- Jaguars,
as British people like to call them
are pound for pound the big cats
with biggest bite; the most force.
They have more bite force behind their
cute little face fluffs than tigers, than lions,
than a big cat that rhymes with big bears, oh my.
And with that bite force, they use it to feed
on the caiman alligator.
How can a big cat bite into an alligator?
Well, the jaguars,
the jaguars
they bite right behind the eyes
of the caiman so hard that it goes
through their skull, and into their brain.
Jaguars bite so hard that they bite brains,
and it paralyzes the caiman, and then they drag it
out of the river, and they feed on it.
How metal is that?
And, jaguars,
among
other large cats,
have really big toe beans, and I wanna touch them;
touch their pads, but they won't let me cause I'd die.
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Hello, and welcome to another edition
of Because Science Footnotes, the show
where I take your comments, questions, and corrections
from the previous weeks nerdery on this channel,
and address them, and hopefully bring our ship
of the imagination to some other interesting place
just like in Cosmos.
Every week I take corrections, and questions
about the cosmos, and about humans,
and I translate them
for
being like a cool chill bro.
That's a woke Carl Sagan, pretty woke dude anyway,
but,
because of San Diego Comic Con which I am at all week,
I have to film this episode before the next episode
of Because Science comes out, or came out,
so I am not going to take any comments,
or questions, or corrections
on the You Do Not Want Invisibility episode,
I am sorry, I will still read them though.
Instead for this edition of Footnotes,
I'm gonna look at all of the comments,
and questions that I haven't been able
to get to that are kind of miscellaneous,
and don't relate to any specific episode,
so that you are still heard by me, or read.
And besides, I'm sure that there are no real corrections
on the Invisibility episode.
I'm sure I nailed it.
Boom.
So what did you have to say
across a non-specific time period?
Our first comment comes from Kassiani Austin who says,
Thanks, I contractually have to.
Also, if you were in a void, you would die,
and our closest analog to a void
if you can't find mind which no one seems to be able to,
then the closest analog is space,
and in space there's almost nothing.
No air, no gravity if you're not near something,
there's always gravity.
But what you would die of first is oxygen deprivation,
you would pass out in about 15 seconds,
and then you would slowly suffocate in your unconsciousness,
and drift off into the hands of Morpheus.
Not the Matrix character; the smarter one.
And so you would die basically by suffocating
while unconscious in space,
and then you would slowly freeze.
And, really slowly.
It's hard for things in space to lose heat effectively,
because it is just radiating out from the body.
It is not being conducted, or convected away
by air like it is on earth.
So your body might not freeze its skin for 24 hours
even if you are out in space,
but it wouldn't matter to you because you would be
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Oh also, do you recommend becoming a science communicator?
It's hard, it's a very niche job.
I'm very luck I get to do it.
Not many people with this passion get
to do it like I do it, so I feel very fortunate.
So what I would say to you is
that if you are really, really passionate about it,
and you love communicating things to people,
and the universe is just so interesting to you
that you have to let the rest of the world know
how cool it is, go for it.
Try writing your own blog.
It's free, and sharing it with your friends
for a little while; start pitching articles to places.
Try just recording videos on your phone,
and sending them to your friends;
asking them it they're any good, and go from there,
maybe you'll get lucky.
Luck is a lot of it.
I got very lucky.
If you're passionate, go for it.
But if you're not feeling it,
it's kind of a grind, sometimes, so.
Oh no.
Our next comment comes from Dinis Santiago who says,
A lot of void questions.
Well.
It's hard to say.
It doesn't seem like an infinite void in all directions.
Seems like there might be some kind of edge to it.
Like the guy from U2.
Imagine that, walking into a group
of your friends, and being like, "No, I'm not Chris
"anymore, I am The Edge."
Who do you think you are?
Someone incredibly talented, and successful?
Pfffft.
Our next comment comes from Astoldoath, who says,
Okay, so,
things like life-force,
and demons
could exist,
or
maybe those monks just had this flash paper
that you can get for five bucks.
I usually go with the simpler explanation,
which is magic trick,
not fire demons.
And if that is what you believe, that's fine.
Just think, consider what is more likely.
I think it's having access to flash paper,
or a good editor like this.
See?
No demon as far as I know.
Like Burt Wonderstone.
(active breathing)
Is this your card?
Not even a card was it?
Nope, flame, poof.
Our next comment comes from Doctor Cthulhu,
praise be his name, who says,
Look, Doctor.
Where did you get your degree?
Anyway, I would love to fulfill all these requests,
but I just
I just don't have the time to do every,
hi Monkey Bones!
What up, girl?
Bait,
switchooo.
Just for that I would love
if every time I did this.
If you get breakfast in the morning,
and you're like, where's the dang for--
You know, butif you could control that at will,
with the help of a demon, it would be pretty cool.
I can't get a demon, because I sold my soul for this.
Our next comment comes from Facebook, and they say,
"Anyway, love from Australia, mate."
They didn't say that, but I did.
How was it?
Indistinguishable?
I know.
Could you beat a zombie more easily if you were a boxer?
Well, maybe if they're slow zombies.
Fast zombies every one is done for, I think.
But slow zombies which already have
in my estimation, in my theory.
There's an episode that I did on it.
They have more neurological damage already
than a boxer may have might be able
to put them down for the count so to speak pretty easily.
Especially if you had your boxer's gloves on,
I think we have this common conception in our head
that if you just punch with a bare fist,
it's gonna do more damage, but there is some research
to say that boxing with gloves is more dangerous
for boxers, because you're punching harder
without fearing damaging your hand.
And so you're landing more blows
in less time with more force.
So a boxer with, coming out of their house, roar.
Time to get these zombies.
With their boxing gloves on might do a decent job.
If you go for the head, or the body shot,
but they don't need their kidneys.
So, if a zombie is still neurologically functioning
somewhat, it's moving its body,
then if you deliver knockout punch?
Yeah, I could see it working.
So, strap up your gloves.
Is that what they say?
And beat them zombies.
Our next comment comes from David Britt who says,
Well as Timothy Ross adds to this comment, he says,
But let's say that she could.
Then yes, controlling wasps I think would
be far more,
ho, yeah, if you could control wasps,
I would be very, very afraid of you;
much more so if you could control ants.
Ants have to, first of all, can only operate
on two dimensions.
They have to walk everywhere.
Wasps can fly, and out of the three insects
at the top of the sting-pain index scale,
two of them are wasps, one of them is like this big across,
and when it stings you, the person who made this scale says,
"You should just lay on the ground, and start screaming."
That's how bad it is.
And if you summoned a whole hoard of those
at me, and they can fly many miles per hour
that I cannot run.
I'd be terrified of you.
Some ants can fly, but the ones that do don't
have the same stinging capabilities as the ones highest
up on the scale.
The wasp could control giant Asian hornets,
and they're the size of humming birds,
and all they do is go around decapitating
entire colonies of bees.
It'd be terrifying.
Sometimes they're called Japan's deadliest animal.
Not the ant.
Fire ants are actually pretty low on the scale.
Our next comment comes from Aussie Viking II, who says,
Or living inside an existential crisis, rather.
Well it's--
(eerie, increasingly tense music)
Awe, god.
Our next comment comes
from super-nerd, TheAthiestPaladin, who says,
referring back to my Ant-Man episode that,
Now this is assuming that Ant-Man's biology
when he scales up doesn't change
which I think is a decent assumption,
but not all signals travel as slowly as some pain signals
at two feet per second.
So I think his reaction time would be a little bit faster
than what you mentioned, Paladin, but it still would be,
yes, slow, at the extremities of his body.
It would kinda be like this.
Hey.
Which obviously is ridiculous.
That was a good comment, but the best nerdiest comment
that I got while sifting through all of my notifications
this week for this filming,
I got to get to Krackers on ice who says,
What I really like about this comment is it lead me
down a rabbit hole scientific curiosity.
Now, you might think that if you just compress a gas,
the molecules, or the atoms would get close enough together
that they will change phase, and go
from a gaseous state to a liquid state to a solid state,
but that's not always the case.
In fact, when you have to liquefy most gases,
you also have to change the temperature.
And if you think about that, it makes sense.
If you have molecules inside of some volume
as you compress them, there gonna be bouncing more,
and more against the walls of that chamber
which increase the temperature.
So they're gonna resist changing into that different phase.
So what you have to do, if you want to liquefy air
for example, which we can do, is first
cool it way down, like negative 200 degree Celsius,
and then compress it with enormous compression.
And then, air itself can liquefy, so Vegeta
inside his gravity chamber, even at 400 G,
even if that was providing enough weight to the air
that it would compress itself, and it would have a lot
of pressure at the bottom
of it like in our atmosphere for example.
It still wouldn't liquefy because it would have
to be so cold that Vegeta would be frozen.
It'd be like being in space, and we all know
that only Frieza can survive in space,
and his dad, King Cooler, c'mon.
Kakarot.
Range.
So congratulations, Krackers on ice,
you indeed are a super nerd.
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