The Snow in Texas is a CONSPIRACY? (no) | [OFFICE HOURS] Podcast #042

well yeah i could get a hair dryer but it would be like super loud on the stream no i'm not just gonna subject them to my my just a beautiful blowing thing of you know what that's not a bad idea i should find some snow too okay i love you what's that this is a wendy's you answer the phone oh sorry no hello and welcome to office hours the live component at the facility where good old professor kyle opens up his blast doors as you saw and lets my wonderful nerdy staff inside as well as the general public who ignores a bunch of warning signs to ask oh your boy here science technology public health pop culture questions things that i can usually remember and uh you know we'll learn a little bit of something together as we do every week and as we do every week we go through a number of topics throughout the week that have to do with science and entertainment and pop culture that made me go well and this week is no different of course we'll be talking about a disturbing tick tock trend and why it's a lot more serious than you think it is probably we'll be talking a little bit about the mars landing or at least in in enthralling ourselves in the reverie of landing a robot and moth uh we'll also be talking about genetically engineering yourself to be more like a tardy boy and we'll be talking about black footed ferrets in a in a jump in cloning that has me excited but before all that of course if you are wanting to ask me something in between those topics you can go into the youtube chat live and i'll try my best to get to all those questions you can also initiate ooh those cool people colored things that uh show super chat so if you want a super chat on youtube your comment will be highlighted and i'll try my very best to get the get to them but please i'm just one man no spamming no all caps no weirdness or else my security team from the chat will straight up ban you because it was getting kind of weird in here earlier today so i mean you can be like elizabeth calvert here with the 20 says hey kyle my tiny human wants to know why our breath comes out as steam when it's cold thank you for being awesome well tiny human alex that is a fairly simple question thank goodness uh your breath comes out as steam when it's cold because uh air naturally has some amount of water vapor in it and that the amount of water vapor that's naturally in the air depends on temperature pressure and some other things so uh when it's really really cold outside the air can get to a point where it's quote saturated or even super saturated with water vapor meaning that the air can no longer hold any water vapor in it and when you breathe out your your body naturally uh gives some moisture to your breath and when you breathe out that air that you're breathing out into can no longer hold any more water vapor so it comes out of that air as steam or steam breath or you know how you acted like you were smoking when it when you were a kid shetty bear with the ten says hey show the love ky dang it is what i said before i sent this put it towards polishing the time crystals oh if you know anything about time crystals they need a lot of rubbing uh rupert trough with the canadian 20 kyle favorite tri-color magic combination i think i'm an esper man i like esper temer is pretty close although i do have a soft spot for jessica um because of narset uh christopher johns johnson and let's pause the super chats there's a lot of them coming in i want to get to our very first topic here and a little experiment that we're going to do together with some matches christopher johnson with the 10 says i propose we fight conspiracies with the xkcd strategy from now on which is giving them so many more additional conspiracy theories to contend with that they kind of lose their minds mr diglett is always with the 20. uh hello to you and your family chef smoke one of the original members of the facility hey show kyle the love all hail the basilisk who's your favorite rakdos commander my favorite rakdos commander is rakdos lord of riots himself my deck with rakdos is straight up mean philip greer with the 10 says first time catching a live stream watched you for years love to simp for you and i love i love that you're simping in fact you might call all this simping a symphony that's trademarked you can't use that i came up with that i'll find you so we have a disturbing new tick tock trend happening in texas texas is experiencing a uh a very unlikely weather event where it's texas is more or less freezing over and this doesn't happen very often but it's going to be happening more and more often uh as it pertains to climate change and more extreme weather moving and weather systems changing throughout the planet but anyway right now texas and a lot of texans are having a very tough time with the cold weather however very disturbingly and this is on tick tock specifically there are trends of people trying to show that the snow is somehow fake the snow is somehow generated artificially and more um more politically charged that the snow is a government fabrication to try to um punish texas for having a uh independent power grid that lacks governmental regulation now i know you can probably see a couple ironies there um a couple ironies there sorry it says playback y'all can still see me right it says on my on my end it says the playback has stopped we good hit me up if it's still good i'm not frozen i was just seeing if good okay sorry the barrel the barrels are live on my on my end it says uh everything is kind of stopped um but okay so uh disturbingly you have this trend of uh people trying to show that the the snow there is a government fabrication so you have a couple things going on first of all you have a good first of all you have a um experience problem there's probably a lot of people in texas that aren't very familiar with snow and so there's a predisposition to say well this is really weird could there be some other explanation for this but what they are using as quote unquote evidence is experiments like these where you're taking a lighter or a hair dryer or a microwave to snow and the snow is not acting as you expect but as so often with common sense science needs to be the checks and balances on common sense because your common sense can so often be wrong why would you have a natural intuition on the physics of snow so you need to check that intuition and what these people are doing are trying to burn or melt the snow and two things happen that they deem weird and spiritual real one is that when they apply heat source to compacted fresh snow here uh the snow does not drip and does not melt or appears to not melt the other thing that is being shown is some sort of burning of the snow it's not melting it is it is blackening something like that so why don't we try this little experiment for ourselves okay and i want to see if we can replicate what we see and if we can then we have to explain what we see don't we i have a thermos full of what's this what's that over here what's what's this that's my other ice cubes uh i have here a thermos full of ice cubes and i have here some green matches so what we're going to do is try to replicate what we see without setting my hair on fire okay so here i have a nice normal looking ice cube and i'm going to put it here and then i'm going to hopefully not lie myself on fire here we go okay so now i'm going to hold this oh the moisture made it go up just a second i have a fan on me and what we're seeing huh weird oh weird okay now now if you can see that that is a very definite that is a very def indefinite black spot on the ice cube you see that the ice cube is in fact dripping all over me but you do see this blackening happening okay well what does that mean well in this first case we can explain away pretty quickly what's happening with the non-dripping uh the non-dripping snowballs so when you're melting the snow with something like a hair dryer that moisture is not necessarily just going to drip straight down off of the material in fact because so much of this uh so much of this ice so much of the snow rather is is void it's filled with air and when you have a lot of tiny voids water because of its co cohesion against other up against other things and it's adhesion wait cohesion with itself and adhesion to other objects water has what's called capillary action it can it can pull itself through tiny gaps against gravity because of its surface tension its cohesion and adhesion so when you are melting snow in a snowball that capillary action is taking over once the droplets start to form the droplets instead of dropping down onto your hand they return into the snowball making it more like a slush ball but it happens pretty slowly and so it can appear that it's not melting at all now what's happening here well when you burn something like a match you are initiating a chemical reaction an exothermic chemical reaction and in the flame of this chemical reaction is going to be some amount of imperfect combustion so you're burning hydrocarbons uh or if you're using a lighter you know butane something like that which is a hydrocarbon and when it's not perfect some of that carbon instead of going into uh you know other hydrocarbons or other compounds like co2 that carbon can just form long chains of carbon atoms this these long chains of carbon atoms can then float out of the flame thanks to the convection action of the heated air and it can stick to stuff we call these long carbon chains that stick to stuff soot and you can easily see this effect if you've ever you've probably had experience of this if you ever put a candle too close to a wall you will see this this uh eventually you get this black triangle shape that's forming on the wall well this is this imperfect combustion of the of the material that's burning forming these chains of carbon which look black when they deposit on a surface you know carbon looks black a lot of allotropes of carbon look black graphite looks black i am wearing and i'll show you this later on social media but i am wearing a solid diamond ring this is a 100 this is 28 carat diamond but it's black that's just how it looks it's pure diamond it's pretty cool anyway i'll talk to you about it later but those those two explanations are much more likely when we ask ourselves much more likely than a grand government conspiracy now a lot of you in the chat and i'm already seeing this are just saying that these people are silly or stupid or misinformed and we have to give people the benefit of the doubt because we are just people right so i think there's something else going on because people are they're just like you and me of course and i think something else is going on and i've talked about this many many times but given that this is spreading through social media i do believe that this is an example a a a yet another disturbing example of the information apocalypse that we're in if you haven't heard me talk about this this is the the state that we are in now we are in the age of information where there is so much information that truth has started to blur with fiction that opinion has started to blur with truth and we have machinery that weaponizes information to a point never before seen in human history it is now possible for some guy in i don't know like a facility to create thousands and thousands of artificial miss and disinformation sewers and so we now are at the point where humanity has the power to recklessly confuse itself with ease you know this is that this is like bringing a knife to a gunfight you know they both try to do the same thing but one does the other thing a lot lot better so now we have this with social media we have a weaponization of information like we've never seen before and i i'm trying to sound serious because i believe it is serious this is just this tick tock trend is just one outcropping of what this is conspiratorial information is now finding homes in in and in echo chambers and around the internet where usually these ideas would have burned out as bad ideas but instead we're giving them an infectivity a virality that goes beyond our normal evolved systems of checks and balances it's to the point now where there's so much information out there that we've become fatigued that we no longer even want to check it is this real or fake i i don't have the time this is a signal of the information apocalypse and it doesn't just apply to tick-tock this kind of thinking this kind of sharing this kind of virality can yes be as silly as you know government-made snow but it's also the exact same machinery that can destabilize the foundations of society which i believe it is doing some of these people that were interviewed for this tick tock trend were saying this is an attack on our freedom our our state is being punished we are going to secede from the country because of this i mean it's like that joker thing right i mean the little push that sometimes people only need well now social media gives anybody on the planet the the ability to really shove people around with bad information it's a really really really bad state of affairs and the only way around this is to get people is to get people in power like mark zuckerberg like whoever those other people are to really add some teeth to their regular their regulation or to impose regulation upon them this is no longer just a matter of finding old friends this is a matter of how we speak to each other as people and how society operates this is a harbinger of disaster of the information apocalypse and it's not funny it may take a silly form here but um i think it's i think it's deadly serious oh all right i promise the rest of this won't be as heavy as that but you know i've been thinking a lot about uh how everything's terrible james newton with the five says knutson oh thank you hey look at you james knudsen says is there antimatter photons in our photons the reason light hurts your eyes uh antimatter photons are positronellos or electrons i don't know is there antimatter light it's well light doesn't have any mass so it would make it it's not matter so it so no i'm gonna say um but if i'm wrong people can check me um the reason light hurts your eyes i'm guessing it's an evolved response by your sensory system to get you to look away from a bright light um it's not that the light itself is causing harm but your body is indicating a pain response such that you move away from the stimulus just in case the light is intense enough to hurt you um your tympanic membranes your eardrums do the same thing when it senses a certain amount of pressure little bones in your in your head move around to try to alleviate uh that intense pressure and um that's also including a pain response of be like oh i should cover my ears right uh william cameron with the 10 says hey kyle i'm a police officer in north carolina but studied meteorology before switching careers first time catching a live show still simping for science well thank you for being here william thank you for serving uh your community and society once we eventually have to uh you know enforce twitter law in the streets thomas hedrick is always with the 20 says science thor king of 28 karat bling oh hallowed be thy science since youtube is being silly today tell us the most interesting science fact that you can think of science is my passion simply science uh the most interesting science interesting internet science fact that i can think of well uh something that i liked uh while and we'll talk about this in a second something that i liked with the landing of the perseverance rover is that that seven minutes of terror that very stressful time where we didn't know if the rover exploded or not and it was landing in all the sky crane and sky hook and all this and all this crazy stuff all of that happened like 11 minutes before we saw it because space is so so big um light takes 11 minutes to get from mars to earth so when we were all watching that live stream and it was descending into the mar the thin martian atmosphere and we were waiting to get confirmation and pictures of the landing spot that happened minutes ago the universe knew what happened but we did not because of the grand distances and the immutable speed of light quantum flare with the five says hey show the love cut dang it it's always fun is it because snow is a great insulator well again snow is a great insulator because it is mostly void uh there's a lot of air in it that's why an igloo works kind of um it's a good insulator but uh yeah i guess that makes it well the other thing is that water has a very high heat capacity so it takes a lot of energy to melt ice a lot of it a lot more than most other materials and so it's going to be harder to quote unquote melt with a traditional method so not like you expect again the common sense here is not is not always correct uh jared pence with the five says the solution of bad information is more good information well you'd think that but um it's not always the case especially when we know that misinformation travels faster on social media than any kind of debunking or factual information and again we can't just let that keep happening we have to i mean how long did it take twitter and facebook to start rolling out stuff that says hey this claim is disputed or hey this is wrong should have happened i don't know in like 2016 in a certain month baruch ups up spritch with the five cool name how excited for you how excited are you for the fact that we have to go back to mars to pick up perseverance's poop pretty excited are you not my friend wants to know is looking at the sun during eclipse more dangerous than normal or is it just because you'd be people will look at the sun more i actually don't know why would it make the intensity of the sun more dangerous i i think you're right in that it's just because you'd have a lot of people looking at this sun for an extended period of time and as a public health measure you'd want to basically just say don't stare at the sun that's what i'm guessing i don't think i don't think the the occlusion of light makes the light any more intense i don't think so oh we have dracar vance with the mx200 i'm gonna assume that's equal to a thousand dollars there's no way the snow was fake i live in the state of mexico right next to the border with texas i've been living here for 30 years and last week it was the first time i ever saw snow in my was the first time i ever saw snow in my life it's nonsense uh yeah i think that's i think that's a part of it i think people i mean if you've been living there for 30 years there's a lot of people especially young people who are using tick tock who have never seen snow before in their life and instead of saying it's the weather they're saying it must be a crazy thing see again that's the problem usually you would have a discussion with that person be like do you see why that doesn't make sense be like oh yeah but because of social media you score points for being controversial and weird and viral and so their weird idea is reinforced by weird people and people who already believe in conspiracy theories and then it spirals out of control goes viral and then some black friday thor ends up talking about it for minutes at a time look what it's done to me i'm fine uh we have majorly awesome with the 20 says hey show kyle the love on the topic of keeping science true at a public true af in the public eye how can we be sure people services like facebook are fact check checking uh that's the problem majorly we can't we can't be sure uh that facebook is ever fact checking um because we don't have the proper regulatory bodies regulation in place to monitor them they don't have enough physical people actual people checking all these things there's not going to be any quick algorithms that you can quickly make that will that will be the be all end-all in in terms of fact checking so we we need to regulate these sources of information again it's like it's it's like guns you know it wasn't having a musket is not as much of a problem for the public as having a you know a you know a gatling gun but you know a gatling gun is to social media as a musket is to like sending a letter two completely different volumes of information that can do uh different levels of harm boise freerunner with the 50 dollar donation says super proud and vastly confused my brother was recently offered a position at the argonne national laboratory his research will be quote creating new materials that absorb co2 from the air using light he has tried to explain it and i am lost well if he's working in argonne uh which we talked about uh that's where they study corium from uh that we talked about in the elephant's foot video uh that if if he's doing that at argan i mean why how i i don't know but sequestering um co2 is going to be one of the critical technologies uh going forward because it can't just be planting trees you can't just be reducing car emissions it has we have to attack climate change from all fronts and using chemical reactions to draw carbon out of the air will be one of those things that we need to do uh jonathan ashcraft with the 20 says when i was 15 i was in a behavioral treatment program where they took us up to mount hood in january tents didn't have the bottom so we dug a sleeping trench into the snow so the wind would go over us and keep warm insulation yeah um kangaroos do that kangaroos know so it's a hardwired behavior they know that under just a few inches underneath the topsoil of australia it's much cooler because the heat doesn't travel that far and so when they want to cool down well one thing they'll lick their arms and touch their faces to use evaporation but then they'll also dig into the dirt and sit in the dirt hole and i've always wanted to sit in the dirt hole of the forest i often think of just just every day just getting up and just walking into the forest and just living there g-man with the 20s says hey kyle love the show you spelled my name wrong i'm not even going to read the what do you think of the space elevator with more than one cable holding it some sort of suspension bridge or a space bridge if you will let's pause the super chat so we can get to the next uh topeka kansas um i think it's i think we talked about this last week theoretically the space elevator is a fine idea we know what we could put up there at what part you know how high it would have to be to be weightless at a certain point and we know the tension that the cables would be under the problem is um the problem is is that there's literally not a material that we know of on earth that is strong enough to take the tension i mean you know how hard it it can be to like imagine um do you know what a kettlebell is imagine taking a 35 pound kettlebell putting it on the end of a rope and trying to swing it quickly it's gonna be very hard on your arms a space elevator is taking many many many many thousands if not millions of kilograms and putting it on the end of a string and then spinning it around at a thousand miles per hour which is around the average speed at the earth's equator think of the tension from that yeah speaking of tension this was incredible you know let's just watch it we are starting to straighten up so right maneuver where the face you know i just want to i want to hammer home how hard all of this is how many thousands and thousands of people billions of dollars years of planning and research indicates she was deployed this doesn't seem that hard but keep in mind you're traveling at many many miles per second through the martian atmosphere at this point why because the martian atmosphere is so dang thin you can't just land a spacecraft straight down or even at a shallow angle like we do on earth with the space shuttle we do that shallow angle to take advantage of compressing the air in front of us and slowing us down but because there's not much air in the martian atmosphere at all you have to take this really shallow angle and like skim the surface of the atmosphere such that you can get as much air in front of you as humanly possible and then when you're deploying this giant uh parachute you're going so fast there's so much stress on all this and remember you can only do this once the navigation has confirmed that the parachute has deployed and we are seeing significant deceleration they used a mortar like a cannon to that's the jettisoning of the heat shield another thing that you have to do if you're going to skim the surface of the atmosphere like that you need this giant surface area to impact as much air as you can and it has to be made of a material such that it's not going to straight up vaporize subsonic speeds and the heat shield has been separated this allows both the radar and the cameras to get their first look at the surface current velocity is there it goes 145 meters per second and an altitude of about 10 km nine and a half well me narrating this must be riveting much better than the nasa live stream that's me okay blah blah blah mars mars mars we get it mars mars mars we get it so this is from the rover itself it's descending okay now we've never seen anything like this before we've never seen how the martian regolith really does this um and now it's the rover itself is being lowered from the sky crane which is still and it's what it what a crazy idea right it sounds like a kid came up with it but it works on another planet so one thing to keep a note here is that the rover is getting a full dust bath and it's very has a lot of sensitive electronics on it and it's not you know always optical now what you see here is right there the sky crane yeets itself away from the rover such that there's no chance of it coming back down and hitting the rover and destroying billions of dollars worth of work perseverance safely [Applause] and right there that's that's science at work that's um that's science at its best when you can have um people of all ages gender sexes nationalities socioeconomic statuses languages working together towards a common goal of putting a robot the size of a small car on another planet with the explicit mission of trying to find evidence that there was life on the red planet either there is or there was in terms of like fossilized remains but this is so hard it's so hard to do um and so we should absolutely celebrate this this grandiose achievement and i for one am looking forward to everything that will be returned quite soon oh man is it hot in here i need some fresh air we have dw jones with the 21 super chat says the new episodes of mars are great but i also like the older ones of viking and trapper john hashtag sim for science thank you darkwing jones we have hector garriga with the 50 donation says thank you for the massive impact on the existence of on the existence of the love of science in my brain and heart also like i have those quantum surge cannons for you hector for you got a lock on him okay good you know that heat shield we don't need anymore drop it on his house what how is this still wendy's why do you have a phone love you we have a 10 from is monsta says hey quail love the show the fake snow conspiracy has been around for a long time i think tick tock and people new to snow are causing a resurgence yeah i think a lot of conspiracy theories have roots that uh run deeper than we expect hyper mike with the fine says do you think that this crazy winter storm we had has any connection to the government's weather control no i do not um we uh the you know we have toyed around with weather changing technology like cloud seeding and stuff like that but to generate a weather event on this scale like it's one thing to make it rain on a certain prairie in texas it's another thing entirely to cause a cold snap like hasn't been seen in a generation and destroy you know millions and millions of dollars worth of infrastructure people literally freezing to death in their homes um that's a completely separate thing and you'd have to think about the number of people that would be involved the money that would be involved um how many people would have to stay how quiet for years basically what i'm getting at is that every single conspiracy theory that's popular has a has a problem where it assumes that the most unlikely explanations are always the best ones where that is never the case uh michael kerper with the 10 says hey kyle long time viewer first time streamer hey did you see that the parachute for perseverance had a coded message in binary the message was decoded as dare mighty things yeah i uh i i forgot what it actually said so thank you for reminding us all um hey kyle adam frost with new zealand 17 dollars hey kyle with perseverance statistically are we expecting to find life if life only evolved on earth and mars being outside the goldilocks zone aren't the chances very low um i don't know um statistically are we expecting to find life i would say well i would say the chances are very low we're looking in specific places in mars because those chances are better than other chances but given that mars has been long dead has no magnetosphere has almost no atmosphere is incredibly cold incredibly harsh um the chances of finding life there are very slim but it's our best shot with what we can do now so why not take that shot and inspire people and maybe find the most important finding in human history grim reaper of trolls with the 999 says hey show the love kyle okay what's your favorite thing from math uh i like derivatives you know like how every um every streamer on twitch is derivative of each other with like neon lights in a and a cooler full of red bull uh taking shots um rice lee with the five says love catching a live stream love everything you do sim for science gotta go and we'll catch the rest later keep up the good work reese well thank you for being here the work as you say must continue because now we will talk about genetically engineering ourselves into tardigrades i think oops oops here we go the humble taught a grade perhaps the hardiest creature ever known to science this little and and i'm sure you know this but just to recap tardigrade or moss piglets or water bears are extremophile well they don't live in extreme places but then they can ex they can survive extreme pressures pressures that would smoosh you to nothing extreme temperature differentials they can ex they can survive in the vacuum of space they can turn themselves into what's called a ton tun dehydrate their body go into a state of cryptobiosis and survive for 30 years in a state of suspended animation and then all you have to do is put a drop of water on them and they they spring back to life wow what a creature witcher mug but they also have something else that is very interesting too as chance would have it space flight so another thing that moss piglets have is what's called radio resistance and it sounds exactly what it sounds like exactly what it is they have a high resistance to radiation um and that is b well uh many creatures have a natural response to radiation ionizing radiation coming in from outer space cosmic radiation comes in since uh comes in through the atmosphere to earth and has been ionizing or changing and damaging biology since biology was a thing but billions of years ago and so there was some for some creatures and for dna itself there was an evolutionary pressure to be able to repair and handle damage from sources of radiation turns out that the tardigrade evolves something called d sub a protein called d sub and that stands for uh damage suppression oh it's a gene sorry d sub gene which creates a protein um damage suppression gene and so when this gene is activated it is in response to some kind of ionizing radiation and it lessens the damage and ups the repair such that they would not be at risk to the harmful effects of uh ionization as much as you or i would be so i'm talking about a paper engineering radio protective human cells using tardigrade damage suppression protein decep oh it is a protein thanks kevin nice background research did you get hector yet drop that thing on him use the checking account anyway so what i'm literally talking about here is these scientists created a line of human cells that through genetic engineering naturally by themselves produced d sub what are you talking about kyle this sounds super villainy yes it is i'm talking about literally changing human cells genetically engineering them to be more taught a gradient and of course you know there's different levels of being a tardigrade i call it a tartar gradient um so what these scientists did literally is make a line of human cells produce this d sub by themselves and the the conclusion of these experiments was this one can imagine d sub and related genes helping in the creation of a temporal radiation or molecular controlled inductable d sub system that c that is activated in response to intense periods of galactic cosmic radiation indeed such work has already been done for atomic energy workers and in the trials of engineered therapies that leverage crispr they succeeded in creating human cells with a method that could in the future help our astronauts and our space voyagers more handle the radiation that they would be getting constantly so you may have heard of the the problem of cosmic radiation especially during long space flight that's a huge problem and to deal with that there's a number of solutions from shielding with water or lead or using a magnetic field around the spacecraft but this could be another one think of in the near future astronauts undergoing some genetic engineering before they go to space to make them more like moss piglets to put themselves more on the tartar gradient now i don't know about y'all y'all's feelings about genetic engineering but if i could if if i could make myself more tardigradian to go into space and be genetically engineered to withstand radiation i'm basically a a super a superhero with less legs i think that's endlessly fascinating what we can do to the human body once we get around the ethics of it but don't think about that now can we use this damage suppression time damage suppression protein to freeze me until i can buy a ps5 no danielle lopez says this makes me remember the movie gattaca yeah do you know how long it took me to realize that uh gattica is only spelled with the uh base pair letters from dna roughly 25 years i was like oh oh man felt real dumb why with the ten says hey kyle love the show in regard to the cold snap what other kinds of potential what other potential extreme weather do you think we'll see in the states well it's everything it's going to be an amplification of everything from stronger winds to longer fire seasons to more extreme uh you know droughts more extreme downpours thunderstorms cold snaps heat waves all of it is going to get amped up by climate change we have hector garriga with the with another 50 donation who says you missed really you can't hit one hector galriga with a heat shield oh apparently you move really fast keep your eyes on the skies hector you'll be fine thank you for another 49. at dene de guay i hope i got that right because that's a cool ass name uh heya from nebraska who was it that said if we find dead microbial life on mars it would be worrying and if we find animal fossils it would be terrifying can you expound upon that well to me i don't find that terrifying personally um i think well well okay well there's a ways there's different ways to interpret finding alien life right what would happen i think it would be the most important discovery in human history and it would change our place in space and as many scientific discoveries have before from you know realizing the earth is in the center of the universe that humans aren't this amazing intelligently designed creature all that kind of puts us in our place and space has a has a certain way of doing that so i think that would be very valuable from that point of view but if we found alien life on mars um i think well i mean going back to what we said before i think there's a there's a there's a serious potential for that information to destabilize society especially when it's weaponized um some of you disagree with me last time i said this but think of what it would do to the world's various belief systems when you know it would actively conflict with you know the the the teachings of many uh belief systems uh that could be psychologically harmful to a lot of people which could be eventually or potentially physically harmful to a lot of people information so in in basilisk terms finding life on mars could be an info hazard it could be psychologically damaging societally damaging um and i think that's i think that's a good possibility but at the same time you know it could also inspire three generations of astrobiologists and scientists and engineers and get kids excited about space again so there's no way to tell what's actually going to happen so it could be bad dylan leady with the five says hey kyle i want to thank you i discovered the facility at the same time i got sober filling my mind with science helped me stay insane stay sane early on well dylan i hope everything's still going well for you a lot of people had a lot of time during luck a lot of hard times during lockdown and i feel you um and i see you and understand where you're coming from and i hope you're doing well brother brodie brister with the five says you help you help me name oh okay you helped me name boney daniels a while back the skeleton character lives thanks oh boney dale's right may i name his trident in your honor absolutely uh brody here wanted a character that had a name that was uh oh no it wasn't bony daniels it was um they wanted a character name that was a pun with skeletons and stuff so i said boney danza which i still maintain is hilarious alex morgan with the five says hey cal do you think crewmates from among us are viable subhuman space-faring species as they are shorter and lighter huh um i think well you can search this and it's kind of gross but you can you can search this that there are um images that some artists have mocked up of the more space-faring human what humans would look like if they were evolved in space um you know skinnier or lankier or different weight distribution in their bodies you can check that out and i don't know if among us really fits with that but um i would encourage you to google that if you want to see some mock-ups of that whoa dr strange jove one of my professor emeritus at the facility the highest honor that i can bestow upon you with the 69 donation nice nice period stream tonight period i think organic chemistry is difficult those who study it have alkalines of trouble okay okay i messed up those who study organic chemistry have al kinds of trouble you brilliant son of a gun you know what you really did it here we go oh you're silly you may have heard about this black-footed ferret this is a black-footed ferret and they are nearly extinct there's not that many of them in the wild left and one of the most science fictiony ways that we've been thinking about dealing with populations that are almost going extinct or that are so small in their population size that they're basically all inbred and the genetics they're going to die they're just going to wipe themselves out because eventually they're not going to be able to have like viable children one of the ways that we're trying to address this problem is something called de-extinction the extinction most famously is what it sounds like taking an extinct animal reaching with the power of science reaching our hands back through time and pulling an extinct animal back into existence the holy grail of that right now for people has been the woolly mammoth getting woolly mammoth dna and cloning it so that it lives again but what actually just happened was we took dna so the black-footed ferrets aren't extinct we almost thought they went extinct in the 70s or 80s but they're nearly extinct so what scientists have just confirmed is that they took 30 year old dna which is important because dna doesn't last forever but 30 year old frozen dna by scientists who had the foresight to freeze these animals dna we took it we inserted it into an existing black-footed ferret into the nucleus of an egg inside of a female of the species and was able to generate a viable embryo and then a viable baby black-footed ferret the baby oh it's named elizabeth ann the black-footed ferret the technology here to do this isn't that crazy we we we can clone people right now if we wanted to there's just an ethical thing but the scientists here worked with a company that clones uh pets and like i said what they do is they take dna they take an egg and they go into a viable egg and they they remove the dna the nuclear material from it and what they do is then they insert the dna of this creature that died 30 years ago and then they implant it into a mother or into an animal that can receive the egg and then biology takes its course the mother's body generates the egg like it would any other and if you're lucky not all of these creatures survive this process but if you're lucky i think one of its clone sisters um did not make it but if you're lucky you get a viable animal and this is elizabeth and elizabeth ann this picture was around 50 days ago so oh look at it look at it no now like i said this isn't going to be the be all end all solution to the the threat of extinction but elizabeth ann here could be very very important towards the efforts because now that you have genetic material from 30 years ago you don't have any of the mutations that would come along with a small genetic genetically small population a an inbred population and so now her genes and her dna could be used to introduce much needed genetic diversity back into the small population of black-footed ferrets and and and therefore give the population more of a fighting chance genetically speaking and if you don't think that this is adorable you are this if you don't think this black-footed ferret is adorable you have a black dead heart and you can quote me on that so aggressive just a few more minutes i think i didn't eat enough before the stream and i am slightly delirious so let's take a couple more take a big swig slay the puppy says are we bringing back dinosaurs yet no the problem with the jurassic park style of bringing dinosaurs back is that dna has a half-life so to speak and over time dna degrades i think it's only a few tens or hundreds of thousands of years before dna is basically damaged beyond all use and of course dinosaurs died out the last dinosaurs dined out 65 million years ago which means even if we found a ancient mosquito from that time with dna in it the dna is going to be totally destroyed so um the alternate pathway which some scientists like jack horner are working on is the name jack horner anyway um is trying to reverse engineer a dinosaur out of the bird ancestors and that means going back into bird embryos and turning on the dinosaur genes that over time over millions of years of evolution had been turned off and um they've gotten to a point where they've given chicken embryos teeth again chicken-asaurus baby so uh that's that's the more viable pathway barkchester says dna is foobard i mean if you want to be all desert storm with it yeah sure turbo mite says kyle's got a big bottle yes it's called a hydro jug i love them they're 200 mil 220 milliliters so over a gallon and that's how i make sure i get all the water that i need look at me uh we have hector you gotta stop hector that's too much this is very generous it's way too much another 50 from la garriga says is there any scientific advancement that seems relatively close it doesn't necessarily scare you but you're eerie about if so why um i'm not really afraid of genetic engineering i think there's enough societal checks and balances on it i think people are scared enough of it that it's not gonna go crazy um but i think the scientific advancement that i think has the most potential hector to radically change society in the next few years is self-driving cars once we have true self-driving autonomy once most of the cars on the road are autonomous it's going to absolutely change society it's going to change how we commute which is going to change how we work which is going to change how much leisure time we have it's going to reduce pollution it's going to reduce it's going to increase productivity it's going to uh save tens of thousands of lives in the united states alone where right now 40 000 people a year die on on the roads in the united states so um yeah i mean that's going to be the next i mean it can change the economy when you can have your own car go out and basically uber itself around for people you might not even need to own a car anymore so the whole industries might change around that fact um so uh full autonomy i think is gonna be the next really shifting thing like on the level of us of a smartphone kind of shift if i had to guess we have a few more minutes here with maybe the most concurrent viewers that we have we've ever had i think a lot of you like conspiracy theories hey that's that's fine uh did you didn't you mean 2 000 milliliters with your jug oh yeah yeah this is 2200 milliliters 73 ounces spasmodius 3 with the 10 says hey lovely show kyle my question for the week as current models show the inevitable heat death of the universe as current models show the inevitable heat death of the universe is it safe to seem assume that the existence is just everything being sucked in a black hole no no it's not no it's not safe um the heat death of the universe is the idea that the universe will keep expanding and at such a rate that eventually would be everything will be so far apart that all the stars will die nothing will be close enough to those to those stars to be heated everything will be thermodynamically so inactive and in and not interactive that every the average temperature of the universe will go all the way down uh nothing will be able to form or accrete or turn into planets or stars and everything will just burn out and die that idea exists um separately from being sucked into a black hole the universe could just expand forever faster than the speed of light in all directions and this would still happen bongo says genetically engineered cat girls can be created japan says we just lack the funding i mean it's true we could probably put cat ears on somebody but don't tell elon musk brandon roth says with the 10 says can we get a glorious hair flip who do you think i am huh you think just because you come in here and you ask a non-scientific question and you give me some money that i'm just gonna perform for you and i'm just gonna i'm gonna let you objectify me in this way just because i'm a guy on the internet there you go there's your gift thanks for your ten dollars you just made me feel really dirty but beautiful like las vegas and as always music central piano with the 50 donation coming in at the end of the stream keep up the great work kyle science is our only tool to understand the puzzle of the universe it is the difference between marveling at the moon from earth and marveling at earth from the moon stay safe and stay rational i like that a lot music central that was really nice yeah science and the progress of science is the difference between yeah looking at the earth from space and looking at space from the earth i like that a lot wow a lot of people are simping for that hair flip oh man does that mean i'm gonna have to don't make that a thing that's i'm on it actually i'm never going to do that again so don't ask me [Music] uh oh man you'll never find my only fans account [Music] never so with that not a whole lot of stuff other than people just talking about my hair thank you so much for joining me for this episode of office hours as always i had a fantastic time uh with all of you nerds we talked about uh the conspiracy theory of fake snow and how it's easy enough to show that it's just soot with your own match in an ice cube we talked about the rover landing how absolutely amazing and uh how absolutely amazing was how how much technology it took how much man hours uh people hours i should call them uh what an achievement we talked about turning yourself into a tardigrade by giving yourself the genes to resist space radiation how cool is that and finally we talked about black-footed ferrets reaching back in time with the power of science to bring elizabeth ann screaming back into existence that's just a cooler way of saying we clone something vince p with the 20 says thanks for the hair flip you're like super dreamy also thanks for helping me keep saying in my quote covid quarantine hey vince it's the least i can do i haven't been publishing videos for a little bit uh this last week because i'm tied up in government red tape it's literally true um don't worry it's fine it's just like annoying so hopefully we'll get a video to you this week and stay tuned because i do have a very important video that i'll be working on tomorrow um about a aspect of mental health and mental health awareness that i'm very very close to so stay tuned for that and next week i just got the rest of the equipment from kevin we will the the look and feel of the stream will be changing a little bit uh because i do have you can check my instagram but i do have a new high-powered streaming pc that i'm just about done setting up so uh i think you tell me what you think i think we start streaming for real i think we do office hours but then we also do longer live streams we play games we watch stuff uh i want to do a live stream of the new mass effect remaster with my friend jennifer hale what do you think about that oh hell yeah have a wonderful rest of your week i'll see you next week for sure for new and improved stream time and until then please be nice to each other because if you don't have this this is all we got so aggressive

Channel: Kyle Hill

Views: 109,261

Keywords: science, stem, education, math, physics, space, kyle hill, biology, podcast, learning, because science, the facility, kyle hill channel, office hours, snow, texas, fake, conspiracy, texas winter storm, texas power outage

Id: YFBHDWC9p3U

Length: 61min 27sec (3687 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 23 2021