How Many Body Parts Can You Live Without? ⚡️

In this month’s Lightning Round video, I look up the deadliest job in the world, how much of your body you can lose and continue living, talk about bias in the media, and why depression might be a good thing.

Here's the links to the websites I pulled up in the video:

About dangerous jobs:
Studies on the evolutionary benefits of depression:
Evolutionary theory and the treatment of depression: It is all about the squids and the sea bass
The bright side of being blue: Depression as an adaptation for analyzing complex problems:

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Chair Spin
1:21 - What's More Dangerous - Space Travel or Deadliest Catch?
6:03 - Depression
10:03 - Why Does One Sock Go Missing?
12:37 - Political Leanings of News Outlets?
21:47 - New Patreons and Members
23:06 - How Many Organs Can You Lose?
27:32 - Sponsor - Factor

[joescott]

Ironically, I say in the video that I might have 2 million subscribers by the time my next lightning round video came out, and then it wound up happening before this one went out! This last month has been a bit wild, to say the least. So let me take this opportunity to welcome all the new people and say thanks to the OG viewers as it also marks roughly 10 years that I've been doing this channel on a regular basis. Thanks a million (or two!)

[earthfall]

Edit: My calculation was also off, cause I miss interpreted what the population term meant. It isn't the total amount of people who have ever been to space, its the amount of people who were in space at any given time. To really get the astronaut deaths into the same format you would need to calculate how many people died in space in a given year, divide that by the average number of people who were in space that year, and do that for each of the 63 years and then average the result to account for the wild variations in the death rate.
End of edit.

At 4:24 there was a mistake in the risk per year calculations. You don’t need to divide the risk of the astronauts by the number of years, because that was already accounted for earlier in the equation. Because the number of deaths, and the total number of astronauts numbers you used were both over the same time period. When you divided those numbers you divided how many astronauts died in 63 years by how many astronauts there were in 63 years, so that time was already accounted for. If you want to convert to the same format as the king crab deaths were presented in, ie deaths per 100, 000 per year, you use the Mortality Rate formula. From the Mortality rate Wikipedia page:

“In a generic form, [1]: 189  mortality rates can be seen as calculated using

(d/p) * 10^n

where d represents the deaths from whatever cause of interest is specified that occur within a given time period, p represents the size of the population in which the deaths occur (however this population is defined or limited), and 10^n is the conversion factor from the resulting fraction to another unit (e.g., multiplying by 10^3 to get mortality rate per 1, 000 individuals, 10^5 to get mortality rate per 100, 000 individuals).”

In our case we are trying to get mortality rate of deaths/100, 000/year so plugging in the 19 deaths in the time period and 681 astronauts in the time period we get

(19/681) * 10^5 = 2790

2790 deaths per 100, 000 per year. This is much higher than the 356 deaths per 100, 000 per year for crab fishing. Which makes sense, because over 2 percent of all astronauts have died, which is wildly high. If over 2 percent of all crab fishers died that would be SO MANY crab fishers.

[robertnoonan]

Yes, Joe, you can live without a stomach. I have been doing it since 2003 as a result of stage 3 stomach cancer. The surgeon has to remodel ones intestines to retain the duodenum which has connections to some other vital organs, and learning to eat solids again takes a few months. Then it all happened again in 2008 when I had some pre-cancerous polyps in my large intestine and had a partial removal of it, called a "right hemicolectomy". This also reduces one's digestive capabilities, and again took a few months to get onto full solid diet. Bu all that was 16 years and more in the past and I am now living my best life at the age of 78 (in 2 weeks), fit as a bull and not a spare ounce of fat anywhere on me. Greetings from Australia.

[davedujour]

In High School my brother had to do a persuasive speech on whatever topic they chose. Several people chose Big Topics (abortion, nuclear power, etc.). My brother gave a speech on how the Washing Machine was trying to blame the Dryer on stealing all of the socks.

[TribalGuitars]

I worked at 2 appliance stores. I've delivered, installed, and repaired 100s of washers and dryers. You would be amazed at what I've pulled out of them. Not just socks, but also shirts and underwear of all kinds. Water takes the path of least resistance and takes things with it. Also, there can be a gap that forms and often widens under the agitator of top-loaders that will let clothing items get pulled under where they can become trapped or ripped apart (all at once or eventually) and goes out the drain holes.

[voidcore]

You've essentially calculated the chance that any of the 681 people who have been to space, would have died trying to go to space in any of the last 63 years. This is a problem because it is quite hard to die trying to go into space in a year you don't try to go into space.

[surg]

A study was done comparing “normal” vs depressed individuals with identification of patterns. Depressed people were statistically more likely to correct determining if a pattern was present, whereas “normal” people consistently overestimate when a pattern was present. This suggested “normal” people lacked adequate skepticism.

[bobdeath]

The sock dilemma: While tumbling in the dryer, just moments before the cycle ends a static charge builds up in the load. This combined with rotational vecter, a small gap opens in time-space allowing small items (ie : single sock or glove) to fall out of our dimension and enter some type ov void :)

[DEADisBEAUTIFUL]

Losing organs and limbs and body parts… There is a short story by Stephen King called Survivor Type. It’s about a doctor who ended up surviving a plane crash…but the tiny island he found himself on had basically nothing in the way of being able to eat, having shelter, et cetera. The doctor ends up having to resort to performing surgery on himself and figure out how he was going to eat…how many surgeries could he survive? It is one of the best short horror stories I’ve ever read.

[bassman]

Note that the question about which body parts we could lose said, "And still live normally".
Losing certain organs or parts might be survivable, but losing some of the parts Joe mentioned would leave the individual unable to stay alive without some kind of extreme assistance from other people or machines. That could not be considered living normally.
Many people have lost limbs and certain internal organs and were able to take care of themselves and do normal things, but there's a limit. If survival is dependent on being kept alive by a machine, then it is no longer normal.

[snorapa]

You cant divide the space deaths % by years!! If you want to do it by years you have to calculate death % per year for each year (astronauts or space trips /deaths for each year) and then average it out.

[elainebelzDetroit]

Not all traits we have are selected for and/or have an evolutionary advantage; they're just not selected against. For example, illnesses of old age don't get selected against because they don't affect individuals' ability to procreate.

[jasonmcelroy]

You're not selling out with the chair spin because it's _your thing._ Great to see it back, Joe!

[Souchirouu]

Ads have broken journalism. When a large chunk or even all your income comes from advertisement the ad provider holds immense power over your content and it does so with a soft touch. News that is covered in a way that encourages their biases/bottom line/political views will get more and more valuable ads while negative or critical coverage will receive less or even nothing. Then over time writers will learn how to write in a way to optimize for this and you get the current media landscape. Journalism is basically dead at this point. I am sure any European has noticed how similar their local news has become to American news, similar topics, similar takes on those topics and most notable is what is not mentioned at all.

[__cypher__]

My missing sock solution is simple. I only buy the same socks. When I lose a sock I save the other one. That way when I lose the next sock, I have a match!

[Stonegolem]

Your math seems a bit off, those 100k people crab fishing are crab fishing multiple years. You need total deaths vs total people who ever went crab fishing, not the number of times people went crab fishing, vs total number of people who went to space.

[UltraZelda]

This channel actually feels whole once again with the return of the chair spin in the last two videos. That alone is deserving of a like.

Hell yeah... THE CHAIR SPIN IS BACK!!!

[johncliffalvarez]

If I haven’t stressed it enough before, I absolutely LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!

[socalcol]

I'm ashamed to admit, I often skipped the announcements of the new patrons. But you did it. I want to be blessed by Zoey. I'm watching them again.

[bookhouse]

Whoa whoa whoa - your statistics math went off the rails.

Whether you’re talking about a year, or 60+ years, the rate is proportional. No dividing of the percentage by years was required. The death rate for space is about 7.8 times higher than the crab fishing (by these numbers).