Comments by "GunFun ZS" (@GunFunZS) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1.  @fuNaN89  * not exactly. Few scientists sit down over morning coffee with the new journals. They might research for topical studies to a task they are working on, but really journals exist so that people can get published and therefore maintain their jobs. Journals are a way of keeping your job, and are much more printed than read. Same way doctoral theses are written, but not read as a rule. For most teaching positions the requirements are to be regularly published, and the same goes for research fellowships. Peer review sounds great, but in practice it is often a circular incentive loop. I find a group of people who agree with my ideas. They validate my ideas, I validate theirs, we all keep our jobs, grants, etc. If someone finds information that might contradict our ideas, we all gang up on him and make sure he loses his job and platform to threaten our livelihoods. Plus, we really believe our ideas and have invested decades of our identities in them, so you know- burn the heretic.
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  2.  @SlocketSeven  exactly. His reasoning was persuasion and intuition, not articulating the proof, or proposing details for a better experiment.
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  3. Because most of the innovation and infrastructure the world is built on and with over the last 150 years occurred in imperial units. Scrapping that would cost trillions of dollars in retooling, conversion of documentation, regulations, etc. not saying it shouldn't happen gradually but there is a huge cost.
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  4. It has nothing to do with nationalism. I prefer metric, but the absurd pride people from some other countries get in bashing it is as silly as deriding you for paying for chips in your own nation's currency.
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  5. I think people who take personal pride in their inability to google unit conversions are rather petty.
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  6. The simple way to make the difference in bulled depth measureable would be to use large blocks of foam, layered with sheets of masoninte rather than wood. Your density would be more consistant, and the penetration deeper. The total flight height would probably be lower since you would have more surface are for a given mass.
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  7. With such a huge gap between positions 2 and 3.
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  8. I think people should profit from helping children get arms, etc. That is the very best case scenario. Making a living helping people is the best kind of life.
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  9. what of the notion of floating the stones into place?
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  10. Amazon...
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  11. The only thing about your content that has ever made me doubt credibilty is Bill Nye being involved. You are honest and classy, and I fully believe you are interested in truth. I am sure you would be fascinated to break down how you make an error if you do.
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  12. I have a job that is often helping people advocate for some cause or goal they are very very passionate about. Often they are extremely uncompromising in the way they want to talk about it. I have found it as helpful to ask a question. Do you want to have a cathartic rant, or do you want to change someone's mind? And I think the truth is often that they actually want to have a cathartic rant but most people will say the second. It's an effective question because it causes the arc of the conversation to change. People will often talk about the extreme importance of whatever their deal is. And I will tell them if it is that important isn't it important enough to talk about persuasively?
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  13. Why do you have to be tribal about stuff for no reason?
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  14. Thanks. If you value my input it would be both for your life and your content spend more time with people like Destin and less with Neil deGrasse Tyson etc. Thank you for what you do.
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  15. Most really brilliant ideas seem obvious in retrospect. If you think about it, pretty much every mechanism found in organisms uses flex rather than rigidity, and discrete components.
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  16. @J D what do you mean by "greens guy"
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