Flat Earthers fail to factor how HUGE the Universe is ...

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  • @DaveMcKeegan
    @DaveMcKeegan  Рік тому +51

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    • @Dj1deck
      @Dj1deck Рік тому +2

      Latitude, how is 1 degree measured in physical reality angle 📐

    • @hartmutholzgraefe
      @hartmutholzgraefe Рік тому +5

      @@Dj1deck what does that have to do with Atlas VPN?

    • @Dj1deck
      @Dj1deck Рік тому +1

      @@hartmutholzgraefe don’t worry yourself just keep trying to prove the globe while I debunk you

    • @hartmutholzgraefe
      @hartmutholzgraefe Рік тому +8

      @@Dj1deck debunk what specifically? You just asked a weird question so far, as a sub-comment reply to a totally unrelated top level comment.
      There are actually many different methods to measure latitude, so which one are you referring to? It can for example be measured using a Foucaults Pendulum, although using a Sextand and an artificial horizon is going to give you a more precise result in a much shorter time.

    • @Dj1deck
      @Dj1deck Рік тому +1

      @@hartmutholzgraefe good lad so you’ll be measuring elevation angles from earth using the horizon, not the artificial horizon, that’s not real, tell us again why aren’t you using your earth curve to measure latitude?

  • @MrEjwheeler
    @MrEjwheeler Рік тому +2032

    To (roughly) quote Professor Dave: "I'm sorry that astronomical phenomena don't conform to your lifespan".

    • @rebornbrain
      @rebornbrain Рік тому +13

      this is guile, there is objective evidence of a century ago about the presence of all the stars in exactly the same places.

    • @tylerhorihan786
      @tylerhorihan786 Рік тому +349

      @@rebornbrain yeah a century isn't that long lol

    • @Silverfirefly1
      @Silverfirefly1 Рік тому +303

      @@rebornbrain It's like a mayfly noticing that none of the trees have moved.

    • @ShizukuSeiji
      @ShizukuSeiji Рік тому +276

      @@rebornbrain Your comment is the perfect example of you still not understanding how big our galaxy is.

    • @thecraftycreeper3167
      @thecraftycreeper3167 Рік тому +115

      @@rebornbrain yes because 1 as said in the video the distances are stupidly vast and 2 all the starts are moving in the same general direction we are so no surprise that there is little to no change

  • @robadams1645
    @robadams1645 Рік тому +438

    I'm going to generalize a statement you made: "when flat Earthers say X, they probably aren't taking into account Y". It's a universal truth.

    • @ponypapa6785
      @ponypapa6785 Рік тому +18

      Yes but that goes for *most* people who are not experts or at least thoroughly educated in X =)

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      And when fairytale disney paedo glow baall fanbois and gulls factor either x or y, they don't realise their z is co- dependant also.

    • @robadams1645
      @robadams1645 Рік тому +47

      @@ponypapa6785 Good point. I guess the difference is, most people who aren't educated in X admit their lack of knowledge instead of doubling down :)

    • @thecraftycreeper3167
      @thecraftycreeper3167 Рік тому +5

      @@robadams1645 true

    • @overcomingobstaclescreates1695
      @overcomingobstaclescreates1695 Рік тому

      I'm going to have to review MC Toon's 10 laws of Flerfing to see if that's in there. Cuz if it isn't, it should be!

  • @bulwinkle
    @bulwinkle Рік тому +1099

    To be honest even when you do know the size of the observable Universe it is still difficult to get your head around the huge numbers involved.

    • @MrOttopants
      @MrOttopants Рік тому +54

      It's true it's hard to comprehend, but that's why it's meaningful to be able to use math to get a better sense of how things would behave in our sky based on their distances from us.

    • @mojomusica
      @mojomusica Рік тому +25

      @@GlobeKrusha Got even the slightest scrap of evidence for your continuing derp? 🤡 #GottaLieToFlerf ©2023 MCToon ID ,ten ,T

    • @MrOttopants
      @MrOttopants Рік тому +20

      @@GlobeKrusha lol. Classic dirt pizza believer commentary.

    • @davidfaraday7963
      @davidfaraday7963 Рік тому

      @@GlobeKrusha So is your channel name deliberate irony? The idea of you "crushing" anything is too ridiculous to contemplate.
      And "heresy"? So you are a Bible literalist? Yeah, makes sense, they are the most deluded flerfs of the lot! Ignore facts, ignore reality and base your beliefs about science on an old book written by people who didn't know any science.

    • @rimbusjift7575
      @rimbusjift7575 Рік тому +13

      @@GlobeKrusha
      Put effort into actual education.

  • @y0uCantHandle
    @y0uCantHandle Рік тому +72

    I used to be amazed about how big space truly is, that is until I saw how much space there was between the ears of flerfs.

    • @psterud
      @psterud Рік тому

      Burn!

    • @ricardologapo1728
      @ricardologapo1728 10 місяців тому +1

      That's the most EMPTY joke I've ever read on UA-cam wow, props man 👏

    • @michaelawford7325
      @michaelawford7325 7 місяців тому +1

      Very good comparison, but also imagine the lonely single brain cell bouncing around in all that space 😢

  • @CraigJudd
    @CraigJudd Рік тому +265

    As Douglas Adams put it in the HHGTTG: "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

    • @mericet39
      @mericet39 Рік тому +16

      aww you beat me to it. I've just quoted it myself then I saw this

    • @hesiyyn4880
      @hesiyyn4880 Рік тому +5

      Yeah, me too :)
      Tbh I was scrolling the comments to look for this

    • @SamanthaLaurier
      @SamanthaLaurier Рік тому +6

      Currently rereading this series, love it

    • @1zaj34
      @1zaj34 Рік тому +2

      @@hesiyyn4880 Yeah, same here.

    • @samanthaadams619
      @samanthaadams619 Рік тому +4

      I've always thought that was an excellent way to put it. the Hitch-hikers series books are brilliant.

  • @geekehUK
    @geekehUK Рік тому +332

    I mean we know from archaeological and historical records (if for some reason you don't agree with math) that Polaris wasn't always the North star, so kinda hard to argue that it doesn't move.

    • @lenonkitchens7727
      @lenonkitchens7727 Рік тому +69

      Right, and even that is caused by earth's precession, not the distance or the speed with which we move through the universe.

    • @c.augustin
      @c.augustin Рік тому +21

      It still needs many lifespans to visibly move. The magnetic north pole moves faster … 😁

    • @sigisalmen2399
      @sigisalmen2399 Рік тому +26

      ​@@lenonkitchens7727 Exactly. And after Polaris has made one revolution it'll come back to the (almost) same place again

    • @qwadratix
      @qwadratix Рік тому +25

      If you look at Astrolabes (typically from the 15th century and earlier) you can see that the star positions marked don't correspond to current positions by a LOT.
      In fact, the signs of the Zodiac are about a whole month off from where they were when they were first settled. The corresponding constellations are no longer in their 'star sign'.

    • @carolinusTG
      @carolinusTG Рік тому +16

      He said we won't notice in our lifetimes, he also didn't talk about the wobble creating the 18° to 23° axial tilt changes. Polaris isn't what moved, where the actual pole points that creates the center of the spin, is what changes more.

  • @AaronCook83
    @AaronCook83 Рік тому +154

    They can't comprehend scale in any context, even their own "models" that don't follow their own rules.

    • @antcommander1367
      @antcommander1367 Рік тому +24

      like heavenly drunken/wasted guy figuring how does shoe laces work

    • @throwawayavclubber7269
      @throwawayavclubber7269 Рік тому +3

      @@GlobeKrusha lol

    • @AaronCook83
      @AaronCook83 Рік тому +5

      This reply is CGI

    • @Tsudico
      @Tsudico Рік тому

      @@GlobeKrusha *_"FER'S work from what's the most closest and attainable, rather than the establishment reconfiguring stats to maintain the suited narrative (li€) from beyond abroad."_*
      Flat earthers need to learn about metrology and error tolerance. You claim that "reconfiguring" is used to maintain a narrative, but unless flat earth puts forth something that is more accurate than the globe model, it is less than useless. All of our knowledge has progressed from having ideas about how things might be and comparing those ideas to how well they fit reality. So...if you wait to claim that the globe is "wrong" the *very least* you need to do is put up a flat earth model that is _more accurate_ than the current knowledge shows in _more situations_ than current is explained.
      Commercial flights, like QANTAS Flight 28 (Santiago, Chile to Sydney, Australia so against jet stream and prevailing winds) when taken in aggregate can show the Earth's shape. Commerce only cares about the shape of the earth insofar as they can reduce their time and expenses to move things around. So it isn't just science that shows flat earth is less accurate, it's commerce as well.
      Do what other flat earthers have refused to do for years now....put forward a flat earth model. Flat earther's before then tried, but their models were shown to be less accurate that the globe and that's what happened throughout history. If you aren't willing to do that, then all you are doing is wasting other people's time.

    • @fannyliem3536
      @fannyliem3536 Рік тому

      ​@@AaronCook83 Ye and there is wires everywhere😂

  • @francoislacombe9071
    @francoislacombe9071 Рік тому +56

    "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

  • @greysonfrost9262
    @greysonfrost9262 Рік тому +120

    I love how even Dr stone tackled the northern start and in the show it threw him off going true north because he forgot its been nearly 4k years and the star has shifted! Even anime gets this right guys....

    • @alexgrimm354
      @alexgrimm354 Рік тому +7

      Was about to Post this lol.

    • @alexgrimm354
      @alexgrimm354 Рік тому +25

      @@snekdude6677 i mean, it was litterally a educational Anime, and the bible is Just an old book.

    • @alexgrimm354
      @alexgrimm354 Рік тому +24

      @@snekdude6677 also, thats Not how Evolution works

    • @GerardMenvussa
      @GerardMenvussa Рік тому

      @@snekdude6677
      1/ Nobody ever said we came from rocks. Organic has always been organic, inorganic has always been inorganic. Only dumdums like you keep coming up with these silly shortcuts.
      2/ You should not criticize any anime (or anything else, really) when you base your entire world view on a book that glorifies p&dophilia, slavery and genocides.
      Get a life.

    • @willie_am
      @willie_am Рік тому +16

      ​@@alexgrimm354 honestly,i've found more scientific misinformation in the bible,dr stone has better explanations of things

  • @jbirdmax
    @jbirdmax Рік тому +566

    To be fair, most people have trouble comprehending how mind bending massively huge the universe is.
    When I learned this, it absolutely floored me.

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL Рік тому +51

      Most people understand that they can't comprehend massive distances of the universe.
      Frattards can't understan bigger numbers than 3.

    • @DaveMcKeegan
      @DaveMcKeegan  Рік тому +131

      True, but most people comprehend that its large enough that stars wouldn't constantly change in the night sky

    • @IanHsieh
      @IanHsieh Рік тому +37

      ​@@XtreeM_FaiL You're giving the flerther way too many credit by saying that they can count more numbers than Valve.

    • @Groffili
      @Groffili Рік тому +45

      _“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”_
      (Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

    • @DeputyNordburg
      @DeputyNordburg Рік тому +19

      The scale of the known Universe is staggering and we are privledged to live at a time of that man's understanding of this size is just coming into focus. But still lets not loose sight of that fact that there is one object known to be larger. Your Mom.

  • @ChristopherLaHaise
    @ChristopherLaHaise Рік тому +257

    Things to note. The constellations (including Polaris) have changed over time, and this is a known phenomenon. I do believe we've even got records showing some of these shifts by how the constellations have been drawn over the ages.

    • @SirMildredPierce
      @SirMildredPierce Рік тому +12

      The procession of the equinoxes have been observed over many thousands of years, but shifts in the constellations takes much much longer, I'm not sure it has been observed before the telescope was invented.

    • @patrickdix772
      @patrickdix772 Рік тому +16

      Yeah, differences in drawings of constellations are more likely down to humans not being great at drawing things perfectly.
      If every depiction of the same constellation shifted over every depiction in the same way over time, then you might have a point.
      A more likely thing is if a star either was born and its light started to reach us at some point in an existing constellation, or one dying and the last of its light reaching us. Both of those are rare, though some nova events have been historically recorded.

    • @jarls5890
      @jarls5890 Рік тому +7

      Yes. Ancient Chinese astronomical charts shows the constellations slightly different than today.

    • @eros.1989
      @eros.1989 Рік тому

      Yeah its true ,my grandgrandfather has told me that our monkey ancestors have seen other stars about 1 million years ago and everything they have write in stones and this stones have my uncle. Facts are Globe .🌍

    • @jarls5890
      @jarls5890 Рік тому

      @@eros.1989 Your ancestors are monkeys? First of all - congratulations on actually posting on YT. Second - explains a lot about your explanation.

  • @ldmitruk
    @ldmitruk Рік тому +36

    Hmm flerfs and scale reminded me of this quote from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
    “the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.”

    • @UTU49
      @UTU49 Рік тому +2

      Well... let's just face it. Small dogs are infamous for causing trouble... like swallowing entire battle fleets, for example.

    • @RecoveryTurtle
      @RecoveryTurtle 4 місяці тому +1

      Dave’s springer spaniel, no doubt

  • @chameleon47
    @chameleon47 Рік тому +57

    If you ever think that flerfers are not "that dumb" consider that they genuinely CANNOT GRASP THIS SIMPLE CONCEPT- even when they can easily observe that when travelling on the road at a particular speed with other vehicles doing the same speed, that they do not appear to move in relation to them- even at a few feet away. Even when they can drive past a mountain 20 miles away and easily observe that it takes quite a while for it to appear to move in relation to them.

    • @magne7771
      @magne7771 Рік тому +3

      Flerfers lol

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver Рік тому

      Flattards

    • @UTU49
      @UTU49 Рік тому +7

      Good comment. Good points.
      Similarly, I dismiss flat earthers when I consider that a flat earth model can not even explain what a sunset is.

    • @Espartanica
      @Espartanica Рік тому

      @@UTU49 "angular resolution"

    • @TheIrvy
      @TheIrvy Рік тому +2

      I think a big part of the problem is that while you or I would be looking out the window observing those things, they were staring at their phones and have never seen any of it.

  • @wiredforstereo
    @wiredforstereo Рік тому +493

    I like your videos much more than other similar channels because yours is not just stupid bickering reaction videos. You take a question or misunderstanding and you correct it through education. Keep up the good work. Don't debate, don't react, don't call names, just educate. This is high quality content.

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому +1

      Even though I'm on the opposite ball park, I had to pass you a like just because you didn't even drop a breadcrumb, for us FE truthers to react. But I think I might haul this crusade for this feed for now.

    • @conman_raddish
      @conman_raddish Рік тому +11

      ​@@GlobeKrusha can't tell if ur a flerther or not

    • @alvin2021
      @alvin2021 Рік тому +13

      ​@@GlobeKrusha you haven't fell for flat earth have you?

    • @maxlevel1489
      @maxlevel1489 Рік тому +3

      lol, a starwars fan thanking dave for helping him pretend "space" exists.

    • @alvin2021
      @alvin2021 Рік тому +1

      @@maxlevel1489 how can space NOT exist? its space. What is filling the space for it to not be space?🤦‍♂️
      Go buy a good telescope you inbred dunce

  • @chrisglosser7318
    @chrisglosser7318 Рік тому +122

    We have a scale model of the solar system in my city. The sun is about the size of a basketball, and the inner planets are little pin points on plaques on top of pedestals. The first 3 planets are fairly close to the “sun”
    The cool thing is that everything is to scale so the orb representing the sun looks to be about the same size as the real sun when you stand at the earth plaque.
    The outer planets are barely within walking distance from the sun, and you have to drive to the Pluto plaque which is a couple miles away

    • @jayebuss5562
      @jayebuss5562 Рік тому +8

      That's actually awesome, what city is that mate?

    • @chrisglosser7318
      @chrisglosser7318 Рік тому +17

      Crystal Lake, Il

    • @vollied4865
      @vollied4865 Рік тому +3

      Added this to my bucket list I definitely wanna go visit this

    • @MaxTheLegend_YT
      @MaxTheLegend_YT Рік тому +1

      My country is a scale model of the solar system

    • @tylisirn
      @tylisirn Рік тому +9

      @@jayebuss5562 There are a number of such around the world. Wikipedia has a list under article "Solar System Model". I have visited the one in my city (Helsinki/Espoo, Finland) a number of times. It is a lengthy bike ride to visit all the planets, but fun. The Sun is 1.4 m in diameter, putting the furthest planet about 6-7 kilometers away, but because the planets aren't in a single line, it is something more like 15 km to visit all, 30 km total to-from my home.

  • @judahlagrange8286
    @judahlagrange8286 Рік тому +44

    I was a flat earther for 3 years then I turned 4

    • @cuckholdsimulator1176
      @cuckholdsimulator1176 Рік тому +3

      Legendary comment

    • @judahlagrange8286
      @judahlagrange8286 Рік тому

      @@cuckholdsimulator1176 everyone says this on flat earth videos.

    • @stanlee4217
      @stanlee4217 5 місяців тому

      You are still watching (and believing)cartoons though? How's the tooth faerie?

    • @justone234
      @justone234 4 місяці тому

      😂and that's when the brainwashing began. No judgement, it happened to me as well. Finally after researching and doing my own experiments I am waking up to the truth. Oceans don't curve around a ball anywhere...I do know that 😮

    • @judahlagrange8286
      @judahlagrange8286 4 місяці тому

      @@justone234 FR?

  • @TheMcIke
    @TheMcIke Рік тому +32

    I'm sure that your dog is saying "why are you try to educate the unteachable... just pet me instead..."

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      I didn't know his dog is an Asian breed. Hence why his name is only a 3 digit alphanumeric word.

    • @RazgrizXMG0079
      @RazgrizXMG0079 Рік тому +2

      ​@@GlobeKrusha What does that have to do with anything?

    • @GrimArchon
      @GrimArchon Рік тому +2

      @@GlobeKrusha Showing your true colours!

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      @@RazgrizXMG0079 That coincidences are all binding, even when they're considerably clashing.

  • @FrancoDFernando
    @FrancoDFernando Рік тому +96

    I honestly still can’t really wrap my head around the vast distances that are at play in the universe

    • @purefoldnz3070
      @purefoldnz3070 Рік тому +45

      I cant wrap my head people think the world is flat in 2023.

    • @iBMcFly
      @iBMcFly Рік тому +2

      That’s because it’s fantasy land. 😊

    • @lXlDarKSuoLlXl
      @lXlDarKSuoLlXl Рік тому +10

      Yeah, you can guess the distances are huge, but the exact scale is basically impossible... An example of this is, the moon is also very far away, how far away? Enough so you can fit every planet of the solar systems between the two and there'll still be some space left, every single one... And we perceive it as "close" hahaha

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      Don't worry about the unattainable so called big matters of mass, worry about the subatomic bio warfare substances deployed onto the vast general mass. Noticed how many of your Hollywood celebrities are either purportingly dying off in mass waves, OR being arrested for being on the flight list to where nuclear scaled white rabbits are being consumed😔.

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      Don't worry about the unattainable so called big matters of mass, worry about the subatomic bio warfare substances deployed onto the vast general mass. Noticed how many of your Hollywood celebrities are either purportingly dying off in mass waves, OR being arrested for being on the flight list to where nuclear scaled white rabbits are being consumed😔.

  • @icegiant1000
    @icegiant1000 Рік тому +19

    I think the dog was bored because it already knew all this stuff.

  • @ChristianIce
    @ChristianIce Рік тому +37

    One thing to blow their minds:
    Considering the dimensions of the whole universe, light speed is extremly slow.
    Sunlight takes more than 8 minutes to reach Earth, while considering the whole universe, our entire galaxy is occupying just a little spec of space.
    If you could see all universe at the same time, everything wouldn't look moving at all.

    • @yupok318
      @yupok318 Рік тому

      Can you prove anythig you said.... no. You are just another sheeple repeating fairytales

    • @ambiverter
      @ambiverter Рік тому +2

      Wow. This blew my mind too, and I am not even a flat earther

    • @aden538
      @aden538 Рік тому +4

      I've always loved the romantic view of astronomy. The distances are so vast that the light takes an incredible amount of time to reach us. What we see from stars is not what is happening, but actually what happened many years ago and is only becoming visible to us now. When you look up at the night sky, you are quite literally seeing the past.

    • @yupok318
      @yupok318 Рік тому

      @@aden538 You have unwittingly admitted to holding a religious view of astronomy and are enamored with the 'ROMANCE " of the thing.
      You have declared yourself to be a religious fanatic and have accepted all of the doctrines of SCUENTISM without evidence much less prof. You are an antiscience toadie and it will cost you your soul

    • @stanlee4217
      @stanlee4217 Рік тому +1

      glad you remember kindergarden so well...how is the tooth faerie?

  • @ilmt
    @ilmt Рік тому +47

    I recently learned that in Czech Republic there is a place (a park or something like that) with a route "inside" the solar system - it's kind of model where throughout the park are scattered planet models. This is all to scale (both planet sizes and their distances) and the largest ones seems to be the size of a football, maybe basketball. The tour along all the planets is over 6 kilometers long. That is for nice demonstration of the distances.

    • @hartmutholzgraefe
      @hartmutholzgraefe Рік тому +2

      Such "Plant paths" became quite common in recent years / decades, I have two of them within 50km by now :)

    • @ilmt
      @ilmt Рік тому +3

      @@hartmutholzgraefe Yeah I didn't expect it to be unique. I just remembered roughly the dimensions as recently we were thinking about visiting it to show our kids and realizing that the path is too long for them :D

    • @interbard
      @interbard Рік тому +2

      There is one in Helsinki too

    • @Nikolai_The_Crazed
      @Nikolai_The_Crazed Рік тому +1

      You think that’s nuts? If you scaled the sun down to the size of a large spec of dust, the earth would be 1 centimeter, or ~0.4 inches, away from it. The farthest edge of the Oort Cloud, which surrounds our star, would be a kilometer away, or ~0.6 miles. And that edge? About one fourth of the distance between our sun and the nearest star. It’s so far away, you can basically start measuring in light years. If anything makes you feel small, it’s scale models like that. Still difficult to wrap your brain around, but it gives you a good idea.

    • @Rafskat
      @Rafskat Рік тому

      I ride frequently along one.
      It's 17km long and it even has microplanets like Eris and Sedna and a few moons of each planet.
      On a bike a trip from Sun to Pluto takes only 20 minutes or less.

  • @psyekl
    @psyekl Рік тому +33

    Another interesting topic is to realize just how EMPTY our solar system truly is. Scale comparisons always show the planets aligned, but that is a very rare occurrence. When we realize that the planets are not only tiny specks spaced apart by the vast distances within our solar system, we must also take into consideration that those distances are further exaggerated by their scattered positions along their orbits. There is a WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING among the few lonely objects circling the Sun.

    • @hartmutholzgraefe
      @hartmutholzgraefe Рік тому +8

      Yes, every time I see a scifi movie where two or more asteroids are within visible range of a space ship at the same time I actually cringe a little bit inside. (Yes, Star Wars, I'm especially looking at you here!)

    • @TheGuruStud
      @TheGuruStud Рік тому +6

      @@hartmutholzgraefe IIRC, I read that even if you combined all of the objects in the asteroid belt, it would only be 4% the mass of the moon.

    • @shubuman
      @shubuman Рік тому +2

      @@hartmutholzgraefe you don't need to cringe, star wars isn't an accurate representation of our universe, it's fantasy with it's roots on science, it would be pretty boring if it was to scale

    • @OpenCarryUSMC
      @OpenCarryUSMC 8 місяців тому

      Ponder this. The empty space witching the electron orbits of an atom and then the empty space between the atoms themselves means that the vast majority of that solid wood table in your dining room (and every thing else in the physical realm) is empty space.

  • @LadyMoonweb
    @LadyMoonweb Рік тому +8

    If you are travelling 70mph, and everyone around you is travelling at 70mph, you are not on the M25.

  • @Nico_M.
    @Nico_M. Рік тому +69

    The lack of stars movement was one of the arguments against the heliocentric model back in the day. It was one of Brahe's objections to the Copernican system, because he claimed that for astronomers not being able to detect stellar parallax, distances outside the solar system should be so mind boggling they didn't believe it was possible. For reference, the parallax of Alpha Centauri, one of the closest stars, is less than an arcsecond. More information on this Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_parallax#History_of_measurement

    • @Mastsabuy
      @Mastsabuy Рік тому

      Wiki is inaccurate

    • @tomikun8057
      @tomikun8057 Рік тому +6

      @@Mastsabuy source. the wiki ahs a source, you dont.

    • @Vessekx
      @Vessekx Рік тому +11

      @@Mastsabuy, what is “inaccurate” about that wiki article.
      Be specific.
      Show your work.
      Cite your evidence.
      (The wiki article does, surely if you contend it is “inaccurate”, you can do so as well.)

    • @markgreiser464
      @markgreiser464 Рік тому +4

      @@Vessekx a lot of people just drop that in, because they heard it somewhere else. To be fair, there is some bad info, on the platform. Not everything, though.

    • @ccgarciab
      @ccgarciab Рік тому +2

      That's actually really interesting. Brahe was not an intellectual pushover, but facing the immensity of the universe, he couldn't help but argue from incredulity. It's fascinating how science has pushed our minds to accommodate scales in time and space that transcend us by so much.

  • @rafaelmarangoni
    @rafaelmarangoni Рік тому +59

    "And it is hard to wrap your head around such big numbers..."
    Flerfers have a hard time wrapping their heads around tying their shoelaces.

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому +3

      You would too, if you actually owned a few adidas sneakers with its thick corded laces.

    • @rafaelmarangoni
      @rafaelmarangoni Рік тому +15

      @@GlobeKrusha Point proven!

    • @Jabbatic
      @Jabbatic Рік тому +15

      I wonder whether flerfs also struggle with the incomprehensible complexity of velcro. They all must have very patient, understanding, compassionate mothers... and comfortable basements.

    • @davefear11
      @davefear11 Рік тому +1

      Good thing Velcro has one or 2 laces.

    • @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394
      @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 Рік тому

      Ba-doom tsh

  • @o-mega7515
    @o-mega7515 Рік тому +8

    Pro tip: go to comments and sort by "new" to see a bunch of idiots

  • @ShadowoftheDude
    @ShadowoftheDude Рік тому +9

    My favourite kind of debunking video is the kind that teaches you as much as it entertains you.

  • @bananaspice1967
    @bananaspice1967 Рік тому +8

    Unga bunga why star no move, it mean earth flat

  • @garbage1224
    @garbage1224 Рік тому +9

    It may be already hard enough to wrap your head around the mind-boggling scale of the universe but it's even harder to wrap your head around why flat earthers actually think they're correct

    • @plum8503
      @plum8503 Рік тому +1

      There are two things human brains can't comprehend:
      Scale of the universe
      Flat earthers

    • @Arthur_McGowan
      @Arthur_McGowan Рік тому

      For the first time in my life I've been watching a lot of flat earthers' videos. They are simply stupid people who want to believe they are independent and courageous thinkers. I think most of them have some sort of pre-frontal cortex lesions.

  • @mschedler4984
    @mschedler4984 Рік тому +6

    The biggest issue flerfs have is unrealistic expectations. It will always be a stumbling block for them.

  • @NevilleBamshu23
    @NevilleBamshu23 Рік тому +7

    Flerfs don't understand how big the earth is let alone space...

  • @merkinert3773
    @merkinert3773 Рік тому +8

    I actually love this channel not just for its flat earth debunking, but more for your way of explaining stuff like this in a way I can wrap my head around. Cheers! (Love the dog, too. Reminds me of a buddy I had many years ago. RIP, Jake.)

    • @yupok318
      @yupok318 Рік тому

      If you can "wrap your head around " anything you need an undertaker.

    • @merkinert3773
      @merkinert3773 Рік тому +1

      @@yupok318 Your wording is confounding. Is it poor grammar, poor understanding of metaphors, poor ESL training, or poor intelligence? Good luck with that.

    • @yupok318
      @yupok318 Рік тому

      ​@@merkinert3773 grammar corrected.

  • @pixelum2023
    @pixelum2023 Рік тому +11

    A really clear explanation once again. The universe's size is truly mind-boggling. Your dog is really cute!

  • @andrewroberts6275
    @andrewroberts6275 Рік тому +7

    Flat earthers cant comprehend distancing further than 3 miles .
    I had a discussion with one the other day. I asked why we cant see Australia from London with a strong telescope if we hoverd above a flat plain at a great enough elevation. He told me that we can't see further than 3 miles and that Australia was trillions of miles away.
    O i did have fun with this guy.
    Naughty me.

    • @yassassin6425
      @yassassin6425 Рік тому

      You've met Nathan Oakley then?

    • @CerealExperimentsMizuki
      @CerealExperimentsMizuki Рік тому

      Wait Trillions of Miles?? That's Trillions of times greater than the aize of the Earth, does he think the Earth is the size of the bloody Solar System?? And what does he think when people go overseas to fly to other countries like Australia?? Do they just fly at Relativistic speeds or what?? Even though we can see them moving through the sky at a relatively slow pace. (Which is still very fast)

  • @Invicta5529
    @Invicta5529 Рік тому +6

    I am literally starting to lose faith in humanity At this point.

  • @OLDMANTEA
    @OLDMANTEA Рік тому +7

    The dog is looking at him and thinking “Why are you trying? You can’t change the mind of idiots”

    • @TheGuruStud
      @TheGuruStud Рік тому

      An average intelligence dog is infinitely smarter than a flerfer. If we could fully communicate to dogs, they'd want to learn, and would listen.

  • @zaydquarless1046
    @zaydquarless1046 Рік тому +8

    To a logical person, everything you said makes perfect sense. I'm assuming the people you are addressing are not "logical?"

  • @xMRxZEROx
    @xMRxZEROx Рік тому +10

    I absolutely love how concisely Dave explains things. No condescension whatsoever from him. He just clearly and accurately explains how their beliefs are inaccurate and usually fail to grasp the grand scale of our universe.

    • @yupok318
      @yupok318 Рік тому

      tell us who measured any "interstellar" distances? This entire asstronomy show is a fraud

    • @xMRxZEROx
      @xMRxZEROx Рік тому

      @@yupok318 you do know there are ways to measure distance without physically putting a tape measure on things, right? The only fraud here is your lack of intelligence.

  • @sinesurfing6029
    @sinesurfing6029 Рік тому +7

    Classic flat earther problem: Finding an apparent issue but not bothering to crunch the numbers and find out the cold facts. Too much hard work for them.

    • @Cuprite1024
      @Cuprite1024 Рік тому

      And the few times that they do try to find the facts they end up proving themselves wrong, all while still denying it. Lol.
      (This did happen at some point, it was really funny)

  • @ad-sd-vids5332
    @ad-sd-vids5332 7 місяців тому +3

    When people say “I’m a flat earther” they really mean “I can’t comprehend anything beyond my own life experience and if I don’t understand something it must be fake”

  • @Traderjoe
    @Traderjoe Рік тому +7

    One thing that helped me to understand my own misconceptions about the size of the solar system was when I found out that all the other planets can easily fit in the space between the earth and the moon. Seriously. I had assumed that Jupiter alone would never fit, but not only can Jupiter fit, but Saturn and it’s rings and the other gas giants as well as mars and Venus and Mercury and there’s even room to spare. When I found that out, my mind was blown.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver Рік тому +1

      Another crazy fact about Earth and Moon. The Moon doesn't circle Earth while Earth circles the Sun. Technically, both bodies orbit the sun. Earth and Moon lob each other back-and-forth relative to the sun over 29.5 days. Moon yanks Earth back-and-forth by 3,400 km while Earth throws Moon back-and-forth by about 768,000 km.

    • @ParlonsAstronomie
      @ParlonsAstronomie Рік тому

      Saturn's ring diameter is very close to the Earth-moon Distance.
      So when we say that all the planets fit within the space between the earth and the moon it is without their rings.
      Which make me realize that all the planets fit within the rings of Saturn's diameter.

  • @Cesium237
    @Cesium237 Рік тому +9

    POV: looking for comments by flat earthers

  • @TukaihaHithlec
    @TukaihaHithlec Рік тому +15

    I have an example of how badly flat earthers misunderstand scale. I met one in Canada recently who tried to convince me of their views. I mentioned how Polaris (being the North Star) is always visible in the Northern Hemisphere but never visible in the Southern Hemisphere, to which they responded that they have seen it there. I asked where they saw it from and they said the United States and Mexico (which are of course still north).
    They couldn’t comprehend that the time it takes to get from Canada to Mexico is not yet the other half of the world.

    • @UTU49
      @UTU49 Рік тому +1

      That is pathetic. Truly.
      They will never have any chance of learning anything if they are not even capable of learning what is in each hemisphere.
      Flat earthers! Go to Australia, Argentina, or South Africa, and find the northern constellations in the sky. When you can't find them, maybe you'll have the sense to accept that there are things about the world that you don't understand.

    • @daveg-Vancouver_Island
      @daveg-Vancouver_Island 7 місяців тому

      Hahah on behalf of sane Canadians, I apologize for that person’s ignorance!! It’s funny tho!

    • @wardrobegirl67
      @wardrobegirl67 6 місяців тому

      It’s not a misunderstanding of scale, we use the numbers given to us by your lords of science and the numbers don’t work.

  • @SteveLaw-UK
    @SteveLaw-UK Рік тому +2

    They can't even comprehend how big the Earth is. Or, for that matter, what shape it is.

    • @BooshyWinkle
      @BooshyWinkle Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/E5qUYIdj8jw/v-deo.htmlsi=Bn8S7X-5pCDnyMVn

    • @johnqpublic7608
      @johnqpublic7608 Рік тому

      @@BooshyWinkle
      yeah, that's just fuckingstupid.

  • @barryon8706
    @barryon8706 Рік тому +21

    When I was a child I used to wonder why the moon was following me around while I was in a moving car.

    • @johnqpublic7608
      @johnqpublic7608 Рік тому +3

      same. i remember asking my parents that question as a small child.

    • @theplasmatron3306
      @theplasmatron3306 Рік тому +4

      That used to drive me crazy.

    • @blockhead4791
      @blockhead4791 Рік тому +1

      I asked the same question. It felt magical to me

  • @LigH_de
    @LigH_de Рік тому +14

    Today I wrote a script to simulate the precession of earth in Stellarium. It took more than 20,000 years to bring Polaris back to the celestial north pole, which passed the Swan and Vega in the meantime. But then I wondered ... many constellations looked different compared to today: the Northern Crown had a notch, the Little Dipper got squished, the Big Dipper's tow bar was broken, and Cassiopeia looked no more like a 'W'. Stellarium simulates even that.

    • @DHMISDuckGuy
      @DHMISDuckGuy Рік тому +1

      Alright, who stepped on the Little Dipper?

    • @LigH_de
      @LigH_de Рік тому

      @@DHMISDuckGuy - _This Corrosion_ (Sisters of Mercy)

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver Рік тому

      I had a cool DOS program that showed you how stellar positions seemed to change if you took in the view from Alpha Centauri, Vega, Sirius, and so on.

  • @fabiodriven
    @fabiodriven Рік тому +3

    It's astonishing to me that we're having to seriously discuss flat earth in 2023.

  • @thesaiyannes9202
    @thesaiyannes9202 Рік тому +16

    One thing I love about space is that it's quite literally incomprehensible how huge it is. You can hear those numbers and see the diagrams, and can understand the scale, but our brains quite literally cannot comprehend the sheer vastness of everything, which is why a lot of people can't accept it as it's literally beyond their capacity of understanding

    • @cargy930
      @cargy930 Рік тому +11

      ...And for others it's simply beyond the capacity of their ego to accept how mind-bogglingly inconsequential they are. Or "flerfs" as we like to call them.

    • @ohasis8331
      @ohasis8331 Рік тому +2

      It still gets me decades after learning it at school.

    • @ohasis8331
      @ohasis8331 Рік тому +2

      @@cargy930 Something I loved doing when travelling - sleeping under the stars miles from anywhere. Waking at 2am on a clear, crisp and cold night and seeing the pregnant stars hanging so low you could reach up to touch them. At those moments, I enjoyed the feeling of being at one with the universe and feeling totally small and insignificant.

    • @mwperk02
      @mwperk02 Рік тому +3

      ​@@cargy930 that's not just a flerf issue though. Plenty of flerf adjacents such as geocentrism and young earth creationism also suffer from this condition.

    • @cargy930
      @cargy930 Рік тому

      @@mwperk02 Agreed. I merely picked them here because they are the primary target of the video

  • @kloug2006
    @kloug2006 Рік тому +16

    This video is so good, thank you for your amazing work !
    Fascinating fact : for the solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way, it takes 230 million years. Since its inception, it has done just under 20 laps.
    Only one revolution ago, Pangea and the dinosaurs dominated the world. Three revolutions ago, the Earth was a complete snowball during the Cryogenian period.

  • @theraiderra8798
    @theraiderra8798 Рік тому +6

    Probably difficult to understand why planets are round if you have a flat brain.

  • @theeffete3396
    @theeffete3396 Рік тому +7

    The only thing more amazing than the scale of the universe, is the love in doggo's eyes when he looks at Dave.

  • @Galimeer5
    @Galimeer5 Рік тому +2

    They fail to comprehend how big the _planet_ is, of course they have no grasp of how big _literallly everything else_ is

  • @ThomasStanley-c8e
    @ThomasStanley-c8e Рік тому +3

    I think David made a very good point about some flat earth believers. I suspect their ego gets in the way; they just can't grasp, in the terms of space and the universe, how infinitesimally small and insignificant they are.

  • @DeathBYDesign666
    @DeathBYDesign666 Рік тому +44

    What should also be noted is that the shapes of the constellations actually would change throughout the night if the stars were just lights stuck to a dome. When you view objects close to you at different angles they change shape and this is how the stars would work in their model. Still have yet to hear any explanation for what mechanism is making the stars move in unison every night for that matter.

    • @Top-Code
      @Top-Code Рік тому +5

      Oh I’ve got it! Magic!

    • @extravagantpanda7962
      @extravagantpanda7962 Рік тому +1

      These fools have literally proposed that everyone has their own "personal dome" of stars that somehow follows them around so that everyone always sees the same the same stars in the same orientation, regardless of where on earth they are. There is no end to their stupidity.

    • @rebornbrain
      @rebornbrain Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/9D9F0Ysvsu4/v-deo.html
      We were settled on this land 200-250 years ago, only architecture remains from the previous advanced civilization. The invaders would like, but can't destroy, but can't all at once. They tried to write the ruins into history, but in fact it's all a piece of fat shit. The main property of a GMO person who inhabited this dimension ( in the understanding of Poincare - Perelman ) is gullibility, a natural sucker. That's why they used to send rockets by radio and everyone believed. But here's the problem, the existence of a natural sucker is not the creator's plan, but there is a plan for the "civilization of neighbors".
      Here's a good model. And a little more.
      There are two interesting concepts of secret and mystery. The secret is closed , but can be revealed, transmitted, explained, if desired, but access to the mystery(open) is conditioned by the willingness to perceive it. It is obvious that the transformation of GMO suckers, who are herded by GMO cannibals, has not yet been fully completed, some are simply not ready.

    • @dougaltolan3017
      @dougaltolan3017 Рік тому

      Premise: the dome is real and made of some fantastic material that can span 20,000 miles.
      Given such engineering it is trivial to lìne the inside of the dome with an animated hologram.
      Such a hologram would be optically indistinguishable from the real thing.
      The heliocentric astronomic observation argument is not so robust.

    • @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394
      @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 Рік тому

      Another flat earth theory kills flat earth theory.

  • @melsop54
    @melsop54 Рік тому +4

    It's the same concept of driving down the highway past a major city. The dashes on the highway blaze by faster than you can see them, the trees on the side of the road move a tad slower, the electric tower past the trees moves noticeably slower, and the major city line miles away takes minutes to pass by. Now take that city, place it hundreds of thousands of light years away...it takes a LOOOOOOOONG time to notice any movement.

  • @imlocksaw
    @imlocksaw Рік тому +2

    I saw a TikTok about this Flat Earth Theory. Part of me died inside.
    I will no longer be opening TikTok.

  • @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394

    Thanks Bob. _Pours one out for Bob_

  • @neobushidaro
    @neobushidaro Рік тому +7

    Polaris hasn't even been the north star for all of human recorded history

  • @PromoVisionNZ
    @PromoVisionNZ Рік тому +5

    I doubt that any mind can really comprehend size of space. Problem with flerf's mind is it gets scared from space size and how insignificant we are in that space, and it just flat out refuses to accept it.

  • @Ian.Does.Fitness
    @Ian.Does.Fitness Рік тому +2

    They simply have no conception of anything else beyond their own little world, constrained by the limits of their knowledge, blissfully unaware of how little knowledge or understanding they have!

  • @neilthorpe7650
    @neilthorpe7650 Рік тому +8

    Flat earthers just don’t get scale. The cow scene in Father Ted still confuses them.

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      Your avatar is cringeworthy. You look like your on call for the 🚀🍕Lolita 🛩. Correct me if I ' m wrong.

    • @neilthorpe7650
      @neilthorpe7650 Рік тому +1

      @@GlobeKrusha you’re wrong

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      @@neilthorpe7650 Sorry that was a tad harsh of me. Though it should rather make you think how lackey-ish, it makes you appear to be, by my opinion. The orange background makes look like a cheap 80's porn film cover, in the bi-arrows section. Just a tad🤏 . 😁

    • @neilthorpe7650
      @neilthorpe7650 Рік тому +3

      @@GlobeKrusha you spend a lot of time in the bi section?

  • @thespecial117
    @thespecial117 Рік тому +22

    me going through the comments to see any flat earthers trying to argue

  • @simond.455
    @simond.455 Рік тому +14

    The fact that stars _don't_ change during the night means they are sufficiently far away for their relative position to appear fixed, no matter the angle they are viewed from.
    Constellations painted on the fish bowl dome would have a different shape depending on the observer's position, and change throughout the night as the dome rotates.

    • @MrOttopants
      @MrOttopants Рік тому +4

      This is a good point. Not only would the sun and moon be changing shape and size if they are close and moving around us, but the constellations would also stretch and contract in the same manner.
      I'm sure some flat earther would tell me that the stars are in one of the firmaments, and the sun and the moon occupy separate firmaments though. I've seen some who believe in multiple "heavens" or firmaments.

    • @bob_the_bomb4508
      @bob_the_bomb4508 Рік тому +5

      @@GlobeKrusha would you like some vinaigrette with that word salad?

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      @@bob_the_bomb4508 I'm provided for. But thanks for your endearing generosity anyway.

    • @mwperk02
      @mwperk02 Рік тому +2

      ​@@MrOttopants I've heard flat Earthers say each person gets their own individual firmament that conveniently matches observations made by heliocentrism.

    • @Dokattak
      @Dokattak Рік тому

      Stars do change and constellations do move, but they’re so slow that it looks stationary.
      I’m not vouching for flat Earthers nor backing them up. I just wanted to say that, going back over a million years, the stars are in different positions. It’s just cool to know that everything is so slow that the stars looked different eons ago *and* due to the distance we are literally looking at the past.
      Just fascinating scales!
      Edit: typos

  • @menecross
    @menecross Рік тому +2

    They fail to fator how huge the Earth is compared to us also, and that's closer to home. (literally under our feet)

  • @bhbjvgvfcgfcbvbbvhcfcgfc
    @bhbjvgvfcgfcbvbbvhcfcgfc Рік тому +4

    Really, even if the earth is flat: why? What does anyone gain from lying to you about the shape of the earth?

  • @DanielKay06
    @DanielKay06 11 місяців тому +3

    I think a good analogy for the size of the universe, to a Human an Ant is tiny, and to an Ant a Bacteria would be tiny. But if you take all 3 in relation to the size of the Universe their size differences would suddenly be insignificant.

    • @austinestep8461
      @austinestep8461 10 місяців тому +1

      To the universe the earth and an atom might as well be the same

  • @Alucia0
    @Alucia0 Рік тому +5

    Flat earthers have zero comprehension of speed, scale or time.
    Once again it comes down to "I don't understand it there fore it's not real"

  • @judychurley6623
    @judychurley6623 Рік тому +2

    What they should say (admit) is: "I am incapable of measuring the changing positions of the stars. Has anyone else done it?" But deniers of any scientific fact never admit that others may know know things that they don't.

  • @neil2796
    @neil2796 Рік тому +4

    If we were on a flat Earth and the stars are moving in a circle above us, they would make a strange path through the night sky.

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      You guys have little concept to how your model is shown to work. If any of you guys had spatial awareness, you would figure how rhythmically astray you'd be. But keep researching your model more thoroughly, than hearing hit pieces on Flat Earth. We haven't come to an official consensus of our Flat Earth model. The only reason the Ball has is because it has been incentivised to help out the crooked banking industry. I can promise you not one FEr would of pushed that poison crap that many advocated for whom died suddenly 🤔😒🙄

  • @billbill6094
    @billbill6094 Рік тому +3

    Flat earthers here exhibiting classic human trait of being completely unable to comprehend massive numbers and distances so choosing not to think about them. They're there whether you're willing to accept how small you are in the universe or not.

    • @thomasn3882
      @thomasn3882 Рік тому

      Slick baloney. Explain how and why the skyline of Chicago is visible from the opposite shore of Lake Michigan. That should be completely impossible if the Earth is curved the way you claim it is.

    • @billbill6094
      @billbill6094 Рік тому +2

      @@thomasn3882 Love how you pose a question with no specifics so I'm left to assume from which point you're referring to here, especially when the most direct shore opposite of Chicago is only an hours drive away. So I'm left to assume I have to explain why a distance of 60 miles doesn't completely make 1500 feet skyscrapers completely disappear on a 8,000 mile diameter planet. Because apparently basic concepts of angles and elevation are hard.
      How about I ask you to look at the evidence presented in the here instead of derailing the conversation with your own? You can ask questions, yet you posit a flat Earth and cannot provide answers or rebuttals for it. Endless questions it appears from your comment history on this channel, often which have nothing to do with the specific topic of the video because you understand the strength of the argument.

    • @Ddozsoy
      @Ddozsoy Рік тому

      @@thomasn3882tell me why chicago appears to be sinking into the ocean

  • @ElJefeS4
    @ElJefeS4 Рік тому +26

    Excellent video, as always! Regardless of what the flerfs fail to understand, I enjoy your content and the images are excellent. Keep it up!

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому +1

      We don't STAND UNDER concepts we cannot carry by weight, sound, water or ground. Comprehend or contemplate are better terms of strategy, if you find yourself in a ILL egalitarian conundrum. All it is is word play, numbers and blatant trickery if you are prepared to delve into it furthermore.

    • @Roxxyie
      @Roxxyie Рік тому +3

      @@GlobeKrusha Engwish pwease uwu

    • @jeremievillemagne2798
      @jeremievillemagne2798 Рік тому +5

      @@GlobeKrusha a great r/imverysmart moment

    • @lastboss4268
      @lastboss4268 Рік тому +1

      ​@@GlobeKrusha yea.

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      @@Roxxyie Frequency.

  • @hopelessnerd6677
    @hopelessnerd6677 8 місяців тому +2

    They ARE constantly changing! Problem solved. Why don't they ask why they can't see the hour hand move on their watch, yet they know it does. Anybody who saw the Hubble photo of an "empty" spot in the sky and saw how many galaxies there are there and isn't absolutely amazed isn't paying attention.

  • @thegreatvincenzo8159
    @thegreatvincenzo8159 Рік тому +2

    Staggering! The distances, sizes, travel times and just the absolute enormity of the universe just leaves me breathless.

  • @helmuttrzoska4572
    @helmuttrzoska4572 Рік тому +3

    They refer to Startrek Enterprise, where you can see stars flying by as you can see through the windows. Butt (insert picture like Creaky Blinder does) that is only a visual effect to show that the vessel is moving with immens velocity.

  • @michaelwright6476
    @michaelwright6476 Рік тому +10

    I used to be a flat earther...but then I went to pre-school. 😂

    • @sgtmusic
      @sgtmusic Рік тому

      Pre-school told us about the 1960s “moon landing” where the astronauts played golf and bounced around like kangaroos!

  • @ThaddGEARZ
    @ThaddGEARZ Рік тому +2

    This is actually quite interesting! I never considered why the stars don't appear to move, but I'm glad that question's answered!

  • @YaBoi173_1
    @YaBoi173_1 Рік тому +3

    It depresses me that there is still a large number of plebs who believe some obscur magic rather then facts and physics

  • @space_planet
    @space_planet Рік тому +4

    i love seeing the dog just being a dog

  • @sampleowner6677
    @sampleowner6677 Рік тому +5

    If you don't believe in gravity climb to the top of the Empire State Building and jump off. You will immediately believe in gravity.

    • @yupok318
      @yupok318 Рік тому

      Only if you are a credulous moron.
      There is clearly a force that holds us down
      but its not caused by mass attracting mass
      and NO ONE can demonstrate otherwise.
      By your logic eggs come from grocery stores
      and since you have only had that experience you are satisfied that your opinion is the last word.
      And you call flat earther stupid.

  • @TheChrush3r
    @TheChrush3r Рік тому

    knowing most of the details to that topic meant that i got to watch your dog more instead and everytime i do i just see so much love and comfort radiating from em its incredibly sweet

  • @ColossusOfChodes
    @ColossusOfChodes Рік тому +3

    Rest in Peace, Bob. Thank you for your contribution to science 🙏

    • @johnqpublic7608
      @johnqpublic7608 Рік тому

      bob won't be deceiving gullible flattard morons anymore.

    • @mwperk02
      @mwperk02 Рік тому

      Wait what?

    • @RazgrizXMG0079
      @RazgrizXMG0079 Рік тому

      ​@@mwperk02 A famous flat earth grifter died recently. The one who bought a 20,000 dollar ring laser gyroscope to disprove the rotation of the earth, but instead picked up a 15° per hour drift. Thanks Bob.

  • @LeakyTrees
    @LeakyTrees Рік тому +4

    Flat earthers be like “the universe is 4 light years wide and earth is in the center of it”

    • @NeutralDrow
      @NeutralDrow Рік тому +3

      Which is hilarious, because Flat Earth and Geocentrism are nominally different things. But, when the conspiracy theory is the point, all conspiracies eventually become the same conspiracy.

  • @tyrannicpuppy
    @tyrannicpuppy Рік тому +4

    The whole flat Earth thing is just an amusingly naff thing, isn't it. They take one piece of visual information (that the horizon 'appears' flat to the naked eye when standing on the surface of the Earth) and then ignore all other forms of science and maths to make up other explanations (almost all of which contradict one another) to make the other things they can see fit that first misunderstanding.
    Also, I find it highly amusing that you had ATLAS VPN as a sponsor on a video about globes.

  • @BrianWelch-vc7xy
    @BrianWelch-vc7xy 3 місяці тому +2

    Something flatties forget or ignore is that Polaris wasn't always the north star. From 4000 BCE to around 1800 BCE the north star was Thuban, in the constellation Draco.
    Thuban will also become the north star again, but not until 20,346 CE.

  • @randybaumery5090
    @randybaumery5090 Рік тому +8

    Amateur astronomer here. I've actually presented flat earth types with the documented facts about stellar proper motion. They'll still claim I'm lying.

  • @albertmagician8613
    @albertmagician8613 Рік тому +3

    Stars nearby change their position compared to the fixed stars in the background caused by the moving of the earth througout the year. It is interesting how flatearthers explain that.

  • @flykiller
    @flykiller Рік тому +11

    Polaris IS moving easily at measurable speeds thanks to the Earth's axial precession. Any flat earther can measure its position with tools like sextants. Its past positions are also recorded on the nautical almanacs which are accessible online. For example Polaris' positions for some years:
    1850: 88° 30′ 35.28″ --- 1.4902 degree from the north pole
    1900: 88° 46′ 26.72′ --- 1.225911 degree from the north pole
    2000: 89° 16′ --- 0.733 degree from the north pole
    2017: 89° 20.3′ --- 0.66167 degree from the north pole
    2018: 89° 20.6′ --- 0.6567 degree from the north pole
    2020: 89° 21.1′ --- 0.64833 degree from the north pole
    2022: 89° 21.6′ --- 0.64 degree from the north pole
    "A marine sextant can measure angles with a precision of less than 0.5' better than 1/100th of a degree" so those are measurable movements even by amateur astronomers.

    • @SamanthaLaurier
      @SamanthaLaurier Рік тому +3

      The problem here being that even amateur astronomers have leagues more skill and knowledge than your average flerf

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому

      Twinkle twinkle little star, why would they lie about santa, and not about the stars?

    • @Tsudico
      @Tsudico Рік тому +4

      @@GlobeKrusha *_"why would they lie about santa, and not about the stars?"_*
      Celestial navigation (used by mariners for hundreds of years) *depends heavily* on having accurate star positions in order to make sure the ships can get from where they started to where they need to go. Last time I checked, no one uses Santa for navigation.

    • @SamanthaLaurier
      @SamanthaLaurier Рік тому +2

      @@GlobeKrusha Because those are two entirely unrelated things?

    • @flykiller
      @flykiller Рік тому +1

      @@GlobeKrusha You can check the position yourself.

  • @KingaKucyk
    @KingaKucyk Рік тому +1

    As someone really fascinated by everything space related, I love this video ❤ Very informative, thank You 🥰

  • @jesperjonsrensen3882
    @jesperjonsrensen3882 Рік тому +14

    Your dog has more understanding of the universe than any Flerfs.

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому +2

      No. His dog can sense that Dave's lying through his teeth. This is why Dave needs to take at least 20 takes, as his dog is ropable and restless for this matter of manner alone.

    • @jesperjonsrensen3882
      @jesperjonsrensen3882 Рік тому +12

      @@GlobeKrusha Yeah ofcause he is, just like the 99.9 % of the rest uf us non flerfers. We are all lying and you are right. It must be awesome to be that clever, why dont you write a paper about the amazing proof you have. I look forward to see the Nobel prize in your hand. That would really Krusha the Globe "theory".

    • @GlobeKrusha
      @GlobeKrusha Рік тому +1

      @@jesperjonsrensen3882 99.9%? 😄😁😆 Just like with your beloved government announcing that 95% of people took the clot shot. A very reliable source of opinionations.

    • @jesperjonsrensen3882
      @jesperjonsrensen3882 Рік тому

      @@GlobeKrusha Dude. You are making your self look stupid. Better stay in your strange alternative world and keep quiet about it. Its a bit cringe. Wish you all the best.

    • @stevenisadragon
      @stevenisadragon Рік тому

      ​@@GlobeKrushaNice deflection, get some thicker skin and don't let words hurt your little feelings

  • @1maico1
    @1maico1 Рік тому +3

    Thuban was the pole star, not Polaris when the Egyptians started building pyramids. A big change during recorded human history.

  • @Liesmith424
    @Liesmith424 Рік тому +2

    I can't hear you over how adorable that dog is.

  • @aethertoast4320
    @aethertoast4320 Рік тому +4

    To top it off with their argument about Polaris always being the North Star, well that isn't true. There is evidence from the time of the creation of the pyramids of a different pole star which was Thuban.

  • @eneaganh6319
    @eneaganh6319 Рік тому +4

    The flat earth society does have members all around the globe

  • @mirrikybird
    @mirrikybird Рік тому +6

    I really do love this series of videos you are doing because it's not going tit-for-tat with snake oil salesmen, but it really is giving a really cool spotlight on different aspects of mathematics, geology, and astronomy

  • @bobh6728
    @bobh6728 Рік тому +2

    Isn’t the heliocentric model, a model of the solar system and not a model of the universe?

  • @dk-bw4gk
    @dk-bw4gk Рік тому +3

    I'm a drafter by profession. I never really has the respect for these sizes and distances until I tried to model our solar system in 3D. It was impossible. Everything turned into miniscule grains and they were so far apart you couldn't see anything. It makes you start to wonder what the difference between a planet and debris is.

    • @nycbearff
      @nycbearff Рік тому +1

      Yes. Almost all the mass of the solar system is in the sun. The rest of it is a little debris from the Sun's formation that got caught in the Sun's gravity.

  • @sourisvoleur4854
    @sourisvoleur4854 Рік тому +3

    "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." -Douglas Adams

  • @hmalbet
    @hmalbet Рік тому +6

    Thanks Dave. Brilliant explanation of scale.

  • @davidparker1744
    @davidparker1744 Рік тому +2

    I explained it this way to a person who was 60 years old. If we made our solar system 1 foot across, meaning Plutos farthest point from the sun would be 6 inches from the sun. With in a quarter inch of the sun we would have Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the asteroid belt. The closest star would be almost 2 miles away. The amount of shift seen by that star would be 1 foot of movement in their 60 year life. 1 foot at 2 miles away is not much of a shift to see in 60 years.