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

  1. 10:04 California doesn't really care about conserving water in their "dry climate" areas. If they were, they'd ban nut and alfalfa farming. Nuts are some of the the most water hungry crops. The alfalfa is shipped overseas to, ironically, "dry climate" areas in the middle east (where they aren't stupid enough to waste their own limited water growing hay). Essentially, California is exporting its water, in the form of alfalfa hay, to the Middle East. If California was REALLY short on water or REALLY concerned about an actual water shortage, they wouldn't export their water around the world in the form of notoriously water hungry crops. Sure, normal citizens are required to have restricted sinks and toilets and can't always keep a green lawn, but agricultural producers are NOT required to plant water efficient crops.
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  2. It's California, nobody drinks that water.
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  3. Lol, and never answers the question in total. 32 million dollars in shade balls.
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  4.  @delukxy  - still 32 million bucks for the lot.
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  5. 1:45 we didn't detect Oumuamua until it was on its way OUT of the solar system...
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  6. Asteroids hit every time I use the bathroom.
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  7. I'm going to rate this experiment and video presentation at 3/10 legitimacy. It would have been more interesting (or less interesting, depending on perspective) if you tried this with people who knew how to ride a bike. Your assessment of steering not working when you're sitting still was also incorrect. Ask anyone who's sat still, feet on pedals, waiting to drag race cars at a stoplight...that's not even getting into people who do trick riding. You're assessment of a bike not being able to be ridden with locked steering is also incorrect. You can't steer to adjust lean to correct for weight transfer, but you can adjust your own weight above the bike. Any kid who ever crashed and had a brake cable bind up preventing steering could tell you that. Also, gyroscopic force will keep the bike up, but only at higher speed. Say, if you locked the bars while going down hill. With the caveat that rider input or movement will actually work against the natural gyroscopic stabilization. Obviously, that's an unsafe experiment (especially with your volunteers that can't ride a bike anyway). I used to race BMX, wasn't even very good or successful with it, but can still see that if you had chosen different riders (ones who were more accustomed to weight shift) your experiment would have had different outcomes. As a final note, the test bike was too tall for every rider shown and that on its own would make riding difficult even with normal steering. I'd suspect that you also didn't have a beneficial gearing, instead choosing a gearing that would encourage more force to pedal and thus more weight shift that would need to be countered (either by steering or adjusting the position of the rider atop the bike).
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