Oxygen Is Killing You | Answers With Joe
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We all know you need oxygen to live. But why? What happens to oxygen in our bodies? Why does it keep us alive? And maybe most importantly, why does it slowly kill us?
In today's video, I explore the process of respiration, how it's weirdly similar to fire, and why we rely on one of the most corrosive elements in the universe to survive. It gets weirdly existential.
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One of the first 'Philosoraptor' memes was:
"What if oxygen is actually toxic and just takes 80-100 years to kill you?"
Philosoraptor is wise.
ah, good ol' days, except for the rage comics. i'm glad that one ended.
I was high when the thought came up. So wise may not be the word
Point is: Oxigen is actually toxic. When breathing pure oxigen under a [edit: slightly] high pressure (59 m and deeper [edit: actually 3..4 m]) the oxigen toxicates you because the anti-oxidising mechanisms in your body do not work properly / at all under theese conditions.
Edit thanks to Rex Mann for pointing out my error.
The Substance that keeps you alive simultaneously kills you
@@ludwigvanbeethoven61 How's that for ying-yang?
"why do we stare in the fire?"
My dad always called fire "caveman television" on camping trips. Funny to hear that there is some truth to that statement.
your father is a wise man
We stare at fire because we are subliminally thinking of all the potential destruction it can cause to our enemies if "our tribe" just learned better ways to abuse it!
@@henrythegreatamerican8136 Yeah no thats a very cynical view point not all humans are violent
We didn't start the fire.
@@Phlyinhigh I don't agree with Henry, I think we like fire for a multitude of reasons. But humans are violent. Violence was necessary for our survival. In modern times it's mostly subconscious, most don't realize they have that side to them. Until they are put in a situation where it's needed, or comes out anyway. The fight or flight response, every human has both of these behavior hardwired into them. No matter how how nice and gentle someone is, they still have the potential to be violent. We are animals, trap an animal and it will fight to defend itself.
Humans are also predators, without the capability of violence we wouldn't have made it this far. The hunt for prey using our smart brains and groups of people is literally what made humanity who we are today. We aren't a new species either. We are the same humans as those hunter-gatherers who lived thousands of years ago.
Pro tip: By staying underwater for an extended period of time, the atmosphere can't kill you anymore. I mean, the lack of it will, much faster, but _the atmosphere_ won't kill you.
So true. You can stay underwater for the rest of your life.
“We are in a way, living flame. But the fire fades”
- Joe, a man who secretly plays DarkSouls
Literally waded thru the comments section to find this. You did not disappoint. 👍
ashen one... be sure to bring more souls... 😈
Fuel depleted? Here the
Big oil got him before he could reveal the secrets of eco fuel.
goddammit Joe you're right - oxygen *is* killing me - going to give up that nasty oxygen addiction right now...
As I drink my second litre of milk today , you could say I've been addicted to the white stuff since birth.👈🤯👍
@@ashj_2088 milk? or oxygen?
@@juliaconnell milk 😋 🥰of course
@@ashj_2088 LOL the subject of the day is *oxygen* you milk fiend you - milk is very good for you, though an overindulgence is some things (even things like water!) can be detrimental to ones health (check out chubbyemu's channel - I don't think milk is included - but other things are... presented)
Are you still there?
nothing makes you feel dumber than when joe says "now you've probably heard of this before" and you haven't heard of it before...
LOL...I Concur...LOL
Is it sad that I always have?
"more dumb"
That is how to politely be condescending
Ikrrrr
Admittedly i already know what joe is talking about before even watching the video on this one. doesn't matter though, I want to know what Joe has come to learn and witness his dread and sense of impending doom play out, priceless. Love you buddy.
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Ever seen the meme about "Planet of the 'slow burning'"? It was one of those existential joke memes to explain why aliens might avoid Earth because we are all slowly burning and breathing poison like some kind of freaky demons lol
Can you send me an example? That sounds cool but I'm not seeing anything
@@dominicthompson82 The way I've heard, and retold it -- Imagine an alien ship exploring and passing by our planet. Some of our space travel technology, which would likely be primitive to the aliens, uses a hydrogen and oxygen as fuel in a reaction to cause combustion and thrust. This process also combines the hydrogen and oxygen and makes water as a byproduct of the reaction.
So these aliens show up, scan the planet, and notice sentient creatures breathing in one part of primitive rocket fuel (oxygen) as a requirement for life, and then drinking the fuel byproducts (water) as a further requirement for life. Continuing the examination, the entire planet seems to be growing on the rotting dead of the generations that lived before it. And these sentient creatures seem to cultivate the mass of rot by pouring rocket fuel byproducts on it, and then eating the fruits that grow.
Just a terrifying sight of fuel huffing cannibals. and this is the answer to the fermi paradox. we're gross.
@@zach.... every civilization have ups and downs those aliens will also have transformed from gross similar beings to idk technologically advanced beings
I just realized why this channel is so successful. Joe talks as if what he's talking about is common knowledge, making us feel familiar with the subject.
Cyanobacteria, I know right!🤗
There is more, to that. His sense of humor is so brutally honest, that everyone can personalize self scepticism to his dark thoughts :]
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4:00 - Supernova is needed only to disperse oxygen - unlike elements heavier that iron, it is mainly produced by good old fusion inside stars, specifically in CNO cycle.
If you hadn't commented this, I would have. So now I'm just bumping it up the list
This.
Yes, but I don't think it is such a big deal on a channel like this. Its like saying Earth's orbit is round - it isn't, but for everyday life the difference doesn't matter.
Thanks! @Joe love you channel, but next time try to do a bit better on the fact checking.
@@witchdoctor6502 No, it isn't the same. It's a big difference, it's not like correct within few percent error limit approximation. I think it's somewhat a deal on a channel like this because it's defining the quality.
So poetic and then starts talking about “bacteria farts”
That's our Joe.
I'm an arborist... So I've burned unknown amounts of brush in my life. Even then im never not completely mesmerized by it. It's truly so enigmatic and provoking yet calming and comforting.
Joe you claimed all elements heavier than Hydrogen and Helium are created in supernova, that's not true. Stars can form up to Iron through fusion, anything heavier than *that* requires supernova.
Or a neutron star collision
you must be fun at parties
And Uranium is known to be the heaviest naturally occuring element. Humans are resonsible for making Plutonium!
The genesis project in the 90's proved that solar flaring produces all elements up to lead.
@@15xgg80 you're on the wrong channel. You'll only find nerds here.
“It’s probably a big mistake.” Did Joe just reference Douglas Adams? Love me some Hitchiker’s Guide.
Same! And in two days, I'll be 42.
@@lisamarie06 I was 42 last year. Nice.
Happy birthday ( even belated ) to the both of you.
@@lindaseel8633 44 is coming up a month after Christmas. So thank you!
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You can heal 5 times more quickly in a hyperbaric chamber at 100% oxygen and 3x atmospheric pressure.
You can heal faster, because the high oxygen is literally pushing your metabolic functions faster. Living is a metabolic function with a finite span, so you’re healing a little bit faster while you’re in there but you’re dying a little bit faster too.
@@codename495 high pressure saturates your body enough so that it is absorbed by your plasma, this allows your blood to carry it far more effectively to oxygen starved cells (cells that are damaged). The high concentration of blood plasma stimulates the mitochondria in your cells and attracts stem cells which further increases healing. They use hyperbaric treatments on burn victims and radiation wounds, because it increases collagen and skin cell growth. There hss even been a study done in israel that found that hyperbaric treatment increased telomere length and decreased senescence cell concentration (cells damage by oxygen damage). The study had positive results and now rich people are queuing up to get their possible longevity treatment.
@@codename495 LeBron rents a hyperbaric tank to help him recover after training and I read that Justin Bieber sleeps in one.
Especially burn injury.
I think I prefer slower healing over getting lung damage from oxygen toxicity
People bad at chemistry: "Oxygen is flammable"
Me: *Slap* "NO IT'S NOT"
Oxygen alone cant fuel a fire but it is a necessary component to the combustion process and a pure oxygen environment significantly increases the reaction rate of a fire and can lead to an explosion This gives it the appearance of "flammability".
@@Lethgar_Smith Maybe that is why fire is called ‘rapid oxidation’.
The Oxygen tanks have been lying to us all this time!😱
@@Lethgar_Smith You don't need oxygen to feed fusion. Maybe the sun is not on fire after all
@@thoughtsofapeer well fire is plasma right? since it reacts to magnets and all
Oxygen is one of the most electronegative and reactive elements out there. Its like evolving to thrive in fluorine or something. Kinda crazy when you think about it like that.
yup, cyanobacteria very nearly killed off life as a whole, they barely made the evolutionary race to adapt to rising levels of their own waste.....Now there´s an example to learn from!
Your hosting skills were always good, but it's been so fun to watch them evolve to where they are now. Your scripts are fluid, your jokes land most of the time, your hosting personality is developing beautifully, and you're really hitting your stride.
Human aging is a heck of a lot more complicated. In fact, they have found that higher pressure oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber can extend telomeres in the blood, likely extending life. Quantum tunneling as a result of the heat producing bonds that otherwise are not energy favorable is a major source of aging (by probability, several photons of heat energy concentrate in a localized area providing the energy for the damaging reaction which is more common at higher body temperature). This is why most of the organisms that outlive us are colder than we are. We can't just choose to be cold, and live longer, though. We have enzymes that are required for even the most basic cellular operations, such as the reactions in mitochondria that produce ATP. Those other organisms have different enzymes. So they can endure internal temperatures that would kill us.
And while this is a major form of aging, it is just one of several. We accumulate a protein called Glucosepane. It is a lysine-arginine protein cross-linking product and advanced glycation end product (AGE) derived from D-glucose. This makes a mess of collagen in our bodies over time. The other AGEs, as long as we produce and ingest relatively small amounts (by avoiding things cooked at high temperature, whipped, churned, ground or otherwise processed at high speed by machine, or fermented, and by having ample vitamins) can be processed by the liver (as long as the liver stays healthy) and expelled by the body. This Glucosepane crap could probably kill you just by itself, by stiffening tissue, so much that it no longer functions.
Then there are toxins that accumulate in your blood. That can be removed by plasmaphereses. But who does that just to clean their blood?
Then there are changes to molecules that connect to our DNA. This methylation aging we have no way to reverse without killing you...yet. And if we could turn back that clock, how would we do it uniformly? What happens when you have cells that all think they are different ages?
The ends of chromosomes shorten with every cellular division. When the chromosome ends (telomeres) reach the end, the cells can no longer divide, but more than that, they can become nasty. They can start to gorge themselves eating other cells, and spewing chemicals that kills and harms other cells. These senescent cells also accumulate as more and more cells run into their division limit (Hayflick limit). There are things we can do to reduce the number of these things like periodic fasting or near fasting, and taking senolytics like quercetin and fisetin periodically, but it is almost certainly a loosing battle. Mitochondria can also go bad making a mess and killing cells accelerating divisions to replace those damaged cells, which makes more cells run into that division limit. Though, it is possible to refresh your mitochondria by doing very unpleasant HIIT (high intensity interval training) exercise very regularly. And while hyperbaric oxygen and a few molecules we have found can extend telomeres...that is probably limited to the immune system and the blood. Anything further reaching, probably would require genetic modification.
Holy crap haha I was second camera on Nigel Blows Stuff up. Happy to see it having a second life on Curiosity
RYCON I WATCHED ALL YOUR KENSHI ROLEPLAY VIDEOS!
Ha! The lightning episode was filmed in my high voltage lab. Nigel got so many electric shocks.
Random. I thought he was a child psychologist?!
@@laurawoodward3046 yeah he is but he's done a bit of science communication too
Dude I fucking love this channel. Some of you guys deserve to be nominated in some of these yearly awards shows. Like, your decapitation video; That should receive an award lol. Fuckin' great work Joe, great work.
Not a really good job, it was a piss poor history of life on this planet lesson. I'm a retired biologist/engineer and the oldest confirmed fossils of life are the stromatolite fossil beds in Australia over 3.5 billion years old. Cyanobacteria that is photosynthetic made the stromatolites, a prokaryote bacteria. Nothing much before that 3.5 billion year line is confirmed and is always possible a natural process made the fossils like the so called Life fossil in the Mars meteorite. It looks like it might be life, but it is too small and could be a simple calcite evaporite.
Did you also not see the big contradiction? He said the other way for oxygen to be created is for sunlight to shine on water vapor and water has been on Earth for at least 4 billion year and longer so for millions of years there has been some oxygen in the atmosphere. Oh! Don't forget lightning tearing H2O apart as well. That eliminates life forming processes as there is an oxidizing processes going on. Also almost half the Earth's crust is oxygen in the form of silicates. The lithosphere is 46.6% oxygen by volume present mainly as silica minerals (SiO2) and other oxide minerals.
According to geologists the so called primordial soup never existed. Of course there really isn't any natural processes that can form life in nature except life. Life only comes from Life. Only a metaphysical assumption says Life can come from non-Life.
@@MountainFisher deez nuts
@@yxzuk9214 What is that supposed to mean?
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Seriously, Joe? You pinned this vulgar remark?
For one not paying attention in chemistry classes, you've got it right and mostly complete. The only thing I'd like to add is that oxygen molecule is free radical too.
no, its not. in an oxygen molecule each oxygen atom has 6 electrons + 2 shared electrons, which gives it a shell of 8. But the bond is less stable than oxygen to something else, which makes it so reactive (but still less reactive than a true free radical).
Or perhaps you meant a single oxygen atom is a free radical, too?
For the knowledge that was relevant before quantum mechanics, what are you telling is true. But knowledge has evolved since then. Check wiki page for radials and especially diradicals.
@@Yasen6275 Ok, interesting, so it would be technically more correct to write ·O-O· for the structure of O2 instead of O=O like its commonly written, since the first one is actually the more stable form according to wikipedia.
@@wulf2121 - What? From my organic chem classes which were admittedly 15 years ago, oxygen molecules form with a double bond. Pi orbitals merge to create a common pi2 orbital that have 2 electrons in it. You are saying that the oxygen molecule instead has an unpaired electron on each atom that doesn't create a shared orbital? How is that thermodynamically more stable than a shared orbital?
@@ElectronFieldPulse I'm afraid that classes you were given 15 years ago were outdated even then. With about 50 years, if I remember correctly. Pi and different sp orbitals are good pedagogical tools for beginners in organic chemistry. But they are mostly misleading when one must comprehend implications of quantum mechanics in electron energy levels of molecules.
1. Thermodynamics has nothing to do with electrons, there energy levels in atoms and molecules.
2. All atom orbitals are more or less transformed when atoms became part of molecule. Newly formed molecule orbitals that are more or less covering the whole of molecule. In case of the O2 molecule these unpaired electrons are on two molecule orbitals enveloping both atoms. And these orbitals have equal energy.
To blow your mind even more these two orbitals have energy levels higher than any atom orbital in oxygen atom.
Im impressed the way you explained resperation was very concise as a trainee nurse I can say yoy nailed it with more clarity than my lectures
You nailed the location of "That video" this time. Been waiting for that to happen. nice.
There is actually a fourth requirement for fire: Pressure.
very good point sir
pressure from air... that contains the oxygen, yes.
There's actually actually a fifth requirement for fire: The Higgs Field.
Love, Love, Love ....your content & sense of humor ✨
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“I’m not talking about that immanent feeling of doom… (relatable smirk of disparaging truth) although it’s there.”
GOLD.
Nice no-nonsense description of the process. Nicely done.
I feel you on the drawing in chemistry class instead of paying attention. I made a flip book out of an entire book of post it notes instead of paying attention. Still passed somehow, and I still have the flip book, so thats something
Thats such a Win Win
My chemistry professor loved to tell this joke, "How can you tell oxygen is a trollop? It'll bond with anything."
If he told that joke today, he’d be immediately hounded and eventually fired by mobs of twitterati lefty SJWs.
@@fredbloggs5902 Sigh.
Crawl back under your rock.
No "lefty" would care about such an innocuous joke.
Real abuse and discrimination take up all their time.
@@thomashiggins9320 Your claim is provenly a lie, but stay in you bubble, eventually they’ll come for you.
@@fredbloggs5902 ur stuck in a right wing bubble and still think people who are just leftists are 'crazy radical SJWs" grow up
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The burger closer was nothing short of brilliant. Timing - perfection
0:32 - 0:39 ... I'd love to know where that particular stock video of burning wood can be found! So calming, yet invigorating at the same time. Perfect Zen viewing on a digital display.
I love your channel. Keep up the good work. It is also interesting in an "Oxygen is killing you" video to mention Oxygen Toxicity in Scuba Diving. This is where high pressure causes oxygen to be even more toxic. That and Nitrogen Narcosis ends up requiring a third gas, helium, to help keep from dying. See trimix diving and partial-pressures-of-oxygen for details.
"They can hold our attention as well as any TV show"??? Well not the ones with the 24/7 fireplace! :'D
Real fire still wins.
I found this channel a week or two ago and I just keep binging it, watching for hours at a time. I love every video and I think I found my crack.
Always a good show Joe!!
For years when someone asked how I was doing I would answer "Still breathing, haven't managed to kick that nasty oxygen habit yet!" This video taught me just how scientifically correct that statement was.
Also, this was the best explanation of "free radicals" and anti-oxidants. I wanted Chemistry in high school science but was placed in Anatomy which was no where as interesting to me...
Lots of oxygen: Will kill me in about 80 years.
No oxygen: Will kill me in about 80 seconds.
Great stuff, Joe. You're inspiration to my own meagre, fledgling channel.
Never realized. Thanks, Joe!
Ren & Stimpy made me aware of the effect of oxygen, albeit viewed from a somewhat different angle, haha, but it did start making me think about oxygen in general.
It's really just a bad joke, but here goes:
Muddy Mudskipper to Stimpy: "Ever breathe oxygen son?"
Stimpy: *_inhales to respond_*
Muddy: "Good, don't start! Me? I'm hooked! Get it?" (because he's a fish, although he's a lungfish..)
Stimpy: *_inhales another time to respond_*
Muddy: "Shut up!"
Muddy: “Ya lousy bum”
@@alphagt62 haha
@@Games_and_Music Muddy was my favorite side character! I worked for a cigar chewing old man who was just like him when I was young.
I loved all the random jokes, mentions of existential dread, spontaneous "woo woo", and how the cyanobacteria made the worst mistake bringing about humans. Love your sense of humor
I'm not encouraging you to self harm. I just don't understand why folks who say humans are a virus or a mistake or cancer don't contribute to correcting the "mistake" and take themselves out. rather, they whinge about it on social media.
can you enlighten me about this strange phenomenon?
This introduction was really nice!
Best way to start the week. Thanks Joe
can't wait for all the people watching to start breathing manually because of this video
Omg yeah. This made me conscious about my breathing xD
I did just after reading your comment...
Try getting really ill🤧 I never, EVER, gave a thought to my respiratory pattern, until I got sick and I had to consciously breathe.
At one point you get tired and your O2 drops like motherfucker. You can't even sleep because it sends you O2 into the 60s. Scariest week of my life, altho not as scary as the hospital bill, which is why I didn't go to one.
Somehow I survived and now have PTSD. I can't see anyone sniff or cough near me, without me getting the Lysol aerosol bottle out of my bag and aim it their way. Either to spray them or hit them over the head for spreading the plage, it's a matter of how lucky they get.
The humans who got bored watching the fire and wandered off...
...got eaten by lions, tigers and bears.
Evolution in action.
I love his simple way of explaining, adding a joke or two and talking on a normal volume (no shouting like some). Thank Joe! Keep it up 👍 👏👏
Like always, you made it interesting.
“Ain’t no air in space”
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@@kangarooninja2594 Sarchasm: The gulf that lies between those that got it, and those that don't.
My buddy had an oxygen bottle for welding with an advisory sticker on it warning of the increased risk of cancer from inhaling it. It's a good thing us humans aren't dependant on oxygen when going about our daily lives!
Man, all the drawing I do and I can’t get good at it either! I so felt you when you said that. Luv ur show. Thanks Joe and google.
All I can say is don't stop doing what you do Joe. It's a lot of work to digest years of research but your helping soo many people be more aware. (the emoji looks like am flipping you off but am not LOL! it's a thumbs up.)
“A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long” - Dr. Eldon Tyrell
"Feel the burn". Some idiot.
Fascinating video! Learning about how the body uses Oxygen, and it's journey after we breath it in, is all the more remarkable when you think how constant that process needs to be. If it stops for even a matter of minutes our human body and all that we are will break beyond repair. Oxygen is also one of the best examples of how brilliantly messy evolution can be. The very thing that's vital to our lives can also be the thing that kills us...so long as it mostly takes its time doing so.
Just learned about this in Biology. I didn't understand any of it until this video. Thanks joe
Your background reminds me of an eye spy book ! Love it
Since you're a Texas native I'd love to see you get into the psychology of the maniacs passing Draconian laws successfully in 2021.
Isn't religion (good vs evil, god vs devil, do the "right" thing or ELSE, etc...) the construct that fuel these maniacs?
@Frugal Family Living Any and all religion (defined "a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith") Oh definitely Christianity. Religion will be the death of USA. We need to separate the sheeple from the government and mandate separation of state from religion. I'm glad the younger generations believe in facts which can be verified rather than faith. Science isn't a religion, it's a peer reviewed process.
Joe, I wanted to be a smart fella.
But society made me a fart smella.
Great start :)
That was your best open Joe!
The intro was great!!!
When you said "let's start with what we already know..." and that catchy drum and bass riff started, it was just like when I have to think about stuff I already know about. Do do do do do, I already know this, I don't have to learn right now, do do do do do
One of your best intros yet. Bravo.
This video reminded me of my research on the fork-head transcription factors, which I wrote my senior thesis for my BS in biology on. I was looking into genes that promote longevity of life. Essentially the fork-head transcription factors are proteins which are active when your body is in a basal state and they function in cleaning out free radicals and fix denatured proteins. I would suggest looking into it, might give you a great video topic.
Thank you for reading my mind. This is the exact video I was looking for. Bless your soul if we have one
I love how you explained the role of oxidizers. Fire in all its forms is truly fascinating.
However, in the interest of being pedantic, because everyone loves pedants, smoke is actually the product of incomplete combustion, which means, simplistically, that there is more fuel than the oxygen required for complete combustion at that temperature. In other words, smoke is fuel, and combustible in a similar manner to propane or natural gas. It's why if you come on a building that you believe is on fire and a room appears to be filled with smoke when you look through the windows, you NEVER break that window, because the only thing missing from that room being a giant inferno is more oxygen.
In contrast, if you ever look into "rocket" stoves that some permies use, they have to be super, super careful about carbon monoxide because the more complete combustion produces no visible smoke. In other words, you could have a chimney leak with a normal fireplace and likely catch it due to the smoky room, but with a rocket stove, you just die from the CO if you don't have a detector.
Damn Joe. This episode is on a "Vsauce, Michael here" kind of level how it brings us back and fourth teaching so much different things that have with eachother to do :D Much love!
I like seeing Joe staring into the abyss while contemplating about wise oxygen
i love the intro. great sense of humor
Love the science stuff, but Joe's weird & history topics are great.
super educational funny...thank you
Hey Joe! Love your work!! Can you do a video on "Popular ways one can manage their existential dread without therapy."
Thank you Prometheus we appreciate what you went through for us.
Good intro, Joe.
I hope you do more cool intros like that in the future.
Thanks Joe. I needed the nap.
You pronounced Humanin incorrectly. Or maybe I just nodded off.
admittedly, this video makes me scared to breathe..but nonetheless it's awesome! my friend recommended me to you joe, and now i cant stop watching!
My chemistry teacher in engineering school described fire as rapid oxidation that is so fast it produces enough heat to create plasma.
Thx for reminding me, Joe.
Thanks!
I love you Joe, you’ve taught me a lot, like sure your not a scientist store historian or crime expert but you hand us Knowledge and give us things to look at to help us not only widen our minds and intellect view, but help us grow and not be in a little bubble and toss out things we don’t like. Thank you Joe
Now that was one hell of an introduction 😭👌🏾
5:05-5:11 Thank your! I have ask myself these questions a lot and am too lazy to do the required research to fully understand why
that was a hell of a cold opening, Joe
My other favorite UA-camrs , SECURETEAM and Missing 411/ Cansm Missing Project. You had a show on addiction once. Great show. The sub skit was great. Every skit you do is always funny .
Seeing a morbid tittle on Joe's channel never fails to make me smile :)
And there's nothing better than having breakfast while watching Joe's video and relax until you go to work
Dude, Nigel's series looks awesome
Joe. Good job getting back to the roots. I'll pay more attention to u.
Wow... you just cheered me up no end. Thanks. Lol
Oh, Hello Darkness. Nice to see you again. So nice of you to return these crisis’ to my mind.
I'm already subbed but damn, I just realized that "the future of war," "heavy industry in space," "6 historical figures/not existing," etc is the perfect blend of scatterbrained nerd shit that I feed off of, lol. I love that it's part standard fare science-y channel, but also a dip into some appreciative history. Having fun with some of the latest vids!
I think the high sub count yet very modest feel is welcoming. Keep that flavor!
And make the next one WEIRD.
Cheers :)
Nick Lane has written some brilliant books on oxygen and the chemiosmotic model, which are essential reading if you'd like to find out more about how most of life on Earth generate their energy. Great video
You crack me up 🤣 Made my day, thank you.
Joe Scott is the best UA-camr
1:05 is the plot of dark souls in one sentence
3:52 "Probably a big mistake " LOL
Nigels docs are awesome, he's the man for waking up those that are blind to the facts. Cool to hear the shout out. 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿
6:23 I'm listening to this why sketching some things for my architecture lecture :-D
Havent learned a single thing but enjoyed te video anyway 😆
A funny intelligent dork. Love you Joe.