we made it through the 2010 the all's
what do you mean like made it through
like we survived we still had the decade
its unless an asteroid hits in 2019
December 31st unless just hope that
would be a pretty big science headline
if we survive which is what we're gonna
go through today so what we went through
is each year and we decided the biggest
science news of that year going from
2000 intend to this year 2019 it was a
challenge we told her something you know
what we gonna pick one in each year so
you might disagree so bad I think we
were crazy yeah they're they're exciting
and they will absolutely define the
future in the next decade so Mitch what
is your highlight of the last exit do
you have everyone's gonna be asking you
this come New Year's Eves if I got an
answer ooh this is good ten yeah uh well
mine was making this channel in sharing
all the science information about you my
friend actually I don't know what yours
is if I'm being honest that obviously
the last decade of my life has been
primarily a sub science and just before
that would have been graduating from our
science degree and you being a science
teacher me working in a lab so a lot of
it really circulates around science and
then sharing that with people so it's
kind of a nice wrap up to do this wrap
so you just stole my well do mine you
all watched on a pen shall we just jump
into it 2010 this was the year that
Instagram was released the iPad was also
released
Lady Gaga wore her meat dress and One
Direction was just formed on the
x-factor but it was also the year that
scientists in a South African cave
discovered two million year old fossils
of a new species called Australopithecus
sediba that are potentially the direct
ancestors to humans this species has
some features that are incredibly
similar to humans like their teeth their
nose their long arms while others are
more similar to a primitive past like
flexible feet and this new species
Australopithecus sediba is potentially a
link between Lucy and Homo sapiens it's
2011 and we have beyonce announcing that
she's pregnant in a mic drop moment and
bridesmaids is a huge success of here
like me you have melissa mccarthy
pooping into a sink into your mind and
the end of the year came with the
confirmation of an earth-like planet
called kepler-22b this
is a contender for having a life on it
because it's been in the Goldilocks zone
around a star the planet is 2.4 times
bigger than Earth and one year there
would be two hundred and ninety days
it's actually six hundred light years
away that means it would take 600 years
for light to get there from Earth so
unless we're like zooming anytime soon
this planet is just going to be up to
our imaginations to picture and for me I
picture really good looking mermaids and
mermen 2012 the year the world was
supposed to end but didn't
but it was also the end of a five decade
long search for an elementary particle
called the Higgs boson so in 1964 Peter
Higgs and five other scientists proposed
the Higgs mechanism which was to help
explain why particles have mass in the
first place and implied the existence of
the Higgs boson but it wasn't until 2012
when the Large Hadron Collider which is
the world's largest high-energy particle
collider was able to prove its existence
this particle gives mass to all other
subatomic elements like protons and
electrons and was the final piece to the
standard model the standard model is a
theory of fundamental particles and how
they react and this discovery was
considered the biggest in a generation
it is now 2013 if you're like me you
were scarred by the red wedding and Game
of Thrones we also have the intellectual
brilliant song what did the Fox said the
most important scientific story of that
year for the first time in human history
our atmosphere had reached 400 parts per
million of carbon dioxide in the 1700s
before the Industrial Revolution we were
at 280 parts per million of co2 in 1958
when this Observatory first started to
record how much co2 is in the atmosphere
we were at 315 parts per million by
studying air trapped in Antarctic ice
cores we know for a fact this is the
first time we have had this much carbon
dioxide in our atmosphere in at least
800,000 years but since 2013 we have
been increasing the amount of carbon
dioxide that we are producing as humans
so this year that same Observatory found
that in May there was four hundred and
fourteen point seven parts per million
of co2 in our atmosphere this year 2014
we had the ice bucket challenge adel
azim flappy bird exploded and everyone
was playing it and for the first time in
human history we landed a probe on a
comet the Rosetta spacecraft was
actually launched in 2004 and after a
series of flybys using Earth and Mars to
gravity assist it out into space it
finally came across 67
P which is a common eventually it's sent
a probe down to try and land on its
surface but what ended up happening was
that its thrusters and harpoons that
were meant to help it actually land
didn't work and as a result this probe
started bouncing on the comet
uncontrollably by the time it landed it
was actually in the wrong position and
so it's solar panels were not
efficiently geared towards the sunlight
this man only had three days before it
would die we did still manage to collect
some data luckily so not only did we get
the first ever photos from the surface
of a comet but analyzing the water on
the comet showed scientists that it was
a different chemical makeup than our
home and also suggested ultimately that
Earth's water didn't come from a kind
2015 we have the dress debate which is
one of our most popular airs on science
videos go check it out here we have
netflix and chill' over you dirty dirty
kids and of course the most important
story of the year pizza rack but this is
also the year that we have clustered
regularly interspaced short palindromic
repeats becoming a household name I
notice crisper but you an intellectual
know it more accurately as crisper cos 9
this is the system that can cut and
paste DNA delete DNA put your thing down
flip it and reverse DNA and essentially
2015 is the year that we as humans all
began to live in a world with effective
genetic engineering 2016 was the year of
stranger things
Hamilton the musical exploded in
popularity and Pokemon go got everyone
outside now imagine this far far away
there's two black holes that eventually
come within close enough proximity that
their gravity starts pulling them
towards each other and they start
spiraling and spiraling until eventually
they crash into each other ultimately
changing the fabric of space and time
that's what happened in 2016 when the
LIGO Observatory detected gravitational
waves for the first time ever amazingly
enough a hundred years before that
Einstein actually predicted when objects
with enough mass accelerate they create
waves like ripples on a pond but in
space these gravitational waves actually
allow us to hear or see the universe in
a
like never before and also get an
unprecedented look at how gravity works
his 2017 and we have very important
things like the women's March that out
comes out amazing movie and also other
important things like fidget spinners
August 21st 2017 was the day of the
Great American solar eclipse for us in
North America it was a very big day a
really interesting time that astronomy
and public discourse and pop culture
came together and one study found that
88% of Americans spent a portion of
their day at least looking at the
eclipses in real life or on their
computers as for scientists it was an
amazing opportunity for them to study
the sun's inner atmosphere which is a
lot easier to do during an eclipse the
next Eclipse is actually gonna happen in
America in 2024 so that will be a big
headline for that year but if you are in
parts of Chile in Argentina it's
actually gonna happen again next
December 2018 we had Beyonce's Coachella
we had a royal wedding and we had Ariana
Grande and Pete what's-his-name Pete
Davidson got engaged and disengaged but
advances in gene editing also allowed
same-sex mice to give birth so
scientists used CRISPR to modify the
embryonic stem cells of one female and
then took the egg of an unmodified
female and these pups were born healthy
and ultimately were able to reproduce
themselves as well but things were a
little trickier for the male subjects
because they took the sperm of one male
and then the embryonic stem cells that
were genetically modified of another
male and put them in a female egg that
had had the nucleus removed but
unfortunately even though it was
successful these pups died shortly after
birth and while I find this kind of
science so fascinating and interesting
it obviously brings up a lot of ethical
and moral concerns not only around the
safety and health of those offspring but
just around genetic manipulation in
general 2019 I don't know if I need to
give you pop-culture references because
hopefully you remember them but I don't
know in general like Liz Oh Billie
Eilish on April 10th of this year you
should know what happened okay I'm gonna
let you fill it in what happened you're
right and researchers unveiled the
first-ever visual depiction of a black
hole which is 55 million
in light years away that is an
unfathomable distance oh my gosh are we
alone in the universe two billion people
worldwide saw this image it involved
linking data streams and information
from eight different earth-based radio
telescopes and was an amazing moment
when borders fell and a bunch of
different countries work together to get
information about something far off in
the distance and as a disk of
conglomerating matter falls into the
black hole it heats up to astounding
temperatures these enormous temperatures
release light and some of that light is
trapped and falls in some of it isn't
trapped and that's the actual light that
we would see as that silhouette as the
event horizon in that famous black hole
image the image also confirmed
predictions made on the basis of
Einstein's theory of relativity so if
anyone asks you who's your favorite
influencer babe
make sure you answer Einstein going into
the next decade what do you do you have
any predictions for the science of the
20s Oh
climate change is probably going to get
worse so we are hopefully going to work
better on fixing that I think that we'll
see a lot of progression in the world of
crisper and gene-editing we as humans
have to address what it means ethically
morally for people to be able to modify
genes in humans and we didn't include
when that Chinese scientist went rogue
and I'm sure there's a lot of other
science you guys are screaming through
the camera saying you didn't include it
was right there in the comment yeah I
honestly want to hear what your favorite
things were do you think that we're
gonna be doing this at the end of 2020
well I'll be old running around yeah I
think there are science communicators
who do it their entire lives I hope to I
think like being interested in science
whether you're someone watching at home
or whether you're somebody who wants to
be doing it actively is always a noble
cause and exciting that but maybe we're
not gonna be sitting in front of like an
archaic camera and a microphone we're
gonna be like their people are gonna
have my firts you're getting plants in
their backs of their eyes and they're
gonna be sitting there like this
and we're gonna be in peering like Hello
the 20's are over now welcome to the 30
room and I'm gonna be dating a robot our
kids gonna be dating an algorithm and
you're I'm just gonna be a digital
memory I will have like passed away but
we'll have captured my brain and put it
into like some circuitry neural systems
I never any my Craig's crazy just don't
think that he's dating mitch mitch is
dead
well thank you for watching thank you
for being on this channel for almost a
decade I could subscribe
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haven't learned how to do if there's one
thing I hope I'm not doing in 10 years
it's saying like and subscribe fair okay
don't even bother you can subscribe but
hopefully we'll know I'm subscribed but
no have you made it this far in the
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unsubscribe that's also weird
that's like bullying but yeah we'll see
you in the 20s
oh my god