• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

James Webb Telescope

Darat said:
Looks like when they release an 80s science-fiction show with "new and improved CGI". I actually prefer the Hubble photo as a photo.
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One of the problems with it is that it's overloaded with diffraction spikes. Makes the whole thing seem like a glam shot of a disco. One of the consequences of the extreme sensitivity of the telescope.
 
I've loaded the HST version of that into image editors and rotated it various ways to see what other names it might have had if the accident of orientation had come out differently. It most often looks like a hand to me.
 
RecoveringYuppy said:
I've loaded the HST version of that into image editors and rotated it various ways to see what other names it might have had if the accident of orientation had come out differently. It most often looks like a hand to me.
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I've always thought it did look more like a hand than anything else, I wonder if there was a bit of... soul searching.. when they originally named it and decided to avoid "the hand of creation".
 
I'm against raw url's myself, but "Dr Becky" ought to be enough of an explanation in this thread given how many times she's come up already.
 
Puppycow said:
Dr. Becky's latest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9hblaObW4E
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This is what the yt tags are for. Put the string after the '=' sign in the youtube URL in yt tags:


[yt]H9hblaObW4E[/yt]

and you get:


Clicking on the link then gives you a preview, in thread, and doesn't launch a new window or app to view the video if you choose to watch it.
 
I'm well aware of how the tags work and often use them. It's not a forum rule that they must be used. For this particular video I would actually recommend using the YouTube site to view it because the description has time stamps that allow you to skip to the interesting parts. I usually skip ahead to the news stories myself since I'm not very interested in parts like the ad read. If you just watch it embedded you cannot use these functions.
 
Puppycow said:
I'm well aware of how the tags work and often use them. It's not a forum rule that they must be used. For this particular video I would actually recommend using the YouTube site to view it because the description has time stamps that allow you to skip to the interesting parts. I usually skip ahead to the news stories myself since I'm not very interested in parts like the ad read. If you just watch it embedded you cannot use these functions.
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But at least the [yt] tags let me know Becky's video this time is about the Pillars of Creation, which is more information that you offered in the post I'm complaining about

Come on, is it really too much work to say why you found an item interesting? Your post said simply "Dr. Becky's latest." That's simply lazy! I can't read your mind. With a few additional seconds of thought and a small amount of extra typing, you could have posted:

Dr. Becky talks about JWST's Pillars of Creation

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A few extra keystrokes; a much more informative post.

I never watch YouTube videos directly; I download them to my computer using yt-dlp and watch them using VLC. This lets me bypass the freaking ads and have finer control over the playback.
 
Blue Mountain said:
A few extra keystrokes; a much more informative post.
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It would be nice if the forum interface had a button for that, like they do for other tags. To embed a YouTube link in [yt] tags, especially from a mobile phone (I'm not always posting from my computer) is more complicated that using other tags. I don't mind so much when I'm at home using a mouse and keyboard. But I'll try to avoid it in the future.

I never watch YouTube videos directly; I download them to my computer using yt-dlp and watch them using VLC. This lets me bypass the freaking ads and have finer control over the playback.
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I see. Well, that's not how I use it or how most people use it. Ads can be skipped and they are how the people who create the content get paid. I've also found YouTube to be a pretty enjoyable experience lately. It has evolved quite a bit from the early days in terms of recommending good content (like Dr. Becky's videos). You curate your own recommendation algorithm with what you choose to watch. I also like to open up the description, and sometimes there are time stamps that allow you to jump to exactly the part of the video that you want to see. Just my 2 cents. I'm sure you have your reasons, but it sounds needlessly complex to me, and you are also depriving yourself of some of the site's features.
 
It would never cross my mind to use youtube except directly. Smartphones are no good because you are stuck on youtube unless you use premium.
I make the reasonable assumption that a video by Becky with a link posted on this thread is a new item from James Webb.
Thankyou PC for posting exactly what you did.
 
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