I just learnt what confirmation bias is, and now I see it everywhere!

@CD_Character

5 ай бұрын

That's how you know it's working !

Dr. Becky, your last meme, the one about the Sun taking us with it, the face in the Sun is the "Overly Attached Girlfriend" Meme, started by Laina Morris. She's hilarious!

@user-dh6bj2me5p

5 ай бұрын

Is Laina related to Hayley Morris? Hayley is also hilarious but for mature audiences only.

@jonragnarsson

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Internet Historian

@MrHws5mp

5 ай бұрын

I miss Laina on KZread: I really appreciated her dark sense of humour, and her comic timing was great.

@Mezman999

5 ай бұрын

@@MrHws5mpshe was one of a kind.😂

@klaxoncow

5 ай бұрын

@@jonragnarsson No, no. The Internet Historian is that other guy, with the animations.

Here comes Dr. Becky again, tricking us into learning science by “showing us memes” 😂

Love it-- as a trained psychotherapist, I deal with confirmation biases all of the time! And if you ask: "yours or the patient's", the answer is "Yes..."

@LibertyDino

4 ай бұрын

Not a trained therapist but at this point I am very well educated about psychology and okay educated at behavioral biology. I can 100% confirm this 😂

@billstephens396

4 ай бұрын

As untrained in any kind of therapy, I'm still having issues figuring out you humans... Ummmm... I mean... People... Yeah... Who says humans, am I right?

The face in the Sun is " Overly Attached Girlfriend " . It's a meme .

@Eclipce051

5 ай бұрын

memeseption

@pasiojala3227

5 ай бұрын

Scrolled here to make sure someone already got it. :)

@AgileGeoff

5 ай бұрын

She's on youtube too... @laina

@sty0pa

4 ай бұрын

It's an ancient meme (2012) that even has its own wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overly_Attached_Girlfriend

@zeikjt

4 ай бұрын

Classic OAG

"Shall we put Bach on the Golden Record?" "Naah... let's not brag, shall we."

@MartinInBC

4 ай бұрын

Funny how people always seem to assume aliens will be high-brow. What if First Contact turns out to be a visit from an interstellar collector of fart jokes?

@The_NthGineer

4 ай бұрын

​@@MartinInBCor worse...dad jokes...the world inundated with dad jokes...wait wasn't that a trend a few yrs ago?

Humans: Concerned about the sun dying and taking them with it. The universe (laughing): "We'll get you WAY before that happens!"

@QueenMonny

4 ай бұрын

Ironically, I don't think it will be the universe that gets us. We'll most likely wipe ourselves out, sadly.

@emordnilap4747

4 ай бұрын

Humanity: not if we do it first!

There is a reference to the Voyager discs in the game Stellaris. Early on after finding out about other life in the galaxy, you get an event where you remember that your species sent out some sub-lightspeed probes with information of where your homeworld is. Realising that that may have been a bad idea, your task is to bring them back.

@Gremriel

5 ай бұрын

In Starfield one of the Voyagers gained sentience.

@Nightdare

5 ай бұрын

@@Gremriel ....how innovative Was done by Star Trek decades prior

@Gremriel

5 ай бұрын

@@Nightdare No one thinks Starfield is, in any way, shape, or form, innovative. Except maybe Todd Howard.

@bosstowndynamics5488

5 ай бұрын

You can also visit Voyager 1 in Elite Dangerous

@dreadogastusf3548

4 ай бұрын

Rather somber thinking about humanity's changing attitude about aliens. Back then, in the 1970's, "Of course any advanced alien species will be compassionate and curious." Nowadays, many think of the dark forest and want to keep quiet. Perhaps that just my age talking.

As a Ceres stan, I would like to formerly use this opportunity to celebrate. Justice for Ceres! Edit: also justice for all the gas giant moons that would also be dwarf planets if they weren't already orbiting something else.

@galoomba5559

5 ай бұрын

Including Earth's moon

@xtifr

5 ай бұрын

As another Ceres stan, I would like to point out that Ceres still meets the _dictionary_ definition of a planet, even if it doesn't meet the _jargon_ definition. Ceres is a planet and a tomato is a vegetable and a bit is just a small amount, unless you're speaking science jargon! :)

@FrostedCreations

5 ай бұрын

Ceres is my favourite dwarf planet! It is both a dwarf planet AND an asteroid, it is unique. It's also likely the closest source of liquid water to the Earth.

@thenovicenovelist

4 ай бұрын

Before this video, the only people I knew who were excited about Ceres were my friends in the spiritual communities and that was for astrological purposes rather than astronomical purposes. It's cool to meet people who like Ceres for non-spiritual reasons as well.

@highlorddarkstar

4 ай бұрын

@@thenovicenovelistSailor Moon fans would know the first four asteroids (Ceres, Juno, Vesta, and Pallas) as characters from the series. There may be a vague crossover from astrology behind the characters, but it’s animated television for people who grew up at a particular time in North America.

We sent Chuck Berry on the golden disk. Saturday Night Live did a bit where aliens sent a signal “ Send more Chuck Berry. “.

Would it really be such a bad thing if you did more of these meme-reaction videos? You have the perfect reactions and the little science nugget you dispense is always informative. If one a month is too much, how about on the solstices and equinoxes? ;-)

@marksusskind1260

5 ай бұрын

perihelion, aphelion

Becky: We do memes the first week of January because we're tired. Also Becky: spends 4 minutes on a tangent after the first meme. :D

That was great fun. I'm pleased that Laina is still featuring in new memes.

@takumi2023

5 ай бұрын

glad someone recognized her. i can never remember the name. i just recognized the face haha.

@graywulf19

5 ай бұрын

I was pretty sure that was who that was.

@MandosaWright

5 ай бұрын

She'll always be The Overly Attached Girlfriend, to me 😁

2 minutes in, haven't looked at what others are saying, but I already love that even your meme-reacts come with a lesson in confirmation bias and frequency illusion. Way to keep it classy and informational while still being fun and silly! 😊

On Saturday night live they had the first response from an alien society to voyager. It was “send more chuck berry”

@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515

5 ай бұрын

Yes

That question mark galaxy meme is so funny! Thanks for pointing out the website where you can type out messages using images of galaxies!

I got a job with a company called Northgate once. I'd never hear of them before being approached, but the next few days, everywhere I went, I saw Northagte vans. Biggest van company in Europe, yet until I got told about them, totally oblivious!

I celebrated Ceres getting upgraded to dwarf planet! It's one of my absolute favorite celestial objects! :D

@turkosicsaba

5 ай бұрын

It was discovered on the very first day of the 19th century, 1st of January 1801. Giuseppe Piazzi must've received a telescope for Christmas.

@Antipodeano

5 ай бұрын

@@turkosicsaba Lucky it wasn't a cloudy day then!

@Valery0p5

5 ай бұрын

​​@@turkosicsaba Sicilian pride 😁 It's no coincidence the planet was dedicated to the goddess of agriculture: the observatory was located on our sunny island, which was known as "breadbasket of Rome" for its wheat production.

The Alien's response made me burst out loud! 😂

I was firmly in favor of Pluto+Charon being considered a double planet, Eris and the others KBOs being planets, and… yes… Ceres being re-promoted to planet status, too.

@ragnkja

5 ай бұрын

Planetary scientists say that dwarf planets are part of their field. If they only studied the eight that are definitely planets, they wouldn’t be able to learn nearly as much as they can by also studying the edge cases (dwarf planets).

@FrostedCreations

5 ай бұрын

I'm fine with them being planets too. I think we just need to distinguish between minor planets and major planets

@bosstowndynamics5488

5 ай бұрын

​@@FrostedCreationsIsn't that just another way of saying "larger planets and dwarf planets"?

@bosstowndynamics5488

5 ай бұрын

The problem with Ceres being promoted to planet is that there's loads and loads of obscure dwarf planets that would also need to be promoted since there's no meaningful line that can be drawn between them. Clearing its orbit is a somewhat arbitrary line but it's still an easily defined line to distinguish between planets and dwarf planets

@FrostedCreations

4 ай бұрын

@@bosstowndynamics5488 Yes, but I think the current naming conventions are bad. Dwarf planets aren't planets but they literally have planet in their categorisation, it doesn't make sense. I'm not surprised people are confused. In fact, when dwarf planets were initially conceived the major planets were known as classical planets, but the IAU dropped the classical part for some reason. I'm not a huge fan of "classical" because it's pretty ambiguous (Pluto spent about 80 years classified as a planet, why does that not count as "classical"?), but I think having no qualifier is worse.

Sometimes it isn't confirmation bias. When I was a kid it always seemed we had good weather during the week when we had school and inside but when we were off on the weekends and could go out and play it would rain. Turned it it did statistically rain more often on the weekends in the Pacific Northwest.

@ianhopping105

4 ай бұрын

Blame the internal combustion engine; there is more traffic Monday to Friday. The change in pollution at the weekend causes bad weather

@overcomingobstaclescreates1695

4 ай бұрын

I notice that even now. Like it will snow all week, be nice on the weekend, and go back to snowing all week. Or we'll have really nice weather during the week and cloudy/rainy /colder temp days on the weekend. And this isn't influenced by whatever the news predicts since I don't pay attention to weather forecasters. It's really interesting.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets upset when historic space equipment dies or gets ignored. Seriously, when Hubble is retired I think I'll be close to tears.

Infectious enthusiasm is an understatement, you're always a joy to watch and learn from. The Planet Wild episode on elephants in Tanzania is fantastic, was only in Tanzania for a short while, but loved it. Fun to see Killamanjaro from Kenya and Tanzania. Two more things: please make another video about a day in Dr Becky's life... need to see how you keep up with everything without coffee or tea, and for a fun note; people are gabbing on about Aliens in a mall in Miami, Florida... good for a laugh!

My favorite part of the golden record is the instructions for how to read it. It's just really cool.

@orlock20

5 ай бұрын

It also has electronic pictures in case the aliens have eyesight like humans.

Dr. Becky with all due respect, you adorable, hilarious, and fascinating! Thank you for keeping us updated. Cheers!

Looking forward to another informative year. Thanks for keeping me updated over the past few years.!

About the first one... I bought my very first telescope and instantly after arrival we got one months of clouds and rain straight... can relate.

There’s an amazing documentary about the Voyager missions called “The Furthest: Voyager in Space” that I wholeheartedly recommend. It goes into amazing detail about the Golden Record (fun fact: Carl Sagan’s son recorded a greeting from all the children of Earth.)

On the subject of clouds, never forget that the English word “sky” comes from an Old Norse word for clouds.

@ragnkja

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing out that it’s not just a coincidence, and that the Norse meaning of the word is the real one. Also says something about English weather 😆

Please do this again next year 🙏 😂🎉😎🇩🇪

Happy New Year Dr Becky! I look forward to a whole new year of the best Cosmology videos on KZread! Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this channel. I really appreciate it.

Yes, please! More reports about HOW we know WHAT we know! I am astounded...not having COMPLETELY read through many science papers...that some research groups are fed faulty data to weed out confirmation bias. I've heard this done in medicine, yes, but I am delighted this is also done in other scientific disciplines as well. Looking forward to more reports from you in 2024. Hau'oli Makahiki Hou! 🎉🥳

@user-dh6bj2me5p

5 ай бұрын

"more reports how we what we know." Drunk already?

@jimcabezola3051

5 ай бұрын

@@user-dh6bj2me5p I appear to have used the word "about" between "reports" and "how." Your message leaves out the word "about." When you put in the word "about" as I did, the sentence does make sense. Mahalo for the catch.

@user-dh6bj2me5p

5 ай бұрын

@@jimcabezola3051 nope. Try again.

@jimcabezola3051

5 ай бұрын

@@user-dh6bj2me5p If you refer to the "know" between "we" and "what", then that works. It's what Fraser Cain always correctly said in his video introductions. Using the microphone to dictate my comments can save time...but it's not perfect. I don't know if my voice is recorded somewhere. You're making me wonder if I even UTTERED the words correctly. Hmmm...

Vote on another meme video.... NEXT YEAR??? OMG, I'd watch these every month. At minimum make these every 3 months please. Thank you Dr. Becky for satisfying my needs for more knowledge and information. Happy New Year!

When you were discussing confirmation bias it reminded me of how we seem to bump into people we know more often than it should happen if it was just random. But that makes me wonder if we actually see a lot of the same strangers just as frequently, but think nothing of it because we don't recognise them.

@chrmnlp4413

4 ай бұрын

Just like when you get a new car, you suddenly see the same model everywhere. The cars were there before but we just never noticed.

But.. but.. most of us have grown up with Pluto, and we know and love him! Ceres is just the goddess of agriculture!

@playnochat

5 ай бұрын

It wouldn't been a big deal to accept Pluto as a planet for historical reasons. Mankind do that all the time. The other interesting thing is that every object orbiting a giant black hole should be a dwarf planet including stars, which should create a "star/dwarf planet" catecory.

To hear this record turn it at 33-1/3 times a second: - Aliens "what's a second ?"

Just subscribed and got my first telescope a month ago. Wife and kid absolutely went wild seeing Saturn. Can’t wait for new videos

@overcomingobstaclescreates1695

4 ай бұрын

Can relate. The first time I saw Jupiter through the telescope, I thought "wow, cool, you can see the bands and the 4 moons" But seeing Saturn the first time was a spiritual experience.

This is my first time watching your reaction to funny memes! I hope for more to come. Happy new year!

The face in the sun is the Overly Attached Girlfriend meme. :)

Thank you Dr. Becky, and Happy New Year! Learning from you is always such fun. Also I have subscribed to all notifications to Planet Wild. Thanks for the heads-up on this channel too. Looking forward to more of your videos.

My only complaint is that we didn't get more! 😂 Pt 2 would be fun, but definitely again in '25 🙂 I love your channel. Thank you for being so gifted at translating complex concepts into common language. I look forward to buying 2 copies of your book, one to give a friend. Keep up the terrific work sharing *facts* and *reliable* information to the masses. It's more important now than ever.

First of all, Happy New Year! Second, VERY well pointed argument about dwarf planets. It is like it is, like it or not. Third, i fully support the continuation of the "meme day", in fact, i suggest a livestream, where viewers can sent memes about space, and you can review them.

Dr. Becky, thank you for bringing up Planet Wild. I joined as a supporter, as I very much appreciate their approach on sustainable, workable, achievable goals. Thank you for alerting me to this effort.

Very funny, yet thoughtful/ thought provoking memes. Thanks, and have a great year of discovery!

This taking a lot more thought than you promised in the beginning 😂

The telescope meme hit so hard :P I just got some new eyepieces last week and it's been nothing but clouds and rain all week long :(

Thanks for the memes, dr. Becky! 😊 Happy new year! And stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

I am in Australia and my telescope managed to attract rain to the outback! I visited Charleville twice - rained twice! In Charleville!

Happy New Year, Becky! Here is another topic for 2024: the naming of space objects. I know about NGC and Messier, but there are sometimes stars and galaxies, etc with really weird names consisting of what seems to be (to a non astronomer at least) just random numbers and letters. A deep dive into this would be most interesting indeed! Also - thanks for your brilliant channel. Been following you for 5 years or so now. Keep up the great work!

@louisrobitaille5810

5 ай бұрын

Pulsar names are based on their sky coordinates, but idk about other types of objects 🤔.

@daveh7720

5 ай бұрын

I'd like to see how asteroid names are assigned. I mean, Scott Manley has one named for him. I suspect there's a cabal of space scientists and Monty Python alumni issuing those names.

@douglaswilkinson5700

4 ай бұрын

Essentially the IAU has the authority to name astronomical objects, events, etc.

Just wanted to say hello from Latvia. Love your channel and I'm a fan of your reaction videos of the movies. As Contact is one of my all time faves, it was a pleasure to watch that reaction video 😇

@DrBecky

4 ай бұрын

Awesome thank you!

@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307

4 ай бұрын

@@DrBecky Theres a new one where the joke claims comparing a spring under pressure(more energy) and one thats not proves e=mc2! Hes even forgotten how to do simple maths! This failure is neil degrasse tyson!

Happy New Year to you and yours, Dr. Becky! 🎉❤ This was so fun - LOVE the one with the Voyager record and the ? response!! 🤣👽🤔 Hope you do these more often!!

You're the best! I hope you're as happy as you can be! I love this channel. :)

Love how Doc turns a meme into a full educational segment! :D #rad

Always interesting with your content Dr😆👏🏻👍🏻

Happy new year! And yess! Please do it again next year!!! :)

Always delightful Dr Becky! Thank you

Happy New Year, Dr. Becky!🍀🍾 Speaking of a telescope: I really want to start observing the moon and hopefully planets with my daughter. Could you recommend some minimum technical data for starters to have some fun but not to spend too much money for starters? 😇🙏🇩🇪

@MaGaO

5 ай бұрын

May I intrude to tell you that a 20-60x terrestrial telescope will allow you to see the phases of Venus (and Mercury?), the major satellites of Jupiter and tell the ring system of Saturn apart from the planet (remember Saturn is getting to a point in its orbit where the rings are side-on and may not be seen). It will also allow you to look at star clusters like Pleiades and even parts of the Andromeda Galaxy (it is too large to see on 20x). Remember to wear sunglasses when watching the Moon during the night if it's over 50% visible. Your eyes will thank you.

@Dr.RiccoMastermind

5 ай бұрын

@MaGaO thank you so much! I really appreciate! I was not sure if a 20x was really worth something 🙏 Any suggestion to how many mm aperture would be relevant?

@MaGaO

5 ай бұрын

@@Dr.RiccoMastermind You really want it to reach 60x to look at planets and it will allow the Moon to almost fill the whole field. It is reasonably cheap (30-40€) and it also allows for watching wildlife, far mountains, etc. during the day :)

@Dr.RiccoMastermind

5 ай бұрын

@MaGaO thank you, very exciting 🙂

I think I speak for everyone when I say, if you have the desire to do so, we'd all absolutely love Space Meme Reactions more often than once a year 😁

First video and I've just subscribed. You seem really fun and chill and down to earth. Knowledgeable and can communicate that in a easy way to understand. Looking forward to catching up with earlier videos and learning more. 😊

I nearly did an untoward thing - not look at your video soon after release! Great fun and your shout out for scientific approach using the first meme was excellent.

I hope Mama Doctor Jones isn't too offended by being compared to Laina Morris in character as "Overly Attached Girlfriend."

Haha these are great! I love learning how we know what we know, I'm looking forward to more of those videos this year!

My favorite new find..... Looking forward to catching up on all the previous episodes. That laugh is infectious. 🥰🥰🥰

Happy new year Rebecca! I'm so glad to see you are still making videos.

it would be great to have something to look forward to every january dr becky really enjoy your reactions and the memes themselves

Dr. Becky, YES! Please continue your “tradition” of funny space memes for the New Year! They were hilarious!!🤣 Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year! The one with the alien question mark had me laughing out loud 😂

Absolutely! Make this a regular thing every year. I enjoyed it!

Happy New Year, Doc!

Dr Becky, how come we have only just found out that Neptune isn't blue? Someone has seriously dropped the ball on that one 😄

Happy New Year Becky, hopefully might catch you somewhere in England in June this year

There was a cartoon of the alien response to the Voyager record: "Send more Buddy Holly".

The Great Wall is 21,200 km long... but only 6.5 wide (average) at its base. Seeing it from space would be like trying to see a very long human hair from a dozen metres.

Dr. Becky, thanks for sharing and Happy New year! 🙂😎🤓❤

HAVE A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR , Dr. Becky

I loved your memes this year. Yes, please do it again next year!

@AdDewaard-hu3xk

5 ай бұрын

Clint has dinosaur December, Dr. B has January . . . memes? Work on this, people.

Happy New Year Dr. Becky! 🎉 Looking forward to lots of funny and informative videos from you in 2024 😊 (and plan on finishing reading your book this year)

Happy New Year Dr Becky. Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year. Looking forward to what you bring us in 2024.

Happy New Year Becky! Live long and prosper.😊

Dr. Becky, your videos are always informative and entertaining. These meme episodes are fun, and it would be great to see this content more often than once a year as some comic relief while you're explaining star death.

Love it Becky. Definitely have to do it next year.

Thank You And Happy New Year!

Youre my favorite scientist on youtube cos you know how to laugh

Even the meme episodes I find myself learning something new. So much fun.

1:21 Wow. I had never heard of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon until yesterday and now it's popping up everywhere!

9:22 Imagine when Perseverance is Voyager I and Curiosity is Voyager II in this picture.

Happy New Year Dr B and Sam. Love the memes

Hey Dr. Becky! I wanna say thank you for your Videos, they are great and i am having a great time watching them. I also want to say thnak you for introducing Planet Wild to me. I joined them immediately :)

I tuned out for while, I have a tendency of spazzing out. You're awesome.

Your videos brighten my day (or night). The science talking is cool too.

happy new year @DrBecky 🎉

Dr. Becky, I discovered your website shortly before JWST became operational and I have been watching your videos weekly ever since. I find them educational, entertaining, and I like your sense of humor. Things sure have changed since I got interested is astronomy and cosmology in the late 1950s. I used to watch Carl Sagan on TV and now I try to watch Neil deGrasse Tyson whenever he is on TV or he has a youtube video. Happy New Year to you!

Definitely a tradition! 👏🏻 Hope you had a fantastic New Years!! 🎉🎇👏🏻 Always look forward to your vids. 👍🏻🙂

so much fun and knowledge combined

Happy New Year! Thank-you for all you do in science, in providing explanations to the rest of us, and in keeping us updated. Always had an interest in physics, but my career took me elsewhere. Wondering what you might think of Roy Kerr’s recent paper on black holes? Keep up the good work and stay safe!

1 counter point, pulsars are only useful from your own specific point of view and only for a relatively short period of time. Love your channel!

Such fun. I agree with her 'amusement' responses.

Always good to have a bit of the lighter side of things coming up now and then to get a perspective on things.

I love meme reviews/reactions done by experts. Partly because I get to see memes I haven't seen before, but mostly for the chance to learn something new.

Wow just read about the ligo reference, literally five minutes ago, then it pops up in your video. Really enjoying your book btw, so much so I'm rationing myself to a chapter a day. 👍