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is so big that its body envelops the entire kingdom Midgard, my ancestral land, perhaps, but how voluminous is the largest snake in the

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n der if you want and if it is maybe four and a half doses of Cray in diameter then half of that would be the radius and if you multiplied that by the circumference of, say, our world, the world snake would have a larger internal volume or less than 1.8 cubic kilometers, which means that the world snake could consume almost the entire volume of Mount Everest.

It's strange how the volume in size doesn't quite match. they look the same anyway that's how big this snake kid would be hello and welcome to another episode of

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s the show where at the end of a long week of content I accept your comments, questions and concerns about me and my well-being. in this place I live outside my head and try to extend the nerd conversation we have about all the nerd topics we consider. I occasionally have the voice of the void here Nate Nate, yeah cool, so what do you get from Shamari Wallace? the best shape for a spaceship what is the best shape for a spaceship?

Well, I think the good thing is that in space you don't need a specific shape

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you're not under the same limitations, like moving through an atmosphere or having to deal with your own weight due to acceleration due to gravity near the surface of the planet, you can give your spaceship any shape, that's what I really like about the lack of animation, that's what I really like about sci-fi shows that get it right, which is Let's say your ship It could be as dynamically tight as a box and it is a box with some thrust and is equally valid as a spaceship.

Now there are other considerations that I would want to consider, that's what considerations mean, like where I want to place the panels that would radiate heat from your ship so that you don't boil alive itself, in the coldness of space and if you had the armor or you had some set or communication and something like that that would determine the design that you would want also if you wanted to have spin gravity, you might want to have a giant drum on a spaceship like this or a torus design so that determines the size of the shape of your spaceship, but I don't think there is the best design in the sense that you say it because they are not under the same limitations that our buildings have here.

You can't say that a triangle or a circle would be stronger for a spaceship because gravity and weight don't mean the same thing over there and here, oddly enough, what follows from Grant Nick is that grayscale will be fatal , the fictional Game of Thrones disease, where you get a kind of grayish scale on your body, it's that fatal, I have no idea, I imagine that grrrrrr Martin is doing. an analogy to leprosy that can be really bad, I mean if you don't like pieces of your body falling off, yeah, gray scale could probably be fatal and that makes me think, you know, that makes me think in a concept. of a concept called zu or no sis, which is when a disease or a bacterial virus that is not usually found in humans jumps to humans because it is exposed enough to us in our biology that it can make an evolutionary leap toward So I think , what if grayscale was this ancient dragon?

A disease that once humans discovered some kind of ruins or some kind of ancient burial sites where there was enough contact between them and gray scale parasites, bacteria or viruses that it caused a zoonosis. and it jumped to humans hmm, so it can be fatal, it's the same way Ebola jumped to us for example, there was a spillover, which is a fantastic book by David Coin and if you're interested in zoonoses, if you're interested in zoonoses in everything read overflow David's comment is fantastically written and fantastically interesting what follows by Florin wolf lemare hey cow what's your favorite name what's my favorite meme Growing up I loved SpongeBob SquarePants and I still do.

I'm very happy. that possibly the biggest and most important source of memes in the last two years come almost all from SpongeBob SquarePants and sometimes two different frames in the same scene that are side by side. I love Spongebob memes, those are some of my favorites. because they mature from my childhood so yeah I'm a sponge boy when it comes to memes what's next for Brian Ratliff? If two objects were moving away from each other at half the speed of light, could they see each other? Yeah, that's a very technical question that I think I'm going to get wrong, so I think what you're talking about would be, um, relative velocities and if an object is going in opposite directions, it's 0.5.

Look here, half the speed of light. 0.5 look here and when you evaluate relative velocities, you would subtract these two from each other, but keeping in mind what you want to consider positive and what you want to consider negative, then the relative velocity here would be, let's say, 0.5. in the positive direction minus the other negative direction 0.5 look, which gives you C, which is the speed of light, which tells me that if relative speed is the only thing you're taking into account, it's probably more complicated than that , then you won't be able to send a message because it can only travel at the speed of light and you were separating at the speed of light, but I'm sure I'm forgetting something relativistically speaking, but it's a good task, do it and Talk to me again and leave it.

I know that if I'm totally wrong, what would I be forgetting something? I'm sure if it comes up in the comments again, let me know what's next from Marco Chavez, why is it so hard to get something to zero Kelvin? Wow, well, zero Kelvin. as I tried to explain in my god video zero Kelvin no degrees because it's an absolute unit look at that absolute Kelvin unit uh come on that's good you know that means you know that means zero Kelvin you can't go down to the absolute Kalyn because the absolute minimum amount of external motion that molecules and atoms can have, so this doesn't mean that atoms and molecules don't have some of all motion within them, they still have internal motion like moving between their parts, say just simplify, but its The exterior movements that are moving and say like a crystal lattice or something like that, they are moving would be reduced to a minimum, we can't do this thermodynamically speaking because, well, we get very, very, very, very close, very close, like nano Kelvin, but this is Theoretical, this is the theoretical zero based on what we established as unity and we can't get there because of that, it's complicated, but according to our definitions, we can't get there thermodynamically speaking because There are ways we would do it.

Does this include changing the system in some way, like adding and subtracting energy, and this zero Kelvin is so that there is none of that energy clipping, you know what it is, let's move on? No, I don't have a live concise answer for that's what's next from Joshi mix house mr freeze freeze lightning job mr. freeze and his name has a really cold weapon that does something like what Cray's dose ax freezes enemies or good guys if you follow the Canon completely solid or in cases where they are on ice it looks what it looks like What does the gun do? at least in the movies everyone knows what killed the dinosaurs, not the Ice Age, it wasn't even close to that.

I don't know why they put that line in the movie. It's so obviously wrong anyway, it seems that way. it shoots liquid coolant and as some of you suggested in the God of War Acts video, liquid coolant would be an even better way to cool something than just touching something like a cold metal surface to cool the liquid like it's a cooldown that happens. on your arm, let's say that when you are very hot, the evaporative cooling of your sweat forms beads on your arm and then saps energy from you as it evaporates more than it would otherwise if it were just your skin and just the air, so it shoots refrigerant and supercooled and someone would very quickly take the heat away from them and then you could get some of those freezing properties that mr.

The Freeze gun has something similar that happens when it gets much colder, your internal temperature drops much faster in water than in air, the heat will leave your body through the water much faster. I think it's something like 10 or 20 times faster if you're underwater, that's why if you're unlucky enough to fall like a frozen lake or something, you can get hypothermia within minutes, so there's probably something going on. do with liquid coolant, not fire, maybe shooting liquid nitrogen at someone or something colder like. supercooled helium and then it would act strangely, but then it would be difficult to make that weapon because it flows upwards and what's next from Al's law enforcement, who does Kyle support in the World Cup?

Do you mean football? Don't know. Well, no, no, I don't support anyone. I really do not care. I went to soccer when I was a kid. I lived abroad for a while when I was a kid and was on a soccer team in Shanghai, China. When I lived there, but after returning I'm not really interested. I follow American football, but the World Cup, what does the Internet say? People of Mexico, how about that? What's next for Timothy Abrams or Abraham? Why is it heaven? blue, not violet because the sky is blue due to the way light is scattered through the upper atmosphere as a medium, so light from the Sun enters a volume of air.

Let's be general and say that the properties of said volume of air will change the wavelength of the light here and the way it descends to the earth, so it will look bluer, the same reason water is blue, yeah, that's why this guy is blue, this guy could be purple if the atmosphere had different properties I have no idea what those properties would be, but the sky doesn't have to be blue, as you can see on Mars, it has a bit of a color different from that of Venus and it is different on different planets where we have actually photographed the sky, so it depends on the air, the air is what makes it blue, not the light itself, although the light is what makes it, what follows from the Pope, no, what changes to the body would be needed for a human to be immortal, do you really want to live forever?

Because they are going to sue me. What changes can we make to the human genome so that you live forever? I don't know. There are many longevity studies and people who study aging. There is a lot of research being done to see why. we age and how we age and how we die. One promising aspect of that research is looking at a kind of little marker, a little signature on part of our DNA called telomeres, and they're like the ones I've heard described. like those little caps that are on the tips of your shoelaces and as we age, those telomeres seem to add some kind of molecular baggage to our cells that tells us how old those cells should be or how old our body should be, so some research is looking into how to deal with them or cut them or shorten them so that we don't accumulate the effects of aging that we would otherwise accumulate.

I will say that we have done amazing things in human lifespan just by advancing medical technology so that we can I have gone because you know, we have doubled human lifespan since humans existed, which is amazing, but how far can we take that to As we push it further and further? Diseases that usually only affect the elderly are becoming much more common. Because we are getting so much older, that is why cancer is so prevalent now than it was then, because people are living longer and giving diseases of old age like cancer more time to become more prevalent, which would be a great challenge if you wanted to live forever.

We would have to suppress every little chance that, in all the cell reproduction that would occur when we live to be a hundred, 200, 300 years old, we would have to suppress every little chance that a cell could divide incorrectly, that's what cancer is and it goes on and on. it replicates and replicates and replicates uncontrollably when it gets its own blood sources and then does bad things to you, so to live forever we would have to figure out not only what makes us age, but also how to fight all of this. diseases that come with old age and dementia and Alzheimer's and all those things, so it's an incredibly complicated problem that I don't think a few simple tweets can solve, would it be something more holistic in the way you live, would you?

You know? what you eat your genetics your medical treatments medications you have to take those kinds of things that was a long answer what comes next from Emmett is random I have a question for Kyle mmm it better be random when will it matter to be beyond the program huh? pretty random the matter ray is one of a group you're on the right word it's one of a group of nerds I sometimes call when I need something really technical the matter raymatter is very intelligent and very good at solving a lot of numbers and a There are a lot of calculations, so sometimes I resort to them.

I don't think we're in an episode of this show because it's so hard to find a way for just me to escape this place let alone bring anyone to it, and there are other more practical concerns like distance and time, that's it. all we have to say, what's next from the East stage, east port, question, why is CO2 only 1% of the air when there is such destruction of plants, should it be more than 1% of the air? What about plant destruction? You mean that because there is so much deforestation, one would expect there to be more CO2 in the air because there are fewer plants to absorb it?

I don't know, deforestation probably had some effect on the atmosphere, in fact I'm almost sure of that, but I'll take a different approach to your question. People when they question climate change, for example, say: well, carbon dioxide co2 is such a small percentage of the total atmosphere, how can it have? This effect you're talking about, and the effect is not even a small percentage change in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, can have a disproportionately large effect than its percentage increase would suggest. It can remain in the atmosphere. and traps heat, so even a small increase will have a direct and observable increase in the temperature of our planet and that is exactly what we are seeing.

It's the same as methane is a very small component of the Earth's atmosphere, but because of the chemistry and physics of how it interacts with light in the atmosphere, a methane is even four times worse. I think carbon dioxide then traps heat. I mean, it's worse for us, but it's better at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, so even a small percentage of things can make big percentage differences in terms of what our planet is doing heat heat equation heat balance of heat energy that's all that follows from Bubba hotep or one from a purely scientific point of view another world in the solar system do you think we can experiment with respect to Terraforming to make it habitable for humans Hmm, Terraforming again No HE.

I will say that what I said last week is that if we're really good at terraforming going back to climate change, we should probably do something. about our planet first and quick, but if you had to choose a different planet, I don't know, this is a very technical question. I don't know if you would want to start with a planet that already has a viable atmosphere that you can help draw heat from or to Venus or Mars, although Mars has very little atmosphere or doesn't need an atmosphere that much and you want to start with what it has to do in terms of infrastructure on the ground, so you can start with something like the moon and then add an atmosphere.

I have no idea that it will depend on the particular planet, it will depend on the economics of getting air, water, soil and biological material to these planets so that we can set in motion some of these ecological processes that is a very, very complicated question. I don't know if we've figured it out yet. I would, I would mmm, yeah, what planet, what, what, what planet would you like to go to, even if it were perfect. terraformed I'll ask you if I would like to go to one with a really good view, maybe float in the clouds of the freshly made float in a Venusian cloud city, yes that's what I would like, I don't know what's next Cali MJ, if you could Choose an element from the periodic table to control it, what would it be?

What if you could control any element on the periodic table? What would you control? I think the obvious answer may not be, but the obvious answer to I am water and therefore you could probably somehow control every being on the planet, human or not, and that would be incredibly powerful. Water is in almost everything. You could control the supervillains. You could control water supplies. You can move the oceans around you. You could displace entire populations. I can imagine the things you could do if you had complete control over water, yes, take that Magneto, other than that, having control over plutonium or uranium would make you an incredibly dangerous villain capable of spontaneously reaching critical masses anywhere you wanted, Oh.

Wow, think about that, that's bad, it's free. Marvel, what's next on the board? Dickinson, if you could be a Dragonborn, what would your name be? Well, you know, I speak Dovakin, so my name because I know all the words in Skyrim would be stands Yoda. just because I'm a total nerd, you say yes and then he shoots an arrow in my knee, which is lower because I'm short, Yoda, not me, I'm huge, what's next? I'm happy, I mean, I'm bigger here. I mean, relatively speaking, I'm glad, said Kyle, you mentioned that most cells change every seven years hmm, are there any that don't change at all?

Yes, the cell renewal rate is not constant throughout the body, it's not that every seven years all your cells like and change because that would sound terrible and it would kill you, but for the renewal rate to be different Depending on what parts of your body you're talking about, I think it's a couple of years for similar cells on the inside. The ribs are a couple of days for the cells inside the intestinal lining because there is so much acid there that they die all the time so they are replaced all the time so it can go from years to days and on average that is It averages 7 to 10 years for a complete cell renewal, but I think when I was researching this for something, I think there are some cells that do not renew, I think in the heart of the brain because if they are completely renewed, something bad. could happen or so your body would say, I imagine so, although from the point of view of my head I can't say for sure if it's your heart in your brain, but I think those are the ones you're right about, there isn't.

There is no cell renewal, so the question is where you are located and does that make you the same person over time or not, if your brain says the same thing but your body lost all its cells and replaced them over the years, what? it's you? the same person you are just your brain you are just your thought process you are your whole body but you seem to locate whatever we conceive of as the self in your head or behind your eyes The Egyptians had a conception of themselves or maybe it's not Egyptian but other cultures have had conceptions of cells that were not located behind the eyes, located in different parts of the body.

Imagine how you would feel if you no longer felt like you were behind your own eyes and then you kept doing that and that and that and that and that and then your sense of self dissolves and then maybe your whole body and then maybe you change with Over time and over the years and you lose what you are and you gain what you are not and you become something new and I am having an existential crisis What's next for Mullick 7? What do people think about the future? Musical movies cut that transparent screens and smartphones are more fun.

Our good idea. Well, what's the downside? Oh yes, like that in a program like me. I know the extent that they have, they have completely transparent phones, strange devices like phones and when they show certain information, as you say from the other side, you can see that information backwards, so it's not very private, right? I guess I don't think it's a technical concern when people make

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fiction shows. I think it's more of an aesthetic concern. You know why transparent devices look cool because they look cool and that's what sci-fi shows want to go with them?

When you make a show like that, you want to give without being too explicit about it, you want to build the world in such a way that you tell the story of the world without saying it out loud, so if you have something that looks very different from what we have, like just a transparent phone, ooh, it's strange that that takes our mind a little bit into the future and builds the world you're in. I don't know if this is really the best design, I think so. It would break a lot and have a lot of privacy concerns just because of the material and where the processor is.

You can see it? Is it an invisible processor? How did they do that? Don't know. I think it's more of an aesthetic concern because whatever. Reason why throughout our history we consider that transparent things are more futuristic, more technological and that is why it persists in all our media. It's the same kind of thing that made aliens look the way they do for whatever reason when they were first portrayed. Oh, this is going to happen. perfectly when they were first portrayed as a big bulbous head, big, oh that's not so little, aliens with big eyes, things that look like people, that was one of the first depictions of them in this way and it became popular and Since then the media portrayed them in a similar way for decades and people started having these experiences that they would then attribute to things that look like this, but if I think about this, if the media had stuck to a different design for the alien, the common alien, people would have hallucinated, would have worshiped, would have been abducted or would have been abducted.

These experiences would have seen the same thing, I don't think so. I think the most interesting example is that we have a giant unspoken cultural agreement that this is what aliens look like, and therefore when we have strange experiences that we can't explain. or our brains create these situations when we're sleep deprived or we have a disorder or we have sleep paralysis, some weird neurological storm, you know, over our heads, we go to something we know, something we can hold on to and it just happens to be this, but if it were different I think we'd have reports of seeing different things anyway, that's why they don't put me on ancient aliens, although I could look the part.

What will be next time? For one more question, last very quick question, hmmm. by Norman Caesar I'm late, what happened to the beard? Oh yeah, I wanted to keep the facial hair for the God of War episode because I thought it didn't look good, but it started getting so big I'd like it. I could feel it almost against my teeth, so I had to do it. I can feel everything here. I can feel every little, every little tickle and every little movement of things, so facial hair was getting to be enough, so next episode. I still have it spoiler alert.

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