Uranus jokes, a your mom joke, and even an Oceangate implosion joke all in one video. It doesn't get much better. And yes, let's all hope that the Chinese space agency will pick up western slack in this instance.
It hasn't been mentioned yet, but I hope it is. Neptune is the first planet that we found with math before seeing it. Based on the orbit of Uranus we figured out something else was out there. The math was done, calcauting where the planet should be, and how big it should be. Then it was found. It is an amazing story.
reminds me of the gölzsch viaduct, the first bridge in the world where maths were used to prove that the structure would be sound, before the bridge was actually built (up to this point people were over building bridges to make sure they wouldn't fall apart as soon as a vehicle got on it)
@Chris-hx3om "hasn't been mentioned yet, but I hope is" never said it doesn't get mentioned, almost like I knew it could be later, and just wanted to say something. Weird.
I always smile when I hear Simon say anything refering to "Freedom units" lmao. Great content as always. Cant wait to see what else you guys get around to uploading, thanks for the great content!
I know this channel doesn't get much growth ( I don't understand it either believe you me) but please don't stop making these even if they're uploaded far apart from each other
I agree. It appears (to me) that people want either 'gory and more gory' or 'influencers'. I'm all about the sciences myself. I think the world needs people to stop obsessing about how other people live their lives and we all need to get more scientifically literate. I see the rise of 'group stupidity' as one of the major problems of the future.
The Voyager flight plan wasn't sheer dumb luck as you said, it was due to one of the NASA team working out that the current planetary alignment would make the flight to all the planet's possible
This is peak internet and Simon this is your best show by far, it would be brilliant if you would create more episodes about Neptune, its moons, TNO's to include Nibiru/Hercolubus/Planet X or whatever the (potential) unseen planet is in the Kuiper Belt
A masterful combination of dry wit, outright humor, double entendre and real science. I'll be watching until the end of time, or you stop making these...which ever comes first. :D
One neighbor has people trying to claim it isn’t even a planet. The neighbor on the other side has people calling it Uranus. I think Neptune is quite happy mostly being left alone.
Simon! What the Heck man! I didn't know yu had a show on space. I love it! Binge watching right now. We are going to start calling you the busiest man on RU-vid! Keep it up bro!
1:05 - Chapter 1 - The twilight world 5:20 - Chapter 2 - Seas & storms 10:25 - Chapter 3 - A thousand points of light 15:00 - Chapter 4 - Voyage to the stars 18:00 - Chapter 5 - To the stars
I can tell you're just bursting with anticipation to finally do another fully dedicated video on Uranus on this channel...and I'm just as eager to watch it. :P
Small (possibly pedantic) point about the "Journey to Neptune" portion of the video; if we were reincarnated as a photon of light, travelling at the speed of light, the journey to Neptune would not take 4hr12mins, for us, it would be instantaneous. The journey would only take that time to observers watching the photon travelling through space. If I remember my special Theory of Relativity correctly, the closer you get to the speed of light the more time slows down and stops at the actual speed of light; that means, as the photon travels at the speed of light, for the photon itself, time never starts ticking making all journeys instantaneous. Only if something slowed the photon down would it's internal clock start ticking and it would then experience the passage of time. Apart from that (possibly pedantic) point, I loved the video & think it's a shame that NASA/ESA aren't visiting the Neptune. If the Chinese do make it, I hope they will share their data with the larger scientific community.
1:10: No, if you were a photon, you would experience no passage of time because you would be travel the speed of light. Only an outside observer would clock the times you mentioned. Yes, I'm that pedantic, I'll show myself out.
Meanwhile I'm focusing on the fact that you wouldn't be passing every planet on your way out because they're all in different parts of their orbit lol.
Just an idle side note, the short clip showing Voyager travelling in space is inaccurate. The radio dish is NOT pointed forward. In that position the probe would not be able to communicate with Earth. The probe is travelling away from Earth, so the planet is behind the probe.
My grandparents had a poster of the solar system that was on the wall from when their children where just kids. One of the pictures was of what they thought Ceres would look like, just a big asteroid misshapen and rough not the dwarf planet we know today. Was just reminded of it this video.
Fun Fact: Pluto has FAR more in-common with Earth than Earth does with Neptune... so if Neptune is a planet and Pluto is not... well, Earth isn't one either.
Gotta update the thumbnail now since the deep blue color of Neptune was all a lie, and now I feel the same betrayal as when Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet.
I come here and start listening. Then I'm like, wait wtf.. I don't see his face, but that's absolutely Simon 🤣 when you stumble upon a new Simon channel you didn't realize existed
just keep in mind in the prospective of a photon since it is traveling at the speed of light the travel time would be near instantaneous do to time dilatation.
I’m convinced that Simon secretly purchased RU-vid lol. Is there a niche of RU-vid he doesn’t have a channel for? 😂😂😂 (I love it! Totally not complaining lol)
I remember hearing that NASA could have sent Voyager 1 to Pluto in the 1980s, but they wanted to get a good look at Titan, so they set a course to do a close flyby of Titan and really got nothing for it because of the thick atmosphere. ☹
every single time i come across one of these "-graphics" channels i am not subbed to, i click to give them hell for daring to steal simon and his channels namesake! >:,'( only to find out, it is simons channel haha. how many of these do you have dude? jimminy xmas on a stick. though i am glad to see you guys grow, you deserve every bit of it and more imo.
My favorite planet...well apart from the one that keeps me from being a heat or cold blasted corpse. Also its got a cool name. Aaannnd its got wild weather. Aaaaaaannnnnd its got a crazy rotation. Its just a really cool planet despite being left out of the cool kids club and has to hang out by itself way out there. Just a lonely old ronin wandering the outer solar system.
Except that study is a flawed overcorection. They didnt just remind everyone of the unedited images from voyager 2, but actually did a whole computer process to "correct" them, and somehow got an image the people from the 1800s who named neptune could of told you was wrong.
Well, so far the exoplanet finding techniques are naturally biased to finding larger planets, so I'm not convinced they are dominant. However, I believe Neptune and Uranus both should get orbiter missions. Some sort of hybrid between the Cassini and Juno type missions. (ツ) ☕☕(ツ)
