Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. The first step to knowledge is the recognition of ones own ignorance. That's also how dogma makes you immune to knowledge. You don't learn anything, because you already think you know that "god did it".
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  2. So when I want to have superpowers, I should become a smoking radiation worker in space?
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  3. Oh... the burn against philosophy students!
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  4. Deceitful clickbait again. I knew all this stuff about DNA already, I wanted to know about stripy women.
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  5. We tend to forget about inertia, because friction often is more dominant in day to day life. You are doing a great job of clearing this up for people.
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  6. Why don't you care about how traffic lights take freedom away from you?
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  7. Winning is NOT as good an advantage as losing is a disadvantage when you are already good up. Becoming rich is not as desirable as becoming poor is to be avoided. Risk is only worth it, when you're already pretty bad up. For example in a game of incomplete information, like Dota, it makes sense to play very safe when you are ahead, but take great risks when you are behind.
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  8. You don't have "freedom" on the street anyways. As soon as you have your route figured out, there is one optimal way to get to your destination. You'll get used to automatic cars, just like you've gotten used to automatic dishwashers.
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  9. Yes, everyone including you. The laws of motion seem obvious for an educated person, but children, non physicists, etc assume different things in their daily life.
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  10. Guy with the raindrop is the best. XD
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  11. sillymoons oo Wow you're such a selfish brick. You want people to die for your personal enjoyment. If you want to drive, rent a racing course.
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  12. The wise asses in the comment section probably haven't learned anything from the video. I'm actually happy that the people didn't know that objects accelerate equally down without air resistance, because they might actually have picked up WHY that is.
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  13. Damn it. I said 3,5. Well close enough.
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  14. +EliteRocketBear People like you are the problem. Arrogant morons, who can't acknowledge their own ignorance, because of a feeling of shame.
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  15. ***** No, you must acknowledge that your attitude is the problem in learning or teaching ANYTHING. It's exactly the thing that prevents people from learning. This enormous feeling of pride and superiority. I think this is another symptom of the Dunning Krueger effect. Earlier in my life I was more like you, but after I went to university I lost that part of me more and more. The more you know, the more you also know about things you don't know. And you lose this arrogant attitude.
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  16. "Trägheit" ist genug. Ich habe noch nie jemanden "Massenträgheit" sagen hören. Ausserdem haben wir das kurze Wort "Gegenkraft".
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  17. A scientist got something wrong... therefore god exists. Ha!
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  18. Roger D Yeah snow and frost are no obstacle to human drivers at all, due to their heat sensors and echolocation...
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  19. Wow I was about to shave my beard when I saw your comment. Now I'll let it grow out until it touches the ground just to piss off babyface bitches like you.
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  20. Joshua Smith Science is unique in that it utilizes the opposite of dogmatism. A "scientific" dogma is like a edged circle: not a proper circle.
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  21. TalentlessHumour He was dead before he was born... Also death is nothing but the end of all conscious experience. Whenever you're asleep, whenever you do something for the last time, that is similar to death.
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  22. Dmagz Idiotic apologist arguments + broken English. That's usually a good indication of Islamic proselytization. And even without that information, Islam would be my second best bet.
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  23. Justin Kleeberger If all the houses collapse, we have nowhere to live, so let's go back to the caves.
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  24. Yeah, take a statistics or cryptography course and it's immediately apparent. Entropy is subjective, it's how I see things and whether I can use them.
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  25. Willoughby Krenzteinburg You obviously have no idea how we operate in physics. When you work on more complex problems, mathematics is your guide, not your intuition. You don't have to justify these things to your brain, you just have to stay consistent. I very much doubt you have a good rationalization for quantum physics. Indeed a great physicist said that if you think you had understood it, you don't. I don't necessarily agree with him there, but there are multiple ways to rationalize quantum mechanics, not one way of understanding. And those have no impact on your APPLICATION of quantum mechanics. That is what it comes down to. Whether you can APPLY your knowledge. The universe is counter intuitive at the very small and very fast.
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  26. +0YouCanCallMeAl0 I really think he should have made the point that in spite of the similar shape of the balls, air resistance will have a different effect on them, because of, again, inertia. That would have deepened everyone's understanding and cleared misunderstandings of mechanics. But maybe it's good to stick with one point at a time.
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  27. Rick McGuffey Your quote makes the earth flat and the heaven a dome above it, you fool. You have just disproven your own claim.
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  28. Martin Verrisin I don't think he's a troll. I think he's convinced that he has a point and a healthy attitude.
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  29. +Subparanon Yes, the bottom parts still experience the upwards pull until the molecules right next to them also begin to fall. The same is really true for any object. When hold a hammer by the head and let it go, the head falls first and then the handle, but it's so close in time that we cannot notice it. Springs make the phenomenon visible.
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  30. I think the graphs with the center of mass are somewhat good for the understanding, however the talk of "information" likely isn't. I'd also point out that really any object acts the same when we hold it at the top and then let go. The effect is just not visible.
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  31. Unknown? It's a watermelon covered with linex.
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  32. Willoughby Krenzteinburg Again: There is a difference between knowing laws of physics and having them rationalized in your mind. When it comes to cosmology almost noone has a rationalization for the mathematical models, yet they work just fine.
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  33. Willoughby Krenzteinburg Me? You are constantly talking down to us, unwilling to even explain yourself. I've put effort into explaining the matter to you. You lack basic rules of engagement.
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  34. When someone posts an arrogant comment and makes a huge logic mistake in it...
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  35. ccs1845racer You don't fetch your own water either or till your own fields.
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  36. @Central You are exactly the kind of aggressively stupid person, who should never be allowed to pilot ANY vehicle.
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  37. boxhead6177 You have a very bad grasp on the relative reliability of computers and humans.
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  38. Destiny hunter You can drive cars on your own property on racing tracks and in computer games. No reason to endanger others.
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  39. There's a myriad of things other people are interested in and you aren't.
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  40. +Amalokch They are theoretical particles - we have no good reason to believe they exist. And they still wouldn't move through space faster than light.
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  41. +Jonas Zapletal I wanted to respond, then I heard the end of the video saying just what I wanted to say.
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  42. For a computer that is painfully obvious. Autonomous cars could avoid risks, you have never even conceived of, in a split second.
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  43. +Mickey Dangerez So in your mind all of this is a huge conspiracy.
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  44. Filip Krstevski Do you want to convert me to Islam by showcasing your laughable ignorance?
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  45. @Peter Kazavis Are you some kind of e-bully or do you have a point?
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  46. RedsBoneStuff True, otherwise it would be too heavy to stay up.
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  47. "74% of people believe they are above average drivers" That's well possible. I drive bad enough to make up for five people's good driving.
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  48. What's a "stream" of entropy? Would that work if the sun was all around rather than in one direction?
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  49. Pied piper leading kids into weekends full of homework.
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  50. What about giving them a better definition of chemistry? The best I can come up with at the moment is "the science of substances: their structure and interaction"
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