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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I think whats pushed me back to religion is not that i view it as correct but moreso that i realized that the scientific method and various scientists in addition to not being people-people are also incredibly dead set on the most neurodivergent sci fi concepts imaginable that will never happen and never will but are inherently more appealing to their demo because they check various power fantasy boxes: so time travel, space colonies, transhumanism and multiverse theory are treated as plausible whereas the afterlife, the separation of the mind and body and the performance of miracles or prayer as a healing factor arent because they dont fit the sci fi aesthetic. Really all are probably fake but it's better to have an imagination than be some dumb nihilistic virgin
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Space colonies and transhumanism are an inevitability unless humanity is killed off somehow. Moon and mars bases by like 2300 max.
s already exist and actual cybernetics by like 2500 but probably a lot sooner.
Time travel and multiverse is on the same plane as prayer healing though. Gotta agree with you there.
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