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Hmm... I'd still prefer to be on earth.

Subtle way for the scientist to take the mickey out of _Star Wars_ fans ...

Right at that moment he's thinking... "Do I really need the money?"

I thought he said "You'd need to be very..." and was wondering why he wasn't finishing his sentence.

Did that change your life or..... 😶

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friends nose

@@zapkvr you can, but preferably with a cotton swab or similar....

Ffs innit

Omg I’m always frantic to choose a new video before Sandi says that!!! lol

@@zapkvr Than they aren't really your friends...

Agreed, it's so funny. "You can throw ewoks into a late of fart." "Actually, they'd shatter." "EVEN BETTER!!!" lmfao

"where is he?" _hes off tossing ewoks again. Tossing ewoks into a lake of farts, from a boat of smoke_

I know it isn't *perfect* but it's _close enough_ for the next 20 minutes until I check the compilation of him and correct it.

@@Hurricane000007 If I could stand on a planet and throw an ewok into a lake of fart... That would just be... Well you couldn't, because it would shatter Even better! So I could be tossing ewoks into a lake of fart When you say tossing ewiks into a lake of farts *Steady on* No, hat's exactly what I meant. They'll ask "Where is he?" He's off tossing ewoks again in his lake of farts, in a peddlo made of smoke ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5r_TlPwZOvU.html

@@chorusofoddities You're a star, I laughed even harder at the linked video than this| XD

Looking for and may I ask if you know, is this comes from Fry or it came from someone else and Fry just said it?

@@RasPutintheGreat Ummm, Socrates said it first

@@johnfisher437 well...can't argue with that but...it is possible that someone said that and mentioned "socratic". But anyway...thanks.

@@RasPutintheGreat Socrates also said "food goes in here" while pointing to his mouth. A brilliant mind.

@@RasPutintheGreat It was either Abe Lincoln or Wayne Gretsky, i believe.

@@FenceThis So wait, I was conned when I bought that phial of Elf Sweat? Good thing I paid for it with Pixie Corns, then.

Sometimes, it feels like if they just say "nobody knows", they will get the question right.

The question was selected for this particular panel so you could say the panel is perfect because the elves made it so with their question

Yes

If you replace Perkins with Bill Bailey, sure

@@bastiaan1150 Replace Perkins with an empty chair it would be better

@@cvwright sue is quirky. hmm so is BB 🤔

It must have been the most enlightening experience

Cannot stand him.

🤣

...and later in that episode, proceeds to fantasise about tossing an Ewok into a lake of liquid farts.

And Brian treats them both the same, that's class.

And the little gasp when he talks about the little fountains of ice.. so cool (no pun intended)!

They were probably falling asleep

It's literally his job to sound that way. In reality, there's nothing he likes less.

@@trollop_7 what? Can you prove that in any way? Kinda hard to believe...

@@Stormchantress Tell me why you think he is employed in his capacity as a "science communicator"?

@@trollop_7 Oh, answering a question with a question, now that makes me totally trust whatever you're saying, lol. Unless you're a miserable passionless bore or a corporat, people tend to do a job they're good at and, ideally, passionate about. How would that be relevant? If your next comment doesn't include any solid evidence that Brian hates science / talking science, it will be clear that you have been spreading baseless bullshit.

Educate yourself, Sir. Brian is a good friend of mine, and there's nothing he hates more, but the money's good, so....

Right?

He's not a research scientist really, he's a professor at uni of Manchester and does TV appearances, probably due to his former fame(ish) in D:Ream. Things can only get better and all.

@@Stegibbon Professors at research universities all have heavy research requirements unless they are exclusively lecturers, so he is both a research scientist and a professor

@@quarkonium3795 my point is more to the TV appearances, he's too busy crafting a public image to do research himself I bet. Don't see too many research papers from bill Nye or Neil degrasse Tyson these days.

@@Stegibbon Brian Cox is still doing research, but yeah he probably has to split his time up. Tyson also does some research, but again splits his time. He is the Director of the Hayden Plane arium, so he probably has a lot of administrative work. Nye wouldn't be doing pure research as he was never a scientist, but an engineer. He spent his time practically applying research- until he quit to do children's science shows. Good on him, I say.

"Foreskin of Unknown Provenance" is my favorite jazz fusion album.

@@hive_indicator318 The band formally known as "Prepuce of Unknown Provenance" but they renamed after touring the UK and found there was already a band there named that.

@@daxriley8195 Just for fun, I tried "Prepuce of Unknown Provenance" in the search bar. I got, "How to make your own foreskin retainer cone at home"...

I had this brief moment where I was picturing her doing the Beyonce Dance and singing "Well he liked it so he went and put a ring on it..!"

More the point when they said the foreskin was 50,000 kms across my immediate thought was, "no wonder Mary Magdalene was bow legged."

... which makes it sooo much sweeter when Brian gives an answer that (at face value) sounds remotely sensible.

Ive watches enough of Ross noble to know what was coming ... and he didn’t disappoint 🤣

They missed an opportunity there. Enceladus is basically an ocean world which can house underwater cities of Gungan (the race of Jar Jar).

Yup, I must confess. I laughed out loud.

Very well in both cases

This deserves more likes

You Sir, you nailed it.

I can confirm.

Comic gold

A pretty back-handed compliment for Ross.

If you pay attention there are definitely episodes where questions appear to have been written with their guest's specialist knowledge in mind.

@@OriginalPiMan Absolutely, and they're definitely my favourite- it's always nice to learn new things from people who actually have studied the subject matter... I didn't realise, for example, that a denser atmosphere meant you'd need to be furry to survive, but Brian said it, so it must be true. :)

@SaintPhoenix Dara O Briain is another brilliant scientist/comedian who has been on QI and hosts Mock the Week. I saw both of them together on a British show and not only are they funny, but amazingly brilliant !

@@peterclarke7240 To be fair, you don't have to be furry in a denser atmosphere. Fur is there to protect you from the (extreme) cold. Fur as nothing to do with the density of the atmosphere, it is an insulator. Now, that being said, a denser atmosphere means that things cool and warm up faster in them, depending on their temperature, but it is again tied to temperature, not the density itself. For instance, water is denser than air - in 10 degrees Celsius air on Earth you'd be mostly fine even naked, while in 10 degrees Celsius water, you'd get cold very fast. It is denser, meaning more molecules touch you and take away your heat. So in that sense, in a very cold atmosphere that is also dense, every level of insulation is a plus. In this case fur. On the other hand, in a dense but hot atmosphere, you wouldn't really like fur, just like you would not like a blanket when going to the beach in the middle of summer.

@@Wustenfuchs109 Wouldn't the purpose of the fur be to protect from wild swings of internal temperature. A cool breeze will freeze you quicker. A hot dessert gust will rise your core temperature quicker. So you'd need the fur to essentially slow that effect. However, Titan is cold, so what Brian Cox said is still correct by what you said.

Who's surprised by the madness amongst the religious.

@@Snaakie83 Who’s surprised by the madness among the irreligious?

@@WiggyWamWam I reckon this is why Aliens are yet to make contact- it's not that we're a savage, uncivilised lot, it's that we're clearly all completely and irredeemably potty.

Whataboutism

@@WiggyWamWam Examples..?

It's true, that was an exchange in the video

Can also confirm that I witnessed this statement in the video above

I think, maybe, she “sought” out degrading experiences. If you’re going to regurgitate something we all heard, please spell it accurately.

Actually I really appreciate this comment....I couldn't understand what he was saying

@@benjo_5 ^ Looks like many agree...👍 Thanks Ian!

My grandson hero worships Brian for his knowledge.

Maybe it was the colour? BTW despite what Stephen said about 18 places claiming to have it, some say that when he ascended, all his body whether or not it was attached came with him. Maybe it got lost along the way and ended up around this planet.

We are talking Catholic here. They do have some freaky stuff in their storage areas👍

@@Areyousayingidontknowmyname no shit.

Yes, sometimes i feel that religion should be outlawed and made punishable by death, so they can meet their makers more quickly.

They needed to get laid.

One ring to find them :o

One ring to bring them all

And in the foreskin, bind them

One skin to rule them all

in the land of Mohel where the forceps lie.

And they can copy the Ark from all the other Arks that have been discovered.

Banach and Tarski have no problem with this.

Not really. All the claimed pieces of the true cross have been catalogued and together they would make up a piece of wood which is about a 0.004 cubic metres. Look up 'True cross' in wikipedia. The story about the vatican librarian is hardly well attested either. A nineteenth century writer claims that Leo Allatius, the Vatican librarian, wrote a treatise on the Holy Foreskin in the 17th century, but no-one has ever found the treatise.

That’s commonly said but not actually true.

@@lawrencecalablaster568 it's normally used as satire.

Although already high, this just increased my estimation of Mr. Frye.

Well, he didn't have a teddy bear so....

I think he might have been more justified given that it's also suggesting he had a penis that was bigger than any planet in the solar system

And then a few centuries afterwards in the case of Catherine of Siena.

Well the question that created the need for this discussion in the first place is what exactly happened to it when Jesus ascended to heaven. It was still part of his body so wherever it was it couldn't have stayed on earth, but the idea of it ascending separately and jut sort of sitting there in heaven, or of Jesus putting it back on was a bit too weird. Saying he put it in the sky was a relatively elegant solution really, if a rather random choice.

He's a professor, and teaching requires some skills

Ted(x) Talks? The Royal Institution lectures? 😊

@@ZeHoSmusician ists

I wish I could be so certain.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5r_TlPwZOvU.html

Best part of of one of the best episodes. The joy on Ross and Alan's faces when contemplating a lake of frozen farts is hilarious!

They were shattered

At the end of a previous episode Stephen quoted someone who once said "A fool is someone who doesn't know what I just found out." Or something like that.

how could there be ice so close to the Sun tho

@@dariogutierrez6716 Mars is further away from the sun than earth though.

@@tiaxanderson9725 yeah... it is. I wonder whose memories are these?

Cassini’s data show that the ejections, localised in a confined region of the south pole, are dominated by the presence of water, with SIGNIFICANT amounts of carbon dioxide and methane.

"Ehhm....... Sorry about that"

Similar bunch of people involved, so I suspect some good natured rivalry :-)

The show is known for shock comedy and off-color humor, so Alan was joking that what Stephen described would fit right in on the show.

But also I suspect this is a reference to the fact that female comedians tend to report having a bad time on there (particularly when this episode came out). It can be quite an adversarial/survival of the fittest show in terms of shouting loudest to get your material shown and there's a bit of a boy's club to contend with. So it would be a degrading experience for her.

Interesting. I've only seen mock the week as clips, and generally enjoy it, but didn't go with watching the show for some reason. Interesting to note about female comedians, since QI has been vociferous in including women (especially since Sandi became host), so that may well be a reason for Alan's barbed comment 🤔

@@hippyfriend that's probably because female "comedians" generally aren't.

Well, back in those days, maybe the local SM club WAS the church.

Will yours still be attached at the time?

Ice

@@TheHoipoloi yes I know that he meant ice. My point is that having a second language can be a reason for confusion and hilarity at times.

Hoping this is a joke, Christian logic makes me think otherwise.

Could you be a little more specific about which of the four men on show you're talking about?

You do realise that alevel is not a word, the correct term is A Level ! Good luck with your physics!

@@TonyWhite22351 thanks because I fu*king need it