How far away is the Nearest Star? 

Lol me too

that doesn't even make sense he just said pluto was further away in the park -_-

@@hotsmine1573 he said Neptune

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Damn, so he drove across the ocean?

Given that he drove to Spain i would assume he combines the trip with his holiday vacation.

@@HR-yd5ib true

@@HR-yd5ib A really shitty holiday cos he forgot his golf clubs.

@@CorkyMcButterpants , how do you know?

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Bruh, I randomly watched a random space video two days ago and now half of my feed is random space videos. Obviously, I keep watching them because I'm here

@@CelticOrlanignore em

RU-vid: Hmmm, he watched a space video. I'll give him another one. You: You watch it. RU-vid: Ah! He loves space videos! I'll inundate his feed with space videos!

Nope. But the sun could be pushed closer to the center of the galaxy by gravitational forces. This, in turn, could cause global warming.

​@@Erdbeerschorsch2011and higher food prices

⁠@@Erdbeerschorsch2011personally i'd be more worried about the catastrophic effects of global warming by 2100 stopping us before we get to that point

​​@@Erdbeerschorsch2011 And would be bad for the stock market

@@Erdbeerschorsch2011 and this would totally impact the trout population

Yes and in a jet he can go to Andromeda

I can't believe he drove 745mi just for this YT video!

@@allancouceiro9255 That looked like the same golf ball to me.

I don’t think that’s impossible for a guy who holds the Sun with bare hands.

@@user-jc6pr5el5g the money he made with his video more than makes for it

700+ miles I could drive and still be in Texas. He went through 3 countries. Man.

Maybe he was going there anyways and decided to make an educational video at the same time

@@gtownwr That is Europe. There are places, you can visit four countries in less than a half day with a car. Or you can visit three countries by foot in some hours.

Hopefully he was already going to Spain on vacation and the video was an afterthought. If not and he indeed traveled that far just to make this video, that's freaking awesome, Man!

Give him views to pay the tab for that trip.

This is a remake of an American who did it in the U.S. about 15 years ago.

@@blaster-zy7xxEvery generation every RU-vid video gets remade for the new generation.

It's 5 years ago, that's like 2015...oh

@@floopyy_1995 was 57 years ago.

@@sandro327 29 years, I'm not that old.

thats also my thoughts, even if we somehow got at the speed of light, the closest star is still years aways.

@@anto_fire8534 I think If we manage to move with the speed of light we for sure will also have a way to teleport

@@eliteknight2137 I guess

It's an exciting idea but we will never travel to the stars. Even if there are other civilisations out there the distances are just too vast. And they, like us, will be condemned to travel through space at a snail's pace. Let's just make sure we look after Planet Earth.

We'll find a way to freeze ourselves for 70.000 years on the way there.

If star were a stripper

Ever heard of instant transmission??

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@@QuincyStallworth77 I use to know one named star I wasted lots of money

I do have same thought

I was wondering if a University paid!

Is it a great visualization though? I don't even have a good intuition about the difference between a golfball diameter and the distance to the next town over, let alone UK and Spain. I would have to do the math to have any idea how many golfballs away that is. If I can't intuit it within like an order of magnitude, i'd say it doesn't even meet the qualification to be a visualization. If the star was actually at he other side of the park, maybe this part would be useful. But we havent even touched on the comparison between the diameter of the sun and the golfball, so any intuition we could have gained from the analogy fails here again. How many golfballs is the sun? No clue, I'd have to pull out my calculator (and google). The only way this is in any way helpful is if you've never ever actually even seen the numbers on how far the next star is and in that case it'll just make you go "wow, that's really far (how far? no idea, just really far)". I'd say just saying the star is 4 * 10^13 km away gives at least as good of an idea, but I'd argue much better.

@@s1mppeli what a comment... bet you can't measure how insufferable you are

@@s1mppeli 🤓

Bad news, our galaxy and the andromeda galaxy are on a collision course and will eventually hit each other. The good news is it isn't due to start for another 3.5bn years. And unbelievably, space is that big and us so insignificantly tiny that scientists don't believe it will be an extinction event.

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@@craigseddon4884The star density far from galaxy center (and we are far) is so low, that the probability that another star would even come close enough for us to feel it in any way is negligible.

@asmodean7239 exactly, I think compared to most people I have a reasonable grasp of how vast the universe is and how utterly tiny Earth or even our solar system is. But even so, two galaxies, each with 100 trillion stars and a plethora more of planets colliding and almost all coming out relatively unscathed seems an impossible thought.

@@Regarded69 no, five billion years before they predict that will start

Probably had another reason to drive there because i think most wouldnt do that for a few minutes video.

@@koona1992 you deserve a hard punch to the face. He's wasted all that time, fuel and money to make one pathetic video to show what "scientists" believe without justifiable evidence.

i hope he didnt make all this trip just for video. still fun video

@@RevGary Obviously he went there on holiday.

@@RevGary I'm sorry but you must be talking to the wrong person because I was talking to the person who said 'Why?!' not the main comment. I thought that putting his name first then saying what I have to say, would help identify who I'm talking to but apparently you fail to see that.

And don't forget the light we see is not the actual star itself, it is the light it emitted that has travelled many light years to get to us

@@TheComputec a lot of the stars we “see” don’t even exist anymore. Their light takes so long to reach us that we essentially see thing millions of years in the past.

​@@TheComputec Well, it *_is_* from the actual star itself, it's just old light.

​@@stevienguyen2047not exactly. A million light years is almost halfway to the Andromeda galaxy.

@@stevienguyen2047 And everything around you as well. People, cars, cities, the planet. It's all not really there, only a memory that you interact with.

You're just describing what happens in the video. The only difference is you place an imaginary friend on the nearest star.

Could have been worse what if he had used a football.

Seany Carolan he would circle the earth and come back to his garden again 😂

it would not make such a good video

@@smd2030 wtf 😂😂😂

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Now imagine 100 billion light years

​@@rchycola7744 most of these stars are dead already.... ☠

@@rchycola7744the universe is 93 billion light years across (that we know of)

Doesn't light lose intensity over distance? How bright do objects have to be for us to perceive them as being billions of miles away?

@@ruledbysaturni think they redshift.

Jokes on you, France lets everyone in

@@isaacbruner65 lol

There are no hard borders in the EU

There are (in General) no border controls in the Schengen area :D

@@isaacbruner65 He didn't say the dude was not going to be allowed in, was just asked the purpose of the trip.

Actually laughed out loud. I'll be smirking to myself all day. Ta.

Proxima centauri is in the milky way, think u have to go to the moon for andromeda lol

Actually, I'm pretty sure you need to drive to another Planet for that. :D

If the sun is as small as the ball in the clip, then the dad would need to drive his son all the way pass Jupiter in order to reach Andromeda galaxy

@@kuribayashi84 i am thinking the other side of the planet

This is all I thought about the whole drive. Is it a testament to how bright stars are? or how incredibly dark and empty the universe is? How far of a drive is a star in Andromeda? on a clear night we can see Andromeda. How is it possible that we can see light from that far away?

And that thier heat can still essentially cook us alive. I think about that stuff sometimes too

Pretty sure Andromeda is something like hundreds of million of light years. The lights we perceive now was emitted when humanoids were in very early development, only reaching us now

​@@Sentinel_ICBM​Andromeda is over 2.5 million light years away, as compared to the star exampled here, which is 4 light years away. He would have to drive 466,250,000 miles to reach the equivalent in this model, well past the orbit of Jupiter which is 365,000,000 miles away in real life. Since there is not much to alter light wave lengths in space, and since these objects are incredibly bright, the light can still reach us.

@@kylewit924 way before humans my friend. Creatures we would recognise as humans are in the range of 135,000 years and 2 Million years old depending on your definition of human

You need to imagine first a port of entry between France and Spain

He didn’t take the Ports of Spain. I believe you meant France.

They would point him toward Antonio Banderas

Thought the same

Brexit shits will have to state that in the future, yes.

Why would he record the journey back?

oof

That would be cool, hes already got the journey there.

@@zebran4 he would remember that he didnt record the journey to spay

He couldn't have driven all the way to Spain to convey his point a/b 'space distance between our Sun and the nearest star'.....he's probably got a 'mama sita' there, waiting for him ~

Wow, fascinating perspective, thanks !

= 30 m/h or 30 meters per hour which is 0.5 m per min, so about the speed of a garden snail. I converted the speed into units easier for us to understand. 0.030 km/h is difficult to imagine so it doesn't help you appreciate how slow light must be travelling in this analogy.

@@GonzoTehGreat So, if a common garden snail can drag itself to Spain from the UK in its lifetime and humans can somehow find a way to move at the speed of light, then there still is a chance???

@@JohnMcCulloch75 yes due to relativity there is a chance

@@pasarell2222 Hahahaha equating the energy output of a star to a 3 volt light torch is so funny.

The farthest away ones that we still see with our naked I are hundreds of times farther

The fact that they interact gravitationally (in form of galaxy) is much more mind blowing , given that gravity decreases in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.

To be fair there isn’t much in the way and no curvature

it is a source, that will EVENTUALLY reach a recipient.. If you fart, it does not dissipate, it will reach the other side of planet.

The only reason you wouldn't be able to see it would be light pollution from the much bigger light sources, the sun and other stars. If there was no other light in the universe I would bet you could see a lit light bulb from any distance, as long as the light from it has had enough time to reach you.

If it were a basketball he would have driven less...

@@matty7758 Nopo, a lot more

@@matty7758 incorrect the smaller the scale the smaller the distance.

@@matty7758 what? does that mean that proxima centauri and the sun are actually closer than england and spain?

@@matty7758 i bet you feel pretty stupid now...

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I thought the same thing haha

@@ebriheemazeez4812 Did you have a stroke or something?

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He can just buy another lol

He must have a lot of time on his hands

I'm hoping the man took a vacation while he was there. If he drove right back to England then he's a real boss man bro.

He had to get groceries in Spain anyway.

As an American, it very strange to me how you can drive/ferry from England to Spain within a couple days. To get from east to west coast would take almost a week driving

Dissapointing Person funny. That’s what fascinates me about the US: the sheer size of your country! The distances are unreal

Nope..the sun has only revolved around our galaxy for about 13 times. Though it took our sun around 230,000 years to complete 1 revolution around our milky way galaxy

*Sry its 230,000,000 years

@@bhushankamble7174 It won't be home for Christmas then?

Hu?

@@d.b.1176Hu’s on first.

There's a lot of space out there!

Yea, and just think this was the closest star. Now imagine how far away other galaxies are... To be so far away from them to see them as a little dot in a telescope but its a huge collection around 300 billion stars with this kind of distance between each one... Tell me there aint more life out there :)

Well that puts colonization of Proxima Centauri b in the realm of science fiction. I'm honestly depressed now...

@@John-ir4id Lets just hope someone puts humans on Mars before that point, so there is still a chance for mankind.

Elandil5 the alleged trick to long distance interstellar travel is to bend space time. Which is some what possible. Gravity does it. There is hope. Just keep in mind we know so little about what’s really going on. Nd that any day a discovery could be made that completely changes the very fundamentals of what we consider reality.

I will tell you something else to bend your brain into knots. There are places in our universe so far away that to travel the equivalent of them, he would actually have to travel off of the Earth, and into outer space for real. 😵

Been a while

Yes indeed

Exactly ,doubt anyone searched this question FFS.....yet we all still watch Catchya next time 👍

Until next time ✌️

Video idea is stolen from Codys lab

TheYoyoGamer comment of the day

Lmao I thought of a dentist drill too damn

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Must have been a rough ride zzzzzzz,-chizle chizle .

@Saul Goode earth is a donut

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Saul Goode your eyes are flat. Fact.

Saul Goode The earth is fat! space is a flake* FACT!

Spot on, sir, spot on.

What's your Moug score for this video?

You videos are hilarious man

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Imagine the golf ballin space and a telescope in your hand

​@@kingoftennis94you don't need a telescope to see the nearest stars.

@@kingoftennis94brother. All the stars in the sky that you can notice with naked eyes are far far more distant than the nearest star

Really! The AB Centauri pair are one of the brightest stars (ok, pair) visible in my part of the world and is only slightly further away than Proxima Centauri... relatively speaking

Maybe you could if it was suspended in space and burning as brightly as the Sun

to the nearest star

Hahahahahahahahahaha!

lol

Yesnog05 😂😂😂

Audibly laughed at this one

Its not IN spain,a star is waaay too big to fit inside spain, the video just shows the distance of the nearest star IF the sun was the size of a golf ball, the actual distance is about 4 light years away

Tune BoyZ I think you will find that he was having a laugh.

@@tuneboyz5634 eassy boi

Nope just the golf ball

Nope, just to teach us a lesson.

I was thinking the same thing 😂

Yeah, to go to Spain! That’s the real reason!

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Damn, that was smooth son.

cheesy af

Emin But accurate

Probably not more likely he was going to Spain anyway and decided to make the video. 😉

Oh how disarming 😝😝😝

this comment truly deserves more likes

Well played!

I hope brexit doesnt happen because uk will become poor

@@omit4727 the fact that people in England voted for Brexit would be the most shocking vote outcome in my life, had my country not elected the worst possible supreme narcissist douchebag in our last election.

Kevin Potts UK, not England C: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the UK, you know the people that voted

Business tax deduction for his holiday vacation.

Hahaha

no, that's no fun

@@Go-Getter sorry ! I'm Learning English and....

If his scales are correct then for the brains of others it is well worth the trip. I'm not sure myself but I doubt he's troll us or not be sure with his info.

And to look at hot Spainish women

Aka drove across texas

Our nearest star is the Sun.

Thought the same FUKING LIKE AND FAKEN SUBSCRIBED!

Yes but he could have saved himself a lot of trouble had he gone with a tiny grain of salt instead of a golf ball. Then he'd only have to drive 10 km

My teeth r clean now

This comment gave me anxiety

Fr

lol so true

One of those drills that taste like tic tac

A lot less guns, too.

Using a map would have saved him $ on fuel

@@uwekonnigsstaddt524he probably was already going on this trip

@@uwekonnigsstaddt524 it wouldn't have the same shock effect. I tought he is going to drive to the other side of the park

I found myself saying “woh” every time it updated and then I just kept staring until he has stopped several hundred miles later All I heard then was a little boom from my blown mind.

I has around 200km in my mind, he went well over past that

Underrated comment.

Can you show us your calculations?

@@rtyuu999 He's right. Earth -> Proxima Centaur = 4,243 lightyears Earth -> Kepler 452b = 1402 lightyears He drove 1200km. Earth -> Moon are 380.000km 1402 ly / 4,243 ly = 330,4266 1200km * 330,4266 = 396,511km. Even a bit more than the moon. Unbelivable brainfuck isn't it?

What about Andromeda galaxy????

Well poop... I guess it's time to stop fucking the planet

1K dislikes though but why? I liked too.

@@iNathanLite dude I have no idea some people are nuts. Brain.exe not found

The fact that the earth is the size of a grain of sand in this scenario blew my mind.

The nearest star is over 100 miles away. This is not news.

MrJamberee who said it was news? It’s putting it into perspective. Stay in school

@@jamesthomas1649 They teach you what you need to know if you get a decent job, if you didnt learn it then clearly you wont be getting a decent job

@@MrJamberee Not a 100 miles but on the scale of shrinking the Sun to the size of a golfball the next star is over 1,200 km away. That gives a person a dose of reality about the size of the universe.

Why? There's nothing stopping that light

I guess so. But relatively distant stars are typically dimmer than near stars. So distance must mean something. Im guessing there must be stars out there that we can’t detect because they’re too far away. This video just opened my eyes to the scale. I would have guessed the nearest star would have been a mile away from a golf ball sized sun. I was off by nearly a factor of 1000x

I've heard it described as similar to a blow torch in it's intensity (using a very small scale) so we're talking about extremely bright objects. Basically stars are continuous nuclear explosions and we know how bright they are.

The nearest star visible to the naked eye is the southern-hemisphere binary Alpha Centauri (4.40 light years distant). What we can't always see is the fact that it is a member of a binary system. You need a telescope for that.

@@cdtapeinteresting fact: proxima centauri is actually not visible with the naked eye because it is a red dwarf star that is too dim too see without a telescope. Alpha centauri is visible with the naked eye though

I wasn't...until this comment showed up.

I felt the same way. Humans will be stuck here for a long time.

Why do people play with the word depressed anyhow?

You are insignificant. We all are insignificant.

mind you this is SCALED DOWN.... if its original scale... yeah I dont think it's feasible with out technology.

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@@user-nd2hw6vb8i no

Thomast Tham Pluto is not a sun!

@Thomast Tham I'm sorry but i dont understand your answer

Yes. About 25+ times and back of course and then youre there.

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attu he needed a plane!

@James same

Not really, the Sun is not visible with the naked eye, seen from Centauri. It's too dim. You cannot see Centauri from Earth with your eyes either.

@@LarsRyeJeppesen Proxima Cent is a red dwarf of 0.15 solar radii, when observed in the wavelengths of visible light the eye is most sensitive to, it is only 0.0056% as luminous as the Sun (wikipedia). You can't see Proxima, but I'm pretty sure you would be able to see the sun.

@@memyshelfandeye318 Ah yes you are right

@@LarsRyeJeppesen Proxima Centauri would be indeed too dim to see, but the sun would have an apparent magnitude of around +0.4, which is very bright. To put it into perspective, this would make it the 9th brightest star in our own night sky, and one could easily spot it from even the most light polluted places.

No you couldn't because the curvature of the earth would preclude it, if the world was flat then yes you could see it as you say.

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30 second point stretched to over 5 minutes

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@@tpl608 After all the effort he went to you surely aren't going to quibble about that!

No you're not

Is this real life?

For those who dont get it the sped up driving sounds like the dental drill

​@@Matrix32728thx bro because im autistic

Sure.

There’s also one up on Mt Evans that’s pretty good too it’s used for outdoor lab if they still do that

I would be walking around campus and run across one of the planets. Like, holy crap Neptune is far!

Wait, I haven't found Proxima Centauri around here, are you sure it in Panama?

Out there I'm sure there are other stars that are closer together, such that the fastest ship would only take 10-15,000 years and not 40,000 years.

@@winstonbeech3418 An interesting idea that the progress toward interstellar space travel for any intelligent life may be largely a matter of which civilization happens to have an unusually close neighbor, not necessarily which civilization is the most technologically advanced. Makes sense I guess -- presumably cultures on Earth that had many nearby islands would be the first to build ships and become seafaring. I wonder how close two systems could be and still have their planetary orbits be stable enough for life.