In episode 12 of the Struck Podcast we discussed the SpaceX rocket and its lightning issues, the AC-67 rocket crash from the 1980s, and the Apollo 12 and how lightning protection changed following the two strikes it took upon launch.

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Struck Podcast EP 12 Full Transcript - SpaceX Launch, The AC-67 Rocket Disaster & Apollo 12

[00:00:00] Dan: [00:00:00] You're listening to the struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett

[00:00:10] Allen Hall: [00:00:10] I'm Allen hall.

[00:00:11] Dan: [00:00:11] And here on struck, we talk about everything. Aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection. All right, Alan, we're back here for episode 12. What's going on

[00:00:21] Allen Hall: [00:00:21] the dirty dozen of episodes. Here we go.

[00:00:23] Dan: [00:00:23] Yup. Yup. And the next one's the Baker's dozen.

[00:00:25] So we can just keep using this dozens theme for. Lisa another episode. So

[00:00:30] Allen Hall: [00:00:30] Baker Baker's does this relate it to donuts somehow? So when you say Baker's does, and it always sticks, you think of food?

[00:00:36] Dan: [00:00:36] Well, I think all of these, like extra things are just stupid because he ended up just getting charged for them.

[00:00:41] Like you think they just it's always reflected in the price. Like I learned this when I was a kid, my dad's from Oklahoma and we'd be visiting, you know, my grandparents and we'd be driving around and you'd see this firework stands and it's like, You drive past one, it says, buy one, get six free. I'm like, Oh my God, what a deal?

[00:00:59] We need to stop. And [00:01:00] then the next one's like, buy one, get eight free. And I'm like, this is even better. And it's like, buy one, get 10 free buy one, get 12 free. I'm like mom, like, and the, and my grandma's like, honey, they just, they just increase the price. So you buy one, but it's like 12 times more expensive than a normal what it would normally be.

[00:01:17] I'm like, Oh, Well, that seems deceptive. And I was like, I don't know, 10 or something at the time, but that's what I feel like. That's how I feel about the Baker's dozen. It's like, you're not really giving me a 13th, like, come on, you're building it. You just you're charging a dollar 25 for a bagel and sub a dollar 20, like just a minute, just a minute.

[00:01:35] But I have no, I also have no evidence to prove this. So maybe, maybe I'm wrong here. I don't know why

[00:01:39] Allen Hall: [00:01:39] you don't think the chef's taken a loss on that one, huh? Or the Baker's taken a loss on the 13th?

[00:01:45] Dan: [00:01:45] Well, well, I mean the cost of a bagel or, or a donut is probably only a nickel. If that it's 10 cents probably less.

[00:01:53] Yeah. So maybe they are maybe I'm wrong. But anyway. So in today's episode, we're gonna talk a bunch about, uh, [00:02:00] lighting protection as it pertains to spacecraft and rockets, because that's where a lot of this stuff started. So obviously, uh, space X is a site they're launched late, was recently struck by lightning.

[00:02:12] Their craft itself was not done in Texas. So we're going to cover that. And then, uh, obviously the Apollo 12 was one of the big factors that got all lightening protection, a lot of, a lot of steam because. That was a big deal. And so they were like, Disney's not happening again. And then obviously the, uh, the AC 67 rocket that was hit and then malfunctioned and had a sad ending was another tall tale for today's episode on space.

[00:02:40] First of all, we should probably just talk for just 30 seconds cause we could probably get on a really big tangent. Space force. How do you feel about the space force?

[00:02:49] Allen Hall: [00:02:49] Oh,