Comments by "etherdog" (@etherdog) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. CERN. Also, I read Madelbrot's paper in Scientific American when it came out and also Glieck and totally missed the Feigenbaum constant. My favorite equation is the Euler identity, central to quantum field theory almost 200 years before its time.
    2
  2. This story, which I have known for a long time, is part of the reason why we grow most of our own food organically. The unintended, or perhaps more pointedly unexamined, consequences of GMOs, even if they are "safe for consumption" is the moral hazard argument. Can't feed 8 billion people without devastating climate catastrophe? Bring down the birth rate and don't waste the 50% of the food that is already being produced. Haber is an infamous, immoral, evil figure. Otto Hahn at least helped to get Lise Meittner out of Germany and slowed down research on the German atom bomb.
    1
  3. Derek, you were just 30 minutes away!
    1
  4. I knew you were going to Blue Screen us :-)
    1
  5. I've had encounters with a copperhead in the Midwest, a rattlesnake in California, and a cobra in Turkmenistan, and they were as afraid of me as I was of them. On the other hand, I have King snakes and rat snakes on my property and would not want to see them go. Oddly, our dog can recognize a snake molt and react instinctively.
    1
  6. This makes me marginally more positive about Bill Gates.
    1
  7. Good description, Derek. Please note that "Galaxy" is Greek for "Milky Way" so saying Milky Way galaxy is like saying ATM machine.
    1
  8. I saw a video just like this about 5 years ago from the same place in Japan, but with different actors.
    1
  9. If you want a good (better) explanation, especially as how Black Holes are fundamental to really understanding the concept of entropy, read the new book by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, "Black holes : the key to understanding the universe".
    1
  10. It took 18 full minutes for you to broach the concept of higher energy/shorter wavelength light and the work it induces, to the transformation to long wavelength thermal energy.
    1
  11. Are you communicating with Tom Scott about bicycles?
    1
  12. Redshift. That is how we know the speed is of light is universal.
    1
  13. The reason there are 5 storey building in one part of NYC and skyscrapers in other parts is related to the bedrock, or lack thereof, not the technology of building.
    1