Relocating Giant Antenna (5,000m Altitude) | Mega Transports | Chile | Free Documentary
Mega Transport of a giant antenna in chile. The Chilean Atacama Desert is home to the world’s largest radio telescope: “Atacama Large Millimeter Array Observatory”, also known as “ALMA”. At an altitude of 5,000 meters above sea level, astronomers find perfect conditions for observing the universe: almost no pollution, no artificial lights and very thin air. The most powerful telescope in the world can see an incredible ten billion light years. To the edge of the observable universe. Good for the scientists, bad for the engineers: working conditions are extreme on Chajnator Plateau, where the 66 antennas are located: low oxygen levels, fluctuating temperatures from 20 degrees Celsius above zero to 20 degrees Celsius below zero - and strong wind. Every time the telescope sets its sights on a new target, 50 of the extremely sensitive and valuable antennas have to be moved. A major effort! And a battle against the weather, a lack of oxygen and a race against time - with a schedule set by the stars. To adjust the world’s largest telescope array, you need high-tech equipment! “Made in Germany”! Or more precisely: Two transport machines unlike any other machines in the world. Their names are “Otto” and “Lore”. They have been specifically designed for the job. Both
vehicles are twenty meters long. Ten meters wide. And six meters tall. Two 680-horsepower diesel engines drive these 135-ton monsters. Despite their size, they can perform millimeter-precision work, even with a one hundred-ton-antenna on top. Our hero Alfredo and his team have to complete the relocation of one antenna in an 8-hour-time-frame. If they stayed longer on the Plateau, health issues could arise very quickly. But the weather has its own plans, and a blackout forces the crew to change their mission…
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FYI Cold air increases HP.
"to the edge of the observable universe"...chew on that for awhile!! Gawd!!! I love this channel.
@@Harper22653 but effect of thinner air in elevation is bigger
Do chile deadliest road please
Good people trapped in a bad system.
27:53 ¨Ahí tení tu caga¨ haha
It is nice to see humanity work on projects like this. Many countries working together to gain insight into our universe and our place in it. Very cool indeed! Humanity at its finest in a world where often our humanity seems to have gone missing.
Hopefully you noticed the tremendously important contribution from BLM, Feminists and other valuable fanatics?
@@OmmerSyssel Nice try. I do not consider feminists fanatics. In fact, it was the suffrage movement in the first half of last century that pushed for and gained such basic human rights as the right to vote, divorce and to be in control of their own destinies. They were also called "fanatics" by bigots in their time. The type of fear mongering you're doing here through name-calling is exactly what is driving the country apart. I was raised by a strong, caring and independent woman. I very much appreciate that. If I should ever have a daughter myself, I will make sure she cowers for no one. If it's a son, I'll make sure he stands up for himself and the dignity of others.
@@OmmerSyssel Black people are the root of problems in the west. Just look at Africa, they can't run a country by themselves.
Thank you Free Documentary for all the videos you upload! It doesn't matter to me what kind of commentary you use. Some people need to Google how to use a volume button, if they can read. I enjoy seeing the brief glimpses into what different professionals go through. Keep it up and ignore the jellyfish!
Thumbs-up for Alfredo 👍
I wish I could have a job that I genuinely love like all of the people that are filmed in these documentaries.
You wouldn't stand a week among these normal highly efficient working class MEN...🤗
"to the edge of the observable universe"...chew on that for awhile!! Gawd!!! I love this channel.
what an incredibly oddly specific job. love your videos. they’re so good
Another priceless documentary Well documented. Excellent job by the mechanical engineers, the radio frequency engineers and entire team
Wow, one of my favorite Narrators MARK ROSSMAN had another job well done! Congratulations to the whole Production!
Digging the Opeth shirt
Alfoehdo: WTF is going on with this transporter !?!? Transporter: I need a 5 min break. " *Activate Safe Mode* !"
Just like my tow truck's hydraulics. Sometimes everything just stops working and a 5min break solves it.
i'm always waiting for notification from this channel.. who else???
Mee too🧠👏👏👏🧠
Me either
Again, someone please inform the scriptwriter to back off the melodrama . Thank you.
Fully agree with you
It seems most Us audiences dig it, biker docos are worse lol
Still less dramatic than US news 🙄
i love this channel! make daily vids :D
Thank you for your contribution 👍👍 👍
It's a huge informative and knowledgeable videos thanks free documentary.. bringing such videos front of us...
Guys and there favorite caps LOL! Alfredo is going to be so sad when that cap finally falls apart.
I never knew the antennas had to be moved to account for the seasons know I do great upload indeed
Wena conchemimare!! opeth!!
Why don't they Mount the antennas on rails and move them automatically when needed? The positions are fixed?
2:40 OPETH SHIRT!!! I KNEW I LIKED THIS GUY!!!
I like this.👏👏👏👏
Amazing!
You know, my teacher did always say check the source when dealing with electrical
Darun.,.........(excellent)
Free documentary always uploading good and educational video they'll reach 1,000,000 subscribers by the end of 2019!
Guy in city: Im a truck driver ( puffing his chest) Alfredo: dude hold my beer, the truck i drive can easily move your house. will i walk beside it Hobby shop: Maaaaaaaan we need some of these things.
jajajajajja
Viva Chile 🇨🇱
Love the drivers snake eye tattoo
@14:50 ha, -11Celsius, I am from Austria, we go sking all day long in such a Weather.....
Yeah sure, Austria's highest mountain (Grossglockner) it's ONLY 3.800 meters, the Alma basecamp is at 2.900mts and the antennas are on 5.000mts... (I have ride bicycles on 4.200mts)
Please make more planet school videos. I'm a teacher and your videos help me learn a lot from those interesting schools.
8:18 that machine looks like it dropped out of thunderbird 2.
Lol yeah
Really like these documentaries. But the hypoxia thing is way overstated. 5000 meters is not in the death zone. Both Everest base camps are above 5k meters and they don't use oxygen in base camp.
It's still a bad idea to operate heavy machinery at that altitude without acclimatizing unless you have O2. I went to Everest base camp, the trek starts at about the same altitude as this guy's drive, but we took most of a week to get there. I did fine with the altitude, but when we drove up Mauna Kea a few years later, the altitude hit me hard.
How about checking the power cable with a volt meter? That to me would have been the 1st thing to do.
clearly they put the wrong people in charge of their 10 million euros/telescope, next time they should call PERRY THE YOU TUBE EXPERT !! seriously did it ever cross your mind that this is clearly not your home sound system and if they didn't do that they might have a damn good reason !!
Is there anyone else who would watch this team as a tv show?
Dude has sick ink AND an Opeth shirt. Raaaadddd
I would have thought it got colder up on the mountains, unless they mean 40C of change within a day or 2. Surprised how many telescopes there are
Oo, yes
I would love to work at a place like that besides working out the in the field peace and quiet
These can see 10 billion light years away...as if theres anyway to know such number...it could just as easily be 100 light years away. But 10 billion sounds magical and special.
nice watch but I don't understand why every documentary I watch they are always running against time
Alfredo is the man
Silly question, but why don't they just build extra antennas, instead of moving the current ones around? The first thing that comes to mind is cost. But I can't imagine that constantly relocating multiple antennas is cheap either.
I wonder why they didn't put the antennas on rails like some other setups. If they have to move a bunch of them twice a year it seems easier to just put down a few miles of rail.
Chewing Cocoa Leaves work best for high altitudes
Dont know but i like documentary videos and want to watch documentary videos whole life
moving a tracking station is always risky. Here the dish is on top of a mountain at the edge of the stratosphere mask must be warn at all times and in extreme cases space suits are needed here too there is no air here so they have to bring it with them because they are on the edge of space.
Chile day.
"To see this black's hole", damn scientists and their easter eggs! That's a dare.
Write Number on the antenna for uninstalling and installing 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
4:35 poor guy cannot put his radio
oiiiiiiiii amigo parabéns meu like
5:26 Why is that cactus giving me the middle finger
Check the fuses first!
I am wondering why the transporter had to be reset two times. One would think that resetting the transporter would be the first thing to do in attempting to troubleshoot the second problem. It was the problem with the first failure to supply power to the first telescope. Logic would dictate that because a working telescope was transported to the new location and during the final positioning maneuvers the system shut down; it seems reasonable to simply reboot the transporter first before checking other possibilities. The power cable probably has a loose ground allowing RF to produce noise to the system control microprocessors triggering a fault shutdown. IMHO
You know how all these shows go it wouldn't complete if they didn't throw in a bunch of nonsense drama. Always gotta be over dramatic. Hahaha
Transporter: I break down every mission.
I started sending cards and notes to my bestie who lives in New York. And he sends me fun cards and stickers. It’s become a pandemic tradition and it makes me smile every time. I also started sending fun postcards to family and friends who live close but I’m not able to see as often as I’d like. It’s nice. Just an idea. As always, stay safe, stay healthy. Tomorrow we’ve got docs coming up about mega dams&canals, jackals of the Serengeti and Amazon. Don’t worry - not a mashup - three new docs and they’re pretty awesome.
Space is Hard!
A little bit harder than moving my tv aerial!
You should make a mega pit stop for the great transporter
Did Paul Atreides help with the voice over?
With this dramatic script, you would think they are operating on Mars or something and its life critical work or some nonsense you find in Hollywood movies, _"If we do not move this antenna, everyone on this planet will die!"_
this is so sci-fi level of things
I wonder how much altitude difference there is between the antennae locations. If it's minimal, couldn't they use a permanent track system underneath them all?
Check 5:08
Felipe AF - isn't that from base camp to the antennae site though, rather than the difference between each antenna? Unless I'm missing something.
They probably don’t always take the same antenna between the same 2 locations, and also they could be making new locations around the area
That difference is minimal. Anyway, there are 10 different array configurations of the antennas, from the most compact, where all antennas are located within less than 200 meters, to the largest, spanning 16 km. The antenna pads are distributed over patterns of approximately spiral shape. Using tracks was dismissed during the preparation studies, also due to the possibility of earthquakes damaging the tracks.
Bring a thermos of coffee and cookies.
This documentary has a great subject. Plenty interesting. Is that good enough? NO! The have to shoot it like an episode of "The People's Court".
I dont get why they spread out all the antennas just because of winter. How in the hell does spreading out all the antennas make them winterized. I just cant wrap my head around it
Ram should use part of this vid for an ad lol
This Giant vehicle is just a Big Boi Toys for Alfredo.
they need to let some air out of the tires because of the heat, and thats a heavy load, and tires and things need to release some air out of the tires.
How did they get it up there I'm guessing they must have built it up there
the least they could do is let him dub his own voice, the guy knows English, pay him a little to do his own voice
5:26 Cactus looks like index finger
Andy's monties in chilli.
Isn’t the biggest widest cluster of radio masts in northern South Africa and bordering countries? 💫
That is the SKA and is still under construction.
ONE QUESTION DO THEY REPLACE THE AIR FILTER IN THOSE HIGE CARGO TRUCKS 🤨🤔
My question is how damn much are they getting paid!
At least 1.
Chile, is is hot or is it cold. Which is it!!!
At that altitude, both cold and hot within an hour.
How about the engine (oxygen) ?
Remove frist electrical transmission and the end nuts bolts
66 good miss
Pretty sure that air pollution isn't a factor in radio astronomy. Now radio emissions and interference...
Now you know where your satellites are located and I'm not talking about the ones on a balloon
Satellite connects *Windows usb connection sound*
Problems on 10mil euros antenna and transporter, solution : turn in off and on again. Very well...
Absolutely love these documentaries, but absolutely abhor the overly dramatic scripting that's so typically American. Everything is a "crisis", everything is an "impending doom". Facts and visuals of actual people doing their actual jobs, in actual conditions, will do.
Jonathan Lau agreed, the overly dramatic scripting makes these documentaries almost unwatchable. The music doesn’t help either. I just wish the producers trusted their audience enough to know they don’t need the dramatics to emotionally buy into these programs. The knowledge is enough.
Yay it's interesting but the way that the story is telled is very dramatic for nothing
Everyone needs drama
Agreed, they have shows for people who want that, they are called uhm let me think, Uhm. Oh yes I got it dramas. LOL. It’s like this whole genre of show to satisfy that craving. Although maybe you are right, maybe every PhD thesis could do with a little pepping up by injecting some drama? Maybe some car chases? Who knows. Maybe it will take off.
Jonathan Lau dont forget the staple, ‘race against time’.
Looks like Alfrado's oxygen tank was low. wtf
If you showed the antenna area without any context, someone could def think it’s Mars
Anybody know how much money (in US dollars) these guys make per move or hourly?
reminds me bad company 2 mission
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Repositioning the antennas because of the wind and extreme weather, not because of any scientific research purposes
Alfredo,order a pizza,Windows 95
The project price is 1.5 billions. Please, sponsor for Alfredo some 15 Euros for a new hat.
Kardungla ka nam suna hey kya?
there is no radiation there ?
More like tv antenna
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