Comments by "NS777" (@NStripleseven) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. Everyone talking about how the basketball moved away, but I'm over here thinking about the loud slap noise it made when hitting the water.
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  2. There’s the old joke that so many random bits of math are named after the guy, we may as well just start calling numbers Euler letters.
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  3. The incomprehensible scale does kinda mean we almost certainly won’t ever contact them, though.
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  4. Maybe mathematics has hit one of those problems where there just isn’t a complete proof either way.
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  5. Ooo
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  6. Kalifor9 4:Everyone Should not have clicked the read more button. Too much text.
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  7. It makes for a better video if the people are idiots.
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  8.  @luketurner314  well then you’ve done something really wrong
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  9. Wdym you can fit way more than 8 Earths in the sun
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  10. Lel
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  11. They talked about that, there are multiple loops there, but in the original problem you can only use positive numbers
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  12. You figure X trees per acre of forest, Y percent of the surface area covered in forest, calculate that. Then you say X stars per unit of space, Y cubic whatevers in the galaxy, find that. It’s not a perfect estimate but you only need to be within an order of magnitude or so to do that comparison.
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  13.  @luketurner314  Unless the trees are somehow 1/30 as densely packed as we believe they are, or stars are 1/30 as massive (a quick google search tells me that the star count was actually done by mass estimation), the fact holds. The estimates are good enough that even on the predicted high end for stars (~400bn) and the low end for trees (~2.5tn) they’re still nearly a full order of magnitude apart. Sure, we might not know for dead certain that there are more trees, but the odds that someone has screwed up their calculations that badly are very low.
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  14. Well I'm getting it now.
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  15. Weighted coin or something
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  16. Myes
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  17. We can’t escape the glitches, they’re built-in
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  18. He has a way of explaining things that may not exactly be the greatest for information retention, but man it’s fun to watch.
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  19. Hawking radiation I’d assume. A quantum fluctuation near the black hole creates a particle and its antimatter counterpart, the antimatter counterpart gets sucked in, and you’re left with one more particle than you had before.
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  20. These sorts of questions that involve probability from a certain perspective are a recipe for divisions like this. Are we to account for perspective, or are we to leave it alone?
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  21. The problem specifies natural numbers, so yea
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  22. Lol, yeah
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  23. Pretty common ingredient I think
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  24. Classical computer: Ok Quantum computer, is that one bit you have there spin-up or spin-down? Quantum computer: Yeah probably.
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  25. This is not what I searched for, but I'll take it.
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  26.  @eeronat  there’s a difference between stupid and uninformed, though. One implies an incapability to learn, while the other does not.
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  27. Can you jump out of a blender? Yes. Can you survive jumping out of a blender? There’s a debate to be had.
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  28. For the memes
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  29. But only by a bit, I would think.
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  30. That looks like something out of an old 3d rendering engine
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  31. I got that about midway through the attempts.
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