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What if you threw a baseball at nearly light speed? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh is that him?

I was going to be disappointed that someone was just reading them, rather than directing people to the original source, but if it's the source reading them, I'm rather happy, but the absorber doesn't get the foot notes or image caption things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that's him. He's listed in the credits:

Narrated by and based on "What If" by Randall Monroe

I would never have shared it if it were just some random person freebooting his content.

You do make a good point about the footnotes and mouseover text. I wonder if there would be some way to weave them into the videos. Perhaps inserting them as a single fleeting frames? It's a shame YouTube got rid of annotations, as the "hidden annotations" seem like they'd be a perfect fit for this.