techdif.co.uk - This week: we get stuck somewhere dark, it all gets a bit serious for a moment, and Gary pulls his hoodie over his head. It's all kicking off.
As an Amazon Warehouse worker I am not allowed to confirm or deny your comment about losing track of time while -trapped- willingly in a windowless building with sun-bright lights in the middle of the night and losing track of time.
@@nikoheinz1213 they put the word chin in the middle of the word Darwin(ian): a pun on how we're talking about beard evolution. Took me a second myself 😁👍
"I'm surprised no company's set up underground to get more hours out of people." "I think that's just the Amazon workhouse." This joke aged like a fine wine.
Actually, there is a musical instrument associated with Neil Armstorng. After the crew of Apollo 11 came back to Earth, they had to spend 21 days in a quarantine facility made from a modified Airstream caravan. They were allowed a few personal items in the quarantine facility, and Armstrong requested a ukulele, which he spent his time in quarantine playing.
@@thelastcube. Sacrilege! This person dareth compare the Four Strings of Whimsy to the... Guitar. Technically no. Just the tuning and the nylon makes it quite a different instrument with its own sound hehehe
@@michaelabbott5999 Honestly I feel like once an instrument is on the ISS it would stay in tune better with all the environmental control they have, the trip up, on the other hand, must be brutal.
If anyone was wondering how they measure your immune system, it's by measuring a number of t cells in your blood. Granted I have no idea how they got a measurement of 23.
13:55 Commander Hadfield didn't take the guitar up with him. It was taken up in 2001 by Space Shuttle Discovery, mission STS-105. They also have a keyboard, a saxophone, a flute and a didgeridoo up there.
iirc there's actually two guitars ! And they're slightly smaller than normal guitars, can't remember why exactly. Prob just to get them as light as possible while still making normal-ish playing possible. They're also decked in velcro so you can just press one against a wall to stay there !
I have a biology degree, and a particular interest in Immunology and I have no idea what actually went from 27 to 0. It's not white blood cells, which would be the immediate thought.
I imagine It’s similar to the methods in doi: 10.1007/s00204-016-1809-5 (PMID 27522652 for medline) Just in case anyone’s getting curious, just like me.
It sounds like some manner of in-house test score that measures overall immune system responsiveness based on all of the specific test factors. I'm no immunologist, but I am an engineer, if significantly less qualified than the NASA ones who would be involved in this test, and they'd probably want an overall score that summarizes the immune system's ability to handle things. Something along the lines of working out a constitution score for a D&D character sheet representing them, that sort of thing. Engineers like summarized, digestible data up front and access to details when called for.
On that circadian rhythms thing. Now my sleep schedule over the summer makes sense now. I start shifting to 25 hour days until my social jet lag gets so bad that I have to kick it back into place.
imagine being on the inside of that (acrylic, was it?) glass room underground, and watching, trapped, as a figure approaches you from the outside of the glass???? f e a r
Now I've got a mental image of Neil Armstrong floating around in the cabin with a theremin loosely wafting by him with theremin music clumsily playing while buzz tries to fly. ...actually, that's not that bad; I could have *far* worse mental images stuck in my head.
There's apparently also a scene from Apollo (10? I think?) where they did exactly that but with a turd. You can find scans of the transcripts online. Huh. I just looked it up, and apparently it happened twice on the same mission.
I love this new show. You guys are a lot of fun! It's a nice change of pace to see some humor other then the "lowest common denominator" that the internet is full of. Who said you can't be funny and informative at the same time :) Great idea, had a fun time watching the video. Keep up the good work!
I googled the picture of Stefania's perspex cage, she had TWO computers, looks like an IBM XT and an AT by the picture...those have bios, and therefore clocks, but I guess they could have removed the batteries.
If you are behind a DOS machine, you can type TIME into the command prompt and you can indirectly get a running time in a number of ways. However, its likely that she was not a computer person, and no precaution was needed.
My ideal sleep cycle covers 36 hours. 4 hours to myself on waking, 16 productive hours, another 4 hours to myself, followed by 12 hours of sleep. When I could sustain it it meant I slept every second day, and every second night. I got 8 days of productivity out of every week.
as someone who repeated slept later and later everyday while locked inside in quarantine, I am starting to compare 28 hour rhythm to my current schedule and that's a lil horrifying
It is likely to result in decreasing the regularity of menstruation as well a longer menstrual cycle. Upon research, Stefania's menstruation stopped all together.
@@MargaretBelle oh wow, that's interesting. I really don't find the correlation but maybe it's due to her longer spaced eating habits and the total chaos in her body clock
Technical Difficulties is a pretty amazing podcast! I don't know if you should be spending the serious amount of time it must take to edit these things together though, just keeping the wide angle constantly would save you like 2 hours for each of these episodes. As I like to just listen to podcasts or keep them in the background, I feel really guilty ignoring all this excellent editing and production quality. I mean, if you can keep it up, by all means do. All I'm saying is that I (and I think "we" is fair) would still listen/watch this without the insane amount of effort put in.
11:58 I actually was on a bus once where the guy sat behind me leaned forward and whispered basically that in my ear. There are some weird people out there
12:53 Good thing I'm not the only person who utterly despises this song for the same reason. My situation was arguably worse, because I had a school band (trio is a more apt word) who literally only practiced smoke on the water... Badly.
The articles of the time all mention that it stopped, which makes no sense to me and would be a much more interesting effect than the circadian rhythm study.
Have an experiment that sounds absolutely awful but isn’t life threatening or painful? No need to worry; there will always be someone in the world up for it who won’t even consider it a big deal.
Re; Bugsy Malone and Home Alone: Earlier in the movie, the kid watches Bugsy Malone (because it's a movie his parents wouldn't let him watch). He uses carefully paused playback from the movie to scare away a food delivery guy and to scare the burglars, and it's where he gets the idea to use the cutouts to make the house seem occupied by a group of gun-toting adults.
The computer? It would likely have an internal clock, but setup with permissions to only specific programs so that you couldn't get access to the clock.
"That bloke, when you're trying to drive, y'know, really concentrate, and someone puts their CD on, that's him with his theremin music, innit?" Egads you silly Brits are so culturally different than us Muricans when
