A New Generation Of Space Giants

[tommybritain]

Its from a European organisation, European don't all speak English, but may speak little English, so is best for her to speak slow.

[mytvsettowatch]

Thumbs up!, Thanks for this great video :)

[keropanalos]

ast reines vid btw schaut mal auf FrauenMeister . com is wat für männer hihi

[kobidobidog]

Which end of the universe is the youngest depends on your point of view. if you were at the far reaches of where we are looking back 13 billion light years where our planet should be our planet would no even exist. We would say that we would be the young part of the universe.from looking back from the other end of the universe.Think about that.

[jedaaa]

i wonder if rebbeca takes it up the stink?

[elbowbiter1]

Dear Jedaaa,

LoL, you sir are terrible :) When you meet a lady that is into cool stuff like Rebeca here, you should be a little less irreverant. More women need to be into cool shit instead of brain dead consumer culture. So send the cat calls at Elisabeth Hasslebeck on the view. That girl needs to be torn down a peg or two.

Peace,

Biter.

PS. I didn't down thumb you. Some jerk without a sense of humour did that.

[rmcdaniel423]

biter wrote: " . . . . Elisabeth Hasslebeck on the view. That girl needs to be torn down a peg or two."

I agree 100%. I've only seen a few clips with her, but she infuriates me every time. She's the worst kind of dumb -- the kind that is inexplicably condescending to the smart.

[verstengenericks]

He said the mirror is accurate to "a thousandth of a millimeter"? I thought that was wrong because that's a micrometer, which is larger than a wavelength of visible light...BUT Herschel's IR range is 60 to 670 micrometers. So the mirror would be crap for visible light but is better than 1/60th wavelength smoothness for IR!!

[libbiswwety]

brauche dringend beschäftigung bin so einsam! Jemand lust zu chatn

[luckystrke]

Love her hand gestures. lol. Looks like she's preforming jedi tricks.

[godlessmessiah]

...and that shes talking to 5 year olds...

i just keep expecting her to bend down facing the camera and say '..and now its time for a story book..wouldnt that be great..."

[lejink]

will it have lots of pictures???? oh.. you were kidding :(

[luckystrke]

haha

[1PercentRDA]

@godlessmessiah

I think they are reaching out to younger generations, you (and many others) are already old and useless and will never get a job at NASA

[godlessmessiah]

Im 25 and a majored in Molecular Biology and an informal student of Cosmology.

Feel free to continue being a troll, safe in the knowledge that I am almost positively far more educated,able,potential and younger than yourself.

[1PercentRDA]

I believe not, ut it can be argued ^^.

[glukkglukk]

I think im to dumb to watch this.

[holyhell5050]

I love these videos, I just wish Rebecca was a bit more natural in her delivery. She doesn't wave that hand about all the time she talks from day to day I hope! That'd drive me nuts.

[handplanty]

meh, only 3.5m? :P Let's try 10m! How big are the telescopes in La Palma or such places? somebody should try shooting those things into space :P

[Choowbz]

I don't understand why the instruments have to be immersed in liquid Helium to near absolute zero

I would have thought just thermal solar shielding would be enough in the coldness of space

Perhaps its just a way of maintaining a controlled even temperature

But why so cold?

Is there no easier way?

[bimblinghill]

@Choowbz: I think the reason is that if not, the components of the sensor will emit their own infrared, which will interfere with the signal.

[Choowbz]

Yes immersion in a bath of liquid Helium should absorb any heat emitted from affecting the dish

Sort of like protecting a microphone from the buzz of the recorder circuits

[bimblinghill]

Yeah, I think so. I'll happily be corrected by anyone more informed on this issue though.

[puncheex]

Notice it is the electronics that are being cooled. It's to lower the electronic noise. Hershel is not an infrared instrument, but noise is noise.

[puncheex]

'Scuse me, I'm wrong. It is an infrared instrument. The cooling them extends to the sensors, so that their own heat radiation doesn't interfere. The explanation for the electronics still holds.

[omegavalerius]

The main mirror was made in Finland yay! I like these space telescopes not only for the new insight they give on the cosmos, but also for the nature of cooperation that is needed to build them (different countries chipping in).

[MrHeavydose]

Terrible Pants

[0muffins0]

I really wish these presenters wouldn't talk at their audience like they're a classroom of children. Quite irritating.

[magua73]

Not necessarily the case, I mean I mumble a lot when I talk, so when I have to give a presentation I'm conscious about this mumbling of mine, and I make an effort to sound more clear when talking. Apparently I have the same way of talking as she does, or so I have been told.

So know I am also conscious that I might irritate someone as I could sound I talking to children, which is certainly not my intention.

[KaelHunter]

The way she speaks is exceptionally irritating but she is a scientist so all is forgiven.

Scientists also generally do not know what to do with their hands if they are not holding a test tube or some other piece of scientific equipment. Hence the flailing arms. =)

[KaelHunter]

Agreed their will be people watching who maybe more qualified on this subject than her given the distribution method and if we mere laymen feel patronised the educated among us must feel like killing her.... or at least writing a strongly worded letter of complaint if their English. ^_^

[djd904]

wow, imagine if some one slipped up and cracked the primary mirror.......

That has to be so expensive.

[XmarkedSpot]

you mean sth like this? ;)

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insert "." for " (.) " and have fun

[nishbrown]

Is Becky pregnant?

She looks a little chubbier.

LMAO!! Almost everyone is commenting on her.

Was there mention of some kind of telescope or something in this video??

JK, Love ya, Rebecca!!!

[leejw00t354]

I can never listen to this bitch 'cause her hands, ears and slow voice distract my attention.

[Deioth]

It's either Slowtalk McHandyearson or Doctor Adam's Apple, I mean Dr. J.

Just deal and enjoy the good science XD

[KaelHunter]

Doc J's introduction really annoys me... Stop trying to be hip and get to the science.

Welcome to the ECA cast with Doctor Joe Liscar (sp?) would more than suffice. It also sounds much more professional and wouldnt be so open to ridicule if used in a class room a.k.a Dr. J the pointless horror of it.

[omegavalerius]

Dr. Joe Liske or by his proper name Jochen Liske. And you probably refer to the ESOcast (European Southern Observatory)?

I personally don't mind the introductions. These casts are meant for laymen and a bit of hype can add flavor to the show.

[KaelHunter]

Cheers for the corrections. I see where you are coming from they are presented in much the same way as Click Online the BBC's "Tech" news program but at least these and the ESO casts contain actual news though unlike Click. ^_^

I just feel that they try too hard and end up aiming at a demographic so low with the presentation style that they end up shooting themselves in the foot.

Science shouldn't be dumbed down for people; people should be educated up for science.

[omegavalerius]

True true, but I don't see how a little hype introduction dumbs it down. I definitely agree that dumbing down is a bad idea across the board.

[KaelHunter]

Agreed..

Its one thing to build up knowledge and complexity in order to educate and quite another to dumb down.

Education gave us quantum theory and General and special relativity.

Dumbing down gives you Creationist fundaMentalism and other forms of *Mentalism and no one wants that..

[zapo147]

She is very awkward, she reminds me of someone from the Sims game...I'm with you.

Still respect her and the science though, of course.

[GatorHighlights3]

That is one smooth ass mirror. I'd like to give it a rub.

[izovire]

That mirror... I'd like to breath on it and write "Hi" with my finger...

But of course I'd like to see cool photos it collects in the future.

[nub50wn]

mmmmmm i like her needs 2 sort her hair out tho

[superfisto]

Her haircut almost completely hides the fact that she has elf ears.

[zomgomgomgz]

She needs to stop flapping about and speak faster. She sounds like she doesn't have a clue what she's talking about.

[GatorHighlights3]

Give her a break. I expect she was told to speak slowly. This video is not meant for expert astronomers and cosmologists.

The hands though...way too much.

[Alienliquid]

needs to stop waving her fuckin hands about..

[anselmo666666]

I don't like how she articulates an such. Kinda sucks, but the content is fantastic.

[ndyt]

She needs Vulcan ears XD

[KaelHunter]

... sigh

=)

[Bobbiethejean]

Somebody needs to tie her hands behind her back. She can't utter a syllable without gesturing. Kind of annoying actually. Aside from that, great video. I love this stuff. :}

[ORVX]

I hate when the try to stereo type "science women" as ulgy

[niiidar]

HErschel is freaking large. Wow.

[Zygorhiza]

she reminds me of Brandi Belle :P

[canerdc]

Dude, am I just high or this Herschal satellite will change our entire knowledge of the universe?

[adsensus]

Well, ya... your high and this will definetly broaden our understanding of the universe. Diffucult to gauge what will "change". I'm just glad churches don't launch satilites or im sure they'd "accidently" crash theirs into this one out of paranoia.

[guitarmaestro078]

I know I probably should feel bad for saying this... But Rebecca Barnes is the only reason why I watch these videos...

[bjeh001]

Yeah, she's cute. The science bit is just an extra treat.

[KaelHunter]

Any chance we could point it at Norway to figure out what the apature UFO was. Anyone heard anything better than the "Its a missile honest" bull we're getting from norway and russia.

[truvelocity]

You are kidding, right? This vlog is showing an intense scientific achievement and that's all you can obsess on?

[KaelHunter]

Half kidding this is indeed an excellent step forward on our voyage of discovery but I would also like to know what the hell caused an anomaly of that magnitude. If it was actually some kind of gateway aperture and if we could reproduce it then what we could learn from it could far and away out strip any achievement we could make from inside Earth orbit.

In my honest opinion I believe your strange for not being interested in that.

If it's a hoax so be it but I hope it's something else...

[HiAdrian]

The missile explanation can make sense if you see it in the context of very high altitude, where you have reduced friction and gravity.

There's a good animation on youtube that attempts to replicate the look with simply mechanics.

Apparently it's not the first time this has happened. Definitely a mind boggling sight, i agree with you.

[KaelHunter]

Indeed. I saw the Chinese video it looks like it is a different aperture (not a CG video copied and pasted e.g.) but it is almost identical in nature to the Norwegian aperture.

If it was a missile malfunction it is very strange that two have malfunctioned in exactly the same way. Logic states the simpler explanation of a natural cause would explain the replication unless this malfunction was actually the correct function of the missile.

[puncheex]

"Logic states the simpler explanation of a natural cause would explain the replication unless this malfunction was actually the correct function of the missile."

And the simpler explanation you seek is aliens, rather than a similar failure in identical hardware? Wow. Just wow.

[puncheex]

Or perhaps you meant something else.  Spill it out, so we can all appreciate it.

[KaelHunter]

You seem to have fundamentally misunderstood what I said allow me to clarify:

I believe a totally naturalistic phenomenon that is as yet unidentified is the most likely cause of the aperture event not aliens or technology of any form.

If technology is involved I would say it would be more likely alien than human but this is unlikely.

[KaelHunter]

If it was human technology (which is the most plausible technology source) it was no malfunction.

Although I am sure aliens (in some form bacterial or otherwise) are a mathematical certainty given the scale of the universe please don't seek to insult me by classing me with the people who "believe" aliens are here and moving among us without evidence. Without evidence there is no basis for a positive claim.

[KaelHunter]

Also I want to know what caused this anomaly. Is not a positive claim it is the logical out come when something on this scale happens and no solid explanation is given.

[puncheex]

Well, again I have to ask, why you think that a totally unexplained phenomena is simpler than a repeated failure in identical hardware?

[KaelHunter]

No I think it is more likely that it was an unexplained phenomena rather than an identical failure.

Things do not fail the same way twice that is what prototyping is for it fails, you improve it. You don't fire in your words "identical hardware" because you get an identical result... failure. Not to mention doubling the waste of resources.

The failure explanation doesn't hold water in my honest opinion which leaves technology (I don't know of anything human that does that) or a natural cause.

[truvelocity]

Russia says it was the result of a failed test launch for its troubled Bulava missile program. In a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry said it fired a Bulava from a submarine in the White Sea near the Norwegian coast Wednesday morning. The intercontinental ballistic missiles first two stages worked perfectly, the ministry said, though the third stage engine proved unstable.

[KaelHunter]

If that had been the case America would have been very worried about the ICBM on their scope and yet they are silent.

I'm not saying I think aliens did it but I am saying I have severe doubts about it being a failed missile launch.

Failed launches spin or tumble in wide arcs and have a tendency to explode (under command on occasion) the aperture was far too stable and dissipated rather than exploded. The official line doesn't hold water and it wouldnt be the first time Russia has lied.

[puncheex]

Well, good luck in your search. I won't be leaving the light on.

[KaelHunter]

Your "light" won't be required. If I need to search I'll bring my own torch.

[jebus6kryst]

This is amazing stuff.

I cannot believe that someone would votebot these videos. What is the point?

[caltrop69]

She must get her hair done at Supercuts.

[bangNL94]

Is that the only thing you can think of?

[caltrop69]

No...Actually it's not. Why? Are you a Supercuts fan?

[bangNL94]

Wut? Fan? No, why?

[caltrop69]

Just checking. I didn't want to offend a patron of that fine establishment.

[jmthetank]

Huh... they have to cool their instruments to nearly absolute zero, the point at which all matter simply does not move anymore, and my car won't even run below 223K.

That hardly seems fair, if you ask me.

[ngarbo00]

awesome.

[jmthetank]

Wow... just... wow. Every new thing I learn about this universe, or about ourselves and what we can now do... Everything is awe-inspiring, when you consider the formless matter we could be compared to the complex things we are, and the even more complex and vast things we study.

[Jaksary]

I hate how she uses her hands when she talks.

[theeyeisblind]

i think she trimed her brows a bit since the last vid, great job!!!!

[ArtificialCleverenAI]

Heh. Nice. Recognised that end graphic from Final Cut suite template.

[zgbrotherhood]

And religion is the answer they said. This satelite gives me an erection that could reach the oldest galaxies.

[Paxmax]

now.. that's smoooth.... both mirror and delivery..

[Tobsy1981]

This chick might be rocking muffin top but I'm into it.

[spencerschultz]

word

[NeedsEvidence]

I always wonder whether Rebecca is using the American Sign Language...