I like "Spacy"
I think it outlines everything the Sci-fi crowd likes.
Outer Space, Rockets, Aliens, Science-Fiction (In Space), Science-Truth (in Space), Astronomy, Star Wars, Star Trek, NASA etc.

I don't see a problem with some overlap. Actionpack, Horrorshow & WildWestShow are really sub channels to cinema and 1sttube (most of the time), but I think it's good for people who are interested in each specific genre. Besides, I like the Halloween Contest.

Wings covers earth bound flight and Science is very broad, so Spacy should stay also imo. Of course some people get confused and don't realize that it means space flight / astronomy etc and instead think it's about being spacy, so maybe it should be renamed to "Space".

I think a War channel is a good idea, it overlaps with Military, but again I don't think that's a bad thing. I think WarOnTerror should stay because there are videos like this one which are on topic for it, yet don't fit into War or Military.

I agree Viral can go. Everything viral is a Commercial of some kind and it's used incorrectly all the time.

There's always going to be problems with channel assignments. Some people don't read channel descriptions, or the descriptions themselves are vague. But people are pretty good about sorting it out. It would be great if we could find new parents for these poor orphaned channels though ... so they could beat them into obedience.

*nochannel *geek *art

Spacy = astronomy and aviation

If it really does turn out to have an organic, microbial source, then this is the most incredible discovery in the field of astronomy to date.

Having said that, let's not jump the gun. I don't want to come across as pissing on anybody's parade, but remember that this could turn out to be entirely geological in origin.

My pleasure! It was such a wonderful surprise to run into this series. The user these videos link to have all sorts of series (mostly astronomy related) that I've been looking through. Maybe some will be of interest to you.

In reply to this comment by eric3579:
Thanks for posting the "Moon Machines" videos. I watched them all on the Science Channel, and really enjoyed them. Also congrats on getting your gold star. Nicely done!

^ oops -- a slip of the fingers. Now corrected to 'astronomy'.

Newton is more prominently featured in the physics section of the series, and rightly so, I guess they didn't want too much overlap in multidisciplinary discoveries!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Science-Channels-100-Greatest-Discoveries-in-Physics

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
WTF? Why aren't Newton's theories one of the great discoveries? They are only barely mentioned. They finally explained why the planets were circling in the first place.

>> ^mrk871:
Completely off topic here, but did anyone hear the Windows sound at around 2:20? I don't use Windows myself, so slightly thought I might be being haunted somehow. Ghosts of OSes past or something.


I had that happen too.. I played it over after trying to find wht beeped at me and failing

Nice!

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14. Pluto is no longer a planet (2008)
When asked for a comment, Pluto responded: "Weak!"

1. The Planets Move (2000 B.C. – 500 B.C.)
A thousand years of observations reveal that there are stars that move in the sky and follow patterns, showing that the Earth is part of a solar system of planets separate from the fixed stars.

2. The Earth Moves (1543)
Nicolaus Copernicus places the sun, not the Earth, at the center of the solar system.

3. Planetary Orbits Are Elliptical (1605 – 1609)
Johannes Kepler devises mathematical laws that successfully and accurately predict the motions of the planets in elliptical orbits.

4. Jupiter Has Moons (1609 – 1612)
Galileo Galilei discovers that Jupiter has moons like the Earth, proving that Copernicus, not Ptolemy, is right. Copernicus believes that Earth is not unique, but instead resembles the other planets, all of which orbit the sun.

5. Halley's Comet Has a Predictable Orbit (1705 – 1758)
Edmund Halley proves that comets orbit the sun like the planets and successfully predicts the return of Halley's Comet. He determines that comets seen in 1531 and 1607 are the same object following a 76-year orbit. Halley's prediction is proven in 1758 when the comet returns. Unfortunately, Halley had died in 1742, missing the momentous event.

6. The Milky Way Is a Gigantic Disk of Stars (1780 – 1834)
Telescope-maker William Herschel and his sister Carolyn map the entire sky and prove that our solar system resides in a gigantic disk of stars that bulges in the center called the Milky Way. Herschel's technique involves taking a sample count of stars in the field of view of his telescope. His final count shows more than 90,000 stars in 2,400 sample areas. Later studies confirm that our galaxy is disk-shaped, but find that the sun is not near the center and that the system is considerably larger than Herschel's estimation.

7. General Relativity (1915 – 1919)
Albert Einstein unveils his theory of general relativity in which he proposes that mass warps both time and space, therefore large masses can bend light. The theory is proven in 1919 by astronomers using a solar eclipse as a test.

8. The Universe Is Expanding (1924 – 1929)
Edwin Hubble determines the distance to many nearby galaxies and discovers that the farther they are from us, the faster they are flying away from us. His calculations prove that the universe is expanding.

9. The Center of the Milky Way Emits Radio Waves (1932)
Karl Jansky invents radio astronomy and discovers a strange radio-emitting object at the center of the Milky Way. Jansky was conducting experiments on radio wavelength interference for his employer, Bell Telephone Laboratories, when he detected three groups of static; local thunderstorms, distant thunderstorms and a steady hiss-type static. Jansky determines that the static is coming from an unknown source at the center of the Milky Way by its position in the sky.

10. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (1964)
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover cosmic microwave background radiation, which they suspect is the afterglow of the big bang. Their measurements, combined with Edwin Hubble's earlier finding that the galaxies are rushing away, make a strong case for the big bang theory of the birth of the universe.

11. Gamma-Ray Bursts (1969 – 1997)
The two-decade-long mystery of gamma-ray bursts is solved by a host of sophisticated ground-based and orbiting telescopes. Gamma-ray bursts are short-lived bursts of gamma-ray photons, which are the most energetic form of light and are associated with nuclear blasts. At least some of the bursts have now been linked with distant supernovae — explosions marking the deaths of especially massive stars.

12. Planets Around Other Stars (1995 – 2004)
Astronomers find a host of extrasolar planets as a result of improved telescope technology and prove that other solar systems exist, although none as yet resembles our own. Astronomers are able to detect extrasolar planets by measuring gravitational influences on stars.

13. The Universe Is Accelerating (1998 – 2000)
Unexpectedly, astronomers find that instead of slowing down due to the pull of gravity, the expansion of the universe at great distances is accelerating. If these observations are correct and the trend continues, it will result in the inability to see other galaxies. A new theory of the end of the universe based on this finding has been called the "big rip."

Upvote because astronomy rocks.

>> ^jwray:
The United States federal government is not paying for its deficit spending by printing excessive amounts of money. It is borrowing instead. Inflation is at 3.66% and falling. It peaked at 5.6% in July, before the economic upheaval.


Oh really, is that why it takes 3x as many dollars to buy an ounce of gold today than it did ten years ago? Of course the government is printing obscene amounts of money. Stop picking and choosing little short term windows of time where the trend is not apparent, nothing goes in a straight line. Do you even know what monetization of debt means? If foreigners are no longer interested in buying our government debt (bonds) that the treasury issues every year, the Fed has to raise interest rates to lure them in, because that's the yield on their loan to us. But they're LOWERING THEM. Yields are NEGATIVE. You loan money to us, you will be paid back in depreciated dollars that buy less than what you had before you loaned. So now that foreigners aren't doing that, guess who has to step in and buy those bonds? The Federal Reserve. Except that money isn't someone's savings, it isn't backed by a product in the world. It's pure inflation, pure funny money. That's what's coming, their balance sheet is going into the TRILLIONS.

This is the symbiosis that enabled government excess. A tax is an honest appropriation, people see it and are far more likely to resist it. Inflation is arbitrary money creation in a back room that siphons value from existing dollars. You can pull a curtain over that, lie about how much you're doing it, and watch as people see prices go up 10% in health care, food, per annum with absolutely no idea what hit them. After all, the government weatherman says that prices only went up 3%.

http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/2005/0624.html

The calculations are a joke, after we left the gold standard in the 70s, they kept changing them to understate real inflation and welfare obligations so they could spend more and more without it being easily noticed. They no longer include homes, energy, or food. Also, they introduced a subjective concept called hedonics adjustment, which negates price increases as inflation by discounting an assumed increase in quality.

The most galling result of this Keynesian nonsense is it blinds people to where inflation is going. Keynesian economics is the equivalent of teaching astrology instead of astronomy. First, they change the definition of inflation to mean prices instead of money supply. The correct definition of inflation is an increase of the money supply with the common RESULT being higher prices. After doing this, they then categorize inflation (to them: prices) into "asset-based" and "goods-based," and tell us that they don't fight asset-based. But asset-based inflation is what causes bubbles in assets like homes and stocks. We want things we own to go up and things we consume to go down, of course, but we don't want our assets to go up from artificial demand created by inflation. That's an illusion. So when inflation goes into tech stocks or homes, nobody sees it as inflation. Not the Keynesian Fed Chairmen, not the Keynesian financial managers, almost anyone with a degree in economics was less reliable than A COIN FLIP. That's when you know when your "science" has a problem. And then boom, when it starts going into commodities futures after the implosion, it exposes the inflation at all once that people were previously blind to.

And then here's a guy like Schiff, Ron Paul's economic advisor and Austrian economist, who was warning the whole god damned time since 2000, telling people to get into gold when it was $275 and getting laughed at by every confused Keynesian educated retard on television.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucDkoqwflF4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw

>> ^dtmike07:
Austrian economics has about as much credibility as scientology. They don't even believe in empirical evidence, for crissakes. Mainstream economics does't have a much better theory - essentially its an extended and mathematized version of Austrian economics. But at least mainstream economists know what the data says and use statistical techniques to analyze it. You know, like real scientists. And regarding the Austrian "theory" of the Great Depression - they pretty much pulled it out of their asses. Its just an attempt to blame the whole thing on the government, and exempt the free market. Austrian economics is a religion - the free market is God and government is the Devil.

You are 100% dead wrong on this. Keynesian "empirical data" is bogus, I've only scratched the surface on how they try to complicate simple concepts into a symbiotic swindle by redefining inflation, making up new terms, and it keeps blowing up in their face no matter who's in charge because that's the whole point. For you or Stukafox to even compare this problem to the firecrackers of banking panics (from fractional reserve lending, a legalized form of fraud that persists to this day with government backstops, an entirely different debate) is unbelievable, there's no proportion to a decade long depression and a bunch of shitty banks going under to remind people not to carelessly deposit all their money in banks.

Second of all, economics is a study of human behavior. Keynes was an idiot whose theories arose from a complete misunderstanding of what caused the great depression. He basically threw classical knowledge out the window and decided that economies needed central direction and stimulation by government. See, like the dumbfucks in this video, most people thought letting the banks fail was what caused the depression. It wasn't. It was what came before and after it. The inflation of the 20s was what caused the crash in the first place, you don't have a crash without a Fed-created bubble. You don't have withdrawal without being high on drugs.

But while withdrawal symptoms suck, they're actually the solution to the disease of the high. Hoover and Roosevelt saw the hangover as the disease, and began administering shock therapy. Over the course of many years, they raised tariffs, raised taxrates, and nationalized industry. The economy would have recovered, capital and jobs would have reallocated on its own. Instead, anyone who had any money after that crash had no incentive to invest or employ anyone, because now government was promising to take 90% of your profits if you made any. So unemployment got worse. The tax revenue the government did manage to appropriate, it used to pay for new government jobs that were extremely inefficient (being immune to bankruptcy, financed by theft, and having no competition tends to be an unproductive business model, ask the soviets). FDR also ordered livestock slaughtered and fields plowed under because he believed falling food prices were bad for farmers. No, I'm not making this up. Deflation being bad is another Keynesian myth, they think more efficient production lowering prices makes people sit on their money rather than invest it. Which is totally untrue if you look at the computer sector where prices fall IN SPITE of inflation and have never had problems raising capital or selling well despite falling prices and obsolescence. FDR is the same asshole who allowed Pearl Harbor to be a massacre and issued unconstitutional orders to confiscate gold from the poor, hungry citizens who had just seen the banks absolved for destroying their savings. The man was a fucking monster, it took four terms to get rid of him.

What got us out of the depression was a just war and FDR's death. WWII had the entire country up in arms because we were attacked by another country. People were willing to sacrifice their wants and contribute to the war effort, this was no pushover on a third world country, it took everything we had. People were buying warbonds based on patriotic fervor alone. Massive amounts of infrastructure was built to produce wartime materials. That manufacturing base remained after the war for private industry, taxes came down, trade resumed, and we emerged as a leading producer of wealth in the world. By default. Because the rest of world was in shambles, only the Soviets were left to compete and their socialist economy eventually crumbled. We didn't plan it that way, it just happened. We were also still on a semi-gold standard, we still had a savings rate, and we became the largest creditor nation. We've lost ALL OF THAT. It's all gone, we're the direct opposite now. No gold standard, negative savings rate, largest debtor nation in the WORLD.

Keynes main problem is, politicians have no precise idea what all needs to be produced and created to please everyone in a PEACETIME economy, it's impossible. The free market is millions of individuals with diverse wants and needs, there's no way in hell you can centrally manage that. But they think they can and want to spend, that's why they picked Keynes as a replacement for old models, because his theories completely justified what socialist academics had been wanting to do all along. They honestly believed they could spend money more efficiently than its earner. That's impossible, the earner has a stake in the money. If he throws it away, he loses the labor he spent to obtain it, so he has a natural incentive to be thrifty. A politician spending it loses nothing, they have no incentive to be thrifty. They're people motivated by self-interest, just like you and me, their only legitimate job in the economy was to make sure force and deception is not used when we are out here transacting with one another. That's what graphs and "empirical data" doesn't explain, and it's why history will show Keynes to be a failure.

Far from our free market roots, we centrally fix interest rates, we declare lending standards discriminatory with goofy programs like the community reinvestment act, we redistribute capital from good businesses to failed ones, savers to speculators, and pass all kinds of anti-competitive laws. That's what Ron Paul understood and was going to put a stop to. He was going to end the monopoly on currency that forced us all into accepting the bill for government excess. He was going to end the useless military expenditures overseas. He was going to eliminate the income tax and cripple the ability of politicians to engage in collusive campaign dealings, or "engineer" society by issuing special credits to certain types of marriages, incomes, families, or investments. He knew the enablements, he understood how seemingly innocuous program could change human behavior. Politicians are just lawyers spending and accepting millions of dollars to get a low-paying position of controlling other people's money. That's it. And if you think they should be controlling 50% of our money in life, you deserve everything that's coming to you. Your employers are all going to close up shop to avoid the tax, your education is going to suck, your welfare dollars' value is going to be pissed away on foreign entanglements and overpaid execs, your gold is going to get confiscated (again). It's all coming, comrades.

ah, I've always been curious about that too! But what i was really asking was what was the secret to that "a href" thing that allows you to make hyperlink embedded in text. I unintentionally typed in < before and > after and it turned into one and somehow assigned a link to my profile page. That's the danger of messing with force powers you don't understand.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Pull up a land speeder, son, and I'll tell you the short, boring story:

You already know I'm a Pink Floyd fan, correct? Well one of their earliest recorded songs has these lyrics:

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.

Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare Dan dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds
The icy waters under
Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds
The icy waters underground.

So way back in the mid '90s, back when this whole crazy World Wide Web thing was just getting off the ground, I chose neptunetitan as my handle everywhere I went. My very first internet email address was neptunetitan@aol.com. And Neptune saw that it was good.

But the internet, being itself, saw that even the faintest glimmer of originality had to punished, because within six months of neptunetitan's genesis, there were 800 gajillion copycat neptunetitans all over the damn place. I couldn't create a new account anywhere with it, because some halfwit had already stolen it from me. So I had to devise something new.

Enter kronosposeidon. Poseidon = Neptune, and Kronos = Ruler of the titans. Now I considered Poseidonkronos at first just to keep the order intact, but that didn't sound as good as kronosposeidon, IMHO. Also if you use it as a replacement in "Astronomy Domine's" lyrics:

Kronos, Poseidon, Stars can frighten

..it almost works, poetically speaking. Astronomically and mythologically speaking, it's a little more of a problem. Hey, I never said I was a genius. I just sell fucking boxes. But on the bright side, kronosposeidon has proven so clunky as a handle that no one but my dumb ass uses it. Believe me, I have accounts all over the intarwebs with kronosposeidon, and I have always had it approved on the first try. Thus my half-assed knowledge of a dead Greek religion has proven useful once in my life. God bless America.

Okay, you can wake up now.



In reply to this comment by schmawy:
You know what I've always wanted to ask you Okiwan Penobie? What's the secret recipe to that mumbojumbo?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
That's right, padawan. Come on son, join the winning team, or the registrar will be forced to pull your scholarship at the Jedi academy.

AND they'll take away your Photoshop.

[Your response]


In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hahahaaaa. Your Gimp powers grow stronger, master. I have no excuse. Such a freekin' freeloader, huh?


kronosposeidon:

Lazy.

Pull up a land speeder, son, and I'll tell you the short, boring story:

You already know I'm a Pink Floyd fan, correct? Well one of their earliest recorded songs has these lyrics:

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.

Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare Dan dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds
The icy waters under
Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds
The icy waters underground.

So way back in the mid '90s, back when this whole crazy World Wide Web thing was just getting off the ground, I chose neptunetitan as my handle everywhere I went. My very first internet email address was neptunetitan@aol.com. And Neptune saw that it was good.

But the internet, being itself, saw that even the faintest glimmer of originality had to punished, because within six months of neptunetitan's genesis, there were 800 gajillion copycat neptunetitans all over the damn place. I couldn't create a new account anywhere with it, because some halfwit had already stolen it from me. So I had to devise something new.

Enter kronosposeidon. Poseidon = Neptune, and Kronos = Ruler of the titans. Now I considered Poseidonkronos at first just to keep the order intact, but that didn't sound as good as kronosposeidon, IMHO. Also if you use it as a replacement in "Astronomy Domine's" lyrics:

Kronos, Poseidon, Stars can frighten

..it almost works, poetically speaking. Astronomically and mythologically speaking, it's a little more of a problem. Hey, I never said I was a genius. I just sell fucking boxes. But on the bright side, kronosposeidon has proven so clunky as a handle that no one but my dumb ass uses it. Believe me, I have accounts all over the intarwebs with kronosposeidon, and I have always had it approved on the first try. Thus my half-assed knowledge of a dead Greek religion has proven useful once in my life. God bless America.

Okay, you can wake up now.



In reply to this comment by schmawy:
You know what I've always wanted to ask you Okiwan Penobie? What's the secret recipe to that mumbojumbo?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
That's right, padawan. Come on son, join the winning team, or the registrar will be forced to pull your scholarship at the Jedi academy.

AND they'll take away your Photoshop.

[Your response]


In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hahahaaaa. Your Gimp powers grow stronger, master. I have no excuse. Such a freekin' freeloader, huh?


kronosposeidon:

Lazy.

Whoa, whoa, WHOA! Are they really asking a girl called Mercedes to comment on a porno?

Why not ask "Ginger" about Hansel and Grettle? Or "Star" about astronomy? Or Debbie about Dallas?