Shadowing-Übung: NASA tested my chain theory in space - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video
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You know what would be neat,
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Steve, if you could beam yourself up here for a weekend and we could just become the perpetual uber geek.
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About 10 years ago, I was playing with some beads in my loft when I accidentally discovered this weird chain fountain phenomenon, also known as the mold effect.
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No big deal.
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And unbelievably, an astronaut just video called me from space so
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that we could figure out together whether this one little detail about my explanation of the chain fountain is correct,
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because this one little detail can only be tested in zero G.
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And along the way, we discovered that chain behaves a lot more weirdly than either of us had predicted.
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More on how all this came about later.
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But first, what is this thing that we were testing?
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Well, my explanation of the chain fountain is generally considered to be correct following a six video argument with Mehdi from Electroboom.
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He was right.
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But one part of my explanation had to kind of just be accepted as true without really testing it because, well, it can't be tested properly in gravity.
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Now this might make me sound like a sole winner, but I really just wanted to prove this last little bit experimentally.
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And anyway, assuming it is right, I just knew that it would look insanely cool in space.
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But what is this crucial part of the explanation that we're all just accepting?
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Well, in the absence of gravity, like on the ISS, if you were to release some chain, it should just float there in whatever random shape it was given.
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But what if you were to tug on one end of the chain?
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Would it flatten out or would it hold its shape and flow like this?
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We need it to hold its shape for my explanation of the chain fountain to be right, but why?
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Well look, I can highly recommend a series of videos by me and Mehdi if you want the full explanation, link in the card in the description for that.
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But in short, the chain rises above the pot in a fountain because of an extra upward force coming from the pot.
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How strong does that force need to be though?
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Well it needs to be able to overcome the weight of this arc of chain that would obviously fall under gravity.
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And that's it, that's all you need.
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But you might look at this system and think, well no, the extra upward force from the part needs to be much greater than that,
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because look, the chain is being yanked downwards by this large bit of chain down here.
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But that's the crazy thing, according to the maths, that yanking of the chain has no influence on the arc at all.
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If gravity wasn't a factor, the arc would be fixed there in space even though it was being yanked downwards at one end.
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Or at least that's the theory, that's what we want to test.
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We want to test the theory
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that a chain moving at constant speed will flow through its own shape
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so long as it isn't acted on by an external force like gravity.
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What I really wanted to test was this, you've got a chain floating stationary in space and you tug on one end, let's see what happens.
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But it turns out it's impossible to get a chain to be stationary in space.
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I actually think that setup wouldn't have been fruitful anyway, because the behavior that we're looking for only works in steady state, not while the chain is speeding up.
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And the whole chain would have had to speed up from zero movement in this setup anyway.
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A side note on how chaotic the movement of the chain is, Don likened it to the movement of molecules.
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We tend to model these like slowly moving blobs, but there's a lot of energy down there.
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And just like in zero-g, there's nowhere for the energy to go, so the molecules sort of wiggle and writhe about just like the chain here.
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Anyway, my other idea to test the theory was to hold the chain in something analogous to a pot.
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In other words, just have it all bunched up somewhere
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and then pull one end of the chain out of that bunched up mess at a constant speed.
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And as you're pulling it, if you give it a shape, then it should hold that shape in space as it's leaving the pot.
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It should just add into what you've already created without that shape changing.
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The problem with that is it's basically impossible to pull something at a constant speed
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and the clumped up beads just get tangled and they start to float apart.
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And by the way, we only had 25 minutes for the call because a satellite was gonna go out of view.
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Actually, a bit of a tangent about the tech behind the video call.
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I put some Skype sounds in at the start of this video because I thought it was funny.
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But of course, you can't use Skype to talk to someone in space because...
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I mean, you need to think about satellites and how are you going to...
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It was Microsoft Teams.
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It was a Teams call.
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And like, there was basically no lag.
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I don't understand how they did it.
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But anyway, I had one more idea for how to test the theory.
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What if we turn the chain into a loop and then put the loop into a non-circular shape like a rectangle?
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My idea was to then grab the opposite sides of the rectangle and then like pull them like that.
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So that you're not throwing the chain anywhere, you're just giving the chain motion like around the loop of chain.
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Intuitively you would expect it to pop out into a circle, but if my theory is right then it should hold that rectangular shape.
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Third hand we're making a triangle and we're gonna release it together.
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One, two, three.
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Three.
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It's really...
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It's impossible.
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But obviously we couldn't actually get the chain to form that shape and hold that shape without anyone touching it,
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because chain just doesn't do what you want it to do in zero gravity.
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On Earth it's so easy to get something to stop moving, you just put it down.
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And when you took your hand away from the bead chain there was just so much energy in there already, it just kind of spreads out.
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But we just needed to get some non-circular shape and we needed to get the chain flowing.
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Yes.
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Hey, look at that.
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It's almost a circle now.
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That's very cool, isn't it?
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Yeah, it is.
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Which is actually interestingly not what I expected because I was expecting it not to pop out into a circle.
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Look at that.
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It started, it's still rotating and I think the radial acceleration is going to straighten this thing out.
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Let's just keep it going.
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You've done stuff with like a drop of water and a bubble and things like that haven't you?
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Where you've got this you've got this surface tension that's turning into a sphere or a circle.
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You don't have that here.
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So I don't think it ever will turn into a circle.
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That's the thing that is hopefully going to demonstrate this weird thing about chains.
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How cool is that though?
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It does seem to be holding its shape.
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Look, even from this angle, you can see part of the chain was actually bent out towards Don
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and that part of the chain shape is holding too.
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But Don has a point actually, the chain does seem to be very slowly turning into a circle, or at least it's becoming more rounded.
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So does that mean I'm wrong?
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Well, the mathematical analysis assumes that there is no friction between the joints of the chain.
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And I had a suspicion that that might be why the real chain is slowly becoming circular.
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So I asked my friend Martin to simulate different scenarios for me.
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Here, there's no friction between the joints.
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But look what happens when we turn friction on.
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Over time, the chain becomes more and more circular.
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So I think it's fair to say that the chain is behaving how we would expect.
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Actually we discovered a few other really interesting things on the call.
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You are so right this behaves totally different than a string
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because of the lack of friction at every joint
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and thread for sewing it sticks out fairly straight It's inherent stiffness shows up.
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But here with these low friction joints between every segment, it's amazing what this thing does.
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It's so interesting, isn't it?
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How many things behave completely differently when you remove gravity.
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I had no idea that rope and string would just straighten out because of the elasticity in it.
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So you've got an intuition for how string and rope behaves on the ISS.
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And then the chain doesn't behave like that.
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You see, I could actually steer the string around by torquing on the yoya,
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but a beaded chain has the mind of its own.
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It responds to air current.
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Yeah.
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It responds to gravity gradient.
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If you don't have air currents, it'll end up stretching out in the direction of the gravity gradient if you leave it alone.
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No. It's really quite amazing.
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It doesn't work the way we thought it was going to work, but then that's what it's like when you're doing a discovery.
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So this is around the world, and then this is the tether of cyst.
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So when you are in weightlessness, you get to make up your own yo-yo trick names.
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And then let's see if I can make it come better.
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There we go.
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Prior to the call, Don was experimenting with static charge, which meant we could loosely hold one end of the chain in place.
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Whoa!
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Whoa!
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See?
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It's...
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Oh, that's crazy.
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Yeah.
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And I have video of this with a nice black background.
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Circular wave.
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Hold off again.
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And notice now with one free end,
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it's really tough to control it, send a wave down.
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Each bead here is about three millimeters.
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I put a string of French clips together, and these are 50 millimeter links.
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And I just want to show you that this behaves just like the beaded chain,
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but the leg scale is 3 millimeters to 50 millimeters.
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You might be wondering how all this came about, by the way.
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Well, after I made that video in my loft, I've been milking it ever since.
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In fact, you could argue that my entire career is built on a flailing chain of beads.
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Like, at one point, I held the world record for the tallest chain fountain, but eventually it was taken by a TV show in China, until I took it back.
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Three, two, one.
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What the hell happened there?
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And I guess at some point a three-story high sculpture was erected in Guatemala.
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And of course I got into a real public feud with that scoundrel electro-boom about it.
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And it was during that video argument that I mentioned the behaviour that we've been looking for here.
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So in that video I asked if anyone knows how to get the attention of someone on the International Space Station,
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let me know know well stefan ennis from the european space agency got in touch thanks stefan
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and eventually samantha christopheretti climbed aboard a rocket with four meters
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of bead chain in her pocket unfortunately she was quite busy what with being the commander of
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that mission so she didn't really have an awful lot of time to be fiddling about with beads.
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But she got the chain up there, and that's an important first step.
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And brilliantly, she put me in touch with another astronaut, Don Pettit.
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Now, the great thing about Don is you can nerd snipe him.
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Oh, look at that.
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Look at that.
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I mean, there's a lot of great things about Don.
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But anyway, I explained about the bead chain currently languishing on the International Space Station.
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And he really got into it.
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And he said he'd look for the beads next time he was up there.
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And then at some point we were emailing about the experiments.
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And he said, you know, look, it's hard to really communicate over email.
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Let's have a video call.
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I was like, yes, that would be amazing.
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Just on a personal note, this was obviously a once in a lifetime experience.
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Just unbelievable.
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There was a period as a kid where I wanted to be an astronaut.
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But the job that I ended up having, which is making science videos on YouTube, somehow means that I ended up having a video call with one.
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And like we were doing science together.
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science that had never been done before you know it just I almost can't believe it happened
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but yeah beads in space I think I peaked literally a huge thank you to Issa
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and Samantha and Don
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and NASA for making it happen an extra big thank you
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to John Stevens the person on the ground at NASA who put the video call together, made sure that all worked because honestly,
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like I was pretty nervous about it because we only had one shot.
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It was 25 minutes and my internet at home was terrible.
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So I had to, you know, set up somewhere else that had good internet.
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And John just made it all really smooth, put my mind at ease.
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The full conversation unedited plus Don's extra footage that he filmed for me outside of the video call,
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unedited, is available over on my Patreon.
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Link in the description for that.
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Oh, also thank you to Rohan Francis from Medlife Crisis because he was all over this, even before I got in touch with Esaf.
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Look at him go.
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So there you go, that's the evidence that we have from space.
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What do you think?
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Does it prove that a chain will flow through a fixed shape in the absence of gravity?
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Does it change your opinion of my explanation of the chain fountain?
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It was a great demonstration seeing it pass through the same path through the loop
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and your explanation about why it would eventually turn into a full circle due to friction was pretty adequate.
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So I guess I agree with everything you said in your video and don't have to embarrass myself making another debunk video.
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Although you didn't quite demonstrate if the path will remain the same if the chain wasn't in a loop.
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Another stimulation might be nice,
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but what would be better is to take 100 meters of chain into space and drag it behind you in a spacewalk. Do it!
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We just got the rug pulled out from under us, Steve.
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It's been so interesting, so interesting to see it.
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yeah it is and and it was been really good actually talking to you so i could understand
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you know what we want to look for it looks like
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we're just gonna walk off the end of our keu band
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and then i'm gonna have to vacate because i think that's it okay wow oh
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung auf Niveau B2 basiert auf dem Video „NASA tested my chain theory in space“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: chain, shape, space, bead, gravity. Dieses Video enthält 198 Sätze und 2564 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 15:02. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 171 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. 84 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
Die 15 anspruchsvollsten Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| bead Substantiv | /ˈbiːd/ | Perle |
| fountain Substantiv | /ˈfaʊn.tɪn/ | Springbrunnen, Brunnen |
| behave Verb | /bɪˈheɪv/ | sich benehmen, sich verhalten |
| friction Substantiv | /ˈfɹɪkʃən/ | Reibung |
| circular Adjektiv | /ˈsɜɹ.kjə.ləɹ/ | Kreis- |
| yank Verb | /ˈjæŋk/ | mit einem kurzem Ruck reißen, mit einem kurzem Ruck ziehen |
| astronaut Substantiv | /ˈæstɹəˌnɔt/ | Astronaut, Raumfahrer |
| float Verb | /fləʊt/ | treiben, schwimmen |
| downwards Adverb | /ˈdaʊnwɚdz/ | abwärts, nach unten |
| gradient Substantiv | /ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/ | Steigung, Gefälle |
| rectangle Substantiv | /ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/ | Rechteck, Karree |
| loft Substantiv | /lɔft/ | Dachboden, Dachgeschoss |
| stationary Adjektiv | /ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛɹi/ | stationär |
| molecule Substantiv | /ˈmɑ.lɪ.kjul/ | Molekül |
| upward Adverb | /ˈʌpwɚd/ | aufwärts |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| end up Verb | sich herausstellen, am Ende irgendwo / etwas sein | |
| figure out Verb | herausfinden | |
| make up Verb | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | wiedergutmachen, kompensieren |
| set up Verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | aufbauen, für den Einsatz vorbereiten |
| show up Verb | auftauchen, erscheinen | |
| speed up Verb | /spiːdˈʌp/ | beschleunigen |
| stick out Verb | abstehen, herausragen | |
| straighten out Verb | richten, gerade biegen |
Sätze zum Wiederholen
Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:
- I don't understand how they did it.
- That's very cool, isn't it?
- Let's just keep it going.
- You don't have that here.
- So does that mean I'm wrong?
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Bedingungssätze if + Satz, will/would + Verb – eine Bedingung und ihre Folge | If you don't have air currents, it'll end · if the path will remain |
| Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing – eine Handlung, die früher begann und noch andauert | I've been milking · we've been looking |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | be tested · be accepted · was given |
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | you've already created · You've done · It's been |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 46 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel you've, don't, we're. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die „th“-Laute: tether /ˈtɛðəɹ/, writhe /ɹaɪð/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: friction /ˈfɹɪkʃən/, stationary /ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛɹi/, languish /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, stimulation /stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: stationary /ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛɹi/, analogous /əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs/, elasticity /ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, rectangular /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjəlɚ/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): downwards /ˈdaʊnwɚdz/, upward /ˈʌpwɚd/, whoa /woʊ/, languish /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, weirdly /ˈwɪə(ɹ)dli/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: bead /ˈbiːd/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/, downwards /ˈdaʊnwɚdz/, upward /ˈʌpwɚd/, feud /fjud/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: yank /ˈjæŋk/, astronaut /ˈæstɹəˌnɔt/, rectangle /ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/, analogous /əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs/, elasticity /ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie bead, fountain, behave.
Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?
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