Veritasium: Busted
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Poor Veritasium. Makes a wild claim that everyone else is wrong but doesn't back it up with experimental evidence.
It reminds me of how cocky people, like doctors or conspiracy theorists, are able to seem convinced/ing while professing a claim with gusto but are actually full of shit. Seems like something Mark Rober would do, i.e., staging scenes like a reality TV show.
This wouldn't be his first foray into making "controversial" videos based on sciency-sounding nonsense. Look no further than his "299792 km wire loop" video, and at least a dozen video replies debunking it.
For anybody who does not want to review both videos, although you should, here is the explanation:
"Water’s Polarity"
"One of water’s important properties is that it is composed of polar molecules. The two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom within water molecules (H2O) form polar covalent bonds. While there is no net charge to a water molecule, the polarity of water creates a slightly positive charge on hydrogen and a slightly negative charge on oxygen, contributing to water’s properties of attraction. Water’s charges are generated because oxygen is more electronegative, or electron loving, than hydrogen. Thus, it is more likely that a shared electron would be found near the oxygen nucleus than the hydrogen nucleus. Since water is a nonlinear, or bent, molecule, the difference in electronegativities between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms generates the partial negative charge near the oxygen and partial positive charges near both hydrogens."
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_Gene....
"Bending Water"
Thunderf00t just kicks, i liked especially the Elon busting ;)
I found Common Sense Skeptic's series more enjoyable. Thunderf00t's videos all seem to assume you haven't seen any of his other videos on the subject, and as a result end up being mostly repetitions of the same talking points. He'll even include whole segments from his other videos instead of literally repeating himself... It comes across as click-baity with a lot of filler content, to me.
Common Sense Skeptic has series covering all the same topics without all the repetition, and also has a series covering the current Musk/SolarCity bailout trial: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgKWj1pn3_7hRSFIypunYog/vid...
I can't believe how hard basic thermodynamics are... Why isn't any engineer, chemist or physicist asked to at least do some basic calculations if what they are attempting is possible or makes sense.
It's always fun with hyper loop to get to "vacuum" or even the calculations that how much whole thing costs and how many passengers it could serve if it were run 24/7...
And then the water from air devices... Which takes quite a lot of energy to get rid off...
Or the solar panels on road, the surface that we want to be pretty hard wearing...
> Why isn't any engineer, chemist or physicist asked to at least do some basic calculations if what they are attempting is possible or makes sense.
I'm sure most of them perfectly know what they're doing. The purpose of most of those debunked Kickstarters was never to deliver a working product, it's to get a few hundred thousand to live on while pretending to try and deliver something. It seems to be legal as I never hear about legal repercussions for these people, so I guess why not?
Yeah i was pretty ashamed that our elite university ETH was super exited about hyperloop.....
>And then the water from air devices
Yeah supported by another "elite" university...when BA's are taking over.
>Or the solar panels on road
Well it's good if you have husky's and a sledge ;) for wheels probably not so good.