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Cole Palmer All of your videos are always so good. This one is no exception!
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May 1, 2015 04:14:29
old_MK And, um, WHY would we spend a dime (even if that's all it took) to save a louse?! Lice are a nasty, parasitic species that probably spreads disease... As for the panda........that IS a toughie. They ARE awfully cute, but they're so darned sensitive and "niche-y" that one wonders if it's worth it. Hate to say it, but I asked the same question about 10 years ago. Pandas are so sensitive that even if we weren't screwing up the planet, they might still be in trouble... * sigh * It's a tough question...
May 1, 2015 12:58:58 · Reply
Michael Kaufman Great video. I will never cancel my Patron support as long as you continue to support worthy causes like the demise of the panda. If you want to start a campaign to actually go out and actively drive them instinct, count me in for that as well.
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May 1, 2015 20:19:18
Chase Turner Enjoyed the surprise reference to the mechanical adding system -- thanks for including that!
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May 8, 2015 14:17:29
old_MK Well, I was familiar with the basic fact, as evidenced by what your car's windshield looks like after it's been rained on & it dries, but I surely didn't know all the intimate details about water molecules and water clusters. Very interesting! You guys are awesome!
May 9, 2015 02:04:31 · Reply
Cristina Quiroz Hello. I would like you to start doing videos in Spanish again in your YouTube's "Minuto de la Tierra" channel, it would be great. Please, think about it. Greetings from Mexico!
May 23, 2015 00:45:42 · Reply
MinuteEarth Thanks! We've started up the Spanish language videos again!
June 22, 2015 21:39:55 · Reply
Cristina Quiroz Yes, I noticed that. Thanks!!!
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Cole Palmer These videos are always so informative and easy to understand! Thank you ME Team!
May 26, 2015 21:52:18 · Reply
Sverre Rabbelier Really digging the background music.
May 26, 2015 23:08:08 · Reply
BurmansHealthShop Good Video's Man GG!!!!!!!!!
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June 1, 2015 02:33:26
Lightbow Sorry to comment on packaging rather than content, but I was surprised to see one of the longest, raciest YouTube advertisements I've ever seen before what's supposed to be a kid-friendly educational video. I'm not offended or anything, but if I were to have the same experience in front of a classroom of kids, I'd be totally fired. I thought the point of Patreon subscriptions was to cut the need for stuff like this. How much money would you need to raise per video (either on Patreon, or via corporate sponsorship) to cut out ads entirely?
June 2, 2015 15:04:26 · Reply
Henry Reich This is a good question, thanks for asking and I'm sorry you had to sit through an inappropriate ad. At this point I've been turning off overlay ads on new videos as well as turning off unskippable pre-roll ads (like the one you watched) for the first 24 hours or so of new videos, so if you watch right away you don't have to see ads (or at least you can skip them). I don't have a set number goal for turning off all ads for the first week a video is live, and one potential issue is that a lot of patrons put a cap on their monthly contributions, so the full amount listed on the patron page (minus transaction costs and patreon.com's cut) is only for one video/month, any additional videos receive a significantly lower level of pledges. Henry
June 16, 2015 15:02:14 · Reply
Sergio I Montserrat S I second Lightbow's question.
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BurmansHealthShop So is My Company going to be Sponsored in your Next Video?? i'll appreciate it GG!!!!! and Have a Nice Day Too?????????
June 19, 2015 20:33:55 · Reply
MinuteEarth Your name appear in our next video! Coming out on Friday! :)
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June 29, 2015 14:26:53
old_MK Excellent! However, if I have to look like a NMR in order to live longer, then never mind! No, seriously, it's good research to maybe help some people with certain medical conditions, I suppose, or perhaps to help us to look and feel younger and better while we're here, but I certainly DON'T want to live forever. 70 - 100 years is plenty for me, thank you!
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Mitch Etzkin Great Video! Very interesting :-D Also, are you guys playing Ultimate at the 0:33 second mark?!
July 6, 2015 14:13:15 · Reply
Sergio I Montserrat S Thank you! This is the kind of science videos that make me like your channel and supporting your efforts. Love to see the process of analysis behind phenomenons of life.
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July 16, 2015 17:22:55
Michael Richters You think you can't initiate a turn without counter-steering? Not true, as my kids demonstrate to me daily in our bakfiets. Yes, of course simply leaning your torso to one side will cause the bike to tilt the opposite way, but you are neglecting lateral forces that one can apply against the road through the tires. Most bicycles don't have frictionless tires.
July 16, 2015 17:45:57 · Reply
Henry Reich Lateral forces only come from being off balance, not from simply leaning. In order to actually start falling, you must have counter steered (perhaps unintentionally) at least a tiny bit. It's very hard to notice sometimes.
July 16, 2015 17:49:27 · Reply
Michael Richters Counter-steering is certainly the usual way of doing it, and it can be very subtle, but it is not the only way to create the lean necessary for a turn. This would be obvious if you rode a bicycle with a passenger (who has no access to the steering mechanism). When they shift their weight around, they transmit forces through the tires, resisted by the road, causing a lateral wight shift. This effect is not subtle, and is completely independent of my steering motions. Also, if you think active counter-steering is the only way to create a lean, how do you explain the fact that people steer bikes hands-free?
July 16, 2015 18:01:39 · Reply
Henry Reich Ah, I see what the confusion is - by "counter steering" I just mean that the handlebars will turn, not that they have to be actively turned by a rider. For a passenger I'm sure they make it harder to steer, and can change the weight distribution considerably, but if the passenger moves to the right, the bike should lean to the left. Which way does it steer then? If you search for "bricycle" you will find videos of a bike that's been modified to make it un-steerable by leaning.
July 16, 2015 18:13:54 · Reply
Henry Reich I guess what I'm trying to say more specifically is that for a balanced bicycle moving in a perfectly straight line to initiate a turn in one direction, the front wheel contact point has to first move slightly (often imperceptibly) in the other direction. This is a mathematically demonstrated fact.
July 16, 2015 18:19:08 · Reply
Michael Richters Oh, yes, I'm familiar with the "bricycle". You're still failing to understand one thing, though. When the passenger moves laterally, he does push on the bike. And the *bike* leans the opposite way, but that's not all that matters. What really matters is not the angle between the ground and the vertical axis of the frame; what matters is the lateral position of the center of mass of the bicycle/rider system and the point of contact at the ground. If I push against the frame, some of that force leans the bike, but some is resisted by the road, because the wheels don't slip. That moves the center of mass laterally without any steering.
July 16, 2015 18:58:36 · Reply
Michael Richters Something you could try that might convince you (or perhaps you'll see a flaw that I haven't) — stand on one foot, and jump to one side. Then do the same and jump to the other side. You didn't have to first move your foot out from under you, did you? The same should be true of a bicycle. The fact that the rider is free to apply forces from many different points in many directions greatly complicates the question, doesn't it?
July 16, 2015 19:04:20 · Reply
Henry Reich A foot is totally different - it has multiple contact points with the ground, allowing you to apply torques at the ground which help you start leaning in various directions. Where is the torque coming from on a bike to move the center of mass away from the contact point? The rider certainly can't create that torque from inside the system just by changing their mass distribution inside the system. An outside torque/force not at the pivot point is necessary. Gravity is this force (hence the unrideability of the bricycle).
July 16, 2015 19:13:30 · Reply
Michael Richters It can be done on ice skates, too, which are even narrower than bicycle tires. But since that doesn't convince you… Let the rider lean one way, the bike the other way, the let the rider exert a force along the rider's axis, which is now not in line with the point of contact. You must see that this force would be resisted by the ground, and allow the center of mass of the system to shift laterally. This is almost identical to a man in a canoe, who moves from the front end to the back end. The canoe moves under him so that their colnective center of mass doesn't move — but only if there is zero resistance from the water. If we replace the water with a more viscous fluid, that center of mass moves more, until that fluid becomes effectively solid, and the canoe doesn't move at all. The bicycle also doesn't have complete freedom of motion. Lateral forces, even internal ones, cause the bike to lean, but they also push the bike's tires against the road, and that resultant force from the road causes the system's center of mass to move.
July 16, 2015 19:36:21 · Reply
Sergio I Montserrat S And this effect is more noticeable in a bike, where wheel mass and rotation are higher, thus the forces involved in keeping the vehicle upright are higher, and thus riders have to consciously apply counterrotation when they are learning to drive. We don't notice in bicicles because forces are smaller.
July 17, 2015 02:04:25 · Reply
Sergio I Montserrat S It doesn't compare, since the foot and ice skates don't have a torque that works as a gyroscope that actively resists a change in inertia. All other examples you gave also fail to include a gyroscopic stabilizing influence.
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July 20, 2015 15:57:06
Marcin Maciejewski Black background works perfect with this content! Wonderful episode Henry!
July 22, 2015 09:41:02 · Reply
Patrick W. Gilmore This is The Best Thing I've seen from Minute Physics, and I love this channel. Thank you, Henry. This is exactly why I became a Patron.
July 23, 2015 20:18:18 · Reply
Henry Reich Thanks so much!
July 24, 2015 00:34:43 · Reply
SoHardToKill "This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy on repetitive, misleading or inappropriate metadata." WTH..!?!?
July 25, 2015 10:26:56 · Reply
Henry Reich Apparently including Neil deGrasse Tyson's name in the tags and description made someone at youtube think I was spamming :/
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Arturo Gutierrez whoa...
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