SciShow Tangents - A.N.A.G.R.A.M. - Unlocked Patreon Bonus Episode

Episode Date: August 30, 2022

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Hey everybody, Sam here. Summer is unfortunately almost over, but you know what that means. Halloween is right around the corner, and we've got some special tricks and treats in store for you. But in order to prepare for that, we need a little bit of time. So this week, we're unlocking a bonus episode from our Patreon. Just in case you don't know, you can become a SciShowTangents patron over at patreon.com slash SciShowTangents to get access to monthly newsletters, bonus episodes, and more. And most importantly, by becoming a patron, you help us be able to keep doing this podcast that we love to do.

So thank you to all patrons, past, present, and future. And please enjoy this unlocked patron bonus episode of SciShow Tangents. See you next week. Hello, welcome to SciShow Tangents bonus episode. I'm your host, Hank Green. It's our special episode of SciShow Tangents called SciShow sam gents because i have no idea what's about to happen it seemed like you did know what was gonna happen you really launched into it oh thanks you know the hardest thing in

the world for me is what go hello hello and welcome to scishow tangents i just can't do it yeah well do you want me to give you a tutorial? Yeah. Okay. So imagine that there is a spider that almost got in your mouth. Okay. That energy and put it into the word hello. I don't want to do it in front of you. All right.

I'm going to launch into the game because we got to go, baby. We're lightning round. Over the course of SciShow Tangents, we've talked about several scientific things with fun acronyms for names. And no scientists love good acronyms as much as space scientists. So I've devised a game. I love that. Do you know what SCUBA stands for? It stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Mechanism.

Did you know that TUBA is also an acronym? What does it stand for? It stands for Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus. That's a pretty good joke. It's one of my favorites. All right. So I've devised a game to test your knowledge of these acronyms. Oh, you're ruining my life now.

And have a little fun while we're at it. The game is called... Should we know these already? No, no, God no. The game is called Anagram, which is, of course, an acronym, meaning astronomical names abbreviated and gamified. Rewards await, man.

In Anagram, I will present you both with the same acronym and challenge you to guess its meaning for every word you get correct in the acronym you get a point and you get a bonus five points for getting the acronym completely correct wow and you'll alternate guessing first but you'll both be able to hear each other's guesses i don't know if that'll work or not we'll see my brain is so fried right now i just edited the crash course script i have no juice somebody get me one of those like uh like things that the bikers drink the gels we got to get you a big box of gels to keep next to your desk that's man yes that would be great for me i'm sure so lots of lots of high energy sugar nearby me where I sit all day.

You wouldn't go through them all in a day. You could have your decaf coffee and then glucose. Yeah. All right. So round one, are you ready? I'm ready. All satellites. Oh, and guess a number between one and five.

Sari. Four. Hank. One. Sari. Four. Hank. One. Sari was closer. Okay. So Sari will go first. Okay. The first one is astro.

What does astro mean? And it is a satellite. Astro. Astrological satellite. Say if you guess is both. Yeah. Astrological. Satellite. Say if you guess as both. Yeah. To read oxygen.

A space tool. I'm feeling good about my chances. Recording orbiter. Orbit is a good space word. Well, you both got zero points, unfortunately. I feel like that's going to be common. Yeah. Now that we're rethinking our game a little bit, maybe you need to tell us a little bit about these satellites.

Oh, I even wrote down a little description about each one, so I'll just do that. Okay. So this is autonomous space transport robotic operation. I didn't say space for the second thing. No, nobody said space. I thought I said space. You said a satellite. A was your first. A satellite.

So that's part of the now shuttered Orbital Express program which was conducted by DARPA to test tools to service satellites from Earth. The next one is ACE, and that is a satellite studying solar wind

and the interstellar medium the able climate emission all the letters you got the able climate emission could be could be

the autonomous celestial energizer gosh you're just leaving such an obvious word on the table it is the advanced composition explorer we're not gonna get any of these right did you base this game off of the fact that I always try to guess acronyms during tangents and always do badly? Yeah. Next up, NEAR, which is a space probe used to study near-Earth asteroids. NEAR.

Near-Earth asteroids is what it's studying, and it's called NEAR. Do I get to go first? Sari goes first. Near-Earth Asteroid Robot. Okay, Hank? Near-Earth Asteroid Reader. Okay. I was kind of scared you were going to get it all the way right.

So you both got Near-Earth Asteroid. Nice. Thanks for the hints. The last word is rendezvous. Ooh, rendezvous. Yeah. The last word is rendezvous. Ooh, rendezvous. Yeah. Next up, lacrosse, which is a satellite orbiting and mapping the moon's surface.

There is no A. It's just L-cross. But I think I would call it lacrosse if I was there. Okay. So it's L-cross. Yes, a satellite orbiting and mapping the moon's surface. What's on the surface of the moon, I wonder? All right, we get a hint. L, I'm going to go with lunar crater reader rendezvous.

Orbiter stable satellite. Interesting. Okay. Okay. okay okay crater rendezvous orbital stable satellite i also was gonna go for lunar crater and that's not an acronym rock that's fine and rock okay cool okay cool and rocky orbit sediment good one yeah that could be in there station now it's gonna take a bit of scoring because really did you get did yeah how'd we do okay so hank you got three oh sarah you got twoar Crater. Okay. This one is a bit of a trick. It's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. So the crater is the C and the R. They don't always get it perfect, but they try their best. Yeah.

And I got Satellite. And you got Satellite. Yes. And you also got Satellite. Why didn't they want to name it Lacrosse? I guess it's not as fun. They wanted to name it Lacrosse after their favorite high school sport that they played because they were little rich kids.

Little rich guys. I don't know. That was how my high school was. Yeah. That was also how my high school was. Okay. How did that? That was interesting.

How did that become the rich kid game? I don't know, man. It's very interesting. Yeah. I don't want to do that ethnography but i'm sure somebody could we'll leave it to the experts that's right and finally on satellites smart which is an isa satellite is that what are you saying you told me this yesterday yeah an isa statel an isa satellite studying the moon smart Who's first? Oh, Hank is.

I don't remember. Tuna? Yeah, I think it's me. Oh, it's a Sari? Oh, okay. Tuna's got me all lined up in the dock. Spectral. Moon.

Nice, nice. Asteroid. I'm trying to think of other words that aren't rock for R. Okay, spectral moon random okay why not telemetry that's a satellite word i think hank smart and isa satellite studying the moon. All right, so it's ESA. So I'm going to go with Swedish. Meatballs. Swedish meatballs.

Always research telescope. That's the end. Yeah. Swedish meatballs, always research. IKEA's getting into the space game. Hank, you're never going to believe it. That's exactly right. No, it is. Small missions for advanced

research in technology. Oh my gosh. You did get research. You did get research. I forgot about that one. Hank, we end round one. Hank has two points. Hank's got four points.

Wow. Round two. Space telescopes. So similar to satellites, but they're all telescopes. Okay. Number one is FUSE, an ultraviolet space telescope. FUSE is going to stand for fast ultraviolet space telescope. Fast ultraviolet space explorer.

I forgot how to say that word for a second. Finding ultraviolet star emissions nice I think you think that these are like describing an action more often than they actually are they're always like verbs

or whatever I gotta go more noun heavy the problem is I panic and I forget every word that starts with the letter F total panic I'm like phantom frogs go more noun heavy. The problem is I panic and I forget every word that starts with the letter F. Yeah. Total panic. I'm like phantom. Frogs! So Hank, you got

two points on that one. What? Oh my gosh! Ultraviolet and Explorer. Oh right. You got Ultraviolet. So the satellite is called the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer. Spectroscopic. Of course.

Next up, Amanda. A neutrino telescope named Amanda. And it's Sari's first. Yeah, Amanda. Nouns. Channeling nouns. A neutrino telescope. I will remind you. Okay, yeah, there's no... Oh, there is will remind you okay yeah there's no oh there is an N in Amanda

there's no N in Amanda you got really mad at me for a second I did for a little bit I thought you were going to throw me off um analytic

analytical meteor and neutrino detector awesome okay okay okay well a neutrino detector is a huge

I'm not gonna not say that that's great that's a big win I wrote before started talking I wrote all material analysis and then I wrote neutrino detector and then I wrote all material analysis, and then I wrote neutrino detector. And then I'm going to say analysis again just for safety. Oh, that's a good.

All material analysis, neutrino detector. Analysis. Okay. Amanda. Sure, okay. Hank, you got two points. Oh. Sari, you got three points. Oh. Sarah, you got three points.

Incredible. So Hank got neutrino detector, and Sarah got and neutrino detector. Yes! So the answer is Antarctic muon and neutrino detector array. So Antarctic, it could have been Swedish. See? Could have been. Yeah, like that's just another country. Or is it? Is Antarctica a country? So Antarctic, it could have been Swedish. See? Could have been. Yeah.

That's just another country. Is Antarctica a country? No. No. I don't think so. It's a continent. It's just a place. Yeah. Next up.

COROT. C-O-R-O-T. A space telescope for detecting extrasolar planets. COROT. Extra solar planets. So exoplanets. C-O-R-O-T. Yes.

Calibrated. Observation. Research. Object. Transit. That's a lot of good exoplanet words. Maybe they have to be in the right place. No, no, I don't think so.

Me and Tuna aren't going to do that. I shouldn't have used analysis twice then. I should have thrown in another word. Sorry. COROT, a space telescope for detecting extrasolar planets. Celestial, outer rocky orbs telescope. It's never going gonna be rocky the letter r appears many more times the rock will never i'll give you that thanks i think that's a little handicap because rock is the only r word i can think of you better learn you better

get bust out the dictionary. Yeah. All right. So this one is another bit of a trick. You both got, oh, Hank got one point. Terry got no point. So it is convection, rotation, and planetary transits. The planetary is not in the thing.

No. It's not. C-O-R-O, it t yeah yeah all right next up h-i-p-p-a-r-c-o-s hipparchos a space telescope specifically designed to measure distances to stars using parallax. Parallax. Hipparchos. Hipparchos. Heavy, infrared, parallax, planetary. I just wanted everyone to know that I wrote down heavy infrared already.

Is heavy infrared a thing? I don't know. No, no. They're photons. Yeah. But there are two words that you'd use in spacey stuff. Yeah. So heavy infrared, parallax, planetary, and research, comet, orbital, scope.

Hmm. Hank? Heavy infrared, parallel parallax, ready, okay, satellite. All right. So it looks like- Did I get one or two? Because I got parallax. You got parallax and satellite.

Oh, nice. So it stands for, and Sarah, you got none. I'm sorry. I said parallax, please. You got infrared and parallax. Oh, wait. Wait, you got two. Well, and Hank got three because he said satellite.

I think that you may be wrong about infrared being in there. Well, I shouldn't have said that. You're exactly right. Infrared's not in there. You woke up Parallax and Hank got satellite. Oh, okay. Tuna's going too slow. I'm getting confused.

That's the problem. How dare he? I'm trying to learn this game. High precision Parallax collecting satellite. Oh, the PAR. Oh, precision parallax collecting satellite. High precision parallax collecting. How do you collect a parallax?

You look at it. You collect it in your brain. Yeah, on a hard drive. A final telescope. That was a verb. It collects stuff. And that was in the name. I've been steered astray. Oh, well.

Yeah, Sari, you have every right to protest. I'm sorry. I won't give you any more hints. Finally, Integral, which is a gamma-ray space telescope. Integral. Okay, great. Well, let me write integral down integral and that's gonna be gamma ray there in the middle um okay i'm gonna guess that they went and and did a did a number another one of these numbers and say that it's international and And that's just the I-N-T. Exploratory Gamma Ray Alchemy Lab.

Alchemy. Okay. I didn't know what the A might be. Okay. International Exploratory Gamma Ray Alchemy Lab. I don't really like your L very much. I like your G-R. Invisible Neutron Telescope Expedition Gamma Ray Atomic Logo.

Yeah, your L is way better than my L. That was a bad L. A treat. So Hank got four points. What? Wow. And Sarah got two. Wow.

So the answer is international. You're exactly right, Hank, except the E was also included in international. International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory. Astrophysics! And lab! That's what we're talking about right now. I got lab.

I should have gone with your lab. Take that. That's a big L, as they say. That's what they say nowadays. I deserved it after that behavior. Okay, we got one more round. We're going to go through it real fast. Okay, we'll try to be quick. Okay.

This round is potpourri. So it's a little bit of everything, but I'll tell you what it is roughly. Okay. First up, dragon. There is no O-D-R-A-G-N. It is a celestial object. And it is another name for a radio galaxy, which is a galaxy with giant regions of radio emissions extending well beyond its visible structure. So a dragon, D-R-A-G-N. beyond its visible structure.

So a dragon. D-R-A-G-N. Deserted radio. Astronomical galaxy near? And then they didn't know it was near, so they stopped there. Is there a question mark at the end of it? Yes. Is it dragon? Yeah.

Dark radio astronomy garden gnome. What I ended up with. Gnome doesn't even begin with a G. I know it doesn't, but they mess things up, you know? They just pick letters out of the middle. All right, all right. So you both got one point.

Okay, from radio? From radio. And the answer is double radio source associated with a galactic nucleus. Galactic nucleus. That was achievable. Next up, which is, in my opinion, the best one, IMO. And it's a coalition of professional and amateur meteor researchers. It's an organization, a coalition of professional and Amateur Meteor Researchers. It's an organization.

A Coalition of Professional and Amateur Meteor Researchers. IMO. The International Meteor Organization? Interesting. Interesting. I don't know what else. So,

International Meteorologist Organization? That's a totally different thing! international meteorologist organization. That's a totally different thing. Meteorologists are like weather people, right? They are weather people, not meteor guys. By the way, Sam's laughing.

I absolutely biffed this, and you got it perfect, Hank. So Hank, you get three points, plus five points for getting it perfect. It is the international meteor organization. Man, Sarah, you just three points plus five points for getting it perfect. Whoa! It is the International Meteor Organization. Man, Sarah, you just got to go with it. If you feel like I did good, just let me be right. She's too proud, Hank.

She's too proud. And Sarah, you get two points, but I will remind you that Hank got five extra points. Okay, yeah. I feel like I'm running away with it here. Yes, I know. I feel like I'm running away with it here. Yes, I know. Next up is Macho, which is a celestial object, an observing program, and a catalog.

So it's an object in the Milky Way's halo thought to comprise part of the galaxy's dark matter. Also a survey to detect these sources through gravitational lensing and a catalog of sources detected by the survey. So, Macho, I think just to simplify things, an object in the Milky Way's halo thought to comprise part of the galaxy's dark matter. Macho. Massive, aurora, cloud-like, halo object. All right. All right.

I got Milky Way, amber, colorless halo object. Okay. Okay. Sarah, you got three points. Ooh. That's way more than one. You got two points. Halo object.

Both for halo object. Sarah got massive. Massive. So macho is massive, compact, halo object. Oh, massive. The massive has the yin and the yang. Compact. Yes. The Oh, Matt. Compact. Yes, the macho.

Next, gong. It's an organization that monitors oscillations in the sun. Gong. G-O-N-G. Is there a normal way to say that word? Gong. Gong. I can't say it.

Where'd my piece of paper go? Is it my turn to go first? Yes. Okay, gong. Gong. I can't say it. Where'd my piece of paper go? Is it my turn to go first? Yes. Okay. Gong. Gong. Gong. It's an organization.

And what do they study? Monitors oscillations in the sun. Okay. So that O has got to be oscillation. Sure. And how big is this organization, Sam? A worldwide organization. Great great so global organization oh shoot um never gonna going never global organization network group. No, not organization. Global Oscillation Network

Group. Okay. Sari? I'm looking up if this is a real word. I don't think it has to be. It's an acronym. It's the thing about acronyms. Global Organization for Neutronic

Gases. Neutronic gases? Is neutronic the word you were looking at is it real I don't know you get four points plus five points no because you got it exactly right network group

and it's not organization it's the same thing it group? It's network group and it's not organization? That's the same thing. It's global oscillation network group. Oh my God. Network and a group are the same thing. Network group. They want it because it's an oscillation. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.

Is that why? No. I don't know. I can't believe it. This is embarrassing. No, no, no, no. It's not. Finally, candles, but spelled wrong.

C-A-N-D-E-L-S. Candles. And this was a survey. It was the largest project in the history of the Hubble Space Telescope, carried out between 2010 and 2013. And it aimed to explore galactic evolution in the early universe and look at the very first seeds of cosmic structure

at less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Candles. And this is the last question as well. Oh, that's a lot of freaking letters. That's a lot of letters. I spent so hard thinking of my N for last time, only to be trounced by network. So I'm going to.

You guys are reading the dictionary. I truly do. After I stopped editing scripts, my vocabulary has gone down the toilet. Okay. Celestial, argon, noodle, deep space, early light survey. Noodle? Noodle is in there, yeah. Yeah, you know.

Could be noodle, you never know. Noodle. They'll put anything in these acronyms. Yeah. Here's what I wrote down. Cosmic array. This is a bunch of science words. Cosmic array network dark explorer laser survey.

Okay, what? Cosmic Array Network Dark Explorer Laser Survey. Looking for all those words in there? Yeah, this is hard. Totally, it's the longest of all the letters. I don't think Sari got any.

No, she got... I said survey. You got survey. So you got one point, Sari. Hank, you get two points for cosmic and survey. So this is candles is the cosmic assembly near infrared deep

extragalactic legacy survey. Legacy. That's less good than laser. I think as well, but they probably didn't use a laser in this. There was a two word, but it was near infrared. The N was the two word, not the D. Yeah, near infrared.

So at the end of our game, Sari has 17 points. Oh, that doesn't sound so bad. We can do it like that. Bless you. Thank you. I'm not editing this one, Hank, so unfortunately. And Hank has 38 points

wow you more than doubled Sari's score congratulations you're a space expert well I'd like to thank my years of reading SciShow scripts in which I say the acronym after having told

people what it is uh i think that no one uh deserves more credit than all of those scishow scripts all right terry what's your excuse you only know one word that starts with r i only know i the only word that i know that starts with r is rock i only know verbs i tried to be an individual and that's also a big problem homogenizes it all when hank said something that's hot where you are too i'm sweaty yeah sweaty uh and i just don't know as much about space as hank it is not my uh area interest. If it was like plant acronyms, could probably do a little bit better, but I don't like those that I could find.

I try to do all science acronyms. There are. They're out there, but you're right. There aren't as many spaces. Well, that's the end of, uh,

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