Hearted Youtube comments on Veritasium (@veritasium) channel.

  1. You've improved enough to be among the best in the youtube game in getting clicks (along with MrBeast, Mark Rober, etc) while still having videos which totally deliver upon the promise made in the thumbnail. Stupendous progress.
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  2. Yes! Now this makes sense. I remember taking distributed parameters systems (transmission lines) in college, but we always assumed the transmission line was the shortest possible path bewtween the source and the load. (This is a perfectly reasonable assumption for a power system because your average 220kV transmission line costs $1Million per mile). This is a neat thought experiment that is important because it challenges fundamental understanding. A little embarrassing I thought the answer was incorrect, despite being in Masters program for Electrical Engineering
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  3. What an absolutely incredible video. Connecting the dots between theory, scientific discovery, and relating natural phenomena and man made markets. Spectacular work.
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  4. im loving that you're uploading so frequently
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  5. Happy to see Mentour Pilot here 🎉
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  6. This video about human ingenuity and progress is just what I needed after having too much politics. Keep up the great work!
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  7. This is phenomenal
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  8. WoW you made me gets some goosebumps. This drone flight was the punch of this great video. I’m stunt by the explanation and details exemple we have seen. Congratulations you made my day and now I’m trying to get normal (goosebumps) I guess I’m still shocked. 👍👍👍
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  9. Got curious today and checked when I subscribed to the channels I watch and was surprised to see Veritasium as my longest subscription. Can't believe it's been over 7yrs now and the content just keeps getting better
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  10. Great Video! Thanks
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  11. This is amazing, genuinely learned some cool new things. Though I do want to echo some of the other comments that the shaky editing gave me a genuine headache watching it. I hope that's toned back in future episodes. Can't wait to watch more!
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  12. I'm guessing Derek didn't notice this - you do kind of lose the sensitivity of it as you age.
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  13. Derek please we need a full version of the strandbeest song
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  14. Just arrived home from a big travel and your video made it so much better! Thank you!
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  15. Boiling water by reducing pressure in a chamber via vacuum!!!!
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  16. Thanks! I really enjoy your channel. This episode will improve my relationship understanding where the numbers come from. I’m a retired statistician
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  17. had to design and make one of these for my degree but it was powered by an electric motor, felt great when it walked for the first time. I used a single axis of rotation with every leg in the same orientation, so it had to be balanced in order to walk.
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  18. there is an axiom that says that "one physical test is worth a thousand expert opinions"
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  19. Okay, I've watched it once. Only four more watches, after taking some notes, reading those, and then perhaps watching one or two more times, maybe I'll have a question. That said... I feel like I am on to what you are saying. Or a question, now, while it's hot on my mind. When I'm standing, and my muscles are pushing against the Earth to keep me up, am I accelerating against time which moves ever onward? I think my question may be more refined, mature, after some further reflection, but if the aforementioned is worth answering, or commenting upon, please do. Great video!
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  20. You know you've hit on something really special when your comment section looks like this one. It's not often you see this amount of real debate and intelligent discussion down here. Well done!
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  21. This turned into a really great explanation Derek, the writing in this video makes much more clear what you were saying in the previous iteration. So, from a rando on youtube, well done. I hope to see more ideas or concepts explained in such detail, really liked it.
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  22. It would probably be hard to get, but a popcorn popping would be cool.
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  23. I need the full version of the strandbeest song NOW
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  24. So interesting!! Possibly my favourite topic of discussion, especially the path of complexity in terms of entropy. Low and high entropy we have low complexity and in between low/high entropy we have maximum complexity. We have entropic asymptotes with the big bang and heat death, is there a complexity asymptote with infinite complexity. It sure feels like life on earth is riding this exponential curve with the rise of technology and information processing.
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  25. Rather than experimenting with the best thumbnail in real-time on YouTube, you could probably get to the best one faster by creating a set of thumbnails and releasing them on an Instagram story poll before you release the video. Then choose the thumbnail everyone voted on. If you want to find out what will most appeal to the general public, ask the general public. As a bonus this would also build anticipation for your upcoming video among your Instagram followers.
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  26. Just after hearing the sentence at 0:58 I was about to comment what he said after 1:04
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  27. Thanks!
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  28. Thanks
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  29. I've said it before, but watching Veritasium takes me back to three decades ago when I first saw James Burke and his show Connections. Such impressive, important work.
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  30. "A shift in life philosophy towards pursuing wholeheartedly the things that I felt to be true" - Damn that sentence got to me because its exactly the decision I made early this year and like you people couldn't understand why I would quit a prominent job in aviation to start a business talking about mental health to debunk the enormous amount of misconceptions there are out there and give a refuge to those who feel their can't voice out their pains. I made the shift because I realised that on my deathbed it won't be what I did that I'll remember but how I experienced what I did so I couldn't keep living a life that wasn't true for me... Great video and an empowering message! Thank you for sharing 🤗❤
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  31. I've said it before, but watching Veritasium gives me the same mind-expanding wonder that James Burke's show Connections did when I was a kid. Not that this channel is copying their format - but just showing the intersection of history, science, and technology in a way that allows each to inform the others. It's such a useful way of teaching those subjects, and I'm genuinely happy there's someone still doing so.
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  32. Thanks Veritasium. The game of life is so much like the life itself. It would be great if you can further explore this topic. I have a gut sense that this is key to understanding how consciousness evolved in the universe and in fact how the universe evolved itself. Thank you so much for preparing content that is not only well researched but also so fundamental for our understanding.
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  33. the fire piston!! popping a ballon instantly or dry ice that might look cool
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  34. As someone subscribed for years but has never turned on notifications, I had not seen several of your videos on my feed until the second iterations. As a medical educator, this has expanded my mind for rewording campus-wide and course session titles. Thanks Derek and the Veritasium team!
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  35. Thanks
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  36. This was great, as usual! And thanks for linking to my video :) Coincidentally, I'll be putting up a video tomorrow going through an explicit example of how to do Feynman's sum over infinite paths (aka the path integral) if anyone's interested in seeing more of the mathematical details
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  37. The exact video I wanted! So neat. Thank you 🙏
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  38. Looking good Derek, a bit over produced though. Those weird soundeffects are a bit overdoing it. Apart from that good video. Well done 👍👍
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  39. Veritasium Missing the times when you got to the street and simply asked questions to people, and showed them how they really don't understand things that they thought they do. Tricky questions and counterintuitive thinking, showing us wrong to get right.
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  40. 4:40 As a Duch speaking person, translation of the tombstone: Here lies burried Mr Ludolph Van Ceulen Former Dutch Professor in maths at the University of this city (Leiden), born in Hildesheim. In the year 1540 on the 28th of January (odd to have the year in arabics and the date in romans) and die 31st December of 1610, who spend his life working hard finding the relation of the circumference of a circle against its diameter (middle line). If the diameter is 1, then the circumference is less than 3,14159... and more than 3,14159... Fun fact: This tombstone was lost but later retrieved and restored.
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  41. Be proud of the work you do, thank you!
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  42. Entropy is something that always confused me. Thanks a lot for this video
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  43. Your video deeply moved me, I have been wanting to go back to learning physics for a while now and your video reminded me of the sense of wonder I had in my freshman year. Thank you for creating something so special, I can’t wait for future videos like this one!
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  44. Veritasium Jr. is so cute!
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  45. I would like to see those numberphile drinking birds on Schlieren
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  46. This type of stuff was what made me study electrical engineering, now I work verifying software (pretty lame) but some day I need to go back to this stuff. Also I am ashamed because I didn't get the right answer and it took me a while to understand this despite having taken transmission line theory. Great stuff man!
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  47. Derek, your video output for the last few months has been insane. Although I don’t expect it to continue at this rate, I want to thank you for giving me so much content to enjoy and share with my friends and family. Can’t wait to see what you have for us in 2025!
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  48. I've questions : a) Imagine that unbeknownst to you, one of the lines has been severed halfway to the moon - will the lightbulb still light up the same way, nanoseconds after you turn the switch? b) If the answer is yes, why bother buying all that cable, wouldn't it suffice to have some kilometres of cable going left and right from the battery & switch, and from the lightbulb, without connecting one system to the other? Or maybe just some meters? Or some centimetres? c) If the answer is no: Imagine some mischievous green three-legged alien cuts one of the two power lines halfway to the moon, one nanosecond before you turn on the switch. Would the lightbulb still light up? We would at this very moment be in situation a), and according to the assumed no-answer to a), the light would stay dark. But that would mean that severing the cable has an instant effect half a light-second away! In other words, the information "the cable has been severed" will have travelled faster than light!
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  49. Wow, I'm really flabbergasted. This is without doubt the best video I've ever seen on light. Every time I thought that the phenomenon had been fully explained, another fascinating aspect was introduced, illuminating a new detail of the physics. It takes a special talent to explain with this level of clarity, thanks for making this.
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  50. I normaly don't post comments.. But damn.. I really LIKED that video
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