Alexander the ok
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Engineer turned data scientist. I make videos about things that generally interest me. I do not use any generative AI to make any part of my videos. I use the following tools for video creation: OS: Linux Mint Editing: DaVinci Resolve Animation: Blender Audio: Audacity Image editing: GIMP PCB design: KiCad Script writing: OpenOffice Video processing: FFmpeg Coding: Python and R
A Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos
Alexander the ok · 634K views · 3 weeks ago
Polaroid: A Chemical, Mechanical and Optical Miracle
Alexander the ok · 91K views · 2 months ago
Polaris + Transit: When the US Navy Invented Satellite Navigation as a Side Project
Alexander the ok · 285K views · 2 years ago
the Vela Incident and Beyond: South Africa's Secret Nuclear Weapons
Alexander the ok · 430K views · 9 months ago
Rescuing a 1970s Spacecraft in just 3 Months: the ISEE-3 Reboot
Alexander the ok · 169K views · 1 month ago
Minuteman D-17b: The Desktop Computer Was Born in an ICBM
Alexander the ok · 298K views · 2 years ago
Project Excalibur: Nuclear Bomb Pumped X-Ray Laser
Alexander the ok · 191K views · 4 months ago
RD-701: A Rocket Engine Too Beautiful For This World
Alexander the ok · 262K views · 1 year ago
Historically Accurate Oceangate Titan Build (in 1:72 Scale)
Alexander the ok · 115K views · 3 months ago
The World's First Microprocessor: F-14 Central Air Data Computer
Alexander the ok · 1.3M views · 2 years ago
The Best Performing (and most dangerous) Chemical Rocket Ever Tested: Rocketdyne Tripropellant
Alexander the ok · 1.6M views · 2 years ago
PZL Mielec M-15: One of the Aircraft of All Time
Alexander the ok · 360K views · 1 year ago
An Engineering Fairy Tale: Cascade Failure at the Super Kamiokande
Alexander the ok · 1.2M views · 1 year ago
Pegasus to the Rescue: 'The Edge of Feasibility'
Alexander the ok · 152K views · 7 months ago
The Space Shuttle: A $200 Billion Lesson in Risk Management
Alexander the ok · 483K views · 2 years ago
Blue Streak: When the UK Built a Really Good Rocket. And Then Abandoned It. Again.
Alexander the ok · 81K views · 5 months ago
[REUPLOAD: IMPROVED AUDIO] Oceangate Titan: analysis of an insultingly predictable failure
Alexander the ok · 194K views · 2 years ago
OK fine. You can all have another Oceangate video. As a treat.
Alexander the ok · 791K views · 1 year ago
Violet Club: The Liz Truss of Atomic Bombs
Alexander the ok · 265K views · 7 months ago
Nuclear Fracking: Repeatedly Nuking Yourself for Commercial Reasons
Alexander the ok · 363K views · 1 year ago