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?
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!
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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.)
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.
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 😆
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.
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!
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.
I don’t know if someone’s already said, but in Star Trek either V or VI (Final frontier and Undiscovered country respectively) they open with a probe that’s supposed to be Voyager. It’s tumbling through space and you can clearly see the characteristic plaque on the side. And then the Klingons blast it to a million pieces like it was nothing but rubbish. A part of my soul cried.
The Great Wall is 21,200 km long... but only 6.5 wide (average) at its base. Seeing it from space would be like trying to see a very long human hair from a dozen metres.
One of the astronomy shops here in OZ has "Clouds Inside" stenciled on the outside of their packaging. I had a month of clear skies and then the 130mm refractor arrived and from that day till now we have had ferocious thunderstorms. It reminds me of Douglas Adams novel So Long and Thanks For All the Fish. “And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.” He eventually stopped driving the truck and hired himself out to farmers who were suffering drought and being paid to stay away from holiday resorts so people got better weather. Astro-photographers should do the same thing.
Funny thing about the gold disk is that by the time any alien civilisation find and decode it, the pulsar map's relative position of Sol will be skewed.
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. 👍
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
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 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.
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.
Another variant of the frequency illusion: If you observe things and put them in a category of A and not-A, then a test of A, B, none of the above, the number of observances of A will decrease, and generally A will lose count to none of the above. B will pull most of theirs from not-A
The section on the golden records reminded me of a question that popped into my brain during a boring bus journey on Wednesday. Most of us will have heard it said that should we encounter an alien civilisation our best first tool to attempt communication (presuming they haven’t already learned our languages from our transmissions) would be mathematics. The question that came to mind is, how? Say I’m out one night and through some hand-wavey-unknown-to-humans-multiversal-thingie some aliens have crossed the vastness of space and landed in front of me. How do I start communication? I’m pretty sure given some paper and pens I could explain our place based number system, demonstrate Pythagorean theory and get a start on the Fibonacci sequence. I might even be able to do some basic things with arithmetic and circles. But what else?
In the show "Futurama", the main character Fry get's frozen for 1,000 years. This occurs at midnight in the year 1999. However, when he unfreezes 1,000 years later it's 31 December 2999 and, while not directly stated, midnight is several hours away. So the question is: how many years in the future would it actually need to be to add hours to Earth's orbit to explain the time discrepancy. 🤔
My brother received a Celestron AstroMaster 130EQ for his entire family this xmas and have not had a single clear skies night since. He is however snowed in now.
For the how do we know suggestions: How do we know that matter is falling into a black hole and not being compacted around its circumference whose radius increases the more matter it swallows?
Black holes are a mathematical concept. Pi is a mathematical concept of a circle. When you draw a circle, the circle is static. However when you add a digit to it, that means the circle is growing ever slightly. The math for black holes face similar issues such as the fact that infinite gravity would be needed for even light to not have the escape velocity to escape a black hole. Everything involving the event horizon is not mensurable with current technology which is where the math comes in.
I remember being scared silly watching "The Sky at Night" when I was a young child (40+ years ago), and Patrick Moore said the sun would expand to swallow the Earth. At that age I didn't understand the concept of billions of years (I barely do now tbh). I thought he meant it would happen next in the week or so!
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
A "How do we know" Astrophysics question: How do we know the complete electromagnetic spectrum? An explanation of not just what the spectrum represents, but how we actually detected it, proved it, and maybe how we know that radio and gamma waves are the end-members.
_"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."_ - Planet Pluto
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.
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.
I feel like frequency illusion also happens without the illusion part too though. That is, everyone stopped saying a word for a minute and then one person says it and it starts getting said more. And under those circumstances, you are way more likely to freshly learn the word so you begin to believe it's frequency illusion but sometimes it's just people started to say a word that had fallen out of common favor for awhile. Spend some time talking to random people and you will see if you say an unusual word they are way more likely to say it. Just how conversation works.
A video about physics constants would be super cool. In Physics class we use the permeability of free space and the gravitational constant shoved up front of an otherwise deliberate combination of units and values. What if these numbers were different?
I’m certain someone has already commented about the face in the sun meme is “crazy ex girlfriend” meme girl, despite a passing similarity to Mama Doctor Jones. Which makes it even better.
When I was five years old I heard on the news that the sun would one day destroy the earth. I missed the part about a timeframe, however. I remember sitting on the front step in a stupor afterwards and accepting death. Good times.
The Voyager Meme also has another alien answer. It was "Thanks for pictures of yourselves naked and a map of how to get to your place, but we're not into that!".
16:19 About the centuries, all you need to remember is that the Xth century ends with the year X00 - 1. For example, the 16th century ended in 1600 - 1, so 1599. and the 20th century ended in 2000 - 1, so 1999. A century starts at 0 and ends at 99.
The first meme hit me in the soul. 😂 I took Astronomy as an elective in college with a mandatory lab at the college's observatory. In my case, there were two options for the lab: one on Sunday and the other on Thursday. I had another class on Sunday evenings, so I had to pick the Thursday lab. But for the entire semester, 15 weeks straight, every Thursday night was overcast. 😢 No telescope time for me.
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 🤔🤷♂️.
I’m for some reason very fascinated with neutron stars, how do we know about their temperature, their core, their quarks etc? I want to know everything about the how’s and what’s!
I just learnt what confirmation bias is, and now I see it everywhere!
That's how you know it's working !
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?
Here comes Dr. Becky again, tricking us into learning science by “showing us memes” 😂
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
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!
That question mark galaxy meme is so funny! Thanks for pointing out the website where you can type out messages using images of galaxies!
On Saturday night live they had the first response from an alien society to voyager. It was “send more chuck berry”
Yes
The Alien's response made me burst out loud! 😂
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!
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.
Looking forward to another informative year. Thanks for keeping me updated over the past few years.!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.)
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.
Aliens converting an _ENTIRE GALAXY_ into a huge billboard, *really is* an effing hilarious thought. 😅
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.
9:22 Imagine when Perseverance is Voyager I and Curiosity is Voyager II in this picture.
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 😆
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.
Please do this again next year 🙏 😂🎉😎🇩🇪
You're the best! I hope you're as happy as you can be! I love this channel. :)
This taking a lot more thought than you promised in the beginning 😂
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!
10:15 The real irony is that Curiosity is persevering while Perseverance is sparking curiosity
Love how Doc turns a meme into a full educational segment! :D
#rad
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.
There was a cartoon of the alien response to the Voyager record: "Send more Buddy Holly".
I don’t know if someone’s already said, but in Star Trek either V or VI (Final frontier and Undiscovered country respectively) they open with a probe that’s supposed to be Voyager. It’s tumbling through space and you can clearly see the characteristic plaque on the side. And then the Klingons blast it to a million pieces like it was nothing but rubbish. A part of my soul cried.
Always interesting with your content Dr😆👏🏻👍🏻
The Great Wall is 21,200 km long... but only 6.5 wide (average) at its base. Seeing it from space would be like trying to see a very long human hair from a dozen metres.
4:56 Pallas, Juno, and Vesta: 🫥. With Ceres, these 4 asteroids of the asteroid belt used to be full-fledged planets 🤓.
One of the astronomy shops here in OZ has "Clouds Inside" stenciled on the outside of their packaging.
I had a month of clear skies and then the 130mm refractor arrived and from that day till now we have had ferocious thunderstorms.
It reminds me of Douglas Adams novel So Long and Thanks For All the Fish.
“And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.”
He eventually stopped driving the truck and hired himself out to farmers who were suffering drought and being paid to stay away from holiday resorts so people got better weather.
Astro-photographers should do the same thing.
Galaxy shaped like a question mark: We found Gallifrey's home galaxy!
Years ago, Saturday Night Live News reported the first alien response to Voyager - 'Send more Chuck Berry'
Unique means one of a kind. “Very unique” means very one of a kind.
Funny thing about the gold disk is that by the time any alien civilisation find and decode it, the pulsar map's relative position of Sol will be skewed.
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. 👍
Happy New Year! The one with the alien question mark had me laughing out loud 😂
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
Very funny, yet thoughtful/ thought provoking memes. Thanks, and have a great year of discovery!
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 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.
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.
Another variant of the frequency illusion: If you observe things and put them in a category of A and not-A, then a test of A, B, none of the above, the number of observances of A will decrease, and generally A will lose count to none of the above. B will pull most of theirs from not-A
I know it is not your field, but I find the "placebo effect" (and its inverse, the "nocebo effect") fascinating.
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.
The section on the golden records reminded me of a question that popped into my brain during a boring bus journey on Wednesday. Most of us will have heard it said that should we encounter an alien civilisation our best first tool to attempt communication (presuming they haven’t already learned our languages from our transmissions) would be mathematics. The question that came to mind is, how? Say I’m out one night and through some hand-wavey-unknown-to-humans-multiversal-thingie some aliens have crossed the vastness of space and landed in front of me. How do I start communication? I’m pretty sure given some paper and pens I could explain our place based number system, demonstrate Pythagorean theory and get a start on the Fibonacci sequence. I might even be able to do some basic things with arithmetic and circles. But what else?
In the show "Futurama", the main character Fry get's frozen for 1,000 years. This occurs at midnight in the year 1999. However, when he unfreezes 1,000 years later it's 31 December 2999 and, while not directly stated, midnight is several hours away. So the question is: how many years in the future would it actually need to be to add hours to Earth's orbit to explain the time discrepancy. 🤔
My brother received a Celestron AstroMaster 130EQ for his entire family this xmas and have not had a single clear skies night since. He is however snowed in now.
That was a blast. I vote making it a tradition.
For the how do we know suggestions: How do we know that matter is falling into a black hole and not being compacted around its circumference whose radius increases the more matter it swallows?
Black holes are a mathematical concept. Pi is a mathematical concept of a circle. When you draw a circle, the circle is static. However when you add a digit to it, that means the circle is growing ever slightly. The math for black holes face similar issues such as the fact that infinite gravity would be needed for even light to not have the escape velocity to escape a black hole. Everything involving the event horizon is not mensurable with current technology which is where the math comes in.
Absolutely! Make this a regular thing every year. I enjoyed it!
I remember being scared silly watching "The Sky at Night" when I was a young child (40+ years ago), and Patrick Moore said the sun would expand to swallow the Earth.
At that age I didn't understand the concept of billions of years (I barely do now tbh).
I thought he meant it would happen next in the week or so!
Scientists: "Pluto is a dwarf planet."
Jupiter: "You're all dwarf planets!"
Since a placebo by definition "blinds" the patient, "double blinded" involving a placebo implies 3 parties who are "blind", to me.
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
A "How do we know" Astrophysics question: How do we know the complete electromagnetic spectrum?
An explanation of not just what the spectrum represents, but how we actually detected it, proved it, and maybe how we know that radio and gamma waves are the end-members.
_"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."_ - Planet Pluto
Even the meme episodes I find myself learning something new. So much fun.
Happy New Year, Doc!
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
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.
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.
Aliens: "Send more Chuck Berry!" (Thanks David Letterman)
I feel like frequency illusion also happens without the illusion part too though. That is, everyone stopped saying a word for a minute and then one person says it and it starts getting said more. And under those circumstances, you are way more likely to freshly learn the word so you begin to believe it's frequency illusion but sometimes it's just people started to say a word that had fallen out of common favor for awhile.
Spend some time talking to random people and you will see if you say an unusual word they are way more likely to say it. Just how conversation works.
A video about physics constants would be super cool. In Physics class we use the permeability of free space and the gravitational constant shoved up front of an otherwise deliberate combination of units and values. What if these numbers were different?
The map was a great idea - well, if you want aliens to come and exterminate us. Maybe it's for the best.
I’m certain someone has already commented about the face in the sun meme is “crazy ex girlfriend” meme girl, despite a passing similarity to Mama Doctor Jones. Which makes it even better.
Voyager Golden Record: "We are the people of Earth. Squawk, Cheep, Meow, Oink, Moo"
Aliens:...
Thanks for the memes, dr. Becky! 😊
Happy new year! And stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
1st meme - When you get a new car, you notice that model of car on the road a lot more.
Always delightful Dr Becky! Thank you
We all know what Aliens would communicate if they discovered the time capsules:
"Send more Chuck Berry!"
Love it Becky. Definitely have to do it next year.
I know Ceres. It's not forgotten. And I know on Ceres some people have to "stay away from de aqua".
Another example of confirmation bias is when you get a new (to you) car and then you see that same model car everywhere.
Poor little Pluto. We broke it's little heart.
Youre my favorite scientist on youtube cos you know how to laugh
Dr. Becky: It's probably just boring old rocks
Geologists: 👁👄👁
Love it! I wouldn't mind another one next year :D
I actually have a poster on my wall that has a picture of Curiosity which says: “The cure for boredom is Curiosity, there is no cure for Curiosity
I believe the blind analysis means it's *triple* blind, the first two being the patient and the ones administering the treatment.
Space memes... monthly, please.
When I was five years old I heard on the news that the sun would one day destroy the earth. I missed the part about a timeframe, however. I remember sitting on the front step in a stupor afterwards and accepting death. Good times.
The Voyager Meme also has another alien answer. It was "Thanks for pictures of yourselves naked and a map of how to get to your place, but we're not into that!".
oh god we sent them dik piks
Dr. Becky, YES! Please continue your “tradition” of funny space memes for the New Year! They were hilarious!!🤣 Happy New Year!!
Confirmation bias is why washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
HOWEVER, if you cut your hay to make it rain, that does work!
16:19 About the centuries, all you need to remember is that the Xth century ends with the year X00 - 1. For example, the 16th century ended in 1600 - 1, so 1599. and the 20th century ended in 2000 - 1, so 1999. A century starts at 0 and ends at 99.
The first meme hit me in the soul. 😂
I took Astronomy as an elective in college with a mandatory lab at the college's observatory. In my case, there were two options for the lab: one on Sunday and the other on Thursday. I had another class on Sunday evenings, so I had to pick the Thursday lab. But for the entire semester, 15 weeks straight, every Thursday night was overcast. 😢 No telescope time for me.
13:00 makes me think..... When this happens other planets will be habitable...
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 🤔🤷♂️.
Happy New Year, Dr Becky. All the best from Australia.
I’m for some reason very fascinated with neutron stars, how do we know about their temperature, their core, their quarks etc? I want to know everything about the how’s and what’s!
I live in Washington. Every time there's the possibility of the aurora being visible- CLOUDS
Just a note, I’m from Flagstaff so am morally required to support Pluto. I also Ceres is very cool, so there’s that. Happy 2024!