To celebrate hitting the 20 million view milestone, I asked viewers to vote on their favorite questions and I picked the 20 most-upvoted questions and answering them here. Enjoy!
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Cryonics is the act of freezing a dead body so that someday it can be revived when future technology can bring them back to life. The chances for success are slim. But is it a bad idea?
Humans have been trying to cheat death for as long as we’ve existed. The drive to live longer, to survive, seems etched into our DNA. The entire field of medicine exists for that one reason – to extend human life.
Our medical technology has progressed by leaps and bounds over the years and along the way our notions of death has changed as well. We no longer see it as a state, but a process. And some have taken this notion to extremes and believe that you can freeze that process indefinitely so that future medicine can cure you. This is cryonics.
There are a handful of major cryonics companies, including Alcor, the Cryonics Institute, and KrioRus. They have spent years mastering the cryopreservation process that starts as soon as possible after the body is declared dead.
Whether this process will actually work is unknown, but it’s a bet cryonicists are willing to take.
This week’s day-late Random Thursday covers questions from Patreon supporters. From the Event Horizon Telescope to space spinoff technologies to the challenges of tribalism on a global species.
Today we go a little deeper and talk about the mystery of memory.
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From Plato’s Allegory of the Cave to The Matrix, we’ve believed that reality is not exactly what we experience. Can that be because of the fact that we are all living in our own simulations – the conscious experience that our brain creates.
And this imagined reality creates the beliefs that we cling to and create our worldview around.
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Plastic is a surprisingly recent invention, and it’s become completely ubiquitous in our society. It’s solved a ton of problems and made our way of life possible. It also might be killing us.
The biggest killers of humans in history are the smallest organisms on the planet. From the Bubonic Plague to Smallpox, Influenza, and AIDS, today we look at the 5 worst plagues in human history.
Today I finally get to the end of all the Lightning Round questions from months ago. This could take a while. Get comfortable.
After languishing for 100 years as a niche product, electric vehicles are finally poised to revolutionize the auto industry in a big way, thanks to cars like the Tesla Model 3, Nissan Leaf, and dozens of other upcoming electric vehicles.
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Ion drives are a type of propulsion that provides a very small amount of force over a very long period of time, giving it the ability to build up to incredibly fast speeds.
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Today, we’re discussing 5 plausible ways that the world could end, and I’m thrilled to be doing this as a 2-part collaboration with the one and only Isaac Arthur. Check out his video here:
Obviously there are many end-of-the-world scenarios out there, but for the purposes of these videos, we chose to focus on these five:
Grey Goo/Artificial Intelligence
Runaway Greenhouse Effect (Global Warming)
Comet or Asteroid Impact
Gamma Ray Burst
Death Of The Sun
From the self-replicating nanobots of John Von Neumann and K Eric Drexler to the gamma ray burst that caused the Ordovician Extinction, and how the death of Venus may signal our own future on Earth, our planet faces a multitude of threats that could end life as we know it.
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