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the untold story of muslim opinions and demographics
AziraphaleI often ask religious believers what percentage of their religion they would be willing to give up and still believe in it. Obviously many things in the bible and quran have been proven false or immoral over the centuries.
I have yet to receive a cogent answer.
My favourite thing about christians is that for the most part they don't actually believe in christianity. Would that muslims could adopt the same attitude to their faith.
Why the Electoral College Ruins Democracy
AziraphaleThe electoral college is an unnecessary relic. At the time you would actually need a person from each state to physically go down to DC and cast a vote. With today's technology this has become clearly obsolete.
X-Men Apocalypse Trailer
AziraphaleWOW does James McAvoy look just like a young professor-x in that last scene. Almost like they picked him on purpose or something.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny - Trailer
AziraphaleAnything with Donnie Yen makes me hard as a rock, he is a god of martial arts. Want.
Desertron - Abandoned Super Collider
AziraphaleWHY did you call it the god particle??? COME ON!!!!
Making of 'The Hateful Eight' in Ultra Panavision 70mm
AziraphaleLike him or hate him, Quentin does cinematography right. Looks glorious.
Guinea Pig Takes Cat's Bed - Cat Wigs Out
AziraphaleLol that cat is clearly fighting its urges to devour the little piglet.
Teenager wins $400,000 for video explaining Relativity
AziraphaleI've seen a video from sixty symbols with a similar explanation (kind of). Does this have any relevance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxqjyl74iu4
This is an excellent explanation for someone of his age and his skill with video editing obviously helps a lot. It held my interest, the world needs more entertaining and educating videos like these.
My only criticism - and some youtubers have already pointed this out - is that the explanation of time dilation "..the same bodily change that happens on earth takes much longer to occur when you are moving so fast.." is wrong.
Signals sent within the body can be analogous to a clock - any fixed duration measured between two ~lightspeed reference frames will be different, including seconds measured by an atomic clock - but time dilation specifically has nothing to do with the mechanics behind how you measure the time or the time it takes a signal to travel. It's a property of the nature of spacetime. Time itself actually slows down. There's no 'trick' to understanding how or why, it's just a property that it has. We can forgive him because he'd already demonstrated that physics is the same in any inertial reference frame and there is no "preferential" reference frame; therefore the motion of the reference frame can't be responsible for the observed difference, so he obviously already really knew all this.
There's no shame in getting that wrong, because he'll be taught more and better about it as he progresses through school. Generally the arbitrary subjects are the hardest to live with because you just have to accept them as they are rather than 'understand'. Quantum mechanics is the same - you just have to accept the rules and apply the maths. Everyone struggles with it, even Feynman said "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
Why Haven't We Found Alien Life - PBS Space Time
AziraphaleCool video, but he neglected to mention how inhospitable the universe can be. If your planet is getting hit by a GRB every so often, life won't have the time it needs to really get going.
richard dawkins hammers ben carsons belief in creationism
AziraphaleI have to wonder what people like carson say when you present them with the actual facts and papers. This kind of willful blindness is some scary shit.
Where Did Russia Come From?
AziraphaleI guess we kind of take it for granted how simple US history is comparatively...
A bunch of dudes came here on a boat, killed most of the brown people, and called themselves the USA. Great story.
End Slow Loris Trade Now (WARNING: Disturbing Content)
AziraphaleYeah I totally thought it was a troll video for probably the first half of it.
"Tickling is torture" sounds like some kind of parody you would hear from Colbert.
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A Bad Lip Reading of the First Democratic Debate 2015
AziraphaleThe noun challenge bit got me, that was really well done.
Smarter Every Day - You won't believe your eyes
AziraphaleThere have been clocks that do this kind of thing for a long time now. Also, the inverted color image thing was in a video on the sift very recently.
Who Is Stephen Colbert?
AziraphaleYeah when she was telling him about what the results meant I found myself thinking "What is this some kind of religious self help seminar? How much did he pay for this lady?"
I put very little stock in these personality tests. In particular, I don't trust them because they only describe whatever personality you have in positive, flattering terms - a trait/tactic very similar to horoscopes. Of course you will like the result if you are being compared to Shakespeare and told that you are among the most brilliant minds in the known universe.