My knee replacement surgery falls right into what you are talking about in this episode. The doctor and the robot define what is going to happen, then during surgery the robot watches the doctor to make sure he does not deviate from the plan unless he manually overrides the robot. I was actually awake during the surgery with just an epidural injection, so no anesthesia backlash and I walked out of the hospital into my car for the ride home. It was interesting there was a sheet in the way so I could not see what they were doing, but they had a monitor with a graphic representation of what they were doing to each bone as they worked. They let me pick the music they were piping into the operating room to cover the noises that were going on during the surgery. The operation only took 1 1/2 hours. I was actually in recovery longer than the surgery.
I can't believe you had to buy a completely new fan instead of replacing the wire of the broken fan. What a waste - and adding unnecessary waste. America is messed up.
I was thinking the same thing. You probably could cut the cord short of the damaged area and replace the plug with a new one for less than $5 from any hardware section. Now it is possible that the brains of the fan got fried from a short of the melted cord, but probably not.
Matt, have you considered using your house as a thermal battery? During the day when its sunny and your solar pa els can supply all the power,, "overcool" your house so that you dont need to run it over night, using the grid. And do the same thing in the winter, but overheat instead of over cool. With your well insulated house should make this practical, perhaps?
He's a writer, not a technical guy, so it's entirely possible it's way out of his skillset? It's also possible that, like so many other things nowadays, that it's engineered to be difficult/impossible to repair. Or, possible that there was some other damage that made it unrealistic.
14:17 imagine the reverse of a Gundam. A micro robot, that's controlled by a surgeon using a suit to interpret his movements and VR/AR that lets the doctor see what the robot sees.
Fans are cool, but have you seen those little U shaped Midea air conditioners? I think other brands have copied them (and maybe they copied too) but they're not too expensive. $350 ish. Put one in my gramps' kitchen window and it cooled most of the small house. Reasonably efficient, quieter than a basic box shaped one. A real mini split will be better of course, but for short term installs or renters they're pretty great.
While NASA might seem to just haeve deep pockets for cool tech, with how much it costs just to launch each kilo/pound of mass into orbit it's way cheaper to spend 10X the money on a more efficient tech if that means the spacecraft can have half the mass so it can be launched on a smaller/cheaper rocket.
Love your content, and I especially enjoy Matt's channel. However, I will pee in your sandbox a bit.... I am what you would call a "climate change sceptic", in that I don't think you can make climate assumptions for a supposedly 5 billion year-old planet based on a couple hundred years' worth (if THAT) of measurements. And could you please tell me how you account for the numerous ice ages and subsequent warmups that preceded industrialization?
Love the content as well. Big fan of both Matt and Sean and have been watching the videos since the start of the pandemic. I have to disagree with you. I believe in climate change and you just proved it by giving examples of climate change. The Earth has gone through ice ages and warm ups before humans ever colonized the planet. This is natural climate change. The issue now is human caused climate change. The evidence is clear in my opinion that humans are changing the climate of this planet by putting so much green house gas into the air. We put an unprecedented amount of CO2 into the air by just the amount of driving we do. Since the 1950's the invention of AC to keep us cool and allowed us to live in hot deserts comfortably. All an AC does is move the hot air from inside to outside. This is part of the urban heat island effect with so many AC's running. The planet will survive, but it will take a long time to cycle back after the planet sheds its human population. Will this ever happen? I like to be optimistic and think we humans can adapt to anything. Like Matt said we may be living in Bunkers in the future, and I hope it is not my future. I will do what I have learned to help the planet. I will do my best to pass this info onto my Granddaughter so she can share it as well. I am afraid that the future will be quite different. My life is changing now.
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My knee replacement surgery falls right into what you are talking about in this episode. The doctor and the robot define what is going to happen, then during surgery the robot watches the doctor to make sure he does not deviate from the plan unless he manually overrides the robot. I was actually awake during the surgery with just an epidural injection, so no anesthesia backlash and I walked out of the hospital into my car for the ride home. It was interesting there was a sheet in the way so I could not see what they were doing, but they had a monitor with a graphic representation of what they were doing to each bone as they worked. They let me pick the music they were piping into the operating room to cover the noises that were going on during the surgery. The operation only took 1 1/2 hours. I was actually in recovery longer than the surgery.
I can't believe you had to buy a completely new fan instead of replacing the wire of the broken fan. What a waste - and adding unnecessary waste. America is messed up.
I was thinking the same thing. You probably could cut the cord short of the damaged area and replace the plug with a new one for less than $5 from any hardware section. Now it is possible that the brains of the fan got fried from a short of the melted cord, but probably not.
Matt, have you considered using your house as a thermal battery? During the day when its sunny and your solar pa els can supply all the power,, "overcool" your house so that you dont need to run it over night, using the grid. And do the same thing in the winter, but overheat instead of over cool.
With your well insulated house should make this practical, perhaps?
Sean; Why didn't you just repair the cord on the fan? Matt; how soon are you coming to move in to your new house?
I really hope he at least tried. Maybe it shorted, and thus, a fuse in the fan blew?
He's a writer, not a technical guy, so it's entirely possible it's way out of his skillset? It's also possible that, like so many other things nowadays, that it's engineered to be difficult/impossible to repair.
Or, possible that there was some other damage that made it unrealistic.
@@jmacd8817 even if he would not be able to repair the fan himself, taking it to a repair shop is as much trouble as buying a new one.
14:17 imagine the reverse of a Gundam.
A micro robot, that's controlled by a surgeon using a suit to interpret his movements and VR/AR that lets the doctor see what the robot sees.
Fans are cool, but have you seen those little U shaped Midea air conditioners? I think other brands have copied them (and maybe they copied too) but they're not too expensive. $350 ish.
Put one in my gramps' kitchen window and it cooled most of the small house. Reasonably efficient, quieter than a basic box shaped one.
A real mini split will be better of course, but for short term installs or renters they're pretty great.
While NASA might seem to just haeve deep pockets for cool tech, with how much it costs just to launch each kilo/pound of mass into orbit it's way cheaper to spend 10X the money on a more efficient tech if that means the spacecraft can have half the mass so it can be launched on a smaller/cheaper rocket.
Temps higher in the 1930's
Love your content, and I especially enjoy Matt's channel. However, I will pee in your sandbox a bit.... I am what you would call a "climate change sceptic", in that I don't think you can make climate assumptions for a supposedly 5 billion year-old planet based on a couple hundred years' worth (if THAT) of measurements. And could you please tell me how you account for the numerous ice ages and subsequent warmups that preceded industrialization?
It's the rate of change that's different over the last 2 centuries.
Have you ever seen the "Earth Temperature Timeline" by XKCD?
I would highly recommend it!
Let me know what you think.
Love the content as well. Big fan of both Matt and Sean and have been watching the videos since the start of the pandemic. I have to disagree with you. I believe in climate change and you just proved it by giving examples of climate change. The Earth has gone through ice ages and warm ups before humans ever colonized the planet. This is natural climate change. The issue now is human caused climate change. The evidence is clear in my opinion that humans are changing the climate of this planet by putting so much green house gas into the air. We put an unprecedented amount of CO2 into the air by just the amount of driving we do. Since the 1950's the invention of AC to keep us cool and allowed us to live in hot deserts comfortably. All an AC does is move the hot air from inside to outside. This is part of the urban heat island effect with so many AC's running. The planet will survive, but it will take a long time to cycle back after the planet sheds its human population. Will this ever happen? I like to be optimistic and think we humans can adapt to anything. Like Matt said we may be living in Bunkers in the future, and I hope it is not my future. I will do what I have learned to help the planet. I will do my best to pass this info onto my Granddaughter so she can share it as well. I am afraid that the future will be quite different. My life is changing now.