One temperature scale you didn't mention is degrees Hortvet, used to measure the depression of the freezing point of milk. The thermometers for this have a scale from about minus one to about 0.5 degrees, marked off to enable the to be read to 0.001 of a degree. This scale is similar to Celsius but not precisely aligned . It is used to see if milk has been watered (diluted)
On that temperature scale meme, I guess the 5th scale is supposed to be Réaumur variously shortened to °Ré, °Re, °r. I could be wrong though. Or maybe it is Rømer but °Rø. :) And yes, 11:00 had me in stitches. :D
Dr Becky, this may be a minority request for the really nerdy among us, but could you one day do a video about data formats of the JWST? When that scientist gets the long-awaited email to download their data: what exactly to they get? What format? What metadata? Are we talking little more than byte streams or fully schemed JSON (or something in between)?
@@kwanarchive I don't know: a download library should just get the data to you in as raw a format as possible. You wouldn't want it to be "smart" about it. You'd want the minimal amount of metadata (to describe dimensions, checksums, maybe chunk tracking). It would be up to the scientist to start throwing Pandas or what-not at it.
@@michaelhoffmann2891 But they have to get something. And the images? BMP? JPG? PNG? RAW? And, if RAW, what's the format? The metadata? There are so many possibilities...
@@sysbofh to be noted is that all of those formats only support an RGB colour space, and as JWST is infrared, it falls completely outside of that for every pixel in the image (does JWST even use square pixels?) it needs to record every frequency it can measure; I don't know how many of these frequencies there are, but given that they publish entire spectrograms, it probably doesn't just have 3 distinct typed of sensors also, JWST has... 4 different instruments if i recall correctly? each of these probably has its own format whatever the format ends up being, it must be some list of numbers, and it probably wouldn't be compressed using JPEG or whatever as that would lose detail maybe it could have some lossless compression, but as it's not a regular image, PNG isn't going to work either, so they probably use some general-purpose compression algorithm such as gz/lzma/zstd
Yeah, I'll pass. It takes a special brand of defeatist self-loathing for a continent to adopt to slurp up their would-be conqueror's small dick energy measuring system. Also, I'm not going to be criticized by a Brit for our meaurement system. We fixed the one they gave us and we've stayed consistent with it. Brits can't even decide which one they want to use (Metric, Imperial, or the weird shit they do with stones and fortnights).
If I wasn't already a subscriber, watching you get "Rick Rolled" by a JWST image would have convinced me. It was fun to watch, but you still handled it with class.
A joke from my childhood: "Why do we still have Reaumur on the thermometer?" "So that we can make mistakes." It was common to have both C and R scales on thermometers as late as the 60's.
Had to comment because I’ve just read your book and don’t think I’ve ever finished anything so quickly! Loved it, and really enjoyed all the history of astrophysics. Your teachings continue to blow my mind!!
Just imagine if SETI finally get a signal that's positively identified as coming from an alien intelligence, and then the Earth's best minds spend months with barely any time off decoding it and it turns out to be "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down", and the headlines have to be "WE ARE NOT ALONE, BUT THEY ARE TROLLS".
Interestingly, the word "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. He noted that certain elements in a culture (ideas, tunes, fashions, etc) can spread rapidly within a generation, with the most successful surviving to be passed down to the next. Such a cultural unit can, in a real sense, be subject to natural selection and mutation, so Dawkins called it a "meme" to reflect its similarity to a gene. I often wonder what Dawkins thinks about his potentially useful idea being limited to silly captions, at least as far as the public are concerned.
When I first started working at Farnborough, I worked on a project with two colleagues. The senior scientist worked in Fahrenheit, and I was trained in Metric. The other guy could work in either. If he wanted to annoy the boss, he would quote temperatures in °C, if he wanted to confuse me, he would quote in °F . One day, to annoy both of us, he quoted the temperature in degrees Rankin! It was the first time I saw a scientist his a**e literally kicked by the boss!
When I went to school, it was Centigrade and Absolute, not Celsius and Kelvin. That was before they renamed all of the remaining units after scientists.
Mate, some of the best conversations I've taken part in come from when either I, or one of my somewhat geeky friends, overthink things. You get exactly those sort of "...yeah but what if...?" chats going!
Fahrenheit is temperature as observed by humans. Celsius is temperature as observed by water. Kelvin is temperature as observed by atoms. Which is why Fahrenheit is the best for weather and Celsius the best for everything else. I mean in terms of weather, 0F is really cold and 100F is really hot. 0C is kinda cold, 100C is dead. 0K is dead and 100K is dead.
Unless you’re afraid of negative numbers, Celsius is more convenient for weather as well, especially in the winter. Just knowing which side of zero the temperature outside is on a winter day tells you a lot of useful information, especially when paired with a quick glance out the window. Based on what I see outside my window right now, the fact that it’s -4.2°C outside tells me that I don’t have to worry too much about slipping despite the icy roads (assuming I wear winter boots and not summer shoes), but I do have to take care to cover my skin against the wind.
I don't know how to explain it, but when Independence Day came out and not just American cities got destroyed me and my buddies had this weird happy feeling. Sure the aliens blew up NY, DC, and LA but we were like yeah let London, Paris and so on get some of that action too. We were a little bummed about Tokyo though because in movies Godzilla is always destroying Tokyo.
RE the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' temperature meme. Admit it.. anyone geeky enough to put that meme together would *absolutely* intend which character got which scale!
Well that was great timing for a new video. I just finished reading your book! Amazing! My 10 year old daughter is starting it next - she loves space and Hamilton so I'm sure she will enjoy it! Love the memes!
@@DrBecky If I shoot a whale harpoon through the event horizon of a black hole would I be able to pull the harpoon back and shoot again? Or the harpoon would pull me into the black hole?
I love how those meme videos are my gateway into your more serious scientific videos. I actually think this is something teachers should consider in their classes to make their students excited about science
In comparison, the damage the Starship launchpad ("stage 0") took (with chunks of concrete sent flying) is generally seen as "not good", considering that Starship is supposed to launch slightly more often than 5 times in the next decade. (Also compare that SpaceX had 61 launches in 2022. Compare to China with 62.) If you have °R and °RA, they're probably meant as degrees Reaumur and Rankine, respectively; otherwise, °R probably also means degrees Rankine. As for the dinosaurs, well, first, there were of course survivors - we call them "birds" - and also, there seems to be some evidence that before the impact, the big dinosaur species were already reduced to very few, essentially triceratops as herbivore and tyrannosaurus rex as a carnivore had out-competed everyone else. As someone put it, "they died out because they were too successful" - because after the impact, essentially the world became very inhospitable for a while for anybody who couldn't fly, hide in tunnels, or under the water. Which included all non-avian dinosaurs, but spared birds, some burrowing mammals, and fish. And species like crocodiles who can actually survive a year without food. And while those jokes don't go down well in science, they do go down well in Internet standardization circles. For a start, look for RFCs issued on April 1. And there are some others (especially among the older ones), too. Probably the most famous is TCP over pigeons, sorry, IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC). Oh, and for your proposal, just write a start and let GPT-3 do the rest.
I have a couple degrees in English and Literature. I just learned about the t-shirt that says 'space is hard words are harder' and now I must own it. It's absolutely hilarious and perfect.
YES ANOTHER SPACE MEME VIDEO!!!! Thank you so much Dr. Becky! Quick space/JWST question for you: Do you know if JWST will be taking a look at Tabby's star to get more data on its weird dimming? I know one of the weird things about it is that the leading hypothesis attributes this to space dust that's either interstellar or leftover from a destroyed planet or something within the star's system, but from what I understand we also don't detect any dust or substances heating up like we would expect normally. Would JWST be able to help look for the ionized gas or heated space dust? Absolutely love your channel, keep up the great work!!
So, let's see... °F is to °R(A) as °C is to K. A deep dive reveals that the survivors of the Galactica actually gave us our units of temperature, since you can spell out a certain word with them. Great way to start off the year! Thank you!
@4:30 °R = °Réaumur . Since it is of French origin, it is no wonder, that it is not well known in the British (and American) countries, as politically the relations were not the best in those times.
Everybody can procrastinate by looking at funny memes. Dr. Becky can procrastinate by looking at funny memes - and turn it into work for her channel. ;-)
It's really only the US that uses Fahrenheit, the rest of the world uses Celsius. Though there are a few geriatrics in the late UK that still use Fahrenheit.
@@jimsteele9261 I would certainly suspect they knew something I didn't. Then I'd investigate. And perhaps come to the conclusion that it was just a small step, it just looked like a cliff from where I was standing. (I have in fact seen almost exactly this, in the Alps. It looks terrifying from a few steps away, but it is a perfectly usable path.)
1:45 I love that you said "normal units"! The US still hasn't learned that using their silly imperial units leads to mistakes and unnecessary difficulties.
the strange thing is, some US schools, at least the ones I’ve been at, teach how to use both metric and imperial measurements, so most people have at least some knowledge of the metric system, but the US still doesn’t want to convert.
@@1224chrisng It is not really defined, and in the meme, degrees Rankine were apparently symbolized with RA. On the thermometer my parents have, there are both the Celsius and the Réaumur scale, and they are labelled °C and °R.
Fun fact: centigrade (as Celsius was once called) used to work backwards, ie higher number = lower temperature. (Disclaimer: my idea of fun might not be the same as yours.)
@Chris Webb: I'm 60 years old and I've never really been a science nerd until I became a sci-fi geek as a teenager, then started learning about science thanks to my fascination with sci-fi. I remember hearing about centigrade and Celsius, but never understood how they were related, nor why references to centigrade have become more rare as I've gotten older. Thanks for the clarification. 🤓
How much data is JWST collecting, where is it all stored? Is there secure storage for original bulk data and a separate data storage that is available to scientists/public?
It's amazing I was able to watch both DART and Artemis live and this year I got to visit NASA Johnson Space Centre which was one of the best days ever.
Becky, The person who did that temperature scale picture may have used RA for Rankine and R for Réaumur. In the Réaumur scale, water melts at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees. So the temperature Réaumur is 4/5 the temperature Fahrenheit.
As I understand it, Gabriel Fahrenheit based his "0" and "100" points on things he felt were reproducible. For "0" he tracked the temperature in his village through the winter, marking it on his prototype thermometer. The coldest day was assigned zero. For 100, he picked something that could be found everywhere in the Swiss countryside, cows. The original 100F was assigned to bovine body temperature. With the current re-definition of the scale in terms of Celsius, that's no longer the case, but you can consider it to be roughly mammalian body temperature.
10:48 The movie “Post Impact” is almost entirely set in Europe. “Meteor (1979)” & “Solar Attack (a TV movie from 2006)” both involve the US collaborating with the USSR/Russia.
😂😂 Top Eagles tune btw! Totally uninteresting fact, Like Freihiet's Keeping the dream alive, Hole in the world by the Eagles is on my Amazon Music Xmas Playlist and neither of them are actually Xmas songs!! 😁 Happy New Year Dr Becky, very much looking forward to more excellent content from you. 🤗😘🤗
For the temperature scales - R represents Reamur which sets the boiling point of water at 80 instead of the 100 in Celsius. They share the same 0 degrees.
In the temperature meme, R does not mean Rankine in this case, but Réaumur which is usually Re or R, the Ra is Rankine. If there was only one of the three "R"s used it isn't actually clear which it is, although it's often assumed to be Rankine, with Ra being shortened to R. They could have used: Re or R for Réaumur Ro or R for Roemer (R would be unusual) Ra or R for Rankine. In addition to K, C, and silly F
Measuring RA in degrees is a relatively new development, which sort of regularizes the math. Traditionally it was in hours, minutes, and seconds, as others have said.
Some of those comparisons will be somewhat embarrassing. For instance the EUS (European Service Module) has only 1/2 the delta V capability of the ASM (Apollo Service Module). Hence the 'need' (?) for Gateway.
Have a look through youtube for videos of Saturn V launches in the 60s and 70s. Particularly the ones with coverage from cameras on the tower. Absolutely awesome. There is one I have that is slowed down, and includes the sound. It is ......visceral. Goosebump territory.
°R or °re is the Réaumur scale which is based on water and goes from 0°R (freezing point) to 80°R (boiling point). And it would still be at odds with the original Celsius scale which, of course, is also based on water but went from 100°C (freezing point) to 0°C (boiling point). The modern Celsius scale had it's direction reversed for practical reasons. Both the Rankine scale °RA, and the Rèaumur scale °RE, can be written as °R. Which has confused many a people.
as a space meme myself I agree (literally, I’m a living meme, as someone who knows way too much about some stuff in space (massive stars, WR stars, SFing dwarf galaxies) and clearly not enough about others like exoplanet atmospheres and stuff )
°R could be Réaumur. It's still sometimes used by confectioners, especially for cooking sugar. I had to learn how to use it and how to convert from/to celsius in my apprenticeship. Edit: allthough it wouldn't make sense for that meme, since 0°Réaumur and 0°Celsius are the same.
"Do you remember the endless hold music from the press conference" Nope, I never watch press conferences. Seems like an hour or three of waiting for 2 minutes of information. I just get a summary of the interesting stuff later. From people like you. :D
It’s actually green 🤓💅🏻 and unfortunately I’m not that skilled at nail art to start recreating constellations, so it’s just wherever the glitter may fall
I pronounce data the same as you and Star Trek - day-ta. My long since dead physics teacher pronounced it dar-ta, which I thought made him sound daft until I checked the OED to find that they agreed with him. Do you get into (m)any silly pronunciation fights during science conventions? Are the Americans in the room always wrong?
8:25 I just learned why I have to chase down meteorites and asteroids in Terrarium in order to mine iridium Also, the DART mission is pretty much the plot from Moon Zero-Two
I'd love to see you react to startreck original series. It is not scientificly accurate at all nor is it trying but i think it would be hilarious to see your reaction
Discussing the actors being labelled with certain temperatures has got to be the deepest dive into a meme ever!
One temperature scale you didn't mention is degrees Hortvet, used to measure the depression of the freezing point of milk. The thermometers for this have a scale from about minus one to about 0.5 degrees, marked off to enable the to be read to 0.001 of a degree. This scale is similar to Celsius but not precisely aligned . It is used to see if milk has been watered (diluted)
Now that's some cool trivia right there.
That's so obscure it's not even on Wikipedia.
Fascinating!
@@caw25sha The democrats must have forced them to censor the information.
@@caw25sha Would they accept an article that cites a UA-cam comment as the only reference?
On that temperature scale meme, I guess the 5th scale is supposed to be Réaumur variously shortened to °Ré, °Re, °r. I could be wrong though. Or maybe it is Rømer but °Rø. :)
And yes, 11:00 had me in stitches. :D
Dr Becky, this may be a minority request for the really nerdy among us, but could you one day do a video about data formats of the JWST? When that scientist gets the long-awaited email to download their data: what exactly to they get? What format? What metadata? Are we talking little more than byte streams or fully schemed JSON (or something in between)?
I would also be interested to learn about that.
I would have thought that at this point, whatever Python library they use to download/parse the data handles all that.
@@kwanarchive I don't know: a download library should just get the data to you in as raw a format as possible. You wouldn't want it to be "smart" about it. You'd want the minimal amount of metadata (to describe dimensions, checksums, maybe chunk tracking). It would be up to the scientist to start throwing Pandas or what-not at it.
@@michaelhoffmann2891 But they have to get something. And the images? BMP? JPG? PNG? RAW? And, if RAW, what's the format? The metadata? There are so many possibilities...
@@sysbofh to be noted is that all of those formats only support an RGB colour space, and as JWST is infrared, it falls completely outside of that
for every pixel in the image (does JWST even use square pixels?) it needs to record every frequency it can measure; I don't know how many of these frequencies there are, but given that they publish entire spectrograms, it probably doesn't just have 3 distinct typed of sensors
also, JWST has... 4 different instruments if i recall correctly? each of these probably has its own format
whatever the format ends up being, it must be some list of numbers, and it probably wouldn't be compressed using JPEG or whatever as that would lose detail
maybe it could have some lossless compression, but as it's not a regular image, PNG isn't going to work either, so they probably use some general-purpose compression algorithm such as gz/lzma/zstd
As an American, I thank you for referring to Celsius as "normal units". More Americans need to hear that.
Yeah, I'll pass. It takes a special brand of defeatist self-loathing for a continent to adopt to slurp up their would-be conqueror's small dick energy measuring system.
Also, I'm not going to be criticized by a Brit for our meaurement system. We fixed the one they gave us and we've stayed consistent with it. Brits can't even decide which one they want to use (Metric, Imperial, or the weird shit they do with stones and fortnights).
I thought Americans measure things in guns per liberty eagle or something like that.
@@LightBusterX I would find that funnier if it wasn't so close to being true. (Sigh)
@@LightBusterX HAHAHA🤣
With all the convertions between crazy units Americany use, you'd think they are better at math.
If I wasn't already a subscriber, watching you get "Rick Rolled" by a JWST image would have convinced me. It was fun to watch, but you still handled it with class.
What is rickrolling.??
I loved that, but Becky is a professional ^_^
A joke from my childhood:
"Why do we still have Reaumur on the thermometer?"
"So that we can make mistakes."
It was common to have both C and R scales on thermometers as late as the 60's.
I had to explain to my mostly French colleagues what Reaumur scale was (while passing rue Reaumur) but they are about my age (~30).
Had to comment because I’ve just read your book and don’t think I’ve ever finished anything so quickly! Loved it, and really enjoyed all the history of astrophysics. Your teachings continue to blow my mind!!
Yay! Thank you!
1:25 My favourite British film quote of all time and it fits *perfectly* here. 😄
For those of us of a certain age it is immediately what springs to mind when you read about the lift doors.
Just imagine if SETI finally get a signal that's positively identified as coming from an alien intelligence, and then the Earth's best minds spend months with barely any time off decoding it and it turns out to be "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down", and the headlines have to be "WE ARE NOT ALONE, BUT THEY ARE TROLLS".
Interestingly, the word "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. He noted that certain elements in a culture (ideas, tunes, fashions, etc) can spread rapidly within a generation, with the most successful surviving to be passed down to the next. Such a cultural unit can, in a real sense, be subject to natural selection and mutation, so Dawkins called it a "meme" to reflect its similarity to a gene. I often wonder what Dawkins thinks about his potentially useful idea being limited to silly captions, at least as far as the public are concerned.
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"3000F or 1600ish degress in normal units"... That subtle burn :P
When I first started working at Farnborough, I worked on a project with two colleagues. The senior scientist worked in Fahrenheit, and I was trained in Metric. The other guy could work in either. If he wanted to annoy the boss, he would quote temperatures in °C, if he wanted to confuse me, he would quote in °F . One day, to annoy both of us, he quoted the temperature in degrees Rankin! It was the first time I saw a scientist his a**e literally kicked by the boss!
this is the kind of work environment i thrive on.
jokes and gibs
I wanna meet this guy
I used to do engineering for naval ships, I swear I spent 10% of my time converting units.
When I went to school, it was Centigrade and Absolute, not Celsius and Kelvin. That was before they renamed all of the remaining units after scientists.
Some people just cant appreciate an impish sense of humor.
Mate, some of the best conversations I've taken part in come from when either I, or one of my somewhat geeky friends, overthink things. You get exactly those sort of "...yeah but what if...?" chats going!
😂 I loved the "normal units".
Fahrenheit is temperature as observed by humans. Celsius is temperature as observed by water. Kelvin is temperature as observed by atoms. Which is why Fahrenheit is the best for weather and Celsius the best for everything else. I mean in terms of weather, 0F is really cold and 100F is really hot. 0C is kinda cold, 100C is dead. 0K is dead and 100K is dead.
Unless you’re afraid of negative numbers, Celsius is more convenient for weather as well, especially in the winter. Just knowing which side of zero the temperature outside is on a winter day tells you a lot of useful information, especially when paired with a quick glance out the window. Based on what I see outside my window right now, the fact that it’s -4.2°C outside tells me that I don’t have to worry too much about slipping despite the icy roads (assuming I wear winter boots and not summer shoes), but I do have to take care to cover my skin against the wind.
10:45 - "Monsters vs Aliens" made a joke saying this exact thing. And I think "District 9" did as well, with the craft coming down over Johannesburg.
I don't know how to explain it, but when Independence Day came out and not just American cities got destroyed me and my buddies had this weird happy feeling. Sure the aliens blew up NY, DC, and LA but we were like yeah let London, Paris and so on get some of that action too. We were a little bummed about Tokyo though because in movies Godzilla is always destroying Tokyo.
It'salways great to have a giggle with you at these memes, I loved your over-thinking, too! 😀Wshing all the best to Sam and yourself for '23.
RE the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' temperature meme.
Admit it.. anyone geeky enough to put that meme together would *absolutely* intend which character got which scale!
Also, Jack is Fahrenheit bc he's pure chaos and Will is Normal Units bc he's straightlaced (not so much at that point in the movies, but still)
Well that was great timing for a new video. I just finished reading your book! Amazing! My 10 year old daughter is starting it next - she loves space and Hamilton so I'm sure she will enjoy it! Love the memes!
So glad you liked it! Haha I hope she loves it too
@@DrBecky If I shoot a whale harpoon through the event horizon of a black hole would I be able to pull the harpoon back and shoot again? Or the harpoon would pull me into the black hole?
I love how those meme videos are my gateway into your more serious scientific videos. I actually think this is something teachers should consider in their classes to make their students excited about science
In comparison, the damage the Starship launchpad ("stage 0") took (with chunks of concrete sent flying) is generally seen as "not good", considering that Starship is supposed to launch slightly more often than 5 times in the next decade. (Also compare that SpaceX had 61 launches in 2022. Compare to China with 62.)
If you have °R and °RA, they're probably meant as degrees Reaumur and Rankine, respectively; otherwise, °R probably also means degrees Rankine.
As for the dinosaurs, well, first, there were of course survivors - we call them "birds" - and also, there seems to be some evidence that before the impact, the big dinosaur species were already reduced to very few, essentially triceratops as herbivore and tyrannosaurus rex as a carnivore had out-competed everyone else. As someone put it, "they died out because they were too successful" - because after the impact, essentially the world became very inhospitable for a while for anybody who couldn't fly, hide in tunnels, or under the water. Which included all non-avian dinosaurs, but spared birds, some burrowing mammals, and fish. And species like crocodiles who can actually survive a year without food.
And while those jokes don't go down well in science, they do go down well in Internet standardization circles. For a start, look for RFCs issued on April 1. And there are some others (especially among the older ones), too. Probably the most famous is TCP over pigeons, sorry, IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC).
Oh, and for your proposal, just write a start and let GPT-3 do the rest.
I have a couple degrees in English and Literature. I just learned about the t-shirt that says 'space is hard words are harder' and now I must own it. It's absolutely hilarious and perfect.
YES ANOTHER SPACE MEME VIDEO!!!! Thank you so much Dr. Becky!
Quick space/JWST question for you: Do you know if JWST will be taking a look at Tabby's star to get more data on its weird dimming? I know one of the weird things about it is that the leading hypothesis attributes this to space dust that's either interstellar or leftover from a destroyed planet or something within the star's system, but from what I understand we also don't detect any dust or substances heating up like we would expect normally.
Would JWST be able to help look for the ionized gas or heated space dust?
Absolutely love your channel, keep up the great work!!
So, let's see... °F is to °R(A) as °C is to K. A deep dive reveals that the survivors of the Galactica actually gave us our units of temperature, since you can spell out a certain word with them.
Great way to start off the year! Thank you!
10:51 That’s my favourite mathematical paradox: The Rick-Ashley-Paradox! ❤
@4:30 °R = °Réaumur . Since it is of French origin, it is no wonder, that it is not well known in the British (and American) countries, as politically the relations were not the best in those times.
Had never heard of it, my apologies!
Everybody can procrastinate by looking at funny memes.
Dr. Becky can procrastinate by looking at funny memes - and turn it into work for her channel. ;-)
Dr Becky: 1600 ish Celslus in Normal units.....
Non science inclined Americans: I feel attacked.
You should. Because you were. :-D
Sincerely, the rest of the world.
You should feel justifiably attacked.
@@jamielondon6436 To paraphrase the book of Mom Wisdom... "If the rest of the world jumped off a cliff, would you?" :-)
It's really only the US that uses Fahrenheit, the rest of the world uses Celsius. Though there are a few geriatrics in the late UK that still use Fahrenheit.
@@jimsteele9261 I would certainly suspect they knew something I didn't. Then I'd investigate. And perhaps come to the conclusion that it was just a small step, it just looked like a cliff from where I was standing. (I have in fact seen almost exactly this, in the Alps. It looks terrifying from a few steps away, but it is a perfectly usable path.)
Loved the Italian Job clip. My favorite line from that classic.
The little voice you do for "this is fine" at 38 seconds is absolutely perfect lol
Becky's giggle is delightfully infectious.
And her Midlands ccent ^_^
1:45 I love that you said "normal units"! The US still hasn't learned that using their silly imperial units leads to mistakes and unnecessary difficulties.
I am in the US and I have used metric units my whole career.
the strange thing is, some US schools, at least the ones I’ve been at, teach how to use both metric and imperial measurements, so most people have at least some knowledge of the metric system, but the US still doesn’t want to convert.
@@candacescorner3141 Those schools sound like very hopeful places to me!
i love how you described C as a normal unit:D
°R is degrees Reaumur. (My parents actually have an old thermometer gauged in °Reaumur, thus I know.)
I thought it's ⁰Re, and ⁰R is Rankine
@@1224chrisng It is not really defined, and in the meme, degrees Rankine were apparently symbolized with RA. On the thermometer my parents have, there are both the Celsius and the Réaumur scale, and they are labelled °C and °R.
Nothing better than listening to Dr. Becky explaining memes. The ultimate kind of nerding out. lol
"which is something like 1600°C ish in normal units" Projectiles have indeed been explosively propelled!
Fun fact: centigrade (as Celsius was once called) used to work backwards, ie higher number = lower temperature. (Disclaimer: my idea of fun might not be the same as yours.)
@Chris Webb: I'm 60 years old and I've never really been a science nerd until I became a sci-fi geek as a teenager, then started learning about science thanks to my fascination with sci-fi. I remember hearing about centigrade and Celsius, but never understood how they were related, nor why references to centigrade have become more rare as I've gotten older. Thanks for the clarification. 🤓
10:35 Arrival did that well, although even there it's the Americans that save the day
OK... Love sneaky Star Trek insignia hidden in the Artemis logo 🤣
Excellent video! Love the lighter side of Science and Engineering!
“Normal units”. Love it.
Except…wouldn’t that be Kelvin for an astrophysicist? 😜
Thank you for your humor and laughter and singing; they all brought a smile to my face!
How much data is JWST collecting, where is it all stored? Is there secure storage for original bulk data and a separate data storage that is available to scientists/public?
The archive is linked in the video description and I’m pretty sure that’s all described on there 👍🤗
The surprise in the description was epic thanks!!!! XD
Hahaha I’m glad you found it 😅
Having missed that, I had a look at the description and clicked the link ... 15M likes and 1.3B views! Astronomical figures. I thoroughly enjoyed it
Came for the meme's stayed for the science lesson
It's amazing I was able to watch both DART and Artemis live and this year I got to visit NASA Johnson Space Centre which was one of the best days ever.
Dr. Becky, "I'm never gonna give you up!" Now we've all been Rick rolled.
Becky, The person who did that temperature scale picture may have used RA for Rankine and R for Réaumur. In the Réaumur scale, water melts at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees. So the temperature Réaumur is 4/5 the temperature Fahrenheit.
When I asked a preacher, " Why does God throw stones at us ? " ..... he said Asteroids are science fiction. Pot calling the kettle ....
As I understand it, Gabriel Fahrenheit based his "0" and "100" points on things he felt were reproducible. For "0" he tracked the temperature in his village through the winter, marking it on his prototype thermometer. The coldest day was assigned zero. For 100, he picked something that could be found everywhere in the Swiss countryside, cows. The original 100F was assigned to bovine body temperature. With the current re-definition of the scale in terms of Celsius, that's no longer the case, but you can consider it to be roughly mammalian body temperature.
10:48 The movie “Post Impact” is almost entirely set in Europe. “Meteor (1979)” & “Solar Attack (a TV movie from 2006)” both involve the US collaborating with the USSR/Russia.
“Maybe I’m just overthinking things.. that’s what I do😊”.
Same Dr. Becky😭
There's a UA-cam video of the dinosaurs trying to do exactly what DART proposed. It's hilarious and worth a watch.
It always freaks me out a little when you show the animation of an asteroid missing the earth marked as "fictional situation".
😂😂 Top Eagles tune btw! Totally uninteresting fact, Like Freihiet's Keeping the dream alive, Hole in the world by the Eagles is on my Amazon Music Xmas Playlist and neither of them are actually Xmas songs!! 😁 Happy New Year Dr Becky, very much looking forward to more excellent content from you. 🤗😘🤗
For the temperature scales - R represents Reamur which sets the boiling point of water at 80 instead of the 100 in Celsius. They share the same 0 degrees.
In the temperature meme, R does not mean Rankine in this case, but Réaumur which is usually Re or R, the Ra is Rankine.
If there was only one of the three "R"s used it isn't actually clear which it is, although it's often assumed to be Rankine, with Ra being shortened to R.
They could have used:
Re or R for Réaumur
Ro or R for Roemer (R would be unusual)
Ra or R for Rankine.
In addition to K, C, and silly F
12:00 Ètienne Klein (just to mention) greatest meme of the genre so far.
Waiting on the pizza galaxy.
There’s always pizza Jupiter (honestly, Google it you won’t regret it)
Love your videos Dr Becky! 5/5. Keep them coming.
Right Ascension may not be a temperature scale, but it's still in degrees.
isn't there another scale that's measured in Hours for some reason?
Or hours, minutes and seconds if you prefer
@@DrBecky the confusing part is how there's also Degree, Minutes, Seconds, so 1 minute (1/60x360) could be much smaller than 1 minute (1/60x24)
Measuring RA in degrees is a relatively new development, which sort of regularizes the math. Traditionally it was in hours, minutes, and seconds, as others have said.
3:36. I know what you meant, but writing 1K = 1 degree C isn't correct. delta(1K)=delta(1 degree C).
True! Should’ve thought of that
Every time the most adorable part: "video deshcription" 12:10
Here's a random video idea: A comparison of the Artemis rocket and the Apollo rockets and what improvements we've made since 1969.
Some of those comparisons will be somewhat embarrassing. For instance the EUS (European Service Module) has only 1/2 the delta V capability of the ASM (Apollo Service Module). Hence the 'need' (?) for Gateway.
Have a look through youtube for videos of Saturn V launches in the 60s and 70s. Particularly the ones with coverage from cameras on the tower. Absolutely awesome. There is one I have that is slowed down, and includes the sound. It is ......visceral. Goosebump territory.
"Movie aliens' view of Earth" probably should have included Japan too.
There's also a Re° (Réaumur) temp scale. Well, it used to be, now it belongs to the annals of history.
°R or °re is the Réaumur scale which is based on water and goes from 0°R (freezing point) to 80°R (boiling point).
And it would still be at odds with the original Celsius scale which, of course, is also based on water but went from 100°C (freezing point) to 0°C (boiling point).
The modern Celsius scale had it's direction reversed for practical reasons.
Both the Rankine scale °RA, and the Rèaumur scale °RE, can be written as °R.
Which has confused many a people.
as a space meme myself I agree (literally, I’m a living meme, as someone who knows way too much about some stuff in space (massive stars, WR stars, SFing dwarf galaxies) and clearly not enough about others like exoplanet atmospheres and stuff )
°R could be Réaumur. It's still sometimes used by confectioners, especially for cooking sugar. I had to learn how to use it and how to convert from/to celsius in my apprenticeship.
Edit: allthough it wouldn't make sense for that meme, since 0°Réaumur and 0°Celsius are the same.
I missed Chorizo gate. That’s hilarious, in a not so good way. Anyway, Happy New Year!
"Do you remember the endless hold music from the press conference"
Nope, I never watch press conferences. Seems like an hour or three of waiting for 2 minutes of information.
I just get a summary of the interesting stuff later. From people like you. :D
"Normal units" ... Haha 😂 YES! Cop them apples, imperial system.
I like how you added the one thousand six hundred-ish Celsius in normal units dig in there. Subtle! :P
That meteor in don't look up . Should have broken up when it atmosphere because. It was hallowed out . Because of the mining
off topic: i love your hair; especially those 80's bangs 😎👍
they could've added Paris to that globe, since we figure the Eiffel Tower getting gratuitously blown up in movies fairly represents Abroadland.
But the Eiffel Tower is on Orlando, Florida 😃
@@caw25sha and Vegas!
@@phoule76 Hey, in that sense, a copy of York in Britain is also often blown up.
My grandmother told me that her grandmother used to say: "Tell me the temperature, please. Not in the new, Celsius, but in the normal, Réaumur."
SPACE MEMES !!!!! lol I laughed at the temperature meme way more than I should have 🙂
"It's 3,000 F which is 1,600-ish in Normal Units." 🤣😂🤣😂
A question: which star constellations do you wear on your black nail-polish, if this is not too indiscreet to ask?
It’s actually green 🤓💅🏻 and unfortunately I’m not that skilled at nail art to start recreating constellations, so it’s just wherever the glitter may fall
@@DrBecky You mean they're constellations not visible from Earth. 😉
@@-_James_- ... only visible on Earth. 😇
My favorite mene is old one when Hans Solo said he made the Kessel Run in 100 parsecs!
These are great. And thanks for introducing me to the Rankine scale. I never knew until now that there was a F type scale beginning at absolute zero.
1:41 Normal units? LOL
2:23 I don't recognize R and RA.
11:17 I'm so with you on that one!
I pronounce data the same as you and Star Trek - day-ta. My long since dead physics teacher pronounced it dar-ta, which I thought made him sound daft until I checked the OED to find that they agreed with him. Do you get into (m)any silly pronunciation fights during science conventions? Are the Americans in the room always wrong?
I do appreciate your Jolly Christmas mood! 👍
Apollo 11: Gets to the Moon in one mission
Artemis: Takes multiple practice missions before actually bringing humans with it
*sad apollo 1-10 noises*
"In normal units..." haaaaaaa!!! Love that one!
8:25 I just learned why I have to chase down meteorites and asteroids in Terrarium in order to mine iridium
Also, the DART mission is pretty much the plot from Moon Zero-Two
RickRolling... I suppose you would have to use jwst to go back in time to find it. LOL
those were fun times 🤭
I like how you turned into a Disney princess while discussing the eagles.
I'd love to see you react to startreck original series. It is not scientificly accurate at all nor is it trying but i think it would be hilarious to see your reaction
Also ginga eiyuu densetsu (the original-1998)
I already did!
@@DrBecky o my gosh i must have missed it somehow
Cool video! I hope to see more memes like these :D
"normal units" thumbs up!!
"In normal units" Love it 😂
The problem is, there is nothing normal about centigrade.
Yeah, that was savage. And accurate. :-D
@@michaelsommers2356 and a scale that has an arbitrary number of units from "oh, I'm cold" to "this is uncomfortably warm in stuffy clothing" is?
@@Bwachaauh I agree: a hundred degrees between freezing and boiling is indeed arbitrary.
I just found out about DART mission. I googled "dart mission" and there's a satelite crashing to the google page lol
Hahaha, forgot about the chorizo. Hilarious.
That would be a challenge for the new AI systems "Write a observing proposal for alma to observe some galaxies"
6:40 Those red office chairs looks mighty comfortable.
1:48 "in normal units", bless