Probably a HUGE flex... but also a HUGE disaster looking at the debris flying around everywhere troughout the solar system... including earth... and this everyone you knew, know and will meet in the future
@@cherrydragon3120 If anything, it'd probably be done to catch all the debris for mining so we can build that dyson swarm. But that's WITHOUT looking at the fact that you have to get it past Venus' and Earth's orbit without disrupting those orbits in the first place, and then have it somehow hit Mars on the way. I don't really see this sort of thing happening in the next ten thousand years anyway.
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Our ear lobe shape reflects sound for us to locate sounds on the vertical plane, dogs don't have it (or at least not as good) so they tilt their heads to use their horizontal hearing, vertically.
@@Jupiterider1 Animals with 2 ears detect laterality (how far left or right) primarily using the difference in time of arrival at each ear. This is very accurate directly in front of us (about 1 degree resolution) getting worse as sounds come from farther to the side. Directly to the side we have only about 15 degrees resolution. Up/down discrimination depends on backing out the direction specific filter function applied to sounds as they go through your ears. Much more complex and less accurate. See more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaural_time_difference
There was a story book I remember reading ages ago where future humans did something similar. They called it celestial sculpting. Though if I recall it was Mercury that was smashed into Venus. Ceres along with the rest of the asteroid belt and some of the smaller Jupiter moons were used to enlarge Mars. Basically all three were Earth sized by the end and Venus had it's rotation increased though it still spins in the opposite direction. Jupiter was also ignited into a star after they learned how to siphon gas giants, using up Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Enlarged versions of Titan and Ganymede were placed in a stable orbit around Jupiter. The process took millions of years and was done by Von Neuman drones using solar energy. It didn't have an ending but might have been an allegory for planning, cooperation and patience. I'm going to go nuts trying to remember the author and title. It might have been a web comic. If anyone knows it, let me know.
It's somewhat funny to realize that we've already had Full Self Driving vehicles in the past. You'd get drunk in a local tavern, pub or whatever, fall asleep in the carriage and the horse would drive you home with no problem.
I remember this story from Texas were the guy was drunk but he was in a horse. He was able to convince the cops that the horse was driving and, knew the way home. So therefore he didn’t deserve the DUI.
@@nmarrs8539 A coworker told the tale of getting pulled over (in Texas) for speeding in his Mini Cooper three blocks from home. The trooper let him go with a warning when the explanation was "Once the horse smells the barn, it's hard to hold him back." Difficult to write a ticket while laughing...
Yep, old Dray horses could and would do this for their owners after all the Dray work for the day. So self-driving has been a thing in the shipping industry, too, for a very long time. In some third-world countries they still have Dray horses, mules, and burros.
Sounds like a “Schrodinger’s reality”. It’s both reassuring and soul crushing until you check how you feel about it then it’s one or the other depending on the situation
I'd actually argue that the universe having no meaning is something to celebrate. If there's no inherent meaning in life, that just means life can be freely interpreted. Why do we need some smelly old god to tell us what the point of life is? Make your *own* damn meaning! Do what makes you happy!
@@astracrits4633 personally i don't think it's that simple. Outside of religion and spirituality and stuff, the idea that nothing matters IS freeing for the reasons u explained, but also can be depressing if it means that anything you're passionate about/feel is important isn't important. In times where we're more emotionally vulnerable, it can feel extremely invalidating of any joy we've ever felt. It really all does depend on where u are mentally when u think about it, u know? Like, without getting too into it, that was the mindset that kept me from getting help when my depression was at its worst, and I've spoken to others who felt the same way. It's that idea of "even if I can recover and feel joy, it isn't real/important joy because in the big picture the universe cannot tell the difference between a world world my happiness in it and a world without my happiness in it."
The question is, who cares if you matter? Right now the only things in the universe that could conceivably care are other people. So you only have to worry about mattering to the good people on Earth for now, which is much more manageable
Did somebody say “nothing matters”? Well, there has been some research suggesting that the quantum vacuum of our current visible universe might not be in its lowest and most stable possible energy state, but in fact in a higher meta stable state, susceptible to collapse at any time. If that happened, it could mean the instantaneous destruction of the entire universe and all life in it. So indeed, “nothing” does matter, very much so…
Not to mention it is completely wrong headed. It is quite possible that in our lifetimes we will give birth to an AI lifeform that could rapidly evolve/expand and go on to destroy the entire galaxy. If you don't actively involve yourself in that process then it is going to be driven by people like that maniac puppy torturing doctor and his cult. So yeah, everything matters.
Gulf stream: Important aspect to pump is temperature difference between pole and equator. As arctic temperature rise difference from pole to equator decreases. This will also contribute current reduction
When we renovated I decided to go with a colour called surf mist - Aussie here, it's a corrugated steel called colourbond, and I'm surprised more people don't do it. It's definitely made cooling the house easier, and it looks great, subjectively.
10:00 Darker roofs kill, inhibit and/or hide molds, mosses, mildew and dirt. Light color roofs don't get hot enough to do that. Mostly, the roof color doesn't matter if you have proper attic ventilation and ceiling insulation.
I think it's likely that roofs will continue to be dark, but with PV instead of passive materials- and since PVs work better when cooler, they'll have good provisions for cooling. The mining museum in Boron, CA, has a typical miner's shack from the early 1900s that has a double roof- wallpaper on the first roof, a roughly one foot gap, and shingles on the second roof. This kept the brutal Mojave sun off of the living space and caused convection to keep the dwelling cooler.
Correction, not "cooler", but "less miserably hot." I worked in Mojave (the fashionable place for rocket companies) for almost 20 years and summers there were the next best thing to Mercury. All hail Lord Freon.
@@r0cketplumber So cool! i have been envisioning something like this for houses in hot areas. I have often thought of this very double roof idea, but bringing it down to about 4-6" from the ground with venting @ the eve of the roof, combined with some greenery around the house for a cooler barrier from the elements. I have also thought of some type of what I would refer to as a ground radiator. Essentially a cooling system dug into the ground that uses the naturally cool 60 degrees or so ground temp to help stabilize the house and need less cooling. Although I am not certain as to any cost benefits lol. I do work in construction and it sure isn't cheap! P.S. My grandparents were rocket guys too. one was a rocket electrician and the other a rocket HVAC guy!
I think the "dark roof" comes from putting tar on roofs or tiles of slate, whose natural color is dark. If you use natural material without any coating, you get dark roofs. You have to actively painting roofs a light color, which in most cases is not done, thus your average roof is dark. And of course the Gulf Stream is a thing. Just compare the climate diagram for Rotterdam and Berlin! Both are about the same latitude (52° N), but while in Rotterdam, the low point of the average temperature is somewhere at 4°C, in Berlin, it's 0°C. This is four centigrade difference on a distance of about 650 km.
There is a Continental aspect to this too. Britain is an island and the sea buffers us from extremes of hot and cold. Rotterdam is a port on the North Sea while Berlin is hundreds of miles from the sea. I lived in Germany for a while and was amazed by how much snow they got in Berlin and Wuppertal. The Gulf Stream causes crazy things like tropical trees growing in western Scotland as well as helping our western coasts to be buffered. There has been mini ice ages in Britain. The whole snowy Christmas Card thing comes from The Thames freezing over in early Victorian times. Also, in Canada and Northern USA you have the Labrador Current. This is a cold current and contributes to a colder Winter climate on the Eastern Seaboard. That very cold snap that came down from Canada and progressed through the Middle States of the USA was another example of the Continental Effect
For a more complete demonstration of the Gulf Stream's effect on climate compare Bangor, Maine, 7.3°C average annual temperature, with Bordeaux, France, which averages out at 13.8°C. They are the same latitude and altitude relative sea level, but opposite sides of the Atlantic.
@@Tim67620 While the Labrador current does have an effect, it doesn't influence the climate much beyond Halifax. We do have cold water from that current enter the Gulf of Maine, but it is balanced out against the northern edge of the Gulf Stream.
@@DrewNorthup I think both the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current have an effect. France is hot to us pale, sun starved Brits which is why we go there on Holiday. Don't get me wrong Drew. If the Gulf Stream shuts down then it would be colder here in Britain and all those tropical trees in Scotland would die. I heard that if the Greenland Ice Shelf kept increasing it's melting the lower salinity of the ocean water could shut off the Atlantic Meridional Overtuning Circulation. This would be unpleasant for Northern Europe and the east coast of the US. There is only one answer and the buggers in charge are slow to accept it. Nice to talk to you Drew.
Almost correct It is about moisture control, (building science) we need the roofs and walls to stay dry and dark colors would dry faster prolonging the life of the building, the easiest Dark material when available was tar. asphalt. It would let out vapor but repel rain.. an ideal compromise at the time and it was and is still very cheap. Now we have better materials but we still tend towards dark colors as building are based on the old style of building dependent on moisture vapor being driven from the building materials. This also explains why we do not retrofit toward white colors as the reduced moisture drive results in rotting of the wetted surfaces. There is also a now traditional Bias to dark roofs. Doctor Joe Lstibureka building science expert that has a whole series of videos about changing how we should build our homes. his study have been changing commercial building codes for decades and a smart person should applied them when they build their home. ruclips.net/video/rkfAcWpOYAA/видео.html he is very dry but full of standard practices we all should be doing on our homes.
"Mommy, Why is Earth falling into the sun?" "My child, Some people planetjacked Mercury and crashed it into Mars and now Earth is circling the gravity drain".
Interstellar new station: the infanous planetjacker has struck again dear Humanity, this time it has struck closer to our original Home and taken Mercury for a ride straight into mars. Space Police advices to stay away at least 0.3 parsec awya from the crimescene. Colonies on mars are adviced to take shalter into the inner crust bunkers or take the nearest Magnetic train to the other side of the planet.
"planetjacked" "Oh no, the bandits have trainjacked our locomotive!" "This jackass carjacked my Toyota for some joyriding. >:(" "Alright boys, let's planejack this Boeing."
I like it, it's funny but I don't think removing Mercury and crash it into Mars would have the effect of the Earth falling into the Sun. I think it might change the orbit of the Earth by maybe as much as 0.05%. Now I don't have done any maths on it because I cannot compute orbital mechanics and especially not the N-body problem. But looking at the fact that the Sun holds 99.86% of the mass of the solar system and the gas giants most of the rest, I'm just using my intuition. Could be a nice simulation in Universe Sandbox.
@@flexyco if the Mercury transfer logistic not, the raised Mars weigth definetly do sooner or later. If not into the Sun then into a colder orbit or a direct collision orbit to an another planet...
Smarter Every Day did a good video on the dogs ears thing when talking about how human ears work. It helps them tell which direction the sound came from.
I used to tilt my head while people spoke and toward sounds until some kind soul compared me to a golden retriever. I got my hearing tested and found that I had hearing loss in one ear.
Came here to say the same. From what I remember it's because the are trying to narrow down the vertical placement. I expect their ears being mobile keeps their brain from tuning their hearing to do such.
Joe, regarding the dog head tilt thing... I think it was 'Smarter Every Day' that did a bit on this (He and his children were trying to find a drone stuck in a tree). It has to do with the mammalian brain's ability to detect and discern which ear a sound arrives at first, allowing for direction finding in the all important horizontal plane (tiger on my left or right). If the sound is coming from above or below (on the vertical plane) the direction isn't apparent as our ears are on the sides of our head evenly (for most of us anyway... :). If you turn your head so one ear is up and the other down, the direction (on that vertical plane) then can be discerned. :)
the problem with most insanely ambitious brute force solutions to engineering problems - e.g. smashing planets together - is that by the time we've developed the tech to make them possible we'll almost certainly have long since come up with much more clever and elegant solutions
Agreed. It's easier and safer to mine up large amounts of metal and rock from Mercury and build space habitats with billions of square miles of total living area. Also easier to organise - individual organisations can build their own habitats and industries for their own purposes, like building a city one building at a time, without having to organise the whole of humanity to agree on a plan and work together.
In the UK if you got a Telsa with self-driving technology installed and you use it, insurance companies are already giving you discounts because their data showing that they make fewer payouts.
Is that because Tesla's auto drive system doesnt fair well on UK roads and is liable to kill you? Ive seen the results of Teslas auto drive system. Lets just say, they are keeping the body shop industry busy.
"People love driving." Maybe a little, but what really "drives" teenagers to get their license is the freedom to easily go places. I've been watching lately, and when I'm going somewhere in a car, it's pretty much the same level of enjoyment, whether I'm driving or not. And that's in favorable traffic. I've also discovered that in bad traffic, or going to a place with poor or expensive parking, I'd really rather be on the bus. And in cities I don't know, I'd rather be in a taxi.
People mostly hate driving. Running Stanley Park as a race course at 3am is when you love to drive. Other than that it's nothing but rush hour 24/7. And the occasional accident to really make your day go smooth. Thanks ICBC, your 'no-lube' Policies are just what I wanted. XD
I think teenagers wanting to drive is largely cultural. Yes it's freedom and something to covet, a milestone and many other things but culture has a funny way of developing itself and becoming an antagonist to older generations. In short if (when) cars drive themselves something else will replace the expectations of younger generations. I myself dislike traffic but do love doing my own thing without constraint however would fully embrace a self driving vehicle, however I'd also want a 200hp superbike.
Its teenage freedom, on their own, hanging out and back seat love affairs.......remember grandpas..I do! And that city which is so congested, hell no, nothin there worth the trouble.
And I prefer being on my bicycle. That is, when I'm not having to put up with crappy drivers on roads that haven't been designed to separate cars and bikes. In the city I live, generally it's just as quick to cycle as it is to drive or catch the bus. And you get exercise. I'm hoping we see far fewer cars on our roads in cities in the future, and redesign streets to focus on human-scale transport. Afterall, anywhere between 20-40% of all car trips are under 4km. Seems nuts that cars get used for so many of those trips.
@@Dirtyharry70585 In the few transit-dense cities in the US (NYC, SF, a couple others) teenagers don't bother to get driver's licenses mostly because they already have the ability to get around. When you grow up having the freedom to go wherever you want when you're like, 10, turning 16 to get your driver's license is a lot less magical.
I've coated the EPDM roof of my garden shed with a reflective white coating paint. The effect is gigantic. For comparison, I left a piece of it uncoated, underneath the roof the difference was dramatic. The covered part was pretty much cool under bright sunlight, while the uncovered part radiate heat like mad. I was stunned at how much of an effect it really has.
I love you, Joe. I only discovered your channel early this year, but I can always tell when there's a channel I'll be following for many years. You make me laugh and you teach me things, the best kind of teacher :D.
Perhaps the arranged marriage should be made very slowly prior to merger to reduce the heat energy produced and thus cooling time. Still, your point is extremely relevant, it won't take a few years to settle.
9:26 Something that is really popular here in Canada is the steel roof, its not the norm by any standard, but more and more older buildings are being upgraded with them, they generally have a warrantied 50-75 year life span and can be any color you want, I have seen a lot of them clear coated (although brown seems to be the most popular colour) my house has a 50yr warrantied steel roof that is bright green. Asphalt tiles are all sorts of trouble, they flake off and require upkeep after major window storms, they are just popular cause they are a little cheaper. The 50yr steel roof on my house cost 15k (both units of a semi), and the quote for a 25yr asphalt one was 12k.
They’re a bit creaky when they expand and contract and when it rain or hails, but it’s not terrible when your attic it insulated as it absorbs most of the sound
@@GreenAppelPie hail is kinda of interesting, we don't get a ton of it where I live, but also if its a constant noise like heavy rain you kind of just ignore it after few minutes. I own an old house in an old neighborhood that all the owners have been doing the steel roof and vinyl siding as the main renovations over the last few years.
@@jayartz8562 they wouldn't last long in Canada unpainted or uncoated (lots of humidity and we can see a 50C or more variation in temperature over the year -20s and occasionally -30s in the winter to to high 30s in the summer), I am seeing a lot more steel roofs, and I am very happy with the bright green roof on my house.
@@BlueScreenCorp Our steel roofs are galvanised, conditions vary immensely in Australia, where I am low humidity and -3°C to +49°C, to full on tropical high humidity.
Always super happy to wake up on Monday morning and see a new upload that I know will leave me with things to think about all week! Thanks for the consistent high quality uploads, Joe!
This is my sci-fi novel's idea . . . seems I wasn't the only one. Mercury might be the easiest planet to move, because it could be moved a little bit and then perhaps it could be pushed into resonance with Jupiter moving it further. The tricky part is getting outside of Earth's orbit. Gravity assists could be done, maybe around Venus, but even so, it would have to be done just right. A 2nd point is that Mars is already rotating. Yes, getting it's outside rotating faster than it's inside could give it a magnetic field, but an impact like this would also give Mars a much faster rotation. 5 or 6 hour days, and we'd have to wait millions of years for it to cool down, as Joe pointed out. We're not good at waiting millions of years . . . not to mention, at least 100,000 years to move the planet. Giving Mars a moon might work just as well. A moon with a strong tidal influence slows the rotation of the outer core and can create the variation that causes a magnetic field to happen, at least, that's one theory. Earth's moon helps maintain Earth's magnetic field, not just Earth's size. It's not a completely agreed upon field though. Hitting Venus with Mercury might actually work better as Venus doesn't rotate and also an impact like that could blow some of the atmosphere off. Put up a sun-shield and turn Venus into a new habitable planet - just add water, which is easier said than done as Venus is close to the sun and hard to get to. None of these plans are easy and there's probably easier ways to terraform Mars using the asteroid belt (As Joe said).
Hey its been my sci-fi novel idea too, great minds I guess! The idea is of course a bit more complicated than what Joe covered, but he got the main points haha. Been a long time fun idea of mine, also glad to see I'm not the only one 🙃
I like this format. I can see you doing it about once a month or so. But please, do not replace your current in depth format on topics we all find interesting.
funny thing is the guy mentioned that Scotland was the same latitude as northern Maine but he couldn't be more off. northern Maine is about as north as central France or Munich. Scotlands latitude counter part on the other hand would be the Labrador coast, with the most Northern shetland islands of Scotland being more northern than even the southern tip of Greenland. which really goes to show how amazing the Gulf Stream is.
I'm guessing whoever posed that last question has never been to Scotland- it's f*cking freezing, even in July! When god threatened Moses with forty days and forty nights of rain, the Scots pissed themselves laughing- they thought they were in for a great summer!! 🍄
when everyone "drives" in a self-driving cars I believe it will be safer but the transition between when there is both self-driving and human driven cars on the road interacting together is when I think it will be a lot worse before it gets better
Majority needs self driving cars. They don't know how to drive at all. Like 85 percent of them. Too busy playing on their phone while driving. I live on my motorcycle trust me. 15k miles a year. I'll stay riding my bike thank you. I'm forced to pay attention and can maneuver faster and get the hell out of the way. Motorcycles arn't dangerous. Cagers and motorcyclists that don't pay attention are dangerous. I do love my cruise control however
@@jerryhatrick5860 A friend who rides said that autmobile drivers are allowed to kill you- they just have to make it _look_ like an accident. Stay wary out there.
It is true. This dumb kid had her liscence a week. Rear ended my buddy pushing into a stopped car. Crushed the bike killed him. Got away with it. There are people that target bikes. Think I ride without protection? Nope. And I don't mean riding gear. I mean protection. A few forms. Teust me there's people I have followed and went off on them. I'm not passive when it comes to my life or the passenger on the back. They are my responsibility. I've been riding 25 years. Many times 80 mph on mountain twisties side by side with my brothers. Or faster.
I'm gonna disagree, every human replaced by AI will make roads safer. Say you remove an average or even "safe" driver, an AI is still going to have faster and more consistent responses.
Dude, keep these coming man. Its entertaining, and thoughtful, and a bit of comedic chuckles. I'm always curious what kind of questions other people have.
Are you confidant that there is truly nothing you can do that will make a difference in a million years. I think there may be multiple attractor states. For example a high tech utopia, with lots of smart humans that really like the high tech utopia, and are making sure it lasts long term. This might be an attractor in the sense that if we get there, we stay there. Everyone dead is also an attractor state. Some dystopias may be attractor states. Total control by superhuman AI that really wants to do X is an attractor state for most X. Its possible that current actions can nudge which attractor we fall in. Its also possible that in a million years time, some human historian is looking through the archives and finds this comment. (huge population means many historians) Given how good data storage can get, its reasonably likely most of the modern internet is backed up all over the place by then. And there are enough historians of early 21 century history to study all of it. And given the number of historians could greatly exceed current populations. There may be someone (or many someones) specializing in you in particular.
When I learned about atoms and cells dinosaurs were roaming outside our school windows (or maybe they were cars that burned leaded gas). I pictured the whole thing as a continuum. From the tiniest part of a cell to the body of existence that is the universe.
some people learn by watching, others learn by doing in person, some can mix both tbh what i remember from school is that i had bad eyesight and that i hated to go to school, because i usually couldn't see well or hated the teacher because his explanations were slow or confusing, i already forgot more than half if not more of what i learned in all those years there
Facts oh my God sooo soo much I did Chemistry, Physics, Further mathematics, biology, as my elective in high I knew 0 about history thank to youtube alone I know ww1 ww2 the a whole of thing I would've never ever know if it wasn't for the internet
So here is how it works. 1st it becomes cheaper for the insurance agencies while passing on no savings to have people in a certain type of car. 2nd some new CEO gets hired off some whimsical plan to make more money. 3rd a plan gets formed to lower the prices for these self driving cars, giving people a price break that is high enough to make them want to switch but also low enough to equal increased profits from all the new signups of ever more lucrative insurance packages. Essentially just giving us just enough to make the math work for us while really making the math work for them. And by the end of it all there will be no accidents anywhere but we are all still required to have insurance because the insurance companies used our own money to lobby for their own gains. Also in this future you will be able to get a DUI based purely on the seat you chose to sit in... (I call shotgun!) And phone use while in the drivers seat will still be illegal!
I can see where this would be beneficial. I also build homes but in Chicago, and I can tell you being a redhead working on a dark shingle roof in July is almost unbearable. I’ve never understood why we use black / brown shingles on roofs . Not to mention going into an attic in summer it’s so hot it’s hard to even breathe..
I’ve worked HVAC and I can attest to the heat in an attic of a dark roofed house mid-summer. It’s so hot it’s hard to breathe a lighter shade of roof would definitely be a welcome change.
"Mercury's not bringing much to the table right now." If you were to fuck with Mercury, it would offset the orbits of every planet in our solar system. It is, indeed, bringing something to the table: THE BLOODY CHAIRS.
About dogs tilting their head when you talk to them: there is a video in youtube explaing that this is more common in dogs with a longer snout because dogs are trying to understand what you're talking about by looking at your facial expresions and they are trying different angles to see your mouth.
@@clout13r Heres the part where you already messed up. You shouldn't be driving in a Blizzard you should be inside listening to the Governor issue a State of Emergency.
Loving driving (in the way you are talking about it) is quite an “US kind of thing”. In (most) other countries we don’t think of “being able to drive anywhere” as equal to freedom, we have a different criteria for that (that you guys haven’t), and we don’t “hate” public transport in the same ways as you guys.
I was going to make a similar point in that the vast majority of people like the freedom driving affords them but not the actual act of driving. I consider myself to be in a minority where I will go for a drive with no destination in mind because I enjoy the task of driving, especially when you can find a quiet, twisty back road. Most people are more similar to my wife who, if given an alternative transport option that is just as convenient, would do that over driving. I think this is more evident in the US due to the lack of options especially on the west coast where the cities were designed with cars much more in mind. In Europe, cities are much older and designed for horse and cart over car. Public transport is better, so you see less car dependency in bigger cities. However, there is more car dependency in smaller towns with less transport links and a feeling that they have to drive over wanting to drive.
@@jhoughjr1 I’m not saying your public transport is great, it’s also terrible here in Iceland (but was great in Denmark where I lived for 14 years). And I think it might be partly to do with the attitude towards using it, a what comes first, chicken vs egg kind of thing. Like they don’t make it good (or at all) because very few using it and nobody’s using it because it’s not good. Where as in many European countries and Japan for example, it is pretty good because a lot of people use it and it doesn’t have the same stigma as in the US and Iceland (which is basically a tiny-wannabe US :) ).
I think, that huge role is being played by the city layout - european cities are old and have defined city centre with important city buildings being close to it, as well as residential zones of influent people who wanted to be as close to center of power, as possible… In most of the history, abovementioned closeness to source of power meant that you lived "short walk away", however over time it changes to "short time away" and also as some institutions were unable to fit to limited space on main city square, moving to fringes a new need arised - to connect city center with instirutions on fringe… Over time, that gave birth to modern european public transport… However in USA, situation went a different way, leading to a mass-building of cheap "paper & stick" houses into middle of nowhere…
According to surveys of young people, interest in driving has dropped precipitously over the last 20 years in the US. So, if you solve for autonomy and this give teens the freedom they need to move around, driving yourself will likely be extremely niche… far more niche than manual transmissions are currently in the US.
The US needs to do what they did in the 50s and demolish half their cities. Just now, instead of building the insanely expensive and stupid car dependent cities, it's time to rebuild with walkability and public transportation in mind. In my country, teens have all the freedom they need to move around, even middle schoolers, because we don't live in a hellscape where you have to buy your freedom by purchasing a 2-ton clownmobile. When I was a kid, I could WALK to school, take the bus to the swimming pool, take the train to go on a vacation... And I didn't have to worry about driving AT ALL. Amazing, that Americans f**ked up their own living spaces so much 70 years back, that now they need some sci-fi revolution so they can live on the same level as Europeans and Japanese were living all along.
The same myth is propagated here in germoney (pun intended) and it is just the desired outcome of flawed questioning in favour of the greens. It is not the "i want to"-part that decreases, but the "i will get it"-part. Licences are expensive, cars are expensive, taxes just to own one are expansive, fuel-costs are crippling (1,739€/L today for E90, or 1,09€/kWh at a fast charging station), parking spaces are perpetually nonexistant (and getting actively deminished by our political caste). And set that into relation of shring wages, a decline of perspectives espeacially for younger ones. They don´t have the resources and they know it. Our city structures are in essence medieval, everything is walkable and a poblic transportation net exists since more than hundred years - and people still like to have the freedom to go where they want and when they want. Why do you think the car became so dominant?
There's a term for this in German: "Narrenfreiheit". Translated it means something along the lines of "a fool's freedom", implying that people who lack the cognitive ability to think about the consequences of their actions are usually carefree and hence do whatever they want.
What do you mean that nothing ultimately matters? Firstly, every moment within the universe is as real as every other. If physisists proved conclusively that the universe will disintigrate in 10^100 years, the stuff that happens beefore then is still real stuff that will or won't happen and that can matter. (or rather that we can care about, the label "this matters, its important" is part of the mind, not of reality. If you intrinsically care about frogs for the shear frogginess, then frogs matter to you. Ie stars are important to me because hopefully I can use them to build my intergalactic utopia. (Although an intergalactic utopia not built by me personally is just as good, and more likely.)
There are a number of problems with this idea. Number one, by the time we become a type two civilization, we’ll be able to travel to other stars, and terraforming Mars wouldn’t be important. Number two, by that time, there will be a whole Martian civilization living there, with whatever drawbacks that includes, so slamming a planet into it would kill all those people! And number three, as Joe said, it will take a few hundred million years for it to cool off enough to actually use it. So, it’s a none issue, by time we are able to do it, there will be no reason to do it.
Spinning habitats. O’Neill Cylinders and Stanford Toruses are about a million times more effective pound-for-pound at providing habitat than planets. They’ll bathe in sunlight 24/7/365, so solar energy would be base load. Arrival and departure can be done with efficient low-thrust propulsion; any planet needs high-thrust, low-isp rockets. Highly mobile so can adjust to a future bloating sun. Radiation shielding done with a brutally simple water jacket just as we use water pools today to store highly radioactive spent nuclear reactor fuel.
Mercury as mentioned in the video will most likely become raw materials for space habitats. I think it would be "easier" to cool down Venus then attempt something that reckless but who knows people get bored.
Carpenter here. About shingles being black... Light colored shingles caught on for a bit but after a few years you start to see stains on the shingles from old leaves' tannin and short-lived algae. It looks really bad on light colored shingles. Also, most homes' air conditioned areas don't include the attic, so the shingle colors don't matter as much as you might think for energy consumption. Also also, ideally roofs are built with good, unobstructed ventilation (usually soffit vents and ridge vents), so ideally, in terms of heating and cooling, a good roof is a somewhat warm space that otherwise shouldn't impact your cooling bill nearly as much as imperfect seals in your walls, ceilings, doors, windows, etc.
When we had to put down our little dachshund down a couple of years ago we were at the vet's office comforting him. As soon as the Propofol hit him, he did that head tilt thing ... which was the last thing he did. My wife and I were crying our eyes out, but we were glad to be there for him.
My thoughts about changing roof colors: From what I’ve heard, heating and cooling homes puts more carbon into our atmosphere than all cars (not including diesel trucks iirc) on the road. So if there is a suggestion for something that allows us to use less energy for heating and cooling, it will probably have a significant impact when stretched out to an entire country or the whole world.
Joe started with the small percentage of the surface area roofs are and so they wouldn't make a big difference to cooling the climate He ended up with saying it could make a big difference on energy to heat/cool those individual houses (for with the roof is a significant fraction of the surface area). And then that that saving heating/cooling energy would probably help the climate more than the reduction in the reduction in total solar energy absorbed.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to cover the roofs with solar panels? When installed properly, they would also protect roofs from accumulating too much heat thus reducing the energy required to cool the rooms. You'd need to leave a space between the roof and the panels, that space would naturally ventilate dispersing heat and the energy generated by the panels would cover a lot of the household's energy needs.
If the Gulf Stream shuts down, and if it initiates an ice age, the current estimate for the time it will take to cover northern Europe in glacial ice, based on the average time it took in previous ice ages, is 70 years; geologically speaking, it's an insanely fast process. So for Scotland? Probably less than half that.
@@tycarne7850 Calm down, it takes a bit of time slowing down a water volume multiple times that of all the world's rivers. Unless Dr.Freeze decides to go deep scuba-diving in Northern Atlantic.
@@russellfitzpatrick503 You can probably restart it by synchronized pissing from the coast of Fort William or Isle of Tiree to the west on saturday nights.
Here in Arizona we get a heat dome basically that covers the city and surrounding cities. It’s likely from so much blacktop and concrete from all the people here. Storms will pass by or go around when it’s too hot for the storm to penetrate the heat dome. In the outskirts, the edge of the dome sort of, has many farms still. And the further away you get from the freeway, and towards small mountains the cooler it gets compared to populated areas.
Whilst making all the roof tiles reflective might slightly decrease the energy cost of house cooling, the energy used to do so would offset the already negligible global impact. But building new homes with more energy saving materials in future is certainly the way to go for the long haul of humanity.
@@theobserver9131 that depends on the method used... Would the roof need completely replacing? Could it be painted? There's manufacturing, transport, labour... Anything that has a monetary cost has an energy cost, and on a global scale it is going to be significant... But what is the total roof area of human buildings compared to the surface area of the earth? I don't know, but I'd put money on it being far less than one percent, so at the end of the day would the effect even be measurable?
Measure for measure and mile for mile FSD's are much more deadly. Joe's methodology in examining this is deeply flawed and lacking multiple crucial variables. The biggest fly in the ointment is the unwillingness of tech giants and the ultra rich to help fund the necessary massive nationwide infrastructural overhaul required to make these truly safe and viable. They'e more interested in the wealth they can accumulate with this tech than any genuine safety issues. Typical corporate mentality.
@@shacktime it's not as far off as you might think in Britain they already have trash trucks that are fully automated they have one person on the back to help empty the trash bins but no driver other countries are already starting to use automatic Transportation trucks for short distant tracks instead of using people are military also has its own array of vehicles that are fully self-driving
5:11 As an AI engineer, I hate the "intuition" comparison. The only thing AI has is intuition. Also, disparate insurance companies will be replaced by insurance provided by the AI/auto makers. Think about it. Who better to guarantee the efficacy of the product than the maker? They're cars, not pharmaceuticals, after all.
And I really hate the term AI for glorified linear algebra dumps... There is nothing intelligent in those calculations. It's merely a tool that we don't comprehend to a point where we can't even begin to actually intelligently shape our parameters. It's bloody dangerous to use systems of equations to literally drive stuff that we have no way of mathematically proving. A tesla doesn't see in all directions. A tesla has sensors in all directions. And we cannot prove what input information is responsible for any given output.
@@Argosh I kind of agree - but then again: what about a brain? It's a bunch of crazy random-ish wired together neurons. There's nothing intelligent in that... _surely_ - right? I'm very much in favour for using formally verifiable systems as much as possible, but not all that optimistic that it's going in that direction. Because such a system would have to be built completely from scratch, but the roads will continue to be used by all kinds of vehicles, controlled by both humans and AI. No chance you're going to prove that interaction correct.
When I was 16, I didn't want a self driving car. I wanted a '66 G-T-O convertible with a 389 tri-power, 4speed, posi, & dual exhausts. A self driving car would be about as much fun as having mom drive you around in the station wagon.
same here, though I wanted a 72 Nova like the one my father had. As soon as I got my license and my first vehicle, I NEVER wanted to be driven around by anyone.
Agree, it never occurred to me in 1982 that someday I would WANT people to stop driving cars. However most youth today seek fun online instead of behind the steering wheel (or worse go online WHILE behind the steering wheel). It seems no coincidence my car insurance rates skyrocketed over the past decade as smartphones proliferated. My driving has always been accident-free. Other drivers, not so much.
@@biovmr I am 18. I drive a rx8. And i want a rx7 with 20b please =( and a-a-a Turbo or p-p-p-pro-charger with m-m-m-meth injection p-p-p-pretty please
I'm from Scotland. We have very weird, manic weather here. Sun shining one minute, pouring down rain the next then later in the day it could possibly be super windy. It's not like that every day but when it does get moody, man does it like to show different seasons in one day! You can guarantee if you're in Scotland especially Glasgow where I am you'll hear folk talking about the weather! We do that here, a lot 😂
My intuition is invaluable while driving. Defensive driving and keeping my space when following erratic drivers has saved me more times than I can count.
Now imagine that there arent erratic drivers, imagine that every car is autonomous not only that but each car is connected to a wireless system and it's "comunicating" with each other this way each car in the street is constantly passing their current location, speed, etc to each other car on the street and that way they know where every car is at every single moment that way the AI can make predictions and calculate the fastest, most efficient and safest route posible pass that information to the other cars and this way they can organize each other to make that posible Instead of drivers trying to accelerate suddenly or passing red lights or other stupid stuff like that each car is perfectly respectable of each other space and time Sounds like a fantasy but it might become a reality in the near to middle future
For private cars, maybe. But on a grander level, it will mean a lot of improved efficiency. Individual efficency, like when you don't have to pay a trucker and have him stop to eat, sleep and whatnot, and collective efficiency when we get rid of traffic jams, gridlock, accidents, toll booths, etc. And if we move away from private car ownership and into robotaxis, we can get rid of things like garages and parking lots, make streets wider by not having to leave space to park, and so on. Personally, I think that's the way it's going to go for the majority of people: automated Ubers.
free guy's character said it best, " i FEEL real, and that's as real as anything else." i'd have to agree with this sentiment. whether or not we're living in a simulation or if anything does or doesn't matter is completely irrelevant. we're here, we have lives to live and a world of people to try and be compassionate towards. nihilism is the antithesis of empathy
@@2ndfloorsongs Empathy requires a great effort at overcoming natural self-interest and learning how not to judge and to see things from different perspectives. If nothing matters (and it doesn't) then what reason are you going to give for people to expend this effort? The only reason is individual selfishness - being empathetic towards others is more likely to result in better outcomes for you, at least socially. Still, sometimes you effort will not be reimbursed and people you treat well will still treat you poorly.
The dog cocking it's head thing when speaking to it is the animal thinking about what it's hearing because usually when you are acting like a dog or whimpering to it it will be confused because it thinks you're another animal and not a human. We do the same thing when slightly confused about what we're hearing.
"Artificial Human Intuition", or AHI, is a talent that can be achieved over time but will not be necessary because, by the time AHI is fully functional, all cars will be computers and will just talk with each other instead of trying to guess.
And as a counterpoint I'll just gently note how well that's going with commercial air transport... Autopilot, in aircraft, has been a work in progress for over 80 years now. Yet we sill need pilots because stuff happens that it can't deal with. Any "self driving" system needs to be programmed with some humility and ability to take input from people when it can't figure out what to do. Otherwise people just won't trust it...and history shows they'd be right.
I see selfdriving cars introduced first on highways because of the homogenity of the traffic (mainly cars, no pedestrians or bikes) and at one time it will be obligatory to selfdrive on such roads. In urban areas it will be much later.
@@DrewNorthup No. We still have pilots because people have never trusted the autopilots. A huge number of problems and crashes are pilot error, and the problem is the same as that of driving: boredom: humans are horrible at dealing with long periods of nothing waiting for something. Many of the rest are maintenance issues. Some the crew has time to attempt to deal with, but most just happen and end with the captain's voice "Oh sh*t." or "What was that noise?" In ~1976 Boeing flew flew an airliner gate to gate from Seattle to, I believe, Boston, under autopilot. It's a toss-up whether automated planes would crash more or less than those with crews. But merely from the size and operating complexity of modern aircraft comes a requirement for more crew.
@@SuperWiz666 Look up the Air France flight 447 final report on the BEA website. The human freaking out and messing up would not have happened were it not for the equipment failing first. The autopilot detected the equipment failure and having no idea what to do about it disconnected. That happens much more often than you seem to think. Besides, more than 60% of all landings and takeoffs are flown by hand each day and we don't have legions of dead people each month. It is not a toss-up at all: autopilots work well within their design parameters and humans are good at other, overlapping, skills. The two reinforce each other every day for the best result. We need both.
Here's a great idea: paint ALL the buildings with this highly reflective paint (thus reducing energy costs) which will surely dazzle all the drivers on the road, causing a spike in car-related deaths thereby causing insurance companies (extortionists) to lobby for FSD cars - not so much because they're concerned with loss of life and/or limb but because all the accidents are dipping into their profit margin. A WIN/WIN SITUATION!!!
13:05 I guess waiting for mars to cool down would take way too long compared to just building a habitable Dyson Sphere out of the entire solar system. otherwise I thought this was a really really good idea (assuming a far-future very powerful human civilization we could be planning for billions of years into the future)
6:30 the problem is that companies over-hype their self-driving capabilities. Of course a lot of drivers know what they are supposed to do, but others have justification to be careless. It's like trusting cheap heater because text on the box says it's save.
"Humans, we are messy, distracted, unpredictable, and ...". Joe you left out perhaps the most important one here: JERKS. Other than that, your answers nailed every topic well. Thanks!
As far as we are aware we are the only living entities in the entire universe capable of investigating and understanding that universe. How does that make us insignificant?? It makes us amazing
“If you wanted to power the entire U.S. with solar panels, it would take a fairly small corner of Nevada or Texas or Utah; you only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to power the entire United States. The batteries you need to store the energy, to make sure you have 24/7 power, is 1 mile by 1 mile. One square-mile. That’s it.” - Elon Musk
This is grossly oversimplified and probably incorrect. Powering the plants and buildings to construct those solar arrays as well as getting that power from place to place with only current power demands would be a financial, logistical and probable nightmare. There are so many little details from maintenance, correct calibration, ecological and spacial ingenuity these states undeniably wouldn't allow even with Elon's own cash stock. Still... "only a small" and "100 by 100 miles" shouldn't go in the same sentence Mr. Musk.
I'd definitely wonder how much energy we could get from Yellowstone though? As the country doing the best with renewable energy has lots of hot springs and geysers. Or wonder about new technology with magma chambers. Or some kind of floating devices with water.
@@velnz5475 it has worked will in south Australia. They were the first test subject and have demolished their last coal power plant. They have a larger population than the 10 smallest US states population. South Australia is the size of Texas and New Mexico. 37% of their energy is natural gas and the rest is wind geothermal and solar. The renewable energy is less expensive and will phase out natural gas when 2 née transmission lines are built to connect to New South Wales. 1.1 trillion was spent blowing things up in Iraq.
How many chairs have you had since you started your channel? You have mastered the slow spin. Is that skill or a great chair? Cheers from Broken Arrow Oklahoma!
I also believe that while major thoroughfares, commuter routes and city streets may be restricted to self-driving-only, there will be plenty of backroads and rural areas where people will be able to go 'off the grid' and drive themselves. You're never going to see (well... ok. Not for a much longer time) "Self Driving Motorcycles" or ATV's or other recreational vehicles (Boats included). People will ALWAYS want to drive, fly, sail, cruise, race, etc. And there will always be the ability to do that... somehow.
Regarding air conditioning and cool interior spaces in the summertime. I live in a traditional house biuilt around 1940 on the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld). The house has around 60-70 cm (24-28") thick adobe brick walls, it's axis is oriented East-West, and there are 4 huge mulberry trees on the south (longer) side of the house providing shade for the entire roof. In the summer, when outside temperatures during the day rise above 35°C (95°F), even in the vicinity of 40°C (104°F), and do not sink below 25°C (77°F), I can still manage to keep the bedroom around 24-26°C (75-79°F) without air conditioning. I only use natural ventilation through the windows during the night, and the natural evaporation of water from the adobe walls, that cools the inside of the house. Without electricity. Without a noisy machine. Without paying for it. The old people knew how and why they built houses the way they did.
The thing about self-driving cars is that average traffic throughput will improve. Do you notice that when you want to make a left turn at an intersection, the cars going the other way are spaced out in a single lane, so there isn't room for you to get through. Even though they could use both lanes, all three lanes, legally closer together, leaving room for you to make your turn.
Of course computers can have "intuition", all you need to do is ask neural network on what each car will do in the next 10 seconds and train it on the real world data, and eventually it will be able to see if someone is on their phone and not paying attention, or just where they are looking. It will even form patterns between the brand of the car and driving styles, time of day, day of the week, weather... All I'm saying is that machine learning is very good at finding patterns.
I mean, it's kinda not intuition if it's taught, right? Doesn't that make it more-or-less not intuition, by definition? I guess you did put it in quotation marks, and in that sense, I would agree that a computer can definitely have""intuition"" (The double quotation marks is on purpose).
@@idontwantahandlethough The truth is that human intuition is also taught, you are not born with any of it, you don't even have a concept of object persistency at first.
Joe, This is the first time i felt a 'Jetsons' like future without hearing George yelling in my head, "Jane! Jane! STOP THIS CRAZY THIIIIING!!!!" i was born in May '62. Driving equals Freedom. Changing one's paradigm to NOT view this as being akin to Incarceration is my biggest hurdle. ALL> i WE> all U> most 🙏 Thank you Joe 🖖
Partially true; you wouldn't need LIABILITY insurance (however, you would indirectly pay for it as a consumer one way or another). The direct liability moves, but the ultimate costs are borne by the same people. Also you would still need insurance for non-liability reasons (hail-storms, theft, etc.) If using driverless as a pure consumer (non-owner), then your price/ride would be all inclusive, presumably.
@@biovmr Ah ofcourse, you're right. I wasn't thinking about theft, accidental damage, etc. Very true also that you would pay for it in the price of the vehicle in the end. Good points.
I've always been amused at the idea that even if we did create a thickened Martian atmoshpere it's worthless as it would gradually lose it over time. True - but the key word is *gradually* ......over timescales of many millions of years. I'm sure any advanced society that could terraform Mars and create such an atmosphere in the next few thousand years or so could periodically top it up from time to time (with comets and what-not) . Not a big deal - someone just needs to set a reminder on their aeon scale google calendar, say every 50,000 years or so. Job done.
5:24 in my opinion, looking at how quickly computers learned to defeat the greatest board-game players of the world, this is only a matter of time. Intuition, I believe, can be learned. Very quickly by computers, once they attain enough information on the basics.
in regards to the automated cars: I keep thinking about is the idea of a smart-car with a human interface similar to the way modern fighter-jets work. The driver's inputs aren't directly linked to the throttle or wheels, but a command fed into a core. That core is also calculating data from tons of sensors inside and outside the car, from the speed, to the grip of the tires, to the free space surrounding the vehicle, engine performance, weather forecasts, GPS location, center of mass, etc, and the core compares the driver-inputs to the sensor data and does what the driver tells it to as effectively as possible. obviously you'd need a lot of high speed i/o and computational redundancy for this to work, but imagine a driver/car relationship where the car handles what it knows best, and the driver handles what they know best. We already have this to a certain extent, but I think there's a lot more potential to explore this relationship deeper instead of just trying to program a human out of their own life or death situations.
Here’s something to consider. Automated cars wouldn’t be needed if public transport was more accessible. I believe *that* is more effective than a millionare’s attempt at being the solution.
Attempt at being the solution? Or an attempt at making money? If Elon actually cared about human lives or environmental causes, he wouldn't do half the things he does. He wouldn't have forced Telsa factories to operate in defiance of COVID safety precautions. He wouldn't oppose his workers unionizing. He wouldn't donate to political candidates who champion fossil fuel causes. He wouldn't have advocated for a coup in Bolivia so he could exploit the country's lithium deposits. He wouldn't have interfered with the Thai cave rescue and then had a tantrum when he was asked to allow the rescuers to do their job. Musk is just as much of a grifter as any other elite capitalist. His only priority is himself.
But public transport is limited. People (Most people anyway) don't want to suffer the limits of public transportation as it is today. Getting on the bus. Taking the train. People would rather get in a car and go. HOWEVER, if public transport encompassed FSD cars that would come get you, on a whim, and take you exactly where you needed to go, there's a case for people not buying and maintaining their own vehicles anymore. Just 'calling' one, getting in and going. You pay for what you use, instead of paying for unlimited use (today's private vehicle model). But then there's the issue with vandalism, theft and misuse. No one is going to want to get into a smelly, dirty, vandalized vehicle. Which is why people invest in their own cars. If it's dirty... it doesn't matter if it's YOUR dirt, they just want to get where they need to get... now. :)
He no more thinks it's the only solution than I do, it's one solution out of many and a very necessary and practical one. Mass transit is better; but cars are a current reality, and must be replaced with cleaner ones. Every FSD robotaxi, by the way, will replace more than ten of cars. The technology and batteries developed to make EV's is even now and will continue to be used to improve mass transit.
@@emmaobrien1376 But that’s the point. Elon is trying to be the solution, full stop. He’s planning to be the sole distributor of that solution, no matter the cost. I personally think he’s a creative, yet immoral Capitalist who can do anything he wants on the makes him money. Especially if that money comes cheap.
Indeed, trams, trolley buses, subways are much better options. Dont get me wrong electric cars are better than non electric ones, but public transport is much better and cheaper solution, especially options I named since those have advantages of electric vehicles without having downsides on batteries.
4:36 Tesla's cars have already saved well over about 500 people so far. There are 500 people walking the earth now that would be dead... so Tesla has some credit to spend - BAZINGA
I've been riding in a car since I was born, took driver's ed, learned how to drive, but then I was diagnosed with narcolepsy and my state does not allow me to get a license. However, seldom along the way have I felt like I could take over the driving responsibility, nor do I comment (or make a sarcastic remark) about their driving while we're in the car... and I've ridden with my grandma who drove a white Cadillac and would AT MOST turn the wheel 45 degrees to take corners. I don't know why, but I've always been able to put my entire faith into the driver. I ride with my friends and see every single one of them wanting to drive because none of them are confident enough in the ability of the one actually driving. It's a sad existence. It's kind of like "well, if we die in this car today, we die in this car today," and I never really second-guessed myself until recently when I was riding with my best friend and his wife. His wife was at the wheel, and it occurred to me: If anyone is supposed to trust her at the wheel, shouldn't it be her husband? Why was I unequivocally trusting that she could drive perfectly fine when he's freaking out? So if you're asking me about FSD, I feel like it's a long time overdue. I don't understand why it's so hard for people to just accept that they are not in control of the vehicle, but I guess that comes from a lifetime of riding in cars instead of driving them myself? And if you're asking me whether or not I would feel safer in an FSD? Abso-fucking-loutely, are you crazy? There are millions of drivers out there and you have the gall to assert that they're all individually smarter and quicker than the COMPUTER driving my car? My mom has driven me a majority of my life. Quite frankly, I'm surprised I've lived this long.
Ngl, smashing Mercury into Mars is probably the ultimate "because I could" flex that humans would do.
Probably a HUGE flex... but also a HUGE disaster looking at the debris flying around everywhere troughout the solar system... including earth... and this everyone you knew, know and will meet in the future
@@cherrydragon3120 If anything, it'd probably be done to catch all the debris for mining so we can build that dyson swarm. But that's WITHOUT looking at the fact that you have to get it past Venus' and Earth's orbit without disrupting those orbits in the first place, and then have it somehow hit Mars on the way. I don't really see this sort of thing happening in the next ten thousand years anyway.
@@cherrydragon3120 no that's not a huge problem, space is big, bigger than you think
@@cherrydragon3120 if we had the tech to do that we could definitely protect ourselves from debris
Not even remotely close to the ultimate flex in the scope of things humans MIGHT be able to do given enough time…
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@@User_2 I second that
I used to live in Cambridge, ON for a while as a child.
Our ear lobe shape reflects sound for us to locate sounds on the vertical plane, dogs don't have it (or at least not as good) so they tilt their heads to use their horizontal hearing, vertically.
That's really cool!
Great answer. I love it, but seems made up in a mad scientist sort of way. What do I know?…lol
@@Jupiterider1 He probably saw it on vsauce or veritasium or smarter everyday - I know one of them did a piece on it.
@@Jupiterider1 Animals with 2 ears detect laterality (how far left or right) primarily using the difference in time of arrival at each ear. This is very accurate directly in front of us (about 1 degree resolution) getting worse as sounds come from farther to the side. Directly to the side we have only about 15 degrees resolution. Up/down discrimination depends on backing out the direction specific filter function applied to sounds as they go through your ears. Much more complex and less accurate. See more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaural_time_difference
I've also heard that the snout gets in the way of seeing our full face, and they are trying to see our face better by tilting their head
There was a story book I remember reading ages ago where future humans did something similar. They called it celestial sculpting. Though if I recall it was Mercury that was smashed into Venus. Ceres along with the rest of the asteroid belt and some of the smaller Jupiter moons were used to enlarge Mars. Basically all three were Earth sized by the end and Venus had it's rotation increased though it still spins in the opposite direction. Jupiter was also ignited into a star after they learned how to siphon gas giants, using up Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Enlarged versions of Titan and Ganymede were placed in a stable orbit around Jupiter. The process took millions of years and was done by Von Neuman drones using solar energy. It didn't have an ending but might have been an allegory for planning, cooperation and patience. I'm going to go nuts trying to remember the author and title. It might have been a web comic. If anyone knows it, let me know.
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Try the "tip of my tongue" subreddit, the guys there are super good
@@GrimmDelightsDice I'll give it a try.
It's somewhat funny to realize that we've already had Full Self Driving vehicles in the past. You'd get drunk in a local tavern, pub or whatever, fall asleep in the carriage and the horse would drive you home with no problem.
I remember this story from Texas were the guy was drunk but he was in a horse. He was able to convince the cops that the horse was driving and, knew the way home. So therefore he didn’t deserve the DUI.
@@nmarrs8539 A coworker told the tale of getting pulled over (in Texas) for speeding in his Mini Cooper three blocks from home. The trooper let him go with a warning when the explanation was "Once the horse smells the barn, it's hard to hold him back." Difficult to write a ticket while laughing...
@@nmarrs8539 Getting caught drunk IN a horse seems like a much different problem than getting caught drunk ON a horse.
@@scottm7023 He probably left out carriage pulled by
Yep, old Dray horses could and would do this for their owners after all the Dray work for the day. So self-driving has been a thing in the shipping industry, too, for a very long time. In some third-world countries they still have Dray horses, mules, and burros.
Sounds like a “Schrodinger’s reality”. It’s both reassuring and soul crushing until you check how you feel about it then it’s one or the other depending on the situation
You mean the existential/nihilistic view on how significant we truly are in this universe??
I'd actually argue that the universe having no meaning is something to celebrate. If there's no inherent meaning in life, that just means life can be freely interpreted. Why do we need some smelly old god to tell us what the point of life is? Make your *own* damn meaning! Do what makes you happy!
@@astracrits4633 personally i don't think it's that simple. Outside of religion and spirituality and stuff, the idea that nothing matters IS freeing for the reasons u explained, but also can be depressing if it means that anything you're passionate about/feel is important isn't important. In times where we're more emotionally vulnerable, it can feel extremely invalidating of any joy we've ever felt. It really all does depend on where u are mentally when u think about it, u know?
Like, without getting too into it, that was the mindset that kept me from getting help when my depression was at its worst, and I've spoken to others who felt the same way. It's that idea of "even if I can recover and feel joy, it isn't real/important joy because in the big picture the universe cannot tell the difference between a world world my happiness in it and a world without my happiness in it."
The question is, who cares if you matter? Right now the only things in the universe that could conceivably care are other people. So you only have to worry about mattering to the good people on Earth for now, which is much more manageable
Did somebody say “nothing matters”? Well, there has been some research suggesting that the quantum vacuum of our current visible universe might not be in its lowest and most stable possible energy state, but in fact in a higher meta stable state, susceptible to collapse at any time. If that happened, it could mean the instantaneous destruction of the entire universe and all life in it.
So indeed, “nothing” does matter, very much so…
Joe: "Nothing I do matters"
Me: You matter Joe! And, according to Einstein, you also energy!
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Not to mention it is completely wrong headed. It is quite possible that in our lifetimes we will give birth to an AI lifeform that could rapidly evolve/expand and go on to destroy the entire galaxy. If you don't actively involve yourself in that process then it is going to be driven by people like that maniac puppy torturing doctor and his cult. So yeah, everything matters.
Gulf stream: Important aspect to pump is temperature difference between pole and equator. As arctic temperature rise difference from pole to equator decreases. This will also contribute current reduction
When we renovated I decided to go with a colour called surf mist - Aussie here, it's a corrugated steel called colourbond, and I'm surprised more people don't do it.
It's definitely made cooling the house easier, and it looks great, subjectively.
That is an oddly assembled paragraph...
I wanna see a colour called Smurf Mist… inspired by hunting Smurfs with a 50 cal rifle.
Same here. Our house is always cool.
10:00 Darker roofs kill, inhibit and/or hide molds, mosses, mildew and dirt. Light color roofs don't get hot enough to do that. Mostly, the roof color doesn't matter if you have proper attic ventilation and ceiling insulation.
I think it's likely that roofs will continue to be dark, but with PV instead of passive materials- and since PVs work better when cooler, they'll have good provisions for cooling.
The mining museum in Boron, CA, has a typical miner's shack from the early 1900s that has a double roof- wallpaper on the first roof, a roughly one foot gap, and shingles on the second roof. This kept the brutal Mojave sun off of the living space and caused convection to keep the dwelling cooler.
Correction, not "cooler", but "less miserably hot." I worked in Mojave (the fashionable place for rocket companies) for almost 20 years and summers there were the next best thing to Mercury.
All hail Lord Freon.
@@r0cketplumber So cool! i have been envisioning something like this for houses in hot areas. I have often thought of this very double roof idea, but bringing it down to about 4-6" from the ground with venting @ the eve of the roof, combined with some greenery around the house for a cooler barrier from the elements. I have also thought of some type of what I would refer to as a ground radiator. Essentially a cooling system dug into the ground that uses the naturally cool 60 degrees or so ground temp to help stabilize the house and need less cooling.
Although I am not certain as to any cost benefits lol. I do work in construction and it sure isn't cheap!
P.S. My grandparents were rocket guys too. one was a rocket electrician and the other a rocket HVAC guy!
I think the "dark roof" comes from putting tar on roofs or tiles of slate, whose natural color is dark. If you use natural material without any coating, you get dark roofs. You have to actively painting roofs a light color, which in most cases is not done, thus your average roof is dark.
And of course the Gulf Stream is a thing. Just compare the climate diagram for Rotterdam and Berlin! Both are about the same latitude (52° N), but while in Rotterdam, the low point of the average temperature is somewhere at 4°C, in Berlin, it's 0°C. This is four centigrade difference on a distance of about 650 km.
There is a Continental aspect to this too. Britain is an island and the sea buffers us from extremes of hot and cold. Rotterdam is a port on the North Sea while Berlin is hundreds of miles from the sea. I lived in Germany for a while and was amazed by how much snow they got in Berlin and Wuppertal. The Gulf Stream causes crazy things like tropical trees growing in western Scotland as well as helping our western coasts to be buffered. There has been mini ice ages in Britain. The whole snowy Christmas Card thing comes from The Thames freezing over in early Victorian times. Also, in Canada and Northern USA you have the Labrador Current. This is a cold current and contributes to a colder Winter climate on the Eastern Seaboard. That very cold snap that came down from Canada and progressed through the Middle States of the USA was another example of the Continental Effect
For a more complete demonstration of the Gulf Stream's effect on climate compare Bangor, Maine, 7.3°C average annual temperature, with Bordeaux, France, which averages out at 13.8°C. They are the same latitude and altitude relative sea level, but opposite sides of the Atlantic.
@@Tim67620 While the Labrador current does have an effect, it doesn't influence the climate much beyond Halifax. We do have cold water from that current enter the Gulf of Maine, but it is balanced out against the northern edge of the Gulf Stream.
@@DrewNorthup I think both the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current have an effect. France is hot to us pale, sun starved Brits which is why we go there on Holiday. Don't get me wrong Drew. If the Gulf Stream shuts down then it would be colder here in Britain and all those tropical trees in Scotland would die. I heard that if the Greenland Ice Shelf kept increasing it's melting the lower salinity of the ocean water could shut off the Atlantic Meridional Overtuning Circulation. This would be unpleasant for Northern Europe and the east coast of the US. There is only one answer and the buggers in charge are slow to accept it. Nice to talk to you Drew.
Almost correct It is about moisture control, (building science) we need the roofs and walls to stay dry and dark colors would dry faster prolonging the life of the building, the easiest Dark material when available was tar. asphalt. It would let out vapor but repel rain.. an ideal compromise at the time and it was and is still very cheap. Now we have better materials but we still tend towards dark colors as building are based on the old style of building dependent on moisture vapor being driven from the building materials. This also explains why we do not retrofit toward white colors as the reduced moisture drive results in rotting of the wetted surfaces. There is also a now traditional Bias to dark roofs. Doctor Joe Lstibureka building science expert that has a whole series of videos about changing how we should build our homes. his study have been changing commercial building codes for decades and a smart person should applied them when they build their home. ruclips.net/video/rkfAcWpOYAA/видео.html he is very dry but full of standard practices we all should be doing on our homes.
"Mommy, Why is Earth falling into the sun?"
"My child, Some people planetjacked Mercury and crashed it into Mars and now Earth is circling the gravity drain".
Interstellar new station: the infanous planetjacker has struck again dear Humanity, this time it has struck closer to our original Home and taken Mercury for a ride straight into mars.
Space Police advices to stay away at least 0.3 parsec awya from the crimescene. Colonies on mars are adviced to take shalter into the inner crust bunkers or take the nearest Magnetic train to the other side of the planet.
"planetjacked"
"Oh no, the bandits have trainjacked our locomotive!"
"This jackass carjacked my Toyota for some joyriding. >:("
"Alright boys, let's planejack this Boeing."
I like it, it's funny but I don't think removing Mercury and crash it into Mars would have the effect of the Earth falling into the Sun. I think it might change the orbit of the Earth by maybe as much as 0.05%. Now I don't have done any maths on it because I cannot compute orbital mechanics and especially not the N-body problem. But looking at the fact that the Sun holds 99.86% of the mass of the solar system and the gas giants most of the rest, I'm just using my intuition. Could be a nice simulation in Universe Sandbox.
@@flexyco if the Mercury transfer logistic not, the raised Mars weigth definetly do sooner or later. If not into the Sun then into a colder orbit or a direct collision orbit to an another planet...
@@flexyco universe sandbox... come'on! Do it! :)
Smarter Every Day did a good video on the dogs ears thing when talking about how human ears work. It helps them tell which direction the sound came from.
I used to tilt my head while people spoke and toward sounds until some kind soul compared me to a golden retriever. I got my hearing tested and found that I had hearing loss in one ear.
Came here to say the same. From what I remember it's because the are trying to narrow down the vertical placement. I expect their ears being mobile keeps their brain from tuning their hearing to do such.
Good call out.
Joe, regarding the dog head tilt thing... I think it was 'Smarter Every Day' that did a bit on this (He and his children were trying to find a drone stuck in a tree). It has to do with the mammalian brain's ability to detect and discern which ear a sound arrives at first, allowing for direction finding in the all important horizontal plane (tiger on my left or right). If the sound is coming from above or below (on the vertical plane) the direction isn't apparent as our ears are on the sides of our head evenly (for most of us anyway... :). If you turn your head so one ear is up and the other down, the direction (on that vertical plane) then can be discerned. :)
the problem with most insanely ambitious brute force solutions to engineering problems - e.g. smashing planets together - is that by the time we've developed the tech to make them possible we'll almost certainly have long since come up with much more clever and elegant solutions
Agreed. It's easier and safer to mine up large amounts of metal and rock from Mercury and build space habitats with billions of square miles of total living area. Also easier to organise - individual organisations can build their own habitats and industries for their own purposes, like building a city one building at a time, without having to organise the whole of humanity to agree on a plan and work together.
@@SimonClarkstone i'm a zealous proponent of o'neill cylinder development
In the UK if you got a Telsa with self-driving technology installed and you use it, insurance companies are already giving you discounts because their data showing that they make fewer payouts.
Is that because Tesla's auto drive system doesnt fair well on UK roads and is liable to kill you?
Ive seen the results of Teslas auto drive system. Lets just say, they are keeping the body shop industry busy.
Care to share which? Ive called a few and they are hardly competitive :(
Model Y on order :D
@Northy tell me you don’t understand how insurance premium works without saying it
Where you getting this info from?
Thats not true. It's illegal in the UK to fully use the self drive systems
"People love driving." Maybe a little, but what really "drives" teenagers to get their license is the freedom to easily go places. I've been watching lately, and when I'm going somewhere in a car, it's pretty much the same level of enjoyment, whether I'm driving or not. And that's in favorable traffic. I've also discovered that in bad traffic, or going to a place with poor or expensive parking, I'd really rather be on the bus. And in cities I don't know, I'd rather be in a taxi.
People mostly hate driving. Running Stanley Park as a race course at 3am is when you love to drive. Other than that it's nothing but rush hour 24/7. And the occasional accident to really make your day go smooth. Thanks ICBC, your 'no-lube' Policies are just what I wanted. XD
I think teenagers wanting to drive is largely cultural. Yes it's freedom and something to covet, a milestone and many other things but culture has a funny way of developing itself and becoming an antagonist to older generations. In short if (when) cars drive themselves something else will replace the expectations of younger generations. I myself dislike traffic but do love doing my own thing without constraint however would fully embrace a self driving vehicle, however I'd also want a 200hp superbike.
Its teenage freedom, on their own, hanging out and back seat love affairs.......remember grandpas..I do!
And that city which is so congested, hell no, nothin there worth the trouble.
And I prefer being on my bicycle. That is, when I'm not having to put up with crappy drivers on roads that haven't been designed to separate cars and bikes. In the city I live, generally it's just as quick to cycle as it is to drive or catch the bus. And you get exercise. I'm hoping we see far fewer cars on our roads in cities in the future, and redesign streets to focus on human-scale transport. Afterall, anywhere between 20-40% of all car trips are under 4km. Seems nuts that cars get used for so many of those trips.
@@Dirtyharry70585 In the few transit-dense cities in the US (NYC, SF, a couple others) teenagers don't bother to get driver's licenses mostly because they already have the ability to get around. When you grow up having the freedom to go wherever you want when you're like, 10, turning 16 to get your driver's license is a lot less magical.
I've coated the EPDM roof of my garden shed with a reflective white coating paint. The effect is gigantic. For comparison, I left a piece of it uncoated, underneath the roof the difference was dramatic. The covered part was pretty much cool under bright sunlight, while the uncovered part radiate heat like mad. I was stunned at how much of an effect it really has.
"You gotta rearrange its guts a little bit" Answers with Joe out of context
You just gave a great video idea
I scrolled to find this
I love you, Joe. I only discovered your channel early this year, but I can always tell when there's a channel I'll be following for many years.
You make me laugh and you teach me things, the best kind of teacher :D.
Oh and, don't forget, a Mercury-Mars impact would melt both bodies taking a half a billion years to, you know, not be molten lava. BRRUUHH!!!
So yeah, this won't happen until every other effort to terraform Mars has failed, and everybody's moved to the Jovian or Saturnian moons.
Perhaps the arranged marriage should be made very slowly prior to merger to reduce the heat energy produced and thus cooling time. Still, your point is extremely relevant, it won't take a few years to settle.
9:26 Something that is really popular here in Canada is the steel roof, its not the norm by any standard, but more and more older buildings are being upgraded with them, they generally have a warrantied 50-75 year life span and can be any color you want, I have seen a lot of them clear coated (although brown seems to be the most popular colour) my house has a 50yr warrantied steel roof that is bright green. Asphalt tiles are all sorts of trouble, they flake off and require upkeep after major window storms, they are just popular cause they are a little cheaper. The 50yr steel roof on my house cost 15k (both units of a semi), and the quote for a 25yr asphalt one was 12k.
They’re a bit creaky when they expand and contract and when it rain or hails, but it’s not terrible when your attic it insulated as it absorbs most of the sound
@@GreenAppelPie hail is kinda of interesting, we don't get a ton of it where I live, but also if its a constant noise like heavy rain you kind of just ignore it after few minutes. I own an old house in an old neighborhood that all the owners have been doing the steel roof and vinyl siding as the main renovations over the last few years.
Steel roofs the norm here in Australia, usually uncoated.
@@jayartz8562 they wouldn't last long in Canada unpainted or uncoated (lots of humidity and we can see a 50C or more variation in temperature over the year -20s and occasionally -30s in the winter to to high 30s in the summer), I am seeing a lot more steel roofs, and I am very happy with the bright green roof on my house.
@@BlueScreenCorp Our steel roofs are galvanised, conditions vary immensely in Australia, where I am low humidity and -3°C to +49°C, to full on tropical high humidity.
Always super happy to wake up on Monday morning and see a new upload that I know will leave me with things to think about all week! Thanks for the consistent high quality uploads, Joe!
This is my sci-fi novel's idea . . . seems I wasn't the only one.
Mercury might be the easiest planet to move, because it could be moved a little bit and then perhaps it could be pushed into resonance with Jupiter moving it further. The tricky part is getting outside of Earth's orbit. Gravity assists could be done, maybe around Venus, but even so, it would have to be done just right.
A 2nd point is that Mars is already rotating. Yes, getting it's outside rotating faster than it's inside could give it a magnetic field, but an impact like this would also give Mars a much faster rotation. 5 or 6 hour days, and we'd have to wait millions of years for it to cool down, as Joe pointed out. We're not good at waiting millions of years . . . not to mention, at least 100,000 years to move the planet.
Giving Mars a moon might work just as well. A moon with a strong tidal influence slows the rotation of the outer core and can create the variation that causes a magnetic field to happen, at least, that's one theory. Earth's moon helps maintain Earth's magnetic field, not just Earth's size. It's not a completely agreed upon field though.
Hitting Venus with Mercury might actually work better as Venus doesn't rotate and also an impact like that could blow some of the atmosphere off. Put up a sun-shield and turn Venus into a new habitable planet - just add water, which is easier said than done as Venus is close to the sun and hard to get to.
None of these plans are easy and there's probably easier ways to terraform Mars using the asteroid belt (As Joe said).
Hey its been my sci-fi novel idea too, great minds I guess! The idea is of course a bit more complicated than what Joe covered, but he got the main points haha. Been a long time fun idea of mine, also glad to see I'm not the only one 🙃
Yeah. That reflective paint sounds AWESOME!
"cringing about something I said to that girl in the 9th grade" LOL relatable.
I can't relate because I never talked to girls and hid the computer room.
@@jordanbridges It was you who hid the computer room?! Damn, you! Where did you put it? It's decades later and they're still searching for it!
I like this format. I can see you doing it about once a month or so. But please, do not replace your current in depth format on topics we all find interesting.
No worries, it's not going anywhere.
Living in northern England I'm quite interested in finding out whether I'll be an icicle anytime soon.
funny thing is the guy mentioned that Scotland was the same latitude as northern Maine but he couldn't be more off. northern Maine is about as north as central France or Munich. Scotlands latitude counter part on the other hand would be the Labrador coast, with the most Northern shetland islands of Scotland being more northern than even the southern tip of Greenland. which really goes to show how amazing the Gulf Stream is.
I'm guessing whoever posed that last question has never been to Scotland- it's f*cking freezing, even in July!
When god threatened Moses with forty days and forty nights of rain, the Scots pissed themselves laughing- they thought they were in for a great summer!!
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when everyone "drives" in a self-driving cars I believe it will be safer but the transition between when there is both self-driving and human driven cars on the road interacting together is when I think it will be a lot worse before it gets better
Worse for the human drivers, that is. The SDVs will consistently be safer for their occupants.
Majority needs self driving cars. They don't know how to drive at all. Like 85 percent of them.
Too busy playing on their phone while driving.
I live on my motorcycle trust me. 15k miles a year.
I'll stay riding my bike thank you. I'm forced to pay attention and can maneuver faster and get the hell out of the way.
Motorcycles arn't dangerous. Cagers and motorcyclists that don't pay attention are dangerous.
I do love my cruise control however
@@jerryhatrick5860 A friend who rides said that autmobile drivers are allowed to kill you- they just have to make it _look_ like an accident. Stay wary out there.
It is true. This dumb kid had her liscence a week. Rear ended my buddy pushing into a stopped car. Crushed the bike killed him.
Got away with it.
There are people that target bikes.
Think I ride without protection? Nope. And I don't mean riding gear. I mean protection. A few forms. Teust me there's people I have followed and went off on them. I'm not passive when it comes to my life or the passenger on the back. They are my responsibility.
I've been riding 25 years. Many times 80 mph on mountain twisties side by side with my brothers. Or faster.
I'm gonna disagree, every human replaced by AI will make roads safer. Say you remove an average or even "safe" driver, an AI is still going to have faster and more consistent responses.
Dude, keep these coming man. Its entertaining, and thoughtful, and a bit of comedic chuckles. I'm always curious what kind of questions other people have.
Bumper sticker I once had: "In a million years it won't make any difference."
But "it" makes a difference at "this" moment!
"No matter how beautiful she is, someone, somewhere, is tired of her sh%t".... That's going to be true until the end of the universe.
Two words: butterfly wings.
A million years is the minimum interval for anything actually interesting to occur, according to us Evolutionary Big Bangists.
Are you confidant that there is truly nothing you can do that will make a difference in a million years.
I think there may be multiple attractor states. For example a high tech utopia, with lots of smart humans that really like the high tech utopia, and are making sure it lasts long term. This might be an attractor in the sense that if we get there, we stay there. Everyone dead is also an attractor state.
Some dystopias may be attractor states. Total control by superhuman AI that really wants to do X is an attractor state for most X.
Its possible that current actions can nudge which attractor we fall in.
Its also possible that in a million years time, some human historian is looking through the archives and finds this comment. (huge population means many historians) Given how good data storage can get, its reasonably likely most of the modern internet is backed up all over the place by then. And there are enough historians of early 21 century history to study all of it. And given the number of historians could greatly exceed current populations. There may be someone (or many someones) specializing in you in particular.
LMAO
"point on the doll where William Wallace hurt you" maybe one of the funniest lines I've ever heard But that probably says more about me....
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When I learned about atoms and cells dinosaurs were roaming outside our school windows (or maybe they were cars that burned leaded gas). I pictured the whole thing as a continuum. From the tiniest part of a cell to the body of existence that is the universe.
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Mr Hoffman, I thought of exactly the same thing. glad to know its not just me
A simple cheap option for making roofs more reflective is to use unpainted galvanised or Zincalume corrugated iron roofing
Does anyone else feel like they've learned way more now with the intetnet than all the years of school?
And the beauty of it is, not only do I FEEL this way; it's actually TRUE.
This is true, but you only get credit for your knowledge in you can show a diploma or degree for it.
some people learn by watching, others learn by doing in person, some can mix both
tbh what i remember from school is that i had bad eyesight and that i hated to go to school, because i usually couldn't see well or hated the teacher because his explanations were slow or confusing, i already forgot more than half if not more of what i learned in all those years there
Facts oh my God sooo soo much I did Chemistry, Physics, Further mathematics, biology, as my elective in high I knew 0 about history thank to youtube alone I know ww1 ww2 the a whole of thing I would've never ever know if it wasn't for the internet
@Just Looking Very good point!
It was adorable how Joe thought insurance companies care how cheap it is to insure a car. I want that kind of innocence.
They care a lot about how cheap it is for them. He didn't say that savings would be passed on to us.
Elon Musk thinks he'll be able to make a mint offering reduced-price (but not free) insurance to FSD owners.
So here is how it works. 1st it becomes cheaper for the insurance agencies while passing on no savings to have people in a certain type of car. 2nd some new CEO gets hired off some whimsical plan to make more money. 3rd a plan gets formed to lower the prices for these self driving cars, giving people a price break that is high enough to make them want to switch but also low enough to equal increased profits from all the new signups of ever more lucrative insurance packages.
Essentially just giving us just enough to make the math work for us while really making the math work for them.
And by the end of it all there will be no accidents anywhere but we are all still required to have insurance because the insurance companies used our own money to lobby for their own gains.
Also in this future you will be able to get a DUI based purely on the seat you chose to sit in... (I call shotgun!) And phone use while in the drivers seat will still be illegal!
I build homes in LA and “cool roof” is a requirement.
I can see where this would be beneficial. I also build homes but in Chicago, and I can tell you being a redhead working on a dark shingle roof in July is almost unbearable. I’ve never understood why we use black / brown shingles on roofs . Not to mention going into an attic in summer it’s so hot it’s hard to even breathe..
How's the rent
I’ve worked HVAC and I can attest to the heat in an attic of a dark roofed house mid-summer. It’s so hot it’s hard to breathe a lighter shade of roof would definitely be a welcome change.
@@redbeard6493 ex roofer myself. by 10:30 am (memphis tn.) a dark roof got so hot our shoes would mark the new shingles and we had to knock off.
Cool
"Mercury's not bringing much to the table right now."
If you were to fuck with Mercury, it would offset the orbits of every planet in our solar system.
It is, indeed, bringing something to the table: THE BLOODY CHAIRS.
Are you referring to the butterfly effect, not sure humans have the ability to change a few exa tones of spacial spin. 😏
Meh, that’s a problem for the future.
About dogs tilting their head when you talk to them: there is a video in youtube explaing that this is more common in dogs with a longer snout because dogs are trying to understand what you're talking about by looking at your facial expresions and they are trying different angles to see your mouth.
Self driving Teslas are already better drivers than humans.
Not even close. A tesla in a blizzard vs me any day!
@@clout13r Heres the part where you already messed up. You shouldn't be driving in a Blizzard you should be inside listening to the Governor issue a State of Emergency.
@@jaridkeen123 got em
Loving driving (in the way you are talking about it) is quite an “US kind of thing”. In (most) other countries we don’t think of “being able to drive anywhere” as equal to freedom, we have a different criteria for that (that you guys haven’t), and we don’t “hate” public transport in the same ways as you guys.
COme to st louis and ride our fine Grand bus line sometime.
I was going to make a similar point in that the vast majority of people like the freedom driving affords them but not the actual act of driving. I consider myself to be in a minority where I will go for a drive with no destination in mind because I enjoy the task of driving, especially when you can find a quiet, twisty back road. Most people are more similar to my wife who, if given an alternative transport option that is just as convenient, would do that over driving. I think this is more evident in the US due to the lack of options especially on the west coast where the cities were designed with cars much more in mind.
In Europe, cities are much older and designed for horse and cart over car. Public transport is better, so you see less car dependency in bigger cities. However, there is more car dependency in smaller towns with less transport links and a feeling that they have to drive over wanting to drive.
@@jhoughjr1 I’m not saying your public transport is great, it’s also terrible here in Iceland (but was great in Denmark where I lived for 14 years). And I think it might be partly to do with the attitude towards using it, a what comes first, chicken vs egg kind of thing. Like they don’t make it good (or at all) because very few using it and nobody’s using it because it’s not good. Where as in many European countries and Japan for example, it is pretty good because a lot of people use it and it doesn’t have the same stigma as in the US and Iceland (which is basically a tiny-wannabe US :) ).
@@kinglewuk1 Totally 👍
I think, that huge role is being played by the city layout - european cities are old and have defined city centre with important city buildings being close to it, as well as residential zones of influent people who wanted to be as close to center of power, as possible…
In most of the history, abovementioned closeness to source of power meant that you lived "short walk away", however over time it changes to "short time away" and also as some institutions were unable to fit to limited space on main city square, moving to fringes a new need arised - to connect city center with instirutions on fringe…
Over time, that gave birth to modern european public transport…
However in USA, situation went a different way, leading to a mass-building of cheap "paper & stick" houses into middle of nowhere…
According to surveys of young people, interest in driving has dropped precipitously over the last 20 years in the US.
So, if you solve for autonomy and this give teens the freedom they need to move around, driving yourself will likely be extremely niche… far more niche than manual transmissions are currently in the US.
The US needs to do what they did in the 50s and demolish half their cities. Just now, instead of building the insanely expensive and stupid car dependent cities, it's time to rebuild with walkability and public transportation in mind.
In my country, teens have all the freedom they need to move around, even middle schoolers, because we don't live in a hellscape where you have to buy your freedom by purchasing a 2-ton clownmobile. When I was a kid, I could WALK to school, take the bus to the swimming pool, take the train to go on a vacation... And I didn't have to worry about driving AT ALL.
Amazing, that Americans f**ked up their own living spaces so much 70 years back, that now they need some sci-fi revolution so they can live on the same level as Europeans and Japanese were living all along.
The same myth is propagated here in germoney (pun intended) and it is just the desired outcome of flawed questioning in favour of the greens. It is not the "i want to"-part that decreases, but the "i will get it"-part. Licences are expensive, cars are expensive, taxes just to own one are expansive, fuel-costs are crippling (1,739€/L today for E90, or 1,09€/kWh at a
fast charging station), parking spaces are perpetually nonexistant (and getting actively deminished by our political caste). And set that into relation of shring wages, a decline of perspectives espeacially for younger ones. They don´t have the resources and they know it.
Our city structures are in essence medieval, everything is walkable and a poblic transportation net exists since more than hundred years - and people still like to have the freedom to go where they want and when they want. Why do you think the car became so dominant?
That intro had me dead! So simple, but the face just killed me and the way you just brushed it off was amazing!
Throw snowballs from the asteroid belt, Keiper belt and the rings of gas giants at mars to permeate it with water. Make it rain.
It’s true that when you realize nothing matters (ultimately), it’s a very relaxing, Zen-like state of mind.
But for people that want to matter and want make a change its the opposite it can be daunting and kinda hurts 🤟
There's a term for this in German: "Narrenfreiheit". Translated it means something along the lines of "a fool's freedom", implying that people who lack the cognitive ability to think about the consequences of their actions are usually carefree and hence do whatever they want.
Especially for a pyschopath if you've committed a heinous crime (rape, murder...etc) - I imagine.
Coming to this realization the proper way is what people actually mean by Zen or Tao or enlightenment.
What do you mean that nothing ultimately matters?
Firstly, every moment within the universe is as real as every other. If physisists proved conclusively that the universe will disintigrate in 10^100 years, the stuff that happens beefore then is still real stuff that will or won't happen and that can matter. (or rather that we can care about, the label "this matters, its important" is part of the mind, not of reality. If you intrinsically care about frogs for the shear frogginess, then frogs matter to you.
Ie stars are important to me because hopefully I can use them to build my intergalactic utopia. (Although an intergalactic utopia not built by me personally is just as good, and more likely.)
LOL I love your logic Joe. We’re essentially just half a steering wheel away from completely self-driving car 😆
The prospect of lifting Mercury out of the Sun's gravity well to get it up to Mars's orbit seems to imply there must be easier solutions.
Electromagnetically spinning Mars' core by itself, for instance?
There are a number of problems with this idea. Number one, by the time we become a type two civilization, we’ll be able to travel to other stars, and terraforming Mars wouldn’t be important. Number two, by that time, there will be a whole Martian civilization living there, with whatever drawbacks that includes, so slamming a planet into it would kill all those people! And number three, as Joe said, it will take a few hundred million years for it to cool off enough to actually use it. So, it’s a none issue, by time we are able to do it, there will be no reason to do it.
Spinning habitats. O’Neill Cylinders and Stanford Toruses are about a million times more effective pound-for-pound at providing habitat than planets. They’ll bathe in sunlight 24/7/365, so solar energy would be base load. Arrival and departure can be done with efficient low-thrust propulsion; any planet needs high-thrust, low-isp rockets. Highly mobile so can adjust to a future bloating sun. Radiation shielding done with a brutally simple water jacket just as we use water pools today to store highly radioactive spent nuclear reactor fuel.
Mercury as mentioned in the video will most likely become raw materials for space habitats. I think it would be "easier" to cool down Venus then attempt something that reckless but who knows people get bored.
What about pushing it past the sun in to mars s push is easier than s pull?
Carpenter here. About shingles being black...
Light colored shingles caught on for a bit but after a few years you start to see stains on the shingles from old leaves' tannin and short-lived algae. It looks really bad on light colored shingles. Also, most homes' air conditioned areas don't include the attic, so the shingle colors don't matter as much as you might think for energy consumption. Also also, ideally roofs are built with good, unobstructed ventilation (usually soffit vents and ridge vents), so ideally, in terms of heating and cooling, a good roof is a somewhat warm space that otherwise shouldn't impact your cooling bill nearly as much as imperfect seals in your walls, ceilings, doors, windows, etc.
When we had to put down our little dachshund down a couple of years ago we were at the vet's office comforting him. As soon as the Propofol hit him, he did that head tilt thing ... which was the last thing he did. My wife and I were crying our eyes out, but we were glad to be there for him.
My thoughts about changing roof colors: From what I’ve heard, heating and cooling homes puts more carbon into our atmosphere than all cars (not including diesel trucks iirc) on the road. So if there is a suggestion for something that allows us to use less energy for heating and cooling, it will probably have a significant impact when stretched out to an entire country or the whole world.
Joe started with the small percentage of the surface area roofs are and so they wouldn't make a big difference to cooling the climate He ended up with saying it could make a big difference on energy to heat/cool those individual houses (for with the roof is a significant fraction of the surface area). And then that that saving heating/cooling energy would probably help the climate more than the reduction in the reduction in total solar energy absorbed.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to cover the roofs with solar panels? When installed properly, they would also protect roofs from accumulating too much heat thus reducing the energy required to cool the rooms. You'd need to leave a space between the roof and the panels, that space would naturally ventilate dispersing heat and the energy generated by the panels would cover a lot of the household's energy needs.
@@TTFerdinand
What?! Free eneregy?! Nah, we can't have that.
Joe: "Nothing I do matters"
Me: "NOTHING REALLY MATTERS, NOTHING REALLY MATTERSSS,
TOOO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
great song btw
Lol
Do you mean Madonna's Nothing Really Matters' song?
And here’s me think we are all good in Glasgow thanks joe 😂😂
You _are_ all good in Glasgow. For now.
Scots will have to stop exporting all that whisky to keep us all warm over here when the Gulf Stream packs up
If the Gulf Stream shuts down, and if it initiates an ice age, the current estimate for the time it will take to cover northern Europe in glacial ice, based on the average time it took in previous ice ages, is 70 years; geologically speaking, it's an insanely fast process. So for Scotland? Probably less than half that.
@@tycarne7850 Calm down, it takes a bit of time slowing down a water volume multiple times that of all the world's rivers. Unless Dr.Freeze decides to go deep scuba-diving in Northern Atlantic.
@@russellfitzpatrick503 You can probably restart it by synchronized pissing from the coast of Fort William or Isle of Tiree to the west on saturday nights.
Here in Arizona we get a heat dome basically that covers the city and surrounding cities. It’s likely from so much blacktop and concrete from all the people here. Storms will pass by or go around when it’s too hot for the storm to penetrate the heat dome. In the outskirts, the edge of the dome sort of, has many farms still. And the further away you get from the freeway, and towards small mountains the cooler it gets compared to populated areas.
I hope you do more episodes like this of random Q&A. Totally enjoyable and all over the place for the topics....in a good way!
I said BRUH 2 seconds before Joe said “this is the most bruh question ever” 😂 BRUH
Wait, so tesla is gonna implement Frame Shift Drives in their vehicles? I can't wait.
AND FUEL SCOOPS!
... so we can drive to Mars. :)
@@danlewellyn6734 Often, when I'm using mine, I really wish I had FSD.
@@2ndfloorsongs I played that game (now I play on X One) on a Commodore 64!!!!
Can't wait to buy a Tesla and travel the stars
Whilst making all the roof tiles reflective might slightly decrease the energy cost of house cooling, the energy used to do so would offset the already negligible global impact. But building new homes with more energy saving materials in future is certainly the way to go for the long haul of humanity.
How much extra energy do you think it takes to make your roof white instead of black? That doesn't make sense to me.
@@theobserver9131 that depends on the method used... Would the roof need completely replacing? Could it be painted? There's manufacturing, transport, labour... Anything that has a monetary cost has an energy cost, and on a global scale it is going to be significant... But what is the total roof area of human buildings compared to the surface area of the earth? I don't know, but I'd put money on it being far less than one percent, so at the end of the day would the effect even be measurable?
19:01 "So yeah, that's not great..." XD I love the way he says it.
I burst out laughing and had to stop the video at 16:51, I didn't see that coming...brilliant. And the dog scene was perfect. Wonderful vídeo!!!!!!
In 20 years, the question "can you drive a manual?" will have an entirely different meaning than it does today.
Measure for measure and mile for mile FSD's are much more deadly. Joe's methodology in examining this is deeply flawed and lacking multiple crucial variables.
The biggest fly in the ointment is the unwillingness of tech giants and the ultra rich to help fund the necessary massive nationwide infrastructural overhaul required to make these truly safe and viable. They'e more interested in the wealth they can accumulate with this tech than any genuine safety issues. Typical corporate mentality.
@@shacktime It is still very much in beta, I don't think it's a stretch to think they'll become much safer over time.
Will it be the same time flying cars and fusion reactors are ready for mass adoption.
@@danieljensen2626 The death toll between now and then is gonna be brutal.
@@shacktime it's not as far off as you might think in Britain they already have trash trucks that are fully automated they have one person on the back to help empty the trash bins but no driver other countries are already starting to use automatic Transportation trucks for short distant tracks instead of using people are military also has its own array of vehicles that are fully self-driving
5:11 As an AI engineer, I hate the "intuition" comparison. The only thing AI has is intuition. Also, disparate insurance companies will be replaced by insurance provided by the AI/auto makers. Think about it. Who better to guarantee the efficacy of the product than the maker? They're cars, not pharmaceuticals, after all.
Tesla's own insurance offering is already jumping on this game changing development. The opportunities are huge.
I get your point but saying pattern recognition and intuition are identical is a bit of a simplification 😋
And I really hate the term AI for glorified linear algebra dumps... There is nothing intelligent in those calculations. It's merely a tool that we don't comprehend to a point where we can't even begin to actually intelligently shape our parameters.
It's bloody dangerous to use systems of equations to literally drive stuff that we have no way of mathematically proving.
A tesla doesn't see in all directions. A tesla has sensors in all directions. And we cannot prove what input information is responsible for any given output.
@@Argosh Commercial air flights are entirely driverless or pilotless for most of each trip. And for a significant part of takeoff and landing too.
@@Argosh I kind of agree - but then again: what about a brain? It's a bunch of crazy random-ish wired together neurons. There's nothing intelligent in that... _surely_ - right?
I'm very much in favour for using formally verifiable systems as much as possible, but not all that optimistic that it's going in that direction. Because such a system would have to be built completely from scratch, but the roads will continue to be used by all kinds of vehicles, controlled by both humans and AI. No chance you're going to prove that interaction correct.
When I was 16, I didn't want a self driving car. I wanted a '66 G-T-O convertible with a 389 tri-power, 4speed, posi, & dual exhausts.
A self driving car would be about as much fun as having mom drive you around in the station wagon.
same here, though I wanted a 72 Nova like the one my father had.
As soon as I got my license and my first vehicle, I NEVER wanted to be driven around by anyone.
Agree, it never occurred to me in 1982 that someday I would WANT people to stop driving cars. However most youth today seek fun online instead of behind the steering wheel (or worse go online WHILE behind the steering wheel). It seems no coincidence my car insurance rates skyrocketed over the past decade as smartphones proliferated. My driving has always been accident-free. Other drivers, not so much.
@@biovmr I am 18. I drive a rx8. And i want a rx7 with 20b please =( and a-a-a Turbo or p-p-p-pro-charger with m-m-m-meth injection p-p-p-pretty please
I would also accept a w12 with twin turbo in any chassi. As you see i do not expect alot. I have humble expectations.
Dont talk to me if you think hp means healthpoints.
I'm from Scotland. We have very weird, manic weather here. Sun shining one minute, pouring down rain the next then later in the day it could possibly be super windy. It's not like that every day but when it does get moody, man does it like to show different seasons in one day! You can guarantee if you're in Scotland especially Glasgow where I am you'll hear folk talking about the weather! We do that here, a lot 😂
My intuition is invaluable while driving. Defensive driving and keeping my space when following erratic drivers has saved me more times than I can count.
Now imagine that there arent erratic drivers, imagine that every car is autonomous not only that but each car is connected to a wireless system and it's "comunicating" with each other this way each car in the street is constantly passing their current location, speed, etc to each other car on the street and that way they know where every car is at every single moment that way the AI can make predictions and calculate the fastest, most efficient and safest route posible pass that information to the other cars and this way they can organize each other to make that posible
Instead of drivers trying to accelerate suddenly or passing red lights or other stupid stuff like that each car is perfectly respectable of each other space and time
Sounds like a fantasy but it might become a reality in the near to middle future
FSDs feel like a solution to distracted/impaired driving more than anything.
yep, seems like it
For private cars, maybe. But on a grander level, it will mean a lot of improved efficiency. Individual efficency, like when you don't have to pay a trucker and have him stop to eat, sleep and whatnot, and collective efficiency when we get rid of traffic jams, gridlock, accidents, toll booths, etc. And if we move away from private car ownership and into robotaxis, we can get rid of things like garages and parking lots, make streets wider by not having to leave space to park, and so on. Personally, I think that's the way it's going to go for the majority of people: automated Ubers.
Joe- “Humans are messy distracted and unpredictable”
Me: “and you want me to trust my life to a computer built by those humans?, I don’t think I will”
the computer would fix itself
Cars are built by those same people. By that logic you should never leave your house.
Real "yet you live in a society, curious!" vibes here
@@StephenYuan who built the house though lol
@@StephenYuan cars without computers are less complex and are are less likely to fail catastrophically . I’m just playing the odds.
free guy's character said it best, " i FEEL real, and that's as real as anything else." i'd have to agree with this sentiment. whether or not we're living in a simulation or if anything does or doesn't matter is completely irrelevant. we're here, we have lives to live and a world of people to try and be compassionate towards. nihilism is the antithesis of empathy
If nothing matters, empathy has no downside.
@@2ndfloorsongs ha that's a great thing to tell the nihilists in my life in the future!
@@2ndfloorsongs Empathy requires a great effort at overcoming natural self-interest and learning how not to judge and to see things from different perspectives. If nothing matters (and it doesn't) then what reason are you going to give for people to expend this effort? The only reason is individual selfishness - being empathetic towards others is more likely to result in better outcomes for you, at least socially. Still, sometimes you effort will not be reimbursed and people you treat well will still treat you poorly.
The dog cocking it's head thing when speaking to it is the animal thinking about what it's hearing because usually when you are acting like a dog or whimpering to it it will be confused because it thinks you're another animal and not a human. We do the same thing when slightly confused about what we're hearing.
So glad someone finally asked that Mars question
"Artificial Human Intuition", or AHI, is a talent that can be achieved over time but will not be necessary because, by the time AHI is fully functional, all cars will be computers and will just talk with each other instead of trying to guess.
And as a counterpoint I'll just gently note how well that's going with commercial air transport... Autopilot, in aircraft, has been a work in progress for over 80 years now. Yet we sill need pilots because stuff happens that it can't deal with.
Any "self driving" system needs to be programmed with some humility and ability to take input from people when it can't figure out what to do. Otherwise people just won't trust it...and history shows they'd be right.
I doubt it.
I see selfdriving cars introduced first on highways because of the homogenity of the traffic (mainly cars, no pedestrians or bikes) and at one time it will be obligatory to selfdrive on such roads. In urban areas it will be much later.
@@DrewNorthup No. We still have pilots because people have never trusted the autopilots. A huge number of problems and crashes are pilot error, and the problem is the same as that of driving: boredom: humans are horrible at dealing with long periods of nothing waiting for something. Many of the rest are maintenance issues. Some the crew has time to attempt to deal with, but most just happen and end with the captain's voice "Oh sh*t." or "What was that noise?"
In ~1976 Boeing flew flew an airliner gate to gate from Seattle to, I believe, Boston, under autopilot.
It's a toss-up whether automated planes would crash more or less than those with crews.
But merely from the size and operating complexity of modern aircraft comes a requirement for more crew.
@@SuperWiz666 Look up the Air France flight 447 final report on the BEA website. The human freaking out and messing up would not have happened were it not for the equipment failing first. The autopilot detected the equipment failure and having no idea what to do about it disconnected. That happens much more often than you seem to think.
Besides, more than 60% of all landings and takeoffs are flown by hand each day and we don't have legions of dead people each month. It is not a toss-up at all: autopilots work well within their design parameters and humans are good at other, overlapping, skills. The two reinforce each other every day for the best result. We need both.
Here's a great idea: paint ALL the buildings with this highly reflective paint (thus reducing energy costs) which will surely dazzle all the drivers on the road, causing a spike in car-related deaths thereby causing insurance companies (extortionists) to lobby for FSD cars - not so much because they're concerned with loss of life and/or limb but because all the accidents are dipping into their profit margin. A WIN/WIN SITUATION!!!
Insurance will never lobby for FSD, because the day FSD comes the insurance business die...
@@sudeeptaghosh America will crumble to dust before our parasitic middlemen go away. FSD won’t make the insurance companies budge a bit.
@@PrecioustheMovie1 🤣🤣fair point ...but I hope atleast when level 5 happens I don't pay for it..😇
More of these videos, please!
OMG … "point on the doll where William Wallace hurt you", ROFLMAO!
Just MADE my day, hahaha
4:40 "They had us in the first half, not gonna lie."
13:05 I guess waiting for mars to cool down would take way too long compared to just building a habitable Dyson Sphere out of the entire solar system. otherwise I thought this was a really really good idea (assuming a far-future very powerful human civilization we could be planning for billions of years into the future)
And the potential (but not certainty) of such future humans disproves the "everythings meaningless on a cosmic scale"
6:30 the problem is that companies over-hype their self-driving capabilities. Of course a lot of drivers know what they are supposed to do, but others have justification to be careless. It's like trusting cheap heater because text on the box says it's save.
"Humans, we are messy, distracted, unpredictable, and ...". Joe you left out perhaps the most important one here: JERKS. Other than that, your answers nailed every topic well. Thanks!
As far as we are aware we are the only living entities in the entire universe capable of investigating and understanding that universe. How does that make us insignificant?? It makes us amazing
I think you're the only person who's intros I don't skip.
“If you wanted to power the entire U.S. with solar panels, it would take a fairly small corner of Nevada or Texas or Utah; you only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to power the entire United States. The batteries you need to store the energy, to make sure you have 24/7 power, is 1 mile by 1 mile. One square-mile. That’s it.” - Elon Musk
This is grossly oversimplified and probably incorrect. Powering the plants and buildings to construct those solar arrays as well as getting that power from place to place with only current power demands would be a financial, logistical and probable nightmare. There are so many little details from maintenance, correct calibration, ecological and spacial ingenuity these states undeniably wouldn't allow even with Elon's own cash stock. Still... "only a small" and "100 by 100 miles" shouldn't go in the same sentence Mr. Musk.
I'd definitely wonder how much energy we could get from Yellowstone though? As the country doing the best with renewable energy has lots of hot springs and geysers. Or wonder about new technology with magma chambers. Or some kind of floating devices with water.
@@velnz5475 it has worked will in south Australia. They were the first test subject and have demolished their last coal power plant. They have a larger population than the 10 smallest US states population. South Australia is the size of Texas and New Mexico. 37% of their energy is natural gas and the rest is wind geothermal and solar. The renewable energy is less expensive and will phase out natural gas when 2 née transmission lines are built to connect to New South Wales. 1.1 trillion was spent blowing things up in Iraq.
@@yakaronielyak8299 I do not argue it cannot work in Australia... I argue it cannot happen in the US with current laws, standards and management.
How many chairs have you had since you started your channel? You have mastered the slow spin. Is that skill or a great chair? Cheers from Broken Arrow Oklahoma!
And how much WD-40 has he used to keep those chairs from squeaking? Maybe that's what the percussion intro overdub is all about.
Finally someone asking the real questions!
I predict in 50 years people will pay to drive on closed courses for the novelty experience
Same as riding horses for the fun of it
I also believe that while major thoroughfares, commuter routes and city streets may be restricted to self-driving-only, there will be plenty of backroads and rural areas where people will be able to go 'off the grid' and drive themselves. You're never going to see (well... ok. Not for a much longer time) "Self Driving Motorcycles" or ATV's or other recreational vehicles (Boats included). People will ALWAYS want to drive, fly, sail, cruise, race, etc. And there will always be the ability to do that... somehow.
we already do that, by paying gasoline, road taxes, car taxes, the car itself
Regarding air conditioning and cool interior spaces in the summertime. I live in a traditional house biuilt around 1940 on the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld). The house has around 60-70 cm (24-28") thick adobe brick walls, it's axis is oriented East-West, and there are 4 huge mulberry trees on the south (longer) side of the house providing shade for the entire roof. In the summer, when outside temperatures during the day rise above 35°C (95°F), even in the vicinity of 40°C (104°F), and do not sink below 25°C (77°F), I can still manage to keep the bedroom around 24-26°C (75-79°F) without air conditioning. I only use natural ventilation through the windows during the night, and the natural evaporation of water from the adobe walls, that cools the inside of the house. Without electricity. Without a noisy machine. Without paying for it. The old people knew how and why they built houses the way they did.
The thing about self-driving cars is that average traffic throughput will improve. Do you notice that when you want to make a left turn at an intersection, the cars going the other way are spaced out in a single lane, so there isn't room for you to get through. Even though they could use both lanes, all three lanes, legally closer together, leaving room for you to make your turn.
At the end, you missed the perfect opportunity to have a Glas-snow pun, and im sad you didnt jump on that :(
Ah, nothing we do matters....My morning existential fix! lol
Mom kept asking for kids .
Until I let her know that In a few generations we all will be forgotten. 😃
Of course computers can have "intuition", all you need to do is ask neural network on what each car will do in the next 10 seconds and train it on the real world data, and eventually it will be able to see if someone is on their phone and not paying attention, or just where they are looking. It will even form patterns between the brand of the car and driving styles, time of day, day of the week, weather...
All I'm saying is that machine learning is very good at finding patterns.
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I mean, it's kinda not intuition if it's taught, right? Doesn't that make it more-or-less not intuition, by definition? I guess you did put it in quotation marks, and in that sense, I would agree that a computer can definitely have""intuition"" (The double quotation marks is on purpose).
@@idontwantahandlethough The truth is that human intuition is also taught, you are not born with any of it, you don't even have a concept of object persistency at first.
@@romanr1592 not true at all lol
@@archiedentone5950 And your source is "trust me, bro" I presume?
Joe,
This is the first time i felt a 'Jetsons' like future without hearing George yelling in my head, "Jane! Jane! STOP THIS CRAZY THIIIIING!!!!"
i was born in May '62.
Driving equals Freedom. Changing one's paradigm to NOT view this as being akin to Incarceration is my biggest hurdle.
ALL> i WE> all U> most
🙏 Thank you Joe 🖖
Unless the car flies it’s not a jetson car
I'm from Glasgow and I salute you for pronouncing it correctly. 👍
Surely if everyone had self driving cars you wouldnt need insurance, because the fault would lay with the manufacturer?
Partially true; you wouldn't need LIABILITY insurance (however, you would indirectly pay for it as a consumer one way or another). The direct liability moves, but the ultimate costs are borne by the same people. Also you would still need insurance for non-liability reasons (hail-storms, theft, etc.) If using driverless as a pure consumer (non-owner), then your price/ride would be all inclusive, presumably.
I see insurance only going up, even if deaths and accidents go down.
@@RealBradMiller So does the insurance company.
@@hawkdsl Been a scam since it began.
@@biovmr Ah ofcourse, you're right. I wasn't thinking about theft, accidental damage, etc. Very true also that you would pay for it in the price of the vehicle in the end. Good points.
I've always been amused at the idea that even if we did create a thickened Martian atmoshpere it's worthless as it would gradually lose it over time. True - but the key word is *gradually* ......over timescales of many millions of years. I'm sure any advanced society that could terraform Mars and create such an atmosphere in the next few thousand years or so could periodically top it up from time to time (with comets and what-not) .
Not a big deal - someone just needs to set a reminder on their aeon scale google calendar, say every 50,000 years or so. Job done.
5:24 in my opinion, looking at how quickly computers learned to defeat the greatest board-game players of the world, this is only a matter of time.
Intuition, I believe, can be learned. Very quickly by computers, once they attain enough information on the basics.
if we dig further, you could argue that “intuition” is really just the human neural network learning patterns from the environment
@@bhaskararaka Indeed!
Water description great! I will be meditating on that for a bit, until I’m fully visualised. That’s an Amazing process.
in regards to the automated cars: I keep thinking about is the idea of a smart-car with a human interface similar to the way modern fighter-jets work. The driver's inputs aren't directly linked to the throttle or wheels, but a command fed into a core. That core is also calculating data from tons of sensors inside and outside the car, from the speed, to the grip of the tires, to the free space surrounding the vehicle, engine performance, weather forecasts, GPS location, center of mass, etc, and the core compares the driver-inputs to the sensor data and does what the driver tells it to as effectively as possible.
obviously you'd need a lot of high speed i/o and computational redundancy for this to work, but imagine a driver/car relationship where the car handles what it knows best, and the driver handles what they know best. We already have this to a certain extent, but I think there's a lot more potential to explore this relationship deeper instead of just trying to program a human out of their own life or death situations.
Here’s something to consider.
Automated cars wouldn’t be needed if public transport was more accessible.
I believe *that* is more effective than a millionare’s attempt at being the solution.
Attempt at being the solution? Or an attempt at making money?
If Elon actually cared about human lives or environmental causes, he wouldn't do half the things he does. He wouldn't have forced Telsa factories to operate in defiance of COVID safety precautions. He wouldn't oppose his workers unionizing. He wouldn't donate to political candidates who champion fossil fuel causes. He wouldn't have advocated for a coup in Bolivia so he could exploit the country's lithium deposits. He wouldn't have interfered with the Thai cave rescue and then had a tantrum when he was asked to allow the rescuers to do their job.
Musk is just as much of a grifter as any other elite capitalist. His only priority is himself.
But public transport is limited. People (Most people anyway) don't want to suffer the limits of public transportation as it is today. Getting on the bus. Taking the train. People would rather get in a car and go.
HOWEVER, if public transport encompassed FSD cars that would come get you, on a whim, and take you exactly where you needed to go, there's a case for people not buying and maintaining their own vehicles anymore. Just 'calling' one, getting in and going. You pay for what you use, instead of paying for unlimited use (today's private vehicle model).
But then there's the issue with vandalism, theft and misuse. No one is going to want to get into a smelly, dirty, vandalized vehicle. Which is why people invest in their own cars. If it's dirty... it doesn't matter if it's YOUR dirt, they just want to get where they need to get... now. :)
He no more thinks it's the only solution than I do, it's one solution out of many and a very necessary and practical one. Mass transit is better; but cars are a current reality, and must be replaced with cleaner ones. Every FSD robotaxi, by the way, will replace more than ten of cars. The technology and batteries developed to make EV's is even now and will continue to be used to improve mass transit.
@@emmaobrien1376 But that’s the point. Elon is trying to be the solution, full stop.
He’s planning to be the sole distributor of that solution, no matter the cost.
I personally think he’s a creative, yet immoral Capitalist who can do anything he wants on the makes him money. Especially if that money comes cheap.
Indeed, trams, trolley buses, subways are much better options. Dont get me wrong electric cars are better than non electric ones, but public transport is much better and cheaper solution, especially options I named since those have advantages of electric vehicles without having downsides on batteries.
I live in Glasgow and just want to say thanks Cole I will be personally blaming you for all effects of climate change.
Why not detach your side from England and float it somewhere more pleasant, given you have the EU border in south anyways?
4:36 Tesla's cars have already saved well over about 500 people so far. There are 500 people walking the earth now that would be dead... so Tesla has some credit to spend - BAZINGA
This format has been fantastic. Well done video
I've been riding in a car since I was born, took driver's ed, learned how to drive, but then I was diagnosed with narcolepsy and my state does not allow me to get a license. However, seldom along the way have I felt like I could take over the driving responsibility, nor do I comment (or make a sarcastic remark) about their driving while we're in the car... and I've ridden with my grandma who drove a white Cadillac and would AT MOST turn the wheel 45 degrees to take corners.
I don't know why, but I've always been able to put my entire faith into the driver. I ride with my friends and see every single one of them wanting to drive because none of them are confident enough in the ability of the one actually driving. It's a sad existence. It's kind of like "well, if we die in this car today, we die in this car today," and I never really second-guessed myself until recently when I was riding with my best friend and his wife. His wife was at the wheel, and it occurred to me: If anyone is supposed to trust her at the wheel, shouldn't it be her husband? Why was I unequivocally trusting that she could drive perfectly fine when he's freaking out?
So if you're asking me about FSD, I feel like it's a long time overdue. I don't understand why it's so hard for people to just accept that they are not in control of the vehicle, but I guess that comes from a lifetime of riding in cars instead of driving them myself?
And if you're asking me whether or not I would feel safer in an FSD? Abso-fucking-loutely, are you crazy? There are millions of drivers out there and you have the gall to assert that they're all individually smarter and quicker than the COMPUTER driving my car? My mom has driven me a majority of my life. Quite frankly, I'm surprised I've lived this long.