Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "Astrum" channel.

  1. Or, Those Earthlings just can't help but litter everywhere they go...
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  2. If Elon wants to keep making batteries, we'll need to find rare earths off of earth. They'll have to figure out how to make profitable craft that can go out, mine, and return.
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  3. We didn't even notice it until it was on its way out. So, alien stealth tech test run was a success.
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  4. As in introvert, Pluto has always been my favorite planet, even more so once they changed the definition of "planet" specifically to try and exclude Pluto from being called a planet. He's just out there minding his business, keeping a comfortable distance from the others
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  5. With all this discussion of how difficult it is to get Martian dust off of something, it makes one wonder how the astronauts on the moon cleaned the dust of the lunar lander's landing legs before taking pictures. Perhaps whatever they used to clean the moon dust off the lander would work to clean Martian dust off things.
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  6. 7:09 Incorrect. Developed countries aren't achieving even replacement birth rates, let alone enough births for population growth. We are almost at the peak population that Earth will see unless having children becomes a lot more attractive. Children are a huge draw on money and time causing many people to have less than replacement rate of children. China, the 2nd most populated country, has set themselves up where there are not enough women for men
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  7. Was it opportunity that helped us get Matt Damon back from Mars?
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  8. Oxford dictionary, 2nd entry for definon of "earth": the substance of the land surface; soil. "a layer of earth" Similar:  soil "Earthquake" is correct because "earth" in earthquake doesn't refer to the planet earth. It refers to the ground. When saying earthquake, on Mars, you'd be referring to the action of the local ground, the earth underfoot shaking, not an entire planetary effect (hopefully). So, to describe the quaking of the earth (dirt, soil, ground) on Mars, "earthquake" is accurate.
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  9. You glossed over a big question. Why didn't the landing harpoons fire?
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  10. As others have pointed out, even as high as the relative speed seems to be, we (our solar system) basically just ran over oumuamua as opposed to it moving fast. Back when it was happening, there was a channel that did the math on oumuamua speed vs the galactic local speed. Interestingly, since you mention Voyager, for part of the year, Earth us actually catching up to the probes because we're traveling faster than they are as we orbit the sun.
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  11. The good news is that Russia will continue declining as its population growth is negative and China will soon be on the same trajectory as the 1 child policy backfires.
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  12. More boggling should be that we didn't even notice it until it was past us and on its way out of the solar system. We're all so worried about climate change, but even with an observation protocol designed to locate and track such objects, oumuamua proved that we're not capable of seeing or identifying the actual main threats to Earth's climate.
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  13.  @nicholasvalentine3907  - please do come in, just be sure to wipe your shoes on the mat and try not to...wait for it...soil the carpet.
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  14. 9:31 interestingly if Pluto isn't a planet because it didn't clear its orbit of debris, Mercury is ALSO not a planet for this reason. Mercury didn't clear its orbit. The SUN cleared Mercury's orbit of debris. Basically, if we arbitrarily change the meaning of "raining" to include days when there is moisture in the atmosphere, then it's raining every day. However, under the new definition, you're not going to get wet every day if you walk outside. The IAU attempted to create an arbitrary definition of "planet" that wasn't much concerned with whether the object was, in fact, a planet. They failed to see the Mercury problem with their new, special definition. Hopefully, they carry an umbrella every day!
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  15. 5:38 Pluto and its "moon" Charon are actually a binary planetoid system, not a normal planetoid and moon. The little "not planet" continues to surprise us
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  16. Before Venus turned into the poster child for greenhouse gas climate change and became a heated and pressurized hell, it was a jungle like planet, even though it's closer to the sun than Earth.
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  17.  @starseed96  - and yet...they were going to retrieve rock samples. Somebody didn't think that one through very well!
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  18. 4:24 that's no moon!
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  19. Those little particles that go through the eyelids and cause the astronauts to see pin pricks of light with their eyes closed sounds really annoying and creepy.
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  20. Mercury is actually a dwarf planet because it didn't clear its orbit of debris or other bodies. The sun did most of that.
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  21.  @quantumblauthor7300  - haha, right on
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  22.  @Somtejesstudios  - No, Mercury didn't clear its orbit. The sun cleared Mercury's orbit.
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  23. On every climate change video, I like to remind the greenies and activists that Earth is technically still in an "ice age" period. Humans, 250,000 years old, recording history for maybe 2000 years. Earth, 4.5 BILLION years old and generally doesn't concern itself with what humans are doing.
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  24. Necessity is the mother of invention
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  25.  @anguita119  - Ah! Well, that certainly explains why there was dust on everything else except the landing skids. Thanks!
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  26.  @dsdy1205  - "the descent rockets". Thank you for corroborating.
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  27. 7:20 fear not. By the time we have tourism on Pluto, space suits will have haptic feedback or possibly humanoid drones connected to a tourist in orbit via suit or neural link .
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  28. Geyser is pronounced like guyzer, not geezer.
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  29.  @astrumspace  - but you say methane instead of meethane, the way a Brit would. That would indicate you're not in the UK. Which frees you up to speak proper English. That's something people in England, oddly, don't do.
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  30. Any belter slingshot racer could've come up with this route...if only the Earrhers weren't too proud to ask.
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  31.  @BisexualPlagueDoctor  and are "ugly bags of mostly water" to boot.
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  32. 48:05 if a black hole is dark and unobservable, does it exist?
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  33. 8:04 Now, wait just a minute, Mister! If humans are the cause of climate change, HOW did those glaciers melt BEFORE humans existed?! There must not have really been glaciers and the climate has always been the way it was in 1700, before the Industrial Revolution. Right? Right?! I've never understood how climate "scientists" can talk about the Earth's current climate and climate change without relating it to pre human climate change. Because the face of the planet is continually changing, even if ALL other factors affecting climate could be controlled, the way heat disperses around the planet will change as oceans change shape, size, or even disappear. Besides Earth being in a Goldilocks zone of the solar system, humans have existed soley in a Goldilocks period of Earth's climate. Every 27 million years, Earth enters a higher level of asteroid activity for a few hundred thousand years (or about as long as humans have existed on Earth). If we entered that period today, carbon emissions wouldn't be a notable factor in climate change.
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  34. Humanity will eventually have to leave Earth if it is to survive. Eventually, something out of human control will make Earth uninhabitable in a catastrophic and rapid way.
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  35. Vid starts at 1:00
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  36. Humanity will eventually have to leave Earth if it is to survive. Eventually, something out of human control will make Earth uninhabitable in a catastrophic and rapid way.
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  37. ​ @roskispalo - the problem is actually youtube. The algorithm forces click bait titles and thumbnails because if viewers don't click every vid either as it's released or when it's recommended, the algorithm punishes the video and creator by hiding the video.
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  38. Hopefully no sign of protomolecule...
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  39. It already has, in the seas. Whales, dolphin, squid all prove to be intelligent. As for if intelligent life will ever be found on land...
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  40. Isaac Arthur channel has done theory crafting on Dyson Sphere and other advanced Sci Fi type tech and we're actually not that far off from being ABLE to build it. Political will and funding are other matters entirely.
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  41. It's not science related, but Perun channel makes hour long PowerPoint presentations that are easy to listen to related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other worldwide defense issues.
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