The thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before. (The Space thread)

[FaultyMario]

In a flat earth, Autumn wouldn't have the greatest lighting effects in the meso-tropical band of this lovely planet.

[Phil_SS]

The video of it is a bit rough to watch.

Maybe Karma will catch up to me but I thought it was hysterical. Guy was a total f'in moron.

[Freude am Fahren]

He truly is the flattest of flat-earthers.

[Crazed_Insanity]

That is actually kinda funny, but I really don't want to laugh.

[FaultyMario]

Freman Dyson dead at 96.


Rest in stars, starmaker.

[Crazed_Insanity]

A quote by Freeman Dyson:

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Interesting, I always thought my Dyson vacuum cleaner was man made and purchased by my own money. But anyways, thanks God!

[Dicknose]

Interesting, I always thought my Dyson vacuum cleaner was man made

That would be Sir James Dyson...

[sandydandy]

Flat Earth is kinda funny. ok its complete nutballs. They have no coherent replacement. It involves way too many conspiracies and usually assumes the "southern hemisphere" is a hoax.
I particularly like the "no flights go from Australia to South Africa or South America - its faked with actors". Hmm - no one paid me to pretend those flight went direct when I was on them.

Oh man the Flat Earth stuff is beyond stupid.

There's a YouTube channel called Professor Dave Explains, who has absolutely destroyed these Flat Earth imbeciles more than once. Flat Earth is not the focus of his channel, he's a chemist and does a lot of tutorials on chemistry and other areas across the wide spectrum of science and maths. Really smart guy.

I've been meaning to post his Flat Earth stuff for a while, but today is the perfect day since he posted his fourth video on the subject just yesterday.

Here's the first one, which is just a general debunking of the stupidity. He doesn't insult anyone and just looks at it from a strictly academic point of view:



The YouTube channel Globe Busters responded with an idiotic three hour long video deconstructing Dave's video. I won't post that, but I will post Dave's response to that, which includes excerpts of their ridiculous comments. It's about 45 minutes, but I highly recommend it because it's so comprehensive, and I love the way he brutally puts those monkeys in their place:



Then a few months later he released another video, in which he was especially savage. Here it is:



A quick note: Dave does make a mistake in this third video when he says buoyancy is not a force, when apparently it is. He admitted the mistake in a chat on another channel. I think he said he was using the dictionary definition of buoyancy, but admits it is a real force. *shrug*

So just yesterday he released his fourth video to mark the almost one year anniversary of his first one. It's quite good:



So that's the Professor Dave stuff. I love re-watching these from time to time. I also am regular follower of SciManDan, who is one of the best on YouTube at debunking Flat Earth, and other pseudoscience bullshit. I recommend checking him out. I'm not a scientist at all, and have only rudimentary knowledge, but I have gained some good knowledge on astronomy and astrophysics watching these guys. There's a lot of good information out there, and these guys are the source of a lot of it.

[Rare White Ape]

I haven’t watched this yet (I am planning to today) but knowing the quality behind the Smarter Every Day YT channel, this will be highly entertaining.

[Dicknose]

What? No chatter about the upcoming return to US manned space flight!?!

Im excited. Although I actually suppose to be flying Chicago to San Fran today, so I would have been more excited to swap that for a side trip to Florida.
Oh well I guess its interwebs time for a launch viewing. Thats also cheaper and less disappointing if its postponed.

This is actually a pretty momentous occasion. First manned US flight in almost 10 years. Their first new style space craft in about 40 years. First private operation to launch to orbit.
Go SpaceX!