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I won’t be taking sides in this particular battle of grossly overinflated egos.
I’ll pick the side that’s not trying to overthrow the foundations of democracy
I’d put building cathedrals and pyramids more on slaves than worship of deity… other than that, spot on.
And he singles out recovering rockets as a feat of engineering, not space exploration, which would’ve been my second quip.
Egypt didn’t use slaves to build the pyramids. They used paid skilled workers. We have their living areas and pay receipts. You are working with outdated information. Cathedrals cover a 1700 year period and multiple labor strategies. I’m sure some were built with slaves but the majority weren’t and slavery was all but absent for the majority of the period unless you count serfdom, but serfs didn’t have the skills to build them so they don’t count.
Who died and made this goofball the official spokesperson for science and astronomy? It’s getting annoying seeing his face on my YouTube feed all the time. Along with that other dude, Michio Kaku.
In case y’all got the wrong idea, they’re still cool guys, and fuck Elon. It’s just that I’m past the teenage stoner documentaries of people being “deep” when explaining the science. That’s who Dr. Tyson seems to appeal to.
For some no-nonsense, no fluff science content, I’d recommend Sabine Hossenfelder and the PBS Spacetime series.
I really love our German equivalents: Harald Lesch and the show TerraX. Had the privilege of seeing him live in a guest lecture in my uni about the anthropocene. He feels so much more genuine and less arrogant than Neil DeGrasse Tyson. If you know German and don’t know him, check him out. Both on TerraX and his YouTube presence. There are even some full lectures on there, similar to the one I saw life.
Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan died.
PBS spacetime is great, but fuck Sabine Hossenfelder, she loves to pretend to be an expert about things she isn’t qualified to talk about. Like how trans people don’t exist. Or getting basically everything wrong about neurodivergence. She can fuck all the way off
I feel like the quality of her videos is way down but I am ND and found that video pretty neutral.
I skimmed a transcript just now because I wanted to understand why people are so disproportionately mad about it. She mentions Autism Speaks and does not immediately condemn it. Is that it? I wouldn’t say that counts as being wrong on everything.
I’m tired of (especially internet) discourse where shouting which camp you belong to is most important. One good example is when people accused Amnesty of siding with Russia because they reported on Ukrainian warcrimes. Nothing is truly neutral but I much prefer information or thought experiments over the virtue signaling that has taken over the internet.
You will not convince people to change their mind by shouting in their faces that your point of view is correct. Granted, you usually wont change people’s mind online anyway, except entrenching them deeper into their existing beliefs. I don’t think that is a good thing regardless of the side they take. It leads to seeing fellow humans as monsters just because they are wrong about something.
Scott Manley is good on factual space stuff.
Yep, for literally anything in space or aerospace he is my go-to. I also like Angela Collier for physics, she makes great content.
PBS Spacetime is one of those golden nuggets of a shitpile thats youtube.
Youtube keeps pushing Sabine, but I don’t agree with her on many things relating to quantium stuff. But yeah, you definitely won’t find any new age quantium mystic crap on her channel.
All that money that went to Boeing and Space X should have went to NASA. Fuck private space cunts getting our money. Those engineers should be OURS, not fuckwit Leon.
