Comments by "" (@MonkeyJedi99) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. When I was a kid in the early 1970's, our Zenith TV had a LOT of vacuum tubes in it. We even had a monthly (I think) visit from a technician who would check the condition of each of the vacuum tubes and replace the ones that were failing. I was very young and dumb and assumed that he was putting new television programs in the TV for us. I held this belief until I saw "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (the one with Gene Wilder in the title role). That movie had a scene that explained how TV programs got to your TV and Wonka's invention of sending chocolate bars via a similar technology.
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  2. I was lost, even after seeing Steve Mould's video on sails first, right up until the "If the earth was a cylinder... two sailboats" simplification. Then my brain exploded in a happy way.
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  3. There is a short clip where Chris Hadfield (Canadian Astronaut) shakes a can of Coke and immediately opens it... and nothing happens because he and some others were in a high-pressure underwater structure.
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  4. The problem with "Breaking News!" is that sometimes, it actually IS broken. Sorry about your outcome, but thanks for sharing your story.
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  5. I passed over the first Veritasium video I was recommended because my brain connected the channel name with some channels I had recently been duped by that also had "latin-esque" names. But the second time one was recommended, I watched, and watched some more, and through this channel got into Steve Mould, and through Steve got into Matt Parker. Another channel that got recommended to me from watching Veritasium was Xyla Foxlin, from which I started watching Allen Pan, who may also have been recommended because I watched Kyle Hill (the Mythbusters 2 competition link). - The recommendation engine is sometimes good, but more than half the time recommends things I don't care about, or channels I actively hate. If YouTube never recommends a Joe Rogan video to me again, I might die happy.
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  6.  @PtylerBeats  The upside to CDs is that you are not required to keep an active subscription to listen to your music.
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  7.  @doofer13ok  You know who else uses imperial measurements a lot in daily/conversational use? people in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Canada. I have seen a video where someone in the UK talked about how many liters of petrol (gasoline) they used to drive a number of miles.
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  8. Some days, you just want the "spherical cow falling in a vacuum" answer, other days you want to add in friction and air resistance.
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  9.  @cruxofthecookie  I do get a chuckle when someone is affixing 12mm drywall to the 2x4 wall which is 16 inches on center.
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  10. Heck, even news organiztions are engaging in clickbait. The person who writes the article, may have a well researched and neutral assessment of facts. Then someone else comes along and slaps an eye-catching headline on the story to "pull in the views" while that headline often misrepresents what the article is about. - Then follow-on lazy news sites will just disseminate the intent of the headline without including the actual facts. And like a bad game of telephone, it gets muddier with each step. And then we get stories like, "Veterans kicked out of hotel to make room for the homeless!" which was all a lie, and even the first reporter(s) did ZERO research to see if it was true.
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  11. Another great catalyst is baking soda. Crafters use it a lot to get bond and fill at once. and you can sand it within a minute or two.
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  12. I've flown in helicopters when the pilot was doing some rather radical maneuvering. I was sitting in a side-facing seat, doors off, and only the lap belt available. Something I learned from all that is that all of the maneuvering of a helicopter other than descent result in a force upward from the helicopter into your third point of contact. Think of it like you are on a platform suspended from a string, and all of the maneuvers are done by moving the anchor of the string in the desired direction.
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  13. The chain stitch is used quite a lot to close large bags of loose goods, like dry dog food, fertilizer, and so on.
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  14. The last woman said the most important thing. "You can't learn without making mistakes."
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  15. This video is so good at explaining, and Veritasium is so good at explaining so many things, that I am increasingly angry that I spent so much money going to college to learn physics.
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  16. Another one I see a lot is "... that [organization/person/government] doesn't want you to know!"
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  17. I don't recall my IQ score, but I do recall that when I took the ASFAB I was offered any and every MOS they had. I chose 11C (mortars) because I wanted to run around and blow things up at a distance.
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  18. Also, I fervently hope NOBODY is an "astrology major" in any accredited institute of education.
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  19.  @MrHungrySimon  "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it." - Agent Kay edit: dangit, VigilanteAgumon posted the same quote above me.
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  20. Point #3 was news to me. And I blame the selective sourcing of news media for that.
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  21. Plus the drop bears.
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  22. I agree. And now I know why the white LED in my bulbs look yellow when they're powered off!
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  23. I had a very similar experience. When I was in 5th grade, my family moved from Massachusetts to Arizona (1976). The differences in the school systems were so drastic, that I felt I learned almost nothing for the first two years until I was evaluated by a school psychologist after some discipline issues. He was the first adult to realize that my "acting out" was out of boredom, not evil. I got moved to a more 'advanced' school and put into that school's gifted program. I was finally learning new things, including computers (the school had a single dumb terminal connected to Honeywell Systems - cutting edge at the time). - When we moved back to Massachusetts, it took me the better part of a school year to scramble back up to the state's education standards. By high school, I was taking honors classes in math and science. - I have a B.S. in physics (missed cum laude because I stupidly tried to learn Russian...) The only reason I didn't go further in education was financial.
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  24.  @lukecca85  Ah, Darth Harrington - marketing genius!
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  25.  @lukecca85  Aha! It's Al Harrington in normal cutaways, but Darth Harrington in the Blue Harvest (Star Wars: A New Hope) cutaway.
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  26.  @antoniusdaivap7759  TANSTAAFL *There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - Robert A. Heinlein "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
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  27. Yeah, the whole situation would get the "NOPE!" from me.
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  28. Wait, people are linking to QR codes to make payments? Why not just throw your wallet down an alley and HOPE someone ethical returns it to you?!
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  29. It takes guts to be visceral!
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  30. For me, the title only gets the first and maybe second video watched. After that, if I find the presentation, presenter and topics interesting and not bull(droppings) I stop caring so much about the thumbnail and title, and just watch whatever they put out. There are many channels that I have dropped all interest in within the first minute of a video, but there are some that I will click thumbs-up before I even start watching (LockPickingLawyer is one).
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  31.  @NandR  Burning gasoline would work.
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  32. A debate on the internet that mangles the original statements and explanations? I am flabbergasted that such a thing could ever happen! (sarcasm)
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  33. "Crime improved" - Robberies yielded more money and easily fenced valuables?
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  34.  user-tn8uu2cu8g  No thanks. I have no interest in your cult. Or any cult. Well, other than the one worshipping our Lord of Pasta.
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  35. I feel I have good numeracy. But I also have a strong skepticism when viewing statistics or even most other information. Basically, my trust has been eroded to a raw nerve.
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  36. This is the kind of YouTube video that the world benefits from. I feel like I have learned a month's worth of classroom information in twenty minutes. Thank you.
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  37. You can do something similar with a skateboard.
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  38.  @theJerkson  Yeah, he mentioned it in the video. I commented before he got to that part. - However, I did watch the whole video other than the ad segment.
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  39. The one that exploded my brain was the centrifugal clutch. I have rebuilt one of the old style units for a go-cart, and I was chasing ball bearings all over my bench, then I had to calibrate how tightly I assembled the nut (?) nobody seemed to have a tool for. Only four tries to make it work! This compliant clutch would have been a breeze in comparison.
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  40. Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can rent it by the hour.
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  41. "Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people."
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  42.  Repent and believe in Jesus Christ  Ew, gross. You got your cult ramblings all over my discussion about TV vacuum tubes.
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  43. It could be worse than not getting all of the clicks. You could get your content demonetized for telling the truth about clickbait fake science channels, like Kyle Hill is now dealing with. - Oh, and regarding your asteroids video, I think I have seen that first image you used on several pseudo-science mis- and dis-information sites as one of their thumbnail images.
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  44. With the metric system. But for a more serious answer, by aggregating your data collection over a long period of time and using that data to determine the slope of the function line. Day-by-day data will be very spikey, but aggregated over a long time, and combined with data from numerous locations, the spikes smooth out.
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  45. The first question was a gimme. If the temperature and volume remained the same, and there was no NEW chemical reaction, then there could not be an increase in pressure. - The second one caught me. I predicted they would melt the same rate, because of equal temperature. (after seeing the answer) Huh. I would not have figured that out
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  46. What I really like about this is that both gravity as a force and gravity as curved spacetime work to explain the observed universe, for most purposes, equally well. And depending on what you are examining, one will be handier than the other, while not invalidating each other.
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  47.  @narfwhals7843  I was perhaps overgeneralizing. And thank you for reminding me about Mercury's orbit. I learned about that a few months ago, but it had faded in the ol' neuron library.
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