An astrophysicist reacts to THE ORVILLE | S2E14 The Road Not Taken

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Seth McFarlane's sci-fi comedy drama series The Orville is the latest show I'm reacting to - let's sort the science from the fiction. Watch The Orville on Disney + (not sponsored): https://www.disneyplus.com/series/orv...

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00:00 - Introduction
01:46 - Icy moons in the solar system
03:17 - "Quantum drives", quantum gravity and faster than light travel
05:30 - Asteroid fields are never that dense
06:17 - "Hiding" beyond the event horizon of a black hole?!
08:16 - Visualisation of a black hole and accretion disk
09:23 - What's "inside" the event horizon of a black hole?
11:04 - Time dilation "inside" black holes
11:43 - Underwater spaceships?!
12:13 - You wouldn't see the stars inside spaceships
13:15 - Gigaelectron volts and gravitons
14:55 - Outro
16:16 - Brilliant
17:33 - Bloopers


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👩🏽‍💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.


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