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 the big issue with Kursgesagt is how they misrepresent science. They focus on the most out there, crazy, big, sci fi ideas which often have little to no testing ability. Is how you get people thinking science is transhumanism and string theory and multiverses and shit instead of actual areas of importance.
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That's why I always preferred their health related videos on Malaria, the immune system and even the longevity videos (longevity research is still in early stages but at least looks kind of promising and definitely worth investing). Their videos on “how to destroy the universe” or alien stuff are just crap.
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He did one on Phage therapy stuff I used to work on. Neat and theoretically sound solution to anti biotics but are too hyper specific to actually be of mass use. Rn the plan seems to be to just isolate millions of them and cyro store them lol
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Interesting
By the way, what's your background? Biochemistry? Microbiology?
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Microbiology and computational biology
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