Dr. Becky, your last meme, the one about the Sun taking us with it, the face in the Sun is the "Overly Attached Girlfriend" Meme, started by Laina Morris. She's hilarious!
Love it-- as a trained psychotherapist, I deal with confirmation biases all of the time! And if you ask: "yours or the patient's", the answer is "Yes..."
As untrained in any kind of therapy, I'm still having issues figuring out you humans... Ummmm... I mean... People... Yeah... Who says humans, am I right?
Funny how people always seem to assume aliens will be high-brow. What if First Contact turns out to be a visit from an interstellar collector of fart jokes?
2 minutes in, haven't looked at what others are saying, but I already love that even your meme-reacts come with a lesson in confirmation bias and frequency illusion. Way to keep it classy and informational while still being fun and silly! 😊
Would it really be such a bad thing if you did more of these meme-reaction videos? You have the perfect reactions and the little science nugget you dispense is always informative. If one a month is too much, how about on the solstices and equinoxes? ;-)
There is a reference to the Voyager discs in the game Stellaris. Early on after finding out about other life in the galaxy, you get an event where you remember that your species sent out some sub-lightspeed probes with information of where your homeworld is. Realising that that may have been a bad idea, your task is to bring them back.
Rather somber thinking about humanity's changing attitude about aliens. Back then, in the 1970's, "Of course any advanced alien species will be compassionate and curious." Nowadays, many think of the dark forest and want to keep quiet. Perhaps that just my age talking.
As a Ceres stan, I would like to formerly use this opportunity to celebrate. Justice for Ceres! Edit: also justice for all the gas giant moons that would also be dwarf planets if they weren't already orbiting something else.
As another Ceres stan, I would like to point out that Ceres still meets the _dictionary_ definition of a planet, even if it doesn't meet the _jargon_ definition. Ceres is a planet and a tomato is a vegetable and a bit is just a small amount, unless you're speaking science jargon! :)
Ceres is my favourite dwarf planet! It is both a dwarf planet AND an asteroid, it is unique. It's also likely the closest source of liquid water to the Earth.
Before this video, the only people I knew who were excited about Ceres were my friends in the spiritual communities and that was for astrological purposes rather than astronomical purposes. It's cool to meet people who like Ceres for non-spiritual reasons as well.
@@thenovicenovelistSailor Moon fans would know the first four asteroids (Ceres, Juno, Vesta, and Pallas) as characters from the series. There may be a vague crossover from astrology behind the characters, but it’s animated television for people who grew up at a particular time in North America.
Infectious enthusiasm is an understatement, you're always a joy to watch and learn from. The Planet Wild episode on elephants in Tanzania is fantastic, was only in Tanzania for a short while, but loved it. Fun to see Killamanjaro from Kenya and Tanzania. Two more things: please make another video about a day in Dr Becky's life... need to see how you keep up with everything without coffee or tea, and for a fun note; people are gabbing on about Aliens in a mall in Miami, Florida... good for a laugh!
Happy New Year Dr Becky! I look forward to a whole new year of the best Cosmology videos on RUclips! Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this channel. I really appreciate it.
I got a job with a company called Northgate once. I'd never hear of them before being approached, but the next few days, everywhere I went, I saw Northagte vans. Biggest van company in Europe, yet until I got told about them, totally oblivious!
Vote on another meme video.... NEXT YEAR??? OMG, I'd watch these every month. At minimum make these every 3 months please. Thank you Dr. Becky for satisfying my needs for more knowledge and information. Happy New Year!
12:26 - I don't know why it reminds you of Mama Dr. Jones, but... Now that you mention it, I do kinda see it. And I just love that you mentioned her! She's great. :)
Dr. Becky, thank you for bringing up Planet Wild. I joined as a supporter, as I very much appreciate their approach on sustainable, workable, achievable goals. Thank you for alerting me to this effort.
First of all, Happy New Year! Second, VERY well pointed argument about dwarf planets. It is like it is, like it or not. Third, i fully support the continuation of the "meme day", in fact, i suggest a livestream, where viewers can sent memes about space, and you can review them.
Happy New Year, Becky! Here is another topic for 2024: the naming of space objects. I know about NGC and Messier, but there are sometimes stars and galaxies, etc with really weird names consisting of what seems to be (to a non astronomer at least) just random numbers and letters. A deep dive into this would be most interesting indeed! Also - thanks for your brilliant channel. Been following you for 5 years or so now. Keep up the great work!
I'd like to see how asteroid names are assigned. I mean, Scott Manley has one named for him. I suspect there's a cabal of space scientists and Monty Python alumni issuing those names.
My only complaint is that we didn't get more! 😂 Pt 2 would be fun, but definitely again in '25 🙂 I love your channel. Thank you for being so gifted at translating complex concepts into common language. I look forward to buying 2 copies of your book, one to give a friend. Keep up the terrific work sharing *facts* and *reliable* information to the masses. It's more important now than ever.
There’s an amazing documentary about the Voyager missions called “The Furthest: Voyager in Space” that I wholeheartedly recommend. It goes into amazing detail about the Golden Record (fun fact: Carl Sagan’s son recorded a greeting from all the children of Earth.)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets upset when historic space equipment dies or gets ignored. Seriously, when Hubble is retired I think I'll be close to tears.
Dr. Becky, I discovered your website shortly before JWST became operational and I have been watching your videos weekly ever since. I find them educational, entertaining, and I like your sense of humor. Things sure have changed since I got interested is astronomy and cosmology in the late 1950s. I used to watch Carl Sagan on TV and now I try to watch Neil deGrasse Tyson whenever he is on TV or he has a youtube video. Happy New Year to you!
Can relate. The first time I saw Jupiter through the telescope, I thought "wow, cool, you can see the bands and the 4 moons" But seeing Saturn the first time was a spiritual experience.
Sometimes it isn't confirmation bias. When I was a kid it always seemed we had good weather during the week when we had school and inside but when we were off on the weekends and could go out and play it would rain. Turned it it did statistically rain more often on the weekends in the Pacific Northwest.
I notice that even now. Like it will snow all week, be nice on the weekend, and go back to snowing all week. Or we'll have really nice weather during the week and cloudy/rainy /colder temp days on the weekend. And this isn't influenced by whatever the news predicts since I don't pay attention to weather forecasters. It's really interesting.
Thank you for this weekly chance to learn a little bit about space! Dr. Becky is such a joy to watch. Her enthusiasm is contagious. I hope she has someone helping with questions like mine: I got interrupted while adding "auxin" to my learning list. She was explaining how gravity affects the plant direction-of-growth hormone -- there was a helpful cartoon of a seed planted on its side -- as part of fielding queries about Andy Weir's book The Martian & whether potatoes could be grown on Mars. I can't find which of her videos i had been watching (user error) & would really like to finish watching it. Please don't bother her with this; but if you can help, i will be thankful. 73 & still curious about everything, in Warsaw, Virginia
Yes, please! More reports about HOW we know WHAT we know! I am astounded...not having COMPLETELY read through many science papers...that some research groups are fed faulty data to weed out confirmation bias. I've heard this done in medicine, yes, but I am delighted this is also done in other scientific disciplines as well. Looking forward to more reports from you in 2024. Hau'oli Makahiki Hou! 🎉🥳
@@AndrewBlacker-t1d I appear to have used the word "about" between "reports" and "how." Your message leaves out the word "about." When you put in the word "about" as I did, the sentence does make sense. Mahalo for the catch.
@@AndrewBlacker-t1d If you refer to the "know" between "we" and "what", then that works. It's what Fraser Cain always correctly said in his video introductions. Using the microphone to dictate my comments can save time...but it's not perfect. I don't know if my voice is recorded somewhere. You're making me wonder if I even UTTERED the words correctly. Hmmm...
@@turkosicsaba Sicilian pride 😁 It's no coincidence the planet was dedicated to the goddess of agriculture: the observatory was located on our sunny island, which was known as "breadbasket of Rome" for its wheat production.
Question about Great Wall of China: I always see the reasoning that ISS astronauts couldn’t see it. But ISS is quite far from Earth, and space begins at like 80-100km. Going with the lowest number, is it still invisible from 80km high up? What is the highest elevation where it is still theoretically visible? Other question is if there any other natural phenomena which indicates the outline of the great wall? Cleared land around the wall, end of farmlands at the wall, rivers the wall is following, things which outlines the wall even if the wall itself is not visible.
Just wanted to say hello from Latvia. Love your channel and I'm a fan of your reaction videos of the movies. As Contact is one of my all time faves, it was a pleasure to watch that reaction video 😇
@@DrBecky Theres a new one where the joke claims comparing a spring under pressure(more energy) and one thats not proves e=mc2! Hes even forgotten how to do simple maths! This failure is neil degrasse tyson!
I was firmly in favor of Pluto+Charon being considered a double planet, Eris and the others KBOs being planets, and… yes… Ceres being re-promoted to planet status, too.
Planetary scientists say that dwarf planets are part of their field. If they only studied the eight that are definitely planets, they wouldn’t be able to learn nearly as much as they can by also studying the edge cases (dwarf planets).
The problem with Ceres being promoted to planet is that there's loads and loads of obscure dwarf planets that would also need to be promoted since there's no meaningful line that can be drawn between them. Clearing its orbit is a somewhat arbitrary line but it's still an easily defined line to distinguish between planets and dwarf planets
@@bosstowndynamics5488 Yes, but I think the current naming conventions are bad. Dwarf planets aren't planets but they literally have planet in their categorisation, it doesn't make sense. I'm not surprised people are confused. In fact, when dwarf planets were initially conceived the major planets were known as classical planets, but the IAU dropped the classical part for some reason. I'm not a huge fan of "classical" because it's pretty ambiguous (Pluto spent about 80 years classified as a planet, why does that not count as "classical"?), but I think having no qualifier is worse.
A photon walks into a hotel and asks if he can book a room for the night. Certainly, replies the porter, do you have any luggage? No says the photon, i'm travelling light... Baddum and, if you will, Tish!
When you were discussing confirmation bias it reminded me of how we seem to bump into people we know more often than it should happen if it was just random. But that makes me wonder if we actually see a lot of the same strangers just as frequently, but think nothing of it because we don't recognise them.
Thanks for pointing out that it’s not just a coincidence, and that the Norse meaning of the word is the real one. Also says something about English weather 😆
You may find this interesting or silly. There was a cartoon that came out early 1990s called Beast Wars Transformers. It is the same Transformers that started in 1984 and the most recent Transformer live action movie featured some of the Beast Wars characters. The big plot for first season and big chunk of second season revolved around the Predacons (bad guys) getting a hold of the golden discs that was attached to Voyager and using the information for their own evil goals. They even used the symbols to mean different things in the cartoon. I do agree with the idea of getting away from the big cities and enjoying nature. It is a pleasure I get to do on a daily basis living out in the country.
Thank you Dr. Becky, and Happy New Year! Learning from you is always such fun. Also I have subscribed to all notifications to Planet Wild. Thanks for the heads-up on this channel too. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Happy New Year, Dr. Becky!🍀🍾 Speaking of a telescope: I really want to start observing the moon and hopefully planets with my daughter. Could you recommend some minimum technical data for starters to have some fun but not to spend too much money for starters? 😇🙏🇩🇪
May I intrude to tell you that a 20-60x terrestrial telescope will allow you to see the phases of Venus (and Mercury?), the major satellites of Jupiter and tell the ring system of Saturn apart from the planet (remember Saturn is getting to a point in its orbit where the rings are side-on and may not be seen). It will also allow you to look at star clusters like Pleiades and even parts of the Andromeda Galaxy (it is too large to see on 20x). Remember to wear sunglasses when watching the Moon during the night if it's over 50% visible. Your eyes will thank you.
@MaGaO thank you so much! I really appreciate! I was not sure if a 20x was really worth something 🙏 Any suggestion to how many mm aperture would be relevant?
@@ProgressiveEconomicsSupporter You really want it to reach 60x to look at planets and it will allow the Moon to almost fill the whole field. It is reasonably cheap (30-40€) and it also allows for watching wildlife, far mountains, etc. during the day :)
I love meme reviews/reactions done by experts. Partly because I get to see memes I haven't seen before, but mostly for the chance to learn something new.
Wow just read about the ligo reference, literally five minutes ago, then it pops up in your video. Really enjoying your book btw, so much so I'm rationing myself to a chapter a day. 👍
First video and I've just subscribed. You seem really fun and chill and down to earth. Knowledgeable and can communicate that in a easy way to understand. Looking forward to catching up with earlier videos and learning more. 😊
I nearly did an untoward thing - not look at your video soon after release! Great fun and your shout out for scientific approach using the first meme was excellent.
Hey Dr. Becky! I wanna say thank you for your Videos, they are great and i am having a great time watching them. I also want to say thnak you for introducing Planet Wild to me. I joined them immediately :)
Fun! Your segment about Voyager reminded me of my favorite astronomy meme. I t states that we finally deciphered a message from space and it said, stop sending us nude pictures and directions on how to get to your house
The face in the "When I die, I'm taking you with me" isn't Dr. Mama Jones. It's a much OLDER internet personality: The Overly Attached Girlfriend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overly_Attached_Girlfriend
This is from a non astrophysicist. I am retired from the computer field and spend a lot of time thinking about the wonders of space and what/why we believe what we do, such as distances, the makeup of sky objects, etc. It boggles the mind, at least it does mine. The request I have for a future episode would be about light. Why does it last from the stars to our eyes? How does the bending of light effect its path? With so many objects between the stars and earth how does it actually get thru? It's like a plinko board out there. It must bend so many times before reaching us, it might not be located where we think it is? I enjoy the way you present the subjects and I can actually understand a small portion. Keep it going in 2024.
1:25 I remember when I learned the word "giddy". I'd never heard or read that word before, and suddenly, I started hearing it quite often. I can't tell if it's due to a confirmation bias or if it's just because I changed my internet "presence" (where I hang out and what I do online) 😢. Probably a bit of both 🤔🤷♂️.
Dr. Becky! I've never written a comment before, but I want to tell you that I'm an 18-year-old guy, and I have such a dream to become a professional astrophysicist. I'm such a space nerd; I know so much off the top of my head, like, Y, T, L, M, K, G, F, A, B, O, WR (star classes). You're such an inspiration to me. I've worried about the math aspect and all that, or pay grades, and I just love watching your videos as inspiration to become an astrophysicist. I'll be going to SFA in Texas once I graduate. I hope you see this and respond! Maybe with "Things i should have known..." before taking astrophysics
Here are some ideas/questions you could cover: Question #1: How does spectroscopy works from the perspective of digital cameras? Do astronomers take each individual pixel that is rendered and break down what wavelenghts "are included" in that particular pixel? Question #2: Approx what percantage of the stars would we be able to observe for exoplanets with the transit observations? Question/Idea #3: Main differences between the southern and northern night skies. Different cultural significances attached to constellations, old ways of observations (for eg. inkas were looking at the shadows within the MilkyWay for shapes).
It wouldn't been a big deal to accept Pluto as a planet for historical reasons. Mankind do that all the time. The other interesting thing is that every object orbiting a giant black hole should be a dwarf planet including stars, which should create a "star/dwarf planet" catecory.
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I just learnt what confirmation bias is, and now I see it everywhere!
That's how you know it's working !
Dr. Becky, your last meme, the one about the Sun taking us with it, the face in the Sun is the "Overly Attached Girlfriend" Meme, started by Laina Morris. She's hilarious!
Is Laina related to Hayley Morris?
Hayley is also hilarious but for mature audiences only.
Thanks, Internet Historian
I miss Laina on RUclips: I really appreciated her dark sense of humour, and her comic timing was great.
@@MrHws5mpshe was one of a kind.😂
@@jonragnarsson No, no. The Internet Historian is that other guy, with the animations.
Here comes Dr. Becky again, tricking us into learning science by “showing us memes” 😂
Love it-- as a trained psychotherapist, I deal with confirmation biases all of the time! And if you ask: "yours or the patient's", the answer is "Yes..."
Not a trained therapist but at this point I am very well educated about psychology and okay educated at behavioral biology.
I can 100% confirm this 😂
As untrained in any kind of therapy, I'm still having issues figuring out you humans...
Ummmm... I mean... People... Yeah... Who says humans, am I right?
"Shall we put Bach on the Golden Record?"
"Naah... let's not brag, shall we."
Funny how people always seem to assume aliens will be high-brow. What if First Contact turns out to be a visit from an interstellar collector of fart jokes?
@@MartinInBCor worse...dad jokes...the world inundated with dad jokes...wait wasn't that a trend a few yrs ago?
The face in the Sun is " Overly Attached Girlfriend " . It's a meme .
memeseption
Scrolled here to make sure someone already got it. :)
She's on youtube too... @laina
It's an ancient meme (2012) that even has its own wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overly_Attached_Girlfriend
Classic OAG
2 minutes in, haven't looked at what others are saying, but I already love that even your meme-reacts come with a lesson in confirmation bias and frequency illusion. Way to keep it classy and informational while still being fun and silly! 😊
Humans: Concerned about the sun dying and taking them with it.
The universe (laughing): "We'll get you WAY before that happens!"
Ironically, I don't think it will be the universe that gets us. We'll most likely wipe ourselves out, sadly.
Humanity: not if we do it first!
Would it really be such a bad thing if you did more of these meme-reaction videos? You have the perfect reactions and the little science nugget you dispense is always informative. If one a month is too much, how about on the solstices and equinoxes? ;-)
perihelion, aphelion
Becky: We do memes the first week of January because we're tired. Also Becky: spends 4 minutes on a tangent after the first meme. :D
There is a reference to the Voyager discs in the game Stellaris. Early on after finding out about other life in the galaxy, you get an event where you remember that your species sent out some sub-lightspeed probes with information of where your homeworld is. Realising that that may have been a bad idea, your task is to bring them back.
In Starfield one of the Voyagers gained sentience.
@@Gremriel
....how innovative
Was done by Star Trek decades prior
@@Nightdare No one thinks Starfield is, in any way, shape, or form, innovative. Except maybe Todd Howard.
You can also visit Voyager 1 in Elite Dangerous
Rather somber thinking about humanity's changing attitude about aliens. Back then, in the 1970's, "Of course any advanced alien species will be compassionate and curious." Nowadays, many think of the dark forest and want to keep quiet.
Perhaps that just my age talking.
As a Ceres stan, I would like to formerly use this opportunity to celebrate. Justice for Ceres!
Edit: also justice for all the gas giant moons that would also be dwarf planets if they weren't already orbiting something else.
Including Earth's moon
As another Ceres stan, I would like to point out that Ceres still meets the _dictionary_ definition of a planet, even if it doesn't meet the _jargon_ definition. Ceres is a planet and a tomato is a vegetable and a bit is just a small amount, unless you're speaking science jargon! :)
Ceres is my favourite dwarf planet! It is both a dwarf planet AND an asteroid, it is unique. It's also likely the closest source of liquid water to the Earth.
Before this video, the only people I knew who were excited about Ceres were my friends in the spiritual communities and that was for astrological purposes rather than astronomical purposes. It's cool to meet people who like Ceres for non-spiritual reasons as well.
@@thenovicenovelistSailor Moon fans would know the first four asteroids (Ceres, Juno, Vesta, and Pallas) as characters from the series. There may be a vague crossover from astrology behind the characters, but it’s animated television for people who grew up at a particular time in North America.
That was great fun. I'm pleased that Laina is still featuring in new memes.
glad someone recognized her. i can never remember the name. i just recognized the face haha.
I was pretty sure that was who that was.
She'll always be The Overly Attached Girlfriend, to me 😁
That question mark galaxy meme is so funny! Thanks for pointing out the website where you can type out messages using images of galaxies!
We sent Chuck Berry on the golden disk. Saturday Night Live did a bit where aliens sent a signal “ Send more Chuck Berry. “.
Infectious enthusiasm is an understatement, you're always a joy to watch and learn from. The Planet Wild episode on elephants in Tanzania is fantastic, was only in Tanzania for a short while, but loved it. Fun to see Killamanjaro from Kenya and Tanzania. Two more things: please make another video about a day in Dr Becky's life... need to see how you keep up with everything without coffee or tea, and for a fun note; people are gabbing on about Aliens in a mall in Miami, Florida... good for a laugh!
Dr. Becky with all due respect, you adorable, hilarious, and fascinating! Thank you for keeping us updated. Cheers!
9:22 Imagine when Perseverance is Voyager I and Curiosity is Voyager II in this picture.
Happy New Year Dr Becky! I look forward to a whole new year of the best Cosmology videos on RUclips! Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this channel. I really appreciate it.
4:56 Pallas, Juno, and Vesta: 🫥. With Ceres, these 4 asteroids of the asteroid belt used to be full-fledged planets 🤓.
I got a job with a company called Northgate once. I'd never hear of them before being approached, but the next few days, everywhere I went, I saw Northagte vans. Biggest van company in Europe, yet until I got told about them, totally oblivious!
The Alien's response made me burst out loud! 😂
Looking forward to another informative year. Thanks for keeping me updated over the past few years.!
Vote on another meme video.... NEXT YEAR??? OMG, I'd watch these every month. At minimum make these every 3 months please. Thank you Dr. Becky for satisfying my needs for more knowledge and information. Happy New Year!
12:26 - I don't know why it reminds you of Mama Dr. Jones, but... Now that you mention it, I do kinda see it. And I just love that you mentioned her! She's great. :)
On Saturday night live they had the first response from an alien society to voyager. It was “send more chuck berry”
Yes
Dr. Becky, thank you for bringing up Planet Wild. I joined as a supporter, as I very much appreciate their approach on sustainable, workable, achievable goals.
Thank you for alerting me to this effort.
This is my first time watching your reaction to funny memes! I hope for more to come. Happy new year!
1:21 Wow. I had never heard of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon until yesterday and now it's popping up everywhere!
First of all, Happy New Year!
Second, VERY well pointed argument about dwarf planets. It is like it is, like it or not.
Third, i fully support the continuation of the "meme day", in fact, i suggest a livestream, where viewers can sent memes about space, and you can review them.
You're the best! I hope you're as happy as you can be! I love this channel. :)
Happy New Year, Becky! Here is another topic for 2024: the naming of space objects. I know about NGC and Messier, but there are sometimes stars and galaxies, etc with really weird names consisting of what seems to be (to a non astronomer at least) just random numbers and letters. A deep dive into this would be most interesting indeed! Also - thanks for your brilliant channel. Been following you for 5 years or so now. Keep up the great work!
Pulsar names are based on their sky coordinates, but idk about other types of objects 🤔.
I'd like to see how asteroid names are assigned. I mean, Scott Manley has one named for him. I suspect there's a cabal of space scientists and Monty Python alumni issuing those names.
Essentially the IAU has the authority to name astronomical objects, events, etc.
My only complaint is that we didn't get more! 😂 Pt 2 would be fun, but definitely again in '25 🙂 I love your channel. Thank you for being so gifted at translating complex concepts into common language. I look forward to buying 2 copies of your book, one to give a friend. Keep up the terrific work sharing *facts* and *reliable* information to the masses. It's more important now than ever.
There’s an amazing documentary about the Voyager missions called “The Furthest: Voyager in Space” that I wholeheartedly recommend. It goes into amazing detail about the Golden Record (fun fact: Carl Sagan’s son recorded a greeting from all the children of Earth.)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets upset when historic space equipment dies or gets ignored.
Seriously, when Hubble is retired I think I'll be close to tears.
Dr. Becky, I discovered your website shortly before JWST became operational and I have been watching your videos weekly ever since. I find them educational, entertaining, and I like your sense of humor. Things sure have changed since I got interested is astronomy and cosmology in the late 1950s. I used to watch Carl Sagan on TV and now I try to watch Neil deGrasse Tyson whenever he is on TV or he has a youtube video. Happy New Year to you!
Just subscribed and got my first telescope a month ago. Wife and kid absolutely went wild seeing Saturn. Can’t wait for new videos
Can relate. The first time I saw Jupiter through the telescope, I thought "wow, cool, you can see the bands and the 4 moons" But seeing Saturn the first time was a spiritual experience.
Happy new year! And yess! Please do it again next year!!! :)
Sometimes it isn't confirmation bias. When I was a kid it always seemed we had good weather during the week when we had school and inside but when we were off on the weekends and could go out and play it would rain. Turned it it did statistically rain more often on the weekends in the Pacific Northwest.
Blame the internal combustion engine; there is more traffic Monday to Friday. The change in pollution at the weekend causes bad weather
I notice that even now. Like it will snow all week, be nice on the weekend, and go back to snowing all week. Or we'll have really nice weather during the week and cloudy/rainy /colder temp days on the weekend. And this isn't influenced by whatever the news predicts since I don't pay attention to weather forecasters. It's really interesting.
Thank you for this weekly chance to learn a little bit about space! Dr. Becky is such a joy to watch. Her enthusiasm is contagious. I hope she has someone helping with questions like mine: I got interrupted while adding "auxin" to my learning list. She was explaining how gravity affects the plant direction-of-growth hormone -- there was a helpful cartoon of a seed planted on its side -- as part of fielding queries about Andy Weir's book The Martian & whether potatoes could be grown on Mars. I can't find which of her videos i had been watching (user error) & would really like to finish watching it. Please don't bother her with this; but if you can help, i will be thankful. 73 & still curious about everything, in Warsaw, Virginia
Yes, please! More reports about HOW we know WHAT we know! I am astounded...not having COMPLETELY read through many science papers...that some research groups are fed faulty data to weed out confirmation bias. I've heard this done in medicine, yes, but I am delighted this is also done in other scientific disciplines as well. Looking forward to more reports from you in 2024. Hau'oli Makahiki Hou! 🎉🥳
"more reports how we what we know."
Drunk already?
@@AndrewBlacker-t1d I appear to have used the word "about" between "reports" and "how." Your message leaves out the word "about." When you put in the word "about" as I did, the sentence does make sense. Mahalo for the catch.
@@jimcabezola3051 nope.
Try again.
@@AndrewBlacker-t1d If you refer to the "know" between "we" and "what", then that works. It's what Fraser Cain always correctly said in his video introductions. Using the microphone to dictate my comments can save time...but it's not perfect. I don't know if my voice is recorded somewhere. You're making me wonder if I even UTTERED the words correctly. Hmmm...
Thanks!
The telescope meme hit so hard :P I just got some new eyepieces last week and it's been nothing but clouds and rain all week long :(
About the first one...
I bought my very first telescope and instantly after arrival we got one months of clouds and rain straight...
can relate.
I celebrated Ceres getting upgraded to dwarf planet! It's one of my absolute favorite celestial objects! :D
It was discovered on the very first day of the 19th century, 1st of January 1801.
Giuseppe Piazzi must've received a telescope for Christmas.
@@turkosicsaba Lucky it wasn't a cloudy day then!
@@turkosicsaba Sicilian pride 😁 It's no coincidence the planet was dedicated to the goddess of agriculture: the observatory was located on our sunny island, which was known as "breadbasket of Rome" for its wheat production.
Question about Great Wall of China:
I always see the reasoning that ISS astronauts couldn’t see it. But ISS is quite far from Earth, and space begins at like 80-100km. Going with the lowest number, is it still invisible from 80km high up? What is the highest elevation where it is still theoretically visible?
Other question is if there any other natural phenomena which indicates the outline of the great wall? Cleared land around the wall, end of farmlands at the wall, rivers the wall is following, things which outlines the wall even if the wall itself is not visible.
Just wanted to say hello from Latvia. Love your channel and I'm a fan of your reaction videos of the movies. As Contact is one of my all time faves, it was a pleasure to watch that reaction video 😇
Awesome thank you!
@@DrBecky Theres a new one where the joke claims comparing a spring under pressure(more energy) and one thats not proves e=mc2! Hes even forgotten how to do simple maths! This failure is neil degrasse tyson!
Very funny, yet thoughtful/ thought provoking memes. Thanks, and have a great year of discovery!
Happy New Year, Dr Becky. All the best from Australia.
I was firmly in favor of Pluto+Charon being considered a double planet, Eris and the others KBOs being planets, and… yes… Ceres being re-promoted to planet status, too.
Planetary scientists say that dwarf planets are part of their field. If they only studied the eight that are definitely planets, they wouldn’t be able to learn nearly as much as they can by also studying the edge cases (dwarf planets).
I'm fine with them being planets too. I think we just need to distinguish between minor planets and major planets
@@FrostedCreationsIsn't that just another way of saying "larger planets and dwarf planets"?
The problem with Ceres being promoted to planet is that there's loads and loads of obscure dwarf planets that would also need to be promoted since there's no meaningful line that can be drawn between them. Clearing its orbit is a somewhat arbitrary line but it's still an easily defined line to distinguish between planets and dwarf planets
@@bosstowndynamics5488 Yes, but I think the current naming conventions are bad. Dwarf planets aren't planets but they literally have planet in their categorisation, it doesn't make sense. I'm not surprised people are confused.
In fact, when dwarf planets were initially conceived the major planets were known as classical planets, but the IAU dropped the classical part for some reason. I'm not a huge fan of "classical" because it's pretty ambiguous (Pluto spent about 80 years classified as a planet, why does that not count as "classical"?), but I think having no qualifier is worse.
A photon walks into a hotel and asks if he can book a room for the night. Certainly, replies the porter, do you have any luggage? No says the photon, i'm travelling light... Baddum and, if you will, Tish!
When you were discussing confirmation bias it reminded me of how we seem to bump into people we know more often than it should happen if it was just random. But that makes me wonder if we actually see a lot of the same strangers just as frequently, but think nothing of it because we don't recognise them.
Just like when you get a new car, you suddenly see the same model everywhere. The cars were there before but we just never noticed.
To hear this record turn it at 33-1/3 times a second: - Aliens "what's a second ?"
Please do this again next year 🙏 😂🎉😎🇩🇪
Youre my favorite scientist on youtube cos you know how to laugh
On the subject of clouds, never forget that the English word “sky” comes from an Old Norse word for clouds.
Thanks for pointing out that it’s not just a coincidence, and that the Norse meaning of the word is the real one. Also says something about English weather 😆
You may find this interesting or silly. There was a cartoon that came out early 1990s called Beast Wars Transformers. It is the same Transformers that started in 1984 and the most recent Transformer live action movie featured some of the Beast Wars characters. The big plot for first season and big chunk of second season revolved around the Predacons (bad guys) getting a hold of the golden discs that was attached to Voyager and using the information for their own evil goals. They even used the symbols to mean different things in the cartoon.
I do agree with the idea of getting away from the big cities and enjoying nature. It is a pleasure I get to do on a daily basis living out in the country.
This taking a lot more thought than you promised in the beginning 😂
Thank you Dr. Becky, and Happy New Year! Learning from you is always such fun. Also I have subscribed to all notifications to Planet Wild. Thanks for the heads-up on this channel too. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Always interesting with your content Dr😆👏🏻👍🏻
Happy New Year! The one with the alien question mark had me laughing out loud 😂
Happy New Year, Dr. Becky!🍀🍾
Speaking of a telescope: I really want to start observing the moon and hopefully planets with my daughter.
Could you recommend some minimum technical data for starters to have some fun but not to spend too much money for starters? 😇🙏🇩🇪
May I intrude to tell you that a 20-60x terrestrial telescope will allow you to see the phases of Venus (and Mercury?), the major satellites of Jupiter and tell the ring system of Saturn apart from the planet (remember Saturn is getting to a point in its orbit where the rings are side-on and may not be seen).
It will also allow you to look at star clusters like Pleiades and even parts of the Andromeda Galaxy (it is too large to see on 20x).
Remember to wear sunglasses when watching the Moon during the night if it's over 50% visible. Your eyes will thank you.
@MaGaO thank you so much! I really appreciate! I was not sure if a 20x was really worth something 🙏
Any suggestion to how many mm aperture would be relevant?
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You really want it to reach 60x to look at planets and it will allow the Moon to almost fill the whole field.
It is reasonably cheap (30-40€) and it also allows for watching wildlife, far mountains, etc. during the day :)
@MaGaO thank you, very exciting 🙂
I love meme reviews/reactions done by experts. Partly because I get to see memes I haven't seen before, but mostly for the chance to learn something new.
Love how Doc turns a meme into a full educational segment! :D
#rad
1 counter point, pulsars are only useful from your own specific point of view and only for a relatively short period of time. Love your channel!
I think I speak for everyone when I say, if you have the desire to do so, we'd all absolutely love Space Meme Reactions more often than once a year 😁
Wow just read about the ligo reference, literally five minutes ago, then it pops up in your video.
Really enjoying your book btw, so much so I'm rationing myself to a chapter a day. 👍
I am in Australia and my telescope managed to attract rain to the outback! I visited Charleville twice - rained twice! In Charleville!
First video and I've just subscribed. You seem really fun and chill and down to earth. Knowledgeable and can communicate that in a easy way to understand. Looking forward to catching up with earlier videos and learning more. 😊
I nearly did an untoward thing - not look at your video soon after release! Great fun and your shout out for scientific approach using the first meme was excellent.
Unique means one of a kind. “Very unique” means very one of a kind.
My favorite part of the golden record is the instructions for how to read it.
It's just really cool.
It also has electronic pictures in case the aliens have eyesight like humans.
Happy New Year, Doc!
Gong gong must become a planet. 😂😂. Great explanation of blinding data :) happy new year Dr Becky!!!!🎉
Hey Dr. Becky! I wanna say thank you for your Videos, they are great and i am having a great time watching them. I also want to say thnak you for introducing Planet Wild to me. I joined them immediately :)
Thanks Dr Becky. Another great video! This was especially entertaining because ~5:40 you sent my Apple HomePod Mini mental haha!
Fun! Your segment about Voyager reminded me of my favorite astronomy meme. I t states that we finally deciphered a message from space and it said, stop sending us nude pictures and directions on how to get to your house
10:51 my geology major roommate was not happy to hear the phrase “plain old boring rocks”😂
The face in the "When I die, I'm taking you with me" isn't Dr. Mama Jones. It's a much OLDER internet personality: The Overly Attached Girlfriend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overly_Attached_Girlfriend
Absolutely! Make this a regular thing every year. I enjoyed it!
LOL...1:00 to 4:00 is similar to asking what time it is and being answered by being told how to build a clock...lol
I loved your memes this year. Yes, please do it again next year!
Clint has dinosaur December, Dr. B has January . . . memes? Work on this, people.
This is from a non astrophysicist. I am retired from the computer field and spend a lot of time thinking about the wonders of space and what/why we believe what we do, such as distances, the makeup of sky objects, etc. It boggles the mind, at least it does mine. The request I have for a future episode would be about light. Why does it last from the stars to our eyes? How does the bending of light effect its path? With so many objects between the stars and earth how does it actually get thru? It's like a plinko board out there. It must bend so many times before reaching us, it might not be located where we think it is? I enjoy the way you present the subjects and I can actually understand a small portion. Keep it going in 2024.
My favorite new find..... Looking forward to catching up on all the previous episodes. That laugh is infectious. 🥰🥰🥰
Dr Becky, how come we have only just found out that Neptune isn't blue? Someone has seriously dropped the ball on that one 😄
1:25 I remember when I learned the word "giddy". I'd never heard or read that word before, and suddenly, I started hearing it quite often. I can't tell if it's due to a confirmation bias or if it's just because I changed my internet "presence" (where I hang out and what I do online) 😢. Probably a bit of both 🤔🤷♂️.
HAVE A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR , Dr. Becky
Dr. Becky!
I've never written a comment before, but I want to tell you that I'm an 18-year-old guy, and I have such a dream to become a professional astrophysicist. I'm such a space nerd; I know so much off the top of my head, like, Y, T, L, M, K, G, F, A, B, O, WR (star classes).
You're such an inspiration to me. I've worried about the math aspect and all that, or pay grades, and I just love watching your videos as inspiration to become an astrophysicist.
I'll be going to SFA in Texas once I graduate. I hope you see this and respond!
Maybe with "Things i should have known..." before taking astrophysics
I love your lamp, Dr. B. I check in every 3-6 months just to make sure its still there.
Aliens converting an _ENTIRE GALAXY_ into a huge billboard, *really is* an effing hilarious thought. 😅
Dr. Becky, YES! Please continue your “tradition” of funny space memes for the New Year! They were hilarious!!🤣 Happy New Year!!
Got a new 10" dobsonian for xmas. Barely a clear night since.
Received new telescope incoming clouds meme is hilarious!😂
Great show, HNY
Even the meme episodes I find myself learning something new. So much fun.
Here are some ideas/questions you could cover:
Question #1: How does spectroscopy works from the perspective of digital cameras? Do astronomers take each individual pixel that is rendered and break down what wavelenghts "are included" in that particular pixel?
Question #2: Approx what percantage of the stars would we be able to observe for exoplanets with the transit observations?
Question/Idea #3: Main differences between the southern and northern night skies. Different cultural significances attached to constellations, old ways of observations (for eg. inkas were looking at the shadows within the MilkyWay for shapes).
Dr. Becky, thanks for sharing and Happy New year! 🙂😎🤓❤
Always delightful Dr Becky! Thank you
But.. but.. most of us have grown up with Pluto, and we know and love him! Ceres is just the goddess of agriculture!
It wouldn't been a big deal to accept Pluto as a planet for historical reasons. Mankind do that all the time.
The other interesting thing is that every object orbiting a giant black hole should be a dwarf planet including stars, which should create a "star/dwarf planet" catecory.
The face in the sun is the Overly Attached Girlfriend meme. :)
Thanks for the memes, dr. Becky! 😊
Happy new year! And stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊