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The tiger beetle can run super fast but can only run in short bursts because its brain cant keep up. So every time it stops it has to realise where it is then calculate where to run again in another short burst. Don't know if it helps with understanding the time question at all but its interesting.
I liked "let me clarify" more, both title and concept.
I get that they wanted a normal person's guess on the question on the show. But i don't think Chris was the right choice, and especially because he's "forced" to make up an explanation for something he has no knowledge about. He's just pulling stuff out of his ass, and coming surprisingly close to the actual answer. But it makes it more confusing for me.
I would like it better if they'd just let Sally explain it, and let Chris and Gus ask questions.
I completely agree. I try to ignore what Chris is talking about and just listen to Sally explain the answer. Makes the show so much more coherent.
Yah but if they do this it becomes more like you're watching a lecture in class vs a show on a comedy channel.
@Korky137 Nah, they made jokes even before they changed it. It was already funny, they just made it more confusing. Let Sally do the science stuff and let Chris and Gus do the funny stuff. We should stick to what we are good at. That's what makes shows good.
Another really great episode, loving this show!
Part of the reason I became a sponsor was so I didn"t have to watch Ads in the beginning of each show, yet the first 50 seconds of this video is an Ad. Id pay more to have the Ads removed, even if it is Gus.
Grow the fuck up and stop being petty.
you know you can fast forward right??
I've been loving the new recent format. Sally is awesome as always and having Chris is a great addition; he's a genuinely smart guy, but not afraid to think a bit weird or ask odd questions. I think the show is really starting to hit its stride now.
Chris is the king of being right in the most wrong way possible XD
I don't know. We may need some episodes with Gavin to further test this hypothesis.
Sally talking about cicadas is giving me horror flashbacks to Missouri a few years ago when they came out and they were absolutely everywhere. You couldn't go outside without being harassed by them and dead ones just littered the ground. It was horrifying.
You know those conversations that don't go anywhere because the guy can't get his answer straight and makes you wanna punch him to get on with it. That's me right now. Look, nothing against Gavin, Chris, and Brandon (specifically in that order, least dumb to greatest), but I do sometimes wanna punch them. I know they aren't dumb, hell Gavin has a slow mo guys video of him explaining cameras, and he does a damn good job of it, and on a number of occasions he conceptually knows what he's getting at. As shown on this series, Chris can get the right concept. Brandon... um... yea I can't think of a good example for him, all I think of is that one rt life video of him melting a patch of ice with hot water, which if he thought it through, would seem like a really dumb idea. In either case, the most common problem for these guys is that they don't think their thought through and/or can't phrase it correctly, more often than not, it's funny, but at the same time I wanna punch them sometimes. Chris doesn't really add anything to the conversation, he either gets the concept correct, in which case it is just confirmed and clarified by Sally or gets it entirely wrong, in which case Sally just corrects. I've mentioned this before in the old format, I really want them to include other scientific topics/experts like physics, geology, etc.
tl;dr - I prefer the old format and want to include other topics. I also wanna punch Chris.
I thought he was there to ask questions not answer them like he does it's really annoying
I don't want to punch Chris but I did prefer the old format. People loved having Sally on the podcast because we love listening to Sally. We don't need the forced humor they are trying to add with Chris.
I don't know if the discussion about eye/brain "hertz" is entirely accurate. There is not even definite conclusive evidence that we see in "frames" and that seems like a ridiculously low number. It seems more like the pseudo-scientific stuff you read about on gaming message-boards. How are companies even marketing 100+ hz monitors? If anyone's more knowledgable about this, feel free to add to this.
Marketing, is why, people want to have the newest and best thing, hence why there are 100+ Hz monitors, hence why we are getting 8K TVs in the next couple of years and why we will eventually get 12K, 16K, 20K, ect
Part of it is marketing like Cabouse said, part of it is that there is a bit of an actual range between different people, and part of it is that what the scientist are studying doesn't exactly align with what the products are doing.
While I'm not sure if there's been extensive experiments done on the "refresh rate" of monitors, I think that 60 fps might just be an arbitrary number/standard that the gaming industry agreed upon in the 80s. I would love to be wrong. But so far I feel like the statement that we have a 60 hertz refresh rate just doesn't sit well with me...
There's a lot of info on the topic, but most people can see a difference up to about 120 frames per second. With the maximum being somewhere from 200-300fps. I have a 144hz monitor. It's not a huge deal going from 60 to 144, but it is noticeable.
Each new episode of A Spot of Science I watch, I always learn something new. This show is great! Totally looking forward to more episodes.
Never found this show that interesting, but man, once I started watching I learned so much today!
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