Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. I think there's some irony when you're choosing questions on a test so difficult even full time physicists don't actually know the true answer and thus the students taking the test are just making their best guess using their own knowledge
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  2. hey look its what probably starlight was
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  3. kind of funny you hadn't brought or made some kind of bomb-sight
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  4. it was an easy comparison in the early days of electronics, leading to vacuum tubes to be called valves, capacitors called condensers, and other little quirks
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  5. if glass was liquid, obsidian would have run off out of sediment deposits
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  6. its the loss of pressure that causes the bottle to explode, the dissolved co2 rapidly falls out of solution, explodes out, foams the drink and the foam gets choked in the bottle neck
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  7. thomas midgely JR, he couldn't ever seem to invent anything that didn't go horribly wrong, though freon being a problem wasn't his fault. CFC damage to the atmosphere was the result of people just dumping the stuff to the air
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  8. that titanium hinge is nuts. The stuff is tough as hell
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  9. nist standards are hella expensive but when you need one you need one
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  10. "I wanted it to be good so I got 2 other scientists, neil degrass tyson and bill nye" Man this takes me back to that one Stargate episode...
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  11. seems like you could fix the treadmill by introducing a track, so the car can ONLY move forward or back
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  12. makes me wonder if this works attached to a ship/boat since you'd be using like a propeller to turn the other propeller
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  13. so I guess the question on he intuitive behavior, could you prevent this effect by perfectly aligning the item along its 2nd axis instead?
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  14. its funny. the professor presents a clear logical, theoretical rebuttal, but his major point (that of a lag between gusts and the acceleration of the car) doesn't hold to the experimental evidence obtained from actual real world sensor data. its also funny somebody like him could fall for the foibles of simplified models like the propeller efficiency term. It reminds us all that models are just models, they don't define the world, the world defines them
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  15. the theory was that there's be a big kick motor on the front of it, then it would use gridfins to fine tune its targeting, but lets be honest, it doesn't need to be pinpoint accurate if you're targeting a city/base/bunker
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