Starlift Video
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These were incomplete comments about a video about "Starlift" that was suggested. I added a few things, but it's nowhere complete as a review of the video.
Why Starlift?
Hydrogen
Other elements
Create heavy elements by transmutation (Star does it?)
Extend the star's lifetime
Decrease the star's brightness
Make new stars
Prevent stars from exploding
"Create heavy elements by Transmutation" -- How do we create the heavy elements? We do it by Transmutation. What is "Transmutation"? It's the process of turning one type of nucleus into another. Something's circular about that, apart from being totally uninformative.
The narrator appeared to get things right somehow or other, yet I couldn't help sensing that things were horribly wrong. He seemed to slip things over on us, slipping over (and omitting) critical aspects. I concluded that as one primary error, he lacked any sense of scale.
I only watched the first few minutes, and had to rewatch to recall certain things. I noticed 23 or 27 minutes left. I didn't want to watch the whole thing.