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Published: July 30, 2019, 7:45 a.m.

Plagiarism \n\n

John Carpenter, this movie, and Escape from New York plagiarism. Metal Gear Solid also as an Escape ripoff. Running popular media through a \u201cHideo Kojima filter\u201d to see what comes out.

\n\n Space Shuttles \n\n

Side-mounting your spacecraft. Flying\xa0 a brick. Deorbiting and landing in the space shuttle\u2019s \u201corbiter.\u201d Wiggle-worm descent. Having only one chance because all of your fuel was spent getting out of orbit. Returning to shuttle-like designs with mag-lev mountain-ramps.

\n\n Inert gas asphyxiation \n\n

Nitrogen! Biologically inactive gas asphyxia vs potentially-toxic: CO2, CO, etc. Hypoxia.

\n\n Falling out of space \n\n

The slim odds of hitting the ISS when accidentally de-orbiting. Space is\u2026 small? Understanding what \u201corbit\u201d really means. HALO/HAHO jumping, Baumgartner\u2019s Stratos jump, and the incredible difficulty of jumping out of orbit ffs. Copyrighting all of the \u201ctotally radical\u201d stunts.

\n\n Breaking the sound barrier \n\n

The difference in the \u201cspeed of sound\u201d at different atmospheric densities. Terminal velocity at high altitudes. Air is more \u201csticky\u201d than you might expect. Why didn\u2019t Felix Baumgartner \u201cburn up\u201d on reentry?

\n\n Orbital decay \n\n

\u201cJumping down\u201d from a space station and how that is not sufficient for deorbiting. Megaconstellations and space junk.

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1. \n\t\t\t\tHow to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space by Bret Copeland: YouTube\n\t\t\t
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2. \n\t\t\t\tEscape From New York: ultralight aircraft, escape pods, and fusion reactors: Decipher SciFi\n\t\t\t
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