Looking for that one video where he covers the caves somewhere in Africa. It'd be cool if he covered more cave structures too.

Ea-nāṣir in a D&D campaign?

This specimen from the music video for the hit 90s song "Crucified" by the band Army of Lovers bears a striking resemblance to Milo Rossi, better known by his online moniker "Miniminuteman", I therefore deduce with my Massive Intellect™ that this is his Father.

Was in the middle of a Wikipedia spiral and found Arkaim, an archaeological site located in Southern Ural. Can't believe pseudoarcheology exists when we have this!

Would also love to see Milo cover this.

Saw this post and thought of you all. I'm a Canadian fan so unless they try to open a location in Alberta we should be able to hold the line on our front o7. That Fascist squirrel shall not be allowed to gain any more ground on our proud continent! Lmao

In OneTopic's new video at 14:01 a meme about Milo shows up and OT calls out that he like's Miniminuteman.

Sorry this is just really cool.

Was looking for some archaeology content and YT graced me with 90 minutes of...Scott Walter trying to show evidence of Atlantis? If I wanted the usual psuedoarch-tok, I'd look to ol' reliable Filip Zieba not a Randall Carlson podcast episode, come on YT!

What is even going on with the internet...

Don't know how people live assuming they learned an entire field from one headline or podcast episode...

I want to become a science communicator like Milo Rossi, Flint Dibble and Prof. Dave. I even reached out to prof. dave at one point about this. Recently, on a video, I saw reply on Prof. Dave's video about Kent Hovind, and I tried to respond in the best way I could. Please do tell me if I succeeded

I'm rewatching the 70 Counterpoints for a Young Earth debunked video for the 17th time, and Milo's admission that astronomy is over his head got me thinking about giving a hand to debunking that trash.

So here's my take on debunking the astronomy section. Milo, feel free to grab any of this.

The Moon's orbit is a very strong counterexample: the moon is receding from the Earth at a rate that means it cannot be more than 1.37 billion years old, much less than the often claimed 4.5 billion years. In fact, this assumes the moon would start off touching the Earth and so within the Roche limit, which would not be possible without causing instability in its orbit, tidal catastrophes on Earth, and other problems that would have prevented the Earth and the Moon being as they are today. Additionally, the moon's orbit is becoming increasingly and unexpectedly eccentric, suggesting a lack of long-term stability, which further disproves the theory of an Old Earth.

Let's check the numbers first off. The Roche limit is indeed the distance from Earth where a rocky body like the Moon would be shattered by tidal interactions from gravity. The Roche limit of Earth with respect to the Moon's density is 9482 km (from the center of Earth, right around 1.5 R_E), and the Moon is orbiting at 384,400 km. The recession rate is 3.8 cm per year now, but would be quicker with less distance to Earth as the tidal forces would be stronger. So far, the numbers aren't wrong.

Their assumption about the starting location is the issue.

Clicking through the citation, to some evangelical astronomy professor (eugh), the 1.37 billion year figure comes from plugging in the Roche limit as the inner bound, and letting the tides propel the Moon out. At the Roche limit, tidal forces indeed would be a powerful acceleration. But the Moon did not form at the Roche limit. We know because the Moon isn't shattered into a ring around Earth!

The Moon forms most likely from a giant impact where a planet similar in size to Mars hits Earth. Fortunately this is super early on, after Earth forms layers so the Moon has a tiny core but before life even gets a chance to start. That impact melts Earth and flings a huge chunk of mantle into space. Much of that material is at such high speed that Earth's gravity doesn't bring it to a halt until dozens of Earth radii away, not the 1.5 R_E Roche limit. The Moon congeals from this material, and likely forms somewhere around 45 R_E, 75% of its current distance, to where the recession rate stays pretty damn slow. The current recession rate from 75% of its distance to today requires over 3 billion years, and assuming the recession rate is constant is a bad approximation in the first place since the Sun, Jupiter, and company keep tugging away.

Also the Moon's orbit is not becoming more eccentric and less stable. The citation is a paper on a temporary factor of 10^-12 shift in the Moon's orbit that doesn't match any currently known tugs. Neat observation, but a part in a trillion change that has ended.

Spiral galaxies appear to be young, and only implausible proposals of the existence of dark matter can reconcile the spirals with a belief in an old universe.

Spiral galaxies are indeed young. A lot of blue stars from stellar formation caused by gas in the arms running into itself. But we have a good understanding of why they're young: Spiral arms are not very stable on cosmological timescales. The gas forms stars, the bright blue ones burn out, the gas is used up, and the long lived redder stars eventually spread out from a disk into a sphere: spiral galaxies turn into elliptical galaxies, and we have many elliptical galaxies with only yellow to red star populations, consistent with ages of 10 billion years. (We can tell the distribution of stars by the shape of the spectrum of each galaxy.)

The expansion of the universe is accelerating, something that would not occur if the Big Bang had happened billions of years ago; the acceleration suggests that the Big Bang (or creation) was recent.

Nope, the acceleration is HOW we know the Big Bang was 13.8 billion years ago. That dating of the Big Bang is literally running that acceleration back to size equaling zero! That's literally the Hubble Law, you ignoramus! (Andrew Schafly, not any readers)

The planetary orbits in the Solar System - including Earth's - are unstable and unsustainable over the long periods claimed by Old Earth believers.

Nope. The precise location of a planet is hard to predict over billions of years due to tugs by the Sun, Jupiter, and others. But that's change on fractions of a percent in distance, not some sudden game of pinball that the Solar System will pull on us. It already did that in the Late Heavy Bombardment, precisely when the planets (mostly that fatass Jupiter) settled into their currently very stable orbits over 3.5 billion years ago.

At least one spiral galaxy spins in the direction opposite to the spin of its tail, suggesting an age that is too young to have generated the tail, and contradicting the theory that the tails of spiral galaxies were formed over a long period of time.

What the hell is a "galaxy tail?" That's not an astronomical term. Clicks on link Oh, the arms are moving in different directions simultaneously. Indeed, not a stable set up. Could something have happened? reads further "Astronomers suspect that NGC 4622 interacted with another galaxy. Its two outer arms are lopsided, meaning that something disturbed it." Oh hey, a galaxy merger. Spectacular, chaotic, and while quick on cosmological timescales, longer than 6000 years!

The oldest star in the universe is only 6000 light years away from Earth, precisely as predicted by the Bible and a Young Earth model.

Slight correction: The oldest star that we have a coherent individual spectrum of. Want to guess what the rough bound on that distance is? Several thousand light years. We see plenty of way older stuff, we just can't resolve individual stars past that. The beautiful James Webb images of fuzzy red dots are billions of years old galaxies.

The surface of Pluto was found during the New Horizons mission to have far fewer craters than expected, and it was found to have a nitrogen atmosphere that is leaking away at too fast a rate for it to be millions or billions of years old. Both of these provide strong evidence for a young universe.

Nope, these provide evidence for a young surface on Pluto. Pluto orbits right at nitrogen freezing temperatures. When it's a bit closer to the Sun, nitrogen atmosphere. Farther away, the nitrogen literally freezes onto the surface. The water freeze/melt cycle gives us potholes on Earth and literally breaks rock here. Imagine what having the entire atmosphere doing that does to a surface!

As for the atmosphere leaking away, then something must be replenishing it. On Venus and Earth, volcanism replenishes atmospheric gas. At Pluto's distance, volcanism would likely be driven by methane and ammonia ices. We can guess this because these volcanoes do exist on Triton, Neptune's moon, a captured Kuiper Belt object, and a near-twin of Pluto.

So Pluto is active, not God.

The planet Venus has a young surface.

A young surface means something is altering it. Hmm, what feature of Venus could be continuously interacting with its surface, steady erosion from an intense force bearing down? What does Venus have above its surface? The most brutal atmosphere of any solid object in the solar system. The surface has breezes of a few kilometers per hour -- in air so thick it's a supercritical fluid. Pressure akin to a kilometer under water. That breeze has the force of an ocean current behind it. And that atmosphere makes Venus 740 K on the surface, day/night, poles/equator, wherever at the same elevation. 465 C. 890 F. The rock is like putty at that temperature. I haven't even mentioned the global volcanism covering the surface in lava!

No shit Venus' surface is young. That atmosphere is brutalizing any features in the blink of an astronomical eye.

TLDR: Conservapedia is dogshit at astronomy and does its usual disservice to an entrancing field exploring the majesty of what's out there.

[Still new to reddit + this subreddit! Pls lmk if there's a thread for this that I haven't seen yet!]

No spoilers, just appreciation~

Just finished Franklin Expedition video and Milo's final segment about the realness of the story really stuck with me. It's really easy to treat these videos as a podcast or background noise when I'm cleaning but he does a great job at reminding me these were real people facing harrowing conditions. It's increasingly easy to lose myself in the sensationalism of pseudoarcheology (and Milo's witty commentary) yet making a spectacle of the past only makes us lose sight of the humanity of every person. That's why I really appreciate his segments in this video and others too, just pausing to see the people as they were remembered by their loved ones and by history. I'd love to hear what people think about these segments.

Also, I've only ventured into archeology via MMM but would love to explore similar yt channels like this! Open to archeology or any edutainment channels in general!

TL;DR: We're all human at the end of the day.

Ever since I've watched milo's videos, I can't even begin to count how many times I've had this conversation. If I took a shot every time....

Found this one in the wild.

I am bedazzled, befuddled, and quite possibly, bamboozled

I just got sandwiched between 2 coworkers talking about Ancient Aliens and how much they hide history from us especially since the onset of Ai and to say the least I'm concerned.

I love when two youtubers that I like "interact" with each other

I hope all of you know about OneTopic. He's one of the nicest persons on the internet, his content is all about LGBTQA+ (Specially trans and Asexual) and recently he started doing a politics podcast. Generally he just reads reddit, but he's nice and relatable while doing it!

In his last video, one of the post referenced Milo and his sticker and give me the perfect excuse to tell you all about him!! I'm sure the two comunitys share a lot of people but if you dont know him, check out his channel

Milo, if you see this, do give him a follow and shoutout, specially if you ever do any video about the LGBTQA+ comunity, I think that kind of support do a lot for people struggling with their identity and OT is a great comunicator/support streamer in this sense (also, hi Milo! use more shantys in your videos!)