SpaceX Completes Crew Demo Mission To Space Station
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Yesterday SpaceX's crew capable Dragon 2 spacecraft completed its visit to the ISS, demonstrating the technology was sound and clearing one more hurdle on its way to becoming a commercial crew transportation provider.
If you want your own celestial buddy Earth - you'll have to wait until they come back into stock:
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The pictures with the plushie are incredibly adorable.
That expression on its face makes it look like it is in a perpetual state of having its mind blown.
IRBitterSoB like "WhoOaAhH!"
@Manuel Lorenzo I was literally about to comment the exact same thing but you beat me to it lol. I want one!!!
Anne McClain certainly thought so; she abducted "little earth" just before Dragon II hatch closure.
If only SpaceX licensed that, the royalties from sales would be a few $100,000
Can you make an Episode about Parachutes and how they open so nicely (Things KSP doesn't teach)?
How do they open so nicely? Reefer madness!
Seriously though, I'd also really like to see this.
@R L Well yes, right, but it's not exactly trivial to achieve this at supersonic speeds.
@R L Opening them isn't the hard part. Opening them slowly is that takes some engineering. I think a parachute episode would be great. Plenty of content there. Historical usage, design considerations (reefing, etc), failure modes, more extreme uses (supersonic, etc)
@R L drouges don't control the rate at which the main chutes unreef, that's an interesting engineering problem (a solved one, but that doesn't make it less interesting)
A photograph, of a screenshot, of a scan, of a print, of an email. That's how the savages are using their iPads.
couldn't it be a microsoft surface?
@@pequalsnpsquared2852 no no. It's an ipad bcz u can kinda see the home button.
@@Jaloman90 a scan is a digital file, so I presume you would press print screen.
That is standard compatibility mode for Apple products
The only good Apple device is a dead Apple device.
Thumbs up if you've already seen all the footage and know all about it, but you wanted to hear Scott Manley tell you anyway :)
Yeah, it's the accent. He could sell hot sauce in hell.
Twas more enjoyable than watching it live! Lol
i like your profile picture. nice choice of colors
I stayed up and watched live, even, but I have to have Scott's commentary!
Scott Manley. Making good stuff even better.
I wish they started calling him *Celestial Buddy* hehe
Ripley is a her, not a him. Have you never seen "Alien"?
@@craigcorson3036 I'm talking about the little globe plushie :)
@@pesterenan Oh, my mistake.
OMG how did nobody think of that before :D +1
Looks more like 'The Stig' from Top Gear.........
Little plush earth is sure to be the hottest toy sold in the Milky Way in 2019.
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite store on the Citadel!
@@mduckernz nice
itey are sold out just hours after the live feed.
No wonder, its space proven hardware (or should I say "soft"ware) now 😂
Yes, it has surpassed Milky Way and Mars Bars sales hours ago!!
It was stated in the live broadcast that any passengers/crew would not be leaving the capsule until is was bolted down in the 'nest' on the recovery ship. Whether this ends up as actual practice or not - who knows. But having an open large hatch on a seagoing vessel that has no maneuverability and dubious stability.... Add the use of the large side hatch instead of the small nose hatch.... Yeah, I'd wait.
Yeah, I think it was one of the Gemini missions that lost the capsule that way; better safe than sorry, and it's not like the astronauts care about waiting an extra hour or two after all the time they have to spend in it anyway. It's much more comfortable than Soyuz too.
I wonder if they'll build in some sort of in-flight entertainment they can use after splashdown, they have all those nice screens in front of them might as well let them watch a movie while they get winched aboard lol
@@MrMattumbo It's NASA. They'll be spending the time writing after action reports. And after-after action reports. And essays critiquing their performance for their performance reviews. Then checking the checklist to see what they're supposed to be doing at precisely 27.35 minutes after landing.
@@MrMattumbo Liberty Bell 7 (Mercury) was lost that way. It was recovered many years later. I got to see it at the Cosmosphere in Kansas when it was on tour.
@@MrMattumbo haha, watching movies - like Apollo 13..or play asteroids :D
"Capsule to recovery ship - look, guys, we're landed now; are we finally allowed to launch UA-cam on the flight control screens to pass the hours until you let us out...?"
That capsule went from Star Trek to Star Wars in half an hour
It went from data-driven rocket science to, "Isn't "little earth" adorable?" in about 10 secs.
So you're saying it went from plausibly realistic technology to childish fantasy?
@@archenema6792 I think it's about the fact that it went from being all shiny and new and ended up looking like it had been blasted by a TIE Fighter or two.
@@gajbooks Man, I love this channel, but the audience is stiffer than the guests at a mortuary. smh.
@@archenema6792 ikr
9,700 Funds Recovered!
@4:15 Audio recording from inside Ripley's helmet: "Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
The WB-57 is the most Kerbal aircraft I've seen.
I wonder if those SuperDraco thrusters could be or indeed have been programed to be used as a parachute failure backup? It would be better than nothing.
I'm sure it's possible. I was hoping they'd try to use them in conjunction for a soft landing on the pad, but parachutes wouldn't have the same precision
@@Xatzimi I think the argument for not using them is mostly around the hypergolic fuels and their products being really nasty.
@@mostevil1082 Indeed. Hypergolic fuels are extremely toxic. The space shuttle's Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) used hypergolic fuel. The OMS system is what began de-orbit procedures.
So every time a shuttle landed the astronauts had to stay on board for an hour or more while ground crews decontaminated any surfaces with trace fuel on them. You don't want to have hypergolic fuel in the water around a manned capsule, and don't want to have to wait so long to get a crew out in a water landing.
As of now, in the case of a parachute failure, they won't take over the landing.
However, they are there as a launch abort system, and will launch the dragon capsule in case of an abort and then use parachutes to land in water.
In the SpaceX broadcast the commentator mentioned the astronauts would exit the capsule after it was on the recovery vessel. The extra time wasn't an issue since it sounded like they could use that time to ensure the pressures had equalized.
Thanks for another wonderful video! You add so much context and such great explanations to these videos, it just makes everything 100x better. This is one of the best channels on UA-cam!
I love how astonished the Little Earth looks when looking out the window.
thats bcoz u r a child
Fantastic.
I set my VCR and all the belts and capstans fell out in the form of a fine powder.
...and then the tape fell out in the form of a fine powder.
So much for James Brown and the Tami show...
Scott I’m a co-op in FOD at Johnson I can tell you how the iPads are used if interested
I'm interested, shoot!
please tell us all
I'm guessing it's Remote Desktop.
Boot Camp? :)
please explain
Beautiful images! Thanks to all involved for giving us such a wonderful "front row seat"!!
That hopper looks just like the Enterprise being built out in the open next to corn fields in the 2009 movie.
I love all the velcro, It's how i imagined. What an environment to be in! And quite a view. o7
What do you mean Ripley can't move under her own power?! Is she okay?
@Akshay Gowrishankar yeah, I know, it was a bad joke.
Next flight, going from astronaut analog to analog astronaut
Yes, but she is exhausted after killing all the space monsters on ISS.
WHOOOOOOOSH!!!
@@thelonelyrogue3727 I'm not sure which is funnier, your joke, or the reply you got 😉
Really enjoyed watching the chutes open due to air density, there seems to be definite layers. Lovely gentle landing. Well done :)
Pls keep the floating earth in the credits! 😄
I loved how he gave us additional information on the observing aircraft, exactly what I was going to look up after he first mentioned the aircraft.
THEY USED ANOTHER BOWIE REFERENCE!!!!!! I love you SpaceX. Thank you for naming it Ziggy. Next should be Starman or Cracked Actor
Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders from Mars you know that the mannequin on the roadster was called starman, right?
I thought he was named 'Little Earthy'
Starman has already been used.
@@imabeapirate I've also heard "Sister Earth" but I think the official name actually is Ziggie.
Ziggies sweets are mine
I'm old enough that I remember the Mercury flights on TV. I still get a thrill watching things like this. Love your videos.
I wish I had stocks in that plush company 😋
It's already been counterfeited (by guess who), and someone's making a fortune selling them!!
@@ronschlorff7089 sounds like a very perfect buisness model, when label reading and place of origin as well as its creator, are not taken into account.
Myself, I read labels, and more times than not, have had to change my purchasing, when a entity like Nestle, has any sort of invested Intrest. I believe water is a human right, so I steer clear of corporations that believe otherwise
@@kylefenrick293 something got truncated in last of your response. but I got your point to a point!
Accelerated learning curve for the new member! Thanks for including the fun shots, Scott. Excellent as always.
If the Astronaut analogue was named "Ripley" then surely the plush planet toy should have been called "Jonsey"
Ginger cat with good survival instincts vs cuddlesome blue and green plush toy......Nope.
@@williamswenson5315
Do i need to sit you down and explain the basic mechanics of sarcasm ?
oh dear oh dear oh dear
No, the plush is the facehugger.
You would have to know them to explain them, wouldn't you?
You would have to understand the mechanics of sarcasm to explain them, wouldn't you? @@garywordsworth9302
Hey Scott, I haven't watched your videos in a while but I just remembered you recently. I'm so grateful that I've grew up watching you and playing KSP. You're a great you-tuber and I have great respect for you. Thank you for the countless hours of joy you brought into my life and I hope you reach 1 million subs soon :D
I always like to drift slowly into the atmosphere of sleep after I've "undocked from the hatch". Better than the traditional shared cigarette.
Fom the first man on the moon till now I love it all. Thanks Scott for sharing.
I wish Test Shot Starfish soundtrack kept used on NASA TV, its really interesting to see that (yeah seems SpaceX was in charge of live broadcasting this mission on NASA TV)
I ended up looking the soundtrack up, they're really god!
Yes, they are colluding!!
It’s so awesome it all went perfectly! I think we’re gonna see a crew on dragon 2 in June! It’s been so exciting seeing it all come together over the last few years
If the parachutes failed to open could they use the superdracos to slow down and instead?
Elon Musk said in the post- launch press conference that the crew dragon is "technically still capable of propulsive landing". So I suppose. I wish someone had asked him that.
All 4 fail to open? Even then backup chutes would probably be better.
@@theredstonehive Or just failed to deploy at all
maybe, but since they didn't make duzens of tests and attempts like the falcon 9, it would probably fail and it would crash into the ground
Possibly; if there's an app for that!
Plushie steals the show,. Cutest Space traveler ! Also what a great PR move on the part of SpaceX, they know how to add those little touches that make things special. Great job !
I was waiting for this!
Much appreciation for your content Scott!
3:12 So, something I've been wondering about the iPads... How do they change the screen orientation in microgravity?
Induced acceleration probebly (ie shaking)
@@profwaldone could probably just give the side you want to be the bottom a light smack
They have it locked in landscape
I think there's an accessibility shortcut to switch the orientation manually.
VCR? A lot of youngsters watching this have never used a TV, let alone a VCR. Thanks for the nostalgia, Scott.
It's saturday "clubbing" night and I hope to do some "docking" as well!
( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o) wait... hold up
Hope you find some to dock, which is hot like a heatshield :-)
I don't think you want to do docking. Which is where a circumsized man and an uncircumcised man place tips together then the uncircumcised man places the foreskin over the other man's shaft
The Virtual Scotsman lol that’s exactly what I thought when I saw the comment
The Spreader of Space Herpes
11:26 - 12:30 This is amazing. No matter how old and how "serious" people are, they'll always have urge to play!
they should have hidden a Facehugger prop in there 😉
...on a spring
Was the faceplate on the helmet ever opened? Maybe they did.
I can see why the Earth plushie is so popular. Its softness is such a stark contrast from all the hard industrial hardware everywhere and represents an outlet of friendliness that the crew would enjoy playing with. The crew are for the most part very friendly people and any catalyst to do friendly things is going to cause a reaction. :-)
Go Spacex!
SpaceX always manages to throw in some humour into what are still really dangerous missions.
and whimsy. A Tesla roadster to space? Whimsy.
the astronauts would stay in the capsule until it goes on the ship. Because they have to make sure the capsule is at the right pressure before opening the hatch.
Yes, that's what they said in the live stream while loading dragon on the ship.
@@orti1990 Ya I know I was just addressing what he said at 8:07
Damn!! I so loved those pictures at the end with Ziggy - made me smile and cry.
Damn you NASA. I want to see this land propulsively
Right?
I don't think NASA stopped SpaceX, but made it so complicated to certify that Elon and SpaceX did not want the cost and time and delays, Starship was move important to move forward on without worry about NASA.
@@favesongslist But with the none crew version, dragon2. That would not need as much testing and paperwork. Maybe we could see that landing in the future.
Eh, much rather trust a parachute than using thrusters to land. Or even both for redundancy.
That comfy ending...very nice
I was disappointed when I found out Dragon 2 was dumping in the sea, especially as Starliner is landing on land. But I'm pretty sure in a year or two it will be landing on the pad using it's rockets and overshooting with a parachute as a backup.
Using the the thrusters to land is harder to certificate for human Spaceflight. And in the future Spacex will use the BFR
@@matzmatz4148 I dont think they will use the BFR to transport stuff to the space station
It would seem unwise not to have them set as a backup to the parachute - if it fails for any reason then rockets, certified or not are better than nothing.
Using thrusters to land also sounds much more expensive than just using parachutes....
@@Spedley_2142 I agree this would be awesome.
Hey Scott :) You truly have become my one-stop-shop for space news. I love your analysis and anecdotes to go with the imagery.
The only thing that looked a bit off to me in this entire beautiful voyage of the Crew Dragon were the main chutes. One was wandering about quite a bit and eventually got to the other side of the chutes formation. Can this be an issue? Can the straps actually get tangled up? Also, the chutes weren’t fully inflated like you’d expect when fully pressured from the incoming air. Is this because there are meant to be thee shutes and NASA wanted the fourth as a redundancy so they ended up not getting enough pull from the weight of the spacecraft? Or with four astronauts on board in later flights the weight will be just right for the four chutes?
And the whole ordeal with water splashdown and recovery just looks so cumbersome. I hope SpaceX retained that ability to land using Super Draco thrusters and they can utilise land landings scheme when reusing the Crew Dragon capsules for cargo flights. Then again, they probably removed that fuel capacity required for power landing and used the space to stuff it with those huge chutes. I wonder if anyone knows. Cheers.
It still has the fuel for the emergency launch abort system, and Elon did say that Dragon 2 still has the capability to land via thrusters. If I was a crew member I would for sure want them in place as a backup. It's unlikely there will ever be an issue with the parachute system, but it's also wise to prepare for the unexpected.
Chutes*
Yes. Please stop typing "shoots". It hurts my eyes.
As strange as it looks, logic is telling me that the chutes must be nominal they way they are, or it would have been corrected by now. The pad abort from a few years back (with just 3 chutes) was exactly the same, and apparently so were the chutes in the Orion test. (I haven't watched any footage of Orion myself, but that was the claim from a couple people when this came up in a Reddit thread.) I don't know why it's not a problem, but I don't think it is.
The chutes open in stages (to ensure they open properly? to control deceleration?), so when you say they don't look fully inflated that may be what you're thinking of. Otherwise -- parachute shapes vary and I'd have to assume that these are the shape they are for a reason besides how many they are; again, they've been like this all along.
It really is cumbersome, albeit reliable. I have my doubts that NASA would allow them to test propulsive landings on ISS cargo flights given that Dragons return cargo, but you never know. I very much doubt that anyone outside SpaceX/NASA has much idea of what the SuperDracos (not to mention the software) are capable of in their current state.
Not likely. This is a typical arrangement with cargo chutes which carry similar loads. If fully-inflated, adjacent chutes will simply bump off each other on the way down assuming shroud lines are the same length.
That was great to watch live. Hopefully this is the first successful Dragon 2 mission in the row, if so it will be the next step in space exploration.
VCR.. Vernier Cruise Reversers?
Nope. Very Concise Rebuttals.
Thanks for the video Scott. Quite an age we live in. It almost reminds me of the 60's and early 70's. Maybe we will return to the moon in my life time. I'm 68 so there is hope.
Seems more likely he is using one of the windows laptops remotely through wifi and screen sharing (rdp or vlc).
The desktop is out of alignment with the screen.
@@scottmanley I noticed that as well. They probably take pics of the laptop screens to record sets of instructions for activities instead of just sending the document or PDF to the ipad. Who has time for network file transfers when there's space stuff to do!?
@@BearBaylor69 Makes me wonder if they have wifi on the space station, or if it's not really up to snuff when it comes to reliability and safety concerns so they just make do without it.
I like the idea of reusing it for the Launch Abort tests with minimal changes from splashdown. Like how BMW doesn't wash their race winning cars before displaying them everywhere. Call it a victory lap.
I'd like to see this as well. I'm so fond of the sooty boosters that I want one for my backyard.
@7:40 flat earth confirmed when capsule hit edge of the Truman Show dome.
brain dead confirm when you posted this post.
@@dublux9878 I'm pretty sure he was kidding, at least I hope so
So excited, finally were doing something to move forward.
¿You know? Using propulsive recovery to land this thing isn't _that_ crazy. I mean, yeah, if an engine or two fail to ignite you splat on the ground with no time for backup chutes to kick in (so forget about that notion, guys), but consider what _has_ to work for things to go right: two valves (Ok, more than two in reality, but two per engine at the very most) have to be precisely controlled by a computer system. On the other hand, to deploy the chutes in a safe manner, one out of two drogue chutes _has_ to properly get ejected through pyrotechnic means at the right time. Then, at least three out of four of the mains _have_ to eject properly, unreef without tears, and avoid getting entangled. If one of those things fails to happen, you are as screwed using parachutes as using propulsive landing.
Sure, parachutes are as mature a technology as they come, but they still have their share of 'art' since they involve aerodynamics (hence all the full-size testing involved). But I would contend hypergolic engines are just as mature as technology, with fewer moving parts to certify to .99999 reliability. So perhaps worth a second look in the future, when a lot more F9 landings have built faith in retropropulsive system reliability (and note F9s use turbopumped, non-hypergolic engines with lots of moving parts!).
This would be the least difficult propulsive landing SpaceX ever attempted. But still... How much time effort and money is spent to certify that capability? Is it really worth going to all that trouble when they're only contracted for 7 manned flights?
I watched the live stream when the two drogue parachutes released and the Dragon went into free fall for about 3 seconds before the four main chutes opened. Those were some stressful 3 seconds!
temper44
The mains are designed to open very slowly, but ya it's stressful.
Are the reversing thrusters actually burning or just venting pressurized gas?
silent farting :D
I think they vent the same gas as the RCS thrusters.
They burn NTO-MMH
@@mduckernz Is it MMH, not UDMH?
Edit: I looked it up, it realy IS MMH. Any Idea why MMH over UDMH?
Edit2: NVM, its probably used for cooling the chamber and MMH apparently has higher thermal stability.
@@DominikPinkas Yup, MMH. As you said, it's more thermally stable, and afaik, it has a lower or more consistent ignition delay, making it better for maneuvering thrusters
All of this is just out of this world! ;)
I wonder if there are plans for cosmonauts to ride on Dragon?
Yes. After the Commercial Crew enters services there will be always two american astronauts on Crew Dragon/Starliner and two from other nations. On the other hand an american astronaut gets to ride on Soyuz (for free), atleast that is my understanding of it.
As long as they pay at least 81 million USD per seat and don’t bring any drills with them.
@@seesiedler1 For free?
So the $80 million is for the in flight peanuts?
@@JoshKaufmanstuff From what I understand once Commercial Crew gets operational NASA and Roscosmos kind of exchange seats on their respectiv vehicles that travel to the ISS. The fee that currently is payed gets dropped. I guess currently it applies because Soyuz is the only option.
V 14 that’s hilarious
Always top noch info! Great reporting and investigating work. Thanks Scott keep up to good work.
Elon is our best hope for Mars n the Pentagon is worried bout him takin a toke? Half the engineers in America take a toke! Geez! Give me a break!
It was a gorgeous re entry and splashdown. Looks like a piece or 2 of thermal came off in re entry because you see something come off. They say astronauts will not be let out until after being on the nest and the pressure is equal. It was mentioned in the spacex video Scott! Lol. Good job spacex. And as hopper they may test without the fairing
Wow, they landed a capsule. Now US is on the same point as 1970 again!
If we'd really wanted to, we could have brought back older capsule designs and delivery methods. But those have been out of production for so long, and are so old, it probably would have been more expensive than just designing new ones, as we just have.
Well, no. We've added a zero g indicator to the mix.
Against NAZO! Not quite. This is Gemini level, but since they are also doing an experimental moonshot, they're up to Apollo 5 or thereabouts.
Except that this is far safer, cheaper, and more reliable than anything that's come before it. We can now reuse all of the expensive parts and not have to risk strapping an airliner to the side of a rocket to do it.
Falcon 9/ Dragon 2 achieves what the STS intended to do but failed to accomplish.
Always love your videos and your news Scott!
VCR Scott? Really?
I tried to set my VCR but it was just flashing '12:00'. I guess I'll just use the new fangled interpipes.
I guess that explains why I only get 144p and 240p options for this video. 😂
(I know. Apparently it was still in the process of being transcoded.)
It's also funny because no channel is covering this monumental achievement, most people don't send to care.
I think that joke is nice cuz one of the selling points for vcr was the ability to record stuff that you may miss. Gonna be late for that baseball match? No problemo - just set up a timer.
@@enweave But, _for the love of Mike,_ don't record over anything important. My husband accidentally recorded a NFL football game over a portion of our wedding ceremony! 📼🙄
so this is why I subscribed to your channel and I also like the video direct news direct information clear as day a brilliant presentation
I love your channel. I love how you keep me up to date about things i didnt even know was going on
I love the expression on the plushy, it just looks so awed.
How amazing would it feel to know without a doubt that you sent something to the ISS?! Our most wonderful outpost, it is Humanities Outpost. The beginning of our colonization. We could be compared to little kids who are just now exploring the backyard and have our little tent fort on the back porch. So so so exciting. When my grandfather was born, we had barely discovered powered air flight and when he died we had sent probes beyond the Solar System and sent photos of Pluto. I am excited because the reality that I, and many others, may just so happen to step foot in the Outer Solar System and see photos of the features of planets orbiting other stars before we also pass on.
Love your content Scott, keep it up! Awesome montage at the end, nice pick of music!
Am I the only one who still can't get over the fact that we even have a space station? There has been a constant human presence in space literally all my life, thats nuts!
Wife and I saw Apollo 11. Thank you Scott, for without seeing your video, I wouldn't have even known about it.
wow Mr, Scot... the images at the end are pinnacle atop of the cherry on a graet Birthday cake
(-;
Thanks for that wonder spirit you share upon us
Fantastic recap. Thanks Scott!
Wow this is so amazing I am so happy I found your channel (courtesy of a recommendation from a Matt Lowne video)
Great video....thanks Mr.Manley.
Nice to see that little earth seems to be getting on with his work just fine
Imagine a small pod coming from orbit and making a propulsive landing. That is just epic. Parachutes are neat too though I guess.
Love that outro so much!
that intro always gives me a chuckle :)
For a second I thought that it was the Demo 2 that had returned to earth and I was disappointed that I had missed it lol
Yup, I have no doubt that the Dragon 2 will be flying people to the space station very very soon! Great job SpaceX. I still want to hear the candid thoughts and opinions from the astronaughts about the Dragon 2. I mean it looks very comfy and spacious compared to what they are used to flying in.
In the VERY VERY unlikely event that the dragon2 breeches during the landing and water starts filling and slowly sinking it. Does spacex have an emergency procedure to handle this situation?
Considering the astronauts may not be able to move on their own after their long stay in space, how will they be able to egress safely out of the capsule before the capsule goes under?
And yes. I know that their recovery efforts would probably be faster and more efficient for manned dragons etc but it's just the very unlikely possibility that it may occur.
I was stoked to spot the ISS overflying NZ with the Dragon following slightly behind it just after 9pm NZ local time. Been waiting for a sighting like this for years. Pity, no video.
Love the slideshow at the end 👩🚀🌎
Scott; I love your narration of the details. I just wish you could put in some arrows to point at some of the things you are talking about. I do not know what you are referring to much of the time.
Looking forward to first actual crewed spaceflight!
Thanks for all of your great videos Scott! I watch all of them. If you ever need an illustrator for you projects please keep me in mind. :)
Come on Scott... setting VCR man ... lol good one.
Being a space buff since my early childhood, I WANT THAT EARTHLING!!!!
Amazing achievement. After the two-steps-back of the STS, we're back on track.
Ripley. Love it.
I hope this is a good sign for future SpaceX spacecraft.
Heat shields made out of bakelite has to be one of the funniest things I've ever heard.