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How much LSD should you give an elephant?

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@ozanashelia From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 608
My hamster couldn't wait 100,000 heartbeats before attempting to escape the cage and fight my cat. Inevitably, we will die
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@achpek13 From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 6
Make an old phrase "spherical cow in vacuum" great again 🤣
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3:49 americans explaining energy consumption: imagine half a burger
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From the intro I was thinking "this sounds very much like that book I read about scale", very glad credit was given in the script.
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@yayser From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 691
1:40 why not give him a tiny amount and try to increase it if it doesnt work. They were true idiots and killed that animal!
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Original title: Why has Tusko gone insane, from peacefully eating apples to violently shitting them while tripping balls?
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@lunakid12 From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 652
Why ON EARTH those idiots did not just try to gradually increase the dose from basically nothing, say with a "bin search" method, instead of killing an elephant instantly with "oops, wrong guess"?!
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This is the Veritasium I fell in love with.
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@Charles37400 From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 1600
Not even 5 minutes in and we already doing spherical cows

Edit: jesus f*ing christ im gone 3 hours and i have 1k likes. Thanks people, glad to see so many other physics nerds who know the joke.
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RIP Tusko. What a sad and cruel fate.
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@genentropy From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 825
"Am I joke to you?" - the Naked Mole Rat (FOUR billion heartbeats)
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@AG-ld6rv From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 723
Imagine being the 1960s scientist who had to explain to the zoo director that you accidentally mathematically miscalculated an elephant to death.
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@Rise876 From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 1500
I'm so sorry Tusko.
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@arijeet5035 From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 2300
Justice for Tusko😢
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That was the most passive generous description of mk ultra I've ever heard
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@CyberGenesis1 From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 1100
"I'm not fat, I'm metabolically efficient"
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"How much LSD should you give an elephant?"

What a way to begin a video.
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@mareofgyucgy From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 12000
The original title was how much LSD to give an elephant btw 😊
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@aimeeaveys From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 11000
"Let's assume our animals are perfect spheres."
- the standard physicist
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@veritasium From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 284
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