1:45 I would like to point out that, in 2015 [after this video was posted] it was discovered that Beagle 2 successfully landed, however some of the solar panels didn't deploy, blocking the antenna.
@RAFMnBgaming7 күн бұрын
so we can confirm the CD made it?
@jero379 жыл бұрын
Hey Tom, did you realize Chris meant Parsecs as distance when he said that? His expression of disappointment is priceless.
@jeffgoldblunt4 жыл бұрын
1:11
@Acela21634 жыл бұрын
His disappointment was about the same as mine.
@helloludi31003 жыл бұрын
@@Acela2163 which is similar to your parents' i presume
@HeyItsKora3 жыл бұрын
sén né why even bother commenting
@helloludi31003 жыл бұрын
@@HeyItsKora because
@pmyou29 жыл бұрын
"We are the Knights who say 'Glee'!"
@skippy92144 жыл бұрын
No, you are the knights who say eke eke eke ptang zoo wang
@smeggerknee24482 жыл бұрын
And they demand a shrubbery.
@CatsMeow_2 жыл бұрын
@@smeggerknee2448 And a second one too!
@rattrap10093 жыл бұрын
Points: Chris: 2 Gary: 4, 1 MB Matt: 1 Winner: Gary (but Tom gives it to Chris.) • Totals: Chris: 39 points 2 Mystery Biscuits 4 Wins Gary: 34 points 7 Mystery Biscuits 4 wins Matt: 32 points 4 Mystery Biscuits 4 Wins SEASON 1 WINNER: Chris by points; Matt by wins; Gary by Mystery Biscuits. Band names / albums so far: Furious Strumpets, SimpleHuman, Wallaby Butler Material.
@postmasterspecific2 жыл бұрын
Gods work
@Majorite2 жыл бұрын
Oh
@PQRDG2 жыл бұрын
Granted, Chris had fewer points than Gary, but he did just come up with a solution to world peace, so it’s fair that he won
@yarnmonster5157 Жыл бұрын
My very tired brain just got very confused as to how Gary got 4.1 megabytes of points this episode
@myladycasagrande863 Жыл бұрын
I've long since given up trying to understand how points correlate to winning in this game. Tom's just making it up as they go!
@rofljohn232 жыл бұрын
That joke about the Ukranian space agency suffering budget cuts suddenly got very, very real :P
@rin_etoware_29892 жыл бұрын
imagine, in the future, everyone's deadly busy fighting over time machine blueprints or something, then we just hear that an alien delegation has come to answer the transmission we made way back when
@yuvalne2 жыл бұрын
+
@joltz..20422 жыл бұрын
7 years later
@SwimmingPanda2 жыл бұрын
Listening to it I just presumed this was a recent video
@philipwhiuk2 жыл бұрын
At the time it was just after the Crimean Peninsula annexation.
@sub2willne526 жыл бұрын
Intergalactically potentially sexted is the most interesting sentence i have ever heard
@adammullarkey49966 жыл бұрын
And that makes "Intergalactically potentially sexted is the most interesting sentence i have ever heard" the most interesting sentence I've ever read.
@Killercreek6 жыл бұрын
Except this would simply be interstellar, as it's still within out galaxy
@cozy_is_punk5 жыл бұрын
r/BrandNewSentence
@marshallr.81215 жыл бұрын
one year after this comment, i scroll down to the comments just in time to read and hear that sentence at the same time by random..
@harrytodhunter50784 жыл бұрын
The best sentence is “Toblerone Rolo Combo”
@klaxoncow7 жыл бұрын
I'd send Brian May as Earth's ambassador. That is, Professor Brian May, as he is a qualified astrophysicist (which makes him an expert on aliens). But he's also a brilliant guitar player, so he can dazzle the aliens with his axe playing and hypnotise them into giving us all their advanced tech. And if all else fails and the aliens are hostile, then he can start playing "Flash" by Queen, in order to invoke Flash Gordon to save every one of us. Well, we're buggered otherwise, so it's worth a shot. Or, at least, he could invoke Brian Blessed to bellow "Gordon's alive!" at the aliens and that should scare them off.
@klaxoncow7 жыл бұрын
p.s. I hadn't reached the bit where they actually did mention Brian Blessed when I posted that. But, hey, that's a nomination and it's been seconded, so it's settled. We send Brian Blessed to meet the aliens.
@meesguyy5 жыл бұрын
Glad I’m not the only one who thought of him 😂
@clockworkkirlia74754 жыл бұрын
We need to send The Brians Three: Brian May, Brian Cox and Brian Wecht. Three PHD physicists with expertise in the universal languages of maths and music, and one of them's even a ninja! Operation: BLESSED is the backup plan.
@dominichines99964 жыл бұрын
Doesn't even matter if he's referring to flash gordon or gordon freeman!
@skippy92144 жыл бұрын
Astrophysicist is not the same as astrobiologist, given that professional astrobiologists don’t really exist yet. However, the people probably most qualified to understand alien life would be people who study extremophiles or the most remote cultures, so microbiologists and anthropologists.
@aDifferentJT2 жыл бұрын
I’ve just noticed that 15 days after this was released it was confirmed that the MRO had found Beagle 2 and confirmed that it had in fact landed safely, and just failed to deploy.
@DIEGhostfish6 жыл бұрын
"UKIP In Space. Exploring the Universe so we can tell them to stay where they are."
@PTBP-CB4 жыл бұрын
i still love that brannon doesn't know how tinder works because left is no and right is yes.
@lizzyb.80094 жыл бұрын
"who would you pick as the epitome of evil?" oh, such a simpler, more innocent time... (by which i mean both 2008 and when this episode was made)
@joshuaevans62954 жыл бұрын
Genuinely frightened of whoever it is who will come next and make our current situation seem tame by comparison.
@MatthewDoel324 жыл бұрын
@@joshuaevans6295 Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas.
@dbseamz2 жыл бұрын
@@iykury Emperor Nero, then?
@beth12svist11 ай бұрын
@@joshuaevans6295 Welcome to the global situation in 2023.
@JoshSweetvale5 жыл бұрын
6:40 Excuse you?! Tom Scott's the Mass Production model of Brian Cox! Skinny soft-spoken British ageless science-explainey bloke.
@thelastcube.5 жыл бұрын
13:31 OMG I just had the best moment of my Citation Needed history every, I spat out "Theremin" as soon as Tom said "Instrument", "Russians" (the inventor) and "Space" (it's sound is weiredly space-Y) And it got the biscuits! I've really peaked rn in this series' binge watch
@qwertzy26104 жыл бұрын
5 years later (actually since short after the recording) we know that Beagle 2 landed at a perfect velocity but could not open the solar panels
@Lutranereis9 жыл бұрын
Oh, the Wow! Signal. It could be nothing, it could be the most important discovery of any time in human history. We'll never know.
@snowfloofcathug9 жыл бұрын
Until we does
@gwenynorisu68836 жыл бұрын
It was probably one of those still-puzzling Fast Radio Burst things... maybe an exocivilisation powering a light-sail ship somewhere in our direction...
@timothymclean5 жыл бұрын
Recent analysis suggests it's just this side of nothing.
@undergroundish31354 жыл бұрын
And yet, even more rexent analysis suggests that A)yes it is a SFRB (Super Fast Radio Burst) and it bears close resemblance to other FRBs that they have found recently (apparently they are everywhere) and there are those that theorize they may be the detectable sign of communications over super long distances, as the quantum world tells us, it can be done and astrobiologists tell us that IF exolife exists, then they HAVE all the technology we do and then some so they would be able to use the quantum laws and theories much more masterfuly than us, simply because they have had more time to do so, literally speaking relatively (in the einstien and hawking sense) please forgive my typos. the keyboard has taken quite a beating and has gone swimming in coffee lately, among other things
@GumSkyloard2 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@requiembeeblebroxx9 жыл бұрын
@ 1:15 The first invader from the alien death fleet is actually right behind you, disguised as a fancy lemon juicer.
@otherssingpuree17793 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the playlist. I have watched it twice now.
@dbseamz Жыл бұрын
Is that what that thing is? I thought it was the theremin they keep talking about, since I have only a vague idea of what a theremin looks like.
@samuelmelcher3339 жыл бұрын
I'd like it if there was a list of links to Wikipedia pages or such like explaining all of the either obscure or extremely British references in the description.
@lawrencecalablaster5686 жыл бұрын
Samuel Melcher Yeah; I still have no idea why they don't like Daz Sampson.
If there are aliens out there searching for extraterrestrial intelligent life, this signal isn't going to help our case.
@timothymclean5 жыл бұрын
"They're smart enough to figure out radio, but good space god do they have terrible taste!"
@TonyHammitt9 жыл бұрын
Thanks guys, that was quite good. Often I've been embarrassed by our feeble attempts to communicate, but never realized the depths to which we've actually sunk. "Let's tune into that Earth channel, it's always good for a laugh..."
@sjeses8 жыл бұрын
I actually enjoy this show of yours more than I do QI. I'm very thankful a mate of mine made me aware of your channel, so a heartfelt thanks from the Netherlands!
@joheyjonsson28257 жыл бұрын
UKIP would never go to space. Too many aliens.
@mirzaahmed65896 жыл бұрын
Farage loves a bit of probing, though.
@theswaff6995 жыл бұрын
It'll be kinda hard to tear gas an alien space ship though
@alasdairhamer80064 жыл бұрын
they would just complain about them immigrating
@kathrynblodgett19698 жыл бұрын
You've "been Tom Scott"?. Are you OTHER people on other occasions?
@joshuahadams7 жыл бұрын
Kathryn Blodgett sat one point, he was a pirate politician.
@thelastcube.5 жыл бұрын
@@joshuahadams _ahem_ you mean MAD CAP'N TOM SCOTT?!
@avakining4 жыл бұрын
_YAAARRRRRRRRRRR_
@jacobbass62264 жыл бұрын
Thanda Paani *PLUNDER ASUNDER*
@Muzer03 жыл бұрын
It's how people traditionally sign off on radio comedies/etc. in Britain, for some reason. And since Tech Diff started out on the radio this makes sense.
@epicsnail148 жыл бұрын
congratulations, you win a traditional Japanese bathrobe made from lizard skin and decorated with an extinct bird that belongs to John Lennon's wife its yoko Ono's camodo dodo kimino
@beaniepollard82908 жыл бұрын
well done
@charliecooper26648 жыл бұрын
Why have i seen you on every single Tom Scott video recently haha.
@KettuKakku6 жыл бұрын
Yoko Ono's komodo dodo kimono?
@tunasorority6 жыл бұрын
Bathrobe?
@AvaFayIliza6 жыл бұрын
I agree. As well done as that was, a Kimono was not a bathrobe. It might be argued that a Yukata could be a bathrobe, but a Kimono was something that was/is worn through daily life and as somewhat formal wear.
@xpehkto3 жыл бұрын
In 2021 Wikipedia article about this message is already just a redirect to the Active SETI article, and there are no details about content of that message anywhere on Wikipedia now, so with a gradual link rot of news articles we really can lose all information about it long before we will get a response.
@Somerandomdude-ev2uh9 жыл бұрын
imagine getting the response our offices are now closed, please call back when we are open.
@edengleback8729 жыл бұрын
at least the messages weren't chosen by KZbin comments
@atl33002 жыл бұрын
I heard Tom say Ukraine and actually had a stroke
@Piper_____5 жыл бұрын
The message: "By all known laws of aviation..."
@cameronjadewallace2 жыл бұрын
🤣
@DarrenLandrum9 жыл бұрын
Gary, all you really needed to say to the "You know about Tinder?" inquisition is, "I can read."
@Brannersatlarge9 жыл бұрын
Damn! Add that to the excuse-a-tron!
@bioLarzen2 жыл бұрын
In 2050 the reply message will be "Didn't read you clear, please repeat".
@kathrinehmunk3 жыл бұрын
"To figure out what on earth we have sent them" 😂 probably an unintentional pun
@glitchxero46878 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad I found this show. Ended up coming to Tom's channel from my KZbin recommendations, I assume as a result of my subscription to Computerphile. This is better than 90% of American television.
@purpledevilr7463 Жыл бұрын
2:30 topical. From 2022.
@singerofsongs468 Жыл бұрын
Believe it or not, this is not the episode with the phrase “moon theremin” in its title.
@hotelmario5103 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Beagle 2 didn't actually crash on Mars, it was found in one piece the same year this video went out. Its solar panels just failed to deploy so they couldn't talk to it.
@DJVLDN Жыл бұрын
Bebo was very popular in the UK but it was actually an American company, founded in San Francisco and currently owned by Amazon.
@violagreene4643 Жыл бұрын
And we wonder why our entry in the Hitch Hiker's Guide just says "Mostly Harmless".
@HaydenX4 жыл бұрын
Interesting you bring up the strange pronunciation of Earth at the beginning. In Old English, it was spelled "Eorð" and was pronounced roughly as "ehYorth" with the "ð" being a voiced "th" as in "then" and the "eh" being a very short sound, enough to make the whole thing one syllable as it is today.
@williammeadows22107 жыл бұрын
The WOW signal is thought to be from a nearby microwave.
@mastersoftoday3 жыл бұрын
perhaps you're thinking of the so-called _perytons_ - they were signals observed by the Parkes telescope in Australia until they realized a microwave being opened while its still on gives off a radio signal similar to a fast radio burst
@3seven5seven1nine97 жыл бұрын
"We're gonna communicate with aliens, what's the most important thing they should know about us?" "Politics. Let's show them that not only do we believe others are evil, but that we have the evil in our hearts to hate them for it"
@LaMaisondeCasaHouse9 жыл бұрын
I think "obscure Star Wars reference" is an oxymoron...
@lawrencecalablaster5687 жыл бұрын
Tell that to Darth Talon…
@pkmntrainermann44765 жыл бұрын
Parsec is an actual scientific unit though... So obscure astronomy reference?
@chillinlikeaphilin5 жыл бұрын
I don't know, the Extended Universe is rather obscure-ish.
@rosiefay72835 жыл бұрын
1:10 Star Wars reference as in misusing "parsec" as if it were a unit of time rather than of distance?
@DerplingKing5 жыл бұрын
@@rosiefay7283 The Kessel run goes around a black hole so the faster you go the closer you can go to the black hole and the straighter and shorter the route is?
@nanardeurlambda Жыл бұрын
2:34 ... welp. that's certainly something I just heard that's somehow truer right now than at the time...
@arielendsley31817 жыл бұрын
I always look forward to the look of concerned anticipation on the winner's face as he tries to figure out what the prize will be.
@AndrewWilsonStooshie Жыл бұрын
Someone suggested to Carl Sagan that the disc on voyager should contain Bach. He pointed out that that would just be showing off.
@halyoalex89423 жыл бұрын
"Send Stephen Hawking" *Sad future viewer noises*
@KongoDub6 ай бұрын
Relevant
@halyoalex89426 ай бұрын
@@KongoDub what happened
@KongoDub6 ай бұрын
@@halyoalex8942 The island visits edit: "Alleged"
@mountnstream9 ай бұрын
"I can only assume [the Ukraine national space agency] has had some budget cuts recently." Still relevant and topical almost 9 years later...
@Faithy2386 Жыл бұрын
This video is older now than 2008 was when this video was recorded.
@vkillion7 жыл бұрын
Well, most people out of Britain would have had no idea who Nigel Farage was when this was made. However, re-watching this in 2017, everyone knows the architect of the Brexit disaster. I rather like the idea of him in space. Maybe he can take Trump with him.
@chrisoddy87443 жыл бұрын
Boris Johnson as well?
@samreid60102 жыл бұрын
@@chrisoddy8744 plus the remains of Maggy Thatcher just to be sure
@cameront0112 жыл бұрын
@@chrisoddy8744 you must be happy with the recent news hahaha
@ensignphil5 жыл бұрын
8:00 Imagining Morgan Freeman in all gold and Hawking with a bin over his chair.
@rattlesnake23453 жыл бұрын
Dude said Steven hawking and I was like "how old is this?" Then I realized....6 years ago
@GoodLizardlicks3 жыл бұрын
"We're going to include a representation of evil and send a recording of W. Bush" Trump in 2016: "Hold my beer."
@simonfrohlich77668 жыл бұрын
And now earth is well knowen in the Galaxy as being just a giant communication troll :D
@MBA28049 жыл бұрын
forget trolling the internets we've trolled the universe
@robertwilloughby80502 жыл бұрын
Remember, if we get "Good Vibrations" back, they have got the theremin, and they're (relatively) benign!
@matthewharris-levesque58093 жыл бұрын
Alien race receives message, can't decode it. Suddenly fearful that there are other races out there, decides they must adapt from an Agrarian Community to a War-Defense government, leads them into expedited technology breakthroughs, and they evolve to exist beyond physical bodies - by the time we get there, all that's left is the remains of a great civilization, and we realize that we've missed our one chance at making interstellar friends, all because we sent them an episode of The Flintstones.
@eternalsummer84092 жыл бұрын
Cosmic ordering? These days we just call that Amazon
@FamusJamus9 жыл бұрын
Someone do a radio drama about UKIP in Space. It _has_ to be done!
@Admiralhall20009 жыл бұрын
Nillie yes. Excellent idea
@TrollingAround9 жыл бұрын
Nillie Better still, let's send them out there and totally ignore/forget them?
@elmondo-s1e4 жыл бұрын
“Bebo is what people younger than us used when MySpace wasn’t cool enough” hahahah I was one of those younger people. Bebo was weird and all I really remember from it is the popularity contest element. You had something like (1 then it went up to) 3 hearts to give to other Bebo profiles per day, and your “received heart count” was displayed on your profile. Looking back it was kind of brutal when you consider a group of teenagers who are all friends with each other constantly comparing Hearts 😂😂
@TallOldOak9 жыл бұрын
I wonder if they played that Bush quote, "our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we, they will stop at nothing to harm America... And neither will we!" or that gem, "Most of our imports come from other countries " or "boarder relations between Mexico and Canada have never been better " or "fool me once, shame on... shame on... Uh shame on you... Uhh fool me twice... Uhhh... You can't get fooled again!"
@Kurtea002 жыл бұрын
2:25 this didn't age well.
@MontyD3 жыл бұрын
can we make David Attenborough ambassador for earth?
@lagronion5 жыл бұрын
This is sad since Stephen hawking has passed
@hnyii4 жыл бұрын
True.
@autooctavia1333 жыл бұрын
In 100 years aliens are going to see this and are going to be very unhappy
@FlintTD9 жыл бұрын
Brian Cox. I was hoping for Brian Blessed or Jesse Cox.
@lawrencecalablaster5686 жыл бұрын
FlintTD I thought they meant the actor Brian Cox.
@schucker889 жыл бұрын
This is a great show, Tom! Keep it up and I'll watch every single one!
@rexstauss7 жыл бұрын
the moog theremini auto snaps to note frequencies. it's pretty cool!
@Anthaghoull4 жыл бұрын
The power of Greyskull :))) Imagine an alien race who monitored us and sends back the Flinstones theme to try and hint at us that we are still their equivalent of stone age.
@rhyleymaster9 жыл бұрын
Gary and Chris never fail to make me laugh. Keep on doing what you do :D
@Leffrey2 жыл бұрын
Well the lenght of the line between landing and impact really comes down to the skid marks
@TheLonelyPeople314 Жыл бұрын
Poor hawking died before he could be an Earth ambassador of the TechDif space message
@hansolo40175 жыл бұрын
16:11 did anyone else automatically finish that off in their head
@williamrose34133 жыл бұрын
Theoretically our radio pulses used to do things like measure the distances to planets if they go far enough could act exactly like the wow signal for other systems
@BleuSquid9 жыл бұрын
Have these all been recorded in one go, or does everyone just always wear the same shirts, and always have the same cloudy weather?
@TomScottGo9 жыл бұрын
Aaron Haviland We record in batches: this is the last one filmed on the first day of the shoot -- hence the "off for curry" comment at the end! There are three more left in this run, filmed on day two in different clothes. Although my camera will still be pointed vaguely the wrong way...
@aDifferentJT7 жыл бұрын
Aaron Haviland just to clarify, yes it is always cloudy
@ash.l21756 жыл бұрын
Aaron Haviland welcome to Britain
@barakeel Жыл бұрын
I am a bit late and I don't get all the jokes but it's a really good show!
@cosmicpolitan5 жыл бұрын
I thought it would be obvious Patrick Stewart should be our Earth Ambassador 😁
@entropiCCycles9 жыл бұрын
11:02 It took me a bit to hear the "attendant" part of that statement, and the mental image I had before then was hilarious because of that misunderstanding.
@2dividedby3equals6663 жыл бұрын
I have just now realized Matt said Orkut at 5:07... I'm so old...
@satin2278 жыл бұрын
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i googled daz sampsom now my brain is exploding in pain
@Haights8 жыл бұрын
+LAN Master (sirswears) I must be using the wrong Google then because all I'm getting is the guy from Bus Stop and I have no problem with that. (why yes I am DDR trash why do you ask)
@Haights8 жыл бұрын
+Haights oh derp, forgetting the target audience here Why yes I am Dancing Stage trash, why do you ask
@JamesLee-rn7hs4 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@seenbelow4 жыл бұрын
A years' rent to Nigel Farage's Space Garage should be a prize in a future episode.
@Nanakoglasgow2 жыл бұрын
RIP Hawking
@CraniumOnEmpty3 жыл бұрын
Dang it! The answer to that win was "I have the POWER!"
@Zelmel Жыл бұрын
"Was it UKIP?" Oh you sweet, innocent children.
@benjamingeiger6 жыл бұрын
Beagle 2 didn't crash, it merely performed a lithobraking maneuver.
@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays2 жыл бұрын
back once again for my yearly playthrough of the Citation needed playlist. Party on Tom.
@diynevala2 жыл бұрын
I just realized the intro/outro -sound is actually the whole Friends theme compressed into 2 seconds!
@georgedoty-williams20852 жыл бұрын
Really??
@diynevala2 жыл бұрын
@@georgedoty-williams2085 Sure, if you take it with a load of sarcasm. But the sound is there.
@xerozoo3 жыл бұрын
a parsec is 3.26156378 light years
@somecunninglinguist6 жыл бұрын
This show keeps me on my toes. Sometimes I know all the questions sometimes none
@michal27884 жыл бұрын
After re-watching this for the 20th or so time I wish Tom said "joining us in the kitchen today"
@elikorn87772 жыл бұрын
Watching in 2021. All the M class planets we have found
@jamietus10126 жыл бұрын
Richard Dean Anderson would be the ambassador for earth
@penfold-559 жыл бұрын
wow this show was incredibly geeky! i love it!
@nathanstack33122 жыл бұрын
That Ukraine joke is more true in 2022
@legendofFranktheTank5 жыл бұрын
stephen hawking and morgan freeman for earths ambassadors. that joke did not age well
@timothymclean5 жыл бұрын
And the Ukraine one aged better?
@jesarablack16612 жыл бұрын
Worst thing about sending a 4 hour message, if we got a message of that length (assuming we even detected all of it), we wouldn't be certain how much was lost or if it was really random or not unless it repeated for so much longer
@BippyTheGuy6 жыл бұрын
Update from the Future: Beagle 2 actually survived!
@darthbob883 ай бұрын
12:30 I mean, the Voyager probes have a golden plaque showing a) two nude humans, and b) the location of Earth, and c) a record containing traditional music from Earth, as well as some greetings. "Hey, spaceman, why don't you come on over some time and we can test my hi-fi?"