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  • Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
  • In this video I do not describe how antimatter spacecraft will work. (I am still not over the use of the word ‘will’ in that title. I know that it is intended to match the series of other titles on the website but the audacity!)What I will do is complain on the internet. For about 40 minutes. As God intended.
    How Antimatter Spacecraft Will Work by Kevin Bonsor:science.howstu...
    Scientific Literacy: Why it Matters by some stupid kid:edreformbyunde...
    Science Knowledge Quiz:
    www.pewresearc...
    Not to brag but I got a perfect score so…(You answered 11 questions correctly
    You scored better than 83% of the public, below 0% of the public and the same as 16%.)
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  • @acollierastro
    @acollierastro  10 місяців тому +92

    the antimatter video is here: ua-cam.com/video/1r6GC0ekyIY/v-deo.html

    • @mihailmilev9909
      @mihailmilev9909 10 місяців тому +1

      Came here before that

    • @mihailmilev9909
      @mihailmilev9909 10 місяців тому

      Fist(/2nd) comment 7th like 10h ago

    • @ganashal
      @ganashal 10 місяців тому +11

      But it's not even 2025 yet...

    • @snarzetax
      @snarzetax 9 місяців тому +1

      The fundamental flaw in the article is that it directly states that annihilations are explosions. To be precise, they are not the same thing. Annihilations expel photons(no mass) and are simply a flash of light. Explosions are a sudden expansion using waves of kinetic force to push everything away from an epicenter(creating motion, thrust).
      If we could harness gamma photons, annihilations would be an awesome source of power but, they would still not be a source of motion.
      Also, Jenna has retracted her position on vaccines but that part of the story gets no press so very few people know.

    • @SlowSpeedChase13
      @SlowSpeedChase13 8 місяців тому

      @@mihailmilev9909😊

  • @jeffthebiglizard8099
    @jeffthebiglizard8099 10 місяців тому +890

    I can't wait to find out how antimatter spacecraft will work from this video
    edit: oh

    • @liasprings6502
      @liasprings6502 10 місяців тому +62

      By Talos, this can't be happening!

    • @petomni
      @petomni 10 місяців тому +13

      DISAPPOINTED

    • @TheMusicalFruit
      @TheMusicalFruit 10 місяців тому +7

      The Answer: It won't work. You'll just blow yourself up the first time your ship has a power failure.

    • @XOXFilmStudio
      @XOXFilmStudio 10 місяців тому +16

      ​@TheMusicalFruit so you just incorporate an independent backup power system. deadly explosions are always gonna be a significant risk of spaceflight

    • @MustafaAlmosawi
      @MustafaAlmosawi 10 місяців тому +9

      But you watched to the end. Because it’s awesome.

  • @joshuahitchins1897
    @joshuahitchins1897 10 місяців тому +1209

    The duality of Angela's channel: 1hr+ video with calculus and differential equations diving into quantum quantum and a 45 minute rant about a shitty website vaguely related to physics. Such a wonderful ride.

    • @quinton1630
      @quinton1630 10 місяців тому +79

      I’m so glad the algorithm recommended me her one random day. I love her content!

    • @SerenityDreaming
      @SerenityDreaming 10 місяців тому +24

      With a full 2 minute sorry-not-sorry to whateverhernameis McCarthy. It's pretty great.

    • @matthewlizst7939
      @matthewlizst7939 10 місяців тому +51

      Some people show up for the 1hr+ video with calculus and differential equations, the rest of us are here for the alkaline water + lemon juice takedowns.

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters 10 місяців тому +16

      _It's got electrolytes; it's what plants crave._

    • @szaszm_
      @szaszm_ 10 місяців тому +18

      quantum quantum 😄

  • @MattBowser129
    @MattBowser129 10 місяців тому +220

    I love that the pinto/Indy car analogy is literally just to explain what the word "faster" means. Like I'd get it if the analogy was "An antimatter spacecraft would be like a racecar compared to a regular car," but instead it actually explains "The slower car will eventually get there but it will take longer" like we're encountering the concept of speed for the first time lol

    • @OmnipotentNoodle
      @OmnipotentNoodle 5 місяців тому +5

      It reads like an 8th grader trying to meet a word count 😹

  • @manwalrus
    @manwalrus 10 місяців тому +428

    As a librarian I don't know why we aren't talking about this stuff all the time in every public forum that we can. I don't have proof of this but I swear stuff like this is killing curiosity and analytical thinking. Also, never apologize for an Eastern Kentucky accent. People still make fun of me for how I say "potatoes".

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters 10 місяців тому +3

      Eastern Kentucky? I thought she was from Kansas or Nebraska? 🤷

    • @Hailfire08
      @Hailfire08 10 місяців тому +25

      Popular science has just gotten worse and more clickbaity over time; it's awful. But they will always be more incentivised by clicks than facts so the cycle is inescapable.

    • @manwalrus
      @manwalrus 10 місяців тому +10

      @@Hailfire08 The mindboggling thing to me is that people are willingly consuming bad information that they know they don't entirely trust because it takes on the semblance of what they would expect in that situation. The perfect example are those google dropdowns and answer boxes at the top of your search--those are all entirely scraped and answered by websites whose provenance and reliability are taken as given because they're at the top of the SEO or most closely match the phrase one inputs. People would rather go through multiple of those dropdowns to get an answer that they think satisfies their needs rather than do the due diligence and eventually save themselves some time.

    • @differentbutsimilar7893
      @differentbutsimilar7893 10 місяців тому +6

      @@manwalrus The good news about those drop downs is that with the commercialization, they have become increasingly less useful and relevant. I am trained to skip them at this point, because they fail me every time I try to use them. Can't be a unique experience. I don't need advanced knowledge to know the dropdown didn't remotely understand what I was searching for. People learned to rely on them because at one point they were at least good enough for conversation. Nowadays, they're good for nothing and that alone will probably deter reliance somewhat. You can't even convince yourself the answers mean anything when it becomes obvious it's still struggling to understand the question. It answers every question but the one you're actually seeking an answer for, until it is about something you're buying.

    • @SashaRomeroMusic
      @SashaRomeroMusic 10 місяців тому +3

      Puh-TÆ-EE-tuh-ohs

  • @jeffthebiglizard8099
    @jeffthebiglizard8099 10 місяців тому +1572

    Its actually really insidious that an AI company is now trying to pass off an entire website with 20 years of real human written work as being AI generated

    • @GearForTheYear
      @GearForTheYear 10 місяців тому +94

      It honestly only serves to denigrate both parties, because GPT-4 can write articles much better than that 😅

    • @gingerestkitten
      @gingerestkitten 10 місяців тому +75

      It’s really just a disclaimer. Think back to university when you were doing Composition as one of your reqs and they forced you to write everything in a program that had a little owl as the icon (I forget what it was now). It gave you a score - you needed to get it to 90 “quality” and fix all your Chicago or AP style guide errors. Or like.. if you’ve ever written something for “inclusive language” for HR while doing recruiting they sometimes make you write it in a web app and get the same kind of score. Thats all AI now.
      Yara opened the article, the AI scored it for SEO and readability, Yara hit Publish and it automatically tagged them as an author is the most likely explanation.
      The “may have been generated by an AI” is boilerplate like “sent from an iPhone” being on your emails, and UNTRUSTED SENDER gets put at the top of every email you receive from outside your org.
      That brings up an interesting point though that you actually trusted the disclaimer at the bottom of the article as factual..

    • @moominfin
      @moominfin 10 місяців тому +28

      @@gingerestkitten Who's Yori?? Was this reply AI generated too?

    • @paulvalentine4157
      @paulvalentine4157 10 місяців тому +11

      do you think they sold the co-authored "&"s to people that want to get author credits up?

    • @gingerestkitten
      @gingerestkitten 10 місяців тому +27

      @@moominfinfixed. If only HowStuffWorks had an editor like you on staff :3

  • @andrewmartin3671
    @andrewmartin3671 10 місяців тому +349

    I'm a big fan of that metaphor which explains the concept of "faster" to people who already have a concept of racing and development of commercial vehicles.

    • @theprinceofinadequatelighting
      @theprinceofinadequatelighting 10 місяців тому +51

      I just wanna know why the pinto bean-powered car is slower than the antimatter powered car. But the article doesn't say! It just says that beans make smaller explosions.
      Edit: I read it wrong, it says "smellier" not "smaller"

    • @emilyrln
      @emilyrln 9 місяців тому +4

      @@theprinceofinadequatelighting Huh. Now I want to know what a matter-antimatter explosion smells like 😂

    • @bulldozer8950
      @bulldozer8950 8 місяців тому +1

      @@emilyrlndoes an antimatter potato annihilating with an ordinary potato smell of potatoes?
      Like in theory there’d be nothing left right because it’s annihilated but in practice would it have enough left for there to be a smell? What about an antimatter potato and a regularly Turkey, would it smell of both?
      And in fact, does antimatter smell the same? I guess it probably wouldn’t because it would annihilate on your smelling sensors before you smell them… but then to antimatter people do they smell the same as the regular do to a normal person?

    • @emilyrln
      @emilyrln 8 місяців тому +2

      @@bulldozer8950asking the deep questions, there!

    • @LiftPizzas
      @LiftPizzas 5 місяців тому

      Do antimatter people spell dog C-A-T?

  • @rdcampbell1990
    @rdcampbell1990 10 місяців тому +358

    It's so disappointing that everytime I tell someone "oh I study electromagnetics" the immediate response is "oh I could never do that" and I'm like....I don't believe you. And you should believe in yourself more. I've done it for a very long time and that's why I'm able to do it. But the feeling of reading an article and not understanding immediately therefore dumb has just rotted out collective consciousness.

    • @SerenityDreaming
      @SerenityDreaming 10 місяців тому +22

      Right? It's just one more step. It's just looking up a couple of the terms or seeking a chart of something... It's just a little studying! Studying is fun af if you do it right.

    • @lbgstzockt8493
      @lbgstzockt8493 10 місяців тому +7

      I get your point but isnt EM a famously hard class in most colleges? I would consider it the hardest course I have taken to date.

    • @rdcampbell1990
      @rdcampbell1990 10 місяців тому +29

      @@lbgstzockt8493 imo like many things in university, I feel it's often taught poorly and not connected to anything "real" which makes it harder for folks to grasp.

    • @minerman60101
      @minerman60101 10 місяців тому +30

      I will say that I can give "oh I could never do that" judgements when it requires doing something that would personally fill me with dread and not give me joy

    • @jessh4016
      @jessh4016 10 місяців тому +10

      @@minerman60101 But like, isn't that feeling of dread just because you haven't been acclimated to that type of stuff? Actually just asking, because my personal theory for why so many people are "bad at math" and don't like it is just because they never had a teacher that actually liked math(for example), and don't have the knowledge required to approach it confidently.

  • @TakeyMcTaker
    @TakeyMcTaker 8 місяців тому +59

    I find the phrase "not good enough to go on the Internet" so optimistic and endearing. If only the real thing had such standards.

    • @thevoteman
      @thevoteman 2 місяці тому

      the interent died long ago.

  • @grapetoad6595
    @grapetoad6595 10 місяців тому +239

    I appreciated the foreshadowing of
    "all of these references in this recent article are from 20 years ago"
    ...and then it turns out it was from 20 years ago all along!

  • @markototev
    @markototev 10 місяців тому +207

    According to Ahrefs, over a 100 domains have referenced this "guide". Including articles on Medium, NBC News, Reason. The article itself was written in 2003 (according to WaybackMachine). Here are the large majority of the few changes they made (read it, it's a banger, great use of AI:
    2003: Warp drive is another one of those science fiction technologies
    2023: Warp drive is one of those science-fiction technologies
    2003: It just hasn't been achieved
    2023: We just haven't achieved it
    2003: However, scientists are working on developing an interstellar spacecraft engine that is similar to the matter-antimatter
    2023: However, scientists are working on developing an interstellar spacecraft engine that is similar to the antimatter
    2003: Antimatter spacecraft like this one could some day
    2023: Antimatter spacecraft like this one could someday
    2003: like the one used in the space shuttle.
    2023: like the one used in space shutles.
    2003: In this edition of How Stuff Will Work, we will
    2023: Let's
    2003: and find out what antimatter actually is and how it will be used
    2023 and find out what antimatter actually is and how we might use it
    2003: ---
    2023: What is Antimatter? In this composite image of the Crab Nebula, matter and antimatter are propelled nearly to the speed of light by the Crab pulsar. The images came from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo by NASA/Getty Images
    2003: Until just recently,
    2023: At one point, scientists considered

    • @Isaac-zy5do
      @Isaac-zy5do 10 місяців тому +5

      You left an unclosed paren! Also how did the AI make it strictly worse?

    • @markototev
      @markototev 10 місяців тому +41

      @@Isaac-zy5do oh it wasn't an AI or if it was, it was instructed to only change minimum amount of stuff. Updates like that are only made so that Google sees that it's "kept up to date" as the algo likes fresh content. But this article isn't there for traffic, it's there just to bring authority to the domain as it has over 100 other websites pointing to it. Which then increases their important articles like "the longest running TV show", etc.

    • @linelendur
      @linelendur 10 місяців тому +4

      @@markototevdo we think (or for that matter is it known) whether Google is doing some sort of diff or edit distance measure, or if they’re cheating out and hashing it?

    • @markototev
      @markototev 10 місяців тому +10

      I think it's a little bit of both, but mostly hashing. Whether that works depends on the SERP in mind so it's not a one rule for all. This is why "authoritative" sites like this can rank well for queries with garbage content. For this article in particular, they definitely only did it (as with all articles as the same co-author is added) just to "freshen up" the content.

  • @liamMaru
    @liamMaru 10 місяців тому +442

    This video is like those articles that promise to tell you how to make a pineapple pie, but instead, describe the author's relationship with their Hawaiian heritage.
    Unlike those articles, this video is delightful.

    • @LaTortuePGM
      @LaTortuePGM 10 місяців тому +6

      looking the thumbnail is important ! xD

    • @Alex-ck4in
      @Alex-ck4in 10 місяців тому +22

      Reminds me of that one HowStuffWorks article

    • @chickenspaceprogram
      @chickenspaceprogram 10 місяців тому +6

      Those articles are actually the worst thing to ever exist.

    • @thepapschmearmd
      @thepapschmearmd 10 місяців тому +6

      Except she says in multiple places that she will not be explaining how an antimatter engine works. Big difference lol.

    • @SerenityDreaming
      @SerenityDreaming 10 місяців тому +1

      Is pineapple pie a real thing? Please tell me.

  • @bobkat8765
    @bobkat8765 10 місяців тому +146

    MYSTERY SOLVED!: My niece used to write articles as piece-meal work. Authors specify the subject, number of words and suggested source(s) and people submit their work and if the author uses your text you get paid. For her it was a hobby and she was good at it. Authors who are just trying to get published as much as possible probably just go with the one that reads the best.

    • @trustmeImadoc91
      @trustmeImadoc91 8 місяців тому +5

      When I was in middle school I wrote travel articles for places I had never visited in order to save up spending money for a vacation I was going to take one summer. Don't know what websites they went up on as everything was anonymous and disconnected. I also wrote comments for song from some online music streaming site. Those weren't technically fraudulent I guess because they let us listen to 10 seconds before we wrote our review.
      I want to clarify, the website that I was writing travel articles for knew that I had not visited the places, there were instructions and procedures to follow for how to look stuff up. This type of low effort content has existed for the better part of 20+ years online, but AI is increasing the rate at which it can be pumped out. I literally would not be surprised if an actual kid wrote the article in the video.

  • @Mossy5150
    @Mossy5150 10 місяців тому +112

    As a citizen of 2025, I look back on this early content by Dr. Collierastro and recognize the sparks of brilliance that led to her breakthroughs in superluminal warp drive technology, powered by antimatter. Now that we live in a future where we travel faster than Indy Cars compared to Pintos, it's amazing to rewatch this video for the thousandth time and see where all of this phenomenal science came from.
    It really is a comforting feeling to live in the future and have such a clear understanding of how antimatter spacecraft work.

    • @theprinceofinadequatelighting
      @theprinceofinadequatelighting 10 місяців тому +23

      Yep, I used the Faster-than-pinto-and-light Collier Engine to travel back in time, too. I'm on my way back to 2003 to teach Kevin some science!

    • @bulldozer8950
      @bulldozer8950 8 місяців тому +1

      @@theprinceofinadequatelighting noooo don’t mess with the timeline, you don’t know the effects teaching Kevin science could have on our ability to create a Time Machine in the future, some say the whole reason she made thre antimatter engine was so she could get this article taken down

    • @markwilliams9855
      @markwilliams9855 6 місяців тому +1

      I want whatver Mossy is libating

  • @leehurst172
    @leehurst172 10 місяців тому +44

    Not *exactly* topical, but this reminded me of my high school chemistry class. We had to do a huge end of year project with each student getting a unique prompt for an experiment. My prompt was stupid hard, requiring me to bust out the dictionary and thesaurus just to understand the single sentence I was given. Eventually got the grasp of it and after research saw it was pretty cool; required me to build my own barometer. Was doing my final write-up after having done the experiment, felt unsure about one thing I was about to write so did one more google search. Found a university article that COMPLETELY countered everything I understood about the assignment. Like, negated each element verbatim. Lost my mind for a couple days before finally realizing that there was a clause in the opening paragraph of that article that could be interpreted as saying "written below is a counter example," but like the specific diction was such that I originally took it as "here's an example." Sudden peace followed by UNYIELDING RAGE were my prevailing emotions. Got an A.
    Moral of the story: fuck that author. Nobody I showed the article to properly understood it on the first go.

  • @MattMcIrvin
    @MattMcIrvin 10 місяців тому +90

    Honestly, even the Star Trek writers seem a little confused about the distinction between the warp drive and its antimatter power source, but that's neither here nor there.

    • @DrewLSsix
      @DrewLSsix 10 місяців тому +25

      From day one star treks warp drive has been a loose magic fast travel system with the word SCIENCE slapped on it.
      Someone asked a nerd what's a plausible way to go FTL and the nerd said "well theoretically there's what's called spacetime warping but..." producer: PERFECT! WARP DRIVE IT IS!! But what kind of gas would it run on? Nerd: well, the most energy dense power source might be what's called antimatter, but....
      Producer: right! Antimatter, it powers every no matter what.
      No concept of what warp drive would actually be, how it would work or what it's effects might be. No thought given to how much antimatter would be required at any plausible level.
      I did some napkin math years ago and found that the energy required to get the four and a half million ton Enterprise up to full impulse speed and back is equal to roughly 7,000 tons of antimatter, plus it's equivalent in regular matter. That's assuming 100% efficiency, and canonically this is done with a few fusion reactors rather than antimatter reactions. I gave up trying to calculate how much fusion fuel that would require as it started to look like something close to the whole mass of the ship itself.
      And the order to full impulse is given so casually you just know Picard doesn't have to pay the bill!

    • @nw42
      @nw42 10 місяців тому +6

      So what I’m hearing is that Trek is… _not_ hard sci-fi? 😉

    • @Noobslayar
      @Noobslayar 10 місяців тому +2

      Don’t they run on dilithium crystals? They’re a made up material you can’t really say that the amount of them needed for power is unrealistic

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin 10 місяців тому +9

      @@Noobslayar They've never been 100% clear on precisely what those do, either. They seem to have... something... to do with the matter-antimatter reaction. They can, sort of, go bad and then you need a new one. That's what we know...

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin 10 місяців тому +8

      @@nw42 It kind of astonishes me how many people think the science in Star Trek is all meticulously researched. I think promotional materials for The Next Generation back in the 1990s fostered this idea.

  • @ShannonWare
    @ShannonWare 10 місяців тому +14

    I am really glad Angela has never had the sweet displeasure of riding in a Ford Pinto. Ralph Nader described it as "unsafe at any speed." You can't pay money for that kind of hate.

    • @donaldwhite8420
      @donaldwhite8420 10 місяців тому +6

      It was the Corsair that was unsafe at any speed. The Pinto was unsafe while stopped. Its fuel tank exploded when the car was hit in the rear.

    • @todhagan2966
      @todhagan2966 10 місяців тому +1

      @donaldwhite8420 Yes! It's hilarious that there are fans and collectors of Corvairs.

  • @daniloalexandre7585
    @daniloalexandre7585 10 місяців тому +84

    "I did the normal thing ..."
    *highlights all words into categories*
    I relate so deeply to your sense of normality.

  • @deveus1
    @deveus1 10 місяців тому +82

    When Angela asked that quiz question about how dark matter works, I was like "oh, i watched that video. i can answer that!"
    But then my brain immediately responded:
    "Dark matter -- what is it? do we need it? where is it? how much? do we need it? do we need it? do we need it? do we need it?"
    It's possible the dark matter section of my brain has been taken over by that banger of a track

    • @alexanderkonczal3908
      @alexanderkonczal3908 10 місяців тому +3

      it sometimes hurts me that I will never be able to fully share with my spouse how pissed I am by how deeply that song has affected my brain. virtually no one will share my pain. but reading your comment gave me a tiny bit of relief, knowing you have likely been affected in the same way.

  • @burtbackattack
    @burtbackattack 10 місяців тому +228

    How does an anti matter engine work? Quantum quantum, quantum quantum, quantum quantum quantum quantum. I think you'll find that's the answer. Come on Angela, you really should have known that!

    • @mathewstrommen4154
      @mathewstrommen4154 10 місяців тому +1

      Did you know that Schrodinger was arrested for animal abuse, click here to learn the sexy quantum truth.

    • @piedpiper1172
      @piedpiper1172 10 місяців тому +31

      Quantum quantum? Quantum quantum, quantum!

    • @trucutru3
      @trucutru3 10 місяців тому +19

      Quantum? pfft. Nanomachines son.

    • @rsm3t
      @rsm3t 10 місяців тому +3

      It's fine.

    • @rsm3t
      @rsm3t 10 місяців тому +11

      ​@@piedpiper1172Lol that Google offered to translate your message, and the translation is "How much, how much, how much..."

  • @monkeydetonation
    @monkeydetonation 10 місяців тому +10

    I really hate that feeling of confusion reading an article like that. I always go into a spiral of thinking "Am I stupid? Am I going insane? Is this evidence of cognitive decline? Have I always been this dumb?" before eventually realising that no, the article was basically written by google's autofill

  • @Silencewalker
    @Silencewalker 10 місяців тому +258

    I'm so glad I found this channel. It brings back a bit of faith in the humankind.

    • @anita.b
      @anita.b 10 місяців тому

      Dr. Angela Collier does not represent "humankind" she is literally a Post-Doc PhD. within the best people who can have a scientific themed channel on UA-cam. Humanity and men specificall are SPIRALING down to the 1700s levels of understanding but now powered by Wi-fi 6E or whatever.

  • @PaulMDavidson
    @PaulMDavidson 10 місяців тому +13

    This video is literally the mirror image of a video about how antimatter spacecraft will work.

  • @TrickyD8P
    @TrickyD8P 10 місяців тому +29

    nearly did a spit take during my lunch when you said "ok this article is for children, that's fine"

  • @FerruccioCinquemani
    @FerruccioCinquemani 10 місяців тому +3

    I'm a former SEO person who decided to make videogames and succeeded because the country I live in allows students to borrow money almost for free so people can study even later in life. And now I have been working as a game designer for almost a decade. I feel seen!

  • @noisepuppet
    @noisepuppet 10 місяців тому +32

    As a great scientist once said, "fkn magnets! How do they work?" He never did tell us

  • @nassattack
    @nassattack 10 місяців тому +14

    I am so here for a 40 minute video of Angela discovering clickbait for the first time 😆
    You reminded me of my friend who is a university math tutor. He's told me many stories of his clients, who again are people that graduated high school and got accepted into a fairly tough to get into school, who are completely unable to do basic arithmetic. They take out their calculators because they can't multiply a number by 10.
    It's not because they're unintelligent, they just aren't science/math literate.

  • @mr.bulldops7692
    @mr.bulldops7692 10 місяців тому +34

    "And that's what I've been doing for that last two weeks"...building an anti-matter engine?!

  • @LukeRanieri
    @LukeRanieri 10 місяців тому +36

    14:30 “We’ve been failing Billy!” 😂 This whole part had me in stitches. Such a great video!
    If you find more of these and make more videos like this, you can title the playlist “The Perils of AI”

    • @YnEoS10
      @YnEoS10 10 місяців тому +2

      Wild Luke spotted! Thanks for the Latin and Greek lessons!

  • @OzgurNevres
    @OzgurNevres 10 місяців тому +40

    Regarding achieving the top position on Google: In the early days of Google, it was relatively easy to manipulate the algorithm, especially when there wasn't much content available on a particular topic. Once you secured the top spot, you could acquire numerous links from other websites. However, today, manipulating the algorithm is not as straightforward. Nevertheless, if your content held the top position, let's say, 20 years ago, it implies that you have accumulated thousands of links to that article from other websites. Links continue to be one of the most significant factors in the Google algorithm, if not the most significant one. If the article was recently written, it might not be at the top spot. But, thanks to its historical links, the Google algorithm still regards it as an 'authoritative' article. This is how such content maintains its first-place ranking.

    • @davidjkemper
      @davidjkemper 10 місяців тому +4

      Thanks for providing this explanation.

    • @hunterm9
      @hunterm9 10 місяців тому +8

      In addition; Google will grab the date currently on the website. So even if an article was written 20 years ago and unchanged, if they updated the date it will change on Google. So many (clickbait/scummy) websites will have a script that automatically updates the dates on their articles in order to attempt to provide more "credibility" to them. So not only are some of these websites still legacy top rankers, but they may look recent to the average observer.
      Just another reason why multiple sources and critical thinking is important when doing any research on the internet.

  • @PatrickPoet
    @PatrickPoet 10 місяців тому +5

    I think the world is better because she's here

  • @logtothebase2
    @logtothebase2 10 місяців тому +82

    Hopefully at the conclusion of this article I will be able to work on my antimatter toaster I intend to invent, so far I have just selected the colour of the case.

    • @michaelmoorrees3585
      @michaelmoorrees3585 10 місяців тому +11

      Congratulations ! You qualify for the position of marketing manager ! Here's your big fat bonus ! It will be in shares of the new toaster company. Now, its all up to engineering ! Don't bother me with the details.

    • @WitchDoctor5999
      @WitchDoctor5999 10 місяців тому +7

      Will it go fast?

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin 10 місяців тому +17

      @@WitchDoctor5999 It's like toasting your bread on the engine block of a Ford Pinto vs. an Indy car.

    • @benjaminbeard3736
      @benjaminbeard3736 10 місяців тому +1

      I have a feeling you're gonna burn a lot of toast.

    • @petertorvik8413
      @petertorvik8413 10 місяців тому +5

      Where's your GoFundMe?

  • @voicelessv9364
    @voicelessv9364 10 місяців тому +13

    This is just Buster saying why would people go on to the internet and lie for 43 minutes and I love it.

  • @jaqen_hgar
    @jaqen_hgar 10 місяців тому +78

    Few days ago i was looking for some articles and examples regarding RF component i do not often use. It was a simple dual gate mosfet used in high frequency circuits like RF preamplifiers. First 2-3 pages of google results are just AI garbage. Same sentence in 5 different ways. On page 4-5 i found a blog from 2002 that had wonderful explanation.
    I wanted to buy some PTFE boards used for prototyping rf circuits, and the same story. 2-3 pages of text without any information. What is strange the website looks like legitimate PCB manufacturer business website.
    I am basically just giving up on google results and internet in general. If it is not on youtube I will just look for a book.

    • @jupitersky
      @jupitersky 10 місяців тому +23

      I love the enshittification of the web!
      Honestly, same. It's almost impossible to find anything you want. I'm about ready to make a site of "good info" that me and my friends find, like a telephone book of websites listed by tag.

    • @omfgacceptmyname
      @omfgacceptmyname 10 місяців тому +10

      algo generation is going to exponentially increase the amount of useless horse shit on the internet. all will kneel to adsense. click click click

    • @ganondalf8090
      @ganondalf8090 10 місяців тому +3

      @@jupitersky I hope that what's happening is just the transition from web crawler search engines back to human curated ones and that we aren't just stuck with this stuff forever

    • @jupitersky
      @jupitersky 10 місяців тому

      @@ganondalf8090 Honestly, the most valuable information about websites travels via youtube videos and word of mouth in places like discord these days. We've regressed to a time before proper organization of information after relying on entirely automated search engines for so long, so it sort of needs to be re-built.

    • @SpecialEDy
      @SpecialEDy 10 місяців тому +5

      Forum posts or random reddit posts from years ago are still the best source of information on the internet. Given that you know to be skeptical of everything on the internet, you can at least sift through them to find unique explanations and ideas.

  • @kylben
    @kylben 8 місяців тому +6

    "Why would you name your car after a bean?" Because the last car Ford had named for a horse was a roaring success, so they were trying to channel the horse theme into their slow little splodey box.

    • @brfulcher
      @brfulcher 4 місяці тому

      Heh, yeah I wasn't sure if she was joking or not.

  • @ethanwagner
    @ethanwagner 10 місяців тому +71

    This channel is my comfort blanket, it’s nice to know I’m not crazy when I see basic mistakes in fields I’m passionate about and get frustrated, doesn’t matter that I don’t fully understand all the science, the literacy talks are always nice. Keep making cool videos(:

  • @Nanook128
    @Nanook128 10 місяців тому +10

    6:26 as a left-handed person, I can say my right hand is an anti left hand. If I pick up any of my left handed devices with my right hand both of them explode.

    • @theprinceofinadequatelighting
      @theprinceofinadequatelighting 10 місяців тому +2

      With your expertise in left-handed devices, we need you to develop a left-handed engine out of regular matter so we can study it and finally get to the bottom of this "how an antimatter engine will work" question.

    • @whychoooseausername4763
      @whychoooseausername4763 10 місяців тому +1

      I can't do fMRI studies on left handed patients, because their brains are organized differently.

  • @Guishan_Lingyou
    @Guishan_Lingyou 10 місяців тому +25

    Around the time when this article was originally published a friend of mine, aspiring writer with a degree in English, did some writing for various similar websites. The amount that was paid for each word did not make it worthwhile to put any effort into it. He didn't do it for very long as it was both depressing and not adequately remunerative.

  • @PaulDidIt
    @PaulDidIt 10 місяців тому +19

    Despite the horrendously disturbing subject matter, you make me belly laugh at the inconceivable absurdity of it all with the way you tell a story.
    Don't ever stop and congrats on 100K subscribers!

    • @PaulDidIt
      @PaulDidIt 10 місяців тому +1

      @@andrewfarrar741 yeah nah

  • @brucenelson4337
    @brucenelson4337 10 місяців тому +117

    The Ford Pinto, was named after the horse, not the bean. Silly youngster.
    Seriously, keep the interesting stories coming.

    • @Takyodor2
      @Takyodor2 10 місяців тому +33

      What if the horse was named after the bean though 🤔

    • @anthempt3edits
      @anthempt3edits 10 місяців тому +1

      Ah, this is why.

    • @mikee4596
      @mikee4596 10 місяців тому +9

      And it had the exciting habit of exploding when crashing

    • @michaelblacktree
      @michaelblacktree 10 місяців тому +2

      I was going to say the same. But you can't really expect her to know details about some crappy old car.

    • @screwaccountnames
      @screwaccountnames 10 місяців тому +7

      It's named that because, as a gasoline powered car, it cannot stop farting.

  • @joebonadonna2081
    @joebonadonna2081 10 місяців тому +4

    "We've been failing Billy"
    Oh my God. Love your rants, love the time you put into this.
    Keep it up,

  • @koko-soko561
    @koko-soko561 10 місяців тому +20

    Something that a lot of non-teachers don't realise is that a huge number of American high schools are just diploma mills. Before the pandemic even, but especially since the pandemic, administrations have adjusted the role to be more like daycare than education. Students are enabled to not learn anything with no consequences, natural or otherwise. I've worked in high schools where more than half of students in all classes just sit on their phones, where daily attendance is 50% of kids on any given day. I also currently work in a school where there are consequences, and despite serving a very low economic area, even the low performing students are learning at about an expected level in my class. But a lot of kids go to college because it's "the next step" in life when they really only have a C level elementary or middle school education. That's the about 1/3 that you are seeing in your classes who cannot read a simple graph.

  • @Relkond
    @Relkond 7 місяців тому +2

    My guess at antimatter engines?
    Two types:
    - antimatter decay engine: notable in using a large, thin film of radioactive material that produces positrons or anti-protons. Doesn’t NEED to emit antimatter, but perhaps there are advantages to be had. Notable for the velocity of the emitted mass being used for thrust.
    - antimatter heat engine: uses antimatter annhilation to produce heat, which in turn is used to produce thrust

  • @madjohnshaft
    @madjohnshaft 10 місяців тому +74

    My beloved ChatGPT4, even in default mode, says "This chamber would be surrounded by a dense, tungsten coating to absorb gamma rays and use the absorbed heat to warm the propellant. For magnetic confinement, superconducting magnets would line the chamber, preventing antimatter from contacting the physical structure and annihilating prematurely.". Uh-huh, that's how stuff works around here, how stuff works.

    • @gingerestkitten
      @gingerestkitten 10 місяців тому +14

      But do we need it do we need it

    • @jsrodman
      @jsrodman 10 місяців тому +7

      So chatGPT thinks that anti-matter spaceships will be steam powered? What is this propellant?

    • @MrGiggles623
      @MrGiggles623 10 місяців тому +3

      @@jsrodmanobviously it’s magnetic so that the superconducting magnets in the chamber prevents premature annihilation. Duhhh lol jk

    • @ChefTinman
      @ChefTinman 10 місяців тому

      ​@@jsrodmanANTI-STEAM

    • @viliml2763
      @viliml2763 10 місяців тому +6

      @@jsrodmanThe propellant could be hydrogen. This sounds like basically a nuclear thermal rocket (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket) but with antimatter annihilation instead of nuclear fission.

  • @cbinckley
    @cbinckley 10 місяців тому +10

    Thank you, Angela. That was a very eye-opening presentation. I grew up with How Stuff Works in book form, and found the illustrations AND information very informative. But it has, over the years, and by virtue of the greed of people who sold the IP for a quick buck as well as the people who bought the IP to make a quick buck, devolved into primordial slime. It’s sad - but the bright side is we now get people like you to help us sift through the detritus of Internet “science”. ❤

  • @steveftoth
    @steveftoth 10 місяців тому +15

    The best thing about your video style is that you use the same fonts and style of presentation for the captions as a 20 year old website. Love it.

  • @wirelessbaguette8997
    @wirelessbaguette8997 10 місяців тому +3

    I think an element of what you call scientific literacy is philosophy. I never studied philosophy as a kid, but when I studied for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), I had to learn about the structure of valid and sound arguments. Your example person who was ignorant of antimatter physics, but otherwise scientifically literate, recognized the key missing step as the article giving no link between why antimatter explosions would be so large, and why that would make you go fast. I think learning about necessary and sufficient conditions, various common logical fallacies, and what is needed to make an argument sound and valid could go a long way to helping people develop the skills for detecting nonsense.

  • @jellewijckmans4836
    @jellewijckmans4836 10 місяців тому +15

    The fun thing about current text gen AI is that it allows for the highly efficient creation of metric tons of a slightly worse version of the last decade worth of human made content slop the lords of the internet decided to prioritize.

    • @jabberwock2517
      @jabberwock2517 10 місяців тому +1

      Where do I want to go today exalted Gateslords? Thy clickbait shall protect me from curiousity, which killed the cat.

  • @SoumilSahu
    @SoumilSahu 10 місяців тому +11

    This will get lost in the sea that is the comments section, but I just wanted to say:
    Your videos have re-ignited my love for physics. I recently graduated with a mechanical engineering degree (bluntly put, because I thought it had more job prospects), but I've always wanted to understand modern non-classical physics.
    I've started to read university texts on QM and GR in my free time, it's gonna be a long journey!

    • @liquidsonly
      @liquidsonly 10 місяців тому +3

      I read your comment. :) I applaud your willingness to learn more.

    • @nitrostatus
      @nitrostatus 10 місяців тому +3

      Good on you, my friend! Enjoy your pursuits!

  • @mntestav
    @mntestav 8 місяців тому +2

    I would swear I read a version of this article, like 20 yearsish ago, and it talked about using a push plate and various types of energy storage.
    The Ford pinto reference sticks out to me. I remember that specifically
    On a sidenote, I downloaded a bunch of this website at the library onto flashdrive so I could look at it at my house lol.
    Edit: I guess I was not a very discriminating reader lol

  • @szulat
    @szulat 10 місяців тому +9

    practically speaking, the antimatter spacecraft works just like a normal spacecraft, because the CP-symmetry violation would not be observable in its normal operating regime 😃

  • @ZekeRomsdahl
    @ZekeRomsdahl 10 місяців тому +9

    This made me want to learn about antimatter engines, and I ended up reading the wikipedia entry on antimatter rockets. That site has managed to hold on to a level of rigor that's become almost non-existent for the most part anywhere else. But it seems like a herculean effort, and it seems like that web site could fly apart at any time, just as soon as all the volatile components present in the rest of the internet combine in just the right way. Whenever Jimmy Wales dies (or the legion of volunteer editors lose interest), that is when we all choke to death on the stupid and the information superhighway crawls to a stop.

    • @Tuxfanturnip
      @Tuxfanturnip 2 місяці тому +2

      for in-depth overviews of speculative space travel technology, there's always Atomic Rockets, an absolutely solid and endlessly rabbit-hole-able website from the old times.

  • @tedetienne7639
    @tedetienne7639 10 місяців тому +61

    The human editor ADDED unnecessary, unrelated sentences to AI-generated story? Interesting… They were an ANTI editor! Or, according to them, they’re the mirror image of an editor.

    • @skarphld
      @skarphld 10 місяців тому +11

      The mirror image of an editor? Beware the left-handed editor!

    • @gcewing
      @gcewing 10 місяців тому +8

      That's how your antimatter spacecraft will work, then. It'll be crewed by 50% editors and 50% anti-editors.

    • @EternalDensity
      @EternalDensity 10 місяців тому +8

      Nope, it wasn't even AI-generated

    • @dsracoon
      @dsracoon 10 місяців тому +4

      That's why when an Editor and an Anti-Editor collide you get a huge amount of energy in the form of textual fluff

  • @Fawstah
    @Fawstah 10 місяців тому +3

    I’ve been trying to get better at understanding scientific research papers, I don’t consider myself the most scientifically literate person. I will say, if I encountered that website, my thought wouldn’t have been “This is a bad website” it would probably be “I don’t follow what they’re saying, let me see if someone else explains it in a way I can understand or sites a source I can go to”

  • @jestempies
    @jestempies 10 місяців тому +7

    I'm not mad that you didn't get to antimatter engines, because you always explain why cool things are impossible. I can keep my hopes up for a week more.

  • @robertsouth6971
    @robertsouth6971 10 місяців тому +5

    The Pinto was famous for exploding when hit from behind, Very relevant to an antimatter rocket,

  • @idontwantahandlethough
    @idontwantahandlethough 10 місяців тому +16

    "What I will do is complain on the internet. For about 40 minutes. As God intended."
    Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic 😂
    edit: oh shit, I still have the HowStuffWorks coffee table book that my dad gave me when I was a kid. Pretty fun book, all things considered!

  • @jonadams8841
    @jonadams8841 10 місяців тому

    34:00 that’s a perfectly fine paragraph. And the commas are appropriate. I especially appreciate the Oxford comma.

  • @pauforcadellcampos4452
    @pauforcadellcampos4452 10 місяців тому +18

    It's simple, I see a new acollierastro video just dropped and I leave everything I was doing and instantly know how I'll spend my next 45 minutes

  • @trlwah9353
    @trlwah9353 Місяць тому

    I really appreciate that you didn’t cut out the mistaking the work for partially ai, not only because it’s shitty that they took that credit from the author, but also because it shows that yeah I didn’t automatically have the correct answer, and here’s how I got that answer, along with apologizing to the author and noting your own paper, I appreciate it! I found you via playing your string theory video in the background of my work and ever since I have adored your work :)

  • @moominfin
    @moominfin 10 місяців тому +5

    It's a common practice, unfortunately, to pump out shallow content and continuously "update" it to trick people and search engines into thinking it's timely. The most egregious examples are the "Everything we know about [upcoming game/movie]" articles that are constantly "updated" to say that we still don't know anything new. Usually they will generate their own slop (now with an AI, of course), but I suppose buying a website with lots of existing content works just as well.

  • @DnASingularity
    @DnASingularity 10 місяців тому +1

    Huh, your mannerisms and expressions really perfectly convey the emotions you experience while doing this work.
    The disappointment, the aversion, the dismay, I can feel it. I reckon you're a good actor too.

  • @MarianneExJohnson
    @MarianneExJohnson 10 місяців тому +25

    When I was in college -- and I was studying engineering, for what it's worth -- I had the distinct impression that there were professors there who were more interested in making the students feel stupid than in helping them get smarter. Not all professors, to be sure, but disturbingly many, particularly in the first two years. I suspect that they rationalized that behavior as "weeding out the ones who aren't cut out for it" or something, but I feel very strongly that this kind of approach to teaching causes a lot of good students to drop out, and a lot of bad students (who just happen to be good at memorizing the textbook) to stay and then perpetuate this bad culture. Or write bad popular science articles.

    • @JorenVaes
      @JorenVaes 10 місяців тому +4

      I can't say you are wrong because I don't know your situation or professors, but during my PhD in engineering, and getting my hands dirty teaching, what I noticed is that a lot of professors are genuinely super excited to be able to share their field and really want to take students with them to discover and learn. The problem is, instead, that doing it for 20 years has made them lose touch with what a young bachelor or masters student actually knows and understands, and how this stuff that is easy for them (as they have been doing it for 20 years!) is really not as easy as they think. As a result, they go 'but look at the mathematical beauty' because they have honed the ability to think in pure mathematics for 20 years, and don't understand students can not grasp the topic without the link to real world examples as they do not (yet) poses the tools to do so. Which kinda makes it even more tragic, because they really want to share and teach, but without a good support system to give them feedback on the shortcomings and help them relate to the position of the student, they fail to do so.

    • @inevespace
      @inevespace 9 місяців тому +1

      @@JorenVaes it looks like more absence of teaching skills. Your explanation would work for prof. who just started to teach after long period of working, only in this case they can be detached from knowledge of students. But people who teach for few years clearly see what concepts are difficult for students. And after few years of experimentation with explanations they can find the way that majority will understand it. Problem usually that you immediately find that you need to explain things beyond your topic. You maybe teaching some engineering topic, but you have to jump into explanation of some mathematical concepts(quite deeply), when you find that students didn't understand it from other math courses.

  • @yumikoichikawa-ty1jg
    @yumikoichikawa-ty1jg 10 місяців тому +2

    I hate article like this! My English is not so good but everything in my field (every field really) is written in English. Sometimes it take me a long time to realize article is nonsense and it is not my English is bad or I am stupid. Need “ai” plug-in for browser to filter “bad garbage” articles from my search results.
    I really like your video! I hope you enjoy and make many videos in the future!

  • @davidduckett6242
    @davidduckett6242 10 місяців тому +9

    Dr. Collier! Have you ever watched folding ideas? Something in their narrative style that I think would translate well is after they finish the video they have an aside where it's something they realized while writing the video and it's a tangent, but also interesting and so they add it in. And I think it would be very interesting if you did something similar (also it boosts engagement bc it's like a post credits scene to get people to watch til the end, everyone wave hi to the omnipotent youtube algorithm, hiiiii, pleasedontsmiteme)

    • @stevenjacobs2750
      @stevenjacobs2750 10 місяців тому +4

      She confirmed watching folding ideas in an interview a little while ago.

  • @evanmurdzek2935
    @evanmurdzek2935 10 місяців тому +2

    This reminds me of an issue that pissed me off at work a couple days ago:
    I had a niche question about some Microsoft product, and as I usually do in that situations, I went to a search engine to see what forums and help pages had on the topic. One page I clicked on had the exact question I had in the title. The body then included in information on how to resolve that issue.
    Scrolled back to the top to see if I missed something, and I saw a banner proclaiming the article had been written with AI.
    These niche forums and help pages are incredibly important to me, and I hate seeing them get cluttered out and replaced by useless garbage, that likely is plagarising from the actually useful work other people did. I really hope enough people push back against this, still unclear to me the most effective way to do that though.

  • @WhoIsTheEdman
    @WhoIsTheEdman 10 місяців тому +4

    Watching home movies from 2000 is so funny to me, because even in Central Ohio we all sounded like Appalachian residents. It feels like theres been an overall flattening of people's regional accents.

  • @tonicblue
    @tonicblue 10 місяців тому +2

    Crikey that Power Balance mention gave me a violent flashback to the days of early 2010s science and skepticism podcasts and conferences. Simpler times.
    Fantastic video so far, really great story telling. Your writing has apparently come a long way!
    ETA: It was an excellent video

  • @finbar1184
    @finbar1184 10 місяців тому +7

    Exasperation is very high in this video. Loving it

  • @danielbudney7825
    @danielbudney7825 10 місяців тому +1

    Out of curiosity, I logged into GPT-4 and asked it exactly that question ("Please write me a 1500 word article on the topic "How an Antimatter Engine Will Work"). The response has an engaging one-paragraph preamble, and then launches into this:
    The Principle of Antimatter Propulsion:
    At the core of an antimatter engine is the concept of annihilation. When a particle of antimatter meets its matter counterpart, they obliterate each other, releasing energy according to Einstein’s famous equation E=mc^2. This equation implies that a tiny amount of matter and antimatter can release an enormous amount of energy, far surpassing what is achievable through nuclear fission or fusion.
    An antimatter engine would work by directing the explosive force resulting from matter-antimatter annihilation to propel a spacecraft. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of the process:
    1. Antimatter Storage: Antimatter is created and stored in a penning trap, a device using magnetic and electric fields to contain charged particles. For an engine, the most likely candidate for antimatter is positrons, the antimatter counterpart to electrons.
    2. Antimatter Injection: Antimatter is then released in a controlled manner and mixed with a matter fuel, such as hydrogen.
    3. Annihilation Chamber: The mixture enters the annihilation chamber, where matter and antimatter collide. This leads to complete annihilation, converting the mass of the particles into pure energy.
    4. Energy Conversion: The energy released is predominantly in the form of high-energy gamma photons. These photons are not easily harnessed for propulsion, so additional mechanisms must convert the energy into a usable form. One proposed method is to use the photons to heat a working fluid, which then expands and is ejected to produce thrust.
    5. Thrust Direction: The expelled particles create thrust in one direction, propelling the spacecraft in the opposite direction according to Newton's third law of motion.
    ... so, right out of the gate, better than the article you found 🤣🤣🤣 It did slip up a bit, missing the concept that the nucleus of the hydrogen atom could be used as the "working fluid" ... but overall, better than what I saw you reading.

  • @skarphld
    @skarphld 10 місяців тому +3

    I finally understand why I will continue to watch one of your videos when you start to cover some topic that doesn't interest me in the least. And I don't just watch, I smile and nod and sometimes laugh. It's because you'll take the time to go through 1500 words of gibberish with a rainbow pack of highlighters, color coding every error. It's because you are "fun, and stuff." ❤

  • @darrellfrazier8785
    @darrellfrazier8785 7 місяців тому +1

    I'm sure you know Angela, but for younger viewers who might not, the Ford Pinto was supposed to be the "everyman's" Mustang. It was a pity seeing the issues associated with it in real time. At the time I thought hey glad I ride in a Chevy Vega, but then they had similar issues. Love your vids!!!

  • @joechip1232
    @joechip1232 10 місяців тому +3

    I read lots of "science talk" in the humanities classes that I've graded papers and exams for. I think it's a universal phenomenon :P

  • @uyscuti5376
    @uyscuti5376 8 місяців тому +1

    It's pretty frustrating that social media is flooded with weird scammy "science journalism." But at least this video is entertaining!

  • @nothefabio
    @nothefabio 10 місяців тому +15

    Gosh, I hate it when an article does that.
    Here in Brazil we call it "encher linguiça" ("stuffing sausage"): when you're supposed to do a thing and you do a bunch of things related to that thing, and it looks like you're doing the thing, but you're not really doing the thing, you're just circling the thing, without actually DOING The Thing.
    (about being Brazilian... Here, "pinto" means a very specific part of the human male anatomy 🤣)

    • @kaptenteo
      @kaptenteo 10 місяців тому

      Exactly! So much garbage written on websites behaves this way. It's infuriating.

    • @uilsoum875
      @uilsoum875 10 місяців тому +1

      Brazil mentioned. Thought the same thing about the car

  • @CoryMck
    @CoryMck 10 місяців тому +1

    *On a related note, the 'How Stuff Works' podcasts are pretty good.*
    But if you say we're never visiting the site again, I can leave it. You make a good point about the responsibility of scientific journalism and how it's impacted by pop science.

  • @Gongtopia
    @Gongtopia 10 місяців тому +3

    You are on fire and so on point here! You were even able to own up to your own bad article. Keep going. I love your UA-cam channel and learn something from every video. Thanks! 👍

  • @SpecialEDy
    @SpecialEDy 10 місяців тому +2

    Isaac Arthur has a good video on Antimatter Factories and touches on how the drives could work in theory in his Spaceship Drive Compendium.

  • @music_YT2023
    @music_YT2023 10 місяців тому +6

    I love that you're delving into molecular biology now! That was one of my majors back in the day. I work with a lot of newly minted engineers now and I'm so happy that colleges are integrating biomaterials and cellular systems into their coursework. It's all different facets of physics in the end, but I appreciate when people show an interest in my little niche! 🥰 Also, poor Kevin. He will forever be besmirched by the AI bots zombie-resurrecting past works.

  • @sprawlbug
    @sprawlbug 10 місяців тому

    As a person working in videogames I can confirm that 'making better videogames!' finished turning into the same thing as 'doing SEO to promote a game which may or may not be good!' several years ago

  • @dominikmuller4477
    @dominikmuller4477 10 місяців тому +3

    An antimatter spacecraft is just a spacecraft made out of antimatter, which presumably can do very similar chemistry to normal matter. It can have a variety of engines, for example mixing anti-hydrogen and anti-oxygen to make anti-water and energy, thereby pushing it forward.

  • @Rietto
    @Rietto 10 місяців тому +2

    You continue to be my favorite science-topic UA-cam channel. Thank you.

  • @Cc-iz9df
    @Cc-iz9df 10 місяців тому +5

    Wow thank you so much for all the effort you’ve been putting in lately ❤️ it is very much appreciated

  • @thomasclowater9471
    @thomasclowater9471 5 місяців тому

    17:50 the first one of those podcasts, Stuff You Should Know, is genuinely amazing.

  • @olletsocse1123
    @olletsocse1123 10 місяців тому +10

    Can you do a bookshelf tour?

  • @brenatevi
    @brenatevi 2 місяці тому

    This video was a wild ride. I had no idea what she was going to talk about next. I loved it.

  • @PatheticApathetic
    @PatheticApathetic 10 місяців тому +5

    The number of normal things you did is astounding and appreciated lol

  • @mr.zafner8295
    @mr.zafner8295 10 місяців тому

    Oh my god. "2013 is early for podcasts"?!!?
    You are SO YOUNG
    I remember watching the Battlestar Galactica reboot in 2004 and finding out that they were releasing a director's commentary as a podcast. So you could watch the show, and then rewatch the show with the director commentary exactly as if you had a DVD with director commentary if you wanted to.
    I remember thinking at the time that it was a pretty innovative use of the podcast concept and wondering if it would take off. I've never heard of it being done with anything else before, but it was clever and fun and added to my enjoyment of the show.
    Podcasts of course had already been around for quite a while

  • @sobertillnoon
    @sobertillnoon 10 місяців тому +7

    I think the pinto was named after the horse, not the bean.
    So I just looked it up. Apparently pinto is just the Spanish word for modeled color or something like that. So the bean and the horse are named with just a description. The car was named because horses are fast and cars are fast. This is the third edit.

    • @stevenjacobs2750
      @stevenjacobs2750 10 місяців тому +1

      Yeah pinto is basically mottled or painted. So a pinto horse is a horse that looks painted. A pinto bean, similar. The car was named after the horse, even though the car didn't have a funky paint job, they just exploded.

    • @Pfhreak
      @Pfhreak 10 місяців тому +1

      As someone who grew up in a family with one, I can assure it was named after the bean.

  • @jc6218
    @jc6218 10 місяців тому +2

    I have no idea how an antimatter spacecraft will work. 10/10, would watch again.

  • @Bella_Rei
    @Bella_Rei 10 місяців тому +8

    Nibbler poops, you put poop in fuel tank of spacecraft, spacecraft go across galaxy.
    Thx u guys like and subscribe for more science! ✨✨

    • @aryamanshalizi7131
      @aryamanshalizi7131 10 місяців тому

      I thought Nibbler pooped dark matter, not antimatter?

    • @Bella_Rei
      @Bella_Rei 10 місяців тому

      @@aryamanshalizi7131 You are correct, but im just being dumb anyways. lol

  • @paulmichaud7565
    @paulmichaud7565 5 місяців тому

    This is righteous. There should be a nation-wide poll, "Is the Internet letting you down?"

  • @wtfpwnz0red
    @wtfpwnz0red 10 місяців тому +33

    Yeah but an antimatter engine isn't really a breakthrough in physics, is it? More like a feat of engineering if you ask me.
    ...
    ...I'll see myself out 😅

    • @georgelionon9050
      @georgelionon9050 10 місяців тому +1

      Exactly, physicist make a dark energy engine instead plz... In a pinch a dark matter engine might do too.

    • @inevespace
      @inevespace 9 місяців тому

      emm, not really. There are a lot of problems which we barely know how to solve theoretically. For example, you have to make a mirror which can reflect with huge efficiency very energetic gamma-rays, but all materials are transparent for them. Even theoretically no such materials can be made. You only can use dense electron plasma to reflect such hard radiation. Such kind of problems are way beyond engineering.

    • @wtfpwnz0red
      @wtfpwnz0red 9 місяців тому

      @@inevespace whoosh

    • @suppositorylaxative3179
      @suppositorylaxative3179 8 місяців тому

      @@wtfpwnz0redlol what was the joke supposed to be? I legitimately don’t understand where the whoosh is here

    • @wtfpwnz0red
      @wtfpwnz0red 8 місяців тому

      @@suppositorylaxative3179 watch her video on recent physics breakthroughs (i forget the title)

  • @jb31842
    @jb31842 8 місяців тому +1

    Oh, and in case you didn't look or the rest of the comments didn't school you in the ways: The Ford Pinto was a subcompact car from the 70's famous for gas tank explosions in the event of a rear-end collision. It had the beneficial side effect of strengthening enforcement of automotive safety regulations.

  • @rangda_prime
    @rangda_prime 10 місяців тому +17

    This video goes from how a bad article is bad into touching on why capitalism ruins everything and I'm here for it.

    • @fuzzywzhe
      @fuzzywzhe 10 місяців тому

      Capitalism doesn't ruin everything. The lack of free markets ruin everything. Capitalism is merely a system. You don't need a free market to have capitalism, but you need capitalism to have a free market. Without a free market you end up in, say, the Dark Ages for a few millennia.

    • @TasTheWatcher
      @TasTheWatcher 10 місяців тому

      "you need capitalism to have a free market"
      > Businesses can be worker-owned
      > Market socialism is a thing
      > Under capitalism, a free market will cease to be free as time passes, due to how capitalism works

    • @fuzzywzhe
      @fuzzywzhe 10 місяців тому +1

      @@TasTheWatcher There's nothing in capitalism that precludes joint ownership of profits, and losses.
      As long as socialism is voluntary, that's fine, that's part of the free market, people can chose to be a part of it, or leave it.
      We are NOT in capitalism. Government bails out favored businesses using public funds and lets successful businesses fail, because government undermines those businesses. What system does that sound like... ?

  • @petevenuti7355
    @petevenuti7355 10 місяців тому +2

    Another anecdote for you, a long time ago I tried to start my own business, during that time period I went to this business plan competition in New York City where the winner would get investment in their business, there was this one presentation that reminded me of a perfume commercial, it didn't say anything and I didn't know what it was for. That was the business plan that won the competition judged by adults with money.

  • @Blabla130
    @Blabla130 10 місяців тому +6

    I'm so sorry to have to tell you this Angie, the SEO people ARE making the video games

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  • @raoultitulaer74
    @raoultitulaer74 10 місяців тому +2

    Wow, what a twist! I loved how the foreshadowing of the page being the same for twenty years was visually in there. You really had me in stitches with the part on 'Billy'. Though I get that was a joke, you can't really come back from something like calling something so bad someone would have to be held back in eighth grade. That man is burnt to a crisp, no 'he is not a scientific journalist who needed proper guidance' can save him.

  • @DanielStaniforth
    @DanielStaniforth 10 місяців тому +3

    I was basing my entire prototype antimatter engine off this article. Now what am I going to do?

    • @PhillipRhodes
      @PhillipRhodes 10 місяців тому

      Just add more "quantum" and call 'er good.

  • @plateoshrimp9685
    @plateoshrimp9685 10 місяців тому +2

    I like the Pinto vs. racing car thing. They're explaining the concept of a thing being slower than another thing. Important background info. Pretty sure there's a whole episode of Sesame Street devoted to it.