Aside from the loss meme, this depends on unaccounted for factors:
- C: it's windy
- D: rope is tied
- B: chopper broke loose
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2026
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The loss virus is only triggered when the picture makes no sense. So this one took a while
~~Why are there two images for B, C and~~
goddammit.
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Loss
This one was still over my head, but you gave me just enough to look it up. For anyone similarly confused.
I commend you for making it this far on the internet without encountering it.
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Fucking ell...
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Im glad my own path to despair has been walked by others.
Oh goddammit.
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Fuck!!! It took me waaaaay too long to get this shit. I'm at a loss as to why I didn't see it immediately.
Why would they even put D ... ah fuck!
~~:.|:;~~
Dammit
I'm at a complete loss.
Fuuuuuuuck.
The answer is D because there's no indication that the rope is untied. The helicopter starts his trajectory but loses control and spins out and crashes, this is the hidden frame
Sounds like that could lead to loss. Of life.
[For people wanting the answerthis was the subject of a Veritasium video.
for people who don't want to click the link
It's B.
Don’t support Veritasium
What's the story? What'd they do?
I hate this so much,
Someone is mentioned on Lemmy and there is always a drive by comment saying don't support X or X is a bad person with no context whatsoever. No mention of what specifically they are accused of doing/saying, no way to figure out if that clashes with your values or not, no documentation etc.
And subjectively it feels like half the time I research why this might be true it's debatable at best, I assume because if there was compelling evidence the person doing the drive by would have linked it.
Don't support u/Agent641
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Sold out to some venture capital firm.
I didn’t know he did that. He was shit long before that. Here’s my comment:
He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.
So what? If he gets a good offer for what he built, why shouldn't he be allowed to sell his own channel. His content is still good. I prefer independent creators but he's in full right to sell of what he made. He doesn't owe the community content or to stay independent
Personally I've noticed topics covered by smaller content creators, explaining almost the exact same thing (minus maybe a few details like some random guy's age), uploaded a few weeks before, and then suddenly Veritasium decides to cover the topic with basically the exact same info over a longer time span.
Not to mention the clickbait titles and thumbnails, less focus on the technical side of topics and more on the emotional/personal side, and the whole selling out to private equity thing.
He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.
According to Wikipedia
In 2004, Muller graduated from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics. Muller moved to Australia to study film-making; however, he instead enrolled for a PhD in physics education research from the University of Sydney, which he completed in 2008 with the thesis, Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education.
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Do we have to worry about the loss of ve loss ity?
0 is a constant speed.
Yes, but then it wouldn't be flying "to the right" as it says.
If the helicopter is suspended in the air, it's flying. To the right is simply a frame of reference, if I'm driving to the left then it appears as though the helicopter is going to the right, so the speed can be 0.
Now this is the kind of technically right I can get behind.
Yes, but not one where we would typically consider something to be 'flying horizontally'.
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