Comments by "Pete Venuti" (@petevenuti7355) on "Veritasium" channel.

If those are plastic Petri dishes it might just happen... Soon something will evolve to eat all the plastics, they will have an advantage because their metabolites will be toxic to everything else.
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It shows the utility of random reading across disciplines is far more valuable by bringing seemingly unrelated ideas together then the repetitive narrow internet searches guided by an algorithm that narrows things down further that the current generation is hindered by.
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@Merilix2 yes, but when dealing with organic & biochemistry at that level of abstraction it feels like a completely different field of study when compared to dealing with something as humongously large as a microorganism.(Seriously I see the irony there) It's like the difference between knowing what versions of dll files you need in your Windows system versus assembly programming a driver. If you want to talk environmental science that would be like what apps you have running and their system requirements and conflicts. I was a biochemistry major that switched to computer science if you can't tell?
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@bigdaddynero I think he's saying exactly the opposite, I think he's just impressed about how things that are so unrelated to one's own field can find application in another.
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Did their face glow? I bet the MSDS said the glow powder caused cancer in California.
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Unless you are that guy from the x-files made of cancer cells ( but that took a whole bathtub of betaine)
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At least an automated colony counter! Maybe I should write an app for that, use your cell phone camera as a colony counter...
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@pvic6959 I never liked the math much either. I wanted to learn about neural networks long before they were popular, but most of the books I found back then either gave the layman's explanation or delved deep into matrix math and tensors... Hell I thought a dot product was the same thing as basic multiplication for the last 40 years. Then I watched some of Leonard Susskind's lectures on quantum mechanics for some reason , and believe it or not , I learned more math then I could have expected in just a few of his videos that I was never exposed to or were just notations that were a foreign language to me previously. At least now I get why that popular library is called tensor flow. Who would have thought quantum mechanics would have so much in common with neural networks!
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@TheFirstBubbaBong The medical industrial complex doesn't want to shoot itself in the foot.. yet I have faith that enough people want to solve the problem that progress with continue despite greed. Now anyone can be a part of the solution, be it a biohacker or activist etc. If it's truly that big of a deal for you , why you watching this video and not something more related to your concern?
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When you said a group of Americans with an IQ of 70 I so swear i thought you were going to say congress!
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Anyone else have the feeling that he touted dish towels for environmental reasons until this episode? Now I hope he finds a way to convince bounty not to use tree baced products but find some alternative bacteria based absorbent material!
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What about acetonitrile to dissolve super glue? Does that work markedly better than acetone as I've heard? Is there anything that truly dissolves cured super glue, like how cellulose is dissolved in the viscose process or tetraamminediaquacopper
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That was up there with the history guy😊 history that deserves to be remembered, except, it's not history yet.
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Doesn't time compress and expand with the wave in the same proportion to space?
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Anyone watching know where I can get a cheap microchannel plate? Say from a broken tube from one of these?
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Go go geko hands, yes, when are you going to climb a building?
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Putting broadcast to shame. Was that one of the potential titles?
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I remember when I had stock in celgene, my broker was like they're shooting up buy more buy more, and I was like they're selling their rights to PCR sell sell sell. I was right they shut up only because the money looked good that quarter from selling it, but once sold the stock lost its value... More than doubled my money on that, celgene went from like $10 a share to $60 at the time I owned it.
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Wren mustn't like you if they sponcered your burial. 😜
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You had to go back In time to make sure the math necessary for time travel existed for you to time travel in the first place.
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impedance and reluctance! you can't use the speed of light in a vacuum because you're not in a vacuum!!! it's going to be less then the speed of light.... never mind all the novice questions! also does the time to react if your light filament but never mind.... still I give you credit for everything you added, but I still think you left an ambiguous in the first place as a form of clickbait.
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@jmodified if he can be picky enough over a blip a few orders of magnitude smaller in time sooner, I'll go a few more orders smaller in time then that, just later. Since you know these things, how much slower through the bare wire would you estimate? It's my understanding if it were 50ohm coax it would be ~.7c, is that correct?
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@jmodified I define in the order of magnitude as a multiple of 10 so a fraction of a percent would be about three multiples, and three I define as a few, i.e. between two and several... I have noticed that the definition of terms like few and several and order of magnitude tend to be pretty flexible....
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@jmodified thanks for the other info, the 70% number I was using was for the coax was a rule of thumb I used to use for the specific cables I used with my antennas, I didn't realize it had such a wide range when the same impedance, explains why trying using old cables as spare 'leaky' antennas never worked too well(that's when you damage the shielding on purpose at regular intervals to create a sort of phased array)... I know , very ghetto wireless, I also used to nail rebar to trees in the woods for beneficial Fresnel effects 😒 Anyway, if I'm going to quibble over a fraction of a percent difference, and there is approximately 10% difference from c in speed through the wire just between the inside and outside of the switch before it gets to the air and the inside and outside of the light source, might be comparable to the difference in speed through air at those relative scales.
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@jmodified okay I guess since I'm quibbling over such trivial amounts .9997 you got to move the decimal over four places so that's more like several than a few.... But like I stated before most people are pretty flexible with those terms... You could always round .7 up to one to say a few is closer to right then several... But then we'll be talking semantics for the rest of the year... Close enough
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@jmodified to see negligible differences I'm talking about, I don't think their test equipment could even get that accurate, could it? I still think alpha Phoenix did the best job saying most of the same stuff he did in this follow-up video, and I still think veritassium was very clickbaity using ambiguity to start an argument in his first video. I believe that was planned.
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How much would it cost to make a pair of pants out of that? Seriously.. 20 years ago I dreamed of making a car body like that, but ony the government could have afforded it.
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@jlondon1441 I guess that would mean that great plastic patch in the ocean will be the first new coal field in a few hundred million years.
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How does this relate to the casmier effect?
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There has to be a way third canadate in the upcoming US election, because I would rather be stuck getting elected and turning mmy life upside down tthen see either of them win.
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Waving a balloon while talking???
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what's going to happen to all the autonomous driving cars when the Carrington event happens again?
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Think of something like vegan leather..
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Ironic if the mission gets scrubbed the due to hurricane... Let's see how this comment ages , be optimistic...
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Time to start growing bounty eating mushrooms.
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That makes lord Kelvin the first string theorist doesn't it?
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Yes! I dare you to calculate the carbon footprint of monocrystalline solar panel manufacturing compared to using wood gasification electric generators...
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