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10,000 Part One. Or, How the Metric System Can Get You Killed.
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2019
- To celebrate my 10,000, here is the first of two videos exploring how 10,000 has shaped our view of the universe. In part one, we see how a desperate attempt to measure 10,000 km broke lives, exposed hypocrisies, and changed the world.
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You are an amazing story teller. You are one of the hidden gems of the video creator universe.
Live long and prosper.
Excited to see you upload again. Literally put a grin on my face seeing this pop up.
2 years later and that’s exactly how I feel when he uploads now :)
Consistantly amazing content. Always excited to see your stuff. Top notch!
I didn’t realize it was new until I looked for part 2, lol. I watch your vids maybe 5 times each to commit to memory some of the most wonderfully phrased quotes of explanation I’ve ever heard. “A meter is one ten-millionth of a quarter the earths meridian.” Beautifully simple yet so exact and exhaustive, not a single adjective could be added or removed to better the description.
It's always such a pleasure to see another post by you. Just delightful, thorough and unusual, nobody does work like this but you and it is wonderful! What a mix this one is, from beheadings to reprobates, blind astronomers, all the strange steps humans take to make any scientific advancements at all. Thank you for the time and effort this must take!
Nick that was another fantastic video! Thank you very much! You're still one of the most interesting channels on RUclips. :-) I absolutely love these stories and the fact that they're all true is just the icing on the cake.
Your videos and entire library of content is amazing to watch and a joy to learn what you teach!
I immediately clicked this the moment I saw it. I'm so happy to see a new video from you.
Same here, but I'm from the future..
Nick has just pulled off the incredibly amazing feat of making a Monday good! Congratulations, Nick.
A documentary without having to listen to a rock concert, how refreshing
Love the way you build a story into the history of science.
Milliards are the way to go. When I was a child I was taught that a billion was a million x million and there were these other things called "American Billions" that were a thousandth of the real thing.
Bi = 2, 2 million is 12 zeros and not 6. The language got damaged somewhere. People not familure with maths or language im guessing until it became a common thing
@@nicosmind3: By that logic, the correct name for a million would be an unillion.
Defining a billion as a million squared sounds like some cockamamie pre-Enlightenment British concept, like the fractional currency they still love to use. A million is a thousand thousand, a billion is a thousand million, a trillion is a thousand billion, a quadrillion is a thousand trillion, etc. etc. etc. Nice clean units of ten, the way Jesus would've wanted.
No, it is just the method used before the Americans subordinated it to their own incorrect usage. Lack of knowledge is not good support for a faulty opinion based upon bias and ignorance. Once you know the facts you can draw your own conclusions, right or wrong but at least now you now know the facts.
@@yereverluvinuncleber So is a trillion equal to a billion billion?
This was freaking brilliant!!
Such a shame i only discovered your channel a fortnight ago.
The content is amazing, time literally flies.
My day hadn't been so great until this happened. I knew a little of this story but, as usual, you took the tale to another level.
Your uploads are of the highest quality. I learn stuff that I didn't know even existed! Thank you so much, Nick.
I also learn stuff I never knew existed, which to be honest is why I do this :0)
Good job on not degrading the narrative into numerology.
The video was well worth the wait.
That I never will do.
Two and a half minutes in and I have to pause and say that my mind is already blown. The angle of approach for telling whatever tale will unfold is so original, this is gonna be good, real REAL good.
We are grateful for your proper, full-blown return, ParallaxNick.
Btw, and before I continue watching this video - here in Mexico, in conversation we often find ourselves having to differentiate between "Mexican billions" (12 zeroes) and "Gringo billions" (9 zeroes), which we call "mil millones (a thousand million)".
EDIT: Fantastic yarn. About a meter long, I'd reckon. The amount of research that went into conceiving and assembling this story seems utterly intimidating.
"And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped."
Hi Nick, this video is my new favorite of all your posts. History is my passion, and I am learning a lot from this.
What a fascinating and very appropriate video.
Your content is always superb and you tell the story so well. Your channel deserves WAY more subscribers, I can't think of any that do long form astronomy/science content better (note, I am not counting futurism channels, since that's different and there are some excellent ones).
Yes! I love your work... Unique, interesting, informative videos...I just wish you could upload more. Having said that it's a real treat when you do. Thanks
Ah my curse. I have to decide if 80 hour weeks are worth it.
An easy to listen to, informative, and entertaining 50 minutes. Looking forward to the next one.
It is always a great pleasure to see another email with your ParallaxNick
monica on it... means a viewing pleasure awaits.....and as The Gunman said "Literally put a grin on my face seeing this pop up."
It is great to hear from you again Nick. Your channel is unique and interesting.
I automatically like every video as soon as I click it, I'm more than confident that the content will be excellent
Great to see you releasing videos again. Glad your ok!
Great to see that you got enough straightened out to be able to post this. We've missed you.
You do have an error though, near the beginning. The US *has* adopted the meter as a standard unit of length. In fact, it was one of the original signatories of the Convention on the Meter and Kilogram in the 19th century. US Customary units are defined in terms of meters and kilograms. An inch is exactly 25.4 mm. That wasn't true in the UK until the 1950s when they adopted the International Yard.. The US liquid gallon is defined as 231 cu. in., while the UK Imperial gallon was defined by the volume of 10 lbs. of water(?) at a particular temperature (Fahrenheit).
Thanks for the upload. I needed something to watch this morning.
Your videos are so good. The pace, content, editing all great, this channel is criminally underrated.
Here in the US we use freedom units. It's 58 degrees Freedom right now.
Freedom units in the most highly incarcerated society in the world. Do you also accept ironic tokens? 😜
Do you run your heating with Freedom Gas?
Hows you're cultural enrichment europoors
Base 12 was the most common counting system till the 0 spread the base 10 system. So up until recently it was still used for trade in many places (i mean like 100 years ago recent). Pleasingly a 1/3 and a 1/4 both fit neatly in it, no need for repeaters 0.333... So really, i quite like that some history is still alive in some parts of the world. Us all being the same is boring
I’ve watched a lot of space and technology documentaries on RUclips but the ones you make are some of the best!
Excellent long form video! The scientific history lesson, sometimes so fleetingly touched on in early academic studies, I find so fascinating now. Thank you.
I listen to your videos and it works just as well without the pictures. Your research is impeccable and your narrative style authoritative with a hint of humour. It covers the human enterprise that is science but you love science itself.
Just watched the Banard star and Titan videos. And subscibed.
Was hoping you were still active and to my pleasure you are. Thanks
Holy shit this is good. I was on the edge of my seat for these characters' antics throughout the video, laughing a lot in the first half in particular. The ending is very compelling and poignant, a man chronically in pain both physically and mentally, meticulous and obsessive, falsifying his own results in a misguided effort to save face. It is... very sad, and very real.
Overall, this is just an excellent story, and thank you so much for telling it :)
Slowly making my way through your channel Nick. It’s by far the most in depth documentation of all I love in the sciences. So glad I’ve found it. Never stop. Your making myself and my aspiring astrophysicist 13 year old daughter very happy 👏👏👏
I would of never known the great lengths those people went to just to prove the meter. Amazing storyline and well presented.
Awesome video, I am better for watching this, Thank YOU!
The decimal system: perfectly rational and practical.
The US: bald eagles per squared big macs - fReeDom uNitS
This video was awesome 👏🏻 Thanks a (metric) ton ✅👍🏻
Thank you for the word "parochial". I had to look it up, and now I can't wait to use it!
These are some of the best space programming out. Thanks Nick. For the algorithm!
Damn, the French revolution was craaaazy. People have no idea what the world has gone through to get to this point of freedom.
This was unique and VERY interesting. Thank you Nick.
Your content is so well done and educational. Thank you. You’ll get more subs and views over time ...way more I’d predict. I thought Veritasium’s recent video on RUclips’s algorithm (“My Video went Viral”) was informative. May be worth you taking a look at. You deserve more reward for all your research.
I saw your notification in my queue and damn near jammed every bone in my hand, in my rush to see what you were treating us with. Great video Nick! I hope all is well on the homefront my friend! Good to hear from you buddy!
Thanks! Things are actually pretty good right now :-)
Dude you are awesome at explaining complex ideas.
Wow! Amazing gripping inspired insightful imaginative compelling... ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you for this video, I enjoyed it so very much. All the best Nick.
Greatings from New Mexico! Love the content. Keep up the great work.
Used to live there. Love the Land of Enchantment!
Thanks for the great video! Love the story-telling and the pictures that go along. I don't know if it would be too much trouble, but would it be possible to write out people's names (as subtitles) on the first picture they appear on? While your pronunciation is very good (and extremely good for a Brit, hehehe) I'd love to see the name written out just so I can be sure I understood it. Thank you.
I love your work!
But would a baby born without the ability to senses anything be aware it exists?
The baby would feel nothing, see nothing, hear nothing, taste nothing, and it would also have no sense of its own body.
The baby would never be able to make contact with anything outside it's own body, and without the ability to sense even it's own body, would not be able to contact anything withing it's own body.
I can't even begin to imagine what such an existence would be like. Hell, I'm not even sure it would be existence at all.
Thankfully, it will die shortly after birth, surely.
Fuckin' great to hear from you again mate!
And that's before I watch.
:-)
This was a wild ride from start to finish.
How has this only got 16k views after almost year and a half?!!!
Well worth the wait :)
That was an epic tale. Thanks.
Amazing video! Bravo!
Well done, and your sound quality is greatly improved.
These videos remind me of the old Connections series from the BBC. A confluence of science and history, told with wit.
An old friend invented his own mass unit called the firma. The earth masses 1 tera (10^12 or 1000000000000) firma.
Just noticed part 2. Had to watch part 1 first. Excellent video 👍.
*Satanic Mechanics* is going to be the name of my new heavy metal group. Lol 🤘.
Hi Nick! We're glad you're back.
Hi Event Horizon. :)
Oh? A new website... I'll check it out.
glad to see you back with a new video
Please never stop. Brilliant again.
And another thing: 22:53 if you want to know what Cæsium in water looks like, see this playlist on the “Periodic Videos” channel from the University of Nottingham:
ruclips.net/p/PLA1CF1ED878BBE7E7
The current debate about dark matter and dark energy maby is the same way ridiculous as this old fight regarding the shape of the earth.
How the balls do you only have 14k subscribers you make better content than some TV channels. Now you have 14k+1 subs.
I’m only 15 minutes in, but I have to say: you are a master of annunciation.
Fantastic!
That this video has only short of 800 likes is a scandal. 80,000 likes would be more appropriate.
I also believe, the 25 dislikes were from people believe your video is against the godly cosmic order.
Bravo! First time I ever heard Christiaan Huygens's name pronounced correctly. Looks like you did your homework.
And you are among the very few people who know the proper use of "comprise." Even some very smart people get it wrong.
This video deserves at least 10.000 likes :o
10,000 kind of has become the metric for "making it on youtube". so congratulations to that. more so for your quality. which is my metric.
Fascinating stuff.
9:05 - Descartes may have been searching for a true axiom, but by denying the validity of his senses, he cut himself off from any possibility of certainty. That is why he is a Platonist. He destroyed actual cognition.
Wonderful stuff!
200 million horses is about 3 and a half times the number of horses alive today, on the entire planet (about 60 million).
that intro. Must. Watch. D... S... NINE!
Best Trek.
Such a shame RUclips rewards the regular puking-out of any old thing - there are certain subjects that may lend themselves to it, but this sort of meticulously researched brilliance, weaving together the historical and the very, or at least reasonably, contemporary does not.
And that's a shame because all of your content deserves a lot more....everything than it gets!
I don't know what you earn from RUclips (and am not asking) but I bet if you divide it by the hours you must spend researching, writing, re-writing, polishing your scripts, recording, editing and all the other things, you're producing these mainstream-broadcast-grade documentaries for less than the minimum wage!
Why isn't this the stuff of high school education. I never would have fallen asleep in class had we been learning about this.
New vid by Nick?
Click, like, then watch.
Good times..
10,000 *has* a name, it's a myriad.
You know. We need to bridge the gap between Imperial and Metric. We need Metperial.
Excellent content.
Тьма is darkness or a slang for "a lot", which can be any number in a context and not particularly 10000
Looks like i was wrong. It was actually 10000 during mongol-tatar invasion times.
@@neolynxer is it because mongols used to use formations of 10, 100, 1000, etc soldiers? I doubt anyone would actually count back then.
Kept imaging subtly terse hrmms, and hmphs for those portraits, heehee
another nice vid. Thanks and very entertaining.
5:00 It's to bad that humans are so unreasonable, whimsical, and cobbled together. It might have worked but for that fact.
superb.
An amazing documentary.
Your scientific content is great, but I am really amazed by your historical content even more. I love your take on the quirks of the personalities involved and had more than a few good chuckles, something I am in dire need of in these troubling times the world is in. You put The History Channel to shame.
I shared the link on Facebook. Many of my friends will love watching this.
05:03 I can not believe I missed this first time I watched.
French revolution 1791. 1789...
The Constitution was established in 1791.
I love your youtube videos 👍🙂
I just fnished "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps" which focuses more on time standardization, Einstein and Poincare's role in such practical affairs, which might surprise many(I knew that Poincare got an engineering degree before a Mathematics career; even if he always had his eye on Mathematics, he was also not the unconscious of feeding his stomach Mathematician most people would think of Mathematicians. Much the same can be said of Albert Einstein) and Special Relativity - not General Relativity.
Peter Galison mentions mostly in passing the whole French meter thing. But, he does detail some good stuff on a 1900 official ceremony to lock up a meter bar in a temp controlled environment, locked three ways by officials and so forth. He points out measureing instruments, that used micorscopes to see the cuts in a bar and so forth.
Ten thousand the first number to have it's own name? You need to read Isaac Barrow's "Pi in the Sky" . . i do believe the second chapter; worth the price of the book(last time I checked on amazon, it was selling for one cent, and five dollars shipping and handling) - You'll find that the whole point of the growth of the number concept is having it's own name.
If you represent a number by the same symbols, say a slash -. Then, how do you know this set of slashes ------------------------- from this slash? -------------------------
Or, to give the theater example. If you didn't know the number of seats in a theater, and then you fill each seat in a theater, you can say you have a theater of people, but how much? For ancient cave painter people on down to about Summerian and Egyptian times, this was the central problem of mathematics. Every number was like knowing the theater amount of people.
Great vid!
Side note: The meter is Incorporated within the dimensions of the great pyramid. As is the feet and the Royal cubit... You can look that up if you don't follow the conventional schoolbooks. It is there!
Newton knew that. Graves went there and others to do measurements. Think about it.
Small error. Sami people at the time most likely spoke Tornio Saami language and not Finnish. The Finns helping the scientists might’ve spoken Swedish as well as Finnish but not the local Sami language.
Nobody ever ever ever uses that russian word for 10000. The word means darkness. It is used sometimes as a "a lot of something, so much so that you would not be able to see the sun" mostly applicable to something like a locust swarm. But never ever did anyone say T'ma to mean 10000.
Dang, you got the 3Blue1Brown narrator (:
Disculogic, SpaceRip and ParallaxNick all uploading within a week? Isn't that in Revelations somewhere?
Very good