Comments by "Digital Footballer" (@digitalfootballer9032) on "Astrum" channel.

  1. That sounds like it has to be the absolute nastiest conditions possible. We will get 40-50 mph gusts here when the temps are below freezing and it is bad enough, can't even imagine 100mph with the cold.
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  2. When you start adding up all the variables that would make an exoplanet not just merely habitable, but also a healthy and relatively safe environment, there are many. All the factors mentioned in this video, as well as factors like how much oxygen in the atmosphere, weather extremes, does the planet have a large moon like earth, does the system have a Jupiter analog that could protect the planet from bombardment of asteroids and comets, what is the rotation of the planet, and so many more. The odds of finding something "turn-key" would be very low, considering all the important factors that must be within at least a small variance of earth in order for it to be comfortably habitable.
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  3. Keep in mind that at whatever speed we are capable of, that any manned vessel would have to accelerate and decelerate gradually or the occupants would be pulverized into mush. So at whatever top speed we can reach, you can't divide the distance by that amount, it would be more like double the amount of time. For example if you built a vessel that could traverse 4 light years distance in 100 years at top speed, it would take closer to 200 to actually travel the distance as the ship would not instantly hit top speed then stop on a dime at the destination.
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  4. ​@stephenschroeder6567 We would be capable of sending a manned ship to Mars now if we had actually put any effort into it, but unfortunately governments control space programs and governments tend to waste a lot of money on nonsense instead of anything useful. The fact that we reached the moon over 50 years ago tells me we could have done mars by now, but also we didn't have a Soviet Union to beat to it this time, which was a big motivation back then.
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  5. People also don't often realize either what it would take to even get a fast ship up to speed and slowed back down again. Even if theoretically we could travel at 50% light speed (which is way far off if even possible) it wouldn't simply just take 8 years to travel 4 light years in distance, it would take nearly double that time as even a very advanced ship would take time to reach top speed and slow back down. Not to mention even if a vessel could instantly hit speed then stop on a dime, every occupant of that ship would be torn apart by the g forces.
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  6. This is in the same vein as the whole "send us money and we will name a star after you and send you a certificate". I don't think future generations are going to be saying, "hey look, it's the John Smith star, right next to the Mike Johnson star" 😂
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  7. ​ @jayboy2kay7 Based 👍
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  8. Very good point. I might also add that we are in a geological "Goldilocks zone" as well. There have been and will be again, periods of time where the average temperature of the earth is much hotter or colder and even fewer, of any, regions of the earth would be habitable.
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  9. One positive is it could wipe out intelligent AI before intelligent AI wipes us out.
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  10. There is no longer a thumbs down button because a certain old guy who lives in a house that is white in a city named after the first president was getting his videos massively ratioed.
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  11. Technically, it could all end tomorrow if a false vacuum bubble were to form somewhere in the universe.
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  12. I suspect if we do ever find highly advanced life out there, that K-type star systems will be where we find it, as the longevity of these stars is much greater, giving any civilization orbiting one much more time to advance. If we were to make the entire run without going extinct, we would have about another billion years before earth is no longer habitable. Yes, that's a lot of time, but I would think if any super advanced civilization is out there (like type-2 and up) they would need more than a billion years and change to get there. A K type star would offer this kind of longevity on the home planet, assuming the planet itself is stable.
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  13. Grow up.
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  14. I live just across the Rainbow Bridge from you over here in Western New York. It's definitely the humidity that kills us in both ends here, makes the hot hotter and the cold colder. Just these past few days it has felt sweltering hot here despite only reaching about 78F (26C) because of the humidity...I have mostly been staying in the nice a/c in my house during the day. The nights have been nice though, sitting on my patio in shorts enjoying a beer as I write this now! Happy Canada Day, neighbor!
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  15. Yes it's interesting, and most people don't realize that it is not the norm to have ice cap at the poles, we have it now because we are in an interglacial period. All these people freaking out about the polar caps melting and rising sea levels, but that's completely normal from a historical, geological aspect.
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  16. Just my unscientific opinion, but I feel like tidal lock presents one of the biggest challenges to habitability. Things like gravity, atmosphere, etc while challenging could be overcome with the right technology. Even the rotation of the planet could be sped up or slowed down, in theory, with advanced enough technology. I think with tidal locking you are stuck. Two other factors I see as deal breakers are close proximity to a very active star, as well as a lack of giant planets in the outer orbits of a system to sweep up asteroids and comets.
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  17. I always thought the same thing. A narrow band of habitable area surrounded by certain death on both sides. Possibly tie in to the story groups or races that were banished to these regions, or some sort of rogue faction living in underground bunkers in these regions. Lots of great possibilities for a good sci Fi story.
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  18. ​ @2000sborton Climate change is real, humans causing it to happen at an unnatural rate is hype. On average, historically the Earth has been 10-12 C warmer than the global average in modern times. Throughout the majority of the Earth's existence as a habitable planet, there has been zero polar ice cap. We are living in an interglacial period right now, it is only natural that climate will warm from here and eventually, on a very long scale in human terms, the planet will return to it's normal state of warmer average temperature and no polar ice. The few degrees of fluctuation we are seeing now is a drop in the bucket compared to long term changes. Will this adversely effect humanity? Well most certainly it will, but this is long game we are talking. Humans must, and likely will adapt, but we are talking extremely long time periods.
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  19. What is really mind numbing is to actually believe that everything in the finely tuned universe we live in just happened by sheer chance. The universe could have existed in nearly an infinite number of forms, yet it exists in such a way that star formation can happen, life can happen, and specific laws and rules exist that cannot be broken or circumvented such as entropy and light speed.​ It isn't a lucky fluke, it's a design. And you don't have to be "religious" to believe there is a Creator of all, just logical. If you want to talk about "dishonesty", maybe try first being honest with yourself. What is more probable...a bunch of matter and energy appeared out of complete nothingness and then organized itself into a complex state complete with physical laws, or a force greater than our limited knowledge can fathom designed it this way? Cause and effect. With no cause, there is no effect.
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  20. ​@Polaris431It would not appear simultaneously at every point in the universe, or for that matter at any two points at all to an outside observer. Outside observers clocks would be running normally, the time only dialates for those traveling aboard the vessel going the speed of light. In other words, for example if you, the outside observer fixed a telescope on an object one light year away and someone else traveled to that object at the speed of light, from your perspective you would not see them arrive for one year, but to them they would get there instantaneously and would not age one year as you did.
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  21. ​ @alexcallender "If you can accept that god can simply exist without first being created, why can't you accept the same for our cosmos "? I cannot accept it for the cosmos because at our current level of understanding, the cosmos is not eternal, there was a beginning at big bang and a presumed ending with heat death. This would indicate it came from somewhere, and that it will not go on forever (and this is going off the current popular opinion in science). Something with a beginning and end must have a cause. I agree with OP that it is most logical to concur that it is a greater intelligence that is itself not created but eternally existing, a prime mover, intelligent designer, God, or whatever it may be. I should actually say "most logical" when compared to other known alternatives, those being an infinite regression or repeating loop, or, appearance out of a state of complete nothingness. Those are both illogical. I will admit I am not so extremely zealous in my opinion to say there isn't another possibility outside the realm of what we can currently conceive, but for all alternatives we can conceive, an intelligent, all powerful, and eternal force seems more logical than appearing out of nothing (impossible for nothingness to change state as a catalyst would be needed, which couldn't exist in nothingness), and a repeating loop or cyclical universe is just turtles all the way down. A multiverse would be similar, where do you stop, where is the origin?
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  22. It is also postulated that a planet orbiting a type F or K star could be even better than a G type star. They are cooler than a G but hotter than a red dwarf, are stable like a G type, and also are much longer lived than a G type star.
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  23. The question is absurd because it implies infinite regression. It's no different than saying the earth sits on the back of a giant tortoise, but what's under that tortoise? Another one, and another and another... turtles all the way down. All the way down to what? Because we live in a universe that abides by the laws of cause and effect, we cannot fathom infinity. But if our universe was created out that which exists outside of the universe itself, then whatever that is does not necessarily have to abide by the laws of our universe. Infinite regression is absurd no matter what realm you are in, but infinity is not. Simple logic would dictate there is an endpoint at which a force all powerful and infinite exists. Is it God? Perhaps. But it's something.
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  24. I am a Swedish American and my ancestors were from Kalmar on one side of the family, and Jönköping on the other side of the family. Of course they had to pick a place in the United States to settle that is very similar to where they came from. Upstate NY, where winter is about on a par with southern Sweden. Not uncommon here to get below zero (F) temperatures, which of course is well below zero (C), and many feet of snow in any given winter storm. I just can't imagine my ancestors living through that in a time before modern technology, but they did it.
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  25. I often wondered how that would work. For example, say you are on a ship traveling the speed of light, can you walk forward in the same direction as the ship without yourself exceeding light speed, or throw something the same direction the ship is traveling without that object exceeding light speed? Because of this, as well as other factors like needing exponentially less mass as you approach the speed of light, makes me think that it is likely impossible to create a man made object that can travel the speed of light.
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  26. It's funny because I live roughly due south of Toronto between Buffalo and Rochester, NY and we get way worse snowfall and cold temps here than Toronto does. Here much of it is due to our location at the Eastern end of Lake Erie.
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  27. ​ @Muckytuja I think the person who really needs to grow up is the one who trolls comments up and down the board to flame and ad hominem attack everyone they disagree with. I won't take credit for this, I saw it in another comment but it applies here : "Take a few minutes to get off of your atheism reddit and go touch grass". It may be a new experience for you. Sounds like you've been cooped up in your parents basement for too many years. If it offends you so much that some people think differently than you, life is going to be very hard. I am assuming you are a child by the way you speak and use poor grammar. You got your life ahead of you, go do something more productive with yourself.
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  28. ​ @andresarias3475 Trying to reason with an childish, uneducated troll is a practice in futility.
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  29. ​ @PeloquinDavid It's like Arizonans with their "dry heat", while yes of course it doesn't feel as hot as the humid hot of the northeast where I live, when I visited Arizona 110F still felt really hot! The locals laughed and told me that was nothing.
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  30. In practice it should be impossible for any objects with mass to travel the speed of light, not only because of the need for infinitely more energy and less mass as you approach C, but also there would need to be an infinite amount of energy used to stop the object at its destination, hence why it is theorized that to even go at say, 50% of C it wouldn't actually take you 2 years to travel 1 light year (from the perspective of an outside observer), it would take you longer because you would need to get up to speed, then take an equal amount of time to slow down.
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  31. Bot.
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  32. ​ @heartsfaith7077 Roughly -10F to 90F
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  33. It did suck 😂
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  34. As we are in an interglacial period right now, yes, it would be natural that the planet would trend towards warming. Humanity has mostly existed during a "goldilocks zone" of climate and temperature. It gets much hotter and much colder, but of course we are talking in huge timescales in comparison to a human lifespan.
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  35. ​ @bastiaan7777777 So then what do you think the universe came from? Nothingness? Too many flaws in that theory to even list. Most important being that a state of nothingness is impossible, proven by the fact there is clearly not nothing now, and in order for nothing to change state into something, a cause would have to exist, which a cause is something and can't exist in nothingness. It's a circular argument.
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  36. Technically speaking we are in an ice age right now because there are glaciers and ice sheets at the poles currently, we are just not at a glacial maximum, therefore it is considered "interglacial". There are periods when there is none at all.
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  37. ​ @charlesbrightman4237 They estimate that to happen in a few billion years, but before it expands to that level it will get big enough and hit enough to render the planet inhospitable within about 1 billion years. If humans are still around at that time, they will have hopefully found the technology to colonize at the very least moons in the outer solar system, if not other systems entirely.
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  38. What people always fail to consider also is that ice loss is what is to be expected, regardless of what we as humans do. Having no polar ice cap is the norm for the planet. We have it now because we are in an interglacial period. Eventually it will be gone, humans or no humans.
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  39. Lol, it's like when people complain about 6" of snow and freak out and close everything down, us folks here in Buffalo, NY have to have a good laugh in between shoveling 6 feet out of our driveways 😂. Nothing closes here unless there is at least several feet, or a complete whiteout. I call a foot and a half a "light snowstorm"...
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  40. The only people that actually believe that are Christian fundementalists, which is like more or less a couple guys driving around in a pickup truck in Alabama. True ignorance is people that generalize about billions of people by painting them the same as a small handful of extremists. It's no better than saying all Muslims are Taliban.
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  41. I like the honesty in this video. Yes, renewable resources are the way forward, but yes we must also continue to use fossil fuels to bridge the gap. I often compare it, somewhat jokingly, to air travel but you could use many analogies. I say that just halting fossil fuel usage today in favor of renewable resources only would be like asking the Wright Brothers to fly you to Paris. These things take time, but we will get there eventually. Keep in mind only about 20% of EVs out there are operating on renewable energy sources because that's roughly the percentage of our grid powered by wind and solar. The other 80% is coal, oil, and nuclear. Yes, nuclear isn't fossil fuel but it isn't exactly renewable either, there is a finite supply of materials. Not more than a few decades ago the percentage of renewable resources powering the grid were negligible. In another few decades maybe we will be double or even triple where we are now, which would be a great move forward. Who knows, there could be new ways and methods not even discovered yet that will take off in tge near future.
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  42. On the bright side (no pun intended 🌞) maybe the maximum will fry the AI before the AI fries us 😂
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  43. Solar maximum, yes, we are in one right now. Nobody talks about it because it contradicts climate alarmism and gives a concrete, natural reason why temps are somewhat higher in recent decades.
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  44. Yes, solar minima and maxima. I believe we are in a maximum right now that is due to shift towards a minimum in a few years time.
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  45. The odds that nothing at all would exist is essentially zero, as there is only one way for there to be nothing, and arguably infinite ways for there to be something. What we got, our universe, wasn't necessarily a sure thing, but likely in order for us to exist to ask such questions, the universe needed to be as it is.
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  46. ​ @replica1052 Agreed, space itself is something. I'm talking about complete nothingness, like nothing all exists. There is only one way that can happen, and infinite ways for matter to exist and be organized.
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  47. If humans are around long enough, and can develop good enough technology in this time period, I would agree that colonization of some of the larger moons in the outer system is the best answer when the sun gets bigger and hotter and makes earth no longer habitable. Mars would be a temporary solution but eventually will suffer the same fate as earth.
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  48. There's a whole lot of space to look at, we would need essentially a Dyson sphere of telescopes surrounding earth. Love the idea but probably not practical.
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  49. Looks like a giant space potato in the thumbnail 😂
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  50. ​ @Muckytuja "Grow up" says the child who trolls the comment section solely to flame and lob ad hominem insults, but adds nothing to the conversation.
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  51. About 8 minutes to be exact. If the sun disappeared right now, we would receive light and energy for another 8 minutes as that's the time it takes to travel to the earth.
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  52. The planet is a rough place. With some exceptions of a few "in-between" areas, most of the world's population historically has either had to endure survival in brutal cold, or has had to endure the prevalence of disease (e.g. malaria), drought, hurricanes, etc in the tropics. Maybe just me because I am a hearty northerner, but I'll deal with the cold over the issues faced in tropical climates, even if it's a bit uncomfortable at times.
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  53. ​ @Dooguk What you describe is religion, and a specific few at that. You don't have to be religious to believe there is a greater intelligence that put the wheels in motion...only logical. All other paths lead to infinite regression, or everything magically appearing out of complete nothingness (which is an impossible state). Do you believe in magic?
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  54. ​ @itsJPhere Here we go again with setting up a strawman to tear down. Again, religion and creation are lumped into one. They are not one in the same. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of stories about different gods, millions, or one, it's stories written by men, not by gods. You don't have to be religious to believe in an ultimate Creator. I have plenty of issues with organized religion, but I believe in God. The one and only, the only one that matters. You can write infinite stories about God and that makes no difference. It's interpretation and folklore. Stories don't matter, logic does, and it is illogical to believe the universe popped into existence from utter nothingness and magically developed all these physical laws and rules.
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  55. ​ @Shunned_Potato What is your "critical thinking", or are you just here to troll? What have you offered to this argument outside of an ad hominem insult? Oh that's right, absolutely nothing. Which I suppose also is what you believe the universe arose out of, so then you must believe in magic.
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  56. Or my first thought, if there is a planet out there very close to earth spec, it may already contain a technological civilization that wouldn't be too keen on us showing up 😂
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  57. ​ @112Famine And there would be infinite exact copies of everything that exists, because there would be infinite space, infinite time, but a finite (although extremely large) ways matter can be organized.
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  58. ​ @Wojtek.Gasperowicz What difference does it make whether or not humans existed at that time? There was still a planet, and there were still life forms at that time. In the time of the dinosaurs, there was zero glacial ice, and most of the planet was tropical rainforest and savanna.
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  59. ​ @1112viggo You need to watch some videos from "Closer to Truth" if you haven't already. Very interesting arguments on philosophical issues like the existence or non existence of the human soul, as well as topics including theism/atheism, origins of the universe, etc. Very wise scholars, theologians, philosophers, and scientists giving their views on these subjects. Opens your eyes to the arguments and beliefs of both sides.
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  60. ​ @nicolainielsen7700 However, on the flip side of that you get 24 hour sunlight for a time in the summer. Golf at 2AM anyone? Sure why not!
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  61. In terms of average distance, Mercury is the closest planet to all other planets.
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  62.  @Muckytuja  What difference does it make, whether one dies in this manner or otherwise, we all still die. Obviously this structure is a superior one as every higher mammal shares the same or similar structure. You need not even bring God into the argument, one could just as easily say why did evolution allow for it? If it is such a poor structure, should not then have evolution weeded it out? Again, there's good reason for it or else the most advanced forms of life, at least on this planet, wouldn't be structured that way. The simple answer is, we are not made to be ourselves gods, whether an actual God exists or not. That's an absolutely ludicrous expectation in a finite universe with entropic law. Everything that exists eventually dies off whether it is a person or a star.
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  63. It's just turtles all the way down.
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  64. Dumb comment. All American names are "foreign names". My name is Swedish and I'm American. It's not hard to pronounce, but it sure gets misspelled a lot.
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  65. Lame.
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  66. Where do you live in the Great lakes region, because in my area of this region it has been quite the opposite. I live on the eastern end of Lake Erie in NY state near Buffalo and Rochester. Our winters have been very cold and we have had tons of snow most years in the past 10 except for maybe 2 that were relatively mild. A storm in November 2014, as well as one 8 years to the exact day last fall, and another at Christmas time last year gave us over 6 feet of snow each occurrence, all 3 times handly beating the famous blizzard of '77.
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  67. Is climate change real? Sure it is, the climate of the planet has been ever changing since the formation of the planet, and this will continue throughout its lifecycle. Do humans have an impact? Sure, as much as peeing in the ocean makes it warmer 😂
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