Secrets Of The Universe

[BlameRepublicans]

That chick what found that new kinda star is hot.

[JusticeMan008]

If it weren't for science, we would most probably all be extinct by now or very close. These two theories pretty much sum up the evolution of life on this planet and life in our universe. Life on earth is explained by "The Journey of man", by Spencer Wells, n geneticist & "The Drake equation", by Frank Drake an Astrophysicist. If you watch or read about these to facts and then you still don't understand, Don't feel bad you're just like the other 5-1/2 billion people idiots on the planet.

[axax444]

lol the 84 people that disliked this video used science to do it XD

[BlameRepublicans]

@axax444 BEST. Comment. EVER.

[TheLABABO]

before i die, i want to know everything. (except private lives)

[Quartrez]

@TheLABABO Ambitious.

[dirtydonki]

83 morons voted incorrectly.

[datzfast]

hey twit, teflon was invented by accident in 1936 by dupont and the chemist wasnt working on anything related to space by the way teflon is what makes those frying pans non stick. you dumb ignorant bastard.

[inneruniverse17]

@datzfast Sigh... ignorant people....

[91nickt]

Hmm...I wonder if these are somehow related to black holes at all.

[datzfast]

did everyone know our sun is a ticking time bomb and so we will go extinct someday

so quite worrying about global warming and fucking up the planet or killing off species because in the long run it doesnt fucking matter. glad we got that out of the way.

[Pantera4LifeXTX]

@datzfast I heard it was estimated to have about 4 billion years left. Time Bomb?

[isokessu]

@datzfast Yeah well our star, sun isn't gonna explode anytime soon, humans still need plants and probably always will to survive, even in that time when and IF humans can make some huge space ships to leave this place, they still probably need some mini forests there. Global warming can be serious thing but I also hate if some hippie says that "omg don't you recycle everything what you throw away", or when my phone tells me to unplug the charger what barely even uses electricity when it's off :D

[datzfast]

@isokessu clearly the exploding star means something to you. not me. i wont ever be leaving earth in a giant forest filled interstellar life raft. i have a sneaky suspicion no one will. not even the species that replaces us someday.

[yuo252]

@datzfast The sun will Explode in 5 billion years. So yes we will be leaving earth not humans But something else

[datzfast]

@yuo252 nope, nothing comes here, we wont be going there.

[yuo252]

@datzfast If we have to im Sure an intelligent Race of aliens will understand If they have any sense of Caring which they could and might then they won't Allow a Intelligent Race to die out Plus in Five billion years are Race would be more advanced then we will understand

[mystisme]

i always been in love with science it goes to biologie microbiologie biochmestry to astrnomy ,phyic and gentics but it seems that people do not seems to attracted to it the only thing taht i see aroud me is people wich their only goald is after works sit infront on the tv that amuse them self and just past theknowleg that wich is so much more amusing and exinting to me

[xKingPola3ux]

wtf, so how is that pulsar giving signals to earth from 2 opposite sides of the universe?

[martiangrundy]

Hiya.

I'm afraid you've misunderstood. It was the first detection of two different pulsars, (neutron stars), in different parts of the sky. The frequencies were slightly different also, one was 1.33 secs, the other 1.25 secs (I think).

She'd discovered a completely unknown kind of stellar phenomenon. This also gave extra credence to the theory of black holes.

[xKingPola3ux]

@martiangrundy oh, so there were actually 2 of them? so then how did they classify it as another star? what if it was just a normal star with like heat waves?

[martiangrundy]

Hiya. xKingPola3ux.

Because our understanding of the workings of a star precluded this.

As Jocelyn Bell says, it was giving out VAST amounts of "energy", and beaming it out too, meaning it was very massive. BUT due to the rotation period, on the order of around a second, it had to paradoxically be very small.

If you've any other questions, or would like a fuller explanation, PM me, I'll try to get back to you between crimbo and new year.

BTW, seasons greetings to ALL.

[26BlueMonkeys]

@xKingPola3ux

Have you ever considered that there might be 2 or more pulsars?

[preachingsin]

It's fairly likely that aliens will never help us prepare the perfect omelette, just saying.

[Sk0nski]

from the man made rubbish LOL

[OmgDidYouReally]

Great Video

[wafflethug]

I can't stand people who close their eyes for an extended period of time when they're talking to someone. 2:50 4:46

[im4wur]

Some people do that to get in touch with some part of themselves. In such cases, I wouldn't take it personally.- IMHO

[groswirth]

the human brain spends a lot of "computational power usage" to decipher facial expression of other, so when one needs to think hard (about speaking in this case) normally you will not look to the face of other... but i am not sure this is the case here.

[im4wur]

That makes sense (for a lot of cases); I think you're right. Some people do that to help them focus on the issue at hand.

Perhaps, at some point the question becomes what's more important, the information? Or validation.

[RomydeJesus]

Thanks.!

[ray2393m]

Exciting

[saigonpunkid]

imo this video fails to make science more interesting.

[GodKillerAtheist]

its always been more interesting then the bible

How are you enjoying the internet your TV your Car medicine? Without science you would not be here.

[TheThomaswastaken]

I wonder if Jjmm112 was trying to be ironic with all those errors in his "post's"?

[jjmm112]

TheThom. At last!!, someone that has a sense of humour !!!. well done , Tom. lol!!!!.

[TheThomaswastaken]

It was a very funny comment you left.

[jjmm112]

TheThom. Think yuu viry mooch!! (was my "spacing ok?)- lol!!!.

[DustyMay1944]

"For my money", I think I'd rather see it go into greater research for curing diseases, colving world hunger, and the end of suffering for humanity. How does atrophysics compare to the science of bioloogy, agriculture, and all the other sciences that actually contribute to the betterment of our species and our world? Why take your family to Disneyland when they're going hungry?

Appears to be nothing more than aristocratic arrogance to me.

[jjmm112]

Dusty.Lol!!!.You are so clever!,may I suggest "spell check" on your post`s................

[Razor5189]

yeah you too, you don't know how to use space's

[jjmm112]

Razor. Lol!!. Don`t you "get" ironic humour?, it was a joke!!, jeez!!!.

[DustyMay1944]

An edit feature would be better for correcting type-O's. It's nice to see you have a useful skill though. Proof readers contribute more than astrophysicist. Lol!!!!

[jjmm112]

Dusty. I`m glad you took my comment in the vain it was intended!!!.Take care,Dave!.

[TheThomaswastaken]

Just from a theoretical point of view, which would be more detrimental to humanity; donating a fraction of a percent of science research to cosmology, or being stuck on this rock when a meteor hits us...with no warning and no way to evacuate the Earth?

I think they both have their places in an argument about ethics, but the reality is science/life would exist without ethics. Science exists because people are interested in answering questions, everything else is secondary.

[GetTheCans]

Consider then the Scientists who study this. Are you saying that they aren't allowed to study Astrophysics because they should be studying something else? They probably love their work like crazy.

I can agree that there are bigger issues here, but the reason no one is studying how to solve these problems is lack of interest. Create interest and you create people who want to be Scientists for it.

It's not right to force people from their preferred study. If I was forced, I'd just as soon quit.

[jimwalsh2001]

Little green men? What would they be looking for? Little green women, perhaps.

Seriously, this is a great clip; watching it to me is like looking at the Sistine Chapel; I feel a certain awe and sense of (dare I say) reverence. Good job.

[yahyahtoopy]

kills the little green men??? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[tarose71]

not only do many still look to the paranormal, but they will take images from hubble (and other telescopes) & use them as proof of god over science, ignoring entirely the facts about how we got those images in the first place.

i think we can all feel your frustration with religion richard... but its still cool just to hear you talk about the science you love so much :-)

[goneutt]

Ehh, does it mean anything that I want to correct him with a note that non-stick pans and teflon predate sputnik by a good amount?

[FreePlay]

There's a lot of supposedly space-age stuff that is now labeled as space-age, because it sounds good in an advert :P

[GetTheCans]

I love reading about Science, but people I talk to don't find it very interesting so I am often alone in my excitement when new discoveries are found.

[FreePlay]

It is sad, isn't it, how America has pushed science off the table and made it something studied by the more esoteric among us...

Let's hope a new president can return it to its proper place of importance.

[GetTheCans]

I hope so, but considering how politics is normally run, I'm not going to hold my breath.

Maybe if people understood more about how the world worked we would have a population that would question things more often instead of just taking the easy way out and letting the vocal minorities decide everything by virtue of being the loudest or most sensational and not necessarily by being correct.

[FreePlay]

I couldn't have said it better. And I didn't.

[TheThomaswastaken]

Listen to the Skeptic's guide to the Universe podacast. Its five science enthusiasts that are funny and entertaining and its like having five friends that are all knowledgeable and agreeable.

[billybob1212]

hehe i listen to that podcast all the time! i love listening to it when im travelling to school.

[FreePlay]

SGU is a fantastic podcast and I recommend it to anyone even vaguely skeptical I know :)

[adanrom]

Little green men honest and funny how one experienc could be at first... and then another finding killed the little green men lol *nice video

[adanrom]

:( sad

[adanrom]

Richard Hawkings is NOT DEAD! I read a revue of he's health in ScientificAmerica 2 or 3 months ago he ok but might loose the ability to move he's fingers rendering him completly speechless

[kalamain]

Stephen Hawking...Not Richard Hawking

Just clearing a small mistake...

Thank you people.....Carry on.

[adanrom]

Yes Stephen Hawking is the one that will lose abiltiy to move he's fingers soon and will be completly without the abiltiy to speak. Sorry with all the Dawking Hawking i got confused myself and wrote richard hawkings. :p

[AtheistPride007]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think Hawkings can now only move his cheeks and that's how he uses his special computer.

[jben2north]

Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking are two different people.

[FreePlay]

Do you mean Richard Dawkins or Stephen Hawking?

[wiskawind]

I love your videos; thank you (smile)

[quisqueyatv]

i love the deep field from Hubble picture, is very amazing!! :D

[saxmanchiro]

Can't get enough of RD. Thanks for the chance to see his stuff again. If anyone wants to join in with freethinking science people and get excited, go to his web site(to the right under info) and visit the forum. It's our 'clear thinking oasis' from the likes of preachers and woo pushers. See you there.

[ScientiaVeritasEtLux]

I love Richard Dawkins. I just hope he doesn't die any time soon. All of the people I've wanted to meet in my life are either very old and will probably die relatively soon, or are recently deceased (Michael Crichton, Stephen J. Gould, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, etc.)

[AcesLucky]

Stephen Hawking recently deceased?

[chosetec]

Naw, the dude's still alive.

[ScientiaVeritasEtLux]

no, I said either recently deceased or "very old and will probably die relatively soon". Stephen Hawking is pretty old and probably doesn't have more than a decade or two left. Which is kind of a depressing thought.

[thosextearsxIxlove]

although he was told in his early 20s he had only a few months or somthing to live and hes lived this far so who knows, he may find a way to freeze himself until they can cure this disease :)

[drunkasssteve]

I have this entire video, it is pretty good. I'm a new subscriber, but if you are up for uploading, I recommend "Growing Up In The Universe." I think that DVD series is some of the best/easiest to help those who do not understand evolution to actually grasp it.

[TKMSeznam12]

This is very true - the more you understand of it, the more exciting it becomes. Those who despise science (creationists, religious folk etc) are those who are completely and utterly ignorant of it. Good video.

[chosetec]

"Science is interesting, if they don't agree they can fuck off!"

[RabidLarmer]

Ha Haa yea one of Richards great moments.

[daarco2]

@chosetec

Well, the beauty of science is that anyone can test everything. And everyone is testing everything.