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Director's Commentary: Runway Digits

🕑 Added 2022-08-10 16:09:25 +0000 UTC

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Cerdon

With wind headings alot of aircraft terminology and practice comes from ships, and in sailing its easiest/most intuitive to measure wind from its direction, you can feel where the wind is coming from, (sound even over both ears), and it seems easiest to design an analog measuring tool which points into the wind. Moreover, its more important to not head into the wind rather than to be heading too far away from it. Not sure how down you are with unnecessarily anal simulation communities, but if you need more material for a potential aircraft carrier video I would highly recommend DCS World, some people in that community get especially nitpicky about recreating accurate carrier ops, an example being this amazing video by Jabbers on how you would realistically land on one during the day in good weather, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-M3VUy-_I&t=1s.

Adam Anderson

Morth for life

Catherine Germann

Same here! I was expecting a TOTALLY different video.

Noeleen Miller

Yeah there is something wrong with this Patreon, I can't seem to get any of the posts l wanted

PATRICK M SHAW

What up with this?

Stephen Doyle

Managed to work through the support bots to get a person. She says it’s a bug and will be handed over to a debug team - so fingers crossed 🤞

Stephen Doyle

I can’t get it to work either but I can’t find a support button 🤦‍♂️😅

Jesse Gillespie

Are we supposed to be able to view these or am I missing something?

Jesse Gillespie

Player is not working…:

Stephen Doyle

This video won’t play for me. I feel like I’m being dull but it just doesn’t respond :(

Kristian Høy Horsberg

As a Norwegian, it totally makes sense that the wind rose plots the direction the wind is coming from rather than the direction it’s blowing toward. In speaking about the weather (a favorite national pastime) we often speak of the wind my making a compound word with its direction, e.g. “nordavind” or “østavind” (north-from-wind and east-from-wind, respectively). Interestingly, while I don’t believe the wind was ever deified in Norse mythology, in folk fairytales the wind is sometimes a character that interacts and bargains with the protagonist. If memory serves, the Southern Wind is generally kind and benevolent while the Northern Wind was colder and more calculating.

Brian Kelly

"The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the Second Law of Thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it to collapse in deepest humiliation.” -Arthur Eddington

Bryce Graves

The callout in chat of RC not having a leading zero had me cackling.

Mara Cating-Subramanian

Buddy heal well. That's only 600 cuts fewer than a Hank Green video and as someone who has used Adobe to edit this stuff before, I feel your nightmare.

unglued

This player is... not working

MrKirbs

YouTube versions appear to be public but locked to channel members

jaegr

Is there a private video on youtube? Watching videos in the Patreon app is an awful experience

Randy Sterbentz

"What is the most certain piece of information humans have?" Basing off of measured constants we've made, the electron magnetic moment is known to "7.6 parts in 10^13" (Wikipedia), which is insane! Like, we were capable of making a measurement, where THIRTEEN of the digits were just like "nah, I'm good here. I like this value," and only after that did noise start to affect the digits. You ever look at a commercial multimeter? You're lucky if THREE digits are stable, giving you a 1 part in 1000 precision. To manage a measurement where you have to look at the quadrillionth place before some fluctuation starts to occur is phenomenal. But that's probably not the actual question you wanted answering lol It'll probably make you mad, but I bet quantum mechanics (QED especially) is the most profoundly correct bit of physics we know. Applying statistical theory to the treatment of particles as wavefunctions is the underlying foundation for thermodynamics, and it correctly predicts a LOT of what we observe in the universe: heat capacity, phase transitions, charge transport, optical transparency... so yay "descriptive math"!

Greg Matyola

A brief story about "Science City", a.k.a Haleakalā High Altitude Observatory on, Maui, Hawaii, My mother was Teaching / Supervising Science, and my parents went up to the Haleakala summit to watch the sunrise. It was cold, so my mother brought a sweatshirt. Somehow, on the way down, the got the idea that she wanted to look at "Science City", and I don't know how it was then, but in 2021, I remember seeing "No Tresspassing" signs with implications of this all being U.S. Government Property in 2021. She approaches the door, knocks on it and explains she's a Science Teacher and was curious. The person who answered the door looked at my mother, then at her sweatshirt, which read, "Stop Plate Techtonics" in relatively large and friendly letters. Whoever answered the door said, "Only a scientist would wear that sweatshirt.", and let her and my dad have a brief look around. So that's a story about how someone got to see Science City, through guts and good wardrobe choices.

Jessica R. Porter

I was able to start the video and watch maybe 7 + minutes, but then it stopped with error and I cannot start it again. :(

Tom Schlatter

I really loved the edge of irritation in Teacher Grey’s voice in the quantum realm. And the back story - “you want an explanation why, but all that’s available is descriptive math” fits perfectly as the untold story that the “show me don’t tell me” tone of voice is telling.

Zelig Wiegand

I assumed the Stickfigure that Grey keeps talking to was also the one from the Hexagons video, and they were trying to signal the flight attendant because they thought they were going to be recruited into another cult based on shapes or something. Also, the positive flow of electricity has always driven me nuts too, and I was told by my electrical engineer professor that the real reason is that we didn't want to have to work with negative numbers all the time, so it stays flipped because the math is easier. SO DUMB I have to throw in that I burst out laughing, HARD, when you were in the physics video and said, "It's just a bunch of math, /that we're not gonna do!" Something about it just hit so earnestly. Like, 'Heck all that'.