I just lost it when Chuck called the naming of Uranus' moons a "Constellation Prize"!! Practically fell off my couch!! You guys are great!! Teaching fun science while making us laugh our hearts out!! :D
@@taishibikiqe8796 Constellation = group of stars... their similarity to moons is tied only by space, as all things are. A consolation prize is a prize given to a loser to console him = Chuck.
literally tears in my eyes, i'm from the UK and you were killing me looooool, You guys are really the best this is why I will always say Neil DT is the only person that has simplified such a huge topic of Science and made it so much fun to learn and listen.
@@atlasfeynman1039 Chuck is the lubricant to help people that don't know feel at ease at learning something they might be intimidated with. He pretends not to know everything to make people feel comfortable absorbing the information.
I don't know about the rest of you but i have a person astrophysicist as my friend thanks Neil.... also my personal comedian thanks Chuck!!! Love everything you two do together and with your other guests. Mad respect for all the knowledge bombs you're dropping!!!
I was lucky enough to be outside in perfect conditions yesterday afternoon to observe Venus near the horizon at sunset, east coast, USA. Saw the moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus all at once, before the sun had even fully set. That's a good day in my book :)
I Woke up at 03.45 a.m. in Germany and Saw that there is a New Video from the best Prof of Physics and the best Doc of comedy. Very very good video guys love it !!!
Y couldn't my generation have such a spokesperson like Dr Neil Degrasse Tyson who's so enthusiastic about the science subject and it's counterparts which in turn would of kept me in school and science and chemistry were my absolute favorites in Highschool I know having him as a role model to watch on PBS lol in the 90s and being able to KNOW HE ACTUALLY WORKS AT THE PLANETARIUM in NYC would of been EXPLOSIVE FOR MY TEENAGE BRAIN being that I lived in Brooklyn so I could at anytime met him and did my best to be mentored by him and could of became something more of myself instead of selling drugs and racking up felonies because the way the curriculum was taught was so blah blah n dull my mind and with my low attention span as it was lead me down the wrong path which I know in my heart if I was introduced to him and IF I HAD THE INTERNET THATS AROUND NOW BACK THEN I would be some kind of engineer or scientist or biologist chemist SOMETHING where my ideas can be put to use amongst my colleagues and like minded people SO Mr Tyson PLEASE CONTINUE TO SPARK THE MINDS OF OUR NEXT Generation of PROSPECTS WHO'LL CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER because me myself dropped the ball severely
Brilliant as always, and thank you for the time and effort you put into each production. It is interesting about the moon, as I am lucky enough to own a fragment of the moon (I mean a really really really small piece about the size of a pencil nib) It has an amazing effect on everyone who see's it and you can see a calming effect come over them when they look at it. How amazing is our universe !! Thanks again guys 10/10
Sometimes amidst the very interesting facts and info about the universe that we tend to forget or not think about where the names of heavenly bodies came from and it's easily as interesting as the bodies themselves
Future pinned comment from Neil: "Phobos and Deimos are the sons of the Greek god Ares and mean fear and dread, respectively. I have no idea where the horses came from; maybe from some tentative connection between war and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The only god whose chariot was pulled across the sky was the Titan Helios."
I adore these two guys, they make learning fun. I've been wondering how the names of the planets & their corresponding moons fit.. they always seemed to be "related" somehow. Uranus's moons was out of left field for me. Thank you, Neil DeGrasse Tyson & Chuck Nice! This is fun.
for completeness, the list of all of thhe time derivatives of distance are 1: Velocity Dx/dt, 2:Acceleration d^2x/dt^2, 3:Jerk d^3x/dt^3, 4:Snap d^4x/dt^4, 5:Crackle d^5x/dt^5, 6:Pop d^6x/dt^6, 7:Lock dx^7x/dt^7 and 8:Drop dx^8x/dt^8. Interestingly physics defines Impulse as the change in momentum which was adopted by Star Trek to be an engine type used when starships were not using Warp drive for propulsion just adding my 2¢
I wanna see them together on Rogan's podcast. I know Neil's been there a bunch but I'd like to see where the condo would go with them both there. GREAT SHOW FELLAS!!
Hats off to these chaps. I have really bad anxiety and the thought of being in front a video camera for any amount of time, would be a frightful thought.
Sorry but Chuck is the only co-host Neil needs, he's the perfect mix of being in awe of new knowledge while being able to quickly turn that understanding (or lack thereof) in to comedy.
😹 "I normally ask them about the place" Northern-hemisphere citizen here & when I moved to NZ, the fact that Orion was upside-down absolutely blew my mind in putting into perspective *just how far* I was away from home. So glad Neil mentioned this & I wish Chuck were my friend because I could not shut up about this fact; he needs more folks around to wax loquacious about the cosmos!
My idea for changing the stars includes Orion and Pleiades (Subaru). Take Orion's belt and Betelgeuse becomes the head with a baseball hat. Below the belt are two legs bending at the knee. The feet aligning perfectly with the ground and the 3 stars of Orion's belt align perfectly as the 3 fat belt loops on a baseball uniform. The spear pointing at Subaru is the bat being swung and Pleiades is the baseball flying away after being hit. Put it all together and you get, "THE ALL-STAR." In my case I see a left handed batter so I drew a 7 on the jersey to make him, "Mickey," but you can put any number you want. Let's change the stars to something relevant to our new millennium. I've figured out how to change the stars by stopping hurricanes. Don't worry, I've technically already done the easy part and changed the stars. My parents were teachers and for over 3 decades, they taught their students my constellation. Those kids will teach their kids. So on and so on. See, stars changed. I just need help to make it legit and with the rest. No, I'm not kidding. Yes, I'm serious. I get 7 things. One of them being to change the stars and remember, crazy is a compliment. Figured Neil has taken on the IAU and won. He's the best place to start. If, rather when, it works it could be converted to a larger scale and EASILY regulate temperature, end drought, stop wildfires in the west. Let me know if you're interested, please and thank you. It'd be wrong of me to not, at least, try. This is me, trying. More, hopefully, to come.
I thought I knew some things and I know, I know more things than I knew before; but I also know that there are things I thought I knew, but I know now that I don't know, and wish to know. You know?
neil is a great story teller, he ought to dictate a screenplay to someone, I was ready to hear about the early Arab world by the end of that and the astrolabe device, and all the sea fairing, totally sounds like they are about to take over, 10/10
You're referring to the planets' names in English of course, because most other languages and cultures have their own names. In Arabic, for instance: Mercury= Utarid, Venus= Al-Zuhrah, Earth= Al-Ard, Mars= Al-Merrikh, Jupiter= Al-Mushtari, Saturn= Zuhal, Uranus and Neptune are transliterated the same as English although some Arabs call them Quzah and Bahar respectively. The Sun= Ash'shams, the Moon= Al-Qamar.
I don't think we should say"We once thought Pluto was a planet". Before the reclassifying of Pluto, it was considered a planet, it held up to all the considerations that defined a planet, so it was a planet.
On the subject of Uranus, the first time I heard it was pronounced that way was when I moved to Canada and started speaking English. In my native language it's just Uran. As far as I know, it's Uran in all Slavic languages.
I love this show... I find things I didn't know, and as a bonus I get plenty of material for the next joke session with my smart friends....lol PS..... Why does Neil always look like he is at the same elevation as the space station?
23:04 I watched the explainers first and I must say, I am saddened that Chuck’s “As the World Turns” wasn’t in the explainer (or that I forgot about it) but I am just so immensely pleased that I got to listen to it now. I’m actually going to rewind to it and see it again. I bet new people wonder why it’s called rewind, or that they call it something else.
There is a new theory/simulation that says that the impactor was absorbed by the Earth and Moon during this process, and that the entire process took place in a matter of hours (possibly as little as 24), not months or years. PBS Space Time just did a video about it.
@ 9:45 We need some mythology experts to weigh in here. Neil, I am reading that Phobos and Deimos were the SONS of Ares. They were horrific, scary daimones who DROVE their war-god father's chariot into battle.....not the horses who hauled the chariot. Edit: 🤣 This was the funniest episode I've seen you two do. I really did laugh out loud a few times. Always a pleasure when you 2 crazy people get together and teach us something. 👍🏼 Edit: Y'all missed some great music in the late 1970s. CSN did indeed sing about the Southern Cross, but it was not really about astrophysics. Deimos is similar to, but not the same as DEVO, Chuck..... but when Neil said Deimos resembled a potato, I doubt that he knew the connection between DEVO and spuds. We live in interesting times.
Great episode! I don't know if it's my cell phone or me but from my side of the screen, you guys look like you're high. 🫢😁 Greetings from Croatia! 🙋♂️
The latest simulations have the moon mostly formed within 24 hours of the impact, not even weeks, months or years. You could literally sit and watch the moon form... The simulation also shows a huge column of molten rock connecting Earth and the Proto-moon as it forms, thousands of miles long.
The southern cross has artistic licence, so there! We've got the best viewing down under, the best view of the galaxy and an official dark site only 80 km away.
Allow me to add the Chinese planet names for y'all's information: From Mercury to Saturn, the five obvious planets, ancient Chinese named them after the five elements of the world that they believed. They are water 水, metal金, fire火, wood木, and earth(dirt)土 respectively, based on their colors observed from Earth, and added the word "star"星 after them. We didn't know about Uranus and Neptune, so in modern times we just put "king of sky"天王 and "king of sea"海王 based on translation from the Western names, and also added "star"星. As for the moons, we use "guard" 衛, after the elements, and a number. So "first guard of fire" is for the first found moon of Mars, 火衛一。
