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SciShow Tangents

Mirrors

SciShow Tangents

Complexly

Schultz, Stefan, Tangents, Hank, 770430, Chin, Riley, Scishow, Complexly, Sam, Sam Schultz, Stefan Chin, Hank Green, Itunes:https://feeds.simplecast.com/jmge1h9a, Comedy, Ceri Riley, Science, Education, Ceri, Green

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We're back, baby! And we're seeing double! Ring in the new-ish year with us as we reflect on mirrors!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to SciShow Dungeons, the lightly competitive knowledge showcase.

0:20.6

I'm your host Hank Green, and joining me this week, as not always, as always, is Sam

0:25.7

Schultz. Hello. And also, uh, subbing in for Sarah this week and helping us bring in the

0:30.7

new year is our editorial assistant, Deboki Chakravarti. Hello. Also, okay. I love that

0:40.0

entrance for me. So the new year is here, but it's not. So it is for you listening, but it's

0:45.4

not for us sitting here. Hopefully everything is turned out okay. There's, there's a number

0:50.1

of things that, that could be curve balls. Um, the biggest one in my head is that giant

0:55.6

curvy ball, the James Obstase telescope. Uh, and that, that's going to launch now, as of this

1:02.2

moment, I don't know if Deboki you've heard this December 25th. Oh, I changed again. Yeah,

1:06.1

because there's a weather delay. So yeah, so it's going to be at the moment, a Christmas launch.

1:10.2

You know why they really changed it from Christmas Eve, because they're afraid it was going to

1:13.6

hit Santa. Yeah. They don't want to hit Santa. Absolutely. We got a weather delay all along.

1:19.2

Yeah. So he's all, he's done with his work. Presence are delivered. Time to make a telescope go

1:24.1

to space. Uh, I am terrified. Yeah. Me too. I made a video about the James Obstase telescope 10 years

1:31.8

ago. And it was at a time when the telescope was having like a, like a particularly rough patch.

1:36.1

It had plenty of rough patches. But I remember here, because I wasn't thinking about that when I

1:40.1

made it, but I remember hearing from my people at NASA and they were like, that was a really nice

1:43.8

thing to see during a really difficult time at the agency. And I was like, holy crap. Oh,

1:48.6

interesting. I thought I was making a goofy video. We should all just pick a scientist to cheer on

1:53.2

this week. Yes. Yeah. Adopt a scientist. Someone out there's got an experiment going badly.

2:03.6

I mean, that's not a terrible idea. I want to like reach out to the person who studies Daddy

2:08.7

Long Legs or the people. Pick one. Pick a Daddy Long Legs scientist and be like, your mind.

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