Astrophysicist reacts to funny space memes! #2

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@freyabowles6252 3 года назад

“Unlike the potatoes of Mars” 😂 poor Phobos and Deimos

@jamestodd4877 3 года назад

Somehow I think "Angry Red Potato" just wouldn't sell as movie...

@timbeaton5045 3 года назад

@@jamestodd4877 Well their names do mean "Fear" and "Dread" so you may be right!

@dexter9313 3 года назад

Let me put it this way : you can fit about 128 Phoboses within the sole Diameter of our Moon (I didn't bother computing in terms of volume). I'm sorry but they are just meer rocks. x) Edit: Alright I did it, you can fit at least 26,000 Phoboses in volume within our Moon.

@hebl47 3 года назад

But they really are. I mean their respective escape velocities are 41km/h and 20km/h. Usain Bolt would literally escape their gravity if he somehow managed to gain enough friction to even run.

@ocalicreek 3 года назад

Don't know what sort of potatoes you lot eat if you think those lumpy, pock-marked things look like taters.

@lilliangrace9505 3 года назад

Please don't drop the educational bits! This is one of the most entertaining ways to learn bits of knowledge and receive insight into the life of an astrophysicist.

@georgeb.wolffsohn30 3 года назад

What is totally cool about YOUR videos is the humor and enjoyment you bring to potentially BORING topics. It's amazing how you make all of this "educational stuff" fun. Thank You Dr. Becky.

@adaobas 3 года назад

0:30 "ruin it by making too educational", don't you DARE stop making it educational! pls! =)

@hopegold883 3 года назад

The meme format is perfect for explaining topics in a brief, very understandable way. Part of the reason it’s so successful is that it starts with something very specific from the meme. I love it

@condorboss3339 3 года назад

I only came for the astrophysics.

@elendiastarman 3 года назад

Agreed! I was sad when Becky stopped talking about rotation maps because they were so interesting.

@senhowler 3 года назад

One minute later "so, about the number of moons each planet has..."

@phoenix_ash9621 3 года назад

"ruin it by making it too educational" precedes to explain one of the theories on how the moon was made.

@TheKpopMailman 3 года назад

I’m personally happy she didn’t step away too much from the educational tidbits, I feel like it’s a great balance for just reacting to the memes. We get to see you think it’s funny, and then learn another depth of WHY it’s funny

@shadowman21282 3 года назад

That "it''s been 15 years" statement was a bit harsh there Dr. Becky. It's too early in the day for me to feel that old.

@itsanukriti 3 года назад

Really had me wondering like "hold up, 2006 was 15 years ago!?"

@rtendotapiwa306 3 года назад

@@itsanukriti hey! You've gone too far! Why date or out? 😭🤣🤣🤣

@niclaswa5408 3 года назад

"Too late! 15 years too late!"

@harika_9399 3 года назад

Y’all be talking about how 2006 was feels recent; Me, being 15 years old: 👁👄👁

@rtendotapiwa306 3 года назад

@@harika_9399 🤣🤣🤣

@troybradford856 3 года назад

The memes and stars brought me here - the love for Monty Python and Rowan Atkinson kept me

@Hensepens64 2 года назад

80% of the fun to watch a (reaction) video is about the person who presents it. And every video you make is fun to watch (and entertaining) and your enthusiasm makes the difference. Please keep on going.

@lambeausouth1 2 года назад

I so miss the night sky in Northern Wisconsin! So clear and uncluttered by light pollution! So much to see! Now I'm in the Tampa bay area and it can be difficult!

@-_James_- 3 года назад

There are still people who don't believe we landed on the moon 50 years ago. I don't think people are going to stop going on about Pluto anytime soon. :(

@KaiHenningsen 3 года назад

And yet, people got over Ceres not being a planet so completely that most don't even remember it once was one. Exact same problem as with Pluto. Wiki says _Ceres was the first asteroid to be discovered (by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory on 1 January 1801).[18] It was originally considered a planet, but was reclassified as an asteroid in the 1850s after many other objects in similar orbits were discovered._

@ryan.noakes 8 месяцев назад

Monty Python's Galaxy Song is absolutely the best!

@empathyisonlyhuman7816 3 года назад

OMG king of the dwarfs! That was just way too precious.

@chasthanhburns123 2 года назад

I hope she gets canceled for inferring dwarfs are not real humans.

@starcrashr 3 года назад

I make sure to check methods to ensure the study actually investigates what it claims to investigate, because there are some frauds out there manipulating their studies by rigging the methodologies.

@reineh3477 3 года назад

First meme, I have missed sooo many events because of bad weather. Living in a country where the sun never goes down in the summer doesn't make it easier

@RuyVuusen 3 года назад

Well, it does go down in most of Sweden for a brief while during summer.

@Beakerzor 3 года назад

11:38 the Pluto meme is so awesome, I'm going to make sure to teach children until the day I die that Pluto was once a Planet

@rhoddryice5412 3 года назад

Don’t forget Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, please. They want some planet love too.

@Beakerzor 3 года назад

@@rhoddryice5412 well said! It's like a Ceres of planets to remember

@Carewolf 3 года назад

It was never a planet.

@rhoddryice5412 3 года назад

@@Carewolf Actually it was when first discovered in 1801, along with the other objects discovered shortly after. They weren’t reclassified until the 1850’s.

@Carewolf 3 года назад

@@rhoddryice5412 When I was I child in the 1980s it was never mentioned in any text books, featured in any models or in any museums. When I asked about Pluto, it was always "new, a bit weird, and not like the others". This is the difference between US-education (that favoured Pluto being locally discovered), and everybody else who thought it was an oddball that never belong to the other planets.

@RWBHere 3 года назад

Astrophysicists: 'Pluto is a dwarf planet!' Everyone else: 'Pluto is a PLANET! Deal with it.'

@davidbarker77 3 года назад

A wonderful blend of science and humour. Well done!

@juropico 3 года назад

With that Carina nebula aliens are trying to communicate with us. It means "Peace among worlds" R&M :)

@kurtsnyder4752 2 года назад

Pluto doesn't run in the same plane? Pluto:🎵🎶 Go Your Own Way, I Did It MY Way!

@Astrolavista 3 года назад

Merch idea! Imagine a T-shirt displaying a large image of the Defiant Finger. Then you eyes pan down to reveal the words "Bok Off!" :D

@erikblaas5826 3 года назад

I was opting for the text "Get over it and learn astrophysics".

@JustHorseyMie 3 года назад

I'm a sociologist, and method sections are my life, as this is where I find out if I can pick apart the work of others and find faults (cue evil laugh)

@miles8385 3 года назад

The first meme reminded me of something that happened in my childhood, sort of an inversion of the meme. I live in the northern US, but where we are is not far enough north to normally see the Aurora Borealis. But for some reason or another, the auroras were predicted to be visible not far from where we lived, and the weather was going to be clear. So my family drove out into the hinterlands to make sure there wouldn't be any light pollution and set up camp with telescopes and cameras and everything. Night falls, and the sky is crystal clear. But then the full moon rises and completely washes out most of the stars, and any auroras we might have been able to see. Total bummer, but I guess it was a fun trip anyway. Also one of the few times in my life I remember the night being as bright as you see in movies, just from the moon.

@PristinePerceptions 3 года назад

That runt of the planet to King of the dwarves transformation somehow reminded me of the Star Trek Beyond movie scene, where Kirk is making a peace offering to the Teenaxians and they eventually turn out to be pretty small :D

@chasthanhburns123 2 года назад

I hope she is canceled for inferring that dwarfs are not real humans.

@RobbJones 2 года назад

LOL! Every single one of your videos I come across just makes me adore you more and more. I too have been known to reference Monty Python when attempting to remember those numbers. 🤣

@eternyti 3 года назад

"it's been FIFTEEN YEARS since Pluto was given its proper classification" I don't appreciate being reminded of how old I am like this :(

@Paveway-chan 2 года назад

About that first meme. We were going to have auroras all over Sweden last night because of a solar storm. Wouldn't you believe a fog like you'd never seen descended and lasted the ENTIRE night? 😂😭

@mrinaalbanerjee 3 года назад

BEST ASTROPHYSICISTS: Dr Becky Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson Dr Rajesh Koothrapalli😂

@setokaiba6758 2 года назад

I will NEVER get over Pluto’s injustice. #JusticeForPluto

@robkemp598 3 года назад

"And pray that there's some intelligent life out there because there's bugger all down here on earth" 🤣🤣

@jameshurley224 3 года назад

The only thing i can say about methodology is by comparing certain results from similarity of reactions by other items might produce a surprise result ... but you really gotta be looking for something specific or just stumbling randomly to benefit from it. Frankly its sometimes more interesting looking at the development then the results. ..

@oysteinsoreide4323 3 года назад

It is in the method section of a paper that you really can discover if they have some flaws in their approach. Reading method sections of papers made me follow a more practical career instead of a research career. There were so many flaws in the method section that I, an undergraduate student discovered, that I really thought that this was not something that I wanted to pursue. I felt that I could pick the method section apart from many of the articles I read. This was in evolutionary biology, so not exactly astrophysics, but science non the less.

@DarudeF1 2 года назад

The "I have a feeling" meme, I did notice the finger, but the first thing I saw was someone at the feet of a humanoid monster about to Bury their axe into them.

@jbennett3578 2 года назад

3:55 For a long, long time, that Monty Python song was a major astronomical "reference" for me. Maybe we need more songs to help communicate science.

@uzairdurrani755 2 года назад

If astronomers start disappearing it's probably Sailor Pluto avenging the fallen one Dead Scream at a time.

@victor440 3 года назад

12:10 *Eris disagrees*

@stuart207 3 года назад

I have to admit I'm a noob for memes and this appeals to me.

@alwaysdisputin9930 3 года назад

Yes I also am a noob to memes. They appear to be a form of communication that combines pictures & words in an amusing way. But it musn't involve porn! I learnt this the hard way

@davidstowers1964 3 года назад

Once the New Horizons probe has finished photographing Pluto, it needs to return to Mar a largo in order to photograph Goofy.

@dancingwiththedogsdj 3 года назад

I'm 43. We were taught Pluto was a planet.... Despite knowing it's classified properly and everything, I always laugh and yell at whatever show I'm watching that Pluto is perfectly fine being referred to as a planet still, even if I know better. I don't care! It's always got a special place in my heart lol And besides, we have so many other fascinating things to learn from it and the rest of the universe. Never underestimate the power of nostalgia and it shows that probably more people paid attention in science class than they'd like to or would originally have admitted to ❤️ 🔭📡

@OhAncientOne 2 года назад

Maybe you could petition the Queen, to make Pluto feel better. She could grant Knighthood, & it will be Sir Pluto, henceforth!

@bekimetal444 3 года назад

'They're not even round they look like potatoes ' Same

@AlmeneBeranger 2 года назад

In my field writing the methods section can also involve having to dig around to find the code that you wrote forever ago to be able to say what you were doing

@rafijaxsen7227 2 года назад

Your description of the methods section sounds exactly like reading a surgical operative report.

@JaneXemylixa 3 года назад

An observations quote (about the 18th century Venus transit observations that almost everyone fucked up): "With eight years to prepare, [Guillaume Le Gentil] erected a first-rate viewing station, tested and retested his instruments, and had everything in a state of perfect readiness. On the morning of the transit, June 4, 1769, he awoke to a fine day, but, just as Venus began its pass, a cloud slid in front of the Sun and remained there for almost exactly the duration of the transit: three hours, fourteen minutes, and seven seconds." - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

@Jonayofsweden 2 года назад

3:58 Oh my god that's where it comes from?! I heard this once in the background of a Lawrence Krauss seminar/lecture/debate thing and it sounded so much like Lawrence's voice I actually thought it was him singing ^^

@hordegaming4771 2 года назад

I remember having to write method statements during applied science at college and you literally feel your grey matter dissolving inside your head. "Make sure to place the bunsen burner on a heat proof tile and plug the rubber hose into a gas supply" like well *DUH* yes I know exactly what you mean by writhing a method statement you literally feel like your writing instructions for an Orc or a Chimp lol

@SimbianMinistry Год назад

Re: Pluto - I've been arguing that Pluto isn't really a planet since the 80s when I was at Leeds doing my Physics degree. Felt thoroughly vindicated when KBOs started to be confirmed during the 90s

@Wolfogre 2 года назад

If Pluto is King of the Dwarves, I will from now on refer to it as "Durin".

@shikhar3281 3 года назад

Never heard a more accurate representation of drinks and phobos *POTATOES*

@vinkkt 3 года назад

I live in South Africa and it was also overcast here as Well 😢

@garethbattersby 3 года назад

I remember making a joke about a white car coming towards me and my friends... "Hey look at this red car" *car passes us* "Oh my mistake its blue" Only one friend gave a chuckle and said "Nice"

@suzevidz 2 года назад

The Internet will never get over Pluto.

@PassiveSmoking 3 года назад

"The potatoes of Mars" sounds like a filk song about that Matt Damon Mars film.

@SpeedyCM 3 года назад

Pluto is still a planet, it's just one that likes drinking ale and hitting things with axes.

@neroquin 3 года назад

IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN PLUTO. NO I WILL NEVER GET OVER THIS.

@seajaye9540 3 года назад

7:18 I'm so glad to know that reading methods is horrible to someone else too. I always look at this section and am like "Yeah nope!"

@seajaye9540 3 года назад

Your discussion of your work in the 9 minute range sounds very interesting with the rotations of the galaxies. Hopefully you will do a video on this when you are done with the research. No I'm not reading the methods, just not doing it 😂

@sukikurai 3 года назад

people see Pluto going from planet to dwarf planet as a downgrade which is why they are still making a big deal about it

@Ellensai 2 года назад

Dwarf planet is still a planet! Dwarf human is still a human! Logic!

@lotarion 3 года назад

12:07 Well, idk, if its better to be king of the fools, or to be one of the cool guys

@metalman552 3 года назад

People be like "I only think rationally and logically and rely on scientific data, research and evidence". Same people: "Pluto is still a planet".

@Pablonmon 7 месяцев назад

Always loved that galaxy song.

@fajarn7052 3 года назад

The Pluto thing, I think it was because the generation that currently dominates the internet were taught that there were 9 planets. I had a great time memorizing them, their orders, their appearances. Then suddenly, BAM, Dwarf Planet. I remember being in denial when I heard the news, that there were only 8 planets left. Some current astrophysicist might've become one because they want to prove Pluto was a still a planet. You said it yourself, its a gateway science.

@js0988 3 года назад

Rarest substances in the Universe. 2. Astatine 1. Garlic in a pizza shop!

@anastasiaklimchynskaya1613 3 года назад

You will love (hate?) a scene from Stargate Atlantis where their astrophysicist, Dr. McKay, meets Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson and accuses them of making the little kids cry by declassifying Pluto as a planet.

@phillipradcliffe8037 3 года назад

It doesn't mean that Pluto is claiming itself as a planet, it means the other planets no longer exist.

@reddemon6471 3 года назад

Okay, I'm subbing just for the sake of your knowledge of Monty Python. That put a huge smile on my face.

@meaganbailey5672 3 года назад

"It's been FIFTEEN YEARS since Pluto received its correct classification as a dwarf planet!" me: -mentally bluescreens as it hits me that Oh God I'm Old-

@chasthanhburns123 2 года назад

Crazy how crapping the education system has gotten in just 15 years.

@ETools. 3 года назад

Pluto is king of the dwarves. I'm going to use that now. XD

@vwlssnvwls3262 3 года назад

Big thumbs up for the "BOOM! Lawyered" clip. :)

@smoothkirito 2 года назад

If Pluto is the king of the dwarf planets, does that mean we can find the Arkenstone there?

@zackattack5414 3 года назад

Pluto be getting all the attention I feel bad for Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake

@jimbrannan5825 3 года назад

I think the pictures they use for Nebula's in Star Trek videos are so funny. It's not like you can just fly up to one and then fly into it or shoot a torpedo into it. They are so vast, it's ridiculous.

@zinaidanitikin4886 3 года назад

im not saying that demoting Pluto, named after the roman god of death, has incurred his wrath and set a plague upon humanity, but.... *gestures to a calendar of March 2020*

@baskoning9896 3 года назад

How can you say Pluto is not a planet. TAKE THAT BACK! lol

@KeyQuantum 3 года назад

You know for real if you counted every particle in saturn's rings as a moon then saturn would have the most moons in the solar system by far, by a LOT.

@DEADisBEAUTIFUL Год назад

Well, yes, Pluto still won’t be a planet, but Mercury, Venus, possibly Earth won’t be planets either once the Sun sings it’s swan song. It’s more like Pluto’s acting like Oprah in a way, “You’re not a planet, you’re not a planet, you’re not a planet, we’re all not planets!!!”

@armel2467 3 года назад

12:10 give Pluto the Arkenstone

@jeffscott3186 8 месяцев назад

Pluto does it's own thing, gets kicked out. Thanks Sesame Street.

@danielburke911 3 года назад

Mannn being in the medical field I usually need to actually read the methods section. I'm jealous of any field that can skip it without a problem.

@denidale4701 3 года назад

So true, not reading the methods section in social sciences will lead you to trust horribly badly done studies. We even start copying the systematic review process from the medical fields because of so much badly performed research. Maybe astrophysicists have the luxury of only methodologically sound research being performed?

@danieljones3464 8 месяцев назад

I hope that if the real planet nine is discovered it is called Snow White. There goes Snow white herding those dwarves.

@thenoob2329 3 года назад

0:15 Ey that's me

@kevinkanter2537 3 года назад

... loved chemistry and biology .... took physics ... and now i am drawn back by a meme video ...... ahhhhh .. ok, I subscribed 😃

@anonygent 3 года назад

I have this strange urge to send her a hundred Pluto memes now. 😇

@RikThunder33 2 года назад

be as educational as you like o.o learning is fun if done right. And this is definitely right.

@stephaniemirabito7631 3 года назад

10:05 Me when people ask what the difference between the two are and why I want to do astrophysics 11:45 may I add that TECHNICALLY. By its NAME. A dwarf planet *is* planet, therefore Pluto is a planet just a smaller one than most others (at least how I see the definition of a dwarf planet but a large range of definitions can be subjective to each individual)

@alanhembra2565 3 года назад

Pluto isn't a planet? I demand a recount!

@TheRealInscrutable 3 года назад

Is there a common spin direction of galaxies? Most of our planets spin one way. Toilets in the northern and southern hemispheres have spin groups. Does that scale up? And if it did, could anything be deduced from it? If it doesn't, can anything be deduced from that?

@callmeandoru2627 3 года назад

As an engineering student, I can totally agree with the "method section" meme.

@neuvocastezero1838 2 года назад

If the Gamelons can use it a a base to launch planet bombs toward earth, then in my book, it's a planet, albeit one that hasn't been peer reviewed and published.

@ferrous719 3 года назад

I'm a health practitioner and I read the methods section because I want to yell "your science is bad and you should feel bad!" (Although it's not as often as you might think except for when they have a small n and make grandiose claims from it)

@janchovanec8624 3 года назад

Hey, Good content, however I suspect you might have misunderstood the Pluto meme at 11:15. Pluto does not want to be acknowledge as a planet, it's merrily mocking terrestrial planets for no longer existing as planets after Sun devours them. As in: Haha, you are not planets now either.

@mlpsh6995 3 года назад

Let's make Pluto great again! #JusticeForPluto

@ADS_Fenix 3 года назад

Okay..... “King of The Dwarves” made me just ever so slightly less salty about Pluto. But look, i can’t just “get over it”, okay? I’m a guy. Heartbreak is forever.

@jacobduncan2142 8 месяцев назад

Lmao. The politics one is an actual special election map. 😅 The Georgia race from 2017.

@Talon5Karrde 3 года назад

We need another EVE Talk layout of the Solar System.

@VegaHawk769 3 года назад

A general inquiry from a random thought inspired by your video Since we have recorded hyper-velocity celestial bodies, what might an entire galaxy at hypervelocity be like?