An Expected Comet (feat. Adam Savage) - Objectivity 269

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Adam Savage is back at the Royal Society to randomly pick out some historical documents from the vaults - what will he find?! More links below ↓↓↓
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@ObjectivityVideos Год назад

Here are some pics of the documents as promised: www.patreon.com/posts/78360229

@sztaylor89 Год назад

You two look like brothers

@tbird81 Год назад

Better than being Adam's sister!

@Markle2k Год назад

"Not on my arm" Adam tries to be the gentleman and let it pass, but the Aussie cannot

@WhatAboutTheBee Год назад

5:54 The instrument is his famous "Dividing Engine" which was to divide a circle into parts. Incredibly useful for things like sextants, wherein precision markings are required. It is essentially a worm drive on the circumference of a large table, with anti-backlash. Ramsden is quite an important figure in the quest for Longitude.

@John_Ridley Год назад

Cool. Still used today, for gear making and similar in the machine shop

@joshuathompson3258 Год назад

With regards to that line of inquiry, I guess you could say, he was.... instrumental.

@fburton8 Год назад

Septants too then, presumably.

@steve1978ger Год назад

@@joshuathompson3258 - that's a well measured assumption

@TBSkyen Год назад

Brady and Adam showing up to the shoot like "well ONE OF US has to change!"

@bigsarge2085 Год назад

Fantastic! And Rupert's cheeky response. . . 😄

@scottjacoby2594 Год назад

I’ve been waiting for this episode ever since the Adam Savage episode from several weeks back. Sometimes when there’s a special guest featured on the channel, their Gloves of Destiney episode is the next installment. This one had us waiting for weeks! Rupert is a fine feature this episode too, but would have loved to see Adam and Keith interact as well. Maybe next time.

@rtpoe Год назад

Don't keep us in suspense! Was there a comet visible in Great Britain in early 1790?

@gillo100 Год назад

And what did it smell like?

@jh-ec7si Год назад

Caroline Herschel discovered two comets in early 1790 so perhaps this chap had seen one of them earlier. Also, it seems that the idea of sulpherous comets was quite common at the time to descibe a comet's tail - Caroline was depicted in a satirical cartoon smelling the sulphurous scent of an anthropomorphised comet ejecting matter from its backside (perhaps worth seeing). The chap who wrote the letter got a bit carried away with the sulphur stuff but it suggests he observed a notable tail on the comet.

@rtpoe Год назад

The other day I read that Emperor Hirohito of Japan was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971 - and it wasn't an entirely honorary thing. There's GOT to be a story behind it! Please may we have it for a future Objectivity?

@Penrose707 Год назад

I have enjoyed this crossover event in the Bradyverse, please more Adam!!

@sean_vikoren Год назад

Super fun peek through the screens of time. New series?!? Also, Rupert seems to be unusually well suited to the stage.

@theemissary1313 Год назад

Objectivity 270 must be on Rupert's tattoo!

@kjkaratejason Год назад

"Not on my *arm*..." Do tell, Rupert

@Neil-ii3dp Год назад

Rupert! Giving Keith a run for his money here 😂

@RFC-3514 Год назад

Adam and Brady are slowly morphing into each other.

@CharlieTheAstronaut 3 месяца назад

6:26 that joke went straight over their heads there haha :D

@KarlFarbman Год назад

Always love the Brady-Adam collabs!

@annwagner5779 Год назад

Geeks geeking out together - such joy! Adam is a true gift to the world of archives and museums. I’m a museum Director - I want him to come do programs for us!

@Dave_Sisson Год назад

Visits to the Royal Society archives seem to be confined to London in recent years. But thinking way, way back... I wonder what happened to that archivist who somehow offended the Royal Society and was sent to work in their salt mines outpost. Actually I'm more interested in what sort of crime or outrage she committed that caused her to be banished to the salt mines?

@polares8187 Год назад

This was amazing. Thank you brady and adam

@jtbwilliams Год назад

Holy shlt they're the same person but from different continents and slightly differently hued hair.

@wierdalien1 Год назад

I mean when Adam was Bradys age he was the same colour

@scrotiemcboogerballs1981 Год назад

Thanks for sharing

@guyh3403 Год назад

Rupert is a trooper! Thank you so much.

@jpe1 Год назад

At 4:01 when Brady says that he was writing on Christmas Day, I know the “avoiding his family” comment was just an offhand joke, but I think it’s worth noting that in late 18th century Christmas was not the orgy of consumerism and gauche displays of wealth that it became in the latter half of the 20th. While it was an important day on the Church calendar, the rest of society outside of Church didn’t pay special attention to the date. The way Christmas is celebrated in the USA today has its origins in Dickens’ book “A Christmas Carol” and the preferences of Queen Victoria and has little in common with how the Church celebrated the religious holiday a century prior.

@Yupppi Год назад

The thing I'm most fascinated by is the art and skill of writing they had some centuries ago. Like art work on ruler.

@dstinnettmusic Год назад

Dude…I would love a podcast where you guys talk. Maybe make the title a general greeting to users of the World Wide Web.

@arcanics1971 Год назад

What have they done with Keith??? (No offence intended to Rupert, who clearly is a bit of scoundrel!)

@krisweinschenker598 Год назад

Very interesting experiment.

@Philrc Год назад

Where is Kieth?

@mojosbigsticks Год назад

Oh Rupert!

@dcallan812 Год назад

Nice video, 👍👍

@FredStam Год назад

nice video Adam

@SaugotChowdhury Год назад

A gem among legends

@douglasboyle6544 Год назад

Rupert is a hoot. Good to know everyone at the Royal Society is a bit on the wild side.

@renerpho Год назад

I don't think there was a bright comet visible in 1789. There was, however, one in the fall of 1769 (C/1769 P1, one of the most spectacular comets of the 18th century). Could the letter be about that one?

@fluffy2004wrb Год назад

I do so love Brady talking with various nerdy folks about myriad nerdy things. I'm not saying I don't understand the need for branching out, and refreshing of the palate, or interpersonal variety, but I'd love to see Grey (from the neck down, of course) don the white gloves of destiny. Perhaps we'd find some Dinosaurs ATTACK! cards in the stacks . . . As always, well done, sir. Thank you for keeping my mind as curious as ever a child, and seeing the world for the first time.

@annwagner5779 Год назад

An 18th century cootie catcher! 😂

@19TheChaosWarrior79 Год назад

Legend

@larryscott3982 Год назад

He just happened to pick a comet. How convenient

@culwin Год назад

Rupert is quite saucy.

@TheyCallMeNewb Год назад

Keith perhaps not the only master in those aisles!

@YoutubeConnoisseur Год назад

Wow Brady, you have lost a good amount of weight over these last few years. Its so noticeable. Proud of ya

@iambiggus Год назад

Rupert is my guy!!!

@tpottrell Год назад

Wonder which comet that was, assuming it was accurate :)

@patricksanders858 Год назад

Isn't s Jacobs ladder an electrical voltage thingie?

@Marconius6 Год назад

The guy talking about Jacob's Ladder could have just been looking to get a new piercing. (Don't Google that.)

@orellaminx3530 Год назад

Whenever Keith retires, Adam should hire him for a year just to catalouge his cave of wonders.

@tramsgar Год назад

Hey leave Rupert alone! 🤣

@NotKyleChicago Год назад

Who is the general who used the instrument, and for what purpose?

@KarissaBoBissa Год назад

Can I ask about how this sort of card catalogue is produced? Is every book in the collection meticulously catalogued with potentially thousands of cards for each book or is it a little more simplified? Could you perhaps go into detail about the cataloguing process and what sorts of subjects deserve a card in the file cabinet?

@lucidmoses Год назад

I bet your going to get a lot of comments regarding Keith not being there.

@FyvaPro Год назад

Damn Brady looks young and fit, barely recognized him

@charlesm.1638 Год назад

Would they have records on a Gilles-François Boulduc? My ancestor, who is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences as well as his father, is Simon Boulduc, who is as well a member, as well as Louis Bolduc, who was the Attorney for King Louis XIV.