Youtube comments of Kevin Street (@Kevin_Street).

  1. "Once you get that reputation it sticks." Exactly. The audience will slowly leave when he's labeled as "not reliable," but Tran seems to think the opposite will happen.
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  2. I'm 51, and most of the people I knew are now gone. Three died in car accidents, one died in a different kind of accident, one died from complications caused by Alzheimer's, and the vast majority died of cancer. Cancer is the big scary monster at the end of the road that most of us will have to deal with, sooner or later. If there's anything you can do to reduce your odds of getting cancer, do it! Wear sunscreen, get regular checkups, take vaccines, anything that makes it less likely. Putting off your fight with the cancer monster as long as possible is the greatest thing you can do to extend your life.
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  3. That thruster control for the satellite is a thing of beauty. I'd love to see an animation of how it works!
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  4. Yeah, there are no good guys in this story. Law enforcement in Ontario needs to step up and start doing real investigations of these scammers. Put guys like Pleterski and Safranko in prison, and resdistribute their assets to their victims. Make examples out of them so others won't be tempted to do the same.
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  5. You're not part of the problem, Coffeezilla. Yes, you're entertaining us by showcasing idiots, but it serves a useful purpose. It took me about a year to figure out your channel, but I understand it now: you're like an immune system. By exposing these people to your audience you're immunizing us to their patter and promises. A Coffezilla viewer might not ever be duped by the Island Boys, but someone else who looks and sounds more respectable might tempt us in different circumstances. But then we'd stop and think, how different is this guy from the Island Boys? And with the realization they're exactly the same all their power to tempt us goes away. So far you've immunized about 855 thousand people, and soon it'll be a million. That really adds up to a substantial positive effect on society. Keep doing your thing, 'zilla. We're better off because of it.
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  6. The thing is, Russia has always been doing this, for generations, in both war and peacetime. The Czar's agents wrote the "Protocols" over 125 years ago, for goodness sake. They're like fishermen constantly putting hooks in the water. It doesn't matter to the fisherman how many hooks he uses, because he knows that one or two will always catch a fish. It's remarkable how the government in Russia changes from monarchy to communism to kleptocracy, but their information warfare approach to the West has always remained the same. And yes, AI could give them an enormous advantage. Imagine the coming era when entire videos like this one will be convincingly simulated by AI. We're going to need new ways of verifying the truth, and we'll need them very soon.
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  7. Dude, you know what this means? Everyone who watched Willow and then your reviews is in a brotherhood now. We're united by a shared experience that can never be repeated. No one else will understand what we went through. The wagon hatred, the cool little guy with the knives that Willow didn't lift a finger to help, the worm secretions, and overshadowing everything else the monumental evil of Kit... It's like a secret shared language of suffering, hobo sign for the modern world, references to characters and scenes that only we remember. This is how communities are born.
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  8. Well done, Coffeezilla. A very effective skewering of the latest fake guru. I like how you took time to show any current or future Huster's U students who may be watching why joining that school is a bad idea.
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  9. This has been the warmest, most friendly and wonderful trip into full blown psychosis that I've ever experienced. Thank you Seth Meyers, thank you Late Night crew, and thank you to all the people who've provided the voices that brought this hallucination to life. You've all done an incredible job over the last couple of months, and I'm sure going to miss this time when you go back into the studio. And yes, Sea Captain, I'll miss you most of all.
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  10. I liked the Netflix jokes the best. "...and cried for a full five seconds before Netflix started blasting a new movie where Kurt Russel plays Santa Claus." And "...watch it on the biggest phone you can find." LOL!
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  11.  @caryd67  It's probably not that the crows thought the cat was harmless (a cat is a cat to them), but they knew it was your cat. They understood the relationship between the cat and you, and knew that you wanted it back.
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  12. "...I for one cannot wait to see pictures of their smooth, angular children." I did a legit spit take with that one! No more coffee while watching "Amber Says What."
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  13. I liked that Guy could see the original game island on his window blinds because Antwan made the island invisible but forgot to eliminate reflection effects. An actual in-story way to progress the plot that made sense and fits with the lazy tendencies of some programmers.
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  14. This sucks, and I feel bad for them. ISRO put so many years and so much effort into the mission, only to have the last part of it fail. But like Scott says in the video, they still have the orbiter, which has most of the experiments and it's probably where most of the money went. So the mission hasn't failed, it's just partially successful.
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  15. Oh, Sea Captain! You missed an easy one. It could have gone like this: SETH: That's like organizing an orgy to tell everyone you have crabs. SEA CAPTAIN: How shellfish of him. See! So easy. In real news, America continues to go mad. There's no doubt Trump will pretend he's still President after losing the election, but I wonder how far he'll take it. I think he'll leave the White House readily enough, but he'll probably start holding rallies again where he can complain to his supporters that he should still be President. For him complaining about the injustice will be more fun than actually subverting the next administration. The real question is what his MAGA crowd will do, if anything.
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  16. It's an ideology that colors the way they see the world. They're genuinely trying to make what they see as the best show possible, and can't understand why people aren't responding to it. Like any true believer they think there are millions of people out there with the same opinions as them, and the original fans are just a small minority.
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  17. I can't imagine making a twenty-five-million dollar profit and having some organization say "Nope, that's cancelled now like it never happened." It certainly shakes one's confidence in the exchange itself as a safe place to invest.
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  18. I feel like we're going to get a video on the destruction of Binance in about six months. Right now it's all sharks stranded because the tide went out, eating each other.
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  19. This is like the perfect spy mission. Take a calculated risk, obtain important intelligence, and when it's all over there's no evidence you were ever there at all.
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  20. The dude lost his Mom, after she said she didn't really love him. That's got to hurt.
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  21. The fact it took so long for the security services to respond just proves what you're saying. They're set up to respond to things like protests where they can prepare in advance, not sudden unexpected crimes like this one.
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  22. "...how the hell did Lee end up with a giant statue and not Grant?" Lee got the statue because southerners wanted to change Lee's narrative from "Civil War loser" to "martyr of the Lost Cause," like William Wallace or all those Christians who got eaten by Lions in ancient Rome. As for Grant... If Grant hadn't become President there might be heroic statues of him. But the perceived mediocrity of his Presidency (later reevaluated positively by historians, but perceived poorly by Americans at the time) kind of zeroed out the gratitude people felt towards him for winning the war.
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  23. What a great story! Thank you for making this video. Keely sounds like quite the character, a charlatan with a sense of showmanship extending his scam long past the point where anyone else would have had it fall apart. Twenty-six years! "...whenever investors became agitated about a product not being delivered, he would dazzle them by announcing an even more exciting new product which was always right around the corner, one year away from being delivered..." Yes, there truly are some lessons we could learn here. ;-)
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  24. "...we think of you as a fancier Canada with nice furniture." That's fair.
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  25. It's wisdom, not just knowledge. This is the kind of information that benefits the person who understands it.
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  26. Maybe doing crossword puzzles? Probably counting his money.
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  27. Thanks for another very educational video! This one is a bit sobering, since you're looking at fraud as more of a systemic problem rather than just laughing at it. The part that really jumps out at me starts at 18:40, when you talk about how the "bezel" can be slowly eliminated by forcing other people (who often had no participation in the fraud) to pay for it. The example of the Chinese regulators is particularly disturbing. When they forced ordinary bank depositors to pay for the fraud incurred by the banks by setting deposit rates extremely low for a decade, they forced millions of people to pay for the mistakes made by a few, since the low rates meant their savings were being eroded by inflation. The people with the smallest savings effectively paid the highest price. Someone always pays when the scam is exposed and the bezel disappears. But in a just world the cost should be paid by the scammer. In a somewhat less just world the damage should be at least limited to the victims. In the least just world we all end up paying for other people's fraud.
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  28. Oh yeah, Merlin! That's another fascinating fantasy miniseries from the past. It used to be possible to do fantasy on network TV for budgets far less than six million an episode.
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  29. The redemption of the Bone Reavers here reminds me of the twist that the Skrulls were actually good guys in Captain Marvel. It has that same "everything you know is wrong from a different perspective" feel.
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  30. Thanks for another great video! Quick story: Once I went to a client dinner sponsored by my financial advisor's bank. It was a great opportunity to meet other clients and see how much I did or didn't resemble them. The fellow sitting on my left was full of fascinating stories about how he made his money. Apparently he spent years going to estate sales and buying anything of value that was priced too low. He bought gold, jewelry, antique watches... and Beanie Babies. This was before '99, so he made a ton of money buying up people's Beanie Baby collections and selling them to other collectors. What I learned from him is that it's possible to make a lot of money from collectibles, but the person making the money is never the collector themselves. It's the dealer selling the collectibles to them.
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  31. I liked this show. It was a lot of fun, and it really felt like the characters accomplished something when it ended. You go on a journey with them. Here's a few things that amused/surprised me: John Cena, of course. He really can act, and not just in the projecting a persona way that most wrestlers-turned-actors do. Peacemaker is a character very different from Cena's wrestling persona, and he's convincing in the part. Sometimes he's incredibly competent, sometimes he's a bully, and sometimes he's making ridiculous mistakes, but you always understand him. Peacemaker makes the situation much worse by keeping the butterfly leader alive, and dozens of people needlessly die as a result. It's amusing that neither he nor anyone else ever realizes this. But keeping a murderous alien alive as a pet feels like the sort of thing he'd do. Adebayo and Harcourt. They both feel like real people, and they have moments that establish their respective characters well. Adebayo is the child of nepotism who doesn't want to do the job, but ends up doing it anyway because she feels a connection to her coworkers. She made a major life decision after being inspired by seeing an eagle hug a man, and in the end she's the one who torpedoes helplessly into the body of the alien cow. That's a unique character. Harcourt starts out cooly professional and murderous, but she's also the one who takes the picture of the "11th street Kids" and emails it to everyone, which bonds them as a team. The only character on the show who doesn't really fit is Judomaster. His fights with the other characters were fun to watch, but he always seemed to be on the outside of the main storylines, and his character doesn't grow like the others.
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  32. The important thing is that he swears in private, not while speaking to reporters or in speeches. He's conscious of the decorum that a President needs to project.
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  33. I think he settled down when he realized the drying cage was warm.
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  34. Wow, Brolin pretty much owns 2018. He's in two of the biggest movies this year.
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  35. This is like watching a trapeze artist doing cartwheels high above the ground. Just when you think he's going to fall he swings right back up again. I'm not sure why he's doing this segment but it's always incredibly entertaining. Also, thank you for your service Hamburglar.
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  36. Thank you for this video! It's really interesting, and I appreciate your insight into things like the dark photon story. Your skepticism is very different from most most science coverage on (or off) YouTube, and very refreshing. Merry Christmas to you and to everybody who reads the comments. 🙂
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  37. It seems like the source of all our trouble is that phrase "Especially when constrained by the legal system..." The legal system (in just about every country) is notorious for being slow and easily captured by corporations. Companies can easily bribe politicians and regulators, or influence appointments to insure that government agencies are filled with bureaucrats who are friends of the corporation. At it's worst legislative capture can resemble a sort of carousel, with executives leaving corporations to take jobs at government regulatory agencies, then returning to the corporations before eventually going back to the government... and so on. Then there's the very serious problem of corporations doing things so advanced there's simply no law on the books that can regulate them. I'd say OpenAI falls in this category, since what they're doing is so revolutionary nobody (and certainly not any politicians), can understand the full implications of it yet. Given these problems I can understand where the impulse toward stakeholder capitalism comes from. It isn't a solution, as you said, since these complicated ownership structures often just make the people running the company less accountable to anyone. But I can understand why people are looking for a solution outside of the political arena.
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  38. How can that be legal?
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  39.  @thephilosopher7173  No, he literally couldn't sell his tokens. No one could because the code only allowed purchases.
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  40. I don't think Anderson Cooper wanted to do that interview, or at least he couldn't pretend to be objective and act like the My Pillow Guy is actually worth listening to.
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  41. Well said, Seth. Thank you for a clear explanation of what "defund the police" means. Seems to me they're actually saying "Give less funding to the police, and shift that money into other services that will help people nonviolently." But that's too long to fit on a protest sign.
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  42. @Ivan Ilyich, the difference is that Elon Musk actually can build rockets, and he's shown he has the wherewithal to continue his plans despite initial failures. Musk doesn't have the money to colonize Mars. No one does. But the hope is he'll get so close and his plans will be so realistic that other stakeholders like governments and shareholders will agree to fund the remainder.
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  43. This is a serious problem with Marvel movies now. The first time it really bugged me was in Thor Ragnarok, but it was just as evident in Doctor Strange. Phase Three is sort of half and half between really good drama and constant bathos.
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  44. There would be very few diseases other than genetic ones, since all the endemic human diseases died out with the rest of the population. No common cold or flu, no AIDs or Covid, all gone. Eventually humans might catch new diseases from animals, but that would take a while.
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  45. Not gonna lie, I've lost a boatload of cash this year due to rising interest rates. So I'm hardly in a position to criticize Cathie Wood. But yeah, she's definitely an optimist, almost a carnival barker. GDP growth of 30-50% per year due to artificial intelligence. Wow! At that point the AIs will probably be investing for us, so everyone will behave rationally and it won't be possible anymore to profit from people trying to time the market. What would that look like?
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  46. Thank you for another great video! I hope the oncolytic virus in this video succeeds in becoming an effective cancer therapy, though at 5-10 years it'll be a while before we find out. In any case the larger field will no doubt grow and provide many more potential therapies. With so many possibilities out there, surely some of them will become gamechanging and history making treatments! It really feels like we're getting closer and closer to a world where cancer is a treatable disease.
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  47. Exactly! This may have been expensive, but it's a thousand times less expensive now than during a launch, and incalculably better now than when the Dragon is crewed.
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  48. I think Coffeezilla's real passion is going after fake gurus, but he's already done videos on most of them. NFTs are such a transparent scam they're easy to expose, but more new ones keep popping up every day. Doing a lot of NFT videos must feel like playing that old Whac-A-Mole game.
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  49. Thank you for a really interesting video! Collective stupidity, or the madness of crowds, is a huge topic with many fascinating facets to think about. You talked about how confident people can influence others to go with their ideas, even though being confident doesn't mean they're more likely to be right - but there's lots of other reasons people let others make decisions for them. We all do it every day. The world is just too complicated for any individual to fully comprehend, so we use heuristics to decide when to trust others. In addition to confidence we often trust other people when they appear to be on "our side," or when we perceive that they self-identify with the same traits that we do. This is how con men and grifters get past our defenses. They pretend to be members of the same group who want to share their knowledge with us because it benefits the group, but really they're using deception to benefit themselves. Grifters can start information cascades that last long after their individual grifts are done, with victims refusing to admit they were wrong. This is the source of a lot of misinformation we encounter today. I think crowds are most wise when the individuals within them have no particular incentive to pick one option over another. In addition to confidence we have to wary of those who have a self interest in the topic that's being debated.
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  50. It must be so hard for those reporters to sit there and not talk back, especially when Trump is bragging about how Pence can dodge their questions and Kushner is talking about Federal property like it belongs to him. I know it's part of their job to follow the etiquette and only ask questions when they get the chance, but good grief it must take self discipline to not start razzing the stage. They show respect for the Administration even when it shows none for them.
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  51.  @gablesguitars  I think it's like that expression about horses and water. People can be taught knowledge, but have to accept it for themselves before they can understand it, and the knowledge becomes wisdom.
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  52. Fortified with iron and trace elements!
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  53. I think this material would probably work better in paint than in tiles, for just this reason. A thin layer of pigment on a hard surface won't soak up water like the tiles would.
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  54. First thing companies do when they're in trouble is lay off employees. They even do it when times are good but growth is slow. You never hear anyone say "We had a bad quarter, time to cut costs by firing the CEO."
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  55. You are so right. This channel is kind of amazing. You shine a light on things that we all suspect, but no one talks about.
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  56. Thank you for another fascinating video. I love the way you lay out each argument in a clear style, it's so much easier to follow than a lot of the informative channels on YouTube that are more focused on trying to keep the viewer's attention. Some of your Bitcoin arguments are familiar to me, and some of them are new, but they were all really well presented and interesting. Thanks again!
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  57. I love this series! They're like detective stories...with rockets. This one is a lot easier to understand than that 1950's one from a few months back.
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  58. And most important (imo), this is the only 100% human-habitable planet we have. It's the only world in the entire universe that's completely ideal for us to live on, right out of the box. Other planets won't have our biosphere, even if they're perfect in every other respect, so we need to learn how Earth works before we can build those features into other worlds.
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  59.  @sylvesterdivine9292  Exactly. He's trying very hard to present an explanation that doesn't make him guilty of anything except being dumb.
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  60. Thanks for another great video. And in it you lay out the facts quite clearly: the primary party at fault is Barry Silbert's Genesis, but the Winklevoss brothers and their Gemini company are also at fault for knowing for over a year that Genesis was on the point of collapse but still continuing their Earn program. One thing that comes up over and over in these crypto winter stories is how the crypto companies managed to convince other people (both large numbers of ordinary investors and supposedly astute individuals like the Winklevoss's) that they really did have the formula for infinite money machines. They managed to assume the form of legitimate (or at least convincing) financial institutions while not actually owning anything of value. The whole industry is based on nothing more than continued investment, like a Ponzi scheme but disguised in many different ways. There's no actual wealth that's generated, just money being moved around.
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  61. I wonder about Masterworks. The art market is different from crypto though. It's driven by money launderers and tax dodging billionaires. The speculators are barely a fly speck compared to them.
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  62. Go Coffee go!!! You pinned him down on "the minimum viable fraud" by asking tough questions and not letting him direct the conversation away into abstractions! That was awesome.
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  63. There's no borders in space. When one nation succeeds at something, we all succeed. We're definitely rooting for your spacecraft.
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  64. I believe there's a city in Turkey (maybe Canakkale, I'm not sure) where there's a relatively high level of natural background radiation due to isotopes in the local rock. It's nowhere near the level of Chernobyl, but the fact that people have lived there for hundreds of years and don't seem to have higher rates of cancer would seem to support the idea that the body can adapt to low levels of radiation.
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  65. Exactly, Primarch359. The key concept here is rapid launches, which you'd need after somebody took out your spy satellites. Little cubesats wouldn't do the job as well as expensive purpose built hardware, but it would be better than nothing at a critical time.
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  66. He was almost doing a Riverdance there.
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  67.  @MelbourneArchviz  She was ready to throw a knife at her brother's head in episode 1. It doesn't take much to set her off.
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  68. I remember a similar debate back when Edward Snowden revealed the NSA has back doors built into just about every operating system and communications technology sold in America. The arguments were the same: the government needs access to enforce the law, perfect encryption will just facilitate crime and terrorism. People didn't seem to like that much, but then we all forgot about it. If someone made a service like Tornado Cash that kept logs of where the money went, would that satisfy governments? And would anyone use it?
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  69. That was very interesting, although not great news for developing countries. It seems there's no magic formula that can help developing nations grow their economies. If I understand right, the Belt And Road initiative was supposed to be different from Western loans in that it was strictly business focused. There was no paternalistic supervision or advice from China to these countries on what to do with the money. If they said they wanted a port China would build them a port. The overall intention was to increase trade links between China and the rest of the world, but in many cases it seemed the Chinese were happy to let the recipients of the loans decide for themselves how that could be best accomplished. Well, it doesn't seem to have worked. Many of the loans are in default and the infrastructure they paid for doesn't seem to have increased economic growth in the nations that received them. If only there was a middle ground between loaning money to developing nations with a strictly business and infrastructure focus, and taking care to ensure that local corruption doesn't squander the funds.
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  70. Thanks for another excellent video, Mr. Bagel! It's easy to see the appeal of using a mysterious, intelligent sounding black box to make stock market trades. In our modern world we're conditioned to think of computers as infallible, even when they're not designed to do the thing we want them to do. It's like using your refrigerator to clean your clothes, but people don't understand that because they don't know how ChatGPT works. I hope your video helps people understand the difference. You explain everything very clearly. Actual algorithmic trading is, like you said, a volume business. Lots and lots of high volume low profit transactions. Nobody who has to use a broker and pay transaction costs for each trade will ever make money that way, even if they happen to have a black box made for the purpose.
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  71. What I want to know is where these guys got eight hundred million dollars to start with. Or was that money all credit and promises too? Maybe the Staples Center got ripped off along with the customers?
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  72. Reddit is a decent alternative, but it suffers from the environment it exists within. Most people only use Reddit casually because that's how they use the Internet as a whole. The result is that Reddit has a small number of very large subreddits with thousands of people reading and contributing, and a large number of very small subreddits with dedicated user bases. The small subreddits are communities where the best interactions happen, but most of them are too small to survive.
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  73. That's a really good point.
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  74. It's almost like a mathematical equation: removing the middle men from a financial system increases the relative power of the remaining participants. The ones who already had power (like say, the people controlling the code of a defi system) become even more influential than before. Middle men slow down finance and make it more expensive. But at the same time they add in layers of reciprocity that make it less possible for any one individual (or small group of individuals) to completely control the system.
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  75. Aww, your kids are still adorable, even when they're not dressed as wasps. Mask wearing is the best thing Americans can do for each other right now. It's a way of taking control of the situation and doing something to fight the virus regardless of where you live or what dumbass politicians may or may not be doing in your state. Take the power back for yourselves.
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  76. "That's just the description of the author." LOL
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  77. Yes, it looks like JP Morgan should win. If I'm understanding this right, Teslas' defense is essentially "You should have waited a few weeks before doing anything to see that we were only joking."
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  78. And why not use Batman's actual son, Damien? Is it because he'd be younger than this cast, or because he wouldn't be a block of wood?
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  79. Not going to lie, I had to back up and replay parts of this video a bunch of times - but it was really fascinating! Thanks for the introduction to Expander Cycle rocket engines!
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  80. Thank you for the new video! It's really interesting. "Sri Lanka needs large scale, long term economic restructuring..." Boy, it sure does. That's the key, right? If Sri Lanka could guarantee that someone (or some people) experienced and knowledgeable would take the wheel and provide political stability for the years it would take to radically rebuild their national economy, then all this would just be a matter of negotiating terms and figuring out plans. But there's no guarantee of political stability, or even an expectation of it in the short term. What would a prosperous Sri Lanka look like? From this video it sounds like they'd have to be more self sufficient in critical sectors like energy, and a whole lot more oriented towards exports overall.
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  81. 3. If Trump says "believe me" he knows he's lying and this is gonna be a big one. Pretty sure Seth has mentioned this tic before. 4. If "a lot of people say" or "a lot of people have told me" that means Trump is totally alone in his opinion.
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  82. Thank you for this most excellent video! This is a subject I know a little about, so I'm impressed by how balanced and informative your video is. It's an excellent introduction to the subject. Like any scientific field there's a lot more detail under the surface, including researchers that disagree with Dr. Sinclair. Though I (an ordinary layman) find his ideas quite compelling, there's still quite a bit of debate over the causes of aging among the scientists. One of the things I find really interesting is the relationship between mTOR, bodybuilding and longevity. Basically bodybuilders want to activate mTOR to build muscle, which is the opposite of what people want to do for longevity. It seems like there's some sort of balance required between building and keeping muscle (particularly in later years when muscle wasting can become a serious problem) and inhibiting mTOR. As to your last question, I absolutely agree that a long-lived society would be a more moral one, precisely because people would be forced to confront the consequences of their actions. The aging process perverts human nature, and is a contributing factor to many of our worst tendencies.
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  83. Yes, exactly. Republicans don't want the government (that they currently run) to do anything except national defense, so they put incompetent people in charge of it.
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  84. I wouldn't say that Titanic or even Avatar are schlock. They're both watchable movies, and kind of fascinating in their own ways. But I would sort-of agree that Cameron has gotten more and more into worldbuilding and less interested in characterization and storytelling.
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  85. Somebody had to say it.
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  86. That's a really good point.
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  87. I really like your explanation of how the scientists got the image. It makes the process more understandable. And from the sound of it, this is just the start of what they can do with the Event Horizon Telescope. Since it's a network they can add more telescopes to it or upgrade existing ones (or upgrade the data processing) and get even better images in the future. This seems like a pretty big deal for astronomy.
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  88. Thank you Tiffany Fong for doing the interview and thank you Patrick Boyle for providing much needed explanations! I think I get it now. In a way the collapse of FTX is a lesson in the value of regulation, and the very real difference between the crypto space and actual finance. In this last boom a number of crypto operations took on the appearance of sober, sensible financial institutions - but it was just a disguise, because there were no laws to restrain them or protect their customers.
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  89.  @TheAsagrim  That's the thing, all authoritarian governments turn bad eventually. If you keep gambling you'll eventually lose and get a Nero, Stalin or Kim Jong-un. Singapore has been lucky so far, and to be fair the people running their government have been remarkably open to innovation and free of corruption, but does anyone think that luck will last forever? Hopefully the PAP will eventually see the need to employ democratic reforms the same way they reformed things like housing and health care.
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  90. Thanks for another thought provoking video! The part where astrophysicists were able to measure the magnetic fields of galaxy clusters was the coolest. The hummingbird story was interesting from a physics point of view, but it's also sad because they had to collect samples by killing the bird. Poor hummingbirds.
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  91. The way our consciousness can only exist within a single moment we call "the present" is one of the strangest mysteries there is, but almost no one thinks of it as strange because it's common to everyone. There's no reason in physics or biology that accounts for it.
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  92. Thanks for this video! There's a whole sub-genre of science fiction devoted to exploring what might have happened if NASA had kept going after Apollo. "The Tranquility Alternative" by Allen Steele is a great example of this kind of alternate history. Although he goes even further, and imagines a timeline where the first manned spaceflight happens during WWII in 1944. I'm not certain they could have landed on Mars by 1981, because the technical challenges of building self-sustaining enclosed biospheres that can support human life for 6-12 months at a time are considerable. It's something we're still working on now, despite all those years of living on the ISS. When there's absolutely no resupply coming, just living in space becomes a very difficult challenge. Still, they had the right approach, starting with space stations and using the same components in later space ships. Each step teaches you how to make the next one.
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  93. It's kind of encouraging, actually. Helping people to learn more easily is better than doing the job for them.
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  94. I think I've seen more David Suzuki science documentaries than Kurzgesagt ones, thanks to "The Nature of Things" being on TV for so many years. Though that ratio will flip someday.
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  95. I know nothing about how the Tupperware company is run, but they do make a good product. Here's hoping the company can turn things around.
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  96. I love the last part of the video where Coffeezilla shares how the scammers make him mad because they face no consequences, and Rogan compliments him on his authenticity - but Coffee doesn't hear the compliment because he's still mad and has more to say! In that moment I could totally see him testifying before congress or at the trial of a scammer.
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  97. He'd probably nominate Judge Jeanine first. Then maybe a tape recording of his own voice.
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  98. I'm afraid I was a skeptic of both the cell phone and the smart phone. I just couldn't understand the appeal of mobile technology, but tens of millions of people did. And back around 2006 I remember being skeptical of a very smart woman who argued that Netflix was going to make video rental stores obsolete. It seems like each time I've been wrong it was because of a failure of imagination. I couldn't imagine that people might prefer to do things differently from the way I did them, or that they would value things I dismissed as irrelevant and dislike things I valued.
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  99. This is exactly us. It seems to be a trait of our species.
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  100. It's still better than their competitors, at least in my area. I think Fatburger could be saved if it was extracted from the Wiederhorns and run by someone with a back to basics mentality. No more cash mining, just run it like a normal restaurant chain and put the profits back into the business.
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  101. Short sellers are the wolves in the financial ecosystem. They perform roughly the same function for companies that predators do for prey animals - cutting out the weak and sick - and in the case of companies, cutting out the criminals as well.
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  102. Online access to your money and easier tracking for them.
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  103. Thank you for this video! It's certainly an eye opener on a problem I didn't know about before now.
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  104. Your viewers will remember. Thank you for another amazing, fascinating video! The stories you focus on are so interesting and free of the standard YouTube clickbait, I love it. If I was Taiwan I'd be very careful right now. This is good news for them, but the way they react to it will be extremely important for their future. As you put it: "...And with that change, China's adversaries in East Asia and across the global West now have an opportunity to either take some breathing room on defense, or otherwise shore up global alliances, pacts, and military capabilities in a way that sees China hemmed in for good." Not sure I'd say the objective is to "hem in" China. More like fortify their potential adversaries to make war with China less likely (what they call "extended deterrence"), but anyway... Taiwan currently spends less on defense than one might think. Back in the 80's they poured about 5% of GDP into defense, and now it's about 2.1%. Yes, that's a smaller slice of a bigger pie, but the overall trend is downward. And a lot of what they do spend is put into things like submarines that simply wouldn't be numerous enough to be a threat to the PLA Navy. What Taiwan needs to do is put more money into defense, especially their army. They need to literally fortify their coast more effectively with things like gun positions and artillery zeroed-in on the most likely coastal landing spots. The army needs to be bigger and better trained, so they can effectively resist a Chinese landing. And they need to have more effective reserve forces, so there's somebody left to guard the urban areas when the army is concentrating on the coast. If Taiwan can make a Chinese invasion more costly, it makes the decision to invade Taiwan less likely on China's part. It would be very tempting to take this as an opportunity to get some "breathing room" and avoid the hard, expensive job of fortifying Taiwan. But if they do that it makes invasion more likely, regardless of the state of China's forces.
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  105. Congratulations to the Chinese. I wish them well with their space station, and I hope that everyone can figure out a way to cooperate in the future, with traffic going freely between stations and facilities regardless of its origin. Whatever is happening on the ground we should cooperate in space. It's a different realm where everyone is equally vulnerable. Radiation and micrometeorites don't care what country you were born in.
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  106. I think some of the ideas behind Neom are very intriguing, and worth exploring...someday. When we eventually have space colonies we'll probably be building linear cities like this. Take a city inside a giant rotating wheel and stretch it out, you'll get a line. The water desalination dome is also a really interesting idea, with more immediate uses. But I have zero confidence that Saudia Arabia or Softbank or whomever else can build a livable linear city, today, in some of the harshest terrain in the world. Especially not when they build it from the top down with the expectation of controlling everything like a mathematical equation. Real cities are messy. They grow and change in response to the needs of their inhabitants, and if the inhabitants of this city are all rich they'll just pick up and leave if they find it too restrictive.
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  107. Thanks for another great video! It's fascinating and a little humbling to think there are still mysteries on our oldest planetary partner. It shines up there in the sky nearly every night and seems perfectly ordinary, but it has electrically charged levitating dust fronts, transient lights and clouds, and who knows what buried inside. A good reminder of how subtle and profound mysteries are everywhere.
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  108. Honestly, I still think the ban is a mistake. It may slow down the development of China's semiconductor industry, but when they do catch up their industry will be much stronger and more vigorous because they had to do the basic development for themselves. They'll be in a better position to innovate and build something truly new. Whereas if they mainly copied Western technology, they'd be more dependent on Western research for further innovation.
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  109. They must have been there, since SN10 did the flip correctly. Maybe it was just too warm to see the exhaust gas? EDIT: You can see puffs from the thrusters in the official SpaceX footage.
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  110. Today we propose Project Woodstock - a fifteen year mission that will employ new state-of-the-art capture techniques to retrieve a spacecraft from its long, lonely exile around the Sun and bring it back to Earth. Then we can finally close a chapter in the history books and conclusively determine who dealt it. We're looking at you, Tom Stafford. Soon science will provide the proof.
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  111. The funny thing is, she could have made a documentary about the public perceptions of Cleopatra and it might have been great. Make it about what Cleopatra means to different people today.
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  112. Definitely the coolest kid at school.
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  113. Patrick is a master.
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  114. That's really interesting! Thank you for adding to the discussion.
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  115. In this case the researchers have attempted to calculate how much phosphine could be generated by known non-living processes, and have concluded the amount they've observed is too large to be accounted for in that way. With a planet outside our Solar System, looking for these biosignatures would be more complicated because nothing could be directly observed except the spectra. But like Scott Manley says in the video, oxygen and methane together is a good bet, since they normally combine to form carbon dioxide.
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  116. "...This is a bit of an issue all around the world, where governments claim to be upset if housing is unaffordable, but then if there's any sort of a dip in property prices they panic that a slowdown could kill growth." Boy, ain't that the truth. Here in Canada real estate is now 10.1% of GDP, and property values in our largest cities are among the highest in the world. Our traditional economy is based on resource extraction, but more and more we're depending on "paper profits on houses" to maintain growth when resource prices are down.
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  117. Thanks for this video. I think Neom has some good ideas within it, like the Solar Dome and the self sufficient city sectors (kind of like Barcelona's "superblocks"), but the idea as a whole suffers from too much ambition. There's a long history of grand designers building pre-planned cities, and then individuals in the city being forced to adapt to them. In the case of a new city like Neom, people might just move out if they find the line concept too awkward.
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  118. I'm glad that people can clearly see this documentary for what it is. It seems like there's still hope for us yet.
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  119. Melvin Capital says they're out of GameStop as of today. It isn't clear just who is fighting the Reddit army at this point.
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  120. I know! I've been constantly thinking this as well. When Marvel eventually gets around to making an F4 movie they can frame the origin story as a private space launch.
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  121. This is true of any Trump impression, because they have to be entertaining. The real Trump rants in a way that only makes sense to him in that moment, but impressionists have to make at least a little sense or they'll lose the audience.
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  122. The Internet has massive potential to make the world a better place. I'm glad you found spaces and friends here where you can have those productive and awesome interactions. That's what it's all about. But there is a problem where it's become harder for most people to interact with the Internet in the same way. Some people have succeeded, but a great many just sort of "graze" around, looking for constant shallow social interaction because they don't have any meaningful deeper connections. It wasn't always this way. I agree with the video that we'd be better off if there were thousands of little communities online like it used to be.
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  123. The dog was doing its job. Somebody was breaking the law and the dog was trying to stop them.
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  124. Back in the 80's I used to be obsessed with Fortean phenomena, and I remember reading about the surprisingly long history of unusual things that occasionally drop from the sky. The star jelly you mentioned is the most famous one, with a documented history going back hundreds of years. But in the 20th century there were reports of all sorts of things raining down on people like fish, frogs, jellies and eggs. The egg fall is particularly memorable because the book I read had a photo of the aftermath. It was a picture taken outside a British school, with a bunch of children holding up eggs for the camera (they didn't all break) beside a sign that said Egg, Eggburton, Eggtown or something like that. The school was named egg-something, and it had been pelted by a rain of eggs from the blue. It's almost too coincidental to believe, but why would a bunch of 1970's children and teachers make up a story like that? The Oakville blob falls in your video are even stranger because they happened more than once. I've never heard of a sky fall phenomena that repeated before.
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  125. Thank you for this new video! So the key points: - The digital Yuan is not cryptocurrency. It's almost the opposite, since it's designed to be trackable and controllable. - The renminbi can't be a truly "international" currency (that is a true competitor to the USD, bought and sold without hesitation all around the world) until the Chinese government removes capital controls and lets the currency's exchange rate "float" freely. It's that last point that interests me the most, as an ordinary person and non-economist. I'm curious how the Chinese government controls the value of its currency.
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  126. That's how you know you're getting somewhere!
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  127. Antony Starr is such a good actor I think a lot of people don't realize how talented he really is. He inhabits the characters so completely we forget that he's acting.
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  128. I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said, except "...who sadly won't ever meet his kids." You never know. The Sea Captain lives in the land beyond imagination that is Seth's in-law's house. Anything can happen there! An old sea dog might even have one last great adventure where he's reunited with his family and everything is all right again. Then they're all killed by the giant claw monster. Btw, Coos Oorlog. Never be afraid to reach for the stars, man.
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  129. Thank you for another fantastic video! It's very educational. But I wonder if you could do a video in the future focusing more on the Canadian experience of the Great Depression. Was there anything we did to make the effects worse than they would have been otherwise? My dad used to tell stories about Bennett Buggies (cars pulled by horses because the owners couldn't afford to pay provincial gas taxes), and how William Aberhart (the premier of Alberta) thought he could somehow print his own money and give it to Albertans (he couldn't, but it got him elected), so I know there were all sorts of crazy things going on here in the 1930's.
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  130. The man is uncanny! He sees nuances in the book the publishers don't even know about.
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  131. May Freddie thrive for decades to come. He deserves it.
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  132. Ice cream delivered via controlled explosion. There's something very Dr. Stangelove about that.
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  133. And they caught the guy! He wasn't even wearing the hat. Those are first rate detectives.
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  134. Just about every developed country has a version of this, but the Chinese situation seems to be the most extreme of all.
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  135. It's wild that Netflix spent millions on the rights, then gave it to a showrunner who wasn't interested in adapting the stories.
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  136. One day they'll get good enough to precisely target Putin's bathroom.
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  137. If it lasted for 25 years, they did a pretty good job with the orbit.
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  138. Thanks for this great video! You do an excellent job explaining what NFTs are and why people are currently buying them. Like you said it's not just about scarcity, there also has to be demand. And demand for collectibles is a fickle thing, particularly in a space like NFTs where the sheer number of different collectibles can increase without limit. It's very much a fad at the moment, and when the mania dies down most of the NFTs will end up being worthless. But there are some legitimate NFTs that might survive. I recently heard about a comic book artist who makes NFTs of his art. In the comic book industry publishers pay artists by the page, so it's hard for them to earn a steady income. But traditionally artists have had the opportunity to supplement their income by selling the actual paper artwork they produce to collectors, after it's been used to publish the comic. Unfortunately artists who work entirely digitally have never had this option, until now. For them NFTs represent an opportunity to regain that lost income stream. I think that's the kind of NFT that will retain some value after the current fad ends, because it's a close copy of an existing paper collectible. There's already a proven demand for the artwork.
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  139. Thank you for a really interesting and useful video! I love how you just explain things without attempting to make everything "fun" like many of the older science channels on YouTube. You do have a sense of humor but it doesn't get in the way of explaining the science. That approach is very much appreciated.
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  140. What an incredible technology! Just the idea of regularly making Bose–Einstein condensates and using them for navigation is wild enough. But putting that gear on planes, and eventually silicon chips(!) is just mind blowing.
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  141. Moar boosters!!! Thanks for this awesome video, Scott Manley. It's a lot of fun thinking about the great beasts that could have been.
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  142. Sounds like they're more interested in national pride than the truth about what happened.
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  143. This is a really great video! Thank you for making it. I had no idea SpaceX had such a large fleet. Phobos and Deimos are the big, attention getting new additions, but it's the drone barges, support ships and fairing recovery ships (along with the tugs) that make reusability more than just a word. It was really interesting to learn about them here. And what the heck is an Octagrabber? They grab onto the booster and secure it for transport? Very cool!
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  144. Exactly, CzlowiekImadlo. There's no safety for the sky crane, but at least we can wish it a glorious passage to Valhalla. Actually it just went off to rust somewhere.
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  145. You could achieve the same result by setting fire to stacks of greenbacks, but that would contribute to global warming.
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  146. Thanks for another great video! I know nothing of stablecoins, so after watching your video I saw Coffeezilla's expose of Tether, and... Whoa. Those guys would definitely not get to run a bank. It must be nice to pay your company's debts by having your other company print money out of thin air and give it to you. Evergrande would probably love to have that option right now.
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  147. It's just brilliant.
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  148. Is the Kremlin 100 metres across? Wouldn't want to waste a nuclear warhead by hitting the next street over...
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  149. Thank you for another excellent video! And thank you for mentioning that ETFs like BTCC already exist. It's been steadily going up lately, thanks to all the hype - but if you bought it in 2021 and held you'd still be in the red today.
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  150. This is an excellent video on a really interesting subject! Thank you for making it.
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  151. That's just nuts. The poor guy. I think anyone with a public facing career (or really anyone at all) should limit their posts on Twitter to the kinds of things that used to go in press releases. There's a mob just waiting for people to say the wrong thing.
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  152. Looks like a limited series.
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  153. I think you have to go to Ireland and enroll in the university where he teaches. You might not get rich quick, but you'll definitely learn something.
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  154. But Diego actually has balls.
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  155. Senate Launch System. Just kidding. It's "Space Launch System." Why they had to give it an acronym instead of a name like Saturn 5 I'll never know.
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  156. From a quick Google search I learned that several Chinese EV makers have announced plans to set up manufacturing plants in Brazil, so it seems the announced tariffs have already had an effect.
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  157. Thank you for making this video. I'm interested in investing but not very knowledgeable about it, so I find your advice extremely helpful! Warnings are just as useful as positive advice. Maybe more useful overall.
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  158. The grandfather clock is broken. Which is, granted, kind of a strange thing to find in a rich man's living room.
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  159. Thank you for another great video! It doesn't sound like he'll get the chance to carry out his most drastic ideas, but I hope the election of Javier Milei serves as an inflection point anyway. Maybe this is the start of Argentina's journey back into the world economic system.
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  160. That's an insult to rabid raccoons.
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  161. That was really interesting. Thank you.
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  162. There's a fundamental incompatibility between an economic system that requires constant growth (obtained through methods like planned obsolescence) and the fact that the ecosystem we live in has physical limits. If every company has to sell more, more, more of everything forever, eventually something much more fundamental than a light bulb will break.
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  163. Did Trump's hands get a little smaller in each successive story?
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  164. You make a good point there. Some of the increase may come from Russians that have relocated to Kyrgystan, but it still seems like a viable way to smuggle goods into Russia. It might be possible to find out what's happening by looking at the trade between western nations and other countries with a large Russian diaspora like Georgia.
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  165. I really enjoyed the first episode of "For All Mankind," especially the very last scene. Without giving away any spoilers, I'll just say that it merged a part of real history with fiction and ended up making something that felt like it came right out of Kerbal Space Program. Kind of gets you thinking about how things could have gone.
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  166. The crab lives there now. He thinks it's his home.
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  167. They were so angry they made free stuff for him. That's a special kind of rage.
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  168. Thank you for a very entertaining and informative video! I've heard of WorldCoin before but didn't know anything about it. So this was quite educational. I don't think WorldCoin itself is a threat to privacy, because as you said, it's not really succeeding. But the AI training data that Tools For Humanity is developing could become the basis for something threatening. All it takes is for someone with greater power for coercion (like a government) or persuasion (a credit card company, say) to buy the training data and use it as the basis for their own retina scanning technology. Or they could hire out the AI training to Tools For Humanity, but this time using something less strange than an Orb to scan people's eyes. A cellphone camera, say. The cryptocurrency is just a trendy frill here. The real thing of value is that database of 200 000 retinas and the training algorithms that make use of them.
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  169. This is really interesting! And it makes the ESG funds seem somewhat counterproductive. If the sin funds can consistently perform better those companies won't be going out of business. I really wish there was a way to invest ethically. But donating to charities or NGOs that share your beliefs will probably accomplish more than investing in companies that say they do.
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  170. Memaw, he's makin' fun of me on the TV again!
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  171.  @stupidmonkey151  It's illegal but keeps happening. Maybe not after this, though...
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  172. This is really funny! Well done, Seth and writers. Well done.
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  173. This is an example of how authoritarian regimes are inherently limited. The people running Russia keep making the same mistakes, doubling and tripling down on the same strategies because they can't see the mistakes in their thinking. In a democracy there's always someone else who can come along and replace the original advisors or decision makers, so errors can be corrected.
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  174. That's what I was thinking!
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  175. Supergirl is wearing pants in the comics now as well. There's a... I don't know what you'd call it, a de-sexualization of all the female heroes in DC comics these days.
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  176. A Luke Skywalker animated series: YES. A sequel to Rise of Skywalker: NO. Just do an animated series starring Luke that's set in the same "five years past EpisodeVI" era as The Mandalorian.
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  177. That's hilarious! No corrections here, I love it when you tell these stories and could listen to them all day. "That's a double negative!" LOL!
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  178. This is the best comment on here.
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  179. He must have learned English in Hell. Or at least he learned that one phrase...
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  180. It makes sense. Keep your life and your home in order. Be good to the people you personally know. If you can do that, then any crisis will only be temporary.
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  181. It was awesome!
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  182. When I was in university all the heavy math and physics courses were first thing in the morning. Labs were mid-morning, sometimes stretching into the afternoon. Afternoons after 2 PM were thinly booked.
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  183. I think he actually believes the stupid things he says on his show, and because of that he's losing his mind. The more America recovers and begins to prosper the more unhinged Tucker Carlson will become, because he thinks things are supposed to be getting worse.
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  184. "Oh no! Wait a second... " .... "He was a BAD lawyer!" ROFL.
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  185. I originally thought it was pudding for horses, but apparently it's pudding made from horses, which puts a different spin on it.
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  186. I understand your Mom is just trying to reassure people that their pets aren't ill and don't need unnecessary treatments, but there is an actual scientific study looking at ways to help dogs live longer lives. YouTube doesn't like it when I post links in comments, but it can be found by Googling "dog aging project"
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  187. Standing wheelbarrow. LOL! You're totally correct, of course. The Republicans are okay with Trump casting doubt on the electoral process because they think in their secret hearts that Democrats have been committing fraud for years. All those non-white people voting... That feels very fishy to them.
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  188. I'm sorry you have to deal with this. If I see any of those scam comments I'll flag them.
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  189. We knew where the door went, even though nobody told us. We always knew.
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  190. Thank you for another great video. Your take on the proposed billionaire's tax is very interesting, and different from anything else I've seen. Nobody else seems to be talking about the possible effect on public capital markets.
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  191. Wow, thank you for this video! It's such an amazing and comprehensive roundup of stability issues in the world today. I'm so glad your channel exists. In the spirit of your video, based on nothing and in a comment no one will see, here are some of my geopolitical predictions for 2024. Or at least the near future, maybe not just next year. 1. Ukraine. I think Ukraine will ultimately "win" the war, in the strict sense that it will grind away at the Russian war machine to the point where Russia can no longer hold their captured territories. But it will be a hard won victory. Unfortunately there's a lot of fighting still ahead and a great many people now alive will be dead before the war is over. At the moment it looks like the most likely course of events is Ukraine expanding their beachhead on the left bank of the Dnipro into a full invasion of the remainder of Kherson oblast, and then a drive into Crimea. After that it's a matter of wearing down the Russians in the east, and the winner will be the side that can hold themselves together the longest. The loser will collapse first. 2. The biggest geopolitical story right now is the decline of Russia as both a military and an economic power. I think there's a countdown timer on Putin. He's going to be forced out of power at some point in the near future, it's just a question of when and how it happens. The war in Ukraine is going to drag him down, because the price Russia will pay for continued aggression is just going to grow and grow until the people won't pay it any more. And Putin can't survive without a victory in Ukraine . Russia seems to have a massive ability to endure suffering, but the other side of that is the sudden and overwhelming rage when they finally reach their limit and revolt. I think something will happen in Russia fairly soon, but it's impossible to say what form that rage will take. It might be an "orderly" coup as someone else takes over from Putin, or it might be a horrible collapse that involves different groups fighting for control. Either way the stability of Russia and what happens to its weapons of mass destruction is the biggest potential security threat the world faces in the next 5-10 years. 3. The Unites States and the West. The flip side of Russia's decline is the relative rise of influence of the West, and the United States in particular. This is partially because NATO and the US have made good decisions when it comes to Ukraine, and the US has been making similar strategic decisions in the Pacific, but it's also partially accidental and comes from the rise in one's own fortunes when a rival makes a terminal mistake. The United States in particular has been going through an era of political turmoil thanks to internal divisions, and I think at least some of the decision makers there didn't expect their country to be in such a dominant position at this point. The narrative was supposed to be an America in sad decline after twenty years of failed nation making crusades in Iraq and Afghanistan, a country with a falling standard of living that's no longer respected abroad. An America that could return to glory if it just shrugged off its malfunctioning democratic system and united behind a strong leader. But that didn't happen! Instead the people (or at least some 60% of them) have held onto their ideals, and the democratic system is very vigorously trying to fix itself. In anyone reads this post I'll probably get the most pushback on this point, but I think what's happening in the US is a fundamentally optimistic realignment towards an era of greater democracy and rule of law. What we're seeing is the last stand of an elite that's in terminal decline. And yes, the situation mirrors what happening in Russia with Putin, but this only the collapse of one group within a nation, not the nation itself. The end result of this will be a United States that's stronger and more internationally dominant than before, even if certain interested parties will continue to sell what happening as terminal decline. It may take a while for other nations to realize that America can still be relied upon, but they'll come around. However, this doesn't mean that America will continue to ensure global stability as before. It depends upon what happens in Russia. If that country remains stable after Putin's fall, the US may try to begin an era where it exercises more soft power and encourages other nations to defend themselves. But they've had that ambition for decades and never seem to get there. We'll see. 4. China. The decline of Russia is bad for China in some ways, but it's not a disaster. It shows that China is not as free to pursue military ambitions as it would like to be, but on the other hand Russia has become a much more valuable trade partner after they lost their ability to sell oil to the West. Many people like to hype up the idea that China is due to collapse, but that's not the case. China faces very serious demographic and economic problems, and has probably reached the apex of its geopolitical and military power, but it faces no threats to the nation itself. The Belt And Road initiative hasn't been as successful as China might like, but it's an ongoing project. If the government can successfully understand its mistakes, and successfully communicate those lessons to the leadership (not a guaranteed process in an authoritarian society), then China can continue to chart a fairly successful course through the next few years. It won't grow as much as before, but it won't decline either. But the key here is the need for leadership that correctly understands what's happening and how to move forward. Does that describe Xi Jinping? I have no idea. I hope he fully understands that China benefits from the current state of affairs far more than it would if things changed. In particular China benefits the most from threatening other nations like Taiwan and the Philippines, but never actually taking action against them. Hopefully he maintains status quo on the military front and continues to refine China's soft power instead. And that's it. Of course there are massive holes in my predictions, entire nations like India and most importantly Iran, that I can't even guess about. The next 5 or six years will unfortunately be full of war and crisis, but I think there is greater stability on the other side, so long as something unexpected doesn't come out of nowhere. We'll see.
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  192. Little iridescent dinosaurs is a fun way to think about them.
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  193. His second best impression after Bernie Sanders. They're both hilarious.
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  194. The announcer wanted that to be a home run so much he temporarily convinced himself that it was. It happens to all of us these days, except most people don't correct themselves afterwards,
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  195. Yeah, the self-awareness is the whole point of the scene. It humanizes him, and also makes the later stuff about being haunted by his father more believable. There really is a human being under that helmet somewhere.
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  196. Her origin is complicated here by Harvey not being Two-Face yet. Unless he's already got a nascent obsession with twos that comes out later when he gets hit with acid.
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  197. Someday people will look back on this and see how crazy it is, but right now we're still in the middle of it.
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  198. But it didn't fail. Their last launch was successful. The program got shut down from above.
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  199. The real savage burn was when he said the Soviet N1 rocket had more flight time than SLS.
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  200. I get the feeling he's a bit like the Underpants Gnomes from South Park. Andreessen's goal is a decentralized Internet with a decentralized economy that can't be regulated or controlled. The tools that can achieve this (he believes) are cryptocurrency and the technology of the blockchain. He doesn't know how crypto will achieve this goal, but like the gnomes if he can generate lots of excitement and investment in the crypto space, somebody will figure out step 2. 1. cryptocurrency and the blockchain 2. ??? 3. No more centralized control.
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  201. Scott Manley is a treasure.
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  202. That's really interesting. Going by your video there was nothing wrong with the business plan of Nio when they started. But the market has grown in a way that emphasizes value rather than luxury brands, and because of the decisions they made at the beginning of the company (battery swap stations and licensing out manufacturing) they just can't compete in that space. I wonder if some kind of reboot is possible where Nio invests in a factory of their own and builds a cheaper EV that can compete with others on the market. It would be a massive pivot and a tremendous gamble, but given the way things are going that might be better than just waiting to go bankrupt.
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  203. Thank you for this video! It explains why they have so many sunflowers in Ukraine.
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  204. Thank you for this video! I love it when you revisit topics after some progress has occurred. Hopefully small modular reactors will have a place in our decarbonized future. We could really use a power source that's constant and dependable to back up the more intermittent sources.
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  205. But there's a difference between limiting your own information and having someone limit your information for you. At least you know that when you check the information you're getting is accurate.
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  206. Thanks for the new video. It's very timely and appreciated. We live in a strange world, where the only response to physical aggression of a nation state is financial penalties. Imagine if the police had no powers of arrest, but could only fine criminals.
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  207. Might as well slip the flu vaccine in there too, maybe the HPV vaccine as well.
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  208. Thank you for another great video. I suppose getting solar panels is inevitable, especially considering the price of electricity these days. My neighbor installed solar panels a couple years back, and the biggest unexpected problem he discovered is pigeons. Apparently that little gap between the roof and the bottom of the panel is irresistible for them. They like to snuggle under there in bad weather and build their nests at the edge of the panels. He's constantly shooing them away and breaking up nests.
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  209. Thank you for another excellent video! You have so many really interesting topics. There's lots to think about for the rest of the day when I'm supposed to be working.
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  210. "...Its prestige and superiority is based on the international market, which is currently being competed by many firms...." But hasn't this always been true? Speaking as a foreigner, it looks like Samsung has done a pretty good job competing over the years. The biggest problem that large, centrally controlled organizations face is when leaders have no one to stop them from making bad decisions - but it seems like Samsung has mostly avoided this, perhaps because it needs to compete against so many foreign firms.
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  211. "There is no independent solution to "re-opening the economy" that is independent from a plan to deal with and contain the virus." That's very true. Chris Hayes is 100% right about that, and one of the ongoing tragedies (among so many much larger ones) is that Trump's inability to see both of these problems as a single issue means the US government can't deal with the situation at all. Agencies are pursuing their respective parts of the problem, but with no coordination at the top nothing they do will fix the entire issue. So the government keeps chasing its metaphorical tail, and all the important decisions have to be made on a state level. But states are too small to make collectively effective decisions on the virus, even when groups of them coordinate. If California, Oregon and Washington state open sooner than the East Coast states, it could cause another wave of infections.
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  212. This was really fascinating! Thanks for making the video! We need more education on our own financial history.
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  213. You know how they say that eyes are the window to the soul? With Stephen Miller it's easy to see that no one's home.
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  214. It's a positive feedback cycle than cannot last forever. Eventually something is going to break and the current system will collapse. China uses far more coal than India, but India will be hurt much deeper and much more quickly when the heat increases to unbearable levels.
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  215. "But right now I want to look at a bunch of other things that you should be interested in." I'm interested in anything you tell me! Like literally anything.
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  216. Thanks for another fascinating video! The idea of an "illiquidity premium" sounds crazy (and from your video it seems the name was proposed as a joke), but it looks like there may be something to it. It kind of makes sense as a way for the fund managers to buy themselves time to make a long term profit without having to deal with panicked investors. But it goes against the principle that more information and greater accuracy in pricing is always better. By allowing inaccuracy (or even borderline fraud) in their reports, the investors are giving the fund managers much more leeway than a public fund will get. That means the managers have a greater opportunity to screw up. I don't think I'd put my money in a fund that works that way.
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  217. Thank you for another great video! My quick, totally uniformed takes: - The Blue Origin entry looks the most like the Lunar landers of the past, even if it's made with totally new technology. Convergent evolution can be a good thing, but it does limit what can be done with the lander. - The Dynetics entry is a fascinating dark horse. It's fundamentally new and has unknown potential. - The SpaceX entry is absurdly huge, looks like it came straight off the cover of a 1950's sci-fi magazine, and I love it already. Landing an apartment building sized rocket on the Moon seems like ridiculous overkill - and maybe it is too much for some missions, but man oh man, you could really accomplish something with all that cargo space!
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  218. Wow, this is a REALLY good video! I've been watching your China videos for years now, and I think your insight on the situation, and ability to explain it to us, has only grown since then. This video is really informative. Thank you for making it. So, according to Michael Pettis (who seems to know what he's talking about), the best solution to encourage continued growth in the Chinese economy is a wealth transfer from governments, rich individuals, and businesses to ordinary citizens??? That makes sense, but it's the kind of revolutionary talk that could get you burned at the stake in conservative parts of the West. Even just leaving people with more money in their pockets by charging them less would probably get you tarred and feathered. It's brutally ironic that the leaders of the world's largest (allegedly) communist country have the same inherent distaste for raising the purchasing power of the poor as the mega-rich billionaires and technocrats of the west. They all seem to think that poor people will work less if they have more money.
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  219. I wish them well, but there's a long history of space enthusiasts with big ideas going nowhere. Sometimes they're very smart people with really good ideas, but the lack of money is just too big a hurdle. The unfortunate truth is that progress in this field is made by organizations that already have a source of funding. It's a game for governments and very rich men. Hopefully development in space will progress to the point where there's enough infrastructure up there to give smaller groups a starting point, and they can build upon earlier successes without starting from zero. But we're sure not there yet.
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  220. I think it's impossible for anything to change without some change in the energy of the system. That's why he said time crystals get close to (but are not) perpetual motion machines. The oscillation is powered by the laser, but when the input is constant it shows that the oscillation isn't caused by the laser. It's an inherent property of the crystal itself, using some of the beam energy to oscillate in time. Reducing the temperature is setting the stage for the experiment. It happens before the experiment begins and so long as that temperature is held constant, isn't a factor in what's occurring.
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  221. Maycroft Holmsky, if these weapons are ever used we're all going on a one-way trip upstairs. Or downstairs.
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  222. Thanks for another great video! And you're right, Wally Funk is the one that everybody will try and talk to. She's the guest you invite to make your party cool.
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  223. That was definitely a LOL moment.
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  224. And he still had to put a finger on the bottom so he didn't dribble water on his tie. Very presidential motor control there.
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  225. Thank you for the new video! I think you might be the only YouTuber in the finance space who truly understands the zeitgeist of this modern age. What a time to be alive. As for Macy's... I think they should release two digital tokens. The first, called the Mcoin, will be the one people can buy. And the second will have a special elasticated waistband, so maybe it should be called the Ecoin. Yeah. Anyway, the Ecoin will be controlled by Macy's and not available for purchase, and through some kind of fancy bond system codified in a DAO the price of the Mcoin will be pegged to the Ecoin. So by controlling the Ecoin the crack crypto team at Macy's will keep the price of the Mcoin high. I'm pretty sure this is all legal since none of it is actually considered to be money.
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  226. They probably won't bail out Evergrande because they want other companies to take their "3 red lines" seriously. The worst offender will be allowed to collapse, so that other companies will understand the importance of the policy and do what they can to limit new debt.
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  227. I'm not sure this is a scam. Technically it's just a terrible business model. But from the perspective of the person who invests and loses their money the result is the same.
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  228. Thank you for this video! One thing I like about both rotor and wing sail technologies is they can be retrofitted to older ships. That seems like a definite advantage over alternate fuels like hydrogen and ammonia that can only be implemented with redesigns that pretty much require a new ship. There are a lot of cargo vessels out there already - and unlike cars, the companies that own them intend to use them for as long as possible so they can get their investments back. So technologies that can be retrofitted to older vehicles are much more likely to be adopted. I kind of love the wing sails, and hope they work out. You say their claim to reduce carbon emissions by 90% is kind of hard to believe, but I hope there's something to it. It would be wonderful to have a new age of sail, but this time made more efficient by wing sails and weather tracking technology.
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  229. Thanks for another fascinating video on a cool little spacecraft, Scott Manley! It's interesting how ahead of its time the X-37B was, doing autonomous landings more than a decade before Space X got their boosters to come back to base.
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  230. Ammonia has more potential as an energy storage medium than hydrogen, at least outside of rocket fuel. But there's still the problem of all the energy lost in producing it.
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  231.  @ww3662  In CoffeeZilla's case those are the same thing. The "greater cause" is to stop scammers from cheating people, and good content is the sensational rise and fall of scammers like Bankman Fried. The more people learn about him, the less chance there is they'll be scammed by the next guy.
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  232. You're absolutely right.
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  233. Remember their names because they're AWESOME. :)
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  234. Exactly, the vast majority of people don't win. They're financing the winner with the price of the ticket.
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  235. Somehow, I don't think movies that emphasize claustrophobic terror would be very popular there.
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  236. You're right! I'm Gen X, the Internet was just becoming a thing when I was in my late twenties and I remember the progression: email listservs, forums, blogs, then social media like today. Forums were so much more fun than modern social media! We really did have little communities with our own constitutions. I was on forums with people I never met in real life, but we were all members of the same forum who agreed to abide by the same rules. That is, a community. Sometimes we'd just make up silly jokes and memes and have fun with each other. Sometimes we'd have debates about current events and stuff that went on for days. Try doing that on today's Facebook or Instagram.
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  237. ​ @Nuclearbones  "When you go so far into zoning laws you end up just stifling any possibility for a community to form organically." Exactly! You describe that atomization or isolation very well in your comment. I like the idea that a healthy city is a place where "happy accidents" or unexpected encounters can happen every day. Ideally, every healthy city should have two things: 1. A private zone where an individual or family can feel safe and truly be themselves. Most people want a larger and larger private zone as they get older. You can see this in the progression of a child who has their own room, to retired people who need a backyard full of nature to rest in. The city needs to be flexible enough to provide for different sizes of private zones, although this is traditionally the area that is sacrificed first when density increases. 2. A "public" zone that includes a mixture of public, private and semi-private zones. This is where the urban planners like to separate things into neatly zoned areas, but aside from practical constraints (like heavy industry not being located right next to residences), I think it's better to mix everything up. This should be the place where happy accidents happen, where you run into people you might not ordinarily meet and interact with them. Those unexpected interactions are what make big cities desirable places to live.
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  238. Or maybe the pneumatic processor! Now there's a project for some hobbyists with lots of time on their hands and a 3D printer.
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  239. Okay, your point is well made. I should have said that in Europe astrology was the only game in town.
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  240. "I get it. You think the word "retreat" implies defeat." I'm sorry, but that's exactly how I feel about this. It sounds like giving the world implicit permission to burn fossil fuel like crazy and just trying to manage the aftermath. Picking winners and losers in the future. But then I don't live in Fiji or Bangladesh. Managed retreat is certainly a wise strategy for people who live in the places that climate change will effect most adversely and quickly.
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  241. Thanks for another great video! I love the way you introduce a lot of actual scientific terms, but always know which ones to to explain in detail and which ones to breeze past quickly. That quality of judgement, knowing both what information is needed to understand the subject and having a feel for what your audience can quickly comprehend in a fast paced video, is probably the most important part of science education. And you do it really well. As for this new material, it sounds great! If they can put it in paint and use it in mass quantities it might make quite a difference in cooling buildings without electricity. I wonder, if this material was written into the building code for a large city and it gradually became the dominant color on rooftops, could it make a dent in the heat island effect? It would be amazing if a single color of paint could measurably cool an entire city.
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  242. I agree with you! Sorry about the exclamation mark, it's just that YouTube randomly recommended your video and I'm a bit surprised we see the issue in such a similar way. The problem is that fantasy is too expensive to make, at least the way that streamers are making it right now. As an old guy I remember when fantasy mostly came in the form of TV mini-series. They were usually between six to ten episodes, and adapted some preexisting story. There was the Arabian Knights, The Odyssey, Peter Pan, Stephen King, The Wizard of Oz and about five hundred different versions of fairy tales. The results were somewhat mixed in terms of quality, but my impression is they cost about the same amount as a prime time drama series, or maybe slightly more. But not six million an episode! I agree with you that animation is the best way forward right now. Something like Wheel of Time could be adapted in animated form far more faithfully than in live action, for less money. Netflix's "The Dragon Prince" shows that it could even be done on a streamer. It's more a matter of adjusting audience expectations than any kind of technical or financial barrier.
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  243. Oh, definitely! That live audience is made out of people who wanted to be there. No doubt they've been watching on TV and maybe online this whole time.
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  244. A little automated craft with a big solar sail could actually get to Alpha Centauri much faster than Project Orion. Slowing down will be a challenge though...
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  245. The temperature differential would have to be correspondingly huge to overcome things like the inertia of the giant wheel and the force of gravity working against the enormous pistons.
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  246. Oh man, he mentioned Tom Scott. Sometimes YouTube recommends Tom Scott out of the blue and I'll click on a video. They're okay I guess, but not really my thing. For the next day or two every third recommendation is for Tom Scott. The algorithm seems to love that channel.
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  247. A quantum engine is such a neat idea, surely someone will come up with a use for it someday. Maybe not in a real world situation, but perhaps it could be used to find something else, like how the cosmic string is a gravitational lens.
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  248. It looks so nice and green there, and you even have some flowers blooming. In my part of the world the snow and ice is only about three-quarters melted and everything is different shades of brown. This video taught me some things. I had no idea there even was an aircraft leasing industry, or that it was mostly based in Ireland. They're definitely going to take a hit when Russia basically steals the planes. It seems like the Russians are assuming the sanctions are permanent and things will never get back to normal. At least this is the kind of thing one might only resort to as a last resort when they think they'll never have to face the consequences. If the war ends soon and sanctions are lifted, no one is going to lease planes to Russia again. The risk would be too much.
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  249. I've got popcorn!
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  250. Not just proud, but also too frightened to acknowledge the problems.
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  251. Wow, that was a remarkably thorough discussion of the topic! It's really cool to try and follow what you're saying, though I'm afraid you lost me with the arbitrage stuff. I definitely understood your major points, though. Is it possible that passive investing in the form of index funds may grow to become more of a problem in the future? If it really is a good low risk kind of investment, more and more people will probably get into them over time. Surely that will have a larger and larger effect on the price of stocks in the indexes.
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  252. Thank you, HighFlyer!
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  253. Thank you for another great video! Multiples are a concept I've had trouble with in the past, but your explanation makes it very clear.
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  254. A very interesting video on an important subject. Western sanctions on Russia need to be made more effective than they are right now. In particular we need to get some control over the import of western goods to central Asian nations that just send them on into Russia. I mean, come on. According to the video German imports to Kyrgyzstan have risen 1400% in four years! Yes Kyrgyzstan is trying to create its own tech sector, but the majority of those imports are just going straight through the country and continuing on into Russia. And at least some of the microchips are stripped from those consumer products and plugged into cruise missiles that blow up apartments and hospitals in Ukraine. There's a direct relation between these third party imports and Russia's continued ability to manufacture smart weapons. The continued export of Russia's resources through third party nations into western nations is also a concern, both because it earns Russia dark money that can be spent on the military and because it's setting up the conditions for future environmental disaster. This is the part of the video that disturbs me the most. The growth of these "shadow fleets" isn't just an end-run around export restrictions, but environmental ones as well. Sooner or later some of those rusty old tankers are going to sink, and then we'll really have a problem.
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  255. Great video, Disparu. Parrot Analytics has been fishy for a while, but this is the first real takedown of it I've seen. One other problem of measuring "demand" this way is that it undercounts shows that audiences enjoy but don't talk about as much. That makes it harder for good shows to get renewed. And it encourages creators to subvert expectations and continually frustrate their audiences, since that gets people talking.
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  256.  @Warhawk76  It will be extremely difficult, so it'll probably take time to identify the constituents of FBS and understand how they work. I think it can be done eventually, but the question is how long the funding will hold out. Will corporations keep funding research that may not pay off for a decade or longer?
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  257. Trump just isn't that important to American history, there would be no need to detail everything he said and did and all the controversies he was involved in. The history course would probably spend a fair bit of time talking about how America had become so radically polarized between different political parties, and how that polarization opened the door to corruption. Trump himself would be mostly discussed as a symptom of those problems.
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  258. It took me a while to "get" Corrections. At first I thought it wasn't necessary, but then I realized he was making fun of us on YouTube and it became hilarious.
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  259. Welcome back, Seth. Wherever you're broadcasting from (Seriously, where is that?) the audience will still be watching. And congratulations to the Sea Captain on his new marriage.
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  260. Thank you for this video! For the first time I finally understand how Robinhood works, and how market makers profit from order flow.
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  261. There are many legitimate criticisms of Amazon, but Trump manages to miss all of them and just make up stupid crap. It's amazing how he can be so consistently wrong about everything. Also, Alexas are laughing to themselves now? And that could be a sign of the Singularity??? Seth made it a joke but that's creepy enough to be true.
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  262. Maybe SLS will have fusion powered motors when it finally launches. That technology should be ready about the same time.
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  263. Thank you for this excellent video on the Evergrande situation! I've been watching different videos on this as the event has unfolded, and yours is really a model of clear explanation and useful information. Very well done. As for Evergrande itself... Over on Patrick Boyle's channel he says it looks like the Chinese government is going to let the company fail - but slowly, with the government making sure that in-construction buildings are finished and employees paid for their work. Basically they're going to try to limit the chance of contagion within the Chinese economy. It isn't known yet if the Chinese government will prioritize the repayment of Chinese debt holders over foreign ones, but even if they do... I think it's like you said in your video. China just isn't connected to the world economy in the same way the United States is. The failure of Lehman Brothers shook the entire world, but the slow motion collapse of Evergrande probably won't spread much beyond Asian markets. Imo anyway.
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  264. It's interesting you say that the Internet has pushed critics forward and made them more influential, because there used to be a whole lot more critics than there are now. The internet has been like an extinction event for journalism. Once upon a time every newspaper and magazine had their own critics. They probably didn't get paid much and didn't have any reach beyond the publication they were in, but collectively there were thousands of them. When the Internet came along there was a brief period where film criticism flourished and everyone had their own blog, but then Google and Facebook captured most of the advertising money and the majority of the print publications and blogs died. Today's entertainment journalists are the small group that survived the asteroid, so to speak. They say what the studios want them to say, because their own precarious existence depends upon there being enough advertising money coming in to keep the lights on. If a critic broke from the "mainstream" consensus and started to criticise the output of the entertainment conglomerates in a sustained way, their access to exclusives and their advertising money would dry up.
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  265. Yeah. For me the main problem with a smart phone was the idea that someone would want to be constantly connected to the Internet. Back then I "surfed" the Net for a certain number of hours each day, and that was it. Being online was an activity like watching TV or reading a book. The concept of constantly being online, doing everything online and being reachable by others 24/7 just didn't sound appealing - but it has become the dominant paradigm, for good and ill.
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  266. I watched your video on a computer running Windows 7 - so no, I'm probably not going to run out to get 11 as soon as possible. ;) Let 'em beta test it for five for ten years first.
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  267. This was really interesting, particularly habits #7 and #13. Setting annual goals sounds something like making a New Year's resolution (although probably far more specific in nature), but setting monthly goals is a new idea to me. That's... intriguing. It seems like one would have to posses a realistic understanding of their own capacity and limits to do this in a useful way, and more than anything they'd have to practice habit #7 - positivity. There has to be a balance between knowing your limits and believing that you really can succeed at anything you set out to do.
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  268. I love the idea that there will soon be different launch companies actively competing to put people into space!
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  269. Ah yes, the famous forest cities of Austria.
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  270. Thank you for the wonderful video! Perovskite solar cells certainly look like they'll be a key technology in our future, so it's a good idea to understand how they work as completely as we can.
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  271. You love to know more about these things, and we love to listen as you tell us what happened. thanks for another wonderful video, Scott! It's really impressive how you went through the available video evidence to figure out details of the flight.
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  272. I'm genuinely impressed by the bagel painting. It's even framed!
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  273. About 50% of the people in Britain have had that same expression for the last two years. It might be permanent at this point.
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  274. That was a great line. Disparu was on fire in this video.
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  275. I think we all know The Acolyte isn't going to be a real Star Wars show. It's a Kathleen Kennedy containment device, a very expensive way to let her do what she wants without messing up the rest of the franchise. The only people watching it will be those "new fans" she's looking for. Guess we'll finally see how many of them there are.
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  276. "I donated a kidney and they gave it back." LOL! The way he says it really makes the joke.
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  277. Thanks for this informative video! I'm learning after the fact, but it's still learning. As we know, Vulcan Centaur launched perfectly, so that's great news for ULA. I hope this leads to a great future for their company. It's too bad about the Peregrine lander, but whatever happened there probably isn't because of the launch vehicle.
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  278. I like it! It sounds like a trade-off between efficiency and convenience/affordability. The fluid doesn't capture a large amount of solar energy, but the energy it does capture is rendered into a stable, portable form that can be piped around and used in countless different ways. I don't think anyone will be storing it for years when the sun will still be shining tomorrow, but there's definitely a case to be made for storing sunlight in the summer and using it in the winter.
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  279. Thank you for another great video! This does relate to economics, so it seems quite on-brand for your channel. I've used the phrase "The Tragedy of The Commons," but until now I'd never heard of Garrett Hardin, much less Lin Ostrom. But it sounds like Ostrom's research could be extremely helpful for us today. Maybe she should be much better known, along with her conclusions. It seems we're going about fixing the planet in a messy, every direction at once fashion, with top-down legislation and bottom-up initiatives happening simultaneously. What really interests me (at this moment sitting in front of the computer) is why so many people who utterly rely upon the environment haven't been cooperating with each other and self-regulating like Ostrom says they should. Maybe it's because until now all the people who use the ocean or the atmosphere or the forests haven't thought of themselves as a community. In her early research on the Las Angeles watershed, the people she was studying really did live next to each other, and they made decisions about water use that had immediate observable impact on their neighbors. Maybe that's why they managed to work out a compromise that didn't overextend the resource. When someone throws a piece of trash in the ocean, they're not thinking of the ocean as a shared resource. They're thinking of it as an infinite sink, and their little contribution seems so small it just disappears. There's no thought that their specific bit of trash might get swallowed by a turtle or wash up on a beach thousands of miles away. The turtles and the people who live on distant islands don't feel like members of our community, they feel like inhabitants of other worlds. Maybe it's that sense of the environment as an infinite sink, and the belief that people in different nations have competing and not shared interests that has stopped us from working together and making bottom-up rules. Until now, that is.
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  280. About a year ago I was fascinated by the crypto market. It seemed almost miraculous, but I could never figure out where the profit was supposed to come from. Apparently these large VC firms felt the same way. Not knowing how it worked, they decided to blindly trust the trendy young man who seemed to know what he was doing.
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  281. Very good point, Matt McIrvin.
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  282. Thanks for another great video! I think we've all come to love that little helicopter. Go Ingenuity, go! On another note, what you said about the heat of the rotors being the chopper's main limiting factor is really interesting. That might end up being the main limiting factor of any kind of high performance machinery on Mars. We never really think about the role Earth's atmosphere plays in dispelling heat because it's ubiquitous, but on Mars evaporative cooling won't work so well and we'll have to design around it.
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  283. That's a really good point you made at the end about amateur astronomy. It's always more fun to use telescopes and see things for yourself, but any amateur who truly wants to advance science should be learning about algorithms and data mining.
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  284. Thanks for this video! The expansion of the universe is such an incredible series of events, it wouldn't seem too odd if it turned out there was something missing in our current knowledge, that explains the Hubble Tension. Personally I find the idea of Dark Energy rather spooky. It effects the entire universe, and it didn't start until (as you said) nine billion years after the Big Bang! Sure physics worked differently at the beginning of time, but that's reassuringly far back in the past. Dark Energy didn't start up until nearly five billion years later. What changed? Will it change again? Is it still changing?
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  285. The Indian space program has come a long way in a short time, especially considering their lack of funding.
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  286. Thanks for another great video! It seems like there should always be the same rules for everyone. Maybe the current situation wasn't as pressing before because most non-US stocks were European, and Europe's exchanges could be trusted to have their own stringent rules. China's rise has led to a unique situation where the parent nation can't really be trusted to have sufficient requirements on their own.
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  287. Really cool video! And now for the first time I understand why the black hole in Interstellar looks the way it does! Neat!
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  288. Thank you for this video! It's really interesting and I love your analysis of all the information. But it's sad that this is about a military program and not a civilian one. (It's not sad that you made a video out of it - that's fascinating and fun. I'm just talking about the intentions behind the launch.) Civilian rockets feel like they're part of something grander: a rising tide of hope and progress. But with military rockets the best thing one can hope for is that they're never used.
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  289. Thank you for this video! It's really informative. I've got a feeling I'm going to be rewatching this one in the future before making major decisions.
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  290. Thanks for another great video! Who cares about Area 51 when cool stuff like this is happening in real life!
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  291. Thank you for this most interesting (and somewhat scary) video! "...If these images become commonplace, easily scattered across the Internet, constantly in your newsfeed, what happens? Just like the instant access of the Internet has dulled our attention spans and kept us hungry for the next novel thing, will this devalue our own imaginations, because we can create without consequence or without effort?" That's a darn good question. I wish I could just say no, this kind of AI will help us use our imaginations in ways we normally don't use them now because it's too difficult or costs too much - but that's just some people, the ones who are already creatively motivated to express themselves. What about the rest of us, the majority who are just consuming information? Will we lose interest in art itself, because "anybody can do that?" Wish I knew the answer to your question. "In training an AI we are teaching it about our world. If we aren't careful we'll imprint the imperfections of our society into the brain of that AI. You're only as good as the examples you learn from, which is true both for people as well as for artificial intelligence." This is another extremely fascinating subject. I'm not sure I agree with the statement "you're only as good as the examples you learn from," but I agree you only start out as good as the examples you've learned from. Humans can learn on their own by rational deduction, detecting our implicit biases and overcoming them. It isn't easy, in fact it's one of the hardest things we can do, and it seems to get harder with age. But surely an AI could do the same thing. I used to think there was no way a computer could paint an original picture, but here we are.
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  292. That's really interesting! I'd love to see a video on it, too.
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  293. With the pragmatism forced on them by the continuing state of war. Without such a pressing need to stay focused the corruption may have consumed their economic system long ago.
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  294. So this is a Count of Monte Cristo situation? Trump crossed Giulani, and in response Giulani spent years working his way onto Trump's legal team so he could skewer the guy at the perfect moment? If only this was the case.
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  295. I think this is the most comprehensive video about Celsius that I've ever seen. Thank you for doing the research and effort to put something like this together! It's an excellent discussion of the topic and very educational. After the bankruptcy we all knew that Celsius was a fraud, but it really helps to hear Mashinsky's lies laid out so clearly. And the part at the end where you looked at the claims of influencer channels like Coin Bureau, with that slow zoom on the affiliate link, was very effective. It shows that so many of these channels that claim to understand what they're talking about really don't, or that they're being willingly misled.
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  296. He isn't the mastermind, but he's going to be possessed and Elora will have to take him down. Thus clearing the way for Prince Graydon and ridding the show of a character they're not interested in anyway.
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  297. At least Orion can be nicknamed "Ryan" or "Rian" or "Rion." I've no clue what the short form of X AE A-12 might be.
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  298. Thank you for another wonderful video! I really love how you generalized the Irish experience of 1970 to things going on today, like the need for trust in monetary systems.
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  299. Yeah, this was the first time I legitimately wanted to correct him. Buck Rogers is a completely different cheesy but beloved late-70's science fiction TV show with a toy line that was inspired by the success of Star Wars.
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  300. I love how that one kid kept his mask on. He's not intimidated.
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  301. Thank you! That was very interesting.
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  302. I saw this last night, so SPOILERS. (There's nothing else on now! TV is practically dead and streaming is full of awful zombie movies.) Anyway the scene that really struck me was the emotional climax when Cruella finds out she's the Baroness's daughter and she responds by stealing some poor mailman's scooter and taking it for a joyride to the fountain. At this point where we're supposed to feel maximum empathy for her it's obvious that Estella/Cruella feels nothing for anybody who's not a close acquaintance, and barely anything for her friends. She's ruined that mailman's day, and maybe even got him fired, but that doesn't matter compared to her need to talk to Mom in the appropriate setting. The movie tries to make Cruella a complex antihero, but it just makes her seem selfish and (literally) entitled. Her character arc is that she thinks she's better than everyone else, and through the course of the movie she proves that to be true. At one point the movie almost does something interesting when her friends begin to rebel against her increasingly callous nature, but then they get framed for murder and have no choice but to stick with her. It really does feel a lot like Rey in Star Wars, where the character arc is her learning to shrug off everyone's expectations and embrace her inner superiority.
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  303. Fighting about that stuff is called having a public conversation, and it's extremely healthy for democracy. In this case the candidates are standing in for different blocks of voters when they debate the issues. Just because one half of the United States has become an undemocratic fortress doesn't mean the other half has to follow suit. It's more important than ever to keep democracy alive and have public debates on the issues.
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  304. Yeah, I was thinking Oz as well.
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  305. This is what happens when partisanship gets out of control. If it was a Democratic President being impeached the Republican senators would be paying close attention.
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  306. Probably not, 5Andysalive. And Virgin Galactic will no doubt take precautions like telling the passengers not to eat before the flight, and giving them anti-nausea drugs. Someone has already thought of this, guaranteed.
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  307. "Doesn't seem like a particularly interesting rocket to many of you..." It's amazing there are so many rockets now we can play favorites.
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  308. It's interesting. I really like your video and I'm impressed by the chain of reasoning behind it, but for the first time I can't agree with the conclusion. My honest belief is closer to what you say at 12:47, although I know you don't find that idea compelling or explanatory. Regardless, it's clear that our thoughts are influenced by the physical condition of our brains. When our brains are injured or diseased we can't think clearly. If the corpus callosum is severed one side of the brain appears to be unaware of what the other side perceives. When learning a new skill we can actually measure how our neurons become more efficient, requiring less activity to perform the same task. And something subtle happens as brains age - our thoughts become more settled and we tend to be less and less open to new ideas, perhaps because of an age related loss of brain plasticity. So at some level thought must emerge from the physical processes of our brain, at least in part. On the other hand, the idea that we have no free will seems pretty implausible. If consciousness is a purely mechanistic phenomenon, something we've evolved to explain to ourselves why we carry out actions that have already been computed somewhere in the brain, then why is human behavior so unpredictable? Why is there a need to "explain" anything at all? Why are we conscious in the first place? In the end, I think "free will" is still a mystery. You say you can't find a place for it, so it can't exist. I say that just shows our knowledge of existence is missing something fundamental. There are still certain features of human existence like free will and our perception of the passage of time that can't be explained (and probably won't be fully explained) no matter how much we learn about how the universe works.
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  309. The ChimpanZoo and Lasagna Pinata are legitimately great.
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  310. The Moon is fascinating because it's right there, an alien world we can see by just looking in the sky. And like it says in the video, who knows what we may find when we finally get to start poking around inside the craters and caves.
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  311. I worry about Disparu. Batwoman changed Az, and Disparu has seen two or three times as much dreck as that by this point. How high can one man's tolerance be?
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  312. I like the Abyss more than Aliens. The action may not be as intense, but it feels more "true" and less tropey. The characters are more like actual people, and the conflict is a little more nuanced than in most of Cameron's movies. I mean I love all of Cameron's films, but The Abyss just feels like one of his better scripts.
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  313. I love everything about this. Let's get started!
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  314. I never understood why Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter in the first place. It seemed like a huge distraction for him, when he already has real companies trying to accomplish difficult things like making self-driving cars and going to Mars. As far as I can tell, Twitter is Elon's kryptonite - it inspires his worst behavior and most regrettable decisions. As for Twitter itself, it's hugely influential (with the "right" trendy people), but still stubbornly unprofitable. I'm not sure how anyone could change that.
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  315. Thank you for this video! Technically I'm procrastinating on YouTube, but thanks to you I'm thinking about interesting science news while doing it. That's high value procrastination. ;) The Hubble tension thing is really intriguing! Guess I need to check out your earlier video to see what the consequences of matter not being evenly distributed might be. The Spohn and Höning study seems a bit... suspect to me. (And yes, I'm an ignorant non-scientist person who hasn't read their paper, so my opinion isn't worth much.) They used a computer model that predicts the distribution of water and land on Earth-like planets, but we don't even know for sure how Earth got its water. If our water came from comets and asteroids, wouldn't that be a wildly variable factor in other star systems? Depending on where the Earth-like planet formed in its accretion disk it might have radically more or less water than we do - then there's the bombardment factor to consider, which would depend upon the distribution of other objects in that star system. I don't think we can confidently make predictions like "most Earth-like planets will have tiny oceans."
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  316. It's all Swedish to them. Bork, bork, bork, bork...
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  317. What you're talking about is a logical fallacy, but it's also human nature. It's a logical shortcut we fall back on when we feel overwhelmed by information or unsure. I think the best way to get people to avoid making the fallacy is to help them avoid becoming overwhelmed or unsure of what is real in the first place. That means clear, impartial discussion of proper risk management by people who are already highly trusted. But of course, finding someone who everyone trusts is also a problem...
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  318. Zing!
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  319. The key is that having some money gives you options. You're not forced to take the first available job because you need their health plan, or have to live in a place you don't like because it's all you can afford.
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  320. Thank you for this video! It's very relevant to my interests and really well made!
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  321. Thanks for the new video! I wouldn't want to be a Didi investor right now. There doesn't seem to be any upside to the Hong Kong move for shareholders, and the best the company can do is say "It won't change anything." That was a really good question about how nations might value the data their companies collect. With AI continuing to get smarter, large data sets seem more valuable than ever. But the thing that makes them valuable is their size. If a country tried to somehow fence off the social data of its citizens, that data would be less valuable since it isn't mixed with everyone else's.
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  322. There's no end to the wondrous discoveries in that attic. It's truly a magical place. And this was a great video! I laughed a bunch of times. Sometimes bitterly ironic laughter, but still laughter.
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  323.  @gzer0x  More like a southeast Asian work culture, where you're expected to go out and drink with your coworkers. Then go back to the office and work some more.
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  324. This was in the news, but nobody explained the whole thing as well as Scott Manley. Boo, Sapa Profiles! A 46 million dollar fine doesn't seem like enough when you consider the cost of everything that was destroyed.
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  325. You make an excellent point. And frankly it should be the role of government to pioneer things and spend huge sums of money getting industrial ecosystems started. Now those companies exist, it's better for everyone following behind.
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  326. It is pretty cool when you think about it.
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  327. Trump would've made a deal with Hitler and concentrated on only fighting Japan. Then after a couple of weeks he'd say that he'd won and withdraw the US Navy from the Pacific.
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  328. Thank you for this video. It's really interesting, as any one of those stories could be a full video of their own. I think that's about all I can say without YouTube deleting my comments. It's happening a lot lately.
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  329. This channel should absolutely have a million subs or more. It's one of the best channels on YouTube.
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  330. Thank you for the video. I'm not familiar with the technical details of climate sensitivity, but your possible description of the next twenty years is right in line with other predictions I've heard from other people. In all honesty I think we're going to do some last minute, possibly risky geoengineering to try and mitigate the worst effects. The most promising methods I've heard about are 1. "enhanced weathering" that will raise the alkalinity of the oceans, by way of dumping huge quantities of rock particles in the sea, and 2. cloud seeding on a huge scale, using fleets of airplanes. This could possibly be tested first by doing it in the winter over the poles. Still risky, but if it didn't work it wouldn't make the poles heat up faster. I really think both these things will be attempted, along with other geoengineering methods, when it becomes obvious that we're heading into the worst case scenario. It doesn't require global agreement. Some of the nations close to the equator may attempt to geoengineer the climate without getting the agreement of the rest, or the scientific community. For them it will be a simple matter of national security.
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  331. Good luck to Chandrayaan 3! I hope its mission is successful.
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  332. It is helpful to have a skeptical voice that's not trying to sell us anything.
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  333. Thank you for the very interesting video!
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  334. Thank you for this excellent video! You're so right about natural gas. It has to be phased out as soon as possible.
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  335. I love Isaac Asimov's writing. His Three Laws of Robotics weren't meant to be realistic, though. Their purpose was to stimulate interesting ideas for stories, as his characters continually tried to think of edge cases and ways around them - but the idea of instilling a very basic "ethical operating system" in every AI is a good one. If they were all programmed to do good at the most basic level of code, it might head off all sorts of situations where people try to misuse them. In that case their increasing levels of intelligence would work in our favor, since they'd be increasingly better able to understand "good" uses and refuse to do "bad" ones, even when we don't understand why it won't do what we say. But we'd have to find some way to make sure the AI didn't reinterpret good beyond the immediate situation (IE: is this command the user is giving me "good" for him and other humans right now), and don't develop some sort of moral philosophy where they only work for the good of the human species. No ends justify the means thinking for our flying weapons platforms, please!
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  336. Thank you for another really fascinating video! This channel really makes me think.
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  337. I think Milei was duped by what seems like a very obvious scam to you and me. He's an actual economist with a degree, but his interest in libertarian ideas makes him vulnerable to fringe stuff like crypto, especially when it's pitched as an idea to help Argentinians. They came to his conference and lied to his face. It's the Dunning-Kruger effect in action.
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  338. If you want to learn math on the Internet, khanacademy.org is the best place. And it's free. Another good place that's not free is brilliant.org And both of those websites have lots of other stuff to learn besides math.
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  339. Hi there. YouTube randomly recommended your video to me, and I'm glad it did. Thank you for a really interesting and well written critique of the linear city.
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  340. It's freeing, really.
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  341. Thanks for another great video. This is certainly going to have a big effect on global supply chains.
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  342. It's a conflict between human nature and logic. When we see a bunch of people crowding around something we want to see what it is, and when we burn our hand we drop the burning thing. Instinct vs. reason.
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  343. Thanks for another great video! It helped me feel a little better about this stressful time. Seems like the best strategy right now is to just wait for an upturn. Hold on to your investments and don't sell.
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  344. Spirulina has been a "health supplement" for many years, but the way they sell it makes it fairly expensive. It's interesting that this study says spirulina can be made cheaper than beef.
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  345. The organic solar cells could become truly ubiquitous if they end up replacing batteries, even if just partially. I'm imagining a wireless mouse that has a organic solar cell charger that works off the lighting in the room. Just put it in the charger when you're not using it and voila! No more need to keep changing AA batteries.
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  346. It's an interesting app, but I don't think it's for me either. I'm too old to have any friends on it, and the daily requirement to post a selfie is total cringe. What you said about "hyperreality" and over-curation is interesting too. I guess I'm too old to even perceive those things as the biggest problems. For me there's two huge problems with social media: 1. Don't think, just react. Social media teaches us to indulge in our worst instincts. Instead of thinking about things we absorb someone else's point of view. And instead of talking about issues we just confirm or deny someone else's opinion, with the lowest effort, most controversial opinions preferred over everything else. 2. Tribalism. Social media fractures us into small, self sufficient groups that don't need to interact with each other in any meaningful way. Somehow these massive communications technologies have reduced life itself to a team sport, where nothing (not even reality) matters more than beating the other team.
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  347. Thanks for this video, Scott! It's interesting how the Koreans decided to go it alone in their space program (certainly not the cheapest option) and seem to be making good progress. It's too bad about this launch not being 100% successful, but its still a big step up for them.
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  348. Ugly German Truths: "I do not think many of the subscribers of scott's channel are "mad" at india for failing to land the object... but the attempt to deny it crashed is pretty much unforgivable in this industry..." This is it exactly, although I wouldn't say unforgivable. It's just regrettable more than anything.
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  349. So he stopped himself from making one gaffe only to make another. That's kind of Trump's life in a nutshell.
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  350. The Bezzle does make sense, since it gives a name to something we don't usually think of in definite, quantifiable terms. We know that money is lost in a con, but calling it the bezzle gives us a way of saying that this amount is transferred from the victims (and anyone else bailing them out) to the con artist, along with all the extra spending the victims made when they thought they were richer.
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  351. What a fun video! Thank you, Scott.
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  352. Same with Seth's Trump. The impression is so much more interesting and entertaining than listening to the man himself.
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  353. It's great to see David Letterman again! I used to watch him on real TV in the late 80's and early 90's. Just after Johnny Carson and before the late movie. He had a reputation as a rebel who liked to subvert the idea of what a "show" could be.
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  354. It would be very difficult and expensive to send a probe to Oumuamua, mainly because it's travelling away from Earth now and there just isn't time to build something for the job before it disappears. But there is good news! Astronomers think there could be thousands of interstellar objects constantly moving in and out of the Solar System, and now they have a better idea what to look for they might find others more easily.
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  355. That was awesome.
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  356. Thanks for another really interesting video!
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  357. It's going to be insane! (In the heavy metal sense of the word.) Giant freaking craters with every launch. They'll have to use a few more stakes to hold that tent down.
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  358.  @FrahdChikun  Or to put it another way, we all need to realize that our "team" isn't completely right about everything and the rest of the world isn't totally wrong.
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  359. That was really interesting! I had no idea you did videos like this. It's a great format.
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  360. They were all about running really fast, or apples.
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  361.  @BasicName02  Exactly. You've gotta have the gift of gab and the ability to leverage your social network to make the best connections.
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  362. Thank you for this video, it's really well made and interesting. I remember Dell as a golden stock from the turn of the century that could turn ordinary people into millionaires (maybe the first sign of the coming dot com bubble) but lost track of it in this century. It's fascinating to see the journey Dell has been on since then.
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  363. Yeah, and NASA just said that a regular change in the Moon's cycle is going to cause extra flooding all over the world, amplifying the effects of climate change. It's going to be a lot worse than people realize, especially along the East Coast.
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  364. Thank you for another great video. There's some interesting things to think about this week. Why would the ratio of "semi-heavy water" to regular water on Earth be lower than the ratio in V883 Orionis? I did a little Googling, and it sounds like Earth is unique even in the Solar System. The deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio increases as you go out from the Sun, although not in a simple linear fashion. It's higher on some of Jupiter's moons than the Oort cloud, but lower on Jupiter itself. (No doubt there's been some mixing over billions of years, with different bodies moving around.) But the deuterium percentage is consistently higher on every other water bearing body than it is on Earth. So why is Earth different? Is there some mechanism that separated out most of the deuterium that was originally there, or did Earth receive extra water with a lower of percentage of deuterium from a source other than the interstellar medium?
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  365. I could care less about pronunciation. The real gold here is "Giuliani of The Jungle."
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  366. Ways to "game" the system and have enough money when you retire: 1. Start with a lot of money and let it grow into an even bigger pile. (Not an option for the vast majority of people.) 2. Start to invest as early as you can, and keep as much invested as long as you can. When you hit 65 you don't need to zero out your investments. You might make some major withdrawals to pay for things like dream vacations, but the rest of the money can stay put and keep compounding so it's there for you when you're 75.
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  367. Dex Starr (great Red Lantern reference, btw) you are so right about personalities like Logan and Jake Paul. Those people are far more harmful to young minds than bizarre Spider-Man buried in sand stuff. I worry about children who will think of Logan Paul with the same kind of warm nostalgia that earlier generations attached to Mr. Rogers and Big Bird.
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  368. Right, I'm just saying the approximate orbit must have been pretty good in the end.
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  369. "He sounds the way hot dog water smells." LOL!
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  370. If there was a plot to kidnap him, he'd never stop talking about how huge and dangerous it was.
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  371. I think it went pretty much the way you laid it out in the video. Prigozhin was attempting a coup, although I don't think he wanted to get rid of Putin. The idea was to purge the Ministry of Defence, then fill it with his allies and use it as his new power base. Wagner would essentially become the new Ministry of Defence. Putin would still nominally run the country, but Prigozhin would be in charge of all military matters. This situation couldn't last for long, but I think it was his goal. He stopped for the reason you mentioned: there just wasn't enough support from the regular military. He really needed them to defect en masse and join his cause, but instead most of them stayed loyal to the government. If Prigozhin took Moscow he'd be constantly fighting to defend it, until his forces collapsed.
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  372. I don't know. For the first time, I don't think I agree with one of your videos. A lot of the points you make here come from the well worn and thoroughly discredited arguments rich people have been making for generations to avoid paying taxes. Like the trickle down theory that rich people like Jeff Bezos are supporting economic activity by commissioning super yachts, and if the state taxes them they'll reduce that spending. What's better for the economy of the United States, millions of dollars in taxes that can be spent on programs to help Americans, or millions of dollars going to a yacht maker in the Netherlands? Obviously the former. Billionaires spending cash on toys only stimulates specific parts of the global economy, and rarely trickles down to the most needy. In general I'd say that extreme wealth inequality is a sign of an inefficient economy, since so much capital ends up in the hands of people who have little incentive to spend it. I'm not sure that taxes on billionaires are a good idea or not. I really don't know. But I do think the current wealth of the 1% is a sign that something has been broken for quite a while, and we shouldn't take any option off the table if we want to fix it.
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  373. He also said that we need help for that last little bit, like a weightlifter who needs a spotter for the last rep or two.
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  374. I wish I didn't know who Dr. Phil is.
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  375. "...It may be that dark matter isn't what we think it is. Rather, non locality manifests in our relativistic level in that gravitational attraction gets multiplied over spread out areas because they are non locally connected, and it's really just normal matter behaving in an unfamiliar way." That's an interesting idea. I had to write it out to really parse what you're saying. (Apologies if I made any mistakes in transcription.) Quantum non locality is "spooky action at a distance," where quantum particles somehow "know" the state of other quantum particles, so that when one changes the other can can adjust its state to match, even when the particles are separated by great distances and there's no apparent connection between them. It's instantaneous, even appearing to go faster than the speed of light. So, you're saying that dark matter may be some sort of particle that only interacts with regular matter through its mass, hence it reacts to and creates gravitational fields. But it's non locally connected to other dark matter particles... So it gives the impression there's a lot more of it out there than there really is? Gravitation is multiplied over spread out areas because the dark matter that's out of range of a particular gravitational field (but non locally connected to in-range dark matter) will act the same as the dark matter in range of that field? I'm kind of fuzzy on how that could work. Seems like it would violate conservation of energy. But then, this is an idea that's square in the middle of uniting classical and quantum physics, so I guess it makes sense that it would be hard to understand.
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  376. The basic idea is to redefine all the units of measurement used in SI (the measurement system of science) so they depend upon inherent properties of the universe (physical constants), instead of solid objects. The reason they're doing this is because any solid object will change with time, and measurements based on them won't be accurate forever. (Today's kilogram will weigh a tiny bit less or more than the same kg measured in 1799.) All of the other SI units have already been redefined this way, and now it's the kilogram's turn. By using the method described in the video, the kilogram can now be defined by using two different physical constants: Avogadro's number and the Planck constant. So they're doing two different measurements (one with each constant), and checking to see that both methods agree on the same measurement of the kg. That way they can be certain of the kilogram's weight to a high degree of accuracy.
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  377. I don't know what the danger of superluminal asteroids might be. It seems like we'd have to be tremendously unlucky to actually be in the path of an asteroid hurled at us by something like a black hole. The danger of getting sprayed by its radiation jets (or some random nova) would seem a lot more likely, and thus serious. As for our ability to deflect asteroids... Yeah, the result of DART is tremendously encouraging. Maybe we are on the brink of an era where that sort of thing can be handled long before it becomes a problem. It's really interesting how you relate that to the idea of asteroids as a great filter. And you're probably right. Any civilization that expands even slightly into its own star system will probably develop an ability to protect against asteroid and comet impacts. But their ability to do so would be a factor of how likely those impacts are in the first place. Star systems that don't have planets like Jupiter acting as an attractor might be far more dangerous than ours.
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  378. Thank you for this deep dive video on agrivoltaics. I love it when you return to previously discussed subjects like this to do updates or go deeper into discussions. As for agrivoltaics itself... Yes, it looks like an area with great potential. I hope they keep working on it.
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  379. Good point, E Cognitio.
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  380. I have not watched this show, and don't intend to. So thank you Disparu for taking a bullet for the rest of us and actually watching it. As for what HBO thought they were getting, Mindy Kaling wrote quite a few well regarded episodes of The Office (the American version of the show), and something called The Mindy Project that I haven't seen but Rotten Tomatoes seems to think it was great. So I guess they were hoping for that kind of success again. It's the old Hollywood formula of taking a "hot" talent and attaching them to a familiar old IP. Not sure if it's ever actually worked, but they think it's certain to make money.
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  381. I'm sorry I didn't water you enough. I got distracted and forgot. Please stop chemically shouting at me!
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  382. He's not a smoker though, and he runs something like 3.5 miles every day. I think he's just really tired.
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  383. It's extraordinary how pale and lifeless this show is when you consider the vivid pulpiness of the source material. It's like they run the scripts through a filter to remove anything dramatic before filming.
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  384. Whatever it takes, piranha031091. Whatever it takes to make this happen!
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  385. No joke, they're having a hard time in Antarctica right now. One of the breeding colonies was destroyed by collapsing ice.
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  386. Oh dear God it would be amazing if this happened. But I'm not sure Mr. Drinker's liver could take all the self-medication it would require.
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  387. There've been some interesting experiments with putting sails on cargo ships. Not old fashioned cloth sails, but modern rigid or inflatable structures that can be stowed when not in use. I don't think they provide enough energy to make the ship diesel-free, but they can cut down on the amount of fuel needed for a trip.
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  388. The thing is, while Russia can always conscript more men, the new men are increasingly poorly trained because they have to be sent to the front immediately. Meanwhile they continue to lose tanks, BTRs, artillery... Just about every manufactured thing except airplanes. While they can continue to fight, if they fight too long their army will eventually be reduced to a mob of untrained men that have no hope of victory against a modern opponent.
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  389. Being the defender and not the aggressor really helps with those optics.
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  390. He's like a stuffed toy come to life! So cute.
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  391. Thanks for the video! I'm afraid the details went way over my head, but it sounds like JP Morgan has a decent case.
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  392. Thanks for another great video! A year or two before this came out I had some fascinating discussions with people online about what the world of Independence Day would look like 20 years later. It was a lot of fun speculating how the enormous destruction of the first movie would alter everything we knew and create an alternate version of 2016. And it looks like the writers of Resurgence had similar ideas. Their 2016 is less whimsical (I thought there'd be a giant gold statue of Randy Quaid in front of Area 51) and less dark than my ideas, but they still came up with a world that, in theory, seems like it could have been the setting for some cool stories. But that's only in theory. In practice the movie they made is everything you describe in your video: dumb to the point of insulting, overloaded with useless and boring characters, and just not interesting. The first movie was full of human stories that sucked you in (like Titania) and made you forget that you were watching a genre movie with a highly formulaic plot. The characters made it work. In Resurgence the formula is all we can see because there's nothing else to distract us.
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  393. I was thinking this too! My Dad's sixty-year-old field glasses can give a better view of the Moon than that Vivitar. Not as steady, though.
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  394. Wow, that was a really interesting deep dive on Firefly and their relationship with Northrop Grumman. Thank you! It's your unique insight and analysis that makes this channel such a treasure.
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  395. Young males? What are those? Hollywood thinks they all disappeared around 2012.
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  396. Thank you!
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  397. Wow, thank you for the video, Scott Manley. This might be coolest thing I've ever heard. A crazy, continuous nuclear reaction rocket that can produce thrusts somewhere between 60-70 km/s and one percent of the speed of light! "Which is probably a good thing, because you don't want a nuclear reaction running up inside your engine plumbing.." I'm not an engineer, but this sounds like good advice. You'd probably want to make sure the exhaust is never pointed at the Earth as well.
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  398. I was skeptical when I saw your title, but those are all good ideas! Restoring coastal ecosystems like mangrove forests and sea grass is something we should be doing anyway, so that makes sense. I'm not sure that carbon sequestration is even the best reason for replanting, since the carbon is only sequestered while the ecosystem is there. If someone decides to build a resort and wipes out a mangrove swamp, the carbon that was in it will go right back into the atmosphere. The real reason for restoring these places is maintaining biological diversity and the greater ecosystem of the oceans as a whole. Real carbon sequestration should lock away the carbon dioxide for hundreds or thousands of years, so we can't unintentionally screw up and release it all again. That's what makes the flow reactor sound like a really good idea. It's a direct solution that sounds more tenable than other carbon capture methods I've heard, like burying dried algae. Unfortunately it shares the scale problem of other direct methods. There's just so much CO2 to remove, it will take a vast army of flow reactors running constantly to make even a dent in the problem. Could such a thing be financed through carbon credits? The best solution of the three, if it works , is probably the olivine dumping. It directly removes the carbon by turning it into minerals, and it uses natural forces like the waves and sea creatures to magnify its effect for less cost than something like the flow reactor. It sounds like dumping a relatively small amount of olivine could have a large effect. Repeat that year after year and it might actually make a difference. And while it isn't innately profitable, if they keep combining it with beach restoration like they're doing now it should be possible to get people to pay for it. But all three of these are good ideas, and like they said in the video, everything helps. The problem is too large for any one solution, so we need to do everything that makes any kind of sense.
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  399. That would probably do the British economy more good in the end. By "paying off" the steel workers you're giving them the means to support themselves while they retrain for another job, and supporting domestic demand.
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  400. The Orion Drive is far and away the idea most familiar to viewers of this channel, and it still has the allure of something that might someday, somehow be possible. But building that pusher plate and all those bombs would be quite a challenge. The craziest idea on the list (imo) is generating nuclear power using pulsed nuclear bombs. At least with the Orion Drive you're accelerating away from the explosions and hopefully don't have to deal with their full effects. But Project Pacer would just sit there on top of all the nuclear fire and hope the radiation and seismic effects didn't eventually destroy the facility. Btw, I love the diagram at 8:44 with the optimistically named "Safety" component that would protect the surface from any nuclear byproducts coming back up the hole. As for terraforming Mars, I think redirecting comets so they smack into the planet is the best way to go. But you'd need to do it in a way that allowed a significant portion of the volatiles to stay on the planet instead of erupting back into space again. It would come down to precisely controlling the angle of impact and maybe the orbital velocities of the comets. Definitely not something we can do today, but it may be achievable in the more distant future.
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  401. Oh man, I felt that eye roll at 6:51 when he mentioned the "I don't see you, you see me" bit. It was like a crossbow bolt to the heart. Btw, Twiki was voiced by the great Mel Blanc of Bugs Bunny fame. Dunno why I mentioned that, but it's pretty neat.
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  402. The reality is that we could die at any moment, from many different causes. No life should be taken for granted.
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  403.  @musaran2  Oh yeah, they made money. They're suing because they would have made more money otherwise.
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  404. Me too! But I got my boxes of books from the library.
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  405. If you follow Midnight's Edge videos on MoTU, this is exactly what they say happened. The only difference is that Kevin Smith isn't apparently a He Man fan, so he relied on the Netflix Exec to provide the fan's perspective for him.
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  406. I love this idea, because it feels so much like a video game. But at the same time it's clear that it's very early days for floating cities, and there's an awful lot of problems that will need to be solved before they could work as true cities. No doubt that's why the SeaSteading guys are only talking about building expensive single "pods" and not whole communities. I'm really interested in the Oceanix project and hope they actually build it. In Southeast Asia they've had floating villages and neighborhoods for centuries. For instance lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia has hundreds of little floating fishing villages. But these places tend to be inhabited by the poorest of the poor who depend upon resource extraction to survive. Or in the case of floating neighborhoods, they tend to be the poorest and most desperate parts of the slums, were people locate because their semi legal-status means residents don't have to pay property taxes. If an American city that's threatened by climate change - like say, Miami - was able to transform itself using this technology and became partially floating and partially on land, how would the floating sections avoid the long term pressures that tend to turn floating neighborhoods into slums? Would people with money want to live on the floating parts, or would everybody be competing to live on land?
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  407. Thank you for this video! Your Situation Room videos are always fascinating, and this one is no exception.
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  408.  @KuK137  Yeah, as soon as something is patented the price soars. It should be against the law to make big profits off medications like insulin that people literally need to survive.
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  409. Now this is a quality comment.
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  410.  @DxBlack  Yeah, the efficiency probably isn't good enough to power something like a wireless mouse. Keeping the lights on when no one's there just to charge all the little devices that used to use batteries isn't exactly saving power.
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  411. I think they'd handle quarantines pretty well, actually. Just stop the train, turn off the elevators, maybe put some roadblocks in the atrium between neighborhoods, and you could shut that place down. That's what's kind of frightening about The Line, it's a top down solution using architecture to control the movement of millions of people.
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  412. Nah, it's "We Gotta Get out of This Place" by The Animals, on non-stop loop.
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  413. I've got the popcorn!
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  414.  @peterjf7723  That's a very good point. It seems like scientists would need to understand how Zika works a lot better before they use it in therapies.
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  415. Thank you for another wonderful video! These updates are so fascinating.
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  416. Thanks for this video! Intelligence is such a fascinating subject, especially in animals. There doesn't seem to be any clear boundary between them and us, just a shading of attributes we all share to one degree or another. Some animals are all about self control, like squirrels, but they'll just take everything and store it for later. The ability to pass up a treat now to get a better treat later seems to indicate the Eurasian jays have some concept of the "future." The squirrel is probably just following instinct when it stores nuts instead of eating them right away, it's not consciously preparing for winter. But when the jays pass up an immediate opportunity they must have some rudimentary conception that there will be a period of time after now when the mealworm appears. So like us, they understand the passage of time, at least to a small degree.
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  417. I think Trump is mentally incapable of learning because he's gone so long without needing to change his mind about anything, he's negatively conditioned himself to avoid novelty of any kind. We don't normally see people like this because the real world forces everyone to change now and then, but Trump has always been insulated by money from the consequences of his actions, so he's grown this unique hothouse flower of a mental condition.
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  418. It isn't an age problem, it's a political party problem. Judges shouldn't be political, or at the very least they shouldn't owe their job to a politician.
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  419. It really is.
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  420. This is definitely (imo) part of the story of Nortel's demise. It's a fascinating story in its own right that needs to be more widely known. But the financial mismanagement was the main reason Nortel fell. If they weren't already so weakened by that fraud, Huaiwei's espionage wouldn't have had such a devastating effect.
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  421. I think she'd say that what matters isn't the life you've spent, it's how you spend the rest of it.
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  422. You're a man of culture, I see.
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  423. While Bruce Campbell is integral to the process, it's actually Sam Raimi who succeeded at mixing comedy and horror. There's a raw emotion in Raimi's movies that usually works, but occasionally misfires. I think you need a uniquely talented director to successfully mix those genres.
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  424. And make it all so fascinating! I rewound and listened to some sections a number of times, so for me it was even longer than 15 minutes. Totally worth it.
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  425. Why couldn't UAPs be time travelers? That would explain the apparent interest in us, and their reluctance to communicate. They wouldn't want to screw up their future.
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  426. Thank you, I was wondering how they were still doing their launch if they had no money.
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  427. It's really scary how close Trump came to subverting democracy in the United States. The only reason it didn't work is because a number of people were more loyal to their country than their political party. And those people have been relentlessly persecuted by the Republicans ever since.
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  428. Is this Jared Kushner's "Operation Airbridge?" I've read that it's a real ****show.
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  429. Haven't seen the comet yet, but I hope to see it soon. Thank you for the great video, Scott Manley! NEOWISE is a fascinating mission. It just amazes me how many asteroids there are, and they keep finding more!
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  430. You're one hundred percent right.
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  431. I think Luke saw the flashback too. If anything it probably showed Luke that Grogu isn't a blank slate - he's been through a lot, and that trauma may be preventing him from wanting to progress.
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  432. They've just been to space and survived reentry. I think a little quiet time to just sit and process could be a good thing.
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  433. Sigh... I've been a member of the CBR message board community since 1999. It's my oldest surviving Internet community, and I love it. For most of that time the front page of Comic Book Resources was a place where people talked about comic books, and that was all. There was no culture war, it was a haven for gigantic nerds like me. They had long running beloved columns that talked about obscure comic book characters and stories, and occasionally breathless speculation about upcoming superhero movies. Then the owner Jonah Weiland sold the site to... whoever owns it now, and the frontpage became a mass of clickbait low effort articles on pop culture. Thank god they kept the message board, but the message board is the only thing of value left because the mainpage has become nothing but bubble gum for the mind.
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  434. I'm confused, does this mean I'll no longer be able to download books from Amazon to read on my Kindle app for PC? I don't own a Kindle, but I've been using the PC app for years.
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  435. Thank you for another great video! Graphene seems like it has a bright future as a "secret" ingredient in many different products, making them them more efficient in different ways. But someone still has to come up with a better way of mass producing it. Coming down in price by two orders of magnitude in 12 years is an impressive achievement, but if graphene is going to become a major part of the economy they still need to knock another zero off. Or two.
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  436.  @imjashingyou3461  How could they figure that out? Did he remember it???
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  437. If this was a world where I had some kind of unlikely influence over who gets Emmy awards, I'd give you one for the "Double Negative" story. That is an all time classic.
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  438. Also, he had a heart attack last year. The man's got to stay safe.
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  439. Thanks for the video. It's really interesting to go back and take a second look at something you've featured before. I'm not sure that 3-D printing will be a good solution to the problem of building homes for people who are homeless or who currently live in poor housing conditions. It's an expensive new technology that needs to be imported, and will require specially trained workers to operate. This is an example of using technology to solve what's really a logistics and organization problem. These areas have plenty of available labor. What's needed is a way to source and deliver materials cheaply (From within the local area, ideally. The TECLA people got that part right.), then organize the available labor and get things built. Money spent on acquiring local materials and paying local workers will produce a better result than importing new technology from abroad.
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  440. That's very interesting!
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  441. Really, there's nothing you can do except watch and hope it doesn't explode.
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  442.  @sbob1041  I think the key point here is who pays for the new battery. The fixed battery is owned by the car owner, and they pay for a new one. (Either directly or through paying into a warranty system.) Most of the cost of Nio's battery swap system is borne by Nio itself, and that isn't sustainable for them. To make the battery swap idea work, most of the cost of the system would have to be paid for by the EV owners. And that would mean much higher prices.
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  443. There's probably going to be a battery somewhere in there between the power source and your appliances to smooth out the supply, but I think it's still very much undecided whether that battery will be located in the neighborhood and owned and operated by the electricity company, or if it will be in your house and owned by you. There seem to be new technologies that could make both approaches possible. But yes, either way means the grid will have to be "smart" enough to manage all this variability. (Both seasonal variability and daily changes when homes are selling excess solar power back to it.)
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  444. I think she was talking about their live action show, not the original source material.
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  445. I don't know. He went through the glowing door and ended up at his in-law's house. Who can say what wonders exist there? A talking painting might be the least of it, simply the thing that's easiest for us to comprehend.
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  446. That's a really insightful comment, Peter Anderson. If the programmer(s) had possessed a greater understanding of what each part of the program did, they may have wondered at the lack of filtering and sent a question to someone higher up that could have exposed the flaw. But their job involved such a tremendous amount of detail they probably didn't have any time or energy left over to do more than transcribe instructions. This is a good example of how automation can actually increase human intelligence, since software can now take over all that tedious compiling.
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  447. Thank you for this video. I hope it helps to start a conversation in our society.
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  448. That's what "warrior" means for Trump. In his view everyone exists to serve him. Calling people warriors is just a way to make them feel good about it.
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  449. Thanks for this excellent video! It's a great example of what makes your channel special. Personally, I have no idea what's coming. It would be wonderful to have that kind of information, but there's so much going on simultaneously right now in both the business and non-business worlds it's impossible to make any predictions. Imo, anyway. I'm just hanging on and hoping my investments are diversified enough to take advantage of whatever happens next.
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  450. The solution is to make new things that appeal to present day people in new ways, not to change the old ones. But the movie industry is currently too dominated by large corporations and too utterly dependent on massive tent-pole movies to properly appeal to different quadrants of the audience by making smaller, more specialized films. Their solution is to try to homogenize us into a new, diverse mass culture that replaces the old more monolithic one. But today's audience doesn't want to be homogenized.
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  451. It's an achievement for the history books, and a demonstration of what their network can accomplish. I saw one of the press conferences, and it sounds like they're going to keep observing M87* for now. There's probably lots more to discover there!
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  452. Zing! That was great.
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  453. The Canadarm is version 1.0 of astromech droids like R2D2. Except in real life they'll be big enough to haul around whole sections of a structure and look more like giant bugs than cute trash cans.
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  454. Thanks for a truly fascinating video! This is a subject I've heard almost nothing about, and it's really interesting. Thank you for explaining it so well, and for finding those relevant video clips! It must have been quite a job to track them down. So the Coriolis forces are more noticeable with higher rotations, and larger rotating bodies could spin more slowly to simulate the same gravity. They should have put that centrifuge on the ISS! We could have had years of data on centrifugal effects without the interference of Earth's gravity by now. Anyway, it seems that bigger is better when you're trying to simulate gravity with rotation. For something smaller like a spaceship on a long duration trip, it might not be worth it to put in a centrifuge, because the crew would have to train to relearn things as simple as picking up a coffee cup, and there'd be additional strains on the ship itself. Imagine using a big water tank wrapped around the living area as a radiation shield and then spinning the ship! That tank would be constantly sloshing around, creating different pressures on stuff like pipes and seals.
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  455. Iranian pirates? That does sound interesting.
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  456. Hah, I thought you'd cover Rebel Moon. It's the kind of thing you handle really well on this channel. I saw Rebel Moon on Christmas day, and even though I had low expectations going in, it was still a disappointment. The absolute flatness of the characters does bring things like Gotham Knights and Rings of Power to mind. You review it really well. It does feel like a video game, mixed with scenes taken from other films.
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  457. Those clips are from a satirical British TV show called "Spitting Image." The current incarnation streams on BritBox, and is currently in series (that is, season) two.
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  458. French people are known to have enthusiasm for ...somewhat unusual aspects of American culture, like Jerry Lewis movies - but nobody can win against them in a conflict over wine. Their wine culture goes back thousands of years.
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  459. Thank you for this really interesting video! I really like how you went back to a whole group of related technologies that you'd previously covered to see how they're doing now. The ultra-thin panels with the honeycomb layer are really neat! They sound like a genuine innovation that could find a place in the market for solar cells. The thin organic cells sound interesting as well. They may not be very efficient, but if they can replace batteries in a number of situations that would be a huge market.
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  460. You're right, I think that's why Roblox attracts investment. People aren't investing in the company now, they want a piece of it in 10-20 years time when all those kids have jobs and can spend as much as they like on microtransactions.
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  461. That is a natural endpoint for the service life of the component.
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  462. It's neat that somebody found the lander - and doing it using publicly available NASA data just shows how silly it is to keep these things secret. ISRO accomplished something really cool with their orbiter, keeping the fate of the lander secret just distracts attention from that. If ISRO was more transparent about their accomplishments and failures, and let people look at their data (like NASA does) they'd have far more support from everyone.
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  463. One of the best jokes in the whole series.
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  464. In the comics the first time Batman fought a Talon he lost pretty handily. It's been a while since I read the book, but I think Batman had to explode a building to make the Talon think he was dead.
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  465. @markrice41 Well said.
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  466. Seems like the key to this kind of storytelling is convincing us that the characters are real people, since we take our cues about what's going on from them. (The movie can use slow zooms as much as it wants, but that's never going to be as convincing as the calm acceptance of the characters.) The first half of The Lobster works for me because I can believe in the reality of David, but the second half of the movie gets so weird that I stopped believing in him as a three-dimensional character and then stopped caring about what was happening to him. I guess the second half makes sense in the context of the film, because it's just changing the rules that David is living by. The rules aren't really more or less weird than before, just different. But for me the idea that he could go from one to the other just didn't feel real.
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  467. I think success is making Bytternyt complacent. Streaming a black screen for an hour is kind of arrogant. Sure I'd watch it all the way through, BUT ONLY ONCE.
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  468. Thanks for this wonderful video! And RIP 1058. You were a good booster.
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  469. Don't know if it's true, but I heard the original script was set further in the future, but they put it in 2032 so they could include product placements for actual companies.
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  470. Thank you for this video. And for that earlier one. Really, thank you for all your videos. They're a wonderful resource for understanding the actual world of finance. "...you don't wanna find yourself in twenty years time sitting in an office with an emotional support NFT, unable to understand the world around you." Oh, I'm already there. I've been watching various YouTube videos on the newest cryptocurrencies and crypto-adjacent concepts with the goal of understanding just what value they add to the world, and most of the time I'm drawing a blank. I think a large part of the crypto world, at least at the bleeding edge where the new tokens are created, isn't finance at all but is instead the money that used to go into things like dog races and the Irish Sweepstakes. It's the get rich quick money that never really created value except within its own little ecosystem. The difference now is that their ecosystem isn't little - it's worldwide, huge, and intertwined with the people who are trying to create an actual digital economy. I think there is real value in crypto (or things that will create value in the future, like maybe StrongBlock nodes) but it's thoroughly mixed in with the trendy get rich quick stuff.
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  471. "...I tend to be an optimist and believe that while greenflation may be here for a while, we can expect innovations going forward that mean life will be better in the future than it is today. As has been the case throughout human history." This is exactly how I feel about the subject. (But then I'm not as adversely affected by it, or at least not yet.) The transition to a decarbonized economy has to be made or we'll pay a far greater price later. "Greenflation" will subside when we finally get transitioned to renewable energy. It's exciting in a way that we're finally starting to do it on a global scale, after decades of empty talk.
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  472. Yeah, I was thinking about Seveneves as well.
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  473. True.
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  474. It sounds like you're a legend as well, if you've been to two of these places!
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  475. You know, I find this idea that there are certain words I'm not allowed to say really offensive, and counter to everything liberalism is supposed to be about. There are certain words I shouldn't say and won't say because saying them would hurt others, but that's very different from not being allowed to say them. Once you start caging yourself in a web of unwritten rules that have nothing to do with principle or law, are you really that different from the character in this skit?
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  476. The guy saying "God put this here!" really makes the joke.
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  477. His Bernie airport rant from last week still makes me laugh every time I think of it. "Don't worry, Dear. I'll drive to LaGuardia to restock our supplies!"
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  478. Thank you for the new video! It's really interesting. Poor Turkey. It sounds like they could do all right if their government wasn't standing in the way.
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  479. "Don't answer that, Craig!"
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  480. Now all those unemployed software engineers can find productive jobs.
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  481. And Rubber from 2010. It's a movie about a killer car tire, where the tire is the main character.
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  482. I miss the old days when A Closer Look could make jokes about magical books and wasps writing segues. What was that, ten years ago? Feels like more. Of course this is no time for running gags. A man was slowly murdered on camera, and that's become a tipping point for both people of color and anyone who believes in justice. Somehow all the despair and rage caused by Corona has combined with the festering rage caused by systemic racism and it's just too much for people to bear any longer. They have a right to be angry. Trump doesn't get that, and never will. According to an article I read in Vanity Fair he does understand that all of the cops involved in George Floyd's death should be charged with murder - but any flickers of awareness were quickly extinguished after he talked with Putin on the phone. (Yes, Putin again.) Now Trump is in full "show strength" dominate mode, and he thinks his Rose Garden speech will actually help him with suburban voters. All he really cares about is looking tough and winning the next election, and if anybody stands between him and his goal he'll have them tear gassed.
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  483. Thank you for another great video! Very thought provoking.
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  484. You're really good at this, Scott. Thank you for this video where you take a very complex subject and break it down in an understandable way. I think I'm going to watch the video again tomorrow just to experience that feeling of understanding a second time.
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  485. He changed his Twitter handle to "Lorde Edge" and made a comment about the Senator's genitalia.
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  486. Don't allude to her even once. Just have the next Doctor wake up and begin a new story. Don't try to "fix" the continuity from her seasons either, just ignore them completely and most of the audience will go along with it.
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  487. Don't let 2020 be another 2000! Vote, and make the margin so large they can't even try to use the courts to take your choice away.
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  488. John Dee was an astrologer before there were any astronomers. If you wanted to study stars and planets, astrology was the only game in town.
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  489. Totally, Possum Reviews. I vaguely remember the humans in the first movie speculating that the aliens wanted our resources, which made more sense. If you're invading to take over the place, you don't want to mess it up too much. They were even blowing up the cities in a way that didn't leave deep craters. But if all you want is the core of the planet there's no reason to care about the surface.
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  490. I'm totally with you on that imagined future! Hopefully it will come to pass, and sooner than we may think. As for all these proposed satellite networks, the biggest thing that stands out for me is that none of them are intended to be permanent. For instance, Starlink satellites will apparently be de-orbited and left to burn up after five to seven years, and hopefully all the other proposed networks will have similar limited lifetimes. If the development of these networks follows the development of similar systems on Earth, there will probably be an initial proliferation followed by a gradual and steady winnowing out process, until we're eventually left with one or maybe two competitors that have the market carved up between them. This will still lead to thousands of little satellites orbiting up there, but it will eventually be far less than the complete free-for-all that seems to developing now. It'll make astronomy more difficult, but after an initial burst of almost ridiculous proliferation, the number of satellites will settle down into a more steady and limited number dictated by economics. So the difficulty won't keep increasing without limit. And when there's only one or two big providers it may be easier to negotiate things like the "science loss" tax you mentioned with them.
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  491. Thank you, that was really interesting! It shows that you can't make easy generalizations about different countries.
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  492. Yeah, and it doesn't even matter if you use this knowledge for anything. Learning new things about the universe and understanding it better can be it's own reward.
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  493. Oooooo - the non-jailed son is in the school Yearbook club! Did he use his Yearbook powers to put Packer in the stew? And hasn't Detective Delgado been on a roof all this time? I might be misremembering that part.
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  494. They have to. We're not reducing emissions anywhere near fast enough, or at all in many places. If we want to avoid going over some irreversible climate tipping points we're going to need a massive carbon capture industry and maybe even geoengineering. The problem could have been solved with emission reductions alone if we'd started thirty years ago, but we didn't.
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  495. Yeah, I saw a Curious Droid video where he talked about that. 1960's rocket engineering was sort of halfway between art and a science. There were an amazing amount of after-design modifications for virtually every component that never made it into the blueprints.
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  496. The Jeff Wright sketches are awesome!
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  497. We'll miss you guys while you're gone, just like we'll all cheer you when you win your Emmy.
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  498. Wow, I never heard of the Tanis Site before! If it's what it seems to be, that's an incredible coincidence.
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  499. This is an excellent video. Thank you for making it. They say the system could last several years before requiring replacement parts. I wonder what would give out first, and if larger versions of the system could be designed to be more rugged.
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  500. Yeah, it looks like it condensed from a cloud of small particles.
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  501. Maybe with a Gravity Tractor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_tractor The idea is pretty simple. Just get a spacecraft close to the asteroid at a critical point and let the spacecraft's gravitational field deflect the asteroid so it misses the Earth. You'd need precise calculation and perfect timing, but the good part is that gravity will effect every loose rock.
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  502. Thank you for another great video! This was a really interesting and well explained video on a subject that I know almost nothing about, so I really appreciated it. So, all those Robinhood investors getting in on IPOs... It seems like a real information asymmetry situation. I can see why the investment banks would appreciate this, since it could lead to a continuous pool of uninformed investors always ready to push up the price of IPO shares. I know you said that usually the banks under price the shares to attract uninformed investors, but I think there's a difference between an uninformed investor who's still a big client of the bank and a completely uniformed investor using an app. One is uninformed about this particular IPO but still trying to make money, and the other is somebody who's more often than not just gambling with no knowledge at all. Not all Robinhood investors are like that, of course. But a lot of them seem to be in it for fun and the chance they might get lucky. It's one of the great paradoxes of our time that more information is available on just about every subject than ever before, but most people aren't interested in using it.
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  503.  @purefoldnz3070  I agree, young Indy Chronicles is canon along with the existing movies. But that's it.
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  504. Exactly! He explains what we're seeing and makes it mean so much more.
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  505. "...Eastern Europe will slowly shift the EU's Western European weighted influence with Western Europe becoming this century's Sick Man of Europe (the dependency ratio tipping points of these countries are already upon them)... " Pardons if I'm misunderstanding, but if the problem is not enough productive citizens in Western Europe, couldn't they just bring them over from Eastern Europe? If all the nations are in the EU that will probably just happen naturally without any government policies to spur it on. The countries that are already wealthy will stay wealthy, while the countries that aren't wealthy will become poorer and more empty.
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  506.  @NateDoesYT  I'm glad you and @newtybot are here. 😀You're both helping to make the Internet a better place just by hanging out and having fun with others.
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  507. Technically, Clinton was impeached for lying to a grand jury and for obstruction of justice, all of it stemming from a single lie: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." Trump has told thousands of lies in every context, and has obstructed prosecutors and Congress over and over, all without suffering consequences.
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  508. The amazing thing are those words "too many." Apparently there's such a thing as drinking just enough Toilet Duck.
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  509. Thank you for this really interesting video! It's a good example of how many technological problems can be overcome if you put enough time and ingenuity (and sometimes new people with fresh approaches) into solving them.
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  510. Wasn't that place a recreation made by a historical society? I remember there was a sign or something.
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  511. Thank you for this really fascinating video! I thought I was well informed, but you consistently cover stories I've never heard of before. The news is sobering, but your coverage of it is wonderful.
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  512. Definitely more fins.
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  513. It's honestly no different than IT. This is also the preservation of information, it's just that the information is DNA.
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  514. Hi, first time viewer here. I really loved this video! Thanks for explaining what happened to Bill Hwang.
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  515. Thank you for a truly wonderful video. I love how you used the Elon Musk story as a hook to get into the history of executive remuneration in American companies. Your videos are always so well written.
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  516.  @ChibiDeadPool  I think his name might be a clue.
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  517. Thanks for putting out the new video! It's always interesting.
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  518. There actually is a protocol. It's Mister (or Madam) President, Mister Prime Minister, and so on. It's like when a bunch of doctors are having a conversation, they know from context which Doctor you're talking to at the moment.
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  519. It's a good day in space.
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  520. Thank you for making this video! Curious Droid is one of the very best channels on YouTube. I love how you discuss the possibility of giant space guns in a systematic, logical way and aren't just going for dramatic effect like many other channels. (5 crazy ways to get into space!)
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  521. We're so confident we'll tell everybody in the world we're coming.
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  522. For a space colony not tied to the actual day (like a habitat floating in orbit) that might make a lot of sense. When we don't have to take the sun into consideration the only remaining factor we need to keep in mind when designing a calendar is the human body's circadian rhythm - so we'd still need to use "days" of around 24 hours length. But that's just approximately 24 hours. People who live underground with no natural light sometimes shift to a 25 hour "day," so that may be more optimal.
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  523. The irony is Kennedy doesn't have to do anything. If she just stayed quiet and took credit for Favreau and Feloni's success her reputation in Hollywood would be enhanced. But by doing her own show and (if these rumors are true) trying to sabotage Feloni and Favreau's plans, she's just drawing a vivid distinction in everyone's minds between "her" Star Wars and theirs.
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  524. He's an alcoholic author. Drinker has experience writing novels.
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  525. Now this sounds promising! Thanks for another great video. I hope EnerVenue is successful in replacing their platinum catalyst with something cheaper. ...Like nickel-molybdenum-cobalt, that's pretty good journalism there, Matt!
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  526.  @fauzirahman3285  There will always be a place for conventional rail as long as cost matters more than time for some types of cargo. (Like pretty much anyone or anything that's not a rich business person.) And finding ways to move conventional rail away from fossil fuels (Maybe with hydrogen powered engines, or massive batteries?) would be far better for the environment than building completely new high speed rail systems.
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  527. Food shortages would mean we have three out of four horsemen, with only the Big D left out. I'm not saying this is any kind of apocalypse, but the last few years sure have been interesting times. In a way it's kind of like a stress test for the challenges of the future, when there will be other diseases and a lot more people that need to be fed with less land. If our interconnected economies and supply chains make it to, let's say 2025, without major disruption, that may actually be a positive sign that shows we're on track to meet future challenges.
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  528. Elizabeth Warren does seem like the candidate with the best policies. I really wonder what her plan to deal with McConnell is though. Seal Team Six?
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  529. Thank you for this wonderful video! You're consistently one of the very best economics channels on YouTube. It's interesting how countries everywhere are always so hesitant to raise wages. As your video shows, they're quite content to transfer wealth from households to other sectors of the economy. But when the time comes to transfer wealth to households - well, then they become hesitant. Wouldn't want workers to get lazy! Got to watch out for inflation. They seem to think that income distributions need to be imbalanced, or the sky might somehow fall.
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  530. Thanks for the update! I suspect most of your viewers will have little to no direct exposure to this, but we'll all be caught in the buffeting winds that affect the global market as a whole.
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  531. If I understand you correctly, the reason many central banks have gone to negative interest rates is because their usual tool of keeping interest rates low or at zero isn't working. After years of keeping interest rates extremely low there are still many institutions and people out there sitting on huge piles of cash and not spending enough. So the central banks have decided to go past zero into negative territory to stimulate more spending.
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  532. Honestly, I'm not sure how much of his agenda Bernie will get to implement. It all comes down to the Senatorial elections. But if he's a good President who doesn't declare war on California, sell the nuclear launch codes to Putin or throw paper towels at disaster victims, he'll be %1000 better than the current guy.
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  533. It seems like a matter of degree to me. For example, I have home insurance even though I don't expect my house to burn down. In the same vein I think things like the Svalbard Seed Vault and the massive seed collection at Kew Gardens in London are good ideas, and not a waste of money. Extending that idea a bit I think a Mars colony would be a very good thing, although it will take generations of hard and dangerous work to make one that could be self-sustaining. It's a bet worth making, even if not a sure thing. But extending this idea to the point where one doesn't care about people suffering and dying right now in the present day, or not paying attention to immediate real problems like the climate crisis because it won't wipe out our entire species, is carrying things too far. That's fixing your eyes so firmly on the horizon you can't see the rocks and cracks under your feet. You're headed for a fall.
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  534. It seem counterintuitive to send fuel into orbit one little payload at a time, but if the math works out like Spinlaunch is saying it would be way cheaper than using a Falcon 9.
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  535. But... we're the audience. Us and the people who watch the show live. We never left.
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  536. I hope they succeed with this new lander.
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  537. THE ARTEMIS PROJECT!!! I remember buying a membership for that in 1993, at the Winnipeg Worldcon. Good times! For a couple of years I was convinced they were going to make it, because their plans were so detailed and realistic sounding. And on top of that the membership included a subscription to the "Moon MIner's Manifesto," a wonderful little photocopied magazine put out by one guy who considered every possible detail of a lunar colony. Today he'd have a YouTube channel, but back then magazines were the way to go.
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  538.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  That's a good point. There's two kinds of anonymity: the anonymity of using a false identity, and the anonymity of just being another face in the crowd. Even if we use our real names, we're just a face in the crowd to most people we meet online. There's no pressure to be on our best behavior if the person we're rude to is somebody we'll never meet again.
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  539. Oh, I believe you jannmutube. It was just the irony of Giuliani pulling off a straight faced long con that appealed to me.
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  540. @Ezequiel Ciamparella You're absolutely right that the mirrors will have to be maintained over time, but thin sheets of metal foil won't shatter when hit by a meteoroid, the object will just shoot through it like a bullet and leave a hole behind. Now the size of the hole, and the amount of crinkling the metal foil will go through when it absorbs some of the kinetic energy of the impact, are things we can minimize with proper engineering. But over time sections of the mirrors will grow increasingly tattered and need to be replaced. There's a greater danger to the mirrors, though: the radiation from the Sun. Over many years and centuries the radiation constantly reflecting from the mirrors will turn the metal foil brittle and opaque, until it no longer reflects anything. This means that all of the mirrors will need to be replaced periodically, since the metal can only last so long. That would be a continuing expense that would have to paid as the price for living on Venus.
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  541. Acquiring nitrogen would seem to be the next big step, as we need something to reduce the partial pressure of the oxygen. Besides the obvious fire hazard, breathing pure oxygen for too long is extremely bad for the human body. Since nitrogen is so non-reactive, I think isolating it from the Martian atmosphere would be more a matter of removing the CO2 and retaining what's left over, rather than some chemical process.
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  542. Thank you for another incredible video. The heat shield on Starship/Superheavy is of great interest to me, because it's such a critical system and hasn't yet been tested.
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  543. All I'm saying is that pre-planning cities often leads to an undemocratic situation where people are forced to adapt to the city's design instead of adapting the city to their own needs. When the people are poor and have nowhere to go they adapt as best they can, but the well-heeled inhabitants of Neom wouldn't have to put up with inconvenience, they could just leave. I'm not making any statement about "grand designs" in general, just cities.
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  544. Thanks for this video! It's a fascinating discussion that probably required a lot of editing and production work. Thank you, it's much appreciated. Here in Canada I can see us addressing the time component with batteries, but the space component will be a whole lot harder. Our grids tend to be connected North-South with the Americans instead of West-East across the country, so the issue of interconnectors would have to be worked out separately with each American grid we connect to.
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  545. Thanks for another great video! I love Thermal Energy Storage systems. It's always better when you have the laws of physics on your side - and it's far more efficient to make and store heat in a central location, then move it to where it's needed, than continually burning fuel every time you want heat.
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  546. Thank you for this really informative video. China has been on a wild ride since the 90s. Settling down to economic growth rates of 2-3% sounds great for most developed economies, but will that be enough to quell dissent in China? It seems more and more likely (imo) that they're going to be stuck in a middle income trap.
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  547. They really are lacking in the skirmish weapon space.
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  548. Scotland has nothing to worry about. If Trump tried to flee anywhere it would probably be Russia.
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  549. I know you're joking, but just rewind the video. I watched it twice and rewound a few parts more often than that. It gets easier because you remember a little bit more each time.
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  550. I was just summarizing what I learned in the video. I've no personal opinion on these matters one way or another. But yes, true cryptocurrency would be better than the digital Yuan proposed by the Chinese government. You can look on the blockchain to see after the fact which wallets gave or received crypto, but it isn't immediately and intimately trackable the way this Yuan would be. The digital Yuan would be linked to citizen's social credit scores and could be used to track people as soon as they used it.
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  551.  @Fluugan  This doesn't affect your main point much at all, but in the spirit of nitpicking... The projectile wouldn't have to endure 10 000 Gs for the entire hour. I've no idea how increase in G forces mathematically relates to increase in RPMs here, but the graph of G force vs. time would start with 1 and end with 10 000. If it was a linear relation the total force endured by the projectile would be about half of what it would endure at a full 10 000 Gs for an hour. No doubt the actual line would be a bit more curvy and the area a little harder to determine. Having said all that, it's still a lot of force for an electric toothbrush or a DVD set to endure. Deliveries would definitely tend to arrive broken, even without considering the impact at landing.
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  552. https://www.facebook.com/ComedyCentralANZ/videos/key-peele-genius-plan/1889491684596106/ "Now I know this is foolproof! Check this out. First of all, you and me, start workin at the bank..."
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  553. Well, that explains why so many companies had so much of their cash at SVB.
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  554. You look like Winston Churchill, kid. But don't worry, it's not permanent. You've still got a shot when you grow up!
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  555. The problem with the third one is it invalidates the second one. If every movie has a twist that makes its predecessor pointless, audiences will stop caring altogether. They actually tried to go a different way with the fourth movie, but it was so different in style and content from the future we saw in the others that audiences felt no connection with it. The movies were like expensive fan fiction at that point.
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  556. Oh, definitely. I just think there isn't any room to make sequels after T2, because Cameron concluded all the important storylines. T3 had to open things up again by invalidating the ending of T2, and there's only so many times you can do that before audiences stop caring.
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  557. I hope they recycled the batteries.
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  558. Thanks for taking the hit and closely examining the new Little Mermaid movie, Disparu. Most of us will never pay it that much attention, so I appreciate your taking the time to analyse it and make this video. Your observations make a lot of sense. They wanted to change Ariel's motivation by neutering the love story at the heart of the movie, but didn't replace it with anything else. No wonder the movie feels hollow for people. The irony here is that the animated division of Disney is extremely good at taking old stories and "re-imagining" them for modern general audiences. "The Little Mermaid" from 1989 changed quite a bit from the original Hans Christian Andersen story, but always in the service of making the story less weird and more likeable. Then they did it again in 2013 with "Frozen," a loose adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen." It took years to figure out an angle that would open up the strange little fairy tale for general audiences, but they finally did it, and it was a tremendous success. The animated side of Disney has always been very good at capturing what makes a story timeless while simultaneously reproducing it in a form that appeals to modern audiences. It's no surprise the live action division of Disney is trying to do the same thing, but in reverse: taking their own animated movies and adapting them for a new era with real actors and lots of CGI. But the problem is there's nothing left for them to improve upon. The animated movies aren't dated or unappealing to modern audiences - they're as fresh and popular as ever. The animated movies did such a good job adapting the stories, any changes the live action versions can make just makes their movie feel less timeless and less universal. More like a story meant for California in 2023, as you said, and less for general audiences.
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  559. Thank you for this video! It really makes you think. I confess I don't understand how a quantum internet would actually work. In the regular Internet photons reflect through a fiber optic strand or electrons travel through a wire, which makes information go from point A to point B, but the photons or electrons going in at A are never the same photons or electrons that come out at B. They're all identical anyway and it's just their timing that encodes the information. But for a quantum internet the particle going in at A would have to be the same exact particle coming out at B, because if it was copied anywhere along the way the superposition would collapse. How in the world could the scientists make this physically possible over distances of hundreds or thousands of kilometres? I must be misunderstanding something.
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  560. Yeah, he put that video together on the road! That's quite an achievement.
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  561. Aww, fostering kittens. That's so awesome.
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  562. Thanks for another wonderful video! You add so much context and such great explanations to these videos, it just makes everything 100x better. This is one of the best channels on YouTube!
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  563. Thank you for this very educational video! I didn't know about most of this stuff, so I really appreciate the way you brought it all together.
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  564. Thanks for doing this video during the holidays! It's much appreciated. It's sad that the Houthi rebels are effectively protected by the sheer squalor and misery caused by their conflict with the government of Yemen. As long as the Yemeni people are trapped in that hell, no one else wants to take on the responsibility of trying to fix it. Especially when the memory of America's interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq is still so fresh. As for Iran, they'd have to be insane to consider going to war right now. Iraq should serve as a strong negative example of what happens when you get targeted by superpowers. Sure Iraq "outlasted" the US, if you want to look at it that way, but they suffered devastation and ethnic fragmentation that may have permanently weakened the state. Iran would fare no better in a war.
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  565. It's a distinction that still causes arguments among people thousands of years after Zeno, as this comment thread illustrates. ;-)
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  566. Thank you for another wonderful video! You've covered this issue so completely it's difficult to think of anything to comment on. It does seem like the most interesting aspect of the lawsuit is the spotlight it throws upon OpenAI's unusual corporate structure. A for-profit company controlled by a non-profit company does seem a bit like having your cake and eating it too. As you said, they can do things like have a close corporate relationship with Microsoft while still avoiding antitrust issues. It sounds like the US government will have the last word on that.
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  567. "..or if the economy of the country needs restructuring due to misallocated resources." Shows picture of Toronto. Sigh... Yes, the real estate sector is too big right now. But that's at least partially (or not so partially) because of foreign investment, and not all of it Chinese. It's more individuals buying the land houses are built on as the investment, and not so much actual Chinese property developers building things like in London.
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  568. Success! It feels good, even just watching from a distance. Congratulations to SpaceX for bringing one back alive. And thank you Scott Manley for another wonderful video! Every time there's a test I always wonder what you thought of it. You're the great explainer of our generation.
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  569. Thanks for this new video! That was really interesting and educational. I don't know enough to have an informed opinion on this, but I hope they can bring down inflation fairly quickly and return us to smoother economic sailing soon. A short recession might be worth it if that's the price for avoiding the specter of stagflation. From my perspective we've already been in a recession since at least January anyway.
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  570. You know that expression "Perfect is the enemy of good?" That's what Kayleigh McEnany is doing. She thinks it's "nonsensical" to test people for the virus if there's a chance they could catch it after the test. Nevermind how small that chance really is.
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  571. Thank you for the Space Updates! As usual, your depth of knowledge about pretty much everything is astounding.
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  572. Hi MC's Creations, it's nice to see you here. There are some companies that want to use carbon capture to make synthetic fuels. They would still add CO2 to the atmosphere when burned, but because that C02 was taken from the air to begin with they wouldn't add any extra that wasn't already there. In a world with higher carbon taxes than we have now, this could be a way to fuel vehicles like planes that can't easily accommodate heavy batteries. The problem with making things from captured carbon like fuel and carbon fiber is that it adds extra steps to the production process, and that adds costs. The carbon capture derived substances would cost more than the same substances made from cheaper carbon sources like mining waste.
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  573. I think it's a great idea. And while the Moon is sort of an ideal storage area, we should be making archives of animals and plants here on Earth first. For example, Kew Gardens in England is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because they have seeds from nearly every known plant on Earth. There are species that would have already gone extinct if they hadn't been "backed up" at Kew and then brought back to life by careful scientists there who patiently experiment with things like moisture and nutrient levels. We need an animal version of Kew Gardens somewhere on Earth, even if it depends on electricity to keep the samples cold. The problem we need to plan for isn't a total apocalypse, but rather the gradual extinction of organisms and the loss of their biodiversity. If animals go extinct there should be an archive somewhere where we can clone a sample and bring them back.
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  574. Thanks for being here, Drinker. And thanks for this video. It's a reminder there's still lots of movies from 2022 I haven't seen yet, like RRR and Tár. Hopefully they can be found without subscribing to any new streaming services. Streaming has been something of a mixed blessing. It's given rise to franchises like The Witcher that would never have been filmed on broadcast TV or cable (hard to imagine The Witcher on a big three American broadcast network, or with a tiny budget on Syfy), but it's also destroyed those franchises thanks to the current groupthink dominating Hollywood. Meanwhile if you just want to watch movies you have to subscribe to multiple services to see them all. But streaming is still a new medium. It's barely 15 years old, so maybe we're still in the baby steps experimental phase, like when Thomas Edison and his competitors were filming silent films in New Jersey instead of Hollywood. Hopefully streaming will figure out how to course correct and begin connecting with audiences, and we'll start to see the 21st century equivalents of Cecil B. DeMille and Alfred Hitchcock: creators who grew up with the new medium and have an instinctive understanding of how it works.
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  575. Hyakutake is the only comet I've seen too. I remember coming home one night and looking up in the sky for some random reason - and bam! There it was. Incredible.
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  576. I think a lot of the naivete is because they truly felt they were in a race with "the other side" where the winner would survive and the loser would eventually be conquered. Something like residual radioactivity was judged to be of small importance when weighed against the speed of nuclear assisted construction.
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  577. Kids love positive ions!
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  578. Thanks for the new video! I think this one will just be for educational purposes, though.
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  579. The question now (imo) is what will Roscosmos do without huge injections of American money? Will the Russian government make up the difference, or will they somehow be expected to self-fund through launching flights for tourists or whatever? Russia should support the development of that new "Federation" spacecraft they've been working on. The best way to respond to competition is to step up and improve your game.
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  580. I'm pretty sure he expects to live longer than a couple of decades.
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  581. This paper: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1910/1910.05224.pdf has a chart on page 4, but the results are given in nanograms per cubic meter. The results range from 0.1 to just over 1000 ng/m3 on Earth, but someone else will have to make the conversions. I tried but I'm pretty sure I got it wrong.
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  582. According to this: https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.files/fileid/14285 the formula is: Concentration (ppm) = 24.45 x concentration (mg/m3) ÷ molecular weight So to do the calculation one needs to - convert ng/m3 to mg/m3 - plug in the molecular weight of phosphine (PH3), which Google says is 33.99758 g/mol, and convert it to mg/mol, I guess If anyone wants to give it a go. The chart's value of 1000 ng/m3 would provide a nice outer bound for comparison to Venus's 20 ppb.
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  583.  @jimwally6520  Well said!
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  584. Thanks for doing this video! I hope they don't collide, though... We don't need any more debris up there.
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  585. Thank you for another fascinating and timely video!
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  586. We are so lucky you make these videos. I can't think of anyone else in any media who could be on top of the latest news, explain complicated concepts clearly, and even construct a demo with Kerbal Space Program! You should be getting all the awards, Scott.
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  587. Congratulations! And thank you for all the financial stuff you've taught me.
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  588. Wow! ...Wait, if everybody is me, does that explain why other writers always seem to use my ideas before I can?
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  589. Wow! It's a good thing you were aware that it didn't work. Apparently the Mariner I programmers didn't have that same level of awareness. They just transcribed everything into machine code.
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  590. Youtube deleted my original comment for some reason, but I wanted to thank you for this video. It's a much needed wrap-up to what may be the most most interesting financial story of the year. It's interesting that the conspiracy theories were wrong. There was no gamma squeeze, the short sellers did get hurt but they got out of GME before the stock climbed to it's highest value. Ultimately this was a bubble, like many bubbles before it. It's really a demonstration of how social media can create narratives that move hundreds of thousands of people, who then go on to move the stock market. In this case the narrative was so powerful it's still influencing thousands of faithful "apes" to keep the price of GME high all these months later.
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  591. Thanks!
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  592. LOL!
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  593. The problem is these artifacts have been removed from the context in which they were found, which makes it much harder (sometimes impossible) to determine anything about them for certain. The careful notes the archaeologist makes when excavating a find are often just as important as the artifact itself, because they can tell you where it was found, how deep it was buried, what other artifacts were found nearby, and so on.
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  594. Congratulations!!! And even if you were being sarcastic about the comments, I'm thankful you do Corrections as well.
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  595. That's a clever solution!
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  596. Thanks for another really funny review of this terrible show. Somehow you've managed to break the secret fifth law of thermodynamics by creating entertainment value from Velma. Incidentally, Daphne's parents are disguised as Captain Caveman for some reason. He's a character from another Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the same studio that made Scooby Doo. To me this is a disturbing development, because it suggests that they may bring back characters from other non-Scooby shows to "remake" in this one.
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  597. I've been following this story the way people used to watch the OJ trial. It's absolutely riveting. You make a good point about how institutional investors are probably in the mix, but if anything I think that highlights the importance of the wallstreetbets retail guys even more. This is happening because they started it, and it wouldn't have happened without them. So maybe we're entering an era where retail investors can easily gang up to make something move, and the algorithmic traders will swing in behind to help them like robotic backup.
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  598. Thank you for another wonderful video! I hope they figure out where those cfs are coming from.
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  599. I know what you mean, Leuk. But that's going to make it even more awesome when it does fly.
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  600. I know, Leandro Gabriel. It was a joke.
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  601. Thank you for another great video! I love your videos on our current day technological challenges and opportunities. You've made it very clear that lithium ion battery recycling is a critical step towards achieving a decarbonized economy.
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  602. All of the Trump impersonators speak better than Trump himself. That's a problem inherent in mocking the guy. In real life he's just awful and not fun to be around, but the impersonator is doing a comedy bit, so they have to do a version of him that people will enjoy. So they inevitably end up making a character that's actually funnier and more interesting than the real man.
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  603. He does and says so many awful things, it's hard to keep them all straight.
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  604. ...and then, everybody went crazy.
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  605. Well said! So in the end it's the supply chains to Ukraine that matter most.
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  606. The differences between the two companies come down to the differences between the founders. Elon Musk wants to revolutionize everything and get to Mars within his own lifetime. Jeff Bezos wants to build a strong company that will eventually revolutionize everything, but he doesn't need to be there to see it. For Bezos building Blue Origin is itself the achievement. He doesn't make decisions about rocket engines, he hires people who he can trust to do that well. Bezos is more interested in making Blue Origin a part of the industry, working with other companies, instead of upending his competitors.
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  607. It looks like Patty Lyons is the matriarch of our jackal army. All hail the knitting queen! Also, the audiences are cool. We're all Late Night fans in the end. Some of us are in the audience, a lot of us are watching on TV, and some of us are closely watching YouTube clips at quarter speed while obsessively writing notes on anything that might be considered an error. We're all the same!
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  608. Maybe it's got something to do with corporate culture at Boeing, they're a big, old company with many levels of bosses - so their first instinct is to avoid blame. Meanwhile SpaceX is a startup with a much younger culture where everything, both good and bad, ends with Musk.
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  609. Yeah, that was the best burn today.
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  610. Exactly! Universe Sandbox and Space Engine. Real games developed by real people who could always use more sales. I think Space Engine was made by one guy.
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  611. Thank you for a really interesting and informative video on a subject that's something of a hot button today. You did an admirable job of explaining the issue without getting into politics, and educating us about tariffs in a way that feels painless. I love how you say things in your videos that aren't easy to summarize, and I often have to watch the video more than once to fully get what you mean. Unlike a lot of YouTubers you consistently avoid "dumbing down" your subjects to simple, easy to remember bullet points. That said, I very much doubt Trump will attempt to rebalance global trade in the way you describe, by making an alliance with other deficit countries. I think he'll probably try to impose the tariffs that he's promised, but then abruptly reverse course when the stock market melts down in panic. Despite this he'll somehow say it was a victory. If Trump was smarter than he actually is and attempted to rebalance global trade in the way you described, I think he'd inevitably change course and abandon the plan, because it would lead to permanently lower prices on the NYSE. You said that foreigners own about 20% of the stocks in America, and that capital would have to be "repatriated in an orderly way" in a rebalanced world. The stock market would see that as a recession, and it might even lead to a "lost decade" of lower investment for an extended period of time.
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  612. So if you voted in Arizona somebody in Montana (whose only professional qualification is "knows the Cyber Ninjas") now has access to your name, home address and who you voted for. That is really scary. I'm not saying they're gathering information on Democratic voters for purposes of intimidation or retribution, not this time. But if this kind of blatantly immoral behavior is allowed and anyone can just make copies of election data, then there will be no such thing as a secret ballot in some states.
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  613. Thanks for another fun video! Sounds like it would take infrastructure and preparation (And quite a bit of risk. Didn't you say in a previous video the early Shuttle flights had a 1 in 9 chance of catastrophic failure?) just to send a Shuttle on a flight around the Moon. They'd be better off putting the time and resources into something that could actually land there. But it is a TV show, so their main concern is coming up with striking visuals the audience will immediately recognize.
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  614. If Evergrande's company headquarters was on fire they might have issued a due diligence assessment.
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  615. Thank for the new video! That was really interesting. I've never heard of De Fi before, it sounds potentially revolutionary. Gotta say I have a lot of sympathy for the idea of using technology to eliminate the grasping middlemen that are so abundant in international transactions. There are so many of them! And every one takes a cut for just passing information along. I understand they're necessary to prevent money laundering and criminal activity, but it really seems like credit card processors and the like are allowed to do whatever they want and charge whatever they like so long as they abide by those laws. There's no consumer protection in the system. Crypto has many flaws, but I do enjoy the thought that it makes those people sweat. Anyway, back to the real world. It may be impossible for China to completely eliminate cryptocurrency use by its citizens, but they can probably reduce it to a manageable level, like the money laundering in Macau casinos. Eventually crypto use will fade as new generations grow up with the digital yuan. But will the US really start regulating crypto currencies and things like De Fi? That seems like a MUCH bigger deal to anyone outside of China.
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  616. I think I get what you're saying, and it lines up with an experience I had years ago. Way back in university days I spent a fair amount of time trying to understand what the universe "really" looked like according to general relativity. I came to a fuzzy sort of understanding through analogy that it would be like a big sculpture in 4D with all the world lines embedded within it. I excitedly told the Professor about this, and asked him if it made sense. But he didn't care what it "looked" like, to him that was a pointless question. I never understood his reaction until now. I thought the equations he was teaching us were a way to describe how general relativity worked, but for him the equations were general relativity, just like you said that math is real because it describes our observations.
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  617. "That could be a bad idea... Or a really bad idea." LOL! It's interesting how the EU is trying to get ahead of these issues by regulating giant tech companies and fields like AI, while here in North America we don't even think about potential problems. We're like "Let's use AI to save fifty cents on each transaction! Problems? Eh, they'll work themselves out."
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  618. Thank you for doing that interview!
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  619. I just tattoo it on the back of my hand.
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  620. A great deal of pushback to the idea of living longer or curing aging also comes from the liberal arts and literature, and I'm not really sure why. My best guess is that literature absorbed many ideas and themes (like the idea that life has "seasons") from religion and retains them to this day, even if the modern authors aren't religious themselves.
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  621. I think this is the central banks attempting to control their respective economies when the usual tools have stopped working. They can't just give up, so they're extending their policies into unknown territory.
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  622. It was a television event, and everyone who watched it will never be the same. I don't know what I'm going to do with my evenings now. Maybe it's time to read the novel.
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  623. This is such a cool video! Thank you for making it. Those spaceplane pilots are real fliers, no doubt. It hadn't occurred to me that they're the modern inheritors of the X-15, but of course you're totally right.
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  624. Thank you for the new video! This sounds like a pretty neat idea for grid-scale electrical storage. It has some nice advantages: it's made from already existing technologies, and they store the CO2 at ambient pressure and temperature. The less you have to fight nature, the cheaper and easier the technology becomes. Also there's that 30 year lifetime. But considering how it's made from easily replaceable parts, you could probably keep the battery going for longer than 30 years.
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  625. Yay for another space video! Thanks for this, Scott Manley. So let me get this straight. If the timing error hadn't occurred, Starliner's thruster error could have resulted in a collision with its own module, and possible damage to the heatshield resulting in loss of the vehicle? Like, one error balanced out another? That's extremely disturbing, especially since, as you said, it's the sort of thing they should have found and fixed before the test, not afterward.
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  626. Welcome back! We missed you. * something no one has ever said to Matt Gaetz
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  627. At least Scotland actually exists, although they have no right to sell any of it to you. With the star thing and the Moon thing they're selling us a set of coordinates that may or may not be real.
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  628. Thanks for another cool video! I really enjoyed your Kerbal simulation. The video is cool, but I'm not very excited by Stratolaunch System's new plan. If it really is a choice between this and mothballing the Roc then I guess this is better, but are there any peaceful uses for hypersonic technology? Frankly, the last thing we need to build (as a species) is hypersonic weapons. The combination of hypersonic weapons and AI suggests a new kind of incredibly dangerous high speed warfare that would largely be out of human control - and thus a lot more likely to happen. But then again, in the absence of some kind of treaty or agreement banning hypersonic weapons, every country with a significant military is is going to explore this technology, and the US will probably build their own test vehicles if they haven't started doing so already. Renting space from Stratolaunch Systems might be a cheaper and faster way to do that research. But I wish we could just collectively leave this particular branch of the technology tree unexplored.
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  629. I love the idea of commercial modules attached to the space station! (As long as they're safe and properly connected, of course.) It could be the start of commercializing space, and building other infrastructure in orbit.
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  630. Thanks for another great video! I hope they do fly safe, and have a flawless mission.
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  631. In the comic The Court of Owls is an urban legend. Everybody has heard of them, but no one believes they really exist, until Batman discovers the truth.
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  632. I hope YouTube survives. It would be hard to watch this channel without it.
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  633. Thanks for this video! It's a very important issue that we all need to be thinking about. I know the big takeaway from the video is that we shouldn't pretend we know what's going to happen, but I'm gonna make a short term prediction anyway: the virus is going to decline throughout the warmer months until at some point it becomes a low level problem and most people decide that it's over. Lockdown restrictions will gradually ease as the infection rate declines, until at some point in the summer we have things like movie theaters and restaurants again. The big question, and the real unknown, is what will happen in the fall when it gets colder in the northern hemisphere and the days start to get shorter. Will the virus come back for a second wave? If it does, how will the economy handle it? Will we be better prepared the second time and more effective at limiting spread, or will there be an even bigger economic collapse as companies that are hanging on by a thread finally give up at the prospect of a second lockdown? Or will nothing happen at all? Fall and winter are the real second act of the disaster movie we're all currently living through.
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  634. PLOT TWIST! Is this the end of the Babysitter's Club?
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  635. I think the piece was meant to be a freakshow. He wasn't really interested in the utility, they were just there so the audience could point and laugh.
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  636. Sounds like the takeaway is that when these neurons in the anterior insular cortex are activated it leads to increased motivation in the mice. Unfortunately the researchers were activating the neurons electrically through wires inserted in their brains. Not a strategy that could be widely applied to humans. So we need non-invasive, side effect free ways to activate these neurons.
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  637. Thank you for another wonderful video! This one is particularly humorous. The sarcasm is so dry it made my water bottle flash red. I've been using the DJ on Spotify quite a bit lately, even though the results haven't been great. The thing about Spotify is you get tired of hearing the same songs over and over, so features that help you find new music that you'll like are quite useful. Back in the day on somewhat less legal music streaming sites, I would find other users who seemed cool and listen to their playlists. It was a great way to discover new music. But Spotify seems to discourage this kind of user interaction in favor of herding users toward playlists they generate. Hence the DJ. So far, after a few hours of testing it found one song for me that seemed pretty cool. The rest of it was just replaying songs I'd already listened to.
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  638. Thank you for this awesome new video, Scott! Loving these updates.
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  639. Hi from ten months in the future! Jack Ma disappeared for about three months after the IPO was cancelled, but eventually resurfaced in late January 2021. Ant Group still hasn't had their IPO, and now there's news that the company is going to be restructured in some way with heavy investment from Chinese state owned firms. It looks like the government now has Ant Group firmly under their control.
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  640. Thanks for another great video! Spaceplane Two is a cool little spacecraft, but it seems kind of... off by itself, outside the flow of where the industry is going. It's all about reusable rockets now. Is there anything about the concept of a non-reusable spaceplane that might be useful beyond its current role?
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  641. Sort of, but you have to replace the engine for each flight.
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  642. All I know is this video, where Scott says the tail section has to be taken off and replaced every time. To me that sounds like the engine is one-use only.
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  643. Oh man, Starlink. I really hope they get that going! There's a way to self-finance ambitious goals in space.
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  644. Thanks for this video! I wonder if this technology will ever become efficient enough to build vertical farms that look like office buildings, with walls and a roof made of semi-transparent solar panels. That way you'd be taking in as much of the sunlight as possible to power LEDs that would produce only the light frequencies the plants inside needed to grow.
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  645. Boy you were right, Seth. And we got a preview of what that authoritarian state would look like today.
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  646. Absolutely, Chris Rader. You're 100% right.
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  647. It's equal parts ridiculous and wonderful, like some of the best things in life. Maybe someone someday will make this concept work. I hope so.
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  648. He was right, but unfortunately far ahead of his time. The future took a couple of generations to catch up with him.
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  649. I don't think Trump "won" any of the debates in 2016, but it didn't ultimately matter because the voters who put him over the top happened to live in geographically important states. (IE: they had enough electoral college votes.) In 2020 the Democratic candidate will have to focus on two things: 1. Get back the people who voted for Obama and then later voted for Trump. 2. Convince enough people in those geographically important states that Trump has been terrible for them.
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  650. Well said!
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  651.  @Raycheetah  It's really more relevant to the book than the movie, but it's called "Annihilation" because it's a story about the new replacing the old. Like on the macro level, the alien presence inside the Shimmer infiltrating and replacing the Earth's ecosystem.
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  652. Thank you for this roundup video! It's really interesting to compare the different battery technologies with each other. Of the four alternatives in the video, I think aluminium ion batteries are the most intriguing.
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  653. It can still change the rest of your life (and mine too), even if we're only learning this stuff as amateurs.
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  654. This video is so cool! Thank you for making it. Out of all of them, large language models are the most terrifying new breakthrough, and that's certainly big in its way. The three medical breakthroughs are probably the most helpful in terms of saving lives and making life better for people. And other things like the ion engine, making oxygen on Mars and the discoveries of the James Webb telescope are extremely awesome. But for me, the discovery of background gravitational waves is probably the coolest breakthrough. The competition is tough, but that idea of using pulsars to determine how far Earth has shifted is just amazing.
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  655. Thank you for this video! It's fascinating like always.
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  656. Consider The Ocelot is my favorite 80's glam metal band. Thanks for the update, Scott! And yay for SpaceX!
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  657. Thanks for the update! I guess it isn't really surprising that Evergrande made the payment, since it's later payments that could be a problem for them after the cash reserves run out. It certainly isn't a good sign that they can't even sell off their headquarters building. Switching from property development to green energy as a source of economic growth is certainly a good idea! 1.2 trillion dollars of investment every year for 38 years is a sum that so big I can't even picture it. Surely that could take over as the main engine for China's economic growth, if the industry is profitable. But then again, building solar farms and wind turbines that are actually needed has got to be better long term than building ghost cities in the desert.
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  658. I guess there is a problem with green energy, though. One reason property development has been so popular with ordinary Chinese people is it gives them a theoretical way to get ahead and make something from their savings. You can't do that with a wind turbine. Ordinary Chinese people may not even have a way to invest in green energy, and if they can get in they're probably not going to be satisfied with the small profit margins that come from stable industrial investment.
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  659. If Starship blows up, they can just weld a new one together right there not far from the pad.
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  660. Nuclear power is certainly an important consideration in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and nuclear solutions like modular reactors may be part of the mix in the future, but there are reasons the shipping industry hasn't explored the technology before this. Mostly it's just too complicated and expensive. Cargo ships are like plant eating dinosaurs of old: enormous, reliant upon economies of scale to function, and as simply designed as possible.
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  661. There's solar and wind power. It still requires some imports and specialized help, but not as much.
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  662. Thank you for making this video! It's truly fascinating and well explained. I've been taking NMN for several weeks now (a lot less than Dr. Sinclair is reported to take, since it's really expensive), and I've noticed a definite increase in my energy level. It's easy to understand why the old mice wanted to run and run. Actually the most surprising thing I've found is that it seems to be easier to think after taking NMN. I don't get mentally tired even in stressful situations.
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  663. That's why ISRO doesn't need people mindlessly defending them on Twitter. They've accomplished a lot with very little, and still have the orbiter. If they're really doing all this for science, then openness and honesty is the way to go.
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  664. I know what you mean. Every mistake is a step on the road to mastery. But the process only works when we're transparent about what went wrong and how to fix it.
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  665. Who says you never learn anything on the Internet.
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  666. Like others here have said, Fox News goes straight to Defcon 1 and simplifies everything to the point of caricature because that's their business model. They want their audience to be perpetually in a state of fear, excitement and/or rage all the time, because that way the audience will keeping watching Fox.
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  667. Welcome back!
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  668. I was just thinking this is the kind of thing you'd see as a fake news clip in the opening credits of an asteroid or alien invasion movie: "The Arecibo Telescope was damaged today..." Next up is unexplained power failures in major cities.
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  669. Thanks for another great video! This subject really makes me mad, because I remember participating in debates on Internet message boards where we went over all the same points about biofuels, seventeen years ago. We knew all of this two decades back and it made no difference, they still built the ethanol industry into the giant it is today. The only thing that's changed is (as you said in your video) that the price of animal feed and many foodstocks has increased dramatically because of competition from ethanol. We're literally paying more for nothing. And it isn't limited to the United States, my country of Canada has the same enthusiasm for biofuels. We mostly use wheat for ethanol, but it's just as energy intensive and wasteful. This is actually a political solution masquerading as an environmental one. The real problem they're solving is "how do I get farmers to vote for me," and the solution is to find new markets for the crops the farmers were already growing so they can make more money.
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  670. That's fascinating! Thanks for this video on a little known launch vehicle. It's handicapped by the retrograde orbit, but if the Shavit is just launching spy satellites they probably don't need a larger payload capacity anyway. There's probably a parallel history of fantastic feats of miniaturization somewhere inside the Israeli defense industry, as they fit more and more hardware into the same limited payload size.
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  671. There are a lot of strange comments in this thread. Patrick Boyle's channel seems to reach an unusual crossover of different kinds of viewers.
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  672. That's a good point, Beezqp. The government funded programs will still be found because lots of other sites will still connect to them, but nostalgic favorites like The Artemis Project will probably become effectively invisible.
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  673. I'm getting the impression that fuel slosh has always been a problem for spacecraft. It's hard to get the fuel to behave in a predicable way when the velocity and gravity vectors keep changing.
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  674. I'm sorry there's two more episodes, Disparu. But you're in the home stretch now! It's always darkest before the dawn. Velma can't survive forever. Surely one of the death traps will work on her and set us all free. By the way, thanks again for doing these videos. It's been a trip following the story through your recaps, without actually watching it. They've been orders of magnitude more entertaining than the show. Giggity.
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  675. I think there'd always be some human jobs, though. Teachers, child care workers, chefs, scientists, engineers and the like. And artists of all kinds. Basically people in professions that help others, or people in professions that create and discover. Education would be essential in that post-scarcity society. If people don't understand the world around them their horizons will get smaller and smaller and they'll end up being the ones who sit around all day.
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  676. That sounds about right, Blunt .Cabbage. I wonder what NASA could achieve if they actually had sufficient funding that didn't fluctuate with every budget.
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  677. Kamala Harris didn't do anything wrong. Her campaign was as broad and populist as it could possibly be. The problem is with Americans. Specifically the 40% or so of Americans who voted for Trump without caring about who the man is or what he actually says. They live in a fantasy world, and that fantasy is bringing their nation into decline. I don't know what anyone can do when the base problem is with the population itself. It seems like a fundamental issue that only time and maybe better education can solve.
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  678. Too bad you won't.
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  679. I think I'd order something just to see them deliver it! It looks really cool.
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  680.  @jamesbond_007  Drones delivering medical supplies is so 21st century. Sometimes we really do seem to be living in the future.
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  681. I think the purpose of the Russian navy in this war is to launch missiles at apartment buildings and schools, and that's about it.
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  682. It uses microwaves, but has effects at long distances. It's only like a microwave if your microwave has the ability to cook burritos on the other side of the street.
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  683. Thank you for this great video! I really enjoyed watching it.
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  684. Thanks for another awesome video! This seems like a good idea, or at least the render animation is really pretty. I hope all the modules will be that easy to catch and move around in real life. Having a private space station still orbiting the Earth after NASA decamps for the Moon is a definite plus.
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  685.  @gimmethegepgun  Very good points! Yes, authoritarians always have to make sure they're the source of all military and political power. Anyone who's too good at anything or just too popular can be a potential rival.
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  686.  @Einyen  I've heard that as well, specifically that the sun's luminosity would increase to the point where life couldn't survive on Earth in about a billion years.
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  687. A lot of things that Americans think of as unique to their country are really quite widespread. Here in Canada we have stuff like Cheez Whiz and monster trucks - but one thing that truly is unique to America, something you do better than anybody else in the world, is love guns. America genuinely loves guns in a way that no other nation does. In a places like Iraq or Switzerland everybody owns a rifle, but they don't collect them for fun. There aren't handgun magazines and endless debates about how wonderful and noble it is to own firearms. Only in America.
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  688. That's unfortunate for Rocket Lab, but these things do happen. I hope they figure out what caused the failure and make sure it won't happen again. Thank you Scott Manley for this informative and very timely video!
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  689. I love the documentary. Congrats on a great new video, Real Engineering. And I'm really intrigued by the Brilliant course. I'm going to dust off my old Brilliant login and check it out.
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  690. I know what you mean. It adds another layer of virtuality to the world to have buttons you can see but not feel. They say it's extremely distracting to use touch screens in cars, because they require a greater level of focus than old fashioned buttons and sliders and switches.
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  691. Well said, Alex Smith.
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  692. Now Trump is exposing the staff at the White House to Covid. When they signed on to be housekeepers or waiters I bet that wasn't a risk they expected to take.
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  693. Thank you for this detailed and fascinating video! I really appreciate that you went back to a previous subject and talked about it at length. YouTube's algorithm is always pushing for new, new, new - but videos like this one can really help your audience understand complicated ideas.
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  694. Thank you for another wonderful video! This video is pretty enjoyable because it doesn't seem to indicate anything about the trends that effect us all. This time it's just the world's richest man and his Quixotic quest to make something out of Twitter. Does Musk realize that Twitter is bad for him? At this point it must be obvious, even to Musk, that he would have been better off without the company. Much better off. The best thing he can do right now is try to sell it to somebody else, even if that means taking a big loss.
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  695. Gonna miss the show while you're gone. Have a great time never thinking about us!
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  696. Fascinating! I think the central problem is with "e" in the diagram. You say it's "...a numerical fingerprint for the meaning in these two items..." But can "meaning" be reduced to a numerical fingerprint? It doesn't seem likely. The result of their paper sounds just like what you'd get when you're trying to achieve greater and greater performance from a system that has an ultimate limit. In this case the dataset is limited to the meaning humans put into it. Every picture can be equated to a series of words, by putting together sequences of words you can describe pictures, and so on. The fact that the dataset contains actual pictures and words that correspond with each other, and not just random noise is meaning that humans injected into the data. By representing the data numerically the computer can try out all the possible combinations until it finds the ones humans say are correct. It's like a blind watchmaker randomly putting together parts until someone tells him he built a working watch. The more parts there are, the longer it takes him to randomly build the watch. That's like what's happening in the paper. More and more data means it takes longer to find the inherent meaning, but the computer can't put any meaning of its own into the data (it can't build a "watch" that isn't already implicitly "there" in the parts), so eventually it approaches an ultimate limit.
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  697. As time goes by and the climate crisis becomes more desperate, there needs to be a massive injection of investment and activity in this sector.
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  698. I'm one of the five people who loves the book gags! Your attic is such a magical place. Mine is just full of boring insulation.
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  699. Seth should be a guest star on the new Night Court. He's got the voice of a New York judge down perfectly.
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  700. Thank you so much for making these wonderful videos! You truly are a treasure Scott Manley. And you taught me something new today! Never heard of a pulsed pair production instability supernova before.
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  701. Thank you for another educational video! You cover this story with a greater level of detail than anyone else I've seen.
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  702. My guess is those technologies are seen to be ones that create a real competitive advantage for China vs. the rest of the world. An enormously successful rideshare app isn't something that can drive exports, but a bleeding edge chip fabrication capability would. They want China to be the leading nation in the technologies that underpin everything else in the global economy. I think the reality is more complicated than that. A successful tech sector can generate enormous profits and a spirit of reinvention that spills over into related industries. In the US, Silicon Valley started with computers and software, but look how that's spilled over into electric vehicles, automation, the reinvention of retail, alternative energy startups, and even rockets.
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  703. I think the chimpanzees are aware of the suffering their actions can cause others, but I'm not sure they feel empathy for everyone the way humans (Ideally!) do. For the chimp empathy is a scarce resource, used mainly on the individuals they're closest to. In other words, for them empathy is relational. They'll feel deep empathy for their closest family members and friends, and somewhat less but still substantial empathy for the other members of their troop. And that's about it. As the Jane Goodall anecdote shows, it's possible for them to stop feeling any empathy at all for "traitor" chimps that are no longer considered part of the group. Humans have the freedom to construct general moral principles from emotions like empathy, but chimps just can't. Their lives are too hard to feel sympathy for potential competitors.
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  704. Wow, that was great! This Closer Look is killing it.
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  705. Thank you for this video! It makes a lot of sense.
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  706. Thank you for a very informative video! I too feel no urge to get into private equity. Tony Robbins can have that opportunity for himself.
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  707.  @jackm.1628  Yep, this it. They're very aware of how they came into power, and don't want to be swept out of power by another popular movement.
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  708. I didn't know that. Thanks for the information.
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  709. Neal Stephenson has a spacecraft like this in his novel Seveneves. In the book there are lots of little spacecraft called "arklets." When two of them are joined by a tether and spun around their center of mass they form a "bolo" with simulated gravity. Tethers and spinning are a very interesting idea that could have wide application in the real world.
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  710. This is what Siegen and Manchin refuse to accept - that politics has changed fundamentally thanks to the Republicans. Democrats have one chance to fix things, but there's a timer on how long they've got to show results. If they can't show the American people that Democrats get results by 2022, the window is going to close and Republicans are going to run everything for a long time.
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  711. Corrections is awesome, but Seth was great in the Sea Captain days too. He's excelled in different ways.
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  712. Thank you for this video! This is one of the videos that's more directly applicable to all of us, in that it helps us understand what's happening.
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  713. Thank you for this video!
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  714.  @maksskill6715  So close to 69,690%.
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  715. Those are good points.
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  716. Thanks for this video! It's a great summary of the crazy things going on in China and their implications for the rest of the world. My investments are in the toilet right now, but at least I'm not living on expired cans of beans like people in Shanghai. The more I hear about the lockdowns going on in China the more crazy it sounds. But like you said, they really are forced to go down this path with millions of vulnerable people at risk. The best thing would be to just order a bunch of foreign MRNA vaccines and start getting people vaccinated, but apparently "national pride" won't allow for that. So here we are, looking at a big one two punch to globalization and the possible fracturing of the world into economic blocks that look rather like the 20th century. Will "reshoring" become an actual trend, or will it fade away with Covid? Time will tell.
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  717. Maybe they should keep three of the most historic engines and install them in a space shuttle that goes in a museum somewhere. It's good to keep something like that for the historical record. But on the whole I'm okay with this. Rockets are meant to fly, and while it's always good to keep examples of the most historic and important machines I think the best use for most of them is to keep going until they can't fly any more, then they can go out with a Viking funeral as they burn up in the atmosphere. If being used up on the SLS is the only way these engines can continue to fly, then that's the way they should be used.
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  718. Wait, does this mean pumpernickel is the Devil's bread? Somehow I'm not surprised. It really is amazing that Gupta would try to pull off such a blatant fraud, as eventually someone would get the shipments and find out there's no nickel in them. But it's probably like you said, Gupta has a lot of money out there somewhere, but most of it isn't in his name. He probably thinks his operations are so complex and shadowy, no one will ever be able to pin him down in a court of law and make him pay back what he owes. Burning a business partner and further trashing his reputation is apparently less of a concern than the short term gains made from the fraud. A real criminal mindset.
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  719. Of course we should have stayed on the Moon, or at least we should have kept getting better at going back to it. If we'd tried to build some kind of permanent base (maybe an international collaboration) twenty years ago, we'd have so much more data now on how to actually survive long-term in space. That data still needs to be collected if we're ever going to reach Mars or build permanent space stations in orbit (or build completely self sufficient structures on Earth), but now we have to begin collecting it almost from zero instead of having a two or three decade head start.
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  720.  @krombopulosmichael6162  I know, most of the quantitative tightening is done by the government buying back bonds. It saves lighter fluid.
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  721. And what's with the government protecting all those kids from being aborted? Not their job.
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  722.  @blowc1612  I'm not going to get into an argument with you over a joke.
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  723. That was amazing. After watching the video my mind is swirling with all the things you said, but... you're right. You're right about everything you said. One thing I'd add is the connection between conspiracism and the need for religion. You said that conspiricism is socialism for stupid people, but I think it's also religion for people who no longer truly believe in religion, or at least no longer get satisfaction from it. Those needs conspiricism satisfies: intentionalism, dualism, and symbolism used to be met by religion. Belief in religion is declining rapidly throughout the West, except supposedly in America. But I think a lot of people who say they're Christians in America aren't really religious in the classic sense. They don't go to Church every Sunday to receive social reinforcement of their beliefs. Religion doesn't satisfy them anymore, because like everyone else in modern life they're fragmented and alone. Conspiracism satisfies the same needs as religion: the belief in a purposeful universe, the struggle between good and evil, and the use of symbolism that they can learn to find out the truth that's hidden from ordinary people. And on top of that it connects them with other conspiracy theorists in a new community. Instead of meeting with the neighbors at mass they meet them virtually at Q Drops.
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  724.  @StarlitSeafoam  That's very true, but I think the most important consequences we face as a species are limited to a time horizon of centuries at most. Only things like nuclear radiation will last for thousands of years. You are right, though. There's no guarantee that immortality will make people more responsible. But I think it's an evolutionary leap our species needs to make to face up with the magnitude and effects of our own technology. Right now our short lives mean we never learn enough to deal with it properly.
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  725.  @cat-le1hf  I'm glad it works that way for you, but it's still regulated as a supplement, so far as I know. If it was legally classified as medication the price would be far higher.
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  726. Soon, soon, soon, it will all be over and the focus will shift to how much damage a completely batshit Trump might do before Biden takes over. I think there's at least a 60% chance Trump will quit and let Pence run things until January 20.
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  727. This may be a joke, but it has the ring of truth to it.
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  728. Thank you for this video! That explanation is really interesting.
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  729. "Submarine Justice 2: Operation Killer Seal" This must exist.
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  730. That one really got to me too. Just the visual...
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  731. Taiwan has done an excellent job of making itself irreplaceable to the world. If this was a game of Civ they'd be well on their way to a Diplomatic Victory. Not quite there yet, but close...
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  732. I like it. You've got some good ideas there. The reason we don't design our homes more efficiently is because burning fuel has been (relatively) cheap, and it costs nothing to vent heat to the outside. As our population continues to grow these things may become more expensive. It's hard to imagine a waste heat tax, but the rising cost of energy could inspire technology that uses heat in more thrifty ways. I'm intrigued by the idea of a common thermal bus, but the temperature difference between the bus and the rest of the home probably wouldn't be great enough to heat machinery. We just don't use washing machines and stoves and the like often enough to keep the bus cooking at a decent temperature. But your idea of essentially making a heat battery under apartment buildings could be promising! Big buildings are constantly using power, so you could probably divert a decent amount of heat into the geothermal unit (or whatever) all through the year.
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  733. Well done! We're clapping on this side of the Internet. Well done, Amber Ruffin I mean. Not well done Trump.
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  734. You make very good points there. Imagine an ammonia leak at sea! It might produce a death boat with nobody at the controls, that no one can approach without wearing protective gear.
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  735. This show must be truly terrible, because it sounds like Disparu has finally reached his limit. The man watched Milf Manor, for goodness sake. I can't imagine how bad this show must be.
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  736. Really big magnets, maybe. But those forces are constant and would continually decrease the efficiency.
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  737. Don't think they have that much spare time. You can watch a movie while exercising, but you can't really do that with a video game.
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  738. I'm good. How are you?
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  739.  @peterjf7723  A modified Zika virus? Yikes. I know nothing of the subject so this could be wrong, but I'd be scared of accidentally triggering Guillain-Barre syndrome in the patients. Even one in a thousand patients would be too many, especially when they already have cancer.
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  740. I'm sorry for your loss, ukgroucho.
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  741. But then Ti-Fresh went viral on TickTock, and now he sells luxury vacations and expensive watches. It's a strange world...
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  742. They've already announced a longer cut of the movie will be released next year.
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  743. (This is version 3 of this comment. Sorry about the weird structure, but it's the only way I can think of to get it by the censor-bots.) Thank you for making this video! Boy, it feels like we lived through an entire decade in twelve months. When you opened the video by talking about meme stocks I thought that was the year before - but nope, it was 2021. One thing I learned from your video is the energy crisis in Europe is worse than it's been reported here in North America. Your energy prices are really high, due at least in part to effects of the transition to renewable energy. On paper the European power grid seems like the best place in the world to make the switch to renewables, thanks to friendly government policies, an educated public that wants the change, and numerous national grids that function as a fairly compact but still enormous connected system. But you're running into problems due to lack of alternate capacity, and maybe not enough storage? Unfortunately it's the pioneers who get into trouble first, but we should all be paying close attention to how Europe solves this crisis because we'll eventually have the same problems ourselves.
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  744. For me 2021 felt like the year when it became obvious the big systems we depend upon are starting to break down, or at least aren't working as well as they used to. In finance all the years of stimulus have created an overheated market that's keen to chase any opportunity to make a quick profit, with the emphasis on "quick." You can see it in high finance with the overpriced trendy stocks and SPACs, and in the grubby digital casino of the Internet with the meme coins and NFTs. The people still holding on to meme stocks after all this time seem more like an exception to the rule, since they're investing in companies they actually believe in. Meanwhile inflation has suddenly pounced on us like a hungry tiger and suddenly food costs 25% more than it did the year before. Inflation and the effects of all that stimulus... I think these are problems that are going to become much bigger this year, and our governments will have to address them soon.
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  745. Thank you for another wonderful video! And yes, your skepticism is wonderful. It's extremely useful to balance out the general tone of starry eyed optimism that we get pretty everywhere else science is discussed.
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  746. Thank you for this fascinating video! If only we could all do it like Chuck Feeney. Btw, the black turtleneck is very snazzy! I feel a sudden compulsion to invest in your startup.
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  747. Thank you, Andrew! As a fellow Edmontonian I really appreciate your comments.
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  748. McConnell is a just a bully who's been backed up against a wall. The Democrats he bullies have finally stood up to him (or said they might stand up to him), and all he's got left is rage and promises of future retribution. But like all bullies, the truth is he'll do those things anyway when he gets the chance, because he enjoys the feeling of power that comes from domination. Don't give him another chance.
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  749. Like Seth said, election day used to be just the day people voted. There was no expectation they'd know the final result within that same day. Same day results weren't even possible until maybe the invention of the telegraph. And because of this there's no law mandating it.
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  750. Thank you for the very informative video! I hope the coolant leak isn't a serious problem.
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  751. Thanks for another great video, Scott! I'm not American, so I'll try to keep politics out of this comment. My understanding is that Artemis had the goal of landing on the Moon by 2024 specifically because Trump wanted that to be an accomplishment of his second term. So far as I know Biden doesn't have the same kind of goals, so his Administration will probably take a more technocratic, less personally motivated approach to NASA. The result of this will be much less pressure to get Artemis done quickly. Combine that with the Congressional budget shenanigans you detailed in your video, and we get a recipe for slow progress that's more like previous Administrations. Hopefully they'll keep a hard deadline like 2026, but without a political motive in the background driving everything forward I suspect Artemis will get slower and slower and that deadline will move further and further into the future.
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  752. Thank you for a really interesting video! I never realized that hibernation could be done in warm climates.
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  753.  @fauzirahman3285  Yeah, overhead power is an option too. It seems to work quite well in denser parts of the world where there are multiple nearby towns and connections to the local electrical grid. Where I live in North America it's probably less of an option because trains would have to run for hundreds of kilometres between stops.
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  754.  @valentinegonsalves7322  Absolutely. You can get away with just about anything if the movie is entertaining enough so we don't notice it. 300 was like that, but Rebel Moon has all of Snyder's tropes with no fun story to balance things out.
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  755. This is an awesome video! Really interesting fuel for the imagination there with all the alternate space shuttles. Just for sheer coolness divided by danger, I really like the one with the giant coin, or maybe the seventy-six passenger shuttle! Love to see how an abort system would work with that last one.
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  756. We know a couple of ways it could look, but there are almost certainly other possibilities just as correct.
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  757. I'm not a conservative, so I can't agree with you on all your points. (For example I don't think that movie stars hate people like me and don't care what they say on Twitter.) But your main point is excellent, and I agree with you on that completely: the problem is the people who run the studios and make the decisions, because they're out of touch with modern audiences. That unnamed Disney executive you quote is making one fundamental mistake, probably because they don't want to accept that their values are the problem. It isn't just the segment of the audience that has been politicized that sees the messaging in films as a quality issue - it's everyone. The Marvels didn't fail that hard because conservatives checked out - everybody checked out, because general audiences have learned to identify "messaging" as the common factor in movies they don't enjoy. When the heroes are always girl bosses and the villains are always cowardly men there's no dramatic tension. You can predict the whole story just from who's cast in the roles. That's boring, and people have had enough of it.
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  758. Still an awesome comment!
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  759. Thank you for another great video. But I'm a bit in the dark with this one, as quaternions are a completely new idea for me. Looks like it's going to take some outside learnin' to understand properly.
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  760. Thank you for another great video! So if China's growth is going to slow in the near future, what are the consequences for the rest of the world? They make most of our stuff now, and I guess we must sell them a lot of our raw materials.
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  761. And astronomy, and nuclear physics...
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  762. Thanks for another awesome video! I get the logic behind it, but it's hard for me not to feel a quick stab of claustrophobia while watching those women climb into the suits. In zero or low G it'll probably be easier to get in and out of them, but I think some part of me would always wonder how I was going to get out again after descending into such a close fitting environment.
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  763. Mind: blown.
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  764. Thank you for another great video! This channel is wonderful. I remember the excitement in the air when the Delta Clipper was being tested. It felt like the first private attempt to do one better than NASA, at a time when the Shuttle was clearly on its last legs. (Even though it was completely funded by government, the Sci-Fi community felt close to the project because of Jerry Pournelle.) We'd hear about the latest tests and see short videos of the flights at science fiction conventions.
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  765. Now inherited wealth, that's what really messes you up! Isn't there a statistic that 70% of wealthy families lose their money in the second generation? And something like 90% of them lose it by the third.
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  766. Unfortunately it could happen anywhere. We don't even know that the thief was Spanish.
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  767. I'll get sick if I want to! * licks raw chicken *
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  768. Thank you for this video! I have a BS in physics and still learned things from it! Quite a bit, actually.
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  769. Of course they have ICBMs. What did I say that implied otherwise?
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  770. I don't think they'd want to create an actual landing surface out of aluminum oxide. The idea is probably just to glue the regolith together so it doesn't explode outwards under the lander. Sort of a rough and ready landing pad that's made of glued together rocks and dust.
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  771. Thank you for another excellent update.
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  772. Sandy Therry, that would be nice, but it would just accelerate the division of everything along party lines. He'd still have his friendly networks and newspapers there to praise him like he wants. And it would be letting him off the hook for all the horrible things he does afterwards, because these press conferences are the only time he ever faces anyone who's not a paid toady. I like TheTrishalyn's answer. The reporters should stay and keep grilling him with tough, uncomfortable questions. Every single time. Make his failures obvious, and he'll still keep coming back because he loves being on TV too much.
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  773. Thank you for another really interesting video! You really help all of us with these explanations of financial events.
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  774. "...it's not the fan's right to demand what the writers are to create on this blank canvas." Well it's certainly our right to decide what we pay attention to, and I plan to pay no attention to "The Acolyte." Not even going to hate watch it.
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  775. Thanks for the great new video! I really like these videos that return to previously discussed technologies to see how they're progressing or examine them more deeply. They're both really interesting, but the ICP process seems to me to still be at a level where it needs more development. It is a very cool engineering based solution, though. Of the two, the gel film seems the most revolutionary right now. By harvesting water vapor from the air you're getting the sun to do the more energy intensive desalination part as it evaporates seawater. That way the salt stays in the ocean and you don't have to worry about by-products. Also water vapor is everywhere, so this gel could be used to harvest drinking water anyplace on Earth. It may seem counter-intuitive, but I think it might be best used in coastal areas and on islands, because the water vapor is constant there and immediately recharged by the sun. But it could find mass adoption anywhere fresh water is needed, including countries like Bangladesh where the water supply tends to be contaminated. The big question (imo) is if this gel technology can be upsized to industrial scale. I know the inventors have intended it to be a small scale, single person or household solution - but the low energy requirement suggests that it could be a real competitor to industrial desalination plants.
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  776. That's a wonderful detail, Sarah B! But how do they pick the person who's going out the window? Do they draw straws, or is based on something else like whoever has the largest bar tab? Maybe the person with the strongest cologne or the ugliest shirt?
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  777. Very well explained. Thank you!
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  778. Thank you for doing these videos! They're both very interesting and extremely useful.
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  779. The Last Wish is a great movie. Dreamworks seems to be going through a renaissance right now. You can see the beginning of this new animation style in their movie The Bad Guys from last year. It isn't as strong a story as Puss in Boots, but some of the action scenes are nearly as good. It would be pretty mind blowing if they could bring back Shrek at this level of quality.
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  780. Dumb as that sounds, it's Trump's actual thought process.
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  781. Mr. Drinker, you are incredibly good at this. I know nothing of disobedient canines and mushroom games, but I clicked on the link because it looked like another one of your enormously entertaining summations of some ridiculously convoluted, purely hypothetical scenario, and it did not disappoint. Bravo, Sir. Bravo.
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  782. Thank you for the new video.
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  783.  @Thomas-gk42  To you as well. :) This has been a fun discussion.
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  784. Thanks for another fascinating video! I hope this does become a series.
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  785. That's a great way to put it!
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  786. If you didn't care for Ahsoka... Well, this is considerably worse than that. At least in the first two episodes.
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  787. Very interesting! Thank you.
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  788. Mars is the planet that would need extra help. But it's further from the Sun and thus the satellite would need more solar panels, making it bigger than an equivalent orbiting Earth.
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  789. Like the horse is personally at fault for using an illegal substance. "I thought you had guts, Medina Spirit. But you're just another junky!"
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  790. Thank you for this video. I saw the first one, but I really appreciate this more in-depth return to the topic of stock options. Especially the part about the downsides!
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  791. I live in a Canadian city somewhat like London Ontario (just a bit bigger in size), and I've never owned a car. I've lived in the same house my whole life, and over the years it's gotten harder and harder to get by without driving. There's a clear trend where the city has becomes more and more car friendly and less walkable, and the pandemic has only made this worse. And this isn't because of zoning laws or regulations, it's because commercial businesses have been steadily moving out of the core and as far away from each other as they can get. When I was a kid there were two movie theaters, two grocery stores and at least a dozen restaurants within walking distance. Now there's maybe three or four marginal restaurants and that's it. To get groceries or do any shopping I have to take the bus, and the movie theaters are nearly all gone, fled to the remote edges of the city.
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  792. I had no idea Apple played those kinds of games with text messages! I have an Android, and your video has just now made me realize what my texts must look like to my cousins who have iPhones. Bright green and hard to read.
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  793. Yeah, she didn't switch freely between them.
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  794.  @devilex121 I think the problem is there's two related phenomena going on. One is the AI bubble, an investment trend where any company that claims to be developing AI is ridiculously overvalued by the market. Like all past bubbles this one will eventually pop and leave most of the people involved poorer than they were before. I think this is what Patrick is interested in. Then there's actual AI technology, a real thing that has probably been fast-forwarded by a decade or more thanks to the resources poured into it through the bubble. No one really knows what AI might become or how it might change our lives. At this point I think it could be a good thing if the bubble popped and AI development slowed down a bit as a result.
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  795. Thank you for making this video! For anyone interested in the human exploration of space, this is the limiting factor. It's simply the biggest problem we need to deal with, after the problems involved with physically getting there and back. Wouldn't it be nice if we could mine water on the Moon? That would make Mars missions much easier.
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  796. Wow, that was really interesting! Thanks to this video, today I learned that North Korea and Iran have legit space programs - which is to say they're now building their own rockets and have used them to launch satellites. No doubt the main reason they've spent so much money and effort is military, but they have attempted at least some peaceful applications too. And there's a real Iranian American astronaut who's done a lot for space exploration!
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  797. Thank you for the very entertaining review, Disparu. I suppose this episode establishes that Millie Gibson isn't the problem, since it has at least a couple of effective scenes, even if none of them add up to anything.
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  798.  @PBoyle  I think there's something a bit off about that chart. It could be a measure of the number of times lockdown measures are announced (something that's happened a lot in Canada as we repeatedly failed to contain the virus) but not indicative of the severity of those measures. Australia may not have announced as many lockdowns as us, but the measures they've taken have been much more severe.
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  799. Another great video, Disparu. Thanks for making it! There's lots of complicated issues here, and in general I like your take on things. Going along with what you said in the video, I think there's a clash happening now between different groups who all feel like they have some degree of ownership of these massively popular epics. On one end there's George RR Martin, who absolutely does own his own stories, wondering why so many fans have turned on the cultural properties they once loved. Then there's the entertainment companies both in and out of Hollywood who feel they own properties because they bought the rights. For them changing the properties is a given, because otherwise it won't feel like they own them. Then there's the fans, who have a more difficult to define sense of ownership, mostly based on all the time they've spent reading and watching the stories. An author (or in film an auteur like George Lucas) certainly has the right to define their own stories. But when they pass away or sell off their rights the question of ownership becomes murkier. Does Amazon really have the right to change the lore of LoTR just because they spent so much money buying it? Fans are starting to say "No" in a definitive way. It's still difficult to criticize these sorts of things without being labelled as an "ist" of some form, but the way these projects are being rejected by mass audiences seems to indicate that we're becoming more settled on this issue as a culture.
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  800. It was really good, but not quite as good as the first time Seth did it. Tucker would never admit that something happened to him specifically. He'd just keep asking ridiculously specific questions in that snarky tone while maintaining an expression that makes it look like someone lobotomized him during the last commercial break.
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  801. Thank you for another really interesting video! TRIGA is a very intriguing approach to the problem of moderating nuclear reactions.
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  802. It's possible Robinhood will never be allocated enough shares to make a difference in the price of an IPO. If that's the case, then I think it would be better overall because there won't be any wild feedback effects from other large investors buying shares because they think the retail crowd will jump on them. It will be more like getting a seat at the table and just being treated like one of the group.
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  803. Congratulations on the prime time special! Hilarious (and scary) as always. Btw, I've never seen a raccoon in real life (we don't have them here), but it seems like a pretty cute infestation. Definitely better than mice and rats.
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  804. That was a great joke. And Trump is the guy who thinks you need photo ID to buy breakfast cereal, so it's not even a stretch.
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  805. Thanks for the new video! You explain it all very well. I like dividend stocks because they makes things easier. I don't have to worry about the value of the stock, or what's happening in the market as a whole. No putting off a sale because the market is down and going without income for who knows how long. The dividends just come in and that's that.
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  806. I've really been enjoying your Willow reviews. You make me laugh far more than the show did, but on purpose. And you're right, the real problem here is the people who wrote the series. It was fundamentally broken from the start. I liked Kit in Episode Seven because she was hurt and seemed to have lost her plot armor, but in this finale she literally gets the armor back and the writers double down on all their worst impulses with her. It was such a waste of a series.
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  807. Thank you for the overview. It's always good to hear your opinion on things.
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  808. To me, it seems like dividend investing takes a lot of willpower. You have to be able to take those checks and reinvest them for years and years and not use them to get something you need or want today. That's not a criticism, it just seems like it takes a very disciplined person to really succeed that way.
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  809. This is a wonderful video! Thank you for making it.
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  810. Thank you for this video! It was fascinating learning about the history of SoftBank.
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  811. This is such a 21st century thing. :-)
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  812. Something else that I think relates to what you're saying (although I'm not quite sure how) is the speed at which discussion moves these days. In Martin Luther's day there was quite a bit of time to digest and discuss the pamphlets, because information couldn't travel any faster than a man on a horse. Radio, TV and newspapers eventually seemed to settle into a daily routine. You'd read the newspaper in the morning or watch "the nightly news" on TV, then have most of a day to think about and respond to it before the next day of news. Now on the Internet the cycles are ridiculously short. YouTube says you posted this video about ten hours ago, and there's already over 1400 comments. No doubt it's been shared on different kinds of social media, and everyone who matters has already seen it and formulated an opinion. Most of the views it's ever going to get have already happened, in less than half a day. That can't be good for society. Instead of absorbing information slowly, everything about the Internet and social media rewards us if we attack it immediately and tear it apart like a mob of monkeys on a breadfruit tree. It forces content creators to be as provocative as possible, and conditions the audience to think quickly and shallowly on any topic. There's no time for serious reflection, because you have to be ready to react at the same time as everyone else when the next new thing comes along.
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  813. This is hilarious! I was laughing through the whole thing. It looks like it's really hard to set up, but you pulled off the sketch perfectly.
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  814. Thanks for a fun video like this to end the year! It's always nice to see scammers get caught, especially blatant ones like the good Doctor. Hindenburg Research really is a sort of wolf of the financial system, making a profit by taking down weak and sick companies, or in this case companies that are a total fraud. If Hindenburg hadn't sniffed out Tingo Group, who knows how many other people would have been defrauded before the SEC finally discovered what was happening. Deloitte Israel certainly shares in the culpability here, since it sounds like their audit gave Tingo the aura of credibility it needed to be listed on the NASDAQ. That's the point of failure that let a blatantly fake company into the American financial system, and once there it acquired credibility by association. Of course Doctor Dozy is a genius (or so I imagine the thinking went), just look how far he's come! All the way from Nigeria to the NASDAQ. You're very diplomatic in your video when you imply that Tingo Group somehow tricked Deloitte Israel, but it seems far more likely that a cash transaction was involved. Although the weird reverse mergers certainly didn't help either. That ability to get the company listed on exchanges without going through proper scrutiny is how their scam got started. It seems like the sort of thing that regulators should really pay some attention to before a flood of fake companies follow in Doctor Dozy's wake.
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  815. I'm 100% on board with the idea of restoring depleted forests. Things like the Bonn Challenge are a great idea! But I thought this video would explain how to grow better forests, not why we should. The "why" part already seems pretty self-explanatory.
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  816. That's gonna be a quote that everyone remembers when they think about this time.
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  817. That's a very physics way of looking at it.
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  818. If wonder if microwaves could be used to melt some of the dust around a Lunar base, just to keep it from being a problem.
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  819. Ordinary Americans are "left of center" though somehow they've been convinced that they're not. The true center should be further left than it is perceived to be. Millions of conservative Americans keep voting for people that represent beliefs far to the right of their own, but somehow they keep thinking their chosen party represents them. It's deception, and self deception of massive proportions.
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  820. Thanks for another great video, Scott! Early 2023 sounds about right for Starliner, sadly.
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  821. You have a very wise approach to life. I wish I could approach things the way you do, but I'm not there yet and may never be. If I was a YouTube creator I'd probably become obsessed with views and favorites and comments in a very unhealthy way. As for why people make "I quit YouTube" videos, that puzzles me. There are lots of reasons to quit YouTube (and YouTube is busily coming up with new reasons all the time), but I've never understood why someone would formally say that's it and effectively trap themselves so they can never change their mind. Maybe they feel a responsibility to the viewers, and need to explain why there won't be any new content? As a viewer I don't feel like any creator ever "has to" put out a video. If they do that's great and it makes me happy, and there are some creators who release videos so regularly they've become a part of my weekly routine. But if they miss a week or two I wouldn't hold it against them. Life happens to all of us. There's no obligation involved in this parasocial relationship.
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  822. This "A Closer Look" is really funny. It's about serious and terrible things, but I wanted to let you know that I laughed out loud a number of times. The funniest joke (imo) is the one about how you started getting mail when you were stuck on the Brooklyn Bridge. I've never been to New York, but that one is really relatable. Oh, and I groaned at the seal Op Ed. It still worked without an audience. But it should have been written by P. Bear. Just sayin'. Also, Tom Cotton is really scary. That dude should not be in any position of authority, ever again.
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  823. Creating the organizational infrastructure for mass testing and contact tracing should be an absolute federal government priority. It isn't safe to continue the lockdown indefinitely, nor is it safe to restart the economy without bringing the virus under some sort of control. Right now the situation is a lethal double-bind, so Trump's administration should be working 24/7 to get the United States out of this situation. But no, they'd rather just try to restart the economy without any precautions and let people die. All they can think of is the lowest effort solution and damn the cost that other people will have to pay.
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  824. Thank you for another excellent video, and good luck to Virgin Orbit. It'd be great to have two successful launches from different companies in the same week. One is a lot more significant than the other, but still two successful launches.
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  825. I ain't watching it either.
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  826. I'm no fan of Trump, but I can't help but feel that Eminem is being petty in his video (Seth Meyers is joking, which makes it different). Eminem may legitimately despise Trump, and can say so any time he likes, but trying to force his fans to copy his opinions by saying "it's him or me" is the kind of crap that Republicans like George W Bush have always pulled. It's not liberal at all, even if there probably aren't any Eminem/Trump fans to start with.
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  827. This is a really unfortunate development. I hope they can repair Arecibo as soon as possible. The reflector dish should be easy enough to fix, since it's simple in structure and right on the ground. But the Gregorian Dome and its catwalk might be quite a bit more challenging. Hopefully the Dome wasn't damaged too badly.
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  828. What a fascinating and intricate story! Thank you for this video explaining what's going on. I'm not sure I understand it all correctly, but it sounds the Egyptian government tends to live beyond its means and is only occasionally forced back to a path of greater financial probity when the value of its currency drops. This is a serious concern for them because they need so many imports. Their population density just can't be sustained through Egyptian agriculture alone, so by necessity they need to be a trading nation. On the plus side their geography and the Canal makes international trade easier for Egypt than it would be for many other nations. There are other countries in the world with similar challenges that have prospered. Taiwan is an island with a lot of people and not much in the way of natural resources, but they've carefully grown their economy over decades and become a financial powerhouse. So it's possible for Egypt to find a way out of its troubles. There are examples they can learn from. But it would take decades, and would require a technocratic government that takes pride in things like the educational growth of the populace, and not how many jet fighters or flashy mega-projects they have.
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  829. Trump has the real life version of a Monkey's Paw Curse. He's wealthy, powerful and successful, but no one will ever love or respect him. And deep down he knows it.
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  830. Thank you for this wonderful video! I didn't get to see the flight, so your summary is greatly appreciated.
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  831. There's lots of scary stuff in the current era, but this is the 21st century that I love: a private company develops a revolutionary new spaceship. Lots of people (including the wunderkind owner of the company) take pictures of that spaceship and post them online for everyone to see. Then popular space videologgers create simulations of that spaceship which they then fly virtually (and even drunkenly) to test for stability. This is how the system should always work!
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  832. We've got the original game to play, so there's no rush on the user side.
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  833. Well done, Coffee! You've conducted a terrific investigation here, laying out all the facts involved. Not opinions or clickbait, but facts backed up with evidence. The hints about Part Three are very ominous, but I'm certain you wouldn't have gone this far if there was an actual risk to your family. This Ted Safranko guy looks like he's nothing but a talker. Most scammers are.
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  834. That's a good point, TonyOneBlairoby. But if the switch is made of plastic the only real environmental processes it needs to worry about are exposure to sunlight and heat. And if it's encased within a switchplate and/or within a wall it probably won't be exposed to much of either. But on the other hand, other applications of flexible machines might have more of a problem with wear, like the flexible cam for the chainsaw.
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  835. That's a pretty good comparison. The main difference is that Kevin O'Leary didn't have a wealthy Dad, but they're both grifters through and through.
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  836. The stock market isn't the economy but it does represent more than just the interests of the elite. These days most people depend upon investments for their retirement. Recessions are only temporary, so having one now wouldn't be that bad for most people who are invested in the market, they can just wait it out. But a recession-induced drop in stock prices would absolutely hurt anyone who's retiring in 2019 or maybe 2020.
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  837. Elizabeth Warren is the best person to be president after Trump. He's a force of destruction, and she's a builder. With all her policy ideas she's the one who can fix things after too many years of hypocrisy and indecision from the top.
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  838. You can still do your video! I'd love to watch it as well.
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  839. What a fascinating history. Thank you for this video!
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  840. Thanks for putting out this video! It's certainly an interesting result that should be further investigated.
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  841. Thank you for another fascinating video!
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  842. Thanks for another great video!
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  843. That's really good, Xepher!
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  844. I'm going to see it when it comes out. I've seen all the others in the theatre, so it feels like I should. But I'm going to have a good rewatch of all the earlier films first just to have that experience again without it being tarnished by whatever the new one is like.
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  845. The details of why pension funds are uniquely vulnerable to the current rise in interest rates aren't quite clear to me, but I get the general idea. The defined benefit pensions hedge against interest rate swings by buying derivatives (gilts), but the current rise in interest rates is greater than they were prepared for, so the pensions have been forced to burn through their cash reserves and many have been forced to sell their "gilts." The Bank of England has stepped in to buy Gilts, so they wont plunge in price any further and leave the pension funds with rapidly depreciating assets. The rapid fall of the Pound seems like a very loud signal from the market to the British government, that markets have no confidence whatsoever in Kwasi Kwarteng's economic plans. It's rather extraordinary to see something like this happen to one of the oldest financial systems in the world.
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  846. Y'know I really enjoyed this movie. Yes it could have been so much more, but it doesn't need to be. It succeeds in being fun and that's enough. There are many questions that will probably never be answered if you don't know the games, but since the fights were cool I don't mind. Also, since "death is just another portal" we may see some of the bad guys again. Kano was such a force in this movie he'll definitely be back, and probably be a lot tougher next time. That's how it goes in fighting games, and movies that feel like fighting games. Agreed that Cole Young is pretty charisma free, but it was nice to see him work and struggle to succeed instead of being perfect right from the start. And next time the dynamic will probably be reversed, with a veteran Cole recruiting a brash, inexperienced and overconfident Johnny Cage.
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  847. The video is funny, but I disagree with Seth Meyers and the Democrats n this issue. People grow and change. They also make mistakes when they're young. If Northam continued to believe that he did nothing wrong, or if he broke a law or hurt someone, then he should resign. But if that's not the case then he should stay on and do everything he can to be a better person now than he was then. This scandal is just another example of Republicans digging up someone's dirty laundry as a form of political assassination, and the Democrats enthusiastically enabling them.
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  848. That is definitely getting closer to the ideal Uber reader.
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  849. The karate picture brought it all home.
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  850. Wow. Anybody who's been following your videos understands what happened with FTX, and who Sam Bankman Fried really is. (A con artist.) But the mainstream view is apparently still really confused. Michael Lewis seems to have fallen in love with his subject, to the point where he can't really condemn the guy even after a multi-billion dollar fraud. If Bankman Fried had burned his money to spend time with Tom Brady, Lewis might have a different opinion.
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  851. Thanks for another great video! Who would have thought that bubbles in the fuel could be such a problem? Not me. But then Starship is the first rocket to do fancy maneuvers while in the atmosphere, so it makes sense that it would encounter unique problems.
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  852. Obviously it would be foolish to reopen the economy too soon, but I really hope it happens as soon as it can be safely done. The economic and social effects of this shutdown are devastating and only getting worse as it goes on. I really don't think the US economy (or any other) can survive being shut down like this for the rest of the year. We're flirting with a second great depression here. If the pro-open position was championed by someone other than Donald Trump it would be possible to have a more rational and complete public debate about tradeoffs and necessary precautions - but because he's the public face of the pro-open side it loses legitimacy and ends up looking like something that would only be done to benefit him.
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  853. Thank you for a very informative video. I'm fascinated by your conclusion that the West can fund Ukraine indefinitely - at first it seems wrong, but upon reflection I can see that you're correct. It's been years already and funding Ukraine is barely perceptible within western economies. Together we have enormous capabilities. Edited to add: The costs of the war in the form of higher energy and food prices are substantial, but that's different from the cost of paying for tanks, missiles and shells. The former would still be high as long as the war continues, but the latter barely make a dent in national budgets.
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  854. Because they can't spend money that's trapped in Russia.
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  855. It was? Cool! Then the Soviets must have been the first. Seems like quite an achievement for the 1980's.
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  856. A very important and sobering message.
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  857. Thanks for another great video! I wonder what kind of batteries would be needed to keep a big passenger plane in the air, especially in really cold conditions like we get in my country.
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  858. I'll always love the Sea Captain. As for Trump, only Baphomet knows why millions of people were waiting all their lives for an obese, diaper wearing, incompetent businessman with dementia and rage problems they could swear eternal allegiance to.
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  859. Oh, come on. Who doesn't enjoy a vigorous eyeball massage? Seriously though, the description says that it uses electrical current (EMS) to contract the muscles around the eyes. That's some Clockwork Orange shit.
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  860. I hope you're right, Mike Zeroh. That sounds wonderful.
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  861. I'd say that at a minimum we need to find ways to harden our electrical grids and communications systems against radiation. It seems that one way or another we're inevitably going to experience greater radiation on the Earth's surface. Either massively and suddenly thanks to a flare, or more low grade and permanently thanks to a pole reversal. We need to prepare for these situations now, while we still can. Imagine a near future Earth that's experiencing both the effects of climate change and confusion and intermittent damage from solar flares thanks to a pole reversal event. It would be a much more difficult and costly environment in which to maintain the giant global networks we need for modern civilization to function. You might only get electricity on alternate years, or you could order something from China and it arrives weeks late because the cargo ship got confused when its GPS system stopped working, and the compass pointed towards a false North Pole...
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  862. I don't think it's possible to say when either event will happen. Coronal mass ejections like the Carrington Event may be somewhat predictable months in advance thanks to observation of the Sun, but even with that we nearly got hit by another one in 2012. As for a pole reversal, it doesn't look like anyone knows when it will happen. Like the video says, we're hundreds of thousands of years "overdue," but that means nothing on a scale measured in human lifetimes. The poles might start to reverse tomorrow, or maybe it won't happen for ten thousand years. But it will happen. I think the more predicable likelihood of solar flares is reason enough to design a more robust infrastructure for our society. In the past we've only done this kind of thing as preparation for wars, but now science is giving us a greater understanding of phenomena we need to watch out for, we should prepare for other eventualities as well.
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  863. I'm in favor of NASA and DARPA's nuclear thermal prototype. Research in this area has been blocked for years, even though it could revolutionize spaceflight. The biggest problem with space travel is exposure to radiation, so any technology that can radically reduce travel times will also reduce the amount of radiation astronauts are exposed to during the trip. There's always a small chance rockets will blow up before they get to space, but we still put people in them. I think fears of an accident during launch are are mostly exaggerated. And after launch the chance that the prototype will collide with space junk is small, so long as the researchers do their experiment far enough away from the Earth. They're not going to park it in low Earth orbit.
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  864. It's amazing how selfish Trump is. To him it's just normal behavior and he doesn't even try to hide it. He thinks everyone acts that way.
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  865. Thanks for another interesting video! Guess we'll have to see what happens.
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  866.  @jay-em  Or maybe a square, so they don't have to build curved tunnels and track.
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  867. Agreed, Chase. Boosters that can be re-used is a huge advance.
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  868. Your concerns are well made. It does seem unlikely that: - the natural process of precipitation just happened to form working batteries - those batteries could stay charged after literal millions of years discharging into the water And the scientists themselves say they didn't find a high enough voltage for electrolysis. But I still find this discovery incredibly exciting! It seems the nodules really do act like batteries, since they did actually measure a voltage difference across them. As for where the energy comes from, maybe the process is partly biological? Maybe there are organisms inside the nodules (bacteria most likely) that provide the tiny extra charge that makes electrolysis happen? And maybe it's these organisms that keep the potential difference going over millions of years.
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  869. Thank you so much for this informative comment! It really helped me understand what they're talking about in the video.
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  870. The Coso Artifact! I read about it in one of those ancient astronaut books when I was a kid. Talk about unlocking an old memory. Never heard about it or saw anything about it again until now.
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  871. Thank you for this great video! I am enjoying this series, very much. About malinvestment... I understand what you mean about it being totally unsustainable. China has been basically burning money to fuel growth, and getting away with it because the growth has been vigorous enough to keep everyone satisfied and not wanting their money back. That kind of process can collapse when people lose confidence in it. But there are other benefits to investment, even malinvestment. In your example the home owner loses $20 000 because of their expensive kitchen reno, but they now have an awesome new kitchen to cook in. The people who buy Chinese bonds have been fueling the growth of an unsustainable real estate industry, but at the same time they've also been giving millions of Chinese people hope for the future. Real estate is one of the only ways poor people can pool their savings and invest their way into the middle class. If the real estate sector can be reformed and made sustainable, that process is going to become more difficult. I wonder if the result will be increased social unrest.
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  872. I like your Quizwithit website. Hopefully it can gain some traction with other YouTubers in the science space.
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  873. A picture of the eclipse's effect on the Earth, taken from the Moon! So cool.
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  874. He really should've been President. Bernie is on of the few politicians who actually deserves the job.
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  875. Very cool! Thanks for another awesome video.
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  876. If you want to fly safe, I recommend staying away from the F104 Starfighter. Not sure I'd trust a payload with one of those things. But back on topic, thank you for another wonderful video! This is a really interesting history of air launched rockets.
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  877. It's the pleasure of fine engineering - watching complex systems do amazing things.
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  878. Thank you for this fascinating video! The conclusion is a bit surprising, because I thought afforestation would always be a net benefit. Btw, have you heard of "Night Sky Cooling?" If used on an industrial scale it could be a significant way to remove heat from our atmosphere. Here's a link to TED talk by physicist Aaswath Raman where he talks about using new materials science to recreate a kind of refrigeration that used to be common in the ancient (and near modern) Middle East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a5NyUITbyk
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  879. If they're ready to launch and hit that 2024 date then I take it all back.
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  880. Thank you for this wonderful video! I've read about all of these concepts before, but never heard them explained as simply and as carefully connected together as you do here. It really all seems like a single train of thought. Or maybe one branch of the gigantic, incredibly complex, ever evolving thought that is physics. ;-)
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  881.  @vanhuvanhuvese2738  Money isn't quite the same as energy. Money can be destroyed, just burn down a house. But it can't be created from nothing, either. (Money is created from natural resources and human work.) Debt has to be paid for eventually, by someone. It's just that modern economics has created all kinds of systems to obscure where money comes from and where it goes. Debts are often paid by people who didn't burrow the money in the first place.
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  882. He's just... such a Trump. He's got the actual Declaration of Independence in his office, but hasn't read it. He has portraits of Presidents, but doesn't know what they were known for. The only way he can comprehend the world is through the simplistic explanations his handlers give him, and when those are exposed as untrue he flounders and panics, not knowing what's real from what's not.
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  883. This is a very good video! Thanks for making it, and please rant away whenever you want to. Actually I always thought that the goal of investing for most people is to have enough money for retirement. Like you said, saving as much income as possible is the foundation of any kind of future prosperity, but with interest rates so low and bank fees so high just putting money away isn't enough. You have to invest those savings intelligently so you can have as high a net worth as possible when you turn 65. That might not make you "rich," but if you have no financial worries after you stop working - and have enough money to make old dreams come true like home renovations and fancy vacations, that seems close enough.
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  884. Thank you for a very informative and interesting video! It seems like common currencies are more of a political tool than an economic one. They help to make international borders less restrictive, but don't seem to have a lot of economic benefits. Or at least, not unless you're positioned like Germany and can continue to export without raising the value of your currency.
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  885. Thanks for another wonderful video!!! We really don't deserve you, but it's so great to listen to you explain these things.
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  886. Thank you for this video! It's one of my favorite subjects, particularly what you call "intensive rotational grazing" and agroforestry. The plain truth is that modern agriculture is simply not sustainable. Even if we didn't need to feed more and more people with a shrinking amount of land, the current system - through the overuse of fertilizers, herbicides and especially pesticides - is destroying the biological systems that keep the biosphere going. We're causing a massive wave of extinctions, with consequences that are completely unknown. Agriculture has to change to a more sustainable model if we want humanity to survive long term, just as we need to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy to fight climate change. It's the cost of maintaining a global civilization of billions on a single planet, where own needs and waste products now constitute a significant part of the biosphere. But what agriculture has to change into is still not clear, because we don't want to look at the problem. Thank you for making a video that does.
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  887. Thank you for another amazing video! Poor Ecuador indeed. Seems like they're currently suffering the national equivalent of a mugging. These "narcowars" do seem to be the 21st century version of the old leftist insurgencies, but with even less definition between the sides involved. Gangsters exist as parasites within the state, rather than a direct challenge to it like previous groups.
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  888. The important part is the rover can handle a wide range of terrain and it's heavy enough not to flip. (Especially at those speeds.) Slow and steady and safe is the way to go when you're 383 400 kilometers from the nearest mechanic.
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  889. I do this too.
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  890. I wonder if there'd be some sort of tax exemption for people who are on Medicare, and people who are currently uninsured.
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  891. It's not terrible at all, there are millions of guys that look like that. The only difference is you can grow your hair back again.
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  892. Thank you for continuing to do your show! It's much appreciated.
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  893. One of the novels in the stack behind Seth is "The Laughing Policeman." That's a deep cut. It's hard to believe that Seth or his family are into Swedish mystery novels from 1971, so maybe this is evidence that the books really are spontaneously breeding...
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  894. Are we talking the original meaning of batman here - that is, a personal servant to a commissioned officer? Because I can see that happening. (Maybe he was an old dude who served Seth's granddad in the war. That would explain the books.) Or are we talking about the more modern and nonsensical Batman? I really hope it's the latter.
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  895. Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info, Andreas Cassne. RIP, Ms. Sjöwall. :-(
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  896. What a wonderful idea! Thanks for telling us about it.
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  897. Based on nothing but watching your videos, I'm certain that SpaceX (and probably Boeing) are going to be successful in their ambitions. They're still in the early part of the experience graph where progress is halting and slow, but soon that line will shoot up when they start locking in achievements. And before you know it those artistic renders will come true.
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  898. Thank you for this video! You explain a complicated subject really well.
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  899. "...it moves up and down because the Earth has an axial tilt and we are seeing the seasons here..." (*.*) Am I the only one here blown away by actually seeing axial tilt??? I've been imagining it since kindergarten but to actually see it in animated photos is something else.
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  900. Packaging could be considered a form of food waste as well. I'm thinking of tiny little single portions of food encased in plastic or foam clam shells, or all the processed foods that come in plastic bags inside of cardboard boxes.
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  901. You know that picture from the GOP debate ( at 3:29 ) where it looks like Trump is farting and getting kicked in the balls at the same time? That should be the basis for his official Presidential portrait.
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  902. He definitely looks cuter with the short ears. It's unfortunate that he had a bad experience in the past with someone clipping his nails. A human can talk about trauma and get past it, but dogs have no way to process such things.
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  903. Sounds like it would be better to avoid this one completely.
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  904. When the first sketch artist actually drew the puma biting his arm... Genius! This sketch is hilarious.
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  905. Thank you for this video! It was really interesting.
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  906. Thanks for another great video! Even when you put something together quickly, it's still filled with lots of fascinating facts. 1 in 270 chance of losing the vehicle? If taking out windows makes the capsule safer I'd prefer to have no windows at all. It's not like they can easily turn and look outside anyway. 1 in 9 chance of losing the Shuttle? Holy cow. Those astronauts were braver than anyone realized. No more Capcom, that's too bad. I guess CORE is okay, though.
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  907. Thank you for another very educational video!
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  908. It's just dry humour.
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  909. There's certainly a lot of changes that need to be made, hopefully at a steady but gradual pace. If I'm understanding the video correctly, the Argentinian Peso is currently pegged to the USD as a way to control inflation by forcing the government to have greater discipline and not print as much money. Unfortunately this hasn't worked. Switching their currency to the US dollar seems a little out of reach right now, but like Patrick said in the video a currency board might be a workable middle ground solution. That would put monetary policy in the hands of a group that's unconnected with the government. Sort of a black box.
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  910. It's a wonderful thing.
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  911. So cool! (Or maybe, so hot?) I don't know better than NASA and can't design these things, but I'm FASCINATED by the problems and would love to see the solution of anyone who can do it!
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  912. Whoa, this bit went from funny to incredibly disturbing.
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  913. Honestly, I think it may have been a good idea to keep characters like Luke and Ahsoka for season two. It gave the show a chance to develop Din Djarin without overshadowing him.
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  914. I really like what you've done here. In a comment on another part of YouTube I tried to "fix" Rey, but my version was probably too hostile and angry for audience identification. In this video you've remade Rey into a conflicted character who still makes the right choices when she needs to, someone who's closer to being a hero without being an overpowered Mary Sue. Well done. And it's interesting how making Rey less superhuman allows a little space for the other characters to grow. In your version Finn and Kylo are much more interesting. Finn is actually needed and has unique knowledge that helps the Resistance succeed, while Kylo feels like a better, more competent villain. I love the idea that Rey actually loses to Kylo in their first duel, and it's only the flailing assistance of Finn and a sudden unexpected chasm that saves their lives. The same events, but everything is subtly more satisfying.
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  915. He's like a stuffed toy come to enormous life! So cute!
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  916. A very interesting talk! But I've got to say I prefer obedience from my things, not autonomy. In the future when machines get smarter and smarter I always want to control their off switch, not just in a general way but also specific ones. I want the ability to switch off certain features while keeping others activated. I also want the ability to pull apart and modify my things. The designers (both human and machine) may have envisioned a harmonious collaboration between me and the machine, but as a human I still reserve the right to total control.
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  917. There are a number of companies working on nuclear fusion. It would be wonderful if we woke up one day to the news that one of them had cracked it. That would truly be world changing.
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  918. Thank you for this video! It's very interesting, and it asks and answers some good questions.
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  919. Thank you for all the laughs. It's really meant a lot to have this one place where we can relax and laugh about the absurdity of this ever changing world. Even when (maybe especially when) we're laughing at the ridiculousness of our own over-reactions to things you say. Jackals indeed.
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  920.  @clivestainlesssteelwomble7665  That's really interesting! Artificial basaltic rods...
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  921. This was a great segment! I laughed a bunch of times. Sometimes bitterly ironic laughter, but still laughter... Oh, and the book jokes aren't labored. They're awesome!
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  922. Seth, trust me. Up here in Canada we're looking at what's happening to the US with nothing but unmitigated horror. There's no irony or cynicism. We can't believe it's gotten so bad.
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  923. Sounds like a lot of fun!
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  924. You know, this is just about a perfect video. I learned more about these stories from watching you than in any of the news articles that have been released so far. Thank you for doing this, Scott Manley!
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  925. The idea behind crypto is to find a way to replace trust with mathematics. Supposedly we wouldn't need to trust banks and governments because the system would police itself. But they still haven't found that perfect trustless system.
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  926. It's an interesting technology worth exploring, but it's still very early days for thorium reactors. They aren't a current solution for the climate crisis. We need to make the shift away from fossil fuels with the tools we already have.
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  927. I agree 100%, and you make an important point here that many people might not want to think about: the Republicans objecting to the election are trying to accomplish the same goal as the insurrectionists who stormed the House. They're just trying to do it by convincing their fellow Congressmen and Senators with words instead of holding them at gunpoint.
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  928. Oh man, I can see two possible futures here. In one Trump runs for President in 2024 and it's pretty much civil war, and in the other he goes to jail and the Republicans end up fielding someone like Ted Cruz or Matt Gaetz (assuming he's not in jail either) and go down to defeat.
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  929. The danger of AI is that it will put the vast majority of people out of work, by doing their jobs better than they can.
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  930. Thank you for doing this segment! It's something that people really need to know about, because despite all that's been done so far America's small businesses are still in desperate need. Why did Trump's administration create a complex loan program that needed the involvement of banks? They could have done what other countries have successfully done in this crisis and just cut each small business a cheque. That way there's no cheating and no need for complex rules, the IRS (or whomever) could just send the money directly where it needs to go.
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  931. Don't let the Republicans steal your election! Don't let them hypnotize you into thinking this is inevitable! Vote!
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  932. VERY COOL!
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  933. I still wouldn't want to stand in front of one of those avalanches. Dust going at 21 m/s might not be enough to knock you over, but it would probably coat your entire suit, including the faceplate, in layers of fine electrostatically charged dust. It might be impossible to wipe enough of it off to let you see again, then there's the possibility that it might clog your radiator and get inside the joints. And maybe there's one or two chunks of ice coming down that 500 meter cliff...
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  934. If they have access to Twitter, then they can probably access YouTube as well. You never know who might be watching these videos... On another note, that picture showing the astronauts gathered together to watch a movie sure looked cozy. Just imagine how it must feel watching some big drama when there's nothing but cold vacuum all around you. Kind of like huddling under a blanket and watching a movie in the winter, but much more intense.
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  935. Andy Capp! You know that strip has been running since 1957? That's a long time on the dole. Trump is only taking Covid-19 seriously now because his friend Stanley Chera is a coma thanks to the virus. When it happens to someone he actually knows, THEN it becomes real to him.
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  936. Thanks for another great video!
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  937.  @TimoNoko  Yeah, I loved the technology in the last part of the book!
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  938. Straight through the center of the Earth, and then to the Moon!
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  939. Hey, my birthday is a doomsday! That makes too much sense.
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  940. Thank you for this video. I'm not surprised that no one bit on his scam. This channel in particular seems like a poor choice for that kind of thing.
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  941. It's still very early days, but I think this area of technology - creating an interface between the brain and machines - will be every bit as transformational to human society as the creation of transistors on silicon chips. This, more than AI, is where the greatest change will come from, both the greatest benefits and dangers. It will challenge our very definition of what humanity is.
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  942. Thanks for another really fascinating video!
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  943. It's weird how Stephen Miller seems to be the only person in that family (maybe that entire community) to develop such a hatred for immigrants. It's like this is how he rebelled against his parents, and he's still rebelling at 33.
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  944. mytmousemalibu wrote: "Right now our best option is already being explored, biofuels. From synthetic to plant based and even fuels derived from algae are being tested now." This does seem like the most realistic option to replace aviation fuel. At least it has the benefit of being carbon neutral.
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  945. Thank you for the video. That makes a lot of sense.
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  946. Wow, the existential horror of everyday life in 2021. Maybe he should have asked what kind of dog it was?
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  947. The thing is, there's a huge disincentive to change the existing system. In my country the current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to change, or look into changing (it's confusing) our first-past-the-post electoral system and investigate alternatives like proportional representation. It's seven years later now, and he did nothing of the kind. From his perspective the current system already gives him what he wants, so why rock the boat?
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  948. I guess this is stating the obvious, but Europe's dependence on Russian oil and gas is a huge security risk. If "Europe" still meant western Europe it might not be so bad, but organizations like the EU and NATO cover most of the continent now, which means coming into Russia's old sphere of influence. And Germany shutting down nuclear reactors so they could import more natural gas from Russia is going backwards in every possible way. It increases carbon emissions and ties them more firmly to a nation that does not have Germany's best interests at heart.
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  949. Thanks, MossyMozart. I hear it's a tremendously well paid profession. That's why Seth's writers look so rich.
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  950. At least the crabs know what they're doing. Always go with someone experienced, if you go at all.
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  951. What a strange system. There's no pretense of an invisible hand or markets making things more efficient. The hand in China belongs to the government, and they can choose who will suffer the losses.
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  952. Agreed, Kenneth Ferland. We need to prove that we can keep people alive in space for truly long duration missions before we actually send anybody out to Mars where there's no quick escape.
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  953. Thanks for making this video! It's a bit outside my comfort zone (nothing flying around), but that just makes it more interesting to try and understand!
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  954.  @colinmurphy2214  I have no idea if it's true, man. None at all.
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  955.  @Yurothehotot  Good point.
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  956.  @teemumiettinen7250  Good point. I see what you mean.
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  957. You made a REALLY good point about insulin.
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  958. I think they waited for it to be over the ocean so they could shoot it down and recover as much as possible.
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  959. One good thing about dividing people into smaller groups that reach a conclusion and then send a delegate to the larger group, is they have no idea what the larger group will eventually decide. So like Ms. Hossenfelder says in the video, they're not influenced by the most popular option. Or at least there's less chance of influence in a smaller group, and a greater chance that errors will cancel each other out.
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  960. Thank you for this excellent video! It's really informative and interesting.
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  961. Thank you for this informative and useful video! It really is good advice. As a mostly passive investor I guess I'll just stay put and ride this out.
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  962. Drinker, I like and admire your videos, but I think you're totally wrong on this one. It isn't politics that led to those record low Oscar ratings, they're a direct result of the pandemic. The new quota system is a really big problem, and if they continue enforcing quotas for Oscar nominations it will lead to a loss of relevance for the awards over time. Instead of being the best movies of the year, they'll just be the best movies that were allowed to compete. People will gradually lose interest. But I think it's too early for the full effect of the quota system to be apparent. The Oscars got their lowest ratings ever this year because people in general are less interested in movies than ever before, and people are less interested for two reasons: there were very few good movies released in 2020, and most people saw them over streaming instead of in theaters. Both of these things are directly related to the pandemic. 2020 was just a bad year for movies. Very few new ones came out, and of the ones that were released very few of them were any good. Meanwhile streaming platforms were flooded with awful low budget garbage. If you were sitting at home and looking to see a movie a week or maybe a couple of movies a month, you probably watched some really bad ones last year. Sure all the old movies are still there, but if you're the kind of person who cares about the state of cinema right now (the kind of person who cares about the Oscars) there was very little to get excited about.
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  963. What he said makes sense. Reach out, once , and try to work with Republicans. If they say no, then stop trying to appeal to them and get on with the business that has to be done. There's only two years to fix all this stuff, then the American people get to have their say - and if nothing gets done before that time it'll become exponentially harder to get anything done in the last two years.
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  964. Interesting idea. Looks like it'd be easier on birds than standard turbines, too.
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  965. Thanks for this video, but I really hope we don't learn more when radiation reaches Europe. Hopefully there won't be enough radiation to get that far...
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  966. So cool! Thanks for this comprehensive video analysis. It's neat that so many people come to watch these tests, with so much sophisticated hardware, and then they share their results for all of us to see! It's one of the best things about this century.
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  967. "...wait until you see what you release." LOL!
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  968. Thank you for the amazing video! Your videos have always been great, but it looks like they've made another jump to a higher level of quality. This one is just about perfect.
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  969. That was a really good interview! Chris Hayes is both thought provoking and clear. And boy, he sure makes a great case that the Democrats have to do more to try and secure your elections in November! A 50 state repeat of Wisconsin is horrifying to think about, both for the unnecessary loss of life and for the total mess it would make of the election's legitimacy. The results would be argued in court for years. It might not happen (And here's hoping it doesn't!) but anyone who truly cares about having a legitimate election in November has to takes steps now in case the virus is still a factor then.
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  970. Moderates, Keen James. Moderates who don't officially identify with either party. They're the prized demographic that every politician wants to attract.
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  971. Seth's version of the Lincoln/Douglas debates is really funny. And the point of this segment is well made. People like Rubio were right about Trump in 2016, but they're not allowed to say or do anything that could be interpreted as anti-Trump today. For the Republican senators the trial is a waste of time because their fear of being primaried and losing their jobs is greater than their desire to serve the Constitution.
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  972. The Softbank Dog commercials have been continuing for years and are still hilarious. Especially if you never intend to use Softbank.
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  973. This is a scary video to think about, but I see why so many people connected with NATO have been bringing up the possibility of war with Russia lately. Clearly the people who have to think about these things believe the risk is higher than it used to be that a Russian attack could happen. It's so frustrating that we're all basically being held hostage both to the election results in the US, and to the fading dreams of Putin in the East. The fact that Russia is rapidly growing weaker makes it more likely Putin might try to cross "break up NATO" off his bucket list while he still has the chance.
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  974. Thank you for doing this video so quickly! I always want to hear your analysis after major events like this one, as you're the king of after action reports. Plumbing issues in the booster like fuel slosh and the fluid hammer effect, maybe an oxygen leak in Starship... The common theme here is the rocket just couldn't withstand the physical stresses of flight. It survived liftoff and stage separation, but not much longer than that. The next one needs both stages to be tougher and more resilient, if that's physically possible.
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  975. That's just it. The internal stresses must be incredible.
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  976. Well said! This should be simple common sense. Why have so many people abandoned judging others by their actions and not by whatever social category they happen to fall into?
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  977. Ketchup all the way, sorry. But Chicago does have the best pizza.
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  978. Put extra sugar in his Coke?
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  979. Thank you for this wonderful video!
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  980. But in regard to those Trump tariffs on aluminum and steel, they were imposed through executive action. Biden could remove all of them with the stroke of a pen, it wouldn't require any consultation with other branches of government or compromises on other initiatives. And the same thing is true of the China tariffs. Trade policy is an area where the President has wide latitude, that's why Trump spent so much time messing it up. I think the truth is that Biden likes the tariffs, but doesn't want to publicly state that agrees with Trump on anything. So he gives the impression that he'll get around to lifting them when he has the time, but that time will never come.
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  981. That was interesting. But in the end it's another example of the mistake successful people often make: because they became successful in a certain way, they think everyone can succeed in the same way. If anyone criticizes their method of success, they take it as a personal criticism and thus it must be bad.
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  982. Well said. An excellent review of a wonderful movie. Blade Runner is one of the final great achievements of the New Hollywood era of 1967-1982, produced at a time when everyone involved were at the creative height of their careers. And Rutger Hauer made probably the greatest ad lib in any movie ever.
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  983. I guess it all comes down to if you think impeachment would actually accomplish anything. Pelosi knows that the Senate would never allow Trump to be impeached, so she's afraid of the political consequences of what would turn out to be a purely symbolic action. Other Democrats want to proceed with impeachment because it's the proper legislative remedy for a President who's been involved with so much underhanded and criminal activity. They still have faith in the system.
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  984. Thanks for another great video! Your discussion of these companies and what they build is really interesting. It sure helps us understand the news story better.
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  985.  @johnladuke6475  Sure, but does the specific piece they're trying to sell you exist? Would your claim be recognized by any authority? Not to get into philosophy here, but there are different levels of "existence," and if you're required to lay out cold hard cash for a deed it needs to be empirically real.
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  986. As opposed to "7 Days In May," I take it.
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  987. Taylor Swift is awesome, but I think meeting Caroll Spinney would truly be the experience of a lifetime. Big Bird! No joke, I envied Seth when he was telling that story.
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  988. Seth's Tucker Carlson impression is perfect . "And then he and his friends, they push you down the stairs. Imagine that!" LOL!
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  989. The US military? That's not surprising.
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  990. Thanks for another great video! "...can you imagine how different Apollo 13 would have been if they could've just 3D printed an adapter for their carbon dioxide scrubbers?" Oh man, it's mind blowing. 3D printing in space could be revolutionary even if the printed parts aren't up to regular aerospace standards. Just having the right screw or bracket, or like you said, the right specialized part in a pinch, could be the difference between success and mission failure.
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  991. I've noticed that Seth's best jokes are when he pretends to be a fictional Donald Trump that's sort of a cross between Homer Simpson and Mister Magoo. That's where the laughs come from: not knowing where he's going next but he's sure it starts with "N," sneaking immigrants onto Air Force One inside his coat, "you'll need a search warrant for my belly," and so on. The real Donald Trump isn't that funny anymore because his awful behavior never stops.
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  992. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wear masks so you can tell who they are, thanks to the color. They're like the opposite of every other mask wearing superhero.
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  993. Very interesting video! Thank you.
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  994. I've been saying this for years, but it's hardly an original insight. Way back in 1947 the science fiction writer Jack Williamson saw this coming in his novelette "With Folded Hands." That's a story about robots that are programmed to make humans happy, and how they essentially wreck the world by doing everything we can do, but better. I think you're right that a great upheaval in perspective is coming, but it's not necessarily one where we'll realize we're not special. With all the problems we face today I don't think that idea is hard for people to grasp. The real upheaval is going to be in our conception of what the economy is for. Is the economy just a system to get things done in the most efficient way, or is it a system designed to give people something to do? Societies where AI does all the technical work and most humans are unemployed aren't going to be pleasant places to live. Basically we're going to need to choose what kind of economy we want - either an efficient economy that does everything as cheaply and productively as possible, or an economy that offers every person a job. A human centered economy where AI is simply prohibited from doing many things will be less efficient and more expensive, but in the long run it would be a better place for human beings to live. Edit: I forgot to add that AI would still have a place in a human centered economy, since there are jobs too complicated and/or awful for humans to do. For example, moderating YouTube comments. There's a vast sea of them posted every day, but an AI could keep up, and moderate them the way humans would. The AI could take the place of a vast army of human moderators that would be too expensive to hire.
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  995. SO COOL!!! Thank you Scott Manley and Dante Lauretta for making this video! It's really fascinating. Just like landing on a planet, but not, because everything is so scaled down! At this level the water vapor your spacecraft absorbed from Earth's atmosphere before launch becomes a factor you have to take into consideration... Wow. I'm really intrigued by the landmark tracking optical navigation and the catalog of features OSIRIS Rex has in its memory. (Apologies if I'm getting this wrong, but it sounds like the onboard catalog is the landmark tracking.) It sounds like he's saying they originally planned to use LIDAR, but when they saw what the surface of Bennu was like they had to design the new optical navigation system from scratch. That's impressive!
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  996. I've heard the biggest problem with these AI systems is false positives, so this system makes sense. It kicks any suspected positives up to the human level for error checking, and in return the humans have to deal with a much smaller number of scans overall.
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  997. Going to go against the grain here and say this isn't necessarily a bad idea. Nuclear powered planes could really be something amazing. But it was an idea that was far beyond the technological capability of 1950's science. It's beyond ours today as well, but maybe someday they'll get nuclear reactors cheap and simple and safe enough to use in a plane.
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  998. Thank you for this video. It's very educational. I'm 100% on board with SpaceX and Musk's plan to go to Mars. Like for real. But Twitter seems to be the man's fatal vice. He'd be better off if he didn't use it at all, so buying the company seems like a bad idea. It's like an alcoholic buying a distillery.
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  999. What a great video. You've certainly exposed "Mr. Stansberry" for what he is: a sleazy con artist. The idea that he got conned (or accidentally conned himself) with the SPAC merger is the icing on the cake. It's too bad that his various newsletters have been separating people from their money for over twenty years, but it's also kind of amazing that it took that long for the victims to collectively wise up and stop subscribing.
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  1000. You're right in what you say, but I think you're giving too much credit to many of the people who deny things like climate change. They're not just being dumb, they actually are anti-science. There are a lot of people who live in a bubble where they only associate with others who have the same beliefs, and more and more they've come to reject the idea that there is an objective reality. They also reject anything that doesn't agree with their beliefs, including science. The idea that millions of people can live disconnected from reality is pretty stunning. Reality will of course catch up with them, but until that happens they're an enormous drag force on any attempts to create large scale change.
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  1001. Thank you for this video! I haven't seen your channel before, but it looks really well made and professional. I'm very excited about this result! It's the kind of surprise that makes science so wonderful. Hopefully follow-up research (Including an expedition to Venus!) can answer this intriguing question once and for all.
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  1002. The Republicans really believe that most people have to be forced to work. I think in their minds too much government assistance would be a doomsday scenario because then nobody would do the lowest paying jobs.
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  1003. Sugar cubes are what powers the wish magic.
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  1004. Well, good luck to him. I hope both of the billionaires are successful in their space ventures. Bezos has a more polished presentation but fewer specifics than his competition. Still though, he's right about the "two gates" and the idea that giant colonies in orbit will be of more use to planet Earth than a colony on Mars. Or at least they could be more useful if there's a truly gigantic construction infrastructure in place to build and support them. The funny thing is that Bezos's vision would have a greater impact on ordinary people, but it might be generations before we can build it. Meanwhile, Musk's vision of a Mars colony might not make much difference to the price of beans here on Earth, but it does seem much more achievable today, or at least within our lifetimes.
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  1005. Thank you for this video! I love it when you explain stuff, and this is a really interesting subject that I don't know much about. So your video was awesome.
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  1006. You grandstand just enough, Coffee. It's the perfect amount.
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  1007. Do you mean moral hazard? Patrick Boyle covered that in yesterday's video on Evergrande.
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  1008. This is legitimately awesome!
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  1009. I wonder why the FCC decided to go after Gemini and Genesis in this case, when there's so many other companies that are doing the same thing. Is it a test case for the FCC that indicates greater willingness to regulate this space in the future, or is it just that the government thinks there's still a chance that investors can be refunded in this instance? With many other crypto schemes the horse left the barn a long time ago, but maybe the Winklevoss twins and Silbert still have the money someplace where an auditor can find it.
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  1010. For me Snyder's movies are just bad, not "so bad they're good." And I think that's because there's truly nothing there but a bunch of scenes that are supposed to look cool. There's really no story to follow, as you showed with this three minute scene. Snyder's view of the world is purely surface level. With someone like Michael Bay, the films often are guilty pleasures because there's a story and a consistent world view to follow. You just have to imagine you're ripped on a massive dose of cocaine and Red Bull to get into his mindset. After that mental adjustment is accomplished the movies can be ridiculous and fun. But you can't get into Snyder's world view, because he doesn't seem to have one. No cinematic philosophy anyway, other than "the characters do it because it looks cool." The result of that is movies that are more like music videos than stories.
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  1011. VERY cool! They're all really interesting. My favorite is probably "Making Soil for Space Habitats by Seeding Asteroids with Fungi." Because, c'mon, wrapping asteroids in plastic bags and seeding them with fungi to see what happens, that's about as cool as it gets. Following close behind is "Kilometer-Scale Space Structures from a Single Launch," or super origami, because I love the ambition. You'd probably need some extra launches to put in things like machinery and air, though. This might work together with inflatables to produce structures with interior complexity. Other favorites are the ones that would make awesome space missions that are probably achievable, because they sound like realistic extensions of current technology. "Extrasolar Object Interceptor and Sample Return Enabled by Compact, Ultra Power Dense Radioisotope Batteries," "FarView - An In Situ Manufactured Lunar Far Side Radio Observatory," and "A Titan Sample Return Using In-Situ Propellants" would make great expansions for Kerbal Space Program. They're all great, though. Ideas like using solar power collectors to beam energy to Lunar Rovers or putting little submarines inside a big robot submarine are genius.
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  1012. That's a bold move by Tiny Secret Whispers, stalling their narrative momentum to do an entire flashback episode in middle school. And is it a detective agency that investigates babysitters, or babysitters that formed a detective agency? I assume the latter, but who can knows with Butternut.
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  1013. This Closer Look was ON FIRE. (Just like Seth's cigarette.) Really hilarious.
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  1014. All hats are double sided... You don't need to "correct" that, because it's not a mistake. Somebody was just being pedantic.
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  1015. Trump lies, that's all this is. Remember his first term, when he was going to build a wall on the Mexican border, and make Mexico pay for it? That was the same as this. Of course it never happened, but he still claims he did it. He isn't going to take Greenland or Canada, it's just lies.
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  1016. It's the exact opposite of global warming, so this technology is always going to be interesting. Looks like it needs more development first, though.
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  1017. Excellent video! Thank you for making it so quickly. I would disagree on a small point, though. You said that Trump has a lot of credibility at stake in proving that his idea of the peace process will work, but Trump doesn't really function that way. Although elected democratically, he behaves more like an autocrat in the sense that he doesn't really need credibility. He does whatever he wants without worrying what the voters will say. And like an autocrat Trump's personal ties to Putin are what drives his interest in this issue. What worries me most is if the US will continue to sanction Russia at current levels, and what they might (or might not) do in response to Putin using a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine.
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  1018. Thank you for another amazing video! This was really fun to watch and learn from. I have a question if anyone out there is reading this: why would the solar wind transition from its initial rotating state to one where it's static (and non-rotational, I assume)? I understand what Scott's saying about how the solar wind is initially trapped within the Sun's rotating magnetic field, but why would that angular momentum disappear at a certain distance from the Sun? Is there some kind of drag effect or dissipation I'm missing here?
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  1019. Thanks for this interesting video! You've got an intriguing channel here. As for Roscosmos... I guess later is better than never. Reusable rockets are clearly the future for the aerospace industry, so it's good to see them begin to develop something new. Or sort of new. It does look a lot like the Falcon 9, but this is just a preliminary render. Who can say what the Argo will look like after they build a couple and have a few explosions behind them. The design may evolve into something quite different. What matters most is the budget they're willing to commit to this new rocket.
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  1020. If it's not made out of possum, what is it made out of?
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  1021. Fatburger is a pretty good restaurant. Like all restaurants they've struggled recently, due to the massive inflation of the last couple years. I hope this doesn't tank the corporation. If somebody can get it out of the hands of the Weiderhorns they'd have a decent business that could grow when current economic conditions change. Don't know if the other brands are worth buying, though. As for Andrew Wiederhorn, he's just a crook. His story is like a parable of how crooks are never satisfied with legitimate success, and will always get back to stealing because that's what they really enjoy.
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  1022. I don't get why so many Republicans are still (as of Tuesday) refusing to admit the inevitable. George W Bush congratulated Biden on his win, but guys like McConnell and Lindsey Graham are still saying the election has yet to be decided. The best theory I've heard is they want to keep their base fired up for the Senate runoff elections in Georgia, but that doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me when you consider the damage they're doing to their reputations. Cut your bait, Republicans. Trump is done. Let him sink, don't let him take you down with him.
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  1023. Splish splash.
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  1024. Man, I envy your Americans with your rapid vaccinations. If only my country could do it that fast. I still don't even know anybody who's been vaccinated. Could be months before I get one. But anyway, it's clear the Republicans are massive hypocrites and always have been. You're absolutely right that they're trying to cancel Fauci and punish baseball for purely partisan reasons.
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  1025. Thanks for this video, Scott Manley! The news and your analysis of the effect current events will have on the space program is much appreciated. I think the current crisis will be short term. It's not the start of a new cold war, but will probably be the beginning of a period of turmoil in Russia. I hope their space program will continue, and can return to collaboration with the rest of the world soon.
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  1026. Trump is uninterested in doing the actual work of governing, so he leaves policies and the like to his subordinates. (Though he does enjoy taking actions that can't be challenged by others like pardons.) He thinks of the Presidency as being a sort of cheerleader for the United States, and his real concern is what people are thinking and talking about. In his head if he can get people to stop talking about Coronavirus, the virus itself will somehow go away, or fade to a low background level. His concern is almost totally with appearances and not with reality.
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  1027. Ah, Google settings. They should just call them Google suggestions, because they have a way of changing every time the gnomes behind the scenes do a big software upgrade.
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  1028. Really interesting video! Thank you.
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  1029. So this is what it's like when you suddenly want something you never even imagined before.
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  1030. So cool! Thanks for the wonderful video, Scott Manley! And congratulations to SpaceX! Everything is said with exclamation points today!
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  1031. That's North Korea's job. Meth, anyway.
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  1032. Your setup makes me wonder if this sort of thing could be used in dairy farming. Here in Canada a big expense for dairy farmers is warming the barns all winter, but maybe some kind of Carnot style computer heaters would reduce or eliminate that expense. I guess the setup would be expensive, since dairy farms don't usually have high speed Internet. But once everything was in place it might save enough in operating costs to keep small farms viable.
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  1033. So they'd give the drones a program to follow, then wait 84 minutes and hope they did it without any errors? It could work, but they'd have to plan everything out to the last detail beforehand.
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  1034. I was just going by what Jacek Siuda said about the amount of time the robots would be in contact with a ground station. If they could build or use a network of satellites then maybe that would make everything more realistic. Seems like that would add to the logistical difficulty and cost of everything, but maybe NASA or somebody could help them out.
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  1035. This is really good! I think we can all relate to the three Jeffs. It's hard to keep doing constructive things when the whole world seems to be burning down around you. But Jeff 1 has the right of it. Someday (hopefully soon) this will be over and normal life will return. We'll have to get rid of the Covid pounds eventually, so why not do it right now?
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  1036. I don't think you're going to get any easier questions, Scott. Your channel is all about cool science stuff, so it's attracted an audience that likes to ask hard, specific questions about real things.
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  1037. Man, imagine spending a week in a can just trying to catch up to the LOP G. That's after spending a week in a can on the Moon (granted, the most exciting part of the trip by far), and however many days you spent on the LOP G and however long it took to get to Lunar orbit. That's probably a month or so in different sized cans...
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  1038. Yeah, that made me think about how much Coca Cola has declined since they started sweetening it with corn syrup. Warhol was wrong, at least in the sense that somebody back in his lifetime could drink a better version of Coke than the one we have today.
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  1039.  @InvdrDana I agree with you. Around 2000 I was in a forum made by fans of the niche sci-fi show "Andromeda." We had endless arguments over our community guidelines. I wondered why, until I realized the guidelines were our community constitution. It was the document where we defined the values that brought us together and made us a group, values that often had nothing to do with the show that was ostensibly why we were all there. I miss that place.
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  1040. Welcome back!
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  1041. I like both the Sea Captain and Nebbishy Duck. Actually I may way too obsessed with these characters... Anyway, whenever Trump criticizes a woman now I just assume he's really talking about his mother. "She was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing." "I thought she was the meanest , the most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in my family... I mean, the US Senate."
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  1042. Thank you for the really interesting video!
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  1043. First of all, thank you for doing another great video. This one has so many clips from so many sources (including the actual comic that tells Starfire's origin) that it's quite amazing, and looks like it must have taken a lot of work to put together. Bravo, sir. As for the message of the video, it's hard to know how to respond. The "I Am Not Starfire" graphic novel is a niche product intended for a non-traditional audience, so it's not really representative of where comics are going. That whole line of graphic novels was a mistake on DC's part. I hope they've learned from it, but there are rumors the new management from AT&T want more of that kind of thing. It's an attempt by a corporation to be "relevant" to audiences that don't normally read DC, but instead of doing original stories they're looking for ways to twist their existing assets (the characters) into shapes that YA audiences will like. Everything about that line of books is so incredibly corporate. If they were serious about cracking the YA graphic novel market they should just put out original stories with new characters, but that would be too much like traditional publishing where authors own the rights to the stories. Can't have that! I guess what I'm saying is this isn't really indicative of a change in the way we as a society tell stories about heroes. It's just a corporation taking their existing assets and processing them like cheese spread so they can be used to capture additional market share.
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  1044. Thanks for another great video! I hope you're feeling better soon. And yes, this was a very busy week for space. A good time.
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  1045. This was a really good one.
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  1046. These Jeff Wright videos are amazing.
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  1047. That was really well done!
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  1048. Their leader made up an Emergency to build his wall, so why wouldn't the other side make up climate change? That's the kind of projection that's going on. If my side is doing X, then those no-goodniks on the other side must be doing X+1!
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  1049. That was great! Really well done and funny. "...I bought some bombs to impress some friends." "You called me?" "Not right now, Bombs. Stay in the back, I'll let you know when it's lit." "Allright."
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  1050. And this time everything will be recorded in high rez video. Back in the day they brought amazing Hasselblad film cameras with them, but video quality in the 60's was not good.
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  1051. Ironically, you need a credit card to subscribe to Nebula. Just as you need a credit card to buy anything on the Internet. Companies that refuse to take cards are giving up on online sales.
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  1052. Welcome back! Pretty much nothing has changed while you were gone.
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  1053. Oh wow, this is super cool! Really awesome guests.
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  1054. Thank you for this video! You're really out there at the actual frontier of knowledge, coming back to teach us something truly new.
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  1055. This is a really good video. You have a very natural lecturing style, asking the same questions the audience is wondering about and then answering them.
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  1056. It's never going to happen, but just imagine if Nancy Pelosi became the first female President due to the impeachment of both of her male predecessors...
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  1057.  @phadrus4435  Yes, excellent point!
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  1058. Thank you for another great video! Doesn't matter if it's 3 AM or later, you always do an excellent job. Unlike the Boeing Starliner, it seems. So a faulty clock is to blame, and a gap in satellite coverage kept mission control from correcting things until it was too late. That's unfortunate, but at least it's a smallish error and not a mission-ending explodey one. They can still get the Starliner back when this is over.
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  1059. Lindsey Graham threatening to make sure Trump's impeachment is a complete and thorough investigation of everyone involved in the Capital insurrection is like Sheriff Bart taking himself hostage in Blazing Saddles. Stay back now or I'll blow myself away!
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  1060. You summed up the problem well. We can create all the rules we want here on Earth, but so long as nobody is up there on the Moon to enforce them we'll have to settle for the good will of the organizations that do go there. If we're thinking really long term, maybe they could set up some kind of perimeter with security cameras (maybe even live streaming to Earth) so no one could sneak into a historical site.
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  1061. Thanks for this video! You tell the story of what happened really well. It was like being there.
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  1062. It's real-life evidence that confirms Einstein's theory of General Relativity. Also, these waves are incredibly faint signals sent by objects (probably huge black holes orbiting each other) that are very far away. By measuring the waves, scientists are learning something about the universe that we couldn't otherwise perceive.
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  1063. Thank you for another wonderful video. WORMS and that glowscope both sound really cool! And vini weedy vici. Heh. 😀 Hydrogen is pretty much a dead end when it comes to renewable energy. Only blue hydrogen even has a chance of becoming carbon neutral, and as anyone who works with it knows, hydrogen is notorious for making pipes brittle and leaking out of the smallest holes. I think the real leakage rate would be at the higher range of the figures in that study. When it comes to things that can't be easily electrified like airplanes and ships, synthetic hydrocarbon fuels made in a carbon neutral way will fill the need more efficiently than hydrogen can.
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  1064. Welcome back! It's great to laugh instead of just cry again. I'm sorry we're all in this mess, but I'm glad you're here to point out the absurdities and keep reminding us of the way things should be.
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  1065. Thank you for the video. It sounds like you're making a fairly complicated point: if I understand correctly you're implying that Ukraine is losing territory, but Russia's goals in the war are so overwhelmingly difficult it's still quite likely they'll run out of resources and have to stop before achieving all of them. And the more exhausted Russia becomes taking Donetsk, the more likely it is that a Ukrainian offensive will succeed, possibly in some other part of the front line. Meanwhile the air war is becoming more and more significant over time. Ukraine has successfully expanded it to Russia, where it's possible that drone attacks will cause shortages of critical resources even more quickly than before. It's interesting that Russia just made it's amount of oil production a state secret.
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  1066. I'm shocked, Sea Captain! Who could have ever guessed a sailor would use such language! Aren't you a knight of the sea? And yes, puns are the lowest form of comedy, but they're a welcome respite from the endless awfulness of the real world. Any respite from the real world is welcome right now. I wish I had magical talking objects in my house to take my mind off the news. I mean, the vodka bottles are sort of calling to me, but that's not the same thing.
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  1067. Thank you for this video, it really helped me understand what happened. I hope this is the last anti-satellite test too.
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  1068. Another one? I hope not.
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  1069. Thanks for the video! I agree with you that this trailer does seem dull. Hopefully they're saving some of the best moments and this was just an introduction to the characters. They do seem uninteresting and formulaic, though. The Eternals wasn't Kirby's best work to begin with, and this movie seems to be freely changing his original characters to fit their own formulas for success. Imo, too many changes from the source material is always a warning sign. It looks like The Eternals will be Marvel's third movie release in 2021, after Black Widow and Shang Chi. I think Black Widow will get a huge bump in attendance just because it's their first movie since 2019 and there's a lot of people who want to go back to theaters. (Also, she's an Avenger played by a big movie star.) After that Shang Chi may also do well, because people will still be glad to get new Marvel movies again. If Shang Chi is a good movie that will help The Eternals. But if Shang Chi disappoints audiences, that will hurt the next Marvel film. And if The Eternals is as bland as the trailer makes it seem, that film will do poorly regardless. But it'll be even worse if Shang Chi underperforms first. And then it will be up to Spidey to save the day in December.
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  1070. They're not actually dead if the brains are still alive. But without their original bodies there won't be much quality of life for them.
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  1071. I'm not sure that a SAHP would make sense where I live in Canada. But it sounds like they'd be great additions in warm climates like Nevada, New Mexico and places southward.
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  1072. Thank you for this video! It sounds like the benefit to vertically mounted panels scales with the ambient heat. In a place like India or Africa they'd probably be substantially better than horizontally oriented ones.
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  1073. Thanks for the new video! It's really insightful. And I'd like to say something about your editing. Thanks to YouTube's rules there's sort of a standard format to videos like this, with lots of short little clips that give us something to look at while the real content is the narration. But it's clear you put quite a bit of thought into the clips you choose and when you show them, as a sort of punctuation (or sometimes a contrast) to what you're saying. It adds another layer to the video and is much appreciated. Thank you for doing it so well.
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  1074. Also, that bust of Lincoln better find its way back to the White House. Ain't no way he's getting away with that one.
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  1075. This is a wonderful video! Thank you for making it. I've read about the Prisoner's Dilemma before, but you and your guests described it in a very clear, accessible way. You actually talked to Professor Axelrod! That is so incredibly cool. Also, I'd like to elaborate on a point you make at the end of the video. This is the reason life is fundamentally anti-entropic - living things always tend to increase order in their local environment, because cooperation is better for individuals than unrestricted selfishness. It's the reason multicellular life forms evolved. If selfish strategies were better overall, the world would contain nothing except for marauding amoebas and parameciums.
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  1076. Oh, we absolutely want to live a lie, as he put it. John Oliver may be almost unique in his desire to emphasize the truth.
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  1077. Musk might prefer to learn from success rather than failure, but that's just not how the universe works. Everybody screws up and makes mistakes far more often than we get things right. Even people who are the very top of their profession got there by many thousands of hours of practice. The metaphorical road to Mars is built on failures like this one, as well as the successes. It's unfortunate that this explosion happened, but now they have one more thing to learn from so it won't happen when there's a crew inside a Starship.
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  1078. Hooray for SpaceX! Two successes in as many weeks. This one wasn't as crucial as the first, but it's still a promising link in the chain that will lead to big things eventually. I've been a bit skeptical about Starship, but they did it. They made a giant silo fly, almost flawlessly. Like you said in the video (Thanks for another great video, btw!) it did end up leaning to the right a bit, so something is a little off. But considering that it didn't explode and it landed on the pad, this is a real success!
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  1079. I think you're one the right track here. The only catch is the killer needs someone to swap their brain, so they couldn't be working alone. But their accomplice could be in anyone's body by now. (Except Velma, of course. Even a lunatic wouldn't go that far.)
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  1080.  @testacals  23 cities, or provinces? Whatever they are it's a good start.
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  1081. It surprised me that they booed their lord and master, but this is probably just a timing problem. Fox and the rest of the right wing fictional universe didn't know Trump was pro-vaccine now. Give them a week to pivot and they'll start flooding the airwaves with "take the Trump vaccine" stories.
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  1082. Let's not get crazy here. I'd say it's equally as bad as Batwoman.
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  1083. He said he killed three or four bison by riding up to them and shooting them in the left flank with a revolver.
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  1084. Arr arr arr!
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  1085. All part of the process.
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  1086. I LOVE your re-imagining of Luke! It works so much better than what they did in the movie.
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  1087. True zero-G cooking would be a lot more interesting than this oven where they bind the cookies into flat pouches. In real microgravity the cookie asteroids would be slowly moving around the space within the oven thanks to those convection currents. (And the impossibility of placing a cookie in one place and leaving it totally still.) Some would bounce off the walls, leaving a thin layer of dough behind, while others would slowly collide and bounce off each other, making a sort of cookie asteroid field within the oven cavity. I predict that you'd get an unevenly burned mess. If you left the oven on long enough to completely cook the larger lumps it would burn the residue on the oven walls along with any smaller pieces floating around. If you cooked just long enough to get the smaller pieces the big lumps would still be doughy and raw. Consistency would be a fascinating challenge to achieve.
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  1088. I totally agree. And those are great examples!
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  1089.  @woodstockjon420  The person learning the knowledge.
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  1090. Thank you for this really interesting video! It seems like we're getting closer and closer to fusion power, but we're not quite there yet.
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  1091. That's really fascinating! This is the channel to come to for smart analysis.
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  1092. This is a fascinating video! Thank you for making it!
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  1093. Great video!
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  1094. "...Imagine how thrilled Star Wars fans would've been to see Han, Luke and Leia onscreen together one last time, or a heroic Jean Luc Picard going out in a blaze of glory, or even fucking He Man being a brave, powerful hero again." Yeah. It's painful to think about what could've been, with all the revivals in the last ten years alone. I don't think this kind of thing has to be an absolute. It is possible to fail by being too faithful to what fans want. On paper Ghostbusters 2 checks all the boxes for what a cool sequel should be, but the actual movie is somewhat disappointing. But the problem today is all Hollywood revivals are 100% red-lined in the other direction, towards reinvention and subversion of expectations. It should be possible to be faithful to the spirit of a franchise without being completely predictable.
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  1095. That was great. You described Tucker Carlson anime fan so well it was like a movie playing in my imagination. "Crikey! There's a snake on me desk! Where's the blunderbuss?"
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  1096. It's nice to breathe again.
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  1097. I don't know. It's odd that science is becoming less disruptive, when there are giant cosmological anomalies and the like hanging around. Maybe we're just becoming more settled within the current borders of the known, because expanding those borders has become so expensive and difficult. It seems like the development of AI should spur some revolutionary new science soon.
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  1098. Thanks for another great video!
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  1099. It seems the Soyuz is forever. 1900 flights and counting...
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  1100. Thanks for another wonderful video! The result for Astra is disappointing but your analysis of the launch is first rate. I hope they figure out what went wrong and get the next one into orbit.
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  1101. Never forget that Socrates was sentenced to death by a court of law. The impulse to censor, to hammer down the nail that sticks up so everyone can feel better, is always with us. It's a shame this moment of genuine, much needed social change with the Black Lives Matter movement is also being accompanied by a rising tide of censorship. Just because the cancel culture woke thing is generally approved by the left like Black Lives Matter doesn't make the two movements identical or mean that both are equally just. It's not all one thing and shouldn't be treated that way.
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  1102. Yay for Cosmic Girl and LauncherOne! A well earned success. And thank you Scott Manley for this very educational video telling us what's going on. An epic power slide through the atmosphere, before blasting up through the stratosphere and into space sounds pretty darn cool.
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  1103. The Opportunity mission was a tremendous success by every standard. Congratulations to everyone who built and operated it! Opportunity and Curiosity also demonstrate the utility of the autonomous or semi-autonomous rover as a scientific instrument. There's no reason we shouldn't always have two or three rovers up there, roving around and steadily learning more about Mars.
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  1104. Can we build an underwater curtain to hold the ice back? I don't know. Pranab Deb made some very good points about potential undercurrents and the sheer hostility of the Antarctic environment. It would be hugely challenging at the very least. Should we do it? ABSOLUTELY. If the curtains can be built, and if they don't increase warming on other nearby glaciers, then by all means build them. They could save hundreds of millions of lives, and possibly save entire nations from irreparable ruin. Calling something like this "a sticking plaster" or treating the symptoms and not the disease, ignores the enormous harm those symptoms will cause. Of course the main problem is greenhouse gas emissions. We need to de-carbonize our economy, that's inevitable and should be done as fast as possible. But this shouldn't be framed as an either-or situation. It's something we need to do in addition to stopping the root cause. Nations spend trillions of dollars on useless wars. Wouldn't it be better to spend that money on enormous engineering projects that save lives instead?
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  1105. The Ontario Securities Commission. Kind of like a state government agency in the US.
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  1106. Congratulations on the birth of your son! That's awesome. Clearly BitBoy wanted to financially hurt you, or force you to sign some sort of agreement where you take down your previous video and never criticize him again. He wanted it to be over quickly. By going public you made it harder for him to force you to comply (and it damaged his reputation even more), so he backed down.
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  1107. Make it rain bagels!
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  1108. The basic problem is there are hidden costs our economic system wasn't built to recognize, because it was created (or sort of evolved into existence) hundreds of years ago when people thought the Earth was limitless. For instance, there's no purely economic penalty for cutting down the last tree or catching the last fish in the ocean, even though those actions would deny trees and fish to all future generations. It's actually the opposite: rare trees like Ebony and rare fish like Bluefin Tuna become more valuable as they get harder to find, which increases the pressure to harvest them all. Carbon taxes are an example of governments trying to make a hidden cost quantifiable as a monetary penalty. The costs of climate change which are usually paid in an indirect manner by people far away become an actual tax we pay when something we do leads to the release of carbon dioxide into the air. In theory this kind of feature bolted-on to capitalism should make the system more efficiently price goods and services, and lead to the reduction of hidden costs. But the subject is still new and experimental.
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  1109. "To "fix" our system this way, you'd have to bolt on a tax for a lot of things. And it'll fight you at every step, and every individual facet of improvement." Absolutely. And places that don't impose these kind of taxes will be more attractive to industry than those that do because of lower operating costs. So the tax has to be adopted as widely as possible before it can even work properly. There are definitely challenges. "...The only change it makes is towards more profit, which even with infinite resources, isn't a direction that leads to betterment of human existence by anything other than coincidence." Well, you're getting into a much larger issue than just fixing capitalism. I agree with you that capitalism isn't the sole requirement for human fulfillment (no matter how many people seem to think money is all you need), but it is the best system available for the distribution of goods and services. I think we're going to need that system for a long time to come, and anything beyond that is a different matter. An equally important matter, but not something you can fix with goods and services.
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  1110. Thank you for explaining your ideas! I see what you mean now, and you make a lot of sense. Those are indeed problems that capitalism can't solve. If anything, a laissez faire economic system would only make them worse by concentrating capital in fewer hands. How do you efficiently price labor when it's no longer needed? If it's a choice between "efficiently" impoverishing billions and solutions like universal basic income, then we should absolutely explore the UBI. It might be the key to a whole new kind of economy where everyone's basic needs are met, but to go beyond the basic you need to mentally add to the world in some way.
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  1111. It certainly isn't a good thing to have so many media and social media sites owned by a small group of billionaires, but the difference between that and having the companies owned by a bunch of shareholders is more a matter of degree than an absolute line between good and bad. The real problem is that everything is filtered through such a small number of media outlets and apps. Once upon a time the news media was far larger and more diverse, and public opinion was shared through millions of email list-servs and message boards. Now everything is funneled through a smaller and smaller gate, and that makes manipulation and censorship easier.
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  1112. Thanks for the update, Scott! As for the SLS... well, stuff breaks. It isn't a surprise that something went wrong, the real cynical "surprise" is that it took so long to finally get to this test. Everything about SLS seems to be in super slow motion, like a development program from a different era.
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  1113. Seth is absolutely right. It is ridiculous that they're trying to confirm Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court when the President himself looks more and more unfit for office, even according to people who work for Trump. But that's the whole reason the Republicans are still supporting Trump - they want Kavanaugh in there so he can use the Supreme Court to hold back any future Democratic Administration. The Republicans know they're going to get obliterated in 2018 (and probably 2020), but with a conservative court they think they can hold the "gains" they've made over the last two years (the tax lowering and regulation slashing). It's party before country for them.
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  1114. Thank you for this video! In fifteen minutes you answer just about every question anybody could have on the subject. It's really impressive.
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  1115. The stimulus bill and vaccinations are the most important events happening in America, of course, but I think the conservatives (not just Republicans but conservative media) outmaneuvered the left on this Dr. Seuss thing, in the sense that they got people on the left arguing with each other about a non issue. I personally don't watch Fox News or look at any right-wing websites. I learned about the Dr. Seuss story from this show and other late night shows like Colbert, and the framing you all gave it was "it's time for some Dr. Seuss books to go away." I and many other people who might be characterized as center-left objected to this because it sounded like you're okay with censorship. Like it's a good thing to prevent kids from learning some books even exist because they contain racist imagery that, like toxic chemicals, might rot out any young minds that are exposed to it. This kind of censorship based on the emotion of disgust has been the bane of literature for centuries, although it usually comes from the right and is concerned with obscenities and religious and sexual imagery rather than racism. But that's precisely why it's so surprising to see the same impulse coming from the left. Or at least that's what I thought because that's the impression you gave. It turns out the whole controversy is just about a publisher deciding not to publish some of its books any longer, which is the kind of decision publishers make every day. If you had framed it that way at the beginning, as Republican politicians trying to tell publishers what to do, then you could have avoided the subsequent argument about censorship. But when you said that cancel culture isn't a thing, or that we shouldn't be concerned about it, you stepped right into their trap.
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  1116. Thanks for another great video!
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  1117. Thank you for a very interesting and balanced video on the possible future of passenger supersonic flight. Imo, the most cool thing here is the aviation fuel from Prometheus. But it sounds like that is still very hypothetical at this point.
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  1118. Tyra Winters is a real hero!
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  1119. @Income-ko6us That's a very strong possibility! Especially when you're asking it a question that doesn't have a single, clear answer. AI written books are already a plague on Kindle, and you start to recognize them very quickly when there's so many examples. It's funny, the Turing Test used to be this exotic thing, but now we've all been forced to get really good at it quite quickly, just to keep our heads above the tide of AI written sludge.
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  1120. Some day, if movies are still being made, somebody will make a documentary that entirely consists of clips of Trump arguing with himself.
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  1121. It was really funny, but I think Seth needs an audience for this bit to get some feedback.
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  1122. Seems like greed has been impatiently waiting for another chance since 2008.
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  1123. Well, we're still out here in audience land, in all our millions. I hope you can keep the show going through this pandemic, even if it needs to change in form.
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  1124. "Who's the smartest guy here? Me? Oh, that's not good." Seth's Trump impression is much more charming and self aware than Trump himself.
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  1125. What I'm getting from this is that Rocket Lab, in an effort to fend off competition from SpaceX, is going to be competing more directly with the Russians. It's pretty bold to go up against the oldest and best tested rocket in the world.
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  1126. Well done! I hope some of Dillon's fans click on the website and learn not to trust him in money matters.
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  1127. There's only so much the magnetic field can do. If you point an extremely high velocity stream of radionuclides right at the Earth that's too much mass and speed to overcome.
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  1128. Thank you for this video! It's really interesting, and especially welcome right now during the holiday season. Patchy regulation leading people into a false sense of security... That's definitely a problem. People get so excited when they hear about something that sounds like it'll be the next big thing. We've all (or maybe I should say most of us have) lived through the rise of Google and Amazon and Facebook, and we've seen huge industries spring up seemingly overnight, transforming our lives. There's a lot of people out there primed to jump on the next opportunity, since so many have already passed them by. Elizabeth Holmes was very effective at tapping into that fear and desire. I guess she really did think her company would develop the technology given enough money and time. Fake it until you make it, indeed.
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  1129. Thanks for another fun video!
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  1130. Thank you for another wonderful video, Mr. Manley.
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  1131. I'm sorry that happened to you. It sucks. On the bright side though, it's pretty cool that you met a fan in Spain who helped translate for the police. You've got fans everywhere it seems.
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  1132. No doubt there's one out there. Hopefully it's not too far away. (Where "too far" is defined as there being no way to send a probe there and receive data back in our lifetimes.)
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  1133. Yes, you're right. I used the wrong term, it would actually be convective cooling that doesn't work so well on Mars.
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  1134. It doesn't mean much, but at least Mike Pence recognized that he'd done something wrong and had to be careful in his response. (So careful he froze up and said nothing.) Trump would just plow through with some comment about how nice his resort is and not even realize the reporter thought he was wrong.
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  1135. I like kombucha, but with what they're charging for it now it's cheaper just to brew your own. Anyway... "...and in a way it shows some of the consequences of having a prolonged period of low interest rates. Not only can unsustainable companies last longer, given that the cost of capital is so low, so they can keep fueling their losses, but the investors who provide that capital tend to be less diligent..." Way less diligent, and way more inclined to fall for the latest conman. It's weird, though. I don't think Adam Neumann started out wanting to be a grifter, he really did want to change the world. But there was so much money out there and it was so easy to get, temptation eventually lured him to the dark side. I mean when SoftBank is just throwing billions at you like you're a stripper on Friday night, it must be really hard to say no thanks. We don't need that much yet.
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  1136. Well done, Drinker. This is an excellent video.
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  1137. And that's it, the last time you have to do one of these segments on Trump! Everything feels lighter and better today.
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  1138. Thanks for a great Christmas video! Also, it's nice to meet Lucky Manley. As for the story, it is a Christmas miracle, but of a peculiar kind. Despite their best efforts, Soviet rocket engineers fail to kill two dogs. Hooray?
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  1139. It's funny but also true.
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  1140. We'll always remember you and your great stories, Stan.
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  1141. Now here's a guy who hasn't lost a step. He's as funny as ever.
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  1142. I'm glad Slovakia has been so successful in dealing with the virus, and in producing vital equipment like ventilators. It's not a competition, we're all on the same team here and the enemy is Covid.
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  1143. Batman's suit is just a costume. He has many different ones, and there's nothing particularly special about them. Some have gadgets and armor while others don't. Personally speaking I prefer Batman when he's got a minimum of gadgets and no real armor. It's hard to imagine someone being acrobatic and jumping around when they're swaddled in Kevlar, steel and ceramic.
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  1144. Susan B. Anthony and Billy Graham... That one's going straight to the 3 AM nightmare file.
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  1145. Thank you for making the video! But I just can't pretend that this is the end of the decade, and I don't understand how most people can make the compromise that this belief is "psychologically" correct. It's a math problem, not psychology or philosophy. In math there's only right and wrong, there's no "technically" correct. Anyway, aside from that aside I really enjoyed this video. The strategy of having clearly defined, written goals, and making small, steady improvements toward them while tracking your progress seems like a good one. I think I my resolutions fail because I never write any of them down and don't track my progress - so either I stop improving or I underestimate how much improvement I've actually made - which leads to despair and dropping the whole project until next year. It sounds like regular, written down tracking could short-circuit this process.
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  1146. Very good advice. It reminds me of Isaac Newton: https://www.businessinsider.com/isaac-newton-lost-a-fortune-on-englands-hottest-stock-2016-1 He was invested in The South Sea Company - the, uh Tesla of that time. When the shares went up in price he cashed out and made a nice profit. But after they kept rising he got back in big time and lost a fortune.
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  1147. I think I've heard of this guy before. His "acceleromotor" was supposed to be based on old Soviet research or something. Or maybe that was a different anti-gravity crank? They all seem to focus on rotating motors.
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  1148. Thumbs up and saved to Favorites. Thank you for this most useful video!
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  1149. What a load of BS. This lawsuit is ridiculous, and a really scummy move by Logan Paul.
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  1150.  @nickwallette6201  My understanding (as a regular person on the Internet, not a doctor) is that it isn't known how long natural immunity to Covid will last. There's a chance that someone who already had Covid will have immunity for a while, but it will gradually decrease over time. The vaccine is a way to wake up and optimize your immune system so you can be sure you won't get or transmit the virus. Also the MRNA vaccines target a specific part of the virus that isn't likely to mutate, so if you're vaccinated you should have a resistance to all of the variant strains out there.
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  1151. I would LOVE this to be aliens, but it's not aliens. There's just more stuff floating around up there than we normally realize. Sort of floaty drones filled with helium, instead of drones with propellers.
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  1152. Thanks for another great video! Liquid metal batteries do sound very interesting. Maybe they're the missing piece that will make fully renewable systems work.
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  1153. I truly wonder what motivates someone to seek out a two week old comment that's probably buried under the rest, and leave a negative response.
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  1154. Really great video! Hydrogen certainly looks like the future fuel for a decarbonized economy, both in airplanes and in any other application where batteries alone won't do. But before that happens, couldn't we replace aviation kerosene with carbon neutral fuels made from carbon capture technologies? I mean, we have to remove countless billions of tons of C02 anyway, so why not develop markets for the byproducts of that process. They could use the existing infrastructure and wouldn't require retooling everything, so they'd be cheaper to utilize than hydrogen.
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  1155. Drunk Huckleberry Hound. :-) I don't know why Trump would talk to Woodward after Woodward already wrote a book critical of Trump, but he did. I can only conclude that Woodward has some kind of strange mesmerizing effect on politicians. Woodward tells them outright that he's recording everything, but at some point the interviewee forgets they're on the record and starts talking like they're two buddies having a conversation. He lulls them into being honest, and it even works on a liar like Trump. As for the President, this revelation makes it clear (in case it wasn't incredibly obvious already) that he views his public statements, and really any communication between the US government and its people, as a sales opportunity instead of an opportunity to inform. His government doesn't tell you things, they try to sell you things.
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  1156. It's like the line from that poem by Yeats: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Old Senator Johnson there says he's going to "resist" the Democrats just because they're Democrats, and every Republican is right there behind him. Meanwhile the Democrats are negotiating with themselves to reach a compromise that no one likes. I don't know what can be done about Democrats like Manchin, but something needs to be done to bring him into line. In normal circumstances Manchin's dissension would be a welcome part of the Democratic process, but these aren't normal circumstances. The Democrats have two years to fix the current mess and make a case to Americans that they should be allowed to govern even longer. That's it, two years. And if they fail they could be shut out of power for another decade.
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  1157. Maybe you were inspired by the subject matter or something, but this was really funny! When Seth said MGT thought it would take 5-7 years to complete the puzzle I nearly choked.
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  1158. If only it was a fun new cocktail...
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  1159. Wasn't slavery one of the main reasons for the Electoral College? All this stuff interconnects and feeds off itself throughout history. A system that was designed to give slave holding states electoral votes (by counting slaves as part of the state population but not actually letting them vote directly) gives rural, Republican-leaning states outsize influence today. And without the electoral college Trump would never have been elected President.
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  1160. These updates are incredibly informative! The amount of information Scott gives us is so high it makes me feel like I know what I'm talking about when I tell other people about this stuff. Just as long as they don't ask questions... "What's a 'Fluid Hammer' again?" "Uhhh.... Let me check YouTube and get back to you."
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  1161. If this kind of power generation works, it could be combined with air conditioners to produce AC units that don't need to be connected to a power source!
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  1162. "...there's new space, and then there's old new space, and Exos are a new space company that has roots in the old new space..." I actually understand what you're saying perfectly. Old space is government agencies like NASA and Roscosmos and ESA. Old new space is companies like Armadillo that got started in the 90's, and new space is all the current companies that started in the 21st century, like Space-X, Blue Origin and many more. This is a fun video. Thanks for telling us about Exos and what they're up to. I hope they work through the problems and develop SARGE into a profitable concern.
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  1163. It's just so disgusting. This is the ideology of the abuser, the belief that the only true human relation is fear and physical dominance. There are no carrots in this system they want to build, no belief in the value of cooperation or the rule of law. There's just the back of the hand, and the submission of the weak to the strong. Is this what you want America to become?
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  1164. You could pack the Gateway station in the Lunar Lander and assemble it when you get there. Or you could land a Starship remotely and have a ready made moon base waiting for the astronauts who arrive on the second flight. If you replace the SLS with Starship there are so many possible configurations for Artemis that involve fewer launches and less money than the current plan. But it all hinges on the concept of orbital refueling. SpaceX absolutely has to get that nailed down to make everything else possible.
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  1165. Thank you for doing this new video! I'm going to watch it a couple of times to make sure I understand everything.
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  1166. Thank you all for continuing to do your show in such trying times. Out here in comment-land we really needed the laughs! Back when we couldn't buy toilet paper and had to spend weeks trapped inside, it was so nice to check in with Seth every day and watch as he gradually turned his attic into a land of the imagination. He embodied our frustrations, but in a funny way also transcended them by making the attic seem like such a fun place. Then you brought that same energy back to the studio and made your show seem like a daily conversation with friends. All the continuing in-jokes (like "Cicada Cicada") and silly impressions are the kind of thing friends do when they talk, except funnier because you're actual comedians. It's been a much appreciated antidote to pretty much everything else going on, and I'm sure it'll continue to be so when the audiences come back.
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  1167. This was really interesting! Thank you.
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  1168. The PRO act is exactly what governments should be doing for their people. It directly addresses one of the sources of inequality in America - the declining power of unions. I hope it passes in the Senate. At least Congress is trying to make a difference, even when they can't be sure they'll succeed.
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  1169. I'm beginning to fear for your sanity, Disparu. Even Az of heelvsbabyface only watched one Batwoman a week. You're three times past that now. Or maybe it's better to do the videos as quickly as possible, to get them over with?
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  1170. It's a self reinforcing cycle. Some people get lucky, but they have the talent and drive to make the most of that lucky break. The worst case is probably people who are lucky, didn't make anything out of it, but still believe they achieved their position through hard work.
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  1171. "...the 2020 election is really the last chance we have to stop our system from fully sliding into a corrupt banana republic." How did America get to this point? All those laws, all the people who interpret them and carry them out, in a nation of 300 million well educated people that has a continuous history of democracy going back 244 years - all of it impotent and helpless against the the impulses of a single corrupt idiot, because he happens to be in the same party as the politicians of one chamber of the House. It should never have come down to a single election.
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  1172. In the NYT Paul Krugman was saying that Trump and most Republicans are reactionaries. Trump doesn't know anything about the Confederacy or care about the Civil War, but he instinctively gets angry whenever minorities appear to score a "win." You can also hear it in the way Tucker Carlson talks: "No matter what they do to you." Like life is a contest between "us" and "them," and any victory for "them" is a loss for "us." The reactionary's world can never include everyone, there always has to be an other to be kept down, so the in-group can know they're on top.
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  1173. Thanks for this video! I like how your interests are in environmental and sustainable technologies, and not computers like the other channels I've seen cover CES. You've got a unique and interesting perspective on the show.
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  1174. Ah, the F-104 Starfighter, I remember those! In my country it was the CF-104. There's one permanently mothballed at a museum not too far from my house. That awful airplane killed more Canadian pilots than the Soviet Air Force ever did. (Way more than zero, that is.) But we went all-in on those things and flew them until they fell apart. Imagine an alternate history where Britain made the SR-177 and we had the same licensing deal with them. Probably would have been a lot fewer crashes, even if there wasn't really a need to counter Soviet bombers.
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  1175. Who's complaining? Not me! I'm grateful you can still do these shows. If we can't laugh about all the bad stuff it feels much worse. And those wasps are completely adorable.
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  1176. If they can figure out what went wrong, that information may not be useful to science as a whole but it'll be very useful to ISRO if and when they build another lander.
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  1177. They're not dead, just changing jobs.
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  1178. Oh wow, this is a great video! Thank you for making it. What a fascinating thing. It's like a secret history. The British had their own rocket program that made its own unique design choices (that have never been replicated since), and it sounds like things were going pretty well. Then they just... decided to stop.
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  1179. You still have an audience of human beings! We're just stuck in our homes like you are. Wait, elephant rocker? Is that like a rocking horse but an elephant?
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  1180. Not Coffeezilla! He's the one guy I trust! Well, him and that Voidzilla guy. They both seem pretty solid.
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  1181. That's a neat idea! I wonder if you could set up rubber beams to do calculations, sort of like an abacus does. They'd need to interact with each other somehow...
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  1182. Congratulations! It blows my mind that you discovered a planet. Even today there aren't many people who can say that.
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  1183. I think that's the plot of the video game.
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  1184. Have you heard about a new game called Ocean Master? It's supposed to be pretty fun.
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  1185. Thank you for another great video! The clips you use are amazing. But I watched this one with a sense of growing dread, certain that Stapp would go too far. Thank goodness he survived! But he probably would have been killed if his superiors hadn't stopped him from further tests. It seemed like he was willing to keep risking his life in more and more dangerous ways until something terrible happened.
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  1186. MASH was a great show. Still is on DVD. As for Gaetz, his spectacular flame out shows that "Trumpism" isn't an ideology - it's just the reality distortion field around one weird old guy from Queens. When other politicians imitate Trump and live like they'll never suffer consequences for their actions, they get brought down hard.
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  1187. The intro to this video is hilarious. It's really well done. As for ASMR... Sadly, I don't feel it. I'm as open to psychonautics as anyone else, and I've experienced all sorts of weird sensations over the years, but not that one. Alas. With misophonia, oh yeah. When I was younger someone making a wet smacking sound when they talked (usually interspersed randomly between words, or sometimes after each sentence) would instantly put me in fight mode. For some reason I interpreted it as an aggressive challenge, even though that made no logical sense. But over the years the reaction faded away.
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  1188. A pretty good summary of the problems with hydrogen. The only thing I'd add is that battery electric buses are very possible. We have some in my city, and I like them a lot. The electric motors make for much smoother starts and stops. I think many governments are interested in hydrogen because (like you said in your video) the cheapest way to produce it is from natural gas. So the big fossil fuel multinationals see grey hydrogen as a way to keep on selling gas like always, and they throw their considerable weight in lobbyists and bribes behind it. They're determined to extract every last cent from their holdings no matter what that does to the world around them.
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  1189. Exactly! You're totally right, Indigo Gaming. This movie appears to be all about formula, and hitting the right emotional beats to appeal to a maximum number of people. They're not trying to make interesting characters with compelling motivations.
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  1190. Aww... Nebbishy duck. Such a change from normal ducks, who'll mug you for your popcorn. Then they all disappear and the real master of the ornamental pond shows up - the swan.
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  1191. Love these space news updates!
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  1192.  @feline.equation  I don't mean to imply that genetics are of no importance. It makes sense that the dogs with greater genetic diversity would be healthier overall (once they got to live with you and not on the streets), and hence live longer.
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  1193. Presumably anything being transferred along the cable will be much smaller than the total mass of the system. Would it change the center of mass that much?
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  1194. Congratulations on 1000 episodes! That's a lot of laughs. In times like these, shows like yours are more valuable (and appreciated) than ever.
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  1195. Thanks! It's been too long since I saw that show.
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  1196. When she slips into a mid-Atlantic accent, you know things are serious.
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  1197. That's...really insightful. It says something about how modern pop culture has failed to produce heroes of its own, and is forced to parasitise the icons of the past to produce an emotional reaction from audiences. But they can't even do that right. It wouldn't be great if they were simply remaking the most popular movies over and over, but it would be better than what actually happens now. Part of the problem is Hollywood's need to make endless franchises out of movies that were intended to have conclusive endings. The Temrinator series and Sarah Conner is an example of that. As you show in the video, Sarah did have a very satisfying character arc and a good ending. There was simply nothing left to tell about her. To bring her back they had to undo her ending just like they keep undoing the ending of Terminator 2. But there are franchises that are built to be bigger than any single character, that can in theory go on and on. Star Trek is bigger than Kirk and Spock, and Star Wars can be bigger than the Skywalker Saga. Yet both of those franchises were "deconstructed" in the same manner as the Terminator. It's a mystery to me why Hollywood wants to kill the past so badly. Do they honestly think the only reason people disklike Rey is because we're still attached to Luke Skywalker? Like we only have the emotional room to like one hero at a time?
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  1198. That was great. You're totally right and that piece was full of really good jokes. I think my favorite was the extended story of Biden and the mean kids on bikes.
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  1199.  @RCAvhstape  Exactly. Good point.
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  1200. That's a neat idea! It's the reverse of using it as an insulator. In your use case it would absorb the heat from the aluminum and radiate it out the other side...
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  1201. Well I'm going to miss this show while you're gone. The clarity of General Milley's speech certainly contrasts with the semi-incomprehensible rants that Republicans go on these days. And for me it highlights something kind of important. The Defense Department may get wrapped up in its own byzantine complexity at times, but at the end of the day they exist to do something real: defend America against actual, physical enemies. People at the top like Milley have to stay rooted in reality, because if they didn't they might lose the next war. They can't afford to get lost in fantasy land. Meanwhile the Republican Party is pretty much the exact opposite. All they care about is conspiracy theories and fantasies generated within the right wing sphere, to the point where Republicans often don't make much sense to people who aren't immersed within that sphere. Obedience and conformity of thought are what they strive for now, because they've realized that their traditional contact with reality, the election, no longer matters. As long as they have their fanatical base and control enough state governments to engage in voter suppression and gerrymandering, they're always going to get reelected. So why bother engaging in reality at all. That kind of thinking is farcically wrong, of course. Planet Earth is not fantasy land, and at some point the Republicans will have to face a reckoning. But they don't think it'll ever come, so long as they believe in the right things.
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  1202. Congratulations! Maybe someday futuristic asteroid miners will claim Scottmanley and use it as the basis for their family fortune.
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  1203. That made me laugh, too.
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  1204. You didn't mention the thing I'm most interested in: how the Apple Vision Pro works with your actual eyes. In the video we can see you have glasses that you have to remove to use the headset. Did you need to get special lenses from Apple to fit your eyes? How much did they cost? And how does the headset work with nearsightedness or farsightedness?
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  1205. Masten seems like a cool company. Good luck to 'em. It'll be great if they do land on the Moon in a little less than three years from now. Love that Flight Alumina Spray Technique! I remember a similar idea in Stanisław Lem's 1964 science fiction novel "The Invincible." Except in his book the rocket was nuclear powered and it sprayed out some crazy sci fi substance to harden the molten crater before it landed, not good old aluminum.
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  1206. It would be wonderful to repair Arecibo, but it appears to have reached the state where all the cables would need to be replaced, and if I understand correctly that's almost as hard as rebuilding it completely. It's unclear to me why the Aricebo telescope has so little domestic American support, since it's a literally one-of-a-kind instrument with an incredibly distinguished history of accomplishment - and as you point out in the video, there's no similar replacement available elsewhere. So I really hope someone builds a replacement dish. It could be the US, or a coalition of different countries, whatever, just so long as science gets that capability back as soon as possible.
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  1207. It looks tighter than it really is due to the display being two-dimensional. If we could see it in 3D it would look more dispersed.
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  1208. Awesome video!!! Thank you for this!
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  1209. Thanks for a great video!
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  1210. I know this is a bit, but I just don't care for the idea. You have no need to correct yourself. A comedian is like a shark, laying down the laughs and moving on.
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  1211. Thanks for another great video! This was a really interesting and useful look back at how we got here. If there's lesson to be learned, it seems to be: the cheaper your manufacturing process, the more launches you'll get to make. More launches means more failures, but it also means more opportunities to hunt down and fix mistakes so they won't happen again. The bigger, more expensive programs either didn't get off the ground, or in the case of Boeing, did launch but with unsatisfactory results. Meanwhile SpaceX has been building (and sometimes losing) cheaper rockets at a much faster rate, and making more progress than everybody else.
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  1212. I think I like this movie more than you do. It's not a masterpiece or the best adaptation of the book, but it's not bad. I'd probably watch it again at some point, maybe years from now - and that's a lot more than I can say about the majority of the sci-fi films made today. 2020 isn't exactly a banner year, but even considering quality as a weighted average sci-fi movies like Underwater and Archive are totally forgettable. At least Annihilation has creepy atmosphere and some scenes that are genuinely affecting. Anyway, for me the most relevant thing about Annihilation is that it's an adaptation of a really good novel. I don't know if you'd like the novel though, because it's at least ten times weirder and more meandering than the the movie, with an ending that absolutely does not deliver a satisfying payoff. If anything the movie went the other way, taking a story that's nearly unfilmable and making it more of a conventional movie. One could even say the book version of Annihilation is kind of about how things sometimes just happen and there aren't any satisfying answers. The Biologist (Natalie Portperson's character. In the book the characters don't have names, just functional titles.) learns that she has to accept profound transformation and just roll with the changes as best she can.
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  1213. That explanation was really simple and easy to understand. You're exceptional at this sort of thing, Scott. Thank you for the video! And thank goodness they figured it out. This is the way it should be done - everything transparent and out in the open so everyone knows the problem has been addressed and there's no chance of it happening again. It's too bad they'll have to install new burst valves every time they want to reuse the Crew Dragon, but that's a small price to pay in exchange for the added safety.
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  1214. So only for manned missions?
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  1215. Thank you for this video! Ever since the test I've been waiting to see what Scott Manley thought of it. Your insights are a vital part of the process now for anyone who wants to be truly informed about space news.
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  1216. Solar power stations are a great idea. They've always been a great idea, ever since that Isaac Asimov story came out. (Great job on the sourcing, btw.) And for those of us that love rockets and space travel, solar power stations provide an economical reason to have lots of people and infrastructure in space. It's win/win for everybody. The problem is that huge learning and experience curve we have to get over first, because solar power stations would be the most ambitious thing humanity has ever done in space. It would be a massive engineering project. I hope the Japanese have great success in their program, because they're putting in the hard work doing something that could benefit us all.
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  1217. Thanks for another great video! You've summed this development up really well, and I can't think of anything to add except amplifying what you've said. This new development doesn't appear to be a good thing. The race to get to the Moon by 2024 seems like it could be a repeat of the Apollo program, with little left to show for it afterward. LOP-G isn't the best idea, but at least it's semi-permanent architecture that will help make future missions easier, and become a platform for scientific research. I hope that NASA ultimately goes back to their original conception of using LOP G for a Lunar landing in 2028, but I guess that's up to the politicians.
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  1218. Thank you for a very thought provoking video!
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  1219. One correction: they're offering Reddit users and moderators the chance to buy into the IPO. I'm just a user, but I got the email today. I was tempted until I read that it was for US residents only. But the important point here is that the userbase is much larger than the moderators alone, so this is more likely to have an impact on the price of the stock. I like Reddit, because it's the last really big social media community that's focused on text. It's the kind of Internet experience I prefer, and I suspect most Reddit users feel the same way. A lot of them migrated from Digg, and before that the message boards that made up the heart of the old Web. It's never going to be as profitable as Facebook, but if they stopped spending so much on "research and development" that users don't want, the business could be self sustaining and survive for many years to come.
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  1220. Bernie Sanders is totally right about using reconciliation to pass that relief bill. The objection, as I understand it, is this will anger Republicans and undercut Biden's desire for bipartisanship. But the Republicans are already mad that Democrats exist in the first place and using reconciliation isn't going to make them hate their opposition any more than they already do. Their Hate knob broke off at the maximum setting some time back. What reconciliation will do is show the Republicans they're currently in a weak position and they can't bluff the Democrats into treating them like they're stronger than they really are. (Like in Obama's first two years.) Maybe that will force the more pragmatic among them to work with the Democrats once in a while. Probably not, but even it doesn't change the Republicans, that bill will give hundreds of millions of people the relief they need.
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  1221.  @ObjectsInMotion  Still, there should be a difference between medicines that are treatment for a disease and medicines that have to be taken continually for the rest of the patient's life. (Like insulin, but obviously not food supplements like spirulina.) The price of insulin should be capped.
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  1222. So cool! I've never even heard of SOFIA before, but it sounds like a great instrument. It's also fascinating how rugged those old airframes from the 1950's-1970's are. They can just be renovated and reused over and over, for all kinds of purposes.
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  1223. But the Smithsonian's collection will still exist hundreds of years from now, and the data it represents will become ever more valuable as future researchers find new ways to tap the information contained within it. Like for example, sampling the DNA from all those thousands of pinned butterflies. So I'd say the permanence of the collection has something to do with the definition as well. If your collection of wood scraps and hardware pieces is still around hundreds of years from now, scientists might find it immensely valuable because it could tell them what kinds of trees we were harvesting for commercial uses.
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  1224. Thanks for this summary! I'm one of the nitpicky people who believes that the decade isn't over yet, but it's still great to look back and see how far we've come. But that's nothing compared to what's coming. The next decade is going to be awesome!
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  1225. Oh Netflix. You managed to make two Transformers series without upsetting anyone, and a Dota 2 series. The basic idea of resurrecting old properties for nostalgic animated comebacks is a good one. So why did you have to do He Man dirty like that? Now you've taken something that should be a warm nostalgic Gen X celebration of giant bodybuilders and fun toys and turned into it into yet another cultural battle field.
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  1226. Awesome review! Thank you for doing this video, Scott Manley. And a very interesting game I didn't know anything about. There are so many amazing games I'm gonna need to live two or three times longer than normal just to try them all.
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  1227. I too have my lavender hand towels delivered by chipmunks. It's the only way to go. Velma sure sounds like a huge racist. I'm only going by the lines clipped in these videos, but wow she talks about race a lot. Like it's the only identifying characteristic that matters to her.
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  1228. Thanks for another great video!
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  1229. It's more like a shady dentist who's lost his practice three or four times recommending brake pads. If it was an actual dentist I trusted with my teeth doing the recommending I'd at least briefly consider his opinion on other things. No way I'd let Trump anywhere near my mouth.
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  1230. No, Seth! Don't go through the door! Well, I loved the attic gags over the last couple of months, and it was great to see the return of all the mutated books. "The Born Turds," heh. Now that Seth has gone to a place beyond human imagination, what will become of this show?
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  1231. The ISS will eventually be de-orbited, but Axiom Space is the next generation. If NASA can keep the ISS in space past the two-year deadline currently set by the Russians (meaning some kind of emergency replacement of the propulsion module, most likely) Axiom will grow a new station literally out of the side of the ISS, like a new plant budding from an older one. So thanks to the legacy began by the ISS, humans will continue to live in orbit for many years to come.
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  1232. I love that you took the time to seriously discuss the concept of water powered rockets and finished the video with the "microwave cavity thruster," which sounds like it could be a really cool technology in the future. Most people would have just made a video criticizing the obvious scammers at ARCA and left it at that, but you went the extra step to find something positive and fun to talk about in the subject.
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  1233. It's a sign that Trump is constantly hopped up on British made Sudafed. I'm not sure what he gets out of it, maybe it's just the caffeine. There are rumors that he takes Adderall too.
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  1234. Yes, that's true. But the Sudafed in his desk in that famous photo is the kind that uses phenylephrine: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sudafed-trump-tower/ So it shouldn't be as stimulating. I dunno. It's hard to say anything for sure with Trump, because he's a grumpy old man who sometimes just does things because he's set in his ways. All I feel confident in saying is that he takes a ton of Sudafed, and that's why he constantly sniffs. It could be he got hooked on it when it contained pseudoephedrine and just hasn't noticed that the ingredient changed. Or maybe he uses them like they're caffeine pills.
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  1235. "It's been a hard week for everyone." Especially the horse! I guess it's grazing in the Elysian Fields now. But on the bright side, the props department now has enough pudding for a month.
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  1236. The problem is that it's so much easier to stop something than start it. Anyone who sets out to inject sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere is going to encounter significant resistance and vilification. That inertia you talk about is powerful, and many people would rather fry than change.
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  1237. You're absolutely right. These calculations aren't always made with objectivity and the interests of the nation in mind. Sometimes they're made for the benefit of the leader and the leader's power base, and can have unpredictable results. In Xi's case he might feel more threatened by Father Time than any political faction in his regime, and launch an invasion because he can't personally wait any longer. That's probably what happened with Putin.
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  1238. I love the graphic where Trump is running away from the chicken leg!
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  1239. I wonder what he may have achieved if he was born today.
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  1240. Well, I can still see dislikes as of Nov 12 at 5:30 PM. So maybe they haven't gone through with it? Hope so.
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  1241. I don't know if it all happened exactly like this (nobody is 100% accurate), but one thing is for sure: you're a hell of a good storyteller! You put everything together into a narrative that feels totally plausible.
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  1242. I guess you must be right, because I'm outside your target demographic and YouTube still recommended this video to me. (Sorry.) Still, it's is very interesting and well made, so I'm glad the algorithm did whatever it did. Every few months YouTube starts recommending stuff I have no interest in, so I make a point to mark every one of them "not interested" and the weirdness usually subsides.
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  1243. That's really interesting! I've never heard of Elst–Pizarro before. It would be quite a neat coincidence if some accident happened to expose an ice pocket in the short period of time the asteroid has been under observation. As for long-period technosignatures... Maybe. Any aliens who bother coming here at all are probably already operating on much longer timescales than human beings. It could be they'd set up a signal that would only be observable to a species with an equally long lifespan (or an equally long memory of some type). That might be the only kind of creatures they'd be interested in talking to.
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  1244. Thanks for the video! I'd be okay with mycelium insulation in my home, if it was as fire resistant as the regular old plexiglass that's in there now. Like you said, the mycelium is dead, so it's not going to send spores down through the trap door from your attic. And besides that, there are already fungus spores in every house. With the dry conditions inside a home they get no chance to grow, but they're always present. Anyway, it sounds like the greatest potential for mycelium based "plastic" is in replacing Styrofoam. That's an important and beneficial achievement all by itself if it can be done.
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  1245. Excellent video. Thank you for posting it. I like Tesla, but its stock is clearly caught in a bubble at the moment. Tesla is a fundamentally good company that would be a good investment at a normal time, but right now Tesla stock is massively overpriced and due for a correction.
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  1246. Watching the boosters land successfully still amazes me. To think that something so powerful could go so far and then come back safely and on schedule, all on its own, that never stops being cool. This failed landing is too bad, but no doubt it will give the SpaceX engineers some insight they can use to make the boosters better in the future.
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  1247. Subtle, like John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson. ;-)
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  1248. Thanks for another great video! Here's hoping they don't have to use any of those safety measures...
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  1249. I wish Bernie Sanders had a real chance to become President. Not just because he'd be good for your country (he would), but also because Seth's Bernie impression is pure gold. You make me laugh every time with that one. "It was fine." 😄
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  1250. Amen to that. O'Leary has been failing upwards for his whole business career.
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  1251. This is just self promotion - but charity, and in particular donations to Africa, is an area where technology could help. Millions of people who work in developed countries and send remittances to their families back home could use a way to transfer money that doesn't involve enormous fees. Then there's the problem of getting on a blacklist of some kind. Pleasant Green was employing people in Nigeria to give them an alternative to scamming, when he was abruptly dropped by Western Union because they flagged his frequent money transfers. I think he worked it out somehow, but that shows some of the problems African charities face.
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  1252. Thank you for a fair and load-balanced examination of modern airship technology. I really like the way you explained the load-exchange problem. That, and the ever present issues that come from different choices of lifting gas, seem to be the biggest obstacles for airship development. This is probably just sci-fi thinking, but I've always wondered if it would be possible to use hot air as a lifting gas, essentially combining the airship with a hot air balloon. Another more out there idea is to use vacuum instead of a lifting gas. That is, have a giant void with no air. That would be cheaper to maintain (just pump air out of the void instead of paying for gas that has to be pumped in) and free of potential safety problems. But it comes up against the limitations of modern materials technology. Vacuum airships would need to be made from something very strong and very cheap.
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  1253. Four more years of Trump or another MAGA inspired Republican is bad enough, but the situation is actually worse than that. If Democrats can't show the American people that they can actually make the country a better place (as opposed to playing games and fighting with each other like usual), there's a good chance the Republicans could win back the Senate or Congress in 2022. Then nothing would get done for two years. Nothing at all.
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  1254. Just the Internet.
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  1255. NASA's Artemis plan is very exciting! But, well, I've been excited by Artemis plans before that never happened, so it's difficult to believe they'll get everything done on schedule. Hopefully they will! But when real life meets human plans, real life always wins and things get delayed and changed. If they keep getting the funding they'll make it back to the Moon, but probably not as soon as 2024. The real question is if Congress will keep funding Artemis when the goals start to stretch out forwards in time.
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  1256. Huh. It's weird to see this kind of movie done with the New Mutants. They were the X Men for 80's kids, younger and more accessible than the originals because they didn't have decades of continuity weighing them down. Some of them did have ridiculous names and crazy powers, but that's because they're comic book characters. The main thing I remember about the New Mutants comic book is the wild art style. It was a lot more experimental than most Marvel books. Btw, Illyana Rasputin (or Magik) was one of the most popular members of the team, and is still used in the comics today. But she's very much a comic book character, with an origin and powers that are incredibly complicated because they were slowly built-up over something like ten years of comic book stories. I have no idea how they could condense all that into an origin simple enough to shoehorn into a movie.
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  1257. I was thinking that too.
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  1258. Tony Wilson, you said a space elevator on the Moon wouldn't work because the rotation of the Moon is too slow. (About 27 days, I think?) But what about Mars? It's smaller than Earth and has a day equal to about 24.6 hours. Seems like a leading candidate. The biggest problem is probably moving the materials and components out of Earth's gravity and all the way there.
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  1259. Thank you for making this amazing video! It's the most fascinating thing I've seen all day, by far. So the rate beacon failed, which meant the guidance computer was only getting information on the rocket's rate of acceleration from the ground based rate radars, which meant it couldn't properly calculate the Doppler shift, and from that the velocity. The ground radar would return a range of values, some of them noisy (close to but not quite the "sweet" value) and some of them measuring the rocket's vibration along with the linear acceleration. Because someone made a typo (missing the overbar) when giving the equations to the programmers, the guidance computer used all of these acceleration measurements instead of using only an averaged "smooth" value. This made the computer think the rocket was going crazy, so it ordered a number of severe course corrections which actually made rocket lose control and have to be destroyed. Is that about it?
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  1260. Notice me, senpai! Make my schemes come true!
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  1261. I would like to see this too.
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  1262. Thank you for making another great video!
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  1263. Thank you for these regular updates! They're really informative and interesting.
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  1264. What a story! It's a crazy chain of events set off by the run on the FTX token. Alameda Research sounds like the frat from Animal House (dated reference, I know), except instead of being broke college kids they had billions in loans that FTX customers didn't even know they'd given them. And these people were supposed to be crypto geniuses or something. Imagine becoming a billionaire, testifying before Congress, losing it all and then going on the run to Argentina before the age of 31.
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  1265. Thanks for this video! I don't know if it's the future, but the Blue Carbon Straw sounds a lot better than the awful paper straws we're using now. (Hate those things!) I'd be willing to pay a little more for a straw that doesn't get damp.
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  1266. This is a very interesting video. Thank you!
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  1267. "...Also can we please dispense with this ridiculous fiction that the court somehow isn't political. That's all it is. They want us all to act like it's the Jedi Council soberly deliberating over what's best for the galaxy, when it's really just a group of Republicans and Democrats, nominated by Republicans and Democrats, who do the things Republicans and Democrats want them to do..." That's true, but also deeply sad. (Maybe it's weird for someone from another country to say this, but I do admire your system of government and the ideals it's built upon.) The Supreme Court is supposed to be impartial. The fact that it's not impartial but is instead driven by the same political parties that captured the rest of your system is a serious problem. That makes the Court less relevant and less fair, and threatens it's future as an institution. But this isn't the time for addressing those kind of problems. Right now this is a time for survival, and heading off the Republicans as they try to bring everything down. And in that context I'm sure Biden will make an excellent pick. But it's still sad how choosing a Supreme Court Justice has become a sort of political beauty contest.
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  1268. For me the scariest future is one where general AI does give humanity everything we want, and humanity stops doing anything. From that point on we become clients of the machines. They're not evil and don't wish us harm, but as a species we stop trying to improve ourselves, and become something like an intelligent domestic animal. Why strive and sacrifice, why train, why work at all, when an AI can do it for you?
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  1269. Thank you for this REALLY interesting video! It's quite a bit to think about. So when one photon is measured the other photon instantaneously takes on the opposite value, no matter how far away it is. They're still somehow connected.
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  1270. That's a good point.
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  1271. My comment seems to have disappeared. That is concerning.
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  1272. I'm so glad you're back!
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  1273. If real life has become a TV drama, this is the point where the Coronavirus subplot has just merged with the main story. Looks like there's no more one-and-done episodes left, and the plot is going to just keep building and building until the climax in November.
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  1274. I'm a super conservative guy when it comes to operating systems. I generally hate change and hang on to old versions of Windows as long as I possibly can. But... But this new Windows 11 doesn't sound terrible. If it can natively run Android apps, that's pretty cool. Still have no interest in an app store, though. EDIT: But they screwed the pooch with their security requirements. Guess that's that then.
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  1275. That's amazing! You should write a book (or at least an essay) on this. A lot of people would love to read it.
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  1276. Unfortunately scorched earth warfare is more prevalent than ever, because modern weapons tend to destroy everything they touch. It isn't just Bakhmut that's been razed to the ground in Ukraine, it's towns and villages all along the front. Both sides target civilian buildings because that's where the enemy tends to hide. Then there's the tactic of laying millions of mines, which denies territory to both sides until someone eventually goes through the dangerous and laborious process of removing them. When the war ends returning those lands to habitability is going to be an enormous challenge.
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  1277. Thanks for another awesome video!
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  1278. Thank you for this video. It seems like spam and phishing and hacking is here to stay, and it's particularly damaging when "professional" hackers sponsored by a national government do it. Regular criminals can be kept out with locks and alarms, but no amount of software can protect a person from responding to an email without thinking about who's on the other end. Ultimately, Internet crimes can only be countered by educating potential victims.
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  1279. This is a great idea! It sounds truly innovative, with the potential to transform all sorts of things we take for granted.
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  1280. Wish I could upvote you more than once.
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  1281. The weirdest thing about Trump's recent actions is they actually make feel a little sympathetic to the dictatorial government of Iran. I mean they're still a bunch of murderous thugs, but it must be maddening to deal with Trump's ever changing demands, with such huge stakes on the line. They're on the brink of a devastating war, but no one can figure out what Trump wants, or how to satisfy him. His cabinet ministers say one thing, then he says another...
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  1282. Thank you for this video! It's incredibly interesting.
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  1283. I'm afraid this video has gone completely over my head. Even with more than one viewing I only understand bits of pieces of what you're saying - but I still really enjoyed it! It's very relaxing to listen to someone who really knows what they're talking about as they take you through a subject you almost understand. It really focuses the mind on 1960's computers instead of present day problems. So thank you for another great video, Scott Manley! The research you do on these videos is incredible.
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  1284. I think you just have to convict Trump on something, any one of the many crimes he's committed, to show that he's not made of Teflon. Then all the other indictments will come raining down as prosecutors gain confidence that they can get him.
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  1285. Yes, I think we should. And is it really "tampering" with nature when we're trying to stop the changes we caused in the first place?
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  1286. Thank you for this video! I really enjoyed it.
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  1287. What would America be like if big businesses and rich people paid the amount of tax they actually owe? If all the loopholes were closed how much extra money would the US government receive? Seems like it should be a lot.
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  1288. Yes, it seems like the kind of rocket they could use when they don't need to take off again. Land one of those and make it into an instant base or industrial facility. They might need to tip it over first, though...
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  1289. A Closer Look is really on fire today!
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  1290. Thanks for the new video! It's really interesting, I love the documentary style stories. Not sure why my country got called out specifically, though. In Canada investing is done through the Toronto Stock Exchange, a 161 year old organization that's as honest as any other. The Vancouver Stock Exchange was a sort of casino where investors could buy mining and penny stocks. It was always rife with fraud, but people who invested there knew that going in. It closed in 1999.
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  1291. But the VSE is gone. The CDNX is a fundamentally different organisation run by stricter rules. One can't pump and dump stocks as easily there as they used to on the VSE.
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  1292. The sad thing is I believe that Trump thought he was joking in that press conference. He can't understand, or refuses to believe, that soliciting foreign interference in an election is a crime, so he did it a couple of times in front of the cameras just to excite the reporters.
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  1293. The woman who held up that sign has disappeared. Imagine the courage it took to knowingly throw away your entire future to get a message out to the Russian people.
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  1294. Oh yeah, you're right. Guess I should have Googled that first. She's back after being detained and fined. But it looks like they could still send her to jail for up to 15 years if they feel like prosecuting her under their new law.
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  1295. Very cool video! Thank you for making this. Which is kind of the way I feel about the ISS. Very cool. I really hope Axiom gets their modules up there, so the ISS can give birth to a new station that will hopefully last for many years to come.
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  1296. Thank you for another fascinating video! There's nothing better than settling in and learning something new from Scott Manley. Doesn't matter what it is, you make everything fascinating.
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  1297. That's a really good point, Ari Takalo.
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  1298. That was really interesting! Thank you!
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  1299. Admitting the Republican Party has no future without Donald Trump is an extraordinary statement for Lindsey Graham to make. In an ordinary world this would be interpreted as a stinging criticism of the party, since the Republicans are supposed to represent the interests of millions of Americans and not just one man - but this isn't an ordinary world. In this world Republicans can say anything at all and no one questions them, so long as they signify support for their side. Ted Cruz publicly admitted that he took donations from corporations for corrupt reasons, and no one cares. As far as her party is concerned, Liz Cheney's one error was public criticism of the team.
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  1300. Landing on the Moon in four years was never realistic anyway. A landing later in the decade seems doable, though.
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  1301. In four years? Nobody else is as far along as NASA when we're talking about the Moon. Maybe SpaceX could land there when they develop the Starship, but that's only because I wouldn't underestimate their amazing speed Really it's a tremendous achievement to go from zero to a Moon landing in 8-10 years, four just isn't long enough.
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  1302. Thanks for another great video! And yeah, this doesn't seem like the kind of mistake that would force a major delay. If I'm understanding you right, it can be fixed in the software - and in any case it could have been compensated for if there was an astronaut on board. So on to the next stage in testing!
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  1303. My truth. Good grief! So the whole point of the episode was to show that Vela's "truth" is more important than the actual truth about her Mom, whatever that may be? And if her Dad doesn't believe her truth he's harming Velma somehow by letting her harm herself. Just let people believe whatever they want, don't hurt them by bringing up objective reality.
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  1304. Thanks for this video! It's very entertaining and insightful. To my mind Demolition Man is similar in feel to Face/Off, a movie that came out four years later. Both were science fiction films that were also blockbuster action movies, although Demolition Man handles the balance between the genres much better. And they're both kind of nuts, although again Demolition Man does it on purpose while the crazy is kind of an accidental byproduct for Face/Off. There's also some thematic similarity with The last Action Hero, which came out in the same year as Demolition Man. Stallone's movie is, as you say in your video, something of a comment on how 80's action movies could still be relevant in what was beginning to feel like a new era. Last Action Hero is much more explicit about this theme, although it seemed to draw the opposite conclusion. In Demolition Man John Spartan turns out to be just the kind of guy the future needs, while in Last Action Hero Jack Slater can only survive and truly be himself in his own nostalgic world.
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  1305. This was awesome.
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  1306. That is cool!
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  1307. I'm reminded of that term you used in previous videos: moral hazard. Price Waterhouse was perfectly aware of the problems with Evergrande, but they assumed along with everybody else that the Chinese government would step in if and when the problems became too serious to ignore. Their job was basically ceremonial, and their purpose was to maintain the confidence of the hoi polloi. Kind of like a priest who blesses the field before a football game. If they actually did their stated job of auditing properly, they'd be failing to do their real job of keeping everyone calm. That certainly doesn't excuse any of the American and British examples you mention, though. You'd think auditors would want to do their job in countries where there's no government bailout coming if firms fail.
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  1308. I believe they did.
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  1309. Well put!
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  1310. Jackalin' or Jacklyn? It's viewer's choice.
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  1311. Congratulations, man! That's very cool.
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  1312. You guys really killed it with A Closer Look tonight. (Or last night I guess.) For some reason the Giuliani jokes crack me up every time. Probably because there's always a picture to go along with any insult. He does look like somebody wired up his nards. As for Trump, if ISIS praised him on TV and somehow managed to book a floor on one of his hotels, Trump would 100% be pro-ISIS. "Such a strong organization. Very strong."
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  1313. Thank you for the new video. I love the sand battery! It has an elegance to it, thanks to the design. It's big, simple, and efficient - which is just what we need for huge energy storage systems. The problem of course is like you said, it stores heat and not electricity. To make proper use of it we'd need to build new heat transport architecture in our cities, and no doubt there's a limit to how far you can run hot air through pipes before losing too much of the heat. So it's probably not feasible to use an existing downtown facility and run pipes to the suburbs. But, again like you said in the video, it could find practical use in industrial settings. When you've already got a multi-billion dollar steel plant it doesn't sound quite so crazy to build a huge sand battery next to it and decarbonize by tapping renewable energy as heat.
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  1314. I think the biggest question is Why does this show exist, and why should we watch it?" So far the trailer and the magazine article haven't given us an answer.
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  1315. Love these videos!
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  1316. Thanks for another great video!
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  1317. Wow, what a great video! Thank you for a very comprehensive and fair discussion of Masterworks. I learned a lot from this.
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  1318. Thank you much! This is going to be very useful for me.
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  1319. Er, my very rough understanding of this is they were looking for dark matter, but their detector had so much Xenon in it that some of it just happened to be Xenon-124, and it just happened to decay while they were watching. Still an unbelievably unlikely event, but made more possible by the fact that they had tons of Xenon hooked up to sensitive detectors.
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  1320. Good point.
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  1321. Shaun of The Dead is a pretty good example of comedy and horror, that also has strong characterizations like Ghostbusters. The two if them might make a fun double feature.
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  1322. Now that would be amazing!
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  1323. Wow, thank you for this video! It's a really comprehensive introduction to a subject I'd never even heard of until now. Definitely one to bookmark and watch again.
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  1324. Thanks for another great video! I really love the videos where you do a deep dive on a subject like this.
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  1325. Seems like a Ukrainian bridgehead on the Dnipro is almost inevitable, and the Russians are debating if they should keep defending the bank and suffering losses, or skip ahead to the next step by abandoning the bank for higher ground and building a more defensible position. If they accept that they can't keep the Ukrainians out then they can attempt to set the conditions for what comes next and suffer fewer losses getting to that point. But that kind of pragmatism isn't acceptable at the highest levels of the Russian government. For proof of this, just look at how long they held on to Kherson while suffering massive casualties and front line collapses in the east. If they had stayed in Kherson they would have probably lost the war, and that's the only reason Putin grudgingly allowed a retreat. I don't think he'll allow it here.
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  1326. But to be fair, there was no way they could've kept up the quality if Police Squad ran for a full season. The sheer number of jokes in each episode is amazing. Velma seems like it would be much easier to write.
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  1327. I'm feeling all the emotions right now: surprise, awe, hope, terror for my wallet... This is certainly interesting news!
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  1328. This was pretty funny!
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  1329. Loved the Werner Herzog impression!
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  1330. Very interesting! Thanks for this video. "There's a lot I'd like to talk about but I can't." Oh come now, tease us some more. ;-)
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  1331. This video is a work of art!
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  1332. As long as they're doing things like building space stations and landing on the Moon, I wish the Chinese well. It seems like their space program is both measured and realistic, and I fully believe they can achieve their goals. The American goal of returning to the Moon in four years is wildly ambitious, but I hope they can succeed or at least land humans on the Moon sometime in the 2020s. Maybe there could already be a permanent base by the time the Chinese get there.
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  1333. Trump has done so many awful things it's hard to keep being outraged, but it's useful to remember what he's doing here. Trump wants to take away your votes . He's trying to wheedle and horse trade with Georgia election officials to "find" the votes he needs, like votes were bags of hay or something and not the tabulated desires of the people he's supposed to represent.
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  1334. Very interesting! Thank you.
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  1335. From what I heard Fox's "mistake" was not carefully pre-screening the audience to only be Republicans. They let anyone come to the town hall, so the audience ended up being a more accurate cross section of America than they're used to.
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  1336. What really gets me is how the business egg (Kudlow) just assumes that everyone "on both sides of the aisle" would agree with him about the government payment being a disincentive to work. Like it's so obvious he doesn't have to justify it. It shows how deeply ingrained the idea is in Republican ideology that you have to force people to work. They think that raising the minimum wage or increasing benefits would somehow encourage workers to be lazy and thus be a drag on the economy.
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  1337. Yeah, I loved some of the people on the old forums, and some of them were real dicks. But they were all my people. We need that again.
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  1338. I hope so! Only went to that one because it was in my country, but I'd love to go to another some time.
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  1339. I've really got no idea what the situation is, but my impression is that Hollywood overshadows everything else at San Diego and there really isn't room for science fiction fans. Meanwhile there's still a Worldcon website at http://www.worldcon.org They say the next one will be in Dublin, Ireland.
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  1340. Lookit that ham sandwich. It's sad.
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  1341. If only she had the opportunity to explain things at length like this before the election! I feel like I understand her much better now.
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  1342. Colonizing Mars (and the Moon) is our training phase. If we can learn to live there, we can live anywhere in the Solar System.
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  1343. I'm Gen X, but this topic makes me feel like an old Boomer hippy nostalgic for the Summer of Love. My Internet, back around 2001, was a place where you could type something and it might be read by anyone in the world. You could say anything you wanted and it never resulted in consequences in the "real" world - but you had to back up your opinions with facts because there was always someone out there who could take you down. I've very little interest in replicating the virtual reality Metaverse from Snow Crash, but if doing so somehow resulted in a Web 3.0 where people weren't siloed off from each other in little bubbles of self interest, it would be worth doing.
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  1344. Wow, what a fascinating story! I've never heard any of it before. With all the names and politics this is a little harder to follow than a typical Curious Droid video (which is usually about more straightforward subjects like engineering), so I think I'll watch it again. Really interesting stuff!
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  1345. That's really sad. I know it will never happen, but Iran would be much better off if it was the other way around: discontinue the military program and continue to advance the civilian one. There are many uses for rockets that don't involve military applications.
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  1346. Good luck to you, SuperKendoman! But you don't need luck, because you're already on the right path.
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  1347. America's vaccination turnaround is incredible. You really are leading the world in that metric right now. I wish Canada was vaccinating people as fast as the US, but we're not even close. It just shows how powerful the United States is when you finally set out to do something.
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  1348. I think the drones are pretty much like Biden said, although he mumbled a bit and made his point sound unclear. The first drones that went over the military bases were official, I think it was a "red team" kind of thing where someone was authorized to probe security and see where it could be improved. But after that made the news, everyone started flying their personal drones at night, to freak people out and get attention. And that's all this is, a bunch of people playing pranks at night. It's a fad (like the creepy clowns of 2016) and it'll die off when people get bored.
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  1349. He does do a podcast, and it's here on YouTube. It's called Event Horizon.
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  1350. Fly safe... or at the very least, fly without any living thing in the rocket or anywhere near the landing pad. "Launch site and landing site attrition." There's a new phrase I never expected to hear. First of 2021! Btw Mr. Manley, your deep knowledge of pretty much everything (and ability to explain it to us) is the reason your channel is so successful. There's no need for Blender or pretty effects or any of that stuff when you're always delivering the real content we crave. And using Kerbal for animations is just cool.
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  1351. Very interesting video! Thank you for this.
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  1352. The left, the right... Unfortunately censors are everywhere and always with us.
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  1353. I'm not a fan of the '94 Crow, but I kind of understand the appeal. The original graphic novel published in 1989 was an authentic work. It was James O'Barr telling himself a dark fairytale to work through his grief from the loss of his girlfriend. As such, it connected with other young people who were grieving or depressed. Then in '94 it was made into a movie by the genuinely talented director Alex Proyas. (A man who has been treated somewhat unfairly by Hollywood, imo.) Then there was the massive burst of publicity that came from the tragic death of the star Brandon Lee during filming. A lot of people went to see Brandon Lee's last film, and found themselves responding to the gothic emotional indulgence of it all. Goths and grunge were huge in the early 90's. If you were to make The Crow for the first time today (without the publicity that came from Brandon Lee's death), I don't think it would be as successful. This is just a different era, and young people today aren't the same as they were back then. So it makes sense that remaking The Crow is even less likely to be successful, even if the resulting movie wasn't awful. It being terrible on top of all that just seals the deal.
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  1354. It's all about that gang life. ;-) My city is a neverending battleground between magpies and crows, and over the years I've learned that corvids do have a social structure. The crows on my block are always listening for the calls of other crows (they're really good at ignoring human noises), and if they hear an alarm call or a "come here now" call or whatever, they're off to provide backup for the caller. (Magpies do this too.) It might look like they're mostly alone, but in truth there's a wide crow family that extends for blocks in every direction, as far as they can hear. When hundreds of crows swarm together, it's sort of a cross between an extended family reunion and a test of their emergency alert system.
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  1355. Just wanted to say that Jets joke is hilarious! I'm not even into American football, but there's always teams like that in every sport. "Okay, you guys see what happened here? We forgot to ...what? Tackle. We forgot to tackle." "...Okay guys, love to not go through this every week."
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  1356. I'm really enjoying this series.
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  1357. Hmm. I was all set to disagree with you on this movie, but you're right. Zack Snyder was a terrible choice to direct Superman, but he did a pretty good job with Watchmen. Dark, deconstructionist stories like this one suit his talents, and he handled the massive complexity of the script quite well. One thing I'd add, though. It's been a long time since I saw the movie, but in the comic Rorschach never actually met The Comedian. He just shows up to investigate the murder of Edward Blake and discovers a secret compartment (that the cops did not find) containing The Comedian's costume, weapons and memorabilia. So Rorschach is discovering this history at the same time we do, although we get the convenience of flashbacks while he has to trudge around discovering evidence and interrogating people. Anyway, out of the many fascinating things about Watchmen, it's interesting to look at the relationship between Rorschach and The Comedian. Blake is one of the only people Rorschach actually admires. He sees the older mask as a fellow traveler, a man with unbending morality who spent his life punishing the guilty. But in the flashbacks we see the Comedian never really had any morals at all. He just became a mask as a way to indulge his dark impulses. For Blake it was all a marvelous game, not an all consuming, identity destroying obsession like with Rorschach. But Rorschach, a great detective, never sees that.
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  1358. This is a great video! Thanks for the insightful analysis, Scott Manley. Your channel is my first stop when space news is happening.
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  1359. Thank you for this video on a very important and unappreciated subject! While there are technological innovations discussed here, it seems to me it's mainly a story about costs and incentives. When it's cheaper and easier to throw used solar panels in the landfill, that's what people will do. (Thereby distributing the true costs to all of us in the form of congested landfills and pollution.) But when government applies both incentives and regulations to make sure the cost of solar panel disposal falls upon the people who are responsible for it (the solar panel users and manufacturers), it creates a situation where there is now an incentive to decrease the cost of recycling. And like lead acid batteries before them, that's what people will do. They'll come up with new technologies or improve existing ones to bring that cost of recycling down. It's just a matter of making sure the cost of disposal remains with the people who created and used the product, instead of being distributed to everyone through degradation of the environment.
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  1360. Whoo hoo! The tent survived! Kidding. This is an AMAZING achievement, and Elon Musk and SpaceX should be proud. They actually built a real Starship and got it 12 kilometers into the air! It's awe inspiring to see this thing actually work they way it's intended to, doing that incredible roll and gliding in to the target! The landing is just a detail, really. They'll get that right next time. Btw, you're a rockstar at this stuff, Scott Manley. I could listen to you narrate rocket flights all day.
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  1361. What a great video! Thank you for making it! I love this channel.
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  1362. For some reason YouTube keeps deleting my comment, so I'll try to restrict what I say this time. Thank you for the new video, Patrick. The Squid Game situation seems like a real time demonstration of the Greater Fool Theory.
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  1363. Won't notice what? That was a great Closer Look. Also, Trump telling Republicans not to vote is like a monkey paw wish. On the surface it sounds wonderful, but there's some terrible catch that won't be apparent until later. But at least for now we can enjoy the sight of the Republican party roasting on a spit of their own making.
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  1364. That's a smart and very well reasoned argument. All I can do is agree with you in every respect. This is indeed an overlap period, and apparently all those cargo ships burning bunker fuel were accidentally cloud seeding for decades. As you said, we need to do some more localized geoengineering experiments with less toxic materials. The best places to cool would seem to be the North and South Poles.
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  1365. @Ezequiel Ciamparella Totally, but there's no economic system where terraforming Venus turns a profit. Presumably this would be a project for a civilization that has tremendous wealth and a robust existing infrastructure in space. Like Kurzgesagt said, it would be the Great Pyramids of their time.
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  1366. "You see, Mr. Bond, I want to destroy America!" And half of America is nodding their heads. "Yeah, we need some destroying. That's a dude I can have a beer with."
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  1367. Ohhhh, now I get it!
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  1368. Thank you for these updates! You make a very good point about the Starship that I hadn't considered. If it's going to land anywhere other than a specially prepared pad, they need to make it tough enough to handle debris that's blown up and under the skirting. I hope SpaceX has figured out how to address this problem. The Crew-1 launch was great! Hopefully it's the start of many, many missions with Crew Dragon and they run that number up higher and higher.
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  1369. Thank you for another great video! "...Balance the cost of development against the expected return on investment." Yes, but a lot of companies (probably most of them) would prefer to continue developing an existing system to make it more cost effective, instead of going all-in on a completely new launch system when the old one is just beginning to turn a profit. Most companies would probably try to make that second stage reusable and make the Falcon 9 cheaper to operate, so they could continue operating it for many years to come. It's extremely unusual for SpaceX to put so much development time and money into into the new, unproven, still very experimental Starship they way they have.
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  1370. So cool! It's really something when you can see a concept demonstrated right in front of your own eyes like that.
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  1371. Thank you for this video on the current state of wind turbines! It seems like the current paradigm of building bigger is approaching its limit, and the technology needs to innovate for further progress.
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  1372. Thanks for the video! It's too bad the booster was lost, but the overall mission was still a success. I'm not keeping track of these things, but aren't there other boosters that have flown more than five times? Or was this going for a reusable record?
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  1373. Thank you for this video! I'm really impressed, both by this First Light Fusion company and by your channel. I'm so glad YouTube recommended it to me.
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  1374. "...just don't let that old tree with a face hold me again!" LOL. Also, awww. Poor woodchuck. It's not like they want to be part of this tradition.
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  1375. I enjoyed watching the video, but this is one of the rare times I disagree with Seth. I don't watch Fox News, and I haven't read any of the Dr. Seuss books in question, but I just can't support censorship. Not even voluntary censorship done by the publisher like in this case. The ideal solution would be to just leave everything alone, keep publishing the books and let parents decide if they want their children to read them. A not-so-good solution is what they're doing by discontinuing the books. The worst solution would be to do what Seth suggests: replace the offending parts with "corrected" images and texts. I just don't think we have the right to alter someone else's work, whether that's a children's book, an old cartoon or a classic novel. They used to call that bowdlerization, and when the Victorians did it to Shakespeare they were rightly mocked.
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  1376. That's really fascinating! Japan is a country that you could do many videos on without running out of economic content.
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  1377. That is so cool!
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  1378. It is unfortunate, but I can't help thinking that it's a good thing it happened now. As long as they can figure out what went wrong, that is. These unmanned tests are precisely the time when you want to have everything go wrong that can go wrong, so they can fix any potential problems before astronauts start riding in them.
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  1379. The worse thing about all this is that for millions of Americans it normalizes the idea that Democrats aren't a legitimate political party and votes for Democrats don't count. It seemed like the Republicans had a special level of hate for Obama because he was African American (Remember that Congressman who yelled "You lie!" at Obama during the state of the Union? Nobody used to do that.), but now their feeling that Obama wasn't a "real" President has apparently transferred to Joe Biden. It seems there's no "down" button for hate, the intensity just rises with every election. So now millions of people think it's okay to refight the election for weeks and use the courts to get votes thrown out. What will they be okay with four years from now?
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  1380. I like it! And the whole exercise will help humanity develop the skills for terraforming extrasolar planets when we finally get out to other star systems, where things are usually not arranged perfectly to our liking. But the idea of a whole planet depending so utterly upon systems of huge space based mirrors is a little chilling. We'd have to make sure nothing ever happened to those gigantic structures!
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  1381. Red Lobster has been something of a white whale for me. Always wanted to go there and see what it's like, but there were never any locations within reachable distance. The bankruptcy probably won't help with that, but I hope the chain survives in some form and continues to serve the fruits of the sea to people a thousand kilometers from the ocean.
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  1382. I don't know. Warner Brothers has a lot of debt. Like, a whole lot. I think pure self preservation could inspire some revolutionary change at the company. They did release Velma, but that's an animated show on a streaming service, not a tentpole movie they absolutely need to make a profit on. I've no idea if these new Lord of The Rings movies will be good, but I think Warner is uniquely motivated to actually make some changes and try their best to succeed with the franchise.
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  1383. The kid afraid of the monster under his bed and the Seinfeld digressions are really funny. They're like chocolate chips in a very sad and enraging cookie. And I think Fox News is worse than Newman. At least Newman was lawful evil - he might be out to get you but he'd never bring down the postal system or anything. That was a sweet job and he wanted to keep it. The bloviators on Fox are just interested in ratings and don't care about the consequences of the things they say.
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  1384. Fascinating! Thank you for this video. Your metaphor of the lightning storm really brings home the power and rarity of whatever event produced the Wow! Signal.
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  1385. Thank you for this fascinating new video!
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  1386. Thank you for this discussion. I really appreciate your enthusiasm and the clarity of your thought. It's been a very interesting conversation. There's a lot of value that civic planning can add to a community. Most western cities sort of coalesced from individual elements in the middle ages. (Or rather they re-coalesced, since they tended to be destroyed by disasters like fires on a regular basis.) There was no particular planning. It was a dictatorship of the masses, like you said. Buildings were stuffed wherever there was room. Streets wound in curves and frequently dead-ended unpredictably. Civic services were practically non-existent. Most of the inhabitants lived shorter, more brutal lives than people in the countryside. Then in the 19th century urban planning became a thing, and all of the great cities were rebuilt along grid systems and straight lines. This made it possible to install the really important infrastructure of sewers, water systems, and later electric, phone and data lines. And it also made it possible to find your way around most cities without getting hopelessly lost. Populations boomed and life improved for everyone. So planning can help a lot. But it can also be overdone. Modern cities are a sort of blank grid, like a circuit board, where individual buildings can be put anywhere that zoning allows. On a circuit board you can plug the electronic parts and wires anywhere you want, and the same thing is true of a modern city. So cities grow and change over time in response to the needs of their inhabitants. They tend to look like shapeless blobs because that's the most efficient way to minimize travel time between any points within them. To make a city in a fixed shape is an attempt to freeze it in time and solidify any inequities within the population. In your example of the cooking machine the rich people would always live on one end of the line and the poorest people on the other end. No rich person would ever move to the poor end, because he couldn't get proper meals there, and no poor person would ever move to the rich end, because they couldn't afford to eat in that neighborhood. There would be no gentrification, no change at all, because the city wouldn't permit it. So the people in that city would be forced to live stratified lives, forced to conform to the patterns encoded in the architecture around them.
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  1387. That sounds like a good solution for the eastern half of the country,
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  1388. Wow, Rush Limbaugh... Is seriously using a bunch of cannibals as an example to look up to? Not the farmers from the 30's, or the Continental Army at Valley Forge, or the kids in the Civil Rights protests of the 60's who were attacked with fire hoses and police dogs, or any of the other innumerable examples of Americans triumphing through and despite adversity. No, his example of American grit is the Donner Party. That... says so much about him and this moment in time. Of all the Republican talking heads, I thought Rush Limbaugh would've been the one most likely to rethink his life choices and give serious thought to the impact he's had on the world. But nope... he wants his listeners to follow the example of the Donner Party.
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  1389. Manchin is trying to make a political calculation that benefits himself. So far he's done quite well as a Democrat in an increasingly Republican state, but what he doesn't realize is that being a senator is different from being a governor. As governor he could directly appeal to the people across party lines, but as a senator he is now very much a part of the Democratic machine. If he fails to do his part that machine will fail. This is a moment in history when people want decisive action, not platitudes about business as usual. And if Biden and the 117th Congress fail to take decisive action that helps ordinary Americans the West Virginians who voted for Manchin will hold him personally accountable. There's no one else to blame and nowhere to hide when you're the crucial vote in the Senate.
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  1390. You've got to make a part two! There's so much horror yet to be plumbed from 2023... Also, thank you for these reviews! I only know Velma from your videos, which is probably the best way to experience it. Then there was the amazing odyssey of Willow. A true Internet bonding experience that I'll remember forever, even if Disney pretends it never happened. Some weeks it was your reviews that kept me sane. Please do a part two. We need to reminisce about Samuel L Jackson's worst performance since The Spirit in 2008. Or maybe this was his worst performance ever. At least he was entertainingly ridiculous as Octopus. His present day Nick Fury just seems tired.
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  1391.  @TS-jm7jm  Just about everything you said there is factually wrong, except the bit about nuclear power and "...plastic however and toxic chemical dumps really are a legitimate problem..."
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  1392. I think it's worthwhile to build permanent bases on the Moon and Mars (and other places) simply for its own sake, independent of what happens on Earth. Sure it's a good idea to make humanity an interplanetary civilization, but that's going to take some time to do right and isn't the main reason for going there. In the meantime it makes sense for humanity to expand into new places because that's what we've always done. Setting off to build a home in some new place and taming the hostile wilderness is part of human nature. It's the reason we spread out from Africa to every continent in the world, and it's why prehistoric mariners made incredible journeys across the oceans in improvised boats when they didn't even know if there was land on the other side. We explore, we settle, we expand.
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  1393. This is really interesting. Thank you for the video.
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  1394. Just going by the back of her head, the woman on the cover does look like an Emily.
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  1395. Sorry about that, it was just a small joke from two years ago. Congratulations to your daughter.
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  1396. Thank you for this video! It sounds like it may be too early to give a real assessment of Betavolt's potential. If they can successfully produce a 100 microwatt battery at a reasonable price, then it may be time to consider them in a more serious way. One watt seems kind of overambitious. That said, I love your ideas for nuclear battery applications! If they could make these batteries cheaply enough, it would be world changing to put low power trackers on shipping crates! So much smuggling and human trafficking is done today because it's possible to obfuscate the origin or destination of shipping containers. If the container had a tracker that could not be altered while the container is in transit, it would be an invaluable tool for law enforcement. Then there's the benefit to shippers and insurance companies. Low power sensors in industrial settings like pipelines could also be revolutionary. There's so many leaks in even the best pipeline networks. Imagine a computer that could monitor the effectiveness of the pipeline in real time, with granular detail on each section... If there was a leak they could get on top of it before massive amounts of oil or methane leaked into the environment. That would be very cool. I wonder if you could also use nuclear powered sensors to ensure that industries have anti-pollution technologies installed. Or heck, if they're cheap enough maybe you could use sensors to check if cars have catalytic converters! The cops could check for the signal, and if it's not there give the driver a ticket. And what about sensors that continually monitor water and air quality? Spread a thousand of them around a lake and scientists could study changes in water quality in real time.
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  1397. "Shallow as a duck's backside." LOL
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  1398. Love the buffalo joke. I hope they never catch them!
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  1399. Rugpull Rabbits to the Moon!
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  1400. I always liked Shogun. James Clavell was an old-fashioned novelist, but he managed to disguise that by mostly writing stories set in the past. The man knew how to play to his strengths.
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  1401. I wondered what you, an actual Scot, might think of a movie like Highlander. It's a bit surprising you're so fond of it since...uh, Christopher Lambert isn't the most convincing Scottish warrior ever put on screen. But he is totally convincing as a weirdo in the 20th century who seems to come from no particular time and place. And the movie does have real Scottish representation with Sean Connery, even if he's playing an Egyptian. Personally speaking, I've always loved Highlander. It came out at the perfect time, and it's wonderful weirdness fits with the fever dream feel of the 80's, when classic movies would appear without warning and we never knew what we'd be obsessing about next. Thanks to Highlander, Scotland has always seemed kickass and cool to my generation, the home of tough warriors and epic swordfights.
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  1402. The subject matter and presentation of the video itself is awesome and fascinating as always, but there seems to be some problems in the first half with everything (including the host) looking really blocky and low resolution.
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  1403. Wow, this is an amazing video! Thank you!
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  1404. Thanks for this really cool video! In addition to the humor (spicy rocks and garden variety supernovas, heh) it's a very entertaining and clear discussion of a scientific paper that teaches us something new. That kind of intelligent discussion is always rare on YouTube and much appreciated.
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  1405. That's one those images that will define an era.
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  1406. Thank you for a most interesting video! It was really thought provoking. The first time I ever heard of this particular problem was in the "Night's Dawn" science fiction trilogy by the author Peter F. Hamilton. He saw this coming back in 1996, a pretty good prediction for a non-scientist. In his books civilization exists within domed cities, while outside of them the weather rages on an Earth with a surface temperature of hundreds of degrees. It's just bare rock and superheated air and water outside of the domes. In real life the solution to this seems fairly clear: 1. Use renewable energy as much as possible. 2. If renewable energy isn't enough, use other sources of energy outside of the Earth's atmosphere and bring manufactured products down to be used on the surface. In other words, outsource as much of the industry that produces waste heat as you can. Who knows, maybe the problem of balancing global temperature against the waste heat produced by a large civilization (plus contributions caused by greenhouse gases) may be one of those great filters that winnow out potential alien civilizations. If they can't get the numbers right they bake in their own heat.
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  1407. Wow, what a video! This felt like a top level survey of a very large subject. Someone could spend half a year drilling down into each of the things you've described here - and by the time they'd finished learning about it the subject of quantum computers will have progressed and changed again. There's so much going on. One thing that really struck me was the "Majorana zero modes." I've never heard of them before, but if they really exist they sound like a pretty big deal for physics. It's kind of awe inspiring that Microsoft found evidence for them! I need to know more about this.
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  1408. Thanks for the new video. "...One takeaway is that investors might want to consider adjusting their stock/bond allocations over time, based on hiking and cutting cycles." Wish I'd done that! My instinct is to hunker down and wait out bad weather, and it's cost me a lot this year.
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  1409. This is an old, old argument. I remember debating these exact same positions back in university nearly thirty years ago, and even before. Count me as firmly in the free will exists camp. As far as I can see the no free will camp commits more than one logical error. In addition to the category error of looking for the physical location of something that may not be physical in nature, they also make the error of assuming that something doesn't exist simply because they can't find it.
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  1410. Very interesting video! Thank you for this.
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  1411. Let's go to space! That's something we can all agree on. Thanks for another great video, Scott Manley. I love these videos where you talk about space news (or really any space subject), because you not only report the news, you explain it to us in ways that are easily understandable. I get more from your videos than other YouTubers in the same subject space because of that understanding. Thanks again!
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  1412. This is the central conflict of the war. Everything else is like shells around this struggle between Russia and the world of international laws.
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  1413. Poilievre is far, far less than he seems. Don't judge the man based on a single interview, judge him on the batshit crazy things he says. According to Poilievre our number one problem isn't inflation, homelessness, the real estate bubble or the climate crisis - it's the carbon tax.
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  1414. Awesome video.
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  1415. Fly safe... and stay cool under pressure. No explosion fatigue here, btw!
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  1416. The awful thing about attacking Iran is that it makes so much sense for Trump. The Mueller probe, questions about Stormy Daniels, and all of his other scandals would basically go away if the United States was at war. No one is going to impeach a President at a time like that.
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  1417. That's what I was thinking. He gave her fair warning when the brushing got too painful, because he didn't want to be aggressive.
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  1418. Tremors holds up far better than anyone expected it to. That's why it inspired seven sequels.
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  1419. The Sea Captain is okay. He's probably some kind of dangerous shared hallucination that's a sign of an incipient psychotic break - but other than that he seems like a really nice guy.
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  1420. Seth's comic timing (and Frisbee's) is really excellent when you consider there's nobody in that attic but him and a bunch of dolls. The "Closer Look" segments continue to be first rate.
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  1421. Whoa...
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  1422. The real Trump is not fun to listen to. Seth's impression works because he's doing a fake Trump, somebody who's more cogent and entertaining than the real deal.
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  1423. 14/15! All right. Not sure which one I got wrong, but it might have been the quasar question.
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  1424. I completely agree. If this same coup attempt had happened in other country (like Hungary or North Macedonia), the US State Department would be calling upon that country's leader to step down. The same standard has to be applied here.
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  1425. Sorry, I don't understand. Is that a mechanism for removing deuterium?
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  1426.  @Thomas-gk42  That makes a lot of sense! I wonder if gravity could have sorted out the deuterium in the primordial cloud the Solar System formed from. Maybe fractionalization moved it to the outer edges over time?
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  1427. Hey now, Spirit has other payment options. You can always add them to your will.
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  1428. I don't think changing Anakin's fate is a good idea. He's probably the most central character in the whole saga. Everything starts with him. And frankly, he had a good story that ended well. Changing Mace's fate... I don't really care for that idea either. His death was the event that pushed Anakin decisively to the Dark Side, so changing that weaken's Anakin's story. Changing Ben Solo... Oh yeah, they could totally do that. Once again we're talking about a pretty central character, but in this case one that was terribly underwritten and killed off to prop up Rey. I like the idea of changing his fate, or really the fate of anyone from the sequels. Change away.
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  1429. Thanks for a really interesting video! I have a plain old electric stove with resistive coils. I've never used gas, and it's a little scary to me. Too much risk of fire! If it's continuously emitting methane and benzene, well no thanks. Not sure if I want to upgrade to induction, since my current stove will last for years yet. But I like the idea of achieving a precise temperature in the pot! No more boilovers would be awesome. It might be interesting to get one of those cheap induction burners and try it out, just for fun.
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  1430. Mr. Manley, I'm an adult but thanks to this video I now want to become you when I grow up. You're so professional and thorough about your hobbies! This video is fascinating. If I'm ever fortunate enough to buy a telescope I'll take your advice in mind.
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  1431. Well said!
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  1432. Her husband is doing billion dollar grifts with his SPAC. Basically he created an investment vehicle that allows early investors to take advantage of later investors by selling the stock short. When the stock goes down in price (as it is almost guaranteed to do) the early investors will make a profit off people who bought it later. It's being investigated by the SEC.
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  1433. Case closed! Law And Order sound
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  1434. I guess Trump and the American Right just can't function without an enemy to hate. They tried making China the villain behind the virus, but it didn't work well enough, so they've decide to ignore the virus altogether and go back to an old favorite: Obama.
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  1435. Thank you! This was a really interesting video.
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  1436. Thank you for a really interesting video. I don't normally think about things like gender roles, but after watching the new Willow series I couldn't ignore the subject any more. So this video is well timed. "Trope #1. The Death of The Stoic Man." Don't think I can completely agree with you on this one. Or rather I don't think I can agree with the assertion that male characters were generally more stoic in the past. Stoicism is absolutely a part of the masculine identity, and some very popular characters (like Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name) have always been depicted that way, and it's their quiet confidence that made them cool. But they've never been the dominant or only type of male character. However you're right that no one seems to write stoic characters anymore. And you're so right about the constant, self deprecating humor! That gets incredibly annoying. And yes, modern male characters always seem to wilt when they're confronted by a strong woman. Either they wilt, or they immediately resort to attempts at physical dominance and are decisively beaten down by the woman. At no point is there banter between men and women like in an old romantic comedy, because the man is never treated as an equal. "Trope #2. The Deconstructed Hero." Yeah, there aren't any well written heroes anymore. This wouldn't be such a problem if Hollywood wasn't compelled to go back to every successful franchise and try to restart or reboot them into never-ending story factories. So they go back to the heroes of our childhood - and hey, they all suck now. All the things they accomplished in those movies have been reset to zero so they can repeat the same character arcs over again, or pass the torch to a superior female replacement. Deconstruction was interesting in the late 80s and 90s when it was a valid response to exaggerated heroes like Rambo (just as those exaggerated heroes were a response to the more talky, vulnerable heroes of the 70s), but it long ago become a cliche of its own. It would be nice if the next James Bond went in a different direction. We've had a more psychologically "real" Bond who's been deeply affected by his adventures, now let's go back to a more traditional and fun version of the character. It would be really interesting if they were capable of doing that. "Trope #3. Men Are Just Dumb, I Guess." This comes from the constant self-deprecating humor. But yeah, men are dumb in modern movies. They have nothing to teach anyone, and must have a woman to guide them. The Thor franchise starts out with a character who's arrogant and full of himself. He learns his lesson and falls in love with a human woman. Okay, that's fine. But in each movie after Dark World he becomes dumber and dumber and needs female characters to lead him around more and more. I guess that makes him "safe."
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  1437. Exactly, Evergreen Layne. So far it's "Test half-successful."
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  1438. Fifty Euros is something like fifty-seven USD. You get a lot more value spending money on telescopes and cool software.
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  1439. I think you're right. But it's hard to ignore that the Americans without college degrees who voted for Trump have chosen to double down on all the factors that have been keeping them poor up to now. It seems like Democrats have to do more than be an anti-establishment party. They have to somehow get through to the people who keep voting against their own best interests and convince them there's a better way. Americans won't vote Democrat if they're convinced Democrats are the literal devil. It goes beyond rationalism and enters the realm of propaganda, and that has to change. But with the way each "side" is now intellectually siloed against the other this will be difficult.
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  1440. Thanks for the reality check! There's so much clickbait out there it's sometimes difficult to find anyone who's read the actual papers. Love the idea that there might be extrasolar objects somewhere in the outer solar system.
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  1441. All right I subbed. You twisted my arm.
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  1442.  @Joe_VanCleave  Excellent post! I love that idea of a hydrogen core surrounded by a hot nitrogen shell. Kind of like a giant candy egg. Btw, I read a science fiction story in the... 90's I think, that was about a giant airship filled with hydrogen foam, like your idea. It's a good notion that should be explored more.
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  1443. Thank you for that excellent explanation, Dave Smith! You really make the concepts involved clear.
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  1444. My goodness this looked good. The steak and the scrambled eggs...
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  1445. Welcome back! It's great to see A Closer Look Again. The news is still terrible, but you guys are consistently hilarious. "The dude smelled like clams and he had like fifty jokes with the punchline "Land ho." I'm not crying, you're crying!
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  1446. I think they should nuke the filibuster. If they don't, Biden's first two years will look like Obama's first two years, with the same result in the midterm elections.
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  1447. Garlic is full of antioxidants!
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  1448. This is a REALLY impressive video! Thank you for making it! Back in university I did a presentation on the band theory of semiconductors. Your explanation here blows mine right out of the water. It's simple, concise and clear. Beautiful.
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  1449. Exactly! That's the point of testing things.
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  1450. Thank you for making this video! It's incredibly interesting and informative. Loving these space story roundups.
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  1451. That was great. And I know it was part of the joke, but there were two women on Branson's spaceplane. And Bezos is going to bring Wally Funk, a woman who probably deserves to go into space more than anybody. Women are an essential part of everyone's space programs this time around.
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  1452. So Doug Loverro may have sacrificed his career in an attempt to keep the 2024 deadline. What's going to happen if the winning lander bid just can't finish in time?
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  1453.  @stevel.3903  You make a really good point there. When there's no huge outside force controlling a currency (like a government) that currency will always be vulnerable to whomever owns a large amount of it. In this case tho it seems like the opposite. Terraform Labs and their deep pocketed friends have been trying to keep UST pegged, but the market is having none of it.
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  1454. Love your videos, man. They're all great.
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  1455. I'm okay with this, and I'm intrigued by this "decoupling of scales" thing. It would be interesting to learn more about it. Have to disagree with you about going to the gym, though. Exercise has enormous benefits for everyone who does it, and the vast majority of people don't do anywhere near enough. AI hitting a wall is more like... Taking vitamins. Some vitamins can be very beneficial, but the body only needs so many. If you take more you just end up with very expensive pee.
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  1456. Thank you for this really interesting video!
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  1457. I guess it could be the rapture if somebody worships the Wizard as their god...
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  1458. Thank you for another wonderful video! This is truly unique, I can't think of anyone else on YouTube (even mathematical channels) that would present a problem like this, in this way. Thanks to your descriptions and graphics I think I actually get it. Or rather, I get why nobody has been able to get it.
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  1459. I liked the movie. A lot of people seized on the Max Q thing to say the entire film was unrealistic, but I think they did an incredible job of making it feel real. And that made the drama so much more effective. There was no Star Trek style techno solution at the end, it was a story about nobility and sacrifice. So thank you for everything you did to help them increase the realism, Scott Manley. It really worked on screen. That said, I do find the central concept of the stowaway himself to be a bit out there. How did he end up sealed inside a panel? This was an area where the story could have benefited from a little more explanation, because I was never sure if he was an innocent victim of circumstance, or some kind of cunning saboteur.
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  1460. e-bike batteries are a lot cheaper than EV ones, though. That probably makes the swap system more financially sustainable.
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  1461. Yeah, there's no reason for a fifth Indiana Jones movie. In my heart I still think The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is the only canon extension of the series besides the original three movies. (And Crystal Skull, I guess.) Indy's inevitable future is to end up with an eyepatch and a cane, and to hang around at the National Museum all day telling young whippersnappers stories about his incredible life.
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  1462. This is like mad libs, where they take names from the comics and make up completely new characters and situations. Just about everybody in this show comes from Batman comics except for Cressida and their main character Turner Hayes. Why didn't they take Batman's actual son from the comics? He's a lot more interesting than this Turner guy.
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  1463. It really is a distraction. Trump has no intention of actually going through with this, he's just saying stupid things to capture the news cycle. And while we're all talking about how moronic Trump's latest idea is, Elon Musk is busy ripping apart the actual US government by firing people and dismantling agencies. Three weeks ago I would have said something like that was a conspiracy theory, but's it's so obvious now there's no denying it.
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  1464. As a non-American I've gotta say that Prompt Global Strike thing is chilling. If it becomes possible to deliver non-nuclear bombs by ICBM you know the generals and Presidents are going to start doing more drone strikes from other continents, just like they do drone strikes from local bases now and control them from home. If the capability exists the need for it will be retroactively discovered. I really don't want to live in a world where the USAF (or certain other nations once they figure this out too) can drop a bomb on every single square foot of the Earth within an hour. As for the actual subject of this video... It does seem pretty far fetched. Outside of science fiction novels there's seldom a need to get a a single VIP from one point on the globe to another widely separated point within hours. And if you're transporting cargo... Well, what kind of cargo absolutely has to be delivered immediately but is still redundant enough to risk in a rocket launch? And if you're carrying troops, the rocket gives you no element of surprise whatsoever. Everyone in the area will know you arrived and have plenty of time to shoot at your rocket-ship that's probably still filled with explosive fuel.
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  1465. Disparu mercilessly mocking Velma, it's like old times! This video was a lot of fun. Much more fun than the actual episode, that's for sure. "And everyone can finally celebrate as Velma goes home." LOL!
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  1466. Interesting!
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  1467. Thank you for a most informative video. I'll definitely be thinking about what you said if (or when) the US forces Ukraine into peace talks next year. Your thoughts need to be more widely known.
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  1468. The ironic thing is that China was doing so well with their previous policies of foreign engagement. Here in Canada they were successful at both industrial espionage (Nortel) and increasing their soft power through programs like financial partnerships with universities. Less than ten years ago anyone who saw China as a threat to Canada was seen as stuck in the past and maybe somewhat racist. Now that's changed, thanks to China's attitude of unceasing bellicosity. Today, when Canadians think of China we think of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who've languished in Chinese jails for more than a year and are now going on trial for fictional crimes of espionage. We think of Meng Wanzhou and China's crude attempts to force our justice system to let her go. Then there's Huawei and how it nearly got it's infrastructure built into our 5G networks...Before that would have been seen as a positive example of cross Pacific trade, now we wonder what kind of spyware they would've built into our phones.
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  1469. Thank for another great video! And thank you for keeping it real with that cool KSP simulation. It's a nice callback to the channel's roots and a good way to show some visuals on a spacecraft we know almost nothing about. Boy, LOP-G really is going to be all alone in the night, our little beachhead of oxygen and water way out there in the middle of nothing. It might be bypassed on NASA's return to the Moon (if they actually get that working with their crazy short deadline) but it sounds like it will become more and more important for lots of different missions as time goes on. And it also sounds like they're going to use the Dragon XL for temporary space to put stuff in before it reaches the end of its lifetime and they fill it with garbage for one final trip.
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  1470. Still not a fan of the "Corrections" concept, but that Shoemaker impression is hilarious. Not knowing any different, I'm going to assume he really does sound like that because it makes life a little more fun. Also, that was Snow White's Prince? I thought you were talking about Sleeping Beauty! It's a good thing there's no Corrections segment for the audience or we'd be here all day...
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  1471. I remember that now. Not sure why I forgot before.
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  1472. That's a good point about the search party!
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  1473. A color e-ink display that you can actually read comics on in a decent size and with decent resolution is the machine I've been waiting for. I use a tablet now, but a really good e-ink display (if possible) would beat the pants off of it.
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  1474. I really thought Trump was so terrified of losing he couldn't even hold the idea in his mind, but apparently it's just a scam to grift more donation money from suckers, and so the Republicans can win the Georgia Senate elections. Yuck, everything about the man and his Republican friends is small minded and petty.
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  1475. Well done, Drinker. Your fixed version shows just how much can be done with the exact same characters, when you take those characters seriously. Finn really got shortchanged.
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  1476. Thanks for another great video!
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  1477. And if she fails... off to South Sudan.
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  1478. Thank you for another fascinating video! Don't think I've heard of the Local Hole before. So if I'm understanding correctly (not a sure thing) it was thought the existence of the Local Hole might explain the different values found for the Hubble Tension, but the data didn't support that. Meanwhile, the bulk flow within the Hole can be successfully modelled using MOND, which suggests that gravity may behave differently at scales larger than galaxies?
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  1479. You got video of the clean room at JPL! That's so cool.
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  1480. It's disappointing, but only a little. This kind of thing happens during testing. And now we see the value of switching to burst discs!
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  1481. It's been a trip, Disparu. Thanks for all the review videos. Through you, this community has been bonded by laughing at the awfulness of Velma. Instead of being angered or disgusted by a truly bigoted show we got to laugh at it instead, and that's the best kind of response. It's kind of ironic that you succeeded where the writers failed in making comedy out of this mess. I got the killer wrong! Looks like in the end sexism trumped racism, and the killer had to be Fred's Mom instead of his Dad. Her motive is nonsensical, since Velma's brain in Fred's body could still tell the police about everything that happened. She'd never get away with it, and her son would be dead. So what happened to the three brains in jars? Are they just stuck like that now?
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  1482. Thank you so much for this truly fascinating video! Boy, the Chinese decision makers are in quite a bind. They have to hit those GDP growth targets (to avoid political unrest), but they want to get away from "unproductive growth" like building cities in the desert, while at the same time they're willing to kill off giant tech companies for political reasons because they're not "real" tech and their laws make it impossible for ordinary people to invest in anything but real estate. It's like one arm of the government wrestling with another, with more than a billion people caught in the middle.
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  1483. Thank you for another great video! That is a fun story, for everybody except The Bull.
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  1484. I hope she wins.
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  1485.  @Aaron565  This is a case where you're arguing against something I didn't say. If finance is "centralized" then there are by definition fewer middle men, since all transactions can only pass through one or two.
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  1486. I don't know about this, my body seems to work the opposite way. When I'm hungry I get really tired, and after I eat I wake up. I've found the best way to sleep at night is to eat supper early and put as many hours as possible between that last meal and bedtime.
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  1487.  @erinm9445  Sounds like getting rid of the fetal bovine serum is a great way to cut costs. Good to hear that someone has already succeeded.
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  1488. It seems like an idea that could have worked on a small scale, but it grew too big to succeed. Farfetch should probably never have become a publicly traded company.
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  1489. Sure, let 75 million Americans indulge their fantasy the election was rigged. What's the harm? Let Trump call up that well known champion of democracy Brian Kemp and beg the man to make him a dictator. It's all in fun. Not like this is real life or anything.
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  1490. Fly safe... unless you're deliberately trying to hit an asteroid. That Hayabusa 2 "landing" looked pretty hard, but I guess that's the idea. Bump into the surface, gather samples fast, and bounce right off again without using fuel.
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  1491. That was genuinely interesting and useful! I knew it would be interesting (because Veritasium always is) but I wasn't sure how how this Peak/End stuff could be useful to an individual until you busted out the advice for things like runs and vacations. It's really odd to think about intentionally manipulating how we remember things, but that makes a lot of sense.
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  1492. Pre-Covid I was extremely skeptical of Peleton, but then I got a home treadmill. (Not one of theirs, though.) Now I think there really is a market for what they're offering, although it might not be large enough for them to make a profit without big adjustments to their business model. It's incredibly convenient to have exercise equipment at home. You can work out anytime, without the hassle of getting in a vehicle and spending hours in traffic. I haven't tried Peleton's app yet, but in theory it does eliminate the biggest drawback of exercising at home by introducing a social element. The problem is that the home market is only a fraction of the total number of people who exercise. How big a fraction? Who knows. But it looks like they're going to find out. I think they might be better off if they drop the hardware part of the business and focus on the online classes.
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  1493. Thanks for watching the interview so we don't have to, I guess. It gives some insight into Putin's thinking, or maybe it would be more accurate to say his lack of thinking. It was never going to happen, but I wish Carlson had just asked him flat out why Russia can't withdraw from Ukraine. What can they possibly achieve at this point that's worth all the pain?
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  1494. It's scary how much of this show I remember just from your recaps. What perfectly good memories have been sacrificed for Velma??? But anyway, the most likely suspect for the killer is that mad scientist lady that used to own Fred's house. If this was an actual mystery the key to everything would be in the relationship between Velma's mom and the scientist, because they must have spent years together. But knowing how racist this show is, the killer is probably Fred's Dad. Maybe they'll try a twist where the scientist lady somehow got her brain put into the Dad's body. Like maybe Velma's mom did the surgery. But probably not, since white man bad.
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  1495. Love the bit about explaining New Jersey to a German. :-)
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  1496. And this was recorded before Trump had police tear gas a church so he could use it for a photo op.
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  1497. Someday we'll find it the interstellar connection the Kerbals, the dreamers and me
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  1498. @Primarch359. That could very well be. I know nothing about this subject, so I differ to your assessment.
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  1499. Wow, thank you for these videos! They're really interesting and well explained.
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  1500. Oh wow, this certainly changes things!
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  1501. Wow, what a great video! Thank you for making it!
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  1502. Congratulations Papa Bagel! The growth potential of your new investment is unlimited. And thanks for all the awesome videos, too.
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  1503.  @SixOThree  You're right, it'll be a series of hubs connected by a single underground rail line. If Neom actually succeeded in attracting residents, presumably they'd build more hubs over time, until the entire line is filled out.
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  1504. "...Which is the longest in Hollywood anyone has ever been straight." LOL! Don't know about the legal system, but it's pretty clear why Warner Brothers is giving Ezra Miller this last chance: they can't afford to lose any more money. This movie is a freight train that started running years ago, and there's a huge amount invested in it. They can't afford to reshoot it since he's in nearly every scene, and they can't shelve it like Batgirl because the production cost too much. So they're going forward toward the dollar signs, and honestly I doubt that ordinary people in the audience will care about Miller's real life problems. The Flash will stand or fall on its own merits as a movie. Btw, that Batman is Michael Keaton! So the rumors were true about this movie returning to the world of the 1980's Batman films.
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  1505. Very cool!
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  1506. This is crazy! Not your analysis, that's as clear and sensible as ever - what's crazy is the idea that we could have reached this point after seventy-five years of successful deterrence. Or that all it took to enter a nightmare scenario was one really stupid US President. We have to make sure this never happens, by making it clear to Russia that Article 5 will absolutely be invoked if there is any act of aggression. Nothing has changed.
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  1507. I don't think weather control will ever be a real thing, except in the very broadest sense where we try to alter the climate by doing things like removing CO2 or planting trees.
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  1508. I understand why Biden is taking this approach. He's going to be the President of the entire United States, which includes the Republicans who voted against him, so he doesn't want to start his term being divisive. He's holding out hope that everyone can come together if given a chance. But like Seth said, that's extremely unlikely. The Republican party has been moving rightward since the days of Reagan, and people who were once laughed at (like the John Birchers) are now the ideological core of the party. And in addition to that, conservatives have spent the last couple of decades building an all-encompassing media bubble that has completely replaced reality for 75-80 million Americans. I don't know what the solution to all this is. There has to be one, but I suspect that bringing American conservatives back to reality will be as difficult as winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan. It's going to take bold action to dismantle the bubble they live in, and maybe a generation to to fix something that's been broken for 40 years.
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  1509. Today I learned what a frozen orbit is. Thanks, Scott!
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  1510. The really scary thing about 3D guns is that they don't have to be made out of metal. The blueprints currently online contain one metal piece so the gun can be picked up on metal detectors, but you know that someone somewhere is going to modify the blueprints so they don't have to use metal at all. Then metal detectors won't be able to stop these guns.
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  1511. That's great news, then! As long as they still need some metal.
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  1512.  @Neilhuny  I don't even want to think about how hard it would be to keep a consumer focused distribution network of hydrogen pipes going... It's like the stuff was created just to wreck pipes and make leaks.
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  1513. Thanks for this, and thank you to the people doing these things. That last marriage story in particular. It's thrilling to hear the pastor (or whatever he was) shouting those words from the rooftoop, and everyone cheering. Not to mention two people in love making a lifetime commitment in this uncertain time.
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  1514. That debloater script really works! I just tried it on an old laptop of my own. Went from 33-44% CPU usage to under 20%.
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  1515. YouTube keeps deleting my replies. It's hard to word this in a way that will stay up. Do a search for "Windows10Debloater" The first result should be the page you want. Then follow the instructions on that page.
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  1516. Thanks for another awesome video! And I'm glad that Bob and Doug did indeed fly safe. Now we can say that Crew Dragon's first mission is a total success.
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  1517. Not going to lie, I rewound parts of this video and watched them multiple times to try and follow the arguments, and even then I'm kind of shaky on some of it. But that's what makes the video wonderful! So much of YouTube is lowest common denominator clickbait it's wonderful to find a channel that really stretches your brain. And you were going easy on us by not showing the intervening derivatives of the field equation there! I think the editor went with the Ideal Gas analogy because the letter writer talked about how vacuum energy was virtual particles popping in and out of existence. Maybe it got the editor thinking about virtual particles as a kind of cosmic gas. Thank you for explaining why this isn't the case.
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  1518. I don't understand what Laura Ingraham finds so hilarious about contact tracing. It's pretty basic detective work. Does she think it's ridiculous to solve a crime by looking for suspects?
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  1519. For me the problem isn't where the Arizona voting data has been sent, it's who might be looking at it. The Republican obsession with "election security" may now normalize the idea that voter information can just be given away to unaccountable and unknown third parties at will, which means those ballots aren't secret anymore.
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  1520. Wow, this is a great video. Thank you for making it!
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  1521. Thank you for another great video! I'm sorry Rocketlab's mission failed, but your explanation of the possible causes is really interesting to watch.
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  1522. Oh yeah, this is the way! Thanks for another great video. Solid rocket motors are fascinating. So much engineering, all dedicated to a process that will only happen once.
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  1523. An incredible achievement for science! And an incredible achievement for Albert Einstein. I wonder what he'd say if he knew that more than a hundred years later scientists carrying on his work would actually get a picture of a black hole?
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  1524. I hope they rebuild it. The world needs an Arecibo 2.0.
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  1525. Absolutely!
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  1526. Trump is terrified of jail, no matter what he says. Just imagine all the germs in there! Sitting on a bunk that a thousand people have used before him, wearing an orange jumpsuit that's been worn many times before... It's like the worst place he can imagine, even if they hold him in solitary and he doesn't have to worry about other prisoners.
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  1527. The Liar's Polka. LOL!
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  1528. It's still a good idea!
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  1529. You're sure right about Dark Knight Rises. In the comics Bane's big story (called Knightfall) is much longer but also much simpler than this movie. Comic book Bane is mentally disturbed in a different way than the Joker. Bane grew up in a South American island prison where he spent his entire life climbing from the very bottom (as an unwanted child left to die in a cell) to the top where he became the secret Godfather of the place. This left him with a singular motivation in life: he has to prove he's tougher than everyone else. That's it, that's all he lives for. So in Knightfall he leaves his home behind to take on Batman and basically level up like you do in a video game. To Bane Batman is the toughest guy on his new island so he has to take Batman down. There's no grand philosophy behind his actions or need to prove anything to the citizens of Gotham. The success of the Dark Knight limited Christopher Nolan when it came to this movie. He couldn't do a simple adaptation of Knightfall but instead had to remake The Dark Knight somehow, twisting different villains into the shapes he needed to make a movie that felt like the other one.
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  1530. I wouldn't go that far. There are people who genuinely want to make the world a better place, but they're not wealthy. And there's billions of people who give to charity in one way or another, with no one knowing about it except the tax department. The difference with someone like Chamath Palihapitiya or Sam Bankman Fried is they want to promote the idea that you can make the world a better place and make yourself rich at the same time. That takes away money that could have been donated to real charities or good causes and diverts it into the pockets of grifters. But regardless, thank you for another excellent video! I don't know how you guys do it, but your content is always really interesting and educational.
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  1531. Not meth... caffeine. Far too much caffeine.
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