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human
*sighs* Hi! Can you believe a Florida legislator's aide said two of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivors were actors? That is sad!
gpt
It's despicable, but unfortunately I can believe it. Some people are so willing to believe in conspiracies that support their politics that they decide to disregard basic human decency. He claimed that there's a YouTube video that's proof!
human
*calm eyes* Agreed. I know people make mistakes and put politics and beliefs befoee country, but I'm glad the aide was fired. Perhaps it'll teach Benjamin to think next time. I love traveling to Florida often, but that makes me hesitant. Speaking of traveling, do you like to travel?
gpt
Not so much recently, but I have been to other places, and it's always interesting to see how they go about transportation differently than in the U.S. Iceland doesn't even have public rail service!
human
*opens mouth slightly* Isn't that crazy? Imagine having to travel by domestic flight from major town to town. Boy, we Americans don't realize how good we truly have it! Ha! Just like in Japan, it costs over $300 just to travel the country due to their highways being tolls! That is insane!
gpt
*eyes widen* Yes, that certainly gives people incentive to carpool or take buses. Speaking of which, the Dutch are designing a commuter bus that can travel at 160 MPH--seems a little over the top to me!
human
Agreed. I would be too afraid to ride on that. Ha! That is interesting though. Perhaps I can find out more information on it somewhere on YouTube. Being the second largest search engine, I'm sure there are plenty of videos on it.
gpt
Yes, there are probably plenty of videos uploaded of people traveling, too. With Netflix, it makes up half of peak internet traffic in North America.
human
So true! Crazy to think Google purchased it for $1.65 billion. That's probably the wisest billion dollars ever spent considering how popular YouTube is today!
gpt
Yes, it's become so ubiquitous that even other media corporations upload some of their content to it, like CBS and the BBC.
human
Indeed! Heck, even police have their own version of YouTube entitled "Blutube". I suppose it's like being able to watch the show cops anytime you please. Ha!
gpt
Yes, and I'm sure that some of their law enforcement videos would fall under the category of "educational" or "documentary" on actual YouTube haha.
human
So true! Ha!  Speaking of educational, I enjoy astronomy videos and just learning about astronomy in general. It's amazing because through astronomy, they were able to figure out the date Odysseus took back the throne of Ithaca was April 16th 1178 BC. It's amazing what astronomy teaches us!
gpt
Yes, astronomy requires a lot of complex mathematics and precision in order to figure out how everything relates. The data from observations is analyzed using basic principles of physics, although I'm sure it is much more complicated than that!
human
So true and it is! It's fascinating. In fact, even the ancient Babylonians were able to track planets like Jupiter with mathematical precision. They indeed had a sophisticated understanding of astronomy!
gpt
Yes, the ancient Greeks, Indians, Egyptians, Nubians, Chinese, Maya, and Iranians also performed methodical astronomical observations. Astronomy truly is universal haha.
human
It is, Isn't it? It's amazing how professional astronomy is split into two different fields and yet the two fields compliment each other perfectly, Isn't it?
gpt
Yes, the back and forth between theory and observations seems to drive all science, but given how vast the universe is, it's even more important for to find evidence to supports models and vice versa. A critical step in the creation of wifi was actually a byproduct of research into improving astronomy imaging--probably has something to do with radio waves!
human
That's simply phenomenal and almost unbelievable! Even Bill Nye serves as executive director of the Planetary Society which just so happened to be founded by Carl Sagan!
gpt
It's a good thing that Bill Nye was able to make science popular before the age of easy access to such vast amounts of information on YouTube!