me: idk what to do while sick
youtube: do you want to watch an hour long professionally animated deep dive into explaining what makes the lockheed sr-71 blackbird so cool
me: wellllllllll shucks i reckon i could be inclined
Its so cool!!! I grew up in Tucson, AZ, and one v cool thing about tucson is the pima air and space museum, which houses an SR-71 among other things. Seeing it as a kid on fieldtrips and shit was the coolest thing. I should go again when I next visit
My covid isolation stint was like, LoTR -> YouTube videos critiquing the combat scenes in LoTR -> videos about historical European martial arts (hema) -> best hema weapons for self defense -> same but for home defense -> home defense generally -> oops I made myself afraid
That's when you know the algorithm gets you.
Anything the Skunk Works did under Kelly Johnson and then Ben Rich was worth a deep dive.
Also, everything from the A-12 to the last of the Blackbirds is an aeronautical marvel even now.
Assuming I watched the same video, there was just tons of information I didn't know previously and I had just assumed that the finer details were classified. Like "plastic"