Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1.  @ohioplayer-bl9em  ~ Maybe if you understood science better, you wouldn't feel the need to jump to unwarranted premature conclusions and engage in ignorant fear-mongering, Doc! The irony and disconnect with people like you is that you're all for taking advantage of science and technological advances wherever or whenever it suits, like you leaving ignorant replies on YouTube with your digital devices, but then you're also about denigrating and demeaning it----especially those things poorly understood and that don't fit your Neanderthal religious or political world view. That's what you should be considering, but it seems doubtful you have the capability or willingness to do so.
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  2. "Just remember, when someone tries to insult a person by calling them "snowflake" or "cupcake," it may well be because they are sociopaths fundamentally lacking human empathy and compassion. But imagine if instead of taking it as an insult, we all started taking it as a compliment?" ― wily wascal
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  3. So, why do larger objects cause more downward force if not gravitational pull or theory of attraction? Isn't the moon accelerating through space faster than Earth, as it is revolving around Earth as Earth revolves around the Sun, as the Sun revolves around the galaxy, and as the galaxy moves through an expanding universe? So why is their less gravitational pull on the moon than Earth, if not that larger masses exert more gravitational pull? And if the sun with a much stronger gravitational pull than Earth is because of much greater acceleration, how is Earth able to keep up? Don't think this video adequately explains this phenomenon. I can picture the moon, the Earth, the Sun, and our galaxy as all being dimples within dimples in the space/time continuum, which could possibly require greater acceleration depending on the depth of each dimple to keep pace, with objects having greater mass having deeper dimples, which might work to explain and confirm the General Theory of Relativity's explanation of gravity, but am unsure if that's the correct explanation.
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  4. When the bacteria, viruses, and other natural microscopic parasites constantly naturally evolving in our surrounding environment finally kill off the human race because we didn't experiment and study them, invent defenses against them? Don't know about you, but not personally interested in being a simpleton, laying down and letting nature have its way, because it is also in our own DNA to use every tool at our disposal----including our brains----to compete and survive as a viable life form.
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  5.  @shadesilverwing0  ~ Actually, did not realize this was referencing some video game until it was just mentioned that this was a reference, and researched the source. But then, it would take a HUGE chunk of my life playing the thousands upon thousands of video games available out there, when there are other far more worthwhile and productive pursuits. So, don't think that's a bad thing, or a knock against anyone who didn't get your esoteric reference. Regardless of whether anyone understood it was a reference to some video game, what was the relevance, meaning, and application to this science video that you intended? Care to explain, and why the use of those specific quotes from the game?
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  6.  @shadesilverwing0  ~ Fair enough. Few points, though. I think people could take your comment a number of different ways, even those people familiar with the video game Portal. Wasn't suggesting that video games are not worthwhile, per se, just that spending all one's time learning about them or learning to play all the myriad of video games available out there is not a particularly worthwhile way to spend all the time required. Indeed, some video games can challenge one to think logically, to help retain or sharpen memory, or even to learn skills, such as learning to type or learning how to fly an airplane, as with a simulator. However, as with most things, moderation is key, and there's a whole wide world out there beyond digital devices and video screens that offers so much more. My warning would be for folks not to lose themselves in virtual reality, which will never equal actually experiencing reality. While perhaps the bacteria in the video experiment can be equated with the human experiment in the game, in reality they are in many respects unequal. We are not reliant (or, perhaps more accurately, no longer reliant) upon gene mutations to better ourselves or the societies in which we choose to live, for instance. In reality, 30 years is a mere blink of the eye in evolutionary time, so although the experiment involved many, many generations of the same bacteria, in terms of time their evolution was relatively swift. Which is something that has been observed in nature, as species may stay relatively the same with few adaptations for many millennium, but a sudden burst of transformative changes and new species in a relatively short period of time has been observed in fossil records.
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  7.  @zwenkwiel816  ~ Sounds like you're the one getting on your high horse, Doc! Had you bothered to read my final reply here to the OP, you would have known you had misunderstood that which you reference.
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