Views : 1,316,615
Genre: Science & Technology
Date of upload: Apr 10, 2023 ^^
Rating : 4.97 (662/88,901 LTDR)
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You regained my liking into physics and space, and made my crippling depression even higher. But no for real, I had lost my interest in physics and maths when I was ending secondary school (1-2 years ago) and I'm hating physics in my university, but you woke up that curiosity again and I'm going to fucking take it by the hand and never let it go again. Man, I really don't know how a professor can destroy my love for something and just one random (and fucking marvelous) video make me so passionate about everything. I'm going to pass my grades for real. I believe in me
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Your Saturn story really hit home for me. I was about 10 years old (mid 1960s) and my Dad was a scientist in New Mexico. He had friends who were had some really good telescopes. One very clear, very cold night at high elevation and away from stray light sources his buddies had set up a large telescope. Saturn was out and was tilted so the rings were clear. They got it lined up and I took a look. Earlier I had seen the point of light that was the planet, and now I saw in its glory. It was really there. It had to be huge, just floating out in space. It didn’t care. I was very, very small. It was my first, and strongest inkling of existential dread. I learned more that night that I learned in entire semesters in school.
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The Monet joke is enough energy I need to keep going. Just to see you put in effort for a little joke like that whilst explaining cosmic terror just puts a smile on my face. Somehow you always manage to comfort me. For a long time i refused to watch you videos because i was depressed and did not want to trigger my existential crisis with yours. But then i realised i could just be more like you. Philosophizing about life while still enjoying it by laughter, love and knowledge. Thanks for everything xxx
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i feel like black holes are always described in the most terrifying and personal way. it's like the people explaining it are aiming to make children develop phobias about them... but like you said, it's not about us. we don't have to worry about being spaghettified because we are not even remotely close to a black hole in our human lifespans.
but still. my heart rate definitely went up during that part of the video. maybe it's just me that has a primal fear of black holes.
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@nataliaborys1554
1 year ago
You mostly talked about the existential dread of the cosmic scale (and that's great), but as a biotechnology student I would like to mention that the microscopic scale can invoke similiar feelings. The other day, my class were watching paramecium under the microscope and, when done, we washed them down the utility drain. And as I was doing so, I had that thought, that we're sending thousands of those tiny creatures down a fall equivalant to falling off a mountain to us, that if they could feel fear, they would probably be terrified, yet to us it's mundane clean-up that we are annoyed we must do. We don't care. Just as the supermassive black hole doesn't care about us.
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