Fasthosts are giving UK viewers the chance to win tickets, flight, and accommodation to SXSW 2020 by answering my Techie Test question https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/curiousdroid Air refuelling is the hidden force enabler allowing those countries with this ability to project their airpower around the world. Far from just the process of refuelling aircraft, it has changed the way we have fought wars in the last 70 years with many of the most well-known conflicts being dominated by airpower, which in turn is supported by air refuelling. This is an insight into this unseen side of the military. This video is sponsored by Fasthosts Written, Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and…

If you thought that the GPS signal on your phone was just there for you to find your way around in a new town or country then think again. The GPS service is the worlds most accurate public clock and as such has found its way into almost every way of life and business. So what might happen if it were to disappear one day? Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

65 million years ago the dinosaurs died out, we only know of their existence because of the few fossil remains found. So what if a similar fate were to happen to us humans tomorrow, in 65 million years time what would remain of everything we had created and would there be anything be left for any future intelligent species to find. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me  : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

https://www.hover.com/CuriousDroid Whilst the internet has become integral to most people’s lives it was only in 2010 that the International Space Station could use apps like Twitter because the connection speed was so slow. In fact, communication with spacecraft out past mars becomes very slow and problematic. However, in the future, high-speed internet connections will be available out into the solar system that will not only give coverage of what’s available here out there but also dramatically speed up the currently very slow communications to space missions both manned and unmanned. In this video, we look at how this will happen. This video is sponsored by Hover.com  : https://www.hover.com/CuriousDroid Guest AuthorAll…

https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Ever wondered how we can take those amazing images of the planets from spacecraft and get them back to earth for scientific study and just to see what they really look like. Well in this video we do just that and see how they developed and some of the challenges they have to solve in order to do so. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org: https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

When the first Spy satellites were put into orbit they were a long way from the type of reconnaissance satellites and even Google Earth that we are used to now and you won’t believe what they did to get the images back to Earth. This is the story of project Corona and how it changed the way we look at the world. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me  : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

At a time when the game of nuclear chicken very nearly got out of hand the superpowers continued to test nuclear weapons in space with both surprising and frightening consequences. In this video we look at why we needed to test nukes in space. The video that inspired this is here https://youtu.be/RMo7jUs0GMs Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me  : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

NASA’s launch complex 39 was the gateway to the moon and the starting point for every Space Shuttle mission. With the demise of the shuttle and the Constellation program what will happen to the space complex. Here we look at LC-39 and just what it does and how important it was in the past and will be in the future. This video was a suggestion from a member of the curious droid facebook group Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me  : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts -…