Thought this video was going to be about necrophilia, dead disappointed

@KonJamo

9 жыл бұрын

yup, same here

@Brockzillagaming

9 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I'm not alone here.

@MarioUcomics

9 жыл бұрын

LOL I was thinking the same thing

@Stigsnake5

9 жыл бұрын

Lies, you knew it was about radiocarbon dating, it was a dead giveaway.

@sirtiberius1083

9 жыл бұрын

Blaze it was a "dead" give-away, I see what you did there.

He stopped at 3 half lives. Half life 3 confirmed.

@Markus9705

9 жыл бұрын

Lawl.

@InnovumTechnology

9 жыл бұрын

It sounds like it might be confirmed. This was posted on reddit the other day: i.imgur.com/8VGHSNw.png

@TheFalrinn

9 жыл бұрын

InnovumTechnology That's not so much as a confirmation so much as a confirmation that HL3 development has not been confirmed to be in hiatus. Which doesn't actually mean anything. It's best to go by the rule of if it hasn't been officially announced, it's not confirmed. Even the most seemingly credible leaks can turn out to miss the mark, if only because plans changed.

@Shyguy33Games

9 жыл бұрын

Also mass spectrometer? ANTI MASS SPECTROMETER?

@Walzounet

9 жыл бұрын

InnovumTechnology Half-life 3 is surely in development but will it ever be good enough for Valve to be release ?

The title was very misleading.

@keah

9 жыл бұрын

I definitely misread that title too.

@Kram1032

9 жыл бұрын

huh, there was another title like that before which had me really confused but in case of this one it was crystal clear to me what was meant.

@pdpgb

9 жыл бұрын

Kram1032 There was one title that went "the secret of your junk" or something like that. We had some fun in the comments on that one

@monster860

9 жыл бұрын

When I read it, I was slightly mislead, until I read the description.

@carterwilliamson8504

9 жыл бұрын

Looks like i love you have a gorillaz fan here! Am I right?

Everyone misinterpreted the title. Don't deny it.

@rs47vh36

8 жыл бұрын

+Sandhya Ganesan when only reading the title you cant think differently. xD but the videopreviewimage gives some clarification. ;-)

@hernes0071

8 жыл бұрын

+Sandhya Ganesan yeah i was curious on why would they make a video about dating and dead things :D

@erikiacopelli451

8 жыл бұрын

+Sandhya Ganesan i so took it the wrong way lmao

@syos1979

8 жыл бұрын

Dang it, I wanted to date a corpse. Wait... can we have a corpse dating sim possible?

@aaronmclaughlin4745

8 жыл бұрын

Guilty. I figured it out before I clicked it though.

I had the wrong kind of "dating" in mind when I started the video

@Cloud_Seeker

9 жыл бұрын

Why am I the only one that wasn't thinking about necrophilia?

@Milie026

9 жыл бұрын

I think the real question is "why were we all thinking about necrophilia?" haha

@Darticus42

9 жыл бұрын

Emilie Michel To give you a technical answer, the verb "date" is most often used in everyday society as the context of being in a relationship, rather than the more archaic verb meaning "to assign a date toward." This is especially due to the age group that this video is mainly geared toward, and thus what would be more prevalent on their/our minds. But for the short (and probably more accurate) answer, we're all sickos. We should have assumed that, since this was a SciShow video, it would be about science and not some weird fetish, especially because the thumbnail does not allude to any such actions. But unfortunately I was ignorant of this being a science-y video until after I began watching it. tsk tsk.If you quickly realized that this was science-related and not necrophillic (or didn't even notice the innuendo in the title), good for you!

@Cloud_Seeker

9 жыл бұрын

Darticus the Great Hay, do not count me in with you sickos.

@Darticus42

9 жыл бұрын

Cloud Seeker I wasn't, it was a collective statement to all of us who thought it was necrophilia. That's why I said "if you...didn't even notice the innuendo in the title, good for you!" So good for you xD

Going to make a necrophillia joke. Realised that everybody else already made one. Still tempted to do it anyway.

@Gillsing

9 жыл бұрын

Make sure to reference "Weekend at Bernie's".

@unvergebeneid

9 жыл бұрын

We can never have too much necrophilia in our lives.

@scunts

9 жыл бұрын

Well not a joke, I came here to sling dick but it's not about dating the dead. I fuck on first dates.

@Lugh314

9 жыл бұрын

Me too. By the time I got here.... the joke was dead.

@KaiserMattTygore927

9 жыл бұрын

Still uses memes yes I am a hypocrite Meme jokes are *DEAD* #relevancy

3:26 yeah dating is hard but dating dead things is easyer because you can't get rejected

I just go to the cinema with them normally

@StevieRay9O

9 жыл бұрын

Zombie movies?

@CerealEnjoyer

9 жыл бұрын

StevieRay9O Warm bodies?

@stephaniesmith3544

9 жыл бұрын

***** So do you odd?

@stephaniesmith3544

9 жыл бұрын

***** It's a joke. Cause odd and even. You can't even. So therefore you odd >_ Or maybe what you said was to continue the joke, in which case I'm a spud.

@stephaniesmith3544

9 жыл бұрын

***** Oops : >

God I love how thorough these videos are!

Ok a title is a big misleading, telling time of a thing was not the first thing that came to my mind when i read Date a dead thing...

@jk844100

9 жыл бұрын

That's your problem not theirs

This is one of the best titles I've seen in a while...

I expected a "Dummies' Guide to Necrophilia" from the title.

should be pretty easy to date dead things ... they cant say no muahahahahahahaha

@alonshoval6267

4 жыл бұрын

That how i got my gf

@kalumW

4 жыл бұрын

@@alonshoval6267 ez dub

Is it bad I thought of necrophilia when I first read the title? O.o

@jotoenatehaaen

9 жыл бұрын

considering this is scishow... :P

@Derfderk

9 жыл бұрын

jotoenatehaaen Well, there IS some degree of psychological (kinda falls on medical science, but not really) and social value in studying necrophilia. But yeah, b8 title

@Darticus42

9 жыл бұрын

66 likes we're all going to hell for this!

@spirttomb

9 жыл бұрын

You are not alone.

Awesome video!!!

I'm going to point out a minor oversight. (Yeah I'm bugged out by small things): At 1:47 Michael says that living things are taking in (the radioactive) carbon *as fast as it decays inside them*. This isn't true, only an insignificant amount of carbon-14 has the time to decay in a living creature's life. This is why the ratio of carbon-14 to all carbon of a short lived creature is practically the same as in the atmosphere. I bet that he meant to say that they take in carbon as fast as they are exhaling and excreting it, as this is true for creatures that don't go up in size too much. (Although the ratio remains the same)

This channel needs fewer hipster-guy videos and more nerd-guy videos.

@JellybellyWaffles

9 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what a hipster would say.

@feralboy13

9 жыл бұрын

JellybellyWaffles dun dun dun wow what a plot twist

@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodh4700

9 жыл бұрын

Hipster???? Do u guys know wut that means lmaao? He is defo NOT. Hipster ;)

@NickSheridanVids

9 жыл бұрын

Dullest hipster of the year award goes too...

@ssppeellll

9 жыл бұрын

Is it not possible for someone (perhaps even Michael) to be both a hipster and a nerd?

And I thought this would be a how-to on getting it on with vampires. DISAPPOINTED!

I requested this one! Thanks for helping me get smarter, SciShow. :)

Interesting info!!!

That title is on point

@tahaistheboss98

9 жыл бұрын

"Dating is hard specially when you're dating a dead thing" :|

i guess you start by asking it out.

Good information. Good puns. Good episode.

HAH! I love wordplays, excellent job Michael & co =)

Love how they REFUSE to say carbon-14 is radioactive. I mean they do, they just explain it in a long winded way.

I think it would be interesting to have an episode where, while probably easy to look up, you list all the various different kinds of radiometric dating methods, their accuracy, their useful time spans, etc. just to, hopefully, put the whole 'Young Earth' thing to bed. SCIENCE!

@sultanhallaq165

9 жыл бұрын

lol that would be cool

@Gilgwathir

9 жыл бұрын

You can't sing a deaf child to sleep, no matter how sweetly your voice rings ;-)

@ssppeellll

9 жыл бұрын

Gilgwath "You can't sing a deaf child to sleep, no matter how sweetly your voice rings." So poetic! (But I edited 'sweet' to 'sweetly'. Hope you don't mind.)

@Gilgwathir

9 жыл бұрын

ssppeellll no, I don't mind. =) English is not my native language. I always enjoy learning something new.

@Darticus42

9 жыл бұрын

ssppeellll But like grammatical inconsistencies are a staple of good poetry... well, at least using adjectives as adverbs to cut out a syllable xD

Thanks for the dating advice!

love this show

i was expecting some dating tips for necrophiliacs but this was interesting as well

Dating a dead thing might be hard, but I find it goes a lot smoother than trying to date it while it's kicking and screaming. #justsaying

Oh, I thought this about a different kind of dating ;). Thanks for the video.

Another thing to note is that the about of C14 in living things has varied over time even before the industrial revolution so radiocarbon had to be calibrated against tree rings dates from really old trees and trees in bogs (they never stop giving). Tree rings can give a date to 6 months back as far as the series goes in that region (which is ~11 000 years in one place)

this isn't necrophilia

@JoseGranny

8 жыл бұрын

No, sorry

@alexl1178

8 жыл бұрын

:c

okay people you killed the necrophiliia jokes, stop beating a dead horse

@gurkfisk89

9 жыл бұрын

wikiwikiwee1 I see what you did there. =)

@naturfagstoff

9 жыл бұрын

If You really are serious about dating that horse, better stop beating it, I agree.

@wikiwikiwee1

9 жыл бұрын

mmmm bestiality

2 weeks after I still thought the wrong thing when I looked at the title

There's that cheeky Michael humour again :) nice

Half-Life 3 will come out in 2016. A half-life represents the point at which the sample is decaying. Using conventions, the duration of each half-life should be _shorter_ than the previous half-life. Concerning Half-Life the game, the duration between each subsequent game _should_ be shorter than the duration before it. There were 6 years between the release of Half-Life 1 and the release of Half-Life 2 meaning we should have seen Half-Life 3 released three years later in 2007. Clearly, subsequent half-lifes are getting _longer_, which is backwards to our assumptions, so lets instead consider a half-life as a positive, wherein instead of decay, a half-life represents a gradual building; in Gabe Newell's case: his financial growth into a billionaire. 3 years before Half-Life 1 was released, Gabe Newell was leaving his job with Microsoft to eventually start Valve in 1996. 6 years after that we get Half-Life 2, so following this trend, we _should_ expect to see Half-Life 3 released 12 years after that in 2016. 24 years later in 2040 Gabe Newell will be a trillionaire / de facto ruler of Earth and its dominions.

@sharks445

9 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the type of text style you would see on Wikipedia.

@Timka09

9 жыл бұрын

Actually, half-life is always the same, but it takes longer and longer for the same amount of carbon (or another element) to decay.

@TheJaredtheJaredlong

9 жыл бұрын

Timka09 My theory is ruined! But thanks, that's good to know.

@Timka09

9 жыл бұрын

TheJaredtheJaredlong You can kind of make it work if we represent the wait time between Half-Life games by the number of decayed atoms. As time goes on, the it'll take longer for same amount to decay. Although it won't really match the amount released in first half-life period because after the first one it'll take approximately an eternity for the same number of atoms to decay, at least in a perfect world. I can't think of how to calculate the right percentage of original material for this to double the time it takes every time, or even if such amount exists. But it doesn't look like it's going to match with any actual half-life period. Maybe I can think of something better after I get some sleep.

@naturfagstoff

9 жыл бұрын

A mix of half life 3 and the C(1)4 man could be cool.

1:43 Half-Life 3 confirmed? huehuehuehue

I saw the title and necrophilia came to mind...

best youtube vid on carbon dating by far

Not gonna lie I thought I would be able to go out for lunch with a mammoth with this tutorial. But I am sad to say that I was DEAD wrong! BADUM TSSS

@aaronrosenberg6633

9 жыл бұрын

Pivoteer51 tusk tusk...

@Pivoteer51

9 жыл бұрын

Huehuehuehue :)

@MuzikBike

8 жыл бұрын

That was ivory bad joke. No, I don't care that the last reply was a year ago.

You said that "This decay happens at a fixed rate". Incorrect: if you are talking about a sample of this carbon, the sample will decay at an exponentially decreasing rate- d/dx is decreasing. However, the rate of change (d^2/dx^2) of rate/ further derivatives will be at a steady rate. But still, nuclear decay is completely random so it is likely to vary across a sample of known mass.

@Markus9705

9 жыл бұрын

The decay happens at a fixed rate - it becomes half as much in 5700 years. By any two points in time the amount of C-14 at the later moment is C * 0.5^(x/5700) where C is the amount of C is the amount of C-14 at the first moment and x the time in years between those points in time. It does not mean that the function is linear, no.

@Gilgwathir

9 жыл бұрын

(this is not intended to offend anyone, I just enjoy pettifoggery) While we are amusing ourselfs enjoying the fine art of hair splitting, I'd like to point out that the fact that decay occurs randomly, means it will turn out pretty much even results over a large enough numbers of decaying events. Thats definition of randomness: not predictable, every event contains the same amount of information. If this is true, the decay has to be roughly evenly spread amongst different samples. If your measurement was a 100% accurate you might, in the first few years, be able to detect a difference between two exactly identical sampeles. However this difference would grow smaller and smaller with every decay. When we take into account the error of measurement, I am pretty sure you wont spot the difference between two identical samples.

@Markus9705

9 жыл бұрын

The _rate_ with which it decreases with is actually given by -8223.36C * e^(-0.000121605 x) where C is the number of atoms from beginning, e = 2.71828128... and x the number of years after the death of the organism.

@j0e916

9 жыл бұрын

Will Deary "You said that "This decay happens at a fixed rate". Incorrect" Since when did "fixed rate" ever _have to_ be interpreted as "linear"? I understood it to be "a function of time." "if you are talking about a sample of this carbon, the sample will decay at an exponentially decreasing rate- d/dx is decreasing. However, the rate of change (d^2/dx^2) of rate/ further derivatives will be at a steady rate." I disagree. d^2/dt^2 [N0 * e^(-Lt)] is no more "steady" than N0 * e^(-Lt), because you will always have the e^(-Lt) function in subsequent derivatives, regardless of how many times you differentiate. "But still, nuclear decay is completely random so it is likely to vary across a sample of known mass." Which is probably why scientists use the ± symbol and a number of years beside it: to indicate the variance in error.

@techcommenter

9 жыл бұрын

It does, carbon 14 has a fixed half life. That is what he meant

Looks like the title is on its way to becoming the next SciShow meme.

Nice video, as to be expected :-)

Prepare for Creationist comments!

@cfltheman

9 жыл бұрын

Like living snails being dated at 30,000 years

@Markus9705

9 жыл бұрын

cfltheman Source please!

@BossesDream

9 жыл бұрын

lol ikr those idiots that think they know more than a person doing it everyday for their whole lives is amusing.

@cfltheman

9 жыл бұрын

TheLeftLibertarianAtheist I never said I believe it but that is one you'll hear.

@Markus9705

9 жыл бұрын

cfltheman Can you take that one more time, in English please?

'Turns a neutron into a proton' Can somebody explain how the f*** that is possible.

@aidanbrown4851

9 жыл бұрын

_Science_

@AnstonMusic

9 жыл бұрын

Because a neutron practically consists of a proton and an electron. So then if you give up an electron from a neutron in the beta decay, then what you've got left is a proton. I hope this simple explanation helped!

@flaviusclaudius7510

9 жыл бұрын

A force known as the weak nuclear interaction is responsible for the decay of neutrons. The products are a proton (to conserve baryon number), an electron (to conserve charge) and an electron anti-neutrino (to conserve lepton number). This happens because the decay products are energetically favourable to the neutrons if the neutrons are either free or if there are too many in an atom.

@AnstonMusic

9 жыл бұрын

Natasha Taylor This was way more in-depth, thanks!

@iamthesh333t

9 жыл бұрын

Basically, once you get smaller than Protons, and Neutrons, science gets gay.

I figured it would be owning a cemetery, but I guess your way is much more sanitary.

1:34 Are you saying i'm gonna have to wait another 5700 years for half life 3?

How do you know how much carbon a tree has when it dies? Wouldn't environment and even genetics play a role in this? It's good there are are additional methods used to help with dating, but sometimes it just seems a little to close to guessing to be called scientific. Correct me if I'm wrong.

@Tyngdlyftning1

9 жыл бұрын

Maybe because there's always a set amount per C-12. That the C-14 is always in such an amount to it, that when you take 2*10^10 C-12 atoms, 0.0000001% will always be C-14, or something. I was also wondering this. But you shouldn't call it guessing if you don't understand it, that's ignorant

@BigKevSexyMan

9 жыл бұрын

Dr. Astrô Nauth Yeah, it's really ignorant asking a question. How dare I.........jackass......

@toyeoladinni7028

9 жыл бұрын

BigKevSexyMan you realise that being ignorant is just not knowing something right? It's not in itself an insult. I'm ignorant about loads of things.

@superdau

9 жыл бұрын

BigKevSexyMan You know there's a site called google. You can type your questions in there. Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean someone else can't use it correctly.

@BigKevSexyMan

9 жыл бұрын

Toye Oladinni Yeah, that's true. But honestly tell me that wasn't meant as one. Technically that makes all questions ignorant, so why call that out? Anyways, I did some research and found a good answer about the basic concept. www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae403.cfm It seems like it is based on the amount of carbon in the environment, but still, I hope we aren't assuming it's roughly the same as today(from the video and article it sounds like we are aware of this problem). But what science are we using to confirm what we are using for that baseline?

Now you're advocating necrophilia? I'm really getting sick of this channel.

@DDazzle1

9 жыл бұрын

Damn, I'm really late to make that joke.

@DDazzle1

9 жыл бұрын

I did. But thanks, I suppose.

That joke at the end was top notch.

2:37 Correct me If I am wrong but I am fairly certain that in Mass spectrometry, atoms are bombarded with electrons to become negatively charged ions, and are not bombarded with ions.

This title. Is one of my favorites.

Very cool video :-)

omg i looked at the title and thought this was like dating advice for a second

The title would fit anything +HowToBasic uploads :)

I am truly relieved this isn't about necrophilia.

"I know! I'll make a joke about the title suggesting necrophilia! I bet no one thought of that!"

I thought this video was going to be interesting, but then I read the description.

I just woke up so reading the title of this video I had a very different idea of what this video was gonna be about

When I clicked the video, my thought was "move to France, you can legal marry the dead there", but then I read the description and realized this isn't about having romantic and/or sexual relations with a dead person.

hey great video. to the point. does everyone have the same amount of carbon in them though?

Clever joke at the end there lol

The last line killed me!

The final joke earned you a thumb up haha

i really admire you

I thought he will say something about dating dead things and for a minute I waited for him to say about something. Eventually I realised the title is misleading.

Next: How do you date a living thing

How to date a dead thing, in 6 easy steps: 1) Find a live rose, and cut it off at the stem. 2) Find a dead thing. 3) Present the recently severed rose to the dead thing and explain, "This rose was recently alive, and is now dead. Thus, it symbolizes the dichotomy between life and death -- that is, between me and you. This is a romantic gesture." 4) Make the sexy time. 5) Smoke a cigarette. 6) Find another dead thing and repeat steps 1 through 5.

@questioneverything6860

9 жыл бұрын

Bill Smith "3) Present the recently severed rose to the dead thing and explain, "This rose was recently alive, and is now dead. " A cut rose does not die instantly, as demonstrated by taking a cutting from a plant that can be grafted onto another plant. A picked-fruit, say an apple is also not instantly dead. Death is often not an instantaneous event, although incineration or physical destruction by crushing or explosives would likely be rapid or even very fast, but probably not truly instantaneous.

A couple of questions: How do we know the original C12 to C14 ratio when an animal died? How do we know that C14's half-life in the Sahara is the same its half life at the bottom of the sea under Antarctica?

Ok, so a very technical question: the law of radioactive decay assumes a number of things. One is that atoms don't "age": the chance that an atom undergoes decay does not change with time. And the second is: the total radioactive activity of a sample is directly related to the number of atoms of that sample. Can anyone explain this to me? I'm sure there is an explanation to it, I just haven't found it yet Additional question: how do we find out the half lives of these radioactive isotopes with really long half lives? Uranium-238 (I believe) has a half life of a few million years, but how do we know that?

Learning this in geology class right now

Ahhh man! I was hoping to get some advice to help me get a date with the corpse I found buried in my backyard. She is a really good listener, always focusing on my problems and never burdens me with hers.

I totally expected a death pun. Not disappointed.

You bring me a Michael Aranda t-shirt with his face and the quote "Dating is hard, especially when what you're dating is dead". In return I will give you cashy money. Shiny?

i don't see why you need all this equipment to date a dead thing, all i do is bring it some flowers and take it to a nice italian restaurant, that seems to work well for me...

Nice title, as expected of scishow.

Thank you! But I have a question. I also heard that carbin dating is used on detecting the age of non-lifes, such like ceramics. Is that ture? And how does it work?

Hey, just wondering if you could talk about a void that's appeared in space, pretty much a hole in space with no light, radiation or trace of anything (?), it seems quiet interesting. [Disregard this if there is already a video about it]

Well yeah, but the wedding might be a bit weird

Some plants do, in fact, discriminate against carbon isotopes. Under normal conditions, plants exclude 13C. When plants become stressed (most often because of water) they take up a higher proportion of 13C. We can actually take apart the individual annual growth rings and measure the 13C ratio to determine how stressed the plants were that year.

shareworthy. That is one the best jokes ever.

The necrophilia joke has been cleverly put into the title of this video to distract people from arguing about creationism.

valar help me, but i briefly envisioned zombies and flowers, and that i didn't find it strange is surely a testament to long years spent trawling through tumblr.

Agreed!

For a second there I thought you guys were doing an episode on necrophilia....haha dating tips for necrophiliacs haha

Oh, dating as in figuring out the date it was created. Clever!!!!

Michael Aranda you sounded kinda "forever alone" at the end there.

I bet a bunch of weirdos clicked on this video thinking that they could actually date dead people.

Amusing method to determine the length of existence for atomic structures.

I was about to ridicule the fact that the video didn't teach me how to 'date' a dead thing, then it hit me.. Clever!

I hate how people misunderstand the meaning of something being dead as something which is not alive, while it is actually something which has died.

He made a necrophilia joke at the end. Half life 3 confirmed.

I gotta hire you guys to think up of professional video titles for me. They're just so fancy!

What a relief ... radiocarbon dating. They might want to rename the title; I assumed it was related to necrophilia.

If anyone catches me dating something dead, I'll say Michael Aranda told me how to do it.

thought this would be zombie dating guide

When I first saw the title I thought it was going to be a necrophilia related video lol

Well, it's always a good idea to get her mummy's approval.

Well I'm glad that I'm not the only one that thought about necrophilia after they read the title.