I worked at a remote oil field site in the arctic circle of Alaska above Prudehoe bay where there was absolutely no light pollution and nothing around. on a clear night when the temps where in the low low low negatives you could stare off into the sky and it would be so clear for a few moments you would almost feel like you where just floating around in space. The stars are so bright and on the nights the northern lights are out the whole sky would fill with the crazy dancing colors. Even growing up in Alaska its the only place I've seen them that intense.
I was in the Air Force. Stationed at Malmstrom Montana. I was apart of the nuclear security team. So our post area was wide spread around Malmstrom. Some post Hours away from base. Anyway there were plenty of spots with zero light pollution. You could see everything in the sky. Even one night the full moon lit up the sky so bright we could toss a football around around midnight haha. I fucking miss it. Now I'm living back in Massachusetts. In the middle of Providence and Worcester and I can see nothing at night where I live. Really bums me out.
Dude, you're 100% correct. I spent some time in the rural Pacific Northwest and went camping during a summer. The night sky looked like a movie. Stars as bright as anything I've ever seen, falling stars (meteors) every couple of minutes and constellation patterns that you could draw with your finger. It was amazing and when you laid on your back, all you could see was the sky which made it feel like you were flying in space. Will never forget that experience.
There's nothing wrong with how you guys sound. You put this guy in a room with someone from the deep south (Alabama, Mississippi) or from the northeast (Massachusetts accents are pretty wild) and they'll all sound a bit "crazy." It's a beautiful thing tho..
There's something poetic about the fact that we have an average Joe with a radio show that's become this sort of unintentional repository of knowledge. It's so cool having such an easily accessible nexus to knowledge. Learning really is fun.
Careful though, the Rogan is full of bro science. He's got a great head on his shoulders, doesn't dick around with life choices but he still tends to lean heavily towards his bias. We all do. I will give him this, over the last few years he's really opened his mind to anything, not just his own beliefs. He says it all the time too: "My judgment is clouded because I want so badly to believe "
I went to the mountains of Jamaica a couple of years ago, where there are no artificial lights. I saw colors and stars etc that just aren't possible in the cities. The experience was burned into my memory.
@@lightupdarkness: Not the milky-way, but you can see other galaxies with the naked eye far off into the distance. They look like small clusters of dust in the sky, but when you take out a telescope, you can see they are galaxies.
That show is dumb af to be honest. Having a conversation eating wings & getting messy and adding hot sauces that aren’t even good just hot for no reason? 🙄
If you are a man, there is always some joy to listening to Joe Rogan. His podcast has some male energy in it, I like it, he talks about existential things, animals, wildlife, I like Joe Rogan, I wish Spotify had comments./
NORK INC. It’s the MAINSTREAM MEDIA trying to control your brain! No wonder the best president in the history of this world THE GREAT WHITE HOPE TRUMP keeps warning us of the enemy of the people which is the Media! Very sad!
It's the accent. Most Australians or just people that live here will notice he is saying "meteor" each time. Most of the time we will replace "t" with "d" I dunno why
When you’ve grown up so far out of town and so north that the night sky is clear as hell, and seeing northern lights all the time. Definitely blessed, don’t realize it until you realize how not clear the sky is in most spots of Northern America.
I lived in cold lake in my teens. I once saw the lights directly overhead. It was changing colours and it was like looking in to a water shower. Totally amazing.
I was driving home from College one night and saw an asteroid like he described. Lit up everything around me like it was daytime for a second or two, hands down the coolest experience
The one that "wrecked like a whole village, like in Germany or something like that" was most likely the one in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. Caused a lot of injuries because people rushed to their windows to check out the spectacular bright light, but then the shockwave arrived a few seconds later and smashed the glass in. Don't think anyone died, luckily, but a lot of people went to hospital
I once found a shark tooth way up high in the desert mountains in idaho. It was sitting in the little delta of a perennial creek bed. It just looked like a white pointy rock among orange and rust colored runoff. It definitely stood out, but it seems totally out of place.
Down here in the deserts of Arizona, far south, where no water is present for hundreds of miles, there are seashells and crustacean remains lining the mountains. I'd love to see some conspiracy nut explaining away the fact that you can pretty much go anywhere and find evidence of an ocean in the middle of the desert.
An ancient shark tooth was found in Cathedral Caverns in north Alabama. I've noticed the layers of rock around a nearby waterfall. There's layers of limestone and flint but at the TOP is a layer of seashells.
I've been fortunate enough to get to watch two slow traveling meteorites crawl across the sky for about 10-15 seconds each. One was red and had a huge long tail I saw overhead when I was taking the trash to the curb and the other was bright emerald green falling straight down to the horizon in front of me when I was driving. Beautiful! Otherworldly. I also got to see an incredibly bright white one explode but it was quick. It was coming straight down and it just looked like a star that was getting bigger and brighter until it shot off to the side and busted into pieces.
It depends on how powerful the solar winds are and the activity of the Sun. You can see the Northern Lights further south the stronger the winds and much of the charged particles are being sent our way. It’s truly something everyone should see in person once in your life.
Yep, I got into a debate with a friend of mine because he claimed he could see them in Colorado. I said there's no f****** way they go that far south. In the right conditions, they do and it's absolutely stupendous.
Which is why they think even most "other earths" would never develop intelligent life, because our setup with a huge "guardian" planet is highly unusual.
It’s a hoover. We get hit more than the moon; the earth’s plate tectonics, oceans and weathering hide the evidence. Everything on the moon stays as is, with most of those craters by way of the Late Heavy Bombardment billions of years ago.
What? They don't correspond at all. If the Giza pyramid was the size of the sun, the earth would be the size of two of the pyramid's blocks. TWO. Out of ~2.3 million.
Undeniable? I think you'll find it's the opposite. There is a reason why the scientific community doesn't give the unqualified as much credibility as the qualified.
You can definitely see Northern Lights in northern Alberta, Canada. The farther you go north of Edmonton, Alberta you will have a better chance of seeing them. Winter is definitely the best time of year to view this amazing phenomena.
I think it's fascinating that evolution has programmed our brain to perceive time in a way that is hardwired to make our lives functional. The fact that we can understand that we have a finite amount of years on this Earth has allowed us to problem solve and to preserve and pass on knowledge, that when combined has yielded us as humans some incredible progress in a relatively short amount of time. I mean just in the last couple centuries since mainstream science has become widely accepted and consequently produced the industrial revolution. Just mind boggling how far we as a species have come since we left the cave a pretty short time ago when compared to the history of our little planet.
Deuce - so true. Think about all the major cultural changes that have happened at the exact same time as our societal and scientific progress. We’ve been busy as shit dude 🤯
I dream of the day when humanity collectively shift our focus from looking inwards towards power dynamics and wars on our planet to start looking outwards in unity against the unknown
You can't even see most of the stars. The most common type is a "red dwarf", and they are invisible to the human eye and most telescopes. And they can have planets too. Yeah it's crazy how massive the universe is and how much of an insignificant speck our entire solar system really is.
Scientist say that the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs was the size of Mt Everest. Traveling at 6 miles per second. The kinetic impact wiped out 1/2 the planet with 20 min. Imagine that. That is scary and incredibly fascinating at the same time.
Late to the party but spice through me into a dam near K hole once. Holy fuck man that shit is crazy. Also, horrible for your organs. Can’t believe that shit was legal 🥴
Imagine an astroid the size of a football field actually hits Earth...imagine the chaos and the generations of family lineage it would wipe out in seconds.
I have a question for you joe ( love your podcast) but I seen a lot of your pod saying how we have all these debris in space we can say that the only thing we can benefit is that hopefully the debris can help stop some of these meteors and also help clean it up. I would love for you to ask a scientist and see their thoughts on it.
The Northern Lights are bizarre. Its a surreal experience. I used to see them in Fairbanks. Seen them so bright it cast a shadow. And most people don't know that you can actually hear them as well on occasion.
It was right after 9/11. They would shut all the lights off. We were on a river,the bats were so bad you could feel then hit your line as you cast,the sky was so beautiful. I'll never forget.
Go out in the country at night with some shrooms and you get an idea how insignificant we are. You'll also learn to love our planet. I have actually seen the first wave of wind role down a hill on a still morning , it's life changing. Love the show Joe.
Back in the early 80s, there was an anecdote going around that went something like this...”in the factory of the future, there will be a man, a dog and a computer.... the computer will control the factory, the man will be there to care for the dog... and the dog will be there to ensure the man does not interfere with the computer...”... or something to this affect.... insightful even back then
I lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico and would routinely find sea shells while hiking in the Sangra de Cristo mountains, which is the southern tip of the Rocky mountains.
@@markmirabella4066 A meteor is the flash of light caused by a piece of interplanetary garbage entering the atmosphere. A meteoroid is any debris/garbage smaller than 1km in diameter. Anything that actually reaches the surface of the earth as opposed to being burned up in the fall is called a meteorite.
