Astrophysicist reacts to funny space memes! #2
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 31. 03. 2021
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0:30 "ruin it by making too educational", don't you DARE stop making it educational! pls! =)
The meme format is perfect for explaining topics in a brief, very understandable way. Part of the reason itâs so successful is that it starts with something very specific from the meme.
I love it
I only came for the astrophysics.
Agreed! I was sad when Becky stopped talking about rotation maps because they were so interesting.
One minute later "so, about the number of moons each planet has..."
"ruin it by making it too educational" precedes to explain one of the theories on how the moon was made.
Becky: ''When will the internet get over Pluto not being a planet?''
Never! Ohana means family, and family means no one is left behind!
I personally don't care about all the naming schemes. Pluto, the object is still there. Nothing changed except for the classification we put on that celestial object.
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She is being pedantic, definitions do not matter. You could put Saturn in Pluto's orbit and it would not qualify as a planet.
@@seriousmaran9414 I don't know what you're talking about because they've found large exoplanets in other systems that have a greater distance than the distance between pluto and our sun. If Saturn was in Pluto's position, it would definitely be considered a planet due to its size.
Read Mike Brown's _How I Killed Pluto and Why it Had it Coming._
I loved you going off about Pluto.
"Pluto and its moon orbit a common center of gravity which ISN'T EVEN INSIDE OF PLUTO!" I imagine at this point you're gripping my lapels and shaking me.
I snickered when she said :Sharon".. Its a greek word, Beckster its basically a Greek X to start it (Khhharon) (the ferryman of the dead)
Iâm personally happy she didnât step away too much from the educational tidbits, I feel like itâs a great balance for just reacting to the memes. We get to see you think itâs funny, and then learn another depth of WHY itâs funny
Please don't drop the educational bits! This is one of the most entertaining ways to learn bits of knowledge and receive insight into the life of an astrophysicist.
What is totally cool about YOUR videos is the humor and enjoyment you bring to potentially BORING topics.
It's amazing how you make all of this "educational stuff" fun.
Thank You Dr. Becky.
âUnlike the potatoes of Marsâ đ poor Phobos and Deimos
Somehow I think "Angry Red Potato" just wouldn't sell as movie...
@@jamestodd4877 Well their names do mean "Fear" and "Dread" so you may be right!
Let me put it this way : you can fit about 128 Phoboses within the sole Diameter of our Moon (I didn't bother computing in terms of volume). I'm sorry but they are just meer rocks. x)
Edit: Alright I did it, you can fit at least 26,000 Phoboses in volume within our Moon.
But they really are. I mean their respective escape velocities are 41km/h and 20km/h. Usain Bolt would literally escape their gravity if he somehow managed to gain enough friction to even run.
Don't know what sort of potatoes you lot eat if you think those lumpy, pock-marked things look like taters.
11:10 Never... The answer is never. Who doesn't love a good underdog story? A movie about Pluto getting its planetary status back? *Deep sigh* I'd pay for that.
There's the underdog and the annoying kid from school who wants to hang with the big kids and has all the annoying little friends who think you should let them play too because you let him and... Yeah, just no. Pluto can go play in the kiddy pool.
But Pluto is a planet, a *dwarf* planet. It's just not one of the "classical planets".
Or do you think that "dwarf humans" aren't really humans?
I'm 53 years old, and for the first half of my life, Pluto has been shrinking, smaller and smaller. Old books I read when I was a child said it was as large as Earth. Then a less-old book said it was smaller than Mars "but definitely bigger than Mercury." And a book from when I was born said it was slightly bigger than Mercury. As I grew up and more and more measurements were made, improving the size estimates, I watched with sadness as Pluto shrank to the same size as Mercury, then smaller than Mercury, then 3/4 the size of Mercury⊠Then in the 1980s our telescopes got good enough to resolve Charon from Pluto - meaning that Pluto's actually _even smaller_ than what we'd estimated.
So yeah, Pluto has been "The Incredible Shrinking Planet" for my entire life.
And we only found it because of a fluke: the only reason anyone was looking for a 9th planet was in order to explain this wobble in Neptune's motion. Except - it turns out that the wobble wasn't due to another planet tugging on Neptune, but the machinery of the telescope. And we know what happens next: The Public hears, "might be a 9th planet," and starts going, "FiNd PlAnEt 9 NaO!!!!" ⊠and we're off to the races, looking for something. Anything. If the astronomers had just kept-shut, nobody'd have bothered looking, and Pluto wouldn't have been found until the 1980s, if not the 1990s.
Iâm still looking forward to the day when my kids bring home school work about the 8 planets and then I get to pull the, âBACK IN MY DAY WE HAD 9 PLANETS AND WE LIKED IT!â
@@Johnrich395 Or a show set in the 1800's, where there's dozen planets, because the Asteroids were counted as planets then!
Please continue these and don't drop the educational bits! My daughter and I watched the first one while waiting for her mom and she LOVED IT. She's only 8 and I absolutely am eager for her to be interested in space!
Maybe let *her* decide what she's interested in. You shouldn't be 'eager' for her to have an interest in what you want her to have an interest in. Everything about your statement sounded wrong in one way or another.
@@MichaelB769 get a life loser, wtf you doing going through 5 month old comments to be a whiny bitch about.
"waiting for her mom" yeah, ever heard of seperated parents? Get a life dude
@@MichaelB769 I thought everything about it sounded right in every way.
@@jcsharp86 So you are a promoter of selfishness? Let me guess you voted for Trump. Go back to your parents basement and stop trying to interact with smart people.
@@timl.b.2095 well thatâs because most people who have kids have them because itâs what they want and they donât really consider what the child might want. And thatâs how we ended up where we are today as a society.
I like how she really enjoying the memes. She reacts the way I want my family to react when I show something like this to them
Instead of the usual stunned silence? I get that too lol
My mum turns it into a lecture lmao
@@foxfire6767 bruh same T_T
My mom actually laughs
@@foxfire6767 my mom just mehs,doesn't really care lel
" 'How did I get here?'
Well... it was the pretty pictures."
I've never felt so called out. Now if you'll excuse me, I have electrodynamics homework to finish before my exam next week.
Love this! đ
It was pretty pictures and fun facts for me too. Although Iâm studying Architecture now, the sole reason I chose science stream in my 11th and 12th grade was because I wanted to study astronomy. Now, to complete five years of architecture and move to astronomy.
Yeah me too. DrPhysicsA's video on black holes was so good that it made me realise I could quite quickly & easily climb the great metaphorical "mountains" of quantum mechanics & relativity just like some people climb K2 & Everest. Now excuse me I have to finish transcribing "Einstein's Field Equations for beginners!"
"And you may ask yourself... well, how did I get here?"
@@losthor1zon letting the days go by⊠đ¶
I LOVE how Monty Python got sneaky and gave you an entertaining education. I love it!
So much of Python was like that - _Life of Brian_ and its "Romanes Eunt Domus" springs to mind đ€Ł
@@rhonafenwick5643 "People called Romans,going home""
I remember researching (before the internet) the distances and realizing that the song was accurate. It blew my young mind.
11min in, her reaction to her world crumbling because Pluto might be put back on the planetary throne was the best thing ever
That "it''s been 15 years" statement was a bit harsh there Dr. Becky. It's too early in the day for me to feel that old.
Really had me wondering like "hold up, 2006 was 15 years ago!?"
@@itsanukriti hey! You've gone too far! Why date or out? đđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
"Too late! 15 years too late!"
Yâall be talking about how 2006 was feels recent;
Me, being 15 years old: đđđ
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11:39 - Today I realized that Pluto is the big brother spinning around his little sister Charon. Forever and ever they will play.
OMG! They're anime siblings! (cf No Game, No Life; The Irregular of Magic High; and many more....)
but Charon is a dude... (Upd: It's "Kharon", the ferryman on Styx, not "Sharon".)
@@Crinjal_2611 ah, I see. what anime was that?
But there is named the story of Pluto and charon
@@ldbarthel Isn't NGNL creepy? If it's what I think it is, I couldn't even finish watching it.
When you said âdo you know what is worse than reading a method?â I screamed in my head WRITING THEM! Just before you said it. As a doctor of chemistry myself I feel your pain! đđđđ
I'm glad it's not just me and other high schoolers that hate to write the method section
My ex had to write the minutes of meetings so she wrote them in a different style each week. The romance novel: "Melinda arrived late, her bossom heaving" etc. Give it a shot.
"And then I did this."
Boring. Makes sense. Now explain to me why so many people are on Twitter (not I).
Becky: "I'll try not ruin it by being too educational."
Me,: "Oh no no no, memes and learning plz!"
The other reason to read the Methods section of a paper is if its results conflict with your own and you're desperately looking for an error in it.
_Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour_
And if it ever stopped suddenly, the atmosphere would keep going at that speed and absolutely destroy everything all the way down to the bedrock with near-1000mph winds.
Nothing on Earth would live through the first couple seconds, let alone the three months it would take for the atmosphere to stop spinning between friction and gravity.
We wouldn't even have to worry about one side of the planet freezing and the other side becoming a crematorium.
Every single last trace of our existance would be erased in less than ten minutes as the winds LITERALLY completely rearrange both the oceans and the land.
Whatever race evolves out of the only surviving life form, bacteria and probably tardigrade, will never even know they weren't the first.
@@GuukanKitsune what about cockroaches
they live through everything.
no exceptions.
@@Berilia Nothing larger than the finest dirt particles would survive the wind scouring. Not even cockroaches. And cockroaches still die in fire and can't be found in Antarctica as they can't survive the cold, either. So if they survived the winds they certainly wouldn't survive on a planet that is half furnace, half Antarctica.
It would be a calamity that would defeat even the Mighty Cockroach.
Gotta love Monty Python
@@GuukanKitsune I think it would be far more destructive than that. Imagine the amount of momentum in the Earth's mass that would suddenly re-arrange itself akin to how Theia did on impact.
Bradbury: "The Golden Apples of the Sun."
Smethurst: "The Potatoes of Mars."
"She didn't mean that, children" -Mars, probably
There is clearly not enough beard in that picture for Pluto to be King of the Dwarves.
Maybe not, but it's definitely got a strong enough heart to be a dwarf.
And if we're talking meme's, then we'll need to give Pluto a really hammy Scottish accent...
I'm still stealing the phrase and I'm not even sorry
Future red sun: *blows up the earth*
Pluto: "That still counts as one!"
Someone need to make a fantasy universe with dwarf race and their king shall be named Pluto.
The first meme is so accurate, like I literally missed the Jupiter and Saturn conjunction . The sky was clear till that very day, so painful. Byw, great educational stuff
We're never going to get over the demotion of Pluto.
Very true.
Boomer.
(I'm one too)
I should point out that your first meme review actually got me to understand why my camera couldn't take a picture of the moon properly and to look into it further. Now I can actually do it properly (it's an old camera, but the quality is good - for its age). The meme review does serve the greater good.
Unless it uses film of some type, it isnât an old camera. Extra credit if it uses glass plates.
@@stargazer7644 mobile phones market turn over is 2 years and digital cameras are no longer sold as the primary photography device for most people for about 10 years. So, yeah, if it is a camera about 10 yrs or so it is old and dated for the current market.
Maybe not historic or even just a classic, but old nonetheless
the greater good.
*the greater good*
How to tell a scientist vs an engineer, ask them if the use the methods section of papers
they should do a Day in a Life vlog instead, or maybe put some memes in there to make it less dry
@@1224chrisng eh, engineering methods are usually fun, i mean im working on a paper at the moment where most of the methods section in through samples into furnace, look at the under a microscope, break them, but im an experimentalist so i may be biased
As a semi-casual consumer of science, i will say that when reading social science papers i am always the most interested in the methods section as well. "Okay, i see the conclusion you reached... but what was the actual question you asked and who did you ask?"
14:07 lt's giving the flat earthers the finger!
So true! đđđ
The chances of the ''Space Fandom'' part of the internet dropping the ''Pluto is/isn't a planet'' thing is about as high as the Harry Potter Fandom dropping the ''Calmly'' grudge.
That moment when you are in both fandoms and holding both grudges đ
"Pluto is not a planet!"-dr Becky said calmly
it might take a few decades, but eventually the people not willing to understand why pluto has been updated to dwarf planet will have died out
@@alexmuller6752 Not if we teach our kids!
@@MsLilly200 yeah, update your children's brains to dwarf planet
Becky: when will people get over Pluto
Me: I was 10 when New Horizons launched. I am here for Pluto. You can't shame me into rejecting my baby
Nobody can say Pluto isn't a planet when we're all dead by the sun swallowing us.
@@prometheanrebel3838 If we don't figure out how to colonize other planets, we'll be dead about 4 billion years before the sun swallows us. It's only going to take about a billion years before the sun's luminosity increases enough to boil off all the water and make life on the surface impossible.
You can always give Neil Tyson more shit for it...
@@mikek9297 He deserves it.
In your methods section of your paper, include a pudding recipe somewhere in the middle. It'll be a nice break for everyone and you'll always know who read your full paper đ
Brilliant.
Even if the pudding recipe doesnât make it past peer review, youâll still get to amuse a couple of people.
@@ragnkja ... and then, while the photons were streaming in I added 200 grams of flour and 100 grams of sugar to a mixing bowl and combined them thoroughly. In a separate bowl...
I was thinking of more along the lines of a astronomical dad joke.
@@JHNielson4851 How does a solar system know when it's full? It loosens its asteroid belt let's out a few gas giants.
When I told a small child that Santa was not real, her zeal and outrage to defend her illusion was not even close to this doctors defense of Pluto's ignominy.
The memes and stars brought me here - the love for Monty Python and Rowan Atkinson kept me
The âdefiant fingerâ meme should be on a T-shirt bc I wud definitely buy it!
Me too
It's already a pillow case and a bed spread. I think I might have seen it on a T-shirt as well. Google it :) It's currently the wallpaper for my phone.
FYI, its way funnier name is "The Cosmic Finger Of Friendship".
"Pardon me while I flip thee the defiant finger"
With a text like "Get over it and learn Astrophysics".....
As a poli-sci and STEM dual graduate, that election meme is everything I could ever ask for.
What an interesting combination. What is it like?
Couldn't decide between George Washington and Albert Einstein?
0:20 "ill try not to ruin them by making them too educational"....then 1:29 starts class lecture LOL
Love yah, just subscribed :)
"When will the internet get over Pluto not being a planet? It's been 15 years!"
I will never get over how you guys did my boy Pluto dirty
the fact remains that there are a ton of other objects orbiting the sun that are not significantly different from pluto. if you call pluto a planet, you have to call all these other objects planets too. the choice isn't between eight planets and nine planets. the choice is between eight planets and possibly thousands of planets. i don't think you want to memorize all of those.
@@sirmoonslosthismind Stop copy and pasting your ignorance.
That is simply not true. The labeling of planets is completely arbitrary. Always has been. It was the the attempt to classify planets that removed Plutos label.
Pluto was never proven to not be a Plant. The definition was changed to exclude it as one.
Ok I died. New science project for Dr. Becky that we all wanna see now: make Rowan Atkinson actually say Bok globule.
We need to start a campaign to get all the "famous voices" saying it, Rowan, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, Bernie Sanders, Al Pacino, Jeff Goldblum...
In his Blackadder series 1 voice đż
I'd put Michael Palin from Monty Python's for that. He's experienced with Biggus Dikkus already :V
I wonder if an audio deep-fake could pull this off?! The new Turing test for the 21st century?
@@scratchanitch It depends.
The problem with audio 'deep fakes' is that voices can vary dramatically depending on the range and skill of the vocalist.
As it is Rowan Atkinson has a great deal of skill with making different noises so getting an exact replica of what he would do is unlikely.
Dr. Becky: Promises not to sneak in too much educational stuff.
Also Dr. Becky: Sneaks in the educational stuff anyway.
Keep it up! :D
"Much" is a relative term.
The Monty Python song is one of my all time favorite cosmology in mainstream media moments!!! I particularly love: "So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth" đđđđ€©đ€©đ€©
Iâm glad I found you. Iâm a huge astronomy fan. I guess I found a new person to binge watch lol. Michelle Thaller is my favorite astrophysicist. I canât wait to learn new stuff from you. Much love!!!!
Welcome! đ
'This meme is the truest thing I have ever seen!'
One meme later...
'This meme is the truest thing I have ever seen!'
So true, but then again .......
I can relate to the first one. In 1999 i wanted to watch the solar eclipse in Germany and it became cloudy and rainy as the eclipse started.
Drove around like a rally race on the French countryside to get to a hole in the clouds in time and we made it! Later we stopped at a vineyard and bought Champagne :-)
It literally took me YEARS to see my first lunar eclipse. Every time, it would be cloudy. One time I was so upset. That night, I dreamed that I saw it. Now, my curse is lifted!
Reminds me of the story I saw on QI about the Victorian Era astronomer who went to like the Phillipines or something to see an Eclipse, but it was cloudy, so he just waited there cause he knew it'd happen again in like 12 years, and by the time he got back he'd been declared legally dead cause he forgot to send word he was going to wait for the next one. lol
@@scottmcintyre2809 Wasn't that to observe a Venus passage? They are like 8 years apart and then it's 100 years till the next.
@@zapfanzapfan That might of been it, it was definitely something happening in the sky.
Hey Becky. I may have came to your channel for the space memes, but I also love the explanation parts afterwards! Never stop being the astrophysicist you are!
when you talk about all the educational stuff you did when you were a kid, I always start to question my entire existence. like what am I doing with my life aksjsksjsk
Dont worry the entire plant of Pluto is now questioning it's existence. The entire nation has gone crazy and it has spread to Pluto at covid speed.
"Unlike the potatoes of Mars"
Mark Watney has just unsubscribed.
Pluto: I'm King of the Dwarfs!
Thorin Oakenshield: Hold my dwarven ale.
How dare you imply dwarfs are not humans.
@@chasthanhburns123 I don't think you get the joke
@@satan_rex_inferorum The irony.
''When will the internet get over Pluto not being a planet?''
Never. Pluto is a good boy. **give Pluto a belly rub**
I accidentally discovered the channel and it's awesome. Entertainment with knowledgeđ. And from an Astrophysicist makes it more fantastic!
LOL The funny thing is âbokâ means âpooâ in Turkish.
And "hi" in croatian
đ this is amazing
For a foreigner, your turkish is amazing. But your English is a crap. Not "poo" but "poop".
Kaka đ
@@onderozenc4470
No, in British English itâs âpooâ. Just because you know the most common AmE term doesnât mean you get to say that the BrE equivalent isnât correct.
There are still people who don't believe we landed on the moon 50 years ago. I don't think people are going to stop going on about Pluto anytime soon. :(
And yet, people got over Ceres not being a planet so completely that most don't even remember it once was one. Exact same problem as with Pluto. Wiki says _Ceres was the first asteroid to be discovered (by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory on 1 January 1801).[18] It was originally considered a planet, but was reclassified as an asteroid in the 1850s after many other objects in similar orbits were discovered._
(4:30) "And whether we know it or not, the universe is laughing behind our backs."
11:18 - I'm literally wearing my "Revolve In Peace 1930-2006" hoodie as you say this.
That first meme is just the Arctic sky in a nutshell. You'll get a run of clear nights with nothing going on, but the aurora turns on and it's cloudy.
Lmao, so true, I lived in Iqaluit for 4 years and only like once did I see them
We need more of these!!! My favourite one was the "This nebula doesn't like you very much".
I love how you explain everything while giving us a really good laugh. Keep it up Dr. Becky!
Science: "Pluto is NOT a planet ... it is a dwarf planet"
Peter Dinklage: "Hey now!"
Dr. Becky: it's been 15 years! When will you the internet get over Pluto not being a planet?
Pluto: but it was just yesterday!
I'm a programmer. All I read and write are methods, and I love it.
Me as "hobbyist" computer programmer knows exactly.
You have to describe every little thing in procedures, functions, routines and mathematical formulas.
Any bit left out, any part not in the right order, can "collapse" the whole program.
The computer was like "NOPE You put a space in the wrong place & I refuse to work until you remove it & no I'm not going to tell you where it is or even what the problem is."
It was at that time I realised maybe programming isn't for me.
â@@alwaysdisputin9930 lmao
I will attempt to go to a school to learn programming with a little java knowledge,very little C# and python so wish me luck with these problems
also wdym it didn't tell you what and where the problem is? usually good IDEs show these for java i use eclipse,for C# i use visual studio code and for python i use pycharm which all show where errors are usually except pycharm sometimes isn't very fun
I love how it's entertaining and educational at the same time
Becky: *Explains why Pluto is a dwarf planet*
Me: But we love Pluto and we want him as a planet.
i would like to call Triton the king of the dwarf planets, because it formed in the kuiper belt and is bigger than both Pluto and Eris!
Worst part of writing the methods section is trying to justify doing something that just seemed a good idea at the time
OMG king of the dwarfs! That was just way too precious.
I hope she gets canceled for inferring dwarfs are not real humans.
80% of the fun to watch a (reaction) video is about the person who presents it. And every video you make is fun to watch (and entertaining) and your enthusiasm makes the difference.
Please keep on going.
I had to put my hand over my mouth so I didn't spit coffee all over my computer at "King of the Dwarfs".
Ceres: Hey, I was a planet for almost 60 years, why no petitions for me?
Pallas, Juno and Vesta: Youâve forgotten about us.
Pallas, Juno and Vesta are space potatoes.
@@Markle2k They called them planets, when they where first discovered though
@@rhoddryice5412 Planets were âwandering starsâ. Planetary nebulae were things, not wandering, that had extended disks. Donât look to astronomers for consistency in nomenclature.
@@Markle2k Yes I know. I find the inconsistency and ad hoc approach hilarious.
@@rhoddryice5412 Which is a bigger violation of all that is reasonable and holy ... "planetary nebula" or "metal-rich"?
0:49 Me too. By the time the sky cleared up some 5-6 days later at my location, it was like "Yeah, they're pretty close...ish. Kinda cool, I guess?"
4:47
Ah, yes. The "Heroic Monke" nebula.
12:10
Gimli from LOTR: "I'd like a word, please..."
surely you meant 12:10 on that 2nd part ;-)
Also, maybe Durin would be a better fit there, instead of Gimli? :-B
@@irrelevant_noob Yes, my bad. I'll change it ASAP
@@irrelevant_noob Even though Durin IS the actual king Gimli is a better fit for me bc he IS objectively cooler and... You know... Not dead.
i love how you straigth up go into full rage mode and defend Pluto for not being a planet, when the joke is litterly about Mercery, Venus and Earth being swallowed and cease to exsist. xD
As science editor, I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the hardest section to work on in every single paper ever is... the reference section. Catching all the references they didn't make in the text, getting the authors to reference everything correctly and then organising it all in the correct order and format is like trying to make Schroedinger's cat listen to you when you yell "Just stay the f out of the f-ing box!"
As long as I remember the 3,3,3 cadence in which they taught us the names of the planets in primary school, Pluto will always be a planet in my heart. And it literally has a heart on it! Come on! If ever a lifeless rock impossibly far away was asking to be loved, it's this one! â€ïž
the fact remains that there are a ton of other objects orbiting the sun that are not significantly different from pluto. if you call pluto a planet, you have to call all these other objects planets too. the choice isn't between eight planets and nine planets. the choice is between eight planets and possibly thousands of planets. i don't think you want to memorize all of those.
@@sirmoonslosthismind Wait, "Thousands" of Pluto-sized bodies? "Thousands" of Pluto-sized bodies as distinct from just run of the mill KBOs? Might be a bit of an exaggeration there. And yes I understand that over time we may indeed find thousands of such bodies, but I don't think we're in those numbers yet. And I think by the time we actually identify thousands of Pluto-sized bodies, we'll all have chips in our brains so remembering them won't be a problem. :P
The best punchline I ever read from a Pluto meme was "Your mother thought I was big enough!" Much innuendo in that one.
It will take another 1 billion years to forget what happened with Pluto. đą
What a bless we have Editing Becky :)
"Pluto has found it's people." That's the nicest thing I heard in a while. Makes my tummy warm!
Monty Python's Galaxy Song is absolutely the best!
12:10 - Oh, I like that. I'm stealing that. I'm just imaging Pluto walking into the throne room with Ceres sitting there on the throne and Pluto's like "Kneel!" and Ceres is like "Yes, Sire."
Queen, mentioning the Galaxy Song from the Meaning of Life, you are really a girl after my own brain... Thank you for making science so unbelievably engaging.
Those rotation maps were fascinating! Would love to see more on those and/or other uncommon kinds of graphs.
Thank you for the new (to me) perspective regarding Pluto. I have for many years vicariously carried a chip on my shoulder for Pluto after it was declared a non- planet. So even if your explanation did not completely chisel away that chip, I now feel that I can rest easier due to your logic that I find difficult to argue with. Note that I said "difficult".
I just talked to Pluto he has decided to now identify as a body that has cleared out dust and debris from the neighborhood around its orbit.
First meme, I have missed sooo many events because of bad weather. Living in a country where the sun never goes down in the summer doesn't make it easier
Well, it does go down in most of Sweden for a brief while during summer.
So who else was laughing out loud as Becky went through all these memes?
If it makes you feel any better, the way you read scientific articles is almost exactly how I was taught to read them in college!
Also, I never feel like you are going "too deep" into the educational part đ Space is awesome!! (Especially Saturn lol)
OMG King of the dwarves I LOVE IT!
7:00 Your paper reading method is very similar to the guide of writing good papers (just inverse of course). Also that is how all the scientists I know read papers.
With that Carina nebula aliens are trying to communicate with us. It means "Peace among worlds" R&M :)
7:12 Well, have ya tried writing it in a New York Mob Boss accent? "Sos then we took Johnny's little friend, the microscope-"
I interpret that last meme at 11:06 "who's NOT a planet now?" not to mean Pluto becomes a planet again, but that pluto is mocking the destruction of the inner planets as the sun engulfs them whilst it survives?
I also love the Galaxy song, and have used it in my latest video about the alleged Einstein quote "Excuse me, sir, but when does Oxford stop at this train?"
Oops, forgot the link: czcams.com/video/a8pw9ledlsE/video.html
Here in Chicago during the fall and winter it's very common to have cloudy skies at night....... đą Heck, even the solar eclipse from a few years ago was on a partly cloudy day.
Apr 8, 2024, solar eclipse goes right over my head.
Thanks for showing me what passion is âcause now Iâm hooked
That "BAM! Hitting you with the science" cracked me up XD
I so miss the night sky in Northern Wisconsin! So clear and uncluttered by light pollution! So much to see! Now I'm in the Tampa bay area and it can be difficult!
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Becky every video: "!!!CRISIS IN COSMOLOGY!!!!" đ
No one:
Me: having a thirth or fourth midlife crisis..
( just kidding ).
YES I LOVE THESE VIDEOS!! PART THREE PLS đ
2:56 OMG SATURN IS MY FAVORITE TOO IT LOOKS SO COOL LIKE HOW CAN IT NOT BE ANYONE'S FAVORITE
Rowan's Doctor Who saying "Bok Globules" to Baldrick, in any circumstance. Comedy gold.
I'd seen the "Defiant Finger" before, but I always assumed it was just a Photoshop job!
Merch idea! Imagine a T-shirt displaying a large image of the Defiant Finger. Then you eyes pan down to reveal the words "Bok Off!" :D
I was opting for the text "Get over it and learn astrophysics".
4:41 middle finger ???
My POV : I'm seeing a gorilla riding on a bazooka.
Even after reading all that stuff about "space" and physics and all that, even after seening the scales visualised, the numbers that you're dealing with in astrophysics are still just insane, and the "rotating galaxies" bit just re-affirmed that.