How (a Lack of) Bird Poop Proved the Big Bang

Reid describes how pigeons and bird poop helped prove the Big Bang! Hosted by Reid Reimers ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shoutout to Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Will and Sonja Marple, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Bryce Daifuku, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Charles George, Bader AlGhamdi ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Learn more about static: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctj3WQliQmo ---------- Sources: https://www.aps.org/programs/outreach/history/historicsites/penziaswilson.cfm http://mentalfloss.com/article/53646/24-important-scientific-discoveries-happened-accident https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/210846-the-cosmic-microwave-background-was-accidentally-discovered-50-years-ago-and-it-changed-how-we-see-the-universe http://www.space.com/20330-cosmic-microwave-background-explained-infographic.html http://www.universeadventure.org/big_bang/cmb-discovery.htm http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/bkg3k.html Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Arno_Penzias#/media/File:Horn_Antenna-in_Holmdel,_New_Jersey.jpeg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milky_Way_galaxy.jpg

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1. dude, you're very Red
2. his voice kind of reminds me of Seth Rogan
3. it drives me nuts when people say nucular instead of nuclear
4. I just had a thought... what if the big bang was not really what we thought it to be. What if the big bang has happened billions or trillions of time over? maybe im wrong but if the big bang was just a huge explosions... wouldn't that mean one day it will re-collapse on itself? Maybe our perspective of time is only a perspective and 1000 years to us could only be a few minutes to another entity. Or maybe reality is just an advanced simulation almost like the matrix? Why is it that I only think of these things when im stoned out of my mind?
5. clickbait
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6. Horrible click bait title without supporting content in video. Also, the Big Bang theory has not been "proved".
7. Even though bird poop was part of the story, the wording of the title is very misleading.
8. Shot the birds? Fuckin Scumbags.
9. those birds died for nothing!!!!
10. You're great, Reid! Please don't let Hank Green in front of the camera any more. Thanks!
11. ..and in the end.. the bird poop was indeed irrelevant! The birds lives were indeed killed for no reason and could have been spared! That is a shame!
12. Thumbs down for not emphasizing visible universe.
13. Were they Carrier Pigeons though? ;) lol
14. are u saying we live in shit? that explains alot.
15. Hi @SciShow Space
    Does the redshift in theory mean that in the distant future when the redshift from the big bang reaches around 12 cm (the same as a microwave oven) that water all over the universe would start heating up or evaporating (depending on the amount at the time) ?
16. You're a really great, articulate presenter. I really enjoyed watching this. +SciShow Space
17. Robert Wilson, one of the two discoverers, actually lives down my street lol him and his wife Betsy are actually really cool people
18. Would someone be able to explain a couple of things for me? First off,
    did they actually try pointing it at the sun? Couldn't most the static
    just be coming from the sun? Or another much closer source of
    microwaves? I mean it seems very weird to have a universe so Huge and
    ever expanding that a little tiny minuscule horn satellite on the
    earth's surface can detect this radiation, point it at a few sources,
    and boom; instant proof it is the entire universe. That just seems
    illogical. It would almost be like if I was outside and smelled
    something bad, made a few deductions and suddenly just assumed it was
    the entire planet that smells bad. Second question: Have they tried
    recreating this and improving upon this theory in the last 50 or so
    years? How do they know it wasn't just crappy equipment or design from
    the 1960's? Again, by that logic one would just assume that they are
    always right and it couldn't possibly be anything wrong with something
    they created.
19. I am Catholic and I really am not against the Big Bang because God could have made that to.
20. All fairytales. Research flat earth! Jesus Christ is the only way!