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Not much of a chance of that happening in a capitalist society.. ;)

YouTube video by Seriously Scientific David Attenborough Documentary | Galapagos | Origin

"Tortoises can't swim, but they can float. And about 3 million years ago, one of them, a large species from the South American forests, got carried away, maybe by a flash flood" - David Attenborough
Meet the giant tortoises of Galapagos:

SeriouslyScientific.com/David-Attenborough-Galapagos-Origin

Close-up of Beakman from Beakman’s World with wild, frizzy hair and an expressive face, wearing a bright green lab coat. The background is a colourful, chaotic mix of pink, purple, and blue lighting, evoking a playful science lab vibe. This image links to the remastered 4K HD playlist of Beakman’s World on SeriouslyScientific.com, celebrating the return of this iconic '90s educational science show in high definition.

I've just started adding them, I'll try and get a couple a week uploaded, here:

seriouslyscientific.com/Beakmans-Wor...

YouTube video by Seriously Scientific Carl Sagan's Cosmos | E04 | Heaven & Hell | 4K Remastered

"From the time and direction of its approach, what hit the Earth seems to have been a fragment of a comet named Encke, weighing almost a million tons." - Carl Sagan

In ep4, Carl discusses the comet hypothesis to explain the mysterious Tunguska Event of 1908:
SeriouslyScientific.com/Cosmos-Part-04

I think they get recorded as bursts of low frequency radio static at the meteorological stations..

Indeed maybe so, or that G could also stand for Gamer, and we're simply the result of a very elaborate single block prompt written by ape v5.5 ;)

It really does feel like the universe is still holding back pieces of the puzzle for now…
As you hinted, maybe with a few million more years of evolution, if we even survive that long, ape v5.5 will have all the answers 😉

I think the scientific method is definitely the best tool we have for now, but as we know, it doesn’t always give quick or complete answers. Just look at quantum mechanics as an example, the observer effect alone suggests we’re bumping into limits we don’t fully understand...

It seems that wherever we look in the universe, we find repeating patterns, so it feels logical that the pattern of life should also repeat. The more we explore, the closer we'll get to answering these profound questions I’m sure..

An artist’s impression created by Seriously Scientific depicting Carl Sagan's 'Ship of the Imagination' from the acclaimed science documentary series 'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.' The interior of the ship, softly illuminated in shades of blue, looks out through a panoramic viewing window onto the spectacular Andromeda galaxy, glowing gently against the deep black of space. Countless stars surround the galaxy, and a centrally placed, empty chair symbolises humanity's ongoing curiosity and cosmic exploration. This illustration highlights Carl Sagan's iconic quote from Episode One, 'The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean,' inviting viewers on an imaginative journey through space and time. The remastered series 'Cosmos' is available at Seriously Scientific on YouTube: youtube.com/@seriouslyscientific. This image was created under Creative Commons licensing.

"We’re going to explore the cosmos in a ship of the imagination unfettered by ordinary limits on speed and size, drawn by the music of cosmic harmonies. It can take us anywhere in space and time. it will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts. Come with me."- Carl Sagn

;) Thank you 🙏🙏

You're a legend, thankyou ✌️

Sure... I've just got started with this one now but I'll try to add two or three a week to get caught up..
Here's the playlist to watch:

seriouslyscientific.com/Beakmans-World-Playlist

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by jingle? Do you mean the theme music for each show?

Yay, sometime it's good to be a statistic hey ;) Congrats on 10,000 🥂🎈🎉🍾

On further reflection, we wouldn’t be out of the solar system actually, we’d still be floating somewhere in the Oort Cloud. So not space dust, more like space ice cubes 🧊🧑‍🚀😉

There's never any bother, all discussion is worthile discussion..

But if we use the galactic core as a reference point, the solar system (travelling at around 230 km/s) would have moved about 3.58 billion kilometres ahead of us, definitely leaving us in nothing but space dust..

Sure.. If we travelled back in time by six months but stayed in the same coordinates in space, we’d end up in empty space. Earth moves at around 29.78 km/s, so it would be roughly 463 million kilometres away on the far side of its orbit, across from the Sun. (relative motion within the solar system)

Yes, indeed, it does seem that every observer is, quite literally, at the centre of their own universe..

I watched this and yes, it was terrible science communication -yikes indeed!
She contradicted herself so many times, especially when talking about her understanding of his theory. One moment she claimed to know nothing, the next she was breaking it down like she’d studied it in depth.

Doing science and explaining it clearly are two very different skills, and not that many people can do both well.
But in the end, whether it’s through research, teaching or communication, I'd like to think tthe aim is the same: helping more people understand how the world works with more clarity.

I see where you’re coming from. It’s not easy balancing scientific accuracy with making things understandable for a general audience.
I get how it can feel frustrating when things are simplified to the point, they seem misleading, even if the intention is good..

I totally hear you, but Richard Feynman wasn’t writing a scientific paper to quantify biomass composition. He was reaching out to the public to make a difficult subject easier to understand.
We need to allow for brilliant simplifications if we’re ever going to turn the tide of science scepticism.

Screenshot from the restoration process of Richard Feynman’s Fun to Imagine, a classic BBC science series from the early 1980s. This particular frame is from the episode titled “Rubber Bands,” currently being restored in 4K. The process combines AI-powered video upscaling with detailed manual work. Each frame is carefully reviewed to remove dust, scratches, and visual defects that current AI tools still struggle with. This painstaking frame-by-frame restoration preserves Feynman’s iconic expressions and hand gestures while improving clarity and fidelity for a new generation of viewers.

Started restoring the next section this morning, Rubber Bands.
It’s painstakingly slow, but it’ll be totally worth it once the whole project is finished. 🎞️

(NB - I add multilingual subtitles to all my projects as well)

YouTube video by Seriously Scientific Richard Feynman - Fire | Restored & Remastered | HD | 4K

“It’s like a ball trying to climb a hill, there’s a deep hole, like a volcano, but the ball just rolls away… Unless it’s going fast enough, then it falls in.” – Richard Feynman

Feynman describes activation energy so eloquently while explaining fire:

SeriouslyScientific.com/Fun-To-Imagine-Part-02

Historically, Margaret Hone did suggest in her 1951 book, 'The Modern Text Book of Astrology' that gravity might be the mechanism behind astrology.
It's true there are other suggested influences, but unfortunately, gravity is the only physical force to explain it that's scientifically testable ..

Yes and the most worrying aspect of that is that they're not even aware of it happening... More often than not

For sure, we're bombarded with so much information on a daily basis nowadays, it's almost impossible to easily separate the grain from the chaff..

That science denial is even more of a problem now than it was before :(