Thank you so much for your time and effort in making these videos. I am a poor, sad, 32 year old boy and I always look forward to these videos. I don't have a significant other, money, or happiness to watch your videos and it's a relief to have something like this in our modern day society. Thank you John.
honestly jordan, i feel for you. i can relate. it will get better, and things like this will keep us going for that. videos like this. interactions like this. you are not alone in this world, or your suffering. we know that the universe is logical, and will function as it should, not according to our understanding. it's all gonna be okay, i promise. one day we'll be in a better spot. take it easy, my friend.
Thanks John! I finally got hit by COVID and even with Paxlovid I've been sleeping a lot. Your voice is extremely soothing and comforting to fall asleep to. Thank you.
@@JohnMichaelGodier I had it once and never again, and I wasn't vaccinated, the other time I got sick and tripped balls on something was probably the flu
@John - actually, there's a bunch of nuclear reactor designs that have been around since the 90s that take acts of sabotage to cause a meltdown and it's not just PBRs (which were being tested in the 90s as well). One design I remember was of a design that used neutral buoyancy to have a borated water pool below the reactor. As the regular water boiled off, the borated water would flow over the reactor and shutdown the reaction. Gen 3 designs were being worked on the 90s, Gen 4 designs were being worked on in the '00s and early '10s. Gen 5 designs are being looked at now (which SMR is one potential Gen 5 design).
Just learned about the Argentine ant super colonies constantly at war in San Diego county (speaking of ant antagonists) that’s an interesting rabbit hole.
A necessity for a catalyst would be a Great Filter. But this is one of those things that it'll be impossible to prove without multiple successes. It's like asking if you can get useful steam engines without soggy coal mines; we didn't, and all practical steam engines are derived from the ones made to pump water from coal mines, but considering how incredibly _useful_ they are once somebody made one do any work...
Thorium motlen salt reactors already achieved the meltdown proof trick, they just do not have a perfected way to cycle out the spent fuel while cycling in new fuel while operating and all current reactor sites can be retrofitted to molten salt tech.
Sort of a bad comparison… a ship from 1912 made to be an ocean liner vs a reactor designed a century later with the express purpose of being meltdown-proof? Not exactly the same thing
yeah, you know, that is a very good important point. But I have been looking forward to the inevitable progress in nuclear fission reaction power for years now, there are never guarantees when it comes to the chaos known as human behavior, especially when it's nuclear power being put into their hands but anyway, a more self-stopping, more fool-resistant reactor is finally here, and so, at least for now, nuclear power becomes a more viable option as well as a more safe one
Wow that last one really is chilling in the strangest way. I cant quite even explain why. Maybe the fact that it didnt coincide with a mass extinction, even though I would assume it could have. Maybe the fact that theres possibly some way crazier shit still hapening to earth that our science cant even notice, and we'll notice that in another million years if we last that long.
from a certain perspective the insect world seems like the closest thing to an anime/game/fantasy world. they all have their own special abilities suited to their form and lifestyle, lots can fly and/or dig, even build a home. ants are dwarves, wasps are elves, bees are half-elves, maybe um termites are human? mantis are dragons, stickbugs are ents, spiders are ghosts.. pretty neat.. the ocean is similar but a different genre🐟🦦
There was a time when discoveries were made once or twice per generation. Now we are making so many discoveries per month - we have to pick those we look at. The downside is some discoveries may end up being over-looked in the growing glare of light.
This video is a fantastic deep dive into the latest scientific advancements! The way it highlights breakthroughs like the solar microdrones and the meltdown-proof nuclear reactors is both captivating and educational. Truly impressive
John i love you bro God bless you. You help me learn and fall asleep hard every night! If you ever stop making videos, I won’t be able to sleep ever again.
That last one is going to be really hard to prove to be a great filter for intelligent life. We are here now an we are moderately stupidly intelligent but that is a sample size of one.
I’d prefer if the cartoon of the nuclear reactor didn’t show cooling towers that only emit water vapor, as carbon / nuclear emitting chimneys. Small criticism, potentially an issue with your editor. Thank you all for the content
Very much do enjoy these monthly review of scientific discovery as it helps us keep up to some degree with scientific research and astronomical scientific progress in all our busy life’s.
been watching your vids since freshman year in highschool and now i’m starting college!! love your stuff dude, you’re like the fun kooky (but terrifyingly intelligent) uncle lmao
Pebble bed reactors (at 2:25) have been around for years. (I think they were developed in Germany first). It IS an interesting design, and is “melt-down proof”, but they did discover a problem that the pebble-bed could “resonate” (ring like a bell) and overheat under certain circumstances. I haven’t heard anything further about this, but I think they had addressed this, but by then the public associated Pebble-bed reactors with “dangerous.”
Moss breaks down rock and adds organic matter. You could have this growing in domed sections with little to no resources but the domed while it conditions the soil for better plants that require more resources later.
In principle, you could GMO the moss to ideally break down soil and recycle nutrients. I think this can be done much faster than it happens in nature. Then store the moss outside the dome when you're not using it! And also moss is a really good material for composting and adding to soil in its own right, like we do with peat moss in gardens.
To say that a nuclear meltdown is a major concern is really ridiculous. There has been 547 nuclear reactors. And there has been two meltdowns , and one was caused by poor Manufacturing in the Soviet union.
Mate, melt down resistant nuclear plants already exist. You just need a large negative void coefficient if the moderator is burnt off. If the moderator is the coolant and the coolant is gone, no moderation takes place and the reaction drops because the neutrons are too fast for bonding and an accelerating chain reaction. Apart from that basically all small research reactors are meltdown proof. My uni has one. The problem with those is that they are not as efficient because they don‘t get as hot. But the technology existed for a long time.
The Interstellar Cloud collision was somewhat referred to by the Sumerian Legend of the Anunaki. With a planet in that cloud... wonder if we could find it... lol...
Hi, I enjoyed your videos for a while. Thanks for making them. Could you add timestamps to each of your 10 sections. It would improve my enjoyment of the video. Thanks!
Can someone explain to me why there would be proof of proton decay under the lunar surface? Isn't proton decay something that's supposed to happen so far in the future that there wouldn't be proof of it anywhere in the universe yet
I am looking forward to hearing what you have to think about the new discovery that apparently apparently the moon used to be quite a bit farther away from earth than it is now and it has oscillated back-and-forth some
I heard that kidney issues can arise from long expeditions to Mars and beyond. As someone with kidney Lupus issues I'm hoping that we will develop better radiation protection for our cosmonauts. However, I could be wrong about the kidney thing. We will no doubt get people on Mars in my lifetime. Very exciting. 😊
The segment about the interstellar clouds made me wonder. What if the answer to the Fermi paradox is that we are the paradox? That a list of highly improbable events led to us rising as a species. I am, by no means, particularly bright so I may be way off base with my question. Still, it makes me wonder.
Pebble bed reactors have been known for a long time. That part I know- I just don’t know why they haven’t been put into development. I gather it’s because of how long it takes to plan and develop a new nuclear reactor- at least in the US. So updates to existing reactors have been the only thing going on.
The Mars Moss, was it tested in the average atmospheric pressure? How would it fair in the deepest parts of Mars, like Valles Marineris and the Helles Basin? Or is the difference too little to matter.
2 - 3 million years ago the Panama Isthmus formed and the Ice Age began. And at around the same time the "cloud" hit the Earth? And our planet was bare to the interstellar medium!? Yikes!
Thank you so much for your time and effort in making these videos. I am a poor, sad, 32 year old boy and I always look forward to these videos. I don't have a significant other, money, or happiness to watch your videos and it's a relief to have something like this in our modern day society. Thank you John.
honestly jordan, i feel for you. i can relate. it will get better, and things like this will keep us going for that. videos like this. interactions like this.
you are not alone in this world, or your suffering. we know that the universe is logical, and will function as it should, not according to our understanding. it's all gonna be okay, i promise. one day we'll be in a better spot. take it easy, my friend.
Power through. Endure.
I'm living in the suck as well.
I choose to exist out of pure spite.
You will be rewarded in the long run.
Don't be so sad man your gunna feel like u lived a full life when your older just work on one day at a time
Could be worse, I turn 40 in ... 45 minutes. Poor and 😭 ... Meh🥲
I’ve been where you are. Things will get better as long as you are a good person and let people see it (that you are a good person).
are we gonna skip over the fact that JMG said he'll NEVER RETIRE?! we have vids lined up for decades!
I'll still be here in 40 years in my late 80's if I've still got the health. One does not retire from their dreams and passions.
Nope, that's just a bad dream You had one night, it's over now. You'll be fine.
@@JohnMichaelGodierheck yeah. Can't wait to see what the latest discoveries are in 2064. It'll be fun to see how everything advances
The new David Attenborough
@@JohnMichaelGodierpresuming youtube still exists.
This series is a secret treasure of not just CZcams but honestly the internet on the whole.
Absolutely! 💯
Agreed.
Ant 1: "That bee got me!" Ant 2: "How bad?" Ant 1: "Not bad, they only winged me"
😆
LOL
Straight to jail.
Lol. Ohhhh ericrobertson you jokester.
Vs "that one looks bad. We gotta antputate."
“….in which we LIIIiVE!” 💪💪
i hope theres a cyborg JMG with a glowing red eye still telling me about scientific discoveries when im in the 2070s
Locutus van Godier
Servitor skull of JMG with a vox speaker and candles telling us about the secrets of the void😂
gonna start a drinking game: take a shot every time you hear "researchers in china"
The twist is the shot is non-alcoholic.
😨 Do you wanna die!?!?
@@darkfate666 double-twist, it's rocket fuel diluted in water
in which we Liiiiiiiiiiive. 🍻
How many were actually in Taiwan instead of China, though?
Thanks John! I finally got hit by COVID and even with Paxlovid I've been sleeping a lot. Your voice is extremely soothing and comforting to fall asleep to. Thank you.
Get well soon. By some enormous luck, I've still managed to avoid it. I got everything else during the usual flu season, but not COVID.
@@JohnMichaelGodier I had it once and never again, and I wasn't vaccinated, the other time I got sick and tripped balls on something was probably the flu
Not sure if that is a complement. He might be trying to sound engaging...😊
I dont think you know how significant it is to hear "I will never retire". This made my year
I really appreciate that you don't use clickbait
Science is so amazing that there’s no need for clickbait; just honest observation.
"What did you do today?" "I tortured some moss."
😂😂😂😂😂I have come up with cold fusion producing 500 times more energy than oil..BANG BANG uh ☠️
amputated some ant limbs
Sometimes the moss gets into it. Yeah, new science discovery, moss can get FREAKY.
Are things OK at home? Lol
A perfect Friday night 🌙 😊
I'm absolutely loving these scientific discovery recap videos.
I love the space cloud info, it honestly makes a bit of sense that something “weird” happened to our very distant homies the homis.
I was just remarking about ants on the golf course. Ok John, do a deep dive about ants.
A tall PBR helps me chill out too
@John - actually, there's a bunch of nuclear reactor designs that have been around since the 90s that take acts of sabotage to cause a meltdown and it's not just PBRs (which were being tested in the 90s as well). One design I remember was of a design that used neutral buoyancy to have a borated water pool below the reactor. As the regular water boiled off, the borated water would flow over the reactor and shutdown the reaction. Gen 3 designs were being worked on the 90s, Gen 4 designs were being worked on in the '00s and early '10s. Gen 5 designs are being looked at now (which SMR is one potential Gen 5 design).
that is fascinating. is borated water standardized globally for nuclear power?
PBR me, ASAP!
"Moss that can survive on mars."
Hey I've seen this one before, it's a classic! Just get me the military robot locked into combat mode!
Just learned about the Argentine ant super colonies constantly at war in San Diego county (speaking of ant antagonists) that’s an interesting rabbit hole.
COYS!
I thought Argentine ant super colonies were constantly at war world wide, thanks to hitching rides on ships and finding native ants.
17:12 - Great Filter, or Great Catalyst?
A catalyst for hominid development
A necessity for a catalyst would be a Great Filter. But this is one of those things that it'll be impossible to prove without multiple successes.
It's like asking if you can get useful steam engines without soggy coal mines; we didn't, and all practical steam engines are derived from the ones made to pump water from coal mines, but considering how incredibly _useful_ they are once somebody made one do any work...
We have had meltdown proof reactors running in the us prior to todays PLW reactors. Molten Salt reactors are the future and we need to build them.
Thorium motlen salt reactors already achieved the meltdown proof trick, they just do not have a perfected way to cycle out the spent fuel while cycling in new fuel while operating and all current reactor sites can be retrofitted to molten salt tech.
Comment, Comment, comment, like,like,like
Reply reply. Reply!
"Sir, over here! These guys are using three accounts!"_
A meltdown proof nuclear reactor makes me think of a certain unsinkable ship. Dealing in absolutes is a risky game.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"
Sort of a bad comparison… a ship from 1912 made to be an ocean liner vs a reactor designed a century later with the express purpose of being meltdown-proof? Not exactly the same thing
yeah, you know, that is a very good important point. But I have been looking forward to the inevitable progress in nuclear fission reaction power for years now,
there are never guarantees when it comes to the chaos known as human behavior, especially when it's nuclear power being put into their hands
but anyway, a more self-stopping, more fool-resistant reactor is finally here, and so, at least for now, nuclear power becomes a more viable option as well as a more safe one
wise sentiment
*"She's made of plutonium, sir! I assure you, she can... and she will. It is a mathematical certainty."*
Yes, I'm prematurely eyeing this list suspiciously on this channel in which i liiiiiiiive!!! Thanks John!
4:34 If someone had asked me (two minutes ago) to name a CZcamsr who'd never make use of the expression "put the smack down" . . .
Fantastic video, John! Thanks!!! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Wow that last one really is chilling in the strangest way. I cant quite even explain why. Maybe the fact that it didnt coincide with a mass extinction, even though I would assume it could have. Maybe the fact that theres possibly some way crazier shit still hapening to earth that our science cant even notice, and we'll notice that in another million years if we last that long.
the insect world is so awesome. love ya JMG.
from a certain perspective the insect world seems like the closest thing to an anime/game/fantasy world. they all have their own special abilities suited to their form and lifestyle, lots can fly and/or dig, even build a home. ants are dwarves, wasps are elves, bees are half-elves, maybe um termites are human? mantis are dragons, stickbugs are ents, spiders are ghosts.. pretty neat.. the ocean is similar but a different genre🐟🦦
Soooo glad to hear that you’ll never retire. That makes my heart happy ❤
There was a time when discoveries were made once or twice per generation.
Now we are making so many discoveries per month - we have to pick those we look at.
The downside is some discoveries may end up being over-looked in the growing glare of light.
Has anyone else seen the Wegovy TV commercial, and thought "Zombie Ant Fungus"?
ANTi-microbial! lololol! Ants are brilliant.
Eagerly anticipating US Congress establishing Moon Savings Time.
Omnibus obviously
Holy shit, that last one blew my mind!
Yeah, i was there and its true what hes saying
Your intro audio always makes me think you're about to bust into the Fear Factory cover of Cars.
I bet the people native to the far north had a major hand in the extinction of the last mammoths:
Hunting and eating, yum, yum, yum.
Befield brown effect 1920 was the first record in modern times of electro static thrust
Okay I did get excited like a little kid whet I saw this.
really glad to hear you dont plan on retiring
Sorry to say but a PBR reactor is already a thing just drink six of them and you’ll react just fine.
So interesting, and presented in such a simple way that is easily understood. Kudos.
This video is a fantastic deep dive into the latest scientific advancements! The way it highlights breakthroughs like the solar microdrones and the meltdown-proof nuclear reactors is both captivating and educational. Truly impressive
Honey is disturbingly tasty, because of how bees make it.
I was looking for some youtube channel that made monthly videos with scientific news and I couldn´t find it until I found it thank you
YES YES YES FINALLY MORE!
Man I'm gonna be thinking about that last one for a while. It's so interesting
John i love you bro God bless you. You help me learn and fall asleep hard every night! If you ever stop making videos, I won’t be able to sleep ever again.
'After many a summer dies the proton.' Brilliant essay.
Regarding #9, PBRs are only one type of "passively safe" or "meltdown-proof" reactor. Passively-safe reactors have been with us for decades already.
It's always interesting to know of new discoveries. We humans are so curious and inventive.
That last part is likely yet another filter for the Great Filter
im endlessly appreciative of this channel and event horizon. thank you ANNA, opossum and i suppose john too.
Any day with a JMG upload is a good day
That last one is going to be really hard to prove to be a great filter for intelligent life. We are here now an we are moderately stupidly intelligent but that is a sample size of one.
I’d prefer if the cartoon of the nuclear reactor didn’t show cooling towers that only emit water vapor, as carbon / nuclear emitting chimneys. Small criticism, potentially an issue with your editor. Thank you all for the content
Very much do enjoy these monthly review of scientific discovery as it helps us keep up to some degree with scientific research and astronomical scientific progress in all our busy life’s.
Earth possibly exposed to interstellar space!!! Awesome!❤
Would love a continuation to the idea of earth in interstellar space!
been watching your vids since freshman year in highschool and now i’m starting college!! love your stuff dude, you’re like the fun kooky (but terrifyingly intelligent) uncle lmao
My name is Ozymandius Ant!
Pebble bed reactors (at 2:25) have been around for years. (I think they were developed in Germany first). It IS an interesting design, and is “melt-down proof”, but they did discover a problem that the pebble-bed could “resonate” (ring like a bell) and overheat under certain circumstances. I haven’t heard anything further about this, but I think they had addressed this, but by then the public associated Pebble-bed reactors with “dangerous.”
Something you can include in next months video…. A 15 year old developed a soap that can help treat skin cancer!
JMG the man back at it again!
Moss breaks down rock and adds organic matter. You could have this growing in domed sections with little to no resources but the domed while it conditions the soil for better plants that require more resources later.
In principle, you could GMO the moss to ideally break down soil and recycle nutrients. I think this can be done much faster than it happens in nature. Then store the moss outside the dome when you're not using it! And also moss is a really good material for composting and adding to soil in its own right, like we do with peat moss in gardens.
dropping this on a friday night, just in time to get cozy too. just another good part of this universe in which we liiiiiive 😉
JMG!! PLEASE MAKE VIDEO COMPILATIONS OF YOUR RANDOM AFTER THOUGHTS AT THE END OF THE VIDEOS PLEASE!!!
Mars Moss! I love these videos! Thanks, John.
Yees, 20 years more of John Michael Godier? :o
The millions of years battle between bees and ants continues....
I love you, John. 💜
To say that a nuclear meltdown is a major concern is really ridiculous. There has been 547 nuclear reactors. And there has been two meltdowns , and one was caused by poor Manufacturing in the Soviet union.
Mate, melt down resistant nuclear plants already exist. You just need a large negative void coefficient if the moderator is burnt off. If the moderator is the coolant and the coolant is gone, no moderation takes place and the reaction drops because the neutrons are too fast for bonding and an accelerating chain reaction.
Apart from that basically all small research reactors are meltdown proof. My uni has one. The problem with those is that they are not as efficient because they don‘t get as hot. But the technology existed for a long time.
10:35 I've read that the estimates put the Wrangel Island mammoth extinction suspiciously close to the earliest known signs of human presence there.
The Interstellar Cloud collision was somewhat referred to by the Sumerian Legend of the Anunaki. With a planet in that cloud... wonder if we could find it... lol...
why do you have to draw out the word live at the end? It wakes me up
Another wonderful upload, thanks!
The no retirement from JMG is the best news of this year! 🎉
Hi, I enjoyed your videos for a while. Thanks for making them. Could you add timestamps to each of your 10 sections. It would improve my enjoyment of the video. Thanks!
"Meltdown proof nuclear reactor" I'm sure we've thought that about a few of the designs already.
At least honey is tasty, indeed.
Bravo sir, announcing that you won't retire anytime soon, does put a smile on my face 🎉😊
Oooh, you saved the spookiest for last! 😲☄🌌👻😎
The moon ain't gonna like gettin drilled like that..
Yeah dint ever retire. Really enjoy all your content😊
"cold gas was hard to detect in the universe..."
and I like how mainstream science just decided to believe in non-baryonic magic instead 😂
Thumbs up for 20 more years of JMG videos 👍
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
ants asking bees: how can she slap?
John Michael Godtier
Can someone explain to me why there would be proof of proton decay under the lunar surface?
Isn't proton decay something that's supposed to happen so far in the future that there wouldn't be proof of it anywhere in the universe yet
It wont be long until we have drones like they have in the Sun Eater series, dust motes in the air. or a mic so small you wont even know it's there.
just skipped an ad on your video that was a 30 minute science lecture designed to look like a video, they thought id fallen asleep wtf
I am looking forward to hearing what you have to think about the new discovery that apparently apparently the moon used to be quite a bit farther away from earth than it is now and it has oscillated back-and-forth some
That last one is a real zinger!
Beedril! Use double slap!😂
I heard that kidney issues can arise from long expeditions to Mars and beyond. As someone with kidney Lupus issues I'm hoping that we will develop better radiation protection for our cosmonauts. However, I could be wrong about the kidney thing. We will no doubt get people on Mars in my lifetime. Very exciting. 😊
The segment about the interstellar clouds made me wonder. What if the answer to the Fermi paradox is that we are the paradox? That a list of highly improbable events led to us rising as a species. I am, by no means, particularly bright so I may be way off base with my question. Still, it makes me wonder.
Pebble bed reactors have been known for a long time. That part I know- I just don’t know why they haven’t been put into development. I gather it’s because of how long it takes to plan and develop a new nuclear reactor- at least in the US. So updates to existing reactors have been the only thing going on.
I’m not convinced we are the only advanced species. What about ants? They do agriculture, animal husbandry, and now: medicine
The Mars Moss, was it tested in the average atmospheric pressure?
How would it fair in the deepest parts of Mars, like Valles Marineris and the Helles Basin?
Or is the difference too little to matter.
2 - 3 million years ago the Panama Isthmus formed and the Ice Age began.
And at around the same time the "cloud" hit the Earth?
And our planet was bare to the interstellar medium!?
Yikes!