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How to Win an Interstellar War
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2023–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 72 other explainer videos tagged Cosmology & astrophysics, the mean is 2.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 2.5 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2023–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 11 minutes 5 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2023-11-15.
- Channel / speaker
- Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
- Verified runtime
- 11m 5s
- YouTube upload date
- 2023-11-15
- Hacker News mention years
- 2023–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Cosmology & astrophysics. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to Win an Interstellar WarCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 25% | — | 11m 5s | 2023-11-15 |
| The Solar Gravitational Lens will Map Exoplanets. Seriously.explainer · Launch Pad Astronomy | 10 | 9 | 65% | No recorded overlap | 23m 32s | 2020-07-18 |
| A new way to visualize General Relativityexplainer · ScienceClic English | 8 | 6 | 89% | No recorded overlap | 11m 33s | 2020-09-03 |
| How to Understand What Black Holes Look Likeexplainer · Veritasium | 8 | 4 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 9m 19s | 2019-04-09 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
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