A Message from Earth and Flappy Gloves: Citation Needed 2x04 

imagine, in the future, everyone's deadly busy fighting over time machine blueprints or something, then we just hear that an alien delegation has come to answer the transmission we made way back when

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7 years later

Listening to it I just presumed this was a recent video

At the time it was just after the Crimean Peninsula annexation.

so we can confirm the CD made it?

1:11

His disappointment was about the same as mine.

@@Acela2163 which is similar to your parents' i presume

sén né why even bother commenting

@@HeyItsKora because

And that makes "Intergalactically potentially sexted is the most interesting sentence i have ever heard" the most interesting sentence I've ever read.

Except this would simply be interstellar, as it's still within out galaxy

r/BrandNewSentence

one year after this comment, i scroll down to the comments just in time to read and hear that sentence at the same time by random..

The best sentence is “Toblerone Rolo Combo”

No, you are the knights who say eke eke eke ptang zoo wang

And they demand a shrubbery.

@@smeggerknee2448 And a second one too!

Samuel Melcher Yeah; I still have no idea why they don't like Daz Sampson.

+Samuel Melcher Sooo… You're saying that Citation Needed needs citations? ;)

I'd love that on American stuff in general

They actually posted a link in the description of a Daz music video, it was funny.

p.s. I hadn't reached the bit where they actually did mention Brian Blessed when I posted that. But, hey, that's a nomination and it's been seconded, so it's settled. We send Brian Blessed to meet the aliens.

Glad I’m not the only one who thought of him 😂

We need to send The Brians Three: Brian May, Brian Cox and Brian Wecht. Three PHD physicists with expertise in the universal languages of maths and music, and one of them's even a ninja! Operation: BLESSED is the backup plan.

Doesn't even matter if he's referring to flash gordon or gordon freeman!

Astrophysicist is not the same as astrobiologist, given that professional astrobiologists don’t really exist yet. However, the people probably most qualified to understand alien life would be people who study extremophiles or the most remote cultures, so microbiologists and anthropologists.

Gods work

Oh

Granted, Chris had fewer points than Gary, but he did just come up with a solution to world peace, so it’s fair that he won

My very tired brain just got very confused as to how Gary got 4.1 megabytes of points this episode

I've long since given up trying to understand how points correlate to winning in this game. Tom's just making it up as they go!

Not really I didn't even notice it. When was it

@@micayahritchie7158 Ukraine is kind of in a bit of a war right now. Or do you mean in the video? About 2:17

@@HKlink I meant in the video

Keep in mind - 2014

@@jasonisbored6679 r/Tungsten Oxygen Oxygen Oxygen Oxygen Sulfur Hydrogen

well done

Why have i seen you on every single Tom Scott video recently haha.

Yoko Ono's komodo dodo kimono?

Bathrobe?

I agree. As well done as that was, a Kimono was not a bathrobe. It might be argued that a Yukata could be a bathrobe, but a Kimono was something that was/is worn through daily life and as somewhat formal wear.

Genuinely frightened of whoever it is who will come next and make our current situation seem tame by comparison.

@@state_song_xprt Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas.

@@iykury Emperor Nero, then?

​@@state_song_xprt Welcome to the global situation in 2023.

Well, at least we're mostly harmless.

I think we should be avoided at all costs

Farage loves a bit of probing, though.

It'll be kinda hard to tear gas an alien space ship though

they would just complain about them immigrating

Kathryn Blodgett sat one point, he was a pirate politician.

@@joshuahadams _ahem_ you mean MAD CAP'N TOM SCOTT?!

_YAAARRRRRRRRRRR_

Thanda Paani *PLUNDER ASUNDER*

It's how people traditionally sign off on radio comedies/etc. in Britain, for some reason. And since Tech Diff started out on the radio this makes sense.

Until we does

It was probably one of those still-puzzling Fast Radio Burst things... maybe an exocivilisation powering a light-sail ship somewhere in our direction...

Recent analysis suggests it's just this side of nothing.

And yet, even more rexent analysis suggests that A)yes it is a SFRB (Super Fast Radio Burst) and it bears close resemblance to other FRBs that they have found recently (apparently they are everywhere) and there are those that theorize they may be the detectable sign of communications over super long distances, as the quantum world tells us, it can be done and astrobiologists tell us that IF exolife exists, then they HAVE all the technology we do and then some so they would be able to use the quantum laws and theories much more masterfuly than us, simply because they have had more time to do so, literally speaking relatively (in the einstien and hawking sense) please forgive my typos. the keyboard has taken quite a beating and has gone swimming in coffee lately, among other things

Wow!

Thank you for the playlist. I have watched it twice now.

Is that what that thing is? I thought it was the theremin they keep talking about, since I have only a vague idea of what a theremin looks like.

"They're smart enough to figure out radio, but good space god do they have terrible taste!"

Boris Johnson as well?

@@chrisoddy8744 plus the remains of Maggy Thatcher just to be sure

@@chrisoddy8744 you must be happy with the recent news hahaha

Tell that to Darth Talon…

Parsec is an actual scientific unit though... So obscure astronomy reference?

I don't know, the Extended Universe is rather obscure-ish.

1:10 Star Wars reference as in misusing "parsec" as if it were a unit of time rather than of distance?

@@rosiefay7283 The Kessel run goes around a black hole so the faster you go the closer you can go to the black hole and the straighter and shorter the route is?

🤣

perhaps you're thinking of the so-called _perytons_ - they were signals observed by the Parkes telescope in Australia until they realized a microwave being opened while its still on gives off a radio signal similar to a fast radio burst

Damn! Add that to the excuse-a-tron!

Relevant

@@KongoDub what happened

@@halyoalex8942 The island visits edit: "Alleged"

Nillie yes. Excellent idea

Nillie Better still, let's send them out there and totally ignore/forget them?

True.

Aaron Haviland We record in batches: this is the last one filmed on the first day of the shoot -- hence the "off for curry" comment at the end! There are three more left in this run, filmed on day two in different clothes. Although my camera will still be pointed vaguely the wrong way...

Aaron Haviland just to clarify, yes it is always cloudy

Aaron Haviland welcome to Britain

And the Ukraine one aged better?

FlintTD I thought they meant the actor Brian Cox.

It's just you

Matt's parents house.

+Anolaana Seranaar I thought so but I am not sure the other guys noticed and/or got it.

Hayley Jeffs Glad I'm not the only one! XD

+Anolaana Seranaar Have you seen the upload on RU-vid with the lego animation? It is still the very awesome Eddie Izzard but for some reason the lego animation makes it that much more funny.

+LAN Master (sirswears) I must be using the wrong Google then because all I'm getting is the guy from Bus Stop and I have no problem with that. (why yes I am DDR trash why do you ask)

+Haights oh derp, forgetting the target audience here Why yes I am Dancing Stage trash, why do you ask

Me too!

It happened in February 2014

​@@mobimaksit's been going on and off for years now

It's a tripod from war of the worlds

hah Yes