“All we’ve ever known is low-g and an atmosphere we can’t breathe. Earthers get to walk outside into the light, breathe pure air, look up at a blue sky, and see something that gives them hope. And what do they do? They look past that light, past that blue sky. They see the stars, and they think, ‘Mine’.”
@@Plethorality This is no laughing matter. Simon doesn't fool around when dispensing facts. He has devoted an enlightening video to each of the planets, including one with the straight poop on Uranus.
I'm 35, and I find it really depressing people haven't even been back to the moon during my lifetime. I know there have been a lot of interesting discoveries and images of space stuff, but I would really like to see a person walk on another planet, hopefully soon.
It's more depressing to know that around half of today's teenagers think that the bad "found footage" horror movie Apollo 18 where astronauts were murdered by rock aliens actually happened.
@@TheItalianTrash are u trying to tell me that "Apollo 18" wasn't a documentary of true events, and those astronauts weren't really murdered by rock aliens ? im sure next you'll be claiming that the moon landing footage was shot at a studio in Arizona or something, right ?
Imagine how different astronomy would be if instead of asteroids they were named spaceballs, and Vesta would be a princess. Thanks Bosley for the glorious moichendizin.
20:57 - "if you're a big enough nerd..." I humbly submit that we are ALL big enough nerds. At the very least for watching this video all the way through.
Ceres has interested me since they discovered those hydrated salts in '15. I'm glad you covered it. The history of astronomy deep in our system was well done, too. I knew all of it already, but you still made it pleasing to watch.
That's why his comment about Ceres potentially having more water than Earth is so absurd. Even if Ceres, (434 million km³) was made 100% of water, it would still fall well short of the 1.386 billion km³ of water volume on Earth.
Quickly followed by an even better one when you think about it. The man who sniffed out Uranus proposed these new tiny objects be named ass-ter-rhoids. The rectal puns don’t get a-hole lot better than that. (Nope, not sorry for that one either.)
Calling Pluto a dwarf planet instead of a planet is a reclassification, not a demotion. It doesn't change Pluto's importance to science. The name simply better reflects Pluto's origin and role in the solar system.
in my opinion, ceres is a case study in how wondrous the worlds beyond our own really are. that what was once considered an asteroid is one of the greatest hopes for life
In all honesty, I was born in the early 1970's. From an early age I could name the whole solar system in order, and knew the difference between an astronaut and a cosmonaut. I could tell astounded adults all the different space programmes, and I'd never heard of Ceres until about five years ago. 😢
@@DanyullEdween why does some low ego fuck always have to come in and shit all over someone else's passion? OP, I also grew up obsessed with space and hadnt heard of Ceres until the start of the Dawn mission. After being demoted from planet status it was largely viewed as a non factor, prior to the adoption of dwarf planets as a class
"There's evidence for this abundance of H2O too" not ""There's evidence for this abundance of H2O2" which made my ears perk up because that would be crazy
I once had an idea for a testable hypothesis for why Bode's Law might appear to work for the innermost planets. It was during a 3rd year celestial mechanics course when I learned the general solution to the 3 or more body problem in Newtonian mechanics could not be solved. (Einsteinian mechanics are even worse because the general 2 body problem could not be solved.) We studied a restricted three body problem where the main body was far more massive than the second and the third body was of negligible mass. The solution to that problem leads to the calculation of the 5 Lagrange positions of equal gravitation. The James Webb Telescope currently occupies L3. Bode's Law might be a metastable solution for the many objects which form our Solar System. Uranus does not fit well and Neptune is way off because these planets have not orbited enough times to achieve their positions of metastability. Saturn, the last planet which follows Bode's Law has completed 150 million orbits while Neptune only 26 million orbits. My hypothesis at the time had the benefit of being impossible to disprove at the time because the computing power necessary to run the simulation did not exist in 1973. It does now and anyone who wants to should feel free to prove me wrong.
I don't have the computing power available (unless this temperamental desktop I'm currently using counts) nor the expertise to program it. I however would be curious about the results if someone were to run a simulation and ascertain if the outer gas giants would resonate if given enough time.
Humbly requesting George Carlin. A comedian and satirist who oftentimes hit the nail more than just on the head; and whose bits were infinitely more than just satire. The guy was a comedian, satirist, begrudged philosopher, and even the narrative voice of Thomas the Train.
Wow Simon, you are a busy busy boy. We got a Geographics, Biographics, Megaprojects, Today I found out, Top Tenz, and Brain Blaze all in one day! Simon are you taking steroids or some sort of performance enhancer? Because you are content beast!
And when the police (celestial or otherwise) come ‘round to get comments from us we can all say, “but he always seemed like such a nice, friendly guy.”
Considering I've long known both facts, I can't believe it's only just hit me: The discoverer of Uranus also gave as[s]teroids their name! The only thing that kinda ruins it of course is that Herschel actually wanted to call it George, after his patron George IV. (Hey, the guy knew which side his bread was buttered on!) The name that gained currency in the literature and eventually stuck came from a pair of Germans who had no idea what it sounded like in English.
1. The name stuck as the rest of the planets are named after the Roman pantheon. 2. The German word for anus is also Anus. 3. I don't think you understand how close languages German and English are, considering English is s Germanic language.
@@King_Cova but your is Dein in German, so Uranus isn't quite the same in English and German no matter how closely the languages are related. It's not that it ends in anus, but that it sounds like your anus.
@@almostideal1306 Don't really know why it would annoy you, the Romans are of Greek decent, had Latin names for their gods, eventually came back across Greece and realised their pantheon of Gods were exactly the same only with different names.
@@King_Cova I am aware English and German share a common root, though English has more in common with Dutch and even more with Frisian, at least before the Norse got to it and messed up the grammar.
The microbiologists would have a field day with the potential specimens for study that they could extract by means of a drilling satellite probe sent to Ceres! A planet with life that is still just beginning!
my son Is in Aerospace. He and his group put up a mirco satellite to study plasma pulse engines. people have NO CONCEPT of how much crap they have to do to get something in space. legally. mechanically. financially. their satellite was the size of a boot box. the actual engine was the size of a lawn mower. they had to prove, once launched. tested and studied, it would fall out of orbit and burn up in the atmosphere. $20,000. burned up. and it could stay in orbit for no more that 2 months. cant tell you about what the found out about it, but they were extremely happy. $20k worth every dime. people say "nasa canceled the probe" like it was a personal slight to them. no. nasa has (for example) $100M to spend. they tell people to submit their proposals. the one that can show the most bang for the buck, usually wins. the rest have to regroup and try again. When you have $30k to spend on a car. you may want the Lambo, Ferrari and Mercedes. but you are gonna get a used mustang. sorry.
Yeah but NASA DID cancel it. It wasn't a hypothetical design build, a proof of concept or a bid. The design was already approved, the probe was already being built and the mission was already planned.
No no. People know EXACTLY how much goes into even the smallest of space missions. That’s why people are so impressed by them. It isn’t some secret hardship.
@@ScaryAppul-114 I believe it was Natalie Starkey, she was talking about how the briney solution combined with the extreme temperatures created more of a semifrozen sludge. I suppose some of my own irrational fear makes me view them as horrifying, but drowning in ice lava sounds incredibly unappealing to me.
@@archgeneral509 Yea they basically spew extremely salty slush and chunks of ice, so they're not friendly. Interestingly enough, a feature many larger lakes here on Earth that freeze up share with cryo-volcanism is they can form their own little "ice volcano's". Basically ice breaks up, gets pushed up into huge piles on shore and then if the water gets rough it can sometimes surge up through the cracks in the ice and spew out like a volcano.
