The Most Amazing Scientific Discoveries Made by Amateurs

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[@MSjackiesaunders]

Thank you for this! I'm now a subscriber of Ground News!

[@keryeeastin4022]

Yo, Simon 😅

[@kasession]

I had to chuckle at you assertion that ground news had no articles from 'right wing media' on the AMOC collapse. Maybe there's nothing from 'right wing media' because there's nothing to report. I had to look up AMOC. Once I found out what it meant, the consensus appears to be that there's nothing to worry about. Why report on a non-issue.

[@jacquelinemanton553]

Since when did Simon have legs?

[@tomholroyd7519]

He got out of his chair a few times before

[@the_silent_tortoise]

Not to mention leave for days. Dayummmm.

[@captainspaulding5963]

AI has to evolve.... 😂😂😂😂

[@piperjaycie]

Since he roamed while he blazed!!😂

[@ZomBeeNature]

It's an AI simulation to attract more views to the channel!

[@MrGalactica75]

I had the privilege to meet Jane Goodall when I was in middle school, in 1994. She was in the States on a speaking tour, and was invited by my school to speak to students and the public on Earth Day. I got to quickly speak to her and get a photo of the both of us (tragically it has been lost in so many moves my parents made due to work). She was humble, sweet, and soft-spoken. She was a class act.

[@AncientWildTV]

thats coool

[@MIck-M]

This is a bit like me. After years of experts looking for the Higgs boson I, a lowly amateur, finally found it behind the couch cushions while looking for the TV remote. Now I just need to master grammar and I'll really be cookin' with gas - a bit.

[@AngeliqueStP]

Ok... but dibs on those 3 potato chips and a quarter.

[@EarlFisher-k6w]

Oh, oh, oh! Can I get the pennies? Pretty please with sugar on it?

[@MIck-M]

@@EarlFisher-k6w Strangely enough, they did have sugar on them and got a bit sticky - picked up a bit of lint as well, but if you wash them it definitely would be worth every penny I am sure 🤦‍♂

[@RussetPotato]

Raydeans made the best synonym rolls just like grammar used to

[@wabisabi6875]

There is a wonderful bio of Herschel and his longsuffering sister (and other early discoverers) in the book "The Age of Wonder" by Richard Holmes. I highly recommend it.

[@chrisvickers7928]

His sister Carolyn discovered a comet.

[@aggrammarian6924]

I do wish this program had at least mentioned Carolyn. Her brother really couldn't have managed without her.

[@hewhoshallnotbenamed5168]

The only thing that differentiates a "professional" from an "amateur" is that one gets paid and the other doesn't.

[@deanbuss1678]

He said, " Uranus" again 😅 This never gets old.

[@Chris-hx3om]

Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky.

[@andymouse]

Yes it actually does.

[@bhami]

The following list with jump points ought to be part of the video description. 2:15 William Herschel (1738-1822, Uranus) 5:12 Felix d'Hérelle (1873-1949, bacteriophages) 8:35 Joseph Fourier (1768-1830, global warming) 9:25 Guy Calendar (1898-1964, global warming) 12:08 Jane Goodall (1934- , chimpanzees)

[@AltonV]

It would be better if he used the built-in chapter function

[@MSjackiesaunders]

Oh, I like the less formal look, Simon!

[@ZachBurns-gu9zk]

Simon workin out is startin to show

[@thepax2621]

"Uranus" was discovered by an amateur... *Pffft* 😂... No, I'm an grown adult 😤... I can do this 🤭

[@HeavyTopspin]

And now the Nanowar of Steel song (that actually references Herschel) will be playing in my head all night. 🎶Everybody can enjoy the view of Uranus!🎶

[@jeffdroog]

*A grown adult...Or,close to lol

[@RussetPotato]

@@HeavyTopspin or the album Pounding out a beat on Uranus

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I call it Ooh-ron-us to irritate the Ur-Anus and Urinous peiople

[@QBCPerdition]

Well done on the ad read. I normally skip them right away, but knowing you are working on a new channel or something (another one?). The way you started the ad read made me think it might be the announcement of said channel. Got me to listen to nearly 15 seconds of the ad read before I skipped.

[@raymondmartin6737]

I thought a Boson is a naval member on a ship, and he blows 😮‍💨 a whistle. 😅

[@EarlFisher-k6w]

Yes, the bosun on the USS Theodore Roosevelt was Petty officer Higgs.

[@crash0verryde857]

Damn, Simon i see they have been looking at uranus for quite some time.

[@Djuuugarn]

That pronounciacion of Tanzania 🤣🤣🤣

[@cheekyb71]

Every time he says it, i question my sanity!!

[@Chris-hx3om]

It's the 'old' pronunciation. My father would always pronounce 'Kenya' differently to the way the teachers at school did. It was because he pronounced it the way he learnt it when he lived there, as a war refugee (Polish from WWII). Once the British left (1963), the locals changed the way the country's name was said. Same with Tanzania...

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I haven't got there yet, but I presume Tan Zanny Ya

[@taiyabmahmood8274]

I waited almost the whole video to laugh at how he was going to pronounce it... Only to hear him pronounce it exactly how I would/ do Wtf

[@WeChallenge]

So,instead of calling it Your Highness, They named it uranus. Gotta pick the low hanging fruit.

[@Chris-hx3om]

Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky.

[@WeChallenge]

@@Chris-hx3om I agree but the Greek Sky God and their attempt to have it named after the King of England left me no comparisons to include the bit of toilet humor associated with Uranus didn't quite work as a humorous bit as well as your highness and your anus You have a good day and rest of the week. Peace.

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@WeChallenge Don't worry, I also have an inner 13 year old, who has a giggle when I hear the planets name.... 🙂

[@cliffmargis]

Best educational videos out their. One small glitch with this one. Simon if you or your crew read these comments. Don't think it was intentional but the screen stays frozen at 3:00 to 3:10 Never happened on any of your other 1000 videos I watched. Love to see more on the James Web Telescope findings.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Glad you enjoyed the video! The video is fine on my end on the timestamps you gave me, so guessing it was something on your end.

[@joannecormierable]

Simon mentioned them again awhile ago as a former sponsor and now here they are again.... even Ground News can't resist the Whistler-verse 😂

[@marcuslauer3285]

Clearly someone thought King George III a bit of an arse.

[@taitano12]

The lead Pediatrician at the first clinic I remember going to as a toddler was named Herschel. Not William, but I certainly found it funny when I was 8 and learned that William Herschel discovered Uranus. My father rolled his eyes and chuckled when he asked why I was laughing and I told him that Doctor Herschel was the one who had discovered my anus. I'm nearly 50 and, to this day, I vividly remember that feeling of some assistant, nurse, or other doctor in the clinic shoving that thermometer up my butt. 😅

[@417jumps3]

This was a good one!! Thanks!!

[@ThatWriterKevin]

You're welcome!

[@andrewlonghofer]

9:58 And his dad created a really nifty shorthand system (Orthic) that you can still learn!

[@joefekete4384]

Wow.... I'm suddenly a HUGE fan of Hershel. Incredible work he did!

[@jasonprowse8760]

Tan -Zah-Nee-Yah… Tanzania 🙄

[@Chris-hx3om]

It's the 'old' pronunciation. My father would always pronounce 'Kenya' differently to the way the teachers at school did. It was because he pronounced it the way he learnt it when he lived there, as a war refugee (Polish from WWII). Once the British left (1963), the locals changed the way the country's name was said. Same with Tanzania...

[@Merlin012001]

This reminds me of the story my boss told me of the last confirmed sighting of the Ivory billed woodpecker: farmer walks into a science lab and saw a poster on extinct birds. he then tells them one of the birds isn't extinct, because they were flying around his woods and the scientists laughed in his face, told him he was smoking some really good stuff, and to go off somewhere. He got his feathers ruffled a bit by the dismissal, so he went home, grabbed his shotgun, killed one of the birds, bagged the corpse, drove back to the scientists and emptied the very dead Ivory billed woodpecker on their desks. needless to say, they had to admit it was what they had on their posters.

[@johnlowe37]

You could have at least MENTIONED Herschel's sister Caroline.

[@jettenielsen4951]

I second this

[@ChuckGeezYTTV]

good stuff, bro....love the goodall piece

[@mattyt1961]

Maybe Herschel had a falling out with King George, so it was still named after him, just much less complimentary :)

[@Makem12]

Myanus was definitely not seen in 128 BC

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:45 - Mid roll ads 2:20 - Chapter 1 - Uranus 5:15 - Chapter 2 - Bacteriophages 8:40 - Chapter 3 - Global Warming 12:10 - Chapter 4 - Basically everything about chimpanzees

[@dlallen5923]

Can't believe I'm this early in the comments. Love the work you do and the content you create.

[@MIck-M]

They are always pretty good vids for sure.

[@HeidiBuss-pd8cw]

It was hard not to giggle while teaching middle school boys (and girls) about Uranus in the 1980's.

[@ericthompson3982]

Phage therapy is still incredibly promising, especially given the rising incidence of antibiotic resistance. There's even increasing evidence of phage involvement in the human microbiome.

[@ZomBeeNature]

There's nothing better than those amateurs!

[@JETWTF]

The difference between an amateur and a professional is the pro is paid to do it. Nothing but one gets paid to do it.

[@paulbennett772]

As a young man I was in love with Jane Goodall!

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

I discovered even the prolog of "The Book of Logic" was too much for me.

[@Le3eFrereBrunet]

Another in the astronomy field the Shoemaker-Levi comet…

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

Man of many shows.

[@Crioten]

Find and capture the starfishes

[@ZachBurns-gu9zk]

Didnt the greeks have a god named uranus?

[@arjanzweers6542]

Uranus is a titan in Greek mythology. Uranus together with the titan Chronos are the parents of the first Olympian gods

[@Chris-hx3om]

Yes, he was the god of the sky, and according to myth, he was the father of Saturn and the grandfather of Jupiter.

[@geniusinsomniac9623]

Nice to catch this so early for once. I save these videos to watch on during flights. Great content

[@ProjectNOTOS]

Like the MICROWAVE OVEN. We made a video about it!

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

What happened if amateurs discovered extraterrestial life?

[@HeidiBuss-pd8cw]

What if the people who claimed they were abducted by aliens were correct? Would they be credited with discovering ETs?

[@humby123]

herschel built his own telescopes by hand but is still considered an 'amateur'. Something doesn't seem right about that.

[@Hillbilly001]

Didn't there was already a video done on this subject? Meh! Let's go!!!

[@ThatWriterKevin]

I wrote two similar scripts back to back. The other was math, not science

[@Hillbilly001]

@@ThatWriterKevin I was just probably having a moment. Allegedly. Great script by the way. I always enjoy your intros on BB because it drives Simon bonkers. LOL!!! Cheers from Tennessee

[@ThatWriterKevin]

@@Hillbilly001 No worries, and thank you!

[@leosmith848]

Oh dear Simon spouts the greatest conspiracy theory of our time as fact. Man made global warming.

[@jsinope2786]

I think this is the first video where Simon references Uranus without dropping the word “probe” in there somewhere! #histoeical

[@abxorb]

"Tan-zay-nia" good grief 💀

[@TheDeviantSaint]

I don't know, seems like they got pretty close to naming it after king George...

[@ShaneBissell-d5e]

Honestly thought this man was a cyborg like Stephen hawking….guess he has legs…

[@nowsc]

… Ground News. Somebody ought to make something like that except for webpages :-)

[@ME-ke7qc]

7:49 smack head

[@peterjackson2722]

Jane Goodall is the GOAT of chimps

[@the_silent_tortoise]

#chimpchamp

[@multiyapples]

I can’t take Uranus name seriously.

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

Bloody 'ell mate.

[@raymondmartin6737]

Without my glasses I see a lot of double stars. 😅

[@dominicvandermerwe2092]

Was the blue led not discovered by a new company just trying?

[@piperjaycie]

Is the audio not synced? Or is it just my stupid connection?

[@elusiveDEVIANT]

Is it really that hard? I can point my telescope in literally any direction and with enough resolution, you'd find a planet. Planet x is apperantly real again, too. No, aliens don't live in it. Just a giant rock with an absurdly long orbit that has a tendency to throw rocks at as. Fun.

[@stancil83]

Well that was the second time tonight a video reminded me of a recent video enough to comment on. Clearly the one about breeding dogs. But maybe this comment will count as the third and I won't do it again. Hopefully. I don't know why that matters to me. I'm weird.

[@jhammond1462]

Simon must be on cocaine laced caffeine to be "live" streaming for nearly two weeks on two channels.

[@trumpetmom8924]

More than 2.

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

Seen crows here in NS use tools

[@paulg8524]

the world has had no ice before, dont worry you will be long gone anyway by the time it happens

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

Canader

[@garydevine605]

It's pronounced Tanzania not Tanzania!!!!! You have been making this mistake for years.

[@Chris-hx3om]

It's the 'old' pronunciation. My father would always pronounce 'Kenya' differently to the way the teachers at school did. It was because he pronounced it the way he learnt it when he lived there, as a war refugee (Polish from WWII). Once the British left (1963), the locals changed the way the country's name was said. Same with Tanzania...

[@AR15andGOD]

How do you know these things are connected to global temps? And the majority of scientists disagreed for a long time too…

[@ronaldwhite1730]

Thank you . ( 2024 / Oct / 01 )

[@nielsjosefsen9941]

Tan zania. Trump said it right it turns out?😅😅😅😅😅

[@NationalTidende]

🎉

[@RainingAnarchy]

Come on Simon…glaciers still exist. And thanks to satellite imagery being public and prevalent we can see coastlines have not been inundated by any rising sea levels. Climates evolve and have been for billions of years

[@the_silent_tortoise]

Cool story, bro

[@ThatWriterKevin]

I mean, people have been fleeing the island nation of Tuvalu and Panama fully evacuated one of its islands because of rising sea levels. Yes glaciers still exist, but they are melting at an accelerating rate. If they didn't still exist, a LOT of people would be dead already

[@RainingAnarchy]

@@ThatWriterKevin Lands naturally sink over time as well. Islands are eroded away and sink below oceans over time due to plate movement as well. Islands also become compressed and shrink vertically due to aquifers being drained, mining and erosion of limestone beneath the surface. Then when you add population and infrastructure weight compression increases. If sea rise was the issue it would be reflected globally.

[@thepax2621]

I love how he pronouces "ShNAAApss" 😅. (I know its written as "Schnaps")

[@piperjaycie]

Blaze boi is posh!😂

[@DamonNeri]

Simon Whistler isn't real. He's an Action Lab deepfake!!!!

[@revolutionhamburger]

No amateur scientist would have found the Higgs Boson partical but, equally, there's no way the Higgs Boson partical will ever have a pactical use.

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[@TreViyanaLatrell]

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[@MarkColbyy]

@@TreViyanaLatrellOh please, how can someone get to speak with Sallie Herzog Behnke

[@TreViyanaLatrell]

I will leave her info below this comment.

[@markfinlay422]

Tan zay nia? WTF Simon? Tan zan ea. FFS.

[@captainspaulding5963]

It's almost like people from different places pronounce words differently, or something like that.....

[@stevesutherland4086]

Was in Tan zay nia 8 years ago and dined near the President and that is what they called the country! Surprised me too!

[@duckymomo6472]

The ironic part is, if Simon was around when any of these people that bucked the mainstream scientific community were releasing their beliefs. He would say something like “ITS NOT REAL!” 😂

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Or maybe he would look at the evidence to make a decision

[@duckymomo6472]

@@ThatWriterKevin exactly, and he always sides with the mainstream scientific community. He’s not wrong to do so, but in these very specific cases, he would be wrong. No need to defense on his behalf. He’s a quality thinker with a good head on his shoulders.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

@@duckymomo6472 It's not really defense on his behalf since I wrote the script

[@duckymomo6472]

@@ThatWriterKevin love all the scripts. Perhaps I listen to much to Decoding the Unknown, but my tongue in cheek ‘NOT REAL’ comment is spot on for him 😅

[@jonthinks6238]

But in the 70s-90s the majority of scientists thought we were do for another ice age.

[@BansheeVanRaven]

why are you pronouncing Uranus like that? You had it right in the older videos.

[@james2529]

You're not putting Mary Anning in this list? The GOAT fossil hunter.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

She was the next one on my list, but I hit the word cap. If it does well I can always do a sequel though!

[@Djuuugarn]

Goat fossil hunter 😂 quite the narrow niche within palaeontology that 😂

[@steadfastandyx4947]

I am fed up with your eco propaganda.

[@paulohenriquearaujofaria7306]

Simon is talking in my house for a intere afternoon ... and I keep hearing him... my wife do not like it very much. She doesn't know english. It is boring to her.

[@DanWebb8080]

Wrong Homer simpson descovered the higgs boson

[@tomholroyd7519]

Did you watch Lexx? You don't know about the Higgs

[@sam1812seal]

Please, please, hire someone to pronounce words for Simon. One wrong in a video isn’t great but seems to be about standard. Two wrong is really pushing it (Tanzania and Colobus). At it happens I am currently available…

[@runexheart]

No that’s how the British pronounce Tanzania 😅

[@sam1812seal]

@@runexheart I am British, and it really isn't, or at least I've never heard it pronounced that way. There is one African country where we Brits do have different pronunciations, Kenya. The two different ways us Brits have of pronouncing it are either Ken-yar or Keen-yar, and I'm still unsure over which is correct (but I'd definitely find out before publishing anything where it's mentioned)

[@runexheart]

@@sam1812seal Well considering I too am British, I pronounce it the same as Simon. "¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

[@keithdarcy7302]

Moving on, great articles and interesting subjects but the speed of your speech makes it not worth the effort.

[@lewisguyan8658]

First 😉🤗😊🔥🫀🖤🕷️💀💀

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Congrats!

[@misterramon7447]

Terms like Amateurs and Professionals are too ambiguous as they can mean both a level of skill OR whether someone is paid/compensated for their skills. The Olympics USED to demand that all atheletes be "Amateurs" yet these people could NOT be considered "unskilled" or "low-skilled". We need to use different terms for either one defintion or the other. 😏 "Don't get caught up in biased reporting or one-sided stories" ... then you of course present a one-sided story on the causes of "Global Warming"...Hypocrisy much?

[@ThatWriterKevin]

That's like complaining about presenting a one-sided story about gravity.

[@djgeorgetsagkadopoulos]

FYI: The Greek word for "amateur" actually means "lover of the art". So, an amateur is someone that loves an art and don't necessarilly makes a living out of this art.

[@misterramon7447]

@@djgeorgetsagkadopoulos Interesting history BUT it does NOT change how the terms are used today in the English Language. It is STILL too ambiguous

[@misterramon7447]

@@ThatWriterKevin Not really. The temperature on Mars has risen. You want to blame THAT on DuPont? A Closed Mind is a terrible thing and a waste.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

@@misterramon7447 What is your basis for denying all of the scientific evidence supporting manmade climate change, something that scientists predicted nearly 200 years ago and that has been supported by literally all available evidence? What alternate theory do you believe is worth being presented based on its scientific merit?

[@joelellis7035]

Anthropogenic global warming is not a fact. Sorry, Simon, but your writer did you a disservice. In fact, it's been proven that carbon has a negligible effect on warming and that effect actually diminishes with increasing amounts of carbon dioxide.

[@markfinlay422]

Basic physics shows that your statement is incorrect. Please apologise.

[@DesAstora]

I wish I lived on whichever fantasy version of Earth you seem to be living on.

[@joelellis7035]

@@DesAstora Actual research and data as opposed to the politically motivated "studies"

[@joelellis7035]

@markfinlay422 nope, basic physics have proven my statements absolutely correct. Look it up yourself instead of parroting the propaganda. Then you apologize.

[@the_silent_tortoise]

​@@joelellis7035 but, hear me out, what if YOU'RE the one parroting propaganda? The climate cycle is so insanely complicated we will never be able to completely model it. That said, there's beyond enough evidence to show that anthropogenic climate change is real. It's a theory in the way evolution is a theory; it doesn't mean it's not true, rather it's semantics. Source: I'm an environmental systems engineer and NOT politically affiliated. Just factually affiliated.

[@willwilliamson9580]

No bias from the agw cult. They are just a bunch of honest bros with a total understanding of the climate perfect knowledge of the data for its operation, and super computers with modeling software that is flawless. They are totally not modern weather shamans demanding blood sacrifice to change the weather!! They operate in the most advanced, productive and complete branch of science to ever exist!