/sci/ - Science & Math

fuck kurzgesagt.

While going to Mars is more ambitious I think starting with asteroid mining is the correct step in making future travel even more cheaper

>>12014622
i agree, asteroid mining could basically be a good reason for countries to invest in space exploration
but also, fuck kurzgesagt

Kugersegatasxegtsasagat is SHIT

>>12014613
>This is a kurzgesagt thread for /sci/

Wow I sure do love watching this miscegenation shill!

Fuck off you stupid fucking shill

>>12014613
You know. I will watch it. You all are some lazy fucks.

>This is a kurzgesagt thread for /sci/
>New video from kurzgesagt!
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8XvQNt26KI [Embed]
>It talks about the idea of 'asteroid mining' and how it could basically be a good new industry for space exploration to set the costs for it.
>More info in video, WATCH IT!

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>>12014658
Fuck this board, fuck it to pieces, fucking cunts

>>12014613
This fucking faggot made me believe addiction was overblown nonsense when I was a retarded teen. That fucking idea got me hooked on amphetamines for a good 2 years. I'm clean for 2 years, no thanks to this asshole. I hope he and all other popsci faggots get their intestines ripped out through their anuses.

>>12014671
>this nigga literally took life advice from a Kurzgesagt video

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>>12014658
Angry incel squad

>>12014671
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>>12014681
Been with my gf for two years :) keep seething though

>>12014683
Holy shit, I’m grabbing ridge wallet right now!


Helooooooo fresh!

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>>12014658
what the fuck are these people?

>>12014671
natural selection at its finest, hopefully kurzgesagt mentions you as an example.

>>12014677
Hey, at least he learned his lesson lmao

>>12014699
top pic was from a missing person's house, detectives looked through his doorbell camera the night he disappeared and found pic

>>12014613
>watch their previous video
>literally not a single man in it
>all wariors, scientists and other people featured are women, mostly brown
That's your brain on leftism

>>12014727
what about the neckbeard (literally) fat person? what happened?

>video about how we could be obtaining ores through mining of asteroids
>uses fiction-tier tools as ways of obtaining ores from asteroids
what the fuck is this bullshit?

>>12014757
>what the fuck is this bullshit?
Kurzgesagt

>>12014613
>3:55
>"The first thing that needs to be done is to secure the asteroid and stop it from spinning"
Okay-
>"There are multiple ways to do this, like vaporizing material with a laser"
Why? Has a laser even been used like this?
>4:48
>"The process here works differently than on Earth. Giant mirrors focus sunlight and heat up..."
Uhhhh....
>5:23
>PROONTING
Fuck this. I fucking hate this channel and its popsci bullshit.

>>12014768
and the fans will suck it up like drinking water.
seriously, i was quite excited for the video. they decided to make it retarded instead, fuck the channel and fuck its fans

>>12014662
fuck you too retard

>>12014671
How the fuck did you even manage that. Their video about addiction never said that chemical dependence isn't as addictive as advertised.

>>12014775
ill crush your windpipe

>>12014671
kys

>29 posts
>11 posters
imagine being this triggered at a channel aimed for helping explaing to people basic science LOL

>>12014808
shill more retard

>>12014808
go back to youtube, pseud
your shilling of a shitty brainlet channel is not welcome here

>>12014671
your iq is too low to be on /sci/

>>12014615
But why?

>>12014808
They're just an other bunch of chucklefucks spreading popsci bullshit to the public for clicks.

>>12014883
>popsci
no space exists and it isnt some hoax controlled by da joos, the earth is round and we can certainly go to space and mine asteroids
these are the facts, not popsci
go back to /pol/ faggot

>>12014613
Kurzgesagt is unironically epic and the fact that the /sci/tards are mad at the channel makes it even more based and epic

>>12014919
return to reddit and never come back

>>12014721
jesus fucking chirst i wasn't prepared for that gif

>>12014615
FPBP

>>12014949
b bu but leddit likes Kurzgesagt!! That makes it söy!!

>>12014919
dilate trannysoy

>>12014949
What's wrong with vsauce?

>>12014919
>Kurzgesagt is unironically epic and the fact that the /sci/tards are mad at the channel makes it even more based and epic

Remember when /sci/ was about science not a bunch of angry retards getting butthurt about everything?

>>12014919
Lmao, if anyone makes a general for his favourite YouTube channel in this board, then you have to call here /yt/ instead of /sci/
Kurzgwhatever might be good but it doesn't deserve its own general
Best you lots can do is to post a general where all popsci YouTube channels are discussed, not just Kurzgcuck

>>12014998
no

>>12014615
FPBP

Would it make more sense to just fling the asteroid onto the dark side of the moon? Then you can mine materials on the moon, not in orbit (which is more likely to fuck up). Use robots to do all the processing on the moon, then launch it to earth?

>>12014613
>mining on earth is toxic and evil!
gay

>lets move the entire asteroid to earth's orbit rather than only the extracted materials
dumb

The real problem with asteroid mining is:
>robotic systems to actually mine it
>some level of processing to remove waste mass
and that's mostly it.

Ionic liquids as a catalyst solvent is a potential answer for processing materials.

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>>12014613
Die in a fire

>>12015034
>>robotic systems to actually mine it
can't we just use humans?
>>some level of processing to remove waste mass
shouldn't you just clean it/ (before taking it to earth) there shouldn't a lot of impurities in it

>>12014768
>Why? Has a laser even been used like this?
Ablating material from one side creates a force to the opposite direction, not sure what you find confusing about that.

>mirrors
What else would you use? Sunlight is free in space and mirrors are cheap and you can easily get volatiles out of the rock by heating it up like that.

>printing
Surely you don't think people should haul up canisters and heat shields up to the asteroid when you got free waste material right there

>>12015029
Space is risky anywhere, if you can do it in the moon then you can do it in orbit and save some on the transportation cost.

>>12015090
Processing equipment/facilities need lots of square footage and produce a shit ton of waste heat. It’s cheaper and easier on a planet surface, especially the moon where you could just rail gun the payload back to earth.

>>12015120
Lot of asteroids are big, you will pretty much have the same ground thermal mass (if not better on an asteroid since they contain lot of gasses and ice which you can vent) and of course radiators. As for being cheaper and easier I wouldn't be so sure, maybe if you plan to bring a lot of human workers but if it's mostly machines it doesn't really make a difference. Pressurized areas need about the same level of construction in space and on the moon and unpreassurized it's about zero difference there. Material handling might be easier with gravity but then again if you use these sorts of advanced processes maybe zero g would be helpful hard to say. No real reason why you couldn't use railguns from an asteroid either.

Listen up faggots
The point of channels like Kurzgesagt is to inform normies about concepts so that once such a concept might actually become real, they'll have heard of it and be more supportive. It might be the difference that changes someone's vote or whatever.
>'yeah I wanted to vote for Biden but Trump said he'd increase Nasa funding and we just gotta get to mining those asteroids bro'
That's what it's for. And for getting a basic explanation of interesting shit with nice animations.

>>12014615
literally no reason to say this
educating the retards is a good step

>>12015413
this. i cant understand why incels are so mad about it

>>12014613
>autistic screeching thread at video made for layman thread
very sad

>>12015431
>simplify science as much as possible to make it accessible
>it actually ends up ruining actual science and people still get intimidated by the rigor and difficult work behind the simplified science they see

REDDIT MOMENT

>>12015436
cuz its not realistic at all
the kind of engineering that has to be done to mine asteroids like shown in the video will take close to if not more than 50 years.
Engineering is hard as fuck.
Think of nuclear fusion, think of quantum computers, they're all a big meme(quantum computing) or its taking forever to get to it, and yet people thought itd be done quickly (they thought wed have nuclear fusion decades ago)

>>12015413
>'yeah I wanted to vote for Biden but Trump said he'd increase Nasa funding and we just gotta get to mining those asteroids bro'
lmao
this is /pol/ level of thinking

>>12015803
It's just some stupid example I pulled out of my ass. But it's good to have concepts explained in a simple and accessible way because that's what appeals to the masses. Nerds don't need to be educated about asteroid mining or whatever. Normies do because otherwise they say shit like 'we should fix earth first before going to space'.

>>12015651
So? There are people alive who witnessed the invention of the first commercial airplane, the entire history of computers, the internet, (smart)phones. All in one lifetime. Who cares if it takes 50 years or 2000, the progress along the way will still be amazing.

>>12014613
>Watched the Moon Base video
>Has to cite the founding of the Americas by European settlers and jabs at "us" that we won't be "slaughtering millions of innocents", despite having bought the land off of Native Americans, who then attacked us (and pretending as if Native Americans are not only the true natives, but that they lived in harmony with their tribes)
>And of course, has to force in some BMWF propaganda couple and their shitty mutt children

>>12015854
They're a group of liberal Europeans. What did you expect?

>>12014613
Fuck this shit, Isaac Arthur has a video that's ten times better on asteroid mining
Let's talk about that instead

>>12015651
I'd wager technological stagnation is at least partially down to the university credential system. Most professors are spending a third of their time on admin- and they have to go through all the crap of becoming a professor. Its BS.

Part of the reason we are not getting these things is money is going to fund a centralised bureaucracy rather than funding for innovation.

We do actually have nuclear fusion, its just not economically viable and risk averse yet- making it so is just a matter of systematic improvement of industrial process, the groundwork is done. We were once 50 years away from desktop computers with actual engineering application. Now computers are used in theoretical chemical drug design, all sorts of engineering (CADCAM etc). If you told people 80 years ago "ugh it will take at least 50 years for computers to have a meaningful industrial impact what the point ugh" "Computer science is hard a fuck ugh" "Computers are just a meme, they take up entire rooms to do a calculation ugh"

>>12015545
HAHAHA EPIC XDD

>>12015884
Unironically this. Issac Arthur is far more fun to watch..

>>12015545
Funnies shit i have e v e r s e e n! XDXD

>>12015854
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That group of Europeans aren't wrong though since that jab probably talks about pic related. The Brits bought that land and were going to give Native Americans back some of that land. It was only when the colonials (now burger Americans) went apeshit and the voided that shit the moment they won the Revolutionary War. Then threw the natives in the most shit tier corners of land they could find.

http://www.history.com/news/native-american-land-british-colonies

>>12014613
More like klampzgesagt

>>12014613
So much handwaving with the video, I don't know where to begin.

>>12015949
Eh groups are gonna displace one another. Your ancestors displaced hunter gatherers and proto-humans. Big whoop. The Europeans made better use of it than the natives.

>>12015949
No one wants to talk about how ravaged Africa became due to the constant war, territory disputes, and bloodshed, but 150+ years later people are still bitching about what the old Europeans did.

>>12016037
Africans have killed more of their own than Europeans ever did.

>>12014613
>soigesagt

>>12014749
>what about the neckbeard (literally) fat person? what happened?
that was the missing person

>>12014613
the superior channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

MINE THE MOON
TURN MERCURY INTO A FACTORY
PILLAGE THE ASTEROID BELT

>>12014963
He makes science too approachable.

>>12016973
Holy fucking BASED

>>12017008
how it gods name is that a bad thing

>>12017133
It's the worst thing you can do if you're one of these /pol/ invaders.

>>12017267
Rent free.

>>12016973
Arthur is an Ashkenazi Jew

So, is what the video saying is all bullshit? Like using lasers to stop asteroid from spinning and building a space mining machine?

>>12017300
No.

A dragon cap in cargo mode could bring down enough platinum group metal to pay it's launch and with a healthy profit.

>>12017298
So?

>>12014671
retard

>>12017558
>t. Shabbos goy

Some thread died for this

>kurzgesoy

>>12017298
anti-semite, are you also gonna tell me that Israel is a 'bad' ally?

>>12014613
>Most if the cost of a launch is fuel
Umm how many other errors are there in this video?

>>12018173
here read >>12014768

>>12018173
Where does it say that

The virgin Kurzgesagt VS the Chad Space-time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePNhUJ2reI

>>12017277
THEY'RE HERE RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW
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>>12018133
YOU WILL NOT GASLIGHT ME THIS TIME!

>>12015029
The impact with the Moon could result with part of the asteroid and that part of the Moon ending up impacting with the Earth.

>The Asteroid Belt’s mass is estimated to be 2.8×10 21 to 3.2×10 21 kilograms – which is equivalent to about 4% of the Moon’s mass.
>The mass of the Moon is only 1.2% of the mass of the Earth.
I always thought the asteroid belt was much more massive.

>>12017877
cringe. do you even know why you dont like jews

>>12014671
>hi anons, I watched youtube video then I took amphetamine
You made me laugh irl, funny nigga

>>12014671
God damn anon, your autism is great

>>12018159
ARTHUR IS ASLO GAY

>>12017298
The only good ones are those of them solely dedicated to science.
Arthur is a good one.

>>12018596
Agreed.

>>12014699
the top one is actually a photo of a statue of an extinct species that has gotten popular recently due to how weird the artist made the eyes. It is also placed over a photo of sam hyde.

>>12016037
>people in the west talk more about western issues
Wow, would you look at that.

what a dumbass thread
>>12014615
fpbp

lol bump

>>12014615
if you have a valid argument then perhaps don't bash someone who wants to educated the uneducated.

Ignoring the whole science fuck yeah xd, it's just a video with neat animation and nice soundtrack. Why not just enjoy it?

>>12023908
gatekeeping

>>12023900
>educated the uneducated

>>12023972
>dick so small he corrects small typos on an anonymous cartoon porn forum like he's the shit

>>12023908
>Ignoring the fact that she's an absolute slut, she's just a woman with nice face and great ass.
>Why not just marry her?

>>12023900
you can't just jump straight into big boy stuff if you don't have at least a good undergrad level of understanding in these fields. education gradually goes from the easy to the difficult stuff for a reason, popsci strips all the difficulty and complexity of the difficult stuff and it gives it to people under shiny branding.
you can't just """learn""" QM if you don't know what a polynomial is. this is bad because students will think that school is bad and this retarded shit is good

>>12015847
is animal planet also showing animals to get normies vote trump? you are retarded. there are people who just want to show other people things, WITHOUT manipulating them into one specific world view

>>12018596
>sponsored by anime trannies

>>12014837
They made a video on immigration and they made a video on vaccines and now pol hates them lol.

>>12014686
Clearly if you feel the need to tell us.

I haven't watched the video yet but did they address crashing the market value of precious metals and/or governments controlling their release upon the capturing of an asteroid?

>>12015413
I would agree with that if their videos stuck to science. But they branched out and got political with their brexit and philosophical/antireligious with their optimistic nihilism video.

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>>12015884
I like his content but I really don't like his speech impediment/lisp and think it's impeding on him becoming mainstream. He should hire someone else to narrate his videos.

>>12014613
until space is profitable, we'll never be a type 2 civilzation

>>12019736
Which is why i said fling it at the dark side. As long as they are reasonably small (<500m) nothing like that will happen.

>>12024192

You should not in any circumstances be in a relationship with someone who's an asshole. This video however is ultimately for entertainment purposes only.

>>12025745
Once again, this is going to be a case for doing this on Mars. Nobody is going to let you bring an asteroid of any significant size anywhere near earth. The 0.0000000001% risk of something going wrong would put the fear of god into the population, full stop.

You crash your asteroids on Mars. NIMBYism applies to space.

>>12015485
>>it actually ends up ruining actual science
How?

>>12014671
If this post is real, you are a moron.

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>>12016973
Are these videos lecture-tier? I don't mind short braindead popsci vids on as a backdrop while I'm eating dinner but for videos >30min long I'm expecting some good quality here.

>>12016973
Based

>>12028483
Isaac Arthur is actual popsci, presenting scientific ideas in approachable manner while also giving some fun food for thought. Certainly a level above all the shit videos for "shroedingers cat!!! Lolol!!!" crowd

>>12016973
>We'll just work out the law on space mining as we go

Both videos are fucking brainlet-tier