Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "Angela Collier " channel.

  1. i've been a carer for schizophrenia for around ten years, i don't have any formal qualification other than a certificate that says i've done a carers course, but one thing i learned even before the course is that when someone is hallucinating saying "you're imagining things" results in a very bad day. anyway. i treat all people as if they are mentally ill, i find that most people have hard time understanding how to tie shoelaces, never mind einstein. so in order to get your point across and have it actually register in someone else's brain, you have to put things in the simplest terms - that, say, a six year old can grasp. cos most people are six year olds, mentally. including me.
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  2. what fascinated me about that back and forth was that both parties seemed to have to rely on intuition as to what was happening, that whatever it was they were trying to "prove" was really elusive, the action is truly strange but the forces and principles involved were really confused within the experiments. i forget, did they come to any conclusion? two very entertaining people with two very different styles.
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  3. it's pluto's own fault, if it had stuck to being the further planet in the solar system everything would have been fine, but oh no, it wants to wander inside neptune's orbit and draw attention, pluto has no one to blame but itself.
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  4. well, fairly small. it depends on if you're looking.
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  5. have you seen "the prestige" ?
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  6.  @jacobsims5848  what's it like in your dreamworld? isn't it hell knowing it all?
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  7. can you put that in diagrammatic form?
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  8. i was just reminded of vihart's channel and the hexaflexagon, different yet similar.
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  9. i was just recounting that my first exposure to science fiction was torchy the battery boy (1959) and later in school, ray bradbury and an excerpt from the story "kaleidoscope" about two stranded spacemen trying to describe how to reach each other, when there is no "up". (i left school at 16 in 1970) but i've always enjoyed being down the pub solving life, political and particularly science problems. i was nominated for a think tank, but i was too drunk.
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  10. see, this is where being an artist has the advantage, i always though kaku was dodgy but i had to depend on intuition.
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  11. i collapsed with laughter. you comply with humdinger's equations.
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  12. depends on your scale.
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  13.  @gingerestkitten  well, i think that's a bit harsh, he's a crackpot is all, they can't help it, he thinks he's "spreading truth" - he requires sympathy really.
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  14. i think the main thing running through their brains was "boobs"
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  15. i think we should build it in stages, like, i have some string in my hand right now and it seems safe.
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  16.  @alanfsuj  exactly what i was just saying, i have an measly art degree and even i can fake data that looks fairly random.
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  17.  @Michael-kp4bd  if you like unscripted waffling i just made a series of videos on my guitars. :)
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  18. as an artist it's awful to know that i didn't have to starve.
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  19. 50% of the population has below average intelligence. stats are what you make them. "spurious correlations" is a favourite website.
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  20. you can mock, but if she had to crash land that space craft, a hundred tampons wouldn't be NEARLY enough to cushion the impact. 😁
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  21. not me, i can guess what he said.
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  22.  @DaveGrean  not to mention the benefits of decomposition.
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  23.  @Porcuponic  i suppose there is no rule, but when i was hit with the threat of ransomeware i ignored it - it's the money they are after, going to the trouble of fiddling with data or scrambling existing data, just isn't worth the effort, they just want you to pay them from the threat, they don't want to actually go to the effort of causing problems, they are lazy.
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  24. just for the hell of it, i've seen loads of footage of spacex returning boosters to landing pads, and it's fairly novel and exciting, but i watched what some folks recorded from what looked like their back garden, on cell phones, of a booster landing and it really brought it home how amazing that is, it was much more "real" than the official footage. the next day i saw more recording of two boosters landing in what for the world looked like a persons next door neighbours house, doing their little ballet and sonic boom routine. to top that though watching a booster being unloaded from a drone ship - with another launch happening in the background - it is CRAZY the amount of space stuff we are doing right this minute. 24:30 we take it all for granted as well though, i mean musk ALONE has put up 5000 satellites, spaceX craft have made more launches than entire countries, but consequently he would be on the news every day if this were "novel". we kinda hafta take science for granted. like the lasers, when you switch your brain on, yep, that's amazing a laser every ten feet, but, again like you say, there is actually so much of this stuff going on.
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  25. like your presentation by the way. great stuff. 11:00 what creationists seem to say though is "god has picked methods of creating humans that are LEAST likely to achieve his goal" god's odds should be 1:1 not one in a zillion. and really all god needs are souls, and they are immaterial anyway, why bother with the carbon, it gets all over your fingers. 14:30 i was watching wimbledon with my son and in the ladies singles one of the players had a vocal disagreement with the umpire which in fact made her look a little petty, and i said to my son if you're going to argue with the umpire at wimbledon, with the world watching, you have to do it macenroe style, add drama, throw your racket at the umpire and swear profusely - no one will forget your name then, even if you lost. i went to cambridge. on the bus.
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  26. you're like the daughter i never had, i tuck her in at night and she reads the story to me.
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  27. i say she's like the daughter i never had, i tuck her in at night and she tells me the story.
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  28. well the upside is religion is destroying itself and roe / wade helped it along. religion can't get anything right any more, whatever they do they piss someone off. good sense will prevail, we just have to jump through the hoops we already jumped through, to get back to where we were. you know, even the religists don't like religion, church is one day a week for a reason. it's the minimum.
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  29. ja meany missions? ja meany? gem in eye. by jiminy woman!
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  30. 8:00 lol. telling cheats to not cheat so much, like that would work. people like this think they are too smart to get caught, and if they did get caught they are obviously (!) too smart to lose a suit, and if they lost a suit then they are way too smart to ind up in jail....yeah, like "smart people" take advice.
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  31. i was told, or i heard, many years ago, that another bacteria had been developed (!) that ate the bacteria that eat your teeth, and you could get an injection of this bacteria onto your gums and teeth and presto! no more cavities, whatever became of those pesky bacteria eating bacteria?
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  32. wait till they hear what dawkins has to say about pluto and the "planets are not on a spectrum" commentary....plutophobes are everywhere.
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  33. i think people who purchase couches but then sit on the floor should be penalised in some way, there are kids in third world countries would give anything to sit for a few minutes.
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  34. to think, god thought all this out before lunchtime on day one.
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  35. 18:00 this allows me to bring up another favourite thought of mine. we are okay with handing over the planet to our offspring, no one is going "oh my god, the children, the children are taking over the world" it's actually expected, but when it comes to AI and robots, everyone is "oh dear, oh no, robots taking over the world, it's skynet all over again" but - what's the difference (apart from biology obviously) between handing over the world to our children, and handing over the world to AI - if WE invent it, and it's as intelligent as us, then it's just the next generation of human, surely? what IS the difference between AI and our children? if both have the same ideas, values and expectations? (look at AI porn, print me one of those, put an AI brain in it, forget any more relationships with humans, i'm sold.) you would have to program AI to be despotic, surely. and as long as they haven't decided to hasten our demise by actively bumping us off, i see no difference between more humans inheriting the world and robots inheriting the world.
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  36. it's no longer a plant?
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  37. silly question. how come we can square so many things, and in particular square by the speed of light, how come things work out NOT to be "almost squared" or "squared by not quite the speed of light"? how come physics has nice round numbers like this? (i'm an artist dammit jim).
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  38. but...the biggest ball of string ever...
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  39. maybe you will get to it, but peter bhogossian and chums published numerous fake papers to see how far they would get in the peer review process, i forget exactly the titles, but things like "homosexuality in aggressive dog owners" or "sexual orientation of brown paper bag users", things that were utter nonsense, with utterly nonsensical information, but all passed peer review....anyway, back to your story (i have a spider above my desk, two days ago it caught a wasp i was trying to catch in a jam jar, now i have a spider and a decomposing wasp over my head). i hate to be a pain (but it is in my nature) but as you were talking about the baby puffer thing blowing air on the spiders, i was wondering, what are air bars? what are air bars? but of course you mean error bars. sorry. but not sorry.
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  40. i know how a don't matter engine er, works.
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  41. it does make me feel good about myself to hear these stories, even as a nobody with only a crappy graphics degree i would be asking, what shape is oo moo moo ah (!), just how thick is it? how long is it? how fast and how exactly is it spinning? how much has it speeded up, if at all? are there any actual photographs of it or are we just guessing it's shape? as for alien origin, well we just missed the boat, if space travel was better funded (lol) we could have had something ready to chase it for a while, but the artist bloke in me shrugs, goes "oh well" and, better luck next time. sure f there is data to sift through have at it, sift, but really, we have more pressing space stuff to deal with, like india taking religion to the moon.
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  42. i'm an animator by the way, i've worked on a plethora of medical, science and space video, most notably for the SOHO project from ESA, and way back in 1999 the BBC "the planets" series (i have stuff on my channel).
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  43. lol, do you also get a digital clone to interface between you and your digital clone so you know what your digital clone said in that meeting that you have a sexual harassment suit over that you knew nothing about because it happened to your other digital clone? this is madness.
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  44. be of good cheer, if you had a british accent you'd be accused of being an evil genius, as it is you're just a redneck genius. :)
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  45. yoiks, i was right. pip pip pipette!
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  46. eight minutes in so it doesn't look like you'll mention it, but light and objects have no intrinsic colour, colour only exists in brains. the image making part of your brain takes the wavelength data and energy data of a photon and it ASSIGNS a colour to it, the photon has no colour of it's own, that's how redshift works, a white (let's say) ray of light is shifted one way or the other so it appears blue if the wavelengths are "compressed", or red if they are "stretched out". if the colour was in the photon it would look white regardless. all our senses work this way, taste and smell are inventions of the brain, the weirdest being sound, sound is entirely a simulation and doesn't exist as "noise" anywhere. clapping your hands compresses air, it does not make "noise" but there is no "noise" inside your head either...
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  47. ah, i see a copy of "the outlaw josey wales" i was pleasantly surprised how accurately the film followed the book.
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  48. before you start, and while i remember, i've just been watching AI play tomb raider, fascinating to listen to AI lara.
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  49.  @asmodiusjones9563  what i find odd is that when i was a child i used to love the idea of being jabbed with a needle, for whatever reason, it was a fascinating experience to me, now i'm in my 60's for some reason i've become petrified of needles, even my dentist who is amazing (i have NEVER felt an injection from him) i grasp the arms of the chair so hard. humans eh.
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  50. it's still not as simple as a multiopticpupilectomy.
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