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Professor Brian Cox
Aug 21, 2025 9:47 PM
DOcelot1
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Professor Brian Cox
Macetheace50
Well I guess the Halo jump on Venus is over!
Pack it up boys, the trip is over.
isetprettygirlsonfire
That doesn't scare me, I worked with hydrochloric acid before
Beefkins
Little Johnny was a kid,
Little Johnny is no more,
For what he thought was H2O,
Was H2SO4.
Evenmoreuselessname
*Touches face with glove after handling concentrated H2SO4* okay.
ApothecaryGrant
JunkMonk
Hey it's that guy from Cunk
cullingg
I think he's saying that we are made of sugar
ShaNayNayThe2nd
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RadasNoir
I mean, it's got sugar in it now, right?
Skawomplious
I love Cox.
Crispy4Skin
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MissivesFromTheTower
Go to Venus, turn into space poo, got it.
M4Firefly
ud think uranus is the primary producer of space poo but no
toothfuzz
mmm space poo
anSSLerrorhasoccuredandasecureconnectiontotheservercannotbemade
spoo
TimbiquiDarkThirty
Or have you and your craft disassembled down to the constituent parts by an intelligent extra-solar molecule, that feeds on radiation and knowledge, until it's powerful enough to form an interstellar warp gate.
Zammurkele
TerraDactyl89
Badgerbadgerson3
.....wut
MrRareza
Im guessing from a gif that was posted, it's from a TV show
personwhoisaperson
Am I super weird or was anyone else expecting this to be an AI generated thing of Brian Cox jumping into a pool of acid?
TheSimpleDude
ParallelParkingInABurka
Moar: /gallery/sAzK3qF.mp4
jamiedBreaker
I love how tickled he is about what would happen to a human if they randomly skydived into Venus
ProfFurryPaws
Gonna need some of these to terraform it.
SomebodythatIusedtonope
Wish list: g̶o̶ t̶o̶ V̶e̶n̶u̶s̶
pickinganameistoomuchpressure
girls go to jupiter to get more stupider, boys go to venus to melt their peanits
androgenoide
Now let's try that again only with the acid vapor at 800C and 90 atmospheres.
maincarrot
I bet you can't make it to the 5th atmosphere!
"Alright! You're on!!" *whoosh...... Kssssssssssss......*
Haha what a pussy, he didn't even make it half way into the first one. Alright Charlie, you're up.
"Why am I up? I don't even want t-"
Ahhh shaddup and go on you dog, you!
*Kss.*
Oh. Oh shit, that was like.... -immediate-. lol. Classic Charlie. Always the quickest one to finish, I heard.
FlintNorth44
And he's doing this not in a lab why?
SquirtVonnegut
The same thing would happen to a Labrador too.
jimhotep
eww.
Dntgvadm
That’s what the sugar does in my coffee
Watermelonmojito
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HillOfBeans
This reminds me of the time as a kid that I threw up a lot, then watched tv for a bit. The rich lady on Green Acres made coffee that poured like this and I threw up all over my mom.
Arcanum3000
Little Bobby was a chemist
Now Bobby is no more
What Bobby thought was H20
Was H2SO4
Jimbo64
Oh no, I am dead. My blue litmus has turned red.
Evenmoreuselessname
A mosquito was heard to complain,
That a chemist had poisoned her brain.
The cause of her sorrow
was paradichloro-
Diphenyltrichloroethane
AbelardSnazz
If you’re doing what you oughter,
Add the acid to to the water.
May your rest be long and placid,
Adding water to the acid
allactorsarephoney
It sounds like a threat
AndersCalrissian
Put the cap back on the bottle of acid ya knob
5ing
Kind of cavalier with the minimal PPE and setting the bottle down without capping it
euphoricopportunity
Eh. Setting the bottle down without capping it? That's a big "no". Ay least he's outside. I think the perspective might make him look closer than he is.
SidJorgenson
Right!! I was focusing on that the entire time
dogfavoriter
Well if it's any consolation, even if you made it through the clouds, your parachute would catch on fire and you'd plummet to the surface, then burn to a crisp anyway because of the temperature, which is about 870F.
Mazzy94
Although you might not need a parachute really with the atmosphere's density.... the Venera probes didn't. They had some fins to slow their descent.
freshthrowaway1138
Why use a parachute when an H2 balloon could be inflated that takes you back to where it's 30C and 1 Bar?
CrisprCAS
Did that motherfucker just put an open bottle of concentrated sulfuric acid on an uneven surface? He's going to find out what it's like directly.
SirChadwellHeath
Likely for filming safety reasons, there is a jump cut where the bottle is capped, *then* he pours the beaker.
ninjarnia
Yeah, I was having trouble concentrating on anything else after I noticed him putting it down open, presumably on the ground.
ghornby
Hey it’s the origin of Armus from TNG. (The Black slime being that killed Tasha Yar)
ArkoneAxon
LespritDeLescalier22
Wait. It’s got a NAME??
modus0
Star Trek: Lower Decks has a short bit in one episode regarding Armus - the cast remotely trolls that black slime of concentrated evil.
ghornby
Ya I had never considered either it until I typed ‘black slime thing’ and went “does that thing have a name”?
LespritDeLescalier22
Huh. Well, thank you for your research. I felt myself get smarter.
SocoFox
I used to work on crude oil ships, while it's not sulfuric acid, the Hydrogen Sulfide gas present in crude was always one of those things that you worried about.
The first hint you've been exposed to a lethal level is you smell almonds, then the next breath you smell nothing (because it's destroyed your sinuses) and the next breath you dead.
FatBastardVegetarian
So ded.
HeSaysFantastic
Hydrogen Sulfide smells of rotten eggs. Do you mean Hydrogen Cyanide? That's supposed to smell of almonds.
SocoFox
Had it backwards when I typed it. Rotten eggs is correct.
GiftedMagnet
what’s sulfuric acid used for normally?
Macetheace50
https://youtu.be/ozVyKDTGh80?t=185
Dissolving bodies in Hollywood Movies.
GiftedMagnet
ahh a noble cause
freshthrowaway1138
So many things that its production is actually a measure of how developed and industrialized a nation has become.
Jimbo64
I was told (in chemistry class) that is the second most used chemical in industry. The first being water. I don't know if it's true.
freshthrowaway1138
I've never heard that, though I never really had a great chemistry teacher so it is quite possibly true.
I just started looking into it as I did more research about Venus and it was one of those things that made me see Venus as an interesting and potentially valuable extraterrestrial industrial site. Venus has both Uranium ore and H2SO4 which is used to process the Ur. Sounds like a place to make Spaceship Fuel!
notblubber
If you "fell" into Venus, you'd first have the problem of orbital re-entry through a very dense atmosphere. Then the acid clouds. If you somehow made it through that to the surface, it's about 460 degrees C (860 F) and 90+ atmospheres of pressure (equivalent to approximately 900 meters or about 3,000 feet deep in the ocean). Let's not go.
freshthrowaway1138
Bah! Just think of it as an ocean planet, but it's CO2 rather than H2O. Falling would just be countered by a nice big boat that floats along.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Let's send some billionaires
CrisprCAS
And yet it might be easier to terraform than Mars.
freshthrowaway1138
Terraforming is a red herring, it's just not that useful. It's an amazing waste of resources on suboptimal locations. We could build orbital stations that could house billions in a variety of 1G environments long before terraforming would be viable. Mars is a terrible planet for humans. Heck, I love the idea of colonizing Venus, but it too is just too much work for too little payoff.
VictusVonGuyver
Yeah. Even though further away than mercury, Venus is even more inhospitable.
Scientist did propose that Venue still has life on it, but it's probably only in the upper atmosphere with microbes.
The upper atmosphere might be the only aspect we'd probably ever try to explore with any future spacecraft.
Humans will probably never settle there but Star Wars cloud city would be the most practical shelter if we had the technology to pull it off.
freshthrowaway1138
We don't build settlements on the bottom of the Earth's oceans, do we? So why would we do differently on an ocean planet like Venus?
For long term use, I'd put Venus as a better option than Mars, even if it is trickier. The reality is that if we put a ship on Venus, then we could do extraterrestrial sciences in a .9G, 1Bar, 30C environment. Also, we have extremophiles on Earth that handle crazy environments, so we won't know about Venus until we go there for the long term.
VictusVonGuyver
Not from the lack of trying. We are trying to settle down in the bottom of the ocean. It's resource rich, so naturally we want access to it.
umibozusan
Prof Brian Cox is such an excellent narrator for anything science
drcyberbob
I saw him give a live lecture once. As a research scientist, I have a high tolerance for poorly presented technical work. He was a disaster. Without advisors from the BBC to support him, his communication skills are dreadful. He dwelled on tedium, skipped complex concepts, and ran massively over time.
MsAmyMack
I heart Brian Cox. Him and John Oliver are the celebrities I would love to meet! Well, and Trixie but she intimidates me lol
buttcreambandit
I really like him from the first time I saw him like idk 2 decades ago at this point? Until now he’s been my favorite tv science guy.
volch1tsa
You can hear him smiling even without watching, and it's contagious :)
TheJuiceLoosener
He's fine talking about the physical sciences (as far as I can tell), but he doesn't understand Thing 1 about the life sciences and it shows. Dude should stay in his lane, but sadly, doesn't.
VitaminJay
And has no time for bullshit psudoscience.
maincarrot
Wot, you mean that mirrors arent alternative universes?
Iaimtomisbehave
theinternetkeepsmealive
He's the David Attenborough of science!
PitterPatterGetAtEr
Hmm. You are absolutely correct and I’m mad I never thought of it.
theinternetkeepsmealive
Aww your comment made my day. Thank you stranger.
smashole
Just sounds smarter being British.
Selekta
He also played keyboard in a famous (UK) band, D;ream I think o.O
plastikb0y
Yup. He even references it in one of his documentary episodes about entropy. Saying that things in general do actually not get better. lol
SteersAndQueers
Good thing there's plenty of stupid Brits to balance the playing field.
MostAwesomeDan
I wonder if it's just my flavor of the algorithm, but despite consuming a lot of STEM related content I feel like I rarely see him. I should make a point to look his content up and support him, we need to champion academics and science communicators right now.
mrose50
For STEM he's very "Intro to STEM 1". He's bloody incredible to listen to, does a great job of explaining complicated stuff in digestible ways, but he also tends to do the same thing as high school vs university, simplify things to the point that they become technically incorrect or misleading. Not always, but often enough that when you already know the subject in detail you start to go "yeah I see why you said that I just wish you'd done it a little differently *somehow*".
Tengenstein
Thank you. I get recommended him a lot, but each time I see him I'm always left feeling like the person recommendeding him to me just didn't pay attention in high school.
BisAndThighHighs
Yeah, the point is not really to truly educate in what is a complicated subject, but to inspire wonder and curiosity towards education about that subject, to make people want to go and learn about it fully. To that point it doesn't matter if it's not exactly correct as long as it's sparks a desire to learn, they'll get the full exact information later when it actually matters for them to know.
MostAwesomeDan
that's fine, for me, actually. I find that I...well I get excited learning 1 small factoid that leads me down a rabbit hole and now it's been 3 hours and I'm neck deep in astrophysics that I don't really understand but can get the jist of enough to understand why that new discovery I read about is such a big deal. I just love science. How cool is it that we have this methodology for learning how EVERYTHING works?!?
GussDeBlod
we sent a probe on venus, it survived 2 hours.
16KTS
Thank you USSR. For the pictures.
myeyesthegogglesdonothing
There was a crowd source for a rover system design that could withstand Venus. I'm sure the orange moron will kill it. https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/nasas-venus-rover-challenge-winners-announced/
Lutki
Haven't you heard? NASA is going to focus on exploration instead of all this earth science stuff.
AnonOmis1000
Those pictures from Venus are hands down my favorite astronautical photos.
cheeseguy3412
This makes me think of the soviet probe that landed there to take and analyze samples, and the camera cover fell under the sampling device, making it a useless trip.
OriginalAndWitty
Shout out to the soviets for that one also. The USA was like. 'Nah fuck that." USSR was like, 'Fuck it, why not?'
BillandTedsUnremarkableTripToCostCo
The Soviet space program was pure DGAF energy.
InTangier
Shame the Buran program ended. Stealing info on the Space Shuttle, fixing some of its issues? They were absolutely unhinged, in a very cool way.
DOcelot1
Absolutely, credit where credit is due
Thanshin
Next one we shouldn't make out of sugar.
Mazzy94
A number of them.
GussDeBlod
Yes, I should have written probes and say the obe thzt survived the longest lasted two hours but it would have lost some of its punch.
Mazzy94
Youxre right. Sorry if that came accross as pedantic, I didn't mean it that way. Just tossing a factoid in case you didn't know
Cranbananarama
nobleImaginationWrecker
Science is cool
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BillandTedsUnremarkableTripToCostCo
“Wow, I kind of hate it here.” —last transmission of probe before it melted.
Beefkins
"vibes are off"
Myowngrampa
Always in such awe of these photos
rbudrick
A lot of these 2 photos are faked. Actual pics, unfisheyed from originals:
rbudrick
A lot of these two photos are approximated and not real. Actual pics attached, unfisheyed from original rectangular pics, which used a fisheye lens.
Wolsel
At least the lens cap came off
bitemark
Yeah there's the acid, on top of it being 464C (867F), and about 90 atmospheres of pressure. It's an acid pressure cooker.
freshthrowaway1138
Which is actually less than the heat and pressure at an ocean vent on Earth. We need to stop seeing Venus as a rocky planet, but as an ocean planet. You don't set up on the bottom of the Earth's oceans, so why do so on Venus. Build a boat and float where it's 1 atm and 30C.
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
it's still a whole sea (or "sea") of sulfuric acid below you, though
freshthrowaway1138
That's actually a good thing. I mean, it's not safely Earth but the acid is actually a reason to be there as it is one of the most important chemicals for an industrial society. Also, acid is dangerous but "easily" contained. Heck, we use massive amount of it all the time, so we know how to protect ourselves and our stuff. A bit of PTFE plastic is all it takes, or a thin layer of teflon, to block it out. And since it's all at Earth norms, it doesn't take exotic engineering.
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
Interesting! Never looked at it that way.
freshthrowaway1138
Which is a great goal post for how far we have come since the 1970's as we now have computer chips that can survive on the surface of Venus for weeks on end! Probes could be ever more powerful and last for as long as needed, much like dropping probes into the bottom of Earth's oceans onto a vent.
captainhappen
sir have you checked what the surface conditions on Venus are like
freshthrowaway1138
Have you checked out NASA Glenn? They have the Venus simulator and have been making crazy advancements. The 70's might as well be ancient history.
dreammer243
They were half a century ago...
SupernaturalReactions
Back in the 1900's?
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captainhappen
listen the 1970s were like 15 years ago TOPS
keyserv
That atmosphere there is hot enough to melt lead.
SpamYarBlockers
But not steel beams
keyserv
It'd need to trap a lot more energy to do that. Are we still like, joking about that or being sincere or? I dunno...I'm old now and not nearly as hip and with it, if I ever was....
DefaOmega
Well it's not jet fuel /s