Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Scientists Have Discovered The Largest Structure In The Universe | Lightning Round" video.
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I think there’s something very messed up about our culture, where you can’t just enjoy content like everyone else, without having to pay money to be, “special,” enough to get extra stuff. I love this channel too, but they all do it, even the best of them. They can make life changing sums of money.
BTW, if you’re interested, I know about the aircraft, “phones off,” thing. Brian Benamran explains in his book, How To Speak Science, why people have to turn off their phones for landing (and a host of other things, like switching off the planes lights) for commercial airliners. It’s not what you think.
It’s actually to do with the escape shoots. They discovered that people don’t like leaping into an inky black void, and won’t jump onto the escape slides at night, if the aircraft crash lands. This puts other passengers at risk in a situation where seconds literally count on a life and death level, slowing the whole evacuation process.
So nearly all of the measures they take for landing procedure are to do with optimising passenger night vision, so they can see the slide they’re leaping onto, rather than trusting that they’re not leaping 70 feet to their death. True story. Merry Christmas.
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@ooooneeee : I’m not responsible for their reasoning. Only explaining the facts. But, again, if you think about it, obviously the power might not be working, so . . . There’s probably a thousand other things that might make for better protocols, but this is the, “what,” and the, “why,” of it. The result of analysis. If it’s wrong, the guy who wrote the book is wrong, but he does explain it in great detail, even describing a conversation in which passengers were guessing at various reasons they had to turn off their phones and the lights on the whole inside of the aircraft go dim. People came up with nonsense reasons as well as very plausible guesses, but they were all wrong.
Just saying what the book says. I believe him. I think you would too if you heard it (audiobook in my case) and all the reasoning that comes with it? It’s science and experience of people’s behaviour that matters I guess. Merry Christmas 🎄
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Actually, it has nothing to do with interference, (which, when you think about it makes more sense) but it’s actually night vision. They would never trust passengers not to use their phones if there was a remote chance of crashing the plane. They won’t even allow too much water!
The answer is interesting and far more logical, once you know it. Brian Benamran explains in his book, How To Speak Science.
It’s actually to do with the escape shoots. They discovered that people don’t like leaping into an inky black void, and won’t jump onto the escape slides at night, if the aircraft crash lands. This puts other passengers at risk in a situation where seconds literally count on a life and death level, slowing the whole evacuation process. People in a crisis need to see what they’re leaping onto. Who knew?
So nearly all of the measures they take for landing procedure are to do with optimising passenger night vision, so they can see the slide they’re leaping onto, rather than trusting that they’re not leaping 70 feet to their death. True story.
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