Its fitting that an element most people have never heard of was named after some guy

I like to imagine that, if Coco's version of the afterlife is real, Samarsky must be so confused as to why he's still remembered right alongside Napoleon and Nikola Tesla and Newton etc. And, everytime they talk about their achievements and why they're still remembered, Samarsky always brings up something that he thinks is the reason but literally no one remembers about him. Until one day when he meets a chemist.

I think's it's neat that we honour a faceless rock enthusiast's benevolence in taking time out of his busy day to send a cool rock he found across borders to the scientific community for no honour, glory nor money but just for the love of science to remind us that not just the famous thinkers but anyone who truly wishes to can and does contribute to scientific progress; a *Memento Samarsky*

@OliverLugg

3 ай бұрын

Memento Samarsky. I like it.

@TheAgamemnon911

3 ай бұрын

Almost all contribution to scientific progress is made without the prospect of honor and glory or sometimes even a decent salary. In other words: by people, whos names will never be remembered. It is the norm, the standard, the expected result. Except this time, when circumstances aligned and nobody in the tower of giants wanted the name for himself or some guy whose shoulders he has been standing on. (and if you're not a guy, you need to work twice as hard for even worse odds)

Samarsky is honestly a very good symbol for all the millions of faceless people with no historical record that still contributet to the scientific advancements of humanity in their own little ways :3

Funnily enough this name obfuscates the truth WAY more in the slavic world because every one of the scarce few people that have actually heard of the element just automatically assume it's named after the town of Samara (that maybe it was first discovered there, the way the Permian geologic period got its name). Now it turns out no, all this time it was, in fact, not named after a huge ass city, just some bloke with a homonymic surname?? Imagine finding out that Americium was actually named after some random fucking guy called John America??? This is "running was invented in 1885 by Thomas Running" memes type shit

@ronnor99

3 ай бұрын

to this day im laughing about the fact that mewing was naming after john mew

@Omega-mr1jg

3 ай бұрын

​@@ronnor99Mogging was named after Hank Mug who Mugged a person and the press mistranslated 'Mugging' to 'Mogging'

this is why i love this channel. you never know what you get... never heard of that element, but hey hears some incredible song about him, and with words i dont understand... gotta admit

@szops9285

3 ай бұрын

XD

1:02 Tantalizing lolol, I see what you did there: > _Gustav Rose in 1839 described a new mineral in those samples and named it uranotantalum believing that its composition is dominated by the chemical element tantalum. In 1846-47, his brother and colleague-mineralogist Heinrich Rose found the major component of the mineral to be niobium and suggested altering the name to avoid confusion._

@OliverLugg

3 ай бұрын

bro there's no tantalum in this uranotantalum

Weirdly enough, I've thought about this more than I probably should. That the only person to have a stable element named after them was literally just some random dude that most people will never hear of, with an element named after him that sounds more like it was named after Samaria than him, and the element itself is about as obscure as it gets for being stable. Such an absurd story, its just one of those cosmic coincidences that's notable simply for being unusual. I just _had_ to click to see what this video was about, great work!

@asheep7797

3 ай бұрын

I would say Gadolinium (Samarium's neighbour's neighbour) isn't radioactive either.

@StuffandThings_

3 ай бұрын

@@asheep7797 Oh my god I never realized that Gadolinium was named after a person too, same situation of it being named after a mineral named after a person as well. That's crazy!

In the far future when modern science has passed fully into myth and its characters deified, Samarsky will be known only as Samarsky The Benevolent, and anthropologists will wonder what great kindness he performed to deserve such an epithet.

In the grand scheme of things, we are all just some guy

I genuinely went this long thinking it was named after Samaria

@columbus8myhw

3 ай бұрын

Perhaps the man was named after Samaria.

Ahhh this was so neat!!! Props for trying to pronounce that russian name correctly at the end, I say you were like 95% there :)

@unnamellie

3 ай бұрын

yay hiiiiii ъ

Great video. My politically ambiguous physics teacher that once recommended the class to read through Mein Kampf - because there's a bit of truth in there, he said - used to tell us a weird story about how Polonium should've been Romanium (or something like that, for Romania) because apparently the guy who discovered it or did most of the initial documentation on it was a Romanian PhD student of some Polish professor who then took all the credit for the discovery and had it named after his country instead. He also fucking hated the fact that the blue LED got the nobel prize, lovely guy. Anyways this video reminded me of this decade old anecdote, fun song, love your videos!!

@solsystem1342

3 ай бұрын

Definitely the curious sort. The one you hope you never have to run into again😅

@A_Simple_Neurose

3 ай бұрын

@@solsystem1342 Curious really describes him. He did try to be as fair as he could though, I remember his tests would be structured as two parts, a theory-only bit where you could get your passing mark if you did it all and then some physics problems to solve for those who liked physics or needed to fix their average with a higher mark. I never really bothered solving the physics since I was just not very into maths and stuff at the time, but there was one light speed contraction problem of a triangle traveling at some percentage of light speed that we had at some point, basically how much does the triangle "flatten" at close to light speeds or something like that. I clearly remember him being quite flustered at the fact that I used barebones physics to find out some value and then figured out the end result using very simple geometry (it was an isosceles triangle so as basic as you can get). He never gave me full marks for that result lmao.

@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks

3 ай бұрын

not surprising that someone who thinks H*tler wasn’t necessarily wrong about everything would also hate Poland

@Ahrone1586

3 ай бұрын

​@@A_Simple_Neurose wdym he didnt grt you marks? Sorry im not a native speaker

Forever remembered but only a little, not even really enough to form an opinion of him. Sounds kinda ideal.

@Shmethan

3 ай бұрын

Uncancellable haha

I usually watch youtube all day, by now I've probably spent thousands of hours on KZread.. and this is one of my favorite youtube videos I've ever watched.

The video's fun, informative, AND catchy! Great work.

This reminds me of that Tiffany video that cgpGray made

I REALLY thought the twist would be the name had been changed because I had never heard of this element and I've even read books going over the elements one by one. Fun video with just one of those just interesting little bits about the world that make it so fantastic. He's just some guy ya know

I really like this kind of story-telling song-singing.

it may be a weird thing to point out - but it feels nice when someone figures a proper pronunciation of slavic names instead of just winging it :) and the song is an unexpected bop (is there anything you *can't* do? hahah)

Safe to say this video exceeded every expectation I had when clicking on it

Somebody send this to Weird Al. We need this on accordian.

Always a pleasant surprise to see an upload of your ^^

idea: a sitcom about all the people with elements named about them. all the scientists are talking about like sciency things and then this dude's just vibing

WE MAKIN IT OUTTA CHEMISTRY CLASS WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Ghiorso was not some guy. 12 elements he found, but he's not immortalized In any element, just like you, On the periodic table, (as of 2022).

I like to imagine that spirits become more powerful as people remember them. Insert the Cuppar Shenanigans for an example of that. In this I see this bloke just sit on his porch in heaven and all or a sudden tens of thousands of people just show up and sing this song (in Russian of course).

Surprised that the miner actually got their name immortalized as an element instead of the other scientist.

It's nice to know that there's one story about a guy picking up a radioactive rock that has a happy ending

This is legitimately one of the best videos I've ever watced on youtube.

idk what it is about this video but it just brings me so much joy, I gotta come back and watch it from time to time. Love your whole channel to be honest. Keep up the good work o7.

Indeed he is.

600 years from now there will be a thousand conspiracies about who samarium was really named after

@05degrees

3 ай бұрын

Hopefully there won’t. Otherwise would mean a major collapse of our present civilization happened.

@sparklesparklesparkle6318

3 ай бұрын

@@05degrees complete and utter sociatal collapse of present civilization is a normal part of history. It happened 900 years ago, 1500 years ago, 2200 years ago, 5500 years ago, 8000 years ago, 9000 years ago (big one) 11,000 years ago, and 14,000 years ago. Anything before that and we literally have no record of it because of the long chain of complete sociatal collapse. Remember if you're entire civilization is burning and everyone around you is completely psyop'd into acting like clowns, you're just experiencing a natural process governed by the planet Saturn and the moon.

@yourpalpalmetto979

3 ай бұрын

​@@05degreesI love how this implies that the simple knowledge of Samersky's existance is what holds modern civilisation.

@05degrees

3 ай бұрын

@@yourpalpalmetto979 Lol no, it doesn’t imply that. At least I didn’t mean for it to imply that. It’s not that this specific knowledge is crucial, it’s that, most probably, knowledge loss due to that wouldn’t be going to be selective, and that so far there are no signs to have facts of this state of documentation being lost with no cause. People do actually archive and maintain some stuff. And they’re going to continue doing that if only there is no major worldwide events that’ll make them stop.

my family is now annoyed at me for keeping bringing element 62 up, I love this video.

Another month, Another banger.

I always thought, What is the point of being remembered if your whole being of who you were is corrupted or even mythologised. At some point the person that history remembered isnt the same person.

This is really good. I had a great laugh. Also strangely thought provoking, I love the idea that fame doesn't mean so much if you get it for just finding a rock :)

4:50 "Due to that, I wish to change the name of uranotantal into samarskit, named after Mr. Colonel Samarki, due to support of whom I was able to conduct experiments on this mineral listed above"

@NoNameAtAll2

3 ай бұрын

and only now I noticed translation at the lower half of the screen... oops

a top 10 songs of 2024 just dropped

I really enjoyed this video.

This is very charming.

this is some exurb1a level stuff man, well done!

Eminem started shaking after 2:00

wow. i want only music version on spotify. ASAP . Love that. meaby i will cut it out myself.

@OliverLugg

3 ай бұрын

Your wish is my command: open.spotify.com/album/3n5m0rHGW1POsamYTAiZZ4

@TheMightyDanne

3 ай бұрын

Heck yes 🤘I keep coming back to listen to this bop 😄 @@OliverLugg

@justferbi8656

3 ай бұрын

:0

This reminds me of thinking about how Pontius Pilate is immortalized in Christianity and his name is said countless times a day (or at least on Sundays), as he is mentioned in the widely used Nicene Creed. He was just some guy, the 5th Roman governor of Judaea, who happened to give judgement on who to him was just some random Jewish troublemaker. Now his name gets mentioned nearly as often as Jesus's name.

How does this not have a million views yet‽

Come together kids, get around, let’s open this pack of wonder and discover what’s in this Oliver Lugg video

This is awesome dude. Love the dedication to -talk- sing about "some guy"

Thanks for this masterpiece ❤

What a fun video

I'm glad to see another one of your videos. ❤

This was indeed a bop

bobbybrocolli moment

Encore!

i need to watch more of your backlog because all of your videos i've seen are excellent

I love this and i cant explain why X3

Another cracking video from the ol' Luggy.

disney should hire you to write anything ever

That was a good pronunciation of the name Yevgrafovich

dude made literal history for being just some dude, dude, thats like the most dude a dude can be bro.

Spotify when?

@OliverLugg

3 ай бұрын

Now: open.spotify.com/album/3n5m0rHGW1POsamYTAiZZ4

OMG! a new Oliver Lugg video!

What did you use to animate this? I love the entire song and the visuals that accompany it!

i hope samarsky's old tweets don't get discovered one day

Oliver video! Wait 1000% worth it

A great song well done

thank you for this banger

Daam The way of expressing is amazing

A rough, but more literal translation of "благосклонность" (the noted "benevolence") is "well-inclinedness". It's weird, but just like in English, the Russian word for "incline" can also be used in the meaning of "want, wish, think".

@Dacronhai

3 ай бұрын

bene (good, well) volens (willing, wanting) seems to be a good fit for that if you consider the Latin meaning

@lhrosts7082

3 ай бұрын

@@Dacronhai yes, but benevolence seem to me to have more connotation in regards to one's general character, as opposed to a single action. English is a second (third, technically) language to me, so maybe I'm wrong on this.

Interesting

Absolute banger!

Adore this

Amazing

Fantastic.

I'm Russian and a chemistry enthusiast but i thought samarium was named after the city Samara, like ytterbium or some others. I was surprised it's named after a person, especially just some guy. The more you know!

this video is fantastic

banger

Nicely done. :)

Why is that video... Inspiring Like of I got lucky i could end up on the periodic table too :)

you’re a good singer!

that was surprisingly fun

freaking awesome

This feels like a video that was made in 2017

you have outdone yourself

This is a very good video

Yeah... Reddit's gonna have a field day with this one

@miranda8636

3 ай бұрын

Agreed

5:08 » 5:36 🔥BARS🔥 Not even funposting that was SSSick.

I found this on KZread music!

awesome

Hey man, i respect you and all, but did you even try pressing the funny chinese character in the Wikipedia page? Especially for foreign information/perspectives, that singular button is easily the best button in the world.

@OliverLugg

3 ай бұрын

I did. The Russian Wikipedia page was a bit better stocked than the English one, but only led to a few more new places that I hadn't already found by other means.

This had some real Tom Lehrer vibes and I mean that in the best way.

❤

Nice

Wtf, that's so cool!

Engagement for the engagement god!

Ive never heard of either so thank you for this little fun fact I can annoy my friends with😁

I always assumed it was named after Samara, a city in Russia (and this probably Samarsky's surname origin), thanks for the video.

Aight

If you find a cool enough rock, you live forever. Just ask the finder of Bethan's Rock!

Shit, I've been found out...

@AugustCrossroads

3 ай бұрын

hehe now remove ur pants