Biggest one you missed is Fry's freeze time being 1000 years, but coming out around 8 hours till New Years Eve, accounting for loss of time with slowing spin of Earth and gravitational distortions.
Okay, i understand about the Earths atmosphere still being in motion. Makes total sense, like being in any vehicle in motion means YOU are also in motion. What about the different layers of the planet? i.e. crust, upper and lower mantles ect. ect. Would it depend on the cause of the sudden halt to the planets spin? Like, if the core just stopped vs. some outside force stopping it, like how a person can stop a basketball from spinning with their hand.
To my mind the best physics joke in Futurama is this one: "That's over a hundred and fifty atmospheres of pressure!" "How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?" "Well, it's a spaceship. So I'd say anywhere between zero and one."
It just works on so many levels. First time I heard it I thought it was just a stupid comment made in anger over losing and it's still really funny like that. Then you have the clever physics joke of it all. But I think that it also pokes fun at the typical science-babble of sci-fi with the whole quantum finish part. 10/10 joke
Idk if you knew this, but the clip at 11:00 is actually a meme edit. The original "smallest particle" was just a black pixel since they're in a pixelated game universe
@@TheSaintBigFoot 90's was weird man, it's a time when some school kids got on a magic bus with their teacher Ms. Frizzle who had a lizard, who went into her student's bodies and took them underwater to be milted on.
I used to watch this series throughout my teenage years, now as an adult I like to imagine that by the time the year 3000 comes around I'd find out that finally a cure for paraphilia exists. Paraphilia is neurological and inborn so I'd imagine they'll figure out how to rearrange the neurological wiring of the brain to cure paraphilia, brain surgery exactly pretty much, scientists have found out by removing brain tumors that paraphilia is indeed neurological, take out a particular section of the brain where the erotic instincts are cross wired then take that section out then the paraphilia gets cured in a sense with current technologies.
A police officer pulls Heisenberg over for speeding. "Do you know how fast you were going, sir?" "No, but I know exactly where I am" "You were doing over 150" "Great, thanks a lot, now I'm lost"
You know why Heisenberg's wife was unsatisfied? When he had the time, he didn't have the energy, and when he had the position he couldn't get the momentum.
“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.” ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
Would have been the perfect opportunity to explain Poincaré Recurrence time !... The theoretical length of time it would take, if every thing THAT COULD happen WOULD eventually happen if given enough time, for the exact conditions that created and occurred in our universe and our history would happen again just the same way, about 10¹²⁰ BILLION years.
Well, he did try to kill Hitler and ended killing someone else instead. So in theory that should have messed up the timeline/universe. Thus making it lower or higher.
@@bzbee5139 not sure what killing hitler or missing and hitting someone else would have to do with the position of the planet... and planet express is on the water front soooo definitely not the reason.
@@liamnehren1054 Probably changed humanity's history and it probably resulted in humanity inventing something, that would move the universe 3.048 meters lower.
No shit. Futurama is, in my humble opinion, the best western cartoon ever produced. Rick and morty is just fap material for angsty nihilistic/existentialist elitists.
@@Chris-et2fm Well yeah, but that's the problem.. it doesn't try to be anything but 'entertaining'. Any supposedly 'deep' insights it conveys are existentialist/nihilistic insights which frankly are very immature and anti-productive. A better use of your time would be to read the Bible (no joke).
Futurama is like, 10 times better than Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty's writers are angry drunk geniuses. Futurama's writers are angry _nerd_ geniuses.
@@Tanrer I know, right? I love that they drink, though. I mean, I drink. Bob's Burgers specializes in....burger joints. Ren & Stimpy was in madness. Bojack Horseman in psychology and pop culture. Adventure Time in.....who the hell knows? ( haha )
It maybe because you're a physicist, but in the episode "The Prisoner of Benda" executive producer Ken Keeler created a math theorem for a problem where two people switch minds, those two can't switch back directly
@@Itwasalwaysme_Noone Cool, they found a mathematical theorem for a very old concept. It's a problem easily solved by a bit of logical thinking or a bit of mental trial and error. Similar problems were given to me and my classmates when we were eleven years old. Of course we weren't asked to create theorems or proofs.
@@sybariticcupboardrat3763 I mean you know something is a triangle by looking at it, but to mathematically prove it is a different beast entirely. Easily solved by logical thinking, but the idea of a theorem and mathematical proof allows for the problem to be solved without it, so a simple computer could do it without you having to teach it anything. Is it a brand new concept? No. But it is still impressive that they solved it using mathematics rather than trial and error, it makes things easier in the long run than just brute forcing the issue
@@sybariticcupboardrat3763Except the stargate scenario was a simpler version of everything the theorem proved, as it didn’t introduce any number of people into the mix, didn’t come up with a method that would work in every scenario, and did it with the assumption of knowing the current swaps that had taken place.
The Schrodinger bit is still the funniest thing I have ever seen and makes me laugh out loud even though I have seen it dozens of times. "There's a lot of drugs in here." just seals it perfectly. Nerd comedy perfection.
@@Krystalmyth It actually doesn't fundamentally imply that he couldn't be right. He would be immune to the scrutiny of his assertion, but his assertion itself isn't immune to scrutiny. Scrutinizing the assertion of someone who's mind can't be changed could show that they are indeed correct. A person's unwillingness to change their mind is separate from the correctness or incorrectness of the assertions that they make...
God this was so good, I love the Futurama content for sure. I wish you had extended cuts where you did just go on tangents for 20 minutes with a topic and get back to the video lol
Every time, The Late Philip J. Fry gives me chills: speculations about the end of our solar system and the universe make me feel both relieved and sorry I'm not going to be there to witness it
Would have been the perfect opportunity to explain Poincaré Recurrence time !... The theoretical length of time it would take, if every thing THAT COULD happen WOULD eventually happen if given enough time, for the exact conditions that created and occurred in our universe and our history would happen again just the same way, about 10¹²⁰ BILLION years.
There is a game called "The Outer Wilds" that has a quantum moon and quantum objects in puzzles. The moon was such a mystery to me since before I knew it's name. I always thought I saw it, but then, I didn't. Thought I was seeing things for the longest time. The solution was to take and save a picture of it as I approached and landed on it, stopping it from vanishing by proving it's existence. It's such a bizarre concept that's still beyond my understanding.
That's mad, the idea of him playing Outer Wilds popped into my head and then I read your comment. That game was such an experience! The quantum stuff is great.
The Pixelated scene was actually interesting for the show. That episode was made in three parts, Disney-style black and white cartoon, Pixelated-based video graphics and early anime style stereotypes. The point of each section of the episode was that they pointed out something that couldn't be properly seen within the style of that part of the episode. A new colour of the rainbow (black and white cartoon), a very detail piece of physics represented by a pixel (Pixelated graphics) and a very intricate dance sequence (anime). It's one of the best episodes of Futurama and so well written.
The James Webb Telescope didn’t replace the Hubble Telescope, it merely succeeded it. Webb is an infrared telescope. Hubble takes photos in visible wavelengths and UV, but not IR. Webb replaced Spitzer, which was also an IR telescope. By the way, the only one of the four Great Observatories to not receive a dedicated replacement thus far is the Chandra X-Ray Telescope, which might be shut down in 2025 due to budget cuts.
If you even get your hands on the Futurama DVD Seasons I recommend listening to the commentaries. Not only are they an absolute fun time to listen to but on certain episodes the writers will actually explain some of the writing process for some of the scenes like these.
Don't bother arguing with creationists, the sheer level of intellectual dishonesty I've encountered doesn't happen by accident. You can't have a meaningful debate with someone who is making bad faith arguments.
Big Brain Part of Comment: This was a terrific educational video, glad to be learning more about physics. Small Brain Part of Comment: Is Clark Kent teaching physics now?
3:19: Proton decay and Hawking radiation are actually theories that has never been observed. We don't know whether protons and black holes will eventually decay into radiation or last forever.
In the "evolution" episode, those microscopic robots evolving into greater structures were in fact proposed by, iirc, John von Neumann, a reference most people tend to not notice.
Futurama is awesome! I love how they incorporated so many little science jokes. On a different note, I think someone else already mentioned this, but the audio on this video is kind of low. Somewhat hard to hear, even with my volume maxed out. Just something you may want to check on!
to add on to “The End of The Universe” bit, it’s actually the very fabrics of space time on the smallest possible scales, that is being increased in size. think of it as an ever expanding grid made up of infinite grids. The scale of the universe would go up by insane speeds, because of the inflation of dark energy, PLUS the speed of light continuously pulling on it
Yeah that segment would have been the perfect time to explain Poincaré Recurrence time !... The theoretical length of time it would take, if every thing THAT COULD happen WOULD happen if given enough time, for the exact conditions that created and occurred in our universe and our history would happen again just the same way, about 10¹²⁰ BILLION years.
“Space/time can do whatever the hell it wants.” That’s the principle the Alcubierre drive is based around. Nothing made of matter can move at or faster then light speed. But space itself can. So if a ship were to be wrapped in a bubble of space, then that bubble could theoretically be moved as fast as we wanted it to, while the ship remained static compared to the space inside the bubble. It’s all theory, of course, and we aren’t even close to being able to generate such a bubble (much less move it), but it doesn’t directly violate anything we know about physics
It's all theory yet it's the only known way we'd realistically be able to traverse the far reaches of space in a single life time. The sci-fi nerd in me wants to believe we can make it happen but we can't even come together to tackle man-made climate change.
Also, the frog on a unicycle at 11:10 is NOT the original. The original is just a single square pixel (fitting the style of the arcade inspired episode).
How about some reactions to Stargate? That is a very expansive series but there are some really interesting ones in there. Off the top of my head... A Matter of Time from SG1 should prove to be fun.
Talking about the expansion of space-time, there's a scene where prof. Farnsworth explains that his ship's faster-than-light travel is achieved by moving the universe around the ship. It can be interpreted as pushing and pulling space-time around it at FTL speeds.
Just a heads up, we LOVE when you take time to do explanations about physics. Especially with a show like Futurama where there's so much to talk about. Despite what you may think, we don't have better things to do with our lives besides watch good UA-camrs on our phones. Take the time you need to talk about things you want. The world needs it. It helps us appreciate physics more and helps us appreciate these shows' little subtleties that much more, as well.
Speaking of Schrödinger's cat, I came up with a Pokémon based on it called Schrödera (the Superposition Pokémon). Outside of battle, it exists as a Typeless, Ability-less superposition of all 19 of its Formes (one Forme for each official Type and one for a rebalanced version of the Nuclear Type). Once it enters battle, however, its superposition collapses, and it changes to a random Forme, taking on that Forme's Type and Ability. Basically, it's randomized with each battle.
As someone who considers themselves a Fry, this was absolutely fascinating. I didn't understand much, but what I did understand was "pretty much our society today" and "I dont want to live on this planet anymore" "mood"
It should be known that the writers and creators of Futurama are big nerds, heck if I recall they came up with a new mathematical equation for the body switching episode.
I love this show. I work in a sciencey field, but I'm the only Futurama watcher. Every so often I let out a line from the show related to what we're doing and usually just get a blank look.
Something I *think* I heard at some point in highschool "By the laws of probability, everything is everywhere, and nothing is nowhere, until we find it, it is both infinite and finite"
Ngl, the millisecond I saw the thumbnail, I thought "This dude just looks like a physicist" Mans looks exactly how pictures of old scientists look, Erwin Schrödinger, Philo Farnsworth, even young J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Surprisingly many of the writers and people involved with making Futurama were mathematicians and physicists; I remember one anecdote where a grade school class wrote in and complained that in the second episode, they were on the moon running from the Earth’s shadow to prevent instantly freezing and how unrealistic it was, and they got a letter back from one of the writers / astrophysicist that explained how the rate of motion and temperature differentials were actually scientifically accurate. The shows filled with inside jokes that only STEM people would ever get or possibly even find funny and I love them for that.
I don't know if you have anything planned for October but I think the series FRINGE would be a good candidate for something on the scarier side. Most of it is Pseudo Science, but I'd like to hear your thoughts and see if anything from that series is at least somewhat grounded in actual science.
The video was really quiet. I had to put it to full volume, so every time there was an ad it was way too loud. Apart from that: Nice video! I didn't know Futurama is so educational! I only watch Disenchantment, which is made by the same people, but very different. Maybe you could watch one of the episodes from Disenchantment where Bean is in Steamland (one episode in season 2 and two or three in season 3). You could talk about what inventions would be possible.
You should watch that entire episode about end of the universe. The entire thing is great. I'd recommend this whole series actually. Probably the smartest and dumbest television that's been made and its all hilarious and at times quite heartwarming.
you know what the main problem is with the time machine, Prof. Farnsworth used the Engine Order telegraph for the Turbine from one of the Olympic -class vessels
Impressive how futurama nailed a lot of things. The moment when he insulted the creationists. You understand his frustration but also that this wouldn't help. It's a great side note, I think. You might think that those protesters are stupid. Well that true for some of them, but some of them were fed lies and never had any proper education. There only interaction with the other side is people calling them stupid. Dont get me wrong here there are people who are very willingly stupid, spreading lies on purposes - this people are pretty much beyond help. But it points out that in some cases we need better communication.
Biggest one he missed is Fry's freeze time being 1000 years, but coming out around 8 hours till New Years Eve, accounting for loss of time with slowing spin of Earth and gravitational distortions.
I love this. Such a great show and a great commentary on its content. Please check the volume of the video. I had a hard time hearing it at my normal level.
I wonder if this "heat death of the universe" theory was actually correct and we are just repeating our lives over and over, that actually explains the whole idea of noticing synchronicity, predestination, or predeterminism, etc.
As a physicist, there are many easter eggs hidden in Futurama that you'll appreciate more than the average person. Good choice! Your audio is a bit quiet in this one, not sure if that's just me.
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Biggest one you missed is Fry's freeze time being 1000 years, but coming out around 8 hours till New Years Eve, accounting for loss of time with slowing spin of Earth and gravitational distortions.
That James Webb telescope has returned some pretty dope images.
You have to see the entire show, you'll love it
Okay, i understand about the Earths atmosphere still being in motion. Makes total sense, like being in any vehicle in motion means YOU are also in motion. What about the different layers of the planet? i.e. crust, upper and lower mantles ect. ect. Would it depend on the cause of the sudden halt to the planets spin? Like, if the core just stopped vs. some outside force stopping it, like how a person can stop a basketball from spinning with their hand.
To my mind the best physics joke in Futurama is this one:
"That's over a hundred and fifty atmospheres of pressure!"
"How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?"
"Well, it's a spaceship. So I'd say anywhere between zero and one."
That’s why i clicked on this video
I always liked that one too.
And then Fry flushes the toilet and everything gets fine 😅🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dude just READING this joke ive heard a hundred times and i laughed aloud anyway
@@xaikken If you can still lol at a joke you've heard a 100 times, that's one way you know it's funny.
"No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"
Still kills me.
One of the best.
One of the best.
i think its my favorite joke in any animated series
It just works on so many levels.
First time I heard it I thought it was just a stupid comment made in anger over losing and it's still really funny like that.
Then you have the clever physics joke of it all. But I think that it also pokes fun at the typical science-babble of sci-fi with the whole quantum finish part. 10/10 joke
My science teacher showed us that clip when we were learning about quantum physics. Really helped us grasp the concept.
Idk if you knew this, but the clip at 11:00 is actually a meme edit. The original "smallest particle" was just a black pixel since they're in a pixelated game universe
Oh, I had no idea! I like the meme version better but that's also pretty flipping great.
it was a take on the higgs boson
@@juanaraujo6467 you're getting into big smart person words so I'll take your word for it haha
@@juanaraujo6467 good thing it's a joke even simpletons can find value in haha
Ha, I was going to comment the same thing.
I told ya Futurama was the way to go 🥂 Most educated writers for a cartoon in history by far.
Have you seen magic school bus tho?
Also SO UNDERRATED! Story arc is just beautiful...
It seems like they took the science over to The Expanse.
@@TheSaintBigFoot 90's was weird man, it's a time when some school kids got on a magic bus with their teacher Ms. Frizzle who had a lizard, who went into her student's bodies and took them underwater to be milted on.
I used to watch this series throughout my teenage years, now as an adult I like to imagine that by the time the year 3000 comes around I'd find out that finally a cure for paraphilia exists.
Paraphilia is neurological and inborn so I'd imagine they'll figure out how to rearrange the neurological wiring of the brain to cure paraphilia, brain surgery exactly pretty much, scientists have found out by removing brain tumors that paraphilia is indeed neurological, take out a particular section of the brain where the erotic instincts are cross wired then take that section out then the paraphilia gets cured in a sense with current technologies.
A police officer pulls Heisenberg over for speeding.
"Do you know how fast you were going, sir?"
"No, but I know exactly where I am"
"You were doing over 150"
"Great, thanks a lot, now I'm lost"
You know why Heisenberg's wife was unsatisfied? When he had the time, he didn't have the energy, and when he had the position he couldn't get the momentum.
“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
"This universe is exactly like our old universe, only 10 feet lower"
How perfect is that?
Would have been the perfect opportunity to explain Poincaré Recurrence time !... The theoretical length of time it would take, if every thing THAT COULD happen WOULD eventually happen if given enough time, for the exact conditions that created and occurred in our universe and our history would happen again just the same way, about 10¹²⁰ BILLION years.
Well, he did try to kill Hitler and ended killing someone else instead. So in theory that should have messed up the timeline/universe. Thus making it lower or higher.
@@bzbee5139 not sure what killing hitler or missing and hitting someone else would have to do with the position of the planet... and planet express is on the water front soooo definitely not the reason.
Just like our universe, albeit 3 meters lower!
@@liamnehren1054 Probably changed humanity's history and it probably resulted in humanity inventing something, that would move the universe 3.048 meters lower.
futurama is more scientifically accurate than rick and morty
It definitely is. Futurama is one the best sci-fi series ever and one of the funniest sitcoms at the same time.
Rick & Morty is the least scientific sci-fi show there is
No shit. Futurama is, in my humble opinion, the best western cartoon ever produced.
Rick and morty is just fap material for angsty nihilistic/existentialist elitists.
Agreed, though Rick and Morty doesn't even try to be accurate
@@Chris-et2fm Well yeah, but that's the problem.. it doesn't try to be anything but 'entertaining'. Any supposedly 'deep' insights it conveys are existentialist/nihilistic insights which frankly are very immature and anti-productive. A better use of your time would be to read the Bible (no joke).
Futurama is like, 10 times better than Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty's writers are angry drunk geniuses. Futurama's writers are angry _nerd_ geniuses.
I love both but this is the best description I’ve ever heard 😂
@@Tanrer I know, right? I love that they drink, though. I mean, I drink. Bob's Burgers specializes in....burger joints. Ren & Stimpy was in madness. Bojack Horseman in psychology and pop culture. Adventure Time in.....who the hell knows? ( haha )
Agreed
Funny, because I remember Rick and Morty being described as "Futurama with It's Always Sunny writers".
Angry?
"in the year 1 million and a half, mankind will be enslaved by giraffes" one of the best episodes ever
Wow who’d would of thought Channing Tatums variant would become a physicist.
Lol I thought it was Channing Tatum for a split second
thats exactly what i was thinking
I thought he looked like reece shearsmith
Came here to see if anyone else saw it lmao
Who's not to say it is the other way around and say Channing Tatum is the variant.
It maybe because you're a physicist, but in the episode "The Prisoner of Benda" executive producer Ken Keeler created a math theorem for a problem where two people switch minds, those two can't switch back directly
This concept was done in Stargate SG-1 like ten years before Futurama did it.
@@sybariticcupboardrat3763 The writers of Futurama created the Theorem, mathematically proved it and published their scientific study.
@@Itwasalwaysme_Noone Cool, they found a mathematical theorem for a very old concept. It's a problem easily solved by a bit of logical thinking or a bit of mental trial and error. Similar problems were given to me and my classmates when we were eleven years old. Of course we weren't asked to create theorems or proofs.
@@sybariticcupboardrat3763 I mean you know something is a triangle by looking at it, but to mathematically prove it is a different beast entirely. Easily solved by logical thinking, but the idea of a theorem and mathematical proof allows for the problem to be solved without it, so a simple computer could do it without you having to teach it anything. Is it a brand new concept? No. But it is still impressive that they solved it using mathematics rather than trial and error, it makes things easier in the long run than just brute forcing the issue
@@sybariticcupboardrat3763Except the stargate scenario was a simpler version of everything the theorem proved, as it didn’t introduce any number of people into the mix, didn’t come up with a method that would work in every scenario, and did it with the assumption of knowing the current swaps that had taken place.
The Schrodinger bit is still the funniest thing I have ever seen and makes me laugh out loud even though I have seen it dozens of times. "There's a lot of drugs in here." just seals it perfectly. Nerd comedy perfection.
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Heh. I think "space-time itself can do whatever the hell it wants" is the best summation of physics I've ever heard.
If Earth stops rotating, there's not going to be anyone left to worry about radiation:)
This is true
Indeed
the returning astronauts. can they get back without help from ground control?
@@JimboDoomface ^^^^^ thats a good question
We're all gonna go splat up against something real quick!
Futurama is the greatest show, animated or otherwise, that has ever existed.
- you can't change my mind
OK.
Doesn't make you right. :p Fundamentally, it implies that you couldn't possibly be, because it is immune to scrutiny.
@@Krystalmyth It actually doesn't fundamentally imply that he couldn't be right. He would be immune to the scrutiny of his assertion, but his assertion itself isn't immune to scrutiny. Scrutinizing the assertion of someone who's mind can't be changed could show that they are indeed correct. A person's unwillingness to change their mind is separate from the correctness or incorrectness of the assertions that they make...
I would agree with you completely if not for Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Futurama is the greatest COMEDY show that has ever existed.
I don't want to
God this was so good, I love the Futurama content for sure. I wish you had extended cuts where you did just go on tangents for 20 minutes with a topic and get back to the video lol
You're too kind. I usually edit out about 30 minutes of waffling bs every video unfortunately - thou shalt not disobey the mighty AI.
@@DylanJDance start a patreon or something with extended edits.
It killed me when he said "i know you wanna just see me watch more" no, i clicked on "physicist reacts to" explicitly for the continued breakdown
Every time, The Late Philip J. Fry gives me chills: speculations about the end of our solar system and the universe make me feel both relieved and sorry I'm not going to be there to witness it
Ah, its just going to be a gnab gib
Would have been the perfect opportunity to explain Poincaré Recurrence time !... The theoretical length of time it would take, if every thing THAT COULD happen WOULD eventually happen if given enough time, for the exact conditions that created and occurred in our universe and our history would happen again just the same way, about 10¹²⁰ BILLION years.
That episode helped me develop a theory.
There is a game called "The Outer Wilds" that has a quantum moon and quantum objects in puzzles. The moon was such a mystery to me since before I knew it's name. I always thought I saw it, but then, I didn't. Thought I was seeing things for the longest time. The solution was to take and save a picture of it as I approached and landed on it, stopping it from vanishing by proving it's existence. It's such a bizarre concept that's still beyond my understanding.
That game is fantastic!
@@faded1to3black Hell yeah it is.
That's mad, the idea of him playing Outer Wilds popped into my head and then I read your comment. That game was such an experience! The quantum stuff is great.
this game is awesome. 10/10 would experience existential crisis again
I'm a 21 year old Civil Engineer in Scotland and I love your video. I hope a lot more people will find science interesting and fun like it is
Honestly, I feel like there's enough content in Futurama to make a part 2 to this video.
Gotta get the globetrotters in there doing math
I learned more in these videos than in my online classes 😅😅
Clearly you should just skip classes and come back here once a week ;)
The Pixelated scene was actually interesting for the show. That episode was made in three parts, Disney-style black and white cartoon, Pixelated-based video graphics and early anime style stereotypes. The point of each section of the episode was that they pointed out something that couldn't be properly seen within the style of that part of the episode. A new colour of the rainbow (black and white cartoon), a very detail piece of physics represented by a pixel (Pixelated graphics) and a very intricate dance sequence (anime). It's one of the best episodes of Futurama and so well written.
The James Webb Telescope didn’t replace the Hubble Telescope, it merely succeeded it. Webb is an infrared telescope. Hubble takes photos in visible wavelengths and UV, but not IR. Webb replaced Spitzer, which was also an IR telescope.
By the way, the only one of the four Great Observatories to not receive a dedicated replacement thus far is the Chandra X-Ray Telescope, which might be shut down in 2025 due to budget cuts.
Idk about others but i like when you stop to explain. Just watching the shows isn't anything new. Keep talking!
Cheers Lanzio! It's a struggle to keep everyone happy so I apologise in advance for further experimentation
Hands-down my absolute favourite show.. so glad you did an episode on it! Good on you, mate
The only show I liked better was Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
If you even get your hands on the Futurama DVD Seasons I recommend listening to the commentaries. Not only are they an absolute fun time to listen to but on certain episodes the writers will actually explain some of the writing process for some of the scenes like these.
The BEST DVD commentaries ! The only ones close are Red Dwarf's commentaries.
That evolution one slaps. And I have had the same argument like dozens of times.
Don't bother arguing with creationists, the sheer level of intellectual dishonesty I've encountered doesn't happen by accident. You can't have a meaningful debate with someone who is making bad faith arguments.
When he isn't studying physics he is avoiding kryptonite.
You may want to take a look at The Expanse. There's some great physics in that show.
The best show on TV in my opinion. It really conveys the vastness of space in a realistic way.
Big Brain Part of Comment: This was a terrific educational video, glad to be learning more about physics.
Small Brain Part of Comment: Is Clark Kent teaching physics now?
Anthropologist here and let me tell you, that whole evolution of humanity... I've had that same argument, many a time.
The funniest comment i saw was when he said the shape of the earth was a theory, when they are in space and can see the shape clearly
Yay, was hoping you'd do Futurama! The show's writers clearly did their research.
wouldnt really say research, but knowing it...
Literally, there is a published paper for the episode about how many spare bodies you need to solve the mind swap problem.
Actually I’m pretty sure the writers have a bunch of PHD in a variety of STEM fields
@@InfamousLuigi they do
show writers have like a collective 100 years at harvard or some shit
That was the best solution to the time travel paradox I’ve seen so far.
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“That’s pretty much our society today.”
That made me laugh way too hard
3:19: Proton decay and Hawking radiation are actually theories that has never been observed. We don't know whether protons and black holes will eventually decay into radiation or last forever.
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In the "evolution" episode, those microscopic robots evolving into greater structures were in fact proposed by, iirc, John von Neumann, a reference most people tend to not notice.
Futurama is awesome! I love how they incorporated so many little science jokes.
On a different note, I think someone else already mentioned this, but the audio on this video is kind of low. Somewhat hard to hear, even with my volume maxed out. Just something you may want to check on!
to add on to “The End of The Universe” bit, it’s actually the very fabrics of space time on the smallest possible scales, that is being increased in size. think of it as an ever expanding grid made up of infinite grids. The scale of the universe would go up by insane speeds, because of the inflation of dark energy, PLUS the speed of light continuously pulling on it
Yeah that segment would have been the perfect time to explain Poincaré Recurrence time !... The theoretical length of time it would take, if every thing THAT COULD happen WOULD happen if given enough time, for the exact conditions that created and occurred in our universe and our history would happen again just the same way, about 10¹²⁰ BILLION years.
That evolution bit was amazing.
Bro it'd be cool if you could react to the time Philip became his own grandpa through time shenanigans.
Roswell That Ends Well
“Space/time can do whatever the hell it wants.”
That’s the principle the Alcubierre drive is based around. Nothing made of matter can move at or faster then light speed. But space itself can. So if a ship were to be wrapped in a bubble of space, then that bubble could theoretically be moved as fast as we wanted it to, while the ship remained static compared to the space inside the bubble. It’s all theory, of course, and we aren’t even close to being able to generate such a bubble (much less move it), but it doesn’t directly violate anything we know about physics
It's all theory yet it's the only known way we'd realistically be able to traverse the far reaches of space in a single life time. The sci-fi nerd in me wants to believe we can make it happen but we can't even come together to tackle man-made climate change.
You should more of futurama ! 💯
Also, the frog on a unicycle at 11:10 is NOT the original. The original is just a single square pixel (fitting the style of the arcade inspired episode).
Yeah that's unfortunate, he pulled up a meme.
How about some reactions to Stargate? That is a very expansive series but there are some really interesting ones in there. Off the top of my head... A Matter of Time from SG1 should prove to be fun.
Hallowed are the Ori
I’ve been telling him to watch the Futurama “The late Philip J Fry” time traveling to the end of the universe but he wouldn’t listen 😭
You know me well young Padawan, it didn't let me down!
Talking about the expansion of space-time, there's a scene where prof. Farnsworth explains that his ship's faster-than-light travel is achieved by moving the universe around the ship. It can be interpreted as pushing and pulling space-time around it at FTL speeds.
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Just a heads up, we LOVE when you take time to do explanations about physics. Especially with a show like Futurama where there's so much to talk about. Despite what you may think, we don't have better things to do with our lives besides watch good UA-camrs on our phones. Take the time you need to talk about things you want. The world needs it. It helps us appreciate physics more and helps us appreciate these shows' little subtleties that much more, as well.
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12:09 it was at that moment I realized this was zeno's paradox
This wasnt recommended to me, I searched for a video like this and loved every minute of it! Thanks for making it.
The way the real world works is amazing. Science enables us to see the world as is, not as we want.
Speaking of Schrödinger's cat, I came up with a Pokémon based on it called Schrödera (the Superposition Pokémon). Outside of battle, it exists as a Typeless, Ability-less superposition of all 19 of its Formes (one Forme for each official Type and one for a rebalanced version of the Nuclear Type).
Once it enters battle, however, its superposition collapses, and it changes to a random Forme, taking on that Forme's Type and Ability.
Basically, it's randomized with each battle.
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13:22 yep it was launched a couple months ago or so, I love astronomy.
Dude what kind of physicist are you? A Handsomamatician? holy crap that jawline could take out Thanos.
As someone who considers themselves a Fry, this was absolutely fascinating. I didn't understand much, but what I did understand was "pretty much our society today" and "I dont want to live on this planet anymore" "mood"
I'm fairly sure this guy is Superman. Has anyone seen them in a room, together?
It should be known that the writers and creators of Futurama are big nerds, heck if I recall they came up with a new mathematical equation for the body switching episode.
you missed "The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it." :(
This has always always been my favourite quote on Futurama!
It had an excellent animation sequence that accompanied this revelation, also.
Funniest one is the missing link joke, it's legit how people try to argue that evolution doesnt exist
A plasma sphere seems like it would be a good representation of an atoms electron cloud.
Being a HUGE fan of Futurama, I enjoyed this video !
Never realised how intelligent Futurama really was. Very Cool!
This is great. I want more physicists to watch Futurama scenes 😂
I love this show. I work in a sciencey field, but I'm the only Futurama watcher. Every so often I let out a line from the show related to what we're doing and usually just get a blank look.
Next time they give you the blank look just say.
I'm going to make my own science company with blackjack and h*okers!
Cosmic inflation before the big bang? You sure about that? Last I checked it occurred between 10^-36 and 10^-32 seconds after the big bang.
gettin sponsorships hell yeah
I'm more on the Hell no end.
God, Futurama is so good!
Also great video and inside, thank you.
“I call it a Hawking hole.”
I don’t know how I barely found these videos I’ve been waiting for someone to do videos like these forever
So am I blind or is the Einstein ring image not in the corner? Btw loving the videos. Keep up the good work.
It's not. I think he forgot it. I googled it though and it looks beautiful.
is anyone not gonna ignore the fact that this man looks exactly like chaning Tatum
11:57-12:44
Every evolution debate in a nutshell.
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Something I *think* I heard at some point in highschool "By the laws of probability, everything is everywhere, and nothing is nowhere, until we find it, it is both infinite and finite"
Something really beautiful about that end of the universe 1 though
I love how he laughs in lowercase lol.
His shadow sometimes looks like Johnny Bravo!!
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I love Futurama; and your well mannered and knowledgable.
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Thanks
Damn, in Australia, even the physicists look like super models.
"Good day smart people"
me - "oh, I'll see myself out."
I like Futurama more than Rick and Morty
Nobody asked
C'mon everbody, throw this physicist a dollar. His tie is dangerously undernourished.
Ngl, the millisecond I saw the thumbnail, I thought "This dude just looks like a physicist"
Mans looks exactly how pictures of old scientists look, Erwin Schrödinger, Philo Farnsworth, even young J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Surprisingly many of the writers and people involved with making Futurama were mathematicians and physicists; I remember one anecdote where a grade school class wrote in and complained that in the second episode, they were on the moon running from the Earth’s shadow to prevent instantly freezing and how unrealistic it was, and they got a letter back from one of the writers / astrophysicist that explained how the rate of motion and temperature differentials were actually scientifically accurate. The shows filled with inside jokes that only STEM people would ever get or possibly even find funny and I love them for that.
13:31 And this... Is... to go... even further beyond!
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I don't know if you have anything planned for October but I think the series FRINGE would be a good candidate for something on the scarier side. Most of it is Pseudo Science, but I'd like to hear your thoughts and see if anything from that series is at least somewhat grounded in actual science.
The video was really quiet. I had to put it to full volume, so every time there was an ad it was way too loud. Apart from that: Nice video! I didn't know Futurama is so educational! I only watch Disenchantment, which is made by the same people, but very different. Maybe you could watch one of the episodes from Disenchantment where Bean is in Steamland (one episode in season 2 and two or three in season 3). You could talk about what inventions would be possible.
This may be an unpopular opinion but, I prefer Futurama over Rick & Morty.
Yeah but who cares... Rick and Morty fans are the absolute F*CKING WORST !
You should watch that entire episode about end of the universe. The entire thing is great. I'd recommend this whole series actually. Probably the smartest and dumbest television that's been made and its all hilarious and at times quite heartwarming.
you know what the main problem is with the time machine,
Prof. Farnsworth used the Engine Order telegraph for the Turbine from one of the Olympic -class vessels
You can't see it, but I have drawn "I love you" on my eyelids and I'm fluttering so hard I'm about to take flight.
My god you got a style man.
Impressive how futurama nailed a lot of things.
The moment when he insulted the creationists. You understand his frustration but also that this wouldn't help. It's a great side note, I think.
You might think that those protesters are stupid. Well that true for some of them, but some of them were fed lies and never had any proper education. There only interaction with the other side is people calling them stupid.
Dont get me wrong here there are people who are very willingly stupid, spreading lies on purposes - this people are pretty much beyond help.
But it points out that in some cases we need better communication.
Please do more Futurama..
"dont argue with people who disagree, its a waste of time"
aight
Explains my life.
Biggest one he missed is Fry's freeze time being 1000 years, but coming out around 8 hours till New Years Eve, accounting for loss of time with slowing spin of Earth and gravitational distortions.
I love this. Such a great show and a great commentary on its content.
Please check the volume of the video. I had a hard time hearing it at my normal level.
I wonder if this "heat death of the universe" theory was actually correct and we are just repeating our lives over and over, that actually explains the whole idea of noticing synchronicity, predestination, or predeterminism, etc.
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That would be horrible though. I wouldn't want to imagine people in Holocaust suffer the same fate over and over for the rest of eternity.
As a physicist, there are many easter eggs hidden in Futurama that you'll appreciate more than the average person. Good choice! Your audio is a bit quiet in this one, not sure if that's just me.
My calc 2 class borrowed a series problem from Futurama. Good stuff!