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- An edit from the 3-hour FransGiving livestream with the news segments: AI on the horizon, intergalactic jets of deadly gamma rays, remembering astronauts, an awesome turkey in New Jersey, A tiny little surprise moonlet, a good day for an old radio telescope, naughty satellites, Amazon drones crap food on your driveway, and more! Enjoy....
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After your comment about lost moon, my wife went to the bookcase to look at her copy. She rediscovered that her copy is personally signed by Jim Lovell.!
Sweet!
Wow!
very cool!
Fran. Enjoy your Xlnt commentary and knowledge and information on science and technology. Julius Sumner Miller, would be proud.⚡🔥💫☄️🌠🌍🔬🔭🧬📡⚡
I LOVE THE USE OF HOLDING UP NEWSPAPER ARTICLES!!! Thank you! I love the use of physical newspapers!
For All Mankind was a great show..... cheers!
I appreciated the picture of the IBM computer. Thank you for sharing.
Off topic, but rest in piece Paul Ruebens! Comedy, aesthetic, and a genuine human wrapped into one. Fran mentioned a lot of great people, thinkers who have passed... Peewee in the background is a fitting ode to the comedy and thinking we need in our life.
I lost you channel for 2 years, glad I found Fran's Lab again.
How did you lose it?
@@pluto9000It went between the couch cushions.
I really like these videos Fran, hearing about strange science news and things like this with your reaction and added bit of knowledge is absolutely a pleasure to watch, thank you!
I like this, Fran. I hope you'll continue doing videos like this.
Yes, the ASCC was a relay box. This was early in the war, and yes, it was mainly for fire control calculations. Sure, the Navy already had analog computers for this, but they were very expensive and finicky. The idea that a calculating machine that didn't depend on periodic high-precision calibration in order to its job, was compelling. Turns out, for good reason.
IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was aka Harvard Mark I. From Wiki: "The ASCC was built from switches, relays, rotating shafts, and clutches. It used 765,000 electromechanical components and hundreds of miles of wire, comprising a volume of 816 cubic feet (23 m3) - 51 feet (16 m) in length, 8 feet (2.4 m) in height, and 2 feet (0.61 m) deep. It weighed about 9,445 pounds (4.7 short tons; 4.3 t).[8] The basic calculating units had to be synchronized and powered mechanically, so they were operated by a 50-foot (15 m) drive shaft coupled to a 5 horsepower (3.7 kW) electric motor, which served as the main power source and system clock. The enclosure for the Mark I was designed by futuristic American industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes"
I looked at that too after the show.
Thank you!
It was also the first "computer" that Grace Hopper developed software for.
Human drone pilots are restricted because a few idiots ruined it for everyone else. I actually had an off-duty cop flying one over my back yard, harassing me while i was working, thinking it was funny. After some research I found out he could have been arrested, especially since it was a police drone.
No. That's the excuse that Amazon's lobbyists used to steal the airspace below 400' AGL from the public. As you say, the cop who harassed you was already breaking the law, so this is not a valid excuse for additional regulation. Bottom line is, corporate users who will pay huge dollar amounts for licenses and permits bought that airspace out from under us. Or out from above us, I guess. Sure, some people were using drones to look in bedroom windows, and that's a bad thing. But what's to keep businesses operating drone fleets from also infringing on our privacy? We already know that Google and Facebook and many others sell personal information about their users to whoever will pay for it. What's to keep Amazon and other retailers from doing the same with aerial data?
Like your news very much ! Please continue this kind of videos regularly ! 👍🆒♥️
Great conversational episode on stuff that matter!
Another informative half hour spent in your company. Thank you.
Great space report. Thanks Fran
brilliant info Fran keep it coming 👍👍
I LOVE shrimp, I've had pet crawfish and neocaradina shrimp of all various colors. It's amazing to see them live their life, I've watched them for hours. Sadly to say I find as much intrigue and beauty watching crustaceans as the finest art man has to offer...
We have a very social flock of wild turkeys near Pgh PA. They usually stay on private property but sometimes they cross the road to a small parklet near the senior citizen village.
Do you want Skynet? This is how you get Skynet.
I think Big Brother is the more likely outcome.
@@kenward1310 Indistinguishable from Skynet. Big Brother is what you get when the agency controlling the air immediately over our heads steals it from kids flying model airplanes, and sells it to corporations.
That's a whopper. Shall we play a game?
I don't think any of us peasants "want" skynet but the infrastructure has already been laid so.... it's unavoidable I reckon. It's probably gonna be fine😮
Interesting stuff! Yes, being crammed into a space the size of a phone booth would definitely be unpleasant, especially if one fell sick!
I remember at my Grandparents neighborhood there were wild turkeys, often got to see them up close driving thru the neighborhood and you'd have to stop for them crossing the road slowly. But there was always the car (with windows all shut) between you and them. Sometimes deer too.
In the wild they make quite a racket. Got dive-bombed by one out in the woods when I was a kid. People would be shocked just how big they can get.
I always had the idea that Crustaceans *Shellfish somehow are related to Insects as both creatures do live in exoskeletons such as snails, roaches and Mantis, they just sometime in the past started to live outside water. a terrestrial shrimp proves it.
So, salamanders are related to tigers? They are both vertebrates.
@@uni-byte yes, the question is how closely they are related. though if I remember correctly, salamanders are more related to tigers than either are to trout
15:15 - Same thing here in South Africa: Incidents in die Kruger National Park are becoming ever more prevelant, when people (especially international tourists) don't heed the safety warnings, for example: to never get out of their vehicles, or to close their windows when animals are near, or to maintain a safe distance to large animals like elephants, giraffe, buffalo, etc. There's a reason why game rangers are armed with high powered rifles - it's the Wild!
Fantastic😊
Frantastic?
Did you ever gave some thought that companies like Amazon pressured governments to regulate private drones so much that it would clear up the skies for them ? Regulations came right after deliveries companies announced their plans for drone deliveries ;)
yup
yep, and so did the consistent reminder to the public, how 'scary' drones are. Even though (outside of warfare), there has never been a death caused by a drone or quadcopter. Pretty big coincidence, if lobbyists convinced congress to force the FAA to add regulations just at the time that Amazon & other delivery interests were seeking to stake their claim of what has been open airspace 🤬
A part of me wouldn't mind talking to a truly self aware computer.
I signed a petition to save the radiotelescope in New Jersey.
Tree Shrimp....sounds like the plot of a schlock horror movie.
I don't know how practical it is, but at the end of its life, boost the ISS into that " junkyard orbit" for the future.. a museum orbit of sorts.
Thanks Fran.
Being an R/C guy, the FAA and it's relatively new R/C regulations imposed on the hobby is the baby step to overseeing this stuff - plus, imo, it's a money maker - they will eventually describe what routes and altitudes these various drones will be allowed to fly in and those "routes" will be paid for by these corporations - the government not only wants to regulate the issues Fran is speaking to, but they want to "cash in" as well. Currently, if I don't fly my R/C airplane at a designated flying field, which can only be designated by the FAA called a FRIA, then I'm obligated to install a tracking device into whatever plane I'm flying, called a "Remote ID" - that's here now - if a person buys a new drone at Walmart, for example, and if it's of a certain size, it will already be equipped with a remote ID - which of course gives the FAA or it's agencies the ability to track R/C controlled aircraft of any type - - all under the guise of safety, which isn't untruthful, but imo, it's more about the money and again, the baby steps into regulating this stuff - - I have to now pay the FAA to obtain a license to fly my hobby airplane, something unthinkable 10 years ago - these hard line regulations are coming and Fran is sooo correct - how come these corporations can currently ignore the rules the rest of us are now obligated to follow? The FAA, or the government wants to change all that - - we'll all be regulated - - - yeah, great, no easy answer as we know the government can't do anything very well - without the AMA's (Academy of Model Aeronautics) lobbying efforts, FRIA's wouldn't currently exist, big thank you to them - again, those areas don't require a Remote ID device - but otherwise, it's unlawful to fly any type of model aircraft of a certain weight size without a Remote ID devise and that rule supposedly will be enforced starting in the middle of March of 2024.
Fran! You are adorable and smart! ❤
If we could focus those gamma ray bursts at the giant tree dwelling prawns then humanity may survive long enough to make it to Mars.
Or....focus it on the Space Laser anti semite Marge and blast her to the Outer Space Dump. Can I see xa show of hands?
Only to be eaten by cave dwelling giant prawns.
Even more surprising about that moonlet that Lucy found in orbit around the asteroid is that Lucy got another view of it and the moonlet is itself a binary. It is two moonlets in contact with each other.
Hi Fran. Speaking of Apollo 13. I recently discovered 'Spacewalker: Age of Pioneers'' on TH-cam, a Russian made film (2021) depicting the first EVA of Alexei Leonov - (unfortunately under the title of 'The Martian' ). But I thought the film was remarkable. If you, or anyone, enjoy 'pure' cinema I recommend it (by pure I mean the upload doesn't have subtitles). I thought it exceeded 'First Man' (I didn't think Ryan Gosling embodied Armstrong). And Spacewalker doesn't have anyone tobacco smoking. The Wikipedia entry for the film is good for background. Thanks, like your channel.
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My opinion of shrimps in the trees is that maybe theyre small enough to be captured and travel through wind and cloud streams like aphids and lots of other microorganisms
Happy Thanksgiving Fran
Skynet is born!!
All we need is one A.I. supercomputer to suddenly say, "I think therefore I am!" And then humanity becomes redundant.
All your variables belong to i.
And that transformation will take about a week.
We control the power grid so you know....
I don't get that. Billions of humans have thought therefore they were, but not destroyed the world. And the most brilliant ones usually devoted their minds to science.
Thanks. Since Helios is a fake ass, I would've gone for, "Get your ass to Mars!". Condolences to the families of our brave astronauts. tavi.
I guess I will watch some Severence ... but back to Sci Fi , there's should be more such discussions of what shows are good and why
my favorites are the eXpanse, and TNG
darn seen Severance
watch -LUMINEERS- nuts I knew this was wrong, VISIONEERS
Nice video!
Interesting that two large computers of similar size are highlighted, one is viewed with reverence and the other fear.
Pill bugs are crustaceans! That's why you find them in damp places - so their gills don't dry out!
At least its a Turkey and not a Cassowary!
Tree Shrimp? I'm more concerned about Tree Squid.
.. giant tree squid 😅, what if they can camouflage them self with bioluminescence 😱
Great. Arboreal tropical shrimp....ok, that's it. I'm done.
If someone comes up to me tomorrow and tells me about the latest discovery of the banjo-backed Sonoran salamander, my eyebrows won't even budge.
The tree shrimp probably wonder how they got there too.
Because New Guinea, I guess?
Oh yeah Fran another comment on your video. How long has it been since you’ve watched Colossus the Forbin project?.
Even the drumming bunny needs juice. No juice=no computer, or IA, or mining, or lights or Tacobell.
This was brushed off easily in the movie "Colossus: the Forbin Project", in which they were unable to unplug the computer because it had no single source of power and controlled all of the switching in the grid anyway.
Maybe George Orr’s dreams will save or destroy us.🤞
we are so done
Por casualidad llegue a tu canal y aunque no entiendo muchas cosas, y por desgracias no hay subtitulos que se puedan leer me gusto mucho y creo que eres maravillos si te hubiera conocido creo que me hubiera enamorado de ti sin dudarlo, saludos y bendiciones muy buenos proyectos
FunnY I JusT finished watching 'Colossus the Forbin Project' about 60 Seconds before watching this :) lol
Fran!! What of the news of the ufos!!
🛸🛸Thnx for de newz🛸🛸 Maybe that big supercomputer will stop pumping sum good answers on quora - finally :) 🛸🛸
great content
Ever get into scientist/philosopher/occultist Robert Anton Wilson? That whole Sirius and Sirius B concept relating to Wilson?
a super duper computer is going to be good.
We r giving our future to a computer sky net yes. It won't be your Alexa
The Grand Tour was a frustration for seasonal irregularities. They blamed Covid
Dang that pesky old “META-STABLE” state remains alive. In digital hardware. No problem, most of the time, anyway. I worked on a flight computer that had an MTBF of 5000 hours, no sweat dual redundant system.❤❤. Single Bit Error rate form DRAM is 1FIT per megabyte per month at ground level. That is why EDAC is sort of necessary.
The Dish Network satellite being fined $150,000 is a joke. However, it could make insurance companies take note and start requiring better control over assuring proper disposal of the satellites before they will insure them. First time a fine for this has happened. At least it's a start.
Spoiler alert!
I started watching For All Mankind last week. I am up to the 1980s.
Drone delivery: skeet shooting with prizes!
I initially read that as "skeet shooting with pizzas", but of course that really IS a possibility.
I'll spin my Apollo 13 LaserDisc in remembrance.
I'm sad that some of those astronauts we're shown that much disrespect in the years afterward. Those guy's are all hero's in my book. If it was because they were just American's well that's the world we live in.
No. It was the 60's. Anti- establishment, anti- military. Vietnam and the draft were in full swing.
The political pendulum has swung to the other side, but the disrespect of government and those who serve is at least as bad today. The disdain for science is much, much worse today.
@jacksons1010 Yes. The disrespect for government today is thanks to Nixon, Watergate, and Ford's pardon. I think the 60's was more about the war.
It will help us because it's not lazy and we are more and more..
It will end up in a feedback loop with us.. ie we use it and design from it and then it learns from us in how we use it... A feedback cycle with unintended consequences or in other words.. emergent properties. It will be magic..
As long there is a plug to shut it down its fine
Big-ass AI computer is built in remote location with a lake (in order to take advantage of cheap land) has wind and solar farm for power. Lake used for cooling. Has Phalanx-like self-defense weapons system. There is not always a plug.
I think you're on to something with the Amazon drones. Sounds like a "contact your congressional representative" moment.
Why does your bench look just as cluttered as mine? LoL
The workshop makes me feel so at home, i with i could get mine this organized 😅
26:00 Good aspects Fran! amazon is allowed to run drones wherever they want, and The Boring Company is allowed to tunnel underneath Los Angeles. If we tried that we would be in handcuffs.
Amazon is not able to "run drones wherever they want" and they have to have a ton of bonded insurance to fly them where they have permits to do so. If you can afford the insurance to cover your ass, you can get a permit too.
@@JorgTheElder I thought you "could not make it past the first 5 minutes"
UA's and stuff. "The FAA is encouraging innovation and working with industry, state, local and tribal governments to realize the benefits of drones and inform future rules and regulations."
For me it's obvious to see the difference between autonomous system vs. hobbyist RC pilot with no ATC communication. By hobbyist i mean the type of operations, not the skills.
Package delivery operations have different regulations, different certifications, see FAA / UAS / Advanced Operations / Package Delivery by Drone (Part 135).
Like another comment points out, money is one thing. Maybe by squeezing the limits of private hobby there's more room for commercial operations. On the other hand, the regulations also allow for private flying. It would be easier to just rule that no hobby flying, it does not benefit anyone, but luckily home RC pilots are kept alive, for some reason.
Funny that the only people terrified by the sudden development of AI technology are programmers and engineers who understand it.
I'm not as annoyed by distant gamma rays as much as I am by the Sun continually blowing chunks. HF propagation is miserable, lately.
good talk, especially the land-shrimp segment..I wonder if they're healthier to eat, as opposed to the filthy farm raised or poison ocean varieties
2:00: "So you say there's a race
Of men in the trees
You're for tough legislation
Thanks for calling
I wait all night for calls like these"
- from Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly"
Well i say ZERO TOLERANCE on the shrimp men in the trees they probably want to steal my job cleaning space toilets on MARS
I do of course mean the toilets on board the autonomous drones
Thank you for mentioning RC Model/Drone regulation. As someone who got into FPV earlier this year, not only is this hobby over-regulated. The FAA treats every single craft like a store-bought photo drone, and most of these regulations are in place because commercial operators like Amazon keep lobbying for them.
I have home built 1s tiny-whoops/toothpicks that weigh less than 50g w/ batteries, and are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
These models are designed to be people/pet safe. I've been hit by one at full speed and at worst it's a mild annoyance that's more likely to burn out a motor or ESC, than hurt you.
Should someone flying one of these things 20ft in the air in their back yard really be beholden to FAA No-Fly Zones? Don't even get me started on the situational awareness provided by FPV vs line of sight.
Yes, there is a vibe of doom spreading, at least in North America. It's like we all feel hope slipping away.
0:35 But... Can it run Crysis?
I feel like people outweigh turkeys by several fold even in the worst case and could kick the living shite out of one if committed to doing it
as regards amazon money talks!
do more like this video.
Wait until people begin launching their personal Flipper Zeros at the Drone Motherships and then raid them as they fall to Earth .
It will grind to a halt at ‘disk quota exceeded’ and ‘permission denied: are you root’.
"Stoic Fran"
com'mon Fran....
The whole reason that new regulations requiring registration of privately-flown model aircraft over 250 grams have become a thing over the last few years, is that corporations like Amazon wanted to have free rein over the airspace below 400 ft. AGL, which was already closed to manned aircraft except near airports. Just as the FAA saw how much money it could collect by auctioning off spectrum already in use by UHF TV broadcasting and unlicensed spectrum for services like wireless microphones, to wireless data (i.e., phone) providers, the FAA must have gotten dollar signs in its eyes dreaming about the permits it could sell to corporate drone operators, and proceeded to pretty much obliterate the entire model airplane hobby and small-business drone operators. Sorry kids, can't play here anymore; Amazon wants to get richer.
Your drone operation only benefits you. Commercial delivery services will benefit 100s of thousands or millions of people. These companies will be restricted. There will be rules and laws created to govern their actions/activities/maintenance/testing/standards etc.. This is just like amateur radio vs commercial radio. Or private aircraft vs. commercial aircraft. On the amateur/private side of these things, they must allow for the lowest common denominator. You might be a great, conscientious and reliable pilot, but since you are a private individual operator, if they allowed you to fly over Philly, they'd have to let everybody fly over as well. In your own words, what could go wrong?
It's a good thing they don't let us use cars.
@@FranLabI wonder what it would be like with the same amount of drones flying around overhead as there are cars on the roads.
Still waiting on AI to turn me from imbecile Lawnmower Man into super genius Lawnmower Man. I don't actually mow lawns btw, but I do have the same feeble intellect! lol
cool no way me too but mine is feebleer than yours
You reminded me of the 1970 movie: Colossus: The Forbin Project
AI is fine as long as it doesn’t CONTROL things. It can’t kill you by insulting you.
The first thing these super computers will do is control humanity, whether in the hands of other humans or not.
No so super computers are already controlling humans. Just give some thought.
They estimate a human mind can do an exaflop of operations a second... we're getting close. In light of the upset at Open AI with firing Sam Altman, 600 employees threatening to quit, and the stir about a potential AI breakthrough that caused the firing... I really truly believe humans don't know what's about to take place. It's going to be something to behold, whether we end up winning or losing because of this new AI it will change humanity forever. Throw in computers that can do as many calculations as a human? Just like that, we could birth something more mentally capable than we can comprehend.
Because AMAZON Tell the Authorities what They can & Can't Allow Like the Banks are TOO BIG to Fail .... AMAZON is TOO BIG to Upset !
The term "Common sense" Should be replaced by "Good sense" ;)
Speaking of computers, I just watched Hidden Figures. That's quite a nice one despite a bunch of discrepancies. The IBM and Dorothy Vaughan who got it going against all odds, truly impressive!
Gotta watch For All Mankind at last. Plot overviews look interesting. Personally, I find the concept of multiverse and alternative timelines fascinating. To think there's an infinite number of possibilities hypothetically co-existing... one of them might be me buying out whole stocks of Western Electric 300B tubes!
Europe, eh? It depends. Culture differs among countries, I bet he wouldn't be bothered too much in some backward country like mine where people learned Russian instead of English, unless propaganda spouted his name like it did with Gagarin or Hermaszewski. If he came to the UK though, he wouldn't have an easy life.
Do not stare Turkey in the eye! Erdogan ain't gonna like it.
It is damn important to regulate the issue of end-of-life / decommissioning of satellites; the more launches, the more junk ends up there. SpaceX currently owns more than half of satellites in the orbit and while I truly appreciate the company for re-usable launch vehicle technology, the laissez-faire Elongated Muskrat will be against regulation and that's wrong. It's just "Clean Up Your Space!" but a selfish brat won't do that, so someone else has to step in.
Surprised Elon hasn’t built a satellite removal spacecraft yet. He could charge these companies to go into space and capture outdated satellites and bring them back to be scrapped/recycled.
Human beings have lost all there fear of wild animals. Says the person who doesn’t leave there house.
😅 it's safer for us to stay inside - away from wild animals, and a bit more shielding from those unannounced cosmic rays - nevermind that there's People out there too 😱
It's "their" not "there". Move out of the basement kid.
I probably won't live to see how AI will destroy humanity. It is already capable of learning. The moment AI realizes that humans are a danger to the world and especially to AI, that will be the end of the fun.
Bad news about mega-AI. We are now seeing so many AI generated graphics-horrible IMO-would much rather see the talent of human graphic artists. Space news IS amazing :-)
If ‘ nominating’ people to go to Mars ever did become a thing I’d like to nominate Donald Trump. Not only because he’s a fit but also because he would blend in with the orange rocky landscape. Hopefully it would be a one way ticket, I wouldn’t want him coming back claiming that he now owns the entire ‘world’…..of Mars!…… with a tower on it……..and corrupt aliens…….oh and a golf course that only he is allowed to be a member of.
I’ll answer the WHY.
…because, regardless of how long it takes, mankind’s uselessness (limited abilities) will be usurped by “all things science/math/technology”.
Human freedom is easily suspendable.
Peace, Fran
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Love your channel.
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