Comments by "" (@PainterVierax) on "Astrum" channel.

  1.  @blacksage2375  The answer is simple: there is so much bioluminescence and only tammed eclipse "night" because it's a movie searching to be visually appealing. An horror film like Pitch Black did the absolute opposite choice to serve the scenario. There is no point to search scientific explanations inside that Pocahontas rip-off blockbuster series. It's really not that deep in every level.
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  2. That's still pretty concerning from such a secretive nation with a lot of space ambitions. I guessed it was PRC because no other space agency will be that much non transparent about their missions, especially their failures. This feels like remnant of the Leninist way of communicating.
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  3. Let's be real, life certainly exists out there but evolution and civilizations like ours must be so rare and vastly distanced that it's unlikely we even get signals from each others. And don't forget we have to be hearing in the right window of technological time to be able to capt any signal. Those other civs have to have invented radio coms yet and still widely use that for large amplitude coms instead of more effective or efficient techs like those photonic coms and landline broadcasts we've started to switch to.
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  4.  @goosenotmaverick1156  it's true that military reasons fuels technology but it's not always the case. Explorations and technological researches were also made for the sake of discovery, for economic reasons or just for science. We are a curious specie, we don't need a practical reason to do things.
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  5. nah the problem is consumerism. We don't need personal cars, TVs, PCs, smartphones, communication satellites or cloud services. If all of those resources weren't spend on futile comforts and some Western way of life, we would have so much reserves for the future.
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  6. "this reasonable hypothesis is not very accurate so I chose to believe in the most crazy and unverifiable one."
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  7. pretty ironic from someone who doesn't understand IQ or the Theory of Evolution.
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  8. or he could simply talk about astronomy like he used to. I'm tired of those newer videos with a SF tone.
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  9.  @szpetnyjan  This video and those about the wow signal and Fermi paradox are just vulgar clicbaits to grow the audience. They really don't fit in the strictly scientific tone of the channel and others already talk about this way more scientifically (or more sensationalistically if it's what you like).
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  10.  @chloewebb5526  It slowly happened during this year. I guess he wanted more than he already got. But by doing that when his credo was not having the same editorial narrative as many other outlets, he just lost a huge part of his particularity… then his long time subscribers.
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  11.  @wallabra  What you didn't seem to notice is that this channel didn't need such absurd clickbaits and variation of topics as it was already performing very well by building trust and quality over the years, focusing mainly on astronomy, presenting discoveries and images in a straightforward and concise manner without the now-usual sensationalism. Before those changes, this was not a small channel at all and it was already well recommended by the algorithm.
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  12. Space is serious. By that, it should not be taken lightly with privatization and entertainment purposes. Having more affordable launches allows way more unnecessary satellites. This and the recent tendency of projects including huge constellations like Starlink or its Amazon counterpart might just provoke a Kessler syndrome, threatening any serious usage satellites replacements and disabling any missions for centuries.
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  13. yeah it's bothering for the future of this channel. Came here for astronomy, not fearmongering and SF videos.
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  14.  @WTFoolproof  nah Elon's Starlink constellation is a way to improve the chances to get the Kessler syndrome. That's the whole plan.
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  15.  @Jules_Diplopia  That's a false excuse from Westerners to not face their responsibilities. Blame the American and Japanese way of life, blame the German and Australian ecologists refusing nuclear plants, blame the capitalism and the globalization but don't blame emergent countries to finally be able to increase their life expectancy and wanting to live in the same comfort as developed countries.
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  16. The most important question is : what is the point of colonizing Mars? Except being the first of the PRC/USA new space race to humanly land on it there is no point. Let's focus on the Moon first, as its position as our tidally locked satellite, its better proximity and its lowest gravity makes it valuable for way more applications than the red planet. After the Moon, Ceres or Callisto are better candidates for farther outposts.
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  17.  @armandomercado2248  I'm not talking about their plans but the reports on past and occurring missions. NASA, ESA or even private entities like SpaceX openly communicate when they fail.
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  18.  @armandomercado2248  if it's not intended it's a failure, period. I'm not bashing PRC for the pleasure or the trend, I'm also very critical of other nations, including mine., This is factually a scummy but expected move from such a country who speaks propaganda fluently and tries to do another space race to prove they have the biggest "rocket" instead of joining the actual international collaborations.
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  19.  @armandomercado2248  It's really not ridiculous when an already secretive regime blatantly lie to hide such a small failure. They didn't gain anything but more international suspicion. And yes Kessler Syndrome is more and more concerning these days since megalomaniac leaderships are launching things to space again. And I'm not only talking about PRC but also including billionaires like Musk and Bezos with their satellites swarm projects.
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  20. They just need to watch our TV signals to see we are a crazy and violent specie.
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  21. Absolutely f-ing not. This papers might be rigorous by his method but starting from such a ludicrous hypothesis is far from the scientific rationality. Nature has proven an incommensurate amount of times that it's surprisingly rich and that we still have a lot to learn. The "I want to believe" mindset should not be given the same credit as any other natural explanations. Aliens are the new-age escape goats, the modern equivalent to the good old theist theories about everything unknown, something scientific method is deeply against. What Loeb did was intellectual laziness or pure sensationalism and doesn't deserve any glance at all.
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  22.  @wallabra  Well, clickbait is different than getting a catchy title and a catchy miniature pic. It's being catchy and lying about what the content is. Here, there is nothing inherently bad for the NASA. In fact this is good as the mission went very well and gave them a result. Maybe this was not the expected result but this is still invaluable data for scientists. Using the word "bad" instead of "unexpected" is what turns the catchy marketing into a deceptive clickbait. IIRC the shorter Deep Impact Probe episodes he published before making this supercut aggregation were not using clickbait.
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  23.  @kirkhunter146  Subduction doesn't mean that all the crust is entirely replaced, only the oceanic plates. The continental plates shock each others, raise mountain chains or crackle but they don't sink into subduction zones. We have found that some quite substantial area in almost every continent have layers dated from the Archean eon (around 3 billion years ago). This is because of those rocks dated from the early time of life that we know there were quite a lot of supercontinental episodes during the Precambrian.
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  24.  @jay23cr  I agree with you. Infrastructures and knowledge won't totally disappear. Pretty sure there are bunker libraries in every army, like there is a seed vault in Norway. Also even if the human race doesn't survive some mass extinction at all, paleontology proved that life will recover within short geological times and there is still plenty of millions of years for the rise of other intelligent species capable of going into space before our Sun turns into a red giant.
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  25.  @newshodgepodge6329  How rugged and redundant is such circuit to ensure spatial missions comes with a mountain of extra costs. It's ridiculous to compare the ultimate space manufacturing grade where any basic functionality cost a fortune with cheap consumer electronics (which BTW don't necessarily breaks that quickly when correctly built) or industrial/lab grade, or military grade or even the avionics grade.
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  26. @@Aquafyre That's what science did all the time though. And no it's way more reasonable than dragons, unicorns or aliens.
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  27. @@Aquafyre scientists hobbies or mystical beliefs have nothing to do with their work as scientists. And in that regard, believing in the aliens theory is way less rational than the new comets theory.
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  28.  @notturok7841  I think it is. Aliens is just some new age version of God.
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  29. It reminds me the Arcade Fire's soundtrack of Her. This Spike Jonze movie was released during 2013 so doesn't seem coincidental.
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  30. Astrum died eaten by an AI
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  31. exactly what I was thinking when watching this part. Having a rogue satellite is as bad as shredding it.
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