Dramacels, !spacechads, what are some of the most ludicrous, possibly wrongful and reddity pop sci videos/channels you've come across?
My thumbnail example is a Kursgesagt video about Terraforming Venus.
I know they try to make it as “scientifically sound” as possible, but the whole idea sooooo incredibly far-fetched, it involves building giant planet size mirrors to cover sunlight from Venus so the CO2 in the atmosphere freezes, followed by harvesting nitrogen from Titan and removing all the frozen CO2. Not to mention water from Europan ice and another giant mirror to provide day/night cycles (as Venus is almost tidally locked).
Another is their Dyson sphere video
Which includes disassembling Mercury
They also have these pop physics videos where they try to convey some “deep” philosophical ideas like this one.
by the way, what do physic-cels here think of this concept, is this even taken seriously?
@Geralt_of_Uganda I remember you made a thread on them once
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Man Kurge(some random syllables) really fell off
Their older videos on fracking, Ebola and nuclear energy were good pop sci
Their latest videos on shit like le heckin paradox, destroy/kill/behead the universe, aliens are shit.
Stopped watching them sometimes in 2016-2017
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Their problem has been chasing clicks instead of trying to deliver useful content.
Unfortunately "explain cancer" doesn't do as well as "omg super huge black hole eats everything"
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Their health related videos are still their best as that's their educational background. Apparently they started the project wanting to write a book about the inmune system then they went off with every single reddit scifi concept.
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Gesagt is german past tense of "to speak", ie "said/spoken" iirc
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