Comments by "Barry On" (@barryon8706) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1.  @pedrosso0  How many people escape from America to Cuba or North Korea?
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  2.  @zezia333 No, because cutting socialism off from money derived from capitalism shouldn't cause socialism to fail if socialism is better.
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  3. Actually, the super-rich tend to be workaholics.Look at Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, etc.
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  4. Barry 1 is a great name for a satellite. In my completely objective opinion.
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  5. sigh Look at the environmental record of socialist countries. Real capitalism or real socialism can be environmentally friendly or not depending on the regulations they operate under. It doesn't make either not "real" capitalism in the sense of "real socialism has never been tried" types, it just means that the solution must come from outside capitalism.4
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  6. My pet peeve: headlines phrasing a very unlikely possibility as a question as a silly "Well, we didn't actually say that a fifth force had been discovered that turns people into newts, we just asked what if it had been." Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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  7. Sunny is as good with science as she is fair.
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  8.  @Kaje_  That might be the case here, of course. I'll keep an open mind.
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  9. Use neutrinos. They'll trigger flashes of light when they encounter some kinds of matter. Yeah, you'll need a nuclear reactor nearby, but that's just an engineering detail.
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  10. Is the speed of light limitation really a problem as long as classical information can't be transmitted that way? Edit: Would the gravitational interaction with Titan count as a measurement?
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  11.  @Mandragara  It's not that you can't criticize. It's just that the criticisms don't mean anything unless you can show something better.
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  12. You claim the universe exists, but we only have a sampling size of one. I'm just not sure that's statistically significant.
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  13. Do they look like carrots or carats? 🤔
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  14.  @gabri41200  It was socialist, though.
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  15.  @MusicEngineeer  What if a single person or a small group supplies a disproportionate amount of the effort and resources to get the asteroid?
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  16. Minor correction to @4:00 There's a difference between the attempted suicide risk (which is higher for women) and the successful suicide risk (which is higher for men).
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  17. I heard about advanced waves that carry negative energy. I think that once upon a time, these were used to power Instagram and Twitter.
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  18. I've read that stratospheric cooling may lead to more ozone depletion. Though i think the reducing of ozone-depleting chemicals is having a greater positive effect.
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  19. I hear that helium is a pretty scarce resource. But I agree that using airships for transporting cargo makes a lot of sense if we can do it safely enough.
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  20.  @suokkos  I'm also not a physicist., so I could be talking ex gluteus on this one. I think the speed of light limit applies to classical information only. Quantum mechanics already seems to transmit information faster than light through entanglement, but that mechanism can't be used by us to send a message (the "No-communication theorem"). Basically, a measurement made here by Kirk could have an effect that would instantaneously limit the outcome of a measurement made by Spock around Alpha Centauri, but there's no way for someone to send a message that way. To determine what happened, Kirk and Spock would have to exchange information at lightspeed or less.
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  21.  @Anonymous-df8it  I did not know that!
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  22. Meson decays disagree with you.
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  23. Corporations don't own all the land. So... mission accomplished?
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  24. I think fuel is also used to burn the body. If you just set fire to the body and let it burn itself out you get a charred corpse, which you then still have to bury. Presumably with instructions not to open the coffin.
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  25. In before everybody asks you to look at their theory of the universe. I had one too, but it turns out duct tape doesn't work that way.
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  26. I think hydrogen was an attempt to have the best of EVs (pollution-wise) and gasoline (rapid refueling). It probably wouldn't have the range of a gas car, but if it takes minutes rather than hours to refuel then range anxiety isn't as much of an issue. Maybe metal hydrides could have handled the containment problem in the car, with ammonia being used to generate hydrogen at the fueling station to prevent containment issues there. If it came down to efficiency vs. refueling speed, I think hydrogen might have won.
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  27.  @DrDeuteron  It's feeling a little strange.
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  28. Confusing the gulf stream with the jetsreams might be easier because of jets called Gulfstreams.
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  29. It's anti-matter, so you spend anti-money to buy it. The more you buy, the higher your bank account balance. Um... that's how it works, right?
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  30. The retractions tend to be a little quieter than the initial stories. SCIENTISTS FIND SIGHS ON LIFE ON VENUS! woops wait never mind SCIENTISTS FIND FASTER-THAN-LIGHT NEUTRINOS! sorry my mistake SCIENTISTS FIND METEORS FROM MARS WITH FOSSILIZED LIFE! oh wait let me go check again LO! THERE HATH BEEN RAYS OF M! never thou mindest, the fault lieth not in our stares but in ourselves
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  31. My wife wants to try cannabis for some moderate chronic pain. I think I need to keep this story from her in hopes that the placebo effect will help. It might be a case of ignorance really being bliss.
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  32. 7:52: When I noticed the key. Then I got distracted by wondering what a computer would have to do to notice the key. Which might be a decent illustration for the upside and downside of the brain vs. the PC.
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  33.  @Kelberi  Anti-matter has positive energy, though. That's why when electrons and anti-electrons meet, energy is released.
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  34. I don't know. I heard Black Sabbath as a child and I turned out OK.
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  35. Because regulations are literally another story. Capitalism is an economic system, as is socialism, and you can run either one with any degree of environmental concern you want according to the laws they operate under.
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  36. That's not how nature works over a couple generations.
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  37. I'll go with the happy mean - the universe only goes halfway to infinity.
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  38. With lasers and Hawaii I was hoping there'd be a volcano lair involved. Oh well.... maybe 2024.
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  39. If geostationary orbits have to be equatorial, I'd think angle of incidence issues with the receiving antenna would effectively limit their latitudes? Even if the rectanna area can be used for agriculture. It's a pity because here in New England the direct solar power (aka sunlight) isn't enough to melt ice for a third of the year.
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  40. If all space originated in the Big Bang, then the Big Bang happened everywhere. Including land I own. I'm charging everybody rent!!!
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  41. If the universe was denser in the past, wouldn't gravitational time dilation also happen (in an incredibly small amount)?
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  42. there's no logical reason that being a physicist should imply she can't be a singer, and more than a basketball player couldn't be good at math
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  43. We should have some unusually attractive scientists around, just in case. That always works in the movies.
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  44. Until I get my jetpack, science ain't done yet!
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  45. Also, all the alternatives so far tried have been crap.
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  46. That's why we need more hard data. I will say that U've seen more people saying that gender-reassignment care helped, and I haven't seen a lot of people say that it hurt them, but on the other hand the people who have seem to suffer some pushback, too. In any case, the plural of anecdote is not data.
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  47.  @davidcroft7381  And it'll handle any nasty odors, too! Brilliant!
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  48. According to some, genders are purely a social construct with no objective criteria. Can anyone explain to me how it makes sense to divide sports along purely socially constructed lines? If not, maybe sports should be divided by sex rather than gender?
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  49.  @OSAS27  Could be :)
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  50. Reject. Malaria is more easily prevented and treated than sickle cell.
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