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  1. Good explanation, I worked in a R&D department at a major corporation. There's basically 3 phases. Step 1 is see if the goal is even chemically possible, not looking at any other factors. Step 2 is called a pilot lab and their job is to now figure out how to make the chemistry actually happen. Now we're seeing the complicated systems and machines being built and mechanical engineering (which is where we are now with fusion). Again, not focused on efficiency, just how do we build a system to make what worked on paper, happen in real life. And then once you figure out to actually make the process work, step 3 is production scale. So now you look at how to make the system more efficient, improved materials or new technologies etc but all based on what was created in the pilot lab. Remember, every tube, wire, pipe, control panel, literally everything in the building and the building itself had to be created and designed from scratch just to even see if this theory would work.
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  2. It's so refreshing to hear well explained, well reasoned and insightful commentary. The subject is somewhat depressing but the video was spot on.
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  3. As a science teacher, I was elated to hear you suggest that Derek's line of "these are the lies..." is a bit unfair, and I always make the same point you do to my classes about how science works on models, and learning a simplified model is not a 'lie'. However, on the subject of units, I felt personally attacked ;)
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  4. Not to mention the risk of awakening Cthulhu.
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  5. Hi, I'm a second year PhD student in nanomedicine. The tech shown in this video is clever and exciting, but functionally not dissimilar to formulations I've used preclinically before, and will face all the same issues current actively targeted nanoparticles do. Most importantly, there is not much difference at all between cancer cells and our cells, only slight differences such as overexpression of certain receptors and different metabolism rates. The purpose of a technology like the one shown is to increase the therapeutic window of an anti-tumoural agent, but it will still have a limited window. This vector will have off target effects - there is simply no way they are only targeting cancer cells. There is no treatment which only targets cancer cells. These innovations take decades to reach clinic. As we improve our biological understanding of tumours, we will see the viability of this technology improve. Personally, I think this technology has a great use case in anti-bacterial treatment, as viral vectors can exclusively target bacteria. I'll do some reading about this - super interesting and ty for the video.
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  6. Fantastic! What a great way of explaining things. It’s really great to see other academics on YT. I wish more of us would venture into making videos. But I also know how ridiculously time-consuming it is. Thanks.
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  7. I'm grateful for having such high quality educational content for free. Thank you Dr Ben. 🍻✌️
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  8. In recent decades, the boundary between a colony of unicellular and a single multicellular organism has gotten fuzzier and fuzzier. Biofilms, sponges, ...
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  9. It's life, Jim, but not as we know it
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  10. Hey ben, not to say any of what you said was false, but could you start sharing sources and whatnot in the description? For people wanting to read more about it and such
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  11. This was so well done, so clear and easy to follow. Thanks!
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  12. Geothermal energy actually sounds like it can be big, excited to see news about it
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  13. I'm glad you covered this! I saw the release and was wondering just how impactful this discovery will turn out to be.
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  14. "Everything in Physics starts with Einstein" - Isaac Newton. I presume that includes time travel as well 😁
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  15. I love that this demonstrates how some technologies that are simply not really viable outside of scientific study on Earth, would be life changing on another planet.
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  16. As Terry Pratchett used to say: 1 in a million chances tend to come up 9 times out of 10.
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  17. Youtube. Pretty much the sum total of human knowledge.
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  18. Wild stuff. Can’t believe “it’s the universe real” is such a reasonable question with such a complicated answer. Excellent explanation!
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  19. Just wanted to point out, as a graphic artist and Civilization 6 fanatic, the shape you used when talking about a shape with six sides (at 3:10), in fact, had seven sides.
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  20. I really like the way that this video condenses the complex ideas of quantum mechanics into an ideal form that feels mentally digestible. It's just enough to make you think without overwhelming the viewer with too much of the reality behind it, so to speak. Keeping with the high level explanation, I'm curious how retrocausality affects the function of a quantum computer. If retrocausality is the explanation, and the block universe is what we are experiencing, then by attempting to communicate information across a vast distance by changing the state of one particle to excite the change in another can't really happen, right? By changing the state of an observed particle, you would then be altering the original local correlation between the two particles so that the information was always what you wanted to convey from the very beginning. I suppose for a human moving through time relative to the observed instant, the state of the information changed as they expected it to, in the present. Big picture, if the past could be changed, we would never know it, because we would experience the causal result as if it were always the truth regardless. So retrocausality doesn't really change the way we are doing things, because they will behave the same they always have from our point of view. They always were, even when that past state is altered.
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  21. Wow, this was one of the most interesting "docu-drama" videos I've seen in quite a while. Thanks for all your work to make it!
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  22. I can't help but to chuckle a bit every time I hear the name of Mr. Goodenough who, IMHO, should be called Excelentasheck :)
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  23. death, which people tend not to like.. pure gold.
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  24. I agree with what you said near the end: The engineering to construct and conduct the experiment is wonderful to behold. However, the significance of what the results really mean is lost on me. Keep it up Ben. Love these videos. 👍 A sign of a sequel video to explain more would definitely grab my attention. 🙂
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  25. I was confused what was up with this video, because my class did a similar lab in high school around 2013. Then I did some googling and figured out that the lab we did was designed by Dr. Ratcliff, and our class was one of the first to try it. It was kind of amazing getting to do actual biology when I was only 15, though I remember the frustration of not always getting the results we were hoping to get through the lab.
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  26. Awesome video! The interesting thing is that the "it melts slightly under pressure" explanation was parroted as fact for so long. There's an old Feynman video (1986-ish) where he gives that explanation.
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  27. Holy crap. One can only imagine the level of chemical hysteria they produce when confronted with a combine harvester.
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  28. I've read articles about this but always appreciated the depth to which you explore your topics, especially making it easily digestible to the average watcher!
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  29. Didn't hear a word of Dr. Miles for the first two minutes because I was waiting for the two pictures on the wall behind him to move on their own again!
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  30. icy what you mean
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  31. Fingers crossed they succeed. Very low on hype and high on results, what a breath of fresh air from a fusion development!
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  32. This was great to watch, thank you! The explanation of “it is a rail gun with one important constraint removed” is such a cool and satisfying element of engineering: just when you think everything‘s already been invented, someone pulls out an assumption and unlocks a whole new approach. Brilliant!
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  33. For retrocausality to work wouldn't it imply that the past not only still exists but it's also malleable? While it's an interesting concept I somehow find superdeterminism easier to accept.
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  34. Love having reports from people who actually understand stuff. THANK YOU!
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  35. The look on his face when you gesticulated with it in your hands was priceless. The fact that he fore went his natural instinct of ripping it out of your hands, and let you keep holding it... shows how much faith in humanity scientists have. 😊
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  36. Cool! Congrats to the team. Engineering team building a laptop controlled skateboard seems like hilarious and ideal depiction of engineering teams doing side quests out of boredom lmao
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  37. You know I've been working on my first science fiction novel for well over three years now, and its yt channels like this that genuinely help me ground some of my absurdly fictional concepts in at least pseudo plausible science.
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  38. Any astronaut caught in the blast would, of course, develop superpowers.
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  39. Chapter 2: why is the sun so angry? sun: aaaaaaaaaaaaah! That part cracked me up. 😂
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  40. Fun video, thanks for making it.
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  41. 8:35 of course, Brennan had to work this problem. fascinating 🖖
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  42. Bravo. Construction Science Engineer here. I’ve poured it, I’ve managed the placing of it, and I’ve even tested it. Concrete is one of the most fascinating engineering developments that is often overlooked. You sir did a service for anyone that listened.
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  43. for me living with adhd, free will has always felt like an illusion. alot of my action is dictated not by MY wishes. but by my minds whims, mood, and focus. hearing about the whole split brain experiment in my childhood i kind of have accepted an idea that the self is less like you are in control of who you are and rather. you have a collection of selves that bicker and argue inside your head about what you will do, what you believe, what you think about, etc. productivity is when interests aligns amongst the "selves" and such. not to say that you cannot work to improve yourself if you have no free will cause like. there are aspects of your self which WISH to be better. one just has to focus on those. the illusion of will at least lets you choose which aspect of yourself to give more priority to. free will is not as big of an issue for me as is "how i define myself" and i think thats really a big factor that affects my actions and behavior. am i those aspects of me which bring about laziness? am i those aspects of me which are spiteful and sour toned? the answer is both, BUT i can also define myself as my better aspects. i am also me who seeks my happiness, the me who seeks self improvement, the me who draws art because its fun. excuse me for my nonsense. just wanted to chatter
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  44. Wood fibers absorb the water and freeze, kinda micro gluing you to the floor. It's really an amazing process, and not only that, it's completely made up.
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  45. Everything I read/watch about First Light seems pragmatic and well thought out. Best of luck to them!
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  46. I wanna witness that era so bad
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  47. I've had cancer twice so I certainly hope this method of treatment bears fruit. I've been studying the human immune system for about six months now and I realize it is no small feat to hold it at bey while this therapy works. I sincerely hope it is successful.
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  48. Thanks, love your humorous approach to science
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  49. I'm not too critical of gravity theories, I just Let the chips fall where they may
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  50. "The landscape has changed, because we now have achieved gain." This is exactly the part tons of people missed about the success of NIF. We can now see the finish line, so we have the tools to chart a course in that direction. It also makes funding easier to justify. Instead of pointing off into the void, we have a flag out there and we can say "See that? Let's go there." This will hopefully snowball, and hopefully means those "20 years away" timelines are effectively frozen.
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