Ryan handles NASA-grade silica aerogel for the first time, amazed by how light and brittle it is. He recognizes it as aerospace insulation and mentions NASA's spray foam on the Space Shuttle and SLS rocket. The material triggers childhood dreams about space.
I thought it was gonna be like smoky, but it's actually like brittle. It feels like Styrofoam, actually. It's so weird.
So cool. This is Ryan's real reaction to NASA-grade insulation.
Wow, this is pretty neat because honestly, childhood Ryan, this is probably what I wanted to do for a living. So this is— oh, that is so cool! What, what is that called? It's, uh, it's Silica aerogel. I'm gonna hold this up to the camera so you can see it. It almost looks like smoke inside of here, but it's not. It's a very, very light gel. Um, you know, I'm not sure of where this is even used. I'm assuming that it's probably in satellites or something going around our heads right now. Um, honestly, I feel pretty blessed even just holding this in my hand because it's pretty cool. Um, yeah, but there are some really, really premium options when it comes to insulation, and we're still discovering new science on it every day. And so, you know, thank you NASA, because you've done a lot of the R&D to discover these wonderful products, spray foam being one of them. Because for those of you that don't know, spray foam is on the shuttles when they were being launched. And even those that are watching the SLS being launched right now, that big orange center rocket in the middle, that orange is spray foam. So pretty neat and pretty proud of something to be a part of.
