Black Holes, Exploding Stars, and the Runaway Universe: A Life in Science

[@CyberSystemOverload]

What a nice guy, seriously. Thank you for giving us this great video! Our brains soaking in all the knowledge from these great minds.

[@vf7vico]

a great educator and communicator -- so fun to watch/listen to, and such an amazing career!

[@prathambabaria5834]

Ahhhh! Good ol’ Alex. The man who doesn’t know how NOT to smile!!!

[@anthonymannwexford]

Thank you for the wonderful talk. Always a delight to watch and lsiten too as an mp3 podcast.

[@kenchesnut4425]

THIS GUY MAKES ME WANT TO MOVE OUT WEST AND GO BACK TO SCHOOL...MUCH LUV FROM N.AUGUSTA S.C

[@Draliseth]

Muh man Filippenko bringin it!

[@JCW7100]

Great lecture!

[@realizationpartsmiststopur6394]

Awesome 🌟 guy always great personality and at explaining everything

[@mihjq]

A question for someone who managed to sit through to the end: when the actual lecture begins? I stopped watching at 22 min. Sadly this series is getting less and less of quality.

[@coastwalker101]

Great podcast folk. Been listening for years.

[@liamfinlay2039]

Look, I too wanted more of a lecture on black holes, never the less I ended up watching and enjoying it anyway. You see, I overlooked the title 'a life in science'. I also did not read the description...and there's a good chance the same applies to the people complaining in this comment section :P

[@user-nu1sj1gk8q]

Thanks for uploading :)

[@FCASMRASR]

I like this dude - smart guy and a great lecturer who makes his subject sound human and exciting which is very hard to do. I also just wanted to say the barnet he sports (his hair) is fantastic for a 60 year old, very sure he has it too long just to make us balding younger guys jealous - and we are! P.S. when you getting Garth Illingworth back on?

[@Draliseth]

He's done tons of cable documentaries. He's like the B-Celebrity tier of astrophysicists. Ya know, when Brian Green and Neil Degrasse Tyson aren't available but your stage can't handle the sass of Lawrence Krauss.

[@FCASMRASR]

​@@Draliseth i love that "the sass of Krauss" I have seen this guy before on some docus - but its nice to see him here like a boss. I don't agree he is b-grade. You forget sometimes that these "popularists" often are hardworking scientists doing stuff we rarely hear about as its not very "popular". Plus guys like this do so much importnat work making science accessable for kids + stuff. Its not all about wearing "hipster" clothing and trying to be cool. As this man clearly shows, he doesnt even have the time to get a cool haircut hes so damned busy. Respect.

[@asdzt123]

@@Draliseth He is the opposite of a B-tier astrophysicist. Look up the number of citations he has on google scholar and you'll see that professor Filippenko is a "rock star" in the astrophysics world. He is much more cited in scientific papers than the typical divulgators we are used to see in documentaries. To the general public he might not be very popular, to the professional astrophysicist he is a very well known and respected figure.

[@Draliseth]

@@asdzt123 Read moar harder.

[@joyecolbeck4490]

Thanks Alex, you're the boss!

[@MatiStein]

The single most influential telescope of all times is not Wilson. It's Hubble, or Plank.

[@vx4ew45]

Nice. Thanks for posting

[@DaveLennonCopeland]

Saturn through a telescope is quite literally fantastic and or phenomenal... :)

[@deereboy8400]

Begins at 3:40

[@CorvidLove]

Thank you so much for sharing.

[@frankblack1185]

35 minutes just to find out who he is and what he's done and not done. Crieky!

[@soonfajsk8787]

Some people have a bitchy face this guy has the smiley face you gotta love it

[@mikewalter1111]

Thought this was a space lecture. Not this is your life...boo

[@radioboyintj]

And he was on the Universe

[@phoule76]

...the spatula rubbed against the bottom of the petri dish...

[@gtb870]

is that what doing what you love looks like?

[@redhaze8080]

Yay Alex is tops

[@JmSantos78]

Starts at 3:55

[@craigroberts1670]

So far the most powerful phenomena in the Universe are Quasars. They are beyond comprehension - and they are so far into the red shift its ridiculous. Phewwww Doggie!!!!

[@homebrew010homebrew3]

Lots of chitter-chatter. I was expecting a lecture, not autobiography.

[@EliotMcLellan]

eventually its all too obvious they are all trying to shed light on black holes... this dot . is also equivalent thank God

[@jonglewongle3438]

Go Flippy !

[@Aluminata]

" Black holes, exploding stars and the runaway universe.." I've slid foward to 39.22 and he is still blabbering about himself...?

[@EliotMcLellan]

he's full of it

[@cymoonrbacpro9426]

They’re invisible because they do not exist

[@craigroberts1670]

So far the most powerful phenomena in the Universe are Quasars. They are beyond comprehension - and they are so far into the red shift its ridiculous. Phewwww Doggie!!!!

[@ashwadhwani]

Establishment actor comic not scientist :(

[@SuperballBG]

If you say so.

[@howardrobinson4938]

I'm 26 minutes in to this. Been skipping forward bit by bit. Thought this was going to be scientific. Not a self congratulatory biography of a guy.

[@PBeringer]

Ahh, you must've also skipped over the subtitle that reads " ... A Life in Science".

[@PBeringer]

And, as Andrew Fraknoi states in most introductions, one of the guiding principles of the SVA series is public outreach in "non-technical language". For someone claiming to be interested in science, you don't think or research things very deeply.

[@TWJfdsa]

i still think the moon is made of cheese........

[@phoule76]

apparently it's not all cheese. at least, that's what I've been led to believe.

[@TWJfdsa]

@@phoule76 i'm optimistic thinking about all the mac n cheese future astronauts will enjoy....