Telescopes | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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[@ryanc473]

Holy crap that poem was absolutely epic!

[@Bluesmudge]

When are you guys going to publish your scishow poetry book?? I need it to exist! I love you guys so much.

[@osmia]

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[@HankGreenHankGre]

FOR REALL

[@monderdayplaneteer]

I'll buy it 💯

[@calebcunningham9936]

Yes!

[@TheUnknown983]

I WANT IT!

[@drtrowb]

Congratulations to Ceri for making it on the Forbes 30 under 30 list!!!!

[@jennifersaar1611]

Congrats on the Forbes, Ceri!

[@k0pstl939]

Yes! Came from spotify to comment this!

[@ryran]

Hmmm? Please elaborate.

[@tobistein9831]

​@@ryran A very quick google search tells me that she was selected as a Forbes 30 under 30 for education, specifically for her work at Complexly! Very cool.

[@AndrewGillard]

​@@ryranCeri was featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 list. See the latest SciShow Tangents community post for details & a link :)

[@JayAuditions]

Yay! It was an honor to be a small part of the many nominating her ❤️

[@paulkinzer7661]

I keep hearing band names! 'Metallic Vapors?!' Come on! I feel so connected to this episode. I make telescopes, and I even wrote a book about how to get started using them. I love astronomy, but I might love, just as much, the physical things we use to study it. The things themselves, which even amateurs can make at home, and the history of them, their inventors, and how they've changed our knowledge of the Universe, and our view of ourselves as part of it.

[@victoriaeads6126]

We recently purchased a Newtonian Reflector (we've only ever had Galilean Refractor telescopes in the past, and I've always wanted a Newtonian!!) in preparation for the American 2024 Total Solar Eclipse! We've been learning it in advance (yes, we've already got a proper solar viewing filter for it, don't want to fry anything...) so that we are ready. It's been so much fun! I have thought about trying to build a Gallilean telescope, it looks like it would be equal parts finicky and fun.

[@paulkinzer7661]

@@victoriaeads6126 I'm in the middle of a complete re-build of an old camper so my family can head to Texas in April to get the best chance of clear skies for the eclipse. Good luck to you!

[@Marius019]

Love the show! You need to get Forest Valkai on as a guest.

[@AndrewGillard]

omg yes, Forrest would be great!

[@andrewspohrer7183]

I sat there saying "that's not gonna fit in a C130, you'll need a galaxy" then they say it was put in a C5 and I realized I hang around the zoomies too much.

[@enduringbird]

Wow this was one of the best science poems ever!

[@BlueScreenCorp]

Seeing Julian all these years after DNews shut down is like seeing a long lost friend

[@jhug111]

Hey bud.

[@allanjmcpherson]

Oh man, yes! I knew there was something familiar about him. It wasn't until I read your comment that I realized why that is.

[@irifhir]

I love that you guys got a lot of sponsors now!

[@boeufkak]

hey! hair! nice one lad, glad yer on the mend.

[@miribmakesitbetter5269]

I don't know if it was specifically predicting weather, but when I was in college at Columbia University 1994-1998, the telescopes on the top of the physics building were no longer being used for space science but they were being used for atmospheric science. I don't remember what exactly they were studying but it was related to air patterns and disturbances and maybe the heat of the big city? So they were using telescopes for air and weather related things for at least 30 years ago. Just did a quick google search and don't know if they're still using the same telescopes for it but it looks like the same research has continued. Atmospheric composition and also studying how larger air patterns work, so some of it is forecasting-adjacent at least.

[@GuanoLad]

I hope Julian's presence on Tangents will bring more people to That's Absurd Please Elaborate, a great podcast he does alongside Trace Dominguez.

[@victoriaeads6126]

Hockey competition and Dance Off sounds like a sub plot in Guardians of the Galaxy 4 - We Spin you Right Round, Baby.

[@Finvaara]

"Juggalos, I don't know HOW they work." -I understood this reference.

[@acciocreativity]

coming over to youtube from apple podcasts to say: sam, i resent the fact that y’all were alienating your audience with dance and hockey conversation, as i am a (technically trained) dancer and an avid tangents listener. the venn diagram is there

[@neo5802]

I could not be more grateful for Drawfee to introduce me to this y'all gained yourselves some new fans!

[@boopbiffsnose]

Given that there's apparently a herd of feral horses in the Namib Desert, I would be surprised but not shocked to learn about the discovery of a herd of llamas in the Atacama Desert.

[@IceMetalPunk]

I'm only 5:45 in, but *damn* Julian's poem was amazing! That AABBCA rhyme scheme with the occasional internal rhyme on the C line, then switching to couplets for the penultimate, then an abridged AACA to finish it off? I consider myself a hobbyist poet, but I usually get stuck in simple rhyme schemes (especially lately); that, my friend, was brilliant! ❤ ...and now I guess I'l watch the other 45 minutes of the video 😅

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

Thank for detailing the rhyme schemes. I got surprised several times!

[@bendingsands87]

That poem was incredible. You other people were okay too😁

[@Shatterpath]

Damn dude, you BROUGHT it with that ode!

[@JHaven-lg7lj]

That poem was *amazing*

[@Grateful.For.Everything]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 That poem went hard!!!!

[@Eli-um6gx]

Today I learned that heat is carried by infrared waves but is not itself part of the electromagnetic spectrum! Thanks to the podcast for inspiring this question and my search for an answer.

[@PhantomFuego]

Thanks for the content

[@maggieblount5251]

oh my gosh! i don't know if i can listen to the rest of the Tangent episode after that awesome poem! 🤯😵

[@AmyDentata]

That poem gets snaps

[@necronsplayer]

Bro the bars!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@RamonQuiro7]

11:27 speculum

[@arthursamuel301]

That thumbnail is fire 😂

[@T.deVaes]

Fire poem 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@gpglicious]

If that poem was not assisted by AI, it was genius, signed, fellow poet

[@jhug111]

No AI, just me counting syllables on my fingers with my astronomy book in my lap.

[@IceMetalPunk]

💯

[@hannahbrown2728]

Juggalos, how do they work? Fuckin' miracles.

[@FridgidIdgit]

"A previously known herd of llamas" is a great short story prompt. Why are they known? What happened?!

[@briannaarnold6053]

Juggslos are 4th dimension. 😂 i wish i had somebody to share that with that would understand. *chefs kiss

[@yourmouse1533]

yay telescopes!!

[@mayaenglish5424]

9:59 You gotta expand your mind! Hank: Immediately expands his mind about gravitational lenses qualifying as telescopes. Everyone: Wait not like that! 😂

[@ponyote]

Hank v Julian, Chess Boxing. Millions for PIH.

[@XRatedPoetry]

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[@JonPITBZN]

I actually know about the LIDAR bees! I know someone who worked on that project! The short answer on whether these are commonly used in the field is "no." The longer answer is that the idea was to use it for de-mining, so the research was being funded by the military. Washington cut the funding for it because it didn't work the way the generals were picturing/wanting it. Basically they wanted to be able to point a laser at a vehicle or a spot on the ground and have the bees give a positive or negative "reading" for explosives in a matter of seconds, like a bomb-sniffing dog. The way it actually works is to analyze the movements of a very large number of bees over the course of a few hours. However, because the bees can fly safely over a large minefield, it's still much faster than humans trying to detect mines in a big field. And they're very accurate, we're talking 0% false negatives, less than 10% false positives. But IEDs were a major factor in Iraq and Afghanistan, while minefields weren't, so they killed the project. Hindsight is 20/20, because I'm sure Ukraine would love to get their hands on some mine-sweeping bees now

[@amandaweires]

In the episode of cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson called hiding in the light, he explains that one of the very early people who used a prism and a telescope together to look at stuff noticed that there was invisible light that caused thermometers to go up in temperature and he basically discovered infrared light using a telescope and a prism. But I can't remember the name of the scientist. It might be Herschel.

[@AndrewGillard]

17:12 “Credit: Josef "Tuna" Metesh” - now I'm curious! 😮 (re: landmine-detecting bees)

[@muhmuhmonahan4919]

I don't okay hockey, but I'd totally watch lovely nerds play hockey. I do dance, though.

[@TricobaltInvocation]

I love to play hockey it was a great defender.

[@matthewmontgomery3693]

The first non-optical telescope was probably a thermometer when William Hershel discovered infrared part of the spectrum.

[@ThatGuyJake94]

This guy's got solid taste in lego sets

[@StarSong936]

If Hubble is good at finding spots, can it be used to camping spots, fishing spots, building spots, etc? 🙂

[@JuuB406]

I wonder if Julian knows that looking inside the human body (specifically the vaginal canal) is done using a speculum...

[@MySmileStillStaysOn]

Did Sam not get a fact this time? I dont know how this works like if people sometimes get skipped

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

I don't remember folks being skipped before. Huh.

[@rainerandkatieniederoest825]

HEY!.. I dance, I mean not competitively, but I do.

[@ponyote]

Huguet is such a hard surname.

[@CompiledGabriel]

Question: are microscopes telescopes?

[@Rachel-hs1xg]

Hang on, isn't there a blind astrophysicist who uses the sound of stars to find planets and exoplanets, or something? The sound from stars absolutely can help us study them.

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[@briannaarnold6053]

Yeah, turns out my son had signed up for all of the amazon prime movie subscriptions... many months and nearly 200 dollars later, im kicking myself for not watching any of it!.... and that he had done that. I didnt know! Its his dads account and i dont watch much tv.

[@lyledal]

Bat guano? Colonel Bat Guano?

[@jankies007]

❤

[@JR41174]

Put your promos in the description ffs.

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

They're in the pinned comment

[@anil-vc1pd]

First time connecting faces to those voices......not sure what I feel....

[@elainebelzDetroit]

"Why spotty skin?" Because the project was funded by the American Academy of Dermatology!

[@kitsu_noshi]

6 minute ad, worse than youtube