How We Could Get Through The Ice Of Europa ⚡️
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In today’s Lightning Round video, we cover several topics, including quaternary computing and how it can use DNA for data storage, why men’s and women’s clothes button differently, what object from the past I would travel back in time for, and sci-fi technologies that we’ll see in our lifetimes.
Links:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mens-shirts-button-on-the-right-why-do-womens-button-on-the-left-180957361/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/06/1106641/life-seeking-ice-melting-robots-could-punch-through-europas-icy-shell/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dna-the-ultimate-data-storage-solution/
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-a-computer-not-use-a-quaternary-system-while-DNA-uses-the-A-T-G-and-C-form
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – What Is A Lightning Round?
2:31 – Blouse Buttons?
7:02 – Favorite Sci-Fi Device?
9:52 – What Historical Item Would You Bring to the Present?
11:36 – Under The Ice on Europa?
15:41 – Trying SpaceX Flights?
19:11 – Patreon and Member Shoutouts
20:50 – Improving on Binary?
26:11 – Sponsor – Brilliant
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@ericrobertson9993
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
I would totally be in the first Falcon 9 landing, with the promise that they would not release my name and I could keep my anonymity.
@InformantNet
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
15:16 I was interested to find out how a probe would be able to transmit through 12-15 miles of ice, and as I was reading Google AI's answer at the exact moment you said "cryobot," I read the word "cryobot"! It was simultaneous. Weird.
@A-physics-and-theology-nerd
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
"November 2024 is the future." – Seems funny as someone watching this in August of 2026.
@orizeno
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
The beard rocks. Keep it please. I guess this was a long time ago.
@brucearneson3384
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
Hair and beard are fine and applicable to the task.
@FlandreCanturini
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
what do you mean you are gen X??? I thought you were an older Millenial!!
@Eldergamervet
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
One thing I loved learning when I was in the military was when they teach you what side "US Army" goes on and what side your name goes. Well "US Army" goes over your heart….just a thing I liked. I mean everyone is volunteer it makes sense (I'm very patriotic)
@rosewallace8591
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
Opinion pit needs to be the official name of the comments section
@shaggycan
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
6:50 I always heard saluting came from the British Navy, officers had to pin their hats on so they wouldn't fall off, so they couldn't do the full cap doff to a superior, all they could do was grab the brim as if they were going to doff. So a salute is a reduced cap doff.
@The_Sometimes_Just
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
Need more stuff. Need more… stuff. More, need.
@Duskpowder
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
Regarding the computer storage, if all the world's data information can be stored on DNA that takes up the size of a ping pong ball, how long until all that information and more is loaded on to living human DNA and we proudly store the meaning of life in one butt cheek. I would book in for a butt lift and an information upload if I could pay in monthly inatalments 😅
@shadixyt
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
Self driving cars will never really take over until a hard reset button is pressed on America's culture, same with automation taking over most labor and UBI becoming the main system of economy. Its not going to practically happen until our modern Babylon is toppled over essentially, and then it's back to square one from there.
@richardthompson2969
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
In the military we are taught to put the belt through the right, women to the left… it was because back in the day men walk to women’s right.
@Adeodatus-e9d
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
0:24 I’m watching this in November 2025…I assure you sir, it is the PAST!!!
@Tungstenbit
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
I don't get while so many people have a problem with getting grey hairs. Grey hair looks good! At it's worst it might need some styling to look it's best, like a highlight or other pattern of hair coloring. Though even without the extra styling it looks fine.
@FriedTux
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
🤔… I would grab a dinosaur egg. 😂
I really want to let a full grown T-Rex into downtown L.A.
@AshlynLilac
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
I always heard that buttons were "lefty" on women's clothes so that they would be used it being reversed when they buttoned up their husbands shirts, not sure if it's true but it makes sense to me
@jiiaga5017
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
the intro hits different viewed 1 year later, lol.
@e-raticspecialist1035
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
9:59 dead
@SocietyOfDecency
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
As someone who just escaped FL, don't go back just for a quick flight 😅
@LarsFrost-e6e
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
i have pushed it a bit furhter, thank for the content you making
@GrimJerr
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
All these plans for space are so far over the skis of a civilization that can't even get "back" to the moon that it's all starting to sound like science fiction. In the mean time we are doing everything we can to make the Kessler Syndrome a reality closing off space exploration completely.
@amnesiazh
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
my only concern is the beard, please let it go
@baconhurricanenj
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
thanatophobia. The Joe Scott B-plot
@baconhurricanenj
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
Joe Scott committed to the community content comment insanity
@ninjalanmonkey
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
Imagine the TSA screening line for a rocket trip to London.
@bokbokbokbokbokbokbokbok
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
Rock the gray. You earned it. Also in 20 year's you'll look back and think you look fabulous. Embrace it brother-man.
@clovermouse78
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
It sounds like an ice probe using heat to melt down on europa , would eventually get close enough to the water layer then be shot right back up in a geyser ……like…right?
@everettwalker9141
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
No way you ever going to drill thru 50 thousand ft of ice . We can’t even drill that deep with our biggest drilling rigs !!!
@j.proctor2117
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
Beard is hot! Love your hair long and you could rock it either way.
@DKKC12
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
Joe I am watching this video from the future
@thygrrr
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
10:30 I'd bring backl Epstein's List, back from when it still existed.
@APhysicalMediac
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@bradlymacnamara
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@mulllhausen
August 23, 2026 at 6:59 am
17:50 there have been quite a few VTVL rockets including McDonnell Douglas DC-X in 1996