The Royal Institution
What will the world of tomorrow be like? Kelly and Zach Weinersmith will give us a snapshot of the transformative technologies that are coming next, from space elevators to fusion-powered toasters, and explain how they will change our world in astonishing ways.
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Kelly Weinersmith is a Huxley Fellow at Rice University in the BioSciences Department. She studies how host behaviour influences risk of infection with parasites and cohosts Science… Sort Of, one of the top 20 natural science podcasts.
Zach Weinersmith is the cartoonist behind the popular geek webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
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That's some expensive weed
Pounds, miles, foot, what are those?
I like the idea of using ground-based acceleration to replace the first stage thrusters. Perhaps a mass driver to propel the rocket a certain distance, then the boosters take over? Sadly, we won't be getting Elon Musk on board because it does not involve a metal colossal space dong.
Kessler Syndrome must be prevented at all costs. No, there's not a satisfying way to gather scrap because of how dispersed it is but even if we don't find an efficient solution we just need to do it to prevent cascade.
University's, finding out what you think,so we can shape your future
21:47 Ants, bees, flocks of birds.
Was this grade 6?
A quarterpounder with cheese 🙂 Nice…
So maybe I dont care if the cartoonist is a vegetarian. So and this is for kids but are baby millenials still millenials? So is there a new name for this group?
So this is a royal institute version of those youtube channels that just do the recent new blurbs and add nothing. So anyway so.
So also this isn't a "space", its a lecture hall at a famous university.
So it's really just a super light book tour appearance, and it's a weak "lecture" even by the standards of the royal institute talks, which vary in how deep they go into the actual science.
Well, that's what we get for giving Democrats control of U.S. Universities. They stopped teaching people how to think for themselves 50 years ago.
Not all believe the story about the Russian robot escaping.
https://bgr.com/2016/06/17/robot-run-fake-promobot-escape/
I did not really get what Huxley was babbling about
Sounds like a long winded sales pitch for their book.
Totally wrong… Airplanes are cheap because the use the existing oxygen in the air.
"Bucket of stuff" would be awesome for tiny homes.
So the video thumbnail is frozen on the hippie cartoonist's mocking insult of Americans. On to find a video with people who have something worth saying. Thanks for saving me from wasting my time on this one.
I love SMBC
This is the Royal Institution, not a TedX talk. Stop trying to sell your damn book so hard before you've even said anything of note and give your presentation!
I never expected to see my favorite SMBC webcomic creators here. What a odd coincide…
Could've been an interesting topic, but the presenter ruined it.
Far out really far out !
So basically Ms. Weinersmith forges weiners?
Why are we not researching extreme springs/elastic launch sites? Humanity conquered the feat of a the Large Hadron Collider which spans miles. What about a 20 mile spiral fling? Or…What about a stretched "U" shape Tunnel through Earth and propel down thru the core out the other side and try to utilize gravity.
Why are the Americans always Super Excited about , well almost anything.? And add Awesome to the mix and it turns me off.
weave the Carbon-nano tubes, in 12" segments, and then coat with rubber.
she sounds like Sean Carroll. The voice mannerisms.
I found this video sub-par for Ri. Some of the brightest minds on the planet gave considerate lectures for the rest of us here. Running into this lame promotion of a book, that reminds me of those YouTube videos about "top 25 tech innovations 2018", is baffling. For example, "Promobot escape" was totally fake, if you look into it for minutes you can figure it out.
BUCKET OF STUFF? really dude?
r-r-r-rr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-roasted in the comments section!
Zach could've just sat in the audience until it was his turn and then switched with Kelly. Would make it a little less awkward and focus the attention on the presenter.
I wonder how likely the undergrads would be to let in the dorms young woman or old man they did not know. And what if the man had clipboard or safety vest? I bet there would be someone who would let person in even if they were open carrying stick of dynamite (and do not get me wrong I would hate to argue with someone carrying explosives even if I knew of bomb threat).
It is interesting that an illustrator graphic guy is drawing with his finger into the desk instead of showing a drawing or maybe a video slide… It is hard to understand this way. 21:53 Some parts are hard to understand, it definitely needs some illustrations next time.
this is like scooby doo