Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "SmarterEveryDay" channel.

  1. Interesting fact: There's an aircraft called an AutoGyro or gyroplane. They're basically airplanes that don't get their lift from fixed wings, but by rotary wings on autorotation alone as part of their normal operation. They have a large swamp boat-like propeller on the back that keeps the aircraft moving forward. The blades are not attached to the engine and provide lift by autorotation alone.
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  2. That's the trick though, isn't it? What's happening there? I think that as long as the current data matches the old data, the brain doesn't kick in to correct things. I think the brain's pretty efficient, and as long as it doesn't have to work, it won't update anything. As soon as you look away from the original focal point, you're moving that "afterburn" area of your cornea so it no longer matches up with the picture. The patterns not matching on the brain's engram of the last known image must trigger the brain to reprocess the entire image at which time you get a true image since your brain's "awake." That's my guess at least.
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  3. Destin, you deserve an honorary Ph.D. in education for what you do.
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  4. +SmarterEveryDay How strong could they be? Passive plasma containment field?
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  5. Opals are my favorite too. :) They're so amazing and unique.
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  6. How do you get a bullet that's only able to slow down to go transonic if it wasn't when it exited the barrel? Is it because it only speeds up relative to the surrounding gases?
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  7. Wait. Did I really see WD-40 on that list? Who said they like their husband smelling like WD-40?
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  8. If you haven't recorded the video yet, you should go up to a .22 rifle first before going to other rifles because muzzle velocity would be greater than the pistols.
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  9. Is that your pulse at 138? Is that the heart trying harder to oxygenate your body?
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  10. How does the hummingbird at 3:05 go from a hovering position to having forward momentum using only its body without changing the orientation or flapping pattern of its wings? It seems that its tail interacting with the fast moving are created by the flapping wings to propel the bird. It actually looks like the bird is using the tail like a sail on a ship. Sometimes it moves the tail so that it seems the air would push against the tail feathers, moving the bird backward (a sailboat sailing with the wind, with the wind filling the sail from behind). Then sometimes, like when it's hovering and tipping forward at 3:30, it curves the tail and seems to be using it to gain lift like an airfoil (a sailboat moving against the wind and using the airfoil design to create a sort of "horizontal lift"). I would love to see one of these guys free flying in a visible fluid in slow motion that showed how it all works.
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  11. Reepicheep? Why?
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  12. I want to try this so bad. I tend toward ambidexterity. I'm left handed, but can write legibly with both hands. I'm curious how that would apply to the backward bike because when I write with my right hand, I have to actively think about and apply a lot of things that is just automatic for my left hand to do.
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  13. +bary1234 Are you being a troll, or are you seriously using this video as a platform for your hate speech?
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  14. bary1234 I'm not interested in arguing with you, but I think bigoted attitudes like yours are far more a problem to the planet than someone believing in a god.
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  15. bary1234 "Bigoted" means you're intolerant of other people's opinions, and you're intolerant toward people holding the opinion that a diety exists, with the stubborn belief that your opinion on the matter is far superior. Bigot according to Oxford: "a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions." Not sure where you got your definition from, but it seems to be incorrect.
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  16. bary1234 You're compartmentalizing something that can't be compartmentalized. A person's opinion is part of that person, and it's part of what makes up who they are. So if you hate the opinion, you hate that part of the person.
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  17. bary1234 I hate analogies because they don't translate properly. This isn't cancer. It's only cancer in your eyes, so the only way the  analogy works is for your opinion. "We are back to the question about superstition being useful. So do you have anything?  Can you name any superstitious belief humanity would miss after its gone?" I said I'm not going to argue this hate speech of yours. I'm pointing out to you that it is hate speech.
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  18. bary1234 It must be harder for you to defend your hate speech since you're using a red herring to distract.
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  19. bary1234 You should just admit defeat before you start resorting to logical fallacy, rather than admitting defeat through logical fallacy.
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  20. That's pretty bad when you astonish the guy with the troll picture with your douchebaggery.
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  21. Cats are scared of physics.
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  22. Related vids: Sebaceous Cyst Left Arm, Maggots in My Head, Brain Worm, The Botfly in my Head... Yep, this is the start of a long YouTube night right here.
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  23. So what's the most space efficient pulley setup? Is it mathematically provable?
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  24. He has a morin khuur. Does he do throat singing?
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  25. Here's what you should do: Make the Mountain Dew glow using peroxide, then do a high speed at night. :)
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  26. The grasshopper is accelerating at 400 meters per second per second (no, that duplication isn't a typo). In essence, if the grasshopper were to keep accelerating at that rate, he would get to the speed 400 meters per second in one second's time. If he were to keep accelerating at that rate for a full two seconds, he would reach 800 meters per second. However, he's only accelerating for a fraction of a second, and therefore only reaches a speed of an equivalent fraction.
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  27. The last thing I would have ever thought was that they would basically start from the top and build down by lifting the whole thing up. That's amazing.
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  28. The kid of an engineer right there, placing the fulcrum closer to himself.
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  29. Liked, subscribed, email with new uploads, shared. I can't believe I've never heard of this channel before.
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  30. The first thing that comes to mind is military application. Armies of terminators controlled by soldiers from a safe location.
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  31. How about a new level of telecommuting where you control a robotic avatar from home?
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  32. Oh! How about an even higher level of telecommuting, where you control multiple robots doing multiple tasks?
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  33. Nunnles, why do you think that?
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  34.  @nopenoperson9118  I don't think the bullet, but the expanding gases from the explosion.
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  35.  @nopenoperson9118  Yeah, that's what I thought. That's what I meant by it speeds up relative to the surrounding gases.
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  36. In the greater Pacific Northwest we have a spider called the hobo spider which has very similar bites and mannerisms to the brown recluse.
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