'Gavin or Google' #5, taken from Rooster Teeth's Video Podcast #218 Tweet your GoG suggestions to @burnie with the hashtag #GavinOrGoogle If he likes it, he'll favorite it, and might use it for a GoG.
I think all of RT just operate on the expectation that Gavin can only be stupid, which distorts their perception of whatever he says or does so that they can ONLY see or hear him as being dumb. It's kinda unfair. If Gus or Burnie or someone else higher up the hierarchy than Gavin had made half or more of his comments, the panel would have considered them seriously, or at least not just laughed and dismissed them. Gavin's just unfortunate in that he phrases things badly, which allows others to criticise him or to misinterpret what he means. And yeah I know it's all a joke and played up for the humour, but I can't help taking it more seriously than I should. Especially as (I'll admit) I'm biased towards Gavin as possibly my favourite RTer.
Actually Gain's right about the legs thing. Say you grab onto a car going like 50mph. your legs will let you move at that speed with the car. But when you let go, you'll most likely fall over, because your legs are not able, or accustomed to going that fast. So yes, you can go too fast for your own legs.
I didn't even have to grab a car to find this out. I was running across a road to beat traffic when I fell over because my legs couldn't keep up with my upper body. I guess I attained my max speed but then couldn't maintain it, while my upper body kept going at the same speed.
No light can not get stuck between two mirrors cause you loose light every time it reflects. But decent question if Gavin lived 100+ years ago he might of being the in the history books.
Totally agree. Gavin asks questions that people today think are dumb. But. In 1915 if Gavin asked If A Man Can Get Pregnant, scientists would study and make theories and possibly have invented a device or come up with a way to make it possible for a man to get pregnant. Because those are things they didn't know or think about.
petej222 That's the thing. Gavin just asks stupid questions. 100 years ago he would ask if it's possible to get polio and tuberculosis at the same time, or if driving a car on a car would make it go faster. There is such a thing as a stupid question, and Gavin and Google users ask a lot of them.
Micheal Drake When I read this I was so appalled at the stupidity and found it funny and then I gasped so hard in my shock and awe that I ended up swallowing my saliva into my wind pipe and now I'm coughing. Ty for that.
From what I've seen, it doubles the consonant. So ッレ would be RRE. GT and www.sljfaq.org make Harrison into ハリソン. But I very quickly came to dislike it because it doesn't sound right. So I changed it a bunch till it became ハッレセン. Because katakana is a phonetic language.
TheDefender00 It's represented in romaji as a doubled consonant yes, but doubled letters have a different meaning in English than in romaji. If you're converting a word to katakana, the sound is more important than its original spelling.
+ScoptOriginal Especially because most of his questions are legitimate/understandable questions, just phrased weirdly. Even when everyone here is making fun of his 'fade to color' statement, he's right. A fade is just a slow change from one thing to the other- it's a common film term, so of course Gavin (who works as a video editor) uses it. In fact, "fade to color" is a pre-packaged transition in almost all video programs, along with "fade to white," "fade to black," and "crossfade". "Tanning" would actually be a kind of fade- we just call it tanning because you are specifically making your skin color more tan.
+8th Floor Cinema I have thought of the light mirror thing and it seems like it should be possible but it isn't and I can't make a mirror lantern and save the world trillions on light energy
Gavin, mirrors actually absorb a tiny fraction of the light that hits them. yes the light will bounce back and forth after the light is turned off. but light is so fast it would seem to disappear instantaneously. look up "vsauce spherical mirror".
A moon, by the definition given by astronomers, is: a solid satellite (orbits something that orbits a star) that is all in one piece. Most people don't think about it, but we DO have actual names for our sun, moon, and earth. The Sun is named Sol, the Moon is named Luna, and the Earth is named Terra. Astronomers use these names when speaking of things in relation to the 3 celestial bodies, but most people are unaware of their names. This has been Me, with your Science Factual of the Day!
The first time i learned that the moon was called luna was when i was told about a condition where if someone stares at the moon to long they begin to lose their mind and this is the origin of the term lunacy. p.s. i think they are just the latin names aren't they, im sure cultures had names for them too
Ethan Quirk Well yes, they do. Every culture had a name for them. They also had names for the planets and constellations. Astronomers just use the Latin names for the planets, moons, and our sun.
I knew about the moon and the sun, but I never knew the earth name. Surprising how my favourite subject is astronomy and I'm pretty bright in that, but I didn't know the name for the earth.
"So, you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be...whelmed?" "I think you can in Europe..." From the movie 10 Things I Hate About You.
The question that prompted this is actually really interesting. If you had perfect mirrors, then you could trap light between the two of them. However, we don't have the ability to create mirrors that reflect 100% of the light available to it. Mirrors actually reflect wavelengths near the middle of the visible spectrum better than reds and violets. That's why when you make mirror tunnels, it gets darker and tints green as you look further into the tunnel.
"I know you can be overwhelmed, and I know you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?" "I think you can in Europe." Maybe google is just full of people who love 'Ten Things I Hate About You'
I thought the reference was to Ten Things I Hate About You: Chastity: I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed? Bianca: I think you can in Europe.
Tendai Ball light can't get stuck between mirrors. Each time it bounces off a mirror, the mirror absorbs some of it, and the light moves so fast, you wouldn't be able to tell if the light lasted longer.
I was once too fast for my own legs. I had lost 50 pounds (230 to 180) in 2 months due to Ulcerative Colitis. I was laid up the whole time. A couple weeks after getting out of the hospital, I played inter-mural football at college (defensive back.) I could suddenly run like the wind, but I couldn't stop! Running was easy, but my muscles couldn't handle the stress of stopping my legs and body and I would just crumble and fall down.
"Debris cloud in space that will kill someone one day" I always get a funny feeling and look around for any signs of falling matter from space, just being paranoid, I'm sure.
I use to sprint the 100m and did it competitively. I once pushed my self so hard that my brain couldn't keep up with my feet placement so I started to trip.
To the tan eyes question: I used to squint in one eye while the sun was in my eyes, and now one eye is visably darker than the other. Also, I see more vibrant colors in one eye; the other one just sees things in a brighter fashion.
Your mirror questions is yes, if you shine a light at a mirror at a perfect 180 degree angle and pushed another mirror in front of the light a little faster than the speed of light it would be trapped in a beam and you would have created a never ending stream of light.
I have been too fast for my legs and what it is is when you are running really fast, typically downhill, and you can't control yourself so you trip over your own feet. You fall forward
Gavin is right, things that are white will fade to a yellowish color if left in the sun, like burnable CDs that are left in a car. We used to have those and they would develope yellow blotches on them when we'd left them in the sun too long.
sunburn on your eyes is actually very serious. it is most commonly known as cataracts. as an analogy think of an egg on a sidewalk, as the sun cooks the egg the liquid goes from a clear substance to white and opaque and causes blindness. I suffer from solar retinitis so i have to wear sunglasses that protect from UV rays because i am more susceptible to cataracts.
