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  1. Thanks Ben. I really like your even handed approach to unexplained phenomena. Some folks want to cram an explanation in where it doesn't fit just to get on with the podcast. I appreciated your willingness to say 'we don't know' and talking about what it would take to find out. - Hope you get AC soon. It's 105 degrees F here and when the AC goes down it's treated as a life-threatening emergency.
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  2. You had me at full frontal, and I stayed for the physics. This is incredibly well presented.
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  3. I love touring these "big science" facilities - always fills me with wonder and makes me proud to be human. I also bagged a shirt - awesome idea!
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  4. Music for sure
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  5. Most concise, complete, and clearest explanation I’ve seen or read. Thank you.
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  6. I don't know if you're aware of it, but there is a fascinating book that really documents the start of the "fusion is always 10 years away" idea, which I think you'd enjoy. It's called "PROJECT SHERWOOD: The U.S. Program in Controlled Fusion", published in 1958 as part of the declassification of the U.S. research into fusion reactions, and contains detailed reports on the U.S.'s research projects from 1951 to 1958. That puts it almost perfectly at the cusp of where people were starting to grasp how difficult a problem this was, and the project reports are detailed enough that you really get the perspective of seeing what that realization like at the time, to the people who were figuring it out. It's almost heartbreaking watching them get to the top of the first hills expecting to be making good progress, and then seeing the expanse of mountain still to climb that was now visible, especially with the hindsight of knowing that even that was a small fraction of what was truly ahead. Even in the dry scientific writing, some of that sense of dauntedness comes through.
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  7. As a Type 1 Diabetic, Thank you for working on this.
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  8. This is most profound, and a really leveled discussion of the topic. Thank you for doing this.
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  9. Big fan here, Dr. Miles. Thanks for the appreciation. 😁
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  10. One approach to reduce plastic pollution is to move toward more biodegradable forms of plastic. Lots of research is needed, but then we can still keep the convenience of plastic, supply chains can gradually transform over to these new kinds, and the problem will become more manageable.
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  11. Thank you for this wonderfully clear explanation of ice-age fundamentals - the best I've seen yet.
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  12. Thanks for the "new" presentation of this scenario. I learned about the second-hand cigar smoke being a KEY to the success of this experiment but did not realize that it wasn't originally designed to identify spin.
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  13. Much appreciated and informative. Surprisingly I understood it, not always possible with some scientific presentations.
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  14. 1:32 The surname Goeze is of German origin and is typically pronounced as “GUR-tsuh” or “GOH-tsuh”, depending on regional accents and variations. The “oe” in German often sounds like the German “ö,” which is similar to the English “ur” in “burn,” and the “z” is pronounced like a soft “ts.”
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  15. As a musician and synth designer, this nobel price really spoke to me. And yes sometimes I think way to much about phase and harmonics. Great video my friend! 😊
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  16. Love your coverage of this, thanks for being so even handed.
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  17. It’s fascinating that entanglement has such a squishy definition. It seems like a quantum “free body diagram” is needed to tease out the different effects.
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  18. Your presentations are monopoles. I am never repelled. Keep'm coming! 🧲
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  19. A key value proposition of small sats is low cost. However, SpinLaunch pushes more cost into designing for high G forces. It makes great sense for SpinLaunch to provide a library of tested common components. But every satellite will have its domain specific electronics that must take high G. into consideration. Certainly worth pursuing, but the economics distorts a bit.
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  20. That example at the end, of a scientist to afraid to publish a proof because the "scientific" community can be so harsh with people with new ideas, that tells it all. It's the main problem in science, most of people just repeat what is deemed "true" before them and are ready to stone anyone with a new idea. Just ask John Bell ...
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  21. A clear, concise, and interesting explanation. Thank you!
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  22. Music.
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  23. Pull all the levers I say!
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  24. This was a really lovely summary and story, especially about your involvement and hearing a bit of BTS about a science start up. I think it’s fair to say I’m a lot less optimistic about the timescales involved than you might be, and I think using words like cure or “we did it”b are premature but I hope I’m proved a big Debbie Downer. Congratulations to you and the rest of the team 👏
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  25. This is worth keeping an ion.
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  26. I thought the definition was reasonably clear, it's when two photons (say) have polarisations which are individually random but which also correlate perfectly. Sound's like it's the paper that's muddying the water. Anyway great stuff, thanks -- [no relation btw]
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  27. I like how Ben scientifically unpacks God's plan for the apocalypse.
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  28. Thanks for your well stated exposition. I'm reminded of the following quote attributed to Isaac Asimov. "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That’s funny …'”
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  29. Love the use of the Serenity spaceship 👌
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  30. I'd heard of FLF and even seen videos of visits but this is the best I've seen. Thanks for posting this. This whole approach looks really encouraging and the team behind it inspires a lot of confidence. I was thinking about that 1ns frame-rate camera and its memory limitations. At that frame rate the memory needs to be so close to the point of data generation. That must be quite a feat of engineering on its own. (Obviously I know that FLF didn't design and build the camera, or I assume not, but respect to whatever company did. I suspect it's expensive!)
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  31. 3:28 “…so long as you can psychologically get past that it’s almost all recycled urine…” Well, yes, Earth’s water has been recycled innumerable times. Every glass if water you drink has some component of water that has passed through Napoleon and a t.rex. Only a minuscule amount of water is truly virgin, never-gone-through-someone’s-bladder.
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  32. These guys must be salivating at the prospect of the 100 ton to LEO cargo capacity and promised 10-100x reduction in cost provided by Starship.
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  33. Im just glad western culture took a shot at making nerds sexy again. I think as much as adults enjoyed the movie, kids needed the opportunity to see a movie about a scientist to kickstart that passion for learning.
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  34. Very interesting, supply chain is definitely one of the coolest industries! Thanks for showing us around this incredible facility!
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  35. I just find it mind boggling that she got so far without even proving that it worked......and that she had no scientific papers to back it up.....just shows you that there are some people with more money than sense.
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  36. Discord
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  37. The best video on Kitum Cave on the internet, thank you 😊
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  38. I think they murdered 2 tardigrades and crippled another for science. This is what we get when those who enjoy burning ants as a child get into science. Ya, being a troll.
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  39. Came for the Veritasium debunking, stayed for the great content! ;)
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  40. Wow! I am so glad the algorithm showed you! Thanks!
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  41. Hey Dr. Ben Miles, your videos are amazing and you deserve more recognition. Can you please do a video on the recent discovery of the James Webb telescope that found a possible galaxy that formed only 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Not sure how accurate that is so don’t quote me. But I would be very interested.
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  42. Thank you for this excellent break down. I saw the news and I didn't really understand it. This was a perfect explanation.
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  43. Your writing is excellent. Thank you so much for your clear explanations.
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  44. Awesome video, Dr. Miles, as always very interesting and unique information. thanks :)
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  45. This is the best description of Quaise's process that I've ever heard. Thanks Dr. Ben!
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  46. NCC2215 - just cool.
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  47. 22 minutes makes me think that somewhere out there, the Ash Twin Project does it's thing.
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  48. I understood next to none of that but enjoyed it immensely.I look forward to being equally baffled by your future work.Bravo Dr.Ben
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  49. Amazing video. This was just what I was looking for.
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  50. And then the nanos mutate and turn everyone into flesh eating zombies :)
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