarkCalibur

    April 27, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    wall E at 17:18

  24. Marta Womack

    April 27, 2020 at 10:56 pm

    I have to admire the courage it would take to blast into space. I remember the first astronauts who went up. I was pretty young then. In later years, I lived in South Florida where they shot a lot of them up into space. I could walk outside my house and see them after take off. Feel them, too! The ground shakes and you can feel the vibrations all the way through your entire body. Intense! Pretty cool.

  25. Blue Wolfs

    April 28, 2020 at 5:35 am

    Me just me: why youtube keep moving the comments?

  26. Justin Keith

    April 29, 2020 at 3:15 am

    Kicking a homerun! YAY!

  27. Domika KasumiK

    April 29, 2020 at 2:10 pm

    The Space Cowboys and 2001: Space Odyssey parts were the same as in the first video

  28. CreepyTheClown

    April 29, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    “Kicking the homerun” 😂

  29. yos2481

    April 29, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    Can we get her to react to sci fi tv series? I want her to react to The Expanse!

  30. Emerald

    April 30, 2020 at 4:36 am

    Ouch. Those dings at the beginning are WAY too loud. Lots of people have sensory hyperacusis, please be considerate with equalization.

  31. Mittens FastPaw

    April 30, 2020 at 6:01 am

    Space would be nice to see but I never will. So neat facts but hard to care about something a majority of us will never see. Took us too long.

  32. Vedran Brnjetic

    April 30, 2020 at 7:15 am

    About Wall-E and the bunched up satellites. It’s primarily a reference to the Kessler syndrome (or effect if you prefer), and secondly, Wall-E is a junkyard robot so it’s a slight nod to that as well.

  33. Vedran Brnjetic

    April 30, 2020 at 7:21 am

    In Sunshine. I don’t know how close did they get to the Sun, but wouldn’t they have a much stronger influence of Sun’s gravity?

    • fredener1

      May 1, 2020 at 10:06 pm

      That can be countered by speed – Mercury as example orbits with a speed of 47.362 km/s around the sun (1 rotation is about 88 Days) compared to the 29.78 km/s Earth moves. It just takes more speed to counter the gravity the closer you are to the source of it

    • Vedran Brnjetic

      May 1, 2020 at 10:13 pm

      @fredener1 I meant in terms of the crew appearing to float around ship as in weightless environment.

      Or is the weightlessness a result of constant falling in the orbit?

    • fredener1

      May 2, 2020 at 8:49 am

      @Vedran Brnjetic The weightlessness is the result of the centrifugal force. When there’s a balance between that and gravity they counter each other. Without enough speed satellites, shuttles or the ISS would fall to earth as example. They just need to go fast enough to create a centrifugal force that equals the gravity force of the sun’s orbit they operate in.

  34. Luqs Lycan

    April 30, 2020 at 9:49 am

    So.. No Wall-E.. You liar

  35. Adwitiya Dixit

    April 30, 2020 at 3:45 pm

    Not enough pauses. Could’ve used more pauses. Too smooth of a viewing experience for me. I prefer pauses over watching the video. Why play at all? I say let’s pause the video and enjoy the beautiful pixels.

  36. John Michael Tomakin

    May 1, 2020 at 12:58 am

    You have to watch the whole movie “contact” so that ull know the reason why she wasnt wearing any rediculous suits…. It was part of the givin instruction.

  37. Loretta Mowell

    May 1, 2020 at 1:34 am

    2:30 Are those orange suits waterproof? In case a rough sea landing cracked open the return craft? If they are waterproof, how long could they breathe for?

    • Judit Baráth

      May 2, 2020 at 7:48 am

      I think if they are good for space they have to be waterproof too.

  38. Jannis Tenbrink

    May 1, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    Wait, wasn’t the clip of 2001 in the episode 16 already? The outro is exactly the same. And that Space Cowboys scene was shown in the first one too

  39. Canadian Wolf151

    May 2, 2020 at 4:50 am

    If an asteroid came towards earth at least I would die as the universe wanted and Intended to start over

  40. Wasabi Kemosabe

    May 2, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    5:17 – 5:23 Given that its a Michael Bay movie, I’m not surprised.

  41. Kenneth Williams

    May 2, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    Love how Wall-E is one of the movies studied.

  42. burningphoenix36

    May 3, 2020 at 2:09 am

    The 2001 a space odyssey was shown in the first one! And the space cowboy one.

  43. Jesus Alfaro

    May 3, 2020 at 6:01 am

    She is so smart.

  44. Irish Eyes

    May 3, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    How do you watch _Wallace & Gromit_ without smiling?

  45. Vapezter OJ

    May 3, 2020 at 11:36 pm

    Where tf is Wall-E at?

  46. Sana Alhamidi

    May 4, 2020 at 11:08 am

    Such an icon

  47. AyeNash

    May 4, 2020 at 5:19 pm

    Astronauts are cool af

  48. John Phelan

    May 4, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    Hey Joey….quit kicking those homeruns…you’ll end up like your mother

  49. John Phelan

    May 4, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    watch her facial expression as Wallace and grommet are building that spaceship…that kind of determined focus is exactly how you get to be in her position in the Nasa space program.

  50. Gerald go

    May 5, 2020 at 2:54 am

    Where you hiding the aliens XD

  51. Nathan Happy Best

    May 5, 2020 at 2:35 pm

    iorn ammro

  52. Bro_lansky

    May 6, 2020 at 7:00 am

    16:18

  53. Lee R

    May 6, 2020 at 3:20 pm

    kickin a homerun. sportsball.

  54. Anthon Hax

    May 6, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    what a lovely interview, I’ve learned a lot!

  55. Alamodem

    May 8, 2020 at 4:12 am

    Pausing your guests? Keep it up. I won’t subscribe . Your guests are the reason these tubes are so enjoyable. Who doesn’t want to see the reaction on there faces while watching.

  56. Jeynarl

    May 8, 2020 at 3:02 pm

    18:20 fun fact: Sputnik 1 only lasted for 3 weeks before falling out of orbit and burning up

  57. Wayne Shilcock

    May 9, 2020 at 5:35 am

    When designing anything, especially space, unless it’s a robot you are designing with a disaster in mind, it sounds fatalistic but safety is everything when humans and space exploration is involved.

    • Lady Shikibu

      May 11, 2020 at 6:24 am

      Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

    • Wayne Shilcock

      May 11, 2020 at 7:44 am

      @Lady Shikibu 100% 😁

  58. juandenz2008

    May 10, 2020 at 2:28 am

    She’s a great guest ! I hope they get her back for more breakdowns.

  59. torma99

    May 10, 2020 at 8:08 am

    I think this is the best “break down” video. Nicole is just such a great person to watch and listen.

  60. RetroGamer 3082

    May 10, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    i am a simple man, i see wall-e i click

  61. Darkwolfpocco

    May 10, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    Just so you know the movie version of The Martian and the books ending are slightly different.

  62. Darkwolfpocco

    May 10, 2020 at 11:26 pm

    TIL NASA burns trash in the earths atmosphere. So that’s a thing I didn’t know.

  63. roguedogx

    May 11, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    12:05 so dead space’s 2-ish minutes is completely bs.

  64. soopahsoopah

    May 12, 2020 at 6:39 am

    OMG how could you show 2001 and NOT show the very next scene where Bowman launches out of the pod and into the airlock without a helmet?? FAIL! That is one of the all-time classic scenes in sci-fi movies that is done right! FAIL FAIL FAIL!

  65. burns0100

    May 12, 2020 at 11:25 am

    I love it when movies aren’t too far off, specially future ones because it really means maybe one day we could reach that level. I won’t be alive considering the speed we are evolving at but it seems we are heading in that direction though for proper space travel.

  66. comrade zed

    May 13, 2020 at 1:56 pm

    I feel like the ONLY reason someone will become a astronaut is just so they can roll up in a ball and fly around like she did it’s just peak human joy

  67. Legendary Lego Dude

    May 13, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    they are not in quarintine

  68. Odd

    May 14, 2020 at 7:25 am

    Wallace and Gromit didn’t build a wooden rocket. They weld it together, and the moon robot even knocks against it, making a metallic sound at some point during the short. Though I’m still glad she went through with the analysis by giving the scene the benefit of the doubt, I still don’t know who told who that they built a wooden rocket.

  69. Saint matthias

    May 14, 2020 at 9:48 am

    Well in the video with Jodie foster, she technically didn’t leave earth. Her journey took her beyond the realm of the physical.

  70. Tashombii The king

    May 14, 2020 at 1:55 pm

    Wow kicking the homerun

  71. The Breadstick Guy

    May 15, 2020 at 3:14 pm

    RCS is lame. Give me more reaction wheels.

  72. Star Pixel

    May 15, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    i wonder how oxygen smells…

  73. Brent Willis

    May 16, 2020 at 7:12 am

    i heard “kicking the homerun” and i had to stop watching because i died laughing…. hahahaha… must be a game that they play on the space shuttle

  74. JC Swizzy

    May 16, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    She’s clearly charming, intelligent, etc. but the fact that she claps at the end while everyone on set claps for her contribution in this video shows her true character and what a great person she is 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

  75. l was wrong about everyhting

    May 17, 2020 at 5:49 am

    I think this lady knows a lot more about many things and shes not allowed to discuss it

  76. boeyboy 100

    May 17, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    “Theres Joey kicking the homerun.” Lol

  77. TheFatFebruary

    May 18, 2020 at 5:39 pm

    6:21 what happened there

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