Big vs Small with Tiny Matters | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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  • @theperfectbotsteve4916
    @theperfectbotsteve4916 Рік тому +30

    i like how sam left and another person named sam came on its like we have a Substitute sam

  • @hchen-gb1tw
    @hchen-gb1tw Рік тому +46

    What’s sending me is that Sam took ONE EPISODE OFF after all these years and immediately formulated the most convoluted gamemaster nonsense ever to ensure his chaotic neutral presence would not be missed (I would have missed you, Sam). And then delivered a science poem.

  • @Bluesmudge
    @Bluesmudge Рік тому +49

    Sometimes when I have an anxiety attack, everything looks tiny and far away. Like all of a sudden, I am as tall as the house and my kids and all the furniture is toy-sized. The More You Know...

    • @Reverend_Salem
      @Reverend_Salem Рік тому +6

      for me, my anxiety attacks feel like im watching myself through my eyes. kinda like watching someone play a 1st person game.

  • @Tinyvalkyrie410
    @Tinyvalkyrie410 Рік тому +20

    I have Alice and Wonderland syndrome! Since I was a kid! For me it’s associated migraines, and it’s so difficult to explain how the comparative processing of your brain basically turns off. Quiet things are loud, loud things are quiet, weight, size, speed, I can’t categorize it in relation to other things. Worst of all, for me, my internal clock turns off, and it feels like time is both standing still AND on fast forward. As a child, this was absolutely terrifying. Now it’s just annoying and signals I’m about to have a brutal migraine. I used to get them all the time, but now it’s only a couple times a year.

  • @hchen-gb1tw
    @hchen-gb1tw Рік тому +46

    13:46 Hank, as a veterinarian currently undergoing post-doctoral training in zoo and wildlife medicine, please allow me to inform you that in the battle of Adult Human vs Adult Squirrel it is NOT EASY TO KILL THE ADULT SQUIRREL THEY ARE VERY AGGRESSIVE AND FAST

    • @gabemerritt3139
      @gabemerritt3139 Рік тому +2

      Can easily kill if you could catch it?

    • @honey-po9ij
      @honey-po9ij Рік тому +3

      @@gabemerritt3139 squirrels are slippery and squirmy as hell and their bites are hardcore

    • @honey-po9ij
      @honey-po9ij Рік тому

      @@gabemerritt3139 squirrels are slippery and squirmy as hell and their bites are hardcore

  • @blake_ilan
    @blake_ilan Рік тому +36

    It was really nice to hear Ceri casually mention her partner. Representation makes me smile.

    • @IceMetalPunk
      @IceMetalPunk Рік тому

      I thought that at first, too, but then I thought maybe she was talking about her running partner?

    • @kyle-silver
      @kyle-silver Рік тому +6

      Ceri isn’t in a hetero relationship IIRC, she’s mentioned her partner (not sure if they use she or they pronouns) in past episodes

    • @radagastwiz
      @radagastwiz Рік тому +18

      She and Sylvia (they/them) are currently engaged to be married (which has been mentioned on the pod previously).

    • @blake_ilan
      @blake_ilan Рік тому

      @@kyle-silver i don’t watch/listen to every episode, i fell off a couple years ago

    • @motionless_horizon
      @motionless_horizon 6 місяців тому

      @@IceMetalPunkCeri and Sylvia have been engaged for a bit now! /nm

  • @Bluesmudge
    @Bluesmudge Рік тому +29

    Please do an episode on space junk!!! You guys talk about it all the time, without ever really scaring the crap out of people who don't know how bad it really is.

  • @jameslmathieson
    @jameslmathieson Рік тому +9

    The Brilliant Pebble was the heart of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) also known as the Star Wars program. They were more than a detection system. Each Pebble was effectively a giant shotgun shell that would fire a cloud of BBs at an incoming warhead. The BBs were not enough to destroy the warhead, but would poke holes in the warhead's thermal protection, causing it to burn up on re-entry. Although they were never deployed, the Brilliant Pebble and SDI played a significant role in the end of the Cold War. Counter intelligence operations deliberately played up the Pebble/SDI using lasers, leading the USSR to plow significant resources into trying to build an orbital directed energy weapon. The Pebble's laser was a range finder.

    • @gsarngad
      @gsarngad Рік тому

      I feel like the brilliant pebbles were paired with something like brilliant eyes in a hunter killer pair so the eyes would find the ICBM and throw the pebbles at it. But all of that is my dim memory of 90s Discovery Channel content from before it was all about fishing and driving a truck or whatever they have on there now.

  • @nicholascurran1734
    @nicholascurran1734 Рік тому +7

    The picture of NACHOS must be very deceptive! I'm picturing his hand holding the jar of dip and I'm baffled. He must have tiny hands

    • @quercusmorgana
      @quercusmorgana Рік тому +1

      I had to rewind and look a couple times, that is not smaller than a 15oz jar! Also, the info I’m finding online is saying the NACHOS are more like 4kg, which, I know, weight vs mass vs volume, but it looks bigger and weighs more! Hank was right!

    • @nicholascurran1734
      @nicholascurran1734 Рік тому

      Hank was right by my findings also. From what I found: jar of queso ~609 cubic centimeters. Nachos-1 1,500 cubic centimeters. Volumetrically that makes the jar smaller.
      Specs
      Nachos-1 as a 1.5U (10x1x15cm)
      Jar at 8.38cm diameter by 11.05cm height
      Team big still won, and it's just a contest for fun, but when I saw that satellite I thought "that may be small, but no way is it smaller than the jar" unless of course those hands are teeny 😄

    • @nicholascurran1734
      @nicholascurran1734 Рік тому

      *Nachos 10x10x15cm

  • @choirmeyer
    @choirmeyer Рік тому +3

    Extra points to Sam on setting this up prior to going on vacation.

  • @jasonburguess
    @jasonburguess Рік тому +4

    It should be pointed out that ALL natural gas and ALL fossil fuels are moderately radioactive, yes all of them, and so are the pipelines that transport these fuels. The pipelines have to be welded and to check the integrity of the welds, gamma radiation is used to image the welds, this leaves the metal radioactive for hundreds of years. Look into it, I'd love to see a Tangents about this! Love you guys and thanks for making such a great program!

    • @mayaenglish5424
      @mayaenglish5424 Рік тому +2

      Interesting!
      Though I bet there's a big difference between the normal level of radiation found in natural gas vs the nuclear explosion remnants level of radiation lol.

  • @ponyote
    @ponyote Рік тому +2

    Candy coated mouse hearts. Thank you for that mental image, y'all. So much.

  • @elainebelzDetroit
    @elainebelzDetroit Рік тому +1

    "Mickle" is in a 15th-c. Christmas text (I don't know if it was a carol, a poem, or what) my choir sang in the setting composed by William Mathias, "Make Ye Merry for Him That Is Come." The phrase is, "little and mickle, all and some." Sadly, Google's not helping me find a recording of it right now to share; it's a nice dramatic piece.

  • @ponyote
    @ponyote Рік тому +4

    The next phase of Hank is a buff bearded dad. Either way, we're glad you're with us.

  • @tiffanykrieger5035
    @tiffanykrieger5035 Рік тому +4

    True story a lady named Barbie Oppenheimer tried to get a hotel room she wasn't taken seriously. She is the great granddaughter of the aforementioned person and did an interview because of this😊.

  • @Zeebez
    @Zeebez Рік тому

    Big is smaller than little😮 it’s the small things Hank! thanks y’all ❤

  • @Beanedict_C
    @Beanedict_C Рік тому +2

    Is it just me or does that satellite look waaay bigger than a 15 oz jar of queso blanco? Are the people in the picture just really tiny?

  • @toddverbeek5113
    @toddverbeek5113 Місяць тому

    "Smart rocks" was an existing idea for using guided projectiles to take out missiles thru nonexplosive impact. "Brilliant Pebbles" would take this to the next level: smarter and smaller, and more numerous.

  • @andii64
    @andii64 Рік тому

    Back in the early 2000's the University of Oregon students used to do something called The Beer Run. It took place at a track and every loop around the track you would drink a beer, while still running around the track. The person with the most loops wins!

  • @katelynnehansen8115
    @katelynnehansen8115 Рік тому +1

    Will you please do an episode on acids?! Specifically the different definitions (between ions and percent hydrogen) and how it ties into two of the four macromolecules of life. Namely nucleic and amino acids vs carbs and lipids. Are proteins scuffs because they are made of amino acids? Does hydrogen share electrons well and why?
    I love to learn audibly while I get other obligations done, because I rarely get long enough to read through an article. You all are the best!

    • @empichel5690
      @empichel5690 Рік тому +1

      Try crash course biology? (also a Hank production) That set of topics needs a lot of fact checking a script which I don't think this podcast is as equipped for

  • @ThatReplyGuy
    @ThatReplyGuy Рік тому

    As a short distance sprinter back in the day, I do wish there were more short distance running events for adults. I still really enjoy running, just as long as it's in 100 meter increments.

  • @mayaenglish5424
    @mayaenglish5424 Рік тому +1

    21:23 lol It's not the poor pilot's fault, dude's just doing his job, it's not his fault that his bosses are insane. (Especially considering all the times when service wasn't exactly voluntary).

  • @Bluesmudge
    @Bluesmudge Рік тому +1

    Tiny Tangents!!! I love my internet people.

  • @EffigyOfCorrectOpinions
    @EffigyOfCorrectOpinions Рік тому +4

    Oops! All science!

  • @OrigamiMarie
    @OrigamiMarie Рік тому +3

    "No no: violence!" says the one man on the podcast LOL

  • @aurorafauna4195
    @aurorafauna4195 Рік тому

    The real Shining Pebbles were the friendships they made along the way

  • @lynluu
    @lynluu Рік тому

    I guess the queso blanco answer was nacho best round this time around, Hank.XD

  • @Rubrickety
    @Rubrickety Рік тому

    In a nice coincidence, Be Smart just dropped a video involving finding the most average-sized thing in the universe.

  • @TerenceClark
    @TerenceClark Рік тому

    Ceri's story sounds a little like mine. My running buddy talked me into Marathon Maniacs, which is a challenge to run two marathons in 10 days. And those were the only two marathons I ever ran. I was similarly pretty shot after the second one, 7 days after the first

  • @422katieleigh
    @422katieleigh Місяць тому

    The One Where Hank is the Everyman

  • @jjd8616
    @jjd8616 Рік тому +1

    Deboki on camera! Hiya!

  • @rianantony
    @rianantony Рік тому

    Depending on how conscience works the dish brain is an experience machine

  • @robnol84
    @robnol84 Рік тому

    17:11 omg what the actual eff

  • @acox132
    @acox132 Рік тому

    43:23: Vampirococcus lugosii

  • @Bortnm
    @Bortnm Рік тому

    NACHOS is a 1.5U Cubesat so it should have 1.5 - 1.75 Liter volume - way bigger than a 15oz Jar of Queso Blanco.

  • @sativaburns6705
    @sativaburns6705 Рік тому

    Project Rulison is one if my favorite bits of Colorado nuclear history. Then there's rocky flats...

  • @NutK453
    @NutK453 Рік тому +3

    Has there been a study about timber and where in our DNA sequence it's located and how the sound of your voice is determined in general?

  • @markedis5902
    @markedis5902 Рік тому +1

    Project Brilliant Pebbles now renamed Starlink. Don’t tell anyone though

  • @RamonQuiro7
    @RamonQuiro7 Рік тому

    24:00

  • @georgeb.wolffsohn30
    @georgeb.wolffsohn30 Рік тому

    I'm a preschool teacher and my toddlers already get the big vs small paradigm. Why make stuff difficult.

  • @IceMetalPunk
    @IceMetalPunk Рік тому

    I wonder if Vonnegut's brother's work with cloud seeding inspired Ice Nine?

  • @jaqihegland6232
    @jaqihegland6232 Рік тому

    Is it bigger than a breadbox?

  • @nordicmind82
    @nordicmind82 Місяць тому

    I used to have an almost pathological level of self control, mind over body, and did lots of challenges. Most extreme one is claimed to be supposed to be deadly, but as with LD50 being non-lethal for Half of everyone not all deadly things kill all.
    For an art movie I dropped from 60kg/132lbs for 49kg/108lbs in 7 days, at 183cm/6feet. by not consuming anything *at all.* No food, but more to the point: Not a drop of water. For 7 straight 24h periods.
    Yes, if you work hard in Texas summer that will likely just shut down your heart, but chilling in School in Swedish mild spring weather did extend the supposed 3 day limit quite a bit. I was well monitored and as soon as the pictures were taken and the scenes were filmed I was given fluids and easy for the gut food. My kidneys, liver, and heart all seemed to make it through without permanent harm. You don't need to carry around giant water containers everywhere like your desert trecking, but do try to hydrate daily. Take care of yourself, you might not have my body. (Yes, the pictures / vid looked absolutely bonkers alien Auschwitz and I gained the weight right after as it was mostly water loss.)
    It took 7 years to be able to feel hunger at all again. That was the only long term thing with that really.

  • @OneBentMonkey
    @OneBentMonkey Рік тому

    Didn’t they also drop dry ice pellets by plane to (successfully) clear the fog around English air fields during WWII?

  • @lisanorwoodtreefarm
    @lisanorwoodtreefarm Рік тому

    a giant book and a tiny car would be about the same size as each other......
    that was absolutely a vhs that Sam recorded years ago, with full knowledge of who would be on the show, and totally not something he filmed the week before his vacation. ^_~ ^_~
    what do "Germanic flavored languages" taste like?

  • @KOZMOuvBORG
    @KOZMOuvBORG Рік тому

    15:51 the Soviets successfully shot an underground nuke to stop a runaway gas well. 17:24 more like irradiate the Economy.

  • @shadebug
    @shadebug Рік тому

    See, that’s your difference between a nutritionist and a dietician.
    You: What should I eat?
    Nutritionist: here’s a meal plan with all your macros and micros balanced according to your lifestyle and incorporating a bunch of super fruits.
    Dietitian: food. With calories

  • @Marika50
    @Marika50 Рік тому

    I have migrains and pinic dissored. Migrain will cause a panic attack and I have symptoms of Alice in Wonderland syndrom. So I literally have to put myself in dark room.

  • @dummyinblue
    @dummyinblue Рік тому

    But wait, what did they learn from dish brain? are all mini brains made with mouse or was this one special and that's why the results are haunting? if you got a mouse hybrid mini brain applied to your brain as a medical treatment like a skin graft, would you know whatever the mini brain learned?
    and how did they learn anything from the praying mantis' response to the whole situation? how were they monitoring the eyes and the response and how the mantis interprets the info????

  • @livvielov
    @livvielov Рік тому

    You guys are so cute, every time I listen I'm like TeeHee

  • @susannahallanic1167
    @susannahallanic1167 Рік тому +2

    What about a hornet? Today is the second day that held a hornet in my hand without a problem, How so? Because I saw another hornet drowning in the bird bath... But? I have no fear of hornets because I grew up in Texas where the hornets are much larger than in France. What I discovered as a young child, is that all things that look alike and not alike. So having a hornet resting on my shoulder when I was preschool, was not like having a yellowjacket wasp discover me. The hornet rested, tested my skin, and then after a space of time, it went off to do its own thing. While the yellowjacket wasp determined I was too close to its friends and called all of them to come, attack, and put me in a police car, then hospital for two days. (in the 1950's). In my opinion, hornets are more like bumblebees an wasps are more like honey bees but on steriods. So picking up a drowning hornet in a bird bath is interacting with a division of species that is more observant and less aggressive. Perhaps an interesting topic for a future tangents?

  • @muhmuhmonahan4919
    @muhmuhmonahan4919 Рік тому +2

    Oh no, Hank! You should have started out with yoga or beginners pilates or something first.

  • @DCII
    @DCII Рік тому

    Apropos to nothing at hand, I wonder how many languages don't have an etymology. As in, "Here, it comes from here and has always been."

    • @Diabloto96
      @Diabloto96 Рік тому

      All language has been invented so....

    • @DCII
      @DCII Рік тому

      @@Diabloto96 I suppose I should have said "known" etymology.

  • @markedis5902
    @markedis5902 Рік тому

    Bring Back Mickle !! Re-Introduce Old English words into contemporary culture NOW !!!

    • @katenewland9038
      @katenewland9038 Рік тому

      Michaelmas is still a thing in the UK. It's said "Micklemas"

  • @Trethan3266
    @Trethan3266 Рік тому +1

    Ah, 13 minutes late!

  • @anon69_q
    @anon69_q Рік тому

    Second

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    @anon69_q Рік тому

    First

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    @anon69_q Рік тому

    Third